Portland may still be in mourning over the loss of Sleater-Kinney, but that doesn t mean the city s scene is entirely dead. The Thermals brought the apocalyptic heat with The Body, the Blood, the Machine, and now will issue their debut LP on New York s , home of .
Danava s self-titled full-length is set for a November 7 release on the label and was produced by the band s friend Johnny Jewel (of Glass Candy).
So characters in early punk songs (Television s Little Johnny Jewel ) can come to life and produce albums now? Then sign Sheena and Judy up for my debut.
In a press release, Danava are called sci-fi rockers and the five-song album is described as continuing the band s long-standing tradition of musical respect.
I hope that means their live shows look like aliens acting in after school specials.
L.A.
robo-rapper may be tired of the game (he s retiring the Subtitle moniker at the end of this year-- unless his are met-- and continuing as ), but at least he s got his friends. And on Terrain to Roam, his new album coming out October 10 on , he enlists pretty much all of them behind the boards. Also: the utilizes the font!
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Terrain to Roam features production from Madlib, Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello), Daedelus, Nobody, Daddy Kev, Paris Zax, Thavius Beck, Omid, dDamage, Crunc Tesla, and Small Is Beautiful (aka J Aime Tambeur, of ), among others. And speaking of Islands, Subtitle will kick off his North American tour this weekend with those Unicorns-descended crazies.
Sadly, without treadmills (we think) Viral marketing poster boys just wrapped up a tour of Europe a moment ago, but tomorrow, October 7, they re kicking off another one. This jaunt sees the catchy pop-rockers treading across North America and milling about the green rooms of your favorite venues. It all begins with a free show in Ann Arbor before the Michigan/Michigan State football game-- right next to the stadium.
Rock n roll, dudes!
After that, the band will play and one special gig with , , , and in at the city s grand reopening of . Then it s ready, set, OK Go as the foursome zoom off for multiple dates with and .
Dudes will also make an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on November 7. Let the YouTubes begin! Born in the late 1950s, the IBM 1401 was a -- and presumably, so was its user manual.
Nearly 50 years later, Icelandic composer has crafted his own sonic ode to the massive machine with disc, due October 24 in the U.S. and October 30 in the UK, is inspired by the work of J o hannsson s father, J o hann Gunnarsson, once a maintenance engineer for one of Iceland s first computers.
J o hannsson originally put together the piece for a string quartet to accompany a dance by Erna O marsd o ttir, and reworked it for a sixty-piece string orchestra for the album.
according to a press release, electronics and vintage found in his father s attic. 1333337.
early version (from the quartet days) of the finale, non-album track Passacaglia single, which hits UK shops via 4AD on October 9. Following the album s release, J o hannsson will launch a short tour of the UK and Belgium. He ll also play the Iceland Airwaves festival on October 21.
Rather than spend the coming months at their lakeside log cabin-- stoking the fire, eating turkey, and piecing puzzles together-- or dwelling wherever they dwell and doing whatever they do in L.A. (see ), Blake Sennett and Co.
have elected to embark on a fall tour of North America.
Yes, the Sennett-led pop/alt-country band known as kick off a string of autumnal dates this weekend, in support of its 2006 LP Sun, Sun, Sun. The long jaunt begins in California and zig-zags across the U.
S. and parts of Canada, with in tow. Besides playing a whole bunch of Universities of California, the Elected will also rock this year s , alongside all your Sub Pop favorites: the Shins, the Thermals, CSS, and more .
, Sennett s other band is in the midst of recording its fourth full-length, said to include the totally trippy (in the words of Kiley-mate ) new tune Acid Tongue and a reworked version of live favorite Pull Me in Tighter .
What you want me to do? I'm Sorry!
I'm back. has an mp3 of what they claim is a new Jay-Z song, on November 21. We can t confirm that it s the real thing, but it sure sounds like it.
Just Blaze is ON FIRE.
want any legal trouble, but you can find it . A Chicago-based glam/thrash/afro-beat trio (if you believe their -- we re skeptical), return October 10 with their latest longplayer to bear the respected stamp: Pyramids.
The 11-track set follows up last year s debut LP and limited edition 3D Message EP and finds our onomatopoeic friends quaking out more of that nervous, jazzy, refreshingly askew pop we love when we re in the mood for something just a bit out there.
Comprised of keyboardist/vocalist Fay Davis-Jeffers, bassist Rob Doran, and drummer Butchy Fuego, the band recorded Pyramids at Chicago s , with man-about-town and Tortoise drummer extraordinaire at the controls.
Pit Er Pat go tit for tat with audiences across America this autumn.
It all begins with a record release party tonight at Chicago s Empty Bottle, and continues in Grand Rapids and beyond toward the end of the month. Call it a Pyramids scheme. Or don t, you killjoys.
He it to the east. He strokes it to the west. He strokes it to the one that he loves the best.
But mostly, he strokes it to the UK. He being and stroking it being touring behind his solo debut, Yours to Keep. It comes out October 9 on in the UK and will be released in Europe and Japan later this year, with a U.
S. release still in the works.
NME.
com reports that Hammond has added a few UK dates to the four shows in the U.S. he had already scheduled.
Also according to NME.com, the first single from the album, 101 , will be released on November 27.
His mom is so proud!
All those lessons paid off! Our little Birdie is all grown up. On November 15, at the Good Shepherd-Faith Church in Manhattan, will perform his first all-instrumental solo violin recital as part of s .
According to a press release, his program of solo violin-and-whistling works manipulated by means of a looping pedal will appear beside performances from pianist Steven Beck and Eastern Europe-obsessed Albuquerque duo , one of whom is Neutral Milk Hotel/Beirut contributor Jeremy Barnes.
On September 18, Wilco experimentalists Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline played the first installment of the Wordless Music Series, the goal of which is to illustrate the continuity between..
