Exclusive: MP3: Teddybears ft. Annie: "Yours to Keep (remix)" , by the Swedish electronic trio , has lived three lives. The original version, featuring vocals by Teddybear Klas Aring;hlund s wife Paola, appeared on the group s 2001 album Rock n Roll Highschool.
A re-recorded take, with vocals by and , will be on Teddybears American debut, Soft Machine, set for digital release next Tuesday, September 19, and in independent stores on September 26. (The song is also currently the iTunes store s free single of the week.) And now, Pitchfork has an exclusive download of a brand new remix of the track, tweaked by Teddybears themselves, and featuring only Annie on vocals.
It turns the breezy, summery tune into a dirty dance-punk banger with hard guitars and a pounding four-on-the-floor beat. album, Dark Light Daybreak, the follow-up to 2004 s Fall Back Open. In support of the disc, the Andy LeMaster-fronted collective has an extensive U.
S. tour lined up. The jaunt is scheduled to kick off in early October, but a couple weeks before that, Now It s Overhead will take part in the in Atlanta.
But will the Who understand his Patton-ed brand of weirdness? Watch out! is jumping out of the bushes / driving by slowly in a van / prowling around a rock venue near you.
Mike Patton s kooky, star-studded musical project-- borne of some ambitious music file swapping with such artists as Bebel Gilberto, Massive Attack, Kool Keith, Norah Jones, Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, Odd Nosdam, Doseone, and Dan the Automator-- just wrapped up opening for Gnarls Barkley. Now, Peeping Tom will hit the road this month with this relatively popular rock act called . The Who?
? Exactly.
The tour kicks off September 12 in Philadelphia and continues around the east coast, including a two-night stint at Madison Square Garden.
Peeping Tom will then ditch the mods at the end of the month to play the Wired in NYC, joined by superstar DJ Diplo and superstar non-DJ Girl Talk, who sure plays a mean laptop.
The live incarnation of Peeping Tom includes human beatbox Rahzel, members of Dub Trio, singer/violinst Imani Coppola, and others. For the self-proclaimed greatest band in the world, it seems quite an oversight that have waited until now to issue a best of compilation.
However, the band wanted to do it right, so they selected the eighteen tracks for the forthcoming Stop the Clocks themselves. The hits compilation is scheduled for a November 20 release in the UK.
According to NME.
com, the band is also planning to release their first film this year. Its title: Lord Don t Slow Me Down. Considering how long these releases have taken them, it s hard to imagine them going much slower.
Polyphonic Spree Ditch the Robes! During their Beginning Stages, Tim DeLaughter-led cult-poppers and recent inductees donned dove-white robes; for their Heavy period, they swapped the monochromatic attire for a parade of robes in assorted rainbow colors. Now, with new album The Fragile Army slated for early 2007 release, it s time for a new wardrobe.
And just when you thought the Polyphonic Spree couldn t get any damn sunnier, they get...
er, dark? And..
.militant? What the shit?
?
Believe it: the Spree fall fashion line has arrived, and black, quasi-militaristic collared jackets with red crosses are totally en vogue. Fragile army, you see.
Or, as Pitchfork s Tyler Grisham wryly observed: Danielson meets Slipknot.
But don t take our word for it-- scope Pitchfork reader and Spree fan TJ Goodwin s photos. Or check out the new digs at two Texas home-state shows this week-- Dallas Granada Theater on September 13 and Austin s Emo s on the 14-- where the PS will be joined by Good Records buds Philip E Karnats and Pilotdrift.
You may well hear their cover of Nirvana s Lithium too, which appears on the iTunes exclusive Wait EP, available now.
Montreal drama kings and queens rolled into Chicago s last Thursday, bringing along a lavish light show and a set polished to a shine, heavy on tunes from 2004 s breakthrough , but surprisingly shorter on selections from their latest, this year s Gang of Losers. What the sextet lacked in spontaneity and warmth, it made up for in craft and spectacle-- playing tight, extended and enriching dramatic interludes, and punctuating cathartic moments with guitar histrionics and dazzling flashes.
Apart from singing, frontman Murray Lightburn kept mum throughout the first half of the set, not once acknowledging his audience. On the one hand, it preserved the mystique and austerity of these tunes that take themselves so seriously; on the other, it seemed frustratingly at odds with a band whose lyrics are so full of we-feel-your-pain-isms.
