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Read More Temples Along their way to Minneapolis, Temples have been building huge buzz appearing at Great Escape 2013 and (recently) SXSW 2014. With all that excitement for the band, they sold out the Turf Club presale …

TEMPLES
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One of the hottest bands of last year, Temples will be returning to Minneapolis' First Avenue this May 29, 2015. You may recall that they originally booked the Turf Club show in 2014 but quickly sold out the venue that they had to upgrade to First Avenue's Main Room to accommodate all their fans.

Read our previous coverage of the psych band:

Temples at First Ave, Minneapolis (24 Apr 2014)

Temples at SXSW, Austin (13 Mar 2014)

Temples at Great Escape, Brighton (17 May 2013)

2015 Tour Dates:

05/23 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
05/24 - George, WA @ Sasquatch Music Festival
05/27 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
05/28 - Lincoln, NE @ Vega
05/29 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/30 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
06/02 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
06/04 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
06/06 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
06/07 - Toronto, ON @ Field Trip Music & Arts Fest
06/08 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
06/11 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo

Read More Temperance Movement Britain's best loved rock 'n' roll band, The Temperance Movement, have announced an exclusive vinyl to celebrate this year's Record Store Day in the UK, paying tribute to two legendary British acts. .... Blackberry Smoke Blackberry Smoke announced their DVD called Live at the Georgia Theatre (pre-sale started November 23rd, to ship December 6, just in time for Christmas). The show was originally sold out, so if you're a fan, this will be a good way of checking ....

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
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British blues rock band The Temperance Movement (named after the 19th century social movement urging us to moderate our alcoholic consumptions) will be touring with Blackberry Smoke and Ben Miller Band in America for 2015. They are supporting their new self-titled record, out now on Earache Records/Fantasy.

Tour Dates:

02/24/15 Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre
02/26/15 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
02/27/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
02/28/15 Springfield, IL Boondocks
03/13/15 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
03/19/15 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
03/24/15 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
04/08/15 Norfolk, VA NorVa
04/09/15 Richmond, VA The National
04/10/15 Silver Spring, MD Fillmore Silver Spring
04/11/15 Columbus, OH The LC Pavilion
04/14/15 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy's
04/16/15 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
04/17/15 Charlotte, NC Fillmore Charlotte
04/18/15 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
04/22/15 Columbia, SC Music Farm Columbia
04/23/15 Charleston, SC Music Farm
04/25/15 Lake Buena Vista, FL House Of Blues
04/30/15 Austin, TX Emo's
05/01/15 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
05/02/15 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
05/07/15 Houston, TX House Of Blues
05/08/15 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
05/09/15 San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theater

Read More The Books This is The Books' last date on their national tour, so they seem very comfortable being on stage. Since this was the Cedar Cultural Center, the audience consists of an older "NPR"-type of crowd. This was one of the most ....

PAUL DE JONG
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Temporary Residence Ltd will be releasing Paul de Jong's If this April 28th, 2015. If you're a fan of The Books (read our previous coverage from 2009), you may know de Jong as the co-founder of the band.

"For the past year, I’ve been happily chasing utopian musical concepts in the good company of my family, a drumming farmer and his musician friends, an array of traditional and makeshift instruments and my sample library that has by now taken on the characteristics of a vast sunken continent," de Jong describes. "It’s time to come up for air."

If will feature de Jong's handful of friends and family as musical guests, and in typical The Books fashion, will fused eccentric folk-pop with art.

Track listing:

1 Auction Block
2 Hollywald
3 This Is Who I Am
4 IF
5 Golden Gate
6 Debt Free
7 Baxter @73
8 Snakes
9 Age of the Sea
10 Purpose
11 The Art of What
12 Troia

BRIEFLY:

TEMPLE INVISIBLE templeinvisible.com Romania's Temple Invisible will be releasing Enter_ in early 2015. The EP have been getting rave reviews, comparing their sound to Depeche Mode and Massive Attack. You can read all about it on news.weheartmusic.com. Enter_ will be out March 10th, 2015.

SUNS facebook.com/sunsofficial London duo Suns (not to be confused with Chicago's Suns or Ohio's The Sun or UK tabloid The Sun... in fact, read more Here Comes the Sun and The Sun) will be releasing a new single "Temple Boy", out February 23rd via Taiyō Records. They have also announced a live show at London's Sebright Arms on February 24th.

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