As previously reported, sets his Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers Bastards loose on America November 21 and Europe the day before, via . Two already escaped prematurely-- and -- and Pitchfork just scooped up another one.
Its name is Road to Peace , and careful, cause it s one of the brawlers.
It s also quite the political scamp, going on for a good seven minutes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and questioning the ethics of the sitting U.S. president.
At times it sounds like Waits is reading straight off the CNN ticker, but we forgive him, because these are vital topics that ought to be on folks minds.
Surprise surprise! The new track features Eddie Argos shouting over punky chords and a sloppy rhythm.
No news there. However, the production on their forthcoming single (due November 13 on ) is much slicker than that of , and the band seems more sure of itself. As usual, Argos lyrics are both simple and profound at the same time, musing on what it s like to be an adult with an adolescent obsession-- rock n roll.
Funny, I think about that every day. Click below for photos from Art Brut s show last night at the here in Chicago, taken by Andres Delahoz, as well as Art Brut s latest tour dates.
Austin s have evolved into a formidable live act with a devoted, wildly enthusiastic fanbase and a quality catalog of tunes, so it was hardly a surprise when they brought down the house this past Saturday at the first of two sold out shows at Chicago s .
Highlights included scorcher For Real , rollicker The Latest Toughs , murder ballad Westfall , sing-along encore closer Okkervil River Song , and a spirited cover of s Pictures of Adolf Again . Conspicuously absent was new ditty , however Okkervil frontman Will Sheff did promise an almost entirely different setlist for fans lucky enough to score tickets to the second Chicago gig.
Remaining dates and photos ahead.
Oh, you tried to call me just now and I didn t answer? Sorry, I was busy undergoing the most pointless three minutes and forty-nine second of my existence, and the music was loud. and boy, is it ever a waste of time.
The crystal-clear, super-cinematic you, but the under-enthused band wouldn t hold an audience for long. And happens tonight on NBC (12:35am EST). The , a recording of Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins 9:30 Club show, will be webcast live around 7:30pm EST Sunday evening.
Lewis is currently working on new solo material and the next Rilo Kiley album, as well as waiting around to take part in an upcoming Postal Service disc. And getting blown off by Too $hort. She and the Watson Twins will continue their already underway tour through early December.
mouse click, because has arranged a special incentive for customers who pre-order s Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition from participating record stores. Record stores?!
Remember those?! pre-order, customers will be given a unique code via e-mail; this enables them to download the entire live show, recorded April 24, 1994 at L.
A. s Palace, when Pavement were just introducing Wowee tracks to their Then, on November 7, Sentinels Edition and the aforementioned vinyl. The latter s A-side boasts Rain s release.
It was originally slated for a Thurston Moore-curated compilation, but that didn t end up happening. The B-side different vocals and a slightly different mix than the album brought.
Prince Billy, King Biscuit Time, and Darkel-- there s a new solo sheriff in town, and his name is way, way cooler than yours.
Meet , Darren Mooney and Martin Duffy, the People s Revolutionary Choir s Jim Townsend, and Cornershop s Adam Blake for guest appearances. to emerge this fall, including Come Hear the Trumpets (currently streaming on Garza s ) which will feature remixes from Shawn Lee, Fort Knox Five, and Beyond short tour of the States this Sunday. Supporting Garza in his live band are James Canty (Make-Up, Ted Leo/Pharmacists), Jerry Busher (Fugazi), Ashish Vyas (GoGoGo Airheart), and Salem Steele.
When you re beautiful-- --like is, you can do things mere mortals wouldn t be able to get away with. Like wear a hideous, ripped-up, tie-dyed t-shirt with your black bra hanging out and hoop earrings and a plastic headband that look like they come from Claire s in the Staten Island Mall..
.and . interview.
The songs are solo versions of Love Communication , John John , the Rolling Stones Satisfaction , and Hank Williams Ramblin Hmm...
why does that sound familiar? Could it be because Marshall already did a solo version of and ? Maybe.
The real treat, though, is the interview, in which Marshall schools her idiotic interviewer in Miami rap, feminine hygiene, and M. Night Shyamalan. Usually, when man meets sheep, we get some sort of icky Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) scenario.
But when meet sheep, we get a rock n roll EXPLOSION. Literally--there s wool flying everywhere in this brand new clip for Oxford Collapse s Please Visit Your National Parks , directed by the mysterious team known as Michael, and from their new album , out now on . There s also cassette tape flying everywhere.
Ah, nostalgia. In case you need a reminder, this track is an . If anybody has the blues, it s , the creative force behind , whose The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events-- -- soaked the world in gloom this week.
Merritt and current Archies co-conspirator/ Unfortunate Events scribe (aka Daniel Handler) take a cue from Bob Dylan s oft-parodied Subterranean Homesick Blues in this -directed teaser clip for the Archies Scream and Run Away . It features about half of the actual Merritt-penned tune, with Snicket (face obscured, as always) tossing through a series of unfortunate (and funny) cue cards. Hilarious too that Count Olaf can t count.
And don t worry, there s also some screaming and running away.
Fujiya Miyagi Prep Transparent Things for U.S.
Album due in North America on January 23 via Deaf, Dumb Blind Communications From the looks of it, Brighton-based Pitchfork faves are about ready to go Super Saiyan. Their latest full-length, Transparent Things, has been stockpiling acclaim not only from the international music press but from some of the world s most prestigious DJs as well, including Optimo, Erol Alkan, and the DFA s James Murphy. Last month, your pals here at the Fork tagged it , saying, they re doing for 70s krautrock and motorik what the DFA did for early 80s electro.
