With posturing, fist pumps, old school choreographed dancing, and unrivaled body rhythm, resembled a modernized Jamel Shabazz photograph come to life-- crossed with Michael Jackson circa the Off the Wall era-- when they took to the stage at before a deafeningly enthusiastic mob this past Saturday.
They knocked out their most beloved songs in a one-two punch, opening with Air Cock Thrust and then launching into Rick Rubin , leading the crowd in a chorus of shout outs to both Rubin and Nick Cannon during the latter. By the fourth song they had a bold young lady crawling onto the stage, and by the sixth MC Naeem Juwan was simulating a variety of sexual positions with her.

Mid-set, s Brace Paine made a request from the audience for Lindsay Lohan , the jam on which Spank Rock and Amanda Blank guest. The new song popped up on Spank s recently and when they performed it the audience nearly tore the roof off the club.
Before the band headed off for an aftershow at Dunes, nearly every lady in attendance had graced the stage.

The night was as much about Spank Rock s hyper sexuality as it was about the beats, the hand claps, and the sweat from dancing and shouting-- from band and audience alike.
things done. Like, way more things than anybody else accomplishes outside of the home, don t ask me how.

digital-only iTunes EP from Jos e popped up on the iTunes store. The five-track recording features three songs from Gonz a lez s debut, , as well as B-side In addition, the artist assisted. As , Gonz a lez is featured on four tracks, nominations, Gonz a lez is currently up for the best video of 2006 through MTV2 s Subterranean .

(But who isn t?) Head to vote. In addition, Gonz a lez recently participated in a Beatles tribute alongside Razorlight s Johnny Borrell, Queen s Roger Taylor, and Corinne Bailey Rae in celebration of producer George Martin s induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

The performance will air on VH1 in the U.S. in the near future.

month. The EP originally landed last year on the band s own label. three-piece is slated for Temeshet in 2007.

Ellen Allien Remixes Beck and Yorke, Owns 2007 is all about 2007. In fact, she s so excited about it, she s practically planned out the entire year already, for both herself and the label she lovingly oversees, Berlin-based techno powerhouse . Remixes, compilations, mixes, new albums, new signings, tours-- it s all in the works, so pull up one of those futuristic-looking pod chairs, pour yourself a glass of Tang, sit back, and check it out.

First up, Allien pays her respects to 2006, which wasn t too shabby at all for the gal. In collaboration with co-chief , she released the Pitchfork this past spring-- and she and Apparat judged a Way Out video contest held by MTV-owned Flux.tv (now ).

Check out the winning clip, painstakingly put together by Marco Testoni, below. Like a low-budget Take on Me , it s an absolute marvel of animation on the cheap, although it might have fit slightly better with a gritty rock song than Allien Apparat s nocturnal electronic bubblings.
After a series of DJ gigs in Europe this month and a New Year s bash in Berlin with Sascha Funke, Allien hops on the 2007 trajectory and doesn t look back.

In March, she ll hit us with both the third Bpitch Camping compilation (including a new Allien track) and the CD/DVD Time Out Presents: The Other Side Berlin mix (which arrives March 30, courtesy of Fujiya Miyagi s U.S. home ; tracklist below).

Allien s Berlin mix culls together everything from a German version of David Bowie s Heroes to Swiss robo-seductress Miss Kitten to the minimal superstar Ricardo Villalobos. And heads up: Madlib s The Other Side L.A.

mix drops then as well.
In the fall, Allien dons her mixing hat once again for Boogybytes Vol. 3 on Bpitch.

Like previous Boogybytes releases mixed by Funke and Kiki, this one features another cover photograph that should frighten all the birds and small children away. As if that weren t enough, she has a mix on the way in May.
An unstoppable mistress of the mix, Allien will also give the remix treatment to tracks by Thom Yorke ( The Eraser ; ), Beck ( The Sun ), and, along with Apparat, Kate Wax-- those should see release in the near future.

folks. Always up for some fan interaction, have joined forces design battles. (Until Stephen Colbert comes up with one.

) You know, the kind that Meloy, of course), an autographed limited edition Decemberists lithograph, autographed copies of on vinyl and CD, a Capitol Records 5-CD surprise pack (ooh we hope it comes with a Chingy album!), an I Heart Threadless tee, a one-year subscription, a $300 Threadless gift certificate, and $1,500 in cash! Yeah, we thought that would bring out your competitive nature.

So how do you connect your grubby hands to that fine pile of prizes? Simple-- just design the best (as judged by the Decemberists Crane Wife song . Entries must be submitted by 11:59:59 CST on January 1, so get a move That s right, you heard us.

Design a t-shirt based on a 13-minute, three-part epic about rape and murder on the high seas. Easy! Just use the keyboard solo for inspiration.

duel come December 20. That s eight days and counting..

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In September, the SMA will die before the age of two, as it affects their ability to crawl, walk, breathe, swallow, and control their head and neck. At this point in time, it does not have a cure.

scoliosis surgery. The condition is an expensive one, especially for parents looking to test out its experimental treatments, which is something Robbins and Morgan hope to do. As you well know, indie rock godfathers don t usually pull in the big bucks.

Thus, (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels) co-founder Bill Barbot has set up a PayPal account to raise money for Cal and his family. Donations can be made to the PayPal account of bbarbot@gmail.com or via the link on Cal s page.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy, please go . Sure, dug the Grand Canyon, sneezed out the Dust Bowl, and ate dinner off the plateaus, but her legendary travels are far from over. Bunyan will kick off 2007 by taking to the open road once again, playing shows on both sides of the Atlantic (which she can bestride without even stretching), accompanied for all dates by a trusty big blue ox named .

The first set of dates has Bunyan across the pond, trading tales with , , and Vetiver as part of the 0 Degrees Of Separation tour, put together by the UK s and produced by . No separation means these four will be collaborating all willy-nilly onstage, so expect new sights and sounds, bull-ridin , coon-huntin , free-loggin , and such.
Then it s off to the wild frontiers and deciduous forests of the eastern U.

S. for Vashti and Vetiver, who ll embark on a series of shows that will have them snacking on the Big Apple, taking shots out of the Liberty Bell, and crocheting with the Washington Monument.
After that Vashti will get cracking on a religious novel, called Pilgrim s something-or-other.

After canceling their remaining tour dates following a tour bus accident, is hard up. Boots Riley posted a message on the group s explaining their side of the incident and announcing the creation of a PayPal account where fans can donate money to the Coup in order to help alleviate the financial strain of losing their cash, equipment, and quite a few peripheral belongings.
Though Riley mentions in his message that is in the process of setting up a similar arrangement, Mr.

Lif has not yet released any information about such a possibility. The button to donate that Riley mentions in his message can be accessed by visiting the Coup s MySpace. Or simply send PayPal donations to thecoupbuscrash@gmail.

com. Riley s message can be read in full below.
In the grand tradition of Rosa Parks vs.

Outkast and Mariah Carey vs. Mary Carey comes this wacky bit of legal news, straight off the wires of the Associated Press: Yes, daredevil motorcyclist is suing over Kanye s Touch the Sky , in which the rapper/producer portrays a daredevil motorcyclist named Evel Kanyevel. Evel, are you kidding?

? That video rules! Apparently, Knievel doesn t think so.

That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I ve ever seen in my life, vented the legendary cyclist, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public. Guy has a point-- would anyone even know who Kanye West is if he hadn t siphoned all his fame and credibility from a 70s pop culture footnote?
Evel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against West, video director Chris Milk, and Roc-A-Fella records in U.

S. District Court in Tampa, Florida on Friday. And not only does Knievel want money, but he wants distribution of the video to be stopped.

Who better to bring good Yuletidings to you and your friends than Zac Pennington s , whose bells- and chimes-frosted songs-- such as those collected on 2006 s ( )-- pretty much sound like twisted carols anyhow?
The P-Girls (in various incarnations) have made a habit out of stuffing stockings with limited edition holiday EPs on the even-numbered years, including 2002 s Christmas With Swastika Girls and 2004 s Christmas With Parenthetical Girls-- and this being 2006, and six being an even number and all (fact-check it if you don t believe us), it s time for another one.
Santa Pennington and his merry elves will make A Parenthetical Girls Family Christmas (previously sold on tour in limited quantities) available for free download on the band s website very soon-- but the good boys and girls of the Pitchfork readership may download a chestnut of the joy this five-song EP will bring to the world right now.

Festive Friends (Forever) glides along at idle sleighride pace, glimmering in garlands of twinkling bell and xylophone percussion, Pennington and backing vocalists declarations billowing like Yule log smoke from a snow-touched chimney. That s a rather hokey description, but I can t help it-- Christmas songs just make me so damn sentimental. supporting tour, and judging by the stunningly clear trailer on the band s website, it looks like the work is beautifully filmed.

formats: standard, high-definition, and Blu-Ray, with the latter two featuring true high definition video audio, according to the NIN . via Interscope in the U.S.

(an international release will follow on an unconfirmed date), and, in addition to the aforementioned content, it includes trek, music videos for The Hand That Feeds and Only , Trent Reznor and co. are currently working on a new album, which is scheduled to hit shelves in spring of 2007. They will Finally, the band is up for Ah, the Internet.

Where nothing is sacred, and where if something exists, you can damn well bet it will find its way onto a blog at some point-- especially if that something remotely involves .
Such was the case for handful of O demos collected on a CD-R labeled KO at Home and left in a suitcase at s former residence by a friend. Apparently a private gift to the TV on the Radio guitarist from Karen, the demos found their way onto the blogosphere the other day after someone (a certain Mike ) found the suitcase and thought it apt to share them with the world.

Fair enough, maybe you would too?
Anyhow, mistakenly thinking this Mike had rifled through his trash or obtained the demos by some other dubious means, Sitek posted a pretty gosh darn enraged diatribe on his yesterday evening, essentially tearing the O-leaker a new orifice and declaring him worse than a GREEDY CORPORATION .
This prompted an apology e-mail from Mike himself, which in turn prompted Sitek to write a follow-up post on his blog today, essentially apologizing for the outburst-- and a valuable lesson was learned by all!

By flipping out i connected with something i had lost, wrote Sitek, Springer Final Thought stylee. i am not taking down the post because i want to be reminded how much of an ass i can be, and if i forget , i am comforted by the fact that the blogs..

. the web..

. will always be there to remind me. i really do need to get offline .

in a real way.
I ll drink to that.
Here s Dave s original post, followed by the apology: The sixth annual has a lot to live up to, as artists who have performed at the Tennessee fest in the past include Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, Beck, My Morning Jacket, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, and many, many more.

Bonnaroo 2007 will run from June 14-17 on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee as , but . Steve Albini. buddy .

Along with the other still-living Stooges (guitarist Ron Asheton, his brother and drummer Scott Asheton, and original saxophonist Steve Mackay), these are the elements of the Stooges reunion record that might just make it work. Among the elements that might be indications it will fail miserably: the album and song titles.
The album is called The Weirdness, and songs include Trollin , Greedy Awful People , Mexican Guy , Claustrophobia , I m Fried , ATM , O Solo Mio , She Took My Money , and End of Christianity .

Billboard.com also reported that the album has 16 songs, including My Idea of Fun , You Can t Have Friends , the title track, and Free and Freaky , the latter of which features vocals from Brendan Benson.
The songs are culled from over 30 that the band wrote at a Florida cottage earlier in the year before rehearsing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and, as , ultimately landing in Chicago to record at with Albini in October.

The album is now being mastered at Abbey Road Studios in the UK, and the band will follow its March 20 release on Virgin with a world tour. Despite the largely bland or frustrating nature of reunions, we want to like The Weirdness, so we re biting our tongues and holding our breath. Bloody tongues, blue faces: we re in quite a bit of pain over this whole thing.

It's a record that can laugh at itself. You should only make records if you ve got something to say, remarked s Alasdair MacLean in an with Pitchfork s Scott Plagenhoef that took place late last year. Lucky for us, MacLean and his bandmates still have plenty to say, and thus, God Save the Clientele, the band s third full-length proper, should be gracing audio-playing devices in April 2007.

This time around, however, as MacLean told Pitchfork today, the Clientele have some slightly more positive things to say. It s a lot more cheerful. It s a lot more of a happy record.

It s an upbeat record, a fun record. Whereas the other records were very neurotic and depressed, I think.
, the Clientele s longtime U.

S. home, will deliver the new artifact, while the band haven t settled on a UK label. And although the tracklist has yet to be finalized, God Save the Clientele should include the telling These Days Nothing But Sunshine , Here Comes the Fountain , Wench on Victoria Street , The Dance After Hours , and Bookshop Casanova -- a disco number.

There s a groovy, disco song, which still sounds like the Clientele, according to MacLean. I said to the people at Merge, This is going to make us millionaires. And they just laughed at me.

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