They currently have three new tracks off of the album up on their myspace: “Nothing Matters Anymore”,  “Vehement”, and “Lost Connection With the Head”.

In support of the new album, Showbread will embark on a nationwide tour beginning August 13th with Goodnight Caulfield and the Gallery. Keep checking back on their myspace for additional dates.

8/13 – Sweet Melissa’s – Savannah, Georgia
8/14 – Central City Skatepark – Macon, Georgia
8/15 – The Furnished – Montgomery, Alabama
8/16 – King Of Clubs – Claremore, Oklahoma
8/17 – The Marquis Theater – Denver, Colorado
8/20 – SHO – Salt Lake City, Utah
8/22 – Tomfest – Camas, Washington
8/24 – The Viaduct – Tacoma, Washington
8/25 – Goodbye bluSKY Festival @ Riversdale Grange – Roseburg, Oregon
8/26 – The Revolution – Ashland, Oregon
8/27 – Redding First – Redding, California
8/28 – Club Retro – Orangevale, California
8/30 – DiPiazza’s – Long Beach, California
8/31 – 95.3 Headquarters – El Centro, California
9/01 – Modified Arts – Phoenix, Arizona
9/03 – Heart of Life Church – Peculiar, Missouri
9/04 – Lifelight Festival – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
9/05 – Club 1 – Alexandria, Minnesota
9/06 – The Vault – Buffalo, Minnesota
9/08 – Ugly Mugs – South Bend, Indiana
9/09 – The X – Danville, Indiana
9/11 – Mixtape Venue – Grand Rapids, Michigan
9/12 – Musica – Akron, Ohio
9/15 – Macc – Crofton, Maryland
9/19 – New Brookland Tavern – W. Columbia, South Carolina
9/22 – Gallery 13 – Columbus, Georgia
9/24 – The Anchor Venue – Nashville, Tennessee
10/01 – Fuel Cafe – Humble, Texas

Check out “Nothing Matters Anymore” below:

Director: Matthew Lessner
M83 remix of Set in Stone

5/1 – Hollins University – Roanoke, VA w/ The Walkmen
5/2 – The Sanctum @ Tribeca Grand Hotel

Fans Who Purchase Live Album In Its First Week Of Release Will Gain Access To Pre-Sale Tickets For Platinum-Selling Rockers’ Six Week Spring Headlining Tour, Which Begins March 7th

Yellowcard’s Third Album, Paper Walls, Out Now

(January 15th, 2008 — New York, NY) — Breakout alt-rockers Yellowcard will release a digital live album, entitled Live From Las Vegas At the Palms, exclusively though the iTunes Store beginning January 22nd, 2008. Recorded in October at Las Vegas’ renowned Palms Casino Resort’s intimate Pearl Concert Theater, where the farthest seating is just 120 feet from the stage, the album captures the Jacksonville, FL, quartet’s fiery blend of rock, punk, and classical at its most explosive best.

“We were honored to record Live From Las Vegas At the Palms for iTunes and we’re really proud of the record,” said frontman Ryan Key.

Live From Las Vegas features five tracks from Yellowcard’s current album Paper Walls (which debuted at Number 13 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, as well as at Number 3 on iTunes’ album chart), including the lead-off single “Light Up the Sky.” The live album also features Yellowcard’s previous singles “Way Away,” “Ocean Avenue,” and “Only One,” from the band’s double-platinum 2003 Capitol Records’ debut Ocean Avenue, as well as “Lights and Sounds” and “Rough Landing, Holly,” from their 2006 gold album Lights and Sounds.

Yellowcard, which is vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key, violinist/vocalist Sean Mackin, guitarist Ryan Mendez, and drummer Longineu “LP” Parsons III, have been on the road since the July release of Paper Walls, including a summer stint on the 2007 Vans Warped Tour, a winter tour supporting Linkin Park in Japan and recently played for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf as part of a USO (United Service Organizations) entertainment tour. On March 7th they will launch a headlining tour of the U.S. with support from MxPx, Play Radio Play, and Treaty of Paris. Yellowcard will perform an acoustic set with the other bands performing plugged-in.

