Conflicts with my show, but it’s only a block away, so I may bounce back and forth.

RSVP here by March 1st!

Missed this when it was announced a couple of days ago. Another solid one.

Definitely one of the better parties I’ve seen listed so far. RSVP here.

This one’s mine! (partially!)

I even made the poster, which would be much better if it were higher res. Oh wells. RSVP here. (You don’t need to print the ticket.)

Lineup will include:

Smoking Popes, Scott Lucas & the Married Men, Empires, Bob Nanna, Ha Ha Tonka, The Frantic, Death on Two Wheels, The Fireship, David Costa, The Fold, My Gold Mask, The Scissors, Heart Set Self-Destruct, The Lifeline, Mia LeBlon, I Fight Dragons, The Alaya Conscious, Matter of Fact, The Noise FM, Kirkland, Tommy and the High Pilots, Famous Like You, The Felix Culpa, Yourself and the Air, The Aesthetic, Arma, The Right Now, Lehnen, Houses, HeyPenny, Par Avion, Blah Blah Blah, Oceans Over Airplanes, Without a Face, In Tall Buildings, Small Sins, United Federation of Planets, Ronny Robinson, How Far to Austin, Suns, True Womanhood and Light Pollution.

(That’s right… DC’s True Womanhood, who are also playing this show!!!)

The Heavenly States, “Model Son”

One of the very first bands I talked about on this blog, way back in the days before Twitter, Justin Bieber and Middle East unrest, was San Francisco’s The Heavenly States.

After putting out several fantastic albums in the middle part of the decade, the band kinda went silent (with the exception of an excellent set I caught at SXSW last year) after 2008′s Delayer. I was actually starting to worry that maybe they’d broken up, until a few weeks ago when I noticed mention on their MySpace page of a new record coming out and some East Coast tour dates.

So I was pretty excited today to open an email announcing that band has a brand new 7-song EP, Out Camera Oui, coming out on April 19th. The EP was recorded and produced by Bill Lefler, and mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, etc.). You can hear the first track, “Model Son”, above.

The band has a couple of New York-area shows coming up, including a show at the Rock Shop in Brooklyn on March 3rd and a show at Pianos on March 4th, and if you’re in the area, I highly recommend getting out and seeing these guys.

Fuck. yes. This is from night 2 in Chicago.

Stream below or download here. (Link via Jim of Kid, You’ll Move Mountains)

Edited to add: You gotta click the “next” button after every song if you stream here. Also, several recordings of the first night at Metro (2/19) can also be found here.

Sooooooooo excited about this. I’ll probably head back to attend.

We are beyond excited to announce that Ted Leo will making a stop in historic Fredericksburg, VA to play an all-ages concert during his extended U.S. solo tour this May in support of his new album, The Brutalist Bricks. 

Ted Leo, the indie troubadour who usually tours with his band The Pharmascists and sells out huge venues in the area like The Black Cat and the 9:30 Club in D.C., will be performing a much more intimate set at Eyeclopes Studio as part of the Fredericksburg All Ages (FAA) concert series.   FAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to youth empowerment, youth leadership and affordable music and arts programming for all ages.  

Tickets go on sale Febuary 25th at 10am via tedleofaa.eventbrite.com for $10.    Tickets at the door on the night of the show will be $12.   

Fredericksburg All Ages shows start a little earlier and end a little earlier than most concerts.   Doors open at 7pm and our curfew is 10pm.   

Opening acts TBA.

No RSVP or wristband or any of that bourgeois nonsense required.

Via Done Waiting (per usual).

Although I wasn’t a huge fan of their live performance, I was quite moved by the very nice tribute that JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound’s bassist gave to Clark Sabine last night. Clark was one of the most unique, and uniquely talented, members of the Washington, D.C. music scene for more than a decade, and unfortunately never got the recognition he deserved outside of D.C. Clark sadly passed away in 2009, at just 33 years of age, after a lengthy fight with cancer.

The last band that Clark was in before his death was the Statehood, which also featured bassist Eric Axelson and drummer Joe Easley of The Dismemberment Plan. While many of us (myself included) are going kinda crazy for the D Plan’s current reunion tour, I wanted to make sure people also knew how incredibly good Statehood was in its own right. If you haven’t heard the band before – or even if you have – I highly recommend taking a few minutes and watching some really great live footage of the band below.

RSVP here.

More details soon… I’m a co-sponsor, BTW.

Oh, and here is our Facebook event page. Doubt we’re gonna require RSVP, but you should probably do it just to be safe. Also, the more attendees we get to sign up, the easier it will be to bring in one or two last sponsors. :^)

RSVP here. (Via @SXSWPartyList.)

Great venue!