Three Upset The Rhythm artists are about to touch down in the UK for full length European tours.

NO AGE and SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS are touring the UK together, before NO AGE head off to the mainland.

Meanwhile, High Places arrive at the end of May for a headline UTR London show, prior to a European tour with Deerhunter.

Here are those dates in full...

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Times New Viking is the trio of drummer / vocalist Adam Elliot, keyboardist / vocalist Beth Murphy and guitar virtuoso Jared Phillips. Their debut LP 'Dig Yourself' emerged in 2005 as the first release in years from the pioneering - and then hibernating - Siltbreeze imprint and was an instant classic, recalling multiple generations of that nebulous thing known as "lo-fi", while still being packed with a sensibility undeniably TNV's own. Since then, the band have achieved near mythic status in the US underground, first with 2007 follow-up 'Present the Paisley Reich' and then 'Rip It Off' earlier this year. Their first release for Matador, 'Rip It Off' is a glistening gem of a pop record, roughened around the edges by the band's trademark cranked production.
www.myspace.com/timesnewviking | www.matadorrecords.com

Few people will be able to look back on their adolescence and see such an influential catalogue of gutter-level hits, destroyed disco balls, straight-up copy cats, and legions of obsessed fans like Memphis' Jay Reatard already can. Through the several feral outlets he's been involved in over the years - from the primal hysteria of The Reatards through the synth-punk of Lost Sounds to the more recent Final Solutions and Angry Angles - he's always been an integral part of the most exciting live shows of anyone else he's shared the stage with. A solo artist since 2006, Jay's deviceful song writing is undoubtedly the most dynamically visceral of his peers, mixing an ear for melodic pop with an aggressive production that recalls classic UK punk records. Check his myriad releases for Goner, In The Red and, most recently, Matador for more.
www.myspace.com/jayreatard

Soiled Mattress & The Springs are a three piece instrumental band from New York City. The trio consists of cartoonist Matthew Thurber, who plays his sax with punchy and uplifting vigour, Aviram Cohen, who lends insistent garage rock beats and keyboardist, Peter Schuette whose sprightly hooks interlock with the other instruments making for an intuitive leap into a world of upbeat imagination. Their defiant jazz draws on the culmination of many different styles alongside a tasteful indulgence in humour and playfulness, treading a thin line between the crazy world of Arthur Brown and the leftfield pastures of Henry Cow. Their debut full length release 'Honk Honk Bonk!' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
www.myspace.com/soiledmattressandthesprings

From Oakland, California / Seattle, Washington, Xiu Xiu - pronounced "shew shew" - is the much-fabled brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart and a revolving cast of musicians - currently multi-instrumentalist Caralee McElroy, percussionist Ches Smith and bassist Devin Hoff. Xiu Xiu's sound draws heavily from wildly disparate sources - cacophonous noise, gamelan, folk and the lush hooks of 80s UK post-punk, to name a few - while Jamie's tortured lyrics and anguished delivery consistently deal with the morose and the taboo. 'Women as Lovers' - the band's sixth full-length for Kill Rock Stars - was released earlier this year, yet this is only their second ever performance in the UK - the keen-memoried amongst you will recall their startling debut for Upset The Rhythm way back in 2004!
www.xiuxiu.org | www.myspace.com/xiuxiuforlife

Chris Garneau is a singer / songwriter from New York, via Boston and Paris. Balanced on the edge of melancholy and hopefulness, his music combines elements of folk, Americana, pop, baroque and carnival music, recalling quiet evenings and pure mornings equally. Introduced to Absolutely Kosher in 2006 by Jamie Stewart, Garneau has subsequently released EP 'C Sides' and debut album 'Music For Tourists' for the label - all graduating acoustic melodies and beautiful airy vocal. Fact fans will note Garneau's love of lamp shades, with a light placed on his piano before every performance.
www.chrisgarneau.com | www.myspace.com/chrisgarneau

