Red Fang Releases Animated Video for "Crows in Swine" / Show at Terminal 5 on Dec. 18th with Opeth and In Flames

Last week, Red Fang premiered their new video for “Crows In Swine,” the third single off the Portland-based rock group’s critically acclaimed third album Whales and Leeches (Relapse).

For this new animated video, Red Fang was looking to move away from doing the same type of clips they’ve been known for in the past and create something different this time around. For the “Crows In Swine” video, the group teamed with renowned animator Adam Avilla to direct. Adam came up with the barbarian concept and each band member came up with their own secret weapons for the clip.

“I am blown away by the video Adam made for us,” says Red Fang guitarist/vocalist Bryan Giles. “It's brutally cute. I wish I was as cool as the character I am in it in real life. Recliners, sausage, guitars and kittens!!”

Red Fang also announced they’ll join the “Communion of Sirens” tour with Opeth and In Flames and the tour will kick off December 3 in Chicago. The local tour stop is at Terminal 5 on Dec. 18th. Tickets are $35 and doors are at 6:30PM.

Red Fang Tour Dates:
*Dec 3 - 21 with Opeth & In Flames*

Dec 03 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theater
Dec 04 - Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights
Dec 05 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium
Dec 06 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Dec 08 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theater
Dec 09 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
Dec 10 - Tempe, AZ - The Marquee
Dec 12 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live Ballroom
Dec 13 - Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey Live
Dec 14 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Cafe (Red Fang only)
Dec 15 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
Dec 16 - Raleigh, NC - King’s Barcade (Red Fang only)
Dec 17 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
Dec 18 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
Dec 19 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
Dec 20 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
Dec 21 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus
Jan 01 - Leavenworth, WA - Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival

Links:
Red Fang

The Naked and Famous (NZ/LA Quintet) Debut 'Hearts Like Ours' Tonight on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson / Shows Oct. 10th and 11th at Terminal 5

NZ/LA Quintet The Naked and Famous will perform the television debut of their song "Hearts Like Ours," off their new album, In Rolling Waves, on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, tonight Monday, September 30 (12:37 - 1:37 am ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The show will feature Simon Helberg from The Big Bang Theory as the lead guest.

In Rolling Waves follows the band's debut album, Passive Me, Aggressive You, featuring the hit single "Young Blood", reached global sales of over 500,000 and took the band's YouTube and Vevo views beyond 25 million.  "Hearts Like Ours", first aired as Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record in the World Today" on BBC Radio 1 , the track went #1 on the Hype Machine overnight, garnering praise from Glamour, among others, who said simply, "we're loving it." The band is currently on a North American tour and will head to Europe in late November.





The Naked and Famous Fall 2013 North American Tour:
Oct 1 - Dallas TX, House of Blues
Oct 2 - Austin TX, Stubbs
Oct 3 - Houston TX, House of Blues
Oct 5 - Atlanta GA, The Tabernacle
Oct 6 - Washington DC, 9:30 Club
Oct 8 - Philadelphia PA, Electric Factory

Oct 10 & 11 - New York NY, Terminal 5
(Tickets for each night are $30 in advance and $35 DOS; Opening band is The Colourist)

Oct 12 - Boston MA, House of Blues
Oct 14 - Toronto ON, Sound Academy
Oct 16 - Chicago IL, Riviera Theater
Oct 18 - Denver CO, Fillmore Auditorium
Oct 20 - Vancouver BC, Orpheum Theatre
Oct 21 - Seattle WA, Showbox Sodo
Oct 22 - Portland OR, Roseland Theater
Oct 24 - Las Vegas NV, The Cosmopolitan
Oct 25 - Oakland CA, Fox Theater
Oct 26 - Pomona CA, Fox Theater

Links:
The Naked and Famous

Beady Eye Plays Terminal 5 on Dec. 9th - Tickets Still Available

I saw Oasis on their 1994 club tour and, post show, wasn't convinced that it was worth the $8 cover. I came away thinking that the band couldn't decide if they wanted to be Paul Weller or John Lennon but, in either case, they weren't on par with either artist.

Surprisingly, I liked Beady Eyes' debut disc, Different Gear, Still Speeding, as there was an energy and a sense of urgency in the songs that I hadn't heard in any of the later period Oasis material. Sadly, my opinion flipped back the other way after hearing Beady Eyes' "iTunes Festival 2011" EP as this phoned-in performance from Liam reminded me of everything I disliked about Oasis.

Check out this live video of the band from earlier this year that was filmed at Webster Hall and decide for yourself...



Tickets for the show at Terminal 5 are $43 (in advance + a $8.85 'convenience charge') and $48 DOS. Black Box Revolution is opening the show and doors are at 7PM.

