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PS22 Chorus – “What You Know”

English band the Horrors will be releasing their third album, Skying, on August 9th in the U.S. (July 11th in the UK) on XL Recordings. Ahead of the album release, the band has released the first promo video from the album, for the song “Still Life.” Watch it below.

The Horrors will be touring North America in September, starting on September 7 in Vancouver and ending in Washington DC on September 30. More information on these dates can be found on the band’s official website.

The Horrors: website | myspace

Liverpool dance punk band the Wombats will be releasing their new album, The Wombats Proudly Present…This Modern Glitch, digitally on April 25 and physically on April 26 in North America on Bright Antenna. Here’s the promo video for “Techno Fan,” the fourth single from the album. The band will be playing three dates in the U.S. this summer, in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Tour Dates
May 31 – Bowery Ballroom / New York City
Jun 01 – Troubadour / Los Angeles
Jun 03 – Rickshaw (Popscene) / San Francisco

The Wombats: website | myspace

The Vaccines, one of the most hotly tipped English bands for success in 2011, have released a new music video for their track, “If You Wanna.” They were described by the Guardian‘s Paul Lester as “like the Drums if they were more influenced by the Jesus and Mary Chain than the Smiths.”

“If You Wanna” will appear on the London band’s debut album, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?, expected to drop in May on Columbia Records. If you’re interested in getting your hands on some Vaccines tuneage now, their 3-song eponymous EP is available in digital format, with a 10″ vinyl to be released on 7″ on March 15. And if you happen to be at South by Southwest this year, you can catch them there as well.

The Vaccines: website | myspace

Photo: Roger Sargent

Get Up Kids‘ new video for “Automatic” shakes things up at the car wash.

The video features a sleeping child in a driverless car going through an automatic car wash. Reality’s lines get blurred and wavy in the wash and suddenly the child’s eyes burst open to a wave of colors and oils swirling on the windshield.

Unlike most music videos, the band doesn’t appear in this video and in another twist from the norm, this song features Jim Suptic on lead vocals rather than Matt Pryor.

You can check out the full video below. The band is currently on tour and will be returning to their hometown on March 13 at the Bottleneck. Full dates can be found here.

Fenech-Soler is the latest English electropop band to make the leap of releasing their debut stateside, scheduled for later this year, along with an accompanying North American tour. The Kings Cliffe band’s next single out in the UK, “Demons,” will be released on February 7 and is the second single off their 2010 self-titled debut album.

A good friend turned me on to them last year, and after having heard about their support slots with White Lies, Kelis and Delphic on tour, I definitely wanted to keep these guys on my radar. You should too.

Fenech-Soler: website | myspace

Bangor, Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club have just released a new promo video for their forthcoming single, “What You Know,” taken from their debut album Tourist History that was released last spring on Glassnote Records here in America.

The video, filmed by Lope Serrano of the famed Spanish production company CANADA, features dancers dancing perfectly in time to the song’s frenetic rhythm. As ever, the lads are snappily dressed. Two Door Cinema Club is currently in the middle of a 2-week, co-headlining tour with Canadians Tokyo Police Club, dates below.

Tour Dates:
Jan 16 – Club Soda / Montreal^
Jan 17 – Met Cafe / Providence^*
Jan 19 – Paradise / Boston^*
Jan 20 – 9:30 Club / Washington, DC^*
Jan 21 – Terminal 5 / New York City^*
Jan 22 – Trocadero / Philadelphia^*
Jan 25 – Masquerade / Atlanta^*
Jan 26 – Crowbar / Tampa^*
Jan 27 – Social / Orlando^*
^with co-headliner Tokyo Police Club
*with support from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Two Door Cinema Club: website | myspace | Two Door Cinema Club To Tour with Phoenix in Spring, Headline First North American Tour | “Something Good Can Work” video | @ Constitution Hall | Interview with: Sam Halliday of Two Door Cinema Club | @ Johnny Brenda’s | Two Door Cinema Club Announce Fall North American Tour | “Come Back Home” video | Two Door Cinema Club to Re-Release Debut Album with CD of Remixes and Special Documentary | Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History (Deluxe Edition) | Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema Club Announce January 2011 Co-Headlining Tour | @ Neumo’s

London indie folk pop outfit Noah and the Whale have just released the promo video for “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”

The track is from their forthcoming third album, Last Night on Earth, to be released on March 7 on Young and Lost Club in the UK (we’re not sure about the US release date as of yet). The tune is classic Noah and the Whale – primary singer/songwriter Charlie Fink‘s fragile yet life-affirming vocals backed back equally impressive folk-tinged pop instrumentation.

If you live in Los Angeles, New York City, or Toronto, you’re in luck: the band will be making appearances in those cities in the second half of March.

Tour Dates
Mar 15 – Troubadour / Los Angeles
Mar 21-22 – Bowery Ballroom / New York City
Mar 24 – Mod Club / Toronto

Noah and the Whale: website | myspace | The First Days of Spring review | @ black cat | interview with:

Terrible Things, the new project from Fred Mascherino (The Color Fred, ex-Taking Back Sunday) just released a video for their rocking single “Revolution.

The video, directed by David Brodsky, features Scout and Lily Mascherino having a tea party while the band plays in a burning dollhouse. The talented kids take over as the band by the end.

You might recognize the video concept from the album cover for the self-titled LP.

Check out the video below:

London post-punk rockers White Lies digitally released the first single from their forthcoming second album, Ritual, last month. Called “Bigger Than Us,” it’s got all the sweeping grandeur of “To Lose My Life” and “Farewell to the Fairground” that you remember and love. Below is the seriously bizarre video for the song – this is definitely one that is going to leave you scratching your head. Has the apocalypse come? Was there an accident in a chocolate factory? You tell us.

Ritual will drop on January 18, 2011 in the U.S. The band previewed the album in London on November 22. Excitingly, they will be playing four dates in North America early in the new year – I hope they’ll add more soon.

Tour Dates
Jan 22 – Neumo’s / Seattle
Jan 24 – Troubadour / Los Angeles
Jan 27 – Highline Ballroom / New York City
Jan 29 – Mod Club / Toronto

White Lies: website | myspace | @ Black Cat | @ Lollapalooza Day 1 | White Lies to Tour North America, Support Kings of Leon | Sophomore Album from White Lies Due in January 2011

Thumbnail photo: Mary Chang