Versus recording new album! Its official, straight from their MySpace page.

Versus will play one night at the Merge XX birthday party shows at the Cats Cradle, Carrboro NC, July 22-26 2009.

Versus open for Plus / Minus at the Mercury Lounge, NYC on June 18th 2009.

New Versus headline date added in Tokyo - Oct 24th, at the O-Nest.

Versus & Plus/Minus head out to the Far-East.

More shows! Opening for Mission of Burma. Review and photos of the June 16th Bowery date here.

I'm probably a bit late with this, but Versus open for Swedish band Love Is All at the Bowery Ballroom, June 16th. The real intersting news is that it'll be a 3-piece Versus - Richard, Ed and Fontaine. They've been writing and rehearsing for the last few months, so this gig could be a bit of an eye-opener. James and Patrick are still in the frame, but as I'm sure most of you know, are working hard on the new +/- opus.

More video's from the Maxwells show avaialble, see the home page for details.

Photos from the show at Maxwell's on the 4th. Also a couple here on Flickr.

Versus play surprise private show in Brooklyn!. Details here.

+/- head out for their first European shows in May, covering Germany, Holland and Austria. Full details of course on the +/- shows page. Will they reach the UK ? Gotta say it looks unlikely, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Some of you will have no doubt seen on their myspace page that Whysall Lane are no more, at least not as we've come to know them over the last two or three years. Mikel left the band late last year, and Richard is apparently moving back to New York (which itself could prove to be interesting...).

+/- Let's Build A Fire is penciled in for an October 24 US release on Absolutely Kosher records. AK are already taking pre-orders, you can find out more round about here. According to Pitchfork magazine, things have been rearranged and remixed, not to mention properly mastered.

+/- now have a YouTube profile, where you can catch all of their videos, at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=plusminusband.

The next +/- album has already been released in Japan. Let's Build A Fire is available on the CD Japan website, with a release date of 14th Dec 2005. Details, artwork and samples appear on the & Records website here (scroll down). Thanks again to Justin in Australia for finding this, and a Happy New Year to everybody !

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