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Blake's self-titled debut LP drops digitally in five days

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Yesterday, we reported that the British electronic-pop wunderkind James Blake had signed to Universal Republic in the U.S. His hotly anticipated self-titled debut album already had a UK release date; it comes out February 7 over there via Atlas/A&M. And today, Blake's American label has given it a release date. The album will be out digitally February 8, next Tuesday.

Below, watch the video for the BNM'ed album track "The Wilhelm Scream".

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 3, 2011 at 11:45 a.m.

Tags: James Blake, New Releases

Continue Reading ?     The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Talk New LP

Plus: Listen to new single "Belong" and check out the album cover.

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Photo by Pavla Kopecna

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: "Belong"

The beginning of "Belong"-- the title track and new single from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's second album, which is out March 29 via Slumberland-- features the indie-pop band casually jangling along. But it's something of a red herring. Right at the fifteen-second mark, the guitars blitz out louder and harder than anything on their self-titled debut. The gargantuan distortion recalls nothing less than prime-era Smashing Pumpkins, which makes sense considering Belong was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder, aka the guys who helped craft the sounds of Pumpkins classics like Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, not to mention records by My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, U2, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, and many more. Basically, if you grew up in the 90s, your ears are subconsciously attuned the studio wizardry of Flood and Alan Moulder.

We recently met up with the band at the delightfully cheesy grilled-meats chain Dallas BBQ in downtown Manhattan. As lead singer Kip Berman slurped a red, white, and blue frozen drink called the "Firecracker," he and the rest of the group-- that's keyboardist Peggy Wang, bassist Alex Naidus, and drummer Kurt Feldman-- talked about their unlikely studio gurus in semi-shocked tones. The chummy foursome were more than happy to chat about the movie Clueless and something called a Travel Pussy, too.

Click on for the Q&A, the cover art for Belong, and Pains' spring tour dates, including a trek with Twin Shadow:

Pitchfork: How did you end up working with Alan Moulder and Flood?

Kip Berman: Alan had expressed interest in working with us two years ago, but we never thought it was going to happen. When it came time to record, Alan couldn't produce the record because of scheduling but he could mix it. But then he was like, "Would you be interested in Flood?" It was like a fantasy world. I mean, a band on our level just doesn't have those experiences ever. These people were involved in the records that inspired us to make music.

Peggy Wang: Before this experience, I didn't really even understand what a producer was. I associate producers with big, successful albums, so it didn't even seem within the realm of possibility for us. At the same time, we wanted to record the album differently than the first one, and this was an opportunity to do that.

Pitchfork: Were you anxious about recording with Flood?

KB: Yeah. We had a conference call with him beforehand, and I thought, "He might not like the sound of our voices-- he could change his mind!" And there were a lot of fears-- like, is this guy going to show up and tell us to do these sweeping Edge guitar solos? But, really, it helped us be more us.

Alex Naidus: I didn't know if I was supposed to call him "Flood." [laughs] The answer is yes-- that's all he goes by. Then I was nervous because we had never really recorded properly before-- I didn't know if he was going to make fun of how I play bass. There were all these levels of pseudo-anxiety but, by the end of the first day, we were cracking jokes. I would hang out with him any day. We even showed him that Nine Inch Nails "shreds" thing where they put awful music over the "March of the Pigs" video and he loved it. He e-mailed to Trent.

KB: We got comfortable enough that, at one point, we took some paper and tape and made it look like his U2 Grammy was ours.

Listen to "Heart in Your Heartbreak" from Belong:

Heart in Your Heartbreak

Pitchfork: As an indie band, did you have any reservations about working with these guys who are known for so many big, major label records?

KB: Not really. Some of my favorite records came out on RCA or Columbia, and to denigrate those albums to a certain level is kind of ignorant. The Flaming Lips did their best work on a major label. Look at David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, the Ramones. It's easy to pick apart the failings of that major label world, but some great records have been a result of it.

AN: Just because we're indie, it doesn't mean we can't do this or that. That whole idea doesn't exist as much as it used to.

KB: Yeah, we equally romanticize the Pastels and the Smashing Pumpkins. It's not like the world has totally changed and all good music gets validated and covered-- there's still a lack of justice in pop and rock. But the fact that people can access smaller bands without the filter of them being signed or promoted or played on the radio is huge.

Pitchfork: Seeing your show a few times over the last few years, it seems like you were getting louder and louder-- and a lot of the guitars on this album have this massive sound. Is that directness something you wanted to focus on with this record?

KB: We wanted the songs to exist in an immediate and instinctual place. The album sounds like we're taking away what we were hiding behind before. Lyrically, the first record had a lot of remembered experiences that I was looking back on and trying to make more clever, which can sound contrived. I like the idea of lyrics that don't get beyond themselves but catch you and make an impression. I think that's more emotionally compelling.

Pitchfork: I did notice that there were less puns on this record than the last one.

KB: [laughs] There are still a few dick jokes, though. You know, like "Come Saturday". I try to be careful now because my grandmother's discovered how this all works-- she prints out the Internet. I said the f-word once in an interview and she was like, "I didn't show that one to grandpa."

PW: And our dads discovered the travelogue videos.

AN: Oh yeah! I bought a Travel Pussy in Germany. Do you know what that is?

Pitchfork: I do not.

PW: It's in vending machines at rest stops. It's basically a bag that says "water here" on it. So we filled it up and it started oozing. The video we made with it is set to "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. [laughs]

Watch the "Travel Pussy" tour video:

AN: And when we went to Sweden for the first time we took a bunch of video footage and set it to this song we made called "Gothenburg Handshake".

Pitchfork: I'm kinda scared to ask-- what's a "Gothenburg Handshake"?

AN: Well, instead of shaking someone's hand, you shake...

