Fleet Foxes Return To The Fray

Fleet Foxes highly anticipated sophomore release Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop/Bella Union), is officially available today, May 3rd. The release of the twelve-track album coincides with the band’s first North American tour (which kicked off on Saturday in Vancouver) since August 2009 followed by a string of UK and European dates with more stateside shows to follow in July.

Here are the dates...(through June)

May 03, 2011 Moore Theatre / Seattle, WA

May 05, 2011 Fox Theater / Oakland, CA

May 06, 2011 Spreckels Theatre / San Diego, CA
May 07, 2011 Hollywood Palladium / Hollywood, CA
May 08, 2011 Rialto Theatre / Tucson, AZ
May 10, 2011 Stubb's Waller Creek / Austin, TX
May 11, 2011 Palladium Ballroom / Dallas, TX
May 13, 2011 Ryman Auditorium / Nashville, TN
May 14, 2011 The Tabernacle / Atlanta, GA
May 15, 2011 DAR Constitution Hall / Washington, DC
May 17, 2011 Orpheum Theatre / Boston, MA
May 18, 2011 The United Palace Theatre / New York, NY
May 19, 2011 The United Palace Theatre / New York, NY

May 21, 2011 Tower Theatre / Upper Darby, PA

May 25, 2011 Astra / Berlin, Germany

May 26, 2011 Dachau Summer of Music / Munich, Germany

May 28, 2011 Primavera Sound / Barcelona, Spain

May 30, 2011 Bataclan / Paris, France

May 31, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 01, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 02, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 23, 2011 Civic Hall / Wolverhampton, UK

June 25, 2011 Custom House Square / Belfast, Ireland

June 26, 2011 Live at the Marquee / Cork, Ireland

June 28, 2011 Manchester Apollo / Manchester, UK

June 29, 2011 Corn Exchange / Edinburgh, UK

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The Dustbowl Revival

The Dustbowl Revival is a Venice, CA-based folk orchestra that merges old school gypsy rhythms with bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, jump blues and the hot swing of the 1930’s to form a spicy roots cocktail.

Known for their raucous dance-inducing live sets, The Dustbowl Revival plays what some call hillbilly jazz—the original front porch rock n’ roll. Think Dylan and The Band in Newport meets Louis Armstrong in New Orleans meets Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes on the beaches of LA.

It’s young people playing upbeat, vintage music and it’s all written and composed by howlin’ and stompin’ 24 year old frontman Zach Lupetin who first envisioned putting together a kind of roots supergroup when he moved from Chicago (his father is a blues harp virtuoso who sometimes sits in), to Michigan and then to sunny Los Angeles three years ago. The goal? Why, to make people feel good, of course.

They do a good job of that on their shuffly single, "Falling Down." It's Americana gone twee and will put a smile on your face. It's kind of ironic that in these days of economic recession that a band comes along that literally sounds as if it came wandering out of the dustbowl around the time of the Great Depression. Traditional music has never founded so uplifting or fun to listen to.

The Dustbowl Revival release their album, You Can't Go Back To The Garden Of Eden on March 16th.

Download: Falling Down