Maps & Atlases dropped their latest album Beware and Be Grateful on April 17, and they would now love to share it with you in person. They’re hitting up all corners of the US this summer for your listening and viewing pleasure. And really, how could you say no to those beards?
Tour Dates:
5/11 Chicago, IL - Metro
5/12 St Louis, MO - Firebird
5/14 Columbus, OH - The Basement
5/15 Akron, OH - Musica
5/16 Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
5/17 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt
5/18 Boston, MA - Middle East
5/19 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
5/21 New York, NY - The Studio at Webster Hall
5/22 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
5/23 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
5/24 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
5/25 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
5/26 Tampa, FL - Crowbar
5/27 Orlando, FL - The Plaza
5/29 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
5/31 Dallas, TX - Sons of Herman Hall
6/1 Austin, TX - The Parish
6/2 Houston, TX - Free Press SummerFest
6/4 El Paso, TX - Lowbro Palace
6/5 Phoenix, AZ - TBA
6/6 San Diego, CA - Casbah
6/7 Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room
6/8 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
6/9 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
6/11 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar
6/12 Vancouver, BC - Media Club
6/13 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
6/15 Boise, ID - Neurolux
6/16 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
6/17 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
6/18 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
6/19 St Paul, MN - Amsterdam Hall
Europe! If there is one tour that’s going to leave your entire body ringing and your ears melting for the next three weeks, this is it. Every Time I Die, Cancer Bats, Set Your Goals, and Make Do And Mend are destroying the mainland this month. PARTY TIME!
The tour is only a few days in so far, so get moving:
May 8 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Randall Club
May 9 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Futrum
May 10 - Schweinfurt, Germany @ Stattbahnhof
May 11 - Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Club
May 12 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Pumphuset
May 13 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Klubben
May 14 - Goteborg, Sweden @ Sticky Fingers
May 15 - Aarhus, Denmark @ Train
May 16 - Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
May 17 - Bremen, Germany @ Lagerhaus
May 18 - Hannover, Germany @ Faust
May 19 - Eindhoven, Holland @ Dynamo
This is really the only time it’s appropriate to be stoked for harassment of the sexual variety. After five years of touring and not-touring and general band shenanigans, Turbonegro have announced their next album, Sexual Harassment, available worldwide on June 13th.
Check them out on tour this summer and prepare to be harassed.
May 25 - Gelsenkirchen, GERMANY @ Rock Hard Festival
June 9 - Donington, UK @ Download
June 10 - Nickelsdorf, AUSTRIA @ Nova Rock
June 15 - Clisson, FRANCE @ Hellfest
June 23 - Bergen, NORWAY @ Bergenfest
June 29 - Borlange, SWEDEN @ Peace&Love
June 30 - Oslo NORWAY @ Kollen
July 21 - Nordfjordeid, NORWAY @ Malakoff
July 28 - Loreley, GERMANY @ Rock la Roca
July 29 - Berlin, GERMANY @ Greenville
Aug 3 - Pori, FINLAND @ Porispere
Aug 11 - Zofingen, SWITZERLAND @ Heitere Open Air
Aug 23 - Tromsø, NORWAY @ Døgnvill
Aug 24 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
Aug 25 - Stavanger, NORWAY @ RxR
Aug 26 - Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
Is it May 8th yet? No? I’m just going to crawl back under the covers and you can wake me up next Tuesday with the gritty punk rock goodness that is OFF!. Their new, self-titled record hits stores on the 8th, pummeling through 16 songs in 16 minutes. Who needs all those three minute radio singles anyway? Nah, man. OFF! know how to get things done in a third of the time.
It wouldn’t be a proper album release without some shows to rage through all those brand new tracks. Some shows are almost sold out, so check out the dates above and get those tickets in advance!
Someone pull out the birthday cake, because X are celebrating a big 3-5 this year. I haven’t even been alive for 35 years. If they’re still owning the stage after all this time, the least you can do is nab a ticket when they hit the road. I’ll even bring the cake and candles. Get in on the action as X travels up the west coast starting this weekend, including a slot on Los Lobos’ Cinco De Mayo Festival in LA on Saturday. This sounds like our kind of partaaaay!
