Rivers Cuomo release <i>Pinkerton log</i> book, <i>only III</i> Outtake Collection in March

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Last year, Weezer reissued their intense, personal 1996 sophomore album, the 10.0 classic Pinkerton. And in a couple of new releases, frontman Rivers Cuomo will let us know what was going on in his head while he was making Pinkerton.

At a press conference last fall, Cuomo detailed plans for The Pinkerton Diaries, a book that would collect much of his writing from the era surrounding the album. As Spinner reports, Cuomo said that the book would be "a collection of all my journals, emails, letters, photos, school papers-- everything from those years '94-'97, so you get an inside look as to exactly what I was thinking." He also talked about plans for a third album in his Alone series, which collects Cuomo's home recordings. This particular volume, Alone III, would focus on outtakes from the Pinkerton era.

At that press conference, Cuomo said that he hoped to release both The Pinkerton Diaries and Alone III in November. Then, in December, Cuomo wrote on his Facebook page that he hoped to release both in January and that they'd probably be available exclusively online. Yesterday, Cuomo uploaded a video to his YouTube account in which he shows off proofs of The Pinkerton Diaries, which looks to be heavy on handwritten notes and drawings. In the video, he also mentions that he's signing 500 posters for people who pre-order the book. And in the video description, he says that both The Pinkerton Diaries and Alone III will be out in March. Watch the video below.

In slightly less exciting Cuomo news, Billboard reports that he's recorded a duet with "iCarly" star (and former Jim O'Rourke collaborator) Miranda Cosgrove for Cosgrove's forthcoming EP. Talking to Billboard, Cosgrove says that the song is called "High Maintenance": "It's the first duet I've ever done, and it was really fun. My part of the song is this girl who's high maintenance, and Rivers is this guy who's having to put up with it. I really enjoyed working with [Cuomo]. He's really cool." (Worth noting: Cuomo is more than old enough to be Cosgrove's dad.)

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 28, 2011 at 1:35 p.m.

Tags: New Releases, Weezer, Video, Collaboration, Rivers Cuomo

Continue Reading ?     Behold: The Cover of Panda Bear's Tomboy

Also: release date pushed up

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Panda Bear: "Slow Motion" (7" version)

Slow Motion

 

That right there is the cover of Panda Bear's forthcoming album Tomboy, which is out April 12 on Paw Tracks. (It's been pushed up a week so that it can be purchased on Record Store Day, April 16.) The art is by Lennox's Jane bandmate Scott Mou, who also did the covers for his recent singles.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on January 28, 2011 at 1 p.m.

Tags: Panda Bear, Paw Tracks, New Releases

    Echo and the Bunnymen Play Classic LPs on Tour

Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here come to North America

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Dramatic, churning British new wave greats Echo and the Bunnymen will tour North America in May, playing their much-loved first two albums (1980's Crocodiles and 1981's Heaven Up Here) in full every single night. (None of this Weezer business where they only play a single album in a night.) And unless they return for encores, it also means they'll skip many of their biggest hits. They'll also play both albums in full at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival. We've got all the band's dates below.

Echo and the Bunnymen:

04-16 London, England - Union Chapel (Ian McCulloch solo)
05-09 Boston, MA - Paradise
05-11 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
05-12 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
05-13 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
05-16 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Theatre
05-17 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
05-19 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
05-20 Las Vegas, NV - Red Rock Casino
05-21 Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia Theatre
05-22 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
06-25 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 28, 2011 at 12:15 p.m.

Tags: Echo and the Bunnymen, Tours

Continue Reading ?     Thurston Moore Releases Jack Rose Tribute Album Tweet

Vin Du Select Qualitite is a series of limited-edition, vinyl-only acoustic guitar albums curated by Steve Lowenthal of Swingset Magazine and Plastic Records. The series has already included records from Emeralds' Mark McGuire and Codeine/Come/New Year axemaster Chris Brokaw. And early this year, avant-rock godfather and Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore will release his own entry in the series, 12 String Meditations for Jack Rose.

