Photo credit: Jennifer Joy Jameson via Flickr

David Bazan is prepping another round of living room performances across the United States this August and September. If you live in any of the locations listed below with a space that can hold 40-60 people, you could be a host! Full details for those interested.

* indicates a site with a host offer already
08/15/12 Wed – Bellingham / Mt Vernon / Anacortes WA
08/16/12 Thu – Kennewick / Richland / Walla Walla WA
08/17/12 Fri – Spokane WA / Coeur d’Alene ID
08/18/12 Sat – Bozeman MT
08/19/12 Sun – Billings MT
08/20/12 Mon – OFF
08/21/12 Tue – Fargo ND
* 08/22/12 Wed – Duluth / Suburban Minneapolis MN
08/23/12 Thu – Eau Claire WI
* 08/24/12 Fri – Madison WI
08/25/12 Sat – Wheaton / Elgin / Rockford IL
08/26/12 Sun – OFF
08/27/12 Mon – Ft Wayne / Muncie IN
08/28/12 Tue – Bloomington IN
08/29/12 Wed – Dayton OH
08/30/12 Thu – Akron / Canton OH
08/31/12 Fri – Pittsburgh PA
* 09/01/12 Sat – Lancaster, PA
09/02/12 Sun – Baltimore MD / Dover DE
09/03/12 Mon – OFF
09/04/12 Tue – Richmond / Norfolk VA
09/05/12 Wed – Asheville / Winston Salem NC
09/06/12 Thu – Chattanooga TN
09/07/12 Fri – Memphis TN / Oxford MS
09/08/12 Sat – Little Rock AR
* 09/09/12 Sun – Jackson / Hattiesburg MS
09/10/12 Mon – Shreveport / Monroe LA
09/11/12 Tue – OFF
09/12/12 Wed – Abilene TX
09/13/12 Thu – El Paso TX
* 09/14/12 Fri – Tucson AZ
09/15/12 Sat – Riverside / San Bernadino CA
09/16/12 Sun – Bakersfield / Visalia CA
09/17/12 Mon – Fresno / Merced CA
09/18/12 Tue – OFF
* 09/19/12 Wed – San Jose / Palo Alto / Santa Cruz CA
09/20/12 Thu – Sacramento / Davis CA
09/21/12 Fri – Chico / Redding CA
09/22/12 Sat – Medford / Grants Pass OR
09/23/12 Sun – Eugene / Salem / Corvalis OR

The Wave Pictures have a new album In Her Kitchen scheduled for release on August 22nd via Moshi Moshi Records. They’ll be performing a few dates leading up to the release.

08/17: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
08/18: Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly
08/19: Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar Bar
08/20: Montauk, NY @ Sole East Hotel

The White Stripes called it quits as of today. What will Jack do now? It’s not like he has any other music projects to occupy him…

See the letter posted on the website above. The official website has been overrun and will not load.

Now, not to make any assumptions because he already claimed his Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne was due in a week in early January, but still. He did it in CAPS LOCK and everything.

So,

In 1 week the video to next single “All of the Lights”

In two months (3/1) the Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne

And by summer, new solo album?

This could be the busiest release schedule of all time. OF ALL TIME.

In the long waiting period between her last English language album, 2007′s Placelessness, Alina Simone decided to release an album of demos and outtakes on Bandcamp today.

Titled Raw Demos (2002-2008), it includes material from her first band, Disfarmer as well as demo versions of songs that appear on each of her albums (including a few in Russian), and one from the forthcoming Make Your Own Danger due in June.

Tracklist Below:

1 Copter
2 Miner
3 Going to the Sea Again
4 Straight Edge
5 Chinese Takeout
6 Dreaming of a Blackout
7 Pretty Songs
8 Wish I Had a Motorcycle
9 Every Fresh Start You Make
10 Velvet Painting
11 I Liked Your Lies
12 Hannah
13 For a Rainy Day
14 I Can See Nothing
15 100 Year Rain
16 Just Here to Watch the Show

In other Alina Simone news, she has a book of essays due in June to coincide with her newest album release called You Must Go and Win. And a baby on the way. Plus she’s taking up capoeira and bread making. Most of that is true.