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My Bloody Valentine Return to the Stage
Photo by Steve Double My Bloody Valentine have announced a Japanese tour for February 2013. Time Out Japan reports that the dates will be the band's first tour of the country in over two decades, besides an appearance at the Fuji Rock Festival in 2008. Read Kevin Shields talking about the saga behind the band's recent reissues here, and hear him expound on the subject in a recent episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly" below. My Bloody Valentine: 02-06 Osaka, Japan - The Hatch Publ.Date : Thu, 17 May 2012 08:26:00 -0500 Watch Best Coast on "Letterman"
Last night, Best Coast stopped by the "Late Show With David Letterman" (where Bethany Cosentino met Justin Bieber last year) in support of their new album The Only Place. Watch the band play the title track, via the Audio Perv. "My hair got stuck in my lipstick and Dave and I talk about snacks again! #sweet", Cosentino tweeted of the occasion. Publ.Date : Thu, 17 May 2012 05:15:00 -0500 PJ Harvey Contributes New Songs to Documentary
Photo by Tom Spray The documentary What Is This Film Called Love? will feature two new songs by PJ Harvey: "Horse" and "Bobby Don't Steal". According to Harvey's Facebook page, "it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape and the pleasures of walking." A preview of the documentary will screen at All Tomorrow's Parties in London on May 27. The film will also feature Harvey's 1995 track "To Bring You My Love": Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 21:21:00 -0500 R.I.P. Chuck Brown, "Godfather of Go-Go"
The Washington Post reports that Chuck Brown, the guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer credited widely as "The Godfather of Go-Go," died today due to complications from pneumonia. He was 75. In the 1970s, Brown developed a style of funk music known as go-go. As The Post writes, it "soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades." Chuck Brown was the scene's leader and most visible participant, inspiring groups like Trouble Funk and Rare Essence. Brown's group, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, had a national hit in 1978 with "Bustin' Loose", which topped the R&B singles chart and was later taken on as a home-run anthem for the city's baseball team, the Washington Nationals. Nelly's song "Hot in Herre" was built off of a sample of "Bustin' Loose". In 2009, the city of Washington named a street after him: Chuck Brown Way. The impact and origins of go-go in Washington, D.C. were documented in the June 1985 issue of SPIN, available to read here at GoogleBooks. "Bustin' Loose": Interview on "Bustin' Loose": Live in Washington, D.C.: Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 17:11:00 -0500 Here We Go Magic Pick Up Hitchhiking John Waters
Photo via Here We Go Magic bassist Jen Turner's Twitter In a recent interview, legendary oddball filmmaker and writer John Waters (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos) said, "I still do hitchhike-- it's a great way to meet people, and to have sex." And it's a nice way to become acquainted with indie rock bands, apparently. Brooklyn act Here We Go Magic recently randomly picked up Waters in Western Pennsylvania, during a hitchhiking trip from Baltimore to... who knows where. Guitarist Michael Bloch explained:
Lesson of the day: Don't listen to what your parents told you about the dangers of hitchhiking or picking up hitchhikers. Watch Here We Go Magic's "How Do I Know" video Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:00 -0500 Young One Records Launches With Mixtape With Main Attrakionz, Cities Aviv, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
Main Attrakionz: "All In the Game" on SoundCloud. Today marks the launch of Brooklyn's Young One Records, an imprint of Partisan Records, which has announced Main Attrakionz, Children of the Night, and Fat Tony as initial signees. They're offering a free compilation featuring music from Cities Aviv, Main Attrakionz, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Children of the Night, and Fat Tony. Listen to it here, via Complex, and enter to win a free limited-edition cassette of the mix here. Young One's first release, Double Dragon from Fat Tony & Tom Cruz, is out June 1. The label's website also lists a full-length from Main Attrakionz, Bossalinis & Fooliyones, as coming soon. Listen to Main Attrakionz' "All in the Game" off the label's free compilation and check out the tracklisting. Young One Comp #1: 01 Main Attrakionz: "All in the Game" ^ online only Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 15:11:00 -0500 Domino, Warp, XL, Wichita, Bella Union, R&S, Ed Banger to Appear at Independent Label Market
