Month: January 2015

Interpol Announce New US Tour Dates

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NYC’s Interpol have announced a new set of North American tour dates behind their latest record, El Pintor, including a few dates to make up for cancelled shows due to snow trapping them in their tour bus last year. After a month of European dates starting on January 23, the band hit Mexico and then a bunch of South American Lollapalooza dates before returning to the states on April 8 in Tucson, AZ. The band’s Bay Area show last fall was at the Fox Theater in Oakland, but they return to San Francisco this time around, and will play the Warfield on April 21.
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Australia’s Twerps Releasing Merge Debut (Preview via Hype Machine), Touring US this Spring

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Australia’s Twerps are prepping the release of the second LP and Merge Records debut, Range Anxiety, on January 27, but you can preview the record via Hype Machine now. Comparisons to Real Estate and fellow Aussies the Go-Betweens aren’t too far off the mark, though with more of a lo-fi (but warm) 90s indie rock aesthetic. They sound a lot like a band who are opening for one of your favorite bands in 1996.
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Sleater-Kinney Perform “A New Wave” on Letterman

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With a new album, No Cities to Love, out next week (and already streaming on NPR), reunited Sleater-Kinney hit The Late Show With David Letterman on Thursday, performing “A New Wave.”

Joined by Katie Harkin of the band Sky Larkin (who will be accompanying the bad on tour), Carrie Brownstein (now better known as “Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein!” I guess) took lead vocals, and upped her Pete Townshend-ness to even new heights, supplementing her array of high kicks and guitar windmills with a very Townshend-esque all-white, flowy-pants ensemble. (Also keeping up S-K’s anti-establishment cred: white pants before Memorial Day!)
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Unlikely Friends (members of BOAT/Math & Physics Club) Releasing Debut Record

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Unlikely Friends, a new collaboration between Seattle-ites D. Crane of BOAT and Charles Bert from Math & Physics Club, release their debut record, Solid Gold Cowboys, on January 27. BOAT have long been a favorite here at Three Match Breeze, and if the first single, “Soft Reputation” (listen below) is any indication, Unlikely Friends don’t veer too far from that sloppy pop course. Which is a good thing. The album is a true collaboration, in an Outkast kind of way: D. Crane tells Brooklyn Vegan that he and Bert each wrote 6.5 of the 13 songs on the track, so they each get half the album. The demos I heard last year were pretty catchy even in their raw form, and the finished products sound superb.
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2:54 Release video for “Crest,” Touring US Next Month

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London-based sister duo, 2:54, have premiered a visceral, gritty black and white promo video to accompany “Crest,” a track from their second album, The Other I.  The video comes ahead of their U.S. tour with Honeyblood, which runs from late February through to March (including a date at the Rickshaw Stop in March), and will mark their first return to the States since their last outing supporting the XX in 2012.
Check out the video and full dates below…

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Perfect Pussy Announce North American Tour Dates, Release Debut EP on Vinyl/CD

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Perfect Pussy at Mercury Lounge, April 2014

 

To celebrate a huge year for Perfect Pussy (we saw them last spring at Mercury Lounge in NYC), Captured Tracks is set to release the band’s debut EP I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling on vinyl and CD for the first time ever. The 12″ LP features music on the A-side and an etching of their signature triangular logo on the B-side. Along with the LP comes a 32-page photo booklet documenting the band’s year on the road.
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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue /North Mississippi Allstars @ The Masonic, 12.31.14

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The Masonic SF rang in it’s first post-renovation New Year with a funk/blues double bill of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and The North Mississippi Allstars. The New Breed Brass band opened the show after jamming in the lobby, and joined Trombone Shorty on stage at midnight for a balloon/confetti drop. Check out the gallery below.
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