It's been almost a decade since And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were anointed rock gods, their third album "Source Tags & Codes" earning a very-hard-to-argue 10 out of 10 from Pitchfork, whose review promised listeners "you will never, ever be the same." It's been that way for the band too — four more albums of hits and misses, a shifting lineup around principals Conrad Keely and Jason Reece, a departure from Interscope to do things on their own. Trail of Dead's 2009 indie release "The Century of Self" didn't exactly inspire further hero [...]
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead stopped by Lopez Tonight last night, June 14th to performed their single "Weight Of The Sun".
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are set to kick off their West Coast tour later this month. The band will embark on their jaunt on June 15 in Pomona, California. Among the dates announced are shows in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Trail of Dead are also set to appear on Lopez Tonight on June 14th. The band are set to perform their new single " Weight of the Sun " on the show. Check out all tour dates [...]

Seems that spring is a good time for those sprawling multi-venue potpourri festivals that celebrate the oft-overlooked fresh faces as much as they do the more established acts. Since March, we’ve already seen the Texan behemoth SXSW roll out another endless line-up of live music, and here on our own turf both Brighton’s Great Escape and Liverpool Sound City have applied the same formula in their promotion of new music in the past month. Over the course of the bank holiday weekend though, this concept gets expanded as the annual Dot to Dot hosts it’s hectic venue-hopping one-day party in [...]
Trail of Dead west coast tour …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead announce their headlining West Coast tour in support of their latest release " Tao of the Dead " June 15th The Glass House Pomona, CA 16th The Casbah San Diego, CA 17th Echoplex Los Angeles, CA 18th Slim’s San Francisco, CA 20th Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR 21st Electric Owl Vancouver, BC 22nd Capitol Theater – Backstage Olympia, WA 23rd Neumo’s Seattle, WA
PLAYLIST: No Joy - Indigo Child (Stereolab Remix) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You Dephot-home Cheap Time - Tight Fit Sennen - Broken Promise Beige - In Kind Wolf Ram Heart - Viewgirls Ghost Animal - Single Man Crystal Stilts - Converging In The Quiet White Sparrows - It's True (Demo) Glass Homes - waiting The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day Prolapse - Tina This Is [...]

Ringo Deathstarr are one of those up-and-coming bands poised to break big, and it looks like their positioning themselves well by opening up for ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead next month. Then they depart ways with the bigger band, and Ringo Deathstarr headline their own set of shows. The full schedule is posted below. Ringo Deathstarr tour dates: Dates marked * w/ ...And You Will Know by the Trail of Dead June 4th - Austin, TX - Red [...]

From NPR Music : ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead has a name that unravels as epically as its music, and is as lengthy as the band's history. With a career that spans more than 17 years and seven albums, the story begins in Olympia, Wash., where in 1994 the band's core members Conrad Keely and Jason Reece first started playing together. After moving to Austin, they would form Trail Of Dead. The line-up continued to grow, and in 1998 the band released its self-titled [...]

Photo by Boris Draschoff And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Can't get out of the office tomorrow afternoon to see And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead perform a Free At Noon concert at World Cafe Live ? You can see the post-hardcore act tonight (along with one of last year's critics darlings, Surfer Blood ) tonight at First Unitarian Church. Meanwhile, over at The Trocadero , Echo And The Bunnymen will be performing their first two classic albums, Crocodiles [...]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINhNn HDmfA Saturday night was a night of epic guitar rock from two bands whose heydays are separated by nearly a decade. Promising, young upstarts Surfer Blood and grizzled, journeymen …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead took over the Bottom Lounge with a blitzkrieg of heavy riffs, crazy fills, and extended solos. Above you can watch Surfer Blood perform the set-closing, barnburner "Anchorage" off their debut LP Astro Coast . Check it out: [...]

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 's career has become a legendary indie rock soap opera. After a promising beginning characterized by ambitious art punk and stage-destroying live shows, their third album, Source Tags & Codes catapulted them to instant acclaim that culminated in universal adoration and a highly coveted perfect 10.0 rating from Pitchfork. After that, they had a lot to live up to, and in many fans' eyes, failed to do so, releasing record after record saddled by increasingly bloated production and confusingly busy album artwork. Unable to capitalize on their hype [...]

Trail of Dead | Photo by Audrey Leon Happy Seis de Mayo, muchachos! We've got another beautiful weekend ahead of us, and I'm not even talking about the weather. Although, that is pretty nice, too. Hopefully, you aren't nursing terrible Cinco de Mayo hangovers from the many sold out concerts that happened yesterday because this weekend is bopping, big time. Without further ado, the staff at Loud Loop Press present our picks for this weekend's most happening shows including Big Science at Subterranean , . ..And You Will Know us by [...]
You know that really shitty weather we've been experiencing in Columbus for the last couple of months? True Widow's self-described stonegaze is the perfect soundtrack; dark, grey, gloomy, like the rain-filled clouds that have been perpetually hanging low in the Ohio skies. That's not to say True Widow's latest (a friggin' mouthful!), As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth , is shitty like the weather. No, my plodding doom metal friends, this album is far from it and is one of the most haunting [...]

[Photos by acidjack] Starting with their band name, Austin's ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have never been concerned with doing things the way that other bands do them. They are the kind of band that opens a co-headlining (yet nonetheless, technically opening) set at the Bowery Ballroom on a Friday night with a fifteen minute song ("Strange News From Another Planet") from a new record (2011's Tao of the Dead ) that likely even the fans in attendance knew less well than their classic material. They [...]

Photo by WHITperson As spring's finally starting to heat up, I can already see the concert calendar swelling in size. This week is a great example with lots of killer shows in NYC to check out. MONDAY, APRIL 25 Smith Westerns w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ The Bowery Ballroom Tame Impala w/ Yuck @ Webster Hall TUESDAY, APRIL 26 Greensky Bluegrass , Spirit Family Reunion @ Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn) [...]
Video: Trail of Dead "Summer of All Dead Souls" April 29 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY 30 Middle East Boston, MA May 01 Le Tulipe Montreal, Quebec 03 Lee's Palace Toronto, Ontario 04 Magic Stick Detroit, MI 05 Basement Columbus, OH 06 The Loft Lansing, MI 07 Bottom Lounge Chicago, IL 08 Grog Shop Cleveland, OH 10 Rock and Roll Hotel Washington, DC 11 Ottobar Baltimore, MD 12 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA 13 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY
Trail of Dead at Littlefield release show On a bitterly cold Brooklyn eve earlier this year – February 8th to be exact – indie rock pillars ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead took to the stage of a new performance art space, Littlefield, to debut songs from their as-of-then unreleased seventh studio album " Tao of the Dead' . Only a select few in the musical hotbed that is Kings County, NY got a raw early glimpse of this material, played amongst new visual [...]

As the boys of Surfer Blood prepare to drop their new EP I'm Not Ready , supposedly their last release for Kanine Records before heading to Warner Bros., possibly as early as April, the quintet is breaking off a live version of the title track as a free download. The song, in the vain of the sound they crafted on their debut but seemingly more laid-back, is available now for an email address at their official site . This is also the same number the group debuted back at Bumbershoot in September 2010 [...]