will kick off their tour tonight in Providence. After they finish with North America, they ll head to Australia in late May and .
CYHSY s tour partners for most of their North American dates are , who will hopefully provide a better match for the band than their pairing with at a Duke University concert this past weekend.
According to an email from reader Jeff Harrell, the show at Cameron Indoor Stadium drew mostly T.I. fans: Besides myself and a small group across the floor, no one was moving or even really applauding.
.. [Singer] Alec [Ounsworth] made fun of the lack of enthusiasm several times, finally getting a roar from the audience when he announced that the next song was the last.
T.I. apparently found the band s set unnecessary, dude, as he arrived to the show late and then performed for 40 minutes of his scheduled hour, .
Duke University Union officials told The Chronicle that T.I. then neglected the accommodations he asked for in his rider and instead went to dinner at P.
F. Chang s China Bistro.
DUU officials are now considering a lawsuit against the rapper for a violation of his $70,000 performance contract.
But if they wanted vigilante justice, they could always go to the jects, where the Gs at, to retrieve the money themselves. Anyway, the point is, if T.I.
had come early to catch Clap Your Hands, and then stuck around to hang out with the band afterwards, none of this would have happened.
will release their sixth LP, We Are the Night, via on June 19. The duo s last album was 2005 s , and like that record and the ones before it, Night features a bevy of guest stars.
Klaxons, Midlake, Willy Mason and all contribute to We Are the Night, and the first single-- Do It Again [ft. Ali Love] -- is due out soon.
The Chemical Brothers will take to European clubs and festival stages this summer starting with a May 25 date in Bucharest.
A U.S. tour is in the works for September.
Releases from Kid Sister, Cool Kids, Kavinsky, Trackademicks on the way Between , already has quite an impressive resume. And now, thanks to a partnership with New York DJ , he can re-add label owner to his list of job titles for the first time since the demise of his previous label, .
A-Trak and Catchdubs new label is called .
They have enlisted graphic artist to design the label s logos and sleeves, and A-Trak s brother and former Audio Research partner ( s Dave 1) will also play a role behind the scenes.
Fool s Gold s focus will be on releasing hip hop, electro, and music that combines and borrows from both genres in new ways. And when it comes to release schedules, Catchdubs said in an interview with Pitchfork that the two want Fool s Gold to be like when Rawkus first came out and was dropping 12 s every month.
That s what we re shooting for.
They re on their way to that goal with their first release, s -produced Control single. The 12 will come out this month, with the A-Trak-produced Damn Girl on the B-side along with s juke remix of Damn Girl .
The second Fool s Gold release will be a bootleg 12 of select tracks and blends from A-Trak s mixtape, and an EP by Chicago rap duo will follow that. The Cool Kids EP will feature four songs: 88 , I Rock , Gold and a Pager , and a new one they are recording now.
The next two releases will be 12 singles by Bay Area DJ and Parisian electro producer , whose 12 release will coincide with this summer.
Releases in the Fool s Gold future include work with London house producer Sinden, a DJ Gant-Man EP, a single from Chicago MC and Friend-of-Kanye GLC, and albums by Kid Sister, the Cool Kids, Trackademicks, and A-Trak himself.
Stripes' Icky Thump Release Date, Cover Art Revealed The sixth LP of Motor City mayhem (now Nashville mayhem?) from the now comes complete with a release date!
will hit European shelves June 18 via , and the rest of the world from the following day, June 19.
To date, every White Stripes album cover s been black and white and red all over, and Icky Thump rsquo;s not gonna break no precedent, finding Jack and Meg donning Bedazzled suits and sitting on logs. Fair enough.
Thanks to reader Alex Iniguez for the heads-up!
Icky Thump has a tracklist, and the band is touring.
Plus: Mouse on Mars, Raincoats, Jason Forrest, Silver Apples + Alan Vega, Jon Spencer Looks like the transatlantic feedback is finally crossing that ocean for real.
Silver Monk Time-- the tribute to international proto-avant-pop act that landed overseas last October-- will finally crash U.S. shores June 19 via
Play Loud!
also brought us last year s documentary , which in turn provided impetus for this covers compilation and even a few live appearances from the aging Monks themselves.
Silver Monk Time includes cuts from the Fall, the Gossip, Faust with original Monk Gary Burger, Mouse on Mars, Jason Forrest, Silver Apples with Alan Vega (ex-Suicide), the Raincoats, Jon Spencer with Solex, Alec Empire (ex-Atari Teenage Riot) with Burger, Monika imprint chief Gudrun Gut (ex-Einst u rzende Neubauten), and Quentin Tarantino s beloved 5.6.
7.8 s, among others.
The Transatlantic Feedback, meanwhile, continues screening at film festivals around the world.
