Band of Horses will play a free show 6:30 p.m. this Friday, June 18 at New York’s historic landmark Grand Central Terminal, in Vanderbilt Hall. The show is the latest in the AOL Pop Up Series and the first ever Pop Up show in New York City. For details on obtaining tickets, Follow Band of Horses or @AOL on Twitter or check Band of Horses or AOL’s Facebook pages.

Band of Horses is currently in the midst of a tour supporting its third full length LP and first for Brown/Fat Possum/Columbia, Infinite Arms, which debuted at #7 on the U.S. album chart, selling over 45,000 records in the week following its May 18 release. The AOL Spinner Pop Up show will precede a sold out June 20 headline date at Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Waterfront, after which Band of Horses’ globe-spanning tour will resume, including a recently added leg of July U.S. dates through to September headline stands at the Greek Theaters of Los Angeles and Berkeley.

Produced by Band of Horses with additional production from Phil Ek and mixed by Dave Sardy, the songs on Infinite Arms project the essence of the different locales across America that became the setting for the recording and songwriting process behind the album. The rich musical heritage of Muscle Shoals, AL, the sublime beauty of Asheville’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the glamorous Hollywood Hills and the vast Mojave desert all influenced the sounds on Infinite Arms and helped yield the group’s most focused and dynamic recordings to date. The serene woods of Northern Minnesota and the band’s native Carolinas inspired the songwriting, lending the compositions an air of comfort and familiarity.

Band of Horses is Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception.

The latest addition to Band of Horses’ acclaimed discography arrived recently in the form of “Life On Earth” available exclusively on the new Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, joining Infinite Arms and its predecessors 2007’s Cease To Begin, the band’s 2006 debut album Everything All The Time, and a self-titled, self-released EP in 2005.

SAN FRANCISCO AND SALT LAKE CITY STADIUM DATES SOLD OUT

TICKETS FOR FIRST-EVER NASHVILLE APPEARANCE ON SALE NOW

DENVER, KANSAS CITY, CHARLOTTE, TORONTO, MONTREAL, PHILADELPHIA, PITTSBURGH ON SALE SOON

Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House To Air July 28

Having completed a sold out two night stand at Mexico City’s Foro Sol Stadium, Paul McCartney’s record-breaking  Up and Coming 2010 Tour will swing back to North America for a series of July-August dates, including two instant sellouts: July 10 at San Francisco’s AT&T Park and July 13 at Salt Lake City’s Rio Tinto Stadium. Further details of McCartney’s upcoming dates continue to emerge, as the most celebrated performer in popular music will make his first ever Nashville appearance July 26 at the music city’s Bridgestone Area, and will return to Denver (July 15), Kansas City (July 24), Charlotte (July 28), Toronto (August 8), Montreal (August 12) and Pittsburgh (August 18) before the summer is over.

The May 27 and 28 Mexico City dates were attended by over 100,000 of the most enthusiastic McCartney fans on the planet. Featuring the first ever performances in Mexico of The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and the Fireman’s “Highway” and “Sing The Changes,” among numerous other highlights, the twin 2-hour-plus marathon sets found McCartney turning the 100,000-plus-attendance doubleheader into an intimate affair: The first date alone saw a local man’s dream come true as he joined Paul for an impressive soundcheck duet of “I Saw Her Standing There,” while later that night a female fan whose “I Want To Dance On Stage” sign caught Paul’s eye was invited to do just that for an encore of “Get Back.”

Macca will be anything but idle in the month leading up to his next U.S. run: On June 2 The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was presented to McCartney at a special concert in the East Room of the White House. The performance, featuring Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Jack White, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and more will air on PBS stations nationwide on Wednesday, July 28 at 8 p.m. EDT (check local listings) as “Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House.” The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was created by the Library of Congress to honor artists whose creative output transcends distinctions between musical styles and idioms, bringing diverse listeners together, and fostering mutual understanding and appreciation.

Beginning June 12, McCartney’s Up and Coming Juggernaut will swing through Dublin, the Isle of Wight, Glasgow and Cardiff before concluding with a June 27 headline at London’s Hyde Park.

