The disc has Crow cawing through fourteen tracks, including Bam Bam , Chucked , Burns , and I Hate You, Rob Crow . Living Well boasts two versions of said self-deprecating number, and hilariously, the Single Version is longer than the Album Version . Stream the former by clicking the link below.
Headbangers might want to check their air guitar skillz at the door, however, as Living Well-- the follow-up to 2003 s My Room Is a Mess (Absolutely Kosher)-- features intensely personal lyrics which document Crow s courtship with his wife, their marriage, and the subsequent birth of their first child, according to a press release. If anybody can make such topics RAWK, however, it s daddy Crow.
Our chilled out patriarch will take to the road in support of the new album beginning in February, dates to be announced.
But don t think for a second he ll be slowing down in the time before then-- instead, Crow, whose wristwatch must run at half-speed, is starting a record label.
Robcore, as he s lovingly titled it, delivers its inaugural release-- Wake Up Swimming by Other Men-- on March 20. will handle distribution for Robcore.
And finally, Crow s Pinback-- who have a new LP on the way in 2007-- contribute to the O.C. Mix 6 with a cover of Black Flag s Wasted , .
Word on the beach is it s pretty god-awful.
Stephen Colbert claims he invented DVDs, challenges band to Sudoku match to the death While are busy using their major label money to get themselves into , the label from whence they came, , has announced the release of the band s first DVD.
The Decemberists: A Practical Handbook includes the band s November 4, 2005 concert at Portland s Roseland Theater in its entirety, as well as a documentary about the band called Paris Before the War and the videos for The Tain , The Bachelor and the Bride , 16 Military Wives , The Soldiering Life , and Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect .
Kill Rock Stars will release the DVD on March 20. The band s set list for the November 4 concert is listed below the jump. In other Decemberists news, there is a tantalizingly short Making of The Crane Wife clip up on YouTube now.
We can only imagine the in-depth interviews and pitch-perfect explanations of the recording process to come. But for now, content yourself with Part 1 , i.e.
a bunch of random aw shucks shots of the band in the studio. In anticipation of the U.S.
release of their fourth album, , via on January 23, have announced North American tour dates.
They have a sold-out show in London on December 14 and one in Glasgow in February, and they will hit American shores on March 2. According to a press release, these shows will be their only appearances in these markets in 2007, so fanboys-and-girls have three months to decide which color surgical mask to wear.
On February 5, Domino will release the single for If You Could Change Your Mind from Visitations.
As some of you may have noticed, earlier today, we posted an exclusive mp3 download of s Essential Mix for the BBC. Then it disappeared.
What happened? Well, hosting a two-and-a-half-hour dance mix put quite a bit of strain on Pitchfork s server, especially since the mix was so popular that a billion people tried to download it at once. We hope to have it back up by the weekend.
So sit tight. Believe us, it s worth the wait. Blood Brother, Dälek, Braxton Remix Minus the Bear Wayyy back in July, when your skin was being scorched by the sun rather than frostbitten by the wind, of and a cadre of remixers set to re-envision that Bear s 2005 set Menos El Oso.
With all those Bear bands bumming around of late, after all, a remix disc might be just the thing to lift Minus above Volcano, Grizzly, Huggy, and Panda on the hallowed last.fm charts.
Well we re now quite pleased to share the complete tracklist and title for Interpretaciones Del Oso, due February 20 via longtime Bear den .
The disc once again features remix work from (aka Morgan Henderson of the Blood Brothers), (aka D a lek), , (also of Battles), (aka Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves), , , (aka Yuuki Matthews of Squeeze labelmates Crystal Skulls), , (aka Monostereo), and (the Seattle dude, not the UK grimester).
Minus the Bear wrap up a UK tour tonight and tomorrow, and their for Pachuca Sunrise is in the running for video of the year on MTV 2 s Subterranean . Vote for it .
Cornelius Schedules Sensuous Shows, Plans Release Keigo Oyamada, aka Japanese electro/pop/noise auteur , has scheduled a trio of dates in Australia in order to play songs from Sensuous, an album he released last month in Japan but which has yet to find a home anywhere else.
Since Cornelius is no long on , he is currently looking for a distribution partner with whom he can release Sensuous in the U.S.
, possibly with bonus tracks. He hopes to release the album around the end of April, though nothing concrete has been determined.
Cornelius Australian dates begin December 6 in Sydney and end December 9 with an appearance at the alongside Band of Horses, Tapes n Tapes, and Girl Talk, among others.
