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Camera Obscura Confirm Spring 2010 US Tour Dates 13 Jan 2010

Camera Obscura ended 2009 with a wonderfully successful US tour and due to popular demand will come BACK to our shores this Spring!

Check out this recent track review that ran on Pitchfork for "Tougher Than The Rest", the B-Side to "The Sweetest Thing"

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11704-tougher-than-the-rest/

My Maudlin Career came out in April of 2009 and has been praised by critics worldwide!  The single "French Navy" has been declared one of the catchiest songs around and was included in NPR's "Best Music Of 2009 So Far" top 30 reader's poll.  My Maudlin Career was #12 in Paste Magazine's Top 25 Albums of the year, and Stereogum's #29 album of 2009!


SEE FULL US TOUR DATES BELOW

More praise for My Maudlin Career


"Camera Obscura has been crafting its own blend of shimmering chamber-pop since first forming in Glasgow in 1996. Now, more than a decade later, the group [is about to} release its richest and most ambitious album to date."
-NPR's Exclusive First Listen

"It's an infectious album that blooms repeatedly throughout, unfolding in muted, endearing aural hues; simultaneously sad and celebratory, and always charming."
-Paste 89%

"The result is a flawless blend of sunny pop, Motown, blues and jazz with the cleanest production in Camera Obscura's catalog."
-Billboard

 "On their fourth album, this Scottish indie-pop band's fondness for woeful heartache and Phil Spector-sque production reaches a poignant peak."
-Spin

 "My Maudlin Career" stands as one of the finest among Camera Obscura’s four studio records.  It's a sadly poetic collection that you don't necessarily have to be heartbroken to enjoy!  It is an album dripping with tragic beauty."
-ABC News

 
HEAR the title track "My Maudlin Career": http://tinyurl.com/bkzpyh

WATCH the video for "French Navy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CkfvYMCWM

Camera Obscura Spring 2010 US Tour Dates

 
Sat 4.03.10  Iowa City, IA  Mission Creek Festival at Blue Moose Tap House
On Sale 01/15

 

Sun 4.04.10 Madison, WI  High Noon Saloon 
On Sale 01/15 at 12pm
http://www.brownpapertickets.com

 

Mon 4.05.10 Chicago, IL  Lincoln Hall
On Sale 01/15 at 12pm
http://lincolnhallchicago.com/Shows/04-05-2010+Camera+Obscura

 

Wed 4.07.10  Lawrence, KS  The Bottleneck
On Sale 01/16 at 10am
http://bottleneck.frontgatesolutions.com/

 
Thu 4.08.10  Norman, OK  Meacham Auditorium at University of Oklahoma
On Sale at Door to public, free to students

 

Fri 4.09.10  Austin, TX  Emo's – Outside
On Sale 01/16 at 10am
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=1080915

 

Sat 4.10.10  Denton, TX  Hailey's
On Sale 01/15 at 10am
http://spune.frontgatetickets.com/

 

Sun 4.11.10  Houston, TX  Warehouse Live Studio
On Sale 01/15 at 12pm
http://warehouselive.frontgatetickets.com


 
Fri 4.16.10  Las Vegas, NV Club Aruba at Aruba Hotel

 

Tue 4.20.10  Visalia, CA Cellar Door
On Sale 01/15 at 10am
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=1077525

 

Wed 4.21.10  San Francisco, CA  Great American Music Hall
On Sale Now
http://tickets.gamh.com/evinfo.php?eventid=70247

 

Fri 4.23.10  Eugene, OR  WOW Hall
On Sale 01/15 at 3pm
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=11660

 

Sat 4.24.10  Bellingham, WA  Nightlight Lounge
On Sale Soon
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=19518

 

Sun 4.25.10  Portland, OR  Berbati's Pan
On Sale 01/13 at 10am
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Berbatis-Pan-tickets-Portland/venue/336824

Vampire Weekend takes over your television! 11 Jan 2010

VAMPIRE WEEKEND
-release Contra
-perform ALL WEEK on Fuel TV’s Daily Habit week starting TONIGHT, 1/11
-perform on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien TONIGHT, 1/11
-perform on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson THURSDAY, 1/14

Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album is out this week! Rave reviews abound, and excitement is at a very high level. To celebrate what we are calling “Vampire Weekend week”, the band is taking over your television!

You can see them perform a very special version of “Cousins” tonight on Conan. Thursday night on Craig Ferguson, they will perform “Horchata”! They also performed “Cousins” on Letterman last week.

