ALBUM STREAM: http://www.thefader.com/2010/05/11/premiere-stream-woven-bones-album-in-and-out-and-back-again/

VIDEO: “Your Way With My Life”

MP3: “Your Way With My Life”

The raw exuberance that Woven Bones seethes from its tightly-wound inner coil of turmoil isn’t exactly the stuff daydreams are made of, but as their menacing presence has been culminating over the past couple of years, it’s now clear as daylight that their finest efforts would come together on this, their debut LP. As they’ve effectively dragged the shards of their tattered souls with building ferocity on each of their previous singles and EPs, the evolutional process has honed itself to a fine edge, poised to level any contention and break into the blinding realness of now. They’ve finally harnessed the elusive throb and crash of their intended sonic perfection on their own terms, and this debut album will no doubt convert the middling masses into drooling slaves to their hypnotic heartbeat rhythm. What was only hinted at before is now as pure, raw, and ugly as a newborn jackal, squirming out of the wretched womb and ready to face the world, all the while, sending an evil chill down the spine and reminding you that yes, new music really can be this good.

Since the beginning, Woven Bones have primarily been the brainchild of singer/guitarist Andrew Burr from the point where their primordial ooze first seeped into our sphere of peripheral vision. After uprooting from Orlando in 2008 and settling in Austin, Texas last year, followed by touring the darkest corners of the underground stratosphere, their seedy and insidiously slithered drawl has fully come to a head, summoning the the pulse-pounding power to stand all hairs on-end. As bassist Matty and recently recruited drummer Carolyn have completed the fold, Woven Bones need no announcement to herald their arrival, but as their irresistibly iridescent hazy pop grime drills itself deeper into your soft skull, it’s best to just stand back and experience them exploding out of your speakers.

Like the eardrum-shattering noise pop icons that came before them, Woven Bones blaze their own trail of lascivious loudness and controlled snarl that’s just what the world needs right now, and the perfect soundtrack to your screwed-up summer. The debut album, In and Out and Back Again delivers nine heart-stabbing hits that just keep hitting back, so without further hesitation, we give you the debut album that explodes heads on contact, by your new favorite band, Woven Bones.

-Todd Killings - HoZac Records

WOVEN BONES

05/20 - Dallas, TX Granada Theater $
05/22 - Houston, TX Mango’s
05/28 - Austin, TX Mohawk !
06/08 - Little Rock, AR The White Water Tavern
06/09 - St. Louis, MO Firebird
06/10 - Louisville, KY Zanzabar #
06/11 - Nashville, TN The End #
06/12 - Atlanta, GA The Earl #
06/13 - Asheville, NC The Rocket Club #
06/15 - Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 #
06/16 - Washington, DC Black Cat Backstage #
06/17 - Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie #
06/18 - New York, NY Mercury Lounge #&
06/19 - Brooklyn, NY Union Pool #&
06/20 - Cambridge, MA TT the Bear’s Place #
06/21 - Rochester, NY Bug Jar
06/23 - Detroit, MI Lager House #
06/24 - Milwaukee, WI Frank’s Power Plant
06/26 - Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
06/27 - Indianapolis, IN Vollrath Tavern (My Old Kentucky Blog Presents) ^
06/29 - Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class
06/30 - Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
07/01 - Brooklyn, NY Bruar Falls ~
07/02 - New York, NY Pier 17 / South Street Seaport (
07/03 - Baltimore, MD The Ottobar @
07/06 - Athens, GA Caledonia Lounge
07/08 - New Orleans, LA Circle Bar

* = w/ Reigning Sound
# = w/ Disappears
& = w/ The Ponys
$ = w/ The Besnard Lakes
! = Chaos in Tejas w/ The Ponys, A Frames, Jeff The Brotherhood
^ = w/ We Are Hex
~ = w/ Beach Fossils
( = w/ YellowFever
@ = w/ Reading Rainbow

