The Famine debuts first track off 'The Architects of Guilt'

THE FAMINE REVEALS FIRST TRACK FROM ‘THE ARCHITECTS OF GUILT’
“Ad Mortem” streaming online, Full-length out next month
TEXAS – Lone Star brutal death metal outfit, The Famine, has posted a brand new track from the forthcoming full-length, The Architects of Guilt, on the band’s official MySpace page, entitled, “Ad Mortem”. Head over to: http://www.myspace.com/thefaminedestroys, to hear the first song to be revealed from The Famine’s sophomore Solid State Records effort, which is slated to hit stores on February 15th.
A mobile-web-accessible YouTube audio stream of “Ad Mortem” is also available on the official The Famine YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpRCLM_Zz8.
The Famine vocalist, Nick Nowell, explains, “’Ad Mortem’ is a song about addiction, and the excuses we all have for our complicity. We'll come up with just about anything to keep from being disgusted with ourselves.”

The track list for The Architects of Guilt is…
1. The New Hell
2. Ad Mortem
3. We Are The Wolves
4. Turner Classic Diaries
5. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains!
6. The Crown and The Holy See
7. VII The Fraudulent
8. A Pavement Of Good Intentions
9. A Fragile Peace
10. Pyrithion House
11. To The Teeth
Despite several unfortunate setbacks during the recording process, the finishing touches on the long awaited, The Architects of Guilt, were polished up this fall with the help of the renowned audio mastermind, Jason Suecof.

ONRY OSBOURNE OF GRAYSKUL/RHYMESAYERS/DARKTIMESUNSHINE RELEASES SOLO LP

In stores January 25th.... Onry Osbourne "Hold On For Dear Life"

Onry Ozzborn has been one of the key voices of Seattle Hip Hop over the last
decade. Perhaps best known as one half of Rhymesayers Entertainment duo Grayskul
and more recently for being the vocalist of Fake Four psych-pop-hoppers Dark
Time Sunshine. Over the years Onry has collaborated and toured with everyone
from Atmosphere and Eyedea to Aesop Rock and Cage.

With his latest (and supposedly final) solo release "Hold On For Dear Life" Fake
Four presents a hard hitting yet curiously poppy album of diverse beats and
unique thoughts from a truly original voice in hip hop.

Although his children Violet and Nicholas Sire (whose photos grace the album
artwork) seem to be the guiding light of inspiration on this album, Ozzborn’s
particular brand of surrealism and twists on boom bap standards shine through on
these 16 tracks. With guests vocalists such as Sapient, Xperience and Reva
DeVito providing singing counterpoints to Ozzborn’s harder sounding raps the
album takes on a more melodic sound than most straight ahead hip hop records.

The beats on “Hold On For Dear Life” are also a diverse bag of sounds
contributed largely by Oldominion crew mainstays such as Smoke and Taco Neck
along with a gorgeous finale by Dark Time Sunshine producer Zavala. Some of the
stylistic differences of these songs are going to take listeners by surprise but
for the most part this is just classic Onry Ozzborn material - real, raw, a bit
strange but all honest.

http://www.soundcloud.com/fakefour/onry-ozzborn-that-good-f-sapient

Callers Announce US Tour Premiere "Life Of Love" Single On Yours Truly Life of Love Out Now On Western Vinyl

Pitchfork -"another rich, rewarding listen from a quietly spectacular ensemble.... Lucas is a seeker, and the yearn in her voice often says more than her words. This would seem to be Callers' stock and trade, making small gestures seem grand, letting a few notes feel like plenty, leaving you to fill in the rest."

"...I actually had to shut it off because it got to be too much. And of course, that's meant as high praise." – Pitchfork

"Brooklyn's Callers make an indescribable, codeine-ready micro-ruckus that straddles some downtown-via-Bedford line between grandiose indie rock gestures, art-jazz slither, dusty folk, and swooning soul." – Village Voice

"Callers' mix of jazz guitar, pop hooks, and art-rock rhythms suggest a willful perversity designed to ambush curious listeners…" – Q Magazine

"...Fortune moves effortlessly from start to finish, and is only made more complex and appealing given the diversity of its songs." – NPR

Ryan and Sara met Don at a show at Melvin's, a bar on St. Claude in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. Ryan and Sara had just begun writing and recording songs together on an old 4-track with a mic hanging from the blade of a ceiling fan in the middle of that stifling sweaty summer, but they would soon part ways and leave New Orleans. Over the next couple of years they relocated to Providence together and later settled in Brooklyn where Don had also settled after Katrina.

