The electronic artist’s new album Half of Where You Live is set to be released on June 10th. Listen to Golden Panda’s single from the album, titled “Brazil,” for a taste.

You can preorder Half of Where You Live here.

Gold Panda’s remaining tour dates are as follows,

MAY
17th – Philadelphia, Johnny Brendas,, PA, USA
18th – Allston, Brighton Music Hall, MA, USA
25th – Dudingen – Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival, SU

JUNE
12th – London – The Electric, Brixton UK
13th  – Barcelona – Sonar Festival, ES
20th  – France – Paris – La Trabendo, FR
21st  – Amsterdam – Melkweg, NE
22nd – Berlin – Fetsaal Kreuzberg, DE
28th – Somerset, Glastonbury Festival, UK

JULY
12th – Portugal, Optimus Alive Festival, PO
18th – Brussels, Dour Festival, BE
19th  – London, Lovebox Festival, UK
20th  – Ireland, Longitude Festival, IE

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The song comes from their recently-released US debut, The History Effect, and is a dreamy, pleasant song with a somewhat psychedelic tone to it. The video follows suit with the psychedelia, featuring the band members in black and white on solid black backgrounds while brightly colored eyes, flowers, butterflies, and ears fly in and out of the picture in a kaleidoscopic fashion.

Check it out,

You may also be interested in downloading Tarmac Adam’s “Bygones” for free here.

Tarmac Adam will also begin their US promo tour next week (without Seymour). See dates below,

Tarmac Adam Promo Tour
May 20 – Chicago, IL – Fearless Radio – 12noon
May 20 – Burlington, WI – WBSD in-studio performance and interview – 5pm
May 21 – St. Louis, MO – WLCA in-studio performance and interview
May 23 – Lincroft, NJ – WBJB in-studio performance and interview – 12noon
May 24 – Charlottesville, VA – WCNR in-studio performance and interview – 12noon
May 25 – Brooklyn, NY – Buttermilk Bar
May 28 – Seattle, WA – Bob Rivers Morning Show on KJR – 9:30am
May 28 – Seattle, WA – KSPU in-studio performance and interview – 1pm
May 28 – Seattle, WA – The Royal Room – 8pm
May 29 – Portland, OR – Alberta Street Pub – 8pm
May 29 – Gresham, OR – KMHD2 performance at Mt. Hood Lanes – 2pm
May 30 – Eugene, OR – KLCC in-studio performance and interview – 1pm
May 30 – Eugene, OR – KWVA in-studio performance and interview – 4pm
May 31 – Ashland, OR – Jefferson Public Radio in-studio performance and interview – 12noon
June 4 – San Francisco, CA – Fuzz Radio Session – 10am
June 6 – Los Angeles, CA – TBA

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Having toured for 15 years, Dark Star Orchestra has gained a reputation of being one of the Dead’s foremost tribute bands, often performing entire set lists as the Dead did at some of their best shows.

Check out the band’s Dark Star Jubilee and DSO High School as well.

If you’re a Deadhead, then you should definitely look into seeing this show or another of Dark Star Orchestra’s upcoming performances.

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The show will feature brand new material from the Mickey Hart Band’s new album Mysterium Tremendum, as well as selections of Hart’s greatest hits and Grateful Dead songs.

The band is currently in the studio working on the follow up to Mysterium Tremendum.  The Worlds Within Tour has provided great opportunity for the band to test out new material, including songs co-written by Hart and Robert Hunter.  “We have traversed the macro, the stars, the planets, now we journey into the micro,” says Hart.  “This band is truly a living, breathing organism.”

The Mickey Hart Band recently released three free live tracks from their 3/6/13 Solana Beach, CA show including the brand new song, “The Sermon” featuring  lyrics by Robert Hunter.  “The Sermon“, along with Grateful Dead classics “Ramble On Rose” and “Playing in the Band”, is available here.

The African Showboyz are four brothers from the northern part of Ghana who fuse a unique blend of West African rhythm, dance, and raw energy.

100% of the ticketing fees sold through Mickeyhart.net will go to fund Musical Therapy Research at UCSF.

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Openers, The Orwells, started off the night on an upbeat note. Lead singer Mario Cuomo swayed back and forth as if in a stupor, evoking an Ariel Pink vibe, if Ariel had been playing a sock hop, instead of an indie rock show in 2013.