The Up and Coming  2010 Tour continues to target cities McCartney has never played before as well as historically significant markets from which he’s been absent too long: The July 10 show will be McCartney’s first concert within the city of San Francisco since The Beatles wrapped their last ever tour at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966, the July 13 date will be McCartney’s first-ever performance in Utah, and July 26 as mentioned will mark McCartney’s Nashville debut. Elsewhere, the July 15 show at Denver’s Pepsi Center and August 8 date at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre will be Paul’s first appearances in both regions in approximately five years, July 24 at Kansas City’s Sprint Center and August 12 at Montreal’s Bell Centre will end a 17- and 20-year absences from those markets respectively, and July 28 at Charlotte NC’s Time Warner Cable Arena marks Macca’s first show in the city since 1993. The current run will conclude with a pair of engagements in Pennsylvania: August 14’s return to the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia and the August 18 opening of Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center, on which Paul will christen the new venue with his first Pittsburgh show in over two decades.

McCartney’s live shows have reached a new level of status in recent years, garnering unprecedented reviews from fans and critics alike.  He’s pushed boundaries, performed to millions and made global news with monumental shows including performances in Moscow’s Red Square, outside of the Coliseum in Rome, the largest outdoor show ever in the Ukraine, his first performance in Tel Aviv and a live performance transmitted to a NASA space station.  The Up and Coming dates, which kicked off in late March, are McCartney’s first U.S. shows since his Summer Live ‘09 Tour, which was prefaced by a triumphant sold-out headline set at the 2009 Coachella festival and a surprise Late Show with David Letterman mini-concert on the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater (inside which The Beatles made TV history decades ago) that drew throngs packing Broadway from Columbus Circle to Times Square.  Summer Live ’09 began in earnest with an already legendary inaugural run of shows at New York’s Citi Field Stadium, the site of the former Shea Stadium where The Beatles played the 1965 concert that set the precedent for the modern-day stadium rock show. The Citi Field shows have since been immortalized on the gold-certified Good Evening New York City CD/DVD, released November 17 2009 by Hear Music/Concord.

Garnering rave reviews the world over, the Up and Coming Tour 2010 set list draws on two-plus hours’ worth of selections spanning the catalogues of The Beatles, Wings and Paul’s solo career, including tracks from The Fireman’s 2008 album, Electric Arguments, and has featured material never before played on U.S. soil.

Stay tuned to PaulMcCartney.com for information on tickets, additional shows and other announcements.

PAUL McCARTNEY
UP AND COMING TOUR 2010

06/12/10 – Dublin, Ireland – RDS
06/13/10 – Newport, UK – Isle of Wight Festival
06/20/10 – Glasgow, UK – Hampden Park
06/26/10 – Cardiff, UK – Millennium Stadium
06/27/10 – London, UK – Hard Rock Calling
07/10/10 – San Francisco, CA – AT & T Park
07/13/10 – Sandy, UT – Rio Tinto Stadium
07/15/10 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
07/24/10 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
07/26/10 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
07/28/10 – Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Arena
08/08/10 – Toronto, ONT – Air Canada Center
08/12/10 – Montreal, QUE – Bell Center
08/14/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Center
08/18/10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Consol Energy Center

Philip Selway of Radiohead will release his first solo album, Familial, August 31 on Nonesuch Records. The album will be available for pre-order late June.

A collection of sublimely fragile, haunting and heartfelt songs, Familial is likely to surprise many—and not solely because these beautifully understated performances are coming from a drummer. Familial is so persuasively good as to make a case for Selway as a natural born singer-songwriter.

The very first seeds of Familial were planted in 2001 when Neil Finn organized an impromptu gathering of talent, including Johnny Marr, Eddie Vedder, Lisa Germano, former Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg, Selway and his Radiohead bandmate Ed O’Brien, in aid of charity. The resulting album 7 Worlds Collide was credited to Neil Finn and Friends, but when the project was revived in 2008 the singing/songwriting was divided among the ranks, which by then included members of Wilco. During those sessions at Finn’s Auckland studio, Philip came up with Familial’s “The Ties That Bind Us,” on which he made his debut as a lead vocalist. That song, and an earlier number, “The Witching Hour”–also on Familial—appeared on 7WC’s The Sun Came Out album, released August 2009.

Back home, Selway asked Courtyard Studios’ resident engineer and producer Ian Davenport to work with him on sessions that would yield Familial. Selway then invited Germano, Steinberg, and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Sansone to join him in the studio. Familial finds these varied and accomplished creative voices working in concert to craft a subtly complex and completely hypnotic atmosphere. Curiously, traditional drumming is virtually absent from the record, which favors underlying textures and loops for percussion. At times Familial’s beats and instrumental colours are so subtle, it seems as if the acoustic air in the room is setting the mood, leaving space for the lyrics, which clearly come from the most intimate of places.

