Pitchfork Music Festival Tickets on Sale Now! Let the games begin! Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the 2007 , taking place July 13-15 at Union Park in Chicago!
So head on over to ASAP, because this is our biggest year ever, and you don t want to get shut out. In case you missed it, that the fest has been expanded to three days, thanks to a partnership with series, which features music legends performing their seminal albums live in their entireties. Friday night, July 13, will be the series North American premiere.
On Saturday, July 14 and Sunday, July 15, the fun continues with performances from Cat Power, Clipse, Of Montreal, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark s Powerhouse Sound, and many, MANY more to be announced. Click fast, because three-day passes-- which cost only $45-- are extremely limited. A Saturday/Sunday pass runs are in the midst of taking on the road to the far-off reaches of Australia, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands.
But now they ve been kind enough to extend their travels to North American shores for a post-Coachella month of shows, after which they ll break before hitting a few European festivals. !!
! play tonight in Melbourne. And be sure to check out the band s bananas new website, where everything is in threes (just like the band name!
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Chaperones wanted: Responsible adults sought to oversee a bunch of hyperactive youngsters hopped up on punk rock and press accolades as they terrorize North America this spring. Job begins in late April at the Coachella festival and ends in late May in Orlando, Florida. (Yup, you re taking the kids to Disney world.
) Past experience with animals a plus, as we re dealing with and here. , Arctic Monkeys new album Favourite Worst Nightmare is due out on on April 23 in the UK and April 24 in the U.S.
The Brianstorm comes out a week earlier, backed by a collaboration with Dizzee Rascal. Alas, there s no other BYOP news to report.
Photos: Antony with the Brooklyn Philharmonic [Brooklyn, NY; 03/09/07] the Friendly Ghost took center stage this past Friday at the , his spectral incantations given appropriately rich and dramatic accompaniment courtesy of the .
Matt Ziegler took these photographs from the event.
, Antony has heaps of projects lined up, including dabblings in film and sound installation. He also duets with Bj o rk on her forthcoming .
Boeckner on Handsome Furs: It's basically Wolf Parade without the guy that everybody likes and no real instruments. Hey, ! It s been awhile.
Haven t heard much from you. Sure, there are all kinds of , including singer/guitarist Dan Boeckner s latest project, (much more on that later). But we really want to know about the main event.
You know, the band that recently won the Music Video of the Year for the ? Oh really, we won that? said Boeckner in a recent phone chat with Pitchfork.
The Hungarian Disaster! That s amazing! Hungarian Disaster?
Yeah, our friend Matt filmed [the video] in Hungary, Boeckner continued. I wasn t actually there for the video. [Keyboardist] Hadji [Bakara] actually found a human skull in the garbage of a Croatian restaurant in Budapest.
Whoa, that s incredible! Did you keep it? No, but there s an amazing picture of him holding it up.
We d sure like to see that! Alas, a Google image search for hadji wolf parade human skull didn t turn up anything. Fortunately, a new Wolf Parade album is closer at hand.
If everything goes according to plan, we re going to start recording the record over the next couple of weeks into the spring, Boeckner said. I d like to be finished with this record by May. Everybody s back to the same city and I think we re ready.
I know everybody s chomping at the bit to get this record recorded. And I think we re going to do it really, really fast, and record it ourselves. To be totally honest, we ve been working on this record since the last record was finished.
We have more than an album s worth of material that anybody who s come to see us live in the last year has heard. And the way it s going right now, I don t think a lot of those songs are going to get put on the record. We started writing brand new stuff, and we kind of re-arranged the way we were writing, which is really exciting.
[Co-frontman] Spencer [Krug], [drummer] Arlen [Thompson], Hadji and I have been just getting together and jamming for hours at a time without stopping and then putting it on tape. I think we re always looking for a way to do things democratically in Wolf Parade, because we ve all got our fingers in other things. And I think this way we ve achieved this total, idealistic, Marxist mindset, where we re just recording stuff as it gets written, and then going over it, saying That s a song, there.
And then playing it and adding lyrics to it. In the meantime, Boeckner is keeping plenty busy with Handsome Furs, his band with fianc e e Alexei Perry. Their debut album is due out on on May 22.
Friends, it s on! Nevermind the layer of snow caking Chicago right lotion, because Pitchfork is proud to announce the first round of acts Art Brut, and 35 more of your favorite artists playing beneath the gorgeous Chicago skyline during one famously hot summer weekend. This year we up the ante, expanding the festival to three days by opening Union Park Friday night to present the North American premiere of series.
For the unfamiliar, ATP and Don t Look Back invite music legends to perform their seminal albums live -- in their entireties. We aren t quite ready to reveal Friday s performers, but trust us: You will not be disappointed.
And that, of course, is just the beginning.
The festival continues Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15-- -- and we re pleased to announce the first round of artists, with many, many more to be announced soon.
Tickets go on sale THIS MONDAY, MARCH 12 AT 12 PM CDT via , and yes, they are still ridiculously cheap. A Saturday/Sunday pass runs you $35, while Saturday or Sunday individual passes go for $25.
Friday s only $15-- and, for the truly adventurous, act fast to score At Pitchfork we love tours, and we sometimes love offbeat covers, so and are pretty much making our day right now.
The pair hits the road tonight as part of a month-long jaunt that has them playing shows with such fine folks as Marnie Stern, BARR, the Weird Weeds, Craig Wedren, and This Song Is a Mess but So Am I. The tour buds then part ways in April so Dead Science can join up with the Blood Brothers trek.