PW: ... their crotch.

Pitchfork: Did that happen to you?

AN: It happened to Kip.

KB: [half-singing] "You shook much more than my hand-- Gothenburg Handshake."

Watch the "Gothenburg Handshake" video:

Pitchfork: You recently wrote on Twitter: "We just turned down a lot of $$,$$ because we don't want to be in TV ads. Not self righteous, just rather be unknown than known for that." Can you expound on that?

KB: I shouldn't have said that because one day we'll be on a commercial and someone will be like, "Oh wow, you compromised your original values!" If someone else had said that, I probably would've rolled my eyes at them. The thing is no one really knows our music and suddenly for everyone to hear it for the first time all at once on TV-- I don't know. I just want people to hear our music as music first.

At the same time, there are a lot of bands that are better and cooler than us that have done it. It allows a lot of artists to make music on their own terms. Ultimately, the song's a song, no matter the context. It's a way for bands to make money and bands deserve to make money. But we do want our songs to be in TV shows and movies. I've always wanted to be a part of popular culture like that.

PW: If they wanted to use our music on "The Hills" I'd be so into it. [laughs]

KB: Please, "Gossip Girl", put us on your show!

AN: Our music was in Another Gay Sequel, which stars Perez Hilton.

Pitchfork: Actually, I was playing Belong at the office and one of my co-workers thought it was the Clueless soundtrack.

AN: That is the biggest compliment.

KB: Clueless is one of the best movies ever.

PW: And the soundtrack is amazing. There's a Velocity Girl song on it from their first EP, which came out on Slumberland.

AN: You just made our day.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:

02-19 St. Malo, France - La Route du Rock Festival
02-20 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Exit 09
02-21 Lille, France - L'Aeronef
02-22 Cologne, Germany - MTC
02-24 Berlin, Germany - Magnet
02-26 Münster, Germany - Gleiss 22
02-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Bitterzoet
03-01 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun
03-03 London, England - Kings College
03-10 Denton, TX - Outdoor Stage
03-11 Austin, TX - Venue 222 - SXSW Interactive
03-12 Mexico City, Mexico - Polyforum Siqueiros
03-31 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
04-01 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
04-02 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle *
04-04 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club *
04-05 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
04-06 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree Cafe *
04-07 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks *
04-08 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s *
04-09 Austin, TX - Emo’s *
04-12 Santa Fe, NM - VFW *
04-13 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress !
04-15 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-18 Visalia, CA - The Cellar Door *&
04-19 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *&
04-21 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *&
04-22 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile *
04-25 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
04-26 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
04-27 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-28 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-29 Bloomington, IN - Rhino’s *
04-30 Columbus, OH - The Basement *
05-02 Milford, CT - Daniel Street *
05-03 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club *
05-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall *

! with Warpaint, Twin Shadow, PVT, Catwalk
* with Twin Shadow
& with Catwalk

Posted by Ryan Dombal on February 3, 2011 at 11:05 a.m.

Tags: Interviews, Audio, Art, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Continue Reading ?     Ted Leo Reschedules Solo Tour Tweet

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Last month, indie-punk vet Ted Leo cancelled more than a few dates on his forthcoming solo tour because he was "in the midst of a very bad time." Looks like things might have turned out all right, though, as Matablog has announced that those dates have been rescheduled for a run from early April through the middle of May. Check out Leo's full itinerary-- as well as the hilarious clip for his and the Pharmacists' The Brutalist Bricks standout "Bottled in Cork"-- below.

Ted Leo:

02-19 Los Angeles, CA - Skybar at Mondrian Hotel
02-20 Los Angeles, CA - Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
02-23 Riverside, CA - The Barn @ UC Riverside
02-24 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill (Noise Pop Festival)
02-25 Seattle, WA - U of Washington
02-26 Portland, OR - BackSpace Cafe
04-27 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
04-28 Dover, NH - Dover Brickhouse
04-29 Hamden, CT - The Space
04-30 Scranton, PA - The Vintage Theater
05-01 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
05-03 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum
05-04 Cleveland, OH - B-side Liquor Lounge
05-05 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
05-06 Madison, WI - The Terrace
05-07 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's
05-08 St Louis, MO - Off Broadway
05-11 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
05-12 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506

"Bottled in Cork" video:

 

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 3, 2011 at 10:30 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     New Release: Micachu and the Shapes and London Sinfonietta: Chopped & Screwed Tweet

Artists: Micachu and the Shapes / London Sinfonietta
Release: Chopped & Screwed
Release Date: March 28
Label: Rough Trade

Tracklist:

01 State of New York
02 Unlucky
03 Everything
04 Average
05 Freaks
06 Medicine
07 Low Dogg
08 Fall
09 Not So Sure

Notes: The avant-pop trio and the London orchestra collaborate on a classical album recorded live in May 2010.

Media: Stream or download "Everything" below:

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 3, 2011 at 9:55 a.m.

Tags: Rough Trade, New Releases, Micachu and the Shapes

Continue Reading ?     Rising: Colin Stetson

The experimental saxophonist talks about his surreal new album.

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Colin Stetson: "Judges"

On the surface, Colin Stetson's second album, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, is a solo saxophone record. But across the LP, he turns the instrument into its own weirdo one-man band, using pad-hitting sounds as percussion and even singing through the horn while he's playing quick-trigger figures. It's disorienting and engrossing, somewhere between Ornette Coleman and Tom Waits (with whom Stetson has collaborated).

But the album seems even more unusual once you learn Stetson performed almost the whole thing by himself without overdubs or loops, with many songs nailed on their first recorded take. It's not just an artistic feat but a physical one as well.

