Tori Amos Thinks "Maybe California a Good Mothers Day Gift

Download Tori Amos's new song, video or ringtone, "Maybe California" from her upcoming Abnormally Attracted to Sin (out May 19) by clicking here.   Go ahead, it's free.  

Mayer Hawthorne “Just Ain't Gonna Work Out” Video

What can you say about Mayer Hawthorne's throwback vibe. This shit is gonna work out.   Tour dates below.  



4/28 Minneapolis @ Varsity Theater. 9pm. 18+ $15
4/29 Madison @ High Noon Saloon. 9pm. 18+ Ticket Info
4/30 Chicago @ The Abbey Pub. 9pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/1 Toronto @ Revival Bar. 9pm. 19+ Tickets
5/2 Montreal @ Les Saints. 8pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/3 Princeton @ Terrace F Club. 5pm. All Ages. FREE
5/4 Boston @ Paradise. 7pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/5 Baltimore @ Sonar. 7pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/6 Philadelphia @ North Bowl. 9pm Tickets
5/7 Washington DC @ 9:30 Club. 9pm. All Ages. Tickets
5/8 NYC @ American Museum of Natural History. 9pm. 21+. $20
5/9 NYC @ LPR. 11pm. 21+. $10 (Pants, Dam, Hawthorne & Folerio) Tickets

Eels New Video - "Fresh Blood"

The Eels are back with this awesome track from their new album Hombre Lobro.  Loves it. Via Stereogum.

2009 Siren Festival Includes Built To Spill

Here's another piece of news we stole from BV.  Siren Festival will have Built To Spill and Frightened Rabbit.  It will be held Saturday, July 18 at noon.  Year after year this free event is one of the best days in the city!  Get there early.  

BUILT TO SPILL
THE RAVEONETTES
FRIGHTENED RABBIT
THE GRAND DUCHY
MONOTONIX
MICACHU & THE SHAPES

+ more TBA

Fiasco Playing Citysol July 11

Fiasco are little known in these parts right now, but they have some energetic tunes and they are playing the free solar-powered Citysol per Brooklyn Vegan and their myspace.  By the end of the summer the vocal-less group may be the next Battles.   We hope to catch them on July 11.  

Bob Dylan, NOFX and Shout Out Out Out Out highlight a light week at Spinner

Oh Spinner, even when you're bad...you're still pretty good.  

This weeks free albums include:

Dylan

NOFX

Shout Out Out Out Out

Ben Folds

New York Doll

Ben Lee

Sharon Van Etten Makes "Coming Home" for Movie "Woman's Prison"

We are in love with Sharon Van Etten and you should be too. Check out the video for this new song that showcases her gorgeous vocals!  Her new album will be out in May.  Read about the film below.  Via The Music Slut.  

A small crew of six girls, set out to South Bend, Indiana, with hardy nothing to make a feature film. And we did it. We managed a cast of 50 and 35 locations. It was done with intuition, ingenuity and most importantly, passion.

My dedicated crew accompanied me to face a general atmosphere of sexism and poverty. We shattered the gender and class wall that surrounds the world of film while humanizing a culture that has often made into caricatures.

Nothing was easy about making this film, but neither are the lives that the film represents. The main character Julie Ann Mabry is the heart and soul of everyone that I have carried with me. She is not the exception; she is the story of Indiana. With this film I wanted to tell the story of a poor girl growing up in the Midwest without options. She is trapped in a prison by poverty long before she actually goes to prison. During the filming, I worked side by side with many women who were in the same situation. It was heartwrenching, watching these people tell their story and then go back to dead end jobs, to abusive boyfriends and husbands.

Making this film tried my physical and emotional endurance many times, but it is a completely honest work that could not have been made any other way.

-Katie Madonna Lee