Dallas comes to Cleveland

This Wednesday Dallas's very own The Hourly Radio is coming to Cleveland to play a show @ The Winchester.You may recall when we posted about them band back in December of last year. If you are not familiar with them they used to have a brit-pop/shoegaze sound (think early u2, verve, doves) but now they have taken that sound and made it little harder with a dancey beat and the end result is great. This year The Hourly Radio have been quite busy touring ( in the UK, playing @ SXSW and now the U.S.) they put out a new limited edition 7 inch (Deaf Ears + Crime Does Pay) in March of this year which features songs from their debut album (History Will Never Hold Me) due out this September. The album actually will first be available for purchse on June 27th via ITUNES.

Tomorowow (June 20th) marks the first date of this current tour they will be playing @ The Southgate House with The Octopus Project. But before the show @ 3:30pm est they will be making an apperance on woxy.com: lounge acts. From the nati the band will be heading north to c-town. So this Wednesday come out to The Winchester and help support this great up and coming band. Below check out their video for "fear of standing upright" and some other great tracks.





(mp3) The Hourly Radio - Deaf Ears

(mp3) The Hourly Radio - Stealing Off ( acoustic)

"If you don't know, now you know"

This week, while doing our typical perusing of what bands are on tour, we saw that Sparrowhouse (aka Jared from voxtrot) is touring and of course isn't coming to c-town. As usual, we were like "what the f*ck, why doesn't anyone want to come to c-town?" (ie - tours that aren't coming here: The Walkmen, Bloc Party, Explosions in the Sky, etc)

Then on Thursday, we saw that voxtrot (you may recall last year when we drove all the way down to Columbus on a week night to see them, check the post) was going on tour, so we were like, we'll humor ourselves and see if they are coming anywhere around Cleveland. . .and low and behold, freaking voxtrot are coming to The Beachland on June 11th with freaking Au revoir Simone opening. This would be the second show this year that shocked the sh*t out of us, the first being of course the fact that Asobi Seksu finally came to Cleveland.

While we are on the topic of shows, we would also like to add that we (especially Jose) is super stoked that The Hourly Radio are finally coming to c-town to play @ Peabody's in March (unfortunately they were unable to play in town last summer b/c the venue was double booked).

There are so many good shows coming up, we are just going to take a moment and highlighting the ones we are looking fwd to:

Young Love - February 26th @ The B-side This up and coming band features Dan Keyes, who is the ex-lead singer of Recover, which have drawn comparisons to labelmates The Killers but they have a lot more pop-electro hits that will get stuck in your skull

TV on the Radio - March 6th @ The Agora Blipsters in the house, 'nuff said!

The Slip - March 17th @ The Grog Shop We were very impressed with their set at The House of Blues opening for My Morning Jacket, we're looking forward to seeing how they are as a headliner in an intimate setting

Amina - March, 25th @ The House of Blues (Cambridge Room) We were blown away by their performance opening for Sigur Ros last year, and no doubt they chose to come back to Cleveland due to their warm reception

Neko Case - April 1st @ The Beachland Ballroom yay!

Bonus:

[Mp3] Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves/You Can Hide Your Love Forever (WOXY.com Lounge Acts)
[Mp3] Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song
[Mp3] The Hourly Radio - Say Something (awesome cover of this James song)
[Mp3] Young Love - Discotech (Ocelot Remix)
[Mp3] TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
[Mp3] The Slip - Even Rats
[Mp3] Amina - Hemipode
[Mp3] Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling

Lure of the Underground

Jose's Review:

Back in May, thanks to Torr, I discovered The Hourly Radio. I will admit that I enjoyed their music so much that I actually bought the EP, which can now be found on iTunes here. It may be a bold statement -- however, I feel as though this band is one of my favorites of 2005 (along with We are Scientists). The Hourly Radio has recently gained more notoriety due to opening for the likes of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Stellastarr*, and being added to woxy's rotation. While their sound isn't anything groundbreaking, there is clearly something unique that draws you in. If you tend to enjoy early U2, The Verve, early South, and Doves -- definitely check out their "Dublin via Texas" sound on myspace and below:

The Hourly Radio - Lost + Found

This Thursday make plans for....