If you re nice enough, maybe they ll each treat you to their respective covers from a new 7 they ve put together especially for this tour, with help from and . The Dead Science, who already do a mean rendition of Terence Trent D Arby s Sign Your Name , tackle another cocktail lounge classic, Enya s On Your Shore . Parenthetical Girls, meanwhile, serve up Tori Amos Jackie s Strength and some bitchin cover art.
Check out (Girls) faithful interpretation .
Espers, Folkies Pay Tribute to Film With Valerie Project Quoth a press release, Jaromil Jires 1970 film is a baroque, surrealist folk tale of a teenage girl s dreams and hallucinations as she experiences her first menstruation. Repeat encounters with witchcraft, vampires, the living dead, perverted monks and doppelganger distant cousins punctuate her journey into womanhood as the truth about her family s dubious past unfolds before her weeping eyes.
Yep, this thing has acid folk written all over it.
This weekend, it will have acid folk playing all over it too. Greg Weeks and Brooke Sietinsons and s Margie Wienk have assembled a choice group of Philadelphia musicians to perform an alternate live score for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders in New York.
The event, called , goes down March 10 and 11 at 8:00 PM at NYC s . The Project ensemble includes cellist Helena Espvall (also of Espers), harpist Mary Lattimore, vocalist Tara Burke (Fursaxa), bassist/percussionist Jesse Sparhawk (Timesbold), flautist/keyboardist Jessica Weeks (Woodwose, Grass), electronic artist Charles Cohen, and percussionist Jim Ayre (Fern Knight).
Jires film is considered a new folk milestone and a part of the Czech New Wave movement, and Anthology will screen two more Czech New Wave classics-- Vojtech Jasny s Cassandra Cat (1963) and Juraj Herz s Morgiana (1972)-- before the Valerie Project event on March 11.
Rare reissue specialists , meanwhile, released the original soundtrack to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders last week. It features an original score by Lubos Fiser and lots of acid folk types swear by it, so it must be completely incomprehensible to the drug-free.
Brooklyn percussion explosion , spoken big a little a , will release their newest album on April 24.
The record, titled gAame, will come out on as a CD/DVD package and on as an LP/DVD.
The DVD features videos by Sto, Synt.Tofs, Lev Whitney, Christoph Steger, Michael Bell-Smith (of Professor Murder), Jon Schwartz, UMeanCompetitor, Rop Ropstyle Vasquez (of Semiautomatic), Billy Pavone, and members of Aa, all supplemented with plenty of live footage.
And speaking of Aa videos, we featured the clip for Thirteen in the Forkcast section.
Aa kick off a U.S.
tour tonight in College Park, Maryland. Girl Talk Poses for Playgirl, Crashes U.S.
Congress
Also debuts new project, appears in copyright documentary Gregg Gillis, why u act so crazy? Because he can, folks, because he can. As if wild gig antics weren t enough, the phenom s latest escapades took him from the pages of Playgirl magazine all the way to the U.
S. Congress. Pull up a chair as we recap.
First off, let s burst a few bubbles by mentioning that while Gillis will appear in an upcoming issue of Playgirl (specifically the Man of the Year issue), he will be shirtless, in jean shorts and hightops...
and doing air kicks, according to his publicist. In other words, if you ve ever been to a Girl Talk show, you ve probably seen more Gillis skin than Playgirl s readership. Be proud.
Next up, Gillis was the talk of the for about 20 seconds just this past Wednesday, March 7. Usually when U.S.
Congresspersons make mention of a musician it s to point out how horrible and depraved he/she is, and by extension how doomed and good-fer-nuthin the youth of America are. Usually.
This time, however, U.
S. Rep -- of Gillis own 14th Congressional District of Pennsylvania-- actually made a positive example of Girl Talk s mash-up work, likening it to Paul McCartney jacking a bassline from a Chuck Berry song, and raising the question of whether art is simply evolving beyond traditional notions of copyright. He also asks why Gillis is flying high while DJ Drama s taking so much crap, which is a pretty good question.
This all happened at Wednesday s second Congressional oversight hearing on the digital future of the United States , which addressed copyright and intellectual property issues in the age of digital media, specifically radio.
Best of all, you can watch all three-and-a-half captivating hours of the hearing-- held by the U.S.
House of Representative s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (of which Doyle is vice president)-- ! Or just jump to around the 21-minute mark to catch Doyle s brief statement (we wonder if that savvy looking chap behind him actually wrote it). Stick around to hear John Shimkus (R-IL) admit to being clueless and Jane Harman (D-CA) call Doyle so hip.
Who knew Congressional hearings were this entertaining? There s nothing like an internet beef to boost the buzz around a new record, and either knows this fact and is using it to his advantage or his war of words with his former label, , coincidentally comes a week and a half before the release of . We re not ruling out either possibility, especially since this beef was set into motion by Rawkus.
But wait, you say, I have a life. I don t spend all my time on hip-hop message boards. What beef?
Here is the chain of events that led to a blow up on El-P s , a Rawkus email missive dissing/apologizing to the honcho (is that called a dissive?), a reconciliatory phone call between both parties, an apology from El-P (again on his MySpace blog), and El-P s postscript withdrawal of that apology (MySpace) after discovering the Rawkus dissive email seemingly after the phone call.
And yes, Diddy is somehow involved in all of this.
has kept himself busy as a member of since s , and if Antelope s new album and massive tour are any indication, he seems to be just fine with the change of scenery.
The album, Reflector, comes out this month on , and true to their label s style, the trio s two-month tour is crammed to the gills with dates. Things begin tonight in New York City and don t let up until April 28 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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