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Photo Courtesy of | Taylor Keahey

You know from our pre-during-and-post coverage of Scion/VICE’s Garage Fest last year on the best day of the year, October 2nd (also the day of my birth, holla) — that the show was fucking awesome. We were happy to let you peep some great videos of our favorites, Happy Birthday, playing and chatting at the festival (check that, if you haven’t) — and now we have our uber-longtime favorites The Raveonettes footage for you. Below, you should watch Sune and Sharin chatting to Scion AV and then some rad coverage of their live set — which, if you’ve seen them before (and if you haven’t, shame on you) is incredible. Below, download a cut off their forthcoming LP, Raven In A Grave (thank you, Vice Records) which is a swooning, amazing ballad. This is going to be massive.

Scion Garage Fest 2010: Raveonettes Interview from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

Scion Garage Fest 2010: Raveonettes “Aly, Walk With Me” from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

Scion Garage Fest 2010: Raveonettes “Dead Sound” from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

mp3 | The Raveonettes – Forget That You’re Young

Longtime NRBW favorites, and participants in the first, worst ever interview we’ve ever done, The Raveonettes will be releasing their new LP, Raven In The Grave, via of course Vice Records on April 4th in the World and April 5th in America. They’re also embarking on a US tour in March & April, so find their tracklist and dates below. After that is ‘Forget That You’re Young‘, the new cut off the album, which is a Sharin-voiced swooning ballad.

Raven in the Grave:

01 Recharge & Revolt
02 War in Heaven
03 Forget That You’re Young
04 Apparitions
05 Summer Moon
06 Let Me on Out
07 Ignite
08 Evil Seeds
09 My Time’s Up

03-30 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts ^
03-31 Boston, MA – Paradise ^
04-01 Montreal, Quebec – La Tulipe ^
04-02 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre ^
04-03 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick ^
04-05 Newport, KY – Southgate House ^
04-06 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall ^
04-07 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line ^
04-08 St. Louis, MO – The Firebird ^
04-09 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar ^
04-11 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater ^
04-12 Austin, TX – Emo’s ^
04-13 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s ^
04-15 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade ^
04-16 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle ^
04-17 Washington, DC – Black Cat ^
04-18 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street ^
04-20-21 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg ^

^ with Tamaryn

mp3 | The Raveonettes – Forget That You’re Young

Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thanks for reading NRBW!

mp3 | The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
mp3 | The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
mp3 | Jerry Tropicano (feat. Luke Lust) - Christmas Line
mp3 | Chuck Berry - Merry Christmas Baby

Shit, it’s December. That means the NYE shows are going to start rolling in, and although I already know where I’ll be (San Diego to see Heavy Hawaii with Crocodiles at Soda Bar!) this show is for sure tempting me to stay in Los Angeles.

NRBW long-time favorites, The Raveonettes, will be joined by Sharin’s baby daddy band, Autolux, who we also adore, for a special New Years Eve gig at the Standard in Hollywood. The event is strictly 21+, and while tickets are a steep $50, something tells me that this is going to be a worthwhile investment in your last day of 2010. Awesome.

mp3 | The Raveonettes - My Heartbeats Dying

Sometimes I forget how much I love the Raveonettes, which is obviously a crucial error, so when I stumbled upon their Black Session from however long ago in FLAC, I knew I had to have it. So here are 3 of my favorite Raveonettes songs that I converted for your listening pleasure. They rule.

mp3 | The Raveonettes - Attack of the Ghost Riders (Black Session)
mp3 | The Raveonettes - Let\'s Rave On (Black Session)
mp3 | The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound (Black Session)

One of our all-time favorites, the Raveonettes, magically covered the Stone Roses classic ‘I Wanna Be Adored’. Colette’s darlings, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, did ‘Dirty Old Town’ which you can view here

mp3 | The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song

Photo Courtesy of | Davey Wilson

We all know that this is the Drums only real song, right? Well if not, I can confirm that this band have precisely one song and this is it. Their live show leaves much to be desired, the singer is NOT Morrissey – no matter how much he wants to be, and they’re just an all around boring buzz band that we’ll forget the name of next year. This all said, ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ is a motherfucking TUNE! And the good people whom we love so much, The Raveonettes, have done a really awesome remix of it. I recommend you grab it.

mp3 | The Drums - Let\'s Go Surfing (Raveonettes Remix)

DOWNLOAD -> Dum Dum Girls – Heart Of Stone (Raveonettes Cover)

This is hands down my favorite song on the album, but the Pixar video creeps me out a little.