by Victor Massari

As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, Denton, TX vets The Baptist Generals released their fourth studio album, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, this week (5/21) via Sub Pop. It's a catchy and smooth indie folk LP laden with blues sensibilities, and you can stream the entire album below.

They'll be heading out on a tour with The Mountain Goats, but before that, they'll celebrate the new album with a hometown record release show on June 1 at Dan's Silver Leaf in Denton, TX. Tickets to that show are available.

All tour dates are listed at BrooklynVegan. LP stream below...

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Ty Segall in Brooklyn in February (more by PSquared Photography)

As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, Ty Segall is releasing a new album, Sleeper, on August 20 via Drag City and he'll be touring this summer around the time of the release. That tour hits Austin on August 27 at Mohawk Outside. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (5/24).

All dates and more at BrooklynVegan.

by Andrew Sacher

Retox - 'YPLL'

Justin Pearson's (of The Locust) current project, Retox, who have been on tour this month, are releasing their new album, YPLL, next week (5/28) via Epitaph. It's a short (12 songs in under 22 minutes) blast of furious hardcore, and you can stream the entire thing below.

Retox will bring their tour through Austin this week to open for The Dillinger Escape Plan when DEP bring their previously announced tour with Royal Thunder and The Faceless to Mohawk on Friday (5/24). Tickets for that show are still available.

DEP's tour (without Retox) also hits El Paso the day before the Mohawk show, and Retox play their own show in Houston that day (5/23) too. Check out pictures of DEP's recent NYC show on BrooklynVegan.

All remaining dates are listed, along with the album stream, below...

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James Blake in NYC earlier this month (more by Jono Bernstein)

As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, James Blake just announced a fall North American leg of his ongoing 2013 tour which will come through Texas for shows in Dallas on October 27 at House of Blues, Austin on October 28 at Emo's East, and Houston on October 29 at House of Blues. Tickets are not on sale yet but you can check Ticketmaster for the Dallas/Houston shows and Emo's site for the Austin show.

All dates are listed at BrooklynVegan.

Groundislava

Though their 2nd date together isn't until June 1st, we might as well call tonight (5/16) at Red 7 the first of a series of dates that producers oOoOO and Groundislava are playing together in Noth America this year. The poster and list of dates below agrees.

Groundislava is supporting a new collection of remixes called 'Treasure Chest' which you can buy, listen to and download at Bandcamp. Some oOoOO tracks are embedded below...

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Anamanaguchi @ BV-SXSW 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder)

8-bit video game punk rockers Anamanaguchi, who were in Austin in March for SXSW (BrooklynVegan show included), just launched a tour in support of their long-awaited new album Endless Fantasy which also has a very successful-so-far companion Kickstarter that you should check out when you're done listening to the new songs from the album posted over at BrooklynVegan.

That tour includes a leg with Kitty Pryde aka Kitty that returns to Texas in July for three shows:

Anamanaguchi & Kitty Pryde take Texas
7/16 - Austin, TX - Red 7 (tickets)
7/17 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada
7/18 - Houston, TX - Fitzgeralds's

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LA festival FYF Fest recently announced their amazing lineup of bands including My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mac Demarco, METZ, MGMT, Mikal Cronin, Nosaj Thing, Omar Souleyman, Roky Erickson, Shlohmo, Antwon and many, many more. Tickets go on sale today, Thursday, 5/16, at noon California time.

Meanwhile, San Jose Rapper Antwon is returning to Austin for a show at Hotel Vegas with Lil Ugly Mane and Hard Stripes on June 2nd. UPDATE: Antwon also plays Holy Mountain earlier that same day.

The Austin shows are part of Chaos in Tejas which updated their lineup last week. You can see the whole thing below with all Antwon tour dates and a song.

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As mentioned on BV, John Hughes-era postpunks The Psychedelic Furs are going on a big summer tour and that will hit Texas for three shows, including Austin on July 18 at Antone's. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (5/17) at noon. The other TX shows are 7/17 at House of Blues in Dallas and 7/19 at House of Blues in Houston. All tour dates are here.

Bosnian Rainbows @ Highline Ballroom in Feb (more by Greg Cristman)

"At the Drive-In - which also includes singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, guitarist Jim Ward, bassist Paul Hinojos and drummer Tony Hajjar - have scattered to other projects, leaving the future unknown. The Mars Volta, the post-ATDI post-punk/prog act led by Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala, is officially broken up, too, but the guitarist is already deep into Bosnian Rainbows, his band with singer Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes. Next week, Bosnian Rainbows begin a European tour with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (plus a few dates in Texas and California) and release a self-titled debut album on June 25th." [Rolling Stone]

May 25, 2013 - El Paso, TX @ Neon Desert Music Festival
May 28, 2013 - Dallas, TX @ Trees w/ Zorch
May 29, 2013 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 w/ Zorch (tickets)
May 30, 2013 - Houston, TX @ HOB - Bronze Peacock w/ Zorch

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As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, the 2013 ACL Festival (10 4 - 10/6; 10/11 - 10/13) was just announced, with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Vampire Weekend, The National, Phoenix, Wilco and many more among the acts playing this year. Weekend passes are on sale now and the full line-up is at BV.