Run Run Run Its an Endless Winter

It has taken the Los Angeles, California band Run Run Run 3 years to develop a sound that they can call their own. The unique sounding indie rock band has a resume that includes two EPs and having the honour to open for bands like the Strokes, Psychedelic Furs and My Chemical Romance. As of yesterday (May 16th) they now have a new album to add to their discography in the form of their debut full length release entitled Endless Winter on Song and Dance Records Run Run Run, or Run x3 as they sometimes call themselves, consist of Xander Smith (vocals/guitar), Nic Speck (bass/vocals), Doug Palmer (guitar) and Daniel Dod (drums/vocals). The first single of the debut album will be a track entitled Wait Up For You which has a video that can be viewed to the left and was found on You Tube. Also featured on the album is a great version of the Mazzy Star's classic Fade Into You. Run Run Run - Fade Into You Check out some additional track samples from Endless inter via their MySpace page.

Darla Records' have released a new 2 disc compilation album which features a previously unreleased track from Voxtrot entitled Warmest Part of the Winter. The album is called Little Darla Has a Treat For You V.24 and was made available as of yesterday. Other great artists which are listed on the CD's include Mothboy, The Orchids, Twin Atlas, Follow The Train and many more. Various Artists :: Little Darla Has a Treat For You V.24(Darla Records) Released: May 16, 2006 Below are some odds and ends about a number of the artists that are featured on the compilation. Follow the Train The band have a debut full length album entitled Breath of Sigh hitting store shelves on May 15th on Darla Records. It also sounds like they are going to be re-launching a new web site in the near future. Follow the Train - Flower The Twin Atlas The track called Old Century, which is considered mellow groover began its musical life on their Sun Township (2005) album and how it makes an appearance on the Darla collection. Twin Atlas - Roll On Twin Atlas - Current Blow The first video off Josh Ritter's latest album The Animal Years is now ready to be seen by the public eye. The music video Lillian, Egypt features Josh and the band personally putting faces to the names and events in the popular song - and having a fun, goofy time doing it! Josh is at Fiddler's in Bristol United Kingdom tonight showing off his stuff. Josh Ritter - Lillian, Egypt

The Editors Are Coming, The Editors Are Coming! Get to The Back Room.

The British indie rock band Editors recently announced via their website that a tour schedule has been compiled together and Tom Smith, Chris Urbanowidz, Russell Leetch and Ed Lay are ready to roll. The tour will have the band travelling to a number of stops around the United States and Canada for two weeks at the end of July. This also includes a festival stop in Chicago at Lollapalooza. With the release of the Editors' debut album The Back Room in North America on March 20th of this year you can be sure that there will be plenty of demand for tickets during this go round. Tickets should be on sale now for all locations or at least they should be on sale as of May 8th. In other news regarding the Editors, they debut album The Back Room was officially released in Japan on April 26th on Kitchenware Records / BMG Japan. Check out their MySpace page for track sames from The Back Room. We had some trouble finding MP3 from the album available on the www so this is a great alternative. However if you like a good video clip then this is for you: Editors - Blood (Video Stream) Here is a list of confirmed dates this summer: July 25th - Atlanta, GA July 27th - Washington DC July 28th - New York, NY July 29th - Philadelphia, PA July 30th - Boston, MA August 1st - Montreal, QC August 2nd - Toronto, ON August 3rd - Detroit, MI August 4th - Chicago, IL August 7th - San Francisco, CA August 8th - Los Angeles, CA

Leeds has a new music festival that will hit the streets of the UK town this year. The festival is called Across The Tracks and already has a number of big name confirmed acts to hit the stage on July 29th and 30th at the Granary Wharf. In fact, NME has published that The Magic Numbers will make an appearance this year. Some of the are acts that have already made plans to stop in and play are British Sea Power, Jose Gonzalez, Badly Drawn Boy, The Research and many, many more. Here is a list of artists that have confirmed. :: more :: Metric have plans to put together a mini road festival in Canada this summer. Word around that campfire is that the band will be headlining a music festival that they call Dog Day Afternoon and have plans to stop in on Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal for three days in July. ChartAttack has posted further details regarding the festival, but what we can tell you is that the show will roll into Ottawa on July 14, Toronto on July 15 and Montreal on July 17th. :: more :: Centro-matic announced recently that they had to cancel some shows in the UK due to circumstances beyond their control. The unlucky fans in Cardiff and Glasgow will have to find another place to see Centro-matic play. They are in London, UK tonight with John Roderick from the Long Winters. For a complete list of current tour dates and locations click here.