Palma Violets were similarly upbeat, keeping the energy level high with their brand of English post-punk.  This band had come highly recommended to me from someone who had been listening to them online for a while.  This fact, however, made me wonder, as they hit the stage, if I was missing the thing that made them magic, by seeing them live first.  Their sound was sloppy and loose, as it should be for their genre.  But aside from the energy and crowd interaction, I couldn’t quite figure out what distinguished them from other English bands with a similar sound, like, say….The Libertines.  While the Libertines have one of the most lyrically blessed front-men in all of rock, the lyrics of the Palma Violets were indecipherable in this type of setting.  I grant the possibility that I may have bypassed their main attraction.  I don’t know.

Their hype man, who came in the form of a drunken friend, brought along to handle their merch table, was one of the evening’s highlights to me, as he went from corner to corner of the room berating the audience at the top of his lungs, for being “not into it enough” (which was untrue).  In any event, being yelled at by an English drunk and feeling threatened that he might actually fight you at any moment, really just made for greater authenticity, one might argue.

Time will tell if the Palma Violets prove to live up their early hype or simply look and sound the part of what we expect a British indie rock band to be.

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Allegedly, while performing in Minnesota back in April (that’s right, two weeks ago and it’s still somehow a big deal) a female fan somehow rushed the stage and proceeded to perform oral sex on Danny Brown in the middle of his performance. Rather than stop, he continued his performance. Yet, somehow that’s not the story. The story has now become a letter by Kitty Pryde, his opener on this tour, and a couple of Huffington Post pieces written to or about the female perpetrator involved in DBBJgate (the one to which I have included a link is by far one of the worst, most ignorant, and borderline racist pieces of “satire” I’ve ever read).

I can honestly say that I don’t care. To put it bluntly, shit happens while on tour, but for some reason, because it’s Danny Brown, it’s a big deal.

Though hip hop artists have been rapping about drugs sex and violence for decades, the style in which Danny Brown does it raises eyebrows. Perhaps it’s his unconventional quasi-hipster chic fashion style. Perhaps it’s his raw, electrifying, yet somewhat simplistic beats. Or, it could also be the frequency and course nature of his drug and sex heavy rhymes. Whatever it is, something just seems to rub critics and fans of hip hop and music in general the wrong way.

That’s all background.

Last night, I had the pleasure of attending Danny Brown’s first headlining show in Philadelphia. He said it best himself when he said it was unfortunate for anyone who had come to see a rap show. This, he declared, was a party. And party we did. He had some bangers like Radio Song, Witit, Bruiser Brigade, Monopoly, and Lie4 along with some new tracks off his upcoming album “Old.” Danny Brown’s raucous stage presence encouraged an almost riotous crowd, to chant his big lines and choruses (where applicable) and fun was had by all. Just the way it should be. No drama; just music and good times.

Notes:

1. Hipsters are really bad, but Hip Hop Hipsters are the worst.

2. Any guy who wears flip flops is walking a thin line, except at a rap concert, at which point you’ve not crossed the line, but pole vaulted over it.

3. A Danny Brown show is not a good place to find a future wife. Not that the quality is poor (it’s great, actually), but that there were maybe 30 ladies there, in a crowd of nearly 1,000.

4. Though never required I guess… It’s pretty much expected to give an encore performance of at least one song. When you don’t, you leave the crowd on a bad note. I understand if the crowd was unappreciative, but Danny Brown even tweeted about how it was one of the best nights of his tour, so a little gratification would’ve gone a long way.

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The crowds showed up in force filling the center plaza of the Piazza wall to wall. The ones luckiest to live at the Piazza filled their decks and rooftops. People danced on their decks and out their windows to entertain the crowd while the music was in intermission.

This months block party was headlined by Atlas Genius which gave an energetic set to end a beautiful sun filled day full of music, drinks and food. The following Radio 104.5 Block Partys will be held on June 8th with Royal Teeth & Metric. Check out the Radio 104.5 website for following dates and band listings.

http://www.radio1045.com/pages/events/block-parties/

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The first three songs set the tone for the night….Let the Day Begin, Rival and Red Eyes and Tears kept the mood grimy, raw and dark. The basic use of spotlights and smoke enhanced the mood with a dark silhouette of the band members. The energy was set for a night that hit you with sound straight to the bone…as if you’d expect anything less from a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show.

