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News: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Announce Fall US Tour

Read More Asteroids Galaxy Tour Turnout for the Triple Rock show was excellent with the majority of the fans sporting AGT T-Shirts (they sold out their stock of large shirts last night) in front singing along to every song (even at the non-singles!) …

Let me remind you of how big of fans we are of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: reviewed their debut EP in 2008, interviewed them at SXSW 2009, and seen them at 7th Street Entry (02/08/2012) and Triple Rock Social Club (11/03/2012).

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour's third studio album Bring Us Together (coming out September 16 via Hot Bus/Rough Trade) will be "darker", as songwriter Lars Iversen explains, "The sound is more processed, and less 'manual' than before- with more weighting on repetitive beats, bass grooves, chopped-up loops, and a more laidback vocal style."

To get you excited about the new record, check out the title track "Bring Us Together", available as a free download via soundcloud.com.



Here is their official confirmed October US Tour dates:

10/17: San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club
10/18: Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
10/20: Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
10/22: New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
10/23: Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
10/24: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

Unfortunately, for this initiate Bring Us Together tour, the band will only be playing major markets, such as Los Angeles and New York. Hopefully additional tour dates will be announced later, so they can truly bring us together.

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A River Runs Through It

Run River North Nettwerk Read More Goo Goo Doll Also released last Tuesday was the Goo Goo Doll's Greatest Hits. This is their first "greatest hits" CD, having been together for over 21 years. Did everyone catch the Transformers movie ? Did you know they had a hit song on that soundtrack? …

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Making a stop in Texas for a few SXSW performances, California band Run River North will make their way to the east coast now to promote their debut self-titled album released in February. The six-piece Korean-American group, formerly known as Monsters Calling Home, brings with them their folky and full sound. Catch them on their headlining tour and/or on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls.

Tour dates:

04/03 Red Room @ Café 939 Boston, MA
04/05 Pandora @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar
04/07 Carrier Theatre* Syracuse, NY
04/08 Ridgefield Playhouse* Ridgefield, CT
04/09 Swyer Theatre* Albany, NY
04/10 Rockwood Music Hall New York, NY
04/15 Jammin Java Vienna, VA
04/16 Vinyl Atlanta, GA
04/17 Ponte Vedra* Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
04/18 Beau Rivage Theatre* Biloxi, MS
04/19 3rd & Lindsley* Nashville, TN
04/21 Lyric Theatre * Lexington, KY
04/22 City Winery* Chicago, IL
04/23 Pasant Theater* East Lansing, MI
04/25 Finkelman Auditorium* Middletown, OH
04/27 Meyer Theatre* Green Bay, WI
04/30 The Baby Grand* Wilmington, DE
05/02 Ortlieb’s Philadelphia, PA

* The Otis Midnight Sessions, with Goo Goo Dolls

Chasing Twisters Sire / Wea Read More ZZ Ward NOTE: Six-piece rock group Delta Rae is co-headlining with ZZ Ward on most dates, but not the Minneapolis show.…

DELTA RAE
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Speaking of six-piece, the six-piece rock band Delta Rae, from Durham, NC, is currently on tour supporting The Chasing Twisters EP, which Rolling Stone deemed as "heroic" and called the band as similar to Fleetwood Mac. The EP feature hits like "Run," which was available as a free iTunes "Single Of The Week".

VH1 sums it up, "The six-piece from Durham, North Carolina has been one of our favorite bands to emerge this year, thanks in large part to their incredible ability to harmonize. On songs like "Bottom Of The River" and "Is Anyone Out There," the vocal harmonizing between the Hölljes siblings (Ian, Eric and Brittany) and Elizabeth Hopkins reaches a level of transcendence rarely heard in music these days."

Delta Rae Headlining Dates:

03/21/14 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
03/25/14 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
03/27/14 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
04/03/14 SF, CA Great American Music
04/05/14 Grand Ronde, OR Spirit Mountain Casino
04/06/14 Seattle, WA The Crocodile
04/09/14 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
04/12/14 Fort Lauderdale Beach Park
04/17/14 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
04/19/14 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
04/25/14 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre
05/03/14 Plano, TX Oak Point Park

Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone Internet Read More Denmark Halasan Bazar is an experimental psych-pop band from Denmark. The group is lead by songwriter Fredrik Eckhoff, who is heavily influenced by the historic outpourings of New York’s …

REPTILE YOUTH
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Danish indie-pop duo Reptile Youth has a new album called Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone, that was just released last week (March 11th).

