Radiohead News:
The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer 2009
From www.pitchfork.com at 02/07/09 03:34 PM. 0 comments.
Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records. (You do still do that, right? RIGHT?) This installment covers summer 2009.
Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical versions of albums, as well as different release dates for different countries. So we tried to stick with North American physical release dates as much as possible, with exceptions as noted. When an album's North American release date differs from its overseas one, we also made a note of that. Keep in mind that release dates are as slippery as an eel on rollerskates, and any one of these is subject to change at any moment.
JULY
07-06
DJ Food: One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World [Ninja Tune]
Of Montreal: "For Our Elegant Caste" [Polyvinyl] [UK release, out now in U.S.]
07-07
900X: Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Lubbock, 1980 [Asthmatic Kitty]
Animal Collective: "Summertime Clothes" 12" [Domino]
BLK JKS: Mystery (Osborne Remix) [Secretly Canadian]
Bowerbirds: Upper Air [Dead Oceans]
Broken Records: Until the Earth Begins to Part [4AD]
Casey Foubert/James McAlister: Library Catalog...
XL Recordings Twitter:
Golden Silvers supporting Blur in Hyde Park, London tonight (well, today) at 4.50pm
From twitter.com at 02/07/09 10:21 AM. 0 comments.
Golden Silvers News:
Blur Tonight!!!!
From goldensilvers.co.uk at 02/07/09 09:42 AM. 0 comments.
We’re playing at the blur show at hyde park tonight….
We’re on at 4.50
See you there!!
Be Your Own Pet News:
Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter Do Brooklyn Pool Parties
From www.pitchfork.com at 02/07/09 09:04 AM. 0 comments.
For the last few summer's JellyNYC's Pool Parties have been holding it down as arguably New York's funnest free show series (a urprisingly competitive title). Held at Greenpoint's gigantic McCarren Park Pool in the past, the Pool Parties were nearly as notable for their hot-weather activities (dodgeball, a huge slip 'n slide) as for the bands they hosted.
McCarren Park Pool is about to reopen as an actual swimming pool, so this summer, the JellyNYC people have a new location: East River State Park on the Williamsburg Waterfront. They're still calling these shows Pool Parties, though, and the dodgeball and slip 'n slide will make their triumphant returns. UPDATE: the slip 'n slide has been replaced with kiddie pools!
More importantly, the JellyNYC folks have just announced their schedule for this summer, and this thing is a monster. Mission of Burma and Fucked Up and Ponytail and Jemina Pearl from Be Your Own Pet on the same day? The epic Deerhunter/No Age/Dan Deacon round robin tour? Grizzly Bear and Beach House? Dirty Projectors and Magnolia Electric Co.? Girl Talk and Max Tundra and frickin Wiz Khalifa?! All the broke, unemployed people in New York will now have something to do with their Sundays.
Schedule below.
July 12: 
Mission of Burma, 
Fucked Up, 
Ponytail
, Jemina PearlJuly 19: 
Dirty Projectors
, Magnolia Electric Co., White Denim
July 26: ...And You Will...
Monkey News:
Lost tunes
From news.bbc.co.uk at 01/07/09 11:02 PM. 0 comments.
Rare music sleuths make a monkey of the major labels
The White Stripes News:
Jack White Sci-Fi Spoof Movie to Screen at Comic-Con
From www.pitchfork.com at 01/07/09 06:54 PM. 0 comments.
Based on its ridiculous trailer (below), Mutant Swinger From Mars looks like it accomplished what Tim Burton's infamous 1996 spoof Mars Attacks! tried to pull off, at a fraction of the cost. And, instead of nutbar cameos courtesy of everyone from Jack Nicholson to Jim Brown, it features a brief appearance from a young Jack White (highlighted above), who plays the wisecracking Mikey.
According to a White Stripes fan site, the movie wrapped in 1998, and an in-progress screening was held in 2003. But Mutant Swinger From Mars is finally ready for its official close-up at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, which packs in the nerds July 23-26. (Via TwentyFourBit.)
Web rumors say Jack may have filmed a new intro to be shown at the premiere, but there's no official word from his reps at press time. Trailer after the jump:
Devendra Banhart News:
Devendra, Thurston Contribute to Book/DVD About Touring
From www.pitchfork.com at 01/07/09 05:24 PM. 0 comments.
It's tough to know what indie rock touring is like unless you've actually roughed it cross-country in the back of a dingy van, hitting up questionable diners at 4 a.m. and sleeping wherever you can. But the new book/DVD set The Art of Touring is here to give laymen a multimedia simulacrum of life on the road.
Published by Yeti (which is run by Pitchfork contributor Mike McGonigal), the 156-page tome was edited by former Erase Errata member Sara Jaffe and former Electrelane guitarist (and Pitchfork contributor) Mia Clarke. It features artwork courtesy of the likes of Devendra Banhart and members of Times New Viking, the Ponys, and Au Revoir Simone, written pieces from Le Tigre's Johanna Fateman and Matmos's Drew Daniel (also a Pitchfork contributor) and more, and photography courtesy of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Explosions in the Sky's Munaf Rayani, just to name a few. The DVD is filled with live and backstage footage of the Ex, Mecca Normal, Erase Errata, the Jeffrey Lewis Band, Electrelane, and others.
