Life on March.
New month, new music and new news!
As always; I’ll keep on updating this post this month with more music news, updates, releases, short reviews, quick introducions and music related stuff.
Click here for “February Music”, here for “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue!” (January news) and here “A Kind of Magic.. eh, roundup!” (December news).
All the music here is free to stream and/or download somewhere on the internet – so enjoy!
New music from Baddies!
Tiger Face
Wir Schlagen Unsere Brust
Alternative folk/roots band Circus Envy released their new single “Regret” on January 24th 2011, and the band are now hit the road.
Dates:
Bridlington, YOR, UK Sat Mar 19 ( The Spa.)
Hull, UK Thu Apr 07 (Fruit.)
A new release will also soon be available.
April Smith and the Great Picture Show tour with Fitz and the Tantrums
April Smith and her band The Great Picture Show released probably one of the most disgusting (Terrible Things) and wittiest, quirkiest rockabilly modern jazz sing-along piano themed releases last year. And they are now ready to hit the road with soul group Fitz and the Tantrums.
Terrible Things
MoneyGrabber
Tour Dates:
3/20 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl (FREE)
4/10 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theater
4/11 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
4/12 Charleston, SC Music Farm
4/14 Atlanta, GA The Loft @ Center Stage
4/17 Mobile, AL Soul Kitchen
4/18 Houston, TX Bronze Peacock Room @HOB
4/19 Austin, TX LaZona Rosa
4/20 Dallas, TX Cambridge Room @ HOB
4/22 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Brew Pub
4/23 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
After a lengthy hibernation, The Musgraves are back. And their new EP “Lost in Familiarity” are set to be released in the near future.
So Sofia
The Fratellis is no more. But Jon Fratelli lives on! He’s currently offer a free download of the new EP “The Magic Hour”, with songs written and recorded for the album which in the end lost out in the numbers game.
Download it here!
Tour dates:
24 Mar 2011 – Teenage Cancer Trust 2011, Royal Albert Hall London, Supporting Roger Daltrey CBE.
25 Mar 2011 – Vibe Bar London
30 Mar 2011 – King Tuts Glasgow
31 Mar 2011 – Bongo Club Edinburgh
02 Apr 2011 – Tunnels Aberdeen
03 Apr 2011 – Doghouse Dundee
04 Apr 2011 – Ironworks Inverness
05 Apr 2011 – An Lanntair Stornoway
07 Apr 2011 – Stromness Town Hall Orkney
08 Apr 2011 – Assembly RoomsWick
09 Apr 2011 – The Loft Stromness
30 Apr 2011 – Live In Leeds Leeds
Elbow have finally released their fifth album “Build a Rocket Boys!” – download it here!
Neat Little Rows
The Airborne Toxic Event have announced the dates of their new album “All At Once” – which will be out on 25 April.
Watch the first single “Changing” from the new release here!
On March 11th 2011, multi –platinum award winning New Zealand artist Tiki Taane will release his new album ‘In The Word Of Light’ through Stop Start/EMI Music Austraila. To support the release in Australia he will tour the East Coast in May.
Tour Dates:
Thu May 19 Great Northern Byron Bay NSW
Fri May 20 Coolangatta Hotel Coolangatta QLD
Sat May 21 The Hi Fi Brisbane QLD
Thu May 26 Panthers Penrith NSW
Fri May 27 Selina’s Coogee Bay NSW
Sat May 28 Corner Hotel Melbourne VIC
Always On My Mind
Wild Beasts are releasing their new single, ‘Albatross’, on May 2nd. The song is the first single from the band’s third album, due to be released on May 9.
Monarchy: Debut album and new single!
“I Won’t Let Go” is the new single from Monarchy, set for release on April 11th via Moda and is taken from the band’s debut album that will be released in July.
The Straight Arrows started out with Owen Penglis yelling about getting dumped and kicked out of bands into a four track cassette machine in his bedroom, soon to be joined by Alex Grigg, Angela Bermuda, and Adam Williams, all friends with coloured musical pasts.
