new LP, In the Absence of Truth, won t be released by until October 31, but the band have plenty to tide hungry fans over until then, with the Clearing the Eye DVD coming out on September 26, an ongoing tour with Tool, and now, a collaborative EP with , to be released October 10 via .
In the Fishtank 14 is the latest EP in a series for the Dutch label in which like-minded artists are given two days studio time [together] and freedom to do whatever they like musically, according to the label s website. Past collaborators have included the Black Heart Procession and Solbakken, Sonic Youth, ICP and the Ex, Low and Dirty Three, and Tortoise and the Ex.

The Isis/Aerogramme EP was recorded in July of last year, and, according to a press release, the resulting three songs are not what you might expect from such a collaboration: When Konkurrent invited Isis and Aereogramme to do a Fishtank session, we expected a loud and heavy session not yet heard in the series. Expectations can be misleading. Was it the extremely hot weather?

The overwhelming 70s atmosphere in the studio? The shitty hotel the night before? We may never know those answers, but we know this: it s the analog warmth that makes the song tender, organic, and fragile.

Turns out it s pretty awesome. tracks, Belle and Sebastian s The Monkeys Are Breaking out of the Zoo , Four Tet feat. Princess Watermelon s Go Go Ninja The like to sing about how they used to vacation, but it looks like they re headed out on another trip, starting tonight in Seattle.

The trek was originally supposed to be spent opening for the Futureheads, but, as previously reported, the Futureheads . Instead of going home and crying, the Cold War Kids sucked it up and decided to make it their own headlining tour, in support of their upcoming LP, Hey, it s a new song! Just kidding.

..but it sure sounds like one.

On this track from s forthcoming debut album, , Destroyer/ Dan Bejar takes the lead over fellow Lakers Spencer Krug ( , ) and Carey Mercer ( ), turning their work into something straight out of his own back catalog. The city of daughters can t be found where it ought to be found, Bejar sings in his trademark whine, accompanied by an acoustic guitar, squirrelly organ, and feminine-sounding backing vocals that may or may not be Mercer s. There are also mentions of an attack that s forever forewarned and a hex on the telephone wire -- could this freedom be the kind that a certain President claims we re always fighting for?

We love and all, but that self-titled debut from last year is getting kinda boring. They need new tunes! We sat down yesterday with CYHSY guitarist/keyboardist Lee Sargent for a brief chat about just that-- the new tunes, new direction, new album, new producer, and that plain old self-released approach.

, mighty (The Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, Low) will produce CYHSY s sophomore full-length, which has no title yet, but is set to arrive January 30. The band wrapped up recording a short while ago, and received the master for LP2 just the other day. There might be some revisions to it, said Sargent, but we re done.

Applaud and yell affirmatives, folks!
So what can the legions of Clap-o-philes expect? The songs are really different-- it s an entirely different thing from the first one.

There are certain elements that tie it to the first one, but there s a lot more going on, we had the resources to make it a little more involved...

[and] we just had a lot of time to try out some different things.
Don t worry though, it s not like they re or something. According to Lee, different here means the arrangements are more complex.

This certainly holds true for new tunes Some Loud Thunder and Satan Said Dance , both set to appear on the next album, and another recent jam, The Sword Song , which Lee says likely won t.
Now, the big question for these DIY posterboys: who s putting out the new record? It s going to be the same arrangement as the first one, said Lee.

is going to put it out in the UK, and they get distributed by V2 in other parts of the world, but we re going to hold onto it in the U.S. and do it the same way we did the first one.

For CYHSY, the decision to go without a U.S. label once again was motivated by practicality more than bleeding-heart ethics.

The first one worked out nicely doing it that way, so there s really been no discussion to even consider changing that arrangement.
Working with Fridmann, Sargent recalled, was awesome.
He s just really good at coloring the songs, and his production is unique-- he makes things really sort of gritty, but in a nice way.

He has really tasteful approaches to adding little things here and there, and just...

fills out the songs. the backstage schmoozing and drinking you were raised with, and is greener on the other side (to accommodate hungry goats, of course) Washington, D.C.

-based children s show made its way to Baltimore s Pimlico Race Course last month for the . There, PM star Rufus Leaking (get it?) the goat puppet, was caught on camera with Coyne.

The two performed Jefferson Starship s We Rufus, actually), it looks like everybody had a good time. How the hell did get on , anyway? I know she s been preparing Public Warning, her October 31 debut for the label, for a while now, but seeing her twist her face around in the video for lead single Love Me or Hate Me , it s striking just how utterly weird and potentially unmarketable she is.

