Pinback announces big 2013 tour, coming to Carrboro

California indie band Pinback and preparing to hit the road on a big tour this summer which will keep them on the road into the fall and bring them back to the Triangle for the second time supporting their 2012 album Information Retrieved.

They'll play the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Tuesday, September 13. Deathfix will open. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketfly for $14.

Check out the band performing the song "His Phase" from Information Retrieved on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this year below.

Album Review: Alessi's Ark - The Still Life

Alessi Laurent-Marke’s third album as Alessi’s Ark, The Still Life, is representative of both her prodigious promise and youthful follies.

The Still Life comfortably fits 13 songs in just over 30 minutes. Laurent-Marke pinpoints musical ideas and wastes no time. Four songs clock in under 2 minutes, something more common in punk than in the modern folk she produces.

The cute “Money” makes its point in the first verse with money bag percussion and quickly builds to a group-sung chorus before fading out. “The Good Song” is gorgeous and would be enjoyable at five times its length, but by making it fleeting there’s more urgency to savor the song.

R&B supergroup TGT to release debut album, announces summer tour

R&B supergroup TGT which features Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank are preparing to release their debut album, 3 Kings, sometime this year and they'll be hitting the road on a summer tour that will bring them to the Triangle.

TGT will play the Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on Friday, July 5. Grammy award winning North Carolina singer Fantasia will open. Tickets are on sale now via the Duke Energy Center box office and Ticketmaster for $38 to $78.

Check out the music video for the group's first single, "Sex Never Felt Better," below.

Merge to reissue the Mountain Goats' 'All Hail West Texas'

The Mountain Goats' out-of-print 2002 album All Hail West Texas (the last super lo-fi album recorded on a Panasonic boombox that John Darnielle released) will be remastered and reissued with bonus tracks by Merge Records this summer.

It will be out on July 23 and will feature seven additional songs from cassette recordings around the same era. The liner notes will feature an 1,800-word essay written by John Darnielle which talks about the songwriting and recording of the album.

Check out the original, un-remastered version of "Jenny" from All Hail West Texas below.

Ke$ha announces summer tour, returning to Raleigh

Gaudy, glittered up pop star Ke$ha has extended her 2013 tour plans in support of her latest album Warrior, released last year, and she'll be making her way back to the Triangle this summer.

She'll return to the Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on Wednesday, August 14. Mike Posner will open. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 24, via the Duke Energy Center box office and Ticketmaster. This will be Ke$ha's second stop at the amphitheater; her first was in 2011.

Check out Ke$ha's latest single, "Crazy Kids" featuring will.i.am, below. She also has a collaborative album withe the Flaming Lips dubbed Lipsha due out later this year.