Be Your Own Pet News:
Photos: Be Your Own Pet's Final Show [London, England; 08/26/08]
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Photos by Andy Parker
Let the sighs and sobs commence, for as of today-- August 27, 2008-- Be Your Own Pet are no more. The electrifying quartet signed off with a final performance last night-- not in their home city of Nashville nor even their home country or continent, but rather in London, a place they declared to be "like a second home."
No dramatic valedictory gestures here, though; just good old-fashioned Be Your Own Pet physicality, the shedding of some clothing, and an opportunity for ecstatic fans to join the band onstage.
While Be Your Own Pet will be missed, their spirit lives on to some extent in Jonas Stein and John Eartherly's current project Turbo Fruits. And-- if there is indeed any justice in this world-- this won't be the last we hear from Jemina Pearl.
Be Your Own Pet
Jack Peñate News:
Reading and Leeds
From blog.myspace.com at 27/08/08 07:18 PM. 0 comments.
wonderful and i feel sad that they will be the last last shows until i finish my new album. Thank you for everyone who came and watched it was rediculously fun, and whoever gave my gold chain to the s...
Jack Peñate News:
Reading and Leeds
From blog.myspace.com at 27/08/08 07:18 PM. 0 comments.
wonderful and i feel sad that they will be the last last shows until i finish my bew album. Thank you for everyone who came and watched it was rediculously fun, and whoever gave my gold chain to the s...
Magistrates News:
LETS A CATCH UP AND TALK ABOUT DATES AND ALBUM
From blog.myspace.com at 27/08/08 05:18 PM. 0 comments.
YO YO YO MAGISTRATES PEOPLE!!! JUST LETTING YOU KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING, WELL....WE HAVE BEEN RECORDING A TRACK CALLED IF I... THIS WEEK AND ALL IS SOUND GREAT. I HAVE BEEN TAKING SOME PICTURES OF THE...
Friendly Fires Email:
Instore etc
By Email at 27/08/08 01:50 PM. 0 comments.
Hi there all, exciting news to report.
We got the first finished copies of the album through last week. When you buy it, you should all open it for the first time next to your nose, as it has a smell all of its own. Imagine mixture of sweet factory and petrol station forecourt- that's what awaits your olfactory glands when you get this in your hands (I imagine the vinyl version will be even more intense, fragrance-heads!). It is a unique once-in-a-lifetime, undownloadable, exclusive aroma that will sooth and invigorate you, before leaving you ready for the heady listening experience ahead.
To celebrate the release of our album and its accompanying odour, we'll be playing an instore show at the new Puregroove shop in London's Smithfields on Wednesday 3rd September. It'll be just us, 100 people, Puregroove's wealth of music-related stock, and possibly some drinks if you're that way inclined. There is but one condition. To be amongst those 100 people, you must first pre-order a copy of our album from the Puregroove shop (here's the link: http://www.puregroove.co.uk/itemview.aspx?item=332 ). So pre-order the album, and join this exclusive group of people who get to watch us crowd onto Puregroove's tiny stage. We're onstage at 6:30... expect to sweat.
When going on our recent mini world tour, we took a load of footage on a little camera. A clever person at XL has edited the long hours of incoherent...
Radiohead News:
Radiohead cover Neil Young
From www.nme.com at 27/08/08 01:44 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead covered Neil Young at their Hollywood Bowl gig earlier this week.
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend and Lykke Li added to Iceland Airwaves line-up
From www.nme.com at 27/08/08 11:55 AM. 0 comments.
Iceland Airwaves have announced further acts performing at this year's event.
Radiohead News:
James Lavino: Woodpecker OST
From www.pitchforkmedia.com at 27/08/08 09:00 AM. 0 comments.
Radiohead's Colin Greenwood and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Lee and Tyler Sargent add their talents to this soundtrack, penned by notable choral and concert music composer James Lavino for the Alex Karpovsky's indie-fest hit.
Radiohead News:
Video: Radiohead: "Tell Me Why" (Neil Young cover; live at the Hollywood Bowl)
From feedproxy.google.com at 26/08/08 10:30 PM. 0 comments.
Last night at L.A.'s legendary Hollywood Bowl, Radiohead performed an acoustic cover of Neil Young's "Tell Me Why", the heartstring-tugging opener from After the Gold Rush. A couple of poor quality YouTubes were posted around a bit earlier today, but Gorilla vs. Bear has the winner here, a nice clear clip on Vimeo that puts you right in front of the band. The tune is in Thom Yorke's natural range and he pretty much nails it.