Life of Love is the first collection of songs Callers wrote and recorded exclusively in New York as a three- piece. Naturally the band's sound grew in volume in response to the volume of the city; however, they held on to what makes them so consistently affecting: their raw spartan style, anchored by Sara's sensually tough vocals, and Ryan and Don's Southern-honed chops as multi-instrumentalists.

The album started with the band's cover of Wire's "Heartbeat", and the idea of creating something simple and cathartic. Using borrowed amps and mics, in bedrooms and in studios, and by the grace of their good friends, Callers recorded Life of Love in intense spurts over the course of a year. Unlike the experimental ballads on their debut Fortune, the new songs pulse with gritty urgency, colored by the sounds of damaged gear and the earnest spirit of a middle-school gospel choir. The result is an album stripped to the core, an expression of the inexpressible space between us and the places we inhabit and the people we share those places with.

Tour Dates
1/8 - Silent barn - Brooklyn, NY
1/27 - World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA
1/28 - Jammin Java - Vienna, VA
1/29 - Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY
3/13 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
3/21 - Solar Culture - Tucson, AZ
3/22 - Caasbah - San Diego, CA
3/24 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
3/25 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
3/27 - Media Club - Vancouver, BC
3/29 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
3/31 - Flying M Coffee - Nampa, ID
4/1 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
4/2 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
4/3 - Slowdown Jr - Omaha, NE
4/4 - The Mill - Iowa City, IA
4/5 - Turf Club - St Paul, MN
4/6 - Lawrence University - Appleton, WI

http://www.myspace.com/callers

DRUGS OF FAITH Corroded Selfmadegod Records 2/22/2011

People have been asking for over four years when DRUGS OF FAITH were finally going to release a full-length record. In February, the wait will be over for those ravenous fans. The Virginia-based trio have completed their debut full-length album Corroded, and are now preparing to drop it on the masses! DRUGS OF FAITH’s riotous attack that fans have become attached to on their previous releases — including their recent inclusion on Relapse Records’ This Comp Kills Fascists ...

THE CONTORTIONIST TO TOUR CANADA WITH WITHIN THE RUINS, SUFFOKATE & LAST CHANCE TO REASON

Prog-metal prodigies THE CONTORTIONIST have just added brand new tour dates with Within the Ruins, Suffokate and Last Chance to Reason to their winter touring schedule. The tour will take the bands through Canada this February into March. See below for all current tour dates!

THE CONTORTIONIST released their debut full-length, Exoplanet, with GOOD FIGHT MUSIC on August 31st, 2010, and have been touring consistently since. Their infectious, progressive and rhythmic sounds have brought them comparisons to some of today’s metal greats, such as Meshuggah, The Acacia Strain, and Between the Buried and Me. Purchase your copy of Exoplanet now for just $5 at Amazon.com, or on iTunes!


TOUR DATES W/ WITHIN THE RUINS, SUFFOKATE AND LAST CHANCE TO REASON
2/17 - Ottawa ON @ Alexander CC
2/18 - Kingston ON @ Next Hall Church
2/20 - Otobicoke ON @ The Rock Pile
2/21 - Guelph ON @ Club Vinyl
2/22 - Windsor ON @ The Blind Dog
2/23 - Barrie ON @ The Mansion
2/24 - Brantford ON @ Club NV
2/25 - Sudbury ON @ Jubilee
2/26 - Thunder Bay ON @ Croc's
2/27 - Winnipeg MB @ TBA
2/28 - Fort Qu'Appelle SK @ TBA
3/01 - Saskatoon SK @ Walkers Nightclub
3/02 - Edmonton AB @ Avenue Theater
3/03 - Lethbridge AB @ The Royal Canadian Legion
3/04 - Calgary AB @ The New Black Art Center ** No Last Chance To Reason
3/05 - Vancouver BC @ Pats ** No Last Chance To Reason


For more information on THE CONTORTIONIST be sure to visit:

http://www.facebook.com/thecontortionist
http://www.twitter.com/tcband
http://www.myspace.com/thecontortionistband

Jonny Burke's "Distance and Fortune"

Release date - February 22, 2011.