Anyone who purchases Live From Las Vegas at the Palms in its first week of release (from January 22nd to January 28th) will also receive a code for Ticketmaster enabling the purchase of up to four tickets for the tour on January 30th before they go on sale to the public on February 2nd.

The track-listing for Live From Las Vegas At The Palms is as follows:

1. “The Takedown”
2. “Fighting”
3. “Lights and Sounds”
4. “Rough Landing, Holly”
5. “Keeper”
6. “Light Up the Sky”
7. “Only One” (acoustic version)
8. “Shadows and Regrets”
9. “Way Away”
10. “Ocean Avenue”

Yellowcard Spring U.S. tour dates:

3/07 Salt Lake City, UT Avalon
3/08 Denver, CO Gothic
3/10 St. Paul, MN Station 4
3/11 Chicago, IL Metro
3/13 Detroit, MI Majestic Theater
3/14 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
3/15 New York, NY Irving Plaza
3/16 Boston, MA Middle East
3/17 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
3/19 Baltimore, MD Recher
3/20 Greensboro, NC Green Street
3/21 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
3/22 Orlando, FL House of Blues
3/24 Tampa, FL State Theater
3/29 Austin, TX Emo’s
3/31 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
4/03 Boise, ID Big Easy
4/04 Seattle, WA El Corazon
4/05 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
4/06 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
4/08 Ventura, CA Ventura Theatre
4/10 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
4/11 San Diego, CA House of Blues
4/12 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues

Bi-coastal Danish transplants The Raveonettes will embark on a North American tour (dates below) in Februrary in support of their VICE Records debut, Lust Lust Lust. The jaunt will be preceded by a lone stop alongside Blonde Redhead at New York’s Terminal 5 later this month. Set to kick off ten days after the record’s release on February 19th, the tour will wind its way across the States and the Great White North, making an extended stop in Austin, Texas for this year’s SXSW music festival.

Watch “Dead Sound” From Lust Lust Lust

Watch The Raveonettes perform “Dead Sound” on Black Cab Sessions

Interviews, bio, music, art and more available upon request.

TOUR DATES:

01-19 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
02-29 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
03-01 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
03-02 Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar
03-04 LA, CA @ El Rey Theatre
03-05 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
03-07 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
03-08 Vancouver, BC, CAN @ The Plaza Niteclub
03-09 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
03-12 – 03-16 Austin, TX @ SXSW
03-17 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
03-18 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
03-19 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
03-21 Toroto, ON, CAN @ Opera House
03-22 Montreal, QC, CAN @ Les Saint
03-23 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s
03-24 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03-27 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03-28 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
03-29 Washington, DC @ Black Cat

PRESS ON LUST LUST LUST:

“Their most engrossing album to date” 8/10 – NME

“Lust Lust Lust does the Raveonettes proud” 4/5 – The Guardian

“Their most exciting collection” – The Times

“In a world of pre-packed mush this is brilliantly unforgettable” 4/5 – The Sun

Cope and the band are happy to announce the west coast portion of their upcoming tour. Tickets for some shows are on presale now through Cope’s fan ticketing site – http://www.citizencope.tickets.musictoday.com/CitizenCope/calendar.aspx. To purchase tickets you will need the password “cope” (case sensitive). We will announce ticket info for the remaining shows within a few days, stay tuned to the tour page at citizencope.com.

February 27 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma, OK
March 5 – Rick’s Café – Starkville, MS
March 20 – Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 21 – Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA
March 22 – Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA
March 23 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
March 25 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
March 26 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
March 27 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
March 28 – Wiltern Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
March 29 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
March 31 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
April 1 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
April 2 – The Great Salt Air – Magna, UT
April 4 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO

Tour dates below. Pierced Arrows (ex-Dead Moon) to support on Feb 4-14th dates, Quintron & Miss Pussycat to support Feb 24th -March 22nd. Local support in Denver, New Orleans, and Austin.

