wish lists, s rarities compilation, The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities, comes out December 12 on Geffen. And now, it has a tracklist. Three of the 12 tracks are previously unreleased, and most of them are culled from their 21st Century output, including the 2001 Noho Hey party people: buy a drink this November, as the venerable electronic/dance imprint celebrates the big twenty-one.
Originally launched as a video production company in 1985, !K7 has gone on to release quality records by some of the dancefloor s biggest names-- including this year s Herbert smash, Scale, and the DJ-Kicks series.
To commemorate this coming of age (as U.
S. law would have it, anyhow), !K7 will host three nights of hijinx in London from November 14-16.
!K7 and two of its subsidiaries-- hip-hop/soul label and indie imprint -- will each curate a night apiece of live music and photo exhibitions, going down at London s Phonica, Luminaire, and KOKO. Performers include Herbert, France s Cyann Ben, and new !
K7 signing . Full details below.
Adulthood doesn t mean slowing down for always-prolific !
K7, however, as the label keeps churning out those DJ-Kicks mixes. The latest, featuring Berlin-based Schwarz, hit shops abroad earlier this month and graces U.S.
shores on October 31.
A relative newcomer, Schwarz gained notoriety for a spate of 12 s and a few high profile remixes, including tries at Coldcut and Alex Smoke. His DJ-Kicks disc sees him mixing a broad palette of styles, with everything from James Brown, D Angelo, and Marvin Gaye rubbing up against cuts from Rhythm Sound, Arthur Russell, and Schwarz s own material.
Click on the interview below to hear Schwarz discuss his influences, selections, and computer-based mixing process.
Folks who scoop up the CD version of this DJ-Kicks will be pleased to find a special download code that provides access to an alternative version of Schwarz s mix, while 12 purchasers will be treated to an exclusive download track.
And start practicing those club moves now, because according to a press release, the next installment of DJ-Kicks will be mixed by none other than Hot Chip.
Last Thursday at in Austin, Texas, Phoenix-based laptopper threw down such a -like platter of skittish beats and fractured (but groovin ) samples that I began to wonder whether would be returning to his Super_Collider and Muddlin Gear days. The short answer turned out to be: not quite. A one-man show, Lidell stepped up to his table of gear and mic stand and gave the crowd (a good portion of which seemed stuck on Jamie after they saw him open for Beck) a heaping dose of Multiply soul.
But it wasn t all Motown tributes and nods to Otis Redding-- Lidell had, after all, graced the stage barefoot and in a black-trimmed, leopard-print robe like a prizefighting kickboxer, and he burst into a giddy smile when greeted by the sizable audience s welcome. He was having fun and he wasn t going to be playing Multiply by the numbers. Lidell s latest album did provide most of the night s material, but over the course of the set he manned several extended beats and breakdowns from behind the decks, often injecting winding combos of scats and beatboxing, both of which were heavily processed in real time by Lidell.
Deviations from the recordings managed to unfold as a balance between assured production and playful programming. All of this came to a head on the encore, when Lidell flipped on the beat for Multiply . The crowd went apeshit singing along to the chorus, and, in response, Lidell offered up the mic to certain crowd members from his perch on the stage.
That fun over with, Lidell swung over to the sample machine and laptop to perpetuate the song a few more measures before doing that weird thing that European performers do as they exit the spotlight, where they clap for their appreciative audience. I think he bowed abruptly several times, too. For more photos and tour dates, see below.
Move aside, grainy . When punches a dude in the face, he provides fans with the accurate (and juicy) details. reader Tyler Gould, who sent an MP3 account of the incident, straight from the horse s mouth.
The recording was made on October 27 at the Foellinger Auditorium in Champaign, Illinois, where Tweedy was playing a solo show. between where I m standing and where you are is in no way, shape, or form a result of being attacked the other day. overpowering whatever Tweedy says next, but there s a definite I know I Actually, I was pretty surprised.
I really let that dude have it...
stage the other night at a Wilco show, did the Woooo! you know, like to his friends or whatever, Look at me! I m really drunk and on crystal meth or something!
It s Southern Missouri, you know, so...
of security at the gig, which took place October 16 at Springfield, MO s Shrine Mosque. Result? During the show, lots of different things were happening; there were people getting pushed around in front, some girl came up on stage and sat down and started playing piano.
