A circle of Brooklyn-based friends have joined together to throw a benefit for beloved, local musician, Jon Wiley. We Are the Wiley: A Benefit Concert for Jon Wiley will feature Adam Green, Lightspeed Champion, DJ Johnny Tropical, and Chairlift at The Shank—an art space and concert venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—on Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 8PM.

On March 5, 2009, professional guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist, Jon Wiley awoke without feeling or mobility in his arms and legs. He was subsequently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and incurred more than $30,000 worth of medical bills for his week-long hospital stay. After a lengthy recovery process, Jon has regained most feeling in his limbs and has gone on in recent months to record and perform with Lightspeed Champion, Adam Green, and his solo project, SpaceCamp. However, he is still without the means to afford his own healthcare.

Join us to celebrate the extraordinary talent of Jon Wiley, and raise funds to cover the expenses of a musician in need. This is a concrete opportunity to help a friend who, like so many artists and musicians in the United States, lack affordable healthcare. Jon’s story highlights the importance of healthcare for every person and the value of living each day to the fullest.

Thursday, July 9, 2009
We Are the Wiley: A Benefit Concert for Jon Wiley
@The Shank
98 Bayard Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
CHAIRLIFT + LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION + ADAM GREEN w/DJ Set by Johnny Tropical
Doors at 8PM (all ages)
Tickets $15 - all proceeds go to Wiley's medical bills.
 
To make a donation, go here:
http://wearethewiley.blogspot.com/

Taken By Trees announce new album East Of Eden

Release date: September 8th, 2009

Rough Trade records is excited to release East Of Eden, the new album by Taken By Trees. It will be released on September 8th, and is the result of an extraordinarily adventurous recording process in Pakistan with local musicians. The album will also come with a short film that was shot in Pakistan while recording.

Taken by Trees is the nom de plume of Victoria Bergsman, previously best known for her work with The Concretes and Peter Bjorn & John’s worldwide smash hit single "Young Folks". This new offering follows in the footsteps of Taken By Trees critically acclaimed debut album Open Field which was released in 2007.

Victoria wanted to travel to record in a mysterious, relatively uncharted area, and avoid the usual clinical studio experience, which she has always disliked and found to be an essentially uncreative environment. In order to provide herself with both an interesting challenge and an inspirational recording environment, she chose Pakistan. The rhythm, drums and flutes of Pakistani music had long captivated Victoria and this coupled with a deep admiration for one of her favorite singers Abida Parveen and the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped her choose Pakistan as the place to record her new album.

While it’s practically a miracle that the album was made at all, the experience and environment there has created a masterful work with a depth of expression and feeling that is breathtaking. Victoria is one of the very few, if not the only, Western women, to record in this region, and the bureaucracy, cultural differences and prejudices she had to overcome to see this project through are beyond belief.

tracklisting:
1. To Lose Someone            
2. Anna              
3. Watch The Waves                         
4. Greyest Love Of All         
5. Tidens Gång  
6. Wapas Karna
7. My Boys             
8. Day By Day                        
9. Bekännelse  

Join us for free drinks and the premiere listen to the debut album LP by DISCOVERY!

TONIGHT! June 30th, 9pm-midnight

NEW YORK CITY

The Gallery Bar at Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleecker Street

RSVP at AmieStreet.com/LPR (21+)

She performed "Marrow" from her new 4AD release Actor.

I think Dave has a crush on her.

Its not everyday our artists have their brain scanned but Jarvis Cocker recently did just that.    He took part in this experiment - the scan happened while he was listening to music - for a new PBS documentary called "The Music Instinct:  Science and Song"* that is airing tonight.     If you live in NYC you can catch the show on channel 13 (WNET) at 9pm.  The rest of you - check your local listings!    http://www.pbs.org/

And don't forget - in late July Jarvis will be making a quick stop in the US in support of his new album "Further Complications."     http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/tours/

*"The Music Instinct:  Science and Song" program / series description:
An exploration of the music-mind interaction that delves into the neuroscience of how melodies and rhythms affect and influence the brain, featuring jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and rockers Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley. Included: the link between the brain's auditory and motor regions, which can be used to help people with Parkinson's disease and stroke patients. McFerrin and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin host.