Oh summer, what are we going to do with you? Maybe we’ll dress ourselves up like some mummies and join the Man Man dudes on tour. Toilet paper garments are the latest rage in fashion, didn’t you know? It might make it a little difficult to dance along, but that’s all part of the fun.
The rock-blues-pop inspired band are grooving their way down the east coast this June, awaiting all your beautifully mummified selves:
06/01/2012 - Lancaster, PA / Chameleon Club
06/02/2012 - Albany, NY / Valentine’s Music Hall
06/04/2012 - Hoboken, NJ / Maxwell’s
06/06/2012 - Baltimore, MD / Ottobar
06/07/2012 - Richmond, VA / Strange Matter
06/08/2012 - Greensboro, NC / Blind Tiger
06/09/2012 - Asheville, NC / Grey Eagle
06/11/2012 - Orlando, FL / The Social
06/12/2012 - Tampa, FL / The Crowbar
06/13/2012 - Gainesville, FL / Double Down Live
06/14/2012 - St. Augustine, FL / The Original Café 11
06/15/2012 - Athens, GA / 40 Watt Club
06/16/2012 - Atlanta, GA / Terminal West
06/17/2012 - Durham, NC / Motorco Music Hall
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
This summer is pretty much exploding with one ridiculously awesome tour after another. For the metalheads in the room, the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is the place to be. No, seriously. From Slayer and Slipknot, to Anthrax and The Devil Wears Prada, amongst so many others.
Our minds have been sufficiently blown, and the tour doesn’t even kick off for another two months.
Lucky for all of us, tickets are now on sale. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
6/30 - San Bernardino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
7/1 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
7/3 - Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
7/4 - Nampa, ID @ Idaho Center Amphitheatre
7/6 - Phoenix, AZ @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavillion
7/7 - Albuquerque, NM @ Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque Presents The Pavilion
7/8 - Englewood, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
7/10 - Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
7/11 - The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
7/13 - Tampa, FL @ 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre
7/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood
7/15 - Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
7/17 - Bonner Springs, KS @ Sandstone Amphitheatre
7/18 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Zoo Amphitheatre
7/20 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/21 - Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
7/22 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
7/24 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
7/25 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
7/27 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
7/28 - Burgettstown, PA @ First Niagara Pavilion
7/29 - Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
7/31 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8/3 - Mansfield, MA @ Comcast Center
8/4 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion
8/5 - Hartford, CT @ The Comcast Theatre
Whether you’re into tv static, crayons, psychedelic trips, or watching cartoon lions devour mermaid queens, check out Santigold’s pop-star bashing video for “Big Mouth”, a track from her 4th coming album Master of My Make Believe, due out on May 1st. Pay close attention to the choreography that her trusty backup dancers bust in their Limited Vans x Santigold Tosha Hi-tops. We’ll be expecting you to do the same when you catch a show on her recently announced Spring/Summer tour.
Santigold 2012 Tour Dates:
04/02 – Sunrise, FL @ BankAtlantic Center *
04/04 – Raleigh, NC @ RBC Center *
04/06 – Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Arena *
04/07 – Columbia, SC @ Colonial Life Arena *
04/09 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum *
04/10 – Duluth, GA @ The Arena at Gwinnett Center *
04/12 – Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum *
04/14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music & Arts Festival
04/20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music & Arts Festival
04/26 – London, UK @ Heaven
04/30 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
05/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
05/09 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
05/11 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
05/12 – Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights
05/15 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
05/16 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
05/25 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festivall
05/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
05/28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
05/29 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
6/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
6/06 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
06/07 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues Houston
06/09 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
06/10 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
06/12 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
06/13 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
06/15 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
06/16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ STAGE AE
06/18 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
06/19 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
06/22 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
06/23 – New York, NY @ The Governor’s Ball Music Festival
06/24 – London, UK @ Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend
06/29 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues Cleveland
06/30 – Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest Festival
* w/ Red Hot Chili Peppers