Woven Bones
In and Out and Back Again
(HoZac)
Street Date: May 18, 2010

1.I’ll Be Runnin
2.Guess You Allready Knew
3.7 Year Mirror
4.If It Feels Alright
5.Your Way With My Life
6.Creepy Bone
7.Half Sunk Into the Seats
8.Couldn’t Help But Stare
9.Blind Conscience

WOVEN BONES LINKS:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wovenbones

Label: http://www.hozacrecords.com

VIDEO: Flavorpill Fix

Flavorpill Fix Episode One: Screaming Females, Double Dagger, Future Islands from Flavorpill on Vimeo.

MP3: “Arm Over Arm”

New Jersey’s Screaming Females have been on the road for the majority of the year so far, and tonight launch another tour that will have them out on the road ’til the end of June, meeting up with Ted Leo again for the last eight dates of the tour. Somewhere along the way the band found time to hole up in their studio and complete their fourth full-length album, Castle Talk, which will see the light of day on Sept. 14 via Don Giovanni Records.

2009 will go down as the year that everyone-EVERYONE-started to take notice of Screaming Females in the wake of the release of their third LP (and their first on a label of any kind), Power Move (Don Giovanni, April, 2009). From their first TV appearances (dancing with puppets on Chicago’s cult public access TV show, “Chic-a-Go-Go”, then making their national TV debut as a musical guest on MTV’s “It’s On! With Alexa Chung”), first multi-page national print media press and having lead Female Marissa Paternoster be named “Best Shredder in New York City 2009″ by the Village Voice to being the band that everyone from Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Dead Weather and Arctic Monkeys personally asked to tour with, 2009’s been quite the weird and exciting year for Screaming Females. After all, they’re doing exactly what they’ve done, the way they’ve always done it…organically, with friends. It’s just that now all of these people are noticing how amazing they are. And they can, y’know, quit their day jobs in lieu of touring all the time and recording new material with both their own band and their side projects because of it. Amen to that, right?

SCREAMING FEMALES

05/18 - Pittsburgh, PA - Modern Formations Gallery
05/19 - Columbus, OH - The Summit
05/20 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Cafe
05/21 - Bloomington, IN - Greek’s Pizza
05/22 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
05/23 - Carbondale, IL - House Show
05/24 - Rock Island, IL - Huckleberry’s Pizza Parlor
05/25 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
05/26 - Iowa City, IA - Gabe’s Oasis
05/27 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
05/29 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
05/30 - Garden City, ID - Visual Arts Collective
06/01 - Seattle, WA - The Funhouse
06/02 - Portland, OR - Backspace
06/03 - San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside
06/04 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
06/05 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
06/07 - La Jolla, CA - Che Cafe
06/08 - Phoenix, AZ - The Trunk Space
06/10 - Austin, TX - Emo’s (Indoors)
06/11 - Little Rock, AR - Arkansas Community Arts
06/12 - Nashville, TN - Rocketown (early show)
06/12 - Nashville, TN - The End (late show)
06/13 - Athens, GA - The Secret Squirrel
06/14 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
06/18 - Milford, CT - Daniel Street Club *
06/19 - Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery*
06/20 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground*
06/21 - Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle*
06/22 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore*
06/24 - Ottawa, ON - Zaphod Beeblebrox*
06/26 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace*
06/27 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place*

* = w/ Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

SCREAMING FEMALES LINKS:

Label Page - http://www.dongiovannirecords.com/

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

DOWNLOAD: Forget Me Not Remix EP (all of these tracks are cleared for posting individually or with the full EP)

VIDEO: “Forget Me Not”

MP3: “Forget Me Not”

Thieves Like Us continue their style of sentimental electronic music with their second long player, Again and Again. Recorded in early 2009 in a basement in Paris, the songs here reflect the mood of the band, and focus particularly on failed relationships, alcoholism, and the yearning for that perfect imaginary soul mate.