The doc recently scooped up prizes at W u rzburg International Film Days and San Francisco s Beyond Film Festival, and will appear at the Festival of German Films in Australia and Prague s Music on Film/Film on Music event later this year. Yes! , , is finally coming out in North America.
Released last year in Europe on , the stylish post-punk troupe s debut will hit our shores June 5, thanks to the good people at . The North American version of Someone to Drive You Home comes loaded with four bonus tracks, as well as the video for the single Once and Never Again . The Blondes plan to support the release with a brief North American tour in June, followed by a more extensive one in September.
They ll also spend the summer festival-hopping in Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. As for new Long Blondes music, the band has contributed a song, , to the art gallery s project. The project commissions artists to write songs inspired by pieces in the gallery, then offers the songs on headphones hanging in the gallery next to the work.
The Unbearable Lightness of Buildings was inspired by Jannis Kounellis painting Untitled , and has been available in the Tate since April 1. Starting May 1, the song will be streaming from the Tate Tracks website.
Haha, JK.
I m excited about old school recordings. You should be too. According to Austrian imprint -- who will drop Xiu Xiu s Untitled David Horvitz Picture Disc 7 this month-- we should imagine a more reduced Knife Play-era Xiu Xiu to get an idea about what the 3 tracks on this [release] sound like.
If you swear by Knife Play, this here s some swell news. Uber-swell, even.
As its non-title suggests, the 7 features photography from Xiu Xiu documentarian , along with three proto-Xiu jams that Jamie Stewart recently rediscovered on an ancient cassette tape, which is this primitive mode of audio storage that predates the mp3.
Xiu Xiu just put out the double-disc set, the final release on 5RC (R.I.P.
). If you believe the Xiu s antics-ridden website, the Covers disc has Claire Huxtable, Rudy Huxtable, Cliff Huxtable, Denise Huxtable, Theo Huxtable and Dillweed Huxtable playing Xiu Xiu songs. The Remixes disc has Ghandi [sic] and Malcolm X remixing a Xiu Xiu song each.
Dillweed, huh?
, sleep-averse Stewart joins an elite indie panel entrusted with selecting the best XBXRX video in the history of ever. Xiu Xiu, meanwhile, embark tomorrow night on the portion of that involves Sunset Rubdown.
Sanctuary Records to Cease New Releases in U.S. The American home to Morrissey, Idlewild, Tegan and Sara, Jonny Greenwood s reggae comp, and more, England s will soon cease its front-line operation in the United States and focus exclusively on catalog releases.
This is according to a Billboard.biz report and confirmed by a spokesperson at the imprint. UK operations will presumably continue as before.
Ex-Cranberries frontlady Dolores O Riordan s Are You Listening?, out May 15, will likely be the label s final new release in the U.S.
Meanwhile, the status of Tegan and Sara s latest LP, The Con, is unknown at this time. That record was slated to come out July 24.
As of June 30, the label will shift focus entirely to its catalog-- which, according to a Sanctuary spokesperson, will include both existing titles (including , , , and more) and future reissues.
The Sanctuary Records Group umbrella includes the Attack, Castle, Trojan, Vapor, and Fantastic Plastic sub-labels, among others.
Man Man, Oakley Hall, Buckner on WUAG Comp
Also David Bazan, Hem, Talkdemonic, Swearing at Motorists Greensboro, North Carolina college radio station has assembled another double-disc compilation of local and national artists to follow up last year s . The new compilation is titled Taylor 25: A Nostalgic Retrospective, after the room in which the recordings take place and the approximate number of years the station has occupied that room (it will move to a new building this fall).
Like 18 Watts, Taylor 25 features the national acts on one disc and the local ones on another. Among those national acts are Man Man, Oakley Hall, Hem, Richard Buckner, Nicolay, Swearing at Motorists, Jolie Holland, and Tara Jane O Neil.
Taylor 25 comes out today, April 10, and WUAG will follow its release with four nights of shows featuring Taylor 25 artists from April 11-14.
Non-comp contributors Parts Labor will play the first show with the Foreigners, Boa Narrow, and the Bronzed Chorus at Greene Street, and Emperor X will play the last show with the Never and Embarrassing Fruits at Chapel Hill s Local 506 club. Oakland experimental punkers are holding a video contest in conjunction with the release of their new album, Wars, on on April 10. Hey, that s today!
They re asking fans to create a video for the album s first track, Center Where Sight , and they ve recruited s Jamie Stewart, , and Erase Errata s Jenny Hoyston to judge the contest.
The first-prize winner of the contest will receive the guitar used on the Wars tour ( though they can t guarantee its condition ), a poster, and a sticker. The second-and-third-prize winners will each receive a copy of Wars and a spot on the guest list when XBXRX play their cities.
The contest runs until May 22, and XBXRX will announce the winners on June 10. Contestants can submit videos via email at xbxrxvideo@yahoo.com or post office at the following address (DVD-Rs are preferred):
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