MP3: Lady Sovereign ft. Missy Elliott: "Love Me or Hate Me (Remix)" same track! Thanks to the folks at Def Jam, we re proud to bring you the remix of s hit (yes, ) single Love Me or Hate Me , pond as well.
And, like the foreigners of long ago, she s headed straight to New York City. handful of gigs across the Big Apple, after finishing a tour with Camera Obscura in England. Now we know what you re thinking-- four November NYC gigs in five days that aren t a part of CMJ?
-- but...
well, to be honest, that s what we re thinking too. Over a year into s acclaimed life, is still supporting the album on tour. Last night, the superman kicked off a fall journey through Europe.
He will forge on across the continent with his band Photographs for the next month, before heading solo to Australia with at the end of December. The latter set of is, according to a press release, very deep into his next record. He is recording it with bandmates Ian Bjornstad, Dave Douglas, and David work, which is slated for release sometime in 2007.
PJ Harvey's Peel Sessions Coming to U.S. and Halloween: what do these two have in common?
Both are scary. Both are fun. Both involve putting on makeup and costumes.
And both are happening on October 31 this year.
On that date, Polly Jean will release her PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 in the U.S.
It s coming out on Island in conjunction with the BBC. of that candy a little bit early. Harvey has made two tracks from the record, streaming.
The first was culled from an October 29, 1991 Peel session, and the second is a John Peel tribute recorded on December 16, 2004. Perhaps best of all, however, is the fact that Harvey is gearing up to begin work on a new record. According to her website, she will likely get things going in November with producers Flood and John Parish.
The new material has been prepared mainly for piano, and that is all we know for the time being. Finally, fans can catch an interview with Harvey, filmed at Ireland s Electric Picnic Festival, on
Oil up the cash registers! For once, all we need isn t LOVE, the UK) via Capitol.
The album is actually a soundtrack to Beatles master tapes with new production from Beatles producer and his son Giles. Yeah, it might be a cool display live with all the contortionists and stuff, but for purely listening purposes..
.well, that s your call. In a press release, Paul McCartney said, This album puts the Beatles back together again, because suddenly there s John and George with me and Ringo.
It s kind of magical. Not fully magical. Only kind of .
end of the tunnel is a . The UK-based, -signed electro-rock whiz will rev the continent through mid-December. His live backing band, which includes Wildcat on drums/sequencers, Scott X.
Fairbrother on guitar/bass, and Shah on guitar/keys, will join him for the jaunt. (which supports LP The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is a Train, which dropped earlier this month on the Mak), because it has been slightly altered from For the home stretch, Whitey will meet up with to wreck shit on a last round of gigs.
track, Fille Plumes , but that s not the only Malajube video treat we ve discovered.
Two additional Malajube clips, both directed by Louis Philippe Eno and produced by N u Films, also surfaced within the past week. The first, for Trompe-l oeil s P te of us, as well as the lover of sea animals, bugs, comic book panels, skeletons dancing, knives falling from a rainbow, bar graphs, and pie charts. The second Eno short, for Montr e al -40 C , begins with the band bundled up, playing outside.
(It is cold out, after all.) Once again, drawings take over-- angry polar bears, smoke stacks, outer space, cartoon creatures, more dancing skeletons-- you name it. The most impressive aspect of the video, however, is when these sketches begin to interact with flesh-and-blood human Watch all the videos on YouTube below, or on Malajube s website .
next, as well as an appearance at the Mercury Lounge for the CMJ Music , as the Brighton-based man prefers to be known, is one lucky bloke. As principal songwriter for cutie-troupe and guitarist for mysterious Pipettes backing band the Cassettes, Bobby gets to hang with Becki, Rose, and Gwenno, like, all the time.
But when all those polka dots get to be too much for the man, he goes to a hidden place to record sample-happy, lo-fi-ish tunes under his own name.
Monster Bobby has churned out plenty of them in this fashion, and just signed to New York-based with the intention of unleashing more upon the world.
Monster Bobby s latest three-track 7 single, Heaven Hides Nothing , gets proper release October 23 via in the UK, and Hypnote in the U.S.
It was previously available with limited distribution, and you can check out its title song below. He also has a split 7 in the works, to see release through U.S.
label , the lo-fi/indie pop imprint that gave us a holiday compilation titled (seriously) Cwistmas Twee.
Even better, Hypnote s previous signings include , a (seriously) robot designed with the capacity for human feeling as well as the ability to write hit songs.
Monster Bobby also has a flair for the academic, and that Pipettes B-side Pitchfork recently , The Burning Ambition of Early Diuretics , is a cover of one of his tunes.
He is also intent on following through on his own burning ambition to become a serious composer.
Bobby got his start arranging club nights in Brighton, and hopes to soon record an album of entirely new material to see release next year. The soundtrack to , the new Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson movie, now has a release date and a tracklist.
, the score was composed in part by s Britt Daniel, who collaborated with Marie Antoinette/Lost in Translation/Thumbsucker music supervisor Brian Reitzell.
The biggest news for Spoon fans, though, is that the band contributed The Book I Write , a completely new song written for the movie. Other artists on the soundtrack include Califone, M83, Maximo Park, the Jam, and omnipresent soundtrack man Vangelis.
Stranger Than Fiction opens in theaters on November 10, and the soundtrack comes out on Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax on November 7. Man, it s been a weird week. Violence the , Scarlett Johansson Tom Waits, and now, performing as on Atlanta s local network.
, a morose, mumbling Merritt gives an awkward interview, then nails a brief but solid rendition of Smile! No One Cares How You Feel from the Archies compilation, The Tragic Treasury: Songs From a Series of Unfortunate Events. We suspect Fox settled on Merritt because Series author s (Daniel Handler) schtick is evading the public eye, and because through some convoluted dealing, Rupert Murdoch probably owns Stephin Merritt.
And oh man, who knew Snicket played accordion on 69 Love Songs?
Yesterday, the (almost) unthinkable happened, as s vaulted to number one on MTV s countdown. Yes, more people voted for Lady Sovereign being chased by a ghost hamster than Justin Timberlake and T.
I. in My Love . In other shocking news, TRL is apparently still on the air.
It s good to be Lady Sovereign right now. In addition to the TRL triumph, the Love Me or Hate Me clip was shown 20 times in five days on MTV and MTV2, the song is featured in some sort of Verizon Wireless promotion for their new phone, 9 to 5 and A Little Bit of Shhh (Adrock remix) are on video game soundtracks, and . She s scheduled to appear on Letterman on November 2 and Jimmy Kimmel on November 9, as well as MADtv sometime in the near future.
(See what happens when you sign with Jay-Z? Dude knows how to market that shit.) All of this is in anticipation of the release of Sov s debut album Public Warning, due out October 31 on Def Jam.
Next week, she kicks off a with supporting.
have scared up some tour dates. The San Fran foursome will round out 2006 with a CMJ-centric trek through the States.
The jaunt kicks off Along the way, they ll stop by Los Angeles KCRW studios for a gig. This happens Friday morning, and will air live on both the radio and Web. Also, those Seriously, WTF?
Jeff Tweedy s , Houston cops are , and now this? National Rock Club Violence Week continues with this latest report of live gig fisticuffs: according to on the message board and confirmed by a representative from the label, DJ leapt down from the stage at last Friday s DFA gig (October 13) at in Atlanta to lay the proverbial smack down on a drunk-ass fan who messed with his gear.
We ll let the Juan tell it in his words, as posted Saturday (October 14) on the DFA board: What really happened is this: I was in the middle of mixing two records, and this drunken yahoo walks up to the stage, picks up a microphone stand, and starts beating the table that the decks were on with it, which of course sends the mix into total trainwreck.
I yelled at him and he laughed at me.
From there, I don t know what to say except that he fucked with the wrong person. I walked up to him and short story is I, as was said, beat him down.
It totally bummed everyone out. HE got thrown out, I went back and finished, but all the girls had left, the vibe was horrible. Haha you Pitchfork jokers, what a hilarious hoax headline.
Next, you ll tell me Sufjan Stevens is pregnant! Like, JK LOL, right dudes? No.
Not kidding, and certainly not laughing. This is 4 SERIOUS, guys. According to a recent report on (yes, that was the sound of a kitten dying) and confirmed by Waits publicist, aesthetically pleasing and indie-savvy film starlet is not only singing, but recording an album of covers.
Scarlett Sings Tom Waits, as it s called, will tentatively see release next spring via recently-revived offshoot Atco. It s not Scarlett s first vocal foray-- she recorded a version of Gershwin brothers standard for this year s corny Unexpected Dreams: Songs From the Stars charity compilation.
That s pretty much all the info we have right now, but stayed tuned to Pitchfork, your one-stop ScarJo rumor shop, for more details and the latest hot pix.
Oh, and according to Fox News Roger Friedman, Waits is one of the premier singer-songwriters in the business. So, best respect-- because lord knows this is, first and foremost, a business. Do you have a news tip for us?
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