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.
takes to set the scene for the bespectacled former frontman of Pulp?
Can you hold a candle to his indomitable swagger and infectiously wry sense of humor?
can still have fun opening for the guy. That s right, Mr.
Cocker is looking to the common As Jarvis wrote on his yesterday, I ll keep this New York (2 shows), San Francisco, Seattle Vancouver - do you think you could help? Jarvis stressed that he wants local bands for each gig, and that links to music and such would be extremely helpful. Drop a note to Jarvspace to apply.
In related news, Jarvis curates the , 16-24. A populist through and through, Jarvis has also called upon his MySpace buds to suggest Meltdown-worthy acts. You know what to do.
Jarvis self-titled solo debut finally crashes U.S. shores April 3 via .
Catch him in select North American cities this spring.
Gratuitously-lengthy band names shall reign supreme when the glammy grace and thunderous Technicolor riffage of -leader meets fashion-plate and his Sons of National Freedom on a whole mess of dates next month. Both artists have still-warm albums and white-hot shortform releases to plug.
Let s explore, shall we?
Vandervelde will release Moonstation s leadoff track Nothin No as a single June 19, backed by a take on the twinkly Feet of a Liar from his hour in the booth, a new one called Cute Pretender , and the probably wordless Dancing Sea Gulls Instrumental . May 22, Swift s Kisses for the Misses will find itself trapped inside a seven-inch-wide ring of plastic, surrounded by Cowboy Song #6 and a cover of Prince s Paisley Park .
The two men will split amicably after an April 22 stop in Gotham City, as David s tour leads him ward and Richard heads to the land of the crumpet.
will release an EP titled Sacchrilege via on April 23 in Europe and at an unspecified later date in the U.S.
Sacchrilege is a solo effort, though a press release claims it harkens towards the sound of his next major project, with Gruff Rhys.
Boom Bip will kick off a tour of Europe in support of Sacchrilege on April 1 in Amsterdam.
The still has no release date, tracklist, or much of any information attached to it other than what we .
have raised their profile recently with contributions to Bj o rk s forthcoming (including the first single, ), and the Congolese conglomerate will embark on a world tour of their own starting March 31 in Berlin and ending July 28 at the Belgian Sfinks Festival. Along the way, they ll stop over in North America for a string of dates surrounding their Coachella appearance. They are also in the midst of confirming the dates of a UK tour in mid-May.
Konono s label, , will release the 35-minute three-track Live in Tokyo EP to coincide with the tour. Crammed is only making Live in Tokyo available digitally, and eMusic will have it exclusively in the U.S.
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CST. St. Vincent Signs to Beggars Singer and multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark, aka , has signed to to release her debut album, Marry Me, on July 10 in the U.
S. (with an August release in the UK). The 23-year old is a veteran guitar slinger in two musical armies, the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens touring band.
Marry Me, however, features Clark front and center with just a few contributions from longtime David Bowie pianist Mike Garson and Man or Astro-man? drummer Brian Teasley. It also features the greatest song title we ve heard so far this year: Jesus Saves, I Spend .
St. Vincent will kick off a two-month jaunt across the U.S.
in Portland on April 6. All non-festival dates of the tour are with John Vanderslice. St.
Vincent s last show of the tour is at the Homefires Festival in London on June 2, and Beggars plans to release Now, Now as a single around that time.
have announced a few European dates-- mostly festivals-- in anticipation of their forthcoming follow-up, . As previously reported, the record is due out in June and features contributions from Julian Casablancas, Trent Reznor, Mark Lanegan, and ZZ Top s Billy Gibbons.
Queens tour kicks off in London on June 14 and ends in Glasgow at the T in the Park festival on July 8. But they ll probably schedule a bunch more dates soon. Taking a page from s book, will play a string of dates in June that you can count on one hand.
Their three shows at various London venues come in addition to their appearance at Coachella, and they are planning to hit a few UK festivals in June that might put their total number of shows in the two-hand range.
Principal New Pornos songwriter Carl Newman spoke to Billboard.com recently about the band s follow-up to , which they hope to release on in late August.
Newman said the new album is maybe slightly more epic. It has our first song that passes the six-minute-long mark. He also mentioned that Dan Bejar wrote three songs for the record, including one titled Myriad Harbor .
Neko Case sings on three of the album s songs, one of which is called Go Places . The only other information Newman had in the way of song titles was one of his own: Salinger . About his vocal contributions, he said, Nobody ever seems to be singing more than three songs.
Kathryn [Calder] s doing a couple, at least one or two. I m like, Which ones am I singing here? I ll just sing the leftovers.
Case and Bejar will not appear with the band on their currently scheduled dates, but they hope to have at least Case join them when they tour in support of the new album in the fall. Add another flake to the recent flurry of news: the once-illustrious, still-nebulously-realigned alt-rock behemoths have scheduled their first non-festival date since (of sorts) late last year. Yeah, it s in France, but that s not likely to dissuade Pumpkins diehards, who d sail the vast oceans and crawl over scorched earth to get a glimpse of whatever configuration the band finds itself in.
Tickets for this, the first Pumpkins show since December of 2000, can be yours April 11. Think they ll sell out?
Could this mean an all-out headlining tour will soon follow?
No way of knowing, but let s keep speculating: Might D Arcy be preggers with James Iha s lovechild? Is Jimmy Chamberlain only doing it for the doobage? Could a Zwan reunion be far off?
Dude, I hope so; that is quite a dish.
As we previously reported, the is still on for July 7, and if a daytrip to the city of lights is beyond your means, you do have a chance to check out the Pumpkins at festivals throughout the summer. All the dates we ve got for now after the jump.
Final Fantasy, Isan Added to Montag LP We could invoke some adage about egg-counting here, but we d talents of a sublime crop of guests for his latest LP, Going Places. House s Victoria Legrand, Au Revoir Simone, and Ghislain Poirier all contribute. Contrary to our previous report, however, Xiu Xiu s Jamie Stewart will no longer sing on Softness, I Forgot Your Name .
Preserving Montag man Antoine B e dard s wish for an all-male duet, Owen Pallett of Final Going Places goes to North American record stores on June 5, collaborators, it also includes sonic puzzle pieces from Isan, E*Rock, Vitaminsforyou, Ckid, Poirier once again, and others-- all distilled into Places finale and title track. These acts responded to Montag s previously reported open call for sounds, and they ll be immortalized on this release-- which is, we suppose, much less embarrassing than winding up on the last Christina Montag tours Canada and Japan in the coming months, and will announce dates in the U.S.
and Mexico soon. He also remade a track by his trustworthy pals Stars for the album, out May 22 on Arts Crafts.
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