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Best New Albums Best New Tracks Best New Reissues News | Thurston Moore Releases Jack Rose Tribute Album Advanced Search Departments Rising Interviews Photos 5-10-15-20 Echo Chamber Director's Cut Take Cover Top Tags New Releases Tours Audio Video Festivals WTF Best New Tracks Cut Copy: "Need You Now" Light Asylum: "Dark Allies" Purity Ring: "Ungirthed" Women: "Bullfight" Dirty Beaches: "Sweet 17" Smith Westerns: "All Die Young" Destroyer: "Kaputt" M.I.A.: "Bad Girls" Zoo Kid: "Out Getting Ribs" Lil Wayne: "Six Foot Seven Foot" [ft. Cory Gunz] Friday, January 28 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.
Tags: Nicki Minaj, Collaboration, Video, Drake
Continue Reading ? Kanye West, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips, the National, Cat Power to Play Lollapalooza ChileSantiago 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, 1972We 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.
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Continue Reading ? Thursday, January 27 Listen: Flying Lotus Brings New Tracks to BBCDJ 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.
Tags: Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle, Film, Psychic TV
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