We re losing our edge-- to the preternaturally hip elementary schoolers of North Haven, Maine. With the aid of drama teacher Courtney Naliboff and choreographer Ken Jones, the students of staged a musical late last month at based on s album. You saw the -- now scope the videos for a whopping six tunes, replete with milk-white costumes, balloons galore, and a live rock n roll band!
They re actually really, really nice.
, Deerhoof s latest LP, Friend Opportunity, hits the streets January 23, 2007, courtesy of . We hope this one spawns puppet shows, synchronized swimming routines, themed dinner parties, and doctoral theses.
Photo by Alice Bissell.
Flaming Lips Honored With Alley in Oklahoma City? thoroughfare in Oklahoma City-- where frontman Wayne Coyne resides-- named after them, reports.
But not just any old thoroughfare: an alley...
littered with open dumpsters, and...
poorly lit at night, the site writes. Note to Wayne: if you decide to visit this alley, pack the giant protective bubble. David Holt, an aide to the city s mayor, Mick Cornett, believes naming the Bricktown alley after the Lips (it is currently untitled) might inspire clean-up in the area.
The re-naming ordinance-- which also seeks to slap country superstar Vince Gill s name on another street-- will go before the OK City Planning Council on November 9. Then, according to a city council representative, the city council will hold a final vote during a meeting on November 28. Wayne wants this to happen and he sees it as a symbolic small road, the post reads.
The fact that it s an alley is even more appealing to him...
like a secret passage. Though it may have dumpsters and parked cars, it s real and authentic..
.It isn t Disneyland [and] they don t want that..
.it s not an obvious homage to entertainment..
.it s about finding something special in an unexpected place.
If Sopranos star/Springsteen guitarist/Sirius rock fan Steven Van Zandt couldn t save , the least he could do is resurrect another.
The DJ and host of has culled veteran glam punks the to headline the final month of his Rolling Rock and Roll Show touring festival.
In the 35 years since their first show, the Dolls have suffered the untimely losses of drummers Billy Murcia and Jerry Nolan, and guitarist Johnny Thunders. Then, mere weeks after Morrissey for a 2004 Meltdown Festival reunion, bassist Arthur Kane .
Now, with only two original members (hot hot hot David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain) still kicking, the Dolls are embarking on their first national tour since the Ford administration. As , Johansen and Sylvain recently teamed up for their first studio release in three decades, the moderately-received One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The tour also features fellow garage rockers Supersuckers, the Chesterfield Kings, and the Charms, as well as some tights-sporting, sequins-decked dancers called the Garage Girls A Go-Go.
Video: Cursive, Jimmy Eat World Dudes in Political Ad Boys and girls of America (aged 18+), you know the drill: tomorrow, November 7, is election day here in the United States, and the cool thing to do is VOTE. Sure, voting is also your quintessential contribution to a democratic society, your voice in government, your means of making a difference, etc etc, but it s also cool. Really cool.
Unbelievably cool. Like, indie rockers are doing it, and talking it up, so it must be cool, cool.
Just take it from these guys: / frontman Tim Kasher, chief Jim Adkins, (!
) guy Robin Wilson, and others, asking you about the issues in this campaign commercial for U.S. Congress hopeful , who seems like a pretty swell dude.
A little Googling and we learned the following: Mitchell s seeking to unseat Republican incumbent for Arizona s hotly-contested 5th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Apparently the folks in the commercial reside in or have roots in the AZ.
And sure, indie rockers shouldn t be telling you what to do, and some of these guys can t read a cue card for shit, but it s the thought that counts, people. So do your homework tonight and don t forget to hit the polls tomorrow.
Or Diddy will personally kill you.
The end of 2006 will also bring the end of , as the long-running band announced today that they will call it quits after two final shows, taking place December 15 and December 16 at Philadelphia s First Unitarian Church and New York City s Bowery Ballroom. Singer/bassist Caithlin De Marrais, guitarist Kyle Fischer, and drummer William Kuehn released the following statement:
We are grateful to our new listeners and especially our longtime fans for their endless support and attention.
We feel incredibly fortunate to have come up during a unique time in rock music, in a community that grew with us from the Midwest to Brooklyn and beyond. Making records has always been a revelation, and walking onto stage together we found a vision we could share.
For us, this transition can be nothing short of heartbreaking.
But for reasons both musical and personal, the three of us have chosen this time to move on.
Near as I can tell, it's all about killing. --Alan Sparhawk Just as the frost clears on the cusp of spring this coming year, it ll be time to get low with the stately winter-core of once again, as the Duluth trio-- now augmented with new bassist Matt Livingston-- unleashes its eighth long-player, and second for , tentatively titled The Violet Path.
As with its predecessor, 2005 s The Great Destroyer, The Violet Path features production from studio ace and fifth Flaming Lip . While on the road with the , Low s Alan Sparhawk was kind enough to share a few bits of information on the new disc with Pitchfork.
Themes of murder and death, as it happens, permeate The Violet Path.
Near as I can tell, it s all about killing, Sparhawk told Pitchfork. I was kind of realizing the other day that a lot of the songs deal with either killing someone or dying. I don t know, it s kind of funny.
..maybe that s the big question.
[We re] kind of living in a time when it s good to talk about killing and being killed. After weathering a line that wrapped almost the entire perimeter of venue the s block-- and enduring Radio Disney-grade blah-rock from prettyboy opener -- a nearly-packed Chicago crowd made way for the S-O-V. TRL queen took to the stage late Saturday night in a big, not-too-baggy t-shirt bearing her own lyric: Funky Little Monkey With the Tiniest Ears.
Backed by a four-piece band (five-string bass, drums, DJ, and street artist)-- and, impressively, no sidekick/hype-person-- she hissed, growled, wheezed, and spat her way through a short but mostly electrifying set that included Ch Ching , Random , and said lyric s source and her biggest hit to date, Love Me or Hate Me (from Sov s just released and long overdue Def Jam debut, ).
Our funky little monkey looked a little fatigued and a bit de-funked as she staggered through Tango , but she pulled herself together right good for some extended screaming during a cover of the Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant . Sov also demonstrated a flair for physical comedy, swiping her onstage graffiti artist s brush and painting her cheek bright red (to get random, you see), and sharing a clown-sized frown with the audience after she tossed her beer all over them, then went for a sip and came up empty-mouthed.
Underage! shouted some goon, who must ve forgot that wherever Sov goes, she reigns.
Lady Sovereign s tour with Young Love continues through December.
Dates and more photos ahead.
So do Simian Mobile Disco, Van She Julian Hamilton and Kimberley Moyes have undergone the remix treatment. On November 7, the pair more commonly known as will package a free bonus disc, titled Resets, with new editions of its 2006 LP, , which originally hit shops back in May.
Remixers featured on the limited edition, U.S.-only release include , , , , , and month.
That slab of vinyl is only available in the UK. As previously reported, the duo is currently supporting on their North American tour. After wrapping that up later this month, Moyes will spin four DJ sets in Japan before reuniting with Hamilton for a series of Australian festival appearances.
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