The Gossip have confirmed at Toronto date on their upcoming North American tour. They play Opera House on October 14th, tickets, $24.50 on sale today here. The band have just released their new album Music For Men. Check out the video for first single Heavy Crosshere.
Warp Records (and Stereolab sound-a-likes) Broadcast are touring with Atlas Sound. The tour hits Lee’s Palace on October 24th. No ticket details as of yet.
Sea Wolf plays Sneaky Dee’s on October 9th. Port O’Brien and Sara Dov support. Sea Wolf’s new album White Water, White Bloom is out September 22nd.
Coco Rosie play Lee’s Palace September 9th in support of their album to be released in 2010.
Blast from the Brit-Pop past, Manic Street Preachers have just confirmed a short North American tour, their first in 10 years. They stop at the Phoenix on October 4th. Tickets on sale today at 10am here.
One Toronto festival that doesn’t seem to be getting a ton of press even though it has a wicked line-up this year is Summerworks. The music series component features a bunch of great shows. Below are my picks, the rest can be found here. Tickets can be purchased here.
Friendly Fires have just released a video for Kiss Of Life, a new single taken from the deluxe reissue of their debut (reissue to be released September 9th). The band play Lee’s Palace August 10th, tickets available here. The band have been nominated for Britain’s Mercury Music Prize, along with my other favs La Roux and Bat For Lashes.
Amanda Blankhas been kicking it for years in the indie hip hop scene with Spank Rock. She’s the female MC in the band, and spills dirty rhymes over Spank’s ass shaking beats. She’s done a ton of excellent guest appearances on tracks by Santogold, M.I.A, Ghostface Killah and Plastic Little. Amanda is set to release her debut album titled I Love You on Downtown Records on released August 4th. She previewed a bunch of new tracks supporting Santogold, and if they are any indication, the album is going to be great.
Amanda has just been added as support for Yeah Yeah Yeahs short North American tour. Check her out at the dates below:
7/28 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues – Cleveland
7/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
7/31 – Jersey City, NJ @ All Points West
8/01 – Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights
8/04 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
8/05 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
Meet The Drums. Very new, young-looking, cute and insanely catchy. Catchy like you’ll find yourself humming their tunes, attempting to belt them out a capella but because you’ve just heard them, you can’t remember the lyrics. Catchy in a sense that you’ll feel like their songs have exsisted for years, but in reality, they were just recorded. The Drums are heavily influenced by the Factory Records scene (out of England that brought us Joy Divison, New Order etc.) and 50′s surf pop.
The band made their live debut May 17, 2009 at NYC Popfest. Yup, less than two months ago. But apparently they killed it. BrooklynVegan was there and was blown away. Read about their show here. They are set to release an EP on August 4th titled Summertime! I’m not sure if its the same EP that’s floating around the internet right now, but if it is, pre-order it asap here. It’s wicked good. The band has a bunch of dated booked this summer in NYC. Let’s hope the blog love propels them onto a larger tour, bringing to Toronto so we can dance.
Watch them perform Let’s Go Surfing live during NYC Popfest at the Cakeshop below.