Press on Black Lips’ live shows:

2007 has been a banner year for The Black Lips. – PITCHFORK

Yes, hyperbole be damned, they are the greatest rock’n'roll band out there right now. – HOUR CANADA

Tour dates (w/ links to buy tickets below for shows on sale):
2/1/08 DENVER, CO BLUEBIRD
2/4/07 SEATTLE, WA NEUMOS
2/5/08 PORTLAND, OR DANTES
2/6/08 EUGENE, OR WOW HALL
2/8/08 SAN FRANCISCO, CA GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL
2/9/08 POMONA, CA GLASSHOUSE
2/10/08 COSTA MESA, CA DETROIT BAR
2/13/08 SAN DIEGO, CA CASBAH
2/14/08 LOS ANGELES, CA EL REY
2/22/08 NEW ORLEANS, LA ONE EYED JACKS
2/23/08 AUSTIN, TX EMOS OUTSIDE
2/24/08 DALLAS, TX THE LOFT
2/25/08 LAWRENCE, KS BOTTLENECK
2/26/08 OMAHA, NE WAITING ROOM
2/28/08 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7th STREET ENTRY
2/29/08 MADISON, WI MEMORIAL UNION/U OF WISCONSIN
3/1/08 CHICAGO, IL LOGAN SQUARE
3/2/08 MILWAUKEE, WI TURNER HALL
3/4/08 COLUMBUS, OH THE BASEMENT
3/5/08 OBERLIN, OH CLUB DIONYSUS
3/6/08 DETROIT, MI MAGIC STICK
3/7/08 PITTSBURGH, PA MR SMALLS
3/8/08 BUFFALO, NY MOHAWK PLACE
3/10/08 NEW YORK, NY BOWERY BALLROOM
3/11/08 BROOKLYN, NY MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG
3/13/08 CAMBRIDGE, MA MIDDLE EAST
3/14/08 PHILADELPHIA, PA JOHNNY BRENDAS
3/15/08 WASHINGTON, DC BLACK CAT
3/16/08 CHAPEL HILL, NC LOCAL 506
3/20/08 NASHVILLE, TN MERCY LOUNGE
3/21/08 MEMPHIS, TN HI TONE
3/22/08 ATLANTA, GA THE EARL

If you’ve been wondering where all the drunk punk kids have been hanging out, then go check out a Black Lips show, and you’ll find them throwing beer at each other, stage diving, crowd surfing, and putting the kind of spark back into live music that so recently seems to have been replaced by ubiquitous head-nodding hipsters. The Black Lips exude a raunchy energy onstage that is shared by very few bands out there today. They play a fast, propulsive set that does not relent in the slightest-despite their crazy stage antics, they are a tight band, and execute their music in a way that is completely inundated by their bawdry signature style, with wild, young fury and reckless energy. With spit and sweat flying, random onstage kissing sessions between members, summersaults, and beer chugging all the while ensuing, the Black Lips prove that this brand of dynamism still exists in rock ‘n’ roll. Now let’s just hope they never grow up. – CRAWDADDY

PRESENTED BY VH1 “YOU OUGHTA KNOW” AND FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST “YOU OUGHTA KNOW” ARTIST SARA BAREILLES

GLOBE-SPANNING ITINERARY HITS NORTH AMERICA IN FEBRUARY

TICKET PRESALE BEGINS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, WITH PUBLIC ON SALE SET FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

Custard/Atlantic recording artist James Blunt has announced details of his upcoming North American tour, part of his extensive “2008 LOST SOULS TOUR.” The highly anticipated headlining tour celebrates the release of Blunt’s new album, “ALL THE LOST SOULS.” Presented by VH1 “You Oughta Know”, the tour kicks off in February ‘08 and will feature special guest Sara Bareilles.

