Awesome Color – Transparent

One of the hardest working bands in the business, Awesome Color has spent the better part of the past six years touring their asses off with bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, winning over fans the old fashioned way- word of mouth.  Detroit Rock City’s finest delivers their 3rd full length this Spring and will be touring this March through April with a stop at Austin’s SXSW music festival.

Awesome Color on tour:

3/3   Rochester, NY             Bug Jar
3/4   Poughkeepsie, NY      Vassar (students only)
3/6   Purchase, NY              Purchase (students only)
3/7   Brooklyn, NY               Market Hotel
3/8   Baltimore, MD             Ottobar
3/9   Raleigh / Chapel Hill    Local 506
3/10 Atlanta, GA                  529 Club
3/11 New Orleans, LA         Circle Bar
3/12 San Antonio,TX           The Ten Eleven
3/13 Monterrey, MEXICO    Festival Nrmal
3/17-20    Austin, TX    SXSW
3/21 Oklahoma City, OK      Sauced
3/22 Little Rock, AR             Vino’s Brewpub
3/23 Nashville, TN                Little Hamilton Art Collective
3/24 Lexington, KY               Al’s Bar
3/25 Cincinnati, OH              Art Damage
3/26 Toledo, OH                   Woodchuck’s
3/27 Detroit, MI                    CAID

* all dates with TYVEK except SXSW

Pierced Arrows, the Portland-based trio comprised of legendary members Fred and Toody Cole of the seminal punk band Dead Moon and drummer Kelly Halliburton are releasing their sophomore album Descending Shadows today on VICE Records.

To kick off the release, VICE Records is hosting an exclusive stream of the full album today. Along with this news, longtime fan and supporter Eddie Vedder provided a personal note, exclusively at Spinner.com, touching on the Cole’s major influence and honest impressions they’ve made on rock and roll throughout a career spanning multiple decades.

Listen to the full album stream of Descending Shadows at VICERecords.com:
http://www.viceland.com/vicerecords/descendingshadows.php

Purchase Pierced Arrows’ Descending Shadows here:

iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/descending-shadows/id347522487

Vice Records:
http://www.viceland.com/vicerecords/store_descendingshadows.php

For more info:
http://www.piercedarrows.com
http://www.myspace.com/piercedarrowspdx
http://www.vicerecords.com

Writing on the band’s website on Thursday, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles announced dates for a few record in-store performances on their way to SXSW in March. “Phase one” of the aptly named “Monitour” mini tour will promote the New Jersey noisemakers forthcoming LP, The Monitor. Indie rockers and civil war buffs alike are licking their lips in excitement for the new Civil War themed album. Of course, the LP’s name is in reference to America’s first warship, the USS Monitor. In real life the Monitor was extremely heavy, quite clumsy, and an absolute menace to Confederates. Presumably, the album, The Monitor, will share these same qualities.

Anyways let’s listen to Patrick explain their venue choices:

“During this time, we will forgo playing the typical “rock concert,” as it were, and play primarily independently owned and operated record stores. These shows will be free, all ages, and typically take place in the afternoon or early evening. Why would we do a thing like this, you ask? Well, we would do it because it is important to us to stack our chips with the mom and pop businesses, stores that represent the best of our free market system, capitalism not going awry (for once!), and enrich the culture of their communities in a sound and decent fashion. With the demise of Tower Records, Sam Goody, et al, it is essential that we all show our support for these businesses, who are on the front lines of the war on cultural whitewashing.”

You get all that? Nevermind. Here are the dates, so far:

3/8 – Vintage Vinyl, 51 Lafayette Road, Fords, NJ, 8 PM

3/9 – My Mind’s Eye, 13723 Madison Avenue, Lakewood, OH, 7 PM

3/10 – Used Kids, 1980 N. High Street, Columbus, OH, 7 PM

3/12 – Ear X-Tacy, 1534 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY, 6 PM

3/13 – Reckless Records, 1532 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 4 PM

3/14 – Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Del Mar Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 4 PM

3/16 – Good Records, 1808 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX, 6 PM

- Visit Titus Andronicus

The Mountain Goats will be performing “Genesis 3:23″ tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Be sure to tune in. The other guests are Randy Jackson and Paul Teutul, Sr.

As the title would suggest, Deer Tick’s More Fuel for the Fire EP tops off an explosive 2009 for the band that released Rolling Stone’s “country-rock breakthrough of the year” nine months earlier. Taken mostly from a month-long recording session in upstate New York nicknamed “The Black Dirt Sessions”, More Fuel for the Fire features three new studio tracks as well as a live version of “Straight Into A Storm” (from Born on Flag Day) recorded in Charlotte, NC at the Visulite Theatre. The songs have become staples of Deer Tick’s live shows over the past year, and are already fan favorites-and that’s who this one’s for…

DEER TICK Tour Dates:
11/18 – Charlotte, NC Knight Theatre *
11/19 – Orlando, FL The Plaza Theatre *
11/20 – Tallahassee, FL The Moon *
11/21 – New Orleans, LA The Republic *
11/22 – Houston, TX Warehouse Live *

* = w/ Neko Case

Deer Tick MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/deertick