Devastations: TOUR DATES

Things are looking rosy for Devastations, a band of long and lean Australians who have been calling Berlin, Germany, home for some time now. Their most recent release, Coal, is now out in UK/Europe on Beggars [Sept 26] and will see a well-deserved stateside unveiling on Brassland, October 24th. And it's fitting that they've chosen this city of long lost secrets, grimy old buildings, and smoky glass as their home away from home, as that description can also be applied to their music.

The band will soon set foot on North American soil for the first time and you can be there! Joining them on this inaugural trek will be fellow Aussies, The Drones. Interestingly, the Devs and Drones were both shortlisted for this year's Australian Music Prize which celebrates the "best album" of the year.

Here are the upcoming European, US, and Canadian dates:
* w/ the drones

22.10.06 UK. London. Luminaire
23.10.06 UK. Manchester. Big Hands
24.10.06 UK. London. Barfly - Camden

US + Canada Dates
26.10.06 USA. Washington DC. Black Cat
27.10.06 USA. NYC. Knitting Factory
28.10.06 USA. Philadelphia. Johnny Brenda's **
31.10.06 USA. Cambridge, MA. TT The Bear's **
01.11.06 USA. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Sound Fix (In-Store) *
02.11.06 USA. NYC. White Rabbit
03.11.06 USA. NYC. R&R (CMJ showcase)
04.11.06 Canada. Toronto. El Mocambo **
06.11.06 USA. Chicago. Empty Bottle **
07.11.06 USA. Minneapolis. 7th Street Entry **
10.11.06 Canada. Vancouver. Media Club **
11.11.06 USA. Seattle. Crocodile **
12.11.06 USA. Portland. Doug Fir **
14.11.06 USA. San Francisco. Bottom Of The Hill **
15.11.06 USA. L.A. Spaceland **
17.11.06 USA. San Diego. Casbah **

More EU Dates
15.12.06 NL. Den Haag. State X New Forms Festival
17.12.06 Germany. Munich. Atomic Cafe
18.12.06 Germany. Cologne. Prime Club
19.12.06 Germany. Hamburg. Molotow
20.12.06 Germany. Magnet. Berlin
21.12.06 Germany. Dresden. Star Club

Please check Brassland for more details.



Coal tracklist and MP3s
Sex And Mayhem [mp3]
The Night I couldn't Stop Crying
I Don't Want To Lose You Tonight
Coal [mp3 clip]
Terrified
Take You Home (released as a single on Beggars - August 28th )
Cormina
A Man Of Fortune
What's A Place Like That Doing In A Girl Like You?
Dance With Me

Here's an idea of what The Drones are all about.

the drones
+ i don't ever want to change [mp3]
+ who do you love [mp3]

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Released: October 10th

WOW! Lots of new stuff coming tomorrow, here's what insound's got for you... but before that...

Have you noticed that The Hype Machine has got a sweet new look on their page. Not a huge change, but everything looks neater and tidier.
Okay, one more thing before the new releases...
If you get the time, please take a look at the ads here on *Sixeyes and click away if so inclined... thanks.

NOW, here's the new stuff at insound.

10/10/06 120 Days 120 Days Vice

10/10/06 Apoptygma Berzerk You and Me Against The World Metropolis

10/10/06 Bitch Make This/Break This Kill Rock Stars

10/10/06 Blood Brothers Young Machetes V2

10/10/06 Busdriver Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia is the Sport of Now) Anti-/Epitaph

10/10/06 Califone Roots & Crowns Thrill Jockey

10/10/06 Caroline Sunrise EP Temporary Residence

10/10/06 Chavez Better Days Will Haunt You Matador

10/10/06 Chin Up Chin Up This Harness Can't Ride Anything Suicide Squeeze

10/10/06 Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards Downtown

10/10/06 Daedelus Throw A Fit Alpha Pup

10/10/06 Damien Jurado And Now That I'm In Your Shadow Secretly Canadian

10/10/06 Dead Can Dance Wake 4AD

10/10/06 El Goodo S/T Empyrean Records

10/10/06 Euros Childs Chops Wichita

10/10/06 Fix The Speed of Twisted Thought Touch and Go

10/10/06 Fucked Up Hidden World Jade Tree

10/10/06 Gothic Archies The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events Nonesuch

