Tonight at 11PM EDT/8PM PDT Queens will perform from LA’s Wiltern Theater for NPR Music’s First Listen Live. You can watch the performance live at NPR or at the newly relaunched QOTSA.com.

The show will feature the band performing the new album …Like Clockwork – out June 3(UK)/4(US) – live in its entirety.

What else can I possibly say. Don’t miss this.

Live at Union Transfer, Philadelphia. Photo Courtesy: Jeffrey Sidelsky

Road warriors, Kurt Vile and the Violators, are adding some more dates to their summer touring. This new batch of dates are in August and include the Pickathon Festival (Happy Valley, OR), Outside Lands (San Francisco, CA), and FYF Fest (Los Angeles, CA). New dates below in bold. And note Swirlies now supporting on a host of the July dates!

In addition Kurt will be closing out Philadelphia’s City Hall Presents concert series on August 28 in the City Hall Courtyard (of the City of Brotherly Love). You can RSVP to this event here. And further information on the series is here.

Kurt Vile and the Violators Tour Dates:

Saturday, June 29 – NYC – 4 Knots Festival – Kurt Vile and the Violators Headline

Friday, July 05 – Montreal, QUE – Le Mondial Lotto Quebec – Centre De La Nature *
Sunday, July 07 – Toronto, ON – Toronto Urban Roots Festival
Tuesday, July 9 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop #
Wednesday, July 10 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick #
Thursday, July 11 – Chicago, IL – Metro #
Friday, July 12 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue Theater #
Saturday, July 13 – Louisville, KY – Forecastle Music Festival
Sunday, July 14 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge #
Monday, July 15 – Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree #
Tuesday, July 16 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West #
Wednesday, July 17 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle #
Thursday, July 18 – Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle #
Friday, July 19 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theatre #
Saturday, July 20 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club #
Saturday, July 27 – Edmonton, AB – Interstellar Rodeo
Sunday, July 28 – Calgary, AB – Calgary Folk Music Festival

Friday, August 02 – Sunday, August 4 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon
Monday, August 05 – Seattle, WA – Showbox At The Market
Tuesday, August 06 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
Friday, August 09 – Sunday, August 11 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
Tuesday, August 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Thursday, August 15 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Cafe
Friday, August 16 – Lawrence, KS – The Granada
Saturday, August 17 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird
Monday, August 19 – Dallas, TX – Trees
Tuesday, August 20 – Austin, TX – Mohawk (Outside)
Friday, August 23 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister
Saturday, August 24 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
Sunday, August 25 – Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest

Wednesday, August 28 – Philadelphia, PA – City Hall Concert Series – (Solo Performance) – RSVP here

Thursday, September 05 – Saturday, September 07 – Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Music Festival

Saturday, October 12 – Mexico City, Mexico – Corona Capital Music Festival

* = Supporting The Black Keys
# = Swirlies supporting

Order Wakin On A Pretty Daze from the Matador Store

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(clip courtesy CBS / The Late Show)

If you missed Kurt Vile making his Ed Sullivan Theater debut last Friday night, here’s the performance of “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” from the amazing album of the same name, available on LP/CD or digital files from the Matador store

Online and free to share with your friends today, Esben and the Witch release the Wash The Sins Not Only The Face Remixes EP.  Featuring remixes and reworkings from the likes of Mute’s Maps, Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio), Klad Hest (BEAK>) and more – you can stream the EP on the widget below, which is also free to embed and share.  Head over to esbenandthewitch.co.uk to download the EP today.

Wash The Sins Not Only The Face Remixes
1. When That Head Splits – remixed by Maps
2. Deathwaltz – reworking, produced by David Andrew Sitek
3. The Fall of Glorieta Mountain – remixed by Lumbers
4. When That Head Splits – remixed by Woodpecker Wooliams
5. Despair – The President Chews A Bind – Klad Hest remix
6. Smashed To Pieces In The Still of the Night – remixed by Teeth of the Sea

Also online today is a live session version of Yellow Wood, taken from the album – filmed by our friends Bowlegs.  Daniel’s facial hair styling continues to change daily.

Following the yesterday’s release of ‘Impersonator‘, Majical Cloudz will appear in session at KEXP’s Cutting Room Studios at 12:30pm EST/9:30 PST. Tune in at KEXP.org

‘Impersonator’ is available  now on all formats at the Matador store & digitally on iTunes.

*photo lifted from maryanne67‘s flickr

to celebrate the “My God Is The Sun” on the service. Life = good.

Thursday night (May 23) at 11pm eastern (8pm pacific) at LA’s Wiltern, Queens of the Stone Age will perform the upcoming ‘…Like Clockwork’ album in its entirety, followed by a selection of older material. The show sold out instantly, but via the auspices of NPR’s First Listen, you’ll get to watch it from the safety of your own home.

…Like Clockwork is out June 4 (June 3 in Europe) and is available for pre-order now.

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(“Submerge”, live in Offenbach)

Our 20th anniversary edition of Come’s astonishing 1993 debut, ’11:11′ is in stores today ; I’d love to show you a photo of how awesome the packaging is, but either someone has misplaced the camera in our New York office or they’re worried that you’ll be blinded by the sheer brilliance of it all. But rest assured, band + associates knocked it out of the park (or, if you deeply dislike inappropriate baseball analogies, they’ve done appropriate justice to one of the most important album in this label’s history).

Over at The Awl, Choire Sicha’s interview with Thalia Zedek touches on the band’s history, their recent reunion (clips from last week’s shows in Germany and Holland are above and below, respectively), the nutty ’90′s and Thalia’s solo work.

(“Fast Piss Blues”, live in Amsterdam)

’11:11′ is available for preorder from The Matador Store.

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In bloody bits and pieces, Queens previewed their new animated film over the last two weeks. Today Boneface‘s masterwork can be seen in its entirety:

images by Boneface, animation by Liam Brazier.

…Like Clockwork is out June 4 (June 3 in Europe) and is available for pre-order now.

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In case you’d forgotten (how could you?!) the Kurt Vile and the Violators European tour begins this week.  Full ticket links are available over at http://kurtvile.com/live/.

We also just got word that Steve Powers, he of Wakin On A Pretty Daze artwork-fame is exhibiting in Brussels right this second.  You can get the full info about the exhibition, which is taking place at the Alice Gallery, over at Arrested Motion.

And to return the favour to Mr Powers, Kurt is going to play an acoustic set at the gallery before his show at the AB, Brussels, on Sunday night – 26th May.