The gigantic record fair Independent Label Market will take place this Saturday, May 19 at Old Spitalfields Market in London. Participating labels, many of which will offer exclusive or rare releases, include Domino, Warp, R&S, XL, Ed Banger, Bella Union, fabric, Soul Jazz, Soundway, Fat Cat, Because, Fire, Double Denim, Full Time Hobby, Lucky Number, Wichita, One Little Indian, Ninja Tune, Lex, Lanark, Sunday Best, Moshi Moshi, Fortuna Pop!, Transgressive, Rocket Girl, Sounds of Sweet Nothing, Something in Construction, Angular, and many more. Exclusive releases will be announced throughout the week at the market's Tumblr. A number of artists will be on-site selling releases from their respective labels: Edwyn Collins with Analogue Enhanced Digital; Felix Martin and Al Doyle of Hot Chip with their Lanark label; Ben Watt (Everything But the Girl) with Buzzin Fly; Erol Alkan with his Phantasy label; Tim Burgess (Charlatans) with his O.Genesis label. Artists from Ninja Tune, R&S, and Chess Club will appear for signings; Warp artists will serve customers tea. A selection of what the market will offer:
Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 14:24:00 -0500 Review: Documentary Film Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel
"Why Patty Schemel?" you might wonder towards the beginning of Hit So Hard, P. David Ebersole's recent documentary chronicling the heyday of grunge via Hole's relatively un-famous drummer (which is now playing in limited release). More recognizable faces flit through the film: Here's a shirtless Kurt Cobain, in some charming home-movie footage, looking like an overgrown baby as he sits with Francis Bean in her crib; there's Courtney Love backstage on the Live Through This tour destroying a birthday cake with her bare hands; there's even a snippet of Nardwuar interviewing Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson's then-girlfriend Drew Barrymore, who declares, "My memoirs are stored in Patty Schemel's uterus." Which of course is a sentence that prompts all sorts of questions-- not the least of which being, once again: why Patty Schemel? For one thing, it provides you with one more name for the next time a camera crew asks you to reel off some female rock drummers; over the closing credits, a montage shows talking heads doing their best at that very task, and we get a lot of "Moe Tucker"s, a couple of "Gina Schock"s, and a few blank stares. One of the great services of Ebersole's film is that it assembles a formidable group of female drum legends-- including the Go-Go's Schock, the Bangles' Debbi Peterson, and Fanny's Alice de Buhr-- to reflect not just on Schemel's volcanic technique, but on the cultural myths that have long kept young women from getting behind the kit. Most of them agree the idea of brute strength being a drummer's greatest asset is prohibitive and widely exaggerated. "It's not like you're playing with tree trunks," says former Beastie Boys drummer Kate Schellenbach. "Just some sticks that weigh a few ounces each." Professionally, Schemel's unwavering beats grounded Courtney Love's antics and sonic anarchy; personally, she was a calming presence in the wake of the two drug-related deaths that surrounded the release of Hole's breakout 1994 album Live Through This: her close friend Kurt, and then just two months later, her bandmate Kristen Pfaff, both at age 27. On stage and off, Schemel held everything together as chaos swirled-- until she too spiraled into addiction in her 27th year. Predictably, the band's center did not hold. Schemel stuck with Hole a few more years, though, before weathering a final pride-crushing blow. Michael Beinhorn, the demanding producer of Hole's 1998 album Celebrity Skin, had her bumped from the record and brought in a session guy who used to play with Whitesnake (Schemel, with a comedic sneer, dubs him "Johnny One-Take"). Some of the fellow female drummers interviewed see it as a classic tale of music-industry sexism, while others see it as symptomatic of the stereotype that the drummer is the most disposable member of a band. Which seemed to be an unfortunately persistent recurring theme in Hole. "I don't even remember who played drums on [Pretty on the Inside]," Love muses nonchalantly, munching on a cookie. (For the record, it was Caroline Rue.) Although it's not the definitive story of the brief, odd cultural moment when Hole was one of the biggest rock bands in the world (an early clip shows Schemel on tour in a hotel room, reading off the winners of all the categories in Rolling Stone's 1994 year-end poll: "Hole, Hole, Hole..."), Hit So Hard is something rare and refreshing: a rock documentary that sees beyond the cult of underground celebrity and instead shines its spotlight on an unsung member of the band. And Schemel-- now six years clean and sober-- proves to be an uncommonly clear-headed, affable, and-- above all things-- funny narrator of her own life. Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 13:30:00 -0500 Watch Tennis Recite Lines From War Horse