Now 35, Stetson grew up in Michigan and currently resides in Montreal. Originally turned on to the alto sax by Men at Work's "Who Can It Be Now?", he started playing at 10. He went on to compete as a classical performer in high school before getting into more adventurous fare like John Zorn and Dewey Redman while studying at the University of Michigan. Since then, he's opened for Arcade Fire and the National, and played with Waits, Laurie Anderson (who provides guest vocals on Judges), and TV on the Radio. He's planning on recording the final album in his New History Warfare trilogy this spring before rehearsing and going on tour with Bon Iver later in the year.

Until then, though, he's concentrating on Judges, which is out February 22 on Constellation. Click on to read our Q&A with Stetson about his one-of-a-kind style and The Lost Boys:

Pitchfork: As a kid growing up playing sax, were you ever in a ska band?

Colin Stetson: [laughs] Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it. Remember the scene in Lost Boys where there's that ridiculous guy with his shirt off playing sax? It was kind of like that-- except not nearly as awesome.

Pitchfork: When I first started listening to Judges, I didn't know you recorded all the songs by yourself without overdubs. It makes it more impressive on a technical level, but how important are those recording restrictions to you?

CS: It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument. The element of breath through everything injects it with a life that it wouldn't have if I started playing around with machines. But I don't think it's too important musically. I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

Colin Stetson: "The righteous wrath of an honorable man"

Pitchfork: The way you recorded and mixed the record-- with lots of mics and boosting certain sounds to make it seem like there's more going on-- is also really unorthodox, and helps to make the album sound like nothing I've heard before.

CS: I didn't want to just put up a stereo mic in a room and try to get some two-dimensional snapshot of an instrument. The set-up allowed us to capture it in three dimensions so we could then spread out and reshuffle and make our own surreal representation of that performance. There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording. I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film-- something that explicitly states its own world.

Pitchfork: It's especially impressive that most of these songs were cut on first takes, too.

CS: Yeah, I think it's something I learned from Tom Waits when I was working with him back in the early 00s. I would listen to a song, go back to the studio, overdub a sax part, and he'd just give me a thumbs up and say, "That's it, we're done." I was just feeling my way around the song for the first time, but he wanted to stick to that initial gut reaction. Now, I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

Pitchfork: Playing these songs seems physically taxing. Do you have to do anything special to get your body in shape?

CS: I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm on tour, because I'm making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.

Pitchfork: The album has some ominous and apocalyptic overtones. Were you going for any specific narrative?

CS: Narratively, there are two levels to it. The more general thematic arc is about isolation, but I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolve unfettered by outside powers. That starts to reach into the underlying narrative, which is more of a literal story that I used as a construct to build songs around. I'm trying to write it all right now, and I'm collaborating with a friend to make a graphic novel of the story, too.

Pitchfork: Can you outline that more literal narrative?

CS: Oh, it's super weird and there's so much crap in it. [laughs] It goes along with the trilogy of albums and the first one was a story of some people lost at sea and this one is from one person's perspective who's washed up after a shipwreck in a strange place.

The first scene is this person on a small stretch of beach between two cliffs, and the only thing that he hears and sees is a mass of horses. These horses don't have any eyes and they had been created only to defend this island. They're rigged on each side with these automatic guns and, with every stride, they pump the cannons. So it's basically this idea of these blind animals charging toward the sea in total fear of the sound they're creating, and that blind mayhem and violence is how this place makes sure it's not touched by the outside. I can't believe I'm actually talking about this-- you will never listen to Judges the same now that you know about the horses. [laughs]

Posted by Ryan Dombal on February 3, 2011 at 9 a.m.

Tags: Colin Stetson, Interviews, Rising

Continue Reading ?     New Dum Dum Girls: "He Gets Me High"

Download the title track from the band's new EP

Tweet He Gets Me High, the new EP from garage-pop queens Dum Dum Girls, arrives March 1 from Sub Pop. And after the jump, you can download the fuzzed-out, harmonically rich title track.

And speaking of that title, the band is currently asking fans to send them pictures of whatever or whoever gets them high. Send your contribution to ddgLUV@gmail.com, and you could see it show up in a tour booklet that they're putting together.

Over the next few months, the band will tour all over North America and Europe, and we've got their dates listed below. Also below, check out the glamorously low-tech video for "Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout", a highlight from their 2010 debut album I Will Be.

Dum Dum Girls:

02-15 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
02-16 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *#
02-17 Los Angeles, CA - Skybar
02-18 San Diego, CA - Casbah *#
02-21 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive *#
02-23 St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club *#
02-24 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *#
02-25 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *#
02-26 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo Club *#
02-27 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *#
03-01 Burlington, VT - Club Metronome *#
03-02 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *#
03-03 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands #
03-04 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *#
03-05 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *#
03-06 Washington, DC - Black Cat *#
03-08 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #$
03-09 Charlotte, NC - Milestone Club #$
03-10 Atlanta, GA - The Earl #$
03-11 Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits #$
03-12 Orlando, FL - The Social !#
03-13 Tampa, FL - Orpheum !#
03-31 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
04-01 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
04-02 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Black Box
04-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Stereo
04-04 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social
04-05 London, England - Dingwalls
04-06 Brighton, England - Komedia
04-07 Gent, Belgium - Vooruit
04-08 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
04-09 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Motel Mozaique
04-11 Berlin, Germany - Festaal
04-12 Munich, Germany - 59:1
04-13 Antwerp, Belgium - Crossing Border Festival
04-14 Vienna, Austria - Flex
04-15 Bern, Switzerland - ISC Club
04-16 Vevey, Switzerland - Rocking Chair
04-17 Zurich, Switzerland - Mascotte
04-19 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Menza Pri Koritu (SL)
04-20 Milan, Italy - La Salumeria Della Musica
04-21 Rome, Italy - Lanificio Factory
04-22 Bologna, Italy - Covo Club
04-23 Marseilles, France - Cabaret Aleatoire
04-24 Paris, France - La Machine

* with Minks
# with Dirty Beaches
$ with Reading Rainbow
! with Tennis, La Sera

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 3, 2011 at 8 a.m.

