Photo credit: Jason Debiak

Our good friends in E For Explosion have headed out on the road with the likes of The Reign of Kindo, City Lights & a slew of other bands. Check them out if you want to hear a lush mash-up of My Bloody Valentine, The Jealous Sound & early Jimmy Eat World. Tour dates are posted after the jump and visit their MySpace for even more tracks.

E For Explosion - Sunday

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Like the hooks Beck generates? Like the vocals of Tom Waits?  Well, merge the two together, add intelligent free-style into the mix and you have yourself Astronautalis. The act is just one man, Andy Bothwell. I had the pleasure of seeing Andy perform at SXSW this year, it was just his lonely self and a laptop on stage but he put on one of the most engaging performances I’ve ever seen. Andy commanded the crowd like a goddamn dictator and then made them feel like shit for not being as talented. Don’t stand too close to him during the show though, spit WILL hit you.

Astronautalis has plans of releasing a new record in 2008, but for now check out his stuff on MySpace. Catch a video of Astronautalis performing after the jump…

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ELBOW - 4/26/2008 @ Webster Hall, NYC:

HOLY SHIT

Ya know how some people have a “sweet tooth“? Well I have a “pop tooth“. It is rare when something can really satisfy my pop tooth, though. Fortunately, I have the boys of Scissors For Lefty in my life who can successfully fill this gaping void each and every time I put on their CD or when I can see them live (last year at SxSW…incredible). Now… I don’t get up and dance when I hear it. That would be awkward and not very necessary. But it humbles me that I can if I wanted to and wouldn’t feel bad about it. For those of you who have seen them live, front man Bryan Garza puts on quite the show, getting even the most meager of crowds enthused and shaking their little fannies. Their sophomore record Underhanded Romance eventually found its way onto Eenie Meenie Records in 2007 after hitting shelves in the UK for almost a year prior and you need to pick it up. My mom also cooked them dinner once. She rules. Check out the remix for their track “Ghetto Ways” off of their latest album.

Scissors For Lefty - Ghetto Ways (remix)

My Bloody Valentine have added a small handful of comeback gigs! I might have been wearing over-sized baseball t-shirts the last time they played a show.

06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland

Add some US dates on there and I’ll burn my baseball Ts, buy a plane ticket and finally feel cool.