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Savages already had plans to travel to America in July for a headlining tour behind their excellent debut album, Silence Yourself. Today, they’ve announced another U.S. leg, stretching from mid-September to mid-October. Along the way, they’ll make appearances at the inaugural Laneway Festival Detroit and Austin City Limits. They’ll also open a few dates for Queens of the Stone Age. Check out the full docket below.

Savages 2013 Tour Dates:
06/18

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have broken off another piece from their upcoming self-titled third studio album, due out July 23rd. We’ve already heard the lead single, “Better Days”, and now the band has shared “This Life”. Accompanied by a full gospel choir, frontman Alex Ebert offers one of his most impressive vocal performances, his voice readily shifting from cool and contemplative to a shout that’s gone ragged and hoarse from a swell of emotions. Take a listen below (via Rolling Stone).

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Tracklist:
01. Better Days
02. Let

Deer Tick will soon release their fifth album, Negativity, and the follow-up to 2011′s Divine Providence. Today, they’ve unveiled the album’s first single, “The Rock”, a driving rock number that juxtaposes heartbreak with blistering horns. Take a listen below (via Rolling Stone).

“‘The Rock’ is a song about being in love with an artist and subsequently having your heart broken by that artist,’ McCauley tells Rolling Stone. “The silly little metaphors in the song are ‘the rock’ which is the power to destroy your relationship, and ‘the window’ which is the relationship. I like the idea of a breakup being represented by shattering glass.”

Update: Negativity will be released on September 24th via Partisan Records.

Also check out Rock it Out! Blog’s recent interview with Deer Tick, in which they discuss Negativity and a host of other topics over a game of poker.

Brendan Benson had a fairly productive 2012. He started his own record label and publishing company, Readymade, and released his fifth solo album, What Kind of World. This year, The Raconteur has an equally hectic schedule, with plans to release a new song every month leading up to a full-length LP for Black Friday in November. For the month of June, Benson has unveiled “New Words of Wisdom”.

Benson’s sometimes bluesy, sometimes folksy sensibility takes on a slightly Caribbean vibe, with the defiant acoustic guitar paired with the pseudo-tropical hum of organs for a refreshing slice of Benson’s rural musicality. Still, Benson’s vocal presence remains the song’s core, sounding equally stoic and prepared and emotionally bankrupt as he contemplates what comes after the heartache (“I’ll call you friend/But we both know/That a thousand years/Couldn’t heal these wounds”). Listen in below.

For more from Benson, be sure to check out January’s “Swimming”, February’s “Oh My Love”, March’s “Purely Automatic”, April’s “Diamond”, and May’s “Swallow You Whole”.

Also watch Benson’s recent interview with Rock it Out! Blog:

The single comes from their most recent album 'Hummingbird'

Following a busy summer festival schedule and a string of September dates with The National, Scottish folk outfit Frightened Rabbit will head out on their own North American tour. The jaunt runs through the end of October and comes in support of the band’s latest album, Pedestrian Verse.

Frightened Rabbit 2013 Tour Dates:
06/18 – Haldern, UK @ Haldern Pop Bar
06/19 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
06/20 – Vienna, AT @ The Full Hit of Summer
06/22-24 – Scheessel & Neuhausen OB Eck, DE @ Hurricane & Southside Festival
06/26-30 – Worthy Farm, UK @ Glastonbury Festival
07/13 – Scotland, UK @ T in the Park
07/28 – Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party
07/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
07/31 – Boulder, CO @ Etown Hall
08/02 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
08/03 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/09 – Newquay, UK @ Boardmasters Music Festival
08/15 – Kiewit, BE @ Pukkelpop
08/16 – Gampel @ CH @ Gampel Open Air
08/18 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
08/23 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/24 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
09/01 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
09/08 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
09/09 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Centre *
09/11 – Charlotte, NC @ The Filmore Charlotte *
09/12 – Ashville, NC ...

Action Bronson -- the Queens-based rapper/gourmet chef known for handing out weed and steak dinners during live performances -- fit the Bonnaroo vibe like an extra large glove. He passed blunts to the soundboard operator, asked the audience to toss drugs onstage (they obliged), and routinely ventured not only into the crowd but outside of the performance tent itself. With just an announcement of "the show's out here now," Bronson left most of the crowd dumbstruck as he disappeared from view, circled the stage, and finally returned to a hero's welcome. Once his hour-long, freestyle-heavy set ended (after a performance of his debauchery-heavy "Hookers at the Point"), the crowd was left chanting his name, understandably thirsty for even more. [Billboard]

Queens rapper Action Bronson played Bonnaroo this past weekend, and this coming weekend (6/21), he'll play Delaware's Firefly Music Festival. After that, he'll return home to NYC to play a show at Santos Party House on June 25 with Harry Fraud, who produced Bronson's new EP, SAAAB Stories, which is out now and can be streamed via Spotify (where it premiered) below. Bronson also said in an interview with Whoo Kid (via HipHopDX) that it's going to be his last one-producer project, which he has many of, including Rare Chandeliers with The Alchemist, Blue Chips with Party Supplies, and more.

Tickets for the Santos show are on sal...

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Inter Arma at Union Pool, 6/15/2013

Unlike Heavy Blanket the week before, the free Invisible Oranges presented Summer Thunder show on Saturday (6/15) did NOT get any noise complaints and went on as planned. This could be because the bands played indoors, but still featured raucous sets from Inter Arma (who played with Torche at 285 Kent), Anicon (who are hitting the road) and Pyrrhon (currently in the lab, working on a new LP). Regardless, the perfect weather, cheap beverages and great bands made for an excellent day at Union Pool. Many thanks to the bands, venue and all who attended! Pictures from the show are in this post and even more are up at at Invisible Oranges.

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