Drake’s Take: New Releases 06.23.09

Playing catch up again with Drake, here’s the first of an Independence Day Weekend double shot. -ed Drake’s Take: New Releases 06.23.09 This week perfectly illustrates what makes this such a great year for music. Looking at it on the calendar some time ago, there was some excitement, but who knew there’d be so many…

Sunset Rubdown Announces New Album, Tour Dates (Studio B/Northside Festival)

Sunset Rubdown DOWNLOAD: Sunset Rubdown – “Idiot Heart” (mp3) Spencer Krug‘s other band, Sunset Rubdown, (well, his other band that is not Swan Lake or Wolf Parade) is releasing a brand new album on June 23 called Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar). Though I haven’t heard the new record yet, it has been described by various press materials…

Northside Festival Details Announced, Badges On Sale

   The lineup for the First Annual Northside Festival was announced today and here’s what the press release said: Oh, hey, look it’s Monday and it’s rainy and miserable outside. Which is why you’re seated comfortably in front of your computer looking for things to brighten your otherwise awful day. So the timing is perfect,…

The End of The World, Passion Pit, Sunset Rubdown at The Merc

Tonight, Spencer Krug‘s Sunset Rubdown is playing the second of two local shows at the Mercury Lounge with Boston’s Passion Pit, and Brooklyn’s optimistically named The End of The World. The End of The World Photo: Michael Schmelling As far as I know, Sunset Rubdown hasn’t put out a new album since 2007’s Random Spirit…

Sunset Rubdown Mini-Tour (MHOW and Mercury Lounge)

So, the other day I noticed that Sunset Rubdown announced a show at MHOW and I buried it in this post on collaborations and side projects. Today I noticed that Matt posted about a small tour, so then I went to check out Ticketbastard and I noticed they added a show at the Merc too!…