Specializes in eradicating John Wayne movies, Primal Scream albums Post- group , featuring frontwoman extraordinaire Jennifer Herrema, will release Western Xterminator, their follow-up to 2004 s , on March 20. It is the band s second album, both overall and for . RTX will celebrate Western Xterminator s release with a party in Hollywood on March 30.
Then, in May, they will take the party across the U.S. with Totimoshi, starting May 1 in Denver.
Man, we hope this is just like Burning Man, except they set on fire. Either way, the fifth annual -- which goes down August 17-19 at in Wales Brecon Beacons National Park-- is shaping up to be an event to remember.
Among the confirmed performers: Joanna Newsom, Stephen Malkmus the Jicks, Bill Callahan (fka Smog), Vashti Bunyan, Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals), Vetiver, Dead Meadow, Euros Childs (ex-Gorky s Zygotic Mynci), Tunng, the Earlies, Alela Diane, Starless Bible Black, Monkey Swallows the Universe, and Richmond Fontaine.
Bring mom and dad too: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation headline the fest s second night! Newsom tops the first night s bill, while Malkmus-- who now counts Janet Weiss among his Jicks-- closes out the fest.
will reissue s Champion Sound on May 8 as a two-CD set with a crateful of bonus tracks.
The 2003 collaboration was a chance for producers and the late to don the MC cap over each other s beats, with Talib Kweli, Percee P, Guilty Simpson, and Frank-n-Dank making appearances as well.
The first disc of the reissued Champion Sound features bonus tracks Raw Addict and Pillz at the end, and the second disc is devoted entirely to instrumentals and Madlib remixes, some of which are previously unreleased. Madlib put his curating skills to work recently on a mix for and The Other Side series.
The Other Side: Los Angeles is scheduled for a May 8 release and features tracks from such artists as Sun Ra Arkestra, Dabrye, and Madlib himself in various guises. It is the fifth installment in the CD/DVD series, which has and will include mixes by Fischerspooner, Black Strobe, and Ellen Allien.
For the DVD portion of the package, Stones Throw founder provides his personal spin on life in L.
A. An in-depth interview with Wolf about Stones Throw s tenth anniversary and several music videos from artists on the label s roster are also included.
Zach Condon is the !
! Having officially triumphed over both the troubled Lebanese capital and the popular collegiate drinking game with which Zach s band shares its name, -- aka the No. 1 Google Search Result for Beirut -- are celebrating their world wide web victory with a few world wide engagements.
The jaunt, if you can really call it that, kicks off in Austin this week, as part of . Zach and friends next make up some New York dates he , then take on the world, coming as close to the real Beirut as Istanbul.
Be sure to corner these little gypsies backstage and ask about The New Album, which is apparently three-quarters complete.
Look for it in late 2007 on Beirut s new home, . Also keep your eyes peeled for an Elephant Gun UK single hitting shelves in June, and score those two exclusive early tracks via in the U.S.
or in the UK (bonus: the latter has a third old-school cut called Monna Pomona ).
In related news, hear Zach and company on the , and watch out for that . Louisville weirdoes will go concept-free on Buncha Beans, their first album in five years.
Though previous records have included storylines about a caveman and his love for a yak and a spaceman and his obsession with the imaginary Planet Kong, Beans is simply a collection of songs with some of the requisite King Kong themes, including animals and weather.
will release Buncha Beans on March 20, when King Kong will not coincidentally begin a little tour of the Midwest and East Coast in their hometown. After years of waiting, long stretches of silence, and the ramping up of fan expectations, recording artists have finally announced.
..a Canadian tour!
With Interpol s third album tentatively scheduled for release early this summer , the first people to hear new material won t be the crowds at Coachella or NYC s hipster elite. Rather, they will be the citizens of Ottawa, Ontario, where the band will launch a brief pre-Coachella trek in mid-April. Interpol are working on the album right now with producer Rich Costey, who has worked with everyone from Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party to Rage Against the Machine and My Chemical Romance to Fiona Apple and the Swirlies.
Should be interesting.
Yo La Tengo, Ted Leo Play Requests for WFMU Benefit Say what you will about the critical quality of last year s , the trio s summary of nearly ten years of playing extemporaneous covers for dollars on New Jersey s 91.1 FM-- it s cute, wholly unpretentious, and for a damn good cause.
Tune in this Friday (March 16) from 8-11 PM Eastern to hear put the fun in fundraiser once again, as the trio takes more requests on the fly on WFMU. Ira, Georgia, and James treat fans and listeners to the impromptu on-air performances to raise money for the venerable radio station (also home to the excellent ), serving the New York City and Jersey City areas. If you ve ever wanted to hear Yo La Tengo attempt SexyBack , Laffy Taffy or Trapped in the Closet , this is your big chance.
And be generous: the more you pay, the more they play.
