Earlier today, BBC Radio 1 played a new clubbed-up M.I.A. song called "XXXO", which means it was all over the world within 10 seconds of the song's ending. Click below to hear a radio rip of "XXXO", and thanks to Alec Curtis for the tip. Curtis has the mp3, too.
M.I.A.'s as-yet untitled new album comes out June 29 on N.E.E.T./Interscope.
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On May 25, Elektra releases True Blood: Music From the HBO Original Series Volume II, which means its time for rootsy artists to step up with their most backwoods-y/vampire-friendly tracks. The CD boasts new songs from Beck ("Bad Blood"), M. Ward (a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Howlin' for My Baby"), Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello ("Kiss Like Your Kiss"), and the Band's Robbie Robertson ("How to Become Clairvoyant"). If you count the digital bonus tracks, it features songs from both Bob and Jakob Dylan, automatically making it an answer to an annoying future trivia question. Look at all the names and song titles after this jump:
True Blood: Music From the HBO Original Series Volume II:
01 M. Ward: "Howlin' for My Baby"
02 Jace Everett and CC Adcock: Evil (Is Going On)
03 Beck: "Bad Blood"
04 Robbie Robertson: "How to Become Clairvoyant"
05 Jr. Walker and The All Stars: "Shake and Fingerpop"
06 Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "Frenzy"
07 Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello: "Kiss Like Your Kiss"
08 Buddy and Julie Miller: "Gasoline and Matches"
09 Chuck Prophet: "You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp)"
10 The 13th Floor Elevators: "You're Gonna Miss Me"
11 Eels: "Fresh Blood"
12 Thievery Corporation: "The Forgotten People" (Bon Temps Remix)
13 King Britt and Sister Gertrude Morgan: "New World in My View"
14 Bob Dylan: "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
15 Jace Everett:"Bad Things (Acoustic)" *
16 Jakob Dylan: "Ain't No Invisible Man"...
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UPDATE: According to Beggars, this is a teaser for the real video for this song, which is coming soon.
The cover of Ratatat's upcoming LP4-- out June 8 via XL-- features an expertly arranged flock of white birds, as you can see above. And, solidifying any doubts about the band's allegiance to white birds, the video for new track "Party With Children" stars a white bird in front of a green screen. That is all. Not much happens, but staring at that thing for a few minutes did make me realize how truly fucked up birds are-- just look at their eyes, man! Pure evil.
Watch it below (via Drowned in Sound):
Model/singer will play shows in London, Manchester and Glasgow later this month
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Nashville may be the country music capital of the world, but at a time when its struggling to rebuild from devastating floods, its billing as Music City has never been as fitting.
The infamous bassist boasted a look that was equal parts Hitler Youth, Crispin Glover and the Count from Sesame Street. Now that he has left Interpol, we may never see his like again
OK, so it's not quite Paul McCartney leaving the Beatles or Glen Matlock getting fired from the Sex Pistols, but news of Carlos Dengler's departure from Interpol will pull at the bass-strings of anyone whose interest in indie rock can be carbon dated to the start of the century.
Part of a flood of talent to make even UKIP reconsider their stance on foreign work permits, Interpol (along with the Strokes and the White Stripes) reminded us just how thrilling rock'n'roll could be, providing a desperately needed response to the introspective witterings of Coldplay (famously dubbed by Alan McGee at the time as "music for bedwetters").
If the Strokes provided the swagger and Jack and Meg had the mystery, then it was Interpol who supplied the style. Brooding nu-goths exuding bespoke Manhattan cool, they possessed a secret weapon no other band could match â€' bassist Carlos D. With a style that was equal parts Lower East Side night vulture, Hitler Youth member, vampiric Crispin Glover and Sesame Street's Count Von Count, Dengler took every goth-rock cliche and added a touch of Leni Riefenstahl. Clumpy black jackboots? Check. Playing bass at knee level? Check. Wearing, er, a gun holster? Check.
While the rest of the pack gleefully mined rock's past for...
Like M.I.A., Joanna Newsom isn't buying into the Lady Gaga hype. In a recent article in The Guardian, the indie singer-songwriter-harpist had some choice words for the world's most fashion-forward pop star: "I'm mystified by the laziness of people looking at how she presents herself, and somehow assuming that implies there's a high level of intelligence in the songwriting. Her approach to image is really interesting, but you listen to the music, and you just hear glow sticks. Smart outlets for musical journalism give her all this credit, like she's the new Madonna [...] Although I'm coming from a perspective of also thinking Madonna is not great at all. I'm like, fair enough: she is the new Madonna, but Madonna's a dumb-ass!"
Who knew Newsom had that kind of venom inside of her?! Not even Joanna herself, apparently, because she quickly realized the quote was a bit much, and later sent an e-mail to The Guardian clarifying-- though not taking back-- her statement:
"I may have contradicted myself. My problem isn't actually with Lady Gaga. But there's not much in her music to distinguish it from other glossy, formulaic pop. She just happens to wear slightly weirder outfits than Britney Spears. But they're not that weird-- they're mostly just skimpy. She's fully marketing her body/sexuality; she's just doing it while wearing, like, a 'fierce' telephone hair-hat. Her sexuality has no scuzziness, no frank raunchiness, in the way that, say,...
