Bonde do Role's "Office Boy" Remixed by CSS, Architecture in Helsinki -- co-presidents of the Brazil chapter of the Afrika Bambaataa fan club-- have quite a proposition for you: they re going to drop four different singles for the same song, and you re going to want all of them. Seriously.
Office Boy, a spurt of relative normalcy amidst the trunk-rattlin hotness , will be a -issued UK single four times over May 21.
Like any good Office Boy, the single s versatile: there s a CD, a digital download, and two different 7 incarnations. Take heed, though, as the two seven-inchers feature different tracks, the CD version carries bonus remixes from CSS, Architecture in Helsinki, and Shir Khan, and the digital download is a remix by Brodinski. Clever marketing scheme, or simply a funk onslaught from the up-and-comers?
We re leaning towards the latter.
Bonde do Role With Lasers is out June 5 in the U.S.
and June 4 in Europe, though it s on iTunes now. Details of the physical singles (and some tour dates to boot) after the jump.
Devendra, Jana Hunter Help Matteah Baim's Sun Shine No, we re not just posting random photographs for the heck of it now; that waving figure to the left of these words is actually folk chanteuse , casting her electric guitar into the briny deep.
That kind of unfiltered spirit is on display all over Baim s Death of the Sun, out May 7 on .
Death of the Sun is the first solo album from the former Metallic Falcons axewoman. Baim and CocoRosie s Sierra Cassady disbanded the Falcons a little while back, but Death of the Sun finds Baim in the equally good company of Jana Hunter, Devendra Banhart, Rob Lowe (Lichens, 90 Day Men), and more.
Baim has a pair of live dates remaining in May and June.
Weren't those the little red dudes you made Mario jump on? The fine folks of Chicago s have plumbed deep in the sun-baked crates of the Caribbean and yanked up Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay, a compilation of Bermuda Triangle-borne boogie sure to make that floral-patterned shirt you re wearing seem somewhat less ridiculous.
Operative term: somewhat.
The comp features a whole slew of lesser-known artists from a bygone era of Baha-mania, in the mold of 2005 s . Only, y know, that was Belize, and this is the Bahamas.
Grand Bahama Goombay can be yours May 8 on CD and LP. The vinyl version comes with a bonus track: an instrumental version of Sylvia Hall s Don t Touch That Thing . Personal journalist will release his newest album, Human the Death Dance, May 8 on .
The MC roped in Jolie Holland, Alias, and Buck 65 for collaborations on Death Dance, and the album also includes songs written specifically for a forthcoming movie titled Pride Glory.
The album s first video-- for the Ginsberg- and Bukowski-name-checking Got Up This Morning -- features cameos from Buck 65, Atmosphere MC Slug, Brother Ali, and Jolie Holland, who sings on the track.
Francis will embark on The Death Dance Tour with a live band in tow and buddies Buck 65, Alias, and Buddy Wakefield also on the bill.
The tour begins May 23 in Cambridge, Mass., but it is book-ended by in-stores and Francis appearances at . QOTSA, NIN, Hella Members on New Goon Moon LP -- the slop-metal mega-group featuring current Nine Inch Nail (aka Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson fame) and (ex-Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality)-- will issue Licker s Last Leg May 8 on .
Licker, the second full-length from Goon Moon, ropes in guest spots from Hella s Zach Hill, QOTSA front-bro Josh Homme, and NIN/Devo/Vandals drummer Josh Freese. In The Golden Ball , Goon Moon packs a five-part mini-epic, and in Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You , Licker also sports what may very well be metal s first Bee Gees cover. Keren Ann Preps Keren Ann for U.
S./UK, Tours Featherweight French-language Norah Jones-y sigh-popper has taken the self-referential route with her fifth album by naming it after its creator. She s also taken fast-lane into the English-speaking world s heart by filling that album with songs in the very language you are reading right now.
Keren Ann s already in stores in most of Europe, but it ll hit the UK June 4 thanks to Capitol/EMI, and Stateside May 8 on Blue Note. Hey, that s Norah s label! BFFs 4 life.
Keren s also traveling around North America for a spell in June. No Age Tour, Unveil Weirdo Rippers That , they re going places! From an from Deerhunter dress-donner Bradford Cox to a recent distribution deal from to some well-received , ex-Wives Randy Randall and Dean Spunt are sitting awful pretty.
And things are only getting sweeter: their debut full-length Weirdo Rippers hits Europe and such June 11 and North American August 28 from FatCat.
No Age ll venture out on a European tour this summer with fellow L.A.
punkers ; dates for the tour are still firming up, but Californians will get a few cracks at No Age over the next month.