“I am really pleased to be returning to the U.S. on my 2008 world tour,” said Blunt. “We’ve had some of our most memorable shows in America on past tours, and I am so excited to be playing out some of the material from my new album, ‘ALL THE LOST SOULS,’ for my U.S. fans.”
The month-long LOST SOULS tour is set to kick off on February 4, 2008 at Seattle’s Moore Theatre. From there, the British superstar will play a series of major dates across North America, culminating on March 4th at Atlanta’s The Tabernacle (see attached itinerary). Pre-sale tickets will be available via Blunt’s official fan site www.jamesblunt.com tomorrow, November 14th, with remaining tickets going on sale to the public on Saturday, November 17th.

As with 2006’s hugely successful “Back To Bedlam World Tour,” Blunt will once again use the tour as an opportunity to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organization whose life-saving work he first encountered while stationed with the British army in Kosovo, where he served as a reconnaissance officer with the NATO peacekeeping force. A personal, one-on-one aftershow meet-and-greet with James will be auctioned after each and every show, to both increase awareness and generate much-needed monies for DWB/MSF.

What’s more, Blunt is being joined on tour in his native UK and in Europe by Friends of the Earth, the influential grassroots network that has for decades been at the forefront of high-profile efforts to create a more healthy, just world. Friends of the Earth’s role on the road has been to assist James in increasing awareness of global climate change, while also putting pressure on the world’s governments to begin acting on the issue.
James recently filmed the companion video for his new single, “Same Mistake,” with famed director Jonas Akerlund (Madonna, The Prodigy, Maroon 5). The video, which is garnering much attention for its thematic elements, premiered this past weekend on VH1’s Top 20 countdown. The video can be viewed via the following link: http://vsyndication.wmg.com/tip.html?bcpid=824272798&bctid=1289940352.

Blunt is currently slated to appear on a number of high-profile TV programs in the coming weeks. The appearances begin on November 18th when he is a presenter at the 35th annual American Music Awards. He will then perform “Same Mistake” on The Late Show with David Letterman on November 20th followed on November 23rd by a morning performance on Live with Regis and Kelly. On December 11th James will appear on The View, and then on CBS’ annual seasonal celebration, A Home For The Holidays, scheduled for broadcast on December 21st. The performances follow Blunt’s recent string of major television appearances heralding the release of “ALL THE LOST SOULS,” including the Today show, Ellen DeGeneres, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, as well as Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

“ALL THE LOST SOULS” was recorded and mixed in Los Angeles with producer Tom Rothrock, who also oversaw Blunt’s history-making debut, “BACK TO BEDLAM.” The collection features several songs that became road-tested favorites in the course of Blunt’s marathon touring during 2006 – including “1973,” “I Really Want You,” “Same Mistake,” and “Annie.” The album has also drawn expansive critical praise. “He shows the abandon and confidence of a long-term artist,” raved Billboard. “Sounding like John Mayer channeling Jeff Buckley in the middle of Abbey Road, each of Blunt’s songs are infused with love, loss and confusion, but are rendered so elegantly that it sounds like he’s got everything figured out…There’s not a misstep throughout.”

For more information please visit www.jamesblunt.com and www.myspace.com/jamesblunt
Contact: jessie@cornerstonepromotion.com

JAMES BLUNT
“2008 Lost Souls Tour” – North America 2008

FEBRUARY
4 Seattle, WA Moore Theater
6 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
7 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
8 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl
12 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
22 Chicago, IL Vic Theater
23 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater
25 Toronto, ONT Sony Centre
26 Montreal, QUE St. Denis
27 Boston, MA The Orpheum
29 New York, NY Beacon Theater

MARCH
1 Philadelphia, PA Keswick Theater
4 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle

“Experiencing ‘Black Glass’ (MP3) — or any track on Hoarse Lords, really—without being half in the liquor-store bag and surrounded by others in the same or worse condition is a disservice to Clipd Beaks’ groove spew.” – Paper Thin Walls

“Clipd Beaks are profoundly intense live. They have the power to elicit something very rare in an audience,” says the band’s label head Mookie Singerman of Lovepump United (HEALTH, Genghis Tron) when asked what sold him on signing the band and releasing it’s new album Hoarse Lords. The album is out on November 13th and Clipd Beaks is currently touring across America. See below for dates.

