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The Parson Red Heads New CD & Tour Dates

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Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:58am
Coming from the fertile and eclectic West Coast folk scene, Portland, by way of Los Angeles, The Parson Red Heads announce the release of their newest LP, Yearling, on Arena Rock Recording Company on August 16.
A band full of truly talented musicians, whose music harkens to the most prolific and inventive elements in the canon of West Coast psych-folk, The Parson Red Heads' true power is undeniable live. The quartet hit the road in June with fellow musical maverick Alela Diane & Wild Divine.
For a preview of what to expect, give a listen to "Burning Up the Sky" from the Yearling LP.
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Tour Dates:
June 1 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA *
June 2 - Rio Theatre - Vancouver, BC *
June 4 - Miss Studios - Portland, OR *
June 7 - Hi-Dive - Denver, CO *
June 8 - Bottleneck - Lawrence, KS *
June 9 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL *
June 11 - Rivoli - Toronto, ON *
June 12 - Il Motore - Montreal, QB *
June 13 - The Skinny Pancake - Burlington, VT
June 15 - Space 538 - Portland, ME *
June 16 - Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA *
June 17 - City Winery - NYC, NY *
June 18 - Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY *
June 19 - Iota - Washington, DC *
June 20 - Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC *
June 21 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA *
June 23 - The Bottletree - Brimingham, AL *
June 25 - Stubbs JR - Austin, TX *
June 27 - Plush - Tucson, AZ
June 29 - Echo - LA, CA *
June 30 - New Parish - Oakland, CA *
July 1 - Henry Miller Library - Big Sur, CA *
July 2 - Center for the Arts - Grass Valley, CA *

w/ Alela Diane & Wild Divine *

2011 Pitchfork Music Festival Rounds Out Lineup

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Mon, 04/18/2011 - 5:06pm

As previously announced, the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival will be taking place on Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17 at Chicago's Union Park! Three-day passes are sold out (gone within 24 hours!), but single-day passes are still available for the totally reasonable price of $45. Tickets can be purchased here.

The Pitchfork Music Festival is stoked to round out its 2011 lineup with a slew of new acts. Friday welcomes Thurston Moore, Battles, tUnE-yArDs, Gatekeeper, and EMA. Saturday’s lineup sees the most new performers, with DJ Shadow, Zola Jesus, Twin Shadow, Toro Y Moi, Cold Cave, Wild Nothing, Julianna Barwick, and OFF! Sunday’s additions are Superchunk and Darkstar. And there we have it: The lineup for the always engaging Pitchfork Music Festival is complete. Stay tuned for more info about this year’s vendors, initiatives, and ancillary events in the weeks leading up to the festival!

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THE 2011 PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL!

FRIDAY

Animal Collective

Neko Case

Guided By Voices

Thurston Moore*

Battles*

James Blake

Das Racist

Curren$y

tUnE-yArDs*

Gatekeeper*

EMA*

SATURDAY

Fleet Foxes

DJ Shadow*

The Dismemberment Plan

Destroyer

No Age

Gang Gang Dance

Zola Jesus*

Twin Shadow*

Toro Y Moi*

Cold Cave*

Wild Nothing*

OFF!*

Grateful Web’s Interview with Elephant Revival

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I feel absolutely terrible and I never want to drink again.

Wild Beasts Announce First U.S. Tour!

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Thu, 11/26/2009 - 12:17am

After playing several shows to rave reviews in Austin at SXSW this past March and New York this past September, we are thrilled to announce Wild Beasts will be embarking on a full North American tour in early 2010! This tour is in support of Wild Beasts’ sophomore release,Two Dancers, out this past September on Domino Records.

Wild Beasts’ Tour Dates:

Wed. Feb. 10 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

Thu. Feb. 11 -- San Francisco, CA @ Independent

Sat. Feb. 13 -- Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge

Sun. Feb. 14 -- Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey

Wed. Feb. 17 -- Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

Thu. Feb. 18 -- Chicago, IL @ Schubas

Fri. Feb. 19 -- Chicago, IL @ Schubas

Sat. Feb. 20 -- Detroit, MI @ Pike Room

Mon. Feb. 22 -- Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

Thu. Feb. 24 -- Boston, MA @ Great Scott

Fri. Feb. 25 -- Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

Sat. Feb. 26 -- New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

Sun. Feb. 27 -- Washington, DC @ Black Cat

Wild Beasts Release 'Two Dancers' on 9/8/09

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Wed, 06/03/2009 - 5:22am

Wild Beasts released their critically acclaimed debut album, Limbo Panto, last November on Domino Records. The band garnered a huge amount of attention in their home country surrounding this release. They made their first live appearance in the U.S. this past March at SXSW. It was this trip that made a splash for Wild Beasts in the U.S. and really made their mark as a promising young band on the rise. Wild Beasts are quickly following up with their sophomore album, Two Dancers, a record that is surely posed to officially break them stateside. It is an album that will further prove Wild Beasts are not just an of-the-moment band who will come and go within the course of three months, but a band of young men with real staying power.

