May 9, 2006

The Black Heart Procession Spell It Out

San Diego, California's depressing and gloomy indie rock band The Black Heart Procession have lived on the dark side since late 1997 with no intension of breaking out from under the murk. However of the odd day the five piece band will surface to spread the gloom onto other via song and sound. With the release of their fifth full length album on May 9th entitled The Spell listeners can hear that the band is increasingly maturing yet still maintain the less then pleasurable music the most expect to experience from their sound system. Just listening to the samples that we got our hands you can't help but find yourself feeling isolated, depressed, and miserable, however there was still something there that had use wanting to hear the next track.

From what we understand of their sound and style and from little exposure we have of the band if you enjoyed their last label Amore Del Tropico, then this new release is right up your lane. Below is a track entitled Not Just Words which can be found off the new album:

Not Just Words

The European Tour is on its way and it doesn't seem to stop. According to the bands website a North American tour announcement is also expected in the future.

May 09th - Bologna, Italy
May 10th - Rome, Italy
May 11th - Marghera, Italy
May 12th - Torino, Italy
May 13th - Firenze, Italy
May 14th - Rivolta, Mestre, Italy
May 15th - Luzern, Switzerland
May 16th - Zurich, Switzerland
May 18th - Frankfurt, Germany
May 19th - Koln, Germany
May 20th - Camber Sands, UK
May 22nd - Hamburg, Germany
May 23rd - Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 24th - Eindhoven, Netherlands
May 25th - Groningen, Netherlands
May 26th - Brussels, Belgium
May 27th - Diksmuide, Belgium
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Check out their MySpace page for additional track samples from the new album The Spell and another list of tour dates just as you would find from their website.

It seems that Neko Case is not out of gas from her current tour yet. According to Kati Llewellyn of Pitchfork she has extended her tour stops and will be busy until mid June.
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Toronto, Ontario indie pop/rock band Pilate have just announced that they signed a deal with an American Label Wind-up Records.
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Alex Kapranos is best known as the frontman for Franz Ferdiand is getting into more writing then just new songs. Apparently Alex is looking to publish a book and what do you know he likes to eat food too.
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Rhino Records executives are really trying to milk everly last drop out of the die hard Jesus & Mary Chain fans. It looks their label will be re-releasing 5 albums by the british greats which will now include a DVD featuring 3 videos just to catch and grab more cash from those that have to have it.
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