JONNY BURKE TO RELEASE “DISTANCE AND FORTUNE” IN FEBRUARY

Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter Jonny Burke is set to release his debut full-length album, “Distance And Fortune,” on February 22, 2011. The album was produced by Marc Ford (Black Crowes, Ryan Bingham) at the Compound Studio in Southern California. Burke describes the entire recording experience as “a really magical time. I wish the rest of my life would go as smoothly and as effortlessly as it did in the studio those two weeks.” Keeping with the album’s title and theme, the music projects a live, “in the moment” vibe. Burke wanted listeners to feel like they were in the room with the band. Says Ford of Burke: “Jonny Burke does it just the way you like it – simple and genuine.”

“Distance & Fortune” kicks off with a double blast of rip-roaring bar rock - the Chuck Berry-riffed look at 20-somethings, “Broke Again,” and the Stonesian “Come Stand” – but also finds room for quieter, more contemplative tracks. Burke composed “Little Girl Of The World” like a letter to address a “personal need and to get some sort of redemption” from a broken relationship. “Don’t Let Me Fall” addresses another type of loss – how artists and poets can devote their lives to creating art but can wind up forgotten and dead in the gutter. He co-wrote this song with his friend Hayes Carll, who recorded his own version on his “Trouble In Mind” disc.

Carll is one of Burke’s musical pals – like Todd Snider, Ryan Bingham and Band of Heathens – with whom he has played and toured. James McMurtry, another tour buddy, has proclaimed Burke “has that star thing. He has that way of making eye contact with all of the people in the audience at once.” Bingham praises Burke’s music, saying his songs “provide hope that true songwriting and honest music have not been lost after all.” The new album also reveals Burke’s open approach to songwriting. He doesn’t have a specific style of music that he’s trying to create; he simply wants to play good songs. Just because he hails from Texas, don’t think he’s just a Lone Star State troubadour. His sole cover is “Human Music,” from the decidedly non-Texan band, the Soft Boys.

Burke formed his first band, the Dedringers, with his school friend Sean Faires, and it became a popular regional band while they were still in their teens. The Dedringers were named Best New Group of 2008 by the Austin American-Statesman, while their R.S. Field-produced “Sweetheart of the Neighborhood” garnered a 3-star Austin Chronicle review. After seven years together, however, Burke and Faires decided to part ways. Burke followed his own creative muse, and in 2009 he released a 5-song EP (“The Long Haul”) that attracted attention in the blogosphere with songsillinois.net praising its “Pettyseque rockers (and) Townes-influenced gently picked tales,” while Radio Free Americana’s Warren Catlett heralded it as a “mini-classic.”

Burke has spent the last couple of years crisscrossing the country playing music, either solo or with his rhythm section (drummer Alejandro Adams and bassist Ronnie Johnson). With “Distance And Fortune,” Burke plans to stay out on the road to get his music out to as many people as possible.

minutemen/Stooges MIKE WATT tours, plays Jacksonville

Art-punk legend (and Iggy & The Stooges bassist these past 8 years) mike
watt will be undertaking the "north american hyphenated-man tour 2011" in
the company of the missingmen this Spring. The tour starts in Santa
Barbara, CA March 10 and ends April 30 in Sacramento. Some 51 dates in
just about that many days! I'm hoping you'd consider advancing his show
with a feature, CD review or advance blurb.

"hyphenated-man" is the name of mike watt’s third opera, contemplating the
engine room (1997) being the first one and the secondman's middle stand
(2004) being the second. He expressly put together the missingmen (on
guitar: tom watson and on drums: raul morales) for this project a couple
of years ago and now (with the mastering by john golden), it has now been
realized, recorded at tony maimone’s Studio G in Brooklyn Spring of 2009.
It's the first release on watt’s clenchedwrench label.

“whereas ...engine room dealt w/my pop's life in the navy as a metaphor
for the story of the minutemen,” watt explains, “and ...middle stand was a
parallel to dante's "comedia" dealing w/an illness that almost killed me
in 2000, this third opera is quite different in that it has no standard
narrative (libretto!) meaning no regular beginning-middle-end and is as it
were "simultaneous" in the way a mirror from just inside my head - right
in this middle-age moment of mine - was then shattered into thirty pieces
and then each piece stuffed in the head to show a piece of my state of
mind (or out-of-mind) as of now. ‘thirty tunes?’ yes, they're little
ones... actually they're ‘thirty parts’ of one big tune. back in 2005, too
heavy to really hear minutemen stuff for many years, I had to face myself
and get the nerve up to hear it again when I agreed to let keith scheiron
and tim irwin make the we jam econo documentary (many thanks to them and
all who helped out on that). I even did a few gigs w/george hurley w/us as
a duet doing some of the old tunes and it was trippy for me, like I was
digging on how ‘econo’ those tiny tunes were - no filler, right to point
and distilled down to the bare nada.”

