The Secret Life Of Sofia, whose Seven Summits album we recently wrote about, is going on a week-long tour that will take them through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. And they’re getting the whole thing kicked off with a free show at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn tomorrow night. Here are a couple of mp3s [...]

Here’s video of “Crawl,” the song Man In Gray was segueing into in the last video we posted of the band from their CD release show:

And here’s another one of Gold Streets at the last Hot Rocks Party, playing “Convince Me” this time:

The two bands will be appearing together a week from today at Union [...]

StereoactiveNYC.com has, for a while now, been involved with booking both local and out of town bands at NYC and Brooklyn shows. Now, for the first time, we’ve helped set up out of town shows for two NYC bands. They’ll be kicking the mini-tour off in their own backyard at one of their favorite venues [...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah recently announced they’ll be joined on tour in the US by Archiecture In Helsinki and New York’s own Takka Takka. Pre-sale tickets for the band’s upcoming dates are now available on the shows page at their wesbite.
They’ve also just made two live mp3s recorded in Berlin for Radio One available:
mp3: [...]

Asobi Seksu recently announced a slew of tour dates, mostly for September and October at this point, that will take them through parts of Canada and the northern part of the US before hitting the West Coast. Here they are:
August 31 @ Maxwell’s / Hoboken, NJ
w/ Cassettes Won’t Listen
September 14 @ Tufts University / Boston, [...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has, unfortunately, had to cancel the Japanese and Australian legs of their tour due to lead singer Alec Ounswouth’s voice beginning to give out on him. Here’s hoping he’s able to recover soon.

(photo courtesy of Ear Farm)
In anticipation of their upcoming Midwest Music Summit appearance, My Old Kentucky Blog has something to say about Man In Gray:
Man In Gray plays a brand of that new-wave, NYC post-punk that those kids love so well. Unlike of so many of the “blog-popular” bands of this ilk coming out of [...]

(Drawing by Bryan Bruchman)
The nice young men of The Secret Life Of Sofia just returned from a successful tour only to be attacked by the Subinev Robot Conversion Machine — we think it’s kinda like that giant computer the villainess falls into in Superman III — you know, she falls in and, for some reason, [...]

(Drawings by Bryan Bruchman
Up The Empire has a new mp3 online from their upcoming album, Light Rides The Super major:
mp3: “Volcano”
Their next New York show isn’t until July 7th,when they’ll be playing the Terset release sow along with Man In Gray at Park Slope’s Brooklyn Lyceum. In the meantime, they’ll be heading out on tour:
6/22 [...]