TOUR W/ UNKOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA + NXNE + RECORD RELEASE SHOW

OSHIN DUE JUNE 26 FROM CAPTURED TRACKS

Following the success of recent singles “Sometime”, “Doused” , and “How Long Have You Known?” (All three earned Best New Track from Pitchfork) you may be asking yourself, what kind of drugs do I need to take to make music that good? Is it really that magical ratio of one part THC and two parts MDMA? Well, the music video for “How Long Have You Known?” intricately details the making of that special drug. Just don’t try this at home kiddos. Watch the Cole play mad scientist in YouTube spotlight video for “How Long Have You Known?” here.

Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut “Sometime”; finding it’s way onto the esteemed pages of Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group’s formation.

Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr. Smith’s childhood friend Andrew Bailey, DIIV craft a sound that is at once familial and frost-bitten. Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80′s Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence.

One part THC and two parts MDMA; the first offering from DIIV chemically fuses the reminiscent with the half-remembered building a musical world out of old-air and new breeze. These are songs that remind us of love in all it’s earthly perfections and perversions.

A lot of DIIV’s magnetism was birthed in the process Mr. Smith went through to discover these initial compositions. After returning from a US tour with Beach Fossils, Cole made a bold creative choice, settling into the window-facing corner of a painter’s studio in Bushwick, sans running water, holing up to craft his music.

In this AC-less wooden room, throughout the thick of the summer, Cole surrounded himself with cassettes and LP’s, the likes of Lucinda Williams, Arthur Russell, Faust, Nirvana, and Jandek; writings of N. Scott Momaday, James Welsh, Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, and James Baldwin; and dreams of aliens, affection, spirits, and the distant natural world (as he imagined it from his window facing the Morgan L train).

The resulting music is as cavernous as it is enveloping, asking you to get lost in it’s tangles in an era that demands your attention be focused into 140 characters.

Since that fateful summer, the band have waged a full throttle attack on the nation’s venues, where the mellow, sometimes melancholic vibes of those early transmissions morph into a manic, crashing thing, providing an apt preview of DIIV’s debut LP Oshin due on Captured Tracks on June 26th.

DIIV has also just announced new tour dates including NXNE and their record release show in Brooklyn. A rotating cast of characters including Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Killer Mike, Frankie Rose, Spectrals, Grimes, and Wild Nothing are accompanying DIIV on various tour dates. Check out all the stops below and make sure to get off the couch when they come through your town!

Watch – “How Long Have You Known?”

DIIV
Oshin
(Captured Tracks)
June 26, 2012

01 (Druun)
02 Past Lives
03 Human
04 Air Conditioning
05 How Long Have You Known?
06 Wait
07 Earthboy
08 (Druun pt. ii)
09 Follow
10 Sometime
11 Oshin (Subsume)
12 Doused
13 Home

Tour Dates

5/01/12 @ Magic Stick – Detroit, MI *
5/02/12 @ The Shop Under Parts and Labor – Toronto, ON *
5/03/12 @ Valentine’s – Albany, NY *
5/05/12 @ Mercury Lounge – New York, NY * !
05/24/12 @ Brooklyn Bowl – Brooklyn, NY %
05/25/12 @ FUEL @ Dartmouth College – Hanover, NH
06/09/12 @ Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC #
06/11/12 @ Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA #
06/12/12 @ TT The Bears – Cambridge, MA #
06/13/12 @ Il Motore – Montreal, QC #
06/15/12 @ Lee’s Palace (NXNE) – Toronto, ON
6/23/12 @ Glasslands – Brooklyn, NY (Record release show!)
8/09/12 @ RiverRocks at Pier 84 – New York, NY ^

# = w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
% = w/ Killer Mike, High Highs
* = w/ Frankie Rose
! = w/ Spectrals
^ = w/ Grimes, Wild Nothing

Serj Tankian Releases Official Music Video for “Figure It Out”

Harakiri, New Studio Album, Out July 10th

Today Serj Tankian released the official video exclusively on AOL for his first Harakiri single, “Figure It Out.” The video was directed by Ara Soudjian. “It’s a comical political song talking about abusive capitalism and the differences created in economic stature and the reaction to it” says Tankian about the video. “CEOs have gotten away with murder, until now…”

Harakiri, the new studio album from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is set to be released July 10th on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. Harakiri, a Japanese word meaning ritualistic suicide, is the follow up to 2010′s Imperfect Harmonies and the third solo release from the System Of A Down frontman.