Plus: Fischerspooner's Bromley, Ohsees, Skeletons the Kings of All Cities, Ecstatic Sunshine A stage, a floor, a speaker, a band; they are the near-universal trappings of live music. Mix a little NYC avant-garde art in there, however, and you ve got some new twists and turns.
Quite literally, in the case of You Are Here , a mixed-media installation at the 44th Street featuring a maze-like sculpture and a mess of experimental rock bands.
Visitors to the May 6-27 run of You Are Here will travel through a maze assembled by Trouble and the B-keepers (aka Zs saxophonist Sam Hillmer and artist Laura Paris), in which they ll happen upon musicians doing their thing. The maze ll be up nearly all of May, which, of course, means a plethora of musical acts will wind their way through during the performance s run.
Noise-makers such as Dirty Projectors mastermind Dave Longstreth (May 14), Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities (May 19), Ohsees (May 13), Ecstatic Sunshine (May 6), Zs (May 27), Ben Bromley of Fischerspooner (May 10), J. Graf of Metalux (May 26), John Dwyer of Coachwhips/Pink and Brown (May 12), John Fell Ryan of Excepter (May 6), and Excepter offshoot Lake (May 27) will be among those soundtracking the labyrinth.
A bunch of other bands/DJs/multimedia artists inhabit the dead ends all May long.
Drop by on the days mentioned above, or, for perhaps even more fun, amble through the maze entertainment unbeknown. The tracklist for ninth (is it really only ninth?) studio album was just posted to , featuring such melon-scratchers as Halloweenhead and Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
And what s a guy with an album named Gold doing a song called Tears of Gold ? OMG, whatever, etc.
Curious titles aside, standout songwriter turned turned Ryan Adams seems to have taken a bit more time than usual on this Easy Tiger of his, even enlisting the help of your mom s fave-rave Sheryl Crow.
If their duet, Two , even remotely approaches the heights of her Kid Rock-boosted Picture , we re all in for a treat when the next dentist appointment rolls around.
Adams still has four Mid-Atlantic tour dates planned, all yours (along with the tracklist) after the jump. In the wake of the and the possible very-not-hot arrest of Paris Hilton, seems like intervention s on everybody s mind.
So, too, goes the , who will supplement their current globe-conquerering tour with a 7 single for Intervention, out on the North American continent July 10 from . (May 21 in the UK.) It s backed by s on s Ocean of Noise.
Of course, we re still just days from the May 8 U.S. release of Hey, Arcade Fire tour dates!
Haven t posted those in a while.
s roster of experimental beat freaks is all over the map, musically and geographically. With tours from , , and kicking off in the coming weeks, the Anticon army is set to invade the U.
S. in full force. Add new records, a festival, an art show, and one-off dates from , s Yoni Wolf, and to the mix, and you ve got an Anticon infestation to look forward to.
First up is an art exhibition called Florida Is a Death Metal Los Angeles (\m/ !) that will open at the in Los Angeles on May 12. The show is the second in an Anticon-related series of exhibits, and this installment features visual art by Doseone, Odd Nosdam, Yoni Wolf, Fog s Andrew Broder, Pedestrian, Passage, the Bomarr Monk, Telephone Jim Jesus, Ravi Zupa, Audio Dregs/Fryk Beat label head E*Rock, and Voodoo-Eros label head Militia Shimkovitz, among others.
The exhibit s opening day party will include performances by Jel and Bat Rays, along with poems from Doseone and some turntable action from Odd Nosdam. YACHT was supposed to play as well but had to bail after being asked to .
A few days later and a couple hours north, in San Francisco on May 18, Yoni Wolf will play with Odd Nosdam (DJing), Telephone Jim Jesus, Bat Rays, and Half-Handed Cloud, with visuals by Video Savant as part of the , which takes place May 10-20 at almost a dozen San Francisco venues.
Mission Creek also features sets by Lavender Diamond, RJD2, Acid Mother s Temple, Comets on Fire, Edith Frost, Daedelus, Mia Doi Todd, and a group called RRIICCEE made up of the Warlocks Corey Lee Granet, Hole s Eric Erlandson, and Vincent Gallo (??).
In the way of more traditional projects, Alias will release his on CD and limited red double vinyl on May 15. The collection includes his remixes for John Vanderslice, Lali Puna, 13 God, and the One AM Radio, among others.
Sole will release his new Mansbestfriend album, , on May 29, and he has a trio of dates with Skyrider left this month.
will return to the label on July 17 with the cheekily titled , his first full-length in eight years.
Thee More Shallows will launched their tour in support of their Anticon debut last night, and Alias will start his own tour with Sage Francis and Buck 65 on May 23.
Each Anticon act s tour dates are listed below in chronological order of start date.
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