
Coming Soon: Sunburned/Kieren Hebden Colab, Menstruation Sisters LP, Andrew W. K. LP , Conrad/Oursler, Flaherty/Nace/Moore, Little Claw, Krefting, Heaven People. Mouthus LP, Northampton Wools, Aaron Dilloway LP, Crazy Dreams Band, Uneven Universe, Hat City Intuitive(w/ T&G Moore) more...

Little Claw "Human Taste"
OUT TODAY 6/23
The Matt Krefting Band this weekend:
Thurs 6/25 @ American Legion
Northampton, MA
62 Riverside Drive
Guerrero
Poor Soul
Bob Evans
Matt Krefting Band
8pm
Fri 6/26 @ O'Brien's Pub
Allston, MA
Vic Rawlings
The Stoned Ambassadors
The Matt Krefting Band
Major Stars
9pm
Sat 6/27 @ Union Pool
484 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Pink Noise
My Perfect Heartbreak
Bob Evans
Matt Krefting Band
8pm
Sun 6/28 @ Maxwell's
1039 Washington St
Hoboken, NJ
Matt Krefting Band
Bob Evans
8pm
In addition to the shows listed above, Bob Evans will be playing on Friday 6/26 at The Middle East in Boston with Black Helicopter, Guerrero, Meadhall, and Kudgel. Starts at 8pm.
Matt Krefting was interviewed by Tony Rettman for Swingset. Read a full account of their battlehug of wits here.
C. Spencer Yeh is playing a pair of shows in NYC this weekend:
Fri 6/19 @ The Fortune Cookie Cabaret
Basement of Lucky Cheng's
24 First Ave. (between 1st and 2nd Sts.)
New York, NY
KOLAPSE Presents:
James Blackshaw
...and special guests
C. Spencer Yeh and Okkyung Lee
Chris Weisman and Greg Davis
Immanent Voiceless
9pm-2am
$10
Sat 6/20 @ 408 Park Ave.
(between Kent and Taffee)
Brooklyn, NY
Holiday On Rape Island (members of Orphan, Airport War)
C. Spencer Yeh
Tetsuo Rebirth

Sonic Youth decided to remind everyone, via Pitchfork, how sweet Samara Lubelski's Road To Misfortune video is. Pairs nicely with a sunrise, tequila or no.
Tonight 6/12 @ Union Pool
484 Union Ave Brooklyn NY
Golden Triangle 11:20pm
Sightings 10:30pm
Pterodactyl 9:40pm
Aa 8:50pm
SCREENS 8:10pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
$10
A funny thing happened. Our old friends at FORCED EXPOSURE inadvertently let loose the new record by MATT KREFTING "I Couldn't Love You More" this week – one week before the release date of 6/16! But lets quickly turn that frown upside down and call it a WEB EXCLUSIVE! Go buy that shit from Jimmy right now!! And of course, we'll have it here on EP.com for you on Tuesday!
Awesome Color added dates to their summer tour! Full schedule follows, new shows are in bold.
Supporting Black Dice:
Tonight 6/10-Lexington, KY - The Void
Thurs 6/11-Atlanta, GA-The Earl
Fri 6/12-Chapel Hill, NC-Local 506
Sat 6/13-Baltimore, MD-Sonar
Sun 6/14-New York, NY-Bowery Ballroom
Mon 6/15- Medford, MA-Outside the Lines Gallery
Tues 6/16-Montreal, QC-Il Motore
Wed 6/17-Toronto, ON-The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
Thurs 6/18-Detroit, MI-MOCAD
Fri 6/19-Pittsburgh, PA-Garfield Artworks
With Health:
Sat 6/20-Brooklyn, NY-Danbro Studios Warehouse
Headlining:
Fri 7/10-Detroit, MI-Old Miami
Sat 7/11-Chicago, IL-Empty Bottle
Sun 7/12-Iowa City, IA-Picador
Tue 7/14-Hot Springs, AR-Maxine's
Supporting Sonic Youth:
Wed 7/15-Dallas, TX-House of Blues
Thurs 7/16-Tulsa, OK-Cain's Ballroom
Fri 7/17-St. Louis, MO-Live on the Levee
Sat 7/18-Kansas City, MO-Uptown Theatre
Mon 7/20-Milwaukee, WI-Turner Hall
Tues 7/21-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue
Thu 7/23-Boise, ID-Knitting Factory
Fri 7/24-Spokane, WA-Knitting Factory
Sat 7/25-Seattle, WA-Capitol Hill Block Party
Sun 7/26-Vancouver, BC-V Festival
Tues 7/28-Portland, OR-Roseland
Thurs 7/30-Salt Lake City, UT-Gallivan Center
Fri 7/31-Denver, CO-Ogden Theatre
Sun 8/02-Oakland, CA-Fox Theatre
Some nice live footage of MV+EE's recent Casbah show surfaced on YouTube courtesy of Ayal Senior. Dig!
