New Music Tuesday

In stark contrast to last week's lack of new releases (in volume not quality) this week is an over abundance of quantity but maybe not quality*... except for the ones that ARE quality that is. Like The Civil Wars, Explosions in the Sky, Pond, Old Crow Medicine Show & The Polyphonic Spree. There are obviously even more than that so DIVE IN!

*That was negative, sorry about being negative.

Acquaintances: Acquaintances
Allen Callaci and Adam Lipman: Glacial
Barbarossa: Bloodlines
Bear Mountain: XO
Blondes: Swisher
The Bug: Filthy [vinyl]
Christian Wallumrod Ensemble: Outstairs
The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars
Darren Hayman and the Short Parliament: Bugbears
Dawn of Midi: Dysnomia
Dirtmusic: Troubles
Eli Mardock: Everything Happens for the First Time
Empty Flowers: Five
Eric Copeland: Joke in the Hole
Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo: Prince Avalanche (soundtrack)
Future Wife: We're Gonna Die
Humanbeast: Venus Ejaculates into the Banquet
Jake Bellows: New Ocean
Kendl Winter: It Can Be Done!
The Long Lost: Save Yourself, Start Again
Lumerians: The High Frontier
Medicine: To The Happy Few
Minks: Tides End
Moderat: II
Old Baby: Love Hangover
Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back to Virginia
The Polyphonic Spree: Yes It's True
Pond: Hobo Rocket
Raffertie: Sleep of Reason
Rocketnumbernine: MeYouWeYou
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion: Wassaic Way
Scott and Charlene's Wedding: Any Port in a Storm
Six By Seven: Love and Peace and Sympathy
The Steinbecks: At Arkaroo Rock EP
Steve Brotzmann and Peter Noble: I Am Here Where Are You
The Sufis: Inventions
Talking Heads: Fear of Music (reissue) [vinyl]
Various Artists: Girls on 45 Volume 2
Various Artists: Mutazione: Italian Electronic and New Wave Underground 1980-1988
Walking Papers: Walking Papers

Photos: Railroad Revival Tour Tempe 4/24/2011

If there is definitely a place to take your kids on a Saturday evening it's a gravel parking lot filled with drunk people. Another good idea is to leave them several times alone to go take pictures. Just kidding, that is a terrible couple of things to do with your children. Unless it's to see Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show that is.

But truth be told the show was great, the gravel parking lot... not so great. But how many places in Phoenix/Tempe are next to a railroad track? Not very many, and probably ZERO of those places happen to be a nice grassy field. So I am happy they even stopped here at all considering the limitations.

I did take my kids and despite the fact that they couldn't see ANY of the show since they are children and short they both said they had a really great time. Probably because I kept leaving them alone so they could pretend like they were there alone and super cool. As a side note, I am going to invent stilts for children to use at concerts. I can't think of any reason to worry about any accidents or injuries that might happen, so I 100% expect to make millions and never be sued.

I took a crap load of pictures... way to many in fact. So again I am going with the easy way out of just posting a slide show. If you want to check them out in a less "slideshowy" format, check out our Flickr page HERE.

Mumford & Sons/Edward Sharpe/Old Crow Medicine Show Coming To Chandler AZ

Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show are all going on a Railroad Revival Tour together. It's not a very long tour and going to be "Traveling exclusively in vintage railcars, the three bands will journey across the American Southwest over the course of a week" We are lucky enough to be one of the six stops. The show is happening in Chandler at the Arizona Railway Museum. This feels like its going to be really bad ass and very awesome. I think I might be more excited about this than anything else going on so far this year.

Tickets go on sale this Wed (3/9), you can get them HERE. You better do it right away, there is no way this won't sell out in minutes.