Every day this week, the band will be also featured as the house band on Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit”. During the performances, the band will play four songs from Contra (“Cousins”, “White Sky”, “California English”, “Holiday” and “A-Punk”). Tune in at 9pm e.s.t and again at 12:00 e.s.t, and again the following day at 2:30pm and 5:30pm e.s.t. The performances will also be up at fuel.tv/music immediately after the performances.

To view a teaser of the Vampire Weekend performance of “Cousins,” from the new album Contra, on “The Daily Habit,” please click here.

the morning benders new MP3 available for Promises 11 Jan 2010

An MP3 is now available for "Promises" off Big Echo the upcoming album
from the morning benders which comes out March 9th on Rough Trade!

You can check it out here http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/Promises_by_themorningbenders.mp3

and also download it on http://themorningbenders.com/

"Promises" will be for sale as a digital single on Tuesday January 12th through itunes,
and a 7" version is being put out February 23rd by True Panther Sounds.


the morning benders will TOUR the US in support of Big Echo in the Spring

March 10th -- Jonny Brenda’s  --  Philadelphia
March 11th  --  The Black Cat  --  Washington DC
March 12th --  Local 506  --  Chapel Hill
March 13th  --  The Drunken Unicorn  --  Atlanta
March 15th  --  The Bottletree   --  Birmingham  
March 23rd  --  The Rhythm Room  --  Phoenix
March 25th  --  Troubadour   --   Los Angeles
March 26th  --  Casbah   --   San Diego
March 27th  --  Detroit Bar   --  Costa Mesa
March 28th  --  Muddy Waters   --  Santa Barbara
March 30th  --  The Independent   --  San Francisco
April 1st  --  Holocene   --   Portland
April 2nd  --  Crocodile Café  --  Seattle
April 3rd  --  Media Club   --  Vancouver
April 5th  --  Club Velour   --   Provo
April 7th  --  Hi-Dive   --   Denver
April 9th  --  The Vaudeville Mews   --   Des Moines
April 10th  --  The Maintenance Shop   --  Ames, IA
April 11th  -- Huckleberry's Pizza – Presented by Daytrotter --  Rock Island, IL
April 12th  --  Schubas Tavern   --  Chicago
April 14th  --  The Drake Hotel   --  Toronto
April 15th  --  La Sala Rossa  --   Montreal
April 16th  --   The Monkey House   --   Vermont
April 17th  --  TT The Bear’s   --   Boston
April 22nd  --  The Mercury Lounge  --  NYC

Jeffrey Lewis confirmed to participate in Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg on 1/22 at St Ann's Warehouse 08 Jan 2010

Fri Jan 22 - Brooklyn, St. Ann's Warehouse - Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg - Tuli Kupferberg, the influential songwriter who co-founded the Fugs, suffered two strokes, in April and September 2009, which left him blind, confined to his apartment and in need of 24-hour care. He is recovering well—he is able to speak clearly—but has overwhelming medical expenses not covered by Medicare or the very modest publishing/royalties income he earns at the age of 86. A number of his friends and admirers are coming to his aid by performing in a benefit concert produced by Hal Willner, including his fellow Fugs, John Kruth and an all-star band, Lou Reed, Jeffrey Lewis, Sonic Youth, Pete Stampfel, John Zorn and others who will be announced soon. Friday, January 22 at 7:30PM, at St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St, DUMBO, Bklyn. - tix are 75 $ or 125 $ and are available here - https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7900805

Basia Bulat Confirms January NYC shows and new MP3 available for "Go On" 08 Jan 2010

Basia Bulat will be playing in NYC this month prior to the January 26th
Rough Trade Records release of her second full-length album, Heart Of My Own.

1/21 - Paste Listening Party for "Heart Of My Own" album w/short, intimate performance.
1/22 - Bowery Ballroom supporting My Brightest Diamond - Solo set

Here is a new MP3 for the first track on the album, "Go On"
http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/Basia_Bulat_Go_On.mp3

Enjoy!

Chicago VAMPIRE WEEKEND party 07 Jan 2010

V A M P I R E  W E E K E N D
Contra listening party
Thursday Jan 7th, from 8-11pm
at 2657 N.Kedzie Ave
Chicago IL

Happy New Year from EFTERKLANG! 06 Jan 2010

Video postcard from Efterklang - Happy New Year! from Rumraket on Vimeo.

Tonight on LETTERMAN - VAMPIRE WEEKEND! 05 Jan 2010

Tune in to the Late Show tonight for a performance by VAMPIRE WEEKEND! Contra is out in 1 week, and you can hear the album now via the band's myspace, npr.org or kcrw.com.

new SERENA-MANEESH album out in March!!! 20 Dec 2009

March 23rd will see Serena-Maneesh release their new album, S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor, on 4AD.