It watches like a grab bag of visual candy, which could be cool if it weren t so schizo. It s like director Brian Beletic said to her, Okay, first we re gonna make you fat. Then we re gonna make you busty.

Then we re gonna make you a hairball. Cool? Also, Sov s cornrows make her look like every white girl who comes back from spring break in Jamaica ready to impress with her new crazy do.

Joanna Newsom, Tapes 'n Tapes to play, Arcade Fire, Islands, Stars members to talk O Canada! , the annual festival kicks off this evening. You lucky people get five days (October 4-8) of music from the creme of the indie and sorta-indie crop, including Joanna Newsom, Spank Rock, Akron/Family, Regina Spektor, Cadence Weapon, the Russian Futurists, Beirut, Islands, and Memphis.

Since our last story ran, the fest has added Roky Erikson, Islands, the Constantines, Dirty on Purpose, Flosstradamus, Subtitle, Professor Murder, Chromatics, Earl Greyhound, and Unfortunately, Vitalic seems to have canceled his North American tour, so he won t be appearing.
Photos: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Architecture in Helsinki [Chicago, IL; 10/04/06] The Clap Your Takka Say Helsinki tour caravan rolled into Chicago last night for the second of two gigs at the , drawing out the thrift-t-adorned, hair-flipping masses in earnest. Indeed, hands were clapped, and quite a few yeah s were said.

Too-polite opened with a blistering, face-meltingly polite set of polite indie rock tunes played to an annoyingly polite, well-mannered crowd, and that was pretty much that. Perhaps two-thirds into their set they snuck in a more intricate, darker-hued number that hinted at an auspicious future direction. More of that, gentlemen, and you may escape the indie rock cesspool yet!

(from Melbourne, Australia) pranced onstage next to teach a valuable lesson in crafting carefree, constantly fun, and delightfully danceable ADHD jams and another equally valuable lesson in engaging a crowd-- and a rapturous one at that. They shimmied their way through a set of mostly new tunes, with primary singer Cameron Bird hopscotching from guitar to keyboard to drum pad and back, sporting a Raekwon t-shirt and a terrifically tacky multi-colored cap which he later removed to let loose a boyish tuft of sandy-blond hair.
After Architecture s exuberant presentation, headliner came off a bit staid and standoffish, but that didn t seem to dampen crowd spirits an ounce.

Indeed, Clap were the only act on the bill playing a whole bunch of tunes folks had heard before (and likely love). Those favorites from the self-titled debut went over well enough-- despite some broken strings and equipment glitches-- but it was new jams like the melodious Some Loud Thunder and the sinister-sounding Satan Said Dance that showed the most promise.
Still, singer Alec Ounsworth s yelpy, yappy, nasal vocals are a tough pill to swallow, even in this age of idiosyncratic yelpers like Brock, Darnielle, and Krug.

Folks often play the Byrne card in reviews of the record, but here Ounsworth came across like Dan Bejar impersonating Eric Cartman, which was pretty much as obnoxious as it sounds-- funny thing is, nobody seemed to mind. Kids these days!
Keep your eyes peeled for an interview with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and news on the forthcoming record.

Remaining tour dates and more photos ahead. You know how when you eat a lollipop, your mouth turns the color of the lollipop? Well, if you were to eat a lollipop made of pure Gun Club-style blues rock, you d end up with , the Atlanta foursome who are the newest signings to .

The band have already released two albums on and one on . Their Vice debut will be the recently recorded Live in Tijuana, a greatest hits package of sorts that will also include new songs. Live in Tijuana will come out on January 23.

A new studio full-length, produced by John Reis of and , will follow in the spring. Right now, the band is finishing up a tour of the U.S.

with . Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno s blew the minds of football (soccer, Americans, soccer) fans and Cannes Film Festival attendees alike, imagine what its -provided soundtrack will do. I mean, with those headphones so close to peoples brains and everything, it s bound to be explosive--like an aural butt to the.

..nevermind.

November 6, Zidane the album will be released in the UK via . Preceding it will be a limited edition two-track 10 and The Fountain soundtracks. They are currently on the road as well, with performances scheduled through mid-November.

Beck, TV on the Radio to Play Woodie Awards that, as well as for making every sentence mentioning the awards ceremony, which is set to be recorded on October 25 at New York s Roseland Ballroom, will feature live performances from Beck, TV on the Radio, Imogen Heap, and Gym Class Heroes, with additional acts on the way. The tape will air November 2 on mtvU and mtvU.com, with an edited version appearing November 4 on MTV.

