Category: tour

Good news if you live on the West Coast or Canada, bad news is you live anywhere else.

11/13 – Calgary, AB — MacEwan Hall
11/14 – Edmonton, AB — Event Center
11/16 – Vancouver, BC — PA Center
11/17 – Seattle, WA — Moore
11/18 – Portland, OR — Crystal Ballroom
11/20 – San Francisco, CA — Warfield
11/21 – Los Angeles, CA — Wiltern
11/23 – Las Vegas, NV — Joint
11/24 – Anaheim, CA — House of Blues
11/25 – Phoenix, AZ — Celebrity Theatre
11/26 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues

Poor, poor Travis. Just a few years ahead of Coldplay and Snow Patrol, they had a moderate amount of success in the States but during their downtime all these other mopey, anthemic Brit bands came along and ate up the charts. The band’s released a new record, The Boy With No Name (did you even know?), that is actually among their best work. That being said, it’s also nothing different than the rest of their stuff.

Here’s Travis performing their latest single, “Selfish Jean”, on The Parkinson Show.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGmdR5G7DtY[/youtube]

Maximo Park did a little touring in the U.S. this past summer but for such a heavily-hyped band, they fell short if they are hoping to make it big over here with their new CD, Our Earthly Pleasures. That’s too bad because the first track on the CD, “Girls Who Play Guitar”, is one of the best songs released this year. MORE TOURING IN THE U.S., PLEASE!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztJu7fLvEY[/youtube]

“This is the second coming of The Libertines,” I said to David during the Black Lips afternoon performance at the Fader party at SXSW 2007 even though I had never heard a Libertines song in my life. I figured that these British kids MUST be ripping off Pete Doherty’s band. If not in sound, than in that dirty, rotten punk attitude.

“I don’t think these guys are from England,” David said back. “And they don’t really sound like The Libertines.”

Shows you what complete ignorance and a whole lot of free booze will do to ya.

The Black Lips have a new album coming out on Vice in September called Good Bad Not Evil. It’s loaded with primative ’60s garage punk songs like “Katrina” and “How Do You Tell a Child that Someone Has Died”.

A few September tour dates have been announced and include:

09/12 – Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
09/13 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg
09/21 – Cambridge, MA – Middle East Restaurant

Now, if you believe everything you read (and in the Black Lips case you absolutely should), you may witness some of the following during a live show: puking, pissing, nudity, fireworks, spitting, members of the band making out with each other, and blood.

Here’s “Katrina” from the new album.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=7QxwA4ZCioI[/youtube]

And while you’re here, how about an MP3 to check out?

Download “Cold Hands” from Good Bad Not Evil.