Graciously, some onstage joke broke Lightburn s gruff visage midway through the performance, and we got a sly smile out of the man.
He later used the breakdown in Postcard From Purgatory to offer thanks at last to the audience (who seemed largely enrapt regardless), claiming that was all he had to say. Fair enough. Gentleman s voice sounded superb, rich in tone and dexterously painting words and navigating registers.
Now if only we could get those lyrics up to snuff...
The Dears play three more U.S. dates in the coming weeks, then jet off for an extensive tour of Europe.
Dates and more photos ahead.
Also Death Cab for Cutie, Pearl Jam, Devendra Banhart In 1986, Neil Young s wife Pegi helped found the , a Northern Californian educational program for students with communication impairments. Her husband has been organizing benefit concerts for the organization from the beginning.
This year s event will mark two decades of the benefit, which has featured past performances from Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Wilco, Bright Eyes, R.E.M.
, Thom Yorke, and Tom Waits, among others.
The will again be held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre outside of San Francisco. The lineup includes Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Devendra Banhart, Trent Reznor, and Dave Matthews Band, in addition to some unannounced special guests.
The event will take place on October 21 and 22.
Clipse, Shins, Girl Talk, Thermals Added to CMJ has announced even more performers for its fall extravaganza, the , which kicks off in NYC on October 31 and runs through November 4. Predictably, the additions are pretty incredible, running the gamut from the indie-normous (the Shins) to recent favorites (the Thermals) to the lame (Medeski, Martin and Wood).
But the name that made us don sackcloth and ashes, burn all of our earthly belongings, and weep with joy in thanks, is . Now that all of our shit s burnt up, we re not quite sure how we re going to get to New York, but we ll find a way.
Unfortunately, the Boy Least Likely To have canceled their appearance at the festival.
We re not sure why, but we hope they re not beefing with Clipse. No offense to the British duo, but we re pretty sure Pusha and Malice would win that one.
It s been just about a year since Chris Palko, aka , released his debut, Hell s Winter.
Since the record hit stores, he s logged over 80 days on the road, according to his own estimation-- enough to weary even the most steadfast rapper. However, last month, Cage dropped off a tour with friends Gym Class Heroes that was to begin on September 14. (He was replaced on the tour by Def Jux labelmates Hangar 18.
) Pitchfork recently had a chance to catch up with the emcee to find out his reasons for the cancellation, as well as some news about his forthcoming record, Depart From Me.
It was a number of things, said Cage, regarding his decision to stay off the road. At that point, I was in the middle of a grueling tour.
I was just kind of losing it. And the label was like, When s the next record coming? I wasn t getting anything done on the road.
I d come home for a couple of days and then go back out for a straight month.
On top of that, it seems that, financially, it just wasn t worth his while. I would have had to [pay] out of my own pocket to open up clubs that I had already been selling out.
That on top of everything, was just like...
I just couldn t do it. It was just asking way too much. He is planning a headlining tour for this coming January, however, so fans will only have to wait a few more months to catch Cage live.
But the wait should be worth it, as he s hard at work on the new LP and may showcase new tracks.
Just three days after that their next album, Friend Opportunity, will be released on / on January 23, 2007, have dribbled out even more delicious morsels of newsy goodness. First of all, there s the Friend Opportunity tracklist, which is printed below, as well as the fact that the album artwork was created by Scottish artist , the man behind Bonnie Prince Billy s Agnes Queen of Sorrow and Blur s Good Song videos.
Then there s the announcement that the band is working with composer Ed Shearmur on the soundtrack to the film Dedication, directed by actor Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive, Six Feet Under, Miami Vice) and starring Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, and Amy Sedaris. Finally, and most amazingly, on October 23 and 24, at Waterman s Community Center in North Haven, Maine, the will perform a Milk Man ballet, based on Deerhoof s 2004 album of the same name. It will primarily feature kids from grades three through eight.
In fifteen years, if you meet a kid who graduated from North Haven Community School in North Haven, Maine, and they complain about how much their elementary school or middle school sucked, feel free to call them a liar, and then beat them up.
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