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The Mary Onettes: US Tour in April and More!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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I decided to check out the Labrador Records site to see if any of the bands are coming out here to play and lo and behold:

US tour in April
19/4 – Philadelphia, PA – Marathon Bar
20/4 – Washington, DC – DC9
21/4 – New York City, NY – Mercury Lounge
22/4 – Boston, MA – Great Scott
23/4 – Columbus, OH – Summit
24/4 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
25/4 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
26/4 – Portland, OR – Holocene
27/4 – San Francisco, Rickshaw
28/4 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
29/4 – Los Angeles, CA – Viper Room

Yes I’m excited.  The question is can I get my lazy ass out to LA on a Thursday night?

On a side note:

Shout Out Louds released the album Work last week. Sounds more low key, but that’s not necessarily a  bad thing. It’s definitely a changed from their catchy Swedish Indie Rock that fans have been accustomed to.

Malory also released  an album called Pearl Diver in January to the ClubAC30 label.  Some other bands that you might have heard of off that label are: Airiel, Air Formation, Broadcast, Chapterhouse, The Daysleepers and much much more! Pearl Diver reminds me of  their last album The Third Face, but sort of a continuation or a progression of it.  I’m glad they finally finished and  released an album though, because I was starting to wonder if they turned out like so many other bands who just disappear  and are never heard from again.

Neil Halstead: Alison

Friday, May 29th, 2009

I don’t really have much to talk lately, but I went to  the mojave 3 website and I found a gem. For all those Slowdive fans out there, Neil Halstead did a live version of “Alison” at a concert in Chicago. When Mojave 3 was on tour last time (which seems like eons ago), they played “Dagger” and I thought they played one more Slowdive song, but I can’t really remember.  Neil’s version is quite interesting and he plays it as if he just wrote the song for his latest solo album. Folksy, organic and more acoustic comes to mind. It’s not bad at all, but what can beat the original with all the typical shoegazing sounds from whatever effects pedal they were using at the time. “Alison” takes me back and will always have a place in my heart.

Here’s the original Alternate video for Slowdive’s “Alison”

P.S. I mentioned on my last post about the latest Legends album being released on May 6th. Well, I messed up again and it’s actually being released here in the U.S on June 16th. May 6th was the released date for all the other cool countries I guess.  Sorry for the confusion.

Malory: New album in Spring?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

So this weekend I was on Malory’s website and noticed the same info about their upcoming album. I’m kind of sick in the head and tend to check all my favorite band websites to see if anything is coming up. Me being curious and slightly impatient (my wife can argue about the slightly part), I decided to send an email to Malory to see if I can get a response about their new album.

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