Please see prior post for news about new R.E.M.
"Drive" Live at the Olympia in Dublin (shot by Vincent Moon and Jeremiah), where the band tested new material from Accelerate.
Drive - Live at the Olympia in Dublin
R.E.M.
Live At The Olympia (Warner Bros.)
Release Date: October 27, 2009
R.E.M. Live At The Olympia is a two-CD set featuring 39 songs from their acclaimed 2007 working rehearsals in Dublin, Ireland. R.E.M. set up camp at the venerable Olympia Theatre in Ireland's capital city and tested new material over five nights before passionate, capacity crowds. This live album was produced by Dublin native Jacknife Lee who, along with R.E.M., co-produced Accelerate, the album which emerged from these shows. Live At The Olympia gives fans an opportunity to hear those songs at their earliest stages of development. In addition to the new material, the band also served up twenty-nine other songs, spanning their entire career, all of which can be found on this album.
A special edition 2 CD &DVD set will contain a film of the Dublin shows by Vincent Moon and Jeremiah, who previously worked with R.E.M. on Ninetynights, Six Days and the "Supernatural Superserious" video.
Disc 1:
Living Well Is The Best Revenge / Second Guessing / Letter Never Sent / Staring Down The Barrel of the Middle Distance /
Disturbance At The Heron House / Mr. Richards / New Test Leper / Cuyahoga / Electrolite / Man-Sized Wreath / So. Central
Rain / On The Fly / Maps And Legends / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Horse To Water / I’m Gonna DJ / Circus Envy / These Days
Disc 2:
Drive / Feeling Gravity’s Pull / Until The Day Is Done / Accelerate / Auctioneer / Little America / 1,000 / Disguised / Worst
Joke Ever / Welcome To the Occupation / Carnival of Sorts / Harbor Coat / Wolves Lower / I’ve Been High / Kohoutek / West
of the Fields / Pretty Persuasion / Romance / Gardening At Night
www.remdublin.com
www.remhq.com
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Free Mudhoney Expanded Remastered Editions - Update One Left
Rhino has gotten into the digital game, and they've kindly provided the opportunity for one of you to win a - 100% bona fide legal - download of both My Brother the Cow, and Piece Of Cake. The albums are remastered with bonus tracks. Just comment on this post for a chance to win, and I'll message you back with a super secret code. It's mysterious, it's fun, and as the illustrious and inappropriately crotchety Wilfred Brimley once said, (before he spoke about "diebeetus"), "it's the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it."
Just post a comment for a chance to win. It's easy, and there's no catch. Nothing to join. No hidden catch or agenda. No mailing lists. You don't even have to visit this blog again. That's right - you can use me as your free download whore, and I promise I won't store your name or email informnation.
You post a comment. I choose you. I message you back with a download code. What could be more simple? And, as they say in the lottery ads, "you can't win if you don't play." So play, people.
** I can't send you a prize if you do not include contact info. I just need an email address so I may mail you a code for both downloads.
Just post a comment for a chance to win. It's easy, and there's no catch. Nothing to join. No hidden catch or agenda. No mailing lists. You don't even have to visit this blog again. That's right - you can use me as your free download whore, and I promise I won't store your name or email informnation.
You post a comment. I choose you. I message you back with a download code. What could be more simple? And, as they say in the lottery ads, "you can't win if you don't play." So play, people.
** I can't send you a prize if you do not include contact info. I just need an email address so I may mail you a code for both downloads.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Oasis Have (Definitely, Maybe) Officially Split
Noel Gallagher, (you know, the more talented jackass brother) of the band Oasis, has left the band. He write on the blog at Oasisinet.com, "The details are not important and of too great a number to list." He went on to thank the band's fans. HE further added, "I feel you have the right to know that the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades has become intolerable. And the lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates has left me with no other option than to get me cape and seek pastures new."
