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The Submarines have announced that they’ll join Eels on their US summer tour, starting with the Austin, TX show on Wednesday, July 20 at Stubb’s and wrapping in their home city of Los Angeles on Friday, August 12 at the El Rey. Additionally, the band just unveiled a brand new video for standout album track “Fire,” which was directed by Maximilla Lukacs and premiered yesterday on MTV’s Buzzworthy Blog (See original post here: http://bit.ly/lAhNzi). 

The indie-pop duo have barely taken a break from the road since the release of their third studio album Love Notes/Letter Bombs in April. After a successful headline tour across North America, the band headed over to the UK as support for The Mountain Goats. Upon their return, The Submarines immediately headed to the Midwest to join Brett Dennen on a handful of June dates, of which they are currently in the midst.

Keep reading for more information and full list of tour dates....

Conjure One - Like Ice by nettwerkmusicgroup

Check Out The Single, "Like Ice," Above

Rhys Fulber, the Canadian-born artist and producer behind Conjure One released his third album, Exilarch (Nettwerk Records) this month. As a preview, Exilarch is currently being featured on MTV.ca's homepage via the MTV Drop feature.

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All this week, fans have been voting for the week's Best Freshmen Video on mtvU, and it was just announced that fun.'s new video for album favorite "All The Pretty Girls" is the winner!  The video will be added into rotation on mtvU starting next week.  Check out the video HERE.

To thank their loyal fans, the  band  posted a stream of a demo version of "I Wanna Be The One" from their debut album Aim And Ignite. Visit their Facebook page to hear it. 

Brooklyn's Matt and Kim were awarded MTV’s Breakthrough Video award for their “Lessons Learned” music video by the moon man himself, Buzz Aldrin, at last nights 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The band beat out a slew of well-known nominees in the category including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bat For Lashes, Cold War Kids, Passion Pit, Death Cab for Cutie, Gnarls Barkley and Chairlift among others. The award-winning video for “Lesson’s Learned” (featured above), which is off the bands current release Grand (FADER Label in US; Nettwerk Records in UK and Europe) features the duo taking a stroll through Times Square while disrobing in the middle of February.

“After all the convincing it took me to get Kim to strip in Times Square she's finally gonna trust me!,” says Matt Johnson of Matt and Kim. “Every time she questions one of my dumb ideas I'll say ‘But Kim, remember that time we won the VMA!’”