New Tour Date : Phoenix add second NYC show.

Right, so, lots of Phoenix going on 'round these parts as of late, yeah? Remember how I was all whining like, "Umm Terminal 5? Nah, thanks."

Yeah, well, Bowery Presents just announced a second date in New York, this time at Music Hall of Williamsburg, on Thursday, 18th June.

Tickets go on sale Friday at noon, and I will seriously be considering purchasing them. The Term5 show the day after is already sold out.

That's all you're getting in terms of interesting updates for right now, sorry.

Fangirls On The Road, Day Three : MHoW, Brooklyn, 3/8/09

Credit to Rachel.






Credit to Rachel.

So while the rest of the blogosphere is updating the who, what, when, and where of SXSW, I'll just sit here, at home, in Jersey, and write about a tour that happened a week ago. No, I'm not jealous of any of you at all.

Of all the shows I was going, the New York date at MHoW was the most-anticipated, with the probably exception of Boston. Unfortunately, OK Go's performance was a notch below the two nights prior - something you wouldn't have noticed had you not been present at those other shows. But being as that was my case, it was a slight disappointment. Oppenheimer and Longwave were spot-on as usual, in any case, and guitarist Shannon Ferguson was back onstage with the latter, affording us an opportunity to yell, "WELCOME BACK, SHANNON" as obnoxiously as possible. Making the frontman laugh into the microphone from the balcony is an accomplishment.

Oh, Damian talked smack about me onstage. Witness:



And it was Andy Ross' 30th birthday, which meant the inevitable sing-along:





And, of course, the best line of the night:
"PLAY IT AGAIN!" - random dude
"Did you just yell 'play it again'? I have been heckled in my day, but I have never heard someone yell 'play it again' before." - Damian

Day four will feature the rest of those new songs I talked about last time, so hold tight. More photos (all like, five of them) can be found here.

It's like I'm a sophomore again : OK Go announces March '09 east coast tour.

The Paradise, Boston, 1/06

Indulge my past fangirl sensibilities, please. OK Go has just gone and announced a handful of east coast tour dates for next March, which probably means a (series of) full-fledged tour(s) is also at hand sometime in the near future. And because they've been making a new record, that means they'll be playing new material as well, which is a relief, because their sets started sounding like CDs to me and that's never good.

Dates as follows:

6 March 2009 - Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
7 March 2009 - Recher Theatre - Towson, MD
8 March 2009 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
10 March 209 - Toad's Place - New Haven, CT
11 March 2009 - Pearl St. (upstairs, I'm assuming) - Northampton, MA
12 March 2009 - Paradise - Boston, MA

But I really just want to squee on about how they're playing Pearl St. again. I'm not at Smith anymore, but hell if I won't be there.

Here's a video of them playing some new stuff:

Franz Ferdinand announce title of third record, play three NYC shows, none of which I made / can make.

From VanityFair.com:

Before playing a crisp, truncated set that mixed classics (“Take Me Out”) with one or two new songs, singer-guitarist Alex Kapranos and drummer Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand told me that they have settled on a name for their upcoming third album, which is due out in January. It’s gonna be called Tonight. (I had to ask Thomson to spell that, which gives you an idea of how thick the dude’s Scottish accent is.)

Franz played MHoW twice this week, and they're scheduled to play Diesel's thirtieth birthday party today. I've been so out of touch, I didn't realise one of my favourite-favourite bands was playing in town until the day of, which is just silly. Ah, well. I'll have to catch them when they come around next year.

Tonight is supposed to drop in January of '09. You can listen to "Lucid Dreams" on their 'Space (or download it here until I get unlazy enough to delete it.)

Tullycraft (mini) East Coast tour + NYC Popfest.

Indiepoppers Tullycraft recently announced what "will be the first of a handful of east coast shows," taking them from Vermont down to DC next week:

11th June - The Monkey House - Winooski, VT - w/ The Smittens
12th June - PA's - Boston, MA - w/ The Smittens and Pants Yell!
13th June - Pianos - New York, NY - w/ Pants Yell!, The Besties and From Bubblegum to Sky (starts 6 pm)
14th June - Cake Shop - New York, NY - all-ages show w/ The Cannanes (starts 1:30 pm, Cake Shop website says 2 pm)
14th June - The Barbary - Philadelphia - w/ Scary Monster & Surefire Broadcast
15th June - Red and Black Bar - Washington, DC - w/ Sprites & From Bubblegum to Sky


Both NYC dates are part of this year's NYC Popfest, going on in the city all next weekend.

Additional dates and bands:

12th June - Cakeshop - 8 pm
Love Is All (Sweden)
The Secret History (NYC)
Oh! Custer (Sweden)
In Interview (NYC)
The Foxgloves (UK)

13th June - Don Hill’s - 11 pm
Special Popfest edition of Mondo
Cats on Fire (Finland)

14th June - Music Hall of Williamsburg - 6 pm (18+)
The Ladybug Transistor (NYC)
The Orchids (UK)
Mahogany (NYC)
My Teenage Stride (NYC)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (NYC)

14th June - Galapagos - 11 pm
Mono Taxi (UK)
Cannonball Jane (CT)
Immediately followed by Popfest & Shirley Beans Present: The 2008 NYC Indiepop Dance Party, with Celebrity DJs & Dancing ’til 4AM!

15th June - Union Pool - 2 pm
Popfest Recovery BBQ & Farewell Show
The Cannanes (Australia)
The Hermit Crabs (UK)
The Silent League (NYC)
One Happy Island (MA)
Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies (PA)
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (MS)

All shows are 21+ unless otherwise noted. Check venue sites for individual show tickets.

Tack this onto an already show-packed weekend (The Fratellis on the 13th, though I'll probably miss that, plus Vampire Weekend and then Nightmare of You on the 14th).

Tullycraft - "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About" [link]