Just what we love: a whole mess of foreign names! Well okay, maybe Peter and John are as bland and Biblical as it gets. But still: Fujiya, Miyagi, Bjorn, Simone-- four weird names!
That s almost enough to spin into some kind of clever introductory paragraph. Almost.
Anyhow, -- heard of them?
? ? Either way, get happy, because the Swedish trio have invited UK troika to open all of their U.
S. headlining dates (i.e.
everything but Coachella). Perhaps you caught both of these rising stars at the recent , and totally saw this coming.
But you probably didn t see this: To triple your trio pleasure, PB J have also tapped Brooklyn threesome to open a hearty stretch of Peter/Fujiya dates, thus making the tour a truly international affair and a bona fide m e nage- -whatever the French word for nine is.
Kinky! Two must be the magic number when it comes to pumping out roof-raising house anthems in Europe. Recent phenoms Justice, the Presets, and Simian Mobile Disco?
All pairs. Standard- bearers Daft Punk, of course? Doubles or nothing.
Germany s ? Here s a hint: more than one and less than three.
Like their peers, Digitalism-- a twosome comprised of Jens Moelle and Ismail Tuefekci-- rose to prominence in the mid-twenty-first century on the strength of some high profile remixes and a few key compilation tracks and singles of their own.
And like those folks, Digitalism will soon give the world a proper document of their talents, in the form of debut full-length Idealism.
The 15-track album arrives June 5 via Astralwerks in the U.S.
, and May 21 elsewhere, courtesy of the illustrious imprint, Labels, or Virgin, depending on where you shop for records. It will be proceeded by bouncy first single Pogo on May 7. Like any good electronic duo, Digitalism are touring the world for the next 34 months-- including a handful of U.
S. dates this week-- and playing a bunch of high-profile summer festivals, such as Coachella, Oxegen, and T in the Park. Basking in the glory of s classic in its entirety will no longer cost Americans an arm and a leg (or at least an overseas plane ticket).
Thanks to the great folks at , Brian McMahan, Britt Walford, and David Pajo will bring their masterpiece to New York City for two shows this July. It s part of ATP s excellent series, which will host Spiderland at several May performances in Europe, including one at the in Barcelona, and then . Slint will also perform at ATP s festival in May, although they won t be performing Spiderland.
Of course, ATP and Don t Look Back have partnered with the to bring s Daydream Nation to Chicago on July 13, . As for new Slint material, well, recently posted on their website: People are starting to ask us about a new album from Slint. Here s the deal.
Slint has been preparing for shows this summer. They want to play music together and have decided to work on new material. Once they find a rehearsal space (in Louisville, KY), they can begin this process.
Please do not start rumors about an impending Slint recording. Anything new will take a while. With a little luck, Touch and Go will have something to release in the next few years.
Woo!
The dangerous ladies of Japan s -- led by Boredoms Yoshimi-- cruised through Chicago s last night in support of their recent LP and . If the album comes across a little unfocused, this gig was nothing of the sort, with OOIOO cutting out the wankery and keeping things crisp, hypnotic, and engaging.
It helped that the quartet was bolstered by an additional drummer-- which still only made for half as many drummers as Boredoms presently use.
Chicago scene icon Rob Lowe opened under his guise, his all-too-brief set consisting of just two pieces. The first-- a calming psych guitar meditation-- set the spiritual tone for the second, which Lowe constructed entirely from loop pedals and his own ventriloquist-worthy voice.
That voice built gradually from gutteral Ommm s to the sort of nasal yelps Lowe occasionally busts out on 90 Day Men s material. He closed the short set in memorable fashion, wandering through the crowd while chanting, his multi-tracked vocals coming at us from all directions. Eerie.
OOIOO have a few more U.S. gigs lined up before they return to the East.
Decemberists, Thermals, Daniel Cover Classics on Comp
Plus: Christopher Walla, the Joggers, the Minus 5, the Dandy Warhols, Viva Voce, Talkdemonic If you love covers, irony, and good causes, boy does have a hat trick for you! The Portland-based label with the ironic name serves up on April 17.
