DOWNLOAD: (V.U. cover) (MP3)
That CD there pictured to the right is the EP put out in May.
is six songs, three of which are covers of Siouxsie And The Banshees, the Velvet Underground and Frank Sinatra. One-third of the album is available for download .
Have you seen yet?
I had no idea when it that so many people . More importantly I forgot to mention that Devotchka pretty much performed the whole ..
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Don't be fooled by the "various artists" credited as performing on this soundtrack: the CD actually has a rather uniform tone, and mercifully it's a lovely one.
Composer Mychael Danna is paired with the Denver band DeVotchKa, who perform his score and offer a few tunes of their own. Making excellent use of strings, tuba, and squeezebox, they set a mood that echoes the movie's warmly idiosyncratic one.
Remember ?
The new temporary venue's been open for weeks and I still haven't had the chance to check it out. Hopefully that will change by September 8th or 9th when Devotchka perform there two nights in a row. All tour dates below.
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Aug 20 Tucson, AZ Hotel Congress Naim Amor, Thriftstore Cowboys
and I decided it would be best to do this post weekly instead, so here's this week's post.
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New Sparklehorse tracks have leaked.
The anticipated album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of the Mountain will be released on September 26 (Astralwerks). [ ]
There is another remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Cheated Hearts". This one is done by Steven Bloodbath.
The remix is strange, it's almost...
shall we say, industrial?? Not really, but the remix takes the song in a different direction.
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Diplo has already done a remix of Teddybear's "Cobrastyle". Someone's quick. [ ]
recently reported about a remix of The Rapture's "Get Myself Into It".
Well, there's another one. [ ] (At bottom of page)
Since this is basically turning into a remix post, I might as well top it off with a Tapes 'n Tapes remix. You heard me right the remix is done by the one and only Black Eyes.
Crazy!!!
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I'll add one link too. Stereogum has a .
just interviewed Sylvain Sylvain of the for an upcoming BrooklynVegan feature. We don't have time to transcribe the whole interview before , but here's an excerpt that ends up being a preview of as well..
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Syl: Aw, you're kidding me!
Where?!
j: McCarren Park Pool up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Syl: Greenpoint.
.. McCarren Park.
.. Archie Bell the Drells?
j: Well, he's being backed by a group called ' ,'
but it's Archie Bell of the Drells..
Syl: My God.
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j: 's there, also.
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Syl: Wow, thanks for the tip, man.
I'm going to tell David, he's going to flip. You know why, because I've been telling David we should do "Showdown." 'Cause we used to do an Archie Bell song, "(There's Going to Be a) Showdown.
" And every now and then somebody comes up to me and says, "Man, do 'Showdown!'" and I say, "Tell David that." Anyway, thanks for the tip, and I hope I'll see you [at the Seaport] tonight.
They must be talking about CBGB...
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is for sale. 1731 Seminole can be yours for only $930,000.
00. (thx Sam!)
The 'Aluminium' album is a series of avant-garde orchestral recordings of songs by The White Stripes.
The record will be released in a limited edition of 3,333 on October 16. You can hear samples by going . [ ]
The Raconteurs' set from Lollapalooza as MP3s.
("Crazy" cover included)
The latest Raconteurs tour dates are below...
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"So, artist on Monday and immediately exploded. The past few days have been pretty ridiculous.
MTV News contacted me about doing , I think Spin is doing some coverage, the New Yorker wanted a copy, the lead singer from Superchunk emailed me to tell me he liked the album, we immediately sold out of all of our CDs and need a re-press, Pitchfork is going to run an interview, I have a new booking agency, and so on. Im now a hyped band, get ready to hate me in approximately 1 year."
plays a sold-out show with Professor Murder at Mercury Lounge in NYC (Aug 18, 2006).
Then Greg is back for CMJ at least. He lists a November 2nd "Fanataic CMJ Event". All dates below.
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Tuesday October 3rd, 2006 New York, NY Joe's Pub
Stars is also playing Austin City Limits on September 15th.
Sunday September 24th, 2006 Toronto, ON The Mod Club
Dec 2 Seattle, WA University of Washington, Husky Union bldg
Dec 12 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
I haven't seen it, but I hear good things about the movie in which you can hear Broken Social Scene's music.
