April 2009

04.04.2009

Mates of State, Black Kids | Tonight, Live in Concert from All Songs Considering

News

NPR is webcasting tonight from the 9:30 Club featuring Mates of State with Black Kids co-headlining the bill. The music of Mates of State has always been playfully innocent and unabashedly upbeat. Since forming a decade ago in Lawrence, Kan., the husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel has released a string of sticky-sweet [...]

04.03.2009

Heady Links

Links

I’m loving the fact that I’m getting back into the swing of things here on LMB. We’ve got some cool stuff coming and the as-promised return to form of the old blog that we really loved writing, so thanks to all the folks that have been stopping by and commenting on the site. Good to [...]

04.03.2009

Rumor: Phish to Play Fenway Park

Rumors

This may be old news for some, but the rumors are continuing to heat up that Phish will be playing Fenway Park this summer to open up their tour. BostonTweet reported earlier that he heard on good authority that Phish is indeed playing the venue sometime in the near future. Awesome. Update: the AceTicket.com blog [...]

04.03.2009

Tortoise Announce New Album, 2009 Tour Dates

News

Tortoise recently announced a June 23rd release date for Beacons of Ancestorship, their first album in five years. I can’t wait to hear it. They’re playing some dates in May and a festival date in June, with the major highlight being their performance at Pitchfork Music Festival as part of “a new series…called “Write the [...]

04.03.2009

Phish Friday | My Favorite HD Hampton Videos

Phish Friday

I know this is retardedly obvious to say again, but we really are living in some crazy times. I’m sitting down in my living room enjoying some Phish HD videos on my Mac Mini piping through my HD TV, straight-up balling like I always do, and I couldn’t help but get nostalgic about the fact [...]

04.01.2009

How to Use PR with Music Blogs The Right Way

Links

There’s a great post up on the Big Method blog regarding the fact that PR companies regularly struggle with (and fail miserably) at communicating effectively with music bloggers. It’s something I’ve experienced first hand on both sides of the equation, and I can really see both arguments to why PR companies need to get their [...]

04.01.2009

Tour Dates: Man Man with Cursive, Gogol Bordello

Tour Dates

Man Man just announced that they’re heading out on tour with Cursive and Gogol Bordello supporting some of the dates along the way. Read on for the dates and a live clip of “Top Drawer,” my favorite track off their latest release Rabbit Habits.

04.01.2009

Umphrey’s McGee Announces Sick Summer Tour Triple Bill! Not Really!

News

It’s only fitting that the first posts back be about the bands that we covered so regularly at LMB, with the one band I’ve seen the most clearly taking the lion’s share of the news updates we tried to cover on the site — Umphrey’s McGee. I last saw the boys here in San Francisco [...]

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