Trail of Dead, PGMG, Blood Brothers Play Anti*Pop
So do Bob Mould, the Elected, Dosh, Saul Williams, Celebration, and more up, Backstreet Boys-- take a cue from *NSync and vanish before round two of the barnstorms your hometown. From November 13-19, a swarm of indie artists will move in on several of Orlando, Florida s finest venues to bring the indie rock goodness that this latest generation of youngsters craves. highlights include: .
..And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, the Blood Brothers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Saul Williams, Peanut Butter Wolf, the Elected, Margot and the Nuclear So So s, Dosh, Celebration, Earl Greyhound, and, er, Kasabian.
You may view the full day-by-day lineup . The fest will also feature panels held throughout Saturday, November 18, and flaunting topics like The acoustic solo show). A series of free parties goes down as well, at which everybody will rock their bodies to the tune of free Pabst Blue Ribbon and Jack Daniels, as well as some It s been over two years since released their spellbinding inaugural EP, Through the Sun Door, and at last the Mira Billotte-led, New York-based neo-folkies have a new serving of sonic sorcery on the way.
On November 14, they ll follow up Sun Door and the recent Katie Cruel single with their -stamped debut full-length, Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (Latin for The rose gives honey to the bees, says this here press release).
Offered in both CD and double-LP formats, the new album casts a tangled spell in twelve tracks, featuring the bewitching vocals of Billotte ( ) and the instrumentation of Sleepy Doug Shaw on guitars, gongs, percussion, etc. Also summoned to partake of the Magic-making: Jim White (Dirty Three) on drums; Tim Dewitt (Gang Gang Dance) on drums; Jesse Lee on still more drums; Shahzad Ismaily on bass; Tim Barnes on bells and percussion; Social Registry-signed Samara Lubelski on violin; Chris Rael on sitar; and Karen Leblanc on accordion.
Put the Lights on the Tree is a track from 2002 s Hark!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. II.
The video arrives just a couple weeks before the November 21 release of the , which packages together all five volumes of Stevens feel-good (and feel-bad) Christmas covers and originals. bringing back the cast of characters in Stevens world, including members of the Michigan Militia band, the Illinoisemakers, and the Seven Swans band. Look close for cartoon cameos by artists such as My Ringhofer, and Liz Janes.
It s probably the cuddliest video of the year, reminiscent of those classic cartoon Christmas specials like Frosty the Snowman and A Charlie Brown Christmas .
their voices to some of Eaton s animated short films and Eaton was a member of the Michigan band. He is also responsible for Eaton s Put the Lights on the Tree video, as well as a related comic strip, come packaged with Songs for Christmas, short stories by Stevens, and .
..an original Christmas Family Portrait painting of Santa Sufjan (with wife and kids!
). If it s anything like my last family portrait, at least one family member will be crying in it. If it s exactly like mine, then I ll be crying in it.
and three members of his Bad Seeds-- Warren Ellis (also of ), Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos-- will release their as-yet-untitled debut album as on March 5 via in the UK.
Grinderman s music is an instinctual yawlp that..
.resurrects the demons of each musician s past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey s ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath, according to a press release.
No Pussy Blues -- the song streaming from the band s MySpace page-- could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like.
It s noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic. We re extremely saddened to report that Larissa Strickland, formerly of two esteemed acts-- Detroit-area blues-punk upstarts and early 1980s punk combo (not to be confused with later L.A.
grunge-punk act L7)-- has passed away, according to a by label head Corey Rusk on T G s website.
While there is no official word on the details, Larissa is rumored to have died on November 4 from a prescription medication overdose.
Larissa co-founded and sang for L-Seven from 1980-1983, under her given name, Larissa Stolarchuk.
The band inspired many in the local scene and even opened once for another letter-number act, a young U2. After L-Seven parted ways, Larissa went on to shred guitar (with the surname Strickland) for Laughing Hyenas-- along with vocalist John Brannon (ex-Negative Approach), and former members of Rusk s old band, the Necros-- from 1985-1995.
L-Seven released an EP in 1982 through Touch and Go s Special Forces offshoot, while Laughing Hyenas graced us with several albums, an EP, and a 7 via the label over their ten-year career.
