Tortoise will release its highly anticipated new album, Beacons of Ancestorship, on June 23 via Thrill Jockey. The album is the band’s first album of new material since 2004.
One Day as a Lion, the hip-hop/rock duo of Zach de la Rocha and Jon Theodore, has posted a video for its successful single, “Wild International.”
The inexhaustible Zach Hill has another new project, this one with Zac Nelson. The duo’s harmonic weirdness is called Chll Pll and will be released this year on Porter Records.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez, a musician as tireless as Zach Hill (and also a collaborator with him), has finished another new album for The Mars Volta. The album, titled Octahedron, will be released on June 19.
Hardcore punks Trash Talk have a new EP, East of Eden, that can be heard here. The band recently began a month-long US tour with The Bronx.
Kayo Dot will record a new album this summer with engineer Randall Dunn (Secret Chiefs 3, Grails). The group will tour in June and July and later release the album on Hydra Head.
On Tuesday in Seattle, as part of Tom Morello‘s Justice Tour, three-quarters of Soundgarden — Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, and Ben Shepherd — played three Soundgarden songs with Morello as the second guitarist and Tad Doyle (of TAD) handling the vocals. The vocals aren’t pretty and the footage isn’t great…but the whole thing is pretty awesome.
Kid Koala‘s Slew album is finished and looking at a late summer release. In the meantime, he’s producing an album for songwriter Terence Bernardo.
Tool will tour the US this summer, though dates are unannounced at this point. Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot has reported rumors of the band headlining Lollapalooza.
Pressing forward for another album with its original lineup, Dinosaur Jr. will release Farm on June 23 via Jagjaguwar.
Yoshida Brothers, a Japanese shamisen duo, will tour the US West Coast for a spell in May before playing a pair of dates in British Columbia.
Busdriver and Tim Fite, both peculiar performers, will perform at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on April 3.
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Greenleaf Music is now streaming its entire front-line catalog at its online store.