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Thanks to the good folks at World's Fair:

Celebrate the season, and your possibly increasingly slimmer wallet, with a selection of FREE holiday songs from three of World's Fair's artists. Colourmusic take on the Ellington/Coltrane classic, while the Dandy Warhols and Brandon Curtis, the lead singer/bassist/pianist from the Secret Machines redo old holiday favorites. In the case of "Silent Night," the Secret Machines are also offering an option to purchase the song at a price of one's choosing, with 100% of proceeds going to the children's charity, Safe Horizon.

MP3 - The Dandy Warhols - "Little Drummer Boy"
MP3 - The Secret Machines' Brandon Curtis w/Tamaryn - "Silent Night"
MP3 - Colourmusic - "In A Sentimental Mood"

Labels: colourmusic, mp3, secret machines, the dandy warhols

Jihea's "Best Thing" (MP3 here)




Colourmusic's "Winter Song"

Labels: colourmusic, jihea

The Raveonettes will release four digital EPs before end of the year. The first EP, Remixed, is being release free on via Vice Records. To download the album, click here

Tracklisting for the Remix EP:
1. Dead Sound (80KIDZ remix)
2. Aly, Walk With Me (Nic Endo remix)
3. Lust (Trentemoller Remix)

The next EP will be release on September 23, 2008 with following EPs release on October 21, 2008 and November 25, 2008.

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine will release his solo album, The Fabled City, September 30th, 2008 via Epic Records. A stream of the album is below:





Live at Shea, the live recording of the The Clash at Shea Stadium in New York, will be release on October 6, 2008. The release occurs the same year that Shea Stadium, home of the baseball club, the New York Mets, will cease operation and be dismantled.

The Clash opened The Who on their farewell tour of the US and played two nights at Shea Stadium on October 12 and 13, 1982. The band had recently released the Combat Rock with the singles ÒRock The CasbahÓ and ÒShould I Stay Or Should I GoÓ receiving heavy air-play.

The albums's track listing is as follows:

Kosmo Vinyl Introduction
London Calling
Police On My Back
Guns Of Brixton
Tommy Gun
The Magnificent Seven
Armagideon Time
The Magnificent Seven (return)
Rock The Casbah
Train In Vain
Career Opportunities
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
English Civil War
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I Fought The Law


Apollo Sunshine Tour Dates (with Dr. Dog)

Sep 13 Cambridge, MA @ Newbury Comics (in-store performance)
Sep 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Sound Fix (acoustic in-store performance)
Sep 15 Brooklyn, NY @ Monkey Town
Sep 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Monkey Town
Sep 19 Andover, MA @ Andover Town Hall
Sep 26 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
Oct 3 Fairfield, CT @ The Field
Oct 8 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Oct 9 Washington, DC @ DC9
Oct 14 Nashville, TN @ 3rd and Lindsley
Oct 15 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
Oct 17 Dallas, TX @ The Cavern,
Oct 18 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
Oct 19 Norman, OK @ Opolis
Oct 24 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
Oct 27 Columbus, OH @ The Basemen
Oct 29 New York, NY @ The Mercury Lounge
Oct 30 Boston, MA @ Middle East
Oct 31 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse



Brooklyn-based band Bell Hollow recently signed with RCRD LBL, and will be giving away monthly free mp3s of remixes of songs from the band's Foxgloves album. Click for more information.

Low vs. Diamond tour dates (opening for Santogold)

MP3 - Heart Attack

Fri/Sep-19 New York, NY ¥ Fillmore New York @ Irving Plaza
Sat/Sep-20 Boston, MA ¥ Paradise Rock Club
Tue/Sep-23 Philadelphia, PA ¥ TLA
Wed/Sep-24 Toronto, ON ¥ Phoenix Concert Theatre
Thu/Sep-25 Cleveland, OH ¥ House Of Blues
Sat/Sep-27 Detroit, MI ¥ St. Andrews Hall
Sun/Sep-28 Chicago, IL ¥ House Of Blues
Tue/Sep-30 Lawrence, KS ¥ Liberty Hall
Wed/Oct-01 Denver, CO ¥ Gothic Theatre
Sat/Oct-04 Seattle, WA ¥ Showbox SODO
Sun/Oct-05 Portland, OR ¥ Crystal Ballroom
Tue/Oct-07 San Francisco, CA ¥ Fillmore
Fri/Oct-10 San Diego, CA ¥ House Of Blues
Sat/Oct-11 Las Vegas, NV ¥ House Of Blues
Mon/Oct-13 Anaheim, CA ¥ House Of Blues
Tue/Oct-14 Los Angeles, CA ¥ Wiltern

