News and Notes

Slow news day on the music front. Unless you consider The Red Hot Chili Peppers playing Irving Plaza big news. There's no tickets, just a bunch of "lucky winners" who listen to Z100, Power 105 and Q104. I guess the Peppers weren't enthused by the turnout at that MySpace show that Franz Ferdinand did last week.

Legit News:

As previously noted around town, Central Park's Summerstage is hosting The New Pornographers, Calexico and The Frames on August 3rd (Thursday). Tickets on sale this Saturday at noon. (Via Brooklyn Vegan.)

Los Angeles' Silversun Pickups have announced that their debut full length LP, Carnavas, will be released on July 11th via Dangerbird Records. (Via Filter Magazine.) I loved their Pikul ep from last year [BUY], and can't wait to hear this one.

Plexifilm is releasing the DVD for We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen on June 27th. It's a 2-disc set with over 5 hours of material. Looking forward to seeing it -- it's supposed to be great. Pre-order it.

And, for the New Yorkers in the house, is the Second Avenue subway finally going to be built? I think Hell just froze over. Or Rumsfeld just got fired. Same thing either way. (Via Curbed.)

Legit Tunes

The Twilight Singers have added a couple more songs from their forthcoming Powder Burns album on their MySpace site. Also, for those of you so inclined, the LP is available NOW on iTunes, even though it doesn't come out on CD until mid-May. I still like owning the actual CD, so I'm gonna hold off (plus I pre-ordered it). I like what I'm hearing so far though.

The Rawking Refuses To Stop has a live Mark Kozelek show from 2000. Good stuff. Go listen.

Kwaya Na Kisser has a ton of great Jeff Buckley rarities up here. Buckley may be the only non-rapper to be more productive in death than in life. I can imagine him sitting on a beach in the Caribbean with Biggie and Tupac sippin' pina coladas and rollin' fat joints. Boat drinks, baby.

And, finally, if you're looking for some cool music and have some time to kill, head over to Chromewaves and check out their archive of previous "Songs of the Week." Lots of great stuff in there.