Crunk Hits Gets Vol. 3, Joined by Hyphy Hitz
Get low and go dumb simultaneously! is turning out the , and for Volume 3, the crunk umbrella (crunkbrella?
) gets even bigger. Seriously..
. Don t Cha ? LL Cool J?
Are we just including any song with a synth or a siren now? This could be the slippery slope to a NOW-like franchise, except without the limp acoustic ballads. Actually, that sounds pretty great.
TVT, please proceed.
Joining Crunk Hits, Volume 3 on its January 9 release, and also on TVT, is the compilation we re even more excited about: , which features 20 tracks from ghost riding Bay Area artists. Unsurprisingly, E-40 and Keak Da Sneak are all over the tracklist, though their enormously awesome -- probably the biggest actual hyphy hit-- is unfortunately absent.
Is there a sad thizz face emoticon? to discuss regarding their upcoming record, but you guys need yr fix, so On March 6, the guitarist/multi-instrumentalist will to Justice label , it s not, in fact, the new single from the shit-hot coming harder, better, faster, and stronger than most of their peers in this Love Is All, Long Blondes on Label Comp got the jump on all those older, more experienced indie labels, introducing U.S.
audiences to top-shelf acts from abroad and Pitchfork Ever charitable, they also nodded to homebred lo-fi spazz-rockers and spirited UK vets . Now all four acts and their respective Rupture? vinyl EPs onto CD-- 14 tracks in all-- and arrives February 6.
If, like WYR?, you re one to think ahead, flex your foresight and preorder it now Believe it or not, this will mark the first time the Long Blondes-- whose Someone to Drive You Home snuck into our , despite the fact that we, er, haven t actually reviewed it yet-- appear on CD in the contain yourself, bottle that energy and unleash it on the dancefloor at Imagine the Shapes record release show, going down February 4 at Los Angeles , as part of the club night. caUSE co-MOTION!
will perform, the kids will convulse, and the DJ will spin the Imagine comp in between sets if he/she knows what s good for him/her. caUSE co-MOTION tour the nation beginning next week; keep your browsers tuned to Pitchforkmedia.com for details.
For someone who s known as one of the godfathers of experimental extreme metal, is a pretty happy guy. Or at least he sure seemed that way when he spoke to Pitchfork recently about his current band, , which also includes bassist Diarmuid Dalton and drummer Ted Parsons. The former Napalm Death/Head of David/Godflesh/Techno Animal member was chatty as a schoolgirl when discussing Jesu s upcoming album and North American tour with , not to mention his slew of other projects.
The second Jesu album, Conqueror, comes out on on February 20 in the United States, February 19 in the UK and Europe, February 2 in Japan, and February 27 in the rest of the world. (Whew.) The Japanese version will be amended with a bonus disc containing the songs Sun Down and Sun Rise , originally released on a limited edition vinyl EP on .
The vinyl version of Conqueror comes out February 27 on . The appropriately epic title track can be heard by downloading the exclusive mp3 below.
On February 8, in the very spot where Prince once went crazy, heard doves cry, and saw you laughing in the purple rain (Minneapolis First Avenue club), will launch their American tour in support of their new album, Wincing the Night Away (due January 23 on , if you don t have that etched on the underside of your eyelids already).
They ll wince their way across half the country over the course of the following two weeks, after which they ll wince on over to England. Sub Pop says this is the first leg of the trek, so expect the second leg to appear sometime soon. And : the band will perform Phantom Limb and New Slang on Saturday Night Live on January 13.
into a rustic traveling song wasn t horseplay enough, the seven men and women Granted, most of that road is confined to Eastern Canada, but the septet will duck into the U.S. for a pair of dates in February and March.
And given all the empty days surrounding those gigs in Brooklyn, and yes, Iowa, don t be surprised if Rock Plaza decides to rock all over their Southern neighbors faces in the near future. Consider our fingers crossed. all their own.
Their duo, , will spend February and March on record, which is due January 16 on Stirrat s label (note: the first Then, hopefully, they ll get back to working on that new Wilco record.
s third album-- titled The Third Hand, appropriately enough-- comes out March 6 on , and he s done the trad rock thing by booking a tour the same month as the album release. The trek begins March 9 in his hometown of Columbus and, as it stands right now, ends March 24 in Baltimore.
RJD2 has also announced The Third Hand s tracklist, which includes the You Never Had It So Good and Get It , which is newly streamable from his . Despite the claim in his Pitchfork that Third Hand was a pop album, we re still hearing a lot of hip hop in Get It s syncopated drums, clipped vocal coos, and tinkling background electronics. It sounds like just the sort of downbeat instrumental that he brought in spades to .
So RJ, you re on watch. We expect nothing less than a full-blown chorus from your next MySpace track!
Peter Bjorn and John Tap Victoria for U.
S. Gigs a blizzard this winter, we can hardly blame you. selection and Now U.
S. audiences are in for a special treat: not only have announced that Victoria herself will be present at all three U.S.
gigs to trade lovelorn verses with Peter. Maybe she ll shake a tambourine or ride a pony around the stage too or something, who knows? That trio of U.
S. dates falls smack dab in the middle of a PB J world tour, which also has our pop-tastic Swedish friends hopscotching about Europe, Australia, and Japan. finally receives a proper U.
S. release on February 6 via the brand new six-song bonus disc.
In the greatest fight of summer 2007, it s looking like everybody s a winner.
As , May fiesta boasts the knock-down, drag-out matchup of . Half of the festival s lineup is being curated by attendees, using a handy . The other half is chosen by All Tomorrow s Parties themselves.
So far, the bill is pretty great. Modest Mouse, Shellac, the Books, Apples in Stereo, Micah P. Hinson, and Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies have been added to the previously announced squad of Built to Spill, the Notwist, Sparklehorse, Echo the Bunnymen, Akron/Family, Do Make Say Think, Brightblack Morning Light, and Death As we type, Pavement, Bj o rk, Interpol, the Shins, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Prince Billy, PJ Harvey, Iron Wine, and Belle and Sebastian head up the fans wishlist.
The Shins, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sonic Youth, and Pavement (duh) are all unavailable, as are the Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Ween, and Silver Jews.
18-20 at Butlins Minehead in Somerset, England. Meanwhile, the curating of the , which takes place at the same venue from April 27-29, in the gnarled hands of the .
Newly revealed artists for that festival include Joanna Newsom and White Magic, in addition to performers Cat Power, Bill Callahan, Spiritualized, Low, Nick Cave and Grinderman, and many more.
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