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Juno what? I just made a terrible pun. But you ll have to forgive me, because you see, I m rather deliriously excited over the fact that moody, mathy indie rock quartet is reuniting for a pair of radio benefit gigs.

Led by professional snowboarder Arlie Carstens, Seattle-based Juno entered our lives in the mid-1990s, delivered a couple very solid discs via , and quietly parted ways a few years back. (Carstens now plays in ). They would fit snugly on a mixtape alongside Jawbox, Kill Sadie, Atombombpocketknife, numerous Dischord acts, and certain Les Savy Fav jams, if you prefer to measure your music in mixtape terms.

Anyhow, rejoice with me now as Juno join forces once again for two very special shows at Seattle s ! It s all part of s 4th annual , going down December 9-10, for which all proceeds go toward the station s venerable future pursuits.
What s more, KEXP has tapped some ace openers for these gigs, including Ted Leo and his trusty Pharmacists, Junior Boys, Cold War Kids, and Annuals.

A note to the underaged: the December 9 show is 21+, however there are a mere 50 all-ages tickets available for the next night s gig.
It s for a good cause and should be fun, weird, and I imagine-- deeply loud. Bring earplugs, writes Carstens about the reunion gigs on Ghost Wars .

His new bag, meanwhile, has been recording, but recently had a bunch of material stolen as part of laptop theft disaster. That sucks, don t Juno? The nineties will have their revenge!

! Luscious Jackson are , Cibo Matto s Miho Hatori recently , and heck, just this past weekend, emo also-rans Texas Is the Reason played a reunion gig in NYC to celebrate ten-year anniversary of their kinda sorta classic Do You Know Who You Are? Nostalgia for things forgotten is most certainly coloring the air of late.

Also on the revenge of the 90s/tenth anniversary kick: Scottish synth-punk-pop trio , who disbanded in 2003 after nine years together, attaining momentary Next Big Thing status and winning over kids of a sunnier disposition with a bunch of releases on Chemikal Underground, Lookout!, K, and the defunct Beastie Boys imprint Grand Royal. Next year, Bis 1997 debut, The New Transistor Heroes, turns a whopping ten years old-- which is about the age the members of Bis often seem on record-- and to celebrate, the trio will reunite for two UK shows next spring.

It all started with a by Bis Amanda Manda Rin MacKinnon on the web forum for , the band she formed just last year in the wake of Bis demise. Manda asked fans if they wanted to see Bis play again, fans (all twelve of them) said hell yes! , et voila, Bis will return to tell it to the kids of London and Glasgow in 2007.

At present, there are no plans for reunion activity beyond the two shows, however Data Panik parted ways in August, so you never know. For now, however, Manda Rin will concentrate on a solo record, which, as she writes on Data Panik s website, will be inspired by the B-52 s, Le Tigre, and CSS. Canadian proto-punks will play their first show together in over 27 years on December 28.

The show will take place at the Casbah in the band s hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.
In commemoration of the event, -- the label responsible for reissuing Simply Saucer s only album, -- has uploaded two videos to YouTube. The first is a for Cyborgs Revisited track Bullet Proof Nothing , taken from band footage shot by Paul Breau (guitarist s bro) and compiled by Halifax director Colin MacKenzie.

The second is a 2003 on the band from the CBC Newsworld show Play . After recently releasing a and playing three sold-out shows together to commemorate the closing of CBGB, D.C.

hardcore legends seem to be back in commission. According to Billboard.com, the original quartet-- which consists of vocalist H.

R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer, and drummer Earl Hudson-- are planning the spring release of a currently untitled album, produced by Adam Yauch, aka MCA.

The lawyers are finishing up the last little tidbits of it, Dr. Know told Billboard.com.

There s a lot of dubs, and there s some old school-meets-new school Brains. Not moderate tempo, but fast tempo. Yauch said, Man, I want y all to do some old school-type shit, so we did it like that.

I want to start working on the next one, because we did that one two years ago already. He also mentioned four song titles, two of which are dubs ( Article and Kingdom Come ) and two of which are rock songs ( It s All Rock n Roll and Let There Be Light ).
Dr.