The upcoming tour dates are obviously canceled. Regarding fans with tickets to those shows, Gallagher wrote, "Apologies are probably not enough, I know, but I'm afraid it's all I've got." According to a band spokesperson, the band will decide whether to continue on as a band and plan to make an announcement with regards to the future of Oasis. However, since Noel was the lead guitarist and chief songwriter, that would seem inappropriate at best. The Gallagher brothers have had some public (and non public) spats in the past, but it seems that whatever happened this time really put a bee in Noel's bonnet. Has anyone thought of compiling a "greatest hits" of their hissy fits and rants? I would buy that. Is this all a stunt? Is this to promote possible solo albums? Is this to garner excitement for another Oasis album? Time will tell.
Thanks for the music, (well two albums worth anyway), and thanks for your appreciation of Paul Weller. Noel will likely continue making music, and Liam will continue to make men's clothing with an appreciation for the mod aesthetic. click here
Great moments in Oasis history:
The upcoming tour dates are obviously canceled. Regarding fans with tickets to those shows, Gallagher wrote, "Apologies are probably not enough, I know, but I'm afraid it's all I've got." According to a band spokesperson, the band will decide whether to continue on as a band and plan to make an announcement with regards to the future of Oasis. However, since Noel was the lead guitarist and chief songwriter, that would seem inappropriate at best. The Gallagher brothers have had some public (and non public) spats in the past, but it seems that whatever happened this time really put a bee in Noel's bonnet. Has anyone thought of compiling a "greatest hits" of their hissy fits and rants? I would buy that. Is this all a stunt? Is this to promote possible solo albums? Is this to garner excitement for another Oasis album? Time will tell.
Thanks for the music, (well two albums worth anyway), and thanks for your appreciation of Paul Weller. Noel will likely continue making music, and Liam will continue to make men's clothing with an appreciation for the mod aesthetic. click here
Great moments in Oasis history:
Drunk History Featuring Jack Black
Jack Black, Jayma Mays, Derek Waters Filmed, Edited & Directed by Jeremy Konner Created by Derek Waters
Spring Tigers To Release Debut
The self titled debut album from The Spring Tigers will be released October 20 on Bright Antenna. Spring Tigers was partly recorded at Sam Fogarino's (Interpol) home studio, and mixed by Mark Needham (The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Bloc Party).
Tracklist for Spring Tigers:
01 - Car Song
02 - Hyboria
03 - Just Suggesting
04 - Beep Beep
05 - New Improved Formula
06 - Stripmalls In The Sun
iIo:
Stephen James (keyboards and spiritual atheist) and Shane Davis (guitars, hair and romance) moved to Athens in 2000 and have played in punk bands together since their freshman year in college. Chase Prince (drums and medicine) and Eli Barnard (bass and the party), were growing up together in the hardcore scene down in Jacksonville, FL (running with The Black Kids amongst others). The rhythm section grew up together, and the melody section grew up together.
Tracklist for Spring Tigers:
01 - Car Song
02 - Hyboria
03 - Just Suggesting
04 - Beep Beep
05 - New Improved Formula
06 - Stripmalls In The Sun
iIo:
Stephen James (keyboards and spiritual atheist) and Shane Davis (guitars, hair and romance) moved to Athens in 2000 and have played in punk bands together since their freshman year in college. Chase Prince (drums and medicine) and Eli Barnard (bass and the party), were growing up together in the hardcore scene down in Jacksonville, FL (running with The Black Kids amongst others). The rhythm section grew up together, and the melody section grew up together.
Breakfast At Sulimays by Woodshop Films
Harvey Milk "Death Goes To the Winner" and "Timebomb" by Beck
Best moment: "I think I just swallowed a teabag." Ann
Join Joe, Moon and Bill for pancakes and discussion about modern music. Taped live at Philadelphia's Sulimay's Restaurant, Fishtown.
"Pillar O Salt" by The Thermals, "Cosmia" by Joanna Newsom, O Valencia by The Decemberists, "Momma I'm Sorry" by Clipse
Best moment "This is why Pitchfork sucks."