Telepathe is a "process-oriented band" centered around Brooklyn multi-instrumentalists / modern dancers Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais. Inspired by the real-life story of a pet communicator - "she listens to a dog or a cat and can supposedly understand what they're saying" - the duo have been creating consistently shape shifting and clairvoyant hymnals since 2004. While there are elements of the ethno-improv and totemic drones of hometown associates Gang Gang Dance or Yeasayer, Telepathe increasingly encompass nuances of hip-hop and grime production - bewitching harmonies and chants are offset by killer sub-bass and synthetic violin hooks. To date, Telepathe have released a variety of EPs for Social Registry, with their much-anticpated album slated for release in 2008.
www.myspace.com/telepathy

Soiled Mattress & The Springs are a three piece instrumental band from New York City. The trio consists of cartoonist Matthew Thurber, who plays his sax with punchy and uplifting vigour, Aviram Cohen, who lends insistent garage rock beats and keyboardist, Peter Schuette whose sprightly hooks interlock with the other instruments making for an intuitive leap into a world of upbeat imagination. Their defiant jazz draws on the culmination of many different styles alongside a tasteful indulgence in humour and playfulness, treading a thin line between the crazy world of Arthur Brown and the leftfield pastures of Henry Cow. Their debut full length release 'Honk Honk Bonk!' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
www.myspace.com/soiledmattressandthesprings

Scorces is the duo of Heather Leigh Murrary (Taupis Tula) and Christina Carter (Charalambides). Began in 1996 as a recording project that culminated in their debut self-titled album for Wholly Other, the pair have since put out a variety of recordings via Fonal and Free Porcupine Society, amongst others. Based around their soaring vocals, with drones and intricacies provided by guitar, pedal steel and sometimes chord organs and bells, Scorces is a triumph of longhaul, minimalist atmospherics.
www.wholly-other.com

Nawadaha is the Cardigan, Wales-based duo of guitarist Frank Janiurek and vocalist Jasmin Janiurek, previously known as Red Kites. Together they sound spookily like a late night Nico / Velvet Underground rehearsal session - all glacial vocals, guitar, viola and harmonium that on occasion abandons rhythm and melody for a wraith of swirling improvisation. A self-titled release is available on Tom Greenwood of Jackie-O's U-Sound imprint.
www.myspace.com/nawadaha

Firmly established through a punishing touring schedule and a staggering back catalogue of releases on European and American labels, Family Battle Snake - aka Greek native Bill Kouligas - conjures up a hazy psychedelic mayhem - a journey from lulling numbness to dark starfields via shuddering noise breaks outs.
www.myspace.com/familybattlesnake

NO AGE is Randy Randall and Dean Spunt - two heavyweights from the LA punk / skate / art underworld, who previously performed as two thirds of that post-hardcore DIY machine, WIVES. A crashing collision of sweetly shouted ditties, ecstatic crunch feedback and violent bouts of percussion, the NO AGE sound is abound with pop songs fighting to break through a mist of white fuzz. In March 2007, the band released a set of five vinyl only EPs across five different labels, including the 'Get Hurt' 12" on Upset The Rhythm, highlights of which have since been compiled for Fat Cat CD 'Weirdo Rippers'. The duo are now set to return to these shores in celebration of the May release of debut album proper 'Nouns' on the rather legendary Sub Pop imprint.
www.myspace.com/nonoage | www.subpop.com

Ex Models were formed in 2000 in Brooklyn by brothers Shahin and Shahyar Motia, Jake Fiedler and Mike Masiello. After releasing the Talking Heads-esque 'Other Mathematics' in 2001, they took a brief break to attend college. Adding a new bassist, Zach Lehrhoff, they released a split 7" with the Seconds and 'Zoo Psychology' in 2003 - a genre-bending, ring-modulated album of Devo worship. Following the departure of Shahyar and Jake, Shahin and Zach hit back in 2005 with the 'Chrome Panthers' EP - indicative of their new "fundustrial noise" sound, with loops and drum samples provided Oneida's Kid Millions. After a 3 year abscence, the trio return to the UK to preview material from forthcoming new album "White Psychosis / White Dementia". A video documentary is also due in 2008.
www.exmodels.org

