Live: Akron/Family announce ridiculously full summer/fall tour

Next week, indie guitar rock kids Akron/Family take to the streets for a long, two-month trek around the US and Canada, supporting their disc Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, which came out in stores this past May. Stops include the stages of All Points West, ATP NY, 10,000 Lakes, a guest appearance on indie rock radio KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and many more.

Dates:

Jul 22 Cleveland, OH Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame  
Jul 23 Detroit Lakes, MN 10,000 Lakes Festival 2009       
Jul 24 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge      
Jul 25 Calgary, AB Calgary Folk Festival
Jul 26 Calgary, AB Calgary Folk Festival
Jul 2Sep 09 Steamboat Springs, CO Ghost Ranch Saloon
Jul 30 Vail, CO The Sandbar   
Jul 31 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater    
Aug 02 Jersey City, NJ All Points West
Aug 09 New York, NY Other Music Free In-store
Aug 11 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel        
Aug 12 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle       
Aug 13 Atlanta, GA E.A.R.L.     
Aug 14 Birmingham, AL Bottletree       
Aug 15 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall    
Aug 24 Santa Monica, CA Morning Becomes Eclectic (89.9FM KCRW)
Aug 28 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Music Festival
Aug 29 Los Angeles, CA El Ray Theatre  
Sep 07 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival        
Sep 08 09 Portland, OR Bagdad Theatre      
Sep 10 Baltimore, MD Talking Head Club
Sep 11 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's        
Sep 12 Monticello, NY All Tomorrow’s Parties New York (ATP)
Sep 14 Hudson, NY Jason's Upstairs
Sep 15 Williamsport, PA Site: B
Sep 16 Ithaca, NY Castaways
Sep 17 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
Sep 18 London, ON, Lola Festival
Sep 19 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Sep 20 Louisville, KY 21C Museum Atrium Gallery

(mp3)    Akron/Family - They Will Appear

Godspeed!

Live: Moby finalizes dates for fall tour

Moby's just announced a fall tour of smaller club dates and intimate shows, touring behind his latest disc, Wait For Me. This marks the first time in four years that he'll be touring and performing with a full band, last done on his tour behind Hotel. Wait For Me is available everywhere now.

Dates:

Sept 17 Baltimore,MD Ram's Head Live
Sept 18 Washington,DC 9:30 Club
Sept 20 Philadelphia, PA TLA
Sept 21 New York, NY Irving Plaza
Sept 24 Boston, MA House Of Blues
Sept 29 Detroit, MI St. Andrew's Hall
Sept 30 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
Oct 01 St. Paul, MN Myth
Oct 03 Houston, TX Warehouse
Oct 04 Dallas, TX Palladium
Oct 12 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
Oct 14 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
Oct 15 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
Oct 18 Seattle, WA The Showbox
Oct 19 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom

(mp3)    Moby - Pale Horses

Godspeed!

Live: Brooklyn invades LA this Saturday at TILT & Binary

Coming this Saturday night to The Echoplex in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, NY kings and queens. Featuring the special guest appearances of MEN, Dances With White Girls and Flashmen as well as locals Hey Willpower and Lexicondon, it's going to get housey, funky and ridiculously, intensely fun. Also, maybe a little bit political (after all, MEN did stem from aggro-ladies Le Tigre). For a mere ten bucks, you and your 18+ friends can all come get your faces melted with the help of the kids from Tilt & Binary. RSVP/more info here.

(mp3)    MEN - Off Our Backs

(mp3)    Dances With White Girls - GirlsBug

Godspeed!

Live: Burns makes US debut this week in NYC

A UK electro-house talent whose been building up a ton of heat in the past few months with sweaty, anthemic originals and even bigger-arena remixes (like the bananas new edit for The Gossip's "Heavy Cross"), Burns comes to the US for the first time this week, appearing at the head of a really great Scion-curated night at NYC's Plan B venue. It's going to be a rad night, and considering it's free, one that no one in Gotham should miss. Burns is releasing four singles this year with an expected full length disc in 2010.

Deets:

Burns
Nosaj Thing
Cubic Zirconia
Franki Chan
Blu Jemz

Plan B
339 E. 10th Street (corner of Ave. B)

(mp3)    Burns - Heartbeats (extended mix)

Godspeed!

Live: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (BEMF) returns; finalizes line-up

The all-day juggernaut now in its second annual volume, BEMF, is back with a line-up that scares the ever-loving-existence out of us, some rad toss-ins to sweeten everyone's minds and a very secretive ploy. Happening this year at The Old American Can Factory, BEMF is helmed once again by Famous Friends, the golden ticket-possessing trio of DJs and promoters that brought you the nine-hour inaugural event last year. But this, well, it's 33% longer. Yup, 4pm until 4am. And it's got two stages, doubling last year. And two hours of PBR open bar (4pm - 6pm). We're sort of losing our minds over the list of acts they've been able to secure, like (tip of the proverbial iceberg here) The Juan Maclean, Adventure, Viking, NROTB and Awesome New Republic, but we don't think anyone in their right mindset could argue that this isn't the best line-up of independent music acts of the summer.

About that secret? Famous Friends will be announcing a very special surprise guest headliner via twitter on the day of the show. Follow them on Twitter to receive the latest news in advance. Advance tickets are $25 and can be purchased now. RJD2 will not be performing as previously announced.

Full line-up after the jump.

