Autumn Fallin’ Out Now

“(Four stars)…the kind of surgical precision rarely seen since Bob Dylan’s wicked youth.”-SPIN

After months of touring the UK in support of her finally-available-in-the-U.S. debut Autumn Fallin’ -not to mention her recent television debut on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN–JAYMAY has decided to make her first extensive trek beyond the coasts and grace the greater U.S. with her presence!

JAYMAY’s recent stint at South By Southwest bodes well for the tour, with her having been singled out by NPR at one of the “three most exciting artists” of the 1600 acts playing SXSW. But better to let live footage do the talking:

NPR performance of Grey or Blue:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88670991

Lonely Men Built Lonely Cities:

One May Die So Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYU6ZpoGGM&feature=related

She’ll be doing another run of May dates in Europe with Jens Lekman, and then will be returning to her hometown NYC to kick off the U.S. tour.

With Jens Lekman:
May 12 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
May 13 – Newcastle, UK – The Cluny
May 14 – Leeds, UK – Woodhouse Club
May 15 – Glasgow, UK – Oran Mor
May 19 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
May 21 – Birmingham, UK – Glee Club
May 23 – Belfast, UK – The Black Box
May 24 – Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh
May 25 – Dublin, Ireland – The Village

With Fink:
June 10 – NEW YORK, NY – Bowery Ballroom
June 11 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Tin Angel
June 12 – ARLINGTON, VA – Iota
June 13 – CLEVELAND, OH – B-Side
June 14 – PITTSBURGH, PA – Club Cafe
June 16 – CHICAGO, IL – Schuba’s
June 18 – LOS ANGELES, CA – Troubadour
June 19 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Cafe du Nord
June 20 – PORTLAND, OR – Doug Fir
June 21 – SEATTLE, WA – Tractor Tavern

Dates and venues have been confirmed for the second leg of Radiohead’s upcoming North American tour. They are:

August 1 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
August 3 – Verizon Wireless Music Center – Indianapolis, IN
August 4 – Blossom Music Center – Cleveland, OH
August 6 – Parc Jean Drapeau – Montreal, QC
August 8 – All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park – Jersey City, NJ
August 9 – All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park – Jersey City, NJ
August 12 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
August 13 – Tweeter Center For the Performing Arts – Mansfield, MA
August 15 – Molson Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON
August 19 – Thunderbird Stadium – Vancouver, BC
August 20 – White River Amphitheatre – Auburn, WA
August 22 – Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival @ Golden Gate Park – San Francisco, CA
August 24 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA
August 25 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA
August 27 – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA
August 28 – Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA

With the exception of the festivals (Lollapalooza, All Points West, Outside Lands), pre-sale for the above dates will begin April 9 with general on-sale following April 12.

Support for the headline dates will be Grizzly Bear August 3-15 and Liars August 19-28 (as well as the first run of U.S. dates in May).

Nine Inch Nails 2008 touring lineup has been completed. Returning member Robin Finck and new addition Rich Fownes will join Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese for a world tour beginning July in North America.

Finck has served in numerous touring configurations of NIN, from tours supporting The Downward Spiral (1994-1997) to The Fragile (2000-2001). More recently, he played in Guns N Roses. Fownes has been performing with UNKLE, and has been a member of With Scissors and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

The upcoming tour will feature the live debut of material from the recently released Ghosts I-IV alongside songs spanning the entire NIN catalogue.

Confirmed dates thus far for NIN’s 2008 world tour are listed below. Additional dates and on-sales will be announced shortly.

07/25/08 – Pemberton, BC – Pemberton Festival
07/26/08 – Seattle, WA – Key Arena at Seattle Center
07/28/08 – Edmonton, ALB – Rexall Place
07/29/08 – Calgary, ALB – Pengrowth Saddledome
07/31/08 – Winnipeg, MAN – MTS Centre
08/02/08 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
08/05/08 – Toronto, ONT – Air Canada Centre
08/07/08 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
08/08/08 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
08/12/08 – Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Civic Coliseum
08/13/08 – Duluth, GA – Gwinnett Arena
08/15/08 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
08/16/08 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
08/18/08 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
08/20/08 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
08/22/08 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
08/23/08 – Auburn Hills, MI – Palace of Auburn Hills
08/27/08 – East Rutherford, NJ – Izod Center
08/29/08 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Center
08/31/08 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
09/02/08 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheater
09/03/08 – Salt Lake City, UT – The E Center of West Valley
09/05/08 – Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena
09/06/08 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum

For more information please contact Steve Martin Or Amy Grote at 212 343 0740, or amy@nastylittleman.com

2-Disc Edition Features Rare Import Tracks, B-Sides, Previously Unreleased Live And Demo Tracks, Newly Recorded “Your House 2007″

“[Jimmy Eat World] conjure that shock of near-bubblegum catchiness, airtight ensemble attack and bittersweet mingling of anguish and uplifting melody that many bands fake but few can pull off… Jimmy Eat World have managed to be radical by just being sincere.”
– ROLLING STONE lead review of Bleed American, Aug. 16, 2001

“Tuneful, retro alt-rock-Brilliant!”-BLENDER, BEST OF 2001

“An eclectic sonic feast (Album of the week)”-PEOPLE, August 6, 2001

For every artist paralyzed with fear and frustration as to how to “make it” in today’s terrifying marketplace, the story behind Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American provides both inspiration and a lesson in Perseverance 101.

Circa August 1999, things couldn’t look much more dire for the Mesa AZ foursome. Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, Zach Lind and Tom Linton had seen their two major label full lengths, Static Prevails and Clarity, ignored by mainstream media, radio and their label Capitol Records, who had just unceremoniously dropped them.

However, this same turn of events that has broken the will–and the bank–of many a lesser artist found Jimmy Eat World celebrating its newfound independence with a self-promoted five-week tour of Europe. That their label had never released Jimmy Eat World material overseas was hardly an obstacle: The band began buying its own records from the label’s distributor and shipping them to Europe independently. Within a year, Jimmy Eat World was playing Europe’s biggest festivals as Clarity hit the German charts, self-releasing and independently releasing compilations and EPs, doing Japanese licensing deals, and touring touring touring… ultimately channeling everything back into the recording of Bleed American.

Having recorded it on their own dime as a dedication to the fans that had kept them alive during the lean times, the members of Jimmy Eat World couldn’t possibly have predicted that Bleed American would become a platinum-plus, MTV VMA-nominated bona fide career breakthrough smash. Released in July 2001, in a world with no iTunes store, no MySpace, no Facebook, and charts still utterly dominated by the Britneys, N Syncs and Limp Bizkits, four down to earth guys from Arizona who’d just been dropped by a major label improbably rode this self-funded album to platinum status, their biggest tours to date and an appearance on Saturday Night Live.

For anyone looking to do the same, the path is simple: Just create songs as heartfelt, tuneful and instantly indelible as Bleed American’s title track, “The Middle,” “Sweetness,” “A Praise Chorus” or “The Authority Song,” all of which remain staples of the band’s live set to this day. And for those who crave something other than the perfect upbeat and optimistic pop anthem, the minor key whisper-to-a-scream “Get It Faster,” the five and a half minute “Cautioners” and the somber “My Sundown” all stand as proof of Jimmy Eat World’s daring and depth.

This 2-disc deluxe edition of Bleed American not only restores the record’s original title-the band re-titled the record Jimmy Eat World following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent deployment of U.S. troops to the Middle East-but also provides further documentation of Jimmy Eat World’s powerful and prolific output circa 2001-2002: Obscure fan favorites “No Sensitivity,” “Softer” and “(Splash) Turn Twist,” the collectors item holiday single “Last Christmas”/”Firestarter,” the band’s cover of Guided By Voices’ “Game of Pricks,” and the piece de resistance, the never before heard “Your House 2007.” The stunning reimagining of the Bleed American track the band debuted on its 2007 stripped down semi-acoustic tour elicited an unexpectedly intense response from fans at the shows and later on message boards, moving the band to commit the arrangement to tape to honor its fans if nothing else…

The 2-disc Bleed American deluxe collects all this and more for the first time in one place, creating an essential and comprehensive document for any fan of Jimmy Eat World-or any fan of what USA TODAY called “euphoric, uplifting, reassuring rock.”

