few weeks now, mulling over more clever ways to say outstanding, surefire year-end list banger , and future classic before it arrives on October 3. Far as we can tell, this sucker hasn t even leaked its way into internet realms yet (not that we d ever partake of illicit, sinful, morally depraved downloading if it did-- PLEASE!), so it is with double the generosity that the kind folks at today allow Pitchfork to share with you, kind readers, the exclusive world premiere of Boys and Girls rollicking first single.
Chips Ahoy! finds Craig Finn and company spinning a fine yarn about a perplexing, clairvoyant gal who throws narrator Finn for a loop: I love this girl, but I can t tell when she s having a good time. Don t sweat it, Craig-- millions of fist-pumping, air-guitaring boys and girls across America
Leave naught but bloodshed, screaming fans in their wake Love them or rather puree your genitals in a blender while listening to Puddle of Mudd than ever hear them again, there s no denying that are quite an alternative rock juggernaut these days.
The flamboyant fourpiece has just announced an October-long North American tour of appropriately massive venues, kicking off a few days after Sam s Town arrives in a million teenage bedrooms on October 3. But enough with the snarkery! Here are the datez:
10-20 Toronto, Ontario - Koolhaus
10-24 New York, NY - Theatre at Madison Square Garden
10-25 New York, NY - Theatre at Madison Square Garden
Having matured past their dread Mascara-cum-New Wave phase, it seems the Killers have now entered a Mexican Missionary Melodrama-cum-Stadium Rock phase, as evidenced by the new trailer for the music video-- excuse me, pel i cula -- for airwave-divebombing single When You Were Young .
Didn t Jon Secada do this already?:
Nimble, often instrumental, and powerful as hell, isn t the easiest beast to brand, but we love them all the same. (And not just because guitarist Mia Clarke is a Pitchfork contributor.
) They love us too, and to show it, the four-piece has assembled a rarities compilation to whet fans appetites until the next Electrelane album arrives. Entitled Singles, B-Sides Live, this monster drops on August 22 in the U.S.
(and the day before in the UK) through .
The collection features 16 tracks, including A- and B-sides released on Indenial/Skint, Fierce Panda, the group s own Let s Rock! label, and Too Pure.
It includes a kickass cover of Springsteen s I m on Fire ), a John Peel session selection ( Oh Sombra! ), and three live tracks (including the band s stab at Leonard Cohen s Halleluj-- psyche!-- The Partisan ).
Electrelane s four steadfast pistons-- Clarke, Emma Gaze, Ros Murray, and Verity time pursuing personal interests and solo/side projects (Verity as , contributing a track to the forthcoming Jens Lekman-curated Arthur Russell tribute; Ros in , , , and probably a few more obscure Iberian lo-fi bands, and Clarke writing for The Wire, Venus, and you-know-who).
No release date has being bandied about for the new album yet, so it would be safe to assume beginning of 2007 at the earliest.
It took a while for former Slint, Tortoise, and Zwan member and Stereolab and Palace contributor to get out from under the shadow of his M pseudonyms (Papa, Ariel, and plain ol M) and release material under his own surname, but after last year s well received Pajo, he isn t showing any signs of slowing down.
His second album under the Pajo moniker, called 1968, arrives this coming Tuesday, August 22 via .
probes, and..
. ? No doubt about it.
has scheduled its annual technology fair, taking place in New York from September 27-October 1 this year, and Beck is in charge of its soundtrack. Next Music serves as the event s kick-off concert, and it will go down September 26 at Irving Plaza. Beck has selected (okay!
) and (what?) to take the stage. Last year s event took place in Chicago, was curated by Jeff Tweedy, and featured Joanna Newsom and the Handsome Family.
Tomorrow, here we come! As reported by Portland, Oregon s , have joined the roster. Menomena s Danny Seim was kind enough to chat with us on the phone earlier this week; he enlightened us on not record, side projects, tour plans, and parental advisory intentions.
Menomena s choice of new label, Seim said, It was a decision kind of long in the making. We felt that we had kind of reached the point in our career in the band that we needed someone to kind of take over the reins a bit, and allow think that the Barsuk thing, we ve really grown to trust them over the past for us. completely amicable.
In fact, it wasn t even a full-on departure. Seim to the band s back catalog, as well as future vinyl releases. In addition, the dudes from Barsuk and FILMguerrero are buds!
That s like fooling around with your old project, , along with Gang of Four s Dave Allen.) Menomena have already finished up most of the work on their Barsuk debut, Friend and Foe, and plan to release it in January 2007. Blankets author did the artwork.
Xiu Xiu Adopt New Member, Prep Sixth LP Got any big plans for the fall? Going to finally hop on that treadmill? Alphabetize that record collection?
Take that art class? Ask that girl out? Well guess what, buddy: you re a total slacker.
Bona fide, top notch. At least compared to your art-damaged, hyper-prolific pals in . We hacked into Jamie Stewart s pink polka dot Blackberry (jk) so you could cop a glance at their fall to-do list and weep:
1.
Add new member: , aka tourmate Congs for Brums, aka drummer/percussionist extraordinaire and Tom Waits/Mr. Bungle collaborator; refer to Xiu Xiu henceforth as trio, consisting of Smith, Jamie Stewart, and Caralee McElroy.
2.
like wildfire with Smith in tow (both solo and with Xiu Xiu); recap dates below, and what the hey, add a few new ones.
3. Continue work on sixth studio album, already halfway complete.
Use non-programmed percussion (first time!). Sing Freddie Mercury part in cover of Queen s Under Pressure ; phone (Angels of Light/ex-Swans) about singing Bowie part.
4. Release fifth studio album, The Air Force, on September 12. Thank for their help.
Reminisce way back to 2002 when first album was released; opine wistfully, Those were the days...
5. Remind the good folk out there of , collaboration with , arriving November 7 via .
6.
Tell those good folk of The Air Force s four music videos: Hello From Eau Claire v. 1.0 and 2.
0 (dir. of Pox video fame), Bishop, CA (dir. ), and Boy Soprano (dir.
Jose Perez).
7. E-mail and get crackin on the next album; record in Italy in December.
9. IM Freddy Ruppert ( ) about new synth pop/darkwave collaboration.
10.
Prep remix album (5RC) and video collection for 2007.
11. Visit a bunch of cities (see itinerary after the jump) 12.
Chortle at the underachievers.
Calm down, people. are NOT breaking up.
A little while ago, it was reported by various publications that the Canadian collective will go on hiatus after a fall American tour, the dates for which were announced today and can be seen after the jump. According to the band s publicist, the hiatus will be exactly that-- a well-deserved break. No indefinite Sleater-Kinney steez here, just a bit of time off after an intense year or so of touring.
Which makes total sense.
Live Franz, Outkast, Dizzee on BBC Comp
Also Basement Jaxx, 50 Cent, Queens of the Stone Age, Oasis will join the radio-show-compilation ranks when it releases an eponymous double disc set on September 18 in the UK, according to a report from NME.com.
In addition to Live Lounge in-studio performances of standards like Outkast s Ms. Jackson and Basement Jaxx s Romeo , the compilation also features a number of covers, including Franz Ferdinand s version of Gwen Stefani s What You Waiting For , Embrace s cover of D12 s How Come , and-- just what we all needed-- another cover of Hey Ya , this time by Pop Idol winner Will Young. Other cover selections include Coldplay s The Scientist by Natasha Unwritten Bedingfield, the Darkness I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Lemar, Hard-Fi s Living for the Weekend by Sugababes, and Pharrell s Frontin by Jamie Cullum.
Shockingly, nobody covers Crazy on this compilation.
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