Explosions in the Sky Tour With Eluvium, pAper chAse Seems every time the four mild-mannered gentlemen of swing back through town, the venues are twice as large and the kids are twice as excited-- I mean, if you were desperate for a pun or something, you could say these guys are blowing up.
This time around, however, they re clearly stricken with a severe case of the glums, as evidenced by the title of their latest longplayer, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone-- which drops February 20 via , . But rather than gazing longingly at old photos of everyone, they re getting their asses out of bed and coming to visit as much of everyone as they can, you know, given the quantitative enormity of everyone.
After a pair of NY gigs and a hop, skip, and jump through Europe, the Texas post-rock foursome sweeps across the U.S. and Canada with T.
Residence ambient buddy -- who has a record due early next year as well-- along for the ride. Spitting in the face of all that graceful, instrumental nonsense will be fellow Texans , who open a bunch of dates. The connection?
John Congleton of the chAse produced Miss Everyone. have finally spoken. The Brooklyn/Philly five-piece has titled its forthcoming self-released record, which is due on January 30, though fans can download it from the band s website on January 16.
The band has made two tracks available for download. Love Song No. 7 is a long, languid piano ballad that sounds like Aerosmith s Dream On .
..if Aerosmith were intentionally creepy and liked accordions.
Underwater (You and Me) shows off producer Dave Fridmann s signature majesty, with chiming bells and what sounds like pedal steel. Another track, Satan Said Dance is streaming on the Clap Your Hands right now, but we can t get it to work right now. Your Hands Say Yeah recently wrapped up a U.
S. jaunt with and . The three groups live tour EP, initially only sold on the road, can now be purchased online.
Please note that the opener, Some Loud Thunder , is also the title track on the new record. Finally, we d like to remind Perkins this February. Beforehand, however, they ll bring in the New Year at Les Savy Fav, Tokyo PC Lend Jams to College Hoops , with that Dan the Automator-produced soundtrack boasting a bunch of marquee names, like Ghostface, E-40, and Slim Thug?
Well make way for its brainy little cousin, 2K Sports . In the true spirit of college, this one sets the court hustle against music from a bunch of obscure no-names. You know, weird shit that skinny kid in your advanced calc class listens to, like and .
Those two P4k faves rock College Hoops 2K7 alongside folks like Good Riddance, Jupiter Hills (huh?), Cities in Dust (good tune), and P.O.
D. (brick!).
..and a bunch of underground hip hop I won t even pretend to know a thing about: 3rd Degree, Deux Process, Ellay Khule, Exile, GERM and Mighty Joe, Knonsense, MHE, Redline 99, the Sole Vibe, and SYKO.
Plus the Procussions, who had a single-of-the-week on iTunes, I think. And ! People like that guy.
College Hoops 2K7 is out now for XBox and XBox 360, and will hit both Playstation 2 and 3 in the near future. Like many before them, have formed their own record label, the tuff-named (perhaps after Akira Kurosawa s Macbeth-based ) Throne of Blood Records. Its initial purpose is to house the slew of vinyl singles and remixes culled from their latest album, , as well as the vinyl version of Pieces.
direction will be managed by the Rapture, and DJ will supervise its day-to-day affairs. forces with in the U.S.
, and and Schnauzer Records in Europe. Its first release, the single for Get Myself Into release, the Rapture plan to recruit some of the most influential In other news, the band made its way to the market two times yesterday-- once on their second UK single, Alright-Yeah..
.Uh Huh on the album), which boasts new B-sides Parisian duo s remix album, A Remix Selection Of the former song, the always wanted to have some fucking parentheses in a song title. It s so Janet modestly-sized tour of the UK.
Following this jaunt, which is set to begin in February, the Rapture will make two appearances at Australia s . Finally, the guys are up for The video for s new single, Lay and Love , is as weird a clip as we ve come to expect from the man who used Neil Hamburger to promote his new album. Will Oldham rents a moving truck, pays a guy to help him deck out the back, then pays a prostitute to sleep with the guy, but all they seem to do is eat.
The surprise ending (spoiler: the peanuts in Oldham s hand turn into a meatball) is equally baffling, though there s probably some mundane explanation for the whole thing. will release the Lay and Love single in the UK on January 22 on CD and 7 vinyl. The 7 will feature a cover of Bob Dylan s Going to Acapulco on the B-side, and the CD will feature Going to Acapulco , another Dylan cover ( Se or ), and the Lay and Love video.
The single will be out in America on at some point next year.
Bonnie Prince Billy will give the UK even more love when he begins his tour there in Glasgow on January 21.
1) Fishscale had nothing to do with cocaine.
2) Ghost stutters when he s frustrated.
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