THE FIRST REVIEW IS IN OF CHUNKLET PRESENTS: HENRY OWINGS' ROCK BIBLE

....and it's a hit! Vice Magazine sayeth:
"The Rock Bible: Unholy Scripture For Fans & Bands
Henry Owings
Quirk Books
This looks like it should be sharing shelfspace with the Stuff White People Like book and one of those “survival guides,” but I swear to you it’s good. Henry Owings is the editor of Chunklet, one of the the best and definitely the funniest music zine to ever come out of Georgia. He took a year or so off to put together this compendium of syntactically biblical advice for musicians with some of Chunklet’s regular contributors, and every single sentence in it is 100 percent dead-on.

Suggestions like “No playing two keyboards at the same time. Keep your hand on the wheel and shut up,” “Money spent on guitar lessons is better spent on an in-sink garbage disposal,” and “If you get a drumstick endorsement don’t take one of those lame promo photos acting like your biting or breaking the sticks in half” ring with the sort of gospel truth that can only come from someone who has thought really long and angrily about the subject. Sometimes they’re not even attempts at being funny, just really sound advice for touring bands, like “Always make a schematic of how your equipment best fits in the trailer once you figure it out for the first time.” Still, when they are attempts at humor, they are every bit as on the money—like the section of underused words in music journalism (beige, niggardly, MILF-damaged, etc.) If somebody followed every dictate in this book to the letter when forming their band or being a guy into music, odds are probably about 4 to 1 they might turn out pretty decent.

LEROY GUMPTION"

HOLY MOLY, SAY HI IS GOING BACK OUT ON THE ROAD!

09-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT; All Ages; with Jukebox
The Ghost
09-20-08 @ Hi Dive -- Denver, CO; 16+; with Jukebox The Ghost
09-21-08 @ The Slowdown -- Omaha, NE; All Ages; with Jukebox The Ghost
and Pepi Ginsberg
09-22-08 @ The House Cafe -- Dekalb, IL; All Ages; with Jukebox The
Ghost and Pepi Ginsberg
09-23-08 @ The Beat Kitchen -- Chicago, IL; 17+; with Jukebox The Ghost
09-24-08 @ Mac's Bar -- Lansing, MI; All Ages; with Jukebox The Ghost
and Pepi Ginsberg
09-27-08 @ Big Orbit's Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY; All Ages; with Jukebox
The Ghost
09-28-08 @ Brandeis University (Usen Castle) -- Waltham, MA; All Ages;
with Jukebox The Ghost
09-30-08 @ Middle East Upstairs -- Cambridge, MA; 18+; with Jukebox
The Ghost
10-02-08 @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg -- Brooklyn, NY; 18+; with
Jukebox The Ghost
10-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadeplphia, PA; 21+; with Jukebox The
Ghost
10-04-08 @ Black Cat -- Washington, DC; All Ages; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-07-08 @ Milestone -- Charlotte, NC; 18+; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-08-08 @ The Drunken Unicorn -- Atlanta, GA; 18+; with Jukebox The
Ghost
10-09-08 @ Bottle Tree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-11-08 @ The Mohawk -- Austin, TX; All Ages; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-12-08 @ Hailey's -- Denton, TX; All Ages; with Jukebox The Ghost
10-14-08 @ College Of Santa Fe -- Santa Fe, NM; All Ages; with Jukebox
The Ghost
10-16-08 @ UC San Diego (The Loft) -- San Diego, CA; All Ages; with
Jukebox The Ghost and Princeton
10-17-08 @ The Echo -- Los Angeles, CA; All Ages; with Jukebox The
Ghost and Princeton
10-18-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA; with Jukebox The
Ghost and Princeton

NURSES PLAYING PDX POP FEST, MAPS AND ATLASES POST NEW TRACK, KEEP TOURING!

THAT'S RIGHT! Nurses have been added to the PDX Pop Fest lineup! The festival, which takes place July 25-27 in Portland, OR, will return to Rotture on 320 SE 2nd Ave. All proceeds earned from the festival and the sales of the compilation are used by the organization to fund the festival and other activities. PDX Pop Now! is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization. Earlier this year, its members successfully worked with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to allow more all-ages shows in Portland. RADNESS.

ALSO! MAPS AND ATLASES have a new jam called "Witch" that's just been added to their MySpace Page. Plus, they're playing the Midwest Fest and the Wicker Park Festival!

MAPS AND ATLASES ON LE ROAD:
Jul-24 Mt Pleasant, MI – MIDWEST FEST
for info: http://www.myspace.com/midwestfest2008

Jul-27 Chicago, IL – WICKER PARK FESTIVAL
$5 donations, All Ages open to the public
NORTH STAGE with: Isis, Red Sparowes, Maps & Atlases, Film School, The Most Serene Republic, Kid, You’ll Move Mountains & Aleks and The Drummer

W/ RX BANDITS & PORTUGAL THE MAN
7/29 Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar
7/30 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore at the TLA
7/31 S Hackensack, NJ – School of Rock
8/1 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
8/2 Allston, MA – Harper’s Ferry
8/4 Rochester, NY – The Club at Water Street
8/5 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
8/6 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
8/7 Chicago, IL – Metro
8/8 St Louis, MO – 2 Cents Plain
8/9 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
8/10 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room

Under The Radar Protest Issue 2008: On Newsstands Now

How are your favorite artists involved in this year’s elections? Where do they see themselves as leaders and opinion shapers today? Who will have their vote this November? How can we all work to make the world a better place to live? You will find in-depth interviews and photos with cover stars Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, The Decembrists’ Colin Meloy and Britt Daniel of Spoon, plus Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Conor Oberst, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Billy Bragg, Death Cab For Cutie, Moby and many more all within the 30+ pages dedicated to the intersection of music and politics in Under The Radar’s Protest Issue 2008, on newsstands now.

For a more detailed look at The Protest Issue visit: www.undertheradarmag.com/protestissue2008.html

LITTLE PIECES=SIMPLY ROCK MELODICO OF GREAT THICKNESS.

From Mr. Herman Jolly regarding an Italian blog (http://www.dagheisha.com/music_section/cd.asp?idus=3206) that just reviewed his new, amazing amazing amazing record:

"if you put the text into yahoo's translation gadget it's pretty funny:

It Calls to you Indian, also considers it you fashionable but that one of the Little Pieces is simply rock melodico of great thickness. ' The Skier' and ' Hurricane' they introduce to us in the new universe dell' former Sunset Valley Herman Jolly that not ago nothing in order to hide infuences that dig in the popular tradition and paints of wonder and astonishment the ten songs of this flashing debut. Sul disc flutters dark atmospheres and blows nearly ritornelli solar as if l' encounter/crash between the giving up and the evil to live with the hope that something can change is l' architecture on which putting down never banal melodie. ' Smallest Man' , ' Full The Stone' and ' Ordinary Friend' they are other dowels of a mosaic that the band of Seattle has composed with cure and talent not forgetting to make contents the radius but not even of rinnegare a expressive force that in years ninety has rendered that city a point of reference total. A piece after l' other."