Noisey, who is streaming the album right now, had this to write about it, "Copenhagen's Reptile Youth practice melodic post-punk with synths, but don't pigeonhole them in with the waves of goth music that has been so popular as of late. And like much of what is washing up from Denmark, their new record is catch, catchy, catchy."

To give you some more background on Reptile Youth, they are a duo, Copenhageners Mads Damsgaard and Esben Valløe, who formed the band in 2009... Soon afterward, they released a self-titled album in 2011. Their music is described as funky dance-pop songs that appeal to such websites like vice.com and the Onion AV Club.

Reptile Youth are on tour:

Mar 27 Circolo Magnolia Segrate (MI), Milan, Italy
Apr 3 Joy Eslava Madrid, Spain
Apr 15 Hansa 39 München, Munich, Germany

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Scandinavia

Read More Club 8 I know, I've joked before about S Club 8, aka S Club Juniors, a spinoff of the teen group S Club 7, as confusing as heck when it comes to the more serious, respectable, band called Club 8.…

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CLUB 8
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I love anything from Labrador Records, the Swedish indie label that made waves by distributing their music on Sweden's The Pirate Bay.

Anyway, I won't spend too much time talking about Club 8, as we've previously written about the duo (Karolina Komstedt from the band Poprace and Johan Angergård from Acid House Kings). Their new single is called "Stop Taking My Time", which just came out March 26th, 2013. You can hear on labrador.se.



Note that the single is taken from Club 8's eighth album called Above the City. Labrador will be releasing the record on May 21st, 2013.

In other Club 8 news, in case you missed it, check out their Peta/animal rights video for "Kill Kill Kill" on youtube. The video was directed by Djurens Rätt / Peter Nilsson and Club 8.

DENMARK
HALASAN BAZAR
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Halasan Bazar is an experimental psych-pop band from Denmark. The group is lead by songwriter Fredrik Eckhoff, who is heavily influenced by the historic outpourings of New York’s Greenwich Village and San Francisco's sound.

Halasan Bazar's album, Space Junk was released last night (April 2nd, 2013), and you can preview their new single, "You & I" via soundcloud.com. The band is kicking off their tour this April:

April 17 @ Le Rouge, Lille, France
April 18 @ L'Espace B with Paws (UK), Paris France
April 19 @ Un Brin Folk, Angers France
April 20 @ Rains Out, Rennes France
April 23 @ AJZ, Giessen Germany
May 03/04 @ SPOT Festival, Aarhus Denmark
May 07 @ Pools, Göttingen Germany
May 09 @ Eule, Münster Germany
May 10 @ Aalhaus, Hamburg Germany
May 15 @ Stengade with Woods (US), Copenhagen Denmark
May 21 @ Trinitatis Church with Henry The Rabbit, Copenhagen Denmark

NORWAY
ANGELICA'S ELEGY
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Norwegian indie band Angelica's Elegy just released their debut album called Gold Celeste last month (March 1st, 2013) via Riot Factory / Sad Songs for Happy People. If you were wondering what an elegy is, it's basically a funeral poem or song for the dead, like a lament.

You can sample some songs over at Soundcloud.



Anyway, the band is described as pop songs with experimental and melodic lo-fi filters, but "filled with angelic vocals". If you like what you heard, the record is available in a 12" gatefold vinyl with artwork by Benedikte Olsen.

BONUS: NORDIC COUNTRIES

ICELAND SIGUR RÓS sigur-ros.co.uk This Icelandic band, Sigur Rós, is currently on tour (they are playing Minneapolis tonight). Since we can't afford to see them, the next best thing is to check out their Record Store Day release for Vitamin String Quartet Performs Sigur Rós - available for purchase on Saturday, April 20th 2013, via your local Record Stores. Vitamin String Quartet aren't actually from Iceland, they're based out of Los Angeles. For more information on the band, check out vitaminstringquartet.com

FINLAND BLIND ARCHITECT facebook.com No information given about this band. All I know is that they're from Finland. Blind Architect's debut album, We Felt Mountains is coming out April 5th, 2013 (unless I'm misreading the dates) on Lionheart Records. Upcoming shows: 04/05 Korjaamo, Helsinki 04/12 Bar 15, Seinäjoki

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