You'll never know what you're going to get each night of Peeesseye 's upcoming tour but you better bet your fine ass that it's going to be exactly what you need. Sun 10/11 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, NH Tue 10/13 PRINCETON, NJ - FFMUP, TERRACE CLUB Wed 10/14 PITTSBURGH, PA - MORNING GLORY COFFEEHOUSE Thu 10/15 OBERLIN COLLEGE, OH - FAIRFIELD CHAPEL Fri 10/16 CHICAGO, IL - ELASTIC Sat 10/17 CHICAGO, IL - ENEMY Sun 10/18 TOLEDO, OH - TOLDEO BELLOWS Mon 10/19 CINCINNATI, OH - ART DAMAGE LODGE Tue 10/20 [...]
Bowerbird's approach hasn't changed much at all on their second album, but we're not complaining.
[JAX PICK] Lykke Li , The Deadly Syndrome @ The Wiltern - Good to see The Deadly Syndrome playing once again. Lykke Li is no doubt the crush of the indie world. My coworkers have been playing her incessantly for the past week. Lykke Li - Tonight from Lykke Li on Vimeo . [...]

Every week we team up with our friends at Hypeful to bring you the week's best new album releases. This week's list is kind of short but it's packed with fantastic albums like the new Bowerbirds and Son Volt . Please let us know if we forgot anything. New Releases, Album Art, Streams and MP3's after the jump... (Click on the album art to purchase) [...]

From crocodiles to woodpigeons , I have featured a surprising number of bands that resort to their animalistic side for their namesake. Many of us have, at one point, come across the Discovery Channel to learn something that shocks us about animals. Whether it involves mating rituals or hibernation, there are certain behavioral characteristics in animals that make the human race seem dull in comparison. Perhaps this can explain why so many artists opt for an animalistic connection, one that makes their appearance seem more enigmatic and naturally inclined than the human species. Or perhaps it can [...]

This July 17th at The Vollrath , MOKB Presents...welcomes Bowerbirds and their NC buddies Megafaun ! Buy tickets for $7 in advance or $9 at the door. Both bands will release their second albums this year, and both have released first tastes from those albums. Megafaun's second album, Gather, Form & Fly will be released by Hometapes on July 21st, [...]

After looking through the wikipedia entry for ' bowerbird ' I can't say that I see anything remarkable about the bird, but, luckily for the band they are much more... markable... wow... good one Rob... eloquent ... very eloquent... good intro... I came across Bowerbirds through a Take Away Show via La Blogotheque probably, say, six months ago and promptly forgot about them until I was puttering around on La Blogotheque last week. I picked up their album Hymns for a Dark Horse , which was released in its initial form in [...]