New York quartet Asobi Seksu is gearing up for a very busy Fall, which will keep them out on the road for the majority of September and October. The band, still riding high off of the critical success of its second album, Citrus, is eager to bring its live show to new audiences, as this will be the most extensive tour the band has undertaken thus far. Fans can expect songs from both albums in the set list, as well as a few new songs. If you can’t wait until September, the band will be playing a one-off show at Brooklyn’s trendiest venue for summer concerts, the McCarren Park Pool, with Enon and Of Montreal this Sunday. The band is also preparing to unleash the first video from Citrus, for the song “Thursday,” directed by So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray.

Asobi Seksu:

Sun July 30: Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool (Early - 2pm)
Thu. Sept. 14: Boston, MA Tufts University
Fri. Sept. 15: Ithaca, NY Cornell University
Sat. Sept. 16: Buffalo, NY Soundlab
Sun. Sept. 17: Ottawa, ONT Babylon
Tue. Sept. 19: Montreal, QC Green Room
Wed. Sept. 20: Toronto, ONT Horseshoe
Thu. Sept. 21: Detroit, MI Lager House
Fri. Sept. 22: Chicago, IL Schubas
Sat. Sept. 23: Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club
Sun. Sept. 24: Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
Tue. Sept. 26: Calgary, AB HiFi Club
Wed. Sept. 27: Canmore, AB Canmore Hotel
Thu. Sept. 28: Vancouver, BC Media Club
Fri. Sept. 29: Anacortes, WA Department of Safety
Sat. Sept. 30: Seattle, WA Chop Suey
Sun. Oct. 1: Portland, OR Holocene
Wed. Oct. 4: Santa Cruz, CA The Attic
Thu. Oct. 5: Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar
Fri. Oct. 6: Los Angeles, CA The Echo
Sat. Oct. 7: San Diego, CA Beauty Bar
Tue. Oct. 10: Tucson, AZ Plush
Thu. Oct. 12: Denver, CO Hi Dive
Sat. Nov. 11: San Francisco, CA Riott Festival at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

www.asobiseksu.com
www.friendlyfirerecordings.com
www.myspace.com/asobi

Asthmatic Kitty’s Canadian import Shapes and Sizes hit the road with
their beautiful fractured art-pop visas in hand. They will be
touring in support of their self-titled debut release. The tour will
begin in Vancouver and will wrap up at The Independent
in San Francisco on Aug. 22. There will be a more extensive
US tour to follow in September.

And don’t forget to try your hand at Reshaping and Resizing
Shapes and Sizes and possibly win $300 and the entire Asthmatic
Kitty catalog. Separated tracks are available now so mashups and
remixes are welcome and encouraged! Deadline for all submissions
is 11:59pm, August 15, 2006. The files and more details are available at:
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/contest/

Shapes and Sizes

Thu. Aug. 3: Vancouver, BC Marine Club w/ Mt. Gigantic
Wed. Aug. 16: Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
Thu. Aug. 17: Portland, OR Dante’s w/ Crosstide
Sat. Aug. 19: Los Angeles, CA F**k Yeah Fest
Sun. Aug. 20: San Diego, CA Casbah w/ The Thermals
Tue. Aug. 22: San Francisco, CA The Independent w/ Oh No! Oh My!

www.shapesandsizes.ca

Minneapolis native Dosh (full name = Martin Dosh) is set to release
his third full-length, The Lost Take on the anticon label on Oct. 17.

The album features eleven guest musicians, most notably Andrew Bird,
Tapes ‘n Tapes guitarist Erik Appelwick and Mike Lewis from Fog and Happy Apple.

The Lost Take reimagines Dosh as the full band he’s always
wanted to be. It’s also the first Dosh album to include vocals. He has
taken his expertly arranged keyboard and drum loops, smashed them,
and spread them wide over his tracks. Instead of puzzle-piecing his
pre-recorded session bits into surprisingly organic soundscapes, Dosh
builds his miniature opuses out of live improv (his own drumming and
Rhodes playing) inspired by raw, written instrumentation (first Dosh’s
emotive keyboard/piano progressions; later guitar, saxophone, bass,
violin, clarinet and pedal steel from a hand-picked cast of Minneapolis
musicians).

“One Through Seven” begins the album with what sounds like
violin sampled from an old record moving slowly over a bubbling sea
of keyboard melody. Dosh improvises the drums on top, in and out of a
march, flouting time signature all the while but never derailing the
composition. Mike Lewis (Fog/Happy Apple) chases the rhythm with
his sax before the song unfolds. On “Everybody Cheer Up Song,” Dosh
tries out his voice for the first time on record, soft-spokenly wedging
himself into the corner of the bright song. Easy contender for
immediate favorite, “Um, Circles and Squares” exemplifies the strength
of The Lost Take. Dosh cuts loops from collaborator Andrew Bird’s
violin, then drops in a fast-paced bass-synth sequence doubled by
Rhodes. Jangly sounds catch the beat then cast it aside while the
violin stretches out underneath the churn. Lewis returns, adroitly
following the sequences at a fevered pace and augmenting the
rhythm. As technical as it may seem on paper, the song plays
gorgeously.

