Some New Music (That's Awesome Like The Pope's Speech)

All right, sports fans, April has been, and continues to be, an excellent month. The Jayhawks won the NCAA Championship, the Cubbies are in first place, and - better yet - we have upcoming releases from the likes of The Black Angels, Tokyo Police Club, The Roots, Portishead, Langhorne Slim, and Santogold. Let's get into it:

Tokyo Police Club
"Tessellate" - Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)


*TPC are in Chi-city May 5th at The Metro.


The Black Angels
"You On The Run" - Directions to See a Ghost (Light In The Attic)

*The Angels fly through Chicago June 20th at Logan Square Auditorium.


The Roots
"Get Busy" - Rising Down (Def Jam)


*The Roots blow up the Chicago Theatre TWO TIMES - May 30th & 31st.


Portishead
"Hunter" - Third (Mercury/Island)

*No US tour dates we're aware of yet for Portishead.


Langhorne Slim
"Restless" - Langhorne Slim (Kemado Records)


*Slim pays two visits to our fair city: May 28th at Schubas & May 29th at The Hideout.


Santogold
"L.E.S. Artistes" - Santogold (Downtown Music)


*Santogold will be touring Europe most of the summer, unfortunately for us.


Make lots of friends @:

http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
http://www.myspace.com/theblackangels
http://www.myspace.com/theroots
http://www.myspace.com/PORTISHEADALBUM3
http://www.myspace.com/langhorneslim
http://www.myspace.com/santogold

-J2

Tokyo Police Club

I don't know if I intend on turning middleCoast into a music blog or not, but since no one else has posted anything in awhile...

This is Tokyo Police Club and I can't get enough of them. This was the last band that Schrowe turned me on to. Actually, and this is really odd to say, but he turned me on to these guys posthumously (really fucked up to say that about a friend instead of a medal of honor recipient or something). He mentioned them in a comment to Jared on Show Me Music (showmemusic.wordpress.com) as being better than The Killers. Just don't tell Brandon Flowers.

Anyway, the video is great too. Looks like something I would have made in high school. Assuming that in high school I had actually been cool. Or talented. Or not so paralyzed with angst that I'd actually left my bedroom. Enjoy.




-JasonToo