While the faster songs like “Shyness,” “One Night With You” and “The Walk” are clearly aimed at the French dance floors, there are plenty of downtempo songs here too. “Never Known Love” and “So Clear” fit somewhere in the spectrum of Slowdive or The Cocteau Twins. After following the band through the highs of their nighttime adventures, the album closes with the very intimate ballad “Forget Me Not” and we are left realizing what goes up, must come down.

Bio:
Thieves Like Us are two Swedes and one American living in Berlin, Paris, and Milan. They are one of the only multi-nationals that won’t exploit you. Mexicans love them. The French love them. Americans love them. The Japanese love them. Neither Andy Grier (vocals, guitar), Björn Berglund (synth), nor Pontus Berghe (percussion) live in their home countries, and none of them probably ever will again.

They first met at a picnic in East Berlin in 2002. Since then, they have also lived together in London, Paris, and New York City. The trio can often been seen in and around night clubs, but they fit awkwardly there. Thieves Like Us were first discovered by the French imprint Kitsuné who released their single, “Drugs In My Body” in 2007. They make pop music with a vintage electronic feel. Many times it makes you dance. Other times it makes you feel strange and wonderful. Back in the day they probably would have signed a contract in blood with Factory Records.
2008’s Play Music, their first album, would definitely have fit the bill. BBC Music called it “consistently exciting … a contender for electronic album of the year.” A writer for the legendary entity Amoeba Music exclaimed: “I have managed to fall deeply in love with this band in a matter of weeks. It is getting to the point where I don’t want to listen to anything else.” They are just about to release their second album, Again and Again, and continue their non-stop world tour..

Praise for Thieves Like Us

“Thieves Like Us finally look set to blow up in a manner deserving of a band who are making some of the most exciting and charrged electronic music around. With so many bands promising so much but repeatedly failing to deliver, here is a band that has truly paid its dues and is actually worth getting excited about…” - Pimp Magazine

“Unlike bands that take New Order and Daft Punk influences and twist them into some kind of bizarre hyrid, Thieves Like Us brings in the influence straight up, and somehow in that they’ve created something totally fresh. Their music is very electronic, but it feels very organic.” - AZLTron

Thieves Like Us
Again and Again
(Shelflife)
Street Date: July 6, 2010
Direct link to buy via iTunes:
http://www.itunes.com/thieveslikeus/againandagain

01 - Never Known Love
02 - Shyness
03 - Mercy
04 - One Night With You
05 - Silence
06 - Lover Lover
07 - Love Saves
08 - The Walk
09 - So Clear
10 - Forget Me Not

Thieves Like Us
Forget Me Not Remix EP
(Shelflife)
Street Date: May 17, 2010

1. Forget Me Not
2. Forget Me Not (Dance Mix)
3. Silence (Dance Mix feat. Ludacris)
4. Forget Me Not (Cecile’s small town girl Remix)
5. Forget Me Not (Minitel Rose Remix)
6. Forget Me Not (Sundance Remix)
7. Forget Me Not (Second Date Remix)

THIEVES LIKE US LINKS:

Band page - http://www.thieves-like-us.com/

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/thieveslikeus

Press Materials - http://thieves-like-us.com/presskit/

MP3: “Spotsylvania”

VIDEO: “Bright Orange Air”

A worrier, childhood choir member, and unfocused student of many instruments, Sebastian Krueger marries the darker ornaments of baroque pop with lo-fi intimacy. Far from his Wisconsin roots and perfunctory piano lessons, he works out of a small Brooklyn apartment as Inlets, incubating songs over the course of months and creating short, dusty suites.

Thanksgiving of 2006 brought the free online release of Inlets’ first offering, The Vestibule EP, an eight-song collection that won round praise from music blogs including Stereogum, Gorilla vs Bear, Said The Gramophone, and Le Blogotheque. Framed by eclectic layers of clustered woodwinds, brass, and percussive guitars, the record captured a personal and raw enterprise. The self-released Vestibule EP has since been downloaded over 40,000 times.