“I happened to hear Clipd Beaks rather randomly on MySpace and I was immediately taken by how simultaneously lush and noisy they were,” Singerman says. “I couldn’t help but think of the first time I had heard Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine. The songwriting seemed so mature and they had such a good grasp on their own unique sound — this is of course having very much to do with the fact that they’ve been playing music with each other since they were kids.”

“We (Singerman and business partner Jake Friedman) went to South By Southwest incredibly excited to see this band. And then they played. And it was fucking mind blowing — the dark, swirling, alienated feel of their live set encapsulates all the complex emotions and paranoia that comes with being young in 2007.”

And what does Clipd Beaks have to say for itself? When guitarist Greg Pritchard describes the band’s sound as “the anxiety of five boys growing into men in the strange last days of American Empire,” he’s not kidding. The men of Clipd Beaks met as boys — bassist Scott Ecklein and drummer Ray Benjamin at the age of seven — and have made music together ever since.

It’s no wonder that in an interview with The Fader recently, Pritchard described the recording of Hoarse Lords as a situation that only true brothers could muster: “It’s all totally written on the spot as the four of us together. I don’t really play music except when I’m with everybody else. This is what we do when we hang out as friends. We’re going to get a case of beer and play some music.”

Experience the band that the LA Weekly calls the “supermax-tight monolith monsters of psychedelia” and which XLR8R says “…makes you feel grateful just for being alive.” Clipd Beaks is on tour now

Clipd Beaks Live:
11/12 Cincinatti, OH Skull Lab
11/13 Columbus, OH Bourbon St.
11/15 Toronto, ONT Sneaky Dee’s
11/16 Montreal, PQ Casa del Popolo
11/17 Quebec City, QC Le Bal du Lezard
11/18 Jamaica Plains, MA The Milky Way
11/19 Annadale-on-Hudson, NY Bard College
11/21 Providence, Rhode Island AS220
11/23 New York, NY Cake Shop
11/24 Brooklyn, NY Todd P Show (Venue TBA)
11/25 Philadelphia, PA Queen Sheba II
11/27 Purchase, NY SUNY Purchase
11/28 Washington DC The Bobby Fisher Memorial
11/29 Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern
11/30 Atlanta, GA Lenny’s Bar
12/01 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
12/02 Hot Springs, AR The Exchange
12/04 Houston, TX Proletariat
12/05 San Antonio, TX Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar
12/06 Denton, TX Secret Headquarters
12/07 Austin, TX Emo’s
12/10 Phoenix, AZ Modified Arts

Hoarse Lords Tracklisting:

Stream The Album HERE

Release Date: November 13th, 2007

01. Melter (MP3)
02. Wrathscapes
03. Manipulator (MP3)
04. High on Charms
05. Hoarse Lords
06. We Will Bomb You (We Will)
07. Woo Melodies
08. Black Glass (MP3)
09. Let It Win

Two additional EPs (including one of obscure duets by Morrissey & Siouxsie Sioux among others) set for release in 2008.