DISC ONE: THE ORIGINAL ALBUM
1 BLEED AMERICAN
2 A PRAISE CHORUS
3 THE MIDDLE
4 YOUR HOUSE
5 SWEETNESS
6 HEAR YOU ME
7 IF YOU DON’T, DON’T
8 GET IT FASTER
9 CAUTIONERS
10 THE AUTHORITY SONG
11 MY SUNDOWN
BONUS TRACKS
12 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS
from the Good To Go EP
13 NO SENSITIVITY
from the German “The Middle” single
14 (SPLASH) TURN TWIST
from The Middle (And More) EP

DISC TWO: B-SIDES AND BONUS TRACKS
1 CAUTIONERS early version
from the Good To Go EP
2 FIRESTARTER
b-side of the “Last Christmas” single
3 GET IT FASTER sessions @ aol version
previously unreleased
4 BLEED AMERICAN live
from The Middle/A Praise Chorus Tour EP
5 A PRAISE CHORUS live
from the Good To Go EP
6 SOFTER live
from the Good To Go EP
7 THE MIDDLE acoustic
from The Middle/A Praise Chorus Tour EP
8 IF YOU DON’T, DON’T XFM session
from the UK “The Middle” single
9 GAME OF PRICKS Radio 1 session
from the UK “The Middle” single
10 THE AUTHORITY SONG demo
from the German “Bleed American” single
11 MY SUNDOWN inner ear recording
from Believe In What You Want
12 SWEETNESS live
previously unreleased
13 LAST CHRISTMAS
limited edition single
14 MY SUNDOWN demo
from the German “Bleed American” single
15 SPANGLE
from the Good To Go EP
16 HEAR YOU ME inner ear recording
from Believe In What You Want
17 THE MIDDLE early demo
from the German “The Middle” single
18 YOUR HOUSE 2007
previously unreleased

For more information on this special release and Jimmy Eat World’s current co-headline tour with Paramore, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

Foo Fighters have announced that they will headline Virgin Festival 2008 at Toronto’s Island Park. They have also added to their US tour itinerary with newly announced dates at East Ruthorford, NJ among others. The band will continue to announce new dates over the next few weeks. Supergrass will be supporting on all U.S. summer shows.

The U.S. summer tour extends what is shaping up to be an extraordinary year on the road – the Foos recently sold out their first ever show at Madison Square Garden, have sold out two June dates at London’s Wembley Stadium, and between now and July will visit Japan, Finland, and Australia, among others. The reviews of the band’s recently concluded American tour were glowing; the Houston Chronicle called the Foos “a band at the peak of its powers, in all respects,” and the Boston Globe described ringleader Dave Grohl as “the funniest, savviest, and most exciting frontman in rock ‘n’ roll in 2008.”

Stay tuned to FooFighters.com for ticket information and further updates. Newly announced dates are underlined below. For more info on the tour and the Grammy-winning album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

July 9 – Seattle WA – Key Arena
July 10 – Portland OR – Rose Garden Arena
July 14 & 15 – Morrison CO – Red Rocks
July 17 – Oklahoma City OK – Ford Center (rescheduled from earlier this year)
July 19 – Kansas City MO – Kemper Arena
July 20 – St. Louis MO – Scottrade Center
July 22 – Grand Rapids MI – Van Andel Arena
July 23 – Indianapolis IN – Conseco Field House
July 25 – Cleveland OH – Quicken Loans Arena
July 26 – Pittsburgh PA – Peterson Events Center
July 29 – East Rutherford NJ – Izod Center
August 9 – Baltimore MD – Pimlico Race Course – Virgin Mobile Festival
September 6 – Toronto ON – Virgin Festival

Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are giving fans the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude” at http://www.radioheadremix.com

To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’* from the song will be available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. Fans can mix them in any way they like, either by adding their own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.

Fans who purchase all five ’stems’ from iTunes during the first week they’re available, will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don’t need GarageBand to do a remix, all the stems are available in iTunes Plus and compatible with several music software platforms.

Finished mixes can be uploaded to http://www.radioheadremix.com where the public will listen and vote for their favourite remix (voting ends May 1st). Fans can also create a widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as ‘mix votes’ back on radioheadremix.com.

Nude is out now in the UK on CD, 7″ and download.

*’stems’ are the component parts of the song.

DEBUT ALBUM ELEPHANT SHELL OUT APRIL 22 ON SADDLE CREEK

Although the release of their first full-length album is still a month away, Tokyo Police Club has started their US tour with a bang, selling out three nights in New York and two in Los Angeles among others.

