aside, we have nothing against Matt Dillon. Nonetheless, the actor will have to bring his best stuff to the table for his newest role: music video director. Hot on the heels of Elijah Wood s , Dillon will helm s new clip for Been There All the Time .
With the forthcoming -- out May 1 on -- Dinosaur have proven that they can still bring the riffs and the melodies in abundance. Hopefully, Dillon is up to the task of creating a video . In terms of the quality of Mr.
Dillon s own oeuvre, we hope it leans closer toward The Outsiders than Herbie Fully Loaded.
Dinosaur Jr., meanwhile, have a world tour in the works for later this year, details forthcoming.
Kangaroo Joey, Emu Chick keep it real in the homeland Just what the indie rock world needed: another Wolf band! Australia s , the latest lupines, have signed to and will release their debut album, , on March 6 in the U.S.
The quartet recorded Vessels in Adelaide and Tony Doogan (Super Furry Animals, Mogwai) mixed the disc in Glasgow. A single, , lands on CD and 7 on March 19.
In support of the LP, the two-drummer crew has scheduled its first-ever U.
S. tour, which kicks off in early March. The trek surrounds a hearty crop of SXSW engagements, including will rock a pair of London gigs, the first of which takes place tonight (i.
e., right now) at the Old Blue Last. the States, the band will play a handful of Australian gigs with-- you guessed it-- Wolfmother.
Dismemberment Plan Reunite for Robbins Benefit!
Pitchfork reporter breathes slowly into paper bag to keep from hyperventilating. Someone please pinch me.
Three and a half years after their , the mighty will reunite for a show at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C.
On April 28, the band will take the stage alongside Beauty Pill and Owls and Crows to play a benefit for , the son of J.
and Janet who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Tickets to the show cost $15, and all of the proceeds will go directly to the Robbins family. Special thanks to an on-the-ball reader for the tip!
No additional reunion activity is planned at this time, but we have all our fingers and toes crossed.
In other D-Plan related news, frontman is still readying an album with his Hellfighters, titled All Y all, for an April release. Plan bandmate will produce the new LP.
In the meantime, Morrison reports via a website update that he has joined the Washington National Cathedral choir and is enjoying the opportunity to eat brunch early on Sundays.
Plan bassist Eric Axelson and drummer Joe Easley have two shows this weekend with their new band, . Leigh Thompson recently joined the band on guitar, and though they have no definite recording plans yet, they are still writing new songs.
The has announced the lineup of its ninth annual rave/festival, and it includes the Cure, Fatboy Slim, Digitalism, Richie Hawtin, Miss Kittin, Brazilian Girls, Ti e sto, Deep Dish, Kruder Dorfmeister, Timo Maas, BT, Carl Cox, Goldie, Shiny Toy Guns, Photek, and Ferry Corsten, among other electronic giants.
The festival takes place March 23 and 24 in Miami s Bicentennial Park. In total, over 150 acts will play on the festival s nine stages.
Check out a list of all who have confirmed so far . their show on the road, as they start a lengthy this evening in Providence, Rhode Island. , as , will hang around for roughly half the trek, and will handle the rest.
The tour is scheduled to end in late April. In related news, we d like on Interscope. Sitek contributed a remix of Beck s Dark Star to the And have you heard yet?
It rules.
Talk to anyone who s ever caught in Chicago and they ll tell a sad tale of lukewarm receptions and mismatched bills. So when Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster and company took the stage at a rowdy, sold-out last night, it was just like starting over.
Zipping through 22 cuts from all over their three LPs in under an hour, the Thermals were pure energy, leaving the huddled masses breathless and screaming.
Selections from their kid-tested, Pitchfork-approved ( ) were crowd pleasers one and all, and even Hutch was moved; after a particularly effusive barrel through St. Rosa and the Swallows , he implored the crowd, I got all emo on that one.
Did you feel it? Did you really feel it? Indeed we did.
The Thermals tear through the U.S. all this month.
Dates and more photo action ahead.
My new martial arts hobby has completely sapped my musical and domestic ambitions, not to mention my shoulder. The best rock stars aren t just great musicians-- they re also interesting people with a lot to say.
s James Murphy is certainly an interesting person. Does he have a lot to say? Well, judge for yourself: Murphy recently began blogging for England s paper, and so far, he s been sounding off on topics such as (aka ultimate fighting), , and.
.. .
(Thanks to for pointing out this literary treasure trove.)
Murphy s third post appeared today, a self-conscious-about-not-writing-about-music rant where he satirizes himself ( stick to ripping off the Talking Heads ) as much as the commenters who complain about his tone and choice of topics.
He s not done blogging yet, but Murphy will continue to rack up the frequent flyer miles when, next week, he kicks off his tour in support of the March 20 release of .
Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum on Screaming Masterpiece DVD Bj o rk, Sigur R o s, the Sugarcubes, M u m, and Amiina are among the high-profile artists showcased in , a documentary about the Icelandic music scene that will hit DVD shelves at last March 6 via .
