CAVE is going to be busy this summer. The Chicago psych-rockers will drop their latest effort, Pure Moods, on May 18 via Drag City.

Then beginning on June 4 with a show at the Hideout, the band will hit the road for a tour that takes them all the way up into the great white north. The two-month trek will culminate with their appearance at Pitchfork Festival 2010 on Sunday, June 18. If you can’t make those two Chi-town stops, the you can also see CAVE at the Empty Bottle with New Orleans’ Quintron and Miss Pussycat on June 25.

You can find CAVE’s complete tour itinerary after the jump.

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Sadhu Sadhu are another solid experimental psych band in what seems an ever expanding universe oozing its way onto the Chicago music scene. More Cave than Mako Sica (to name just a couple examples), Sadhu Sadhu’s Live At The Hideout features deep bass grooves and soaring, twisting guitar lines. Although the band says they’ve been compared to Acid Mothers Temple and Can, there is more than a hint at the loopy, droney side of Yo La Tengo at play in their music as well.

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Happy Independence Day. Here are a few places to hear some great tunes if you get bored hanging around in front of the grill and drinking PBR…

Songs For Presidents

Like music? Like the U.S. Presidents? Try music about the U.S. Presidents. The Chicago Tribune explains.

9:00 PM. Friday, 7/3 at The Hideout. $12.

Cave

Local purveyors of good old krautrock and psychedelic freak outs, Cave, are playing a free 21+ show Friday, July 3rd at the Whistler. (2421 N. Milwaukee Ave.). The show starts at 9pm with openers Dark Lingo and Black Apple. According the the Whistler’s site all 3 bands are rock n roll and who doesn’t like rock n roll. Especially free, local rock n roll. – Ross Meyerson

9:00 PM. Friday 7/3 at Whistler located at 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave. FREE.

The Gorilla Press

Local Chicago rock band, The Gorilla Press, will play the beer garden stage of Phyllis’ this Saturday. TGP is original and energetic, harnessing the unabashed sneer of P.J. Harvey and tempering it amid oblique yet captivating arrangements reminiscent of Radiohead and Mogwai. – Britni Day

9:00 PM. Saturday, 7/4. Phyllis’ Musical Inn located at 1800 W. Division St. $8.

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Local psych/krautrock/what-have-you-band CAVE have a new full length album coming out May 26 on Important Records.

After releasing a split 10″ with the California Raisins and a 7″ featuring Bobby Conn earlier this year, it will be a pleasure to hear more than 5 or 10 minutes of new material in one sitting.

If you missed their record release show at The Hideout on the 14th looks like you’ll have to wait until June 12 at Automatic Space to hear the new tunes live as they are heading out west until then.

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