“Harakiri proves that Serj Tankian is not just one of the best vocalists in rock and metal, but one of the most passionate and provocative artists at work today.” – Revolver

Harakiri is presently available for pre-order on the singer’s official website. $2 from the sale of each pre-order will be donated to a non-profit organization to fight global hunger. The single, “Figure It Out,” is available digitally at services including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Fans can also check out the lyric video on YouTube.

Serj and the rest of his bandmates in System of a Down will be performing a handful of dates in August.

Confirmed System Of A Down Tour Dates:
08/02 Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Bank Center
08/04 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
08/05 Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
08/07 Washington, DC – Verizon Center Arena
08/09 Boston, MA – Comcast Center
08/11 Montreal, QC – Heavy Metal Festival Parterre @ Parc Jean Drapeau
08/12 Toronto, ON – Heavy Metal Festival Downsview Park
08/14 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Amphitheater
08/15 Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena

“[Beat Connection] finds the warm, quivering heart of electronic music…equivalent of a sunset-to-sunrise ecstasy trip and the wistful day after.” MTV Hive

Download ‘The Palace Garden, 4am’

Seattle-based Beat Connection has debuted “The Palace Garden, 4am,” the first single off of their debut LP, The Palace Garden, out June 19 with Moshi Moshi / Tender Age. This single follows the album’s expansive track ‘Think/Feel’, an early introduction to the album which The FADER dubbed, “a song that’s easy to swallow but suddenly expansive the more you get into it” – a fitting description for this album as a whole. Beat Connection will appear at Sasquatch Music Festival this Sunday May 27th, two weeks before launching their first headlining North American tour with White Arrows. The band performed at SXSW this year, after touring with STRFKR this past fall where they played to sold-out rooms and earned rave reviews for their fantastic live set. Beat Connection will revisit these markets and more, ushering in the summer with an LP that finds the group meditating on the idea of unattainable beauty, an idea that encases magical evenings, flooding happiness, and heavy regrets.

The group began when members Jordan Koplowitz and Reed Juenger met in 2008 as freshmen at the University of Washington and started making late-summer-appropriate house music in Garageband. Crafting dorm-room beats and venturing into DJing gigs, together they worked towards their last year’s Surf Noir EP, which received accolades from Pitchfork, KEXP, Death + Taxes, The Seattle Times and The Seattle Weekly, deeming them “Best New Band of 2011.” With the recent addition of Tom Eddy as lead vocalist, and drummer Jarred Katz, Beat Connection is ready to hit the road as a full band.

Beat Connection Live in Concert

5/27 – George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival – Banana Shack @ 4:40pm
6/14 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop*
6/15 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Atrium*
6/16 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour*
6/17 – San Diego, CA – Casbah*
6/18 – Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room*
6/20 – Dallas, TX – La Grange
6/21 – Austin, TX – Red 7
6/22 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
6/23 – Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
6/26 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
6/27 – Miami, FL – Bardot
6/28 – Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub
6/29 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Hell
6/30 – Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade
7/01 – Washington DC – DC9
7/03 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
7/04 – New Haven, CT – Bar Night Club
7/05 – Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
7/06 – Cambridge, MA – TT the Bears
7/07 – Montreal, QC – Il Motore
7/08 – Toronto, ON – Drake Hotel
7/10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Brillobox
7/11 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
7/12 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern
7/13 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Cafe
7/14 – Milwaukee, WI – The Cactus Club
7/15 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
7/17 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive
7/18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
7/19 – Boise, ID – Reef Boise
7/22 – Vancouver, BC – Media Club

* w/ MMOTHS & White Arrows

“Legendary Child” Single Available Now on iTunes

New Album Music From Another Dimension out August 28, Available Now For Pre-Order

Tour Kicks Off June 16

Aerosmith premiered their brand new single “Legendary Child” by performing the song live on the season finale of American Idol on May 23.

“Legendary Child,” available now on iTunes, is the first single from Aerosmith’s long-awaited new album. Music From Another Dimension will be released August 28 and is available now for pre-order on iTunes. The track listing is below.

Eager to bring the new tunes to fans across the country, Aerosmith will hit the road for The Global Warming Tour this summer. The tour kicks off on June 16 in Minneapolis. A full list of dates is below.