Links:
Beady Eye

PJ Harvey: Live Webcast from Paris Broadcast Monday, Feb. 14 at 3PM (EST)

PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder by VagrantRecords

To mark the release of Let England Shake, PJ Harvey will debut her new album live in a one-off, special show from Paris on Monday February 14th. The show will be streamed live on Monday at 3pm EST / 12pm PST (8pm GMT) by the French music site Deezer and the cultural chanel ARTE. The webcast will also be available on the official PJ Harvey site.

PJ Harvey’s eighth album, Let England Shake, comes out on Tuesday, Feb. 15 and this new album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey.

What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abiding atmosphere – and in particular, its words. If Harvey’s past work might seem to draw on direct emotional experience, this new album is rather different. Its songs centre on both her home country, and events further afield in which it has embroiled itself. The lyrics return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli. The album they make up is not a work of protest, nor of strait-laced social or political comment. It brims with the mystery and magnetism in which she excels. But her lyric-writing in particular has arrived at a new, breathtaking place, in which the human aspects of history are pushed to the foreground. Put simply, not many people make records like this.



Links:
PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey Releases "Let England Shake" on Feb. 15 // Show at Terminal 5 on April 20th

Written On The Forehead by pjharvey

PJ Harvey's eighth disc Let England Shake comes out next Tuesday (Feb. 15th) on Vagrant Records and she is playing a limited run of headlining shows in April.

PJ Harvey’s new album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey.

What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abiding atmosphere – and in particular, its words. If Harvey’s past work might seem to draw on direct emotional experience, this new album is rather different. Its songs centre on both her home country, and events further afield in which it has embroiled itself. The lyrics return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli. The album they make up is not a work of protest, nor of strait-laced social or political comment. It brims with the mystery and magnetism in which she excels. But her lyric-writing in particular has arrived at a new, breathtaking place, in which the human aspects of history are pushed to the foreground. Put simply, not many people make records like this.

“I was looking outwards a lot more,” she told the BBC’s Andrew Marr, when she appeared on his programme back in May. “I think a lot of my work has often been about the interior, the emotional, what happens inside oneself. And this time I’ve been just looking out, so it’s not only to do with taking a look at England but taking a look at the world and what happening in current world affairs. But always trying to come from the human point of view, because I don’t feel qualified to sing from a political standpoint… I sing as a human being affected by the politics, and that for me is a more successful way … because I so often feel that with a lot of protest music, I’m being preached to, and I don’t want that”.

The show at Terminal 5 is sold out but I'd watch for last minute (DOS) to go on-sale.

Links:
PJ Harvey

School of Seven Bells: Win a Copy of 'Heart is Strange' 7" // Show at Terminal 5 on Dec. 2nd

DOWNLOAD: School of Seven Bells - "I L U" (from Disconnect from Desire)

Win a copy of School of Seven Bells' new 7", "Heart is Strange" (which is backed with "Dust Devil" (White Sea Remix)!

Send your name and mailing address to Mike.BrooklynRocks at Gmail dot com. Winners will be selected at random on Friday, Nov. 26th.

School of Seven Bells are playing two local shows over the next few weeks. The first is a show at Zero Film Festival's Closing Night. This show takes place on Nov. 20th at Nutroaster Studios (120 Ingraham St., Brooklyn, NY 11237) and tickets are $12. The second show takes place on December 2nd. School of Seven Bells are supporting The Walkmen at Terminal 5 and tickets are $25 in advance and $30 DOS.

Links:
School of Seven Bells

Tim Kasher Releases Solo Daytrotter Session // Returns to NYC in Dec. With Minus The Bear

DOWNLOAD: Tim Kasher - "Daytrotter Session" 11/3/10 (requires free registration)

Kicking off his fall tour with a headlining show earlier this week at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA, Tim Kasher continues on his massive national fall trek in support of his debut solo album, The Game Of Monogamy. The tour, which began in late September, runs through December 17th at The Rave (Downstairs) in Milwaukee, WI, and includes recently announced dates in El Paso, TX (11/15), Pittsburgh, PA (11/22), Washington, DC (11/23), and St. Louis, MO (12/15). In addition to the headlining shows, Kasher will again support Minus The Bear for two and a half weeks in late November and into December. Kasher will be backed by a full band on all dates.

Kasher's excellent first solo Daytrotter session is also now online (link above). The session features The Game Of Monogamy tracks "Bad, Bad Dreams," "The Prodigal Husband," and "No Fireworks," as well as a cover of David Bowie's "Soul Love." The video for "Cold Love," directed by Kasher himself and featuring actress Molly Parker (Deadwood, Swingtown), premiered in late September on AOL Music's Spinner blog and can also now be viewed here.



