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.
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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.
fans, you owe me big time. My hands just took the test of a lifetime typing up the mammoth tracklisting for the nine-disc Andy Partridge Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album box set, and 100 tracks from the XTC frontman s musical archives, all of which were grabbed from the band s Virgin Records era. The material is spread over eight volumes final cut.
In addition, Partridge has re-addressed and completed several songs especially for the series, which, by the way, is due in the U.S. on October 10 via his own label , which is distributed by Ryko.
features a Fuzzy Warbles stamp cover!) will be packaged in a special collectors box, as will an oversized booklet featuring notes entitled A Brief History of Home Taping by Partridge himself. Disc nine, Hinges, is a bonus album only available with this set.
Totally blowin' up in Decatur, IL Yes, it appears that Sufjeezy isn t only inspiring these days, as veteran underground rap crew have used Stevens A Son Came jam Dumb I Sound as the basis for their new track Razorblade Salvation . Producer Stoupe and lyricist Vinnie Paz have also enlisted Sufjan collaborator/ principal Shara Worden to croon the hook. Razorblade Salvation appears on Jedi Mind Tricks forthcoming fifth album, Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, due out September 19 on .
has only been out since April, but the band is already hard at work on its follow-up. According to the band s label, Warner Bros., Doug Martsch and co.
have been popping in and out of the studio while on the road, as well as during They ve got the ear of Thurston Moore, and now, Nashville cool kids have their sights set on the ears of America and a bit of Canada on their upcoming tour. They re bringing and labelmates and with them, as well as more energy than ComEd. BYOP are currently finishing up their European festival dates this month, with their proper North American tour kicking off September 19 in Newport, KY.
Bring your own self to the dates listed after the jump. A jittery, raucous debut album (Make It Pop) and a soundboard manned art-punkers in 2002, and brought instant comparisons to the Jesus Lizard, Captain Beefheart, and Mclusky. But after a string of hiatuses (hiati?
) and a seemingly endless search for a bass player (Justin Stone, at present, is their sixth), the future of the band came into question. So, like, what s the answer? Well, we re still not entirely sure.
Neither is First, we have some good news. Gaverick and the Giddy via on Monday, August 21 in Europe and November 28 in North America.
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