Rather than promote the new project, Krueger dug in and committed to the slow process of writing an ambitious collection of new songs. Now, Inter Arbiter picks up where Vestibule left off, but the scope is wider and the hues are sharper. Krueger has honed his arranging abilities, creating elegant high drama from bursts of strings and discord from jangly cheap guitars.

The somber piano placesetting of “[]” opens Inter Arbiter with wispy clouds of harmony. Delicate finger-picked banjo buoys “Great Exit Lights”, taking dark woodwind deviations through themes of hibernation. “Bright Orange Air,” with it’s winding rhythmic guitars and choired choruses, is an ode to the psychotropic effects of municipal lighting, while “Sunfed Shapes” heaves over lurching reeds and angular chords as an elegy to idleness and want.

Inter Arbiter congealed in the free spaces between working full time at a civil rights organization, adhering to acceptable and neighborly hours for noisemaking, and recurrent existential crises. The self-recorded album has an unexpectedly broad three-dimensional impact for an effort managed nearly entirely within the spartan low fidelity confines of a small apartment bedroom.

Throughout the process of recording Inter Arbiter, Krueger remained a busy collaborator, assisting My Brightest Diamond with woodwinds, playing banjo with Feist on Saturday Night Live, and contributing to records by DM Stith and Marla Hansen. The new record includes help from friends like Beirut frontman Zach Condon, Dirty Projector’s vocalist Angel Deradoorian, as well as cellist Maria Jeffers and violist Marla Hansen of the string quartet Osso.

Inter Arbiter was released April 20th via twosyllable Records.

INLETS

5/21 - Brooklyn, NY - Permanent Records Instore - FREE (7pm)
6/12 - 92Y Tribeca - New York, NY ^
6/13 - Littlefield - Brooklyn, NY ^
6/15 - Space Gallery - Portland, ME ^
6/17 - Suoni Il Popolo Festival @ Casa del Popolo - Montreal, QC ^
6/18 - NXNE Festival @ Whippersnapper Gallery - Toronto, ON ^
6/19 - Gigs - London, ON ^
6/20 - Magic Stick - Detroit, MI ^
6/23 - Gates of Heaven - Madison, WI ^
6/24 - Cedar Saloon - MInneapolis, MN ^
6/26 - The Aquarium - Fargo, ND ^
6/30 - Neurolux - Boise, ID ^
7/1 - The Badlander - Missoula, MT ^
7/2 - Sled Island Festival - Calgary, AL ^
7/4 - The Railway - Vancouver, BC ^
7/5 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR ^
7/6 - High Dive - Seattle, WA ^
7/7 - Northern - Olympia, WA ^
7/9 - Sophia’s - Davis, CA ^
7/10 - Hemlock Tavern - San Francisco, CA ^
7/11 - Spaceland - Los Angeles, CA ^
7/12 - Solar Culture - Tucson, AZ ^
7/14 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO ^
7/15 - Jack Pot Saloon - Lawrence, KS ^
7/16 - Mojo’s - Columbia, MO ^
7/17 - Al’s - Lexington, KY ^
7/18 - The Rocket Club - Asheville, NC ^
7/19 - Black Cat - Washington, DC ^
7/21 - Joe’s Pub - New York, NY ^

^ = w/ DM Stith and Silje Nes

Inlets
Inter Arbiter
(twosyllable)
Street Date: April 20, 2010

1. []
2. Canteen
3. In Which I, Robert
4. Great Exit Lights
5. Bright Orange Air
6. Bells and Whistles
7. Maspeth
8. Sunfed Shapes
9. Famous Looks
10. Your Good Arm

INLETS LINKS:
Band Page - http://inletsmusic.com/

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/inlets

Label Page - http://www.twosyllablerecords.com/