There are many episodes, and I'm not sure I could watch every episode, but a "Best Of" might be worth viewing. For more go to: click here
Best moment: "I think I just swallowed a teabag." Ann
Join Joe, Moon and Bill for pancakes and discussion about modern music. Taped live at Philadelphia's Sulimay's Restaurant, Fishtown.
"Pillar O Salt" by The Thermals, "Cosmia" by Joanna Newsom, O Valencia by The Decemberists, "Momma I'm Sorry" by Clipse
Best moment "This is why Pitchfork sucks."
There are many episodes, and I'm not sure I could watch every episode, but a "Best Of" might be worth viewing. For more go to: click here
Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer
Hot Tub Time Machine, directed by Steve Pink, features John Cusack, Crispin Glover, Chevy Chase, Kate Walsh, Lizzy Caplan, and is roughly described as a film where a bunch of guys drink Red Bull and Vodka and travel back in time. The film will be released by MGM Studio February 26, 2010
Here's the first trailer:
Here's the first trailer:
Friday, August 28, 2009
Joseph Arthur Tour Dates
Friday, August 28, 2009
City Winery (SOLD OUT)
New York, NY
w/ The Lonely Astronauts
Friday, September 4, 2009
City Winery
New York, NY
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Live At Drew's
Ringwood, NJ
Friday, September 25, 2009
City Winery
New York, NY
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Concerts In The Studio
Freehold, NJ
Thursday, October 8, 2009
L'Olympic
Nantes, FRANCE
Friday, October 9, 2009
Le Chabada
Angers, FRANCE
Saturday, October 10, 2009
La Nef
Angoulême, FRANCE
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
La Luciole
Alençon, FRANCE
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Le Café de la Danse
Paris, FRANCE
Friday, October 16, 2009
Le Café de la Danse
Paris, FRANCE
Saturday, October 17, 2009
4AD Club
Diksmuide, BELGUIM
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Club Ancienne Belgique
Brussels, BELGUIM
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Théâtre de L'Alhambra
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Thursday, October 22, 2009
El Lokal
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Le Poste à Galène
Marseille, FRANCE
Friday, November 27, 2009
Old Town School of Folk Music
Chicago, IL
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Bryant Lake Bowl
Minneapolis, MN
City Winery (SOLD OUT)
New York, NY
w/ The Lonely Astronauts
Friday, September 4, 2009
City Winery
New York, NY
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Live At Drew's
Ringwood, NJ
Friday, September 25, 2009
City Winery
New York, NY
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Concerts In The Studio
Freehold, NJ
Thursday, October 8, 2009
L'Olympic
Nantes, FRANCE
Friday, October 9, 2009
Le Chabada
Angers, FRANCE
Saturday, October 10, 2009
La Nef
Angoulême, FRANCE
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
La Luciole
Alençon, FRANCE
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Le Café de la Danse
Paris, FRANCE
Friday, October 16, 2009
Le Café de la Danse
Paris, FRANCE
Saturday, October 17, 2009
4AD Club
Diksmuide, BELGUIM
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Club Ancienne Belgique
Brussels, BELGUIM
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Théâtre de L'Alhambra
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Thursday, October 22, 2009
El Lokal
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Le Poste à Galène
Marseille, FRANCE
Friday, November 27, 2009
Old Town School of Folk Music
Chicago, IL
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Bryant Lake Bowl
Minneapolis, MN
Gregory Alan Isakov On Tour With Ani DiFranco
"Writing and performing is a mystery to me. I try to get myself out of the way as much as I can." - Gregory Alan Isakov
"There were moments while making the new album that were so different than anything I've done before," says Isakov, who combines his personal past with poetry to create a musically visceral present.
Current tour dates include:
September 12 Monolith Festival - Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO
September 13 Paramount Theatre Aurora IL supporting Ani DiFranco
September 15 Mayo Civic Center Rochester MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 16 DECC Auditorium Duluth MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 18 Fargo Theater Fargo ND supporting Ani DiFranco
September 19 Burton Cummings Theatre Winnipeg, MB CANADA supporting Ani DiFranco
September 20 First Avenue Minneapolis MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 22 Riverside Ballroom Green Bay WI supporting Ani DiFranco
September 23 The Vic Theatre Chicago IL supporting Ani DiFranco
September 25 Michigan Theater Ann Arbor MI supporting Ani DiFranco
More dates to be announced. Please visit www.gregoryalanisakov.com for more information.
