It was just a few months back that we were piling on our hoodies, cranking up the heater, and stopping by our local record stores for a copy of Anthony Green’s album Beautiful Things.
Rolling Stone filmed a live video of “Moon Song” at Anthony’s show at the Fox Theatre in Pomona, CA this past February. You can check him rockin’ to exhaustion under some pretty purple lights right here.
You may know him from System of a Down, but Serj Tankian has been crafting tracks as part of a solo career for quite the while. For his upcoming third CD, he even used an iPad to help assemble a few of the tracks. Needless to say, Serj has his talent on lockdown.
The release date for his newest CD, Harakiri, is finally on the horizon. You can pre-order the CD or a killer limited edition bundle to be delivered right to your doorstep just in time for the July 10th release. Plus, $2 from the sale of each album/bundle will be donated to a non-profit to fight world hunger.
In this video teaser for the album’s first single “Figure It Out”, two thugs kidnap and torture an innocent mailbox. Now how is the mailman ever going to get those copies of Harakiri delivered?
Europe & US:
If Thee Oh Sees wanted to start a riot, they could. That’s how good their shows are. In fact, the amount of fun you will have at their live show is guaranteed to rival the amount of love you already have for their studio recorded albums. Their mix of psychedelic and lo-fi garage cacophony is wrapped up in a quirkiness that is distinctly their own. Drop this on a stage along with the band’s infectious energy, and you’ve got yourself a good night, and possibly a black-eye.
Their music video for “Meat Step Lively” provides a pretty accurate depiction of what it’s like to attend their show, just imagine you had three-framed looped vision as well.
They’re playing their last small venue show (in their hometown of San Francisco on May 16), before hitting up all points of the Europe and the US and whipping up a storm with the masses at a music festival near you:
16 May 2012 Brick and Mortar San Francisco CA
25 May 2012 France St Brieuc Art Rock Fest
26 May 2012 UK Brighton Hydrant
27 May 2012 UK London ATP
29 May 2012 France Nantes Stereo Lux
30 May 2012 France Bordeaux Docks
31 May 2012 Spain Barcelona Primavera Sound Fest
1 June 2012 France Limoges La Fourmi
2 June 2012 France Lyon Clacson
4 June 2012 Greece Athens An Club
6 june 2012 France Paris Point Ephémère
8 june 2012 Portugal Porto Primavera Sound Fest
10 June 2012 France Marseille La Machine à Coudre
11 June 2012 Italy Milan Magnolia
12 June 2012 Italy Ravenna Hana-Bi
13 June 2012 Italy Rome Init
14 June 2012 Italy Torino Spazio 211
15 June 2012 Italy Venice Pop Corn Marghera
16 June 2012 Swiss Genéve L’Usine
18 June 2012 Holland Nijmegen Merleyn
19 June 2012 Holland Amsterdam Paradisio
20 June 2012 Belgium Kortrijk De Kreun
21 June 2012 Belgium Bruxelles Wartkapoen
23 June 2012 Germany Erfurt Teenitus Fest
24 June 2012 Germany Hamburg Hafen klang
26 June 2012 Sweden Stockholm Strand Club
27 June 2012 Norway Oslo Revolver
28 June 2012 Danemark Copenhague Pumpe Huset
30 June 2012 France Belfort Eurockéennes
1 July 2012 Holland Rotterdam Metropolis Fest
15 July 2012 Pitchfork Festival Chicago IL
20 July 2012 Capital Hill Block Party Seattle WA
3 August 2012 Pickathon Happy Valley OR
4 August 2012 Pickathon Happy Valley OR
5 August 2012 Woodsist Festival Big Sur CA
10 August 2012 Outside Lands Festival San Francisco CA
6 September 2012 Hopscotch Festival Raleigh NC
23 September 2012 ATP Asbury Park NJ
The Shins have constantly churned out tunes fit for a movie soundtrack. If you missed them in this year’s Coachella and didn’t get to sport your ”wow, my life is like a movie” face, then dive into this 4 minute short film that’s the latest music video for their song “The Rifles Spiral”. This stop motion animation bares gloom and charm to the likings of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey. It’s creepy, magical, and yes, there is a giant killer bunny in it.
Check out our coverage of the Shins at Coachella HERE.
Or see them with your very own eyes in a city near you:
05/26-27 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
05/28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden Ampitheater
05/29 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Ampitheatre
05/31 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrahs Council Bluffs *
06/04 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
06/05 – Columbus, OH @ LC Indoor Pavilion *
06/06 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
06/08 – Cleveland, OH @ Masonic Auditorium *
06/09 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Ampitheatre *
* = w/ The Antlers
Get back to the roots of west coast skate culture with OFF!’s first single from their upcoming self-titled album, due out May 8th. The punk rock supergroup is kickin’ it old school some massive surf and skate tumbles in their new video “Wiped Out”. Props to the kids making out in the midst of the pit. Ah, young punk love at its finest.
Don’t forget to catch the dudes at their record release parties in May.
We hung out with Matt Toka at the Vans Warped Tour Kickoff Party last week where he was performing. You can catch him all summer on the Warped Tour & check out his brand new music video that he told us about above, right here:
Metal Monday, anyone? Crank it up with a loud and heavy dose of Darkest Hour. Go on now. Surely you could take a break from the usual coffee and breakfast morning routine.
After a couple of years or so working on various other projects, MxPx finally released some new music this week. Check out the video for “Far Away,” off the upcoming record Plans Within Plans. You can find some pretty rad pre-order bundles for the CD over at mxpx.com/store.
Every Time I Die’s new video for Revival Mode came out last week. Beware of the plot twist.
Islands’ new video for “Hallways” just came out yesterday. That skeleton on the piano kills.
