Vampire Weekend News:
The Cribs, Foals, Mumford & Sons added to Benicassim line-up
From www.nme.com at 12/03/10 02:26 AM. 0 comments.
Acts will join Kasabian, The Prodigy and Vampire Weekend at the event
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The White Stripes News:
Conan O'Brien Announces Music/Comedy Tour!
From www.pitchfork.com at 11/03/10 09:00 PM. 0 comments.
Ever since Conan O'Brien was unceremoniously kicked off "The Tonight Show" stage, there's been a certain missing feeling going around-- a feeling Jay Leno's fast-food-fart of a return to the show did little to quell. But Team Coco can rejoice as the big-haired comedian is plotting a North American tour described as "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence" on its official site.
Amazingly, the endeavor is called "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour." (Conan's $32.5 million payout from NBC included a stipulation that he can't appear on TV until September 1, according to The New York Times.)
The show will reportedly feature sidekick Andy Richter and members of the "Tonight Show" band. And, considering Conan's guitar skills and his ties with artists like the White Stripes (who performed on his last "Late Night") and Beck (who performed on his last "Tonight Show"), we could be in for some very special musical moments along with the requisite lulz. Not to mention the fact that he's playing Bonnaroo-- who knows what could go down there.
Dates below:
Conan O'Brien:
04-12 Eugene, OR - Hult Ceter for the Performing Arts
04-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
04-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
04-16 Spokane, WA - INB Performing Arts Center
04-17 Enoch, Alberta - River Cree Resort & Casino
04-18 Seattle, WA - Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
04-19 Seattle, WA - Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
04-22 San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill...
Peaches News:
News in Brief: The Strokes, Peaches, Dr. Dog, Ether Festival
From www.pitchfork.com at 11/03/10 06:05 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Cody Smyth
-- The Strokes have announced their first American show in years. The Chicago Tribune confirms that the band will serve as headliners at this year's Lollapalooza, which goes down in Chicago's Grant Park August 6-8. Talking to the Trib, frontman Julian Casablancas says that he thinks the band's new album, which they're recording now, will be out in September. Other rumored Lolla artists include Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Soundgarden, Green Day, and Lady Gaga.
-- Last month, the people who owned the rights to the musical Jesus Christ Superstar blocked electroclash shock-rapper Peaches from performing the one-woman version of it that she was planning to stage in Berlin. But Expatriarch reports that Peaches has successfully negotiated with those rights-holders, and now the musical is back on. She'll perform it March 26-28 at Berlin's HAU1. Sacrilege reigns!
-- On April 6, Anti- will release Shame, Shame, the new album from Philly chooglers Dr. Dog. It'll be the group's first record since signing with the label last year.
-- The Ether Festival will come to the venues of London's Southbank Centre April 16-24. This year's fest will include shows from Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio,...
Beck News:
Atari Teenage Riot Reunite
From www.pitchfork.com at 11/03/10 05:30 PM. 0 comments.
German electro-punks Atari Teenage Riot had something of a zeitgeist moment in the mid-90s by blurring hardcore punk, jungle, noise, and bloodcurdling screaming, turning all that stuff into a hyperspeed mush that basically forced you (well, me) to stop doing your homework and run around your bedroom screaming, "Deutschland! Has gotta! Dieeeee!" The one time I saw them live, they exited the stage to a wall of white noise so loud it made my stomach hurt. They were something to behold.
Atari Teenage Riot were signed to the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label and toured with the likes of Beck, Rage Against the Machine, and the Wu-Tang Clan. The group has been effectively disbanded since founding member Carl Crack died of a drug overdose in 2001. But NME reports that the group will reunite, with founders Alec Empire and Hanin Elias joined by late-90s member Nic Endo and new recruit CX Kidtronik, who has worked with Saul Williams.
