Updates/ things I've negelected to post in a timely manner.

I thought I’d provide a list of the shows I’ll be attending in the upcoming months so as to give you guys some idea of what to expect in the way of show reviews. I’ll also be finishing up my semester soon so posts will become more frequent. I plan to include more links to new mp3’s and videos as well as tour and album updates from the bands on my radar. So in that regard, here’s the list of shows I’ll be seeing:

5-4 Frightened Rabbit at The Opera House, Toronto, ON.

5-11 Local Natives at Beach Land Tavern, Cleveland, OH.

5-25 LCD Soundsystem at Koolhaus, Toronto, ON.

6-2 Broken Bells/The Morning Benders at The Queen Elizabeth Theater, Toronto, ON.

6-8 The National at Massey Hall, Toronto, ON.

6-19 Olympic Island Festival featuring: Pavement, Band of Horses, Beach House, & Broken Social Scene, Olympic Island, Toronto, ON.

6-20 Beach House at The Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY.

7-22 The Flaming Lips at ArtPark, Lewiston, NY.

8-6th to 8th Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Chicago, IL.

It’s excessive I know, but totally worth it, and perhaps it explains my relative poverty at the moment!

Also, music stuff:

*LCD Soundsystem’s new album This is Happening is currently streaming here:

http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/

*Band of Horses have released another song off of their upcoming album Infinite Arms (May 18^th) it’s called Laredo and you can hear it here (via Stereogum):

http://stereogum.com/339742/band-of-horses-laredo/mp3s/

*Blitzen Trapper has released the cover-art for their upcoming Destroyer of the Void (June 8th) check it out below:

*Spoon appeared on Jimmy Fallon recently and brought current tour mate Bradford Cox (of Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) along with him, check it out (again via stereogum):

http://stereogum.com/343041/spoon-feat-bradford-cox-bring-who-makes-your-money-is-love-forever-to-jimmy-kimmel/video/

That’s all I have for now. I’m off to listen to some of my Record Store Day goods!