Miracle Fortress

Graham's first album under his own name will be out October 19 via Arbutus. He'll be on tour this fall including West Coast tour dates with Suuns.

Plus: The Arctic Monkeys, The Scientists, Dent May/Shannon Lay, Thursday, Killy, Sarah Shook, Eleanor Friedberger, Ulrika Spacek, The Goon Sax, and more newly-announced tours.

Thursday, we're in the thick of it now and maybe some of us are already frazzled. Which might explain why this picks post is shorter than yesterday's...

DOWNLOAD: Natural Child - Hard Workin' Man (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Natural Child - Yer Birthday (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Miracle Fortress - Miscalculations (MP3) Happy Summer everybody...

DOWNLOAD: Miracle Fortress - Raw Spectacle (Pantha du Prince Remix) (MP3) Junior Boys art for "The striking image included with this announcement is a detail of the album's cover, a deceptively abstract image taken by Jeremy Greenspan's sister of the UK Pavilion in Shanghai, China...

M for Montreal is an interesting festival, at times more like a conference or summer camp or one of those all-inclusive resorts -- but with better music...

Think About Life (who have a new CD and a CMJ show... info in a sec) member Graham Van Pelt is the main force behind Miracle Fortress, a band that also includes Jessie Stein who is also in popular Montreal band The Luyas...

by Montreal's BrooklynVegan Mike DOWNLOAD: The Luyas - Play Dead (MP3) The Luyas are one of my favorite bands in Montreal. Their music, a collaboration of guitar, drums, melodica, and french horn, reminds me of that classic early 90's college rock sound, but turned on its head - an intoxicating combination of unsettling and comforting...

I just realized Miracle Fortress was in town for this random show that Earl Greyhound are also playing at the venue formerly know as Galapagos tonight...