With the release of their second record on ANTI- next week, Islands are set to hit the road to spread love, valour, compassion and a busload of wanderlust across these United States and, ugh, Canada. Nick Diamonds, freshly reunited with former Islands and the Unicorns co-conspirator Jamie Thompson, better known as J’aime Tambeur, will bring Vapours to the people during a six week tour, which finds them headlining dates, as well as playing shows with Psychedelic Furs and the Happy Mondays. Yes, the Happy Mondays. While we can’t confirm whether or not Tony Wilson will be tour managing the Mondays, we can safely assume that a) Shaun Ryder will tweak out at some point and b) Bez may pull some ridiculous stunt like bungee jumping off the dam from Goldeneye or, ya know, blowing Shaun Ryder’s feces off Nick Diamond’s wrist band for $20 and a Butterfinger.
Tour Dates Below:
09.16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
09.22 Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
09.23 Richmond, VA @ Plaza Bowl
09.24 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
09.25 Athens, GA @ Caledonia
09.26 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder
09.27 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
09.28 Tampa, FLA @ Ritz Ybor *
09.29 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution *
09.30 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues *
10.02 Atlanta, Georgia @ Masquerade *
10.03 Charlotte, NC @ Amos’ Southend *
10.04 Norfolk, VA @ The Norva *
10.06 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
10.07 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero *
10.09 New York, New York @ Roseland Ballroom *
10.10 Cambridge, MA @ House of Blues *
10.12 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall *
10.13 Pontiac, MI @ Clutch Cargo’s *
10.15 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
10.18 Missoula, MT @ The Palace
10.19 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
10.20 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
10.21 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
10.22 Davis, CA @ UC Davis (Oddfellows Lodge)
10.23 Berkley, CA @ UC Berkley (Lower Sproul Plaza;Early free show)
10.23 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
10.24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
10.25 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
10.27 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
10.28 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
10.29 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone Cafe
10.30 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Cafe
10.31 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny’s Bar
11.01 Durham, NC @ Duke Coffee House
11.02 Baltimore, MD @ G-Spot
11.03 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
11.04 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East (Downstairs)
11.05 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
11.06 Montreal, QC @ Theatre Plaza
11.07 Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club
* w/ Psychedelic Furs and The Happy Mondays
Yes, Michael Cera has a movie coming out Friday. This is the logical reason behind much of the quirky press he’s been doing in the last week or so. But if you simply write it off as token publicity, you deny yourself the true beauty of the whole ordeal.We speak of two things in particular: the footage of Cera hanging out with the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore in New York City and his appearance in Islands’ new music video for “No You Don’t.” The former is basically exactly what you’d expect out of a combo press promo. There is pizza, dancing and a delightful video of Cera receiving a poof haircut from a fella named DJ Pauly D. The latter (which can be seen below) is an ironic anti-drug PSA where Cera trips his way through suburban parking lots, a marriage of indie rock and hallucinogenics that would surely make the directors of the “Electric Feel” video proud. When linked together, the two clips might be the best hope future civilizations have for comprehending the brief time in which MGMT, slim slacks and dudes unironically referring to themselves as “The Situation” ruled the world. Video jump! Read the full story