From his earliest years performing with d. boon and the minutemen while
helping to establish the American indie rock scene through the
then-fledgling SST scene, mike watt has had a deep sense of purpose
although, as he admits, "it's hard to describe the mission, what makes me
put almost everything else secondary. when i tour, i conk at people's
pads. i play every day. i'm not using it as a means to a lifestyle. i
don't really know what the mission is exactly except to do this as intense
as i can. it's like being a sailor or something. Sometimes, it does feel
as if I've been given orders, a bizarre spin on the minstrel or troubadour
scenario, the town crier, the guy that goes between the towns to let the
other towns know about each other."

An inveterate road dog, mike has spent an incalculable percentage of the
past quarter century touring in numerous ensembles and configurations.
Beginning with the minutemen in the early 1980s, watt helped define the
"econo-tour," a road warrior-style approach to touring that involved
performing the most gigs possible in the fewest days with the lowest
possible overhead. Sharing a van with SST labelmates Black Flag, the
minutemen unknowingly created the roadmap of national club routes that the
budding Punk Rock Nation would later adopt as its own. Finally, after four
years of watching the tour van odometer flip over to zeros, the minutemen
came to an end on December 23, 1985 when a tragic van accident took d.
boon's life.

watt retreated from music after the loss, though not for long. An avid
Ohio-based minutemen fan named Ed "fROMOHIO" Crawford found watt's number
in the phone book and announced that he was moving to San Pedro to start a
new band with watt and drummer george hurley. The trio launched fIREHOSE
in June 1986 going on to create five studio albums and a live EP,
indulging in seven-and-a-half years of non-stop econo-touring (without
ever taking label tour support).

In the spring of 1995, he released his first solo album, ball-hog or
tugboat? The album enlisted no less than 48 different participants
including members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Beastie Boys, Soul Asylum,
the Lemonheads, and the Screaming Trees. In fact, the tour line-up for
Watt's first solo outing included Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder on vocals, the
Germ's Pat Smear on guitar, and Nirvana's David Grohl on drums, with
Grohl's then-new group, the Foo Fighters, delivering their very first live
performances in the support slot. After this tour, he did two more with
Nels Cline and two drummers as the “crew of the flying saucer.” He then
toured for a year as a sideman on bass for Perry Farrell's Porno for Pyros
and recorded two songs for their second album.

Then watt trimmed his caravan back to a three-man team and recorded his
1997 follow-up, the punk opera contemplating the engine room. The thematic
effort revolved around three seamen in the engine room of a naval vessel,
in sum creating a powerful metaphor for the minutemen and their road lives
in "the boat" (watt's name for the van he tours in). He brought this
around the towns for fourteen months with the black gang, a trio that had
the album's nels cline and stephen hodges at different times along with
bob lee and joe baiza.

the secondman's middle stand was watt's third solo album and first to be
recorded with a bass, organ (pete mazich), and drums (jerry trebotic)
line-up. This project was his response to a critical illness in 2000 with
a fever lasting 38 days, its climax an abscess bursting in his perineum.
watt used his recovery period to re-read, among a dizzyingly wide range of
other books, Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy," (he first read it as a
teenager) which is divided into three sections: "Inferno," "Purgatorio,"
and "Paradiso." Both "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" are divided into 33
cantos ("Inferno" has 34) with each section divided into groups of 3 lines
called tercets -- a direct influence on the album.

In addition to his primary efforts, watt's yearnings for creative output
have resulted in numerous collaborations and side projects, both in the
studio and on the road: Unknown Instructors with george hurley, guitarist
Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust) and a revolving cast of vocalist/poets; bass
guitar duo dos with ex-Black Flag bassist kira roessler; the Fog with J
Mascis; Banyan, an experimental alt-jazz project with Pyro/Jane's
Addiction member Stephen Perkins; hellride with Perkins and Peter
Distefano “whupping up stooges in a john coltrane way”; Li'l Pit;
Crimony; Bootstrappers; the original Punk Rock Karaoke with Eric Melvin of
NOFX and Greg Hetson of Bad Religion;.

watt also was part of the Wylde Rattz with the Stooges' Ron Asheton,
Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley who
covered the Stooges' classic "TV Eye" for the soundtrack to the Todd
Haynes film Velvet Goldmine. This led to Iggy Pop inviting mike to join
the reformed Stooges along with Ron and Scott Asheton, touring with them
as well as playing on their comeback album, The Sickness. watt continues
as a Stooge in the current line-up with James Williamson rejoining the
band after the death of Asheton in 2008.

