Monkey News:
Readers recommend: songs about monkeys and apes
From www.guardian.co.uk at 24/05/12 09:00 PM. 0 comments.
Send us your favourite primate-related pop
Monkeys are our nearest relatives in the animal world. They're intelligent, and have some of their features in a similar place to humans. Apes are a different class of primate, principally because they haven't got tails. But both have a special place in our hearts â€' and in popular culture.
But while we have affection for our hairy cousins, we don't necessarily want to be likened to a monkey, seeing ourselves as a superior species. So musicians and songwriters have been inspired to make monkey-related music for a variety of reasons.
Tell us your perfect simian sounds by posting a comment below.
* Thanks to PairUbu for suggesting this week's topic. If you can think of a good theme for Readers Recommend, please email jon.dennis@guardian.co.uk
* Listen to others' suggestions and add yours to a collaborative Spotify playlist
* Guide to "donds", "zedded", and other strange words used by some of the RR regulars (courtesy of the Marconium)
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are "zedded")
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community)
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* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.
But please don't:
* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.
* Simply list your nominations. We want to know why you like these songs, and...
Bobby Womack News:
Bobby Womack gets all-clear from colon cancer
From www.nme.com at 24/05/12 03:49 PM. 0 comments.
Soul singer and Damon Albarn collaborator's doctors successfully remove tumor
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Adele News:
There's more music like The Bridge theme lurking in the Norwegian woods
From www.guardian.co.uk at 24/05/12 12:55 PM. 0 comments.
The Swedes are poppy, the Danes are laid back â€' but Norwegian musicians embrace the darkness
Anyone who became hooked on Danish-Swedish crime series The Bridge knows its theme tune set a perfect mood for the gruesome, dark and grainy drama. Back in 2010, I described Hollow Talk by Danish act Choir of Young Believers as "a melancholic Arcade Fire doing the soundtrack to Wallander" (I used them as an example of a band that made beautiful music, but couldn't or wouldn't do self-promotion on social networking sites). Seems I was just wrong about which crime series the track would eventually land in.
For those who became fans of this dark, melancholic music, there's plenty more where that came from. All you have to do is go a bit further to the north-west. Where the Swedes have a pop sensibility that's been carried through the decades since Abba,and the Danes are more laid back, the Norwegians tend to produce music that isn't as accessible to outsiders on a first listen â€' though it doesn't stop them from topping the charts in their native country. And for the past few years Norwegian artists â€' especially the female ones â€' have produced music drenched in melancholia.
Take Susanne Sundfor, whose last album The Brothel spent 30 weeks in the Norwegian album charts (it sold 40,000 copies, which is a platinum album in Norway). If Cate Blanchett, as Galadriel, had...
XL Recordings News:
Bobby Womack No Longer Has Cancer
From pitchfork.com at 24/05/12 11:40 AM. 0 comments.
Wonderful news: Bobby Womack's doctors have given the singer the all-clear from the colon cancer with which he was diagnosed in March. A posting on Womack's Facebook page reads:
"We're delighted to announce that Bobby Womack has successfully undergone surgery for suspected colon cancer. A tumour was removed last night which turned out to be cancer free. We wish him all the best in his recovery from the operation. Thank you for all your kind messages and support."
Womack is to release The Bravest Man in the Universe, an album co-produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, on June 11 in the UK and June 12 in the U.S. via XL Recordings. It's his first record in 13 years; listen to a funk version of album track "Please Forgive My Heart" below:
Jack Peñate News:
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell Apocalyptic reggae...
From www.jackpenate.com at 24/05/12 09:59 AM. 0 comments.
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell
Apocalyptic reggae coming from the one and only Cornell Campbell, a man with a vocal tone sent down from Mount Olympus...
Beck News:
Beck to release single on Jack White's Third Man Records label
From www.nme.com at 23/05/12 07:29 PM. 0 comments.
'I Just Started Hating Some People Today'/'Blue Randy' is out next week
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Beck News:
Beck to Release New Single on Jack White's Third Man Records, Hear Clips Now
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:17 PM. 0 comments.
