For Bay Area band The Heavenly States, it is all about election day right now. Their new anti-war single for “King Epiphany” is being released on November 2nd bundled with the re-release of their self-titled album on Baria Records. Regardless of who comes out victorious on November 2nd, the performances should be intense.

TOUR DATES
November
02: Portland, OR @ Meow Meow
03: Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
04: Boise, ID @ Neurolux
05: Salt Lake City, UT @ TBA
06: Denver, CO @ The Hi-Dive
07: Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Saloon
08: Dubuque, IA @ TBA
09: Chicago, IL @ Double Door
10: Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
11: Madison, WI @ Club 770
12: Milwaukee, WI @ TBA
13: Columbus, OH @ Café Bourbon Street
14: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
15: Washington, DC @ Black Cat
16: Wilmington, NC @ The Soap Box
17: TBA
18: New Orleans, LA @ Mermaid Lounge w/ Giant Sand
19: Houston, TX @ Walters w/ Giant Sand
20: Austin, TX @ The Flamingo Cantina
23: Los Angeles, CA TBA

*The Heavenly States: theheavenlystates.com
*The PhiLL(er) Reviews: King Epiphany

Following the 2004 Pacific All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival that they are curating, Modest Mouse will be making limited performances in the UK and US. Of the thirteen dates scheduled, nearly half are in the UK and over thirty percent will be taking place at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom. Modest Moust TOUR DATES
November
06: Long Beach, CA @ ATP Festival
09: New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
15: Manchester, UK @ Academy 2
16: Glasgow, UK @ Garage
18: London, UK @ Astoria
19: Birmingham, UK @ Academy 2
21: Bristol, UK @ Fleece & Firkin
22: Reading, UK @ Fez

December
04: Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
10: San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
13: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
14: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
15: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
16: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

*Modest Mouse: modestmoustmusic.com
*ATP Festival: atpfestival.com
*Portland: portlandonline.com

Broken Social Scene’s next album, to be released on their own Ars & Crafts label, is nearing completion. The record which had been reported as being titled Windsurfing Nation may receive a different name, however. Recently bassist/guitarist Brendan Canning seems to be a little unsure of the title telling Billboard, “I don’t know if that’s a good title or not. It’s a funny title at the very least.”

No matter what it ends up being called, the album can be expected to see release in late-March or early April of next year with its completion arriving by the end of the year. Some of the tracks that should make the final cut are “Shoreline”, “It’s All Gonna Break”, and “Superconnected”. Broken Social Scene will be touring through November and December in Europe with guitarist Andrew Whitman’s Apostle of Hustle.

TOUR DATES
* w/ Apostle of Hustle

November
16: Madrid, Spain @ Moby Dick*
17: Cadiz, Spain @ Aulario De la Bomba*
18: Granada, Spain @ Planta*
19: Cordoba, Spain @ La Mode*
20: Majorca, Spain @ Plaza Mayor*
21: Barcelona, Spain @ Apolo*
24: Rome, Italy @ Circolo Degli Artisti*
25: Bologna, Italy @ Covo*
26: Milano, Italy @ Rainbow*
27: Rimini, Italy @ Velvet*
28: Torino, Italy @ Supermarket*
30: Geneva, Switzerland @ L’Usine*

December
01: Fribourg, Switzerland @ Fri-Son*
02: Munich, Germany @ Feierwerk*
03: Graz, Austria @ Arcadium*
04: Ebensee, Austria @ Kino*
05: Dresden, Germany @ Starclub*
06: Berlin, Germany @ Maria/Intro Intim
08: Cologne, Germany @ Gebäude 9 / Intro Intim
09: Esch-Alzette, Luxemburg @ Kulturfabrik*
10: Brussels, Belgium @ AB Club*
14: New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom w/ Pixies
15: New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom w/ Alex Lukashevsky

*Arts & Crafts: arts-crafts.ca

Wig-wearing wonder, Scout Niblett will the East and West US coasts with a little bit of Europe in between. On the east coast she will be joined by Enon and The Black Heart procession while on the west it will be Devendra Banhart. Her latest EP Uptown Top Ranking was just released October 5th on Secretly Canadian and features a cover of the 1978 UK pop hit of the same name by the reggae group Althea & Donna.

Uptown Top Ranking
Tracklist
01. Uptown Top Ranking
02. Dare!
03. In the Sine Wave

TOUR DATES
* w/ The Black Heart Procession
+ w/ Enon
$ w/ Devendra Banhart
October
08: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge*+
09: Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon*+
10: Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock*+
11: Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews*+
12: Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck*+
13: St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway*+
14: Bloomington, IN @ Second Story*+
21: London, England @ Bush Hall w/Giant Sand
22: Bristol - Cube
23: London, England @ Barfly
24: Brighton, England @ Hanbury Ballroom

November
01: Hasselt, Belgium @ M.O.D.
02: Rouen, France @ L’Emporium
03: Gent, Belgium @ Video
04: Paris, France @ La Guinguette Pirate
05: Pau, France @ L’Ampli
06: Santander, Spain @ Tanned Tin Festival
07: Bordeaux, France @ L’Inca
09: Offenbach, Germany @ Hafen 2
10: Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
11: Den Haag, Holland @ Crossing Border
12: Den Haag, Holland @ Crossing Border
16: Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s$
17: Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan$
19: San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club$
20: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex$

*Scout Niblett: scoutniblett.com
*Secretly Canadian: secretlycanadian.com
*Buy It: Uptown Top Ranking at Insound
*Enon: enon.tv
*The Black Heart Procession: blackheartprocession.com
*Devendra Banhart: younggodrecords.com

The Pacific 2004 edition of the All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Modest Mouse has just had a line-up expansion. Just added to the list of more than twenty-five bands that will be performing at the two-day festival are Peaches, J. Mascis and the Fog, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Magic Magicians, The Constantines, and Those Peabodys. With this addition, the full line-up, with even more artists yet to be added, consists of:

Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, Lungfish, J. Mascis and the Fog, The Black Heart Procession, Explosions in the Sky, Wolf Parade, The Walkman, White Magic, Sufjan Stevens, White Hassle, Willy Mason, The Flaming Lips, The Cramps, The Shins, Built to Spill, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Eagles of Death Metal, Peaches, Love as Laughter, Radar Brothers, Magic Magicians, and Those Peabodys.

This year’s event is scheduled to take place on November 6th & 7th at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. Tickets are available for $55 per day or $90 for a two day pass at the LA’s Amoeba Music store or through Ticketmaster and the ATP Festival website.

*ATP Festival: atpfestival.com