The Game Of Monogamy was released October 5th by Saddle Creek. The album is more of an arranged record than any of Kasher's past releases with Cursive and The Good Life, and has been catching the attention of the press, including Alternative Press, The A.V. Club, Filter, Popmatters, SPIN, and USA Today. Filled with deceptively catchy classic pop, sweeping, grand arrangements, and alternately stark and lush instrumentation, the album explores the wide range of distinctly human emotions tangled up around relationships in a starched shirt society. The Game Of Monogamy was written and recorded in Whitefish, MT, last winter, co-produced by Kasher and Patrick Newbery (of Cursive, Lacona, Head Of Femur), who also helped with the arrangements and plays on the record. Erin Tate (Minus The Bear) and Matt Maginn (Cursive) also contributed drum and bass parts, respectively, and members of the Glacier National Symphony added classical instrument parts.

Tickets for the show at Terminal 5 (with Minus the Bear) are $25.50 in advance and $30 (DOS).

Upcoming Tour Dates:

NOV. 12 -- POMONA, CA -- GLASS HOUSE RECORD STORE
NOV. 13 -- SAN DIEGO, CA -- THE LOFT @ UCSD
NOV. 14 -- PHOENIX, AZ -- SAIL INN
NOV. 15 -- EL PASO, TX THE PERCOLATOR
NOV. 16 -- COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- BLACK SHEEP
NOV. 18 -- LINCOLN, NE -- BOURBON THEATER
NOV. 19 -- OMAHA, NE -- THE WAITING ROOM
NOV. 20 -- CHICAGO, IL -- SCHUBAS
NOV. 21 -- ANN ARBOR, MI -- BLIND PIG
NOV. 22 -- PITTSBURGH, PA -- THUNDERBIRD CAFÉ
NOV. 23 -- WASHINGTON, DC -- THE RED PALACE
NOV. 24 -- CHAPEL HILL, NC -- LOCAL 506
NOV. 26 -- ORLANDO, FL -- THE SOCIAL
NOV. 27 -- TAMPA, FL -- CROWBAR
NOV. 28 -- ATLANTA, GA -- THE EARL
NOV. 29 -- ASHEVILLE, CA -- ORANGE PEEL*
NOV. 30 -- RALEIGH, NC -- LINCOLN THEATRE*
DEC. 1 -- NORFOLK, VA -- NORVA*
DEC. 2 -- YORK, PA -- STRAND*
DEC. 3 -- PHILADELPHIA, PA -- ELECTRIC FACTORY*
DEC. 4 -- NEW YORK, NY -- TERMINAL 5*
DEC. 6 -- PAWTUCKET, RI -- MET CAFÉ*
DEC. 7 -- BOSTON, MA -- WILBUR THEATRE*
DEC. 9 -- CLEVELAND, OH -- HOUSE OF BLUES*
DEC. 10 -- PONTIAC, MI -- CLUTCH CARGO'S*
DEC. 11 -- URBANA, IL -- CANOPY CLUB*
DEC. 12 -- COLUMBIA, MO -- THE BLUE NOTE*
DEC. 13 -- IOWA CITY, IA -- THE BLUE MOOSE*
DEC. 14 -- BLOOMINGTON, IN -- BLUEBIRD*
DEC. 15 -- ST. LOUIS, MO -- OFF BROADWAY
DEC. 16 -- CHICAGO, IL -- THE VIC THEATRE*
DEC. 17 -- MILWAUKEE, WI -- THE RAVE (Downstairs)*
* supporting Minus The Bear

Links:
Tim Kasher

Stars: Win a Pair of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show at Terminal 5 (Vagrant Records)

DOWNLOAD: STARS - We Don't Want Your Body

(photo by Norman Wong)
Indie rock band Stars (who share members with Broken Social Scene) released their fifth disc, The Five Ghosts, earlier this summer. After appearances at several major Canadian music festivals this summer, as well as Chicago's Lollapalooza, the band kicked off a Fall tour yesterday in Rochester. The tour stops at Terminal 5 tomorrow night and Stars are playing with Wild Nothing.

To win a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's show at Terminal 5, e-mail Mike.Brooklynrocks@Gmail.Com (subject: Stars @ Terminal 5). Be sure to include your first and last name in the emai! Winners will be drawn at randow and contacted. Good luck!

Love and death have always been the twin engines of the popular song: the pursuit of love and the mourning of its passing; the havoc death wreaks upon love; love’s survival in the aftermath of death; death as metaphor for the loss of one’s identity to the consumptive power of love...

Few bands of recent times have understood this as completely as Stars. And fewer bands still have so eloquently articulated, in words and in melodies, the seemingly countless ways love and death fill our days and rule our lives. Ten years after singer-lyricist Torquil Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman conceived of Stars in a decrepit New York apartment, one can listen back through the band’s discography and hear dozens of songs that find new ways to contemplate these ancient, ageless subjects.

