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Today, FADER Label, the recording branch of The FADER, announced the signing of Yuna, the 24-year old Malaysian-born singer-songwriter

Already home to seminal indie-recording artists Matt and Kim, Neon Indian, Editors and Saul Williams, FADER Label will add to its diverse catalogue by releasing Yuna’s US debut EP, Decorate, digitally on March 15th.

Decorate Tracklisting:
(FADER Label) Street date: March 15, 2011

1. Decorate
2. Deeper Conversation
3. Someone Out of Town
4. Coffee
5. Fears and Frustrations

Pigeon John offers this free download, “Before We’re Gone” from his upcoming 10/12 release, Dragon Slayer.

mp3:”Before We’re Gone” | Free Download

“Before We’re Gone” represents the very exciting and new sonic territory that Pigeon John explores throughout Dragon Slayer. Dragon Slayer houses the signature Pigeon John humor and witty rhymes, with a bit more rock and pop presence. With the aid of General Elektriks’ Hervé Salters, Pigeon John produced the whole record, including, for the first time, recording and chopping up his own instrumentation rather than just flipping samples and banging on an MPC. Quannum Projects is set to release Pigeon John’s new album Dragon Slayer on October 12, 2010, the follow up to critically acclaimed Pigeon John…And The Summertime Pool Party.

Pigeon John kicks off his national tour with DJ Abilities on September 30th.  DJ Abilities will be performing his own set as well as mashing it up on stage as Pigeon John’s DJ. Experience the greatness live…

The Dragon Slayer Tour
Pigeon John
DJ Abilities (from Eyedea and Abilities from Rhymesayers crew)
Dark Time Sunshine (feat. Onry Ozzborn from GreySkul)

Sep 30 Thu Santa Barbara CA @ Velvet Jones
Oct 1 Fri San Diego CA @ The Loft – UC San Diego
Oct 2 Sat Los Angeles CA @ Siren Studios (Thrillist) 3:30pm
Oct 2 Sat Visalia CA @ The Cellar Door
Oct 4 Mon San Francisco CA @ Cafe Du Nord
Oct 6 Wed Seattle WA @ Nectar Lounge
Oct 7 Thu Portland, OR @ Music Millennium – In-Store
Oct 7 Thu Portland OR @ Backspace
Oct 8 Fri Boise ID @ The Reef
Oct 9 Sat Bozeman @ Zebra Cocktail Lounge
Oct 10 Sun Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge
Oct 11 Mon Denver CO @ Larimer Lounge
Oct 12 Tue Boulder CO @ University of Colorado – Club 156
Oct 14 Thu Madison WI @ High Noon Saloon
Oct 15 Fri Minneapolis MN @ 7th Street Entry
Oct 16 Sat Chicago IL @ Morseland
Dark Time Sunshine Leaves Tour
Oct 17 Sun St. Louis MO @ Lola
Oct 19 Tue Columbia MO @ Mojos
Oct 20 Wed Lawrence KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
Oct 22 Fri Colorado Springs CO @ The Black Sheep
Oct 23 Sat Durango CO @ The Abbey Theater
DJ Abilities Leaves Tour
Oct 28 Santa Cruz, CA @ TBA
Oct 29 Fairfax, CA @ 19 Broadway w/ Busdriver
Oct 30 Reno, NV @ Tonic Lounge w/ Busdriver

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Buckcherry’s fifth studio album, ALL NIGHT LONG, their first since the band’s move back to Top Independent Rock label Eleven Seven Music, has debuted at #10 on the Top Billboard Top 200 Album chart and was the #1 Rock debut.  ALL NIGHT LONG is winning rave reviews from fans and critics alike…The New York Post called the album “A fun rock n’ roll tribute to hedonism”, while Classic Rock said, “It’s about a band playing to its instincts and leaving you with the promise that the winning streak ain’t no fluke.”  Kerrang added, “The party is back on” and Spin dubbed Buckcherry, “Fist-pumping anthem-makers.”

The band continues their Top 10 success worldwide as they debuted at #7 on the overall chart in Canada (their highest chart position to date there) and scored their first Top 10 chart positions in the UK at #6 on the Independent Albums and #5 on the Rock and Metal charts, respectively.