The Hourly Radio who are finally making their first ever apperance here in c-town. This great band who hail from Dallas and you should catch them first before they get huge. You may recall last summer when we were excited for their Cleveland debut which was not in the stars due to a double booking @ the venue, But this Thursday all the stars will be aligned once they hit the stage @ The Pirate's Cove @Peabody's Down Under. For more info on the band check out our previous posts on them here. We are both really excited to finally see this great band live and you should be too! Doors open @ 7pm see there.

Check out this accoustic performance of their song " Crime Does Pay"



(mp3) The Hourly Radio - Crime Does Pay

Updates

Here are few updates on recent things that we have posted about it. First unfortunately Travis Hafner was not voted by the vans to the final spot for the American League for 2006 MLB All Star- Game. Despite this fact Pronk keeps on hitting. On Friday he hit his 5th grand slam of the season. This now sets a record for the most grand slams in the first half of a season and puts him in a position to tie and or then later break the record of 6 in a season which was set by Don Mattingly back in 1987. The other day I was unable to find the "Vote Pronk" add on youtube but it is up now so enjoy.



Our next update would be that of the announcement of Lebron James agreeing to re-up his contract with the cavs next week. On July 1st the Cavs offered lebron a 5 year 80 million dollar extension while he can't sign till the 12th he still had not said if he was going to re-sign. This moment was the moment that lots of fans in Cleveland and through the league had been looking fwd to and our dreading. Obviously Cleveland fans were hoping he would re-sign while people in other cities through the league were hoping they could entice him to not-resign at a chance at stealing him next summer when his current contract expired. All I can say is I told you so. All these negative people this time make me really sad I know we have been burned many times but it is just different with this kid, hence why he is the chosen one. See what Marc Stein of espn.com has to say about the signing here and what Brian Windhorst cavs beat writer for the Akron Beacon Journal has to say here.


Lastly The Hourly Radio's debut record "History will never hold me" is out now on iTunes. You can preview the whole record here with this is ecard. Also we never got to see them when they were scheduled to play Cleveland last month due to a booking error by the venue, we hope to finally get to see them in the future.

Good to go!

Here is some new regarding bands we have mentioned on our blog before. First off congrats to c-town's own Blazer, they recently announced that on August 21st they have a gig at PIANO'S NYC. They will be playing that night with Oppenheimer, Bad Flirt and Lifestyle. The boys also went to in the studio recently to record their first single so congrats to them.



Speaking of Oppenheimer who we have posted about a few times. They are coming to The Beachland Ballroom (in the tavern) on Monday August 14th with Bad Flirt and The Twilight opening. The show starts @ 9pm tickets are $6. So come out and support this great Irish band. You can purchase their album here. Coming up on August 17th @ 4:30pm they are going to have a Lounge Acts session on WOXY.COM. You can see how their tour is going so far on their live journal here.




The Hourly Radio were recently featured as spin.com's band of the day. Also the boys will be playing CMJ in November this year and they have an August residency starting @ The Annex in NYC starting August 17th. If you have not already done so go and buy their debut full length on iTunes it's great.


The Slack Republic have a new song up for download on their site and they also were recently featured in an interview on SHOUT!. They will also be playing The Midwest Music Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 11th. Other bands playing the summit include : Dr.Octagon , Margot and The Nuclear So and So's , Page France, The Sun and Russian Circles.



And lastly R.I.P. to Arthur Lee the lead singer of the great 60's band LOVE. I was saddened to hear about his passing. I am not going to claim I am some indie snob who has known of them for forever. I honestly did not discover them till I saw Bottlerocket and I heard the song "Along Again Or". I did afterward check out their amazing album "Forever Changes" based on my friend Jeremy's recommendation.

Here is Love doing Alone Again Or live back in 2003




and here is Calexico doing a cover of Alone Again Or