People.com reported earlier this week that Death Cab for Cutie front-man Ben Gibbard and actress/singer Zooey Deschanel are officially engaged. Deschanel released the album Volume One with M. Ward earlier this year under the name She & Him. You can check out the track “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” on our New Song Daily podcast.
Winning the “Outstanding Rock Act of the Year” title at the 2008 Boston Music Awards is a pretty damn good way to close out a year and Wild Light are only going to build upon the momentum of that victory in 2009.
Leading up to the release of their debut album Adult Nights on March 3rd of 2009 (full track listing below), the group will be touring for a solid two months with music blog favorites Tapes ‘n Tapes. Four tracks from the album are available for streaming on the Wild Light MySpace page and if there’s just one track you check out, make it the opening track “California On My Mind”. I’m not typically a fan of harmonica, but this song will the source of some serious enjoyment through the spring of 2009.
Adult Nights Track Listing
01. California On My Mind
02. New Hampshire
03. Canyon City
04. Surf Generation
05. Call Home
06. Heart Attack
07. Future Towns
08. The Party (Oh, My God!)
09. My Father Was A Horse
10. Lawless River
11. New Year’s Eve
12. (Surfer’s Reprise)
13. Red House
2009 Tour Dates w/ Tapes ‘N Tapes
01/15: Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
01/17: Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
01/19: Boise, ID @ Neurolux
01/20: Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
01/21: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
01/23: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/24: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
01/25: San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
01/27: Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Company
01/29: Austin, TX @ Parish
01/30: Dallas, TX @ Club DaDa
01/31: Norman, OK @ Opolis
02/02: Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
02/03: Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
02/04: Ames, IA @ Maintenance Shop
02/05: Sioux Falls, SD @ Nutty’s
02/06: Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
02/20: South Bend, IN @ Legends
02/21: Columbus, OH @ The Basement
02/22: Pittsburgh, PA @ Brillobox
02/24: Boston, MA @ Paradise
02/25: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
02/26: Brooklyn, NY@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
02/27: Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
02/28: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03/02: Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
03/03: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
03/04: Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
03/05: Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
03/06: Louisville, KY @ Phoenix Hill Tavern
03/07: Chicago, IL @ Metro
Mason Proper’s Jonathan Visger has been a busy man during 2008. It was just a few months ago that Mason Proper released their latest album, Olly Oxen Free, and now he’s releasing, not his first, but his second solo EP of 2008, Trilobite Trash.
The release is available for download over at RCRD LBL.
We’ve had a lot of people hitting the site looking to find Heartless Bastards tour dates. Well, good news for you is that the band has scheduled some December show dates. Bad news is that they’re pretty much all just in Ohio so if you don’t share a home state with Heartless Bastards, you’ll be out of luck until 2009 when they’ll be touring in support of their new release, The Mountain, which is coming out on February 3rd. Those tour dates will be with Andrew Bird so they should not be missed!
12/18: Lexington, KY@ The Dame
12/19: Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern
12/20: Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern
12/26: Dayton, OH @ Canal Street Tavern
12/27: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
12/28: Toledo, OH @ Frankie’s Inner City
Land of Talk just recently wrapped up a tour of Europe in support of their debut full-length, Some Are Lakes. January brings a string of dates in Land of Talk’s home country of Canada as well as a run down the west coast of the US.
If you haven’t already, check out the tracks posted on the Land of Talk MySpace page.
01/14/09: Guelph, ON @ Ebar
01/15/09: Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
01/16/09: Kingston, ON @ Grad Club
01/21/09: Seattle, WA @ High Dive
01/22/09: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
01/23/09: Eugene, OR @ San Bond’s
01/24/09: San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
01/26/08: San Diego, CA @ Casbah
01/28/09: Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
02/07/09: Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