Through the night I overheard a variety of comments coming from the BRMC old heads claiming to only wanting to hear their old songs…to the newbie’s hoping to hear Hate The Taste. With no need to worry cause the set was already set to please all ages with a variety of songs from over the years of Black Rebel Motorcycle Clubs life span.

May 5th was a night I had marked on my calendar ever since the show was announced. I had butterflies entering the venue. I actually shook a bit before I had to shoot the show, which hasn’t happened in a long time. It felt good to get those emotions again for just going to a show.

This slow but sure rock revival has been a long time coming…the Band of Skulls, Jack Whites, Black Angels, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (just to name a few) of this world can finally give the industry of laptop created electronic music its final push out the door and bring real emotion produced music back to the people. I know rock and roll hasn’t left. The wall of money driven music just once again needs to be cracked and brought back down. The feelings I got last Sunday confirmed to me that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is one of the bands that can take down that wall.

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Now their success story is set to continue with the release of fifth studio album Turbines on June 18^th on Full Time Hobby in America, their most bewitching and brilliant listen yet. “It’s been a twisted adventure to this point, one that has taken us all over the world, an amazing journey,” grins instrumentalist and founding member Mike Lindsay. As the band has evolved and grown, so too has its members. “There’s a lot happened in this band in the last couple of years” he adds. “Children born, people moving into different places, falling in love, skipping country, broadening horizons…  maybe this is a coming-of-age record!”

Recorded mainly in a Dorset studio this is the first Tunng album where all six members were more or less all present at each stage of the recording process. Bar an excursion to album engineer and vintage equipment expert Ben ‘Benge’ Edwards’ “synth museum” to add electronic embellishments. It’s an album rich in colour and emotion, from the geyser-like organ eruptions of By This to the trip-hop grooves and thunderous timpani of Trip Trap and Heavy Rock Warning. “I remember thinking that this album would go full circle and match the first record in its experimentalism. But that didn’t happen.” Instead came Tunng’s most direct and affecting effort to date. “It’s more concise,” says Winter. “It’s just the essentials, delivered straight.”

“It’s our sci-fi folk rock album,” declares Lindsay, who stresses the key to Turbines’ enchanting charm is the sense of family among its creators. “We have been through a lot together, seen some amazing places and some pretty bad places too… and it’s time to see some more!”

01. Once

02. Trip Trap

03. By This

04. The Village

05. Bloodlines

06. Follow Follow

07. So Far From Here

08. Embers

09. Heavy Rock Warning

TUNNG TURBINES TOUR 2013

SEPTEMBER

27 LOPPEN, COPENHAGEN

28 REEPERBAHN, HAMBURG

30 FESTSAAL, BERLIN

OCTOBER

01 ZOOM, FRANKFURT

02 AMPERE, MUNICH

03 VIADUKT BOGEN F, ZURICH

05 BITTERZOET, AMSTERDAM

06 BOTANIQUE ROTONDE, BRUSSELS

07 LA MAROQUINERIE, PARIS

08 HEAVEN, LONDON

11 COLSTON HALL 2, BRISTOL

12 BREWERY, KENDAL

13 BROADCAST, GLASGOW

15 BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER

16 SOUTH STREET ARTS, READING

17 THE APEX, BURY ST EDMUNDS

19 TRADES CLUB, HEBDEN BRIDGE

20 EAST VILLAGE ARTS CLUB, LIVERPOOL

21 THE OLD MARKET, BRIGHTON

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Brighter Than The Sun is a pulsating fun-inducing pop album. “Looking Up” is so funky you can’t help but bounce to the feel-good bass line. Laced with synth, dark dancefloor banger, “Crystal Ball” showcases Andrews’ more musically aggressive side. “The Way To Wonder” begins with light acoustic-guitar strumming and handclaps, quickly building up to an epic climax. ‘

Drawing inspiration from society’s inclination towards the technological, Kyle is no stranger to the innovative – he uses everything from built-in lap-top mics to top-of-the line studio set-ups to compose and record his tunes. Stay tuned for more innovative, infectious tunes & news coming soon!

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