The title don t lie: this 19-track monster collects 19 Portland-associated artists bridging the distance between the past and present with eyebrow-raising covers, all to benefit , which helps homeless and transitional youths bridge financial and class distances through its mentorship programs.
Also, Portland has a lot of bridges! We re talking layers upon layers of profound meaning here, people!
Plenty of your Rose City favorites have signed on for this one, including the Decemberists, who take on Fleetwood Mac s Think About Me , the Thermals, who do Led Zeppelin s Tangerine , and Britt Daniel, who closes out the comp with a rendition of Sam Cooke s Bring It on Home to Me .
Other highlights include the Joggers committing their live-favorite Yes cover to tape, Death Cab for Cutie s Christopher Walla giving us nothing but Johnny Hates Jazz s Shattered Dreams , and the Dandy Warhols re-investigating the Cult. Toss in even more covers by Talkdemonic, Viva Voce, the Minus 5, and the Minders, and you ve got one hell of a blue light special.
Basically, Bridging the Distance should appease id, ego, and superego alike.
Click more for the complete tracklist, with original artists in brackets. have expanded their overseas. After finishing their U.
S. dates at Coachella on April 27, they will fly to Norway for a May 1 date in Bergen. They ll spend the ensuing month in Europe before eventually returning here (right here, actually) for their date at the in Chicago.
The band will make their network television debut on Late Night With Conan O Brien on April 12. Two days later, their show in New York will feature them as a backing band for live karaoke in addition to a full set. Flosstradamus and comedian Michael Showalter will also appear at the show, which is a promotional event for New York magazine titled .
Wah wah. In anticipation of their The Remix of the Remix LP, planned for a fall release on /ToneArm Records, are holding a remix contest in collaboration with the folks at . The contest s title?
The Judges of the competition include Ghostface Killah, Hot Chip, Diplo and his Hollertronix partner Low Budget, Spank Rock, and Plastic Little themselves. Killah, MF DOOM, Spank Rock, Amanda Blank, and Plastic Little MCs Pack of Rats, Jon Thousand, and No Body s Child via . purposes until April 20, when the contest s semi-finalists are announced.
The semifinalists will then receive the full a capellas to remix, and a panel of The contest s full rules and prizes, taken from a press release, are listed below. No serum can cure all the pain have endured, but the free gin sure to line their green room on the just-announced tour probably won t hurt. Malice and Pusha T will ride around shining with cat-eyed R B cooer -- whose ass, when last we checked, was still like wo -- and newcomer on eleven dates through April.
Much like the bargain-priced spirits that bear its name, the Seagram s jaunt promises to pack a wallop, with podcasts of selected shows to be posted on the Seagram s Live website and runway-style photos of attendees blowing up on screens throughout each venue. If you ve ever wondered what pasty blogger types-- truly the fiercest of Clipse fans-- look like stretched to billboard size, you know what to do.
And this information I must pass to the homies: Clipse, along with pretty much every other band you might want to see, are playing this summer s .
That s so trill. Just in time for April showers to wash our springtime hopes away, melancholic indie-poppers will arrive signed, sealed, and delivered to a North American city near you.
The weather-obsessed Miami trio-- bolstered to a six-piece live, and led by the airy croon of doe-eyed vocalist Tim Yehezkely-- kicks off a jaunt celebrating their recently-released on April 14.
Along the way they ll have those tears wiped away by fresh-faced indie duo , who also play the first stretch of dates. They ll later weep into their chamomiles with , aka the project of Stars lead-romantic Torquil Campbell and pal Chris Dumont. Hooray!
U.S. audiences will have over a dozen more opportunities to get lost in Morrissey s sweaty torso this spring, as the son and heir of nothing in particular has annexed a bunch of dates onto his Stateside tour.
Most lie along the Eastern Seaboard, and the good news comes courtesy of Moz fan mecca .
Said website also reports that Morrissey s touring band-- who will dress in matching attire, if this is anything like last year s tour-- will consist of Boz Boorer and Jesse Tobias on guitars, Michael Farrell on keyboards and trumpet, Solomon Walker on bass guitar, and Matt Walker behind the drumkit.
One, two, three: swoooooooooon!
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