All photos in this post from Broken Social Scene's July performance in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. ( )
Aug 26 - @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn w/ Damon McMahon Blood on the Eall
Sep 08 - @ TONIC, NYC w/ Effie Briest
The was moved from its original Gowanus Canal location.
Damon McMahon is also opening for Katell Keineg at Bowery Ballroom tonight (Aug 18).
" and , two headstrong musicians who indeed differ in their musical context but still come together not just at the peripheral rims, collaborated on an album together: ' '."
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..this isn't merely an impressive record: It's a remarkable feat of engineering.
" [ ]
for Orchestra of Bubbles live at Hiro Ballroom in NYC on August 31st. All tour dates below..
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You really need to see the movie .
Saw it last night and loved it. It even has Sufjan in - twice. Other .
I don't want to see .
of Radiohead, Nirvana, Bjork, Pixies, QOTSA, Pink Floyd, Coldplay more. (via )
New album = The Crane's Wife - out 10/3 on Capitol Records.
After listening to it a few times - my initial reaction is that it's definitely a Decemberists (who I love) album. There's at least one song I really like that I recognize from their live shows, and I love the duet with Laura Veirs. Other than that all I can say for now is that I need to listen more to see where I think it ranks next to the older albums.
Stereogum on the other hand .
Another album I've been listening to is the new Ratatat, which, when I first wrote up my thoughts about it Sunday night, I said it was "instantly enjoyable accessible". When I finally on Tuesday I threw "danceable" in there last-minute.
I take it back. It's more laid back tripping-swimming-under-water-though-occasionally-head-banging- -trippy-background-music-like than danceable - well, certain parts can get you moving.
: better.
NYC venue Avalon seems to be for at least a little bit longer. for the (Sept 3).
All /Protest the Hero/Sword heavy metal tour dates below.
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09/30/06 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room (no Sword)
are pretty evenly split between Southpaw, Northsix and Celebrate Brooklyn right now, BUT I don't think I got enough votes total, so I'll keep the voting going. Wanna go see at Union Hall tonight (8/17)?
E-mail (SUBJECT: VENUES) and vote for . One winner, picked at random, will get a pair of tickets to the show tonight. Don't want to go to the show?
You can vote anyway.
The show @ Union Hall tonight is also a celebration of Takka Takka's new CD. Members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah play on some of the songs (not sure if they'll be at the show though).
You can order the CD from . You can hear two songs from it by downloading both MP3s above. The band is also at Sin-e on Septmember 14th with Annuals and Femme Generation.
kick off a tour with in Boston on September 26th. Takka Takka are on the tour too (though TT are not playing )
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah also have a few other random tour dates. Some are on .
All dates by everyone below...
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Thursday 8.
17.06, 8pm @ Union Hall (702 Union St., at Fifth Ave, Park Slope)
Sep 25 2006 Black Cat Washington, DC
09.
28.06: New York, NY // Rumsey Playfield, Central Park (no TT)
10.01.
06: Cleveland, OH // House of Blues
Since any news is good news, here's the new album press release:
Drag City is set to release the new album from Joanna Newsom, Ys (pronounced ‘eees’), available nationwide on November 14, 2006. It’s been two-and-a-half years since Joanna’s Drag City debut, The Milk-Eyed Mender, captured the hearts of fans and critics with its lilting harp and vocal majesty. On Ys, Joanna has recorded five (yup, 5!
) songs clocking in at fifty-five minutes. The album was recorded with Steve Albini, mixed with Jim O’Rourke, and features orchestral arrangements from the legendary Van Dyke Parks.
On Ys, you will hear a dream collaboration between Joanna’s voice, her harp, and a full orchestra.
The album is a ride that ebbs and flows in a scrumptious cacophony of layers and drama. The wide-screened beauty of Ys is due to, among other things, the all-analog production mixed to tape and mastered at Abby Road.
For the uninitiated, The Milk-Eyed Mender was voted in the top 20 albums of the year in the 2004 Village Voice “Pazz and Jop” poll.
Critics far and wide praised her unusual and superior talents. Live, Joanna brings passion and drama to the stage, performing with epic spirit.
CMJ is not the only festival that announced the this week.
happens October 4-8, 2006 in (duh) Montreal, and they've got Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Land of Talk, Sunset Rubdown, and more...
Dear pop music lovers,
What a wild roller coaster of a ride we’re all getting ready for! This year’s festival is going to be exceptionally magnificent. We are re-invigorating indie music beyond clichés and car commercial soundtracks.