Strickland also shared her love for punk with others through her fanzine, Anonymous.
Remembered Rusk, In the Laughing Hyenas, Larissa blazed her own trail and paved the way for the growing numbers of talented women in real rock bands in the 90s and 00s.
She had an undeniable vibrancy and energy that was all her own.
I looked up to her and was honored to be her friend and to be involved with both of her bands. I will never forget her. For the journos and bloggers complaining about how boring this year s CMJ was: all it would have taken to shut you up was a few extra dollars and a ride on the Chinatown bus to Philadelphia s Pure for the Hacienda-riffic party .
Proof that Making Time has totally aped the arc of that fabled club: the hundreds of glow sticks dumped on the audience at the end of the Happy Mondays ...
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s set. In comparison to the rest of the acts, s performance felt downright precious. The Swedish group was about as shambolic as indie electro can get, with sound problems, an inability to properly play their keyboards, and plenty of youthful bouncing around.
This could have spelled disaster if it weren t for their awesome touring bassist, who held Lo-Fi-Fnk s collective shit together with her delicately sparse basslines and pretty backup vocals.
Here s how to decide whether or Hot Chip put on the better show: toss a coin. No lie.
The evening was more about the audience and band feeding off each other; at times I watched the floor bend like a trampoline (knocking over some of Hot Chip s equipment in the process) from the energy of the crowd, who seemed to inhale every note of both bands. Crowds this energetic often get passed off as annoying, but strangely enough, nobody seemed to mind the stage divers and waves of people crushing those up front. It was a refreshing change of pace.
And I didn t mind either when the following morning, I discovered all their merrymaking left me bruised. Dance floor justice, I guess. bawlers, and bastards everywhere will come together as television watchers on November 27 and 28, when is slated to appear on both the Late Show With David Letterman and The According to a press release, Waits will not only perform, but will also guest on the shows.
We guess that means he ll chat with Dave and Jon. Pretty big news for a guy who seems to only leave his house every few years! follows the release of his three-disc, 56-track box set Orphans, due via in the U.
S. on November 21 and in Europe the day before.
previously reported, three tracks have already been unleashed on the Internet: , , and .
Now, all 18 songs from disc three, Bastards, Oh, and (how could you?) about s forthcoming covers album, Scarlett Sings Tom Waits, tentatively slated for next spring via offshoot Atco. Who d have thought that the Brians of Providence, Rhode Island noise duo were such Renaissance men?
Oh, right: art school. Anyhow, when they re not melting faces on the floors of scuzzy venues around the world with their patented electro-shock assault, these boys indulge their artistic muses: Bassist Brian Gibson animates his kooky rock cartoon series, while drummer Brian Chippendale, as it happens, has been trading his sticks for pens and markers, illustrating like a madman, and putting together a graphic novel for the past five years.
Ninja, as Chippendale s titled it, will see official release December 1 via , in conjunction with (the company responsible for unleashing the Black Dice book Gore upon the world, as well as The Wilco Book).
The 144-page hardcover tome boasts some 1,500 illustrations in all, with 80 of those pages devoted to a story starring a Ninja hunted by the forces of evil, according to a press release. We hope the forces of evil in question are pirates.
The rest of the pages, meanwhile, collect assorted Chippendale pieces, including art for Lightning Bolt records and gig posters.
The man s artistic prowess has earned him a few exhibitions, too, including one at New York s gallery that opens tomorrow (November 9) and runs through November 25, and another at Tokyo s , open now. Finally, Rhode Island peeps can scope Chippendale s wares at the museum in Providence, as part of the show Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present . said new album, and now, they ve revealed a ten-date European tour in support of the follow-up to last year s .
and will tag along for the ride, which begins just three days after the forthcoming record s January 30 U.S. release.
, the currently untitled work will be self-released in the States. plans to cover its UK landing, and V2 will distribute the -produced album to month, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah wrapped up a U.S.
jaunt with buds and . All three bands contributed to an EP in celebration of the tour. Initially, it was available solely on the road, but CYHSY have a handful of copies left over.
These discs will be made available on CYHSY s website sometime in the near future.
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