What "they" are saying:
This Empty Northern Hemisphere "an artistic masterwork" (Denver Post) and "a quiet revelation" (Daily Camera). Critics aren't the only ones paying attention; the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray calls Gregory "hands down one of the best new songwriters on the scene.
Trivia:
His music was dubbed "punk folk" by Amy Ray (Indigo Girls).
"There were moments while making the new album that were so different than anything I've done before," says Isakov, who combines his personal past with poetry to create a musically visceral present.
Current tour dates include:
September 12 Monolith Festival - Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO
September 13 Paramount Theatre Aurora IL supporting Ani DiFranco
September 15 Mayo Civic Center Rochester MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 16 DECC Auditorium Duluth MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 18 Fargo Theater Fargo ND supporting Ani DiFranco
September 19 Burton Cummings Theatre Winnipeg, MB CANADA supporting Ani DiFranco
September 20 First Avenue Minneapolis MN supporting Ani DiFranco
September 22 Riverside Ballroom Green Bay WI supporting Ani DiFranco
September 23 The Vic Theatre Chicago IL supporting Ani DiFranco
September 25 Michigan Theater Ann Arbor MI supporting Ani DiFranco
More dates to be announced. Please visit www.gregoryalanisakov.com for more information.
What "they" are saying:
This Empty Northern Hemisphere "an artistic masterwork" (Denver Post) and "a quiet revelation" (Daily Camera). Critics aren't the only ones paying attention; the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray calls Gregory "hands down one of the best new songwriters on the scene.
Trivia:
His music was dubbed "punk folk" by Amy Ray (Indigo Girls).
The Mountain Goats To Release New Album
The Mountain Goats will release The Life Of The World To Come, October 6th on 4AD. The record used three producers and studios,: Brandon Eggleston at Chicago's Electrical Audio, John Congleton at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and Scott Solter at Baucom Road in Monroe, North Carolina.
Listen to "Genesis 3:23" here: click here
Live*:
November
4 - Ladies Literary Club (Calvin College), Grand Rapids, MI
5 - the Metro, Chicago, IL
6 - High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
7 - Cedar Cultural Centre, Minneapolis, MN
10 - the Showbox, Seattle, WA
11 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
14 - the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
15 - Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA
18 - Antones, Austin, TX
19 - Granada Theater, Dallas TX
20 - Mercy Lounge, Nashville TN
21 - the Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
23 - the Social, Orlando, FL
24 - Café 11, St. Augustine, FL
27 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
28 - Theater of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
29 - Wilbur Theatre, Boston MA
December
1 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
2 - Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
*U.S. dates from 4 November through 2 December are full band shows, and all shows will be opened by Final Fantasy.
Listen to "Genesis 3:23" here: click here
Live*:
November
4 - Ladies Literary Club (Calvin College), Grand Rapids, MI
5 - the Metro, Chicago, IL
6 - High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
7 - Cedar Cultural Centre, Minneapolis, MN
10 - the Showbox, Seattle, WA
11 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
14 - the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
15 - Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA
18 - Antones, Austin, TX
19 - Granada Theater, Dallas TX
20 - Mercy Lounge, Nashville TN
21 - the Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
23 - the Social, Orlando, FL
24 - Café 11, St. Augustine, FL
27 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
28 - Theater of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
29 - Wilbur Theatre, Boston MA
December
1 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
2 - Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
*U.S. dates from 4 November through 2 December are full band shows, and all shows will be opened by Final Fantasy.
Ash Promote Unique A-Z Series With Tour
launches their A-Z Series with "True Love 1980" on October 12th. The A-Z series will consist of 26 limited edition 7” and digital download singles. A single will be released every two weeks through the end of the year. The band will tour and work it's way through the shows alphabetically.