On “A Ghost’s Business,” Dosh cuts Andrew Bird’s violin into
jagged bits (a la The Books) and approaches his own instrumentation
with the same surgeon’s scalpel. Overtop, violin and clarinet weave a
common thread. The slight hammering thumps and junk-piling
percussion of “Ship Wreck” lends itself to the feel that something
important is being built; then the song comes alive to the shared
lowmixed duet of Dosh and his wife Erin (whose artwork physically
defines The Lost Take). Erik Appelwick of Tapes ’N Tapes
contributes distortion and texture to the subtle epic “Mpls Rock and
Roll” and two others, while Dosh’s drumming students announcing the
teetering pedal steel-tinged “Fireball” by happily shouting
“Fireball!” into the videogame-like atmosphere. Andrew Bird makes
several appearances, but always at the behest of our maestro: no
one element ever overpowers a track.

Throughout Dosh amazes with his ability to trick the human ear—
“Pink Floyd Cowboy Song” brings to mind Broken Social Scene’s
warmth and layered mastery but with four contributors total on this
track instead of, well, 40—but The Lost Take never sounds
pretentious or intangible. Instead, it’s the very natural sound of a
damn good band. A band named Martin Dosh.

Dosh will be touring this fall with Andrew Bird - dates TBA.

www.anticon.com

Dosh - The Lost Take track list:

1.One Through Seven
2.Everybody Cheer Up Song
3.Um, Circles and Squares
4.A Ghost’s Business
5.Ship Wreck
6.Mpls Rock and Roll
7.Fireball
8.Unemployed Blues
9.Pink Floyd Cowboy Song
10.O Mexico
11.Bottom of a Well
12.The Lost Take

Amy Annelle is the primary member and songwriter of The Places, she will be releasing her third official full-length, Songs for Creeps on her own High Plains Sigh label this October, and will be touring the US for most of the fall. High Plains Sigh will be the new home base for all things Places related and there are also several collaborative projects in the works between Annelle and some of her favorite musicians.

True to her vagabond ways, Annelle began the Songs for Creeps album alone, with 4-track cassette recordings made in shacks and attics across the US. During recording sessions with Okkervil River in Austin (as guest vocalist on the band’s Black Sheep Boy), Annelle found a kindred spirit in producer Brian Beattie (Okkervil River, Daniel Johnston). She and Beattie went on to record the bulk of Songs For Creeps in his garage studio full of cantankerous vintage gear. A few tracks from a marathon recording session with Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof, Erase Errata) at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco completes the album’s eleven cuts. This misfit’s tale is raw, potent and direct: the antidote to the eerie, calm-before-the-storm acrimony and improvisation explored on the Places’ last studio album, Call It Sleep.

Songs For Creeps builds on Annelle’s acclaimed songwriting, studio-as-science-lab aesthetic and fondness for field recordings and sound collage. But the large ensemble approach of past Places albums is gone—Annelle is joined by a few very special guests–and she did most of the arranging and playing herself. Album art is by Erik Mast, AKA E*Rock (The Planet The, Beck), who created the lucid bad-dream cover for The Places’ well-loved 2000 debut, The Autopilot Knows You Best. The Places will be touring as a full band to support Songs For Creeps this fall in the US and beyond.

Also available through High Plains Sigh is a covers album by The Places, FAWNS WITH FANGS: Selections From the Dark Heart of the Thicket which digs deep into the hallowed underground of British and American folk and psychedelic rock, with a few wild cards mixed in. Not the usual premeditated studio covers album, Fawns With Fangs is more of an accidental self-portrait, drawn from a wealth of home four-track sessions and recent live performances. The CD covers are limited edition, hand-made, and numbered.

Upcoming Tour Dates

Sat. Aug 26: Centennial, WY Upland Breakdown at the Bear Tree Tavern w/ Michael Hurley and friends

US Fall Tour, dates TBA soon

Full bio, press and exclusive MP3s: www.highplainssigh.com

also visit: myspace.com/theplacesamyannelle

The Places Songs For Creeps track list

MINERS LIE!
BLESSED SPEED
THE LION’S SHARE
MY WEARY EYE
MERCY ME
GOLD TO GREEN
THE DAMN INSANE ASYLUM
THE NATURAL ARC
I’M A-GONE DOWN TO THE GREEN FIELDS
SUCH AS THE EARTH
WORSE & WISE

The Places Fawns With Fangs: Selections From the Dark Heart of the Thicket track list

JUST A BUM (Michael Hurley)
SICKLE CLOWNS (The Pretty Things)
ONE MORNING IN MAY (Traditional)
FRIENDS (Led Zeppelin)
HALF RIGHT (Heatmiser)
BIG LOG (Robert Plant)
LATE NIGHT (Syd Barrett)
IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE (Bob Dylan)
OH, DEED I DO (Bert Jansch)
ANYMORE FOR ANYMORE (Ronnie Lane)
ANOTHER SLEEP SONG (Graham Nash)
DON’T SING LOVE SONGS (Traditional)
NO NAME #3 (Elliott Smith)

DISCOGRAPHY

**October, 2006** The Places, Songs For Creeps (High Plains Sigh)
2005 The Places, Fawns With Fangs: Seclctions from the Dark Heart of the Thicket (High Plains Sigh)
2005 The Places, I Eat Records Austin, TX Compilation (I Eat Records)
2004 The Places, Call It Sleep (Hush)
2002 The Places, Pop Life Vol. 9 Compilation (Contact Records Japan)
2001 Amy Annelle, A School of Secret Dangers (Hush)
2000 The Places, The Autopilot Knows You Best (Absolutely Kosher)
1999 Amy Annelle, Which One’s You? (Hush)
1998 Amy Annelle (as Underwater Salvage Partners), Fuel Compilation (Arena Rock)