The Avett Brothers have announced their 2010 spring tour dates. Their album I and Love and You debuting at number 16 on the Billboard charts and has sold over 40,000 units during the first week.
The video for “Slight Figure of Speech” premieres today on the comedy site, FunnyOrDie.com, with a guest appearance by funny man Andy Daly. The video was directed by fellow North Carolina native Jody Hill, the brain behind HBO’s cult classic “Eastbound & Down”.
Beginning their spring tour on February 4th in Athens, OH the band will travel throughout the US and end up in Cumberland, MD on May 28th
Memento Mori, the new album from A&M/Octone recording group Flyleaf, debuts at No. 8 on The Billboard 200, selling 56, 400 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was recorded with Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, The All-American Rejects).
The album’s first single, “Again,” was Amazon.com’s “Free Song of the Day” on Saturday and is already number 15 (with bullet) at Active Rock radio and number 20 (with bullet) at Modern Rock. The accompanying video can be seen on MTV2 and FUSE. “Again” was one of the songs Flyleaf performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in late October, on the eve of the launch of an intimate club tour of the U.S.
November
20 Baltimore, MD Sonar
21 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
23 Atlanta, GA The Loft at Center Stage
December
3 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre (KDGE Christmas)
4 Estero, FL Germain Arena (99X Xmas Ball)
18 Detroit, MI The Fillmore (89X Christmas)
The video was directed by the band’s bass player Mike Hindert, the same person who directed the band’s previous chilling clip for “Hatef***.” The new album by The Bravery , Stir The Blood, comes out on December 1.
Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) released his anticipated full-length debut, Continent, yesterday on Paper Bag Records. The 12-track album (which features Silver’s own spin on Fleetwood Mac’s song “Big Love”) is the followup to CFCF’s set of celebrated EPs, Panesian Nights and The Explorers (featuring label mate Sally Shapiro), both released earlier this year.
CFCF has been creating tracks since his pre-teens and has only begun to present his music publicly in the last couple of years. CFCF’s career began to take off with his contest winning remix of Crystal Castles “Air War” and has followed up with a chain reaction of official remixes for talents such as Sally Shapiro, The Presets, HEALTH, The Teenagers and Hearts Revolution among many others.
“For the songs on this album I usually started with an idea in mind of a specific atmosphere I wanted to convey,” says Silver. “That atmosphere, whether it was something hazy, nostalgic, otherworldly or unsettling, was always the first thing to come to a track.”
A contest is underway at MySpace and the winner will have the chance to meet Lady Gaga ahead of her first Monster Ball concert in Boston on December 1st.
Lady Gaga will determine the winners herself.
“The chosen fans will be flown to Boston, equipped with cameras, to document her performance and share their experiences. The day they arrive they will head to the venue to watch Lady Gaga rehearse and meet and interview her,” our source says.