To that end, The Five Ghosts, Stars’ fifth full-length album, would seem to be business as usual. Indeed, a scan of its song titles — “Dead Hearts,” “I Died So I Could Haunt You,” “The Last Song Ever Written” — would suggest as much. And yes, the band whose previous album, 2007’s In Our Bedroom After the War, imagined romance in the shadow of the threat of apocalypse, are as fascinated as ever by the potential of the ruinous love song.

But The Five Ghosts is different from previous Stars albums. Simpler, sparer, and more confident (in its own quiet way), it also trades some of the band’s previous dramatic flourish for the sort of direct, heart-bearing communication that comes from hard-won experience.



Links:
Stars

Suicidal Tendencies: Interview with Guitarist Mike Clark // Show at Terminal 5 on Nov. 14th

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Suicidal Tendencies / No Mercy guitarist Mike Clark.

This is a busy time for the band as they just released their first new disc in ten years, No Mercy Fool! / The Suicidal Family and are kicking off a coast-to-coast tour that starts next month. I talked with Mike about the new disc, which consists of re-recordings of Join the Army and No Mercy (Muir and Clark's thrash metal project) tunes along with the hard to find track "Come Alive" (from the 2008 Year of the Cycos tour CD). Mike shared that the band's long awaited new studio album is finally finished and due out in January of next year. Suicidal Tendencies will be previewing tracks from this forthcoming album on the current tour.

DOWNLOAD: Interview with Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Mike Clark (MP3)

The local area is at Terminal 5 and Suicidal Tendencies are playing with the Cro-Mags and Underdog. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 (DOS) and the show is all ages.

Suicidal Tendencies Tour Dates:
Fri/Oct-15 -- Reno, NV, Knitting Factory
Sat/Oct-16 -- Portland, OR, Roseland
Sun/Oct-17 -- Seattle, WA, Showbox
Wed/Oct-20 -- San Francisco, CA, Fillmore
Fri/Oct-22 -- Las Vegas, NV, House of Blues
Sat/Oct-23 -- Phoenix, AZ, Fear Farm
Tue/Oct-26 -- Colorado Springs, CO, Black Sheep
Fri/Oct-29 -- Detroit, MI, Harpos
Sat/Oct-30 -- Milwaukee, WI, Eagles
Sun/Oct-31 -- Cleveland, OH, Peabodys
Tue/Nov-02 -- St. Louis, MO, Pops
Thu/Nov-04 -- Houston, TX, Meridien
Sat/Nov-06 -- Dallas, TX, Palladium Showroom
Sun/Nov-07 -- Austin, TX , Fun Fun Fun Fest
Tue/Nov-09 -- Tampa, FL, State Theatre
Wed/Nov-10 -- Orlando, FL, Firestone
Fri/Nov-12 -- Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
Sat/Nov-13 -- Worcester, MA, Palladium
Sun/Nov- 14 -- NYC, Terminal 5
Wed/Nov-17 -- Chicago, IL, Metro
Thu/Nov-18 -- Minneapolis, MN, Cabooze
Sat/Nov-20 -- Denver, CO, Summit
Sun/Nov-21 -- Albuquerque, NM, Sunshine Theatre

Links:
Suicidal Tendencies

Art Brut Returns to NYC for a Show at Terminal 5

Art Brut is back in the States and will be doing an East Coast tour with The Hold Steady in Oct/Nov. The band has only one show in the area - Wednesday, Nov 21 @ Terminal 5, New York, NY. For anyone who hasn't been keep up with the new clubs that have been opening; Terminal 5 is the old Club Exit and it is located at 56th Street and 11th Avenue. According to this week's TimeOut, Terminal 5 has a capacity of 3,000. (I am sure there are going to be those who reminisce for last year's small club shows at Southpaw and the Knit)

Art Brut also did a live podcast for AOL's The Interface which is available as a free download on both video and mp3. Eddie is really something to watch -- I didn't hear the comparisons to The Fall when I first listened to the pre-release of It's a Bit Complicated but I can really see the comparison now. If you listen to the interview, there is talk that the University of Berlin is having a course on Eddie's lyrics.

Here is the track listing for the podcast:
'Pump Up the Volume'
'Post Soothing Out'
'Direct Hit'
'Good Weekend'

I have yet to catch The Hold Steady but this video from the band's show at Prospect Park looks pretty cool. It sounds like Craig Finn's spoken word delivery is a perfect match to accompany Eddie and Art Brut.

Before going off with Art Brut, The Hold Steady is play a show on 9.17.07 @ World Trade Center.

Links:
The Hold Steady
Art Brut
Art Brut's MySpace Page