More videos from that show can be found here in the multimedia column.
While you're riding the high of those vids, be aware that we just got restocked with Gettin' Gone and Green Blues CDs!
This Sunday, June 14th, Samara Lubelski and Religious Knives, along with a host of other fine bands (including Talk Normal and The Strange Boys, to pull at random), will be playing Todd P's Unamplified Acoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden Beach in Queens, NY. 10 minute sets from each band, 12pm - 9pm.
Religious Knives' Michael Bernstein did an interview with Beatcrave for their Know Your NYC Bands series. Read it here.
Servile Sect's Stratospheric Passenger LP got reviewed by TinyMixTapes. Read it here.
Senior South Korea Noise Correspondent Matt Jones reports that this is absolutely ace: 
NODAGIRI'S FREEDOM
Upcoming shows at 145 South St., Northampton, MA:
Tomorrow 6/11
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase (cooper from fat worm solo!)
Glamorous Pat & La La (west coast returns!)
Rot Ton Bone (member of tusco terror)
Pak (tapes, tapes, tapes!)
George W Myers (slow muddy shitty beats)
Northampton Wools (mem of the stabs)
8pm, $5 donation
Wed 6/17
Predator Vision (mem of ducktails)
Sudden Oak (SF, former wmass)
Tarp
+ more
8pm, $5 donation
Thurs 6/18
Russian Tsarlag (providence, amazing shit-fi songs)
Big & Tall (on tour)
Gay Bomb (on tour)
Jerk Curtain (wmass electronics)
8pm, $5 donation
Jemina Pearl just let loose (3) new tracks from her upcoming Fall release. Go check them out on her myspace page.

Jason Crummer & Roxann Spikula
Suppression the the Third 2x10"
Post-No Fun Northampton Wools cassette restock! Get 'em while you can.
WAND "HARD KNOX"
OUT TODAY 5/26
Ryan Sawyer double-feature tonight!
@ Freddy's Backroom
485 Dean St. (@6th Ave) ,Brooklyn
Zach Layton, Ryan Sawyer, James Illginfritz, and Keir Neuringer
10pm $5 suggested donation
@ Santos Party House
96 Lafayette StreetGround Floor South, New York
Light Asylum
Tim Dewitt & Ryan Sawyer duo
Styles
Around midnight $10
Sonic Youth had a record release party for The Eternal on Friday night, so Matt Krefting and friends (including Jemina Pearl as Chuck D.) took the opportunity to pay tribute as The Goo Believers. All Hands Electric snapped some choice photos, take a look.
