To all of our east coast viewers – the Welsh indie-rock trio, The Joy Formidable, has announced a string of tour dates in support of The Foo Fighters. The band will tour with the legendary alternative rock giants in November for a number of East Coast dates, from Duluth, Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts. The band will also be returning to the U.S. for some brief headlining tour dates in August, including a stop at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago on August 7.  Read more...

Royal Bangs are pleased to announce an extensive North American tour in support of their new album, Flux Outside, available March 29, 2011 via Glassnote Records. The band will also be making an appearance at SXSW.

Trading instruments and production duties, band members Chris Rusk, Ryan Schaefer and Sam Stratton recorded the album this August in an old house in their hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee with the help of Scott Minor (Sparklehorse) and his dog, Loretta. After a few weeks of tracking, manipulating, alternately weirding and un-weirding the material, they traveled to the rural western New York studio of Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Sleater Kinney, MGMT), who mixed the album with the band.  Read more...

To look at them floating suspended in the air before a wide open sea in their press photos, the mind doesn’t scream disco beats and swank guitar riffs, yet Chicago trio Hey Champ knows how to make your butt shake and your body groove like there was no tomorrow.  Read more...