Tags: Dum Dum Girls, Audio, Tours

Continue Reading ?     Wednesday, February 2 Hip-Hop Pioneer DJ Kool Herc Fights for Health Care Reform, Seeks Assistance for Medical Bills

"We are fighting for health care not just for me, but for everyone. I see this situation as another quest for me to shine light on a sensitive issue for the community."

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The New York Times reported earlier this week that the Bronx turntable pioneer DJ Kool Herc, the man many historians name as the inventor of hip-hop, is unable to pay for surgery for kidney stones, due to his lack of health insurance. Now, the Times reports that Can't Stop Won't Stop author Jeff Chang set up a medical relief fund for him. And Herc is using his ordeal to speak out for health care reform.

In a statement given to MTV, Herc said, "There shouldn't be anyone fighting for health care! This has been going on too damn long! We fought for [Bronx building] 1520 Sedgwick to get landmark status, and in 2007, New York State officially recognized it as the 'Birthplace of Hip Hop.' Now we are fighting for health care not just for me, but for everyone. I see this situation as another quest for me to shine light on a sensitive issue for the community. I'm an instrument of God. I'm here for a purpose and I want to be here for the solution."

To donate to the fund, click here.

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 2, 2011 at 5:10 p.m.

Tags: Benefit, DJ Kool Herc

Continue Reading ?     Sufjan, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Big Boi, Girl Talk, of Montreal, Public Image Ltd. Added to Primavera

Also Explosions in the Sky, James Blake, Battles, Odd Future, Matthew Dear, M. Ward, more

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Barcelona's San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival, which comes to the Parc del Fòrum May 25-29, already had a lineup that boasted the reunited Pulp, Animal Collective, Belle and Sebastian, the Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, the National, and plenty of others. And today, the festival's bill extends even further. Some big names have been added to the Primavera lineup, including Sufjan Stevens, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Big Boi, Girl Talk, of Montreal, Explosions in the Sky, James Blake, John Lydon's reunited Public Image Ltd., and industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten.

Other new additions include Odd Future, Battles, M. Ward, Matthew Dear, DJ Shadow, Lindstrøm, Jamie xx, the Tallest Man on Earth, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Glasser, Ty Segall, tUnE-yArDs, Avi Buffalo, Baths, Perfume Genius, Gold Panda, Warpaint, Cults, Gonjasufi, Glenn Branca Ensemble, the Soft Moon, the Black Angels, Holy Ghost!, Simian Mobile Disco, John Talabot, El Guincho, Darkstar, Ducktails, Kode9, Caspa, Cuzo + Damo Suzuki, Carte Blanche (Riton and DJ Mehdi), Arto Lindsay, DM Stith, the Monochrome Set, Field Music, Annuals, and Suuns. Also, Pere Ubu will perform The Modern Dance in full.

Pitchfork is once again curating its own stage at Primavera, and that stage will feature Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, the Walkmen, Twin Shadow, Das Racist, Gang Gang Dance, Male Bonding, and others.

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 2, 2011 at 4:05 p.m.

Tags: Festivals, Primavera Sound

Continue Reading ?     Mount Kimbie Announce North American Tour Tweet

This spring, the tricky post-dubstep duo Mount Kimbie come to North America for a month-long tour. In the months ahead, they'll also play one London show and a few sets in Australia as well. Below, check out all their dates and watch their "Before I Move Off" video.

Mount Kimbie:

03-04 Perth, Australia - The Bakery
03-05 Melbourne, Australia - Roxanne Parlour
03-09 Sydney, Australia - Good God
03-11 Brisbane, Australia - Bar Soma
03-12 Meredith, Australia - Golden Plains Festival
03-15-19 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-24 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
03-25 Toronto, Ontario - Wrongbar
03-26 Montreal, Quebec - Le Belmont
03-27 St. Louis, MO - Luminary Arts
03-29 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
03-30 Seattle, WA - Baltic Room
03-31 Vancouver, British Columbia - Biltmore Cabaret
04-01 Portland, OR - Crown Room
04-02 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
04-03 Arcata, CA - Arcata Theatre
04-05 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
04-06 Denver, CO - Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
04-07 Atlanta, GA - King Plow Arts Center
04-08 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
04-09 Miami, FL - Electric Pickle
04-10 Tampa, FL - GBAR
04-11 Tallahassee, FL - Engine Room
04-12 Orlando, FL - Backbooth
04-13 New Orleans, LA - The Hookah
04-15 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-28 London, England - Heaven

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 2, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.

Tags: Tours, Mount Kimbie

Continue Reading ?     Low Announce Tour, Share New Song Tweet

The long-running Minnesota slowcore trio Low will release C'mon, their first album since 2007's Drums and Guns, April 12 via Sub Pop. (That's the cover art above.) And starting in mid-March, the band will embark on a huge tour that'll take them across North America and Europe, playing one-off shows with Explosions in the Sky and Mercury Rev along the way. We've got all their dates below. Request "Immune".

Also below, there's a widget that will allow you to hear the sparkling C'mon opener "Try to Sleep". You can stream the track or enter your email address to get the free mp3.

