Tokyo Police Club, Stars, Hot Hot Heat In Indie Travel Guide

If you've ever gone on a vacation and realized you know absolutely squat about good, reasonably priced entertainment there, never fear. Some of your favourite musicians are here to help you out.

Tokyo Police Club, Stars' Evan Cranley, Hot Hot Heat's Steve Bays, The Gossip's Beth Ditto, The Strokes' Albert Hammond, Jr. and others have all contributed their knowledge of their respective hometowns to the Indie Travel Guide. The book features profiles of more than 30 cities in North America and Europe from performers and musicians who've lived there, who point out places they think are worth visiting. German firm Rockbuch will publish the first edition in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this summer. A North American release date has yet to be announced.

Here are some of the musicians included in the Indie Travel Guide (and the cities they cover):

Eddie Argos and Jasper Future of Art Brut (Bournemouth and Poole, England)
Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat (Vancouver)
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub (Glasgow, Scotland)
Cameron Bird and Kellie Sutherland of Architecture In Helsinki (Melbourne, Australia)
Tim Burgess and Mark Collins of Charlatans (Manchester, England)
Toby Butler of The Duke Spirit (North London, England)
Matthew Caws of Nada Surf (New York City)
Evan Cranley of Stars (Montreal)
Scott Danbom of Centro-matic (Denton, Texas)
Beth Ditto of The Gossip (Portland, Ore.)
Adam Green (New York City)
Gwenno of The Pipettes (Brighton, England and Cardiff, Wales)
Eric Halborg of Swayback (Denver, Colo.)
Albert Hammond, Jr. of The Strokes (New York City)
Hugh Harris of The Kooks (Brighton, England)
Daniel Higgins of The Duke Spirit (London, England)
Conrad Keely of …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (Austin, Texas)
Gram LeBron of Rogue Wave (San Francisco)
Russell Leetch of Editors (Birmingham, England)
Sondre Lerche (Bergen, Norway)
Malcolm Middleton (Falkirk, Scotland)
Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit (Cheltenham, England)
Emil Nikolaisen of Serena Maneesh (Oslo, Norway)
Adam Olenius and Bebban Stenborg of Shout Out Louds (Stockholm, Sweden)
Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls (Boston)
Paul Smith and Lukas Woller of Maximo Park (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England)
Peanut of Kaiser Chiefs (Leeds, England)
Vito Roccoforte of The Rapture (New York City)
Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth (New York City and Hoboken, N.J.)
Tom Simpson of Snow Patrol (Glasgow, Scotland)
Patrick Spurgeon of Rogue Wave (Oakland, Calif.)
Ramesh Srivastava of Voxtrot (Austin, Texas)
Tokyo Police Club (Toronto)
Chris Urbanowicz of Editors (Nottingham, England)
Kristian Volden of Figurines (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Davey Von Bohlen, Dan Hinz, Dan Didier and Justin Klug of Maritime (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
Tim Wheeler of Ash (New York City)
Roddy Woomble of Idlewild (Edinburgh, Scotland)