Writer and director Ari Alexander Ergis Magn u sson used the film to explore the scene s history through tour footage and in-depth interviews. The resulting 87-minute DVD comes with over two hours of extra interviews.
Screaming Masterpiece has appeared at over 20 international film festivals, and was also part of our own pre-Pitchfork Music Festival last summer. Junior Boys, Metric, Final Fantasy Rekindle Stars' Fire
Plus: Kevin Drew, Apostle of Hustle, Dears, Russian Futurists, Stills, Montag, Young Galaxy Now we loved 2004 LP just fine as it was, a lush palette of heartfelt heartbreak anthems. But we ve got to admit, this sounds pretty damn cool: whilst we await the Fire followup (due in fall 2007, if you trust the band s website), Stars have invited a cadre of Friends to recreate the Canadian pop romantics best LP to date.
Do You Trust Your Friends? ( waaaay back in June 2005 and last summer) arrives May 22 on and is a track-for-track renovation (thus deemed by the press release) of Set Yourself on Fire. The Friends in question?
A fairly trustworthy lot, many of them A C affiliates: Junior Boys, Metric, Final Fantasy, Broken Social Scene s Kevin Drew (with Camouflage Nights) and Apostle of Hustle, the Dears, the Russian Futurists, the Stills, Minotaur Shock, Montag, Young Galaxy, Jason Collett, and the Most Serene Republic.
Each takes a stab at a Fire favorite, sequenced exactly the same as the original album (with those dastardly Dears breaking album centerpiece What I m Trying to Say into a two-part mega-jam). You can still check out Junior Boys reworking of Sleep Tonight over in .
Stars themselves, meanwhile, have been feverishly working on their follow-up to Set Yourself On Fire, according to their website, at Vancouver s Warehouse Studios.
In related news, Stars swings down to SXSW in support of last year s solo foray, . And she s hardly the only Star off in sideprojectland: Torquil Campbell s dropped last year in Canada.
That album finally gets a U.S. release March 27 via Montreal s .
tour dates in support of their forthcoming LP are finally beginning to roll in...
and they re all overseas. , the band is also scheduled to appear at Bonnaroo in June, putting the boys right where they need to be to tour North America this summer. So we ve got our fingers crossed.
string of dates, Wilco will make their way through the UK and Europe. This run is slated for late May, and wraps up with a performance at Barcelona s . Sky Blue Sky is due May 15 via .
Check out that handsome cover! The National's Berninger Talks Boxer, Baseball, CYHSY
Sufjan Stevens, Doveman lend talents to new National LP Just this week, we the title, tracklist, and release date of s fourth album, Boxer. The 12-track set arrives May 22 via and features, according to Billboard.
com, Mr. tickling the ivories on Racing Like a Pro and Ada , Clogs violist contributing arrangements, Doveman s handling keyboards, and NYC folkie lending backing vocals.
Even more recently, we spoke to the band s singer, Matt Berninger, about Boxer, his band s relationship with 2005 tourmates Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, how they feel about their hometown, and why the Mets are less heartbreaking than the Reds.
Pitchfork: You guys seem to like black-and-white photos as album covers.
Matt Berninger: It was actually taken at [producer] Peter Katis wedding. It wasn t something we thought about ahead of time.
We were sent the photo and kind of fell for it. We ve gotten lucky with those photos, but I guess it is starting [to be] a trend.
MB: [laughs] Yeah there is something about it that does seem.
..not of this age, or something.
It almost looks set-up and surreal, but it was just taken about a year ago.
Pitchfork: So what can you tell us about the record? How does it sound?
Is it a continuation of , or a separation from it?
MB: I think it s different. It s still us, but it sounds, to me, quite a bit different.
I think it s more cohesive. Alligator had high peaks of loud songs, and really slow, quiet songs; this has that, but maybe not quite the extremes. It s less of a rocky ride.
It has a certain consistency to it.
Pitchfork: Is it thematically more cohesive as well?
MB: There are songs about a lot of different things, but things pop up over and over again, or styles of writing about things, both musically and lyrically.
A lot of the music is a little more meditative. I think a lot of the way Aaron [Dessner] and Bryce [Dessner] and Scott [Devendorf] and Bryan [Devendorf] were writing music was more chilled out [and] meditative. There is this kind of rumble through the whole thing, and I think musically that s something that was naturally what people were doing.
As far as what I m doing, I guess there s something about it that s more chant-y. I don t really do any screaming the way I did on Alligator. We don t know if that s going to disappoint people, but we didn t feel like it was necessary.
They re baaaaack! The announced on their website late last night that their sixth album, which bears the excellently bizarre title of Icky Thump, will be released as soon as corporately possible. It was recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and includes the songs Catch Hell Blues , Little Cream Soda , Rag and Bone , You Don t Know What Love Is (Just Do As You re Told) , I m Slowly Turning Into You , and Icky Thump .
, the new album will be delivered via the Stripes new home, Warner Bros. They will support it with appearances at Bonnaroo as well as Germany s Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in June. In typical White Stripes fashion, the album details were revealed via a .
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