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Joan of Arc : Tour Dates

5/04 – Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Saloon
5/05 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
5/06 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
5/07 – Bozeman, MT @ Zebra Cocktail Lounge
5/09 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
5/10 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
5/12 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
5/13 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
5/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
5/16 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
5/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
5/19 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
5/20 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
5/21 – Fayetteville, AR @ JR’s Lighbulb Club

Northern Noise Interview

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NN: So you guys have some downtime between shows, how do you typically spend your free time these days?

JC: Recently, I think we have all been playing more basketball than anyone expected. The entire band, along with a few of our closest friends entered into a Fantasy Basketball League (NBA). This immediately led us to constantly monitor games, players, injuries and trades.  During our video shoot for ‘Simple Math’ there was a basketball hoop wedged in between some of the production vehicles. All I have to say is that “Little Andy” had pretty incredible court awareness for a young actor. We started shooting around during some downtime, and pretty soon we found ourselves seeking out courts in Atlanta, too… (Read More)

April 2011 PLAYLIST

Mogwai - ‘Im Jim Morrison, I’m Dead’
TV on the Radio - ‘Caffeine Consciousness’
Modest Mouse - ‘Polar Opposites’
Frightened Rabbit - ‘The Loneliness’
The Mountain Goats - ‘Elijah’
Efterklang - ‘Alike’
The National - ‘Terrible Love’
Olivia Tremor Control - ‘NYC-25’
J Roddy Walston & The Business - ‘Don’t Break the Needle’
DFA - MIA ‘Paper Planes (Remix)’
Curren$y - ‘Montreux’
Gil Scott-Heron - ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’

Click to Listen at GROOVESHARK: http://bit.ly/hsEaNV

Tour Dates: Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats - 2011 Tour Dates

March
24 - The National, Richmond, VA
25 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
26 - Strand- Capitol PAC , York, PA
28 - Bowery Ballroom (SOLD OUT), New York, NY
29 - Bowery Ballroom (SOLD OUT), New York, NY
30 - Bowery Ballroom (SOLD OUT), New York, NY
30 - Green Space (2pm), New York, NY

April
1 - Paradise (SOLD OUT), Boston, MA
2 - Castaways, Ithaca, NY
3 - The Opera House, Toronto, ON
5 - The Vic, Chicago, IL
6 - The Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
7 - The Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
8 - The Cat’s Cradle (SOLD OUT), Chapel Hill, NC
10 - The Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
11 - The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
12 - Mr. Smalls, Pittsburgh, PA
14 - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
15 - Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA

all March/April shows with Megafaun

May
22 - Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
24 - Coalition, Brighton, England
25 - KOKO, London, England
27 - Academy 3, Manchester, England
28 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, England
29 - King Tuts, Glasgow, Scotland
30 - Cluny, Newcastle, England

June
25 - Part of Plan-It-X Fest (SOLD OUT), Bloomington, IN

(Source: brooklynvegan.com)

Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Rolling Stones announce Record Store Day releases

(via consequenceofsound)

“Music today can feel a bit overwhelming. Choosing from the plethora of music festivals, all with their own merits? Overwhelming. SXSW? Overwhelming on so many levels. Record Store Day? With upwards of 240 must-have releases announced thus far for the April 16th happening, yeah, that’s pretty overwhelming (even RSD co-founder Eric Levin thinks so!). Not that we’re complaining, really; hell, we love this stuff. After all, where would CoS be without this constant musical deluge? Might as well get ready for more, because we’ve got a handful of solid additions to the Record Store Day lineup…

– Nirvana – Hormoaning EP: Only available during the bands 1992 Australian tour, the EP features two originals (“Aneurysm” and “Even In His Youth”) plus covers recorded during a 1990 BBC Peel Session. The covers include Devo’s “Turnaround,” The Wipers’ “D-7,” and The Vaselines’ “Son of A Gun” and “Molly’s Lips.” This rare six-track collection is limited to 6,000 copies.

– Sonic Youth – Whores Moaning EP: Yes, it’s a play on the title of the Nirvana EP. Yes, it was released during Sonic Youth’s own Australian tour in 1993. Yes, the cover artwork is a photocopy of Kurt Cobain’s doll and the back artwork is a Cobain original drawing. Yes, the tracks include a radio edit of “Sugar Kane,” instrumentals of tracks “The End of The End of The Ugly” and “Tamra,” and covers of the New York Dolls’ “Personality Crisis” and Alice Cooper’s “Is It My Body.”

– The Rolling Stones – “Brown Sugar”/“Bitch”/“Let It Rock”: To celebrate the release of their The Complete Singles (1971-2006) box-set three days after RSD, the Stones will release 5,000, individually numbered U.S. copies this 7” vinyl which replicates the original single. The first two tracks hail from Sticky Fingers, while “Let It Rock” is an ultra-rare cover of the great Chuck Berry.