Even better, a third of the profits from the sales of the book will be donated to the Musicians' Emergency Fund administered by the Jazz Foundation of America.
The Art of Touring is out now. Check out a few pages from it below:
Electrelane's Emma Gaze:
Au Revoir Simone's Annie Hart:
M.I.A. News:
Video: Rye Rye: "Bang" (Directed by M.I.A.)
From www.pitchfork.com at 01/07/09 04:34 PM. 0 comments.
Friendly Fires News:
iTunes Festival!
From wearefriendlyfires.com at 01/07/09 03:33 PM. 0 comments.
Hello,
Just a quick word……we are playing at the lovely Roundhouse on the 15th July with Magistrates. For a chance to win a pair of tickets all you have to do is email friendlyfiresitunes@xlrecordings.com with your name and mobile. Deadline is the 3rd July though so get cracking…..Also get ready for Jack’s Twitter which will be up on the site soon!
xx
The Horrors Link:
Primary Colours picked fourth in Quietus albums of the year so far
From thequietus.com at 01/07/09 01:44 PM. 0 comments.
The Horrors Link:
Faris' photos from Glastonbury on Guardian
From www.guardian.co.uk at 01/07/09 11:53 AM. 0 comments.
Golden Silvers News:
Glastonbury 2009!!
From goldensilvers.co.uk at 30/06/09 06:19 PM. 0 comments.
Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Glastonbury, making it another great year on the farm for us!!
Here is roughly how it panned out…
Arrived Thursday morning… put up tents… it started raining.
First show on thursday night at the Queen’s head tent. It turned out to be a personal highlight for us; beautiful crowd!!
Up early the next morning for our show at the park stage. The crowd braved the rain and made it another memorable show for us.
We then performed some acoustic songs in a caravan… (White Suit still in it’s honeymoon period with the Glastonbury mud!)
After that we went and saw Fleet Foxes, Metronomy and finished the night with Neil Young…
Saturday was our last show of the Festival and it was a much lower key event at the small Guardian lounge, but it felt like the place to be as we were following Micachu and the Shapes and the mighty Invisible (Pictured)
Saturdays highlights would have to be Dizzee Rascal and a triumphant show from Florence and the Machine.
Saturday evening our camp was split between Bon Iver and the Boss. Anyway this is starting to feel like it’s going on a bit now so until...
Blue Roses News:
Andrew Bird to Tour With St. Vincent
From www.pitchfork.com at 30/06/09 04:34 PM. 0 comments.
Andrew Bird photo by Cameron Wittig; St. Vincent photo by Annabel Mehran
Starting September 29 in Indianapolis, indie rock kindred spirits Andrew Bird and St. Vincent join forces for a month-long trek throughout this great land we call the United States.
Before that, Mr. Bird has plenty of summer dates that'll take him from L.A. to Norway to Scotland, along with most places in between. He's also set to flash his precious wares on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" (still feels great to write that) on July 7.
Annie Clark hits the UK in July.
All Andrew Bird and St. Vincent dates below:
Andrew Bird:
07-10 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre %
07-11 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre ^
07-13 Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden ^
07-14 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^
07-16 Jacksonville, OR - Britt Pavilion !
07-17 Redmond, WA - Marymoor Amphitheatre #
07-18 Portland, OR - Edgefield #
07-19 Portland, OR - Edgefield #
07-26 Olympic Valley, CA - Squaw Valley Ski Resort
08-07 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-09 Ledbury, England - Big Chill Festival
08-12 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-15 Haldern, Denmark - Haldern Pop Festival
08-16 St. Malo, France - Route du Rock
08-18 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Watt
08-19 Goningen, Netherlands - Oosterpoort
08-20 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-22 Powys, Wales - Green Man Festival
08-23 Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh...
Beck News:
Beck Launches DJ Series
From www.pitchfork.com at 30/06/09 04:14 PM. 0 comments.
Right now, Beck is in the midst of overhauling his website, and he's using it to post all manner of cool stuff.
We told you about Record Club, Beck's ongoing project to get together with friends and cover entire albums over the course of one day. He's already two songs deep into the first Record Club full-length, the first Velvet Underground album. And now he's announced another ongoing project: the cheekily titled Planned Obsolescence, a weekly DJ set from Beck himself or from as-yet-unnamed friends.
Here's how Beck himself describes the project: "We are putting up a new section, a weekly DJ set, called Planned Obsolescence. These are mixes of what we're listening to, put together by myself or guest DJs. Please enjoy." Click below for the stream of the first mix.
"Autobahn Hologram" is exactly as eclectic, jarring, and obscure as you'd expect a Beck DJ set to be. The mix starts off with a short endurance test: A couple of minutes of Pharoah Sanders' squawking free-jazz riot "Red, Black & Green". Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" also makes an appearance, as does Orchestral Manoeuvres in...
Golden Silvers Link:
Guardian photos from Glastonbury
From www.guardian.co.uk at 30/06/09 03:12 PM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend News:
Discovery LP
From blogs.myspace.com at 30/06/09 03:12 PM. 0 comments.
Discovery is the recording project of Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot. Today through July 7, when you purchase Discovery, LP through Amie Street, $2 per album will be donated to Oxf...