Dark Meat just announced a North American jaunt starting September 17 in Chattanooga.

The tour is in support of the Universal Indians release from earlier this year, and it ends on October 31 in the perfect city for a Halloween show: New Orleans. They're also playing with Vivian Girls on a boat in New York City on October 4.

DARK MEAT
September
17 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia
18 Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club tickets
19 Peoria, IL @ The Red Barn
20 St. Louis, MO @ Billiken Club FREE
21 Chicago, IL @ Hideout Block Party, 4:45 pm tickets
22 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge
23 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry tickets
24 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter Sessions
24 Rock Island, IL @ Huckleberry's
25 Toronto, ON @ The Drake
26 London, ON @ Call The Office
27 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
28 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl tickets
30 Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox
October
1 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi FREE
2 Portland, ME @ Space238
3 New York, NY @ Rocks Off tickets
4 Brooklyn, NY @ Schmarket Schmotel
29 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre tickets
30 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree tickets
31 New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar

The Japanese Motors debut single "Single Fins & Safety Pins" out now.
Download on iTunes.

VICE presents Ice Scream Social. Tuesday, August 26, 10 pm at Beauty Bar, 517 Fremont St.

Live performance by the Japanese Motors and DJs: Vin Sol, 86'ed Supra and Ice Cream Man.

FREE. RSVP here: viceland.com/vegas.

The episode with Chromeo on “Live From Daryl’s House,” the online music show masterminded by Hall & Oates frontman Daryl Hall, has just premiered. Their set include the Hall & Oates songs “Family Man” and “Adult Education” and a pair of Chromeo songs: “Tenderoni” and “Waiting 4 U.” . “We’ll be pinching ourselves for years to come,” Chromeo guitarist/singer Dave 1 said of the experience. “Given that he pretty much wrote half our songs, it was about time we met Daryl Hall in real life." Check out the entire episode here.

MySpace, the world’s premier social network, today announced a series of East Coast headlining tour dates featuring Chromeo the two-stepping Montreal/New York-based duo.

After playing every major North American festival this summer to rave reviews (including Coachella, Pemberton, Lollapalooza, All Points West, and Virgin Mobile), selling out a string of high profile headlining shows on the West Coast, Chromeo have set their sights on the East Coast to further their world conquest of love, funk, and vocoder. Presented by MySpace Music, the tour begins October 1st in Boston, MA and finishes October 4th in Washington, DC.

Myspace Music Presents:

October
  1 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club tickets
  2 New York, NY @ Webster Hall tickets
  3 Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero Theater tickets
  4 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club tickets

VICE and DELL put together a cool summer mixtape as part of the Dell Summer Rocks tour. You can download a mix of VICE tracks and tracks by bands we love like Neurosis, Howlin Rain, Annihilation Time, Boris, High On Fire, Jay Reatard, Panda Bear, Thurston Moore, and more here.

We're having a free concert at Glasslands this Thursday with our newest signee's the Japanese Motors. Free Colt 45 from 10-11.

JAPANESE MOTORS
with
MODROCKET and
KNIFE & THE 4th WARD DAGGERS

THURSDAY AUG 14
Beach Blanket Burnout after party
Glasslands
289 Kent Ave (btw S. 1st & S. 2nd)
Doors 9:30

FREE ENTRY AND FREE COLT 45 FROM 10-11
RSVP here: www.viceland.com/japanesemotors

Japanese Motors - Single Fins & Safety Pins MP3

Help nominate Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chromeo, The Raveonettes and Black Lips for the MTV Music Awards.

Check out the videos and vote here:

Best rock:

Black Lips "Veni, Vidi, Vici"

Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin"

Chromeo "Tenderoni"

The Raveonettes "Aly, Walk With Me"

The Raveonettes "Dead Sound"

Video of the year:

Black Lips "Veni, Vidi, Vici"

Charlotte Gainsbourg "The Songs That We Sing"

Charlotte Gainsbourg "The Operation"

Chromeo "Tenderoni"

Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin"

The Raveonettes "Aly, Walk With Me"

The Raveonettes "Dead Sound"

Click "vote" on the artist image to help nominate your favorite artist. If you´re not a member just sign up for a free account.

It was a heady time for America; the economy was doing something, the kids were jamming to some new band or another, and the popularity of bum bums continued to soar unabated.

In the midst of this turmoil, god-like Japanese musical experimenters the Boredoms embarked on a project of unprecedented scale: 77 drummers playing for 77 minutes starting at 7 PM on 7/7/07, accompanied solely by EYE on a custom-built guitar gong and the sound of 8,000+ eyeballs not blinking.

The world's most numerologically significant all-drum concert, a ten part documentary with new episode every day this week. Part 1 - 4 are now live.