The band will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight on ABC at 12:05am ET/PT

Buckcherry is currently on the road playing select tour dates and will gear up for an extensive North American tour supporting Nickelback beginning September 14th in Nashville, TN at the Bridgestone Arena.  Please see below for a full list of Buckcherry tour dates.  In their more than decade-long career, multi-platinum artists Buckcherry have established themselves as a definitive hard rock band with a massive presence at radio.  Hits such as “Lit Up,” “Crazy Bitch,” and “Sorry” have propelled the band’s sales to more than 3 million albums worldwide and have garnered Buckcherry two Grammy nominations.  2008′s BLACK BUTTERFLY was deemed the “Album Of The Year” by Entertainment Weekly and “Best Rock Album” by iTunes.

Buckcherry “All Night Long” music video

BUCKCHERRY ON TOUR

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In support of their August 31st release, Symptoms + Cures, Comeback Kid will be hitting the road with Four Year Strong, The Wonder Years and American Fang on the Tonight We Feel Alive Tour.

Click here to pre-order Symptoms + Cures for only $18!

TOUR DATES

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Benjy Davis Project will be offering a free digital sampler, “Paper Trails,” to fans beginning July 13th via Amazon.com for a limited time.  The sampler will feature 11 songs from various Benjy David Project albums plus a previously-unreleased track, “Raining In Me.”  The complete track listing is as follows:

“Check Your Pockets” (from “Lost Souls Like Us”)
“Sweet Southern Moon” (from “Dust”)
“Mississippi” (from “Lost Souls Like Us”)
“The Day That I Die” (from “More Than Local”)
“Green and Blue” (from “Dust”)
“No More Pills” (from “More Than Local”)
“She Ain’t Got Love” (from “The Angie House”)
“214” (from “The Angie House”)
“Same Damn Book” (from “Dust”)
“Raining In Me” (unreleased)
“Stay With Me” (edit, from “Lost Souls Like Us”)

The group has been touring the United States since the release of their latest album, “Lost Souls Like Us,” was released on March 2, 2010.  “Lost Souls Like Us” debuted on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart at #15, the Billboard Indie Albums Chart at #50 and at #76 on the Billboard Current Digital Albums Chart.  On iTunes, the album hit #5 on the Rock Chart and was Top 30 on iTunes in overall sales week of release.  Since the release of the album, the band has been touring as a four-piece featuring founding group members Benjy Davis and Mic Capdevielle and two touring musicians who round out the line-up.  Their summer and early fall dates see them visiting the East, South, and Midwest, and include shows with labelmates Sister Hazel and Ingram Hill, as well as a show with Shooter Jennings and Corey Smith.  (See list of tour dates below.)

Abita Beer (www.abita.com) will be sponsoring Benjy Davis Project’s touring in the months of September and October.  Each Abita-sponsored show will include special offers for fans including Abita swag and beer specials (wherever possible).  As part of the Abita-sponsored dates, Benjy Davis Project and Ingram Hill are planning a co-headlining tour of all 12 SEC schools with one show in each market.

Benjy Davis Project has toured extensively in the South, including seven performances at New Orleans’ annual Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest, and countless college performances, as well as jaunts with Sister Hazel, Robert Randolph, Buckwheat Zydeco, and many others.  2008 and 2009 saw them heading further afield on a touring circuit that now incorporates the entire country.

BENJY DAVIS PROJECT TOUR SCHEDULE:
7/13/2010       Evanston, IL                 SPACE (w/Matt Hires)
7/14/2010       Columbus, OH             Rumba Café (w/Kate Tucker & Matt Hires)
7/15/2010       Cleveland, OH             Cambridge Room @ HOB (w/Sister Hazel)
7/17/2010       Pittsburgh, PA              Club Café (w/Matt Hires)
7/18/2010       Lancaster, PA               Long’s Park Amphitheatre
8/4/2010         Seaside, FL                  Seaside Concert Series
8/13/2010        Destin, FL                   The Shed
8/14/2010        Ocean Springs, MS     The Shed
8/17/2010       Jacksonville, FL           Jack Rabbits
8/19/2010        Orlando, FL                The Plaza Theatre (w/Jacob Jeffries)
8/27, 28, 29     Isle of Palms, SC        The Windjammer
9/2/2010         Baton Rouge, LA         The Varsity Theatre (w/Ingram Hill)
9/3/2010         Hattiesburg, MS           Mugshots
9/4/2010         Nashville, TN               Exit/In  w/Ingram Hill
9/5/2010         Eclectic, AL                  Lake Martin Amphitheater (w/Shooter Jennings & Corey Smith)
9/9/2010         West Columbia, SC       New Brookland Tavern (w/Ingram Hill)
9/30/2010       Birmingham, AL           Zydeco (w/Ingram Hill)
10/2/2010        Auburn, AL                  Bourbon Street (w/Ingram Hill)
10/15/2010      Pensacola Beach, FL    De Luna Festival
10/28/2010      Tuscaloosa, AL            Jupiter Bar & Grill (w/Ingram Hill)

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George Lewis Jr. AKA Twin Shadow has offered his latest single “I Can’t Wait” for a free download.

mp3: Download Joemca “Big Dreams”

Purchase 16 Devils

Here’s a line you don’t hear very often: “The puppet world blows my mind.”