Aerosmith are one of the most popular rock bands of all time and have an impressive legacy, having sold over 150 million records worldwide with 55 total Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum certifications and even 1 Diamond certification for their Greatest Hits collection. The band have also won numerous awards including 4 Grammy Awards, 10 MTV Video Music Awards, and 7 American Music Awards. Aerosmith were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

Music From Another Dimension tracklisting
1. What Could Have Been Love
2. Beautiful
3. Street Jesus
4. Legendary Child
5. Oh Yeah
6. We All Fall Down
7. Another Last Goodbye
8. Out Go the Lights
9. Love Three Times a Day
10. Closer
11. Shakey Ground
12. Love a Lot
13. Freedom Fighter
14. Up on the Mountain

The Global Warming Tour
6/16 Target Center, Minneapolis, MN
6/19 Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
6/22 United Center, Chicago, IL
6/27 Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON
6/29 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
7/1 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
7/3 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
7/5 The Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI
7/7 Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI
7/10 Laval Nature Center, Laval, QC
7/12 Festival d’été de Québec, Quebec City, QC
7/14 Salmon Festival, Grand Falls, NL
7/17 TD Garden, Boston, MA
7/19 TD Garden, Boston, MA
7/21 Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA
7/24 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
7/26 Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA
7/28 American Airlines Arena, Dallas, TX
7/30 Toyota Center, Houston, TX
8/1 Pepsi Center, Denver, CO
8/4 Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA
8/6 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
8/8 Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, WA

FRESH OFF THE ROAD WITH FUN. AMAZON PROCLAIMS “FEMALE DOCTOR” THE #2 BEST SONG OF 2012 SO FAR

Miniature Tigers continue their busy year with the announcement of a new batch of Summer tour dates. Kicking off at the end of July, the headline run will hit New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and more in support of the band’s latest album, Mia Pharaoh (Modern Art/ILG). Out earlier this year, the brilliant abstract-pop record has received overwhelming acclaim, including Rolling Stone, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon, and more. Likewise, Amazon recently proclaimed their song “Female Doctor” as the #2 Best Song of 2012 So Far.

The announcement of these new dates comes just after the end of a successful cross-country tour with fun. Prior to that, Miniature Tigers headlined a sold-out nationwide tour with their Modern Art label-mates Geographer and The Chain Gang of 1974.

Praise for Miniature Tigers and Mia Pharaoh:
“They [Miniature Tigers] have a really ethereal way of translating music – actually, they have a very different approach to our “You Got Me” song [during our session with Red Bull's Soundclash] that I never thought of in the fifteen years I’ve been playing it, so I told those guys, ‘the second we are done with the Soundclash I’m gonna steal all of your arrangements for like all of our songs.’ Never once did I ever think to reinterpret it the way that they reinterpreted it.” – drummer ?uestlove of The Roots

“Album three [Mia Pharaoh] opens with a pair of curveballs, the horndog electro-disco fantasies “Sex on the Regular” and “Female Doctor.” The lyrics are pure R. Kelly kitsch (“I’m your secret/You can take me out and play me like a saxophone”), but the tunes are as sneakily hummable as ever, and frontman Charlie Brand makes a surprisingly decent Romeo.” – Rolling Stone

“What I like about them is that they could probably be a very successful, standard-issue indie-rock band aping Death Cab or Grizzly Bear or Vampire Weekend, but they’re too restless and busting with ideas.” -SPIN

“Wedged between a dreamy throwback sound and rapid-fire backing harmonies, Brand [lead singer Charlie Brand] carries a degree of self-seriousness, lending nuanced shades of gray to an otherwise chipper mood.” – NPR

“…if Shakespeare’s Romeo had been in a band, Brand’s vocals would have come out his mouth. A total loverboy voice…” – The Huffington Post

“Miniature Tigers are getting bigger…Their new album [Mia Pharaoh] gets a little bit racier than previous fare (see: ‘Sex on the Regular’) and is meant to shock listeners…” – Interview Magazine

MINIATURE TIGERS TOUR DATES:
July 27 – Musica – Akron, OH
July 28 – MOTR Pub – Cincinnati, OH
July 29 – Wicker Park Fest, North Stage – Chicago, IL
August 2 – TT The Bear’s – Cambridge, MA
August 3 – North Star Bar – Philadelphia, PA
August 4 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY

Download the track “Rapture”

