by Black Bubblegum

The Murder City Devils in Portland, OR on October 30, 2001

The Murder City Devils have scheduled a short tour of the West Coast in celebration of the deluxe vinyl releases of their Sub Pop catalog: In Name and Blood, Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts, The Murder City Devils, and Thelema EP. Full tour dates and flyer are below. Members of The Murder City Devils members went on to form Pretty Girls Make Graves and Big Business. This will be MCD's third stint as a reunited band: they reformed in 2006 for the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle and in 2007 for Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. All dates below...

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by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Jaguar Love - "Highways of Gold" (MP3)

Past Lives

Jaguar Love (more by Bao Nguyen)

Past Lives, one of two post-Blood Brothers projects, have signed to Suicide Squeeze and are set to pounce on a November 4th release of the Strange Symmetry EP. Produced by Dan Gallucci (of ex-Modest Mouse and Murder City Devils), the debut EP features three of the five Blood Brothers, Jordan Blilie, Morgan Henderson and Mark Gajadhar, and Devin Welch (ex-Shoplifting). They have a few tour west coast dates which are down below.

The other project with the reamining two Brothers (as well as J Clark of the fallen Pretty Girls Make Graves) Jaguar Love, is readying their new LP Take Me To The Sea, due August 19th on Matador. The band, who recently played Siren Fest, have dropped a new video for "Highways of Gold" (below), and will embark on a tour with The Faint, skipping the previously mentioned Terminal 5 show (on sale here) and adding a solo date at Southpaw on August 19th. Tickets are still available for that one. Full tour schedule below.

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