Thur. March 25th, 3 Kings premiere party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery FREE
Fri. March 26th, Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, CA
Sat. March 27th, Great American Concert Hall, San Francisco, CA
Wed. March 21, Wow Hall, Eugene, OR
Thur. April 1st, Doug Fir, Portland, OR
Fri. April 2nd, Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
Sat. April 3rd, Studio Seven, Seattle, WA
Mon. April 5th, Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
Wed. April 7th, Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
Thur. April 8th, Riot Room, Lawrence, KS
Fri. April 9th, Slowdown, Omaha, NE
Sat. April 10th, Nuttys North, Sioux Falls, SD
Mon. April 12th, Triple Rock, Minneapolis, MN
Tue. April 13th, Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Wed. April 14th, Annex, Madison, WI
Thur. April 15th, Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
Fri. April 16th, Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
Sat. April 17th, The Union, Athens, OH
Mon. April 19th, The Basement, Columbus, OH
Tues. April 20th, Walnut Street Schoolhouse, Ridgeway, PA
Wed. April 21st, Mohawk, Buffalo, NY
Thur. April 22nd, Lees Palace, Toronto, ON
Fri. April 23rd, Club Lampi, Montreal, QUE
Sat. April 24th Cafe Nine New Haven, CT
Sun. April 25th, Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY

In advance of this coming Tuesday’s release of The Brutalist Bricks (pre-order it here), MySpace is streaming the album in its entirety!

If you’re going to be in New York City this Tuesday, you can catch Ted and his Pharmacists in Brooklyn at The Brutalist Bricks record release party (that is if you’re going to be in New York City and you already have tickets – if not, go here).

The band hits Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Monday (RootscollaboRootscollaboRootscollaboRootscollaboRootscollabo).

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists will play cities besides New York soon, too:

March
Thursday 11 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop w/Title Tracks
Friday 12 - Pontiac, MI - The Crofoot w/Title Tracks
Saturday 13 – Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge w/Title Tracks
Sunday 14 – Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon w/Title Tracks
Monday 15 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue w/Title Tracks
Thursday 18 – Spokane, WA – The Blvd w/Title Tracks
Friday 19 – Seattle, WA – Nuemo’s
Saturday 20 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge w/Golden Bears
Sunday 21 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge w/Hive Dwellers
Tuesday 23 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall w/Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Wednesday 24 – Santa Barbara, CA – Soho Restaurant & Music Club w/ Titus Andronicus, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Friday 26 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House w/Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Saturday 27 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour w/Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Sunday 28 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress w/ Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Tuesday 30 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues w/Screaming Females, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Wednesday 31 - Austin, TX – The Parish Room w/Screaming Females, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves

April
Friday 02 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks w/Screaming Females
Saturday 03 – Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder w/Screaming Females
Sunday 04 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade w/Screaming Females
Monday 05 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle w/Screaming Females
Wednesday 07 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Thursday 08 – Washington, DC – 930 Club
Friday 09 - New York, NY – Irving Plaza w/Obits, Screaming Females
Saturday 10 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club w/Obits, Screaming Females

photo by Steve Gullick

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that WFMU, the world’s most freewheeling freeform radio station, is currently in fundraising mode, and like swallows returning to Capistrano or murderers returning to the scene of the crime, Yo La Tengo will once again be taking to the airwaves and playing your cover requests in exchange for cold, hard cash to keep WFMU running for another year. If you’re frustrated that Georgia, Ira and James always ignore your requests for “Heartbeat, It’s A Love Beat”, this is your chance to have your revenge and contribute to a great cause. Call in at 800.989.9368 to give hosts Pseu Braun & Gaylord Fields your money and requests tonight from 8:00PM to 11:00PM, and of course tune in at 91.1FM, or 90.1FM in the Hudson Valley, or at wfmu.org.