Beck News:
New Music: Beck [ft. Jay Reatard]: "Gamma Ray (Pocket Mix)" [MP3]
From feedproxy.google.com at 26/08/08 07:00 PM. 0 comments.
Modern Guilt just got a little more modern-sounding. Beck's "Gamma Ray" shares the general 1960s psych-pop vibe of the rest of his Danger Mouse-produced latest album, with effects-laden backing vocals and a slightly fuzzed guitar riff that might've been preserved in a fallout shelter since the first Nixon administration. Pocket, aka the Burnside Project frontman Richard Jankovich-- who last year remixed Radiohead's cover of Björk's "Unravel"-- has dressed up "Gamma Ray" in the garb of another nuke-obsessed decade. "Gamma Ray (Pocket Mix)" trades some guitar for a melange of gooey, romantic synths, to conjure, like M83's excellent Saturdays=Youth, the outsize emotion of 1980s teen-movie fare. Except instead of Anthony Michael Hall, this one has Beck singing about melting icecaps and a woman with a "cactus crown." Background vocals are clipped from Jay Reatard's cover.
MP3:> Beck: "Gamma Ray (Pocket Mix)"
[from Modern Guilt; out now on XL/ Interscope]
Friendly Fires Video:
Paris, performed live for BBC Three
From bbc.co.uk at 26/08/08 03:58 PM. 0 comments.
Dizzee Rascal News:
Dizzee Rascal bigs up northern music fans
From www.nme.com at 26/08/08 01:56 PM. 0 comments.
Dizzee Rascal has praised the fans at the Leeds Festival that he met at the NME signing tent at the weekend (August 22), saying that he "always" enjoys coming to the north of England.
Radiohead News:
Stars come out for Radiohead in LA
From www.nme.com at 25/08/08 04:39 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead thrilled a massive, star-studded crowd at their first of two sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl last night (August 24).
M.I.A. News:
New Music: T.I. [ft. Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne]: "Swagger Like Us" [Stream]
From feedproxy.google.com at 25/08/08 03:05 PM. 0 comments.
Last year, M.I.A.'s summery shoot-em-up "Paper Planes" emerged as the kind of track that pop and underground music fans of all stripes could rally behind. The remix with Bun B and Rich Boy took the Kala cut's bass-buzzing, register-ringing Robin Hood stance deeper into outlaw territory-- the mean streets and Sherwood Forest-- correctly noted that poverty was a condition one is born into rather than something one brings on himself, and wound up as our #4 track of 2007. In recent weeks, the use of "Paper Planes" in the trailer for Seth Rogen stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express has propelled the track as high as #5 in the Hot 100. In the process, Clap Clap blogger Mike Barthel suggests, the movie ad brings Kala's translation of drug-dealing hustle into third-world hustle back home as a critique of white American gangstaism. A thousand miles an hour, indeed.
New West-produced T.I. track "Swagger Like Us", which samples a bit of the Clash-sampling "Paper Planes", reclaims the song for hip-hop. It's basically a Who's Who of critically acclaimed, top-selling rappers, with Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne all joining T.I. as M.I.A.'s voice repeats, "No one on the corner has swagger like us." But it's also one of the song's least inventive uses yet, blasting off with spaceship-like sound effects even as West and Wayne run T-Pain Auto-Tune into the ground. "I'm Christopher Columbus/ Y'all just pilgrims," West announces. Um, thanks? On West's blog, he calls this...
Friendly Fires News:
keeping healthy in LA
From blog.myspace.com at 24/08/08 05:42 PM. 0 comments.
Flying from LA to Japan has thrown my already confused body-clock an International Date Line-shaped curve ball. Flying west over the IDL springs you a whole day into the future, meaning you can set of...
The Raconteurs News:
Killers, Bloc Party, Manic Street Preachers for final day of Leeds Festival
From www.nme.com at 24/08/08 08:00 AM. 0 comments.
The Killers are set to close the Leeds Festival tonight (August 23) with a set on the Main Stage after Bloc Party and The Raconteurs.
The White Stripes News:
Jack White returns to Reading Festival with Raconteurs
From www.nme.com at 23/08/08 06:14 PM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs mainman Jack White returned to the Reading Festival for the fourth time this decade with his 'other' band tonight (June 28).
Jack Peñate News:
Jack Penate previews second album at Leeds Festival
From www.nme.com at 23/08/08 05:00 PM. 0 comments.
Jack Penate played four new songs set for the follow-up to 'Matinee' during his set on the NME/Radio 1 Stage at Leeds Festival this afternoon (August 23).