The furor around the tour and upcoming album isn’t a complete surprise; the band’s 2006 EP A Lesson In Crime was perhaps the best received 16 minutes of music in recent history. Since then, TPC has toured virtually non-stop, pausing only to release last year’s Smith EP and digital-only single “Your English Is Good.” Elephant Shell (which will also be released in the UK on May 5th via Memphis Industries) features the single “Tessellate” and “In a Cave,” the latter of which was described by Pitchfork as “what these young Canadian dudes do best, barreling forward with a bouncy herky-jerk rhythm, braiding together several strands of ringing guitar, and filling in the spaces with those Day-Glo chords that made ‘Nature of the Experiment’ such a winner.”

Tokyo Police Club was formed in 2005 by David Monks (vocals, bass), Josh Hook (guitar), Graham Wright (keyboards), and Greg Alsop (drums). The complete track listing for Elephant Shell is:

1. Centennial
2. In A Cave
3. Graves
4. Juno
5. Tessellate
6. Sixties Remake
7. The Harrowing Adventures Of…
8. Nursery Academy
9. Your English Is Good
10. Listen To The Math
11. The Baskervilles

See below for all confirmed North American dates. This extensive tour will be followed by a UK/Europe run beginning in late May. For more information on the tour and upcoming album, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

Mar. 24, 2008 The Independent – San Francisco, CA SOLD OUT
Mar. 25, 2008 The Glass House – Pomona, CA
Mar. 26, 2008 Troubadour – Hollywood, CA SOLD OUT
Mar. 27, 2008 Troubadour – Hollywood, CA SOLD OUT
Mar. 28, 2008 Soma – San Diego, CA
Mar. 29, 2008 The Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
Mar. 31, 2008 Meridian Red Room – Houston, TX
Apr. 1, 2008 House of Blues – Dallas, TX
Apr. 3, 2008 Club Downunder – Tallahassee, FL
Apr. 4, 2008 Studio A – Miami, FL
Apr. 5, 2008 Backbooth – Orlando, FL
Apr. 8, 2008 Exit/In – Nashville, TN
Apr. 9, 2008 The Spot – Cleveland, OH
Apr. 18, 2008 Barrymore’s Music Hall – Ottawa, ON
Apr. 19, 2008 Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire – Montreal, QC
Apr. 20, 2008 Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY SOLD OUT
Apr. 21, 2008 Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY SOLD OUT
Apr. 22, 2008 Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY SOLD OUT
Apr. 24, 2008 Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
Apr. 26, 2008 Pearl Street Night Club – Northampton, MA
Apr. 28, 2008 First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA
Apr. 29, 2008 Black Cat – Washington, DC
Apr. 30, 2008 Big Orbit’s Soundlab – Buffalo, NY
May 2, 2008 Opera House – Toronto, ON SOLD OUT
May 3, 2008 Opera House – Toronto, ON
May. 4, 2008 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI
May. 5, 2008 Metro – Chicago, IL
May. 6, 2008 Varsity Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
May. 8, 2008 Garrick Theatre – Winnipeg, MB
May. 9, 2008 Louis’ Pub – Saskatoon, SK
May. 10, 2008 The Warehouse – Calgary, AB
May. 11, 2008 The Warehouse – Calgary, AB
May. 12, 2008 Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB
May. 16, 2008 Plaza Club – Vancouver, BC
May. 17, 2008 Sugar Nightclub – Victoria, BC
May. 18, 2008 Neumos – Seattle, WA
May. 19, 2008 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
May. 22, 2008 Bluebird Theatre – Denver, CO
May. 23, 2008 Slowdown – Omaha, NE

MATES OF STATE
RE-ARRANGE US
OUT MAY 20 ON BARSUK
Sasquatch Festival Appearance Confirmed for May 25
Followed by May 28 Headline Date at Henry Fonda Theater

Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, the he and she music factory known as Mates of State, have confirmed the May 2008 release and track listing for their fifth full length album, Re-Arrange Us. They have also confirmed that Mates of State will appear at the Sasquatch Festival Sunday, May 25, followed by a May 28 date at Los Angeles’ Henry Fonda Theater, and a full headlining tour and numerous other festival dates to be announced shortly. The tour will mark Mates’ first extensive road trip since NPR’s This American Life tour last February, where they provided musical interludes between Ira Glass, Dave Eggers, Dan Savage, Sarah Vowell and David Rakoff’s readings to 3000+ crowds across the U.S.
Produced by Peter Katis and Mates of State, the track listing for Re-Arrange Us is:

Get Better
Now
My Only Offer
The Re-Arranger
Jigsaw
Blue and Gold Print
Help Help
You Are Free
Great Dane
Lullaby Haze

Re-Arrange Us also features the most complex packaging of any Mates of State release to date. The reversible and multi-layered cover art allows fans to “Re-Arrange” it into no less than eight different configurations.