Indeed, without even being asked, they ve gone and done the unthinkable: They ve actually made krautrock fun. So why can t you get a hold of the goddamn record? Well, if you re anywhere in Europe, congratulations: You can just walk into whatever record store and buy it with all your weird-looking money.
Unfortunately, we Americans will have to wait for its proper stateside release. The good news is that Fujiya Miyagi have just inked a U.S.
distro deal with (also home to those The Other Side Of...
comps curated by Ellen Allien, Fischerspooner, and Black Strobe), and are planning to bring the album to our shores January 23. The bad news? Until then, DD+B has banned all import sales of the record (what!
)-- although opening track and debut U.S. single Ankle Injuries will be available via iTunes on November 7.
The North American edition may also feature different cover art, which, if it winds up anything like the ass-ugly artwork on DD+B s website, will be grounds for much sadness. The band s management was nice enough to send over a Euro copy of the record, and to say it sports some of the most beautiful packaging we ve seen all year would not be a stretch. Compare: DD+B, if you re reading this, wtf!
Stream: The Fountain Clips Ft. Mogwai, Antony is probably one of your favorite music-makers-- you just didn t realize it. The former frontman has collaborated with Trent Reznor, but he s best known these days as a film composer.
In addition to scoring such movies as Sahara, Doom, and Trust the Man, he s partnered with director for all three of his projects: 1998 s Pi, 2000 s Requiem for a Dream, and this year s , due in theaters November 22. , Mansell s score for The Fountain is performed by in collaboration with . , home of Kronos Quartet, will release on November 21, and they have posted a few pieces of the soundtrack on their website.
Clips of nine of the disc s 10 tracks can be heard . Of the nine thirty-second samples, Tree of Life seems the most Mogwai-ish, with droning guitars bubbling under Kronos whirling strings. The epic Death Is the Road to Awe can be heard in its entirety via .
Building and building to a crashing climax featuring screaming feedback, a choir, and bells, it s exactly the kind of vertiginous high we ve come to expect from Mansell s music. As an extra special treat, Mansell has posted an alternate outtake version of the track The Last Man on his . It features s fluttery, almost wordless cooing over mysterious, melancholy piano.
Ghostface, Kweli, Dilla, Common on New DJ Hi-Tek Disc Reppin for the 513, Cincinnati DJ and part-time MC has worked with , , and even in the past, but his second solo album is all him. Well, him and a couple dozen of his high-profile MC friends.
Featuring contributions from the aforementioned Kweli, as well as Ghostface Killah, Common, Nas, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, The Game, Jadakiss, Bun B, Devin the Dude, Kurupt, Papoose, the late J Dilla, and many others, Hi-Teknology 2: The Chip is Hi-Tek s first album since the original Hi-Teknology dropped in 2001.
Hi-Teknology 2: The Chip hits the streets October 17 via . , Hi-Tek guests on the new Talib Kweli record, and joins Kweli, OK Go, and Bootsy Collins for the grand re-opening of Cincinnati s tomorrow, October 14. first signing, electro-genius Frank Tovey (aka ), is finally getting his due with the release of Fad Gadget The four-disc set (two CDs, two DVDs) will land in U.
S. record stores on October 17, and features an exclusive new documentary on Tovey s life and his career, which began in the late 1970s alongside those of electronic iconoclasts like Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Normal, and continued into this century, with Tovey opening for Depeche Mode s Exciter tour. Unfortunately, it ended with Tovey s unexpected death in 2002.
unreleased tracks, classic Tovey/Gadget tunes, concert footage, television performances, easter eggs, and package, which was put together by Tovey s family in conjunction with Mute, dropped in Europe last month.
Their gear is intact, but their morale is not: Last week, on their current world tour supporting the just-released And Now That I m in Your Shadow, (the ) were the victims of theft.
On October 3, as the band performed at Toronto s El Mocambo, thieves broke into their van.
The damage? According to a representative: Two laptop computers, all of their show money, all of their merchandise money and all their clothes.
Damien Jurado the man and the band still have a ton of dates scheduled in the U.
S. and Europe, so go to a show and buy a t-shirt. In fact, buy t-shirts beforehand and give them to the band.
They need them. Awwwwwwshit. Look who put a bunch of new tunes on his .
Take a stroll down the substance-addled corridors of a very unique musical mind today by visiting , motherfucka.
If MC Adams foray into low-budget rap last month -- or made you of the man s possibly brilliant brand of inanity-- you need to click right now. On something called You Are the Audience.
.., Adams offers up no fewer than 36 new tracks, most of them well under a minute, and all of them pretty goddamn hilarious and/or insane.
You Are the Audience...
is divided genre-wise roughly into thirds, the first comprised of high-speed, three-chord, tongue-in-cheek punk, the second tempering the punk vibes with corny-ass beats (likely from the same cheap beatbox as Adams rap s backing track) and general weirdness, and the third an onslaught of whiskey-soaked country jams. Alas (or praise the lord, depending on your capacity to tolerate this guy), not much rapping here.
The whole thing is marinated in sound-bites, including plenty of cock-a-doodle-dooing, toilet flushing, gun noises, helicopter chatter, and Chuck Norris snippets, surrounding some choruses you ll not soon forget, including:
Fuck you Abraham Lincoln, I don t owe you shit!
/ Monster Mash, Monster Mash Incorporated!
But it s the opening line of the final track says it all: Drunk as a pile of fuck. Lily Allen, Bloc Party Push the Envelope for Charity This just in: both and s Kele Okereke know how to read.
And they want other people to know how to read as well. To that end, they ve joined the to raise funds for and Allen are just two of the many writers, actors, musicians, and artists who have jumped onboard PtE, designing one-of-a-kind hand-drawn envelopes for auction. With just under eight days left on the clock, Okereke has earned a bid of 33.
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