Low:

03-16 Austin, TX - St. David's Sanctuary (SXSW)
04-06 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall *
04-14 Duluth, MN - Harbor City School Theater
04-16 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04-20 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
04-21 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-22 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
04-23 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum
04-25 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
04-26 Washington, DC - Black Cat
04-29 Boston, MA - Paramount Center
04-30 Milford, CT - Daniel Street
05-02 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
05-03 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig
05-16 Sheffield, England - Queens Social Club
05-17 Glasgow, Scotland - Classic Grand
05-18 Gateshead, England - The Sage Gateshead
05-19 Manchester, England - Club Academy
05-20 Bristol, England - Trinity
05-21 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
05-23 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doornroosje
05-24 Eindhoven, Netherlands - Catharina Church
05-25 Paris, France - Bataclan ^
05-27 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
05-30 Berlin, Germany - Lido
05-31 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
06-01 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude 9
06-03 London, England - Barbican

* with Explosions in the Sky
^ with Mercury Rev

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 2, 2011 at 3:05 p.m.

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Sebastien Grainger on the reunion of the dance-metal duo: "Why not say YES to playing the music we designed to be an undeniable source of power?"

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When the Coachella Festival announced its lineup last month, there was one big surprise that had nothing to do with font sizes on the poster: Canadian dance-metal duo Death From Above 1979, which broke up in 2006, were reuniting to play the festival. Both members had kept busy since the breakup-- bassist Jesse F. Keeler as half of the dance duo MSTRKRFT, and singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger as a solo artist. But the reunion is real, and the duo have reactivated their website to release a statement about it.

On the Death From Above website, Grainger writes that it's been 11 years since they first played together, and anything with the number 11 in it seems like a good thing to him. He also offers some hints that Coachella won't be the end of their reunion: "Jesse and I have decided that what we can do together should not be denied. Together again, as was always the intention, as a collaboration. The collision of two different worlds. As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you."

And indeed, they've already got a second reunion show booked. After they play Coachella on April 17, they'll headline the second weekend of the two-weekend Donaufestival, which goes down in Krems, Austria April 28-May 1 and May 5-7. The Donaufestival lineup also includes John Cale, Diplo, Laurie Anderson performing "Transitory Life", Owen Pallett, Wild Beasts, Mount Kimbie, the Books, Gonjasufi, Hudson Mohawke, Tim Hecker, Lydia Lunch, and others.

Below, read the full text of Grainger's statement and watch the video for Death From Above 1979's "Blood on Our Hands":

SOME WORDS

It's been 5 years since Death From Above 1979 played a show, 10 years since Jesse played me the first demos & 11 years since we sat in his parents basement and played so loud we knocked the china off the shelves upstairs. 11 seems to be a YES number for me. Though I am usually a pretty rational guy, if I have something on my mind and I see an 11 somewhere, I know I’m on the right path. It’s one of my last remaining superstitions. 2011 has a nice ring to it & if you’re so inclined, it may be the last year ever! So why not say YES? Why not say YES to Coachella? Why not say YES to playing the music we designed to be an undeniable source of power? Why not say YES to stirring up a writhing pit of sweaty humans? YES to riots! YES to heavy music! YES instead of maybe, and YES to make death your adviser and remind yourself always, that this is not a dress rehearsal. This is the big show.

Jesse and I have decided that what we can do together should not be denied.
Together again, as was always the intention, as a collaboration.
The collision of two different worlds.
As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you.
All of it happening, as it always has, in our own way.
Thank you all for sharing in our excitement!

Yes.
SEBASTIEN

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 4, 2011 at 10:40 a.m.

Tags: Death From Above 1979, Donaufestival, Sebastien Grainger, Reunion, Festivals, MSTRKRFT

Continue Reading ?     Listen: Toro Y Moi's FACT Mix

Includes the Field, Mount Kimbie

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While the leadup to the release of electronic-popster Toro Y Moi's Underneath the Pine continues, Toro Y Moi dude-in-charge Chaz Bundick has put together a mix for UK webzine FACT. The 42-minute mix features cuts from the Field, Mount Kimbie, and Motor City Drum Ensemble, as well as a few more obscure names. Check it out here, and take a look at the full tracklist below.

Fact Mix 219: Toro Y Moi:

01 Harvey Mason: "On and On"
02 Advance: "Take Me to the Top"
03 The Field: "The Little Heart Beats So Fast"
04 Eddie C: "Space Cadet"
05 Petter: "Untight"
06 Harald Björk: "Sunsets"
07 Mount Kimbie: "Carbonated"
08 Jayson Brothers: "The Game"
09 Motor City Drum Ensemble: "Raw Cuts #6"

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 4, 2011 at 10 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Listen to James Blake's Debut Album Now

Also: hear the LP bonus track "Tep and the Logic"

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British dubstep-pop up-and-comer James Blake's self-titled debut album is out digitally next Tuesday, February 8, via Universal Republic in the U.S. (it'll drop a day before in the UK via Atlas/A&M). Right now, the whole album is streaming over at 3VOOR12; you can head here to take a listen.

Furthermore, Listen Before You Buy points out that a bonus track from the LP, the haunting, sparse "Tep and the Logic", is making the rounds.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 4, 2011 at 9:35 a.m.

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    2 Live Crew's Uncle Luke Running for Miami Mayor

"I think we can stimulate the economy with a tax on strippers."

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In his time on this planet, the rapper, party promoter, and former 2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell (otherwise known as Uncle Luke and Luke Skyywalker) has run record labels, established Southern rap as a commercial force, and taken on the Supreme Court. He's also one of the raunchiest rappers in the history of the genre. And now he's got a new goal on the horizon: He wants to be the next mayor of Miami-Dade County.

In an interview with the Miami New Times (where he also writes a column), Campbell talks about why he wants to be mayor: "Why is our government only serving one set of people? That's what is pushing me to run." He also announced some of his policies, including gated communities in inner-city neighborhoods, slashing the county budget, and raising taxes. He even proposes a tax on strippers, which doesn't sound like the Luke I know. ("Even though all my stripper friends are gonna be mad at me, I think we can stimulate the economy with a tax on strippers. They make all this money and don't pay taxes.") He also suggests that he can win Latino votes because he discovered Pitbull.

