Spike Jonze month: Week FIVE - 29

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Daft Punk "Da Funk"


HAPPY CANADA DAYYYYY!!!

Watchin' Dexter - 28

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• More Beastie Boys U.S. dates
• Bonde Do Role North American tour
  
• Queens Of The Stone Age add Canadian dates
• Caribou Fall Tour
  
• The Used cancel June and July shows
• More M.I.A. summer dates
  
• One Night Band Canadian tour
• 1990's U.S. dates
  
• 12 Spice Girls reunion dates around the (Spice) World ...huzzah!
• Led Zeppelin reunite
  
• Bang Lime North American dates
• Built to Spill Fall dates

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bang Lime - Best Friends in Love, Aug. 14
• Will Stratton - What the Night Said, July 24
  
• The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel, July 17
• Clare and the Reasons - The Movie, Sept. 4
  
• Drowning Pool - Full Circle, July 24
• Kissology: Volume Two 1978 - 1991, Aug. 14
  
• Class of 3000 Soundtrack, July 3

Back in Action - 26

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• THE VERVE (!) U.K. dates
• Bloc Party Toronto and New York dates
• Ben Kweller U.S. tour
• Sackville Music Festival news
  
• Editors North American dates
• Kaiser Chiefs U.K. tour
• Beastie Boys U.S. dates
  
• Sonic Youth add dates
• Devendra Banhart and the Wombats tours
• Interpol add dates
• Ani DeFranco U.S. (and Guelph!) dates
  
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah tour US + Europe
• B.B. King U.S. tour (60th Anniversary!)
• Voodoo Fest news
• Some Aerosmith dates
  
• Glastonbury re-cap bonanza
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Figureines - When the Deer Wore Blue, Sept. 11
• Weakerthans - Reunion Tour, Sept. 25
  
• Calvin Harris - I Created Disco, Sept. 4
• The Cribs - Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever, July 17
• Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch, July 10

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape reissue
N. America
Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
Editors - An End Has a Start
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge 05/06
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away re-release
Bad Brains - Build a Nation
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Kelly Rowland - Ms. Kelly

Spike Jonze month: Week Four - 22

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month)
Beastie Boys "Sabatoge"


Have a good weekend.. it's gonna be hot out thurr

Just new releases - 19

U.K.
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Annuals - Be He Me
Victoria Bergsman - Open Field
N. America
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Memphis - Little Place in the Wilderness
Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night
Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy
Bond do Role - With Lasers
Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen
Bob Rock & Paul Hyde - Payola$ EP
The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs
The Parkas - Put Your Head in the Lion's Mouth


I probably won't update all week (except Friday).
Sad news: an old friend passed away last weekend so I probaby wont be doing much of anything for the next little while.
Keep checking out Spike Jonze all month long though, every Friday.

Spike Jonze month: Week Three - 15

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Bjork "It's oh so Quiet"


Have a good weekend!

what what - 13

albumsix.com

False conversations - 12

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Klaxons add winter dates in Europe
• Of Montreal summer European dates
• New York Farm Aid
• Keep up with Carling Weekend
  
• New Pornographers and Juliette & the Licks summer dates
• Free concert in London from iTunes?
• Grand Analog Canadian dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUCEMENTS

• Transformers soundtrack, July 3
• Prince - Planet Earth, July 16
• Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn reisssue, Aug. 28 (N. America) and Sept. 3 (Europe)
• Grand Analog - Calligrafitti, July 17

Skirts n Boots - 11

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Best of Van Morrison Volume 3
The Icarus Line - Black Lives at the Golden Coast
N. America
Queens of the Stongeage - Era Vulgaris
The Best of Frank Black '93-'03
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation reissue
Datarock - Datarock, Datarock
Keepin' 6 - Uncensored
Strata - The End of the World
Mattheah Baim - Death of the Sun
Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy
Enrique Iglesias - Insomniac

Spike Jonze month! Week Two - 8

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice"

I know you saw this one coming

NXNE starts today! - 7

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Queens of the Stone Age "Duluth" tour
  
• Franz Ferdinand secret New York show
• The Wooden Sky Canadian dates
  
• Cold War Kids on tour with the White Stripes
• Bumbershoot news - Kings of Leon, Joss Stone
  
• The Twilight Sad U.S. + U.K. tour
• Reminder: King Fest Music Festival
  
• the Walkmen summer tour
• Grinderman dates (with the White Stripes)
  
• More TV on the Radio dates
• Happy Mondays U.K. tour
  
• Amy Millan Canada + Ireland dates
• Babyshambles U.K. tour
  
• Comas dates (with the White Stripes)
• James Taylor summer tour
  
• Music Waste in Vancouver this weekend
• Scream tour news
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Kevin Drew - Spirit If..., Sept. 18
• DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words, July 31
  
• Flights of the Conchords - The Distant Future, Aug. 7
• Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces, July 10
• Okkervil River - the Stage Names, Aug. 7
  

One quickie and releases- 5

Ben Lee - Ripe, Sept. 4

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Espers - Dear Companion
Karen Ann S/T
N. America
Montag - Going Places
Matthew Dead - Asa Breed
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
David Bowie - Young Americans reissue
The Best of David Bowie 1980-1987: Sight and Sound
Jesus Lizard Live DVD
The Pipettes Your Kisses are Wasted on Me EP
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Highway Companion reissue
Shout Out Louds Tonight I Have to Leave It EP
Get Him Eat Him Arms Down

Spike Jonze Month: Week One - 1

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• White Stripes reschedule some U.S. dates
• Ben Kweller U.S. dates
  
• The Rentals U.S. tour (with Goldenboy)
• Crowded House Canadian dates
  
• The Boggs North American tour
• Full Glastonbury lineup revealed
• Rebekah Higgs Canadian dates
  
• Harry and the Potters tour libraries across North America
• The Sick Fits Canadian dates

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape REISSUE (!), July 10 (N. America) and June 25 (U.K.)
  
• New Pornographers - Challengers, Aug. 21
• Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature, Sept. 25
  
• Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, July 10
• Sebadoh - The Freed Man, July 10
  
• The Rentals - The Last Little Life EP, Aug. 14
  
• Kurt Cobain -- About a Son, Sept. 11
  
• Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, Let Your Crooked Hands Be Holy, Sept. 25
• Minnie Driver - Seastories, July 10
  
• Korn S/T, July 31
  

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Weezer "Undone (The Sweater Song)"

Life's so rad...