While this was all being taken care of, we had a little break and we played our whole set and we came off, and there was this girl laying around, flopping around on the floor. Tried to get rid of her, she sat down and played the piano, so basically everybody was taking care of that..
. starting a song Airline to Heaven , got the guitar, we re playing..
.I don t know if you know this, but when you re playing guitar, it s kind of like you re wearing handcuffs..
.so i see this nice little boy who looks like he s Devandra is..
.He actually stepped on a young woman s wheelchair to get onstage. I m not kidding, that s the truth.
That s how he got onstage! I m not exaggerating; he just hopped up onstage, right up her wheelchair. the thoughts in my head are going, Okay, okay, here he comes.
Okay. He s just going to wave to his buddies and there he goes, okay..
. known within five or six seconds tops, a couple of guys in big yellow shirts would have been like pummeling him. Not that he needed to have that happen, but.
..So anyway the next thing I know, I feel this hand on my forehead.
I d just had it. I d had it at that point..
.I m quick like a knife, cat-like At this time, based on crowd reaction, we believe Tweedy demonstrated these special abilities before continuing, The next day, Tweedy Attacks Fan, right? referring to, um, download the MP3 below.
Prescient Kevin Barnes somehow knew to (falsely) claim hailing from Quebec s indie hotspot long before it was the fashionable thing to do. And while in fact have their origins in wacky Athens, Georgia, that hasn t stopped Barnes and company from becoming one of indie s most beloved acts in recent years, Canadian or not.
Expect the collective squeal of a thousand live-journalers, then, since Barnes dropped by the studios recently to perform acoustic renditions of two brand new tunes and two Of Montreal favorites: Satanic Panic in the Attic s Lysergic Bliss , The Sunlandic Twins Requiem for O.
M.M.2 , and a pair of jams from quizzically-titled Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
(due January 27 via )-- Suffer for Fashion and Eagle-Shaped Mirror . Evil people who ve been rocking leaked copies of Hissing Fauna might recognize the latter song as Bunny Ain t No Kind of Rider , but we wouldn t know anything about that.
All four live sessions are at Daytrotter.
Of Montreal, meanwhile, play Mexico City s Azteca Stadium on November 11 as part of Corona Fest.
Washington, D.C.
(and now you re up-to-date), the glam rockers have indeed cancelled the rest of their U.S. tour dates.
cancellation in a letter on their website, the band promised to reschedule the dates later this fall or early spring. Bowery Ballroom on November 20. Read the full text of the letter below.
Pitchfork staff admits to not actually liking Sufjan, just being really, really high According to the and the , smoking the wacky tabacky turns you into a poseur. Even worse: an indie rock poseur. Listen to .
Just listen to it. And then just try to tell me it doesn t make you want to put down the bong and start listening to rap music. Full transcript below.
Tonight, for the in just under a year and a half, will infiltrate your home via evening, October 30, at Washington, DC s 9:30 Club, and the show will be made available for series. It is expected to begin at approximately (and appropriately) 9:30pm Decemberists are currently touring on top of their Capitol debut, (now available in the U.S.
, and due in the UK January 29 via ). Costume Contest /gig (according to their ) at Northampton, Massachusetts Calvin Theater. Winners will receive accolades, fame, and Decemberists shwag.
Decemberist-song-related costumery, and decide whether you d like to go as The Crane Wife 1, 2, or 3.
Summer received a from Pitchfork upon its 2001 release, and Fennesz will release a remixed and remastered version of the album this winter. will release the updated Endless Summer on January 9, along with two bonus tracks: Badminton Girl (from an The label will also reissue the Plays single, which came out as a vinyl 7 in 1998 and a CD single in 1999, on 10 vinyl.
Plays Christian Fennesz, according to a press release. Editions Mego will release Plays on November 6, and both it and the Endless Summer reissue will feature Summer in the dead of winter weren t enough taunting, Fennesz also has a of Seasonal Affective Disorder and Monetary Absence Disorder.
When the hits the streets on November 17 (start lining up now, kids), its earliest adopters will be happy to learn that among the device s high-tech, new-fangled features, the PS3 comes equipped with a means of purchasing and downloading video games.
Among these arcade-style games slated for launch with the console: , a three-dimensional shooter that just happens to feature a bangin soundtrack by , the electronic duo comprised of s Turk Dietrich and s Josh Eustis.
Pitchfork recently chatted with Dietrich about scoring Blast Factor, what s next for Belong, and of course, general gaming nerdery.
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