Update:
Before Awesome Color links up, The Entrance Band will be supporting Sonic Youth on these shows:
Sat 6/27-Chicago, IL-Vic Theatre
Mon 6/29-Royal Oak, MI-Royal Oak Music Theatre
Tues 6/30-Toronto, ON-(CA) Massey Hall
Thurs 7/2-Philadelphia, PA-Electric Factory
Fri 7/3-New York, NY-United Palace
Tue 7/7-Washington, DC-9:30 Club
Wed 7/08-Richmond, VA-The National
Fri 7/10-Knoxville, TN-Bijou Theatre
Sat 7/11-Nashville, TN-War Memorial
Sun 7/12-Birmingham, AL-Sloss Furnace
Mon 7/13-Atlanta, GA-Variety Playhouse
MV & EE with the Golden Road shows
Tonight Thurs 5/21 @ Casbah Lounge
306 King St. West, Hamilton, Ontario
With WOODS
9pm
Fri 5/22 @ Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto, Ontario
With WOODS
9pm
Sun 6/14 @ The Bookmill
440 Greenfield Road, Montague, Massachusetts
With Curisillistas
8pm
Awesome Color just announced their summer plans:
Supporting Black Dice:
Thurs 6/11-Atlanta, GA-The Earl
Fri 6/12-Chapel Hill, NC-Local 506
Sat 6/13-Baltimore, MD-Sonar
Sun 6/14-New York, NY-Bowery Ballroom
Mon 6/15- Medford, MA-Outside the Lines Gallery
Tues 6/16-Montreal, QC-Il Motore
Thurs 6/18-Detroit, MI-MOCAD
Fri 6/19-Pittsburgh, PA-Garfield Artworks
With Health:
Sat 6/20-Brooklyn, NY-Danbro Studios Warehouse
Supporting Sonic Youth:
Wed 7/15-Dallas, TX-House of Blues
Thurs 7/16-Tulsa, OK-Cain's Ballroom
Fri 7/17-St. Louis, MO-Live on the Levee
Sat 7/18-Kansas City, MO-Uptown Theatre
Mon 7/20-Milwaukee, WI-Turner Hall
Tues 7/21-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue
Thu 7/23-Boise, ID-Knitting Factory
Fri 7/24-Spokane, WA-Knitting Factory
Sat 7/25-Seattle, WA-Capitol Hill Block Party
Tues 7/28-Portland, OR-Roseland
Thurs 7/30-Salt Lake City, UT-Gallivan Center
Fri 7/31-Denver, CO-Ogden Theatre
Sun 8/02-Oakland, CA-Fox Theatre
Tonight Thurs 5/14
9:30pm @ West Nile
285 Kent between South 1st and South 2nd, Willamsburg
! mike pollard/raglani (THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND VS. MYSTERIOUS SYNTH LORD... FOGGY!)
! taylor richardson/mark mcguire (mem. IW/PURPLE HAZE VS. EMERALDS LORD... DEEP...)
! masqves (hauschildt/lopatin duo... A SHADOWY OCEAN OF TEARS)
! N&G (ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET THESE 2 TOGETHER IN A ROOM!)
! and new york's best sloooowsludgepsychband COCONUTS (sexy nightrock!)
This weekend @ The Stone
Corner of Avenue C and 2nd St.
New York, NY
Fri 5/15
John Zorn Improv Night - a STONE benefit
John Zorn (sax) Grey Gersten (guitar) Ches Smith (guitar) Samara Lubelski (violin) Kato Hideki (bass, synth) Neel Murgai (sitar) and many special guests.
8pm and 10 pm $20
Sat 5/16
Metal Mountains
Helen Rush (vocals, guitar) Samara Lubelski (violin, bass) Pat Gublar (guitar)
8 pm $5
Check out the Matt Krefting article in the Valley Advocate this week or read it here.
Tonight Thurs 5/7 @ Bar Mondial
Suikerrui 13, Antwerp
Ultra Eczema's Maandstonden
ORPHAN FAIRYTALE (BE, debut lp presentation show!)
LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS (US, lady voice performance troupe)
+ dj manboks jan, paarse hoed
Sat 5/9 @ Flywheel
43 Main St, Easthampton, MA
Record Fair fundraiser for the Flywheel Arts Collective.
