It’s nice or never: Pretty & Nice on tour w/ mp3

"Tora Tora Tora" by Pretty & Nice. From Hardly Art.

Pretty & Nice are killing it with snappy whiplash rock-pop somewhere between a melodic Pattern is Movement, Q and Not U and Elvis Costello. Their last album, Get Young features the quality “Tora, Tora, Tora” and “Grab Your Nets.” They released it last fall on Hardly Art and are making their way across the southeast as part of the P&N Party Adventure. Dates in St. Pete, Lake Worth, ATL, Charlotte with a vid of “Solar Energy” after the jump.

May 7 2009 9:00P Star Booty Salon St. Petersburg, Florida

May 8 2009 8:00P Propaganda Lake Worth, Florida

May 9 2009 8:00P Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia

May 10 2009 8:00P Milestone Charlotte, North Carolina

May 11 2009 8:00P New Brookland Columbia, South Carolina

May 12 2009 8:00P Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina

May 13 2009 8:00P Soapbox Laundro Lounge Wilmington, North Carolina

May 14 2009 9:30P Union Hall Brooklyn, New York

May 15 2009 8:00P The M Room Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 16 2009 8:00P Rock N Roll Hotel Washington, DC, Washington DC

mp3: Akron/Family, The Lovetones, Post Honeymoon and Trashed on Fiction

Just got the Akron/Family new one, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free from Dead Oceans and will have a review up soon. Early impressions tend towards an organic Anathallo and quieter Animal Collective. But that’s later. At this moment, here’s “River” and some other songs follow.
Akron/Family "River"

BTW: Dead Oceans is putting out some killer stuff here lately–the new John Vanderslice, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Phosphorescent, now Akron/Family…talk about being on a roll in 2009.

The Lovetones from Dimensions: “Love and Redemption”

Trashed on Fiction from Words Trails Maps “January”

Post Honeymoon from S/T release: “Nightguard”