Moore's instrumental album is a tribute to Jack Rose, the steel string guitarist who died of a heart attack in 2009. The VDSQ series also has new records in the works from Six Parts Seven member Allen Karpinski and young Ohio player Matthew Mullane.

Moore has also been working on a Beck-produced solo album called Benediction for Matador. And he'll also play at a pair of forthcoming festivals. He's at the Tanned Tin Festival, which is happening right now in Castellon, Spain. And alongside wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon, he'll give a lecture and a performance at the Mission Creek Festival, which comes to Iowa City, Iowa March 28 - April 4.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 28, 2011 at 11:40 a.m.

Tags: Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, New Releases, Jack Rose

Continue Reading ?     New Release: Bosco Delrey: Everybody Wah Tweet

Artist: Bosco Delrey
Album: Everybody Wah
Release Date: March 29
Label: Mad Decent / Downtown

Tracklist:

01 Baby's Got a Blue Flame
02 Get Outa Dodge
03 Don Haps
04 Lovely Sleepy Dead
05 All Are Souls The Same
06 Glow Go the Bones
07 Expelled Spelled Expelled
08 Archebold Ivy
09 Afterlife
10 Down We Go
11 Cool Out
12 Insta Love
13 20 Flight Dub

Notes: Debut LP from this electro-rock artist.

Media: Watch the "Space Junky" video here. Download Beastie Boy Ad-Rock's remix of "Evil Lives" here.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 28, 2011 at 11:10 a.m.

Tags: Downtown, Mad Decent, New Releases, Bosco Delrey

Continue Reading ?     Video: Nicki Minaj and Drake: "Moment 4 Life" Tweet

Nicki Minaj's new video for "Moment 4 Life", her gooey-eyed Drake collaboration from Pink Friday, is top-shelf costume-party silliness on the level of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" video. The video tells a Cinderella story but cuts things off before things turn bad for Cinderella, so we get wigs and frilly dresses and lots of flirty stares from Drake without the humiliation of having to leave the party at midnight.

There's also a long skit at the beginning where Nicki, playing her own fairy godmother, has a British-accented conversation with herself. As Nicki's star continues to rise, she's going to keep getting big video budgets to indulge all her high-school drama-kid fantasies, and it's going to be fun. Drake should've been forced to wear a Prince Charming costume, though.

Watch the video below, via MTV.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 28, 2011 at 10:35 a.m.

Tags: Nicki Minaj, Collaboration, Video, Drake

Continue Reading ?     Kanye West, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips, the National, Cat Power to Play Lollapalooza Chile

Santiago fest also includes Devendra Banhart, Jane's Addiction, the Killers

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As previously reported, Chicago's Lollapalooza Festival is going international this year, coming to South America for the first time ever. Lollapalooza Chile comes to Santiago's O'Higgins Park April 2-3, and now the festival's organizers have announced the lineup.

Kanye West, Jane's Addiction, the Killers, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs top the bill. Every one of those acts has headlined Lollapalooza's Chicago festival. Further down the bill, the lineup includes the Flaming Lips, the National, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Empire of the Sun, the Drums, Cold War Kids, CSS, Boys Noize, Fischerspooner, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Datarock, Ghostland Observatory, Fatboy Slim, Toy Selektah, and Cypress Hill, among others.

The American Lollapalooza will once again return to Chicago's Grant Park August 5-7.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 28, 2011 at 9:50 a.m.

Tags: Festivals, Lollapalooza

Continue Reading ?     New Release: Katy B: On a Mission Tweet

Artist: Katy B
Album: On a Mission
Release Date: March 28
Label: Rinse

Tracklist:

01 Power on Me
02 Katy on a Mission
03 Why You Always Here
04 Witches Brew
05 Movement
06 Go Away
07 Disappear
08 Broken Record
09 Lights On [ft. Ms. Dynamite]
10 Easy Please ME
11 Perfect Stranger
12 Hard to Get

Notes: Debut album from this UK pop-dubstep singer.