Know is also eager to begin work on his first solo album. I want to sit down this winter and start hashing her out. I ve got a few little riffs working, but I want to sit down and perfect them, put some people together, and record them up.

There s going to be total crazy special guests-- whoever I can get. A lot of people said they would participate: Flea, Mos [Def], the Living Colour guys, Darryl, Earl, and H.R.

Bad Brains are considering the release of additional archival video footage as well. One such show, shot by a friend of the band, features them playing with the Circle Jerks, Living Colour, and Leeway.
Fresh off the release of his second solo album as Pajo, , the always-busy is gearing up for the release of an EP by his newest project, the metal band .

He s also starting to think about the feasibility of a reunion.
I ve been kind of talking to the Slint guys again, and we ve been trying to figure out what we should do with ourselves, Pajo said in a recent interview with Pitchfork. We re sort of attempting to exist as a band again, but we don t want to-- whatever is precious about Slint, we don t want to step on that.

We want to play together again, but we ve been trying to figure out what our next step should be if we do anything at all.
So what would be the determining factors in deciding just what that next step is? It s mostly just what everybody wants to do with themselves.

There was a huge gap between the 2005 reunion and the last time we played together [before that]. We ve spent all this time developing our own lives, and it s kind of hard to put everything that you ve been working on for the past 14 years on pause so that you can do Slint again. Brian [McMahan] wants to go back to school, and people have different things that they want to do with themselves, so we re trying to find out if there s even a window where we could all work together in the same capacity again.

Me and Britt [Walford] and Brian have this camaraderie [where] there s so much that we don t have to explain to each other, that we just understand when it comes to putting songs together, and it seems like kind of a shame to not do that, even if it s not under the name Slint. I feel like we should continue to play together.
It s a day for exclamations on Pitchforkmedia, and a day for the indie rock titans of yesteryear to return and show the kids how it s done.

We ve got Gang of Four , Pixies , and now, -- who just hit us with the stellar, 9.4-rated, -stamped collection -- have announced a spate of reunion shows.
According to Matador, the original lineup of Matt Sweeney (vocals/guitar), Clay Tarver (guitar), Scott Masciarelli (bass), and The James Lo (drums)-- who haven t recorded anything since 1996 s Ride the Fader-- will join forces once again to rock faces off at four December gigs, with a few more to be announced.

Can new material be far behind?
For now, if you don t live in Baltimore, Brooklyn, San Francisco, or Chicago, feel free to gaze upon those cities and their citizens with green eyes. Then cross your fingers and stay tuned for the latest updates.

Two down, ? to go. A second member of the reunited lineup, drummer (surprise, the Pumpkins official page, notifying readers that the group s new album, the follow-up to 2000 s MACHINA/the Machines of God, is that great things are on track for the future, Chamberlin wrote.

As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so are creating from that place. Who, exactly we are is still unclear.

currently being tracked, and according to Chamberlin, things are sounding fantastic. The band recently finished up work with one of the best musical experiences we have ever had. up with Terry Date, who has worked with Pantera, Soundgarden, and, uh, Limp Bizkit.

Great. explained, The universe has a way of letting you know that things are right by introducing people like RTB (Roy Thomas Baker) and Terry into the fold. It s all part of one big cosmic journey, in so that everyone reading this is hitching their silver chord to the Great Pumpkin Space Train!

Hope this helps clear some things up for you. Don t forget to cast your eyes skyward this weekend..

.. You may see a shooting star.

On it, Jimmy.
announced, we suspect it to be Warner/Reprise, as that is the company running the online In related news, Billy Corgan reportedly contributed to Courtney Love s forthcoming solo album, and will perform at a special show at Los Angeles Hotel Cafe on November 7 alongside Pete Townshend of the Who and E of the Eels. So it wasn t exactly gone, but beloved Berkeley/Oakland-based indie pop imprint is officially back in action, having recently revamped its website and issued two new 7 s-- the label s first releases in three years.