Jack Peñate will be spending some quality time in the US for the first time
ever and we couldn't be more excited. We are very lucky to have him for a
full three week tour starting in mid-September!

Everything Is New is Jack's new record, and it will be released on August 18th
via XL Recordings.

Listen to the first single "Tonight's Today" here: http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/JackPenate_TonightsToday.mp3
Watch the video for "Tonight's Today" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-Oo5zPPt4
Watch the video for "Be The One" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRchFtlkEI

Jack Peñate's debut album Matinée was just that...his beginning...the early show. 
He was, by his own admission, just a kid. A south London bedroom-boy-with-acoustic-guitar.
He ducked, he dived, he played tons of shows in the UK and a rare few in the US. 
In the UK Matinée went gold; the single, "Torn On The Platform",entered their charts
at Number 7 and he was even on the cover of the NME. Not a bad start at all, but his
sophomore album Everything Is New, is exactly that. He's starting fresh with a new
chapter and new sounds. He's ripped it up and started again. Total honesty, absolute
vision, complete control.

Everything Is New is in short, a soul record. Recorded over twelve intense months in
producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires)’s own west London home studio,
Everything Is New is a giant musical leap forward from this 24 year old Londoner’s
acclaimed debut album. This is a technicolour record full of experimentation and
possibility. The album fuses Peñate’s wide-eyed pop songwriting with the music he’s
always loved and lived, successfully bringing Brazilian Tropicalia, Krautrock, New Orleans
marching bands, Bashment, Afrobeat, lo-fi Hop Hop, Gospel, Reggaeton and Philly Soul
into the mix over a nine track record that delights and surprises at every turn.

The UK press has embraced his new sound and here are some of their accolades...

"It's a fabulous album" - GQ (UK)
"The songs are uniformly great...his songs are gloriously, unabashedly pop" - Guardian
"Jack Penate has made a record that's light on it's feet, has glamour bordering on sex
appeal and that doesn't make you with a fatwa upon it's author. It's a model for second
albums everywhere and a testament fo what can be achieved if you're prepared to take
a long, hard look at the man in the mirror" - NME

Jack Peñate / US Tour
(all dates except for 9/14 and 9/22 are with Miike Snow)
9/14 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
9/15 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
9/16 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
9/18 - Washington, DC - Rock N Roll Hotel
9/19 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
9/20 - Boston, MA - TT The Bear's
9/22 - Montreal, QUE - Le Petit Campus
9/23 - Toronto, ONT - Wrong Bar
9/25 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
9/26 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
9/29 - Vancouver, BC - Richard's on Richard's
9/30 - Seattle, WA - Neumo's
10/1 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10/3 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
10/4 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
10/5 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
10/6 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
10/7 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland

Announcing …

Peaches appearance on "Last Call With Carson Daly" Tonight!!
New Single - “Lose You” - from Peaches on July 7!
Peaches launches www.peachesrocks.com!

Hot on the heels of a super successful US tour that included sold-out shows around the country Peaches will be appearing on “Last Call With Carson Daly” tonight. She will be performing “I Feel Cream” off her recent album of the same name.    The show airs tonight at 1:35am (for Tivo users that is actually Saturday morning!).  Check your local listing for exact times.

On July 7 XL Recordings will be releasing “Lose You,” another single off I Feel Cream.  While the track may recall the icy elegance of New Romantic synth-pop, Steve Strange never sang with such delicacy or melodic refinement. “Lose You” will be available commercially via iTunes and Beatport with two different configurations:
ITunes:   album version (produced by Simian Mobile Disco) and a remix of the song by Matt Walsh And Alex Jones.
Beatport: album version (produced by Simian Mobile Disco) and a remix of the song by Brodinski And Yuksek.

A video for “Lose You,” directed by Peaches, had its broadcast (and online) premier on May 31 on the LOGO channel.   It is available on XL’s Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBN3eRjD4oE

And if this isn’t enough news – Peaches has relaunched her website!  Visit www.peachesrocks.com for all Peaches news, gossip, and the Peaches store where you can buy your favorite loved one(s) Peaches merch and music.