Slowly the four honed their reverb-laden, catchy, fuzzed out punk garage into something barely listenable and less antisocial. Unable to actually get any shows, Straight Arrows started putting on their own at the notorious (and now abandoned) gay bar The Newtown Hotel, culminating in the release of their first 7 inch record ‘Something Happens/Can’t Count’ on their newly formed label Juvenile Records.
‘Magic Sceptre’ is the first track, taken from the band’s newly released LD “It’s Happening”!
Wolfgang will release his new single “Dancing With The Devil” on March 21.
“Unlearn” is the debut album from CYMBALS, and will be released on Tough Love Records as a limited edition 12” and download on 9th May.
The first single/video from a brand new band Jumping Ships was released this monday, and it’s taken from the band’s debut EP, to be released this summer.
One of the new bands to watch in 2011, Grouplove have announced tour dates for the next months;
Mar 17 Floating Fest Austin, TX RSVP
Mar 23 The Independent San Francisco, CA Tickets RSVP
Mar 25 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA Tickets RSVP
Mar 29 Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT Tickets RSVP
Mar 30 The Walnut Room Denver, CO Tickets RSVP
Mar 31 The Record Bar Kansas City, MO Tickets RSVP
Apr 01 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN Tickets RSVP
Apr 02 Schuba’s Tavern Chicago, IL Tickets RSVP
Apr 03 Lee’s Palace Toronto, Canada Tickets RSVP
Apr 05 Petit Campus Montreal, Canada Tickets RSVP
Apr 07 Brighton Music Hall Boston, MA Tickets RSVP
Apr 08 Mercury Lounge New York, NY Tickets RSVP
Apr 09 Knitting Factory Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY Tickets RSVP
Apr 10 KungFu Necktie Philadelphia, PA Tickets RSVP
Apr 11 The Red Palace Washington, DC Tickets RSVP
May 10 O2 Academy 2 Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom RSVP
May 11 O2 Academy 2 Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom RSVP
May 16 O2 Academy 2 Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom
Those Dancing Days‘ second album was released this weekend, and the new video from the new album can be seen below.
Toy Horses have just posted a new video for the song “Interrupt”.
Sounds Like Brisbane
Yes, it’s hot. Yes, it’s wet. But Brisbane is also a city with one of the strongest independent music scenes you will find anywhere.
Believed to be a world first, soundslikebrisbane (SLB) is bringing together the city’s indie labels under the one banner – already 17 independent labels are represented, with more to join the fold soon. They are giving you a taste of the collective with a free Brisbane music sampler available online now.
Covering every genre from garage rock and indie, to jazz, hip-hop, country and pop, the labels define the creative melting pot that Brisbane has become. Together these labels work with dozens of artists, promoting close to 100 releases each year.
Read more, stream and download more @ SoundslikeBrisbane.com
Pink Mist
Big Scary Monsters + Holy Roar + Blood And Biscuits = Pink Mist Collective
Pink Mist is a brand new collective made up by the labels mentioned above, and they’ll arrange a showcase features Three Trapped Tigers and Tall Ships.
4.05 – Brighton, The Great Escape
15.05 – Southampton, Talking Heads
16.05 – Cambridge, The Portland
18.05 – Birmingham, Hare and Hounds
19.05 – Cardiff, Buffalo Bar
20.05 – Liverpool, Kazimer (Sound City)
21.05 – Glasgow, GSA
22.05 – Newcastle, Head of Steam
23.05 – Manchester, Night and Day
24.05 – Sheffield, The Harley
25.05 – Leeds, Nation of Shopkeepers
26.05 – Preston, Mad Ferret
27.05 – Bristol, Start The Bus
28.05 – Meadowlands Festival, Glynde Place
31.05 – London, Cargo
Keshco – Accountants By Day
The last release from the multi experimental pschycadelic band Keshco was released around Christmas, but some releases are worth late-sharing.
So, as a late (or early!) Christmas gift, download “Accountants By Day” from 23 Seconds Netlabel.
The guys also have a psychedelic comedy film in the pipeline, stay tuned.
The Trees – Tracy’s House
Indie rockers The Trees have just released two new tracks from the upcoming second [Untitled] album.
The songs are “Tracy’s House” and its B-side “Greenhills”. Both can be streamed on last.fm.
The band also has a new webside : http://www.the-trees.com