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "60 Seconds Left", which offers artists the opportunity to express themselves creatively in one minute's time. Here, we spend a minute with Tennis, who recite lines from the movie/play War Horse. Also, one of them has a nosebleed. Subscribe to Pitchfork.tv on YouTube here. Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:00 -0500 Report: Beach House Live in New York
Photos by Erez Avissar. Head to our Facebook for more photos. Last month, writing about the single "Lazuli" from Beach House's just-released album Bloom, Pitchfork's Jayson Greene likened the group's approach to a Rothko painting. "Glowing and benevolent," he noted, "It's gratifying just to be near it." If ever the comparison held true, it was last night during Beach House's encore at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. At the center of a dark stage, Victoria Legrand stood clad in a multicolor, impressionist blouse, a single, striking stage light beaming from behind, as she, Alex Scally, and drummer Daniel Franz applied the grandeur of Bloom to its closing track "Irene" and the Teen Dream cut "10 Mile Stereo". It marked the end of an intense set that was highlighted by rich takes on Bloom's "Myth" and "Other People", as well as Devotion's "Gila" and "Turtle Island". Beach House have learned to transcend the stage with a towering live dynamic, accentuated all the more last night by a pair of wooden windmills in the background of the stage set, revolving at a slow, surreal pace. Beach House once offered songs to fall asleep to; they now aim for the sublime with touches of subtle, artful terror. As Legrand drove herself into her keyboard, it felt patently fierce. Setlist: Wild Encore: Turtle Island Beach House tour North America and Europe through July, including a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival on Sunday, July 15. Single day tickets are on sale here. VIEW A COMPLETE SET OF FULL-SIZE PHOTOS AT FACEBOOK Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 11:40:00 -0500 Watch Feist Perform "Cicadas and Gulls" Alongside Oakland Street Dance Crew Turf Feinz
Here's a video of Feist performing Metals cut "Cicadas and Gulls" in the street alongside members of Oakland dance crew Turf Feinz (delivering some incredible slow-motion moves) as well as members of Mountain Man, who have been touring with her. Feist has also announced that she's putting out her 1999 debut album Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down on vinyl for the first time. It's available here. And don't forget: Feist is playing the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park on July 13. Single-day passes are on sale now. Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 11:13:00 -0500 Missy Elliott and Timbaland, Nas, A Rocky, Black Hippy, Dipset, Bone Thugs to Play Rock the Bells
Touring U.S. rap festival Rock the Bells has announced its 2012 lineup, featuring a typically broad swatch of performers including the reunited Dipset, A Rocky, Atmosphere, Black Hippy crew stars (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q), Yelawolf, the reunited Hit Squad (EPMD, Redman, Das EFX, K-Solo, Keith Murray, DJ Scratch), chart-toppers (Kid Cudi, Wiz Khalifa, J Cole, Mac Miller, Lupe Fiasco, more) and more elder statesmen/women (Nas, E-40, DJ Quik, Too , Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Prodigy, Salt-n-Pepa, RZA). Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will perform their album E. 1999 Eternal in full, while Method Man and Redman will play Blackout! in full. But perhaps the most exciting announcement is the appearance of Missy Elliott alongside Timbaland, a promising sign that their respective new albums are coming. Unfortunately, the number of cities is down from last year's four to three this year-- dates below. 08-18-19 San Bernardino, CA - NOS Events Center Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:00 -0500 Dirty Projectors Share Album Art, Deluxe Release Info
Dirty Projectors have shared the Instagrammy album art for Swing Lo Magellan, the follow-up to 2009's Bitte Orca. The record will be out on July 10 in the U.S. and July 9 internationally through Domino. According to the band's website, 3000 deluxe limited-edition LPs will be available, pressed on 180-gram vinyl with a "deluxe tip-on embossed gatefold sleeve" and accompanied by a "11" by 22" embossed fold-out lyric tablet," in addition to MP3 and WAV downloads. There's also the ultra limited (1000 copies) "Gun Has No Trigger Tablet of Values", a vinyl single on eight inch by eight inch square vinyl with "Gun Has No Trigger" on the A-side, and, on the B-side, a "Sumerian Akkadian Cuneiform Etching of Complete Lyrics of 'Gun Has No Trigger' Translated By Dr. M. Wllis Monroe". Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 09:45:00 -0500 Watch El-P on "David Letterman"