King of Slumberland Michael Schulman (or Mike Slumberland, if we go by the indie pop system of nomenclature) told Pitchfork that while he has been keeping the label s mailorder operational all the while, the release front has been dormant because of real job/life responsibilities that just take too much time...

to really give enough attention to Slumberland and the rise of downloading and the near-collapse of sales of records/CDs.
While I wouldn t exactly blame downloading/freeloading for the decline in sales Slumberland (and other small labels I know) has experienced, Mike went on to explain, it s pretty clear that there are generations of music fans coming up that don t necessarily collect small bits of plastic of the music they like. For good or ill, labels like Slumberland have to deal with the economics of selling hundreds rather than thousands of any given release.

It was children that claimed the life of promising NYC act Luscious Jackson back in 2000, and it s children that have temporarily resurrected the trio of Jill Cunniff, Gabby Glaser, and Kate Schellenbach-- with original Jacksonite Vivian Trimble along for the ride.
LJ disbanded to pursue a career in baby-making, and now they re making something for the babies. In a recent interview with MTV.

com, Cunniff revealed that Luscious Jackson have emerged from retirement for the moment and have already completed an album of songs especially for children. They ve yet to decide upon a title, and are still shopping around for a label.
It s fun because adults will be able to enjoy this too, Cunniff told MTV.

com. It s like Luscious Jackson with a kids angle. It s not goofy kids music-- it s dance-y and has Luscious Jackson beats, but the [lyrical] content is pretty silly.

She went on to say she wouldn t rule out the possibility of future Luscious collaborations, however those will probably have to wait a bit, as releases her solo debut, City Beach, early next year.
The disc, due February 6 via , features 12 tracks, including one with a guest spot from . The curious may stream the first three songs on the record-- Lazy Girls , Happy Warriors , and NYC Boy -- on Jill s as we speak.

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..err, as you read?

Whatevs. and the reunited Stooges (with former bassist replacing the late David Alexander) began recording their first studio album in 33 years last week at Steve Albini s studios, and, true to his description as a sort of internet or , except without the gout and the syphilis from the Stooges dug up by the Smoking Gun last week, Watt had quite a bit to say about it.
Amidst detailed accounts of meals ( I ll go down all the breakfast meats, one at a time, each morning!

), an illness, digestive/excretive issues, worrying about playing his bass with a pick and keeping my body flagpole-straight while doing it, and lots of gear talk, Watt also wrote about the band s new songs in a series of on his under the heading Secret Plan : Iggy Pop + The Stooges record an album . We assume Secret Plan is just the title he s given his diaries and not the name of the album. But who knows?

So much for catching them when they come to the U.S. Pitchfork talked with trumpet player/vocalist Einar O rn yesterday about the band s reunion, and he said that it is indeed a one-time thing.

No tour is scheduled, and there are no plans for recording. O rn was, however, very forthcoming about the origins of the reunion.
We ve got a record company together [ , English translation: Bad Taste].

We have a standing meeting on Tuesdays. When our schedules permit that we are all together, we just meet during lunchtime, have lunch together, and discuss culture and music and various things. During the summer, we were talking about [the fact] that it was twenty years [since] the band and the company were formed, and we were sort of thinking that [since] we d missed the actual birthday of the company [June 8, 1986], the next birthday was the birthday of [the group s first single] Birthday .

We said, Okay, let s celebrate that, and everybody was game and we decided to go for it, O rn said.
To prepare for the concert, he said the band is contemplating what kinds of songs we re going to play and seeing what songs might translate, be fit for playing. Though their first musical rehearsals are scheduled to begin next week, O rn said, When the Sugarcubes get together, the first they do is not to play music together.

So we re just having fun together and enjoying each other s company. We haven t played together for 14 years, but we ve spoken together for 20.
Your attention, please.

Now turn off the light. The are back! Understand, do you understand?

It was announced today that will reunite with the beloved (and, OK, pretty strongly hated, too) 80s/90s alt-rock band that made his decadent, quasi-misogynistic leerings famous. Dulli, bassist John Curley, guitarist Rick McCollum, and drummer Michael Horrigan plan to gather in the band s former homebase of Cincinnati, Ohio in two weeks to work on their first new songs since their final album, 1998 s 1965. (Check the vintage promo photo up there!