20+ dealers
10am - 3:30pm
Sat May 2nd @ Mystery Train Records
Amherst, Massachusetts
Noise Nomads instore/art opening/live set
Crude Hill (Providence, RI)
6pm
Sat May 2nd @ Union Pool
Pink Noise
Daniel Carter, Thurston Moore, Ryan Sawyer
Mad Love (Trevor Dunn)
Doors open at 9pm
Sun May 3rd @ MARKET HOTEL
1142 Myrtle Ave @ Bdwy, Buschwick, Bklyn
TJO aka Tara Jane O’Neil
MIRAH
Air Waves
Tall Firs
8pm $10-$25 sliding scale donation
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Little ClawHuman Taste CD
$ 9.00
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Matt KreftingI Couldn't Love You More CD
$ 9.00
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WandHard Knox
$ 9.00
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MV/EE with The Golden RoadGettin' Gone CD
$ 9.00
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MV/EE with The Bummer RoadGreen Blues CD
$ 9.00
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Jason Crumer & Roxann SpikulaSuppression in the Third 2x10"
$ 15.00
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BreeEcstatic Peace Poetry Journal #8
$ 10.00
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Fat DayIGUANADONALAND
$ 12.00
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Magik MarkersBOSS
$ 9.00
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Mossy ThroatsGrave of Light and Bones CS
$ 8.00
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Angels in AmericaCunt Tree Grammar CS
$ 8.00
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Crazy Dreams BandBasement Tapes CS
$ 8.00
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Dennis TyfusArtist Edition Skate Deck: Dennis Tyfus
$ 60.00
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Ecstatic PeaceArtist Edition T shirt: Tyfus #6
$ 16.00
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MouthusDivisionals LP
$ 12.00
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Servile SectStratospheric Passenger LP
$ 12.00
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Mutant ApeErotic Yorkshire LP
$ 12.00
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Richard Ramirez & MSBRNegative / Offensive (A Tribute to The New Blockaders) LP
$ 12.00
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Menstruation SistersSamantha, My Wack Panther LP
$ 12.00
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Ecstatic PeaceArtist Edition T shirt: Tyfus #5
$ 16.00
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Ecstatic PeaceEcstatic Peace Logo Shirt - Black
$ 16.00
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SunburnedA Grand Tour of Tunisia 2xLP + CD
$ 23.00
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Tall FirsToo Old To Die Young LP
$ 12.00
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DeluxxZwanolski CDr
$ 10.00
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Andrew W.K.Girls Own Juice EP CD
$ 8.00
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Andrew W.K.Party Til You Puke 12" DXEP
$ 12.00
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Hush ArborsHush Arbors
$ 9.00
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Religious KnivesThe Door CD
$ 9.00
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Flaherty/Nace/MoorePaul Flaherty - Bill Nace - Thurston Moore
$ 11.00
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Ecstatic PeaceArtist Edition T shirt: Tyfus #5
$ 16.00
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Ecstatic PeaceEcstatic Peace Logo Shirt - Pink
$ 16.00
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Ecstatic PeaceEcstatic Peace Logo Shirt - Black
$ 16.00
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Ecstatic PeaceArtist Edition T Shirt: Kim Gordon #4
$ 16.00
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Awesome ColorElectric Aborigines LP
$ 14.00
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MV/EE with The Golden RoadAstral Bleachers/Big Moment CD
$ 15.00
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Free KittenInherit CD
$ 9.00
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Awesome ColorElectric Aborigines CD
$ 9.00
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Dylan Nyoukis and Jaap BlonkDubbeltwee LP
$ 12.00
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Okkyung LeeI saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said... LP
$ 11.00
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Tall FirsToo Old To Die Young CD
$ 9.00
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IslajaBlaze Mountain Recordings CD
$ 9.00
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Poor SchoolThe Holy Master LP
$ 11.00
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gownFor the Maples LP
$ 15.00
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Thurston MooreTrees Outside the Academy LP
$ 20.00
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Thurston MooreTrees Outside the Academy CD
$ 9.00
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16 Bitch Pile-UP/Mike ShifletMake Like A Fetus and Abort/ Extract, Behold
$ 11.00
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WandJames & The Quiet LP
$ 11.00
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Leslie KefferFeels Like Frenching LP
$ 11.00
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X.O.4Cataracts LP
$ 11.00
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Tall FirsTall Firs CD
$ 9.00
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VariousLess Self Is More Self 2CD set(Tarantula Hill Benefit)
$ 14.00
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Be Your Own PetBe Your Own Pet CD
$ 10.00
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Awesome ColorAwesome Color CD
$ 9.00
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Awesome ColorAwesome Color T SHIRT, Black
$ 12.00
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Awesome ColorAwesome Color T SHIRT, White
$ 12.00
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