“The debut album from Connecticut’s Saint Bernadette hits the sort of notes and touches that make me weak in the knees, by expertly melding things I’m a sucker for: ballsy broads, smoke-filled jazz clubs, and, of course, the element of surprise.” — Sentimentalist Magazine

“The music on In The Ballroom, is seductive, eclectic, sophisticated and a natural fit for DiMenna’s superlative voice.” — Stamford Advocate

Saint Bernadette is celebrating the recent release of its debut album In The Ballroom by playing the CMJ Music Marathon this weekend at Manhattan’s Highline Ballroom on Saturday, October 20th. Filter Magazine will present the show and Saint Bernadette will serve as opening act to the Grammy award winning leader of Dirty Vegas, Steve Smith, who will be debuting songs from his upcoming solo debut. Saint Bernadette takes the stage at 12:30AM. The first video from In The Ballroom is now ready for consumption as well. The clip for “Sidestep” is a mysterious ride with a hot car through some murky and ominous fog.

In The Ballroom has already received much praise from the press — not only for the gorgeous pipes of singer Meredith DiMenna, but also for the unique sound of the record which was recorded live in the abandoned ballroom of Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Bijou Theatre (pictured on the album’s cover) in a marathon three-day recording session.

DiMenna, a professional vocalist by day — she is well-known as the voice of MTV’s “Chunky Pam” — gets to show off her personal side with Saint Bernadette, making beautiful, loungey music that harkens back to Motown or early Atlantic releases. To make In The Ballroom, DiMenna, and her husband, guitarist Keith “Touch” Saunders, put together the lineup that would appear on the record and went north to a small cabin in Vermont to learn and arrange the songs. Inspired and invigorated by the results, they began the search for the perfect recording location.

“We knew we wanted to record it live. Because of the instrumentation, the dynamics depend on a real-time push and pull between the different elements and we felt we couldn’t achieve that in an overdubbing situation,” says Saunders. “We really wanted the record to reflect the energy of a live show.”

Recent transplants to Bridgeport, DiMenna and Saunders found that a local redevelopment project, the historic Bijou Theatre, was hiding a large and beautiful ballroom circa 1908 on the second floor. The developers gave the band permission to use the space for five days – one each to load in, load out and three to record. The album was recorded completely live – with everyone in the same room at the same time. It was nearly non-stop recording, except on breaks to go to the bar next door and keep tabs on the World Cup. When recording was finished, the band took the record to Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Mates of State, Tokyo Police Club) of Bridgeport-based Tarquin Studio.

“Not only is he in Bridgeport, which was important to us – we really wanted it to be a hometown effort – but he’s also really talented. Working with him in his studio was a great experience,” says DiMenna. Saunders adds, “We had to wait a few months for him because he was busy working on The National, which was so hard since we were so excited about the recording, but it was well worth the wait.”

In The Ballroom will be followed up by a pair of EPs in 2008. One, a new Saint Bernadette collection entitled I Wanna Tell You Something and another, a six-song collaboration with singer-songwriter Brian Grosz, a label mate of DiMenna’s. Interestingly, the second EP is a planned covers collection of some famous and not-so-famous duets from the past and present featuring tunes originally sung by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits & Crystal Gail, Morrissey & Siouxsie Sioux, Tricky & PJ Harvey, and Elvis & Ann Margaret.

Lastly, famed hip hop producers, Black Panther and Shaad Almighty have decided to put their own take on In The Ballroom and are working on remixes of the album tracks “Lay Me Down” and “Money In The Air”. More information on the remixes will be announced in the near future.

Saint Bernadette Live:

10/19 Bridgeport, CT Acoustic Cafe
10/20 New York, NY Highline Ballroom (CMJ)
10/23 New York, NY 11th Street Bar
10/30 New York, NY 11th Street Bar
11/17 Danbury, CT SUB ROSA/Cousin Larry’s
11/29 Knoxville, TN TBA
11/30 Athens, GA TBA
12/01 Asheville, NC Westville Pub
12/02 Philadelphia, PA TBA
12/11 New York, NY Piano’s

In The Ballroom Tracklisting:

Stream The Album HERE

Release Date: October 2, 2007

01. I Own The City (MP3)
02. Bound To Do
03. She’s a Natural
04. Money In The Air
05. Pieces
06. Sidestep
07. Such Ease
08. Lay Me
09. Universe
10. No Dreams