10/10/06 Hisato Higuchi Dialogue Family Vinyard

10/10/06 Hymns Brother/Sister Rock Ridge

10/10/06 I Am Ghost Lovers' Requiem Epitaph

10/10/06 Johann Johannson IBM 1401 - A User's Manual 4AD

10/10/06 Micah P. Hinson Micah P. Hinson & The Opera Circuit Jade Tree

10/10/06 New Sounds Of Numbers Liberty Seeds Cloud

10/10/06 Nikki Sudden The Truth Doesn't Matter Secretly Canadian

10/10/06 Oxford Collapse Remember The Night Parties

10/10/06 Pit Er Pat Pyramids Thrill Jockey

10/10/06 Pompeii Assembly Eyeball

10/10/06 Portastatic Be Still Please Merge

10/10/06 Rhys Chatham Two Gong Table of the Elements

10/10/06 Robert Pollard Normal Happiness Merge

10/10/06 Rope Heresy, And Then Nothing But Tears Family Vinyard

10/10/06 Sparta Threes Hollywood Records

10/10/06 Spider and the Webs Frozen Roses K Records

10/10/06 Sybarite Cut Out Shape Temporary Residence

10/10/06 These Arms Are Snakes Easter Jade Tree

10/10/06 Transmission S/T Table of the Elements

10/10/06 Under Byen Samme Stof Som Stof Paper Bag Records

10/10/06 Various Artists Serious Times XL

10/10/06 Whitey The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train Dim Mak

new+releases music

Princeton (the band)

Princeton is a California based trio of twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel along with Ben Usen. These fellas appear to be attempting to deliver the sombre beauty of Nick Drake, the peppy peppermint pop of the sixties, and the naiveity of those past times on their mini LP, A Case of the Emperor's Clothes. And with very little in the way of tools, as explained on their web site... "one microphone, one acoustic guitar, a cheap keyboard, six pairs of hands, three sets of vocal chords, and one small egg shaker"... they've achieved this perceived goal admirably. If you like shiny, sparkling harmonies glinting from the face of timeless melodies, you'd do well to focus your light upon this band. It'll be hard not to smile when they're smiling at you.

Princeton's myspace page is here.




Mp3's from A Case of the Emperor's Clothes
The Indifference Curve
Blackbeard
Tokyo Japan
They Sing in Her Heart

"They Sing In Her Heart" is a myspace link and can only be streamed on Princton's myspace page.

Tech Tags: mp3 downloads music

Nellie McKay 'Pretty Little Head'

Don't worry your pretty little head, pretty little Nellie McKay [fan page] has a double album coming the end of this month, October 31st. Pretty Little Head will finally be issued on New York indie label, SpinART Records, after it had languished on the shelf since October 2005 when her previous label, Columbia, nixed her plans to release a full 23 song, 65 minute album by stating they wanted a cut down 16 song and 48 minute version.

Now McKay's (pronounced Muh-KIE) vision will finally be seen, as SpinART is releasing the whole enchilada this Halloween... here's the track list and below, some mp3s from the record:








Pretty Little Head
Disc 1:
Cupcake
Pink Chandelier
There You Are In Me
Yodel
The Big One
G.E.S.
I Will Be There
The Down Low
Long & Lazy River
I Am Nothing
Beecharmer (feat. Cyndi Lauper)
Swept Away
Disc 2:
Real Life
Tipperary
Gladd
Food
we had it right (feat k.d. lang)
Columbia Is Bleeding
Lali Est Parisseux
Happy Flower
Mama and Me
Pounce
Old Enough

MP3s from Pretty Little Head
+ there you are in me
+ food

You can stream two tracks from Pretty Little Head on her myspace page.
FIND more Nellie Mckay here.

Tech Tags: mp3 downloads music nellie+mckay

Exclusive Cat Power Session at eMusic

EMusic has four solo tracks that Cat Power recorded for radio and you can get them through eMusic's 25 FREE download offer.

Here's the track list:
The Greatest
Remember Me
Ramblin' Man
Good Woman

Also new to the digital download site:
The Hold Steady
Beach House
The Lemonheads
The Handsome Family
TOM WAITS
Yo La Tengo
Pernice Brothers

Tech Tags: mp3 downloads music emusic

Leeroy Stagger

Canada now has it's own Ryan Adams, his name is Leeroy Stagger. If Adams had kept toeing the line he drew with his acclaimed outfit, Whiskeytown, and swallowed enough hard times to grow a Steve Earle throat, well, hell, then Stagger would be American, but he's not... he's ours. But better yet, his latest and third full-length, Depression River, is everyone's.