We’re not talking about the next generation of Jim Hensons here, either. We’re referring to Joemca’s ongoing relationship with Inkfish, an experimental puppetry troupe that explores the human condition like John Cusack’s string-pulling character in Being John Malkovich. And by exploring the human condition, we mean everything from a “fantasy of Einstein taking back the [atom] bomb” (The Brain) to a moody meditation on war-torn wives (Three Good Wives), with Joemca’s rich, tightly-woven soundscapes scampering across every last scene.

Kinda like how the L.A. native/New York transplant spent the last year coloring outside the lines of his long-awaited debut LP, 16 Devils. Despite having roots that reach as far back as 2006, the album feels like one seamless collection of love songs that are a little off, a little more real than one verse/chorus, verse/chorus exercise after another. Which makes sense when you think about it. After all, Joemca’s self-titled EP was co-produced by Yoko Ono’s longtime collaborator, Rob Stevens, earning a stack of press clippings for its “tastefully morbid tales of hummable melodrama” (Spin) and “words [that] are as heady as the music itself” (All Music Guide). Or as The Village Voice put it, “Hearing [Joemca] is like taking a walk through a scattered mind, yet it all somehow makes sense.”

“My puppet show stuff is a lot more abstract and atmospheric,” explains Joemca, “but my solo songs are more like Sam Cooke—deceptively simple.”

That’s immediately clear if you listen closely, as “Big Dreams” raises the curtain with crushed beats and groove-locked hooks. Elsewhere, “Tip Toe” is haunted by phantasmagoric harmonies; “Sleeping Pattern” is pelted by laser-like synths and clouded keys; and “Control Yourself” is cut with restless rhythms that are a few BPMs away from being a drum ’n’ bass single. So while Joemca insists he’s been influenced by Al Green as of late, his background in classical composition (Mozart, Chopin) and cutting-edge electronic music (Oval, Plaid) also seeps into 16 Devils’ shape-shifting songs. That, and Joemca’s days of studying film in college.

“I was more interested in being an auteur than anything else,” he says, “so I’d write and direct all my own movies. No one would understand any of it, but they made perfect sense to me.”

Joemca’s records are much more universal—the perfect balance between artiness and accessibility. And he’s not about to stop making them, either. Another set of songs is already in its early stages, although Joemca insists, “If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. I like when things aren’t spelled out for anyone, you know?”

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Pre-Order Light Chasers

On September 14th, 2010 Cloud Cult will be releasing Light Chasers on Earthology Records.  Their eighth studio album in the last 15 years (not including Lost Songs from Lost Years), this latest full-length is their most epic and reflects a band that has explored all that life has to offer ranging from lost love to death to sorrow to healing to birth.  The first song released from the new album was “Running With the Wolves,” which came out digitally in April as part of a special Earth Day EP and instantly found fans at The Current in Minneapolis and KEXP.

Light Chasers – is the band’s first new full-length studio album since Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (April 2008).  Since 1995, Cloud Cult has been quietly crafting sprawling, cathartic albums.  Founder Craig Minowa wrote, recorded and released the first Cloud Cult album The Shade Project in 1995 using the closet of his small Minneapolis apartment as his recording studio.  Over the next 15 years Cloud Cult released Who Killed Puck (2000),  They Live on the Sun (2003), Aurora Borealis (2004), Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus (2005), The Meaning of 8 (2007), and Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-partying Through Tornadoes) (2008).  In addition, they released a documentary DVD No One Said It Would Be Easy on April 21st, 2009 and at the end of 2009 the band released a double-disc reissue of They Live on the Sun and Aurora Borealis as well as a limited re-release of Lost Songs from the Lost Years (2002).

Now with their new album Light Chasers done and set for release on September 14th, the band will be doing a handful of dates with a full US tour scheduled for this fall.

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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
The
quote above is from Benjamin Franklin and it’s great inspiration for
the Melbourne band Rudely Interrupted. RI are one of Australia’s truly
unique indie rock acts. 5 out of the 6 members share a range of both
physical and intellectual differences but with a sound likened to Joy
Division having a Gary Numan party while eating pitch perfect cookies,
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