Our man in Pedro also stays busy with a weekly web radio program, The Watt
From Pedro Show (twfps.com), and his own site, hootpage.com, both of which
provide outlets for his many political interests, including the fight
against FFC regulations on low power FM stations and web radio channels.
He also loves pedaling his bike around his town four days a week while
paddling his kayak the other three - all at the crack of dawn.

But there is a thread that connects all of Watt's concerns. "Art and music
mirrors nature in a lot of ways," Watt says. "Nature's a lot about
resonances and cycles and rhythms. Nature has no ethics or morality.
Neither does music. It operates on a level where words aren't. There's
always going to be a hankering to get connections on a non-word level. Can
we have ideas that don't have words for them? You can't know anything, you
can only believe. The way you describe what you believe is a prison. Music
is a way to get around that.


mike watt + the missingmen
"north american hyphenated-man tour 2011"
thursday, march 10 at velvet jones
423 state st,m santa barbara, ca
(805) 965-8676
friday, march 11 at the echo
1822 w. sunset bl., los angeles, ca
(213) 413-8200
saturday, march 12 at the casbah
2501 kettner bl., san diego, ca
(619) 232-4355
sunday, march 13 at plush
340 e. 6th st., tucson, az
(520) 798-1298
monday, march 14 at the launchpad
618 central av. sw, albuquerque, nm
(505) 435-9912
tuesday, march 15 at the conservatory
8911 n. western av., oklahoma city, ok
(405) 607-4805
wednesday, march 16 at the loft
1135 s. lamar st., dallas, tx
(214) 421-2021
thursday, march 17 at the ginger man
301 lavaca st., austin, tx
(512) 473-8801
friday, march 18 at fitzgerald's
2706 white oak dr., houston, tx
(713) 862-3838
saturday, march 19 at the spanish moon
1109 highland rd., baton rouge, la
(225) 383-6666
sunday, march 20 at one eyed jacks
615 toulouse st., new orleans, la
(504) 569-8361
monday, march 21 at the handlebar
319 n. tarragona st., pensacola, fl
(850) 434-9060
tuesday, march 22 at common grounds
210 sw 2nd av., gainesville, fl
(352) 372-7320
wednesday, march 23 at the social
54 n. orange av., orlando, fl
(407) 246-1419
thursday, march 24 at jack rabbits
1528 hendricks av., jacksonville, fl
(904) 398-7496
friday, march 25 at the earl
488 flat shoals av. se, atlanta, ga
(404) 522-3950
saturday, march 26 at 40 watt club
285 w. washington st., athens, ga
(706) 549-7871
sunday, march 27 at the pour house
1977 maybank hwy., charleston, sc
(843) 571-4343
monday, march 28 at local 506
506 w. franklin st., chapel hill, nc
(919) 942-5506
tuesday, march 29 at the canal club
1545 e. cary st., richmond, va
(804) 643-2582
wednesday, march 30 at 123 pleasant street
123 pleasant st., morgantown, wv
(304) 292-0800
thursday, march 31 at black cat
1811 14th st. nw, washington dc
(202) 667-7960
friday, april 1 at ottobar
2549 n. howard st., baltimore, md
(410) 662-0069
saturday, april 2 at north star bar
2639 poplar st., philadelphia, pa
(215) 787-0488
sunday, april 3 at maxwell's
1039 washington st., hoboken, nj
(201) 653-1703
monday, april 4 at the mercury lounge
217 e. houston st., new york, ny
(212) 260-4700
tuesday, april 5 at daniel street club
21 daniel st., milford, ct
(203) 877-4446
wednesday, april 6 at t.t. the bear's place
10 brookline st., cambridge, ma
(617) 492-0082
thursday, april 7 at la sala rossa
4848 st-laurent, montreal, qc, CANADA
(514) 844-4227
friday, april 8 at mavericks
221 rideau st., ottawa, on, CANADA
(613) 562-3941
saturday, april 9 at horseshoe tavern
368 queen st. w, toronto, on, CANADA
(416) 598-4753
sunday, april 10 at brillobox
4104 penn av., pittsburgh, pa
(412) 621-4900
monday, april 11 at grog shop
2785 euclid heights bl., cleveland heights, oh
(216) 321-5588
tuesday, april 12 at magic bag
22920 woodward av., ferndale, mi
(248) 544-3030
wednesday, april 13 at radio radio
1119 prospect st., indianapolis, in
(317) 955-0995
thursday, april 14 at blueberry hill
6504 delmar bl., saint louis, mo
(314) 727-4444
friday, april 15 at schubas tavern
3159 n. southport av., chicago, il
(773) 525-2508
saturday, april 16 at shank hall
1434 n. farwell av., milwaukee, wi
(414) 276-7288
sunday, april 17 at high noon saloon
701 e. washington av., madison, wi
(608) 268-1122
monday, april 18 at turf club
1601 university av. w, saint paul, mn
(651) 647-0486
tuesday, april 19 at slowdown
729 n. 14th st., omaha, ne
(402) 345-7569
wednesday, april 20 at the bottleneck
737 new hampshire st., lawrence, ks
(785) 841-5483
friday, april 22 at larimer lounge
721 larimer st., denver, co
(303) 291-1007
saturday, april 23 at the complex
537 w. 100 s, salt lake city, ut
(801) 660-2295
sunday, april 24 at neurolux
113 n. 11th st., boise, id
(208) 343-0886
monday, april 25 at doug fir
830 e. burnside st., portland, or
(503) 231-9663
tuesday, april 26 at the media club
695 cambie st., vancouver, bc, CANADA
(604) 608-2871
wednesday, april 27 at the triple door
216 union st., seattle, wa
(206) 838-4333
thursday, april 28 at sam bonds garage
407 blair bl., eugene, or
(541) 343-2635
friday, april 29 at bottom of the hill
1233 17th st., san francisco, ca
(415) 621-4455
saturday, april 30 at blue lamp
1400 alhambra bl., sacramento, ca
(916) 455-3400

