Regina Spektor
As previously reported, Regina Spektor’s new album, Far, will be released on June 22nd. Click here to listen to a new track from Far, “Laughing With”. Not as upbeat and cheerful as we’re used to hearing from a track like “Fidelity” but “Laughing With” is a beautiful, sweet tune with fantastic lyrics, more reminiscent of songs like “Ode to Divorce” or “Summer in the City”. Definitely a huge thumbs up and I’m terribly excited to hear the rest of the album in June!
Patrick Wolf will be at the Mod Club on June 17th, as part of NXNE, with Living Things, the Plastiscines, and Jaguar Love. Tickets will be $20.00 and this is an all-ages show. Doors will be at 7:00 pm, so this will be an early show.
Fever Ray will be at the Kool Haus on October 2nd.
NXEW interviews Two Hours Traffic. Click here to read!
The Sounds have a new song out, entitled “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”. Click here to download!
According to Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees’ MySpace, the Halifax band will be playing an all-ages show on June 20th (during NXNE; they will also be playing on June 19th as part of the festivities). This is just a huge hunch, but I have a feeling this may be for the next edition of Daps Duo’s all-ages series, seeing as how they’re holding an all-ages show on the same day. Call me crazy…anyway; this is just speculation on my part. We’ll just have to wait for confirmation.
Afie Jurvanen, who’s backed up for artists such as Feist, The Stills and Hayden, has finally announced a solo album. Under the name, Bahamas, his upcoming record Pink Strat will be released on July 6th. Here’s the tracklisting:
Pink Strat
01 “Lonely Loves”
02 “Hockey Teeth”
03 “Southern Drawl”
04 “For Good Reason”
05 “You’re Bored, I’m Old”
06 “Sunshine Blues”
07 “Already Yours”
08 “What’s Worse?”
09 “Let The Good Times Roll”
10 “Try, Tried, Trying”
11 “Till the Morning”
12 “Whole, Wide, World”
Also, watch out for Bahamas at the Dakota Tavern on August 6th.
The Music Gallery will be celebrating their Summer Courtyard Series, starting next month. Here’s a rundown of all the fun!
Last but not least, don’t forget to catch Rah Rah at the Boat tonight and El Mocambo on Tuesday! Got plans already and won’t be able to catch them? It’s okay as the band’s MySpace indicates that they’ll be back at the El Mocambo on June 18th, for NXNE!
Happy listening!
Musically,
Melody