According to Alec Empire's website, Atari Teenage Riot have several tour dates lined up for Europe this summer. NME reports that on May 17, they'll release the new single "Reactivate" on their own Digital Hardcore label. It may very well have some screaming on it.
Gil Scott-Heron News:
And in other news ... Smashing Pumpkins want YOU (but you want Taio Cruz and the Prodigy)
From www.guardian.co.uk at 11/03/10 03:25 PM. 0 comments.
All the news that's fit to link
Want to play bass in Smashing Pumpkins? Here's your chance (via smashingpumpkins.com)
Murdoc says Gorillaz turned down Katy Perry for a guest spot on their new album because she's got "Russell Brand all over her" (via Contact Music)
Kelis, as photographed by Rankin (via The Wonderland of Alexandra)
The US women's hockey team talk about being inspired by Beyonce's music (via Jezebel)
The Prodigy will headline this year's Bestival (via prodigy.com)
New Madlib tracks, taken from forthcoming album Beat Konducta in Africa (via Gorilla Vs Bear)
The revolution will not be blogged: Gil Scott-Heron on his new album
(via Daily Swarm)
MGMT show off their new, freaky (unlistenable?) direction
(via Stereogum)
First Jay Sean, now Taio Cruz: UK R&B tops the US charts (via BBC)
Ratatat News:
Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness" With MGMT and Ratatat Gets Another Video
From www.pitchfork.com at 11/03/10 03:00 PM. 0 comments.
"Pursuit of Happiness", Kid Cudi's spaced-out MGMT/Ratatat collaboration, already had a video. It involved both Drake and slow-motion champagne spillage, and it wasn't that good.
But an alternate video for the same song made its way onto the internet earlier this week, as New York magazine points out. And hey! This one is way better! Director Megaforce brings out some gravitational weirdness that could well make you nauseous, and Ratatat actually show up in this one. Watch it below:
Radiohead News:
Are women really on top when it comes to the charts?
From www.guardian.co.uk at 11/03/10 12:37 PM. 0 comments.
This week saw the most successful UK charts run ever enjoyed by female artists. But marketing women in pop hasn't changed much from the poster girls of postwar Britain
It's not often you spot a trend started by Vera Lynn. She might be a mistress of the music hall and soldiers' sweetheart, but fashionably ahead of the curve at 93? You'd hardly bet on it.
But, in September last year, Lynn's best of album went to the top of the charts and as Music Week pointed out recently, it was the first of 11 No 1s out of the last 18 to come from solo female artists. Last Sunday, Ellie Goulding's hyped debut landed in the top spot, sealing the most successful run on the UK charts ever enjoyed by women. Swap a Cheryl Cole for a Colbe Caillat, Whitney Houston for Leona Lewis, and the picture in the US is near identical; 10 of the last 16 Billboard No 1s are from solo female singers.
It's a triumph, especially for such a male-dominated industry â€' only 23% of senior management and 34% of UK jobs in music are held by women. And that the girls have come out on top can only inspire another wave of female musicians, singers, and innovators. Whether the fashion for kooky pop stars in hairbands and heavy eye make-up will hold is one thing; that they're there in such strong numbers â€' and making classic...
Radiohead News:
Happy Birthday
From www.radiohead.com at 11/03/10 07:53 AM. 0 comments.
BBC 6 Music - 8 years old today. Something worth celebrating: I mean, when Chris Moyles and Ken Bruce aren't for you - and Radios 1 and 2 strive to appeal to ever younger and older listeners - where else can you turn during the day?
Happy Birthday 6 Music, and all you other nerdy music lovers everywhere....now let's fight for many happy returns.
Jonny
Radiohead News:
Happy Birthdaty
From www.radiohead.com at 11/03/10 07:49 AM. 0 comments.
BBC 6 Music - 8 years old today. Something worth celebrating: I mean, when Chris Moyles and Ken Bruce aren't for you - and Radios 1 and 2 strive to appeal to ever younger and older listeners - where else can you turn during the day?
