After their smashing debut – 2008′s self titled album – Fleet Foxes mark their return with Helplessness Blues on May 3rd. . .

Listen/Download:
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes

Tour Dates:

04-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Vogue Theatre
05-01 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
05-03 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
05-05 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
05-06 San Diego, CA – Spreckels Theatre
05-07 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Palladium
05-08 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
05-10 Austin, TX – Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
05-11 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom
05-13 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
05-14 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
05-15 Washington, DC – DAR Constitution Hall
05-17 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
05-18 New York, NY – The United Palace Theatre
05-21 Upper Darby, PA – Tower Theatre
05-25 Berlin, Germany – Astra
05-26 Munich, Germany – Dachau Summer of Music
05-28 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
05-30 Paris, France – Bataclan
05-31 London, England – Hammersmith Apollo

Took me a while to discover this artist. Better late than never.

Hope this helps find the patriot inside of you.

C.S. Lewis Jr. – Don’t Mess Around With God’s America

Lots of GREAT music going on this weekend in the Grand Rapids area – starting tonight. . .

Photo by Darrin Wassom.

THURSDAY
(For those of you not going to the Avett Brothers show in Kzoo)
Ashley & Alex(The Soil & The Sun), Jacob Bullard and Stationary Travelers – Coat of Many Colors
Graham Parsons, The Crane Wives and Those Eighty Acres – Founders
Wonderbelly, Justin Stover and Friends – Rocky’s

FRIDAY
Tiny Rhythm, Charles The Osprey and Haunted Leather – Basement Show
Badenya Drumming Ensemble and WaZoBia – The DAAC
The Fainting Generals, Alexis and Chance Jones – Mexican Sans Frontieres

SATURDAY
Ghost Heart Album Release Show – Founders
Ozenza, Charles The Osprey – Mulligans
The Brave Youth, The Wallace Collective – Rocky’s

Don’t forget – this Saturday night @ Founders Brewing Ghost Heart will be releasing their debut album via Friction Records.

Cost is $5.

Check out a review of The Tunnel head over to The Rapidian.

For a sneak preview of what to expect from what’s going to be one of the Best of 2011:

Listen/Download:

Little Vampires – Ghost Heart – Halfway House Sessions
Sick Black Lung – Ghost Heart – Halfway House Sessions
Wilderness – Ghost Heart – Halfway House Sessions

Note: To download the ear candy for your iPod – please ‘right click’ and ‘save target as’ or ‘download linked file’.

Watch:

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Delta Spirit performs ‘White Table’ and ‘Bushwick Blues’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

‘White Table’ proved to be one of our Top Ten Songs of 2010.

We heart the Audio Perv.

Pick up their History From Below album – one of the better albums of 2010. Certainly one of the better live bands.

Also – highly recommended – their debut album from 2008 Ode To Sunshine.

If you checked into Halfway House recently then you probably know that today marks the release of Iron & Wine’s latest – Kiss Each Other Clean. . .

Mr. Beam jump started the festivities with an appearance on Conan:

Thanks Audio Perv.

Also – his performance from La Blogotheque:

Now go purchase the album. . .

For those of you who weren’t able to catch The Black Keys on Austin City Limits:

Watch the full episode. See more Austin City Limits.

Their performance starts @ around the 25:10 mark.

Our good friends, Valentiger, have offered up a preview of their soon to be released album Oh, To Know! with this video – the title track. The album will be available March 5. More release details to follow.

Halfway House Session is coming soon. Real soon.

Generally one of the more anticipated festivals of the year – Coachella takes place 4.15-4.17 in Indio, California.

Tickets.

You’re going to want to be there. . .