For further information, check  www.nonesuch.com or contact Steve Martin at nasty little man 212 343 0740 steve@nastylittleman.com

Passion Pit Support Dates, Bonnaroo, Headline Dates Running Throughout Summer

DOM Remixes “Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)”

Tokyo Police Club released their sophomore effort Champ on Mom + Pop today. The second full length offering from the Newmarket Ontario quartet whose previous releases include 2008’s Elephant Shell album and the 2006 debut EP, A Lesson In Crime, Champ hasn’t even taken 24 hours to generate some of the most enthusiastic critical reactions of the band’s career to date. The New York Post commented “it’s nice to hear a group smart enough to recognize they have a good thing going,” adding that David Monks’ vocal growth “makes him sound like he’s living the experiences of each song as he sings them”; The Atlanta Music Guide raved “Tokyo Police Club could quite possibly be Ontario’s finest exports since maple syrup” and called Champ “the top down, head bopping playlist for the summer”;  while The Dallas Morning News hailed Champ’s ability to “stealthily slip underneath your skin.”

The band is currently supporting with Passion Pit on a tour whose conclusion will see them play before more than 10,000 fans over the course of two New York shows. Following those shows, Tokyo Police Club will immediately embark on headlining dates taking them across North America and through the summer (full dates below).

Embracing the spirit of the record (and making for some extracurricular fun on tour), Tokyo Police Club recently threw down the challenge to their fans to participate in the Champ Championship, issuing the following statement: “Challenge us to something. Anything. Ping pong. Baking. Mario. Nerf guns. Hockey. Unicycling. Catching grapes in your mouth. You name it. When we come to your town on tour we’ll make it happen. This summer, it’s on.”  Fans can enter their ideas at TokyoPoliceClub.com and winners will have access to tickets, merchandise, etc. as well as the chance to meet the band while competing in whatever activity they submitted, as fans did in New York June 1 for a rousing and well-documented round of Beer Pong.

Champ’s first single “Wait Up (Boots of Danger),” recently remixed by Passion Pit, has also been reinterpreted by Dom, whose take–as well as download the original version-can be heard at http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14447-wait-up-boots-of-danger-wait-up-boots-of-danger-dom-remix/ and/or http://stereogum.com/398882/tokyo-police-club-wait-up-boots-of-danger-dom-remix/mp3s/

TOKYO POLICE CLUB ON TOUR 2010:
Jun, 8, 2010 The National (With Passion Pit) Richmond, VA
Jun 9, 2010     The Tabernacle (with Passion Pit) – Atlanta, GA
Jun 11, 2010    Bonnaroo – Manchester, TN
Jun 12, 2010    Club at Firestone (with Passion Pit) – Orlando, FL
Jun 13, 2010    The FIllmore (with Passion Pit) – Miami Beach, FL
Jun 14, 2010    The Ritz Ybor (with Passion Pit) – Tampa, FL
Jun 16, 2010    House of Blues (with Passion Pit) – New Orleans, LA
Jun 17, 2010    Warehouse Live (with Passion Pit) – Houston, TX
Jun 18, 2010    Stubb’s (with Passion Pit) – Austin, TX
Jun 19, 2010    Stubb’s (with Passion Pit) – Austin, TX
Jun 21, 2010    Palladium Ballroom (with Passion Pit) – Dallas, TX
Jun 23, 2010    The Pageant (with Passion Pit) – St. Louis, MO
Jun 25, 2010    Royal Oak Music Theater (with Passion PIt) – Royal Oak, MI
Jun 27, 2010    Mann Center (with Passion Pit) – Philadelphia, PA
Jun 29, 2010    Prospect Park Bandshell (with Passion Pit) – Brooklyn, NY
Jun 30, 2010    Governor’s Island (with Passion Pit) – New York, NY

Headlining Dates
July 23 Nod Experiment Festival – Jackson, MI
July 24 Grog – Cleveland, OH
July 25 Town Ball Room – Buffalo, NY
July 27 Black Cat – Washington, DC
July 28  The Basement – Columbus, OH
July 29 The Vogue – Indianapolis, IN
July 31 Record Bar – Kansas City, KS
Aug 1 Slowdown – Omaha, NE
Aug 3 Bluebird – Denver, CO
Aug 4 In The Venue – Salt Lake City
Aug 5 Beauty Bar – Las Vegas, NV
Aug 7 Plush – Tuscan, AZ
Aug 8 Casbah – San Diego, CA
Aug 12 El Rey – Los Angeles, CA
Aug 15 Aladdin – Portland, OR
Aug 16 Neumos – Seattle, WA
Aug 19 Varsity – Minneapolis, MN
Aug 20 Metro – Chicago, IL
(All Dates With Support From Freelance Whales)

http://tokyopoliceclub.com
www.momandpopmusic.com

MATES OF STATE CRUSHES (THE COVERS MIXTAPE) OUT JUNE 15

PRE-ORDER AND AND FREE DOWNLOAD OF “TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU IN THE END” LIVE NOW AT MATESOFSTATE.COM