wild beastsCo-produced by Wild Beasts and northern English enigma Richard Formby in remote Norfolk, UK earlier this year, Two Dancers finds Wild Beasts on fire. Its a record of tightrope-high drama, alive with its sense of possibility, a sound that shimmers and sways in the band’s own mercurial fashion. The band’s performances throughout are pure liquid energy. The needlepoint drama is a result of the band eschewing studio hyper-gloss by playing together in the room -  “recorded live, no over thinking” explains Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe. The sound and sensation of a band, to borrow the lyric of "This Is Our Lot," "dancing late / like young reprobates". Two Dancers is a streamlined, minimalist, and user-friendly Wild Beasts, with equal grace and gusto, equally elegant and ugly.

Two Dancers is full of references to the following: booty calls, puckered lips, bodies as perfect machines, and dim-lit streets.  LyricallyTwo Dancers is equally energetic and ripe. In "All The King’s Men" Tom Fleming sings with purposeful intent about “Girls from Rodean, girls from Shipley, from Hounslow, girls from Whitby” as Thorpe’s falsetto soars with palpable anticipation. In this song, as on the whole of the album, Wild Beasts dare you to cut loose and be seduced, but you’ll join in on the disorientation along the way.

Wild Beasts have made a record of earthly pleasures that sounds thrillingly widescreen, open and in awe of life; equally intoxicated and disturbed by the possibilities of pleasure. Two Dancers will be released September 8th on Domino Records.

Two Dancers Tracklisting:
01. The Fun Powder Plot
02. Hooting & Howling
03. All The King's Men
04. When I'm Sleepy...
05. We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
06. Two Dancers (i)
07. Two Dancers (ii)
08. This Is Our Lot
09. Underbelly
10. Empty Nest

Akron/Family, Telepathe, Wild Beasts, Suckers, Rafter & Tom Brosseau at SXSW

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Akron/Family
Wed. Mar. 18 - 5 PM @ The Mohawk (912 Red River St.) (Austinist/Gothamist Party)
Thu. Mar. 19 - 11:35 PM @ The Mohawk (912 Red River St.) w/ Bishop Allen, Phosphorescent, These Are Powers, Richard Swift, BLK JKS, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Women, Julie Dorion, Foreign Born, Special Guests (Dead Oceans/Secretly Candian Party)
Fri. Mar. 20    - 2:50 PM @ Design Within Reach (200 W. 2nd St. @ Colorado) w/ The Entrance Band, Herman Dune, Fool's Gold, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, Young Republic (Everloving Presents)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 6:55 PM @ Waterloo Park (Mess With Texas 3)

Tom Brosseau
Fri. Mar. 20 - 3:00 PM @ Creekside Lounge (606 E. 7th St.) w/ Gina Dvorak, The Lovely Sparrows, Fight Bite, Dana Falconberry, Peter and the Wolf, The Shivers (Austin Sound Day Party)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 9:15 PM @ 18th Floor at Hilton Garden w/ Denis Jones, The Miserable Rich, Sam Amidon, Alela Diane, Liz Green, David Thomas Broughton, Shearwater
Sat.Mar. 21 - 2:15 PM @ Longbranch Inn (1133 E. 11th St.) w/ Peggy Sue, The Deep Vibration (LimeWire Day Party)

Rafter
Wed.Mar. 18 - 11 PM @ Beauty Bar (617 E. 7th St.) w/ Jeremy Jay, LAKE, Fol Chen, DM Stith, Grampaball Jookabox (Asthmatic Kitty/K/Tomlab Records)
Thu. Mar. 19 - 12 - 5 PM @ Flamingo Cantina (515 E. Sixth St.) - DJing in between sets (Team Clermont SXSW Party)
Thu. Mar. 19 - 6 PM @ The Iron Gate Lounge (E. 6th St.) w/ Rob Crow, Frances, Fol Chen, Grampall Jookabox, No Kids (Singing Serpent Party)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 2:30 PM @ Ms. Beas (1104 E. 6th St.) w/ Moi Non Plus, Ponytail, These Are Powers, Vivian Girls, Ecstatic Sunshine, Deer Tick, Abe Vigoda (Todd P Party)