) Although it s not the classic Gentlemen-era lineup, hey, we ll take what we can get. After four days of rehearsal, the band will head to Ardent Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee to record with Jeff Powell, who worked with the band on Gentlemen, Black Love, and 1965. The new material is slated to be included on an Afghan Whigs retrospective collection entitled Unbreakable, due out in March or April on Rhino.

As of right now, only two songs are scheduled to be recorded, but hopefully the sessions will result in more. However, Dulli hasn t abandoned his current band, the Twilight Singers, as they are set to kick off their second American tour of the year on October 24 at San Francisco s Great American Music Hall. (They ll play Los Angeles House of Blues the next night, October 25; the full tour itinerary will be announced next week.

The Twilight Singers will also head to the UK and Europe this winter.) Dulli drinking buddy will join the band for the entire tour. To put it mildly, I am pretty fucking stoked.

Eight years after their breakup, have announced a quest called the . We jest not-- Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have reunited for the sake of a basketball video game. Joining Tribe for this jaunt is lovable Chicago MC and L.

A. crew .
According to a press release, Tribe s Phife will appear as a playable character in NBA 2K7, a fact which sealed the deal on the reunion tour.

In addition, the game will feature an exclusive Dan the Automator remix of Tribe s Lyrics to Go , alongside new, basketball-centric tracks from tourmate Rhymefest, Ghostface Killah, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, E-40, Fabolous, Hieroglyphics, and more. If you don t have the fifty-odd bones required to purchase the game, snap up the soundtrack, Dan the Automator Presents 2K7, hitting shelves September 19. , the much-missed Austin noise rock outfit will reunite this month for a few shows.

It all started when Scratch s one-time home announced that the long-broken-up quartet-- featuring David Yow and David Sims, who would go on to help form -- would play the label s . Right now the reunion stands at three dates, with a show in Austin this weekend and a Seattle date post-T G fest, but the question remains: could this thing develop into a more scathing, less heart-warming equivalent of that Pixies globe-trotting reunion tour? Pitchfork could only hope so when we spoke with Scratch frontman Yow over the phone recently.

Unfortunately, the hope didn t last long. From his home in Los Angeles, Yow confirmed that the three shows will most likely be the entirety of the reunion. When asked what prompted Scratch to reconvene at all, Yow explained, It s all because of the Touch and Go celebration.

And we just figured that it s not fair to play in Chicago and not play Austin. He went on to admit, It was pretty tough getting me to agree.
Having recently signed to emo-powerhouse- no-more , the newly re-formed will release their first full-length in almost ten years on September 26.

In the near-decade between 1996 s Car Button Cloth and this self-titled affair, lead Lemon Evan Dando has been performing more or less as a solo act, releasing an album in 2003 called Baby I m Bored.
The latest Lemonheads incarnation features Dando and two members of the Descendents: Bill Stevenson (drums) and Karl Alvarez (bass). They re joined on the new album by special guest contributors Garth Hudson (The Band) and the mighty J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.

, Witch). Dando and Stevenson co-produced the album, which was recorded in Fort Collins, Colorado at Stevenson s .
The resurrected Lemonheads will take to the road this winter, playing to thirtysomethings across the U.

S. Dates-- and The Lemonheads tracklist-- ahead after the jump.
But first, just what do the Lemonheads sound like after all these years?

AOL has posted a taste from the forthcoming record, new tune No Backbone , which you may download and test drive by clicking . Or stream a few more new traxx . Replacements' Westerberg, Stinson Unite for Cartoon
No, not Aqua Teen Drunk Force A grizzly bear, Boog (voice of Martin Lawrence), makes friends with a mule-deer, Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), in the forthcoming animated film Open Season, set to hit theaters September 29.

But that s not the only friendship between wild animals involved with the film, as former Replacements bandmates and have also rekindled their bond for its music. Following , Westerberg and Stinson have joined together for two songs on the Open Season soundtrack, due September 26 via .
Right to Arm Bears ) feature Stinson on bass.