.genres such as indie rock, free jazz, and electronic music by pairing rock and electronic musicians in an intimate concert setting with more traditionally understood classical music performers.
This installment of the series starts at 7:30 p.
m., but at 6:30, there is a complimentary wine reception, so be sure to get there early to get soused so you can shout out requests for Beethoven s Fifth.
As , Bird s new album, Armchair Apocrypha, will come out in the spring on .
This month, he s playing a series of solo shows to benefit the Chicago Short Film Brigade. Each performance will be preceded by a showing of films curated by the Brigade. Lastly, the third in Bird s Fingerlings series of official bootlegs is out now, and .
Tilly and the Wall Charm America With Video, Tour Breaking News!!!
rip off the Yeah Yeah Yeahs!!!
For their new video, Rainbows in the Dark (from Bottoms of Barrels on ), the joyful Nebraskans put together a bunch of footage of their fans singing along to the song, and, yes, occasionally even impersonating the band. ? Ah well, it certainly wouldn t be the first (or second) time a video like this has been made.
And if there s ever been a band that s entitled to an enthusiastic fan video, it s Tilly. With their tap-dancing, group sing-alongs, and general all-out sense of fun, this is a group that demands fan-love be shouted from the hilltops. This weekend, the group kicks off another album-supporting trek through the U.
S., with a brief stop in Iceland for the Iceland Airwaves festival later this month. Feel the love.
If you re looking to get your shit tripped out, take a gander at the rainbow-hued, pixelated madness on s lovely . If you re looking to rock your shit the fuck out, catch the Brooklyn-based electro-noise-rock trio as they gallivant about Europe this fall on tour, eventually making their way back to the U.S.
for CMJ and some more home-country gigs. The rock action begins tonight in happenin Antwerp, Belgium.
Whilst in Europe, P L will rendezvous with cool peeps like , , and -- and play a venue called Groovestation.
Ohhh yes.
On the release front, Parts Labor have a six-track 12 set to explode November 15 via . James LaValle released his fourth full-length as , , a few weeks ago, and now he s heading into the blue of touring again.
He ll be joined by for most of the dates, with NYC up-and-comers also on the bill for a good deal of the shows on the back end. And if you have an Album Leaf tattoo, you can get into any show for free! Didn t Rocket From the Crypt do something like that?
And isn t the Album Leaf kind of an odd choice of a band to get tattooed on your body? Dirty on Purpose released their debut LP, , in June, and they also have a handful of tour dates on their own, including a Brooklyn show tonight with .
Things you can get these days for five dollars: half a sandwich, a seven-inch (+ shipping), neon shoelaces, a comic book, a couple bus rides-- or admission to a gig featuring Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina s !
The duo celebrates the November 6 release of sophomore statement The Evens Get Evens by taking to the road, beginning tonight in Pittsburgh. Best of all: every show is all ages and $5 (or less).
Fans are advised to arrive early, as the Evens will be the only band playing, and they ll take to the stage around 8pm for most shows.
And since these gigs are going down in some fairly unconventional spaces, you may have a tough time finding all the relevant infos-- graciously the good folks at have rounded up the necessary links .
Do come by: odds are you ll have a smashing time. We ve been enjoying on her current cross-country tour, but man, why does she have to get off the stage so quickly to make way for that lame guy?
(Kidding.) Ethereal songstress Shara Worden will head out on her own North American headlining tour this November, following both the Sufjan trek and a few shows with hip-hop buddies , with whom Worden has . will provide opening duties on the excursion.
(UPDATE: I AM AN IDIOT, THIS IS NOT THE ANTICON PEDESTRIAN, BUT SOME OTHER PEDESTRIAN.) My Brightest Diamond is touring in support of her debut album , out on CD on right now and out on vinyl this coming Tuesday, October 10. To watch Worden perform Disappear from that album while standing in the woods in Prospect Park, click .
To watch her perform Edith Piaf s Hymne l amour from that same session for , click .
Andre 3000 Creates, Stars in Cartoon Network Show Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000 of , will be the star of his own cartoon series. The show, which Benjamin also executive produced, is called and will debut on the on November 3.
According a press release, The series focuses on a group of musically-gifted kids and an unlikely visitor named Sunny Bridges who brings sunshine to their lives. Sunny Bridges is the character to whom Andre lends his voice, and he is described as a multi-talented Atlanta native [who] was at the peak of his musical career when he walked off the stage at a performance in Tokyo in 2006, leaving his brilliant career of 27 Grammys and a Nobel Prize behind..
. Sunny heads back to the place that made him who he is today, the prestigious Westley School for the Performing Arts in Atlanta. The names of the gifted kids on the show include ringleader Li l D (who is rumored to be modeled after Andre as a kid), twins Kim and Kam Chin, Philly Phil, Tamika Jones, Edward Phillip James Lawrence III, and, in a shameless attempt to cater to the powerful Italian-Greek-Midwestern American population, Madison Spaghettini Papadopoulos.
In addition to lending his voice to Sunny Bridges, Benjamin s role in the show will also include writing, producing, and music direction. And for every episode, he will write a new original song to be accompanied by an animated music video, with different guest art directors for each Various sources report that Andre hopes to release a soundtrack for the show and is looking for guests to appear on its second season. He was quoted at a press conference earlier this year as saying, Every time you drop an album, you kinda go through this whole run.
You do TRL . You do all those shows. I think Class of 3000 will be one of those places that record companies will say, We want our artist to be on this show.
It ll be a cool place. From the clips on the show s website, Class of 3000 looks a whole lot like as animated in the style of . The premiere of the show will be an hour long, with future episodes clocking in at half an hour each and including plotlines about befriending a theatrically-inclined gorilla and a song written for a lunch lady named Ms.
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