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by Bill Pearis

People Get Ready @ MHOW, 2/1/2013 (more by David Andrako)

Art pop combo People Get Ready have a new EP, Zelda Maria, out now. The title track comes from last year's self-titled debut and a video for that song has just been released as well. Working with acclaimed choreographer Tere O'Connor and video artist Ty Flowers, the clip is retrofuturistic without relying on old VHS-style tropes. You can watch it below.

The band, who are equally known for occasionally doing special, highly-choreographed lives shows (watch one below), recently played Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and are currently opening for The National (in more traditional rock band mode) on a few dates. While that does not include The National's show at Barclays Center, People Get Ready are also playing Tropfest in Prospect Park on June 22 with Chairlift and Bear in Heaven. Free tickets are still available.

Tour dates are listed, along with videos, below...

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The most chilling line in Jurassic Park is half the title of Candy Claws’ extremely lovely new song that’s nothing like being torn apart by velociraptors. The entire track is a florid psychedelic spin of dream pop, awash with the glee of the friendliest band of hippies that ever hitchhiked on a spaceship. Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time is out June 25th on twosyllable records.

“Holy Roller” was the first song that Thao Nguyen wrote for We The Common, her new album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The jittery indie-folk tune was also the first song we heard from the album, and now it’s the first one to get a video. In director Mimi Cave‘s clip, Nguyen and a few friends lip-sync the song dramatically, and then special effects come in and mash up their faces in increasingly disturbing ways. Watch it below.

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Psychedelic garage phenomenon Ty Segall has announced summer tour dates in support of his latest solo album, Sleeper, out via Drag City on August 20. The tour will be kicking off in Santa Cruz with guests Daughn Gibson, William Tyler, and Mike Donovan on select dates. Fans of Segall’s thumping riffs and energetic guitar solos can look forward to seeing him in New York at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 29 and again at Bowery Ballroom the next night. Afterwards, Segall will be heading back west with a hometown show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

Watch the silly—but also a little creepy—trailer announcing the tour:

Ty Segall Tour Dates
08/01/13 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium *
08/03/13 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon
08/04/13 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon
08/24/13 – Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
08/27/13 – Austin, TX – Mohawk Outside
08/29/13 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
08/30/13 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
08/31/13 – Chicago, IL – Logan Square Auditorium
09/02/13 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall !
09/04/13 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre !
09/05/13 – Oakland, CA – New Parish !
09/07/13 – Seattle, WA – Neumo

yMusic at Carnegie Hall in January (more by Greg Cristman)

Contemporary classical sextet yMusic, who have worked with The National, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, My Brightest Diamond, and more, will be performing on Stage 2 at Rockwood Music Hall tonight (5/22), premiering works written by Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, and Marcos Balter, in addition to "less-new-but-still-pretty-new" works by Nico Muhly and Andrew Norman. Advance tickets for tonight's show are available. Doors are at 6:30. Did anyone catch them performing in a Harlem loft last night (5/21)?

yMusic are also performing with filmmaker Sam Green and The Quavers for a "night of outdoor music and cinema" on PIer 15 on June 20 as part of the River to RIver Festival and the Rooftop Films summer series.

Speaking of people performing works by Nico Muhly, that will also happen in November at BAM as part of the Next Wave Festival:

In this ambitious, expansive reimagining of the art-song recital, the 21c Liederabend festival comes to BAM, featuring music by many leading lights from the international and New York contemporary new-music scenes.

Boasting 10 world premieres, this unique weekend event--which played to sold-out audiences in its last two incarnations--pairs video artists and lighting designers with new-music ensemble NOVUS NY, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and top solo...

by Bill Pearis

Some of you may remember early/mid-'00s Detroit-area band Thunderbirds Are Now!, who are in semi-permanent hibernation at the moment. Singer Ryan Allen is now in Destroy This Place which he co-fronts with former New Grenada member John Nelson and the line-up includes Allen's Friendly Foes bandmate Sean Sommer on drums. The band just released their eponymous second album which roars with crunchy, anthemic indie (the Allen songs), and big riff rock (via Nelson, who sounds a skooch like Ozzy at times). You can stream the whole album below.

Destroy This Place gig a lot in Michigan but don't make it out of the area that often, but the band are going on tour this summer, including a stop in NYC on June 29 at Death by Audio with Turing Machine, Shark? and Your Skull. All tour dates are listed below.

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The National’s release their new album Trouble Will Find Me yesterday (5/21) and played two intimate NYC show to celebrate. They made an early evening stop at Brooklyn’s Public Assembly and closed out their night in Manhattan at Mercury Lounge. We sent intrepid photog Daniel Topete to check out their BK gig. You can also watch fan-shot videos of “Terrible Love” and “Sea Of Love” from the same performance below.

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