LIMITED EDITION PHYSICAL EDITION AVAILABLE ONLY AT SUMMER CRUSHES TOUR DATES

Mates of State’s Crushes (The Covers Mixtape), currently available for pre-order at matesofstate.com for a more than reasonable $5, will be self-released on June 15 to all finer digital music retailers.

A limited edition physical CD version of Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) will be sold only at dates on the Summer Crushes tour.

Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) consists of versions of some of the Mates’ personal favorite songs by artists ranging from Daniel Johnston-whose “True Love Will Find You In The End” is now available as a free download at matesofstate.com (embed code at bottom of press release)– to Nick Cave, whose “Love Letter” is also interpreted visually in a video directed by Daniel Garcia, also up at matesofstate.com, to Girls, whose “Laura” is also available in its Mates incarnation as a free download at matesofstate.com

Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) is the first full album recorded and produced by Mates Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner themselves, with a mixing assist from longtime collaborator Peter Katis (The National, Swell Season, Interpol, etc.).

Finally, Mates of State recently announced the lineup and itinerary of the Summer Crushes tour, a traveling spectacle to kick off on the record’s June 15 release date and run through July.  The Summer Crushes tour will see Mates of State supported on this one time only occasion by multimedia guests ranging from the unpretentious rock of Free Energy to the wit of comedians Todd Barry (Flight of the Conchords, Lucky Louie, Bored to Death) and Nick Thune (Comedy Central Presents, Knocked Up). The unique Summer Crushes roadshow will transform venues previously headlined by the Mates into theaters hosting virtual traveling variety shows featuring magicians, illusionists, Bubble Man, sideshow acts (Beds of Nails, Straitjacket escapists, sword swallowing, human blockheads), acts of gravity defiance, jugglers, and more. In addition, Mates’ own Jason Hammel will serve as the tour’s resident DJ.

For further information, see the itinerary below and/or contact Amy Grote at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e amy@nastylittleman.com

Mates of State
SUMMER CRUSHES TOUR

6/15 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse * #
6/16 Rochester, NY @ Water Street * #
6/17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church % #
6/18 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s * #
6/19 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop * #
6/21 Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century * #
6/22 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * #
6/23 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar *
6/24 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar *
6/25 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *
6/26 Denver, CO @ Bluebird *
6/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue *
6/30 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall * ^
7/1 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall * ^
7/2 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo * ^
7/3 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo * ^
7/4 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *
7/6 Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s *
7/7 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre *
7/8 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live *
7/9 Baton Rouge @ Spanish Moon *
7/10 Birmingham @ Workplay *
7/12 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt * ^
7/13 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel * ^
7/14 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar  * ^
7/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall ^
7/16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^
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* w/ Free Energy
# w/ Todd Barry
^ w/ Nick Thune
% w/ Suckers

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Pre-Sales Live Now at Arcadefire.com For August Dates in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Atlanta, DC

Special Guests SPOON Support in New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, DC

Public On Sales Begin Friday, June 4

June 7 and 8 Sherbrooke Shows On Sale Now

The Suburbs In Stores August 3

ARCADE FIRE has announced its first U.S. headline dates since 2007’s Neon Bible tour. Pre-Sales are now live at arcadefire.com for the dates, which are as follows:

August 1 – Boston – Bank of America Pavilion
August 2 – Philadelphia – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
August 4 – New York – Madison Square Garden
August 6 – Columbia MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
August 9 – Nashville – Ryman Auditorium
August 11 – Atlanta – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park

SPOON is confirmed as special guest on the New York, Philadelphia, DC and Atlanta dates, which bookend the ARCADE FIRE’s  previously announced August 8 Lollapalooza appearance and the release of the band’s third full-length studio album, The Suburbs, out August 3rd on Merge.

ARCADE FIRE also announced yesterday that the band will play two very special intimate shows at Sherbrooke QUE’s Theater Granada on June 7 and 8. For a complete listing of upcoming ARCADE FIRE gigs, see below. Further dates will be announced as they are confirmed.