Mike Skinner (The Streets) will be releasing his fourth album, everything is borrowed October 7, 2008 on Vice Records.

To watch the video for "The Escapist" and to download a free track, click here.

Colourmusic will release their full-length album, f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13, tomorrow, September 9, 2008, on Great Society.

MP3 - Put In A Little Gas

Upcoming tour schedule:
Sep 9 - St. Louis, MO @ The Bluebird
Sep 10 - Columbia, MO @ MojoÕs
Sep 11 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sep 12 - Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club
Sep 13 - Tulsa, OK @ Soundpony Lounge
Sep 20 - Stillwater, OK @ Eskimo JoeÕs
Nov 8 - Austin, TX @ Waterloo Park (Fun Fun Fun Fest)

Labels: apollo sunshine, bell hollow, colourmusic, dr. dog, live at shea, low vs diamond, news and notes, raveonettes, rcrd lbl, santogold, the clash, the fabled city, the streets, tom morello

posted by chuck  # 9/08/2008 07:59:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

These are long overdue ....

- Partisan Records will be releasing an expanded release of Holy SonsÕ Decline of the West on September 23, 2008;
- Brazil's Curumin is set to release JapanPopShow on Quannum Projects on October 7, 2008;
- Portland's The Upsidedown will be touring with The Dandy Warhols;
- British Sea Power are now being recognized by their native England with a nomination for the Nationwide Mercury Prize, which celebrates the top 12 albums released by UK or Irish artists for their third album Do You Like Rock Music;
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Oklahoman-band Colourmusic has released the next video for "Yes!" from their upcoming album, f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13, which comes out September 9th.
- Del McCoury's Moneyland album seeks to raise awareness of the economic issues facing Americans. In addition to songs from the Del McCoury Band, the album features songs from Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Hornsby, the Fairfield Four, Chris Knight and others.
- Ray LaMontagne has announced his first North American tour in support of his new album Gossip In The Grain will start September 30 in Indianapolis. The album is due out October 14.
- Singer-songwriter Matthew Perryman Jones will release his new album Swallow the Sea on August 19.
- Apollo Sunshine's new album, Shall Noise Upon, is now available digitally and on vinyl. The band have teamed up
with imeem to offer an exclusive stream of the entire album, here.
- Howlies, are touring in support of their August 12th release, Sea Level;
- Merz (Conrad Lambert) will release a new digital only EP entitled Presume Too Much exclusively via iTunes on August 19;

Labels: apollo sunshine, Bruce Hornsby, colourmusic, curumin, Emmylou Harris, holy sons, Marty Stuart, matthew perryman jones, Merle Haggard, merz, ray lamontagne, the Fairfield Four, the upsidedown

- The Apples in stereo will be starting a tour, including a musical appearance on The Colbert Report

- Giraffes? Giraffes! recently started an east coast tour

- Apollo Sunshine release their first single, "666" this week. It is from the forthcoming album Shall Noise Upon out 09/02

- The Dandy Warhols' sixth LP, Earth To The Dandy Warhols, is set for release on 08/19. Here's the new single "The World Come On"

- Colourmusic is touring for their upcoming September 9 full-length debut

- Como Te Llama? the new album from Albert Hammond, Jr. will be released 07/08

- Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, first released in 1977, is being re-released as a double CD. It was the first solo album by a member of the Beach Boys

Labels: apollo sunshine, colourmusic, dennis wilson, giraffes, news and notes, the apples in stereo, the dandy warhols