Oliver Future @ Emo's

Oliver Future is coming to Emo's with Pudge Zeppelin on Sunday, August 16th. The group is very passionate about their music and I've heard that they put on a great live show. Check out the video below, and if you like what you hear, tickets await!

In Case You Didn't Know...

Dizzee 1, The Queen 0

Dizzee Rascal has conquered Britain!

From DizzeeRascal.co.uk:

"Massive shout out to all my UK fans who supported and bought Dance Wiv Me feat. Calvin Harris and Chrome! It's gone to Number 1 in the UK Singles Charts and it's my first Number 1 so thank you for all the love and support you've shown me throughout my career, I couldn't of done it without you!

Bless"

Without further ado, here is the aforementioned chart topper:


Catch Dizzee at Emo's on Monday the 21st, Doors at 9, All Ages! Tickets available, as always, thru ticketweb.com

Skankin to the Bandits!

Ska, Reggae, Punk and Eclectiphiliacs rejoice, RX Bandits are coming to Emo's next Friday, July 18th, and they're bringing Portugal. The Man and Facing New York with them.

Tasty Media Morsels for your domes:


The video for the title track from the new RXB album "...And the Battle Begun"

Portugal. the Man's "And I"

Tickets are on sale now thru ticketweb.com, and I highly recommend they migrate from there to your hands.

Islands are forever...especially on June 23 @ Emo's

Let me begin by saying, in my humble opinion The Unicorns were a good band. A good band but not a great band. But music history shows us that usually when a good band breaks up, something resurfaces from members of the good band that exceeds the successes of the original band. This is not a rule of music, but is very common.

In the case of Islands, they follow this pattern exactly. After The Unicorns disbanded, two out of the three members formed a new project. Calling it Islands, Nick Diamonds and J'aime Tambeur Diamonds decided to move their music into a more unique and diverse form of music. Diamonds himself has described the group's music as "F-14 Tomcat blah, blah," which we're told is "French Canadian slang for fiery, shiny, and shimmering madcap pop." Be that as it may, it is hard to quite put your finger on what Islands exactly is. Combining bouncy calypso rhythms and hip-hop bursts Islands never stays in one genre long enough for the listener to get bored.

Their new album, Arm's Way, continues to push their musical borders by turning quirk-pop into wonderfully shambolic arena rock — for an arena of 5,000 people. Guitars mingle with viola, clarinet and piano, hopping genres and tempos with an Of Montreal-style theatricality. While their lineup has been through a few changes here and there the core energy and essence of Islands as the band says is...forever. Therefore on June 23rd @ Emo's you will not want to miss a performance that will be hard to forget.

for tix check out www.ticketweb.com

Mate's of State Come to Emo's Friday 6/13

Ok, I'm assuming most people here know a couple that is romantically engaged. This could be your father and your mother, or it could be your best friend and her boyfriend, or maybe it's yourself and your significant other. Regardless, of the combination we all know people who spend their every waking moment together and become nearly inseperable once they become intertwined in their relationship. Now, imagine if this said couple, whoever that might be to you, decided to make music together. Just the two of them. And mind you this is not a karaoke group or a Sonny and Cher tribute group, they are actually going to make real music. They pack up their belongings, move to the west coast and start touring across their country singing songs about love, life, and everything in between.

Well, that my friends, is exactly what Mates of State did. Kori Gardner and Josh Hammel met in Lawrence, Kansas while they were involved with other people and other musical projects. Although they exchanged daily e-mails, they didn't get together until three months later when they were both single again, and were inseparable from then on. Instead of adding members to fill out a full lineup, they decided to create a new sound in indie pop rock that is hard to imitate. Consisting of only a few keyboards and a drum set MOS has been creating jittery, scatter-brained, multi-vocal pop songs for over ten years now. Which brings the question, after so many years of just being two people in the same band, why should anyone expect something new from these guys when they roll into town.

The answer to that is one word: offspring. After becoming parents in the recent years, Mates of State's sound has grown and matured in a positive direction. In a recent article in New York Magazine examines the difference in their latest album compared to their older material, "the vocals are breathy and sweet instead of antsy; the orchestral textures and multipart harmonies evoke the Beach Boys’ 1966 landmark, Pet Sounds, with Gardner a long-lost Wilson sister. Mates of State admit that suburban living has helpfully mellowed their music. “I want to make sense,” Gardner says. “I want people to relate to us. It’s way harder to write a concise, meaningful pop song than it is to write chaotic rock songs.”

So in short, when you go to Emo's don't expect to see a version of Donnie and Marie Osmond singing pop ballads. Rather, anticipate to see/hear intelligent, progressive, positive, jittery indie rock that would bring a smile to the most miserly of people. But also expect prepare to see a married couple growing musically and romantically. The latter half which might make you groan from time to time, but hey at least it's not your mom and dad up there. Gross.

Click here for tickets!

Video for Get Better the lead single off their new album Re-Arrange Us:

Forever The Sickest Kids Interview

Good afternoon,

We are proud to bring you our first interview ever here on hitSavenotDelete and it was with a group of boys from Texas who call themselves Forever the Sickest Kids. Watch and see how sick it truly was