Written, arranged, performed and produced by the ARCADE FIRE and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years. A double A side, limited edition 12″ was released to record stores May 27th 2010, featuring the title track and “Month of May,” both of which are available for immediate download with album pre-orders placed at arcadefire.com.

Formed in Montreal, the ARCADE FIRE is Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara.

ARCADE FIRE will donate $1 from every ticket sold to Partners In Health, an organization helping impoverished communities around the world combat disease and poverty. Please visit www.pih.org for more information.

www.arcadefire.com
www.PiH.org

ARCADE FIRE
LIVE 2010

7-June  Sherbrooke QUE – Theater Granada
8-June  Sherbrooke QUE – Theater Granada
30-June Rättvik, Sweden – Dalhalla
2-July  Tromøy, Norway – Hove Festival
4-July  Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
9-July  County Kildare, Ireland – Oxegen Festival
12-July Quebec, Canada – Quebec City Summer Festival
13-July Ottawa, Canada – Ottawa Bluesfest
31-July    Montreal – Osheaga
1-Aug    Boston – Bank of America Pavillion
2-Aug    Philadelphia – Mann Centre for the Performing arts
4-Aug    New York – Madison Square Garden
6-Aug    Washington DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion
8-Aug    Chicago – Lollapalooza
9-Aug    Nashville – Ryman Auditorium
11-Aug    Atlanta – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
14-Aug    Toronto – Olympic Island
27-Aug  Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
27-Aug  Reading, UK – Reading Festival
29-Aug  Saint Cloud, France – Rock En Seine
2-Sept   Bologna, Italy – I-Day Festival

PRE-ORDERS LIVE NOW AT howtodestroyangels.com

PHYSICAL EDITION AVAILABLE AT RETAIL JULY 6

The self-titled free 6-song EP from How To Destroy Angels a/k/a Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is now available for pre-order at howtodestroyangels.com. Those pre-ordering the EP will receive the track “The Believers” immediately and the remaining 5 songs on June 1.

The physical CD release of the EP will take place July 6 via the Null label.  A vinyl version will also be released at a date to be determined.

The complete tracklisting for How To Destroy Angels is:

1.  The Space In Between
2.  Parasite
3.  Fur-Lined
4.  BBB
5.  The Believers
6.  A Drowning

The track “A Drowning” is  already available for purchase via all finer digital retailers.

How To Destroy Angels recently unveiled a video for “The Space In Between,” which can be viewed at the band’s site as well as many other locations.

For further information, check back regularly at howtodestroyangels.com.

Pre-Order Live Now At Arcadefire.com

The Arcade Fire is set to release its third full-length studio album, The Suburbs, on August 3rd on Merge in the U.S. and its own Sonovox label in Canada.

Written, arranged, performed and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years.

A double A side, limited edition 12″will be available in record stores from May 27th 2010, featuring the tracks “The Suburbs” and “Month of May.” Both songs will be available for immediate download with pre-orders placed at arcadefire.com.

The Arcade Fire’s 2004 debut Funeral featured strongly in Album of the Decade Polls around the world including NME, Pitchfork, Guardian, Mojo and Rolling Stone. Their 2007 follow-up Neon Bible, debuted number 2 in the U.S. Both records were nominated for Best Alternative Album Grammys.

A number of live shows by the band have already been confirmed leading up to and beyond the album’s release, including headline appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals at the end of August. Further dates will be announced shortly.

Formed in Montreal, the Arcade Fire is Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara.

www.arcadefire.com
www.PiH.org

OVER 45K SOLD FIRST WEEK

APPEARING ON THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON MAY 27

MARK PELLINGTON-DIRECTED “LAREDO” VIDEO IN PRODUCTION

Summer Dates Added in Nashville, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Columbia

“Even when he’s singing about zoning out on the couch, it feels Grand Canyon expansive”–ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“pure, polished AM-radio gold”–NYLON

Infinite Arms, Band of Horses’ third full length LP and first for Brown/Fat Possum/Columbia, has sold over 45,000 records in the week following its May 18 release, debuting at #7 on the U.S. album chart.

Infinite Arms also debuted #2 in Norway, top 10 in Canada, top 20 in Australia and New Zealand, making an impressive international showing overall.

The band’s career chart high to date comes in the wake of a North American tour supporting Pearl Jam, during which BOH’s Ben Bridwell joined the headliners for multiple encores of “All Along The Watchtower” as well as a climactic and rarely played  version of Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike” at Madison Square Garden.