Happy Birthday 6 Music, and all you other nerdy music lovers everywhere....now let's fight for many happy returns.
Jonny
Radiohead News:
Happy Birthday
From www.radiohead.com at 11/03/10 06:52 AM. 0 comments.
BBC 6 Music - 8 years old today. Something worth celebrating: I mean, when Chris Moyles and Ken Bruce aren't for you - and Radios 1 and 2 strive to appeal to ever younger and older listeners - where else can you turn?
Happy Birthday 6 Music, and all you other nerdy music lovers everywhere....now let's fight for many happy returns.
Jonny
Beck News:
Beck Recruits St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes for Next Record Club
From www.pitchfork.com at 10/03/10 09:00 PM. 0 comments.
Beck's Record Club is arguably the best reason to make sure you're regularly checking the man's website. Record Club is a project wherein Beck rounds up a few of his friends, famous and otherwise, and records a cover version of an entire album in one day. He then posts the results to his website one song at a time.
Thus far, he's done the Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico with Nigel Godrich and Giovanni Ribisi, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen with MGMT and Devendra Banhart, and, most recently, Skip Spence's Oar with Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell. And the next one should be a hell of a thing.
In a post on her Twitter earlier this afternoon, St. Vincent leader Annie Clark revealed that she'd recorded a Record Club with Beck, Liars, and Brazilian tropicalia legends Os Mutantes last week: "It will be online soonish. Serious fun." She did not reveal which album that particularly badass crew had recorded. But given the level of talent in this mob, the result would be worth a listen even if they were taking on Ugly Kid Joe's America's Least Wanted. (Or, hell, especially if they were taking on America's Least...
Vampire Weekend News:
Florence And The Machine, Belle And Sebastian, Vampire Weekend to headline Latitude
From www.nme.com at 09/03/10 07:15 PM. 0 comments.
Empire Of The Sun, Maccabees also set for Suffolk festival
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Vampire Weekend News:
Florence And The Machine, Belle And Sebastian, Vampire Weekend to headline Latitude
From www.nme.com at 09/03/10 07:15 PM. 0 comments.
Empire Of The Sun, Maccabees also set for Suffolk festival
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Friendly Fires News:
FF vs HG split 12" [2]
From wearefriendlyfires.com at 09/03/10 04:56 PM. 0 comments.
Just a short note to say that our split 12” and download with our friends Holy Ghost! is available in shops from today. We contribute a cover of their excellent song ‘Hold On’, and on the other side they molded our song ‘On Board’ in their own image. Shout to the late great Jerry Fuchs who plays drums on Holy Ghost’s side.
It first got floated as an idea through a boozy, sunshine-y, beachy haze at the beautiful Calvi On The Rocks festival in Corsica (if you haven’t been, go; book it this very instant), and unlike so many other drunken ideas, it has actually come to fruition. Here’s hoping you like it.
Rough Trade 12”:
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All the best
FFx
Basement Jaxx News:
Streets of London: The city's shifting soundtrack
From www.guardian.co.uk at 09/03/10 03:39 PM. 0 comments.
The capital's soul is harder to pin down than other cities because its musical climate can change between postcodes
If London had the grid system of Manhattan, or had been rebuilt entirely like the Paris of Haussmann, then maybe it would have a readily identifiable sound. After all, you can spot the sound of Manchester â€' whether it's the Hollies, Joy Division, the Stone Roses or MC Tunes â€' at 20 paces. London has always been more fluid, in its architecture and its population. Different eras, and different postcodes, define the sound of the city at any given time. The Barbican's forthcoming Songs In the Key of London event could have included such mismatched performers as Chas & Dave, Rod Stewart, and Dizzee Rascal on the bill and it would have all made perfect sense.
