Pennsylvania metallers A LIFE ONCE LOST are pleased to announce their upcoming headlining performance at the 2010 METALSUCKS/METAL INJECTION/1000KNIVES CMJ Music Marathon Showcase, taking place on October 20th, 2010 at Club Europa in Brooklyn, NY. This is A LIFE ONCE LOST’s first time performing in New York City in roughly a year and a half. Other bands set to perform at the showcase are CAR BOMB, THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE, BAPTIZED IN BLOOD and LAST CHANCE TO REASON. Admission to the show is $10, and doors are at 8pm. This is an all ages event.

A LIFE ONCE LOST is currently in the process of finishing the follow-up to 2007’s Billboard charting Iron Gag. The band hopes to have the album released before 2011. Look for a United States tour to follow the album’s release. A LIFE ONCE LOST also recently announced their new management team, Miss Management, under Maria Ferrero.

Conceived in a Philadelphia, PA suburb in 1999, A LIFE ONCE LOST features Robert Meadows (Vocals), Robert Carpenter (Guitar), Douglas Sabolick AKA Snake Sustaine (Guitar) and Justin Graves (Drums). The band recorded their first two albums on Robotic Empire and their third album was released on Deathwish Inc. Following the release of their third album, the band signed with Ferret Music and unleashed their 2005 opus Hunter which reached #28 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, #39 on the US Top Independent Album Chart, and has sold over 40,000 copies to date. Hunter was followed up in 2007 with Iron Gag which charted on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart at #44.

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All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) is happy to announce The Flaming Lips will act as the Sunday curator for the second annual ATP New York festival. Also, Autolux and Black Dice have been added to the ATP-curated lineup on Saturday. The event will be held Sept 11-13, 2009 at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, New York. Last year’s festival, co-curated by My Bloody Valentine, was a critical and cultural success with rave reviews from media and fans.

Expect more of the same greatness in 2009, with no-holds-barred programming both musically and otherwise.

The Flaming Lips ‘Christmas On Mars’ – a movie seven years in the making; written, scored, directed by, and starring The Flaming Lips – is out now and a new LP is in the works for release late next summer.

The event was moved from Labor Day weekend, but existing tickets will work for the new dates. If you are holding a ticket and the new dates do not work for you we are happy to offer a full refund.

Friday Don’t Look Back/Comedy

Dirty Three Performing Ocean Songs

Suicide Performing First LP

David Cross – Hosting Comedy Stage

Saturday – curated by ATP

Animal Collective

Anti-Pop Consortium

Atlas Sound

Autolux

Black Dice

Panda Bear

Sunday – CURATED BY THE FLAMING LIPS

The Flaming Lips

Tickets are $235 + $12 booking fee for a 3 day pass.

Accommodations available at Kutsher’s and the nearby Raleigh Resort (on sale now!).

Tickets and full information available from atpfestival.com

Yes the rumors are true… The Spinto Band is very excited to announce that it has partnered up with Park the Van Records for the release of its long-awaited full-length, Moonwink, out October 7 and available in CD, vinyl (w/CD), and Digital (w/bonus tracks) formats. As PTV preps for the album’s release, the band is busy gearing up for a July residency at Brooklyn, NY’s favorite bocce hall Union Hall starting this Thurs. July 17. Listen to tracks from the album at www.myspace.com/thespintoband.

It’s been 3 years since The Spinto Band burst onto the rock world with its infectious indie-pop masterworks on Nice and Nicely Done (Bar-None Records). But it hasn’t been a quiet 3 years. In that period of time, The Spinto Band has expanded its reach throughout the World with releases on Virgin UK, an appearance on Later…With Jools Holland, a performance at Fuji Rock in Japan, tours supporting Rilo Kiley, the Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, the Strokes, Dr. Dog, and many more, including opening up for the Flaming Lips at SXSW!

After constant touring and the worldwide release of their acclaimed album Nice and Nicely Done, The Spinto Band found themselves eager to record new material. The band took it upon themselves to oversee the assembly of their next album. After half a year of rehearsing, arranging, demoing and perfecting the songs that would sculpt Moonwink, the band personally contacted Producer / Engineer Dave Trumfio (Wilco, Built To Spill, Billy Bragg, Mates of State) and Mixing Engineer Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Cibo Matto, Paul Simon). After hearing the band’s striking new songs, the two recording veterans were excited to work with the bright young composers, and plans were soon hatched to begin work on the band’s second major release.

The band first ventured to North East Los Angeles where they spent five weeks recording with Trumfio in a converted sweatshop. Then, with the fruits of their labor in hand, they traversed the ocean and arrived in a small English village where, amid cow pastures and skid pan racetracks, Tchad Blake lent his sonic expertise to the mixing process. With Moonwink complete The Spinto Band was once again ready to dazzle listeners with their skewed approach to song-craft.

The new recordings fortify The Spinto Band’s ability to interlace rich, textured guitars, unconventional orchestration and multiple-part vocal harmonies into exciting new avenues of indie-pop. The music is at once outlandish, kinetic and luminous, while still restrained in a way that pays homage to the classic pop song, bringing to mind a contemporary coagulum of, Bacharach, Beatles, Berlin, and Bowie.

The Spinto Band will be touring throughout the fall. Dates to follow.

Park the Van Records, born in New Orleans to release the debut record from Dr. Dog, has since become the home to Tulsa, the High Strung, Pepi Ginsberg (to name a few) and has grown into an International operation. The signing of the Spinto Band has been on the “to-do” list for Park the Van for quite some time, and everyone at PTV is ecstatic to have them as part of the family.

The Spinto Band Residency:
Thurs Jul 17 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall
Sat Jul 19 Arden, DE – Arden Music Festival
Thurs Jul 24 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall
Thurs Jul 31 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall
Thurs Aug 7 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall