may have their first show in a couple of years a few days ago, but that doesn t mean they aren t prepared. You might even call Jack and Meg over-prepared, since they just announced new dates on their globe-trotting tour, and these dates don t even take place until the fall.
The new dates, in September, show some love to places like Alaska and Wyoming, continuing the Stripes trend of bringing the rock to .
But if you don t live in Jackson Hole or Anchorage, (or even if you do), tune in to Late Night With Conan O Brien on June 18 for a Stripey fix. The Stripes new album, , will be released here via Third Man/Warner Bros. on June 19 (June 18 via in the UK).
The Stripes world tour begins in earnest May 31 in Barcelona. Dates for their Still Thumpin Tour in the summer of 2017 will be available shortly.
A beloved member of the indie pop community-- cherished as the vocalist for melancholy outfit , and as a member of , , and acts and -- Keith Girdler passed away on May 15, 2007 after a three-year battle with cancer.
In addition to playing music, Keith also served in recent years as a social worker and as the Volunteer Services Manager at the Age Concern care facility in Eastbourne, England.
Girdler s Snowdrops bandmate Richard Preece, who also helms Lovejoy, wrote the following in memory of his friend who passed on:
Keith was extremely brave and he continued in his work for as long as possible during his illness. I know that Keith was very highly regarded by his colleagues and the people for whom he provided care and support in his work.
He was a selfless and gentle person who genuinely affected everyone he knew with his warmth, kindness, humility and humour.
Keith wanted to be remembered, to use his own words, with happiness and smiles -- which for those of us fortunate enough to have known him, will come all too easily despite our grief.
Most bands don t like to hear that they drone on, but we doubt very much would mind.
The veteran Kiwi noise act has been releasing their low rumblings for nigh on twenty years now, and with their new album Future Artists, they show no signs of slowing down. Future Artists drops in CD form May 29 from , with a double-gatefold vinyl edition arriving in late June, complete with a bonus track by the name of The Prisoners. The new album is the Dead C s first since 2003, and follows BaDaBing!
s 2006 release of the collection . Though no dates have officially been announced yet, we re assured that the Dead C will tour Australia this September.
will join the band of labelmates for a single show in Brooklyn this Friday (May 25).
The show will take place at bar/restaurant/performance space , and it is the only show either Sufjan or Castanets have scheduled at the moment. It s the launch party for new NYC company .
The Sufjan-infused Castanets will play two sets on Friday.
The band s lineup will also include Mathew Houck (aka ), Laura Goetz (aka ), and Dan Bryant of the Skaters.
Hey Sufjan! When you aren t too busy playing in other peoples bands, , and .
..how about a new album?
Peter Bjorn and John Plot More U.S. Live Action , the fever that , return to the U.
S. yet again this summer to continue sharing their tuneful wares with folks young and old.
People in select U.
S. cities can look forward to crying and laughing more often now, as the unexpectedly delectable combination of Peter Emerson, Bjorn Lake, and John Palmer makes its way to Cali (including an L.A.
make-up gig), Chitown, B-town, and Salt Lake City-town.
In a genius logistical move, they ll play a special Lollapalooza aftershow in Chicago August 3, fly out to Baltimore the next night for the Virgin Festival, and then fly back to Chicago the day after that for Lollapalooza itself. At least we know the skies will be that much friendlier with PB J all up in them.
And of course Peter Bjorn and the other guy have the usual run of European festival engagements, including Donau, Accelerator, Benic ssim, Fuji Rock, and T o t llym de u pf e st 2007. believe in , and apparently so do , as Paul Banks, , and co. have tapped their fellow brooding New Yorkers to open for them on Interpol s U.
S. club this summer.
The festivities begin July 19 in Rochester, New York and end August 3 in Covington, Kentucky.
Like wordplay-obsessed wolves, indie rappers travel in packs, or at least that s what we gather from the lineup of in support of his recently released new album, .
The tour kicks off tonight, May 23 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and features , (whose MySpace page claims he has a new solo instrumental record in the works ), and by Sage s side. Sage Francis will perform with a live band on the tour, and he will also perform at all three dates of the traveling festival after the tour winds down.
Buck 65 has one non- Death Dance date of his own. It s not until October (at the in Reykjav i k), and by that time, his new album, Situation, should be available in stores. He is also working with s Jo e lle Phuong Minh L on a project called Their forthcoming album is called More Heart Than Brains.
Daft Punk and Kanye Team up for Song, Video
Please God, let it be better than Busta Rhymes' Touch It Though Graduation, s lavish paean to the value of a good education, won t drop til the fall, it s already shaping up to be, um, awesome. As reported by and confirmed by management, the producer/MC s third album will include a song titled Stronger and credited to Kanye West featuring . Yes, it s built around a sample of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger from Discovery.
Kanye recenly linked up with director Hype Williams for the song s video. And, in a fitting nod to the dudes whose song he s biting, none other than the Daft Punk robots make an appearance in the clip.
No word on when we ll actually get to see the video, or whether Kanye realizes how easy it would ve been to dress two bums up in helmets.
According to , Coldplay s Chris Martin appears on the Graduation track Homecoming , and Jon Brion is helping out with production, just like on 2005 s Late Registration. The song Can t Tell Me Nothing , co-produced by DJ Toomp, will also be included on the album. And in a recent story, West revealed that the tour in support of Graduation will be called the Glow in the Dark Tour, and will feature choreography by Madonna s choreographer Jamie King.
As recently reported, West did some production work for Talib Kweli s and Common s , and will get his philanthropy on at both and the .
Daft Punk, of course, is .
As U.
S. citizens prepare to fall into the , Pipettes impresario will stir up further support for his debut-- out July 17 Stateside and July 16 UK-ways via -- by pulling double duty at a bunch of upcoming .
Bobby will open all of Rosay, Gwenno, and Riot Becki s U.
S. and Canada gigs before donning his fuzzy sweater vest and stepping behind the self-described prettiest girls you ve ever met as part of the Cassettes, the Pipettes trusty backing band. He ll have plenty of time to change, as rather young duo also assume opening duties.
As a special treat, check out an mp3 below of a noisy pop jam from Monster Bobby s debut, Gaps. It s called The Closest Experience to That of Being With You Is the Experience of Taking Drugs -- now really Bobby, are these the sort of ideas we should be putting into the heads of Smoosh? Looks like s forthcoming third LP, , will roll a little less deep in the United States and North America, where-- as reported on and confirmed by a Rascal representative-- Maths will exist solely in digital format.
/ will still release the UK grimester s third offering Stateside on June 5, but the only way we ll be gazing at cross-armed Dizzee s mug while taking in his gritty narratives on urban plight will be if we print the downloaded cover art-- or score the physical album on import from the UK or mainland Europe, where it will still hit shops in that antiquated format on June 4.
The decision apparently stems from the significantly poorer sales experienced by (Dizzee s sophomore set) in America as compared to (his debut), as well as Dizzee s general reluctance to promote the new record in this hemisphere.
, LP the third features contributions from Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen, and UGK.
Dizzee teaches Maths English at a bunch of dates overseas in the coming months. Rather than grin and bear the string of bad luck that plagued last year-- including an incident of , , and lead vocalist Victoria Bergsman s illness and -- Sweden s perseverant indie-pop squad decided to grin and write an album about it.
Out now in Scandinavia, Hey Trouble arrives June 4 in the UK via the Concretes own imprint (also home to Frida Hyv o nen and El Perro Del Mar).
It collects 12 tunes, including recent single and (both featured in Forkcast recently), from the melancholy outfit s post-Bergsman lineup. Releases in the U.S.
and the rest of Europe are projected for fall of this year.
Hey Trouble features production and percussion from the Bear Quartet s Jari Haapalainen, backing vocals from Hyv o nen and Club Killers Anna-Maria Espinosa, and a duet with Little Wings Kyle Field titled If We re Lucky We Don t Get There on Time .
The Concretes will also follow up the recent Kids EP with the Oh Boy EP, out May 30 in Scandinavia and July 2 in the UK.
The extended-player includes the title track (off Hey Trouble), a version with Ed Harcourt on vocals, a remix, and another B-side, The Sentence .
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