Suckers
Wed. Mar. 18 - 10 PM @ Club 1808 (1808 12th @ Chicon - between Salina & Chicon) w/ Transmography, Slow Club, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Casiokids, the Mae Shi, Still Flying
Thu. Mar. 19 - 2:10 PM @ Malverde (2nd and Guadalupe) - Little Boots, Telepathe, The Mae Shi, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Micachu & The Shapes, Glasser, Sebastien Grainger DJ set - IAMSOUND/'Sup Magazine & This Is Music day party(IAMSOUND/'Sup Mag day party)
Thu. Mar. 19 - 8 PM @ Red 7 (611 E. 7th St.) w/ Chairlift, Harlem Snakes, Telepathe, Crystal Stilts, Nite Jewel (Other Music/Heeb Party)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 3 PM @ Waterloo Records (600 N. Lamar Blvd.)

Telepathe
Wed.Mar. 18 - 9:30 PM @ Ms. Beas (1104 E. 6th St.) - w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Here We Go Magoc, Pete & The Pirates, Lets Wrestle! The Beets, Still Flyin, Box Elders (NY Noise Party)
Thu. Mar. 19  - 6:20 PM @ Malverde (2nd and Guadalupe) Little Boots, Suckers, The Mae Shi, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Micachu & The Shapes, Glasser, Sebastien Grainger DJ set (IAMSOUND/'Sup Mag day party)
Thu. Mar. 19 - 12 AM @ Red 7 (611 E. 7th St.) w/ Chairlift, Harlem Snakes, Suckers, Crystal Stilts, Nite Jewel (Other Music/Heeb Party)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 5 PM @ Waterloo Records (600 N. Lamar Blvd.)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 9:50 PM @ Green Owl Party (902 East Cesar Chavez)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 12 PM @ Urban Outfitters (2406 Guadalupe) w/ Lemonade, The Chap, Rye Rye, Max Tundra, School of Seven Bells

Wild Beasts
Thu. Mar. 19 - 9 PM @ Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.) w/ We Have Band, Hatcham Social, Frank Turner, The Temper Trap (NME)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 4 PM @ San Jose Hotel (1316 S. Congress Ave.) w/ Triple Cobra, Those Darlins, Other Lives, Abalone Dots, Suzanna Choffel, Hill Country Revue, The Mother Hips, Mark Olson and Gary Louris, Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra (SX San Jose)
Sat. Mar. 21- 2:30 PM @ British Music Embassy at Latitute 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.) w/ Sky Larkin, Rolo Tomassi, Paul Marshall, Talk To Angels (Yorkshire Launch Party)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 4:50 PM @ French Legation (802 San Marcos) w/ Frank Fairfield, Moriarty, Jeremy Jay, The Soft Pack, Diane Birch, Chief, Act 8, Laura Marling, The Dirty Projectors (Domino Publishing/Press Here party)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 11 PM @ Volume w/ Let's Wrestle, We Have Band, Slow Club, FOUND, Innercity Pirates (Clash Magazine Party)

Help Stop Mining Pollution in Wild Idaho Forest

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Thu, 12/13/2007 - 6:50pm
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The Bush administration is poised to approve the expansion of a polluting phosphate mine in southeast Idaho that would seriously jeopardize some of the state's most renowned wildlife and trout streams.  The Smoky Canyon Mine is already listed as a Superfund site for releasing hazardous amounts of toxic selenium into the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. With no cleanup effort underway, we need your urgent action to protect the extraordinary wildlife and pristine forests of this region from a renewed onslaught of pollution.

Click here right now and urge the Bush administration to prohibit the proposed 1,300-acre expansion of the Smoky Canyon Mine.

The Caribou-Targhee National Forest is home to some of the most biologically diverse wildlands in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

The celebrated forests and streams of this region provide a refuge for lynx, moose, elk, mule deer and other wildlife, as well as two species of native cutthroat trout. Anglers, hikers and other recreationalists flock to this area from nearby communities and from across the country.

If the Smoky Canyon Mine is expanded, even greater quantities of toxic selenium will flow into the aquifers and streams of the Sage Creek Roadless Area and other pristine forestlands - threatening fish and wildlife, water quality and potentially human health.

Click here and tell the Bush administration to reject this disastrous scheme and instead require the mine's owners to clean up the existing selenium contamination.

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