Black Kids

Plus: Joyce Manor, Citizen, IDK / MAVI, Ceremony, Joe Pera, and more tour and festival news.

Blunt Bangs, the new group led by Black Kids' Reggie Youngblood, will release their debut album on September 17. They're touring this month, too.

Spaceland Block Party will debut in LA this September with sets from Joey Bada$$, Vic Mensa, The Horrors, Black Kids, Wavves, Preoccupations, Porches, Tijuana Panthers, Oddisee & Good Compny, LVL UP, Slothrust, Bayonne, Mourn, Dude York, Palm, Wilsen, Alex Cameron, and others.

Mass Gothic cover HEBV's "Sea Bug," giving it an almost '80s goth feel.

Also: Jesse Malin/Tommy Stinston, Frank Iero, Maxwell, Lucy Dacus, and more NYC shows on sale today.

Florida band Black Kids got a bit of a bum rap, one of the first casualties of the ramped-up hype cycle we now live in. After the shrugs they received from their rushed debut album (less than a year after people went nuts for their free, enjoyable Wizard of Ahhs EP), the band wisely took time out to regroup, finish school and generally live their lives...

Hey, remember Black Kids? Vaulted into the spotlight from a demo on their Myspace in October of 2007 (they played one of BV's CMJ day parties that same month), they're one of the most famous cases of "too much too soon" internet hype...

Pitchfork Festival 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) As mentioned, Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival is returning to Union Park from July 19-21 with sets from Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Belle & Sebastian, R...

DOWNLOAD: Gospel Music - This Town Doesn't Have Enough Bars for Both of Us (MP3) Florida indie pop group Gospel Music are visiting this weekend, playing the Rock Shop tonight (5/4) with Kleenex Girl Wonder, The Randy Bandits, and Parade Grounds, and Cake Shop on Saturday (5/5)...

DOWNLOAD: Still Corners - Into the Trees (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Immaculates - Hey Joe Kelly (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Gospel Music - This Town Don't Have Enough Bars for Both of Us (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Radiation City - The Color of Industry (MP3) I think Wednesday is my favorite day for CMJ day parties...