Read the full interview here.

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 4, 2011 at 9 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Atmosphere Announce New Album

The Family Sign arrives in April

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On April 12, the Minneapolis indie-rap powerhouse Atmosphere will release their new album The Family Sign, via Rhymesayers. It's the duo's first proper album since 2008's When Life Give You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, though they released the album-length double EP To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy last year. In addition to MC Slug and producer Ant, the album also features contributions from keyboardist Erick Anderson and guitarist Nate Collis.

Pitchfork recently spoke with Slug about the new album; check for that interview early next week.

Later this month, Atmosphere will head out on a short tour of their home state. To see the dates and hear their new local-pride posse cut "Minnesota Nice", check here.

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 4, 2011 at 7:10 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Thursday, February 3 New Cold Cave: "The Great Pan Is Dead"

First track from Cherish the Light Years

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MP3: Cold Cave: "The Great Pan Is Dead"

Electro-goth aggravators Cold Cave are putting out their sophomore full-length, Cherish the Light Years, April 5 in the U.S. and April 4 in the UK via Matador. The opening track from that record, "The Great Pan Is Dead", is now available for download in exchange for an email address, below and on the band's website. UPDATE: The Matablog has posted the mp3 for download without an email address. You can also grab that above. However, if you download it via the band's website, you also get artwork and handwritten lyrics. Do yourself a favor and PLAY IT LOUD.

Check out Cold Cave's upcoming tour dates below as well.

Cold Cave:

04-06 Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
04-07 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub
04-08 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop
04-09 St. Louis, MO - Luminary Center for the Arts
04-10 Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
04-11 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
04-13 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
04-14 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
04-15 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-19 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *
04-20 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa *
04-22 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom *
04-23 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
04-24 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
04-26 Boston, MA - Royale *
04-27 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts *
04-28 Hartford, CT - The Mill at Trinity College
04-29 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
04-30 Montreal, Quebec - Olympia *
05-01 Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy *
05-03 Detroit, MI - Majestic *
05-04 Chicago, IL - Vic Theater *
05-05 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave *
05-08 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *
05-09 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
05-10 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *
05-11 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium *
05-13 Los Angeles, CA - Music Box at the Fonda *

* with The Kills

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 3, 2011 at 8 p.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Black Devil Disco Club Recruits Nancy Sinatra, Afrika Bambaataa, YACHT, Horrors for New Album Tweet

In 2006, the mysterious 70s French Italo-disco veteran Bernard Fevre, who records as Black Devil Disco Club, resurfaced with 28 Later, an album of glassy electronic tracks. On April 12, he'll return yet again when Lo releases the new Black Devil Disco Club album Circus, which features a ton of big-name collaborators. That's the cover art above.

Circus includes contributions from boldfaced names like Nancy Sinatra, Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwan of the Horrors and Cat's Eyes, Claire Evans of YACHT, and Jon Spencer. Other guests include Cosmetics' Aja Emma, CocknBullKid, Nancy Fortune, and Jo Apps. Below, you can watch the video for "My Screen", a collaboration with Poni Hoax's Nicolas Kerr. There's also a widget, which you can use to enter an email address and download the song.

 

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 3, 2011 at 4:20 p.m.

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Continue Reading ?     MTV Brings Back "Beavis and Butt-Head"

They're finally putting that "Jersey Shore" money to good use

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As Rolling Stone points out, Reuters reports that the classic MTV cartoon "Beavis and Butt-Head" will return to the air later this year with new episodes. Rolling Stone speculates that series creator Mike Judge will once again voice both characters, but MTV hasn't revealed any further details about the new version of the show. If they come back as computer-generated polygons, somebody's getting slapped. Still, anyone who was a kid in the 90s will tell you that this is great news.

Check out Pitchfork's list of Beavis and Butt-Head's greatest music criticisms here. Below, you can watch some of the duo's classic video commentary moments.

Pavement: "Rattled by the Rush:



Radiohead: "Creep":



The Flaming Lips: "She Don't Use Jelly":



The Jesus Lizard: "Glamorous":



Sonic Youth: "Dirty Boots":



Snoop Doggy Dogg: "Gin and Juice":

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 3, 2011 at 3:40 p.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Phosphorescent Announce International Tour Tweet

Empire Polo Field in Indio, California plays host to two annual springtime festivals: Coachella and Stagecoach, a two-day country music fest. This year, Stagecoach's headliners are Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, and Carrie Underwood; as you can imagine, there's not a whole lot of crossover with Coachella. But the Brooklyn-via-Alabama country-rock crew Phosphorescent have a style broad enough to play both festivals.

In the months ahead, the band will tour around North America and Europe, hitting those two festivals along the way. Below, check out their dates, as well as the video for their song "It's Hard to be Humble (When You're From Alabama)".

Phosphorescent:

04-09 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
04-10 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
04-11 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-12 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Saloon
04-13 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
04-14 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival
04-21 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre
04-22 Seattle, WA - The Tractor Tavern
04-23 Kennewick, WA - The Red Room
04-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
04-28 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
04-30 Indio, CA - Stagecoach Music Festival
05-04 Dallas, TX - The Loft
05-05 Austin, TX - The Parish
05-06 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
05-08 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
05-11 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
05-23 Cologne, Germany - Studio 672
05-24 Hamburg, Germany - Beatlemania
05-25 Berlin, Germany - Magnet
05-26 Munich, Germany - 59 to 1
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
05-30 Bristol, England - Thekla
05-31 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
06-02 Dublin, Ireland - The Workman's Club
06-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Stereo
06-04 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
06-05 Norwich, England - The Arts Centre
06-07 London, England - Heaven

"It's Hard to be Humble (When You're From Alabama)" video:

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

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Continue Reading ?     Klaxons Plot Spring Tour

Including stops at Coachella and Ultra Music Festival

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Fresh off of spreading some holiday cheer by giving away the Landmarks of Lunacy EP on Christmas Day, rave-rockers Klaxons are outlining a spring tour hitting major North American cities. The roughly month-long jaunt will also include stops at this year's Coachella and Ultra Music festivals. We've got the dates for you below, as well as the expansive video for Surfing the Void cut "Echoes".

