NSDTCM:ANBERLIN

Hey guys, we’re sitting on the bus right now headed up to Michigan to start our tour with Motion City Soundtrack! We start in Grand Rapids on Wednesday and it feels good to be back out on the road and to see all your lovely faces.
Here are the dates once again for the tour! It starts this week, so if you don’t already have your tix, please go get them and come sing along with us. This will be our last bit of touring for a few months so we can come home and rest up to hit it hard next year (lots of big things in store for 08). 10/17 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
10/19 - Duluth, MN @ Reif Center
10/20 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
10/21 - Kansas City, MO @Beaumont Club
10/23 - Houston, TX @ Verizon Theater
10/24 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs
10/26 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
10/28 - Tallahassee, FL @ the Beta Bar (headlining show)
10/29 - St.Pete FL @ Jannus Landing
10/30 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
10/31 - Orlando, FL @House of Blues
11/02 - Atlanta, GA @ the Tabernacle
11/03 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
11/04 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
11/05 - Columbia, SC @ Headliner’s (headlining show)
11/06 - Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
11/07 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/09 - New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
11/10 - Sayreville, NJ @Starland Ballroom
11/11 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
11/12 - Syracuse, NY @ New Renaissance Theatre (headlining show)
11/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
11/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
11/15 - Reading, PA @ Silo (headlining show)
11/17 - Buffalo, NY @ the Town Ballrrom
11/18 - Toronto, ON @ Koolhaus
11/20 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
11/21 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
11/23 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
11/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Myth
11/27 - Spokane, WA @ the Service Station (headlining show)
11/28 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
11/29 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
11/30 - San Francisco, CA @ the Warfield
12/01 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA
12/03 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
12/04 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern LG
12/05 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
12/06 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
12/08 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
12/09 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore
12/11 - St. Louis, MO @ the Pageant
12/12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners (headlining show)
12/13 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
12/14 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
12/15 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
12/16 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
Also be sure to check out our buzznet page and youtube pages! We will be posting frequent updates on those throughout the tour!
See you at the shows!
~Anberlin


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SOURCE: TOOTH AND NAIL RECORDS

NSDTCM:LED ZEPPELIN

Led Zeppelin library goes digital

Band to make songs available on Nov. 13

By STUART LEVINE

One of the last of the megabands to hold out, Led Zeppelin will have its music available on digital platforms from all online retailers beginning Nov. 13.

Songs from all of the eight original albums, which include "Houses of the Holy," "Led Zeppelin," "Led Zeppelin II" and "Physical Graffiti," will be accessible. The band has also made a deal with Verizon to have its songs available as ringtones. Including retrospective collections, Led Zeppelin has sold more than 300 million albums worldwide.

The remaining members of the band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — are regrouping for a concert Nov. 26 in London as a benefit performance for an educational charity of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

Two weeks earlier, "Mothership," a 24-track double-CD release of the band’s biggest hits, will be released by Atlantic and Rhino.

"We are pleased that the complete Led Zeppelin catalog will now be available digitally," said Page in a statement. "The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to obtain their music in whichever manner they prefer."

SOURCE: VARIETY.COM

Prefuse 73: Preparations

Out: 15/10/2007

Label: Warp Records

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM: LABEL: WARP

Guillermo Scott Herron has four different personalities (last time I checked, anyway; there may be more) and I wonder how, with each one, he can sound so unique. Prefuse 73, Savath Y Savalas, Piano Overlord and Delarosa and Asora. How does he keep these musical personas separate? Is he actually able to do so, or do they blur for him? On his new Prefuse 73 release, certain similarities in tone are noticeable to his recent Golden Pollen offering, under the Savath y Savalas guise. It seems like these organics are blurring into the more computerized stylings of the Preparations LP, and I really like it.

Still, it’s a long way from the natural and assuredly cultural sounds Herron has constructed elsewhere, under other guises. There’s a strange electronic sense of tension on a track like ‘Aborted Hugs’; it’s pushed along by pixels, the odd wail of a saxophone, layers upon layers of dense sonic carpet. It’s a little prickly, but like most of the album, it’s coated with a fuzziness that’s appealingly warm.

As is usual with Prefuse 73 albums past, Preparations is fairly relentless. A certain tension and tone carry through the album, and while there isn’t much deviation from this aesthetic, it’s an aesthetic well and truly his and his alone. He delves far, far into the murk, with headphones firmly clamped to his ears. There’s not much room to breath, blank spaces filled with samples or beats, or any type of sound. There are a variety of instruments weaving in and out, more so than ever before so far as Prefuse 73 LPs are concerned.

Listening to Preparations, thankfully, is not an entirely mechanical affair; in fact, it’s very clear just how from the heart it is. That’s how it sounds, at least. While striking these emotions, it also raises questions: is this hip-hop? What is instrumental hip-hop? Just hip-hop without words?

Vocals are scant on Preparations, and if they do appear, they’re of the sampled variety. Could it be ‘glitch-hop’? Is that how it works? Because his sounds contain a whole lot more than what’s typically classified as being of a glitch nature. I can't help but feel he's breaking boundaries, especially with earlier stuff like One Word Extinguisher. Questions aside, it sounds badass; dope, even, like any good hip-hop record should.

Each of his individual works come across as a collage, filled with different instruments and sounds and samples. Whatever genre this is, it's one of the best things around, and one of the more palpably forward-thinking sounds around. Preparations reasserts this, even if it doesn’t move in any hugely bold new direction, for him, at least. It’s most interesting on the textural side of things. There’s no one else that weaves these digital blankets, especially ones that feel so real.

So, our Guillermo Scott Herron is certainly prolific, and he takes a lot of risks with each project. It pays off: when he hits, it's really worthwhile, and even on the misses there is plenty to find interest in. Such cut-up music begs the question of how exactly it's made; where does he get all these sounds, how does he go about pasting them all together? To various degrees, Preparations raises the old notion of electronic music exhibiting a very real and human heart – there’s feeling to these glitches and blips and bloops. And, along with it, a strange and beguiling sense of humanity.

Words: Richard MacFarlane

SOURCE: DROWNED IN SOUND.COM