Donaufestival Gets Boredoms, Deerhoof, Gang of Four For two consecutive April weekends, on the banks of the beautiful blue Danube, indie floatsam and noise-rock jetsam shall cascade through Krems, Austria s . The first, April 19-21, will host Sunn O))), Matmos, the Notwist, Fennesz, and Bonnie Prince Billy, among others; the second, April 27-30, packs Patrick Wolf, Deerhoof, Jamie Lidell, ESG, Gang of Four and Boredoms, plus many more
The fest comes complete with a theme-- Unprotected Games -- and a resulting , although I suspect the mission read a little bit better auf Deutsch: Under the motto unprotected games, the donaufestival 07 atttempts - without claims to a kitsch utopia of change - to confuse the inner and outer view of (social) game systems with unprotected, artistic games, to swap positions on the thin red line between virtuality and reality and to simulate a risky match of reevaluation and anarchic freedom. There s also some stuff about the killing of Bambi s mother.
I wonder where that Will Oldham song about doing it with a mountain fits in.
Tickets are available by venue, day, and weekend, and are available now. Registration for Jamie Lidell s Workshop ends March 31, though, so if you ever wondered how to belt your white ass off like Otis Redding, that particular ship s sailing soon.
Also playing: Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Larsen and Johann Johannson, Six Organs of Admittance, Jason Forrest, Current 93, Gonzales, Parenthetical Girls, Mocky, Alec Empire, JG Thirlwell, Priestbird, KTL, and Alan Vega. When you refer to Hove in the U.S.
, you re using a ridiculous nickname for either Jesus or Jay-Z. (Or .) In Norway, you re referring to an either ridiculous or brilliant festival that takes place in Arendal from June 26-30.
It s not that we have anything against the , not at all. It s just that the lineup is short-circuiting our brains with its combination of incredibly awesome bands and some more, um, confusing ones.
For instance, who knew you could get Interpol, the Arcade Fire, the Hold Steady, TV on the Radio, Clipse, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, Bright Eyes, Klaxons, Slayer, CSS, and Tokyo Police Club at the same festival?
And why would you place them next to Incubus or Damien Rice? And where do Paul Wall and Chamillionaire fit in? And what about Me First and the Gimme Gimmes?
?? My Chemical Romance?
???
The mind boggles. Also, apparently hove is Norwegian for main . Which means the festival organizers aren t very creative.
Nonetheless, this is indeed the lineup of the Hove Festival. The rest of the currently announced acts are below.
120 Days, the Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Nellie Mckay, Lamb of God, Amy Winehouse, Oh No Ono, the 1990s, Unearth, Gojira, Chimaira, Devastations, the Noisettes, 65 Days of Static, X-queen of the Astronauts, Dimension F3H, Hatebreed, Ingrid Olava, Neurosis, Pleasure, Rockettothesky, Sivert H yem, the Lionheart Brothers, the Presets, William Hut With all their public smoochin , dopey nicknamin , and all other pervasive acts of perversity, we d prefer that most young marrieds keep that mess at home.
But we ll take as much PDA as we can get from Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, the blossoming lovers of , who ll make sweet music together on a month-long second-honeymoon in support of the fetching Night of the Furies, out April 10 on .
, fellow knot-tiers and perpetual sideproject are among those slated to remix tracks from Night of the Furies. Just couldn t leave well enough alone, could they?
You there! Dude cooped up in the office chair, hunched over files all day long, sneaking peaks at Pitchforkmedia.com in between sips of lukewarm coffee-- you need to get down!
And lucky for you, Belgian party collective has the raddest dancefloor beats for you to get down to. So We re talking beats of such radness and freshness, you ll Just ask the ravers down in Australia and New Zealand, who are getting the U.S.
residents have until April 14 to perfect their raddest, freshest moves, as that s when Soulwax invade Philadelphia as part of their Radio Soulwax Presents tour. And just what is Soulwax presenting on this trek? versions of jams from their Any Minute Now LP) in its entirety, plus the two Soulwax gents who moonlight as 2ManyDJs will spin, with pals JDH Dave P warming everybody up.
If that doesn t make you want to back your groove thang up like a Polaroid picture that just don t care, I don t know what will.
a trip, we all take a trip. This time around, Kember s trip involves stops in quite a few U.
S. cities, where he ll escort audiences into another sonic gigs, the first of which has him opening for reunited ambient krautrock legends Cluster, and another alongside Bert Jansch as part of a Saint Etienne-curated this year; he ll also tour Japan and Oceania under that moniker. For a good time, abuse a substance of your choosing and check out all the trippy animated visuals on his .
If you've seen our stuff, you know it's very similar to 'Pimp My Ride'. We're building sketch comedy. Like a viral video Voltron, the members of have banded together and taken the internet by storm this past year.
And now that they have , they re poised to sink or swim in the murky waters of mainstream cable television.
Human Giant actors Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Paul Scheer (the fourth member is director Jason Woliner) spoke to Pitchfork recently about the show, its guest stars (Ghostface, Tony Hawk, Linda Cardellini), and what an excellent piece of equipment the Zune is.
Pitchfork: How did the Ghostface cameo come about?
Rob Huebel: Aziz s best friend is this guy Ghostface, and he called up his best friend and said, Yo man...
Aziz Ansari: Yeah, he was my best friend as a kid. We grew up together in South Carolina.
Pitchfork: Oh really?
Because I thought he was from Staten Island.