Band of Horses has been anything but inactive since wrapping those dates, appearing May 27 on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, days after sneaking in a stripped down acoustic set at the Masonic Lodge at L.A.’s Hollywood Forever cemetery. The band has also knocked out electric sets from the Roxy to Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, and filmed a video for first single “Laredo” with Mark Pellington in Pioneertown CA—where they fit in an impromptu May 23 set at Pappy & Harriet’s.

Additionally, Band of Horses has contributed the unavailable elsewhere “Life On Earth” to the upcoming Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, and will be adding a leg of July dates to a globe-spanning 2010 tour that will include some of its biggest headlining shows to date from New York’s Williamsburg Waterfront to the Greek Theaters of Los Angeles and Berkeley.

A current list of dates is below, with many more to be announced very soon. Visit www.bandofhorses.com for ticketing information.

Band of Horses is Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds.

TOUR DATES

05/27/10 – Davis, CA – UC Davis/Freeborn Hall
05/29/10 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
05/30/10 – Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheater^
05/31/10 – George, WA – Sasquatch Festival
06/04/10 – Dublin, Ireland – Academy
06/05/10 – Bangor, Ireland – Ward Park
06/08/10 – Manchester, UK – Ritz
06/09/10 – London, UK – Roundhouse
06/11/10 – Oxford, UK – Oxford Academy
06/12/10 – Glasgow, Scotland – Bellahouston Park %
06/14/10 – Wolverhampton, UK – Wulfurn Hall
06/17/10 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Faulkner
06/19/10 – Toronto, ONT – Olympic Island Concert#
06/20/10 – Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront
07/12/10 – Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium
07/13/10 – Cincinnati , OH – Inner Circle
07/14/10 – Columbia, MO – Blue Note
07/16/10 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Club (The Rave)
07/17/10 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theater
07/22/10 – Adelaide, AUS – Gov Hindmarsh
07/24/10 – Perth, AUS – On the Bright Side Festival
07/27/10 – Melbourne, AUS – Palace
07/29/10 – Sydney, AUS – Enmore
07/31/10 – Brisbane, AUS – Splendour in the Grass
08/07/10 – Osaka, Japan – Summersonic
08/08/10 – Tokyo, Japan – Summersonic
08/19/10 – Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop
08/20/10 – Holland, The Netherlands – Lowlands
08/22/10 – Hamburg, Germany – Highfield Festival
08/24/10 – Malmo, Sweden – Malmofestival
08/27/10 – Saint Cloud, France – Rock en Seine Festival
08/28/10 – Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
08/29/10 – Reading, UK – Reading Festival
09/03/10  – Stavanger, Norway – Stavanger Festival
09/04/10 – Tromso, Norway – Tromso Festival
09/24/10 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theater
09/25/10 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theater
10/10/10 – Austin City Limits Festival

^ with She & Him
% with Snow Patrol
# with Pavement and Broken Social Scene

Syracuse NY’s most internationally beloved export Ra Ra Riot will issue its second full length album, The Orchard, August 24 on Barsuk in the U.S. International release dates will be confirmed and announced shortly.

Produced by Ra Ra Riot and Andrew Maury and mixed by Chris Walla (with one assist from Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij), The Orchard is 10 more stunning offerings of the bittersweet and endearing Ra Ra Riot blend that Entertainment Weekly likened to “Unforgettable Fire-era U2.”

The Orchard’s full track listing is:

1. The Orchard
2. Boy
3. Too Dramatic
4. Foolish
5. Massachusetts
6. You and I Know
7. Shadowcasting
8. Do You Remember
9. Kansai
10. Keep It Quiet

The Orchard follows up Ra Ra Riot’s debut album, The Rhumb Line, released two years earlier (almost to the day) and immediately hailed as “a blissful chamber-pop breakthrough” in a 4-star Rolling Stone review (who named it the #38 album of 2008), and by Time Out New York as “classically pretty, but without getting all fussy about it.”  The Rhumb Line debuted at #109 on the U.S. album chart and went on to sell in excess of 60,000 copies as the band’s live draw grew exponentially.

Ra Ra Riot is vocalist Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos, guitarist Milo Bonacci, violinist Rebecca Zeller and cellist Alexandra Lawn. The Orchard marks the band’s first time the band has been joined in the studio by drummer Gabriel Duquette, who has toured with the band since the release of The Rhumb Line.