The Woodie winners, which are decided by online voter polls (deadline to including the Arctic Monkeys, Gnarls Barkley, Imogen Heap, Lupe Fiasco, Gogol Bordello, Lady Sovereign, Wolfmother, Feist, the Raconteurs, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Ghostface Killah, Fiona Apple, Gorillaz, and many more. anthem of Winter 2006 has surfaced early. A year early, if you note that it, You Can Never Hold Back Spring , it is one of the many, many songs (also see: ) making up Waits upcoming three-disc new material/rarity set, Orphans: Brawlers, number, is fueled almost entirely by clarinet, piano, and Waits raspy voice, which rings so similar to Louis Armstrong s here, it s scary.

Plus, the track sounds like a bowl of Rice Krispies-- crackles all over the place. planning on spending the cold months ahead bathrobed, drinking hard cider next to the fire, and dreaming of seasons to come will have a It looks like Janet Weiss gig with is definitely a permanent thing. She is now an official member of the band, who will tour the West Coast in January, though specific dates have yet to be announced.

In an interview with , Weiss said she is excited about the fall/winter seasons [which] will most likely be dedicated to working on new material, and gearing up to record an album.
Weiss further explained the circumstances of her arrival in the band by saying, I ve been intrigued with the possibility of playing with the Jicks ever since John Moen left to be a Decemberist full-time. My schedule hadn t really allowed it though, until recently, when I became much more available.

[Jicks bassist] Joanna Bolme joined Quasi on our last round of tours, so I knew for a fact that our rhythm section could stir up some magic. And what self-respecting musician wouldn t jump at the chance to play with one of the staggering guitarists of our generation?!

I m excited to be in a situation where folks like to improvise, to push the envelope.
She also hinted at the sound of some of Malkmus new material. Steve s got a bunch of ballsy new songs.

I m enjoying getting inside a new and very different brain, trying to find the drum parts that suit his creativity. I appreciate how far out and wild he gets with his playing, and look forward to forging into some new territory.
Four years after the release of his first solo record, Fantastic Damage, label head is finally finishing its follow-up, the I ll Sleep When You re Dead.

The always busy producer-rapper said, It just feels good to be on the mic again, when he spoke to Pitchfork Monday about the album, which he hopes to release March 6 on Def Jux.
His collaborators on I ll Sleep When You re Dead include Trent Reznor, the Mars Volta, Aesop Rock, Cage, Mr. Lif (whose track might end up becoming a bonus cut due to scheduling), Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio), Matt Sweeney (Chavez/Bonnie Prince Billy/Zwan), James McNew (Yo La Tengo), Rob Sonic, Mr.

Dibbs, and Cat Power (more on that later). El-P qualified their involvement by saying, I don t really like records that are all about hardcore collaboration. It s really just about friends, and when I m making shit people drop by, you know?

So they ll pop up on little things, background vocals, but most of these people won t be listed, except in the credits.
El-P met Trent Reznor and the Mars Volta in separate instances of mutual fandom, which led to him remixing their songs. He called his remix of the Mars Volta s The Widow probably the best remix I ve ever done.

When it came to the collaboration on the new record, he said, I had them come in at the end of a song and kind of built something up around Cedric [Bixler-Zavala] singing and Omar [Rodriguez-Lopez] playing guitar. As for Reznor, who contributes to a song called Flyentology , he basically does the choruses and breakdowns, and he also plays guitar and bass in a section of it. I ve had the comment thrown at me for years: You re the Trent Reznor of hip hop!

I like his shit, so I was perfectly happy to take that, and it started to make sense to me: Hey, that would be a pretty crazy collaboration.
An even crazier collaboration is the one with Chan Marshall, who El-P said he knows from bumping into each other here and there. Working with Marshall on Poisonville Kids No Wins , the last song on the album, made a lot of sense, because El-P originally wrote the song while looping up Love Communication [from Cat Power s The Greatest].

I kind of forgot that I had done that, and then I went in and I sampled some heartbreaking James Brown shit that I threw in at the end. But I was like, Well a) I can t pay for this ever, and something s wrong here. Then I bumped into Chan and asked her to do it, and it wasn t until after she said yes that I realized that I had actually written the song to her music.

I didn t want to weird her out, but I told her afterwards. El-P plans to remix Love Communication , as kind of our trade, you know?
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