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Honeyblood at River Rocks in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) London rock duo 2:54 and Glasgow indie pop duo Honeyblood have announced a a 2015 tour together in support of their 2014 albums, The Other I and Honeyblood, respectively...

The annual CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 21 - 25 at venues all over NYC. We've heard about a few bands who are heading here during that time (Slowdive, The Wytches, The Ocean Blue, Tom Vek and Courtney Barnett to name four) but CMJ threw an announcement party tonight (8/27) at Bowery Electric and the line-up is now out...

The Fly is the "UK's most popular new music magazine," but if you haven't heard of it, its because it's a free monthly that doesn't really get international distribution...

2:54 at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) UK rock duo 2:54 have joined the ranks of Jacques Greene, John Talabot, and Chairlift, as the newest band to be added as an opener to The xx's North American t...

Lawrence Arabia at CMJ 2012 (more by Andrew St. Clair) today in NYC * Nicki Minaj @ Roseland * Aram Bajakian @ The Stone * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * David Ulmann Quintet @ Barbes * Bob Schneider @ City Winery * Young Man, XNY @ Mercury Lounge * Bob Musso's Axiomatic @ The Stone * Javier Dunn, Jeff Taylor @ Joe's Pub * White Denim, Sleepies @ Brooklyn Bowl * Gojira, Car Bomb @ Studio at Webster Hall * Publicist, Free Blood, TV Baby @ Death By Audio * Lawrence Arabia, Friend Roulette @ Mercury Lounge * Sweet w/ Wyatt Cenac, Rudi Macaggi, Brent Sullivan @ Ella * Beginnings w/ Nikki Glaser, James Adomian, Thu Tran @ UCB East * Graph Rabbit, The Blake Roberts Band, Los Lobos Del Oeste @ Cameo * Punks on Mars, Big Fur, Weird Rivers, Butter the Children @ Public Assembly * Ashley Paul/Anthony Coleman, Artanker Convoy, Leila Adu @ Zebulon * Den Svarata Fanan, Say At Last, Who Art Thou...

DOWNLOAD: Twin Sister - Kimi in a Rice Field (Spanish Prisoners remix) (MP3) Spanish Prisoners' most recent album, Gold Fools, is only about eight months old but the Brooklyn band have a new cassette-only release, Prior Art, which will be out June 26 and "contains reworkings of songs by Clams Casino and Twin Sister, as well as remixes by shape shifters Sun Glitters and Rimar, mixed with gooey ambient stretches and swirling electronic interludes...

Off! @ NXNE 2011 (more by Natasha Ryan) The most memorable thing that happened the year I visited Toronto for NXNE was Iggy Pop & The Stooges playing their big, outdoor, free, no-ticket-or-badge-required show downtown at Yonge-Dundas Square...

Dirty Beaches and Widowspeak have added another show to their already busy schedules. Both bands will play Shea Stadium this Saturday (4/21), co-headlining a party for the newly-relaunched NewtownRadio...

2:54 @ BV-SXSW 2012 @ Bar 96 (more by Tim Griffin) 2:54 have announced a full tour with Widowspeak that includes the previously mentioned Mercury Lounge show (tickets) and adds a Brooklyn show happening two day earlier at Knitting Factory (tickets)...

2:54 at BV SXSW earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) UK band 2:54, who were just in the US for two NYC shows and SXSW where they played the official BrooklynVegan showcase, are about to kick off a tour on their home continent, but they'll be returning to our side of the Atlantic this June...