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 :: more :: 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. :: more :: Toronto, Ontario indie pop/rock band Pilate have just announced that they signed a deal with an American Label Wind-up Records. :: more :: 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. :: more :: 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. :: more ::

Calexico tour with Crooked Fingers and Broken Social Scene

Indie-folk-rock band Calexico have now made plans to hit the road and promote their newest album entitled Garden Ruin. The tour runs throughout North America and includes a large number of stops. Things kick off in Solana Beach, CA on June 12th and will continue to roll until they end things off with a band at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 5th. Some of the tour stops will feature Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers' while other will have Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene opening up. Check out the Calexico MySpace site for addition tour dates and locations. You'll also get an opportunity to check out some track samples from Garden Ruin (depending on when you visit their page). Jun 12 - Solana Beach, CA Jun 13 - Los Angeles, CA Jun 15 - Santa Cruz, CA Jun 16 - San Fransisco, CA Jun 17 - San Fransisco, CA Jun 19 - Portland, OR Jun 20 - Vancouver, BC Jun 21 - Seattle, WA Jun 23 - Chicago, IL Jun 24 - Pittsburgh, PA Jun 25 - Philadelphia, PA Jun 26 - Washington, DC Jun 27 - Brooklyn, NY Jun 28 - Boston, MA :: more ::

Australia's The Sleepy Jackson have announced plans to mini-tour in the United Kingdom the summer. The trip into the UK should boast exposure of their upcoming new album entitled Personality which should hit store shelves on July 24th. :: more :: Joey Santiage, the guitarist for the very popular indie group The Pixies is taking a new direction with his music career. It seems that Mr. Santiage has joined the New York-based advertising agency Elias Arts as an artist that will work exclusively on television commercials. :: more ::

Tapes 'n Tapes are Looking XL

Things seem to moving in the right direction for Minneapolis, Minnesota based indie pop band Tapes 'n Tapes. With the recent announcement that the guys signing with the London, UK label XL Recordings as well as with the release of a debut album on the horizon and a tour with the Futureheads to follow things couldn't be going much better for the 4-piece movers. The debut album entitled "The Loon" will have you adding a well-written and striking collection of tracks to your existing library. The even better news in all this is that you, at least some of you, will have the opportunity to see them play live at a venue around the United Kingdom and North America. The band will be on the road in North America starting June 1st in Madison, WI, but before they even land in Madison they will be making the odd stops around the United Kingdom. Check out their tour schedule for further details including dates and locations this spring and summer. If you are in the Minneapolis, MN area get a night out and check out the CD release party at 7th St. Entry tomorrow night, May 5th. If you need a track sample or two in order to get you out to see them live, you can hear four songs via their MySpace page. Better yet, check of some of these MP3 files we found off their website off the new album. They should get you there! Insistor Cowbell Omaha

Lookout! Records continue find itself in the news in a negative way. This time around it is because the punk band Operation Ivy have removed their album from the labels catelog. This is just one example of many other artists that have made jumping the Lookout! ship a trend. :: more :: Montreal, Quebec's indie band The Dears have revealed details regarding their upcoming new release entitled Gang of Losers. You can expect to see the album in stores in August. :: more ::

ChartAttack caught up with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter to talk about this latest album The Animal Years. Could Girl In The War been inspired by Mark Twain? :: more ::

Chihei Hatakeyama :: Minima Moralia(Kranky Records) Released: February 21, 2006 :: If you arelooking for something completely different for your CD collection then look no further then the latest release by Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia. As a member of the computer oriented electro acoustic genre, which is very active in Tokyo, "Minima Moralia" is a carefully thought out album with sounds generated by computer programming and live performance. We can tell you one thing, you probably don't have an album like this in your home library. Even more impressive is the fact that Chihei Hatakeyama played electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vibraphone and electronics, mixed and mastered all to get the sounds to our ears. Here are what other think about the album as well as some sample tracks. :: Justin Cober-Lake, Stylus Magazine :: Mark Richardson, Pitchfolk :: P Funk, Tiny Mix Tapes :: Scott Hreha, PopMatters :: Mark Teppo, MarkTeppo.com Bonfire on the Field Towards a Tranquil Marsh Inside of the Pocket

My Dad vs Yours Is Like Winter And Spring

Ottawa, Ontario has something special to show the world and it comes in the form of a relatively rookie band called My Dad vs Yours. Don't get me wrong when we call them rookies as their sound is far from a rookie season. The music that these guys are putting out will have your ears enjoying their post-rock instrumental sounds not only pleasing but also enchanting at times. That's right, don't expect to pop in their new LP entitled After Winter Must Come Spring to hear heart felt poetic lyrics but you will find that the instruments will speak volumes in absence of a lead voice. Can instrumentals actually incite a sing-along? If anyone should know the sure pleasure of the arrival of spring its these guys coming from Ottawa. Producing the album (LP) through the winter it was only fitting that the album be titled as such with the arrival of tulips and the annual tulip festival. We were not able to find any MP3 tracks off their latest LP "After Winter Must Come Spring" but here are some tracks from EP, "Winning Hearts and Minds" Canyons (Grand or Otherwise) Law of unintended consequences Check out My Dad vs Yours' MySpace page to hear some track samples from their upcoming album. If you are in the Cambridge, Ontario area this evening you just might hear the odd sing along from Fiddlers Green. It's the last stop before their big CD release party in Ottawa at Babylon on May 6th.

Muse have announced the title of their next ablum, their fourth in their discography. You will be able to find the album on store shelves on July 3rd under the name "Black Holes and Revelations" :: more ::