Stagger delivers his songs in an incredibly familiar voice, ragged and warm it masks his youth (24) and yet it doesn't hide his sincerity. Although he does stir echoes of Earle, he recalls Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on the mid-tempo nugget, "Wish You Were The Trees". What stands out most of all is Stagger's ability to pen songs that seem like old friends. The album was released in Canada, October 3rd, but it won't be released stateside until February 2007. So, spread the word that rootsy alt-country has a new 'it' boy and you'll be able to say say you were a fan all along... when he's sitting up there with Letterman.


From Leeroy Stagger and The Sinking Hearts - Depression River
+ depression river
+ payback

Depression River [Boompa] track list
01. Where I Live
02. Depression River
03. Wish You Were The Trees
04. Payback
05. Jealous and Drunk
06. Best Mistake
07. Saskatoon
08. One Of the Lucky Ones
09. Carol
10. Lay Down Your Guns
11. Satellite
12. Tired of Being High
13. Jesus and the Liquor

Leeroy Stagger(guitar, lead vocals)
Jon Gant (drums)
Daniel Weisenberger (guitar, backing vocals)
Leigh Greiswood (bass, backing vocals)

BUY Depression River.

SOME MP3s FROM EARLIER ALBUMS...
From Tales From The Back Porch [april 2006]
+ i break hearts

From Beautiful House [2005]
+ beautiful house
+ just in case

From Dear Love [2004]
+ slowly sinking

Tech Tags: mp3 music downloads leeroy+stagger

Woolly Leaves

Woolly Leaves is a side-project of Constantines keyboardist, Will Kidman. A quiet lo-fi bedroom recording done with skill and talent, and none of the trepidation you might expect from one who spends their time in a band led by a powerful writer and performer like Constantines singer, Bry Webb, and who often does his work in the shadows of the stage.

Kidman's voice carries a slight quaver similar to fellow Canadian, Neil Young. His voice and music are intimate and endearing, giving up touchstones such as double-tracked echoes of Elliott Smith to the rustic glow of Toronto's Hayden. Kidman's album, Quiet Waters [Outside Music], nearly whispers quiet tunes whose merits should be shouted.

A favourite song is "Soft Place to Call Home", a track that ends on a brief, yet lovely, coda wavering from the keys of an organ... a warmer, softer sound I couldn't imagine.

+ soft place to call home
+ people and the planets

Quiet Waters [outside music] Track List
1. Everyone Else 2:40
2. San Louis Rey 3:07
3. People and the Planets 3:10
4. Big City 3:02
5. Walk With Light 2:59
6. Neverending Song 2:39
7. New Graffitti 4:00
8. Quiet Waters 2:21
9. Comin' Around 2:26
10. Soft Place To Call Home 2:32
11. Song for Mark 3:00

*Download Quiet Waters at eMusic. Check into eMusic's 25 FREE MP3 Downloads offer right here.

BONUS
Here are two tracks from Kidman's earlier Woolly Leaves release on Die Venom, Dew Dab.
+ scissors
+ ramore

Tech Tags: mp3 downloads music

Released: October 3rd

This weeks's releases at insound.com.

10/03/06 Ad Astra Per Aspera Catapult Calypso Sonic Unyon
10/03/06 Air Late Night Tales Thrive
10/03/06 Beach House Beach House Carpark
10/03/06 Beck The Information Interscope
10/03/06 Cities Variations Yep Roc
10/03/06 Dabrye Two-Three (Instrumentals) Ghostly International
*This album available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Dears Gang of Losers Arts and Crafts
10/03/06 Decemberists The Crane Wife Capitol
::The Decemberists are available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Eagle*Seagull Eagle*Seagull Paper Garden
*This album available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America Vagrant
::The Hold Steady are available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Killers Sam's Town Island Def Jam
10/03/06 Knife We Share Our Mother's Health EP Mute
10/03/06 Kooks Inside In/Inside Out Astralwerks
10/03/06 Lady Sovereign Public Warning Def Jam
::Lady Sovereign is available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Make Believe Of Course Flameshovel
*This album is available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Neko Case Live from Austin DVD New West
::Neko Case is available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Pixies Live at the Paradise - Boston DVD Eagle Vision
::The Pixies are available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Serena Maneesh Sapphire Eyes [Single] Playlouderecordings
::Serena Maneesh is availble at eMusic.

10/02/06 Thunderbirds Are Now! Make History Frenchkiss
::Thunderbirds Are Now! are available at eMusic.

10/03/06 Various Artists DFA Remixes: Chapter Two DFA/Astralwerks

Tech Tags: mp3 downloads music emusic