Klaxons:

03-25 Orlando, FL - The Social
03-26 Miami, FL - Ultra Music Festival
03-28 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
03-29 New York, NY - Webster Hall
03-30 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
04-01 Columbus, OH - The Basement
04-02 Chicago, IL - Metro
04-03 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
04-05 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
04-06 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
04-08 Vancouver, British Columbia - Venue
04-09 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
04-10 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
04-12 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
04-15 Indio, CA - Coachella
06-18 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-19 Scheeßel, Germany - Hurricane Festival

"Echoes" video:

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on February 3, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.

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Move the cars of like this gets a release date

Well, it's finally official official. The cars are back, and while we kinda ticked are that we no chance get to see how one play sold-out Polo in Indio, California, DC is reporting that the Boston, Massachusetts-new-wave-an official release date for their long anticipated seventh LP gurus, beat move like this.

It is your first since 1987 door-to-door and our own Megan Caffery, feature the original cast (sans Benn Orr, who in 2000 passed away) are. Many details are pending, but that supposedly can snag your copy of move like this on May 10th via Concord set's lead single - "Sad Song" - in mid-March and you music. So, now that one of our most important albums 2 k 11 arrived, let's talk about the tour

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Neckties raises money release assisted by Panda bear "Killine atmosphere" 12 "single"

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Ducktails is the lo-fi bedroom-pop solo project of Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile, and his new album Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics is out now. The iTunes and vinyl versions of the album feature a version of the track "Killin' the Vibe" that features vocals from Animal Collective's Panda Bear, as well as contributions from Dent May and Woods' Jarvis Taveniere. You can hear that version of the song over here.

And now, as Chocolate Bobka points out, Mondanile's hoping to release the song as a single, but he's going to need help to do so.

In his effort to self-release the "Killin' the Vibe" 12", Mondanile is using the fundraising website Kickstarter to raise $3,500. (Full disclosure: Pitchfork publisher Chris Kaskie is an investor in Kickstarter.) On the page for his Kickstarter campaign, Mondanile writes that the proposed EP will include four songs: the Panda-assisted version of "Killin' the Vibe", a live version of the same song with the British band Spectrals, and two new Ducktails songs, "Sit Around With Ya" and "Couch Surfer". He's hoping to press up 500 to 1,000 copies of the EP.

For those that pledge, Mondanile offers goodies ranging from a 30-minute cassette of unreleased songs to a private live show as far away as Europe. Head over to the Kickstarter page to find all the details, and check below to see the Kickstarter video that Mondanile has made.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 11:50 a.m.

Tags: Panda Bear, Benefit, New Releases, Ducktails

Continue Reading ?     Echo Chamber: Pavement's Bob Nastanovich Tweet

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"It's sort of disappointing that it doesn't seem like a realistic possibility that any new music would be made. At this point, Stephen [Malkmus] does not write songs for Pavement anymore, or songs in the Pavement mindset. I think he considers that part of his juvenilia, which is his own prerogative."

-- Pavement percussionist, mascot, and quote-machine Bob Nastanovich, who seems to want another Pavement album just as badly as everyone else. (via Spin)

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 11:10 a.m.

Tags: Echo Chamber, Pavement, Bob Nastanovich

    Video: Lykke Li: "I Follow Rivers" Tweet

In Lykke Li's new video for "I Follow Rivers", the Swedish singer, rocking a black veil, chases a man across a wintry beach. When she catches up to him, it becomes tough to tell why he was so eager to get away. The enigmatic clip, from director Tarik Saleh, is a patient and gorgeously shot piece of work, and Lykke Li has been getting awfully good at making cryptic facial expressions lately. You can watch the video at the Dazed and Confused website (via Some Kind of Awesome).

Lykke Li's new album Wounded Rhymes is due March 1 from her own LL Recordings.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 10:30 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Cass McCombs Announces New Album

WIT'S END arrives April 12

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Cass McCombs: "County Line":

Catacombs, the last album from open-hearted singer-songwriter Cass McCombs, was one of our favorites of 2009. And on April 12 in the U.S. and April 11 in the UK, Domino releases WIT'S END, his new one. McCombs recorded the album in cities around the U.S., co-producing it alongside his Catacombs collaborator, Foreign Born's Ariel Rechtshaid. Above, you can stream the album's opener, the organ-drenched "County Line", and we've got the tracklist below.

McCombs and his band will be in Austin in March for SXSW, and they'll tour the U.S. this summer.

WIT'S END:

01 County Line
02 The Lonely Doll
03 Buried Alive
04 Saturday Song
05 Memory's Stain
06 Hermit's Cave
07 Pleasant Shadow Song
08 A Knock Upon the Door

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 10 a.m.

Tags: New Releases, Domino, Audio, Cass McCombs

Continue Reading ?     Video: Sleigh Bells: "Rill Rill"

A little horror with your noise pop, perhaps?

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The video for Sleigh Bells' Treats standout "Rill Rill", directed by Jon Watts, just debuted on MTV, and it's suitably cool and creepy. Blood pours from telephones, switchblades are used as accessories for yearbook photos, and Derek Miller gets pushed out of a moving car. Fun for the whole family! Watch it below.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 27, 2011 at 8:50 a.m.

