Friday, February 25, 2011

New Shows, This Weekend In Shows (TWIS)

Wow, is it summer already? There's nothing new added to the SHOWcal - almost as though bands are scheduling their summer festival shows. I've never seen it this early, though. Oh well - the thoughts of outdoor shows is pretty comforting right now as it continues to snow and be generally shitty out. Here's what's on tap for the coming week:


 Saturday, February 26, 6:30pm Dropkick Murphys/Naked Raygun @ Congress
 Saturday, February 26, 10:00pm Smith Westerns @ Empty Bottle
 Sunday, February 27, 6:30pm Dropkick Murphys/Against Me! @ Congress
 Monday, February 28, 9:30am Asobi Seksu @ Empty Bottle


Wednesday, March 2, 7:30pm Cage the Elephant @ Vic

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Record Releases - February 22, 2011

Here's what drops today. Stuff marked * should be good:


Feb-22-11Arbouretum - The GatheringThrill Jockey
Feb-22-11Banjo or Freakout - Banjo or FreakoutRare Book Room
Feb-22-11Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure EP*Captured Tracks
Feb-22-11Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: JudgesConstellation Records
Feb-22-11Cult of Youth - Cult of YouthSacred Bones Records
Feb-22-11Danielson - Best of Gloucester CountySounds Familyre
Feb-22-11Davila 666 - Tan BajoIn The Red
Feb-22-11Dustin O'Halloran - LumiereFatCat Records
Feb-22-11Gil Scott-Heron; Jamie XX - We're New Here*XL Recordings
Feb-22-11Julianna Barwick - The Magic PlaceAsthmatic Kitty
Feb-22-11Medication - Judgement Day EPSacred Bones Records
Feb-22-11MF DOOM - Special Herbs Box - Vol. 0-9Nature Sounds
Feb-22-11Pandit - Eternity SpinWaaga
Feb-22-11Porcelain Raft - Gone Blind EPAcephale
Feb-22-11Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!Neet / Interscope
Feb-22-11Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the FloodplainDrag City
Feb-22-11Slug Guts - Howlin' GangSacred Bones Records
Feb-22-11Tahiti 80 - The Past, the Present & the PossibleHuman Sounds
Feb-22-11The Books - The Lemon of Pink (reissue)*Temporary Residence LTD.
Feb-22-11The Builders and the Butchers - Dead ReckooningBadman Recording Co.
Feb-22-11The Caribbean - Discontinued PerfumeHometapes
Feb-22-11The Cave Singers - No WitchJagjaguwar
Feb-22-11The Luyas - Too Beautiful to WorkDead Oceans
Feb-22-11The Psychic Paramount - IINo Quarter
Feb-22-11The Skull Defekts (w/ Daniel Higgs) - Peer AmidThrill Jockey
Feb-22-11Tim Cohen - Tim Cohen's Magic TrickCaptured Tracks
Feb-22-11Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine*Carpark
Feb-22-11UV Race - HomoIn The Red
Feb-22-11Warm Ghost - Claws Overhead EPPartisan
Feb-22-11Yussuf Jerusalem - Blast From The PastFloridas Dying

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Record Releases - February 15, 2011

Here's what drops today. Stuff marked * should be good:


Feb-15-11A Hawk and a Hacksaw - CervantineL.M.
Feb-15-11Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence*Polyvinyl
Feb-15-11Beans - End It All*Anticon
Feb-15-11Brave Irene - Brave IreneSlumberland
Feb-15-11Bright Eyes - The People's KeySaddle Creek
Feb-15-11Brown Recluse - Evening TapestrySlumberland
Feb-15-11Dan Melchior - Assemblage BluesSiltbreeze
Feb-15-11Deaf Center - Owl SplintersType
Feb-15-11Dom - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (reissue)*Astralwerks/Burning Mill
Feb-15-11Dream Diary - Dream DiaryKanine
Feb-15-11Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go BootsATO
Feb-15-11East River Pipe - We Live in Rented RoomMerge
Feb-15-11Harald Grosskopf - Syntesist (reissue)RVNG Intl.
Feb-15-11Horrid Red - Pink FlowersSoft Abuse
Feb-15-11Howlin' Rain - Good LifeBirdman
Feb-15-11La Sera - La SeraHardly Art
Feb-15-11Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never die But You Will*Sub Pop
Feb-15-11Moving Units - Tension War EPMoving Units / Post Modern Records
Feb-15-11Pearl Jam - Live on Ten LegsMonkey Wrench
Feb-15-11PJ Harvey - Let England Shake*Island
Feb-15-11Rick Rizzo and Tara Key - Double StarThrill Jockey
Feb-15-11Sonic Youth - SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrackSYR
Feb-15-11Sugo Tokumaru - Port EntropyPolyvinyl
Feb-15-11Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight LinesMerge
Feb-15-11The Babies - The BabiesShrimper
Feb-15-11The Dears - Degeneration Street*Dangerbird
Feb-15-11The Forms - Derealization EPThreespheres/Ernest Jenning
Feb-15-11The Skull Defekts - Peer AmidThrill Jockey
Feb-15-11The Twilight Singers - Dynamite StepsSub Pop
Feb-15-11Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972Kranky
Feb-15-11Win Win - Win WinVice
Feb-15-11Young Galaxy - ShapeshiftingPaper Bag
Feb-15-11Yuck - Yuck*Fat Possum

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Record Releases - February 8, 2011

Here's what comes out today. Stuff marked * should be good:


Feb-08-11...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead*Richter Scale Records
Feb-08-11Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT*Dead Oceans
Feb-08-11Bauhaus - CrackleBeggars Banquet
Feb-08-11Clockcleaner - NevermindFan Death
Feb-08-11Cut Copy - ZonoscopeModular
Feb-08-11Devon Williams - TBDSlumberland
Feb-08-11Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1Southern Lord
Feb-08-11Esben and the Witch - Violet CriesMatador
Feb-08-11Gruff Rhys - Hotel ShampooTurnstile
Feb-08-11Isolée - Well Spent YouthPampa Records
Feb-08-11James Blake - James BlakeAtlas/A&M
Feb-08-11Okkervil River - Mermaid 12"*Jagjaguwar
Feb-08-11Religious To Damn - Glass PrayerM'lady's
Feb-08-11Silk Flowers - Ltd. FormPPM
Feb-08-11The Streets - Computers and Blues*679/Atlantic
Feb-08-11Ty Segall - Live in Aisle 5Southpaw
Feb-08-11Young Magic - You With AirCarpark

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Record Releases - February 1, 2011

A blizzard is coming - might as well hunker down with new music. Stuff marked * should be good:


Feb-01-11Craft Spells - After the Moment 7"Captured Tracks
Feb-01-11Dirtbombs - Party StoreIn The Red
Feb-01-11Ducktails - Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics (vinyl)*Woodsist
Feb-01-11Gun Oufit - High Places EPMake A Mess Records
Feb-01-11Led Er Est - TBD 12"Captured Tracks
Feb-01-11MEN - Talk About BodyIAMSOUND
Feb-01-11Starfuckers - Metallic DiseasesHoly Mountain
Feb-01-11The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts*Memphis Industries
Feb-01-11Tim Cohen - Magic TrickCaptured Tracks

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