- The Apples in stereo will be starting a tour, including a musical appearance on The Colbert Report

- Giraffes? Giraffes! recently started an east coast tour

- Apollo Sunshine release their first single, "666" this week. It is from the forthcoming album Shall Noise Upon out 09/02

- The Dandy Warhols' sixth LP, Earth To The Dandy Warhols, is set for release on 08/19. Here's the new single "The World Come On"

- Colourmusic is touring for their upcoming September 9 full-length debut

- Como Te Llama? the new album from Albert Hammond, Jr. will be released 07/08

- Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, first released in 1977, is being re-released as a double CD. It was the first solo album by a member of the Beach Boys