TRISTEN ANNOUNCES WINTER TOUR CHARLATANS AT THE GARDEN GATE OUT FEBRUARY 1ST 2011

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW IN NASHVILLE JANUARY 21ST

APPEARING AT SXSW 2011

Tristen is excited to kick off the 2011 with upcoming tour dates in support of her new album Charlatans At The Garden Gate, out on February 1st via American Myth Recordings. The run begins with a home-town Album Release Show in Nashville on the 21st of January and sees Tristen and band heading out to the west coast in February.


The release of Charlatans At The Garden Gate is the latest step in a long journey that began when Tristen left her native Chicago for Nashville to further pursue her passion for songwriting. She soon became part of Nashville's emerging community of young artists, a loose collective of musicians and writers deeply connected yet simultaneously unbound from the city's country heritage. With the help of friends and local musicians including producer Jeremy Ferguson she set to work recording songs that would eventually become the album Charlatans At The Garden Gate.


Finally poised for a full-length release, the songs found on the album, and the accompanying prowess of the live band's three part harmonies, have been winning over new listeners with ease. This past November the release of the "Eager For Your Love" 7" helped land the b-side "Baby Drugs" at #3 on the blog aggregate site Elbo.ws charts. Through relentless touring in 2011 Tristen and company are eager to show the nation why her brand of "Neo Traditionalist Pop" has already won early notice from the likes of KCRW, Nylon, Paste, Nashville Scene, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today's Pop Candy, among many others. Further tour dates and SXSW 2011 Performances to be announced.

For a free download of the 3 song Eager For Your Love 7" fans can visit www.tristen.com

Bloggers: Please feel free to share the mp3s linked here. "Eager For Your Love" and "Baby Drugs" appear on the 7" as well as the full-length album.

NEW "Map Of Tasmania" MP3 Available Now!

Provocative, irreverent, controversial, entertaining and artistic. Amanda Palmer continues to push the boundaries as the Queen of Punk Cabaret.

Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under is her latest offering as a solo artist. A collection of live and studio tracks with an Antipodean theme, the album berates a lover for his love of vegemite and celebrates a lady’s nether regions with the new single “Map of Tasmania” which you can download HERE. Feel free to post and share. All materialfor this album was lovingly penned for and recorded in Australia and New Zealand. It includes some special tributes in the form of covers of Nick Cave and New Zealand’s Peter Jefferies.

