Brooklyn Vegan — Girls @ Bowery Ballroom in Nov (more by Vincent Cornelli) San Francisco's Girls are currently on the road with their friends the Smith Westerns and Magic Kids, the many-membered pop group from Memphis who played NYC last July and whose... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-21 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *#& 02-24 London, England - Old Blue Last 02-25 London, England - Barden's Boudoir 02-26 London, England - Lexington 02-27 London, England - The Rest Is Noise 03-02 London, England - Madame Jo Jo's 03-21 Dallas, ... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — January has been a fairly good month all in all. I've started up interviewing bands again, spending some quality time with Alexis Hot Chip, 4/7ths of Los Campesinos, Jack from These New Puritans, Delphic and Vivian Girls too. Gigs have been thin on t... more info

Rollo & Grady — Sub Pop is offering a free 25-song digital sampler (click here). Some of the artists on the sampler include – Nirvana, The Dutchess and the Duke, Dum Dum Girls, Vetiver, Grand Archives, Flight of The Conchords, Ben Sollee, and Beach House. The site... more info

Stereogum — "Jail La La" isn't a new Dum Dum Girls song, but it has been re-recorded and given the Richard Gottehrer treatment for Dee Dee & Co's excellent forthcoming Sub Pop debut I Will Be. (It's also available on a single backed by "Over The Phone.") The new... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — As reported, Sub Pop will release I Will Be, the debut album from fuzzed-out L.A. garage rockers Dum Dum Girls on March 30. A 7" of its first single "Jail La La" (pictured above), backed by non-album track "Play With Fire", hits February 16.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on sale for the Japandroids show at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are on sale for the Titus Andronicus show at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are on sale for the Xiu Xiu / Tune-Yards show at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are on... more info

Altsounds — Released on *February 15th* via Sub Pop Records (SP869) ‘*Jail La La*’ is the first, and rather fine blissed-out pop 7” single taken from the Dum Dum Girls debut album*, I Will Be*(Sub Pop*, March 29th*). The single will ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis The Primitives The '80s-era indie power-pop band The Primitives have reformed and will be playing The Bell House on May 8. Tickets are on sale now. The band, fronted by platinum blonde Tracy Tracy, was best known... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Dum Dum Girls are putting the ‘pop’ into Noise Pop in 2010. Having emerged early on last year the band have been slowly but surely putting out a string of great releases on split 7”s alongside bands like Graffiti Island and Crocodi... more info