New Yorkers, your chance to to catch The Ponys comes in June. In addition to the previously announced dates, the band will perform at the Mercury Lounge on Friday June 18  and Union Pool on Saturday June 19 with Disappears and Woven Bones. All dates below:

April
Saturday 27        Seattle, WA       The Tractor Tavern w/Disappears
Wednesday 28    Portland, OR   Doug Fir Lounge w/Disappears, Meth Teeth
Friday 30San     Francisco, CA    Bottom of the Hill w/Disappears, Spencey Dude and the Doodles

May
Saturday 01    Silver Lake, CA       Spaceland w/Disappears, Static Static
Sunday 02    San Diego, CA          Casbah w/Disappears, Christmas Island
Friday 28    Austin, TX                  Mohawk w/Chaos In Tejas

June

Friday 18  New York, NY        Mercury Lounge w/ Disappears, Woven Bones
Saturday 19 Brooklyn, NY      Union Pool w/ Disappears, Woven Bones

photo montage lifted from canderson‘s flickr

Vol. II? Please tell me this will advance to some KBD-type status where someone else can do the future editions (and thus contend with the bitching and moaning from pals & relatives of the generic bands who didn’t make the cut). Love the cassettes, though.

We here are True Panther are pretty damn excited and honored to announce this year’s True Panther showcase for SXSW. No official stuff or badges or RSVP’s, just good music free and open to the public for more hours than one would think is humanly possible. There are two stages so break times will be short and a dj after the live shows are over. The line-up is bands we’ve done records with, bands we are doing records with, or bands we’re just plain big fans of.

Here is a static flyer in case you are seizure prone: FLYER

Thu 3/18 7pm-2am
Delorean/Lemonade/Tanlines/Magic Kids/Morning Benders/Teengirl Fantasy/Hunx & His Punx/Tamaryn/Rainbow Bridge/Shannon & The Clams…. DJ set from Matias Aguayo.
@Cheer Up Charlies (formerly Ms. Beas) 1104 E 6th St East Side Austin.

The planet’s best radio station, WFMU, is the middle of their annual fund-raising marathon. If you’re a regular listener to WFMU’s ridiculously diverse free-form lineup, you already know the station is 100% dependent on listener contributions to continue bringing you the most provocative music/humor/edutainment, and with their newly revised iPhone application, you have access to acres of WFMU archives in the palm of your paw. One of our favorite WFMU fixtures, Tom Scharpling, will be joined tonight by Ted Leo and longtime The Best Show On WFMU conspirator, former Seven Mary Three drummer Jon Wurster. Tom’s pitch can be found below :

The show is going to feature TED LEO and JON WURSTER in the studio. Ted is going to play songs and I know he has some crazy surprises up his sleeve. And the Wurster stuff is going to be hilarious.

The premium is called the BEST SHOW 2010 CHUMP STEAMROLLER FUN PACK. You can only get it by pledging DURING MY SHOW.

A pledge of 75 or more automatically gets it. In the Fun Pack:

The first ever BEST SHOW ON WFMU DVD! It’s a full-length DVD called FANTASIA IN BEST SHOW MINOR, and it’s going to be amazing. It features stuff you’re never going to believe. Here are some of the people who are going to be involved in the DVD:

PATTON OSWALT
TED LEO
PAUL F. TOMPKINS
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS
FUCKED UP
TIM AND ERIC
JOHN HODGMAN
AIMEE MANN
SCHARPLING AND WURSTER
YO LA TENGO
KURT VILE
MATT FRACTION
TODD BARRY
JASON WOLINER

And SO MANY MORE. There’s going to be puppets. Animation. Scharpling and Wurster stuff like you’ve never seen before. Travelogues from callers like Fredericks from New Port Richie, Julie from Cincinnati, AP Mike and more! Seriously – there are so many people working so hard on this thing. It’s gonna be legendary. And when the marathon is over, this thing is COMPLETELY UNAVAILABLE.

The second part of the Chump Steamroller Fun Pack is a set of BEST SHOW TRADING CARDS depicting your favorite callers and characters from the show. They are being designed by Chris Moses and Joe Allen – two guys who have done amazing jobs with previous Best Show projects – and they are outdoing themselves on this! We’re lining up artists – for starters Michael Kupperman and Brian Musikoff are on board – and they gonna be jaw droppingly great. And again, these cards will be GONE FOREVER if you don’t pledge DURING MY MARATHON SHOWS!