Instead, along with likely lads Suggs and Chris Difford, it features a bunch of singers who aren't even from London â€' Robyn Hitchcock is Cambridge to his toes, Kathryn Williams's Byker Grove accent is a bit of a giveaway. The reason they will be sharing a stage with compere Phil Daniels is that most of the great London songs have been written by outsiders and suburbanites.
David Bowie, tucked away on the fringes of Kent in Beckenham, wrote a few pre-fame songs in the 60s about moving to the big bad city: Can't Help Thinking About Me...
M.I.A. News:
MIA to headline Underage Festival
From news.bbc.co.uk at 09/03/10 03:36 PM. 0 comments.
Tinchy Stryder, Chase & Status and Ellie Goulding join MIA to play at this summer's Underage Festival in London's east end.
The White Stripes News:
Listen: The White Stripes' Live Album
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/03/10 08:20 PM. 0 comments.
The White Stripes documentary film and live album Under Great White Northern Lights is out next Tuesday, March 16, in several formats-- DVD, CD, super-deluxe box set. But you can stream the audio from the set now through release day, courtesy of those soothing voices at NPR.
Below is the tracklist for the Under Great White Northern Lights album, which collects audio from various shows on the Stripes' 2007 Canadian tour.
Under Great White Northern Lights:
01 Let's Shake Hands
02 Black Math
03 Little Ghost
04 Blue Orchid
05 The Union Forever
06 Ball and Biscuit
07 Icky Thump
08 I'm Slowly Turning Into You
09 Jolene
10 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
11 We Are Going to Be Friends
12 I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
13 Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
14 Fell In Love With a Girl
15 When I Hear My Name
16 Seven Nation Army
17 End
Radiohead News:
Artists React to the Death of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/03/10 05:35 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by James Cadden
This weekend, we learned the sad news that Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous had taken his own life. The New York Times reports that Linkous shot himself in the heart in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was 47.
Over the course of his career, Linkous toured and collaborated with a lots of musicians, and he made admirers of many more. As the news of his death circulated, many of those artists took to the internet, Twitter especially, to air out their feelings for Linkous. Below, we've rounded up some of those reactions.
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood: "I was very sad to hear the news that Mark Linkous has died. He and his band toured with us in Europe, at the start of OK Computer, and they were great every night. His first two records were very important to me, and I carried his music from the tour into my life, and my friends' lives too. He was softly spoken, with an Old South courtesy I hadn't heard before: he introduced me to Daniel Johnston's music, and the West Virginian writing of Pinckney Benedict. Mark wrote and played some beautiful music, and we're lucky to have it. Rest in Peace."
Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla: "Rest in peace, Mark Linkous. I...
Vampire Weekend News:
Aziz Ansari, Dave Sitek, and Nick Zinner Take on Justin Bieber
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/03/10 05:00 PM. 0 comments.
Between Vampire Weekend enlisting Jonas Brother Joe Jonas to star in their "Giving Up the Gun" video and a burgeoning war between Justin Bieber and Raaaaaaaandy (aka comedian Aziz Ansari), it looks like the indie world has finally figured out how to capitalize on the current teen-pop boom.
As we wait on the official release of Raaaaaaaandy and TV on the Radio producer-guitarist Dave Sitek's hip-hop mixtape, the duo have a new video on Funny or Die that claims Canadian moppet Bieber shot Raaaaaaaandy in the knee and stole a Raaaaaaaandy track called "Baby Baby" and turned it into his smash hit "Baby". Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner makes a guitar-swaying cameo in the skit.
Check out the first track from the mixtape, "AAAAAAAANGRY", here. Download Raaaaaaaandy's "Baby Baby" and watch the Bieber vs. Raaaaaaaandy saga below.
And-- because this is the only chance I'll ever get to embed a Justin Bieber video on Pitchfork-- the original "Baby" video is after the jump, too. The kid really let himself go:
"Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber"
MP3:> Raaaaaaaandy: "Baby Baby" [ft. DJ Ol' Youngin]
Justin Bieber: "Baby"