Next up in Jack White's Third Man Records Blue Series of singles? Beck! On May 28, the label will release the one-off single "I Just Started Hating Some People Today" b/w "Blue Randy". Both tracks were recorded in Nashville last year when Beck was working on material for an upcoming album.
White produced both tracks and contributes "drums, acoustic guitar, punk vocal, background vocals" to the A-side, and drums to the B-side. Hear clips of both tracks here.
In addition to standard formats, a limited run of 100 tricolor 7"s will be available at Randy's Records in Salt Lake City on June 2. 50 more of those will also be "randomly inserted in mail orders for the single placed with Third Man Records."
The White Stripes News:
Watch: Carrie Brownstein Parties With the White Stripes and Furries in Pitchfork.tv's "Frames"
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 01:23 PM. 0 comments.
Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a new installment of its animated series "Frames". The show highlights first-person storytelling from artists, brought to life by Pitchfork.tv's animators.
This episode stars Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney, and "Portlandia" fame, discussing the dwindling allure of the post-show party. It features her bandmates, the White Stripes, and a congregation of furries (yes, furries) during two ill-fated attempts to "cut loose on tour."
Don't forget, Wild Flag perform at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday, July 14. Single-day tickets are on sale here.
Thom Yorke News:
I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot
From www.guardian.co.uk at 23/05/12 12:11 PM. 0 comments.
Scratch any literate songwriter â€' Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey â€' and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot
The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the poet's letters: "He tried to shut the door on modern life. It was too late of course. He was the author of Prufrock and The Waste Land. He was already inside."
Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece's treasure chest of arresting phrases: the "violet hour" and "bodies naked on the low damp ground" quoted in the Sisters of Mercy's Floorshow, "April is the cruellest month" kicking off Hot Chip's Playboy or the "red sails" picked up by David Bowie on Lodger (Bowie told William Burroughs in 1974 that he'd "never read" Eliot but I suspect he got around to it).
Likewise 1915's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. "Like a patient etherized on a table" is paraphrased by avowed Eliot fan Win Butler in Arcade Fire's We Used to Wait, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" became a song title for Chuck D, and "the Eternal Footman" crops up in Tori Amos's Pretty Good Year. "Alfred J Prufrock would be proud of...
Jack Peñate News:
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
From www.jackpenate.com at 23/05/12 10:53 AM. 0 comments.
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
Jack White News:
The Flaming Lips Will Attempt to Break Jay-Z's Guinness World Record
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:16 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White's not the only one with Guinness World Records on his mind-- according to the Flaming Lips' website, they're gunning for a record of their own. "Most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities" is currently held by Jay-Z, who broke the record in 2006 with seven shows in seven cities. The Lips will attempt to break the record on June 27 with eight concerts, which will stream live and coincide with the O Music Awards.
While Jay accomplished the feat via plane (it was called "the Hangar Tour"), the Lips will be traveling via bus through the American South. UPDATE: Mashable has a video interview with Wayne Coyne about the record attempt, which you can watch below.
Here's what Wayne Coyne said, via a press release:
"Like when the Sex Pistols did their one and only American tour, the weird mid-south (Memphis to New Orleans), has something very absurd about it when contrasted with radical visionary musicians. ... Elvis and Jazz were at one time radical, but are now mainstream tourist attractions. ... I don't remember if I was asked or if I volunteered. ... But, I've accepted the job of, not DRIVING, but commandeering the Magical Mystery Merry Prankster bus. ... I've accepted the attempt at breaking the world record of performing 8 shows in 24...
Tyler, The Creator News:
Pearl Jam to headline Jay-Z's Made In America festival
From www.nme.com at 22/05/12 07:47 PM. 0 comments.
Odd Future, Rita Ora, Passion Pit, Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex will also play the Philadelphia weekender
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Radiohead News:
office chart ...out from under a blanket
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 05:53 PM. 0 comments.
back in blighty humans running hither and thither stunned by the sudden release from under a grey thick blanket.
