RIGHT ON PR JUNE NEWS !

Happy Release Day, BRASSTRONAUT!! At last the Vancouver four piece's outstanding, genre-defying OLD WORLD LIES EP is available in the US through Unfamiliar Records (Japandroids)! Next week Brasstronaut will be bringing their captivating show to Seattle, Portland and Kennewick and later this month will be playing the Sled Island Festival in Calgary. Be sure to check out the TOUR PAGE!

Brooklyn's JOSH MEASE just wrapped up a sweet little East Coast minitour showcasing songs from his fully charming upcoming lp WILDERNESS due out this summer on FROG STAND RECORDS. We'll have lots more shows to announce, but New Yorkers mark your calendars for June 24 when Josh plays Le Poisson Rouge with Christina Courtin!

Prolific piano rocker MARK MALLMAN has announced a whole bunch of shows in advance of his forthcoming INVINCIBLE CRIMINAL full length. Anyone who has seen Mark play live can attest that he's got the chops and the talent onstage, too! I mean, this is an artist who has toured the US 22+ times, sells out 800 seat venues and who once armed himself with hundreds of pages of sheet music for a solo performance that lasted over 52 hours straight -Marathon2 check it here!! THE MALLMAN = A MUST SEE!

MATT & KIM are soon to return from their overseas tour in support of GRAND and have a whole summer full of shows lined up (many of them free!!) and festivals including NXNE, Pitchfork, Street Scene and Bumbershoot. Be sure to check the TOUR PAGE! And if you haven't yet seen their newest video for the single "LESSONS LEARNED", you must check it out! Oh yes, as well as "DAYLIGHT" featured in the new Bacardi Mojito national spot!

Check out this awesome show review of THE INTERIORS just up today on POPMATTERS! Next up, the Chicago band will be playing a hometown show June 30 at Schubas !

This weekend EUGENE MIRMAN returns to his alma mater, Lexington High School, to deliver the commencement speech at this year's graduation. He will, I'm sure, cull from his vast wisdom just as he did in writing THE WILL TO WHATEVS, to set the Class of 2009 on their path to success. From special ed to graduation speaker, Eugene, you done good!

The brilliant TOM SHILLUE will be part of the 826NYC Benefit happening June 19 @ Bar Matchless in Brooklyn. The theme for the night is "vacation" so you can look forward to one of the city's finest and funniest storytellers presenting an original piece alongside a talented line up.

With countless credits between them, top notch comedians and longtime friends LIZZ WINSTEAD AND DANA GOULD will share the stage for four shows on June 26th and 27th at Comix in New York. These two comedy legends are amazing separately, but as they co-headline Comix for the first time ever it will make for shows to remember! Showtimes: 8pm & 10:30 both nights

GRACE PERRA, the very brave and very funny lady that she is, recently hit the 2009 Cupcake Challenge in LA and risked instantaneous diabetes to make THIS VIDEO

And sure, we'll remind you again next month, but you ought to go ahead and mark your calendar for July 13 when KUMAIL NANJIANI will be on The Late Show with David Letterman! The hugely talented comedian/actor who regularly appears on The Colbert Report as Homer can also be seen in Michael and Michael Have Issues on Comedy Central.

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