Soiled Mattress & The Springs are a three piece instrumental band from New York City. The trio consists of cartoonist Matthew Thurber, who plays his sax with punchy and uplifting vigour, Aviram Cohen, who lends insistent garage rock beats and keyboardist, Peter Schuette whose sprightly hooks interlock with the other instruments making for an intuitive leap into a world of upbeat imagination. Their defiant jazz draws on the culmination of many different styles alongside a tasteful indulgence in humour and playfulness, treading a thin line between the crazy world of Arthur Brown and the leftfield pastures of Henry Cow. Their debut full length release 'Honk Honk Bonk!' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
www.myspace.com/soiledmattressandthesprings

Born in Anacortes, Washington, under the shadow of Mount Eerie, in 1978, Phil Elverum began creating at high school, discovering that making tapes and loud noise and exploring the creepiness of one's hometown in songs and books and pictures could be an alternative to doing any other "work". After moving to Olympia in 1997 and spending days heading to K Records or Dub Narcotic just like any other day job, Phil has emerged as one of the truest artists or troubadours at work today. His existence is one consumed wholly by creation, of travelling to sing and dance in front of people. After 4 albums as The Microphones, a winter spent in Norway having toured and "died" resulted in the desire to create a different person, band, artist, whatever - one to explore ideas of dark mountains, cold songs, a grandmother's face and so on. And thus the legend of Mt. Eerie was born.
www.pwelverumandsun.com | www.krecs.com

From Vancouver, Canada, No Kids is the trio multi-instrumentalist Julia Chirka, percussion Justin Kellam, and singer / songwriter Nick Krgovich, formerly known as 3/4s of that critically revered pop band P:ano. Their first album 'Come Into My House' is out now on Tomlab and achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles covered in its 41 minutes. Golden era Hollywood musicals, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's disco, pop, and avant garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere. Following a recent US tour with Dirty Projectors, the band are now travelling the length and breadth of Western Europe with Phil Elverum.
www.myspace.com/nokidsband | www.tomlab.com

Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the fireside song and supposed goo-rock, you will find the latest incarnation of Thee Oh Sees. Orginally known as OCS - the experimental solo project from San Francisco's John Dwyer of Pink & Brown / Coachwhips / Yikes! fame - the project has now evolved into a quartet comprising Brigid Dawson, Petey Dammit!, and Mike Shoun. With 'The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In' freshly squeezed from Tomlab, the prolific Dwyer contends again for best album of his career, weaving his signature AM radio howl with the catchiest of driving tunes, Dawson's gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums (at times in pairs), and an undeniable pull.
www.myspace.com/ohsees | www.tomlab.com

Since their first band practice in March 2006, the three ladies who make up the New Bloods have dropped jaws and touched off unruly, spontaneous dance moves across the dark and drizzly house party landscape of Portland, Oregon. Drawing on influences from early 80s art punk classics like the Raincoats and Kleenex, a little Intima, a touch of ESG and Unwound, and a whole gammut of dub, soul, and afro-beat, they bring together a sound all their own - hard-packed anthems of empowerment and intense personal experience. Adee Roberson plays ominous new wave / tribal drums, Osa Atoe plays sky-rising violin, and Cassia Gammill plays deep-shifting bass. All sing. Following a 7" for New Orlean's Raw Sugar Records, their first full length 'The Secret Life' is out now on Kill Rock Stars.
www.myspace.com/thenewbloods | www.killrockstars.com

Formed in late 2005 by Pete Dale of Slampt / Red Monkey / Milky Wimpshake fame, Chronicity is a lesson in awkward post-punk - all spindly guitars, clattering drums and Pete's droll political vocal delivery. With a revolving line-up, the band currently comprises W C Schrimshaw on drums, along with Cath and Phil Tyler - taking an excursion from their usual British folk routes - on vocals and bass. New recordings of this brand new sound are planned for 2008.
www.myspace.com/chronicity

In 2007 a circus ringmaster captured three feral children - two from London, one from Portsmouth- and entrapped them in a big top tent for 6 months. During this time he forced them to make fairground music on primitive instruments (drums / keys / guitar), before releasing them back into the wild. Emerging from beneath their matching fringes, the trio decided to unleash what they had learnt on the world, going on to support Los Campesinos!, Lovvers and Jenny Hoyston. They are about to embark on a tour of the UK with Vile Vile Creatures.
www.myspace.com/sadshields