But first, the fundraiser continues tonight with a request marathon session from another offbeat covers guru, ever-likable . Ted takes a swing at whatever you throw at him from 8-11 PM Eastern on The Best Show on WFMU , co-hosted by Tom Scharpling and Matador country chanteuse Laura Cantrell.
Jersey City/NYC radio listeners can tune in at 91.1 FM, while Hudson Valley-area folk should set their dials to 90.1 FM.
Don t live within broadcast range? Don t sweat it! WFMU will stream both events-- video and all-- on the station s .
R. Kelly Reveals Album Details in Phone Message s new album is , and he has recently revealed quite a bit of information about it in a ridiculous, six-minute long phone message you can hear by calling (312) 278-3965. The number patches callers directly to the Chocolate Factory, i.
e. a tinny recording of Kelly introducing snippets of songs from the album, which he says is called Double Up.
Two hands holding on to each other: that s how I look at r b and hip hop, says Kelly, explaining that Double Up s focus is on just the kind of gray area between the two that has been such fertile ground for him recently.
He goes on to say the record is about 70% hip hop, which makes sense since his guests include Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Rick Ross, and Young Dro.
As for the songs themselves, they sound pretty awesome, given the circumstances. Titles include Double Up , Rock Star , Put Some Money on It , Freakin in the Club , and Blow It Up , which may also be called Blowin Up .
..it s hard to tell.
And the title of the Kanye song seems to be Hook It Up . (As previously reported, the album s first single is ).
Our favorite two song titles/concepts, however, are Pull Your Hair , which Kelly says is for the ladies ( Y all gonna love it, mentally and physically ), and Leave Your Name , a song about phone messages.
Only the kind of guy who says things like I feel real Hollyhood right now could get away with this. Mr. Kelly, we salute you.
After the message is over, callers can leave their own messages for Kelly or join some sort of phone fan club. And while we don t necessarily recommend doing either of those things, the message alone is worth whatever long distance charges your phone company charges you to call Chicago.
The video trailer for the album, which includes the phone number, is below.
has scheduled a handful of U.S. dates beginning in April and including stops at Coachella and Bonnaroo, where fans can see tracks from performed in their natural habitat: outside.
Things begin April 23 in Portland, and if Shadow s recent tour partners are any indication, he s likely to show up with half the current hyphy scene at any given date. So please, don t forget your stunna shades.
Hey remember that suspicious April-long gap in the middle of those tour dates ?
The one that happens to encompass both the April 16 release of new single Brianstorm and the April 23/24 of Favourite Worst Nightmare (both on )? The one they couldn t possibly spend just sitting around twiddling their opposable thumbs? Well, duh, they re touring then.
As announced today, Sheffield s favourite ruffians Arctic Monkeys will play a string of smaller, blink-and-they re-sold-out shows across England and Scotland throughout April. The trek leads up to their Coachella appearance and subsequent tour of the States with fellow whipper-snappers Be Your Own Pet. There s a fairly convoluted ticket pre-sale going on via the Arctics website/mailing list.
for details.
In related news, following in the footsteps of the Wu-Tang Clan, Lily Allen, Pete Wentz, and pretty much everyone else, Arctics drummer Matt Helders will debut a fashion line in May via UK-based . Oakland sextet -- playing here as a quintet, minus Dax Pierson-- brought its unique and wildly inventive brand of hip-hop surrealism to Chicago s , opening a sold out show for TV on the Radio.
Like some postmodern prestidigitator, emcee Doseone-- whose ringmaster/musketeer/aristocrat/whatever getup apparently ate a cassette tape backstage and left its crimped contents dangling around the man s neck-- let forth varied verbal flurries and hopped from prop to prop almost as quickly as the music skipped from idea to idea. He settled on a zebra-striped skull perched atop a busted bust resting on a pedestal, did his best alas-poor-Yurik, then abruptly reached inside and flung the contents across the audience, unleashing a clattering rain of-- say what-- plastic forks!?
Despite desultory hysterics like this, there s something extremely sly and calculated about Dose-- who s blessed with, among other things, a comedian s sense of timing (naturally, he told jokes too). Taken altogether it leaves one with the fun notion that by entertaining every random thought that enters the mind, patterns-- sometimes even profound ones-- invariably emerge.
The uninitiated might well have been flummoxed by the whole schizophrenic affair, but those willing to suspend disbelief for 45 minutes witnessed a born showman, shimmying somewhere between left field and oblivion, and beckoning the rest of us to join him there.
Subtle s stretch opening for TVotR continues through March 25.
To where do mutants migrate? We re not sure, but we do know that are back from wherever they ve been with another round of shows scheduled for this summer.
And by round, we mean pair, at least for now.
The Tropic a lia pioneers will take their show on the road to Los Angeles and New York City in July. The NYC show is part of the .
Here s hoping they stay out for a while before returning to the psychedelic swamps they must call home.
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