OCT 19 - ALDERSHOT @ West End Centre
OCT 20 - BRADFORD @ The Gasworks
OCT 21 - CARLISLE @ The Brickyard
OCT 23 - DUNDEE @ Fat Sam’s
OCT 24 - EAST GRANGE @ The Loft
OCT 25 - FALKIRK @ Behind The Wall
OCT 27 - GLOUCESTER @ Guildhall
OCT 28 - HASTINGS @ Crypt
OCT 30 - IPSWICH @ Corn Exchange
OCT 31- JERSEY @ St.Helier Havana Club
NOV 2 - KINGSTON @ The Peel
NOV 3 - LOUGHBOROUGH @ University
NOV 4 - MILTON KEYNES @ Pitz Club
NOV 6 - NEWPORT @ TJ’s
NOV 7- OLDHAM @ Castle
NOV 8 - PLYMOUTH @ Hippo
NOV 10 - QUEENS PARK @ Corrib Rest
NOV 11 - ROTHERHAM @ The Vault
NOV 12 - SWANSEA @ Sin City
NOV 14 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS @ Forum
NOV 16- UPPER NORWOOD @ Gipsy Hill Tavern
NOV 17 - VENTNOR @ Winter Gardens
NOV 19 - WORCESTER @ Dive Bar
NOV 21 - EXMOUTH @ Pavilion
NOV 22 - YEOVIL @ Orange Box
NOV 23 - ZENNOR @ Village Hall
"Return Of White Rabbit"
For more info, please visit:
www.ash-official.com
www.myspace.com/ash
OCT 19 - ALDERSHOT @ West End Centre
OCT 20 - BRADFORD @ The Gasworks
OCT 21 - CARLISLE @ The Brickyard
OCT 23 - DUNDEE @ Fat Sam’s
OCT 24 - EAST GRANGE @ The Loft
OCT 25 - FALKIRK @ Behind The Wall
OCT 27 - GLOUCESTER @ Guildhall
OCT 28 - HASTINGS @ Crypt
OCT 30 - IPSWICH @ Corn Exchange
OCT 31- JERSEY @ St.Helier Havana Club
NOV 2 - KINGSTON @ The Peel
NOV 3 - LOUGHBOROUGH @ University
NOV 4 - MILTON KEYNES @ Pitz Club
NOV 6 - NEWPORT @ TJ’s
NOV 7- OLDHAM @ Castle
NOV 8 - PLYMOUTH @ Hippo
NOV 10 - QUEENS PARK @ Corrib Rest
NOV 11 - ROTHERHAM @ The Vault
NOV 12 - SWANSEA @ Sin City
NOV 14 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS @ Forum
NOV 16- UPPER NORWOOD @ Gipsy Hill Tavern
NOV 17 - VENTNOR @ Winter Gardens
NOV 19 - WORCESTER @ Dive Bar
NOV 21 - EXMOUTH @ Pavilion
NOV 22 - YEOVIL @ Orange Box
NOV 23 - ZENNOR @ Village Hall
"Return Of White Rabbit"
For more info, please visit:
www.ash-official.com
www.myspace.com/ash
Os Mutantes Tour Dates
Aug 28 2009 8:00P
The Echoplex Los Angeles, California
Aug 29 2009 8:00P
Outside Lands Festival San Francisco, California
Sep 1 2009 8:00P
Meteel Community Center Redway, California
Sep 2 2009 8:00P
Aladdin Theatre Portland, Oregon
Sep 3 2009 8:00P
The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
The Nightlight Bellingham, Washington
Sep 5 2009 8:00P
Bumbershoot Festival Seattle, Washington
Sep 8 2009 6:00P
Amoeba Records Hollywood Hollywood, California
Sep 19 2009 8:00P
Symbiosis Fest Yosemite, California
Sep 24 2009 8:00P
Cervantes Denver, Colorado
Sep 25 2009 8:00P
Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 30 2009 8:00P
Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 4 2009 8:00P
Sommerville Theater Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 8 2009 8:00P
Webster Theatre New York, New York
Oct 9 2009 8:00P
Mr. Smalls Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 10 2009 8:00P
Capitol Theatre Columbus, Ohio
Oct 11 2009 8:00P
WRFL Fest Lexington, Kentucky
Oct 13 2009 8:00P
Skipper’s Tampa, Florida
Oct 14 2009 8:00P
Cultural Room Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Oct 16 2009 8:00P
Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 17 2009 8:00P
Tipitina’s New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 18 2009 8:00P
La Zona Rosa Austin, Texas
The Echoplex Los Angeles, California
Aug 29 2009 8:00P
Outside Lands Festival San Francisco, California
Sep 1 2009 8:00P
Meteel Community Center Redway, California
Sep 2 2009 8:00P
Aladdin Theatre Portland, Oregon
Sep 3 2009 8:00P
The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
The Nightlight Bellingham, Washington
Sep 5 2009 8:00P
Bumbershoot Festival Seattle, Washington
Sep 8 2009 6:00P
Amoeba Records Hollywood Hollywood, California
Sep 19 2009 8:00P
Symbiosis Fest Yosemite, California
Sep 24 2009 8:00P
Cervantes Denver, Colorado
Sep 25 2009 8:00P
Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 30 2009 8:00P
Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 4 2009 8:00P
Sommerville Theater Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 8 2009 8:00P
Webster Theatre New York, New York
Oct 9 2009 8:00P
Mr. Smalls Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 10 2009 8:00P
Capitol Theatre Columbus, Ohio
Oct 11 2009 8:00P
WRFL Fest Lexington, Kentucky
Oct 13 2009 8:00P
Skipper’s Tampa, Florida
Oct 14 2009 8:00P
Cultural Room Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Oct 16 2009 8:00P
Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 17 2009 8:00P
Tipitina’s New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 18 2009 8:00P
La Zona Rosa Austin, Texas
Moneen Announce Headlining Dates / New Album
Moneen are set to release their new album, The World I Want To Leave Behind, September 15, 2009. The record was recorded in January at Rattlebox Studios in Toronto with Brian Moncarz and David Bottrill (Tool, Silverchair, Placebo, Muse). You may pre-order the album w/ an exclusive t-shirt via the Vagrant webstore (click here), where, for a limited time, Moneen's catalog releases are on sale for $5.
Tour:
Oct 2 – East Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar ^
Oct 3 – Dekalb, IL @ The House Café ^
Oct 4 – St. Louis, MO @ Cicero’s ^
Oct 7 – Norman, OK @ Opolis ^
Oct 9 – McAllen, TX @ McAllen Creative Incubator ^
Oct 10 – San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom Bar ^
Oct 12 – Flagstaff, AZ @ The White Dove ^
Oct 14 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues *
Oct 15 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's *
Oct 16 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
Oct 17 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon *
Oct 19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue *
Oct 20 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes *
Oct 21 - Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club *
Oct 22 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4 *
Oct 23 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre *
Oct 25 - Pontiac, MI @ Clutch Cargo's *
Oct 26 - Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter Club *
Oct 27 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *
Oct 28 - Toronto, ONT @ Phoenix Concert Theatre *
Oct 30 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues *
Oct 31 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre *
Nov 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts *
Nov 3 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *
Nov 4 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom *
Nov 6 - Towson, MD @ The Recher Theatre *
Nov 7 - Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa *
Nov 8 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle *
Nov 10 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *
Nov 11 - Orlando, FL @ The Social *
Nov 12 - Orlando, FL @ The Social *
Nov 13 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre *
Nov 15 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic *
Nov 16 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live *
Nov 17 - Austin, TX @ Emo's *
Nov 18 - Dallas, TX @ The Door *
Nov 20 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre *
Nov 21 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues *
Nov 22 - West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour *
^ Moneen headlining dates
* Moneen with Say Anything and Eisley
"Hold That Sound"
For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/moneen
http://www.moneen.ca/
Tour:
Oct 2 – East Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar ^
Oct 3 – Dekalb, IL @ The House Café ^
Oct 4 – St. Louis, MO @ Cicero’s ^
Oct 7 – Norman, OK @ Opolis ^
Oct 9 – McAllen, TX @ McAllen Creative Incubator ^
Oct 10 – San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom Bar ^
Oct 12 – Flagstaff, AZ @ The White Dove ^
Oct 14 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues *
Oct 15 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's *
Oct 16 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
Oct 17 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon *
Oct 19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue *
Oct 20 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes *
Oct 21 - Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club *
Oct 22 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4 *
Oct 23 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre *
Oct 25 - Pontiac, MI @ Clutch Cargo's *
Oct 26 - Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter Club *
Oct 27 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *
Oct 28 - Toronto, ONT @ Phoenix Concert Theatre *
Oct 30 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues *
Oct 31 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre *
Nov 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts *
Nov 3 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *
Nov 4 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom *
Nov 6 - Towson, MD @ The Recher Theatre *
Nov 7 - Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa *
Nov 8 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle *
Nov 10 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *
Nov 11 - Orlando, FL @ The Social *
Nov 12 - Orlando, FL @ The Social *
Nov 13 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre *
Nov 15 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic *
Nov 16 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live *
Nov 17 - Austin, TX @ Emo's *
Nov 18 - Dallas, TX @ The Door *
Nov 20 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre *
Nov 21 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues *
Nov 22 - West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour *
^ Moneen headlining dates
* Moneen with Say Anything and Eisley
"Hold That Sound"
For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/moneen
http://www.moneen.ca/
Michael and Michael Have Issues, But I Love Them / Stella, MIchael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, David Wain News
Could I have made the title longer? Yes, actually I could have. I could have gone all Fiona Apple on your ass. My powers of lameness are beyond your understanding.
Stella: Live In Boston is being released on dvd September 15. Below is the press release for a new dvd w/ Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain, (with my added commentary in bold, because I sometimes pretend I am important and clever).
Michael And Michael And David Too
The comedy collective known as Stella—Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain—had great success with their eponymous weekly series (no they did not - it was canceled before it finished it's run), not to mention Comedy Central’s Michael & Michael Have Issues (please save this show from possible cancellation), MTV’s The State (genius even though it was an MTV show, and finally out on dvd), the online series Wainy Days… The list actually does go on and on for the trio as a group and individually (Let's not forget other great projects like Reno 911, which was just cancelled by the way, and the awesome -and should be on dvd- Viva Variety). They recently took their talents to the stage for Stella: Live In Boston and created what we like to refer to as a side-splitting DVD. (I'm sure that hackneyed phrase pleases these guys no end). The disc includes the full hour performance plus three episodes each of Wainy Days and Michael Showalter Showalter. In stores September 15.
By the way, if you do not own the cds Sandwiches & Cats by Michael Showalter, and I am a Wonderful Man by Michael Ian Black - I highly recommend heading over to Amazon. The purchase price equals guaranteed laughs which are needed in this time of bad news, bad economy, and bad comedians. Nope, I do not make any money by listing, because I haven't bothered to suss how to do that. Plus, I blog for the love people, for the love.
This dvd has given me countless hours o' fun.
Stella: Live In Boston is being released on dvd September 15. Below is the press release for a new dvd w/ Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain, (with my added commentary in bold, because I sometimes pretend I am important and clever).
Michael And Michael And David Too
The comedy collective known as Stella—Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain—had great success with their eponymous weekly series (no they did not - it was canceled before it finished it's run), not to mention Comedy Central’s Michael & Michael Have Issues (please save this show from possible cancellation), MTV’s The State (genius even though it was an MTV show, and finally out on dvd), the online series Wainy Days… The list actually does go on and on for the trio as a group and individually (Let's not forget other great projects like Reno 911, which was just cancelled by the way, and the awesome -and should be on dvd- Viva Variety). They recently took their talents to the stage for Stella: Live In Boston and created what we like to refer to as a side-splitting DVD. (I'm sure that hackneyed phrase pleases these guys no end). The disc includes the full hour performance plus three episodes each of Wainy Days and Michael Showalter Showalter. In stores September 15.