Full album Ownerless out June 26th on ATO Records

Everest July Tour Dates
07/05: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
07/06: Columbus, OH @ The Basement
07/07: Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot, Pike Room
07/09: Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
07/11: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas
07/12: Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
07/14: Cincinatti, OH @ Sawyer Point Park, Banbury Music Festival
07/16: Nashville, TN – The High Watt
07/17: St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
07/19: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
07/22: San Diego, CA @ Casbah
07/24: Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
07/25: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
07/27: Portland, OR @ Peter’s Room
07/28: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
07/29: Vancouver, BC @ TBD

In support of the June 26th release of their upcoming new album Ownerless, ATO Records band Everest will take their electrifying live show on the road, touring with Alberta Cross beginning July 5th at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. On the heels of the band’s earlier, highly successful residencies in New York and Chicago, Everest will spend the month of June in Washington, D.C, this time in association with radio station WRNR. Corona Extra will sponsor the residency.

While in the nation’s capital, Everest will play multiple shows, including dates at the Metropolitan, the Avalon Theater and a June 17th acoustic set at Baysox Stadium. The band will also make weekly on-air visits to WRNR.“We’re excited to get back on the road and make new fans in the D.C. area,” said Everest’s Russell Pollard. “When we park ourselves in one city, we really get to know the area but, more importantly, people get to know us.” Additional June tour dates will be added soon, along with a link to a tour page on the band’s website.

The night before the new album’s release date, the band will cruise up I-95 to New York City for a special rooftop album listening party and performance at the McKittrick Hotel, followed the next day by an album release party and concert in D.C. at LivingSocial’s brand new hot spot, 918 f Street.

Formed by Russell Pollard (who formerly played with Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion, and Earlimart), Joel Graves and Jason Soda in 2007, Everest caught national attention with the release of 2010 sophomore album, On Approach. Early last year the four members of Everest set up shop with longtime friend and musical compatriot Richard Swift at his National Freedom studios in Cottage Grove, Oregon. After several weeks of recording, the band returned to L.A. and enlisted Rob Schnapf (known for his work with Beck, Elliott Smith, and Foo Fighters) to produce additional recording sessions. The result is Ownerless, the band’s most potent set of songs to date.

TONIGHT’S SOLD OUT NYC WEBSTER HALL SHOW TO BE STREAMED LIVE AT MTV HIVE

Not Your Kind Of People, the highly anticipated new album from Garbage, which was exclusively available in iTunes last week, is available in stores and at all digital retailers today. The band returned from a SOLD OUT run of European tour dates last week to perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on May 18th. They performed their single “Blood For Poppies” on-air and “Automatic-Systematic Habit” as a web-only exclusive.

Garbage will kick off an East Coast run of tour dates tonight at Webster Hall in New York City. The show which sold out in minutes will be streamed live on MTV Hive. A complete list of upcoming tour dates can be found below.

Garbage 2012 Tour Dates

MAY
22nd – New York, NY – Webster Hall – SOLD OUT
23rd – Washington, DC – 930 Club – SOLD OUT
25th – Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues
26th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club – SOLD OUT
28th – Toronto, ONT – Phoenix Concert Theatre – SOLD OUT

JUNE
1st – Santa Barbara, CA – KJEE Summer Round Up, Santa Barbara Bowl
2nd – Mountain View, CA – Live 105 BFD, Shoreline Ampitheater
3rd – San Diego, CA – 91x X-Fest
9th – Warsaw, Poland – Orange Warsaw Festival
11th – Samara, Russia – Rock on Volga Festival
12th – Odessa, Ukraine – Prosto Rock Festival
16th – Hultsfred, Sweden – Hultsfred Festival
17th – Aarhus, Denmark – Northside Festival
19th – Amsterdamn, Holland – Melkweg Max
22nd – Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany – Southside Festival
23rd – Scheessel, Germany – Hurricane Festival, Red Stage
24th – Paris, France – Solidays Festival
27th – Luxemburg – Rockhal
28th – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter, Pyramid Marquee
29th – Arras, France – Main Square Festival

JULY
1st – London, UK – Brixton Academy
2nd – Wolverhampton, UK – Civic Hall
3rd – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy
4th – Glasgow, UK – Barrowlands
6th – Bucharest, Romania – B’Estfest
8th – Herouville St Clair, France – Festival Beauregard
11th – Vigevano, Italy – 10 Giorni Suoanti Festival
12th – Rome, Italy – Fiesta Campanelle Roma Rock
14th – Bilbao, Spain – BBK Live Festival
15th – Aix-les-Bains, France – Musilac Festival
17th – Arles, France – Les Escales du Cargo Festival
19th – Oporto, Portugal – Mares Vivas Festival
21st – Nyon, Switzerland – Paleo Festival

