Los Angeles epic, heavy quintet RED SPAROWES has announced North American headlining tour dates this spring supporting its forthcoming third album. The disc, titled The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer, will be released via Sargent House on April 6t 2010. RED SPAROWESwill be supported on sections of the tour by Doomriders, Caspian

A few weeks ago we were telling you how excited we were for new music from RED SPAROWES. Now we are even more excited as the band has announced a string of tour dates with DOOMRIDERS opening the first half of the tour and CASPIAN the second half. Sparrowes and Doomriders together on one bill? ...

CASPIAN’s upcoming January tour with THE SAINTHOOD REPS, featuring members of BRAND NEW, is now confirmed. All tour dates will be in support of the band’s new full-length, Tertia, out now on The Mylene Sheath. Tour Dates: January 3 – The Space – Hamden, CT January 4 – The Haunt – Ithaca, NY January 5 – Broadway – Amityville,

Post-rock, aka: music for students to study to, grows trickier to dissect with each additional album in the genre. You see, post-rock music is like a sponge cake. It's a simple enough recipe, made from a basic set of ingredients, you don't have to worry about anything fancy.

CASPIAN’s third attempt at sonic hegemony is Tertia , a ten track post-rock attempt, has been signed up for an August 11 release through Myleene Sheath Records. Art and tracklisting below, MySpace here. 1. Mie 2. La Cerva 3. Ghost of the Garden City 4. Malacoda 5. Epochs in DMaj 6. Of Foam and Wave 7. Concrescence 8. The Raven 9. Vienna 10. Sycamore

Bay Stater post-rock band Caspian have given a release date of August 11 for their second studio album. Label The Mylene Sheath will be handling the release, the follow-up to their 2007 début The Four Trees. Ethan Dussault, former bassist for now defunct Massachusetts band Garrison, handled production duties on the record.