We are showing the world what a festival can be; what a group of young people can do with imagination, hard work and vision.
This year we are pleased to work with the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) and McGill University to present the FMC’s 6th annual Policy Summit. We will also have our Film POP festival, our Puces POP arts and crafts fair, and an assortment of art shows and special events entitled Art POP.
Our fifth edition will introduce the world to future stars, forgotten heroes and an assortment of freaks, who will come together for what people are starting to call “the greatest event on earth.” We will all share moments of sublime beauty, knee-slapping good times and, of course, some crazy misadventures we’ll only remember in our dreams.
POP Montreal is very pleased to announce our initial confirmation list.
This group of artists represents a wide range of styles and genres and each and every one of them has a personal connection to Montreal, and the amazing group of people that help make this festival possible. Some of the highlights include: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, the 75 year old American troubador and living link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan; Joanna Newsom the Drag City psych-folk harp diva who will make her Canadian debut; Gary Wilson a mythical purveyor of new wave rock and adolescent angst pop; Edu K, the Brazilian pioneer of Baile Funk and booty shaking good Spank Rock, the first utopian, multi-ethnic, underground, conscious booty-bass hip hop act; Vashti Bunyan, the Scottish songstress, who’s ethereal voice has been a major influence on such artists as Devendra Banhart and The Animal Collective; Keith Fullerton Whiteman a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music, from its mid-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as "digital music"; Tapes n’ Tapes, who’s bewildering indie rock might be the best thing to come out of Minneapolis since Husker Du; the left field psychosurgical aural distortion of Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagon; and The Mighty Sparrow himself, who’s title, “The King of Calypso,” pretty much sums it all up.
We also have a whole lot more, including a very special organ performance by Gonzales at St. Jean Baptise Catholic Church. This will be the opening show of the festival and will also feature the Montreal premiere of Captain Beefheart and Gods Monsters’ guitarist Gary Lucas’ live soundtrack to the silent 1920 German Expressionist classic film The Golem.
So that’s just a taste. Take a look at our line-up, read about our different events and get your freakin’ tickets early ‘cause this is going to be some next level, off the chain nonsense.
Passes on sale Monday August 20th on Admission and participating local outlets!
And many more !
Puces Pop is a unique trade fair, with independent entrepreneurs and
artists from all segments of independent culture. We are celebrating the
out some of the best local and international crafters around.
With over
100 vendor tables, a fashion show, artist-run workshops, a poster show,
film screenings, live music and our first ever science fair, this
marketplace-bazaar sets the scene for a cultural experience like no other!
Fuck Dance, Let's Art! Entering year two, Art Pop presents visual artists
working from perspectives outside of established art canons.
Gallery
exhibitions (original art by Charles Burns Killoffer, paintings by Jack
collaborations (w/ Viva! art action), immersive installations (the YPF) +
much, much more (oh my!).
Now entering its third year, Film Pop is all about busting out of the rusty
old film festival cage and finding fun new ways to present movies, with a
particular predilection for the musical. Expect to see the very best of
docs, live events, and more! In addition, Film Pop is launching exciting new
filmmaking initiatives with the National Film Board of Canada and Kino Montreal.
It promises to be Film Pop’s biggest and best year yet.
This year, Pop Montreal will be collaborating with the Future of Music
which will be hosted at McGill University’s new Schulich School of Music,
important and contentious issues of music and copyright today.
Wes is back with the second edition of the Hip Hop News Roundup.
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Soldier's Ride ( ) features a faux Neptunes beat and has no-name Big J sandwiched between the two members of the best group in current Hip Hop: .
Big J is out of his league, as Clipse...
well...
eclipses him on his own track in this indie-feeling video. (Also: Clipse freestyle with Mr. Quotable and fellow Virginia native Skillz live on Power 92.
) (Via )
Andre 3000 of Outkast on which albums/artists appear on the soundtrack to his live. Eric B Rakim, Kraftwerk, Funkadelic and more are included, and he namechecks Squarepusher.
Saigon, the Just Blaze-backed hope for conscious, yet street based hip hop, is risking becoming the 'rapper that cried wolf' if he doesn't drop the much delayed and long awaited The Greatest Story Never Told.
"Pain In My Life". (via )
Living legends EPMD in Times Square October 14th for their first NYC performance 8 years. (via )
Lil' Kim is fresh out of jail and attempting to 'free herself' from her Atlantic Records contract.