Last but not least, the first ever BEST SHOW BUMPER STICKER. Also awesome and also available ONLY BY PLEDGING DURING MY MARATHON SHOWS. Once the marathon is over, THEY ARE GONE FOREVER.

And as an added bonus, anyone who pledges $1000 gets something special just from me. It’s a secret. Seriously – I am not trying to be vague here but trust me on this one. I’ve got something JUST FOR YOU. I’ll make you happy with it – I PROMISE.

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO CALL OR PLEDGE ONLINE DURING MY SHOW, I will gladly write the pledge up myself. You can email me your information – name, address and pledge amount – and I will fill it out myself. All addresses and information is completely confidential and is not sold or distributed in any way shape or form, so don’t worry about your privacy. Write me at toms@wfmu.org and I’ll take care of it.

THE FACTS:
Tuesday March 2nd between 8-11 PM EST
CALL 1-800-989-9368 or PLEDGE ONLINE at www.wfmu.org on TUESDAY MARCH 2nd between 8-11 PM EST and be counted!

Late last year Burma laid down a savage session for Aquarium Drunkard at Infrasonic Sound.

Some of the songs they played came from the excellent The Sound The Speed The Light. Buy that album here.

Don’t miss the band in concert when they’re in your area:

April
Wednesday 07 – Newport, KY – Southgate House
Thursday 08 - Ann Arbor, AL – Blind Pig
Friday 09 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
Saturday 10 – Chicago, IL – Double Door

May
Friday 14 – Minehead UK – Pavement ATP
Thursday 27 – Barcelona ES – Primavera Sound

from Aquarium Drunkard:

Mission of Burma :: Blunder (Aquarium Drunkard Session) from Aquarium Drunkard on Vimeo.

Mission of Burma :: Careening With Conviction (Aquarium Drunkard Session) from Aquarium Drunkard on Vimeo.

Mission of Burma :: Here It Comes (Aquarium Drunkard Session) from Aquarium Drunkard on Vimeo.

Mission of Burma :: Dirt (Aquarium Drunkard Session) from Aquarium Drunkard on Vimeo.

Hours ago, Pavement played their first show since 1999 in Auckland, New Zealand… and just like that, further dates for Pavement’s reunion tour have been announced!

Stay tuned for more Pavement news, and the winners of the guess-the-tracklisting contest.

09-09 Broomfield, CO – First Bank Center
09-11 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
09-12 St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
09-17 Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
09-18 Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
09-26 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle

ADDITION: FINAL WINNERS OF TRACKLISTING CONTEST:

The “Guess The Track Listing Contest” for Pavement’s best-of collection, Quarantine The Past, concludes with the announcement of the four runner-up winners below. I don’t know why we announced prizes in reverse of the usual order, but there you go. Matador-Pavement vibez. Grand prize winner (all-expenses-paid trip to see Pavement in NYC’s Central Park in September), for guessing closest to the actual track listing, was Flavio Seixlack of São Paolo. Second prize winner, for most imaginative track listing, was Gwendael Gouriou of Plougastel-Daoulas in Brittany. Her track listing will be pressed up as a special limited-edition LP for Record Store Day. (If you missed them, click on the names of the winners above to see their track listings.)

The four runners-up, two in each category, are listed below, along with their track listings. Congratulations to all of them! They will each receive a complete set of Matador Pavement 12″ vinyl, along with a copy of the special Record Store Day LP of Gwen’s track listing.

