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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

Continue Reading ?     Interpol and Fred Armisen Team for Videos Tweet

Photo by Jelle Wagenaar

"Saturday Night Live" cast member Fred Armisen used to play drums in Trenchmouth, and he's still deep in the indie universe, doing the TV show "Portlandia" with Carrie Brownstein, hanging with Joanna Newsom, and occasionally showing up on Pitchfork.tv. And now the Matablog has posted a video widget of Interpol playing live at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg in September, with Armisen introducing the songs. Check it out below.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 4:35 p.m.

Tags: Fred Armisen, Video, Interpol

Continue Reading ?     Xiu Xiu Launch Art Show, T-Shirt Series Tweet

Bent pop provocateurs Xiu Xiu are as much an art project as a band, and now they've got the gallery show to prove it. February 4-26, the Raleigh, North Carolina art gallery Lump will host Xiu Xiu's show "I Hate This Suffocating Fucking Towne", a mixed-media exhibition. The group will host an opening reception February 4. According to the gallery's website, "all of the pieces are symbols of the wreck that is the mind and heart of Xiu Xiu."

Pieces in the show include stuffed animals that the band has collected on tour, a t-shirt written in the blood of band members, brass knuckles, plastic sex organs, felt art stolen from a preschool, and various items that were used in the packaging of the band's records. So it's basically an art show made up of things that your parents would not want to find in your room.

In further art-related Xiu Xiu news, frontman Jamie Stewart is teaming up with artist J. Morrison to launch a subscription series of art t-shirts. If you subscribe, you'll get a limited-edition handmade shirt every month for a year, with one subscription-only bonus shirt. Most of the shirts will also be available individually. The shirts "commemorate a figure who has influenced the artists," according to a press release. The first shirt in the series honors Freddie Mercury. You can subscribe, find the details, and see an image of the first shirt at the Xiu Xiu website.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 3:50 p.m.

Tags: Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu, Art, Fashion

Continue Reading ?     Documentary Chronicles Crazy Story of Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge and His Wife Tweet

As the frontman for Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, Genesis P-Orridge spent decades making his living through extreme behavior. But in 2000, he did something that forced anyone reading about it to squint their eyes, go back, and re-read what they'd just read: Genesis and his female companion Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge went through an intense series of appearance-altering operations so that they'd look as much like each other as possible. So Genesis got breast implants, lip implants, and all sorts of other reconstructive work done, and he now looks like what you see above. Then, in 2007, Lady Jaye died.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a new documentary film from director Marie Losier that chronicles the couple's life together, including those surgeries. The film will premiere in February at the Berlin International Film Festival, and on February 19, Genesis and Tony Conrad will perform a violin concert together at Berlin's Haul Theater. More screenings are coming up in France and Spain; check here for the details. And below, see a trailer for the film.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 3:15 p.m.

Tags: Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle, Film, Psychic TV

Continue Reading ?     News in Brief: The Marvelettes' Gladys Horton, Azure Ray and Sparklehorse, Grails, Tibet House Tweet

-- The Associated Press reports that Marvelettes lead singer Gladys Horton died last night in a Los Angeles nursing home, where she'd been recovering from a stroke. She was 66. Horton co-founded the Detroit group that recorded hits like "Please Mr. Postman" for Motown.

-- Reunited Saddle Creek duo Azure Ray have released the new single "Silverlake". The B-side is a demo version of the same song, which the duo recorded with Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, who died last year. You can hear the A-side at Paste.

-- Portland instrumental brooders Grails, featuring Emil Amos of Om and Holy Sons, will release their new album Deep Politics March 8 on Temporary Residence. Download the track "I Led Three Lives" here.

-- The annual star-studded benefit concert for Tibet House U.S. goes down March 3 at New York's Carnegie Hall. This year's lineup features the Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, the Roots, Patti Smith, and artistic director Philip Glass.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 2:40 p.m.

Tags: Obituary, Grails, Gladys Horton, Benefit, New Releases, Mark Linkous, Sparklehorse, Azure Ray

    The Streets Release Rapper-Heavy Mixtape

Cyberspace and Reds features Kano, Wiley, Jammer, More

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Computers and Blues is the new album from British talker/producer Mike Skinner, better known as the Streets; it arrives February 7 from 679/Atlantic. As a sort of companion piece, Skinner has also released a new mixtape, Cyberspace and Reds. The tape features a ton of Skinner's fellow British MCs, including grime-era favorites like Kano, Wiley, and Jammer.

When Skinner first released the tape, you had to a few absurd hoops to hear it. Downloading the tape meant downloading Skinner's iPhone application, scanning a barcode on his website, and then scanning another barcode on a can of tomato soup. But Skinner must've realized that nobody wants to do that much work. Now, you can stream the whole tape at Bln.kr. We've got the tracklist below.

Also, you can watch the video for Computers and Blues' "Going Through Hell" here.

Cyberspace and Reds:

01 Came in Through the Door [ft. Kano]
02 4 O'Clock
03 Don't Hide Away [ft. Wiley, Rinse, and Ice Kid]
04 Too Numb [ft. RoxXxan]
05 Backseat Barz [ft. Loudmouth]
06 Tidy Nice and Neat [ft. Ghost Poet]
07 The Morning After the Day Off on One [ft. Trim]
08 Cinema Barz [ft. Jammer]
09 Breakbat Barz [ft. Scru Fizzer]
10 Something to Hide
11 Robots Are Taking Over [ft. Envy, Elro, and Frisco]
12 Cross That Line [ft. Fumin]
13 Minding My Own [ft. Wretch32]
14 At the Back of the Line [ft. Joey G-Zus]

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 1:30 p.m.

Tags: The Streets, Audio, New Releases

Continue Reading ?     New Release: Faust: Something Dirty Tweet

Artist: Faust
Album: Something Dirty
Release Date: March 1
Label: Bureau B

Tracklist:

01 Tell the Bitch to Go Home
02 Herbststimmung
03 Thoughts of the Dead
04 Lost the Signal
05 Je Bouffe
06 Whet
07 Invisible Mending
08 Dampfauslass I
09 Dampfauslass II
10 Pythagoras
11 Save the Last One
12 La Sole Dorée

Notes: Latest album from the long-running German krautrock outfit.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 27, 2011 at 1 p.m.

Tags: New Releases, Faust, Tapete Records

Continue Reading ?     Watch: Go! Team Video Featuring Best Coast

Bethany Cosentino stars in "Buy Nothing Day" clip. Plus: yet another video

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On January 31, Memphis Industries will release Rolling Blackouts, the new album from the British pop-collage crew the Go! Team; you can listen to the album here. As that release date approaches, the band continues to crank out music videos at an alarming rate. Yesterday, we pointed you toward new videos for the tracks "Secretary Song" (with Deerhoof's Satomi Matsuzaki) and "Super Triangle". Today, we've got two more Go! Team videos for you.

First up, there's the clip for "Buy Nothing Day", the band's amped-up collaboration with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino. Cosentino herself shows up in director James Slater's clip, which hammers us with vintage-looking camera effects like it was the acid trip sequence from a 60s biker movie. You can watch it below. And below that, we've also got the clip for "Rolling Blackouts", via mtvU. This one has a completely different vintage look; it's a mini-thriller built completely out of evocative black-and-white still photographs.

"Buy Nothing Day":

"Rolling Blackouts":

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 12:30 p.m.

Tags: The Go! Team, Best Coast, Video

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