S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor is the second album following the release of their self-titled LP in 2006 which received much praise upon it’s release, establishing the Norwegian band as an act that could merge the lilting, ethereal melodies with crushingly loud, shimmering distortion. This new album is also their first release for 4AD, with them having recently been signed to the label.

They started recording for the new album in 2008 when they went back underground to record in to a cave on the outskirts of Oslo; “Studio environments often get on my nerves,” Emile Nikolaisen explains, “and I love the underworld, you can silently head down there and do as you please, leave the world behind. So we found this huge cave with stone walls, it looked like a refugee hideout from World War II, with a huge, undiscovered treasure of sound.”

Once recorded, they then worked on it further with Nick Terry (who has worked with Klaxons and Primal Scream), and Can associate René Tinner, who set about mixing the results – spending an incredible eight days on each song. It was even mastered at Air Studios by Ray Staff, who did the same for, among many others, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, but this is no distended double-album, the end result is a concise eight tracks spread over just 38 minutes and 45 seconds. There is more on the making of the record here.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AN EDIT OF THE ALBUM OPENER, 'AYISHA ABYSS' HERE
TRACKLISTING:
1. Ayisha Abyss
2. I Just Want To See Your Face
3. Reprobate!
4. Melody For Jaana
5. Blow Yr Brains In The Mourning Rain
6. Honeyjinx
7. D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.
8. Magdalena (Symphony #8)

In addition, the band are also today announcing their first tour dates for 2010. Please see below. A full US tour plus many more shows and festival appearances will be announced in the New Year.

January 15th – Eurosonic, Groningen, Netherlands
January 22nd – Mercury Lounge, New York, USA
January 23rd – Littlefield, New York, USA
February 19th – by:Larm, Oslo, Norway
March 8th – The Lexington, London, United Kingdom

"They get it, their demeanor electric and alternating, built off antagonistic relationships. The band, like the instrument, are apt to prove noise and un-noise are of one cut." Pitchfork (8.6 - Best New Music)

Efterklang announce 2010 tour dates!!! 16 Dec 2009

EFTERKLANG Announce First Live Shows for 2010

To coincide with the release of third album Magic Chairs (released on 22nd February via 4AD), Denmark quartet Efterklang have announced details of an early Spring tour that will span parts of North America, UK and Europe.

On the eve of the album's official release the band will appear at Oslo's By:Larm festival in February before heading across the Atlantic in March and then back to Europe the following month (one of the handful of UK shows includes headlining London's Shepherds Bush Empire on April 21st). As before, Efterklang will perform with their seven-piece live band including US troubadour Peter Broderick and his equally talented sister Heather Woods Broderick.

In January, before the band kick off their Magic Chairs Tour, 2010 will begin in earnest as Efterklang combine forces with friends Slaraffenland to perform as a 12-strong band under the moniker "Slaraffenklang" for two special Danish shows. The mutant band will perform new versions of tracks from both bands' repertoire on January 23rd and 24th in Aarhus and Copenhagen respectively.

Download a free MP3 of "Modern Drift", the opening track off Magic Chairs here.

Tour dates and ticket information below.

January
23rd - Voxhall, Aarhus Denmark (Slaraffenklang show - ticket info)
24th - Skuespilshuset, Copenhagen Denmark (Slaraffenklang show - ticket info)

February
19th - By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)
20th - By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)

March
2nd - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia PA USA
3rd - Le Poisson Rouge, New York NY USA
4th - TT The Bears, Boston MA USA
5th - La Sala Rosa, Montreal PQ Canada
6th - El Mocambo, Toronto ONT Canada
7th - The Pike Room, Detroit MI USA
8th - Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL USA
11th - The Triple Door, Seattle WA USA
12th - Biltmore, Vancouver BC Canada
13th - Doug Fir, Portland OR USA
15th - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA USA
16th - Spaceland, Los Angeles CA USA

April
20th - Concorde 2, Brighton UK (£10 advance /£12 door - ticket info)
21st - Shepherds Bush Empire, London UK (£15 - ticket info)
22nd - O2 Academy, Oxford UK (£10 advance /£12 door - ticket info)
23rd - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh UK (£10 advance - ticket info)
24th - Black Box, Belfast UK (£10 advance - ticket info)
25th - Whelan's, Dublin IE (€17.50 advance - ticket info)
27th - Metropolis, Bristol UK (£8 advance - ticket info)
28th - Nouveau Casino, Paris France
29th - Grand Mix, Tourcoing (Lille) France
30th - VIP, Saint Nazaire (Nantes) France

May
1st - Centrifugeuse, Pau France
2nd - La [2] de Apolo, Barcelona Spain (€15/18 - ticket info)

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