New Music Tuesday

What this week makes up for un quantity is quality. The Walkmen AND Edward Sharpe AND Sigur Rós AND the Magnetic Zeros… come on man! Wonderful!

Cadence Weapon: Hope in Dirt City
The Cranberries: Roses [vinyl]
The Dig: Midnight Flowers
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Here
Gemma Ray: Island Fire
Grass Widow: Internal Logic
The Intelligence: Everybody's Got It Easy But Me
JD McPherson: Signs and Signifiers [vinyl]
Julia Stone: By the Horns
King Tuff: King Tuff
Ladyhawke: Anxiety
Lemonade: Diver
Many Places: Another Oath
Marissa Nadler: The Sister
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo: I'm Not Me (reissue)
Peter Hammill: Consequences
Portland Cello Project: Homage
Preteen Zenith: Rubble Guts and BB Eye
Public Image Limited: This is PiL
Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
Saint Etienne: Words And Music By Saint Etienne
Scissor Sisters: Magic Hour (deluxe edition)
Sigur Rós: Valtari
Simian Mobile Disco: Unpatterns
Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves
Swans: We Rose from Your Bed With the Sun in Our Head
The Walkmen: Heaven

Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes & The Walkmen Together... Comerica 9/15/11!!!!

Holy balls, just when you thought that you were going to have a boring day, you get news that three of my and most everybody else's favorite bands are coming to town, together, to play one venue... together. I went to Bon Iver's show at The Mesa Arts Center a couple years ago and it one one of the best I have ever seen. I missed out on the Fleet Foxes show in Tucson a couple months ago and I was very disappointed in myself. I don't have anything to say about The Walkmen except HUZZAH!

The cherry on top of this whole thing is that it's on my birthday. As proof that my "alternating, good and bad" birthday theory, last year on my birthday I was taking pictures of Paramore.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at noon for less than $40 on Live Nations website.

The Walkmen Make A Happier Video

I guess that when you release such a sad ass video you owe it to the world to make one about diving in the warm ocean as well. So here is a much less depressing video, unless water makes you sad. In that case you are effed and I can't help you. But you should probably go see someone about that

The Walkmen Make A Sad Video About Snow

This video from The Walkmen isn't not depressing right? I don't know what I would do if I had to live in a frozen wasteland all the time. I would probably start a blog or something so I wouldn't have to go outside very much.

New Music Tuesday: Crocodiles, Dominant Legs, Drums, J Tillman, Les Savy Fav, Megafaun, Of Montreal, Screaming Females, The Walkman

Holy bejesus there is a ton of good shit out today! Lot's of crap out too that we won't mention (Weezer/Brandon Flowers/Linkin Park) too. If there isn't at least 3 albums out today then you probably hate music and I wonder why you are reading this. Check out the full list after the break and just do it, be in it to win it and also go for the gold!

Ariel Pink Coming To Tucson... Twice! No Phx WTF?

Apparently the boycott of Arizona doesn't include Tucson, or Flagstaff for that matter.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are going on a pretty huge tour that takes them all over the U.S. from July up through Oct. They are even going to come to our dirty racist state... twice! Just both times will be in Tucson, Aug 5th at Plush and again on Sept 12 at Club Congress. WTF Ariel Pink?

Dr. Dog also just announced another tour, and the closest they are coming to Phoenix is Flagstaff. In November no less! Who the hell want's to go to Flagstaff in November over Phoenix?

So either Phoenix has become the sole embodiment of SB1070 and our smaller cities get a pass for being "progressive college towns" or something else more (or even less) sinister is going on.

If only someone that had any idea of what is going on would leave a comment letting us know.

Here is a list of other bands only playing in Tucson... I left some others OFF the list because they just played here in the last few month IE Tallest Man on Earth & David Bazan:

Tokyo Police Club
The Walkmen they were playing here the whole time, my bad.
Spoon
School of Seven Bells
Matt Costa
Of Montreal

While some people might tend to be be more optimistic and say "Sure THOSE bands aren't coming but there are a whole bunch of other ones that ARE!", to those people I say "We are the 4th or 5th biggest city in the country, if a band can play in Flagstaff or Tucson they can make there way here too. Nobody would play Bakersfield and not play L.A. right?"

I also understand that there are sometimes venue scheduling conflicts and it might not have anything to do with the bands not wanting to play here. But that doesn't piss me off any less :-(