Either that or she is being dropped depending on who you're asking. Lil' Kim album "Naked Truth" is the least deserving recipient of The Source's '5 Mics', hip hop's formerly golden standard for 'classic, must own' albums. ( ) (via )
Fresh off his second wave of ventures in to pop music with Nelly Furtado and the upcoming Justin Timberlake album, Timbaland is producing a biopic on the life of Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
He claims it'll be bigger than the similarly themed classic "Scarface". (via )
Jay-Z meets up with Kofi Annan, no that is not a rapper, and collaborates with MTV and the UN, yes that UN, in an attempt to solve the world water crisis. Read about it .
Now check out , and k...
..and since he mentioned Justin Timberlake, I might as well point out that , and oh yeah - .
As already , are back together and touring.
The Revenge Of The Killer Slits EP, out October 17 through SAF Records, will mark the band's first material since 1981's Return Of The Giant Slits. Pioneers of genre-stepping punk rock, riot grrrl and inspiration for female rockers far and wide, original members Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt join a laundry list of fellow punk rock royalty who guest on the record.
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Their November 1st NYC Knitting Factory show will be . Other bands on the sick bill of the "Panache / Blueghost / Lovepump Showcase" 2-floor event include: Aids Wolf, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Genghis Tron, The Apes, Child Abuse, Made In Mexico, Dynasty Handbag, Green Milk From the Planet Orange (Japan), Shellshag, Rah Bras, and The Mall.
All tour dates below.
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The most surprising fact of ' show (August 14, 2006) wasn't that of Gnarls Barkley/Goodie Mob fame came out to sing Crazy with them, but that the sound at the club was roughly 4.
3 times better than it was for . (the sound during Talib Kweli's set was still traditionally awful though).
The Roots are known as the best (and really only) band in Hip Hop.
Close to the release of their upcoming Game Theory album - their first and best in years - they once more showed us why they can claim that title. Aside from a little variety, the show nearly mirrored the Radio City show. They brought all that they are known for.
Black Thought's impeccable breath control and clarity - *coughTalibwatchandlearncough* - combined with a majestic flow makes up for his somewhat anonymous stage presence. Drummer ?uestlove commands the stage and directs the band through a slew of the group's hits - some fantastic new ones, and snippets of non-Roots classics.
My favorite part of the show was when they paid homage by segwaying through a slew of songs by Ol' Dirty Bastard, the Notorious B.I.G.
, Salt 'N Peppa, Grandmaster Flash, Wu Tang Clan and many more...
Still the best show in Hip Hop after all those years.
is blessed with a catalogue of amazing songs, yet cursed with the inability to do them justice live. He's improved from the last time I saw him at Radio City (also with the Roots), but the non-traditional rhyme schemes, and high number of words crammed into each sentence, still take their toll on stage.
Many words are dropped while others are just rapped under his breath. Where Black Thought manages to make a similarly complex and crammed flow completely understandable live, Talib Kweli mostly fails. As always, his amazing song Get By, produced by Kanye West and based around a Nina Simone sample, got the biggest audience reaction of the night - bigger even than Cee-lo's appearance.
I'm looking forward to Kweli's upcoming new release (Ear Drum) and watching him progress as a performer. He is one of Hip Hop's brightest hopes.
More photos below.
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8/20/2006 House of Blues - Orlando Lake Buena Vista,FL
8/27/2006 House of Blues - Myrtle Beach North Myrtle Beach,SC
9/2/2006 House of Blues - Chicago Chicago,IL
are busy touring Europe. are playing all over the West Coast. In September they'll meet up to start touring all over the United States (with other bands too - like Detachment Kit and ).
Then around November Cursive leaves the Thermals behind and keeps on touring with (and others). What sux is NOT that Cursive's NYC show is at Webster Hall (10/1), but that The Thermals are not scheduled to play that one.
All dates below.
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2006-08-20 Casbah, The San Diego CA
Fri 10.
20.06 Seattle, WA Neumo's w/ The Thermals, Chin Up Chin Up
Fri 10.27.
06 San Diego, CA House of Blues w/ The Thermals, Eastern Youth
Sun 10.29.06 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues - Las Vegas w/ The Thermals, Eastern Youth
Mon 11.
20.06 Tallahasee, FL Florida State University - The Moon w/ The Cops
Tue 11.21.