Tags: Video, Sleigh Bells

Continue Reading ?     Video: No Age: "Fever Dreaming"

Wait for the ending

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The video for No Age's "Fever Dreaming", a highlight from last year's BNM'd Everything in Between, takes place entirely within the course of one shot-- a pretty cool trick, but not even the coolest thing about it. In the awesome-looking clip, which was helmed by video auteur Patrick Daughters, Dean Spunt and Randy Randall take a load off, eat some food, and play air guitar (and drums) in a homey little space while everything in the room seems to be closing in on them. We don't want to ruin the surprise, but let's just say this doesn't end too well for the band. Check out the video below.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 27, 2011 at 8:15 a.m.

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Continue Reading ?     Wednesday, January 26 Wilco Start Their Own Label

dBpm Records will handle band's future releases

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Back in July of last year, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline revealed that the band had left Nonesuch Records and was starting their own label. Today, the band made good on that revelation and announced their new label, dBpm Records.

According to a press release, dBpm Records will put out all future Wilco releases "and more," and will be run by the band's manager, Tony Margherita, out of offices in Easthampton, Massachusetts. ANTI- Records will distribute the label, as well as other services. The band are currently working on their next album at their Chicago studio, the Loft.

"This is an idea we've discussed for years," bandleader Jeff Tweedy said in a statement. “We really like doing things ourselves, so having our own label feels pretty natural to me. And, to be working with ANTI- a label that has its roots in a label that was started by a punk rock guy to sell his own records seems like a perfect fit for us."

In addition, they have a short May tour lined up; check out those dates below, as well as dates for solo Tweedy shows. And Wilco's Solid Sound Festival will return to the Mass MoCA in N. Adams, Massachusetts June 24-26.

Wilco:

05-02 Montgomery, AL - Montgomery PAC
05-03 Mobile, AL - Saenger Theatre
05-05 New Orleans, LA - Jazzfest
05-06 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
05-07 Denton, TX - University of N. TX Auditorium
05-08 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom

Jeff Tweedy:

03-22 Toronto, Ontario - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
03-25 Montreal, Quebec - L'Olympia de Montréal
03-26 Portland, ME - State Theatre
03-28 Madison, WI - Capitol Theater
03-29 Rochester, MN - Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall
03-30 Iowa City, IA - The Englert Theatre

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 26, 2011 at 8:15 p.m.

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Continue Reading ?     New Release: O'Death: Outside Tweet

Artist: O'Death
Album: Outside
Release Date: April 19
Label: Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Tracklist:

01 Bugs
02 Ghosthead
03 Alamar
04 Black Dress
05 Ourselves
06 Look at the Sun
07 Howling Through
08 Don't Come Back
09 Pushing Out
10 Back of the Garden
11 The Lake Departed

Notes: Third full-length from this raucous folk-rock outfit.

Media: Listen to "Bugs" below:

MP3: O'Death: "Bugs"

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on January 26, 2011 at 4:40 p.m.

Tags: Ernest Jenning Record Co., O'Death, New Releases

Continue Reading ?     News in Brief: Datarock's Crazy Single, the Baseball Project, Noah and the Whale, IAMSOUND Series Tweet

MP3: Datarock: "Catcher in the Rye"

-- Norwegian party-starters Datarock are calling their "Catcher in the Rye" "the most extravagant single in history." The self-released single, due March 21, is packaged in a designer toy (pictured above) with a USB stick that features 110 bonus tracks (including the band's two previously released albums, a rarities compilation, and their new album and EP), 1500 photos, 20 music videos, and a 60-minute concert documentary. It'll also be available as a digital five-track EP. But if all you're looking for is the song itself, you can download it above.

-- In the Baseball Project, members of R.E.M. and the Minus 5 play songs about America's national pastime. The band's new album Volume 2: High and Inside arrives March 1 from Yep Roc. It features appearances from Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, the Decemberists' Chris Funk and John Moen, and the Hold Steady's Craig Finn, the latter of whom belts out the Minnesota Twins anthem "Don't Call Them Twinkies".

-- On March 15 in the U.S. and March 7 in the UK, Island Def Jam will release Last Night on Earth, the new album from London folkies Noah and the Whale. Here We Go Magic's Jen Turner guests.

-- The Morgan Hotel Group has teamed up with IAMSOUND Records for a live music series. The series started last year at L.A.'s Mondrian Hotel and continues this year at the Mondrian and the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. In the next few months, the lineup of acts performing at the hotels will include Lykke Li, Ted Leo, Dum Dum Girls, Zola Jesus, Cass McCombs, Twin Sister, Fool's Gold, and Gonzales.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 26, 2011 at 4 p.m.

Tags: Datarock, The Baseball Project, Noah and the Whale, IAMSOUND, New Releases, Festivals, Audio

    Patrick Wolf Names Album, Drops Video Tweet

In May, British pop chameleon Patrick Wolf will release Lupercalia, his follow-up to 2009's The Bachelor, on new label Hideout Recordings. Wikipedia tells us that the title refers to "a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival," in which noble youths would run naked through cities. Sounds like fun! He's already released one single from the album: "Time of My Life", which you can hear here. And on March 14, he'll release another, the horn-laced soul-pop lark "The City". The new song has a video, and you can watch it below.

Given his glam/goth past, his pasty skin, and his preference for capes, Wolf is not exactly the first person you'd expect to find at a beach party. But in the video for "The City", Wolf and friends take over the Santa Monica seaside, and the resulting images could pass for an early-90s jeans commercial. Kinga Burza directed the video, which debuted on The Guardian's website yesterday. Check it out below.

In the months ahead, Wolf will play shows around Europe, including a few opening for Patti Smith. Check out those dates over here.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 26, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.

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