VBS PRESENTS - THE BOREDOMS - 77 BOADRUM
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1705722097

And speaking of rare Boredoms action,  if you find yourself in Brooklyn stop by the this-month-only VICE Gallery and check out 2008 Photo Show:

The 2008 Vice Magazine Photo Show, 8/1 - 8/31
VICE Gallery
99 N 10th St, between Berry and Wythe
Hours: Tue-Fri 3-7pm, Sat 12-6pm (Closed Sundays and Mondays)
Flyer

We say so 'cause we'll have the entire Boredoms' Super Roots catalogue for 25% off, as well as other VICE goods, available for sale at the Gallery.

King Khan and The Shrines really knows how to put on a good show. Check out these great performances from the Daily Habit on Fuel TV. FIRECRACKERS!
No Regrets:

Outta Harms Way:

The Black Lips took over MTV last weekend. Check it out here, here, here and here:

King Khan stopped by Studio Q at CBC to talk about how he used to listen to Indian music in the womb and how he now (to kill time while touring) makes collages of Syd Barret with the body of a naked lady. Check it out here.

Also head over to Pitchfork and read another King Khan interview and watch a video.

Black Lips, Deerhunter and King Khan and The Shrines are also the bestest friends. Check out a clip Khan did for MTV Newsroom below and see photos from the McCarren Park Pool Show at brooklynvegan.com (more photos of the pool show here).

Know what? You can actually help nominate Chromeo, The Raveonettes and Black Lips for the MTV Music Awards.

It is possible to vote for Chromeo "Fancy Footwork" and Raveonettes "Dead Sounds"  as best dancing in video. You can also vote for Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin" and Black Lips "Veni, Vidi, Vici" as best new artist.

Check out the videos and vote here:

Best Dancing:
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
The Raveonettes - Dead Sounds

Best New Artist:
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin
Black Lips Veni, Vidi, Vici

Click "vote" on the artist image to help nominate your favorite artist. If you´re not a member just sign up for a free account.

Thank you and keep on voting!

Japanese Motors are the most exciting band to emerge from Orange County since the heyday of Social Distortion and TSOL. Hailing from Costa Mesa and comprised of RVCA pro-surfer and singer Alex Knost, guitarist Nolan Hall, bassist Chris Vail, and drummer Andrew Atkinson, the band is known around Southern California for the insane, all-night blowouts they put on as much as for the driving, raucous garage pop they set the partying to.

Rather than fight the influence of their surroundings like so many of their So Cal contemporaries, Japanese Motors have channeled it into their music, making tunes every bit as sun-baked and laid-back as their coastal environs and rife with positive imagery. "Most bands from here are trying to sound like they're from London or New York," Nolan says. "We embrace where we're from." In return for their local pride, the Southern Californian surf community has embraced them right back. Japanese Motors are part of RVCA's Artist Network Program and fellow surfers Emmett and Brendan Malloy (who made three White Stripes videos) directed the video for the band's first single "Single Fins & Safety Pins."

On August 19th, Vice Records will release this single, "Single Fins & Safety Pins," which contains the album version and a radio edit of the song, as well as b-side "Coors Lite," another track from their upcoming self-titled full length debut, due in October 2008. Japanese Motors hit the road in August, starting off in NYC, winding their way down the East Coast before heading back home to play with the Black Lips and at LA's Detour Fest (see full list of dates below).

Download Japanese Motors "Single Fins & Safety Pins" on Spinner.com:
http://download.spinner.com/2008/08/01/japanese-motors-single-fins-and-safety-pins-free-mp3-of-the/

Japanese Motors' Alex Knost on VBS.TV's Hi-Shredability:
http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1055

TOUR DATES

August

14 Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY

RVCA's Right Coast Surf Tour:

15 5:30pm Spellbinders Surf Shop, 318 Main St, Allenhurst NJ
16 5:30pm Brave New World, 1208 Richmond Ave, Point Pleasant NJ
17 5:30pm Farias Shop 2804 Long Beach Blvd, Ship Bottom NJ. After Party 9pm @ The Marlin Barr 2 South Bay Ave, Beach Haven NJ 08008
18 9pm Le Grande Fromage, 25 Gordons Aly Atlantic City NJ
19 5:30pm Malibu©-s Surf Shop, 8th & Boardwalk Ocean City MD
21 The Attic, Virginia Beach, VA
22 The Taphouse, Norfolk, VA
23 The Jewish Mother, Virginia Beach, VA

September

Every Monday in September - Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA (residency presented by OC Weekly & KUCI)

October

2 The Belly Up, Solano Beach, CA w/ Black Lips
3 Detroit Bar w/ Black Lips
4 Detour Fest, LA