06 Gainesville, FL University of Florida - Reitz Union Ballroom w/ The Cops
Mon 11.27.06 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom w/ The Cops
" , the long-running side project of frontman Mac McCaughan, will return on Oct.
10 with its next Merge album, 'Be Still Please.' The set was recorded earlier this year at Durham, N.C.
's Pox Studios, a site chosen so McCaughan could stay close to home while still logging hours at Merge, the label he co-founded in 1989." [ ]
Portastatic are playing a few dates with followed by a short tour with in October. are on sale for Oct.
13th at Mercury Lounge and the 14th at Maxwell's. Jennifer O'Connor is also playing and two days later. All dates below.
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09.20.2006 Nashville TN The Belcourt Theatre w/ M.
Ward
09.23.2006 Austin TX The Parish Room w/ M.
Ward
10.20.2006 Mt.
Pleasant SC Village Tavern
08.16.06 Raleigh, NC North Carolina Museum of Art w/ Jeff Tweedy
09.
23.06 Boston, MA Great Scott w/ Choo Choo La Rouge
So, Sam, is it true: have Interpol signed to Interscope?
"Blatant rumor," Fogarino (Interpol's drummer) said.
With Interpol's contract with Matador "officially up", the band do plan to shop around their latest wares when the time is right. They've begun writing the follow-up to Antics, and Fogarino reports that the process is "moving right along where I think it should..
.we're all pretty much on fire about it". For now, however, the major-label-leap rumors milling about are just that, and Sam playfully entreats aspiring gossip-mongers to invent some of their own.
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"A while back I that I heard that Interpol had signed with Interscope. (Must have been the allure of the Inter- prefix.) It didn't happen.
Today Hits reported that Interpol signed with Capitol, the home of Coldplay, Chingy, current buzz girl and ." [ ]
's new album "Classics" ( Aug 22, 2006) is, though instrumental, instantly enjoyable - accessible - danceable. It made cleaning my apartment the other day easier than ever.
The song "Wildcat" is streaming , or download it , and then get another track . You can .
Classics is an expansion of the typical Ratatat sound and features some acoustic and slide guitar, sleigh bells and cello.
It's a much more rounded out instrumental sound, moving away from the over-the-top Monsters of Rock (not completely of course) toward a more progressive, expansive pallete of sounds [ ]
Ratatat kick off a tour with and at Bowery Ballroom in NYC on September 5th ( ). They're also DJing at Hiro Ballroom on August 17th (early album release party - see flyer below), and then again at The Guggenheim Museum's on October 6th. All dates below.
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Oct 6 2006 The Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
"it was who made the first move ( She s always wearing [a] black hankie on the left.
) to get behind Impeach My Bush. Joan Jett, for instance, called me and said, What are you doing? I heard you re in L.
A. and you re making a record. Can I come by and listen?
So she came by, it was her 47th birthday and I m like, You like it?" [ ]
"'And that's the whole point, everybody does have a shot, not just girl groupies or guys,' says. "That's why I wrote the song ' ' — it's about a girl anti-Christ, not just the old story of the boy who comes to town and he's gonna screw all the girls and all the boys are gonna want to be him.
It's very hard for a male to say 'Oh, man, I totally want to be like her.' Joan Jett is one of the only ones a guy might say that about." [ ]
"Josh Homme (QOTSA, Eagles of Death Metal) and lend their vocals on 'Give ’Er,' a digi-and-dirty nod to Canadian culture.
Drummer Samantha Maloney (Hole, Eagles of Death Metal) keeps the beat on several tracks." [ ]
just with Peaches. Joan Jett just finished up her stint on the Warped Tour.
Next Up - The Joan Jett / Eagles of Death Metal tour. All dates below..
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"On 18th September, will release a 10th anniversary re-mastered version of their classic eponymous debut..
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In addition the the news of the reissue, Placebo have also posted on their website that a tour of the United States is likely to take place in October and November." [ ]
The U.S.
dates any minute, but in the meantime, we know for sure that Placebo will unfortunately be touring and co-headlining with the horrible She Wants Revenge. for their November 7th show at Nokia Theatre in NYC where Placebo is listed as headliner (please be true). Tickets are already on sale for their which doesn't even mention Placebo (leading many people to believe that Placebo is opening on the show?
!?!
?). All dates so far below.
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