AA: No, all that stuff about Shaolin is just marketing from Def Jam or whatever. He s actually from South Carolina, and we grew up together.
We re basically like brothers. Actually, we didn t want him on the show. He was like, I heard you and Rob and Paul and Jason are doing this show.
.. Photos: Explosions in the Sky / The Paper Chase / Eluvium [Chicago, IL; 03/28/07] s Matthew Cooper couldn t conjure much visual spectacle at last night s sold-out gig, cooped up behind a laptop, keyboards, processed guitar, and assorted knobs and wires, but that wasn t really the point.
His transcendental soundscapes-- several reenacted from this year s LP -- cast an even more meditative spell when blared over the Metro s enormous speakers, and those of us who weren t talking over them were very much lost in them. One of these things is not like the others; can you guess which? s John Congleton produced Explosions in the Sky s latest, , but that, four dudes, and Texas are pretty much all the two bands have in common.
If Explosions were destined to soundtrack high school football in slow motion, the Paper Chase are best suited for erratic super-8 footage of demolition derbies-- with Freddy Krueger and Norman Bates and other figures who straddle the line between horror and kitsch behind the wheel. Indeed, paranoia and gallows humor take centerstage in most of Congleton s lyrics, and he has enough lyrics to make up for both of the instrumental acts his band was shoehorned in between. The band s still tight and ferocious, at their best on relentless numbers like last year s The Kids Will Grow Up to Be Assholes .
This, of course, was totally not their scene, and Congleton wasn t oblivious to the sea of perplexed and annoyed faces. I should have been looking at you guys! he announced after the set, addressing an enthusiastic bunch near the bar who chirped their approval.
Anyway, this is what the kids came to see. And even if they are Godspeed-lite, never quite soaring nor plummeting to the extremes that Canadian post-rock collective frequently inhabited, still command reverential respect from fans. Network television has certainly helped, but let s not discredit the fab four behind the music, who ve perfected a formula for tugging heartstrings with mere guitar strings-- and just pouring on the catharses live.
Bassist Michael James brings the muscle, his tremolo wrist working faster than a hummingbird s heart, while guitarist Munaf Rayani adds the passion, gesticulating and falling over in some kind of sonic ecstasy. Laud guitarist Mark Smith for balancing the equation with restraint, his leads often carrying the most emotional heft as well. And drummer Chris Hrasky?
I guess he s the cute one.
played back in the day might get a kick out of this. In anticipation of s the interweb that contain music and lyrics from the album, as confirmed by a Bj o rk sp o kespjerson.
blog, a YouTube user called VoltaVideos posted a clip called -- also the name of the first single from Volta-- a couple days back. It features some abstract, pulsating images, some discussed with Pitchfork, and the closing text, we are the earth intruders. Not long after that, web-trollers stumbled upon a belonging to one Gerome Voltaire of itshardtofindabandname from Iceland.
The page includes four audio clips, each clocking in under 20 seconds: Thereza Is He , Denoisering , and the identical, percussion-heavy O Intruders clip. One titled depicts a jittery, out-of-focus image that bears striking resemblance to that colorful flaming Bj o rk photo up there. It includes the words, did I imagine it would be like this?
, set against a lush, A second MySpace video, titled , features the same tribal drumming audio as the O and Oh clips and depicts the statement, I have What I m presenting here at the moment, writes the enigmatic Gerome on his MySpace, is something I recorded at some listening session in Reykjavik with an Icelandic artist, which I then cut up and added noises and images to. I hope she doesn t mind. We d wager that she probably doesn t.
YouTube, including a clip titled that one might interpret as addressing the heated topic of abstinence: should I save myself for later/ or generously give? factor into any of these? Your guess is as good as mine.
Either way, the rich, relatively organic-sounding (by Catch Bj o rk s stage spectacle, intruding on an Earth venue near you soon.
Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke Turn Noise Into Silence
Form avant supergroup with members of the Ex, the Thing, others Picture Ornette Coleman sitting in with the Stooges (the old Stooges, that is) as they tear through L.A.
Blues and you d be in the neighborhood of free jazz/noise rock/construction noise hybrid Original Silence.
This ear doctor s dream come true-- made up of producer-of-strange-things , Kim Gordon s husband , Swedish hornblower , Terrie Ex of , of the Thing, and s Massimo Puppilo-- will issue their inaugural tinnitus-inducing screed April 23.
Squeaks, squalls, and saxophone calls abound on the totally-improvised, two-track The First Original Silence LP, committed to tape at a September 2005 concert in Reggio Emilia, Italy and due from the label.
The First is the first in a planned series of Original Silence releases. We ve heard it. It s loud.
The two tracks are called If Light Has No Age, Time Has No Shadow and In the Name of the Law . will be playing through their magisterial Daydream Nation in conjunction with series, not least of which being our . Wait, you re kidding, right?
You re not?! Score!
Peeping Tom Tour, Spy on People Perverts and pervettes mark your calendars: Mike Patton is taking the collaboration wagon known as on the road. The Mr. Bungle/Faith No More/Fant mas/Tomahawk frontman hasn t announced who will accompany him on these dates, but if he s working from s guest list, there could be appearances by anyone from Kool Keith to Massive Attack to Norah Jones.
And if by some beautiful twist of fortune Kool Keith and Norah Jones end up on the same stage, we will promptly purchase the entire back catalog.
The North American Peep shows start in Dallas tomorrow night, March 30 and end with an appearance at . Then in June, they travel Down Under.
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