AUGUST
4th – Montreal, QUE – Osheaga Festival
7th – Chicago, IL – Metro – SOLD OUT
8th – Kansas City, MO – KRBZ’s Buzz Under The Stars Series at Berkley Riverfront Park
11th – Omaha, NE – Maha Festival, Stinson Park
18th – Osaka, Japan – Summer Sonic Festival
19th – Tokyo, Japan – Summer Sonic Festival

“Visceral, raw female rock-and-roll is rare in this manufactured Lana Del Rey era, and Shirley Manson seems out to prove that she can still rock as hard as the boys ten years later”
Billboard

“Alternative to everything”
Pitchfork

“Not Your Kind of People stands out as the group’s best album and deserves to be on every year end list”
ARTISTdirect

“It’s a labor of love and it took fucking forever, and they got it together and it was well worth the wait.”
Noisey/Vice

ABOUT GARBAGE
After forming in Madison, WI, Garbage released their self-titled debut album in 1995 and rode a wave of visually arresting, female-fronted alternative rock bands. The album spawned the hit singles “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains” and was certified double platinum in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The band won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards, and was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy® Award. Their second album, Version 2.0, was released in 1998 and topped the charts in the United Kingdom. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. 2001′s Beautiful Garbage was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 10 Albums Of The Year. In 2005, Garbage released Bleed Like Me, earning the band its highest chart position with a No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. In 2007, the band released a retrospective collection called Absolute Garbage. Garbage has sold over 12 million albums worldwide. They have performed in over thirty-five countries and will tour extensively worldwide in support of this new release.

BAND KEEPS BUSY IN PREPARATION OF NEW ALBUM – DUE OUT LATER THIS YEAR

“You Were Born” featured in How I Met Your Mother season finale “Running With The Wolves” included in XBOX 360 game “JAM Live Music Arcade” next to Modest Mouse + Fatboy Slim

Cloud Cult have been very busy since their last full-length release Light Chasers. Most recently, they have been working on finishing up their new album due out later this year.

The first single off Light Chasers, “Running With The Wolves,” has been included in the new XBOX 360 game “JAM Live Music Arcade” – out May 16th – which allows players to mix songs of their favorite artists; songs from Modest Mouse, Fat Boy Slim and more are in the playlist. In addition “You Were Born,” also from Light Chasers, was included in last week’s season finale of How I Met Your Mother and the episode is available for stream on the CBS website here.

In other 2012 Cloud Cult news, the band have donated a bulk of the profits from their live shows this year to their environmental nonprofit Earthology Institute. Also, Craig Minowa just finished scoring music for another season of National Geographic’s “America the Wild.”

Catch the band live at Sasquatch this weekend or at a number of other summer dates.

See below for full list of confirmed shows.

Upcoming Shows:
May 28th @ Sasquatch Music Festival in Quincy, WA
June 16th @Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, IN
June 17th @ Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL
June 18th @ Millennium Park-Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, IL
August 24th @ Somerset Amphitheater in Somerset, WI
August 31st @ Big Top Chautauqua in Bayfield, WI

The Staves live at Sasquatch on Sunday, May 27th, Bigfoot Stage

UK sibling trio THE STAVES released the “The Motherlode EP” today on Atlantic Records.

Listen here:

The Staves will make an appearance at SASQUATCH this Sunday, May 27th while on the North American Bon Iver tour.
They will also perform at Bonnaroo (June 10).

The Staves have been touring relentlessly this year, having already supported The Civil Wars in the US in January, and having recently concluded Communion’s ‘Austin to Boston Tour’ with Ben Howard following a successful debut trip to Austin’s SXSW Music Festival. They have gotten amazing reviews (a few quotes below) and incredible response from fans. They’ve actually been able to silence the entire crowd nearly every show, a huge feat for an opening band.

Their musical evolution has been a slow, steady process; an adventure that began in the stew of family car journeys, sing-alongs and squabbles over the stereo, and immersed in the music of artists like Feist, Fleet Foxes, Simon & Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield, and Motown. Legendary producers Glyn and Ethan Johns (whose combined credits include the likes of The Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon, etc) found the sisters’ talents so compelling that they both independently tracked the band down. The Staves’ debut album, due for release in late 2012, will be the first record on which father and son have shared production credits.