The packaging of Re-Arrange Us could well be seen as a reflection of the growing complexity of Mates of State’s music. While, until recently, Jason and Kori have performed exclusively as a duo, Mates of State have never failed to generate a trademark wall of sound built on dozens of varied voicings of keys, drums, and alternately lushly layered and playfully dueling vocals. On Re-Arrange Us they move beyond these boundaries with additional instrumentation-not to mention a quantum leap in song craft apparent on instantly indelible gems like “Now,” “Jigsaw” and “Get Better.” Throughout Re-Arrange Us, Kori’s piano and the emergence of both Mates’ lead vocals from their trademark harmonizing signal the next stage of Mates of State’s evolution.

For futher information, please contact Steve Martin or Amy Grote, tel 212 343 0740 email amy@nastylittleman.com

Bananaz, a film about the virtual band Gorillaz will show at South by South West in Austin, Texas later this month. As part of Spotlight Premieres, this will be Bananaz first US screening.

The film removes the virtual walls of Gorillaz, a cartoon band created by artist Jamie Hewlett and musician Damon Albarn. Audiences see just what Ceri Levy saw over some many and varied months of shooting from 2000 to 2006.

Bananaz is Levy’s story of the partnership and community behind Gorillaz. He takes you on the road with this virtual phenomenon and shows a part of Gorillaz never seen before – reality. As one radio interviewer puts it, “It’s a parallel universe – these guys aren’t in the band but they know the animated characters who are”.

Bananaz is an honest, at times hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn and Hewlett. A free-wheeling film which teams these two likely lads with friend and film maker Ceri Levy.

Featuring Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Dennis Hopper, De la Soul and Ibrahim Ferrer and Ceri’s camera.

Gorillaz is the most successful virtual band ever, fronted by four wildly talented but totally disparate characters: pretty-but-vacant singer 2D, satanic bassist Murdoc Niccals, Japanese guitar prodigy Noodle and amiable man-mountain drummer Russel Hobbs. Formed in 2000, their eponymous debut album was released to international acclaim and 5 million plus sales. Gorillaz were crowned Best Group at the 2005 MTV Europe Awards and received 5 Grammy nominations and 2 Brit Awards nods.

Their second album, Demon Days has sold 6 million albums worldwide.

‘The Rock n Roll Swindle of our generation’ Jason Solomons, Observer ‘

BANANAZ SCREENING TIMES:
Wednesday 12 March, 1.30pm – Paramount
Saturday 15 March, 11am – Paramount
The Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT BANANAZ PLEASE VISIT:

http://www.bananazfilm.com/

Barely a day after going on sale, the $300 Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition of Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV has completely sold out. The Ultra-Deluxe Edition was limited to 2500 copies, each numbered and personally signed by Trent Reznor.

On the opposite end of the Ghosts pricing plan, the $5 Download version has propelled NIN to the #1 spot at the Amazon MP3 store, the only outlet offering Ghosts for download other than NIN.com. Ghosts’ ascension to #1 at Amazon has also seen seven other NIN albums enter Amazon’s Top 200 in its wake (Still, Year Zero, Y34RZ3r0r3mix3d, With Teeth, The Downward Spiral, Live: And All That Could Have Been and The Fragile).

Ghosts I-IV was released 6:00 p.m. PST March 2, 2008 via NIN.com: a four volume collection of 36 instrumental tracks recorded over a 10-week period last fall by Trent Reznor, with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and special guest musicians Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. The Ghosts visual aesthetic was directed by Rob Sheridan with Trent Reznor and Artist In Residence.

The record can previewed at http://ghosts.nin.com/main/player. The first nine tracks are available free of charge as DRM-free MP3s, as is a complete 40 page PDF and digital extras pack.

The $5 DOWNLOAD, $10 2XCD SET and $75 LIMITED EDITION DELUXE PACKAGE are still available at NIN.com.

The $10 2XCD SET will be released to retail on NIN’s label The Null Corporation April 5 in Australia and Japan, April 8 in North America, and April 7 in the UK and most European territories. A $39 4X vinyl version will be available at retail April 8.

Ghosts I-IV has been released under the Creative Commons license. http://creativecommons.org/

An exciting partnership and experience regarding this release will be announced soon.

More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future.