Based around the core duo of Mira Billote (Quix*O*Tic) and "Sleepy" Doug Shaw, NYC's White Magic take so-called freak-folk to a rather more peculiar, jazzier and gothic place, Mira's emphatic piano chord shapes and soaring vocal leading the way. Following a rapturously received debut EP and a split with American Analogue Set, last year saw their first full length 'Dat Rosa Mei Apibus' and a second EP 'Dark Stars' - both for Drag City - move their minimal aesthetic into a newer, untamed musical landscape, exploring the African and the tropical, riding into dark ragas and devotional dub. The duo are set to return with 'New Egypt' on Southern's rather good Latitudes series in early April.
www.myspace.com/whitemagicmusic | www.southern.net

Formed by multi-instrumentalists Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook and singer Sian Ahern, London's Sian Alice Group have since gone on to incorporate musicians like John Coxon of Spiritualized and Spring Heel Jack and Gang Gang Dance's Brian DeGraw. Pinning down the band's sound is elusive to say the least - their debut album '59:59' on Social Registry charts transformations from psychedelic rock, pastoral folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition. The beauty of Sian Alice Group is that the band is capable of creating highly effective music even when they stray far from traditional torch-song territory.
www.sianalicegroup.com | www.myspace.com/sianalicegroup

Start with the sound in the brain of one Lucinda Chua - piano, cello, vocals sung in hushed tones, stories heard whispered in the back of the cinema and messages scribbled in biro on scraps of paper - add delicate guitar from Christopher Summerlin to make your spine tingle and you have Felix. It's a mesmeric formula which would ideally be consumed in liquid form, piped into the ear in the half-awake-half-asleep state.
www.myspace.com/mybeautifulfelix

High Places are two in number. Mary Pearson and Rob Barber, both Brooklyn dwellers, create a unique and joyous union of world beat, dance music and underground pop with High Places. Standing atop the summit of a towering mountain certainly provides a great perspective but it's the overpowering feeling of awesome majesty that is key to understanding the band. That sense of grandeur and wonder is almost impossible to tether in words yet their music seems dizzy under its influence - like the dreamy and sincere vocalisations of K Records groups plunged into tropical electronics and otherworldly polyrhythms. Following three previous self-released 7"s - now long gone - the duo will release a double A-side 7" via Upset The Rhythm in late May, in preparation for their debut full length later in the year. This is their first ever show in the UK, ahead of a pan-European tour supporting Deerhunter.
www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces

Telepathe is a "process-oriented band" centered around Brooklyn multi-instrumentalists / modern dancers Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais. Inspired by the real-life story of a pet communicator - "she listens to a dog or a cat and can supposedly understand what they're saying" - the duo have been creating consistently shape shifting and clairvoyant hymnals since 2004. While there are elements of the ethno-improv and totemic drones of hometown associates Gang Gang Dance or Yeasayer, Telepathe increasingly encompass nuances of hip-hop and grime production - bewitching harmonies and chants are offset by killer sub-bass and synthetic violin hooks. To date, Telepathe have released a variety of EPs for Social Registry, with their much-anticpated album slated for release in 2008.
www.myspace.com/telepathy

Joe Williams, the Cleveland born 24 year old behind White Williams, played piano from a young age, often being scolded by his piano teacher for making his own sounds and messing with the pedals. By the age of 15 he was drumming for a noisy screamo band whose first show was opening up for Black Dice and the Rapture. Playing in DIY venues exposed Joe Williams to a wild party lifestyle of fires, noise bands, art and performance. With a growing interest in electronic music, he started making music on his computer incorporating samples, triggered drums and machines, and formed his first electronic music project, So Red, in 2001. Since then White Williams has toured with Gregg Gillis’ Girl Talk and Dan Deacon, and found himself gravitating towards pop music, enamoured by his favorite albums of the 70's and 80's. This shows up in 'Smoke' - his debut full length for Domino - where unapologetic melody flirts with the vacuous, yet timeless, nostalgia of the American dream.
www.myspace.com/whitewilliams