The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn is releasing his first solo album on January 24. Pre-order here. Click here to hear another song from the album.
Tour dates after the jump.
2/01 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada*
2/02 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory*
2/03 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown*
2/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club* SOLD OUT
2/06 – Iowa City, IA @ The Mill*
2/07 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle*
2/08 – Detroit, MI @ The Lager House*
2/09 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement*
2/10 – St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway*
2/11 – Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar*
2/13 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge*
2/19 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah*
2/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour*
2/21 – San Francisco, CA @ Noise Pop at Bottom of the Hill
2/23 – Portland, OR @ The Doug Fir Lounge*
2/24 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile*
2/27 – Ringwood, NJ Live @ Drew’s House
2/28 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott$
2/29 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge (Early Show)$ SOLD OUT
2/29 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge (Late Show)$ SOLD OUT
3/01 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s$
3/02 – Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel$
3/03 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506$
3/05 – Atlanta, GA @Earl$
3/13 – London, UK @ MacBeth ^ SOLD OUT
3/14 – Birmingham, UK @ HMV Institute ^
3/15 – Dublin, Ireland @ Academy ^
3/16 – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Spring & Airbrake ^
3/17 – Glasgow, Scotland – ABC ^
3/18 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 ^
3/20 – London, UK @ Koko ^ SOLD OUT
3/22 – Brussels, Belgium @ AB Box ^
3/23 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje ^
3/24 – Gronigen, Netherlands @ Oosterpoort ^
3/26 – Berlin, Germany @ Postbahnhof ^
3/27 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli ^
* – w/ Mount Moriah
$ – w/ Marcellus Hall
^ – w/ The Felice Brothers
I love Christmas music. For one month it dominates my playlists to the point of unhealthy obsession. Luckily, bands like She and Him continue to put out new recodings, and this year they’ve done a full LP of holiday tunes. Stream the song above and check out the complete tracklisting after the jump.
Bargain shoppers take note! The album is currently onsale for just $5 on Amazon MP3.
1 . The Christmas Waltz
2 . Christmas Day
3 . Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4 . I’ll Be Home for Christmas
5 . Christmas Wish
6 . Sleigh Ride
7 . Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
8 . Silver Bells
9 . Baby, It’s Cold Outside
10 . Blue Christmas
11 . Little Saint Nick
12 . The Christmas Song
NPR is streaming Times New Viking’s new album, Dancer Equired, out a week from Tuesday (4/26) on Merge Records. Give it a listen, and if you like what you hear (I say it’s TNV’s crowning achievement), email contestdonewaiting@gmail.com with the subject line “TNV Tats” to win a Dancer Equired LP & CD, a poster of the cover art and a Ohio/TNV tattoo. (The poster & tattoo also come with every preorder at the Merge store).
Kurt Vile aka Philly’s constant hitmaker never goes too long without releasing some new music. Matador released his last batch of songs, the Square Shells EP, for free (for a day), and next week the label will release the psych/folk-rocker’s latest full-length, Smoke Ring for My Halo. Matt Horseshit once said Vile’s music was like “shaving your face off… but pretty.” This new one leans more toward pretty than face-scraping, but it’s still easy to cobble together his divergent influences — Dylan, the Swell Maps and classic-rock radio (try to listen to “Puppet to the Man” without thinking of Deep Purple or Blue Oyster Cult).
NPR and Spinner pretty much have a monopoly on full album streams these days. The former nabbed the full stream of Smoke Ring for My Halo. Listen here.
Time to wind down the solo projects, everyone. TV on the Radio are releasing a new album in April along with a tour. Listen to a new song to get you in the mood:
True story: I was in a meeting at my day job one day and I mentioned “Wolf Life Me.” A respectable gent who could be my grandfather said, “TV on the Radio?” He knows what is up.
09/15/2010 Syracuse The Westcott Theater
09/16/2010 Cleveland The Beachland Ballroom
09/17/2010 Columbus Newport Music Hall
09/18/2010 Detroit Majestic Theater
09/19/2010 Chicago Metro
09/21/2010 Madison Majestic Theater
09/22/2010 Minneapolis First Avenue
09/23/2010 Lawrence The Granada Theatre
09/24/2010 Denver Ogden Theater
09/25/2010 Columbia Virgin Mobile FreeFest – Merriweather Post Pavilion
09/27/2010 Vancouver The Rickshaw Theatre Canada
09/28/2010 Seattle Showbox
09/29/2010 Portland Roseland Theater
09/30/2010 San Francisco The Fillmore
10/01/2010 San Diego House of Blues San Diego
10/02/2010 Los Angeles Henry Fonda Theater
10/06/2010 Tempe The Clubhouse
10/08/2010 Dallas House of Blues Dallas
10/09/2010 Austin Austin City Limits Festival
10/11/2010 Oxford The Lyric Oxford
10/12/2010 New Orleans House of Blues New Orleans
10/13/2010 Tallahassee Club Downunder – Florida State University
10/14/2010 Fort Lauderdale Culture Room
10/15/2010 St. Petersburg State Theatre
10/16/2010 Atlanta Masquerade
10/17/2010 Nashville Exit/In
10/19/2010 Asheville Orange Peel
10/20/2010 Carrboro Cats Cradle
10/21/2010 Richmond The Canal Club
10/22/2010 Washington DC 9:30 Club
10/23/2010 Baltimore Rams Head Live!
10/24/2010 Philadelphia Starlite Ballroom
10/26/2010 New York Webster Hall
10/27/2010 New York Webster Hall
10/28/2010 Rochester Water Street Music Hall
10/29/2010 Toronto Phoenix Theatre Canada
10/30/2010 Montreal Le National Canada
10/31/2010 Clifton Park Northern Lights
11/02/2010 South Burlington Higher Ground
11/03/2010 Portland Port City Music Hall
11/04/2010 Boston House of Blues Boston
11/05/2010 New Haven Toad’s Place
11/06/2010 Northampton Pearl Street Nightclub