El-P stopped by "Late Show With David Letterman" last night in support of his forthcoming record Cancer for Cure. He brought along Nick Diamonds of Islands to play album cut "Stay Down". Watch below via the Audio Perv. Publ.Date : Wed, 16 May 2012 04:15:00 -0500 New Yeasayer: "Henrietta"
A cryptic image. A nonsensical Tweet. Yes, in 2012, that means it's time for a band to release a new song, and this time around it happens to be Yeasayer, who are touring next month but have remained fairly quiet since 2010's Odd Blood. According to We All Want Someone to Shout For, physical CDs of "Henrietta" were sent to fans on the band's mailing list, and now the song has surfaced online. Listen to it here. Watch Yeasayer's video for "Wait for the Summer": Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 18:38:00 -0500 Watch Hot Chip on "Jools Holland"
Tonight, Hot Chip performed on the British TV show "Later... With Jools Holland". They played "Night and Day" from their upcoming album In Our Heads, out June 12 via Domino. Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 18:11:00 -0500 Watch Flying Lotus Play New Music
After debuting new material at Coachella last month, Flying Lotus performed even more new material at Sónar São Paulo, as Complex notes. Watch video of his set, via Sónar São Paulo's YouTube page. During the performance, he mentions that his full-length followup to 2010's Cosmogramma, which is titled Until the Quiet Comes, will be out in October (as opposed to the June release date he suggested earlier this year). He also incorporated the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" into his set at the 11:40 point in tribute to MCA. Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 16:23:00 -0500 Bonnaroo Announces Schedule
The schedule for Manchester, Tennessee's sweatiest four days has been announced. This year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which takes place from June 7-10, will include performances from Radiohead, Bon Iver, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Feist, St. Vincent, the Shins, tUnE-yArDs, Bad Brains, Skrillex, Ludacris and literally hundreds more. (New additions to the lineup include GZA performing Liquid Swords, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Pelican.) The entire festival itinerary can be found here. As far as scheduling conflicts go: If you're looking to see Feist AND Ludacris (you are, right?), Flying Lotus and Big Freedia, Bad Brains and Das Racist, Santigold and SBTRKT, the Roots and Mogwai, Skrillex and GZA, the Beach Boys, the Antlers, and the War on Drugs, you'll have to prioritize a little bit, because each pair is scheduled in the same time slot. Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 13:52:00 -0500 Video: Death Grips: "Hustle Bones"
Death Grips have released a self-directed video for "Hustle Bones" from their latest album The Money Store. It brings new meaning to the phrase "money laundering." Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 13:34:00 -0500 Third Man Selling "Triple Decker" Jack White Poster
In its unending quest to perpetually outdo itself, Third Man Records is this week offering a new "Triple Decker" Jack White poster, created, designed and printed by Matthew Jacobson and Bryce McCloud. When the project's three individual posters-- black, white, and blue-- are layered on top of one another, they create an image of Jack's face. (See the result here.) It's "kind of a 'fourth wall' inter-dimension type thing," according to the label's website. The black poster is letterpressed, with images of "a peacock and vulture egg," while the other two are lasercut. The white poster features Jack's autograph. In order to collect them all, you'll have to venture to Nashville. The white and blue posters will be available at the Ryman Auditorium, where Jack performs tonight and tomorrow, in a limited edition of 75 each per show. The black poster will be available exclusively at Third Man, also today and tomorrow beginning at 3 p.m., and also in a limited edition of 75 for each day. Watch a short video on the making of the posters directed by Leigh Jurecka: Publ.Date : Tue, 15 May 2012 13:17:00 -0500 helpforhomeowners.org-voyagemortgageloans.com-refinance-consultations.com-save power-garbage disposals reviews-collagen-RSS Feed Reader-Add RSS Feeds To My Web Pages-homefha.net-homeloanfha.net-lenderfha.net-lendermortgages.org-lendingarbor.com-lendingrates.org-loansfha.org-loansva.org-loanva.org-mortgagejumbo.net-Google Places Page-Clinics-Website-FHA Loans-fharequirement.com-financingmortgages.net-mortgageva.org ushomeshort.com varefinancing.net |
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