1. Wallow... Falty DL
2. Ratbastid... Mono/Poly
3. Dungeness... Tapes
4. Tears in the rain... Zomby
5. Mysty Garden... Semya
6. U don't survive (Chrissy Murderbot Rmx)... Machinedrum
7. She Died There (Traxman Rmx)... Machinedrum
8. Peace Beams... Semya
9. MS-14... Mono/Poly
10. Dibby Dibby Sound... DJQ
11. Mystics... Semya
12. Money... Jeremiah Jae
Thom
Willis Earl Beal News:
Jack White, M83, The Shins, Afghan Whigs, Neil Young, Stooges to Play Austin City Limits
From pitchfork.com at 22/05/12 11:30 AM. 0 comments.
The Austin City Limits festival has anounced its lineup. Jack White, the Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Iggy and the Stooges, Crystal Castles, Zola Jesus, Alabama Shakes, Andrew Bird, A-Trak, Black Lips, Afghan Whigs, the Roots, M83, Willis Earl Beal, the Shins, First Aid Kit, the War on Drugs, M. Ward, Die Antwoord, Weezer, Metric, Tennis, Tegan and Sara, Florence and the Machine, Big K.R.I.T., Stars, Los Campesinos!, and many more will perform in Zilker Park October 12-14.
Click here for the full line-up, and watch the Black Keys performing "Thickfreakness" at ACL 2011 below.
Update: It had been widely reported that Bon Iver was part of ACL's bill as revealed via the festival's scratch and win lottery, whereby cards deposited around Austin from May 18-21 unveiled acts prior to the full announcement. However, Bon Iver was not part of today's line-up, and his appearance at the festival remains unconfirmed for now.
Update 9:48 a.m.: Austin City Limits has confirmed that the lottery card announcing Bon Iver was fake.
Jack Peñate News:
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 22/05/12 10:59 AM. 0 comments.
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
Radiohead News:
Lost Angeles
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
The exhibition by Stanley Donwood, LOST ANGELES, is now in its LAST week.
See the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm, all in a quasi-Mediaeval style!
Marvel at a work of art so long that a special curved wall had to be built for it!
Covet artwork made with 24ct gold leaf!
Also showing is LONDON VIEWS, the original work that ended up as the cover of THE ERASER.
Both Los Angeles AND London destroyed! In the same room! Et cetera.
LOST ANGELES: APRIL 28 - MAY 26 2012, SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026, USA
subliminalprojects.com
Tyler, The Creator News:
Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit, Pearl Jam to Play Jay-Z's Made in America Festival in Philadelphia
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 09:13 PM. 0 comments.
The first names have been revealed for the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made in America Festival, taking place on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia September 1-2. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, Pearl Jam's website has announced that Pearl Jam will perform in addition to Dirty Projectors and Passion Pit. (Unfortunately, President Obama isn't on the bill just yet.) UPDATE: D'Angelo, Odd Future, Maybach Music (featuring Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill), Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex, X, and more have been added to the lineup. The festival will benefit United Way.
Watch the brief "Made in America" teaser video Jay posted on Life + Times:
Radiohead News:
Listen: Radiohead's Entire <i>Kid A</i> and <i>OK Computer</i> Albums as 8-Bit Video Game Music
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 07:16 PM. 0 comments.
Ever listen to Radiohead's Kid A or OK Computer and thought, "I wonder what this would sound like as 8-bit Atari or Nintendo music?" Probably not. But one YouTube user, QuintonSung, has nonetheless painstakingly made vintage video game versions of both albums in their entireties , as At Ease points out (via i09). Check both albums out out below.
OK Computer [8-Bit]:
Kid A [8-Bit]:
Jack Peñate News:
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 21/05/12 07:09 PM. 0 comments.
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
Adele News:
2012 Billboard Music Awards
From www.adele.tv at 21/05/12 05:41 PM. 0 comments.
Adele collected 12 awards at last night's Billboard Music Awards including Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 album for
Top Artist
Top Billboard 200 Album
Top Female Artist
Top Hot 100 Artist
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Digital Songs Artist
Top Radio Songs Artist
Top Digital Media Artist
Top Pop Artist
Top Pop Album
Top Streaming Song (Audio)
Top Alternative Song ("Rolling In The Deep")