Having just struggled to be release from her major label contract, Amanda has been trailblazing in Internet and creative distribution with an effective new model for distribution of music. Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under will be available exclusively for her Down Under fans as a physical release through Liberator. However, true to Amanda’s unique and successful music model, fans will be able to choose their contribution for download, packages and once in a lifetime experiences. As with her latest release Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele, check out her website for package details.

“This whole record is a love letter to Australia and New Zealand,“ Amanda says flirting wildly with her southern neighbors. Amanda has made no secret of the fact that she’d love to relocate to her “second home” in Melbourne during the New York winter and keep her summer home in the Big Apple the rest of the time. “I have a special relationship with the Australian people. It was the first continent where Dresden Dolls landed and it was Beatlemania. I have a huge resonance with the place and the people. Plus I hate being cold,” she says.

Anyone who’s ever seen or heard Palmer – whether raising eyebrows as the gender-bending “emcee” in the prestigious American Repertoire Theatre’s production of the musical ‘Cabaret’, delivering dramatically direct, wildly theatrical performances as one half of the cabaret-punk duo The Dresden Dolls or, most recently, as a solo artist whose uncompromising vision has frequently made her a flashpoint for both admiration and controversy – will attest to the fact that being a musician and rock star is not merely a job, and never has been.

Instead, Palmer is her art. And, in turn, her art is an extension of who she is, and is always becoming: a voracious seeker of creative catharsis and emotional release, a bold participant in games of truth or dare (she always opts for both) on a life-sized stage and above all, an utterly un-categorize-able work-in-progress. She’s a fearless singer, songwriter and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of composition.

Palmer has collaborated with indie-pop pianist Ben Folds (who produced her most recent solo work Who Killed Amanda Palmer) and teamed with acclaimed author Neil Gaiman for a storybook of photography that beautifully expands the conceptual and narrative ideas outlined in her ambitious solo album.

Amanda Palmer Goes Down Undercoincides with the Opera House “Australia Day Spectacular” with Amanda inviting special guests husband Neil Gaiman, cabaret darling Meow Meow and Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentleman to join her on this January 26th celebration.

Amanda Palmer will also be touring January & February taking in the MONO FOMA festival in Tasmania as a special guest of curator Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes. She will also be reprising her much lauded performance at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. She will bring the spectacular to the Adelaide Fringe in early March.

Amanda Palmer brings her special brand of humor to Australia w/ headline performances across the country.

FESTIVAL DATES:

01/15/11: Tasmania @ MONO FOMA FESTIVAL
Curated by Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes
FREE info available HERE

01/17/2011: Tasmania @ MONO FOMA WORKSHOP
Info available HERE

01/26/11: Sydney @ SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under: Australia Day Spectacular
With special guests Neil Gaiman, cabaret act Meow Meow and Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Tickets available HERE

03/02/2011: Adelaide @ Adelaide Fringe Fesival
03/03/2011: Adelaide @ Adelaide Fringe Fesival

The Frontier Touring Company Presents:
“Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under Tour”

Proudly supported by Rave, Brag, Beat and Xpress
With special guests to be announced
On sale December 20th

AUSTRALIA

02/01/2011: Canberra @ James O Fairfax Theatre
Tickets available from Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com.au

02/04/2011: Perth @ Fly By Night
Tickets available from Fly By Night (08) 9430 5976 www.flybynight.org

02/10/2011: Byron Bay @ Great Northern
Tickets available from Oztix 1300 762 545 or www.thenorthern.oztix.com.au

02/12/2011: Brisbane @ The Old Museum
Tickets available from Oztix 1300 762 545 or www.oldmuseum.oztix.com.au

02/26/2011: Melbourbe @ The Forum Theatre
Tickets available from Ticketmaster 136 100 or www.ticketmaster.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

02/17/2011: @ Webstock Performance
02/18/2011: @ Webstock Performance
02/19/2011: Wellington @ Bodega
02/22/2011: Christchurch @ Al’s Bar

DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK & BACKSTREET BOYS ADD 16 SHOWS TO HISTORIC NKOTBSB 2011 SUMMER TOUR

NKOTBSB Closes Out The Year With A Smash Performance On
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011”

www.nkotbsb.com

NEW YORK, NY – New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys closed 2010 with a show stealing smash performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011” proving why their joint NKOTBSB tour is this summer’s hottest and most anticipated tour. NKOTBSB keep the surprises and excitement coming for 2011. With shows continuing to sell out, superstar groups New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys have responded to the overwhelming demand from their fans by offering more opportunities to see them together on one stage for their historic NKOTBSB tour. The groups announce 16 new shows for a total of 41 confirmed dates for the highly anticipated 2011 boybandbananza!

