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.

Regina Spektor Begin To Hope in Toronto

The veteran anti-folk singer/songwriter Regina Spektor has a new album on the horizon entitled "Begin To Hope" and should be available to everyone in North America on June 13th. Learning to play piano at a young age and experiencing a life changing move from Russia to the Bronx, New York when she was nine, Spektor has a lot of material run with. With classical piano training and early exposure to blue and jazz artists she used these influences to release her 2001 debut album entitled 11:11. With this release under her belt she would play gigs wherever she could get onto a stage and thus beginning the promotional journey. With time she started to get recognition that she deserved and was picked up by Sire Records to begin work on additional albums. The benefit of this moves allowed her to tour with artists such as The Strokes, Mates of State and Kings of Leon which only increased her exposure and enhanced her profile. Currently Regina Spektor is on the road celebrating and promoting her upcoming release of Begin To Hope and this includes a stop in Toronto, Ontario on Monday evening. The Mod Club in Toronto should expect to hear great new material from the Russian born singer/songwriter. Following the show in Toronto you can find her in the following locations: :: Apr 24 - Toronto, ON :: Apr 26 - Chicago, IL :: Apr 29 - Minneapolis, MN :: May 02 - Boulder, CO :: May 07 - Seattle, WA :: May 10 - Portland, OR :: May 13 - San Francisco, CA :: May 16 - Los Angeles, CA :: Jun 28 - London, England :: Jul 09 - T in the Park (Scotland) If you visit her MySpace page you will have the opportunity to hear some of the tracks off the new album "Begin To Hope". Last time we visited her MySpace page they had the following tracks: :: Fidelity (track 1) :: Better (track 2) News from Regina Spektor's website says that two songs from the new album "Begin To Hope" will be featured on two primetime television programs. :: "Samson" will be on a CSI New York show this Wednesday (April 26th). :: "On the Radio" will be featured on Grey's Anatomy on May 7th.

Editors have announced that they will be playing the Jersey Live Festival this September. The festival is an indie/dance festival which takes place on September 2nd at The Royal Jersey Showgrounds, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK. The Editors are the latest to join a lineup that includes Snow Patrol, The Zutons, Milburn, The On Offs, and Filthy Dukes. :: more :: Vancouver, British Columbia's indie-acoustic resident Rose Melberg has a new album on the shelves come April 25th entitled "Cast Away the Clouds" (Double Agent Records). You can listen to one of the tracks off the new album, Take Some Time, via her MySpace page. She is in Seattle, Washington tonight at Velouria. :: more ::