Media: Listen to and watch the video for "Katy on a Mission" below.

"Katy on a Mission":

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 28, 2011 at 9 a.m.

Tags: Katy B, New Releases, Rinse

Continue Reading ?     Take Cover: Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972

We chat with Hecker about his piano-freefall album art.

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Notable album covers catch the eye, dribble it around a little, and then snap it back into place, forever skewed. They can be funny, gross, shocking, stunning, or just plain wrong. They can define artists. With Take Cover, we aim to track down the most striking new album covers taking up web space and vinyl bins and get the story behind them.

MP3: Tim Hecker: "Hatred of Music I"

The photo on the cover of ambient electronic artist Tim Hecker's new album, Ravedeath, 1972, is pregnant with a sense of cartoon chaos and curiosity. It also invites many questions, such as: "Why the hell are those guys throwing a piano off that roof?!" So we got in touch with Hecker-- who conceived the cover himself-- to get to the bottom of it.

Click on to read the interview and check out some more art from Ravedeath, 1972, which is out February 14 on Kranky:

Pitchfork: Where did you find that picture?

Tim Hecker: I found on the Internet. When I finished this album and it was time to do the artwork, I became obsessed with digital garbage, like when the Kazakhstan government cracks down on piracy and there's pictures of 10 million DVDs and CDRs being pushed by bulldozers. I kept thinking of these mountains of digital garbage.

So while searching for stuff like that on Google I came across pictures of destroyed pianos. I discovered that MIT students started this ritual in the 70s where they throw a piano off a building. The photo is of the first piano drop. I licensed it from the MIT museum, printed it out, threw it up on the wall in my studio, and took a few photos of it with a film camera. Then I went to the crappy pharmacy and got them developed.

Pitchfork: Are there a lot of photos of this piano drop ritual?

TH: Over the years it's been documented but the photos are increasingly dull. The whole thing is probably more sanitized and sterilized and dignified now. Back then, it was probably a bunch of bros with some beers just going for it with one guy at the bottom pushing people away.

Watch footage of the first MIT piano drop from 1972:

Pitchfork: How does the photo factor into your idea of digital garbage?

TH: In my mind, there's some connection between the computerized engineering that led to the codification of MP3s and music's denigration as an object and thus a viable means of economic survival. The connection is super vague but it's interesting to think about.

Pitchfork: Do you have any idea what the letters "IHTFP" on the piano mean?

TH: I'm not sure. Maybe something like, "I Hate The Fucking Police". [It's actually the unofficial motto of MIT and usually stands for I Hate This Place]. And then of course it says "ACME" on it-- I think that's more Looney Tunes-related.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on January 28, 2011 at 8 a.m.

Tags: Interviews, Take Cover, Tim Hecker

Continue Reading ?     Thursday, January 27 Listen: Flying Lotus Brings New Tracks to BBC

DJ set and live band performance

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Photo by Liz Vitale

Flying Lotus and an assortment of artists in his Brainfeeder label stable-- specifically Teebs, TOKiMONSTA, Matthew David, Samiyam, and Austin Peralta-- took over BBC Radio 1 DJ Benji B's show last night, as Some Kind of Awesome points out. FlyLo did not one, but two sets (one DJ and one live), and he delivered some unreleased material.

"Wax" and "Mcrr", the latter done live with Austin Peralta and a backing band, are both more interstitial cuts than straight bangers, but they also aren't really around anywhere else to check out, so... sweet, new FlyLo material! Flying Lotus and the live backing band also performed Cosmogramma's "Dance of the Pseudo Nymph" and Pattern + Grid World's "Clay".

Check out the whole set at the BBC's website; FlyLo's DJ set starts around 34 minutes in, while the live set kicks in around the 91 minute mark.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 27, 2011 at 5:35 p.m.

Tags: Flying Lotus, Audio

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