The 1st runner-up for closest sequence is DAVID, from LONDON:

1. Gold Soundz (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
2. Box Elder (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
3. Stereo (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
4. Frontwards (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
5. Spit On A Stranger (TERROR TWILIGHT)
6. Summer Babe (Winter Version) (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
7. Cut Your Hair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
8. Rattled By The Rush (WOWEE ZOWEE)
9. Here (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
10. Debris Slide (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
11. Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence (NO ALTERNATIVE COMP)
12. Shady Lane / J Vs. S (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
13. In The Mouth A Desert (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
14. Range Life (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
15. AT&T (WOWEE ZOWEE)
16. We Dance (WOWEE ZOWEE)
17. You’re Killing Me (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
18. Major Leagues (TERROR TWILIGHT)
19. Conduit For Sale! (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
20. Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
21. Unfair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
22. Grounded (WOWEE ZOWEE)
23. Date w/ IKEA (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)

The second runner-up prize for closest sequence goes to CONNIE JUNG, from Los Angeles:

1. Gold Soundz (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
2. Range Life (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
3. Stop Breathin’ (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
4. Cut Your Hair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
5. Summer Babe (Winter Version) (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
6. In The Mouth A Desert (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
7. Here (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
8.Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
9. Perfume-V (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
10. AT&T (WOWEE ZOWEE)
11. Grounded (WOWEE ZOWEE)
12. Rattled By The Rush (WOWEE ZOWEE)
13. Stereo (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
14. Shady Lane / J Vs. S (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
15. Date w/ IKEA (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
16. Old To Begin (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
17. Spit On A Stranger (TERROR TWILIGHT)
18. The Hexx (TERROR TWILIGHT)
19. …And Carrot Rope (TERROR TWILIGHT)
20. Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence (NO ALTERNATIVE COMP)
21. Box Elder (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
22. Frontwards (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
23. Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse) (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)

And the third runner-up, in the imaginative category, is BILL HOWARD, from Colorado Springs:

1. She Believes (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
2. Conduit For Sale! (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
3. Serpentine Pad (WOWEE ZOWEE)
4. Silence Kit (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
5. Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
6. No Life Singed Her (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
7. Heckler Spray (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
8. Debris Slide (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
9. Unfair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
10. Stereo (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
11. Frontwards (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
12. Half A Canyon (WOWEE ZOWEE)
13. Perfume-V (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
14. Gold Soundz (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
15. AT&T (WOWEE ZOWEE)
16. From Now On (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
17. Pueblo (WOWEE ZOWEE)
18. The Hexx (TERROR TWILIGHT)
19. Elevate Me Later (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
20. Zurich Is Stained (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
21. Blue Hawaiian (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
22. We Dance (WOWEE ZOWEE)
23. Fillmore Jive (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)

And finally the fourth runner-up prize, also in the imaginative sequence category, goes to IPEI, from the San Fernando Valley Kamakura, Japan:

1. We Are Underused (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
2. Recorder Grot (DEMOLITION PLOT J-7 EP)
3. We Dance (WOWEE ZOWEE)
4. Embassy Row (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
5. You’re Killing Me (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
6. Our Singer (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
7. Passat Dream (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
8. Loretta’s Scars (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
9. Maybe Maybe (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
10. Gold Soundz (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
11. Fame Throwa (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
12. Father To A Sister Of Thought (WOWEE ZOWEE)
13. Feed Them To The Lions (Linden) (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
14. Fight This Generation (WOWEE ZOWEE)
15. Flux = Rad (WOWEE ZOWEE)
16. Grounded (WOWEE ZOWEE)
17. Hit the Plane Down (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
18. Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse) (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
19. Zurich Is Stained (SLANTED AND ENCHANTED)
20. Krell Vid-User (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
21. Billie (TERROR TWILIGHT)
22. Box Elder (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
23. Cream Of Gold (TERROR TWILIGHT)

Congratulations again to all 6 winners, and thanks to everyone who participated.

We have a winner for the Fucked Up 7″ Contest. It is – drum rolls please – Steve Wiltse! His collection contained items that some of us in the office could not even identify. Well done, sir.

Steve will now receive a special 1 of 1 copy of Fucked Up’s new Couple Tracks 7″ with himself on the cover (above). Check out Steve’s Fucked Up collection after the jump. It is impressive, to say the least.

Pictures of his winning collection are below.
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