Live: The Get Up Kids announce a full fall tour

Reuniting last November for a show at Record Bar in Kansas City and then following that with terrifically sold out shows in New York, LA and San Francisco, The Get Up Kids (110% one of our favorite bands ever) have just announced a full fall line-up of tour dates, all of which are going up for sale tomorrow. And right before the tour, on September 8, the band will mark the 10-year anniversary of their amazing LP, Something To Write Home About, with a reissue CD/DVD version of the album. The DVD portion of the package features the full live performance the guys played in March of this year in the Lawrence, KS venue Liberty Hall.

Full tour dates after the jump.

Live: Japandroids playing NYC this week + new single

(photo by Leigh Righton)

Vancouver duo Japandroids have just signed with Polyvinyl Records and we'll all finally see the release of their third spazzed-out-rock record, Post-Nothing, this September. They'll be playing a few dates around town this week on their spring tour and in ten days, they'll hit the stage at the Village Voice Siren Festival. So, to get you in the mood for these local dates (and the festival ones too), here's the new single from the boys, "Young Hearts Spark Fire", a jangly, noise rock anthem full of shouts, driving drum beats and an infectious, fists-in-the-air chorus.

Dates:

Jul 08 Washington, DC DC9
Jul 10 Brooklyn, NY Cameo Gallery
Jul 11 New York, NY Pianos
Jul 12 Boston, MA Great Scott
Jul 14 Montreal, QC Club Lambi
Jul 15 Ottawa, ON Lebreton Flats
Jul 16 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
Jul 18 Brooklyn, NY Coney Island (Siren Festival)
Jul 19 Chicago, IL Union Park
Jul 20 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
Jul 21 Denver, CO Hi Dive
Jul 23 Boise, ID Neurolux
Jul 24 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill
Jul 28 Portland, OR Holocene
Jul 29 Sacramento, CA Blue Lamp
Jul 30 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
Jul 31 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Aug 01 Visalia, CA Howie & Son's
Aug 02 San Francisco, CA Hemlock Tavern
Aug 07 Vancouver, BC Richard's On Richards

(mp3)    Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire

Godspeed!

Live: The last "Flashing Lights" at Studio B this Friday

The monthly capital-d dance party "Flashing Lights" is rounding out their final night at Studio B (the closing no one saw coming) with a juke and pop line-up for the ages, including the usuals of Nick Catchdubs, Jess Jubilee and DJ Ayres alongside Chicago's finest mix-heads, Flosstradamus. So get ready for this Friday night's epic last dance party, full of smiles, sweat and deeply affecting tracks. Studio B is at 259 Banker Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

(mp3)    Kanye West - Champion (Nick Catchdubs remix)

(mp3)    Flosstradamus feat. Caroline Polachek - Big Bills

Godspeed!

Live: The 10,000lb Hamburger Tour kicks off this weekend

Thanks to the kids at Fool's Gold, this summer brings together three of the biggest tickets in electro and pop--the 10,000lb Hamburger Tour. The live shows, which pair the new king of disco, Treasure Fingers, with one of the best DJs in the world, A-Trak, and one of the illest talents seen in the past 2 years, Rye Rye, sets sail in North America tomorrow night in Tampa and wraps up at LA's Hard Fest on August 8. There will also, of course, be special guests in most of these city stops. Get ready to sweat. Just saying.

Dates:

Jul 05 Tampa, FL Crowbar
Jul 08 Miami, FL Liv
Jul 11 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Jul 13 Phoenix, AZ Club Red
Jul 14 San Diego, CA Voyeur
Jul 16 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Jul 17 Portland, OR Rotture
Jul 18 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
Jul 21 Victoria, BC Element
Jul 22 Vancouver, BC Venue
Jul 23 Calgary, AB Hi-Fi Club
Jul 24 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
Jul 25 Toronto, ON Time Festival
Jul 30 Ottawa, ON Ritual Nightclub
Jul 31 New York, NY Webster Hall
Aug 01 Montreal, QC SAT
Aug 02 Quebec City, QC Ozone
Aug 07 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
Aug 08 Los Angeles, CA Hard Festival (The Forum)

(mp3)    N.A.S.A. - Gifted (Treasure Fingers remix)

Godspeed!

Live: JellyNYC Pool Parties 2009 line-up announced

Hooray for New York! Hooray for Brooklyn! Hooray for humanity as a whole! The JellyNYC-helmed juggernaut known as the Pool Parties may have moved from their initial home at the McCarren Park Pool (this year reclaiming the Williamburg waterfront), but their tried, true and rad formula still remains, booking some of the biggest and best tickets imaginable. From next Sunday until right up to Labor Day, you'll find us and thousands of other know-it-all kids raging. Hard.

Dates:

Jul 12 Mission Of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail, Jemina Pearl
Jul 19 Dirty Projectors, Magnolia Electric Company, White Denim
Jul 26 And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Black Lips, Health, Grupo Fantasmo
Aug 02 Round Robin show w/ Deerhunter, No Age and Dan Deacon
Aug 09 Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set), Fiery Furnaces, Dark Meat, The Netherlands
Aug 16 Del tha Funky Homosapien, Gravytrain!!!!, DD/MM/YYYY, Kenan Bell
Aug 23 Girl Talk, Max Tundra, Wiz Khalifa
Aug 30 Grizzly Bear, Beach House

(mp3)    Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge

(mp3)    No Age - Cappo

Godspeed!