Did you know that The Pentagon has an official channel? They do! Take a peek as hottie Sgt Ted Macdonald sits down with a couple of the boys in DC


The National
Showcases the song Apartment Story

Click to watch the video

They performed the super-catchy song "French Navy"!

Take a look!

"There's a moment, mere seconds into The Veils' enthralling new record, when the
glorious Finn Andrews howls, 'the complicated beauty of a river run dry,' like every hope
in the universe depends on it. Indeed, Sun Gangs thrashes vividly and wildly from emotion
to emotion with all life's joys, miseries and bemusements visited only at their most distant
and harrowing reaches.  Andrews, one of the best songwriters around, comes on like a
wounded Nick Cave or a seductive Thom Yorke." Filter

THE VEILS US TOUR JULY/AUGUST 2009
New MP3 and Video!
Check out this piece that ran on NPR's All Things Considered:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104497498

SUN GANGS is OUT NOW on ROUGH TRADE

The Veils are finally making their way to North America this July, touring
in support of their recently released Rough Trade album, Sun Gangs. They'll
be playing with Secretly Canadian's Foreign Born for most of the dates, except
for Los Angeles where they'll be headlining their own show at Spaceland.
See updated TOUR DATES below and check out the e-flyer.

To celebrate, they've put out a new MP3 and a new Video!

Check out the new MP3 for "Three Sisters" here
Check out the new acoustic ICA session video for title track "Sun Gangs" here

The Veils are Finn Andrews, (vocals, guitar, piano, New Zealand) Sophia Burn,
(bass, New Zealand) Dan Raishbrook (guitar, odd noise, England) and Henning
Dietz (drums, Germany). You can find out more info on the band by viewing
this informative short film featuring Finn and Sophia.

Sun Gangs is the third album from The Veils, produced by Graham Sutton
(Jarvis Cocker / British Sea Power / Bark Psychosis) and described by Finn
as “a very modern mixture of prayers, love letters and personal record keeping.”

http://www.myspace.com/theveils 
http://WWW.THEVEILS.COM/

THE VEILS / US TOUR / JULY 2009

* with Foreign Born

Thu, 7/9 - Vancouver BC - Media Club*
Fri, 7/10 - Seattle WA - Chop Suey*
Sat, 7/11 - Portland OR - Mississippi Studios*
Mon, 7/13 - San Francisco CA - Bottom of the Hill*
Tue, 7/14 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar*
Wed, 7/15 - Los Angeles CA - Spaceland - SOLO SHOW
Fri, 7/17 - Tucson AZ - Plush*
Sun, 7/19 - Austin TX - Mohawk*
Mon, 7/20 - Norman OK - Opolis*
Wed, 7/22 - Minneapolis MN - 7th Street Entry*
Thu, 7/23 - Chicago IL - Empty Bottle*
Fri, 7/24 - Cleveland OH - Beachland Ballroom *
Sat, 7/25 - Pontiac MI - Pike Room @ the Crofoot*
Mon, 7/27 - Toronto ON - Horseshoe Tavern*
Tue, 7/28 - Montreal QC - La Sala Rossa*
Wed, 7/29  - Boston MA - TT The Bear's*
Thu, 7/30 - New York NY - Mercury Lounge*
Fri, 7/31 - Philadelphia PA - Johnny Brenda's*
Sat, 8/1 - Washington DC - Rock & Roll Hotel*
Mon, 8/3 - Brooklyn NY - The Bell House*


"The Veils' previous effort, Nux Vomica, was an undervalued gem of dark, dramatic rock
and roll that came on like the missing link between the Bad Seeds and the best of Morrissey.
On "Sun Gangs," they've scaled back a bit on the edgier side of that equation without
detracting from the sense that everything is very much at stake here." Blurt

"With Sun Gangs it’s as if they've finished the whole cake and the house burst, bricks and
mortar exploding through the sky like fireworks." Drowned in Sound

"There’s a lot that could go wrong with this approach on Sun Gangs--but nothing does. For
all the arch drama, the big rock songs on here are frenzied, and the small indie pop songs
are lean and melodic." Dusted

"Self-indulgent in all the best ways, their third album isn't afraid to explore an idea for nine
minutes, locating that revelatory moment when structure caves into soul."  Uncut

For photos, bio, cover art, visit:  www.beggarsgroupusa.com/press