The extraordinary NKOTBSB tour, produced by Live Nation, begins June 2nd with confirmed shows through July 30th. Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale beginning Saturday, January 15 at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.

In their biggest joint appearance to date, in front of millions of television viewers on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011,” NKOTBSB sent thousands of screaming and dancing fans into a fan frenzy. With throngs of fans in the middle of Times Square singing along to their smash hit singles, and millions more tuning in from home, New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys once again reaffirmed their place in pop culture proving why their ticket is the hottest ticket of the summer.

People Magazine raved, “The Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block ended 2010 on a high note with a rollicking New Year's Eve mashup of their greatest hits in Times Square.”

And Entertainment Weekly gave a nod to the groups saying, “ABC’s live broadcast of Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve boasted a classic boy-band bash, with the well-preserved Backstreet Boys and the New Kids on the Block collaborating for a medley of their greatest hits.”

NKOTBSB first shocked and delighted fans when they took the stage together for a medley at the sold out NKOTB Radio City Music Hall show. The two groups wowed audiences again in their first joint televised performance at the American Music Awards this past November. The performers had the audience on their feet when they unleashed hit after hit including Backstreet’s “I Want It That Way” and NKOTB’s “Hangin’ Tough,” sending the crowd into rip-roaring applause.

With over 200 million albums sold between both bands, and smash hit after smash hit, these two pop sensations have dominated the music scene for over three decades. Aiming to please, these guys are giving concert goers and diehard fans everywhere the ultimate “night out” experience.

For more information please visit www.nkotbsb.com.

CURRENT LIST OF SHOW DATES (As of January 4, 2011)
Thu, June 2 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena ON SALE NOW
Fri, June 3 Washington, DC Verizon Center ON SALE NOW
Sat, June 4 Boston, MA TD Garden ON SALE NOW
Sun, June 5 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center ON SALE NOW
Tue, June 7 Montreal, QC Bell Centre ON SALE NOW
Wed, June 8 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre ON SALE NOW
Thu, June 9 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre ON SALE NOW
Sat, June 11 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum ON SALE NOW
Sun, June 12 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center ON SALE NOW
Wed, June 15 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center ON SALE NOW
Thu, June 16 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills ON SALE NOW
Fri, June 17 Chicago, IL United Center ON SALE NOW
Sat, June 18 Chicago, IL United Center ON SALE NOW
Tue, June 21 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena ON SALE NOW
Wed, June 22 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena ON SALE NOW
Fri, June 24 Lafayette, LA Cajundome ON SALE NOW
Sat, June 25 Houston, TX Toyota Center ON SALE NOW
Sun, June 26 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center ON SALE NOW
Tue, June 28 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center ON SALE JAN 15
Thu, June 30 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center ON SALE NOW
Fri, July 1 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center ON SALE NOW
Sat, July 2 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion ON SALE NOW
Sun, July 3 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center ON SALE NOW
Wed, July 6 Anaheim, CA Honda Center ON SALE NOW
Fri, July 8 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome ON SALE NOW
Sat, July 9 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena ON SALE NOW
Sun, July 10 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena ON SALE JAN 15
Tue, July 12 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place ON SALE JAN 15
Wed, July 13 Calgary, AB Calgary Stampede ON SALE JAN 15
Fri, July 15 Minneapolis, MN Target Center ON SALE JAN 15
Sat, July 16 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center ON SALE JAN 15
Sun, July 17 Tulsa, OK BOK Center ON SALE JAN 15
Tue, July 19 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center ON SALE JAN 15
Wed, July 20 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center ON SALE JAN 15
Fri, July 22 Orlando, FL Amway Center ON SALE JAN 15
Sat, July 23 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum ON SALE JAN 15
Sun, July 24 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center ON SALE JAN 15
Tue, July 26 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse ON SALE JAN 15
Wed, July 27 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena ON SALE JAN 15
Fri, July 29 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall ON SALE JAN 15
Sat, July 30 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium ON SALE JAN 15