Mason Jennings and Haley Bonar will be performing at KUST’s second annual Earth Day concert at St. Thomas!

To get you up to speed, here are a couple songs by both artists! Get your tickets soon, either by visiting Tommie Central or here: http://stthomas.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=285&cid=41

• “Boys & Girls” – Alabama Shakes
• “Stars and Satellites” – Trampled By Turtles
• “A Wasteland Companion” – M. Ward
• “King Con” – Alex Winston

Show of the Week: “Picked 2 Click”

City Pages, along with 89.3 The Current bring this week’s featured show, “Picked 2 Click,” featuring 4onthefloor, Roster McCabe, The Boys n’ the Barrels and The Evening Rig at First Avenue  this Friday, April 13.

If you haven’t seen 4onthefloor, I recommend you do so as soon as you can. The band, known for having four bass drums on stage at one time, has delivered a great, high energy performance every time I’ve seen them.

News You Probably Won’t Care About: Apparently Everyone Loves Lana Del Rey

http://pitchfork.com/news/46002-listen-aap-rocky-and-lana-del-rey-team-up/

I can’t say that I completely don’t care about the next story, because Lana Del Rey is continuing to grow on me, but it looks like Me. Del Rey is crossing lines into the hip-hop world. A Brooklyn production duo, The Kickdrums, released a preview of a song on their upcoming mixtape featuring Lana Del Rey and rapper A$AP Rocky called “Ridin’.” The preview got so much buzz that A$AP decided to pull it from the mixtape for his own album, which is expected to drop this summer. A$AP also recently admitted that Lana is his “dream girl.” AND she was spotted recently with Axl Rose.. THE WORLD CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF LANA!

Band I’m Currently Obsessing Over: Sleigh Bells

Okay, I’ll admit, I’ve been a fan of Sleigh Bells for a while. But after seeing them perform on Saturday Night Live two months ago, my obsession has reignited itself. In case you don’t know who Sleigh Bells are, they’re a noise-pop duo from Brooklyn, and the songs from their last album frequently made their way to commercials and movie trailers. Their newest album, Reign of Terror, is constantly playing on my iPod, and they’ll be making an appearance at numerous music festivals this summer, including Pitchfork (which I’ll obviously be attending).

This song, Comeback Kid, is from Reign of Terror. Give it a listen, and have a good time.

 

-Bianca Jones, Chaotic Tendencies Sundays 7-9pm

Usually I would sprinkle this second paragraph with some basic information about the band, but I will openly tell you that I didn’t research Jonquil much. I found a couple interviews which I skimmed and realized that the band’s main presence is on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/jonquiluk ) and they sort of have a blog (http://jonquilband.blogspot.com/ ). I don’t know who is in the band or anything like that. I think they are British*… Remember, I’ve been very busy grooving along to this album and I can’t be expected to do serious research when tapping my foot along and smiling so much.

Here are the important basics: The album is 11 songs and clocks in at an easy 38 minutes. I like the album a lot. If this was 1987, this album would be on the top of the pop charts. It reminds me of Howard Jones, Duran Duran, and a-ha in a very good way. “Point of Go” is upbeat, full of catchy riffs, intriguing instrumentation, and has wonderfully hypnotic vocals throughout.

Let the proof be in the (internet) pudding: Go here: http://www.myspace.com/jonquiluk/music/songs?filter=featured
Listen to clips of “It’s My Part”, “This Innocent”, “Mexico” and “History of Headaches”. If you aren’t sold by those songs, you should have your ears cleaned out with soap.
Jonquil is on Twitter with the handle https://twitter.com/#!/Jonquilband @Jonquilband
If you liked what you heard or are already fans, you might be interested to know Jonquil will be playing The Varsity Theater in Minneapolis on 5-4-12.

*Ok, I know they are British. They hail from Oxford.

-Cory Funk-