MP3: “Baltimore Blues No. 1 (Live)”

After finishing a US run with Neko Case, Deer Tick started a three week European tour last week - upon their return to the US on Dec. 13 the band will be entering the studio to put the finishing touches on its as-yet-untitled third album, which will be released in the first half of 2010. The band will again be touring relentlessly in 2010, to SXSW and beyond.

About the new EP:

As the title would suggest, Deer Tick’s More Fuel for the Fire EP tops off an explosive 2009 for the band that released Rolling Stone’s “country-rock breakthrough of the year” nine months earlier. Taken mostly from a month-long recording session in upstate New York nicknamed “The Black Dirt Sessions”, More Fuel for the Fire features three new studio tracks as well as a live version of “Straight Into A Storm” (from Born on Flag Day) recorded in Charlotte, NC at the Visulite Theatre. The songs have become staples of Deer Tick’s live shows over the past year, and are already fan favorites-and that’s who this one’s for…

Deer Tick
More Fuel For The Fire EP
(Partisan)
iTunes Exclusive, avail. via other services Dec. 15

1. La La La
2. Dance of Love
3. Axe Is Forever
4. Straight Into A Storm (Live from the Visulite Theatre, Charlotte, NC)

DEER TICK LINKS:
MySpace - myspace.com/deertick

Press Materials - partisanrecords.com/promo/deertick

STREAM: “He’s Gone” (The Chantels cover)

Swirling noise Brooklynites, Vivian Girls released their sophomore album via the ever wonderful In The Red label on September 8th, 2009.

Released almost exactly a year after In The Red’s reissue of their self-titled debut, the new album, Everything Goes Wrong promises to be slightly longer than the 22 mins their debut clocked in at with the band having taken their time and recorded it in six days - rather than the three their debut took though many of the songs were still recorded in single takes.

Whilst the band have again captured their raw, fun edge - as the influence of ’60s girl groups, The Ramones as well as surf and indie pop, still ring true, Everything Goes Wrong is without a doubt a darker, moodier album than its predecessor; a trait which arguably makes the band an even more appealing proposition this time round.

Over the last year, the Vivian Girls have toured the US and Europe extensively, received a considerable amount of national and international press, and, perhaps most significant of all, become the subject of a question on Jeopardy.

VIVIAN GIRLS

12/03 - Miami, FL - The Ice Palace
12/04 - Monterrey, Mexico - Jaguar House
12/05 - Mexico City, Mexico - El Imperial
12/11 - Haverford, PA - Haverford College
12/12 - Brooklyn, NY - Death By Audio $
02/04 - San Diego, CA - Casbah #
02/05 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar #
02/06 - Los Angeles, CA - The Smell #
02/08 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place #
02/09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill #
02/11 - Portland, OR - Holocene #
02/12 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore #
02/13 - Seattle, WA - Hi-Dive #

$ = w/ Yellow Fever, Happy Birthday
# = w/ Best Coast

Vivian Girls
Everything Goes Wrong
(In The Red)
Street Date: Sept. 8, 2009

01 Walking Alone at Night
02 I Have No Fun
03 Can’t Get Over You
04 Desert
05 Tension
06 Survival
07 The End
08 When I’m Gone
09 Out for the Sun
10 I’m Not Asleep
11 Double Vision
12 You’re My Guy
13 Before I Start to Cry

VIVIAN GIRLS LINKS:

Band Page: viviangirls.net

Myspace: myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc

Twitter: twitter.com/viviangirls

Label Page: intheredrecords.com

MP3: “Sculpture Gardens”

The Art Museums tell sordid tales of artists, lovers & poseurs with cult new wave jangle. Bay Area psych burnouts, Josh Alper & Glenn Donaldson converged in San Francisco in the Summer of ‘09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa ‘85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi. The Art Museums ARE into: art, poetry, WHAAM records & films about Mods…The Art Museums ARE NOT into: flared trousers, drip coffee, dirty sneakers.

The Art Museums
Rough Frame
(Woodsist)
Street Date: TBA, 2010

SIDE A
WE CAN’T HANDLE IT
SCULPTURE GARDENS
SO YOUR BABY DOESN’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
PARIS CAFES
WHEN AMBER MELTS

SIDE B
OH MODERN GIRLS
ROUGH FRAME
SING A SONG OF STACIE
30 SECONDS

THE ART MUSEUMS LINKS:
Label Page - woodsist.com

MySpace - myspace.com/theartmuseums