Copenhagen’s Asteroids Galaxy Tour will tour the U.S. in October, hitting New York and Chicago in addition to Los Angeles, where they’ll play Filter’s Culture Collide festival. Full route on their website.

Download an electro-acoustic version of “The Golden Age” from their full-length, Fruit, here.

Asteroids Galaxy Tour stopped by our studio and talked about life on the road, specifically about the importance of good vibes.

Take no prisoners Steven Frank Albini–singer/guitarist (Big Black, Rapeman, Flour), producer (Nirvana, The Breeders, Superchunk) and music journalist (Matter, Forced Exposure)–actually has a warm and cuddly side. It’s true!

The sweet and alluring fuzzies are expressed via his new blog, mariobatalivoice, in which Albini documents what he cooks for his wife, Heather. He explicates it thusly: “The name comes from the way I bring her food in bed and present it to her using an imitation of Mario Batali’s voice from TV.

“I don’t give quantities or exact recipes because I eyeball and taste everything like anybody who cooks a lot,” he continues. “I don’t own measuring implements, not because I don’t like them but because I would never think to use them. We’re not ninjas. Also, some of this food may not turn out that great, so replicating it would be pointless. I have also successfully cooked for our cats.”

In addition to being generally adorable, it looks, despite Albini’s assertions to the contrary, quite fancy and cutting edge. Hibiscus spring rolls with savory rice, ham, pepper and mint, anyone? Yes please.

His blog does for food prep what his no-nonsense approach did for the music industry. Don’t believe me? Check out his “Sushi Ninjas are Bullshit”recipe/diatribe, and compare it to his classic take down of the music modus operandi, below.

Real Estate are set to release their sophomore album, Days, on October 18 (Domino) featuring the single “It’s Real,” available for download. The 10-track album was recorded in upstate New York alongside Kevin McMahon (The Walkmen, Titus Andronicus).

The band also heads out on tour this week, playing select dates with The Feelies, Times New Viking, Dominant Legs and Melted Toys. Head over to Domino for details.

Train, poster boys for wuss music enthusiasts everywhere, responsible for such teeny-bopper, virgin seducin’ classics as “Meet Virginia,” “Calling All Angels” and “Hey, Soul Sister,” is releasing their own wine.

Named after their number one number hit, the new wine, Drops of Jupiter, is a Petite Sirah and it’s coming to a bar near you on July 18. Consider yourselves warned.

“The minute you uncork the bottle, the boysenberry fruit leaps from your glass,” Train guitarist-cum-sommelier Jimmy Stafford explained on his spankin’ new blog, Train Wine Club (also an awesome read for its creepy/sexist/patronizing tips).

On the sweet side, part (no word on how much) of the funds made from the wine will be funneled to Family House, a non-profit for families of children being treated at San Fran’s Benioff Children’s Hospital.

To whet your appetite for the magical disaster that crackin’ open the boysenberry surprise will unleash on your tongue, click below and feast your eyes on their video for “Marry Me.”

The inimitable Portishead will play a month’s worth of dates in the U.S., Canada and Mexico starting October 1. The band kicks things off at I’ll Be Your Mirror, ATP’s newest event, in Asbury Park, NJ, followed by two nights in New York City.

Jim Barr (bass), Clive Deamer (drums) and John Baggott (keyboards) will be joining the original members for the tour, and English trio Thought Forms will support.

Limited tickets are available on the Portishead website through this Thursday, and tickets go on sale to the general public Friday in most cities.

The Strokes unveiled a new video for “Taken For a Fool” today on their website, directed by Laurent Briet (Radiohead, Aphex Twin). The band also performed the song live with Elvis Costello at Madison Square Garden. Check that out courtesy of Some Kind of Awesome.

The Strokes are currently touring the European festival circuit, with upcoming dates at T in the Park, as well as Reading and Leeds festivals.

Some beer seems like it just tumbled willy nilly off the back of a turnip truck, as rootless as Britney Spears post-Mouse Club. Other beers ooze history.

In June of 1639, Jonas Bronck made his way up the East River on some sort of superannuated tug boat to a wee plot of land he bought from the local Indians, as the colonizing imperialists did. Before long, Bronck had erected a bustling, successful farm with a beer brewing arm.

But alas! His hoppy, victorious reign didn’t last: Three short years after Bronck’s trip up the river he was dead, and the land cycled through the hands of various merchants, traders, sea-farers and ne’er do wells. The recipe for the beer? Forgotten.

It took Woodlawn native and beer enthusiast Steve Nallen to resurrect the settler’s tradition of brewing esoteric beers, and bring it into the 21st century, original spellin’ intact. Nallen has spent the last year or so tweaking Bronck’s recipes, developing his own and establishing a sales and distribution team for the new old brand.

For a taste of the Bronx’s true brew, hit suds suppliers like Bierkraft, PJ Clarke’s, Good Beer and the Bronx Ale House.

But for a serving of old-school Bronx cheer, sip on the video below.