I’ve pasted tour dates below, along with a streaming link for both of their EPs and a couple of video links of The Staves at SXSW.

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“The three-part harmonies of UK folk trio The Staves might’ve been the prettiest part of SXSW’s opening day”
- Billboard

“Part of that Staves’ appeal is their genetic harmonies, and the ease with which their vocals intertwine.”

- Commercial Appeal (Memphis)

“The highlight of the night was the delightfully surprising trio of ladies known as The Staves. Hailing from just north of London, these gorgeous girls absolutely stole the show, pulling a fast one on us and many others in the crowd who were previously unfamiliar with the group.”
- Houston Press

“The three sisters captured the crowd and kept them captivated from the very first time they leaned into their microphones and sang out in perfect harmony…After their short performance, Madison Theater echoed with words like, ‘angelic’ and ‘beautiful.’ Accurate enough. Yet it doesn’t do justice to those three voices.”
- Cincinnati CityBeat

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THE STAVES
ON TOUR WITH BON IVER
May 21st – Edmonton, CAN – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
May 22nd – Calgary, CAN – MacEwan Hall
May 23rd – Calgary, CAN – MacEwan Hall
May 25th – Burnaby, CAN – Deer Lake Park
May 27th – George, WA – Sasquatch Festival
May 29th – Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
June 2nd – Tulsa, OK – The Brady Theater
June 3rd – Little Rock, AR – Riverfest Amphitheatre
June 5th – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
June 6th – Miami Beach, FL – Jackie Gleason Theater
June 7th – Tampa, FL – David A. Straz Center For The Performing Arts
June 8th – Alpharetta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
June 10th – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo

Debut LP ‘Total Dust’ Out July 10th On Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula

Listen To “Property Lines” Streaming Now:

Dusted announces a string of West Coast tour dates with A Place To Bury Strangers in advance of the release of their debut LP, Total Dust, which will be released on July 10th through Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula. The run of dates begins on June 6th in San Diego, and include shows in Visalia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. Look for East Coast dates to be announced shortly as well as more extensive touring in the fall.

In addition, Dusted have made available a second track, “Property Lines”, off their forthcoming release, Total Dust. The song features guest appearances by Brian Borcherdt’s Holy Fuck bandmates, Graham Walsh, Matt McQuaid and Brad Kilpatrick.

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After six years of constant Holy Fuck touring, Brian Borcherdt emerged from the tangled cables and broken drum machines with a slew of new songs. Looking to explore a different sound, Borcherdt teamed with producer Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy, Rituals, Bruce Peninsula) and together the pair recorded in a converted garage under the name Dusted.

The resulting album, Total Dust, resides in an atmosphere that is sometimes melodic, sometimes haunting, and always clouded by a fuzzy glow. With string arrangements and half-hidden guitar feedback held together by the occasional tambourine and minimal drum machine, the stripped down mood perfectly complements a collection of songs that are more than capable of standing on their own merits.

Live, Dusted challenges the sonic limitations of a two-piece. Vocals and guitar are expelled through small overblown amplifiers and bolstered by a raucous backbone of live drums, 808 samples, and bass synth. Since their stage debut this spring, the band has performed with labelmates Deerhoof and of Montreal, while back home in Toronto the duo has been playing parties with fellow friends Army Girls, Odonis Odonis, and Little Girls.

Total Dust will also be released as a limited-edition run of 500 copies on 180 gram maroon-colored vinyl, which can be pre-ordered here. In addition, pre-orders of the CD version will include the bonus track, “Centuries of Sleep”.

Track Listing:
All Comes Down
(Into The) Atmosphere
Cut Them Free
Low Humming
Bruises
Pale Light
Property Lines
Dusted
Long It Lasts
There Somehow

Tour Dates:
5/24 Toronto @ The Great Hall w/ Bruce Peninsula
6/5 San Diego, CA @ Casbah*
6/6 Visalia, CA @ The Cellar Door*
6/7 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex*
6/8 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill*
6/10 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir*
6/11 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile*
6/12 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret*
6/14 Toronto @ El Mocambo (NXNE HDD Showcase)
*w/ A Place To Bury Strangers