Time to get your pre-order on for the new sonic youth LP, The Eternal. Insound has a cool deal on both the double lp and cd versions of the record. Both get you streams of the album in advance of the June 9 release date, along with exclusive MP3′s, a live album, early ticket deals, and posters. Not bad.

Check out the Youth’s current summer tour dates after the jump!

05/17 No Fun Fest / Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg [get tickets]
05/30 Estrella Damm Primavera Sound w/Neil Young Barcelona, Spain Parc del Forum
06/28 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre [get tickets]
06/29 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
07/02 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory [get tickets]
07/03 New York, NY United Palace [get tickets]
07/07 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
07/08 Richmond, VA The National [get tickets]
07/10 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
07/11 Nashville, TN War Memorial Auditorium
07/12 Birmingham, AL Sloss Furnaces Nat’l Hist. Landmark [get tickets]
07/13 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse [get tickets]
07/15 Dallas, TX House Of Blues [get tickets]
07/16 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
07/18 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater [get tickets]
07/20 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
07/21 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue [get tickets]
07/23 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House [get tickets]
07/25 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Festival Grounds
07/28 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
07/30 Salt Lake City, UT TBA
07/31 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre [get tickets]
08/02 Oakland, CA Fox Theater [get tickets]

Jukebox The Ghost have long been one of those bands that friends of mine have been really into – no, I mean really into – but who it took me a few tries to get excited about. Don’t get me wrong, they were incredible at the first After The Jump Fest in 2007, then the times I saw them at Mercury Lounge and Union Hall and finally at CMJ 08 all added up to realizing that, hey, this band is really amazing! Insert a “I told you so” here if you feel the need.

Read on for tour dates, mp3, and ticket links after the jump!

At the moment the band is on tour with Nightmare of You in the UK (they just finished three weeks with Ben Folds), but they’ll be back at the end of the month, just in time to start a tour with Brooklyn songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs. The tour will be in support of JTG’s Live And Let Ghosts and JOY’s upcoming Transmitter Failure. For the tour, they band recorded a special 7″ record with Jenny, on which they cover each other’s songs. Check out this non-album track from those sessions, in which Jukebox The Ghost cover a song by Jenny Owen Youngs (hear the original from her current digital ep, Led To The Sea, on myspace).

Jukebox The Ghost – “Nighty Night” (Jenny Owen Youngs cover)

Catch both acts together on tour through April and May (including a stop in Portland, Maine! Yay!)

Apr 30 Chicago, IL Subterranean [get tickets]
May 1 Omaha, NE Slowdown Jr
May 2 Denver, CO Hi Dive
May 3 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
May 5 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern [get tickets]
May 6 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
May 8 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
May 9 Los Angeles, CA The Hotel Café
May 10 San Diego, CA The Loft- UCSD
May 12 Tucson, AZ Club Congress [get tickets]
May 14 Austin, TX Stubb’s BBQ Indoors
May 15 Dallas, TX The Prophet Bar
May 16 Little Rock, AR Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom
May 17 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone Café
May 19 Nashville, TN 3rd and Lindsey
May 20 Charlotte, NC The Casbah@ Tremont Music Hall
May 21 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
May 22 Richmond, VA Canal Club Downstairs Lounge
May 23 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
May 26 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s [get tickets]
May 27 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom [get tickets]
May 28 Boston, MA Café 939
May 29 Portland, ME Empire Dine and Dance
May 30 Westport, CT Toquet Hall
June 1-9 TBA

Our masters at eXtra Large Recordings have decided that the audiotory elements of Titus Andronicus are not doing the job as far as moving units is concerned, and so we must enter the visual world in the form of a music video for our forthcoming UK single, “Upon Viewing Brueghel’s ‘Landscape and the Fall of Icarus.’”

Since the men of Titus Andronicus are all ugly bastards, we humbly request yr presence at Silent Barn on this coming Monday (this is where we are going to make the video), so that you, in all yr beauty, can dance and throw confetti and pretend that Titus Andronicus are actually playing music instead of just pretending. In this way, perhaps we can manipulate the record-buying public into allowing us to seperate them from their hard-earned money, the fools.

The prancing around will begin at around 4:30 PM and continue long into the evening. If any of you still have jobs for some reason, or some other obligation to see to, it will be perfectly fine in you want to come at a time after 4:30 PM. Nobody will think ill of you. We just desire yr presence in whatever way it may manifest itself.

We ask with the utmost humility that you come equipped with either a white or black t-shirt and pants.
No print on them please – a shirt turned inside out would be okay!

Also, please feel free to invite all yr friends so that we can create the illusion that everyone loves us.

This is all happening at Silent Barn, which can be reached by taking the L Train to Halsey, or by taking the M to Myrtle/Wyckoff. Here is Silent Barn on Google Maps.

Okay, that’s all. Please come, or our self esteem will suffer irreparable damage.

Try having that on yr conscience!”

Sounds like fun! Of course, the boys are on tour. Read on after the jump for dates with Lucero and Ted Leo (separately)!

Apr 9 Off Broadway St. Louis, Missouri * [get tickets]
Apr 10 Metro Chicago, Illinois *
Apr 11 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, Michigan *
Apr 12 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario *
Apr 14 Mohawk Place Buffalo, New York *
Apr 15 Pearl Street Downstairs Northampton, Massachusetts *
Apr 16 The Paradise Boston, Massachusetts *
Apr 17 We are not playing at the First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ???? [get tickets?]
Apr 18 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York *
Apr 19 Black Cat Washington, Washington DC *
Apr 21 Outback Lodge Charlottesville, Virginia *
Apr 22 123 Pleasant Street Morgantown, West Virginia *
Apr 23 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky * [get tickets]
Apr 24 Radio Radio Indianapolis, Indiana * [get tickets]
Apr 25 Headliners Louisville, Kentucky * [get tickets]
Jun 8 Ottobar Baltimore %
Jun 9 Canal Club Richmond, Virginia %
Jun 10 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina %
Jun 11 40 Watt Club Athens, Georgia %
Jun 12 Bottle tree Birmingham, Alabama %
Jun 15 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky %
Jun 16 Diesel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania % [get tickets]
Jun 19 Toads Place New Haven, Connecticut %
Jun 20 AS220 Providence, Rhode Island %

* w/Lucero
% w/Ted Leo and The Pharmacists