Soul'd out

CATE LE BON catelebon.com

Remember Cate le Bon? I saw her play live earlier this year, and I reported that she has a "haunting voice". Well she's back in the news again with a couple of news items:

1. "All Souls Church" is a live session (directed by Winston Case). You can watch the performance at Paste Magazine.

2. CYRK II, the follow-up to CYRK, will be out August 21, 2012, via The Control Group.

3. She's going on tour in the US to promote the new album in September.

09/18 Toronto, ON The Rivoli 09/19 Montreal, QC Ukrainian Federation 09/21 New York, NY Mercury Lounge 09/22 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool 09/23 Washington DC The Red Palace 09/24 Charlottesville, VA The Southern 09/25 Raleigh, NC Kings Barcade 09/26 Atlanta, GA The Earl 09/28 New Orleans, LA Circle Bar 09/29 Austin, TX Red 7 10/02 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater

THE BOUNCING SOULS bouncingsouls.com

The Bouncing Souls are one of the oldest punk rock bands, having survived over 20 years together as a band. My theory is that most punk bands starts off really young … and if they're successful, surviving twenty years is really nothing.

Other punk-ish bands in the 20+ year club includes Green Day (who just announced three albums!), Bad Religion (these guys are legendary, I love Greg Graffin - the smartest man in punk), Social Distortion (I saw these guys over 20 years ago!), Less than Jake, Blink 182, Rise Against, New Found Glory. Plus don't forget the acronym of doom: MXPX, CKY, AFI, and NOFX!

The band just released their ninth studio album, Comet, via Rise Records (in conjunction with the band's own label, Chunksaah Records), in June, and they're currently on tour this summer with The Menzingers and Luther.

Jul 07 Oak Canyon Ranch Irvine, CA Jul 08 The Nile Theater Mesa, AZ Jul 11 House of Blues San Diego San Diego, CA Jul 12 MAYAN Los Angeles, CA Jul 13 House of Blues Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV Jul 14 SLO BREW San Luis Obispo, CA Jul 17 Slim’s San Francisco, CA Jul 18 Slim’s San Francisco, CA Jul 20 The Alley Sparks, NV Jul 21 Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR Jul 22 Chop Suey Seattle, WA Jul 23 Venue Nightclub Vancouver, Canada Jul 25 In the Venue Salt Lake City, UT Jul 26 The Summit Music Hall Denver, CO Jul 27 Sokol Underground Omaha, NE Jul 28 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN Jul 29 Metro Chicago, IL Jul 31 Magic Stick Detroit, MI Aug 01 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH Aug 02 Mr. Smalls Theatre Millvale, PA Aug 03 Crocodile Rock Allentown, PA Aug 04 House of Blues Boston Boston, MA Aug 05 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY Aug 24 Reading Festival Reading, United Kingdom Aug 25 Leeds Festival Leeds, United Kingdom Aug 26 De Effenaar, Kleine Zaal Eindhoven Aug 27 Melkweg Amsterdam, Netherlands Aug 29 Knust Hamburg, Germany Aug 30 Skater's Palace Munster, Germany Aug 31 Masters Of Rock Festival Thourout Sep 01 Blubstock Festival Chancy, Switzerland Sep 02 The Arena Vienna, Austria Sep 03 Kranhalle Munich, Germany Sep 04 Estragon Bologna, Italy Sep 06 Sala Azkena Bilbao, Spain Sep 07 Sala Cachamba Gijon, Spain Sep 08 Sala Live Madrid, Spain Sep 09 Loco Club Valencia, Spain Sep 10 Estraperlo Club Murcia, Spain

JOSS STONE jossstone.com

Did you know that Grammy and Brit award-winner Joss Stone has her own record label called Stone'd Records? She will be releasing The Soul Sessions Volume 2 this July 23rd, 2012, in collaboration with her first record label, S-Curve Records.

The Soul Sessions Volume 2 is the follow up to Stone's five million selling debut album, The Soul Sessions. If you are one of the five million who own the first album, chances are The Soul Sessions Volume 2 will more or less follow the same winning formula.

Stone commented on the second volume: "I really had fun revisiting The Soul Sessions idea and I’m really pleased with the results. I’ve committed long term to my label Stone’d Records, but it felt right to team up with Steve and S-Curve again for this release. I think there are some great songs on the album and I loved performing them with such brilliant musicians - so I hope people enjoy it."

MAX JARED maxjaredmusic.com

Max Jared announced that he'll be releasing Thoughtless Sounds via our favorite Jewish record company, Shemspeed Entertainment's new label, Soul Snack (wearesoulsnack.com).

The album comes out August 28th, 2012. Look for the launch party for Thoughtless Sounds on August 30th.

ELECTRIC COWBELL RECORDS electric-cowbell.com

Electric Cowbell Records said that they've just released Slavic Soul Party on 7" black vinyl on June 26th, 2012 (last Tuesday).

The two tracks ("Jackson" and "Gangsta") promises to bring "throbbing funk grooves" and "Balkan brass" (no idea how Balkan brass would differ from New Orleans brass).