Pete Yorn and Deathray each perform a Westerberg track as well, titled I Belong (Reprise) Hersh has kept busy since her old band, , broke up in tracklist, but mentioned plenty, albeit mysteriously, on her official blog, and she has also stayed active with her post-Muses band 50 But it seems Hersh just can t keep those Muses away, as the band have scheduled precious few live dates in August, with in September, 50 Foot Wave will open for Mission of Burma s West Coast tour.
reunion is for real, it s coming to America, and now we have the tour dates to prove it. The reggae punk will tour North America around the time of the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, hitting up both coasts, Texas, and Canada.

The trek is slated to kick off just before the band s first new material in two decades, the Revenge of the Killer Slits EP, hits shelves on October 17 via . , the EP features Slits Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt joined by such guests as Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook and Adam the Ants guitarist Marco Pirroni.
After nineteen years, legendary Factory Records band are back in action and on stage.

Originally formed in 1977 by brothers Vincent and Lawrence (Larry) Cassidy, then resurrected in 2001, the group describes itself as perhaps the most maverick and enigmatic of the Factory groups. Like labelmates New Order, Section 25 helped bridge the gaps between post-punk, electro pop, and electronic dance music; they are best known for their 1984 album From the Hip and its song Looking From a Hilltop . The current Section 25 lineup includes pioneering bros Vincent on drums and Larry on vocals (plus occasional bass/keyboards), rounded out by Ian Butterworth on guitar and Roger Wikeley on bass and keys.

The band has completed half of a new full-length, to be wrapped up this fall and released by LTM Records. Section 25 is playing a cluster of shows around Europe this summer, with a possible trip to Italy and Greece in Autumn.
Better start lifting weights now, because are back!

Well, for a little while, at least. Steve Albini s legendary noise-punk band will appear on stage for the first time in almost two decades this September at . According to the label, it s just a couple songs, but who cares how many they play?

Yes, exactly. (I really hope they do Kerosene and Jordan, Minnesota , personally.) Oh yeah, were also added to the celebration s lineup.

But that s slightly less exciting.
Lifetime to Release Single, Tour hardcore punk? Thank goodness for , the crazy-influential 1990s New Jersey band who are now back in action after a way-too-long break.

Recently signed to (aka Pete from Fall Out Boy s label), the reunited band will head out on a short U.S. tour in July.

fall. Though the song titles have yet to be revealed, the band will debut at least one of the tunes on tour this summer.
out the jams, Jackie-O Motherfucker!

Parties festivals just got even rawer. Mr. Moore has added the MC5 to the lineup, which already included Sonic Youth, Deerhoof, and a reunited Iggy the Stooges (with Mike Watt on bass!

) And speaking of arms, a press release by Mark Arm of Mudhoney, taking the place of original singer Rob Tyner, who open for the Stooges, who are probably the only ones who could top them anyway. The other new announcements are Negative Approach, Dead C, Monotract, Prurient, and Ecstatic Peace signees Awesome Color. full lineup for the festival, which is set for December 8-10 at the Butlins Holiday Resort in Minehead, Somerset, England, is listed after the jump.

Tickets are limited and selling fast, so warm your napalm heart (possibly a bad idea, in the literal sense) and get yours before they run out.

For one day, Camden relinquishes America's Most Dangerous City title What have members of the now-defunct been up to since their final release, 2003 s R.I.

P.? No, they haven t escaped into total post-break-up oblivion, but they have played in Broadcast Oblivion (drummer Coady Willis, now also in Big Business and the Melvins), performed in bands with really long names (vocalist Spencer Moody, now in Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and Smoke Smoke), toured modestly with mice (guitarist Dann Gallucci, also in Triumph as well as A Gun Called Tension), created graphic art (guitarist Nate Manny), and prettily made graves (bassist Derek Fudesco).

Well, get ready, Devil-worshippers: it s time to clear away those empty bottles and heal those broken hearts, cause the quintessential Seattle punks are reuniting for one quintessentially Seattle event-- the . The two-day fest, which celebrates music, art and progressive causes, takes place July 28-29. Besides MCD (who announced news of the reunion show on their page and appear to be soliciting ideas for the perfect set list ), other hometown favorites will rock the Block, including: Pretty Girls Make Graves, Band of Horses, Schoolyard Heroes, Minus the Bear, and Big Business.

Even more will be announced on June 15. Ah, summer. But don t get too excited: the Murder City Devils maintain that this is a one-off event.

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