First things first: The Fall s current American tour is NOT canceled. I repeat: NOT canceled. Mark E.
Smith and his keyboardist/wife Elena Poulou are scheduled to perform each and every show as promised, including tonight s gig at San Diego s House of Blues. However, since the rest of the band has high-tailed it back to England after much on- and off-stage drama, the Smiths will be joined by members of the Chicago band the Cairo Gang, who share the Fall s American record label, Narnack. Of course, this being the Fall, who knows what will actually happen.
Perhaps by the time the tour reaches your town, the band will be Mark E. Smith and a few drunks picked up at a bar down the street. 05-09 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
Now, let s get back to the drama.
Remember how Justin Williams, frontman for the Talk, threw a banana peel at Mark E. Smith s head in Phoenix Sunday night, resulting in the show being cut short? And see how the Talk are still on the tour?
OK.*** Well, according to the Talk s label, MoRisen Records, after the frustrated Fall members left the tour, Mark E. Smith actually asked the Talk to become his new backing band!
(A rep from the Fall s label, Narnack, denies this.) Guess that banana peel didn t hurt too much. MoRisen claims that the Talk turned down Smith s offer, since they wouldn t have had enough time to learn the new songs and make the San Diego show tonight and the Pomona show tomorrow.
Apparently this wasn t a problem for the Cairo Gang, though. MoRisen also say that in the wake of the banana incident, the Talk have received death threats from rabid Fall fans around the world..
.and just as many supportive messages (from people chanting USA! USA!
, perhaps?). According to Narnack, the Fall s plans to record in Los Angeles next week will proceed as scheduled, with Smith adding vocals to tracks recorded in the UK months ago, and the Cairo Gang possibly filling in on some new songs.
***UPDATE: According to MoRisen, the Talk were on their way to the San Diego show, when they were informed that they were once again off the tour. The Cairo Gang will open for all dates following the break for recording. Yeah yeah, we know you know, because we keep telling you.
But we re Gilmore Girls , Sonic Youth s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, along with their daughter Coco, will perform What a Waste , from the new Sonic Youth album, Rather Ripped, due out June 13. Yo La Tengo, Sparks, Joe Pernice, and Sam Phillips will also appear. Some people think Gilmore Girls is the best TV show ever, and we aren t going to argue.
awesome photos Thurston Moore emailed us, taken on the set of the show. Here s Kim and Thurston with Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, photographed by Michelle Fleischli: And here s Coco Gordon Moore with Liza Weil, who plays Paris Geller on Gilmore Girls : $ with Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Beck, Elvis Costello, Cat Power, more
# with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Brian Wilson, TV on the Radio, more
^ with the Flaming Lips, Kanye West, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, the Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, the Shins, the Go! Team, Sleater-Kinney, the New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Built to !
with Iggy the Stooges, Bardo Pond, Six Organs of Admittance, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Charlambides, My Cat Is an Alien, the Skaters, And since Thurston Moore never misses an opportunity to make noise in public, he s got a few solo gigs scheduled as well: 05-10 New York, NY - The Stone (two sets)
When Don Caballero signed on with Relapse Records in January, Pitchfork warned them about making friends with all those metal dudes (clearly because of eardrum-blown-into-brain syndrome and all that), but apparently our advice was taken with a grain of salt, as the math-rock gods have developed a World Class Listening Problem. WCLP is the title of the band's Relapse debut, which is set to see light on May 16 in the U.S.
and May 22 everywhere else. As previously reported, Don Cab spent the winter months logging time at Al Sutton's Rustbelt Studios. The record was mastered by Alan Douches (laugh it up at the surname until you see his credentials: Sufjan, Animal Collective, Mastodon, the Rapture-- the list goes on), and has words like "Goofballs" and "Fecking" in its song titles, which we appreciate.
03 And and and, He Lowered the Twin Down Have you heard about Devendra Banhart and Lindsay Lohan? WTF, right? The paparazzi will have plenty of opportunity to stalk the happy (and probably imaginary) couple this summer, as Banhart has quite a slate of shows scheduled, taking place all over the world.
Before trekking to such exotic locations as Russia, Israel, and Tennessee, Devendra curates a day of the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival this weekend. He'll pay a visit to the May 22 Os Mutantes show in London and then co-headline a U.S.
mini-tour with Magic Numbers, leading up to Bonnaroo. And need we point out the magical coinky-dink that both Os Mutantes and Devendra are playing our own Pitchfork Music Festival? In between all the multi-continental concert-hopping, Devendra will show his latest batch of drawings at Galleria Emilio Mazzoli in Modena, Italy, starting June 24.
* with Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Espers, Bat for Lashes, Jana Hunter, Metallic Falcons, Danielle Stech-Homsy, Bert Jansch, Tarantula A.D.
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