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Youth Group, the boys from Down Under arrived late last month for SXSW, after which they successfully made the transition to New York City, their headquarters for their East Coast residency. It all kicks off this Sunday, April 5 in Boston at TT the Bear's, and then heads south to New York City (Pianos, on Tuesdays) and Philadelphia (The M-Room, on Wednesdays). The band will stop in Montreal and Toronto, too, before heading west, where they'll end up on the Pacific Coast, just a stone's throw away from home.

Frontman Toby Martin, for one, is excited about the trip:

"Some things I am looking forward to doing in the States: driving down a road I have never been down in my life, into a town I have never visited, finding we are playing in a great venue with friendly people who feed us (unheard of in Australia!), playing a show to people who have actually heard our music, and then getting drunk with a whole bunch of new friends, shouting across the roof of America, fall down, getting up and then doing it all again the next day. It is a romantic life. It is a beat life. It is America's romantic genius."

Youth Group is planning on documenting their adventures, the places they see and the people they meet, and they're also planning to perform and film one a song a week in various locales throughout their tour. The first is from the BreakThru Radio studios in Manhattan, where they recorded a set on Tuesday, but there will be many more to come.

Youth Group play in store at The Sound Garden in Baltimore, MD on the 18th April @ 4pm. They are promoting new tracks from their The Night Is Ours' out in the U.S on April 7, 2009.

Listen:

Youth Group - "All This Will Pass" (mp3)

Enjoy!

Labels: youth group

Smashing Pumpkins scored a new track titled "FOL," to serve as the soundtrack for its version of "The Epic Lap." Yo-Yo Ma's version will feature a beautiful solo of "Gigue" from Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major.

"The combination of Hyundai's exciting new Genesis Coupe matched with music performed by Smashing Pumpkins offers the perfect 'kick-off' to Super Bowl advertising," said Joel Ewanick, vice president, Marketing, Hyundai Motor America. "From rock to classical, our Genesis Coupe ads demonstrate the two personalities of the car, which was designed for all types of driving enthusiasts."

Other publicity launched yesterday for Lonely Dear. Venus Zine ran a great article on Loney Dear that touches on front man Emil Svanängen's views on various subjects such as religion, love, and music. Click here to read the full article.

In other music news, Grammy-nominated producer Jon Brion has worked with artists like Spoon, Elliot Smith, Kanye West, Fiona Apple, among others and is considered by many to be one of the most forward thinking producers in the world today. For his latest offering, Brion takes two tracks from of Montreal's latest release, Skeletal Lamping, and completely reworks them. These songs stand apart from your average remixes, with Brion adding various instrumentation and backing vocals to reinterpret the original songs. Other musicians on the album include Nickel Creek vocalist and mandolin player Chris Thile.

Listen:
Of Montreal - "Just Recently Lost Something of Importance" (mp3)

Youth Group is set to release The Night Is Ours on April 7, 2009. They decided against traditional studio procedures and turned the vacated building into a studio, bringing in all of their own gear to create an inimitable recording environment which allowed them to work at their own pace.

Listen:
Youth Group - "All This Will Pass" (mp3)

Enjoy!

Labels: lonely dear, of Montreal, smashing pumpkins, youth group