The Love Language hits the highway with The Rosebuds

Consider Raleigh well-represented on East Coast Highways this month as the capital city pop crew The Love Language joins Shuffle 4 cover stars The Rosebuds on tour for four dates plus a Cat's Cradle homecoming with Megafaun.

This comes on the heels of the announcement of The Love Language's brand new self-titled LP on Bladen County Records--and addition to Ground Control Touring's clientele.

Love Language tour dates with The Rosebuds
1/14 Otto Bar, Baltimore, MD
1/15 Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia, PA
1/16 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
1/17 Middle East Downstairs, Boston, MA
1/24 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC

Want Julian Koster to sing Christmas carols at your house?

Julian Koster, the Music Tapes frontman and former member of Neutral Milk Hotel, has announced a caroling tour in support of his holiday album The Singing Saw At Christmastime--all your favorite holiday jams performed entirely on the singing saw--out now on Merge Records. Right now, he's lookign for venues at which to bring his merry tour of Music Tapes songs and singing saw holiday tunes.

He'll be in Chapel Hill Nov. 12 and Charlotte the afternoon of Nov. 13. Details on how to get involved with the tour are copied below from a Merge press release.

Julian and the saws are planning a tour to several cities and are offering to come caroling at your house. All you have to do is invite them! At each house, Julian will play a few songs of the Music Tapes, and the saws will play a few of their holiday favorites for hosts and their assembled guests. And then, on they will go to the next house.

Households that would like to invite Julian and his friends to come carol may do so up until the night before the carolers arrive in your town by sending an invitation to musictapescaroling@gmail.com or by mailing a written invitation to:

Music Tapes Caroling

c/o G. Stewart

175 Talmadge Street, Apt. 1

Athens, GA 30605

Written invitations will be given priority, should arrive a few days before the carolers arrive, and include an email address or telephone number for reply. Invitations where the inviters indicate that they would be willing to entertain outside guests on caroling night are preferred. Once the limit on houses on a given night has been reached, the address of each house that will welcome guests will be distributed via email to all who email musictapescaroling@gmail.com and ask to attend. The addresses of the houses will not be posted online.

These will be caroling events (not house concerts) and there will be no monetary recompense of any kind asked for. People who wish to make a donation to the Carolers Travel Fund via the orbitinghumancircus.com website where all Caroling updates and information will be found.

Caroling Dates:

Nov 11th Savannah, GA

Nov 12th Chapel Hill, NC

Nov 13th Charlotte, NC (afternoon) / Atlanta, Ga

Nov 14th Athens, GA

Nov 16th Nashville, TN

Nov 17th St. Louis, MO

Nov 18th Memphis, TN

Nov 19th Hammond / Baton Rouge LA

Nov 20th Houston, TX

Nov 21st Austin, TX

Nov 22nd Denton, TX

Nov 24th Lawrence KS

Nov 26th Minneapolis, MN

Nov 27th Madison, WI

Nov 28th Chicago IL

Nov 29th Grand Rapids/Lansing, MI

Nov 30th Ann Arbor area, MI

Dec 1st Toronto, Canada

Dec 3rd Buffalo, NY

Dec 4th Geneseo, NY

Dec 5th Oswego, NY

Dec 6th Bennington, VT

Dec 7th New London, NH

Dec 8th Boston / Cambridge, MA

Dec 12th Philadelphia, PA

Dec 13th NYC

Dec 14th NYC

Dec TBA Maine

New Mountain Goats EP available for download

The ever prolific, Durham-residing John Darnielle has made a triumphant return to the EP-format, releasing not one, but two tour-only 7-inches for his "The Last Happy Night of Your Life" tour with Kaki King. One is the Black Pear Tree EP, a six-song collaborative piece with King--the first 200 of which are to be printed on colored vinyl, so take note, collectors. (You can stream "Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle," from the Black Pear Tree EP on Pitchfork).

But it's the four-song Satanic Messiah EP, limited to 666 physical copies (clever, eh?), that Darnielle has made available for download at the convenient price of whatever you want at satanicmessiah.com.

Both EPs were recorded by Scott Solter at his Baucom Road studio is Western N.C.

The only Carolinas date on the tour is a Nov. 5 stop at Carrboro's esteemed Cat's Cradle. For those willing to travel some, tour dates are listed below.

October
13 - Chicago, IL, Park West
14 - Milwaukee, WI, Pabst Theatre
15 - Omaha, NE, The Slowdown
17 - Denver, CO, Bluebird Theater
18 - Salt Lake City, UT, In the Venue
20 - Seattle, WA, Showbox
21 - Portland, OR, Wonder Ballroom
23 - San Francisco, CA, the Independent
24 - San Francisco, CA, the Fillmore
25 - Los Angeles CA , Troubadour
26 - Los Angeles CA, Troubadour
28 - San Diego, CA, the Belly Up Tavern
29 - Tucson, AZ, Club Congress
31 - Lubbock, TX, Tequila Jungle

November
1 - Austin, TX, Antones
2 - Dallas, TX, Granada Theatre
3 - New Orleans, LA Republic
5 - Chapel Hill, NC, Cat's Cradle
6 - Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
7 - Philadelphia, PA, Theatre of the Living Arts
8 - Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
9 - New York, NY, Webster Hall

The Rosebuds to tour with Megafaun

With their fourth LP, Life Like, only a week away from its release, The Rosebuds have announced their tour to support the new album, and they're bringing along their neighbors, Durham's Megafaun, who are still touring behind Bury The Square.

The Rosebuds/Megafaun tour starts Nov. 7 in Durham, where The Rosebuds play the headlining slot at Carolina Theatre as part of the Troika Music Festival. Megafaun will then hit the road with The Rosebuds for six more dates, traveling from Nashville to St. Paul.

Dates listed below.

The Rosebuds/Megafaun

• 11/7/08 - Carolina Theatre, Durham, N.C. (Troika Music Festival w/ Kimya Dawson, The Old Cermony and Bellafea)
• 11/11/08 - Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN (w/ The Spinto Band)
• 11/12/08 - Radio Radio, Indianapolis, IN
• 11/13/08 - Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL
• 11/14/08 - High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
• 11/15/08 - The Picador, Iowa City, IA
• 11/16/08 - Turf Club, St. Paul, MN