By the way, if you do not own the cds Sandwiches & Cats by Michael Showalter, and I am a Wonderful Man by Michael Ian Black - I highly recommend heading over to Amazon. The purchase price equals guaranteed laughs which are needed in this time of bad news, bad economy, and bad comedians. Nope, I do not make any money by listing, because I haven't bothered to suss how to do that. Plus, I blog for the love people, for the love.
This dvd has given me countless hours o' fun.
Mean Creek Release Album and Announce Tour Dates
Mean Creek will release their second album, The Sky (Or The Underground), October 13, on Old Flame Records. Band member Chris Keene says of the release, "We're very proud of the new album. We put 100% of ourselves into it, exhausting ourselves physically, emotionally, and monetarily. We think that desperate sort of struggle shows through in the songs and makes them more powerful, and we hope people will feel the same way."
The album has been compared to The Replacements, Husker Du, The Pixies, and Mission of Burma - that's pretty ballsy. You can see them on tour in the following cities:
Sept 10 - Crash Mansion - NY, NY
Sept 12 - Boston Arts Festival - Boston, MA
Sept 17 - TT The Bears - Boston, MA
Sept 27 - Central Square - Cambridge, MA
Oct 6 - The Space - Portland, ME
Oct 9 - Piano's - NY, NY
Oct 10 - The Paradise - Boston, MA
Spin.com
"Mean Creek commence a sharp blend of country-core"
The Boston Globe
"And with a clutch of splendid, heart-tugging melodies, Mean Creek, a striking foursome from Boston that opened the night, had a touch of the epic."
Boston Phoenix
“a local folksy, roots-leaning rock four-piece named after the award-winning indie film —
meld sartorially as well as musically...”
Improper Bostonian
"One of the top 10 bands you must hear right now!"
The Boston Herald
"A melodic tour de force"
The Boston Globe
Mean Creek's folksy Simon & Garfunkel harmonies anchor a sound that alternates between jangling and overdriven guitars. This could be the best lineup in Boston."
2008 BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS
Nominated for "Outstanding Americana Act Of The Year" by the Boston Music Awards (2008)
Trivia:
Mean Creek have shared the stage with Mew, Buffalo Tom, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Bishop Allen, Dead Confederate, Black Lips.
For more info:
www.myspace.com/meancreek
www.oldflamerecords.com
The album has been compared to The Replacements, Husker Du, The Pixies, and Mission of Burma - that's pretty ballsy. You can see them on tour in the following cities:
Sept 10 - Crash Mansion - NY, NY
Sept 12 - Boston Arts Festival - Boston, MA
Sept 17 - TT The Bears - Boston, MA
Sept 27 - Central Square - Cambridge, MA
Oct 6 - The Space - Portland, ME
Oct 9 - Piano's - NY, NY
Oct 10 - The Paradise - Boston, MA
Spin.com
"Mean Creek commence a sharp blend of country-core"
The Boston Globe
"And with a clutch of splendid, heart-tugging melodies, Mean Creek, a striking foursome from Boston that opened the night, had a touch of the epic."
Boston Phoenix
“a local folksy, roots-leaning rock four-piece named after the award-winning indie film —
meld sartorially as well as musically...”
Improper Bostonian
"One of the top 10 bands you must hear right now!"
The Boston Herald
"A melodic tour de force"
The Boston Globe
Mean Creek's folksy Simon & Garfunkel harmonies anchor a sound that alternates between jangling and overdriven guitars. This could be the best lineup in Boston."
2008 BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS
Nominated for "Outstanding Americana Act Of The Year" by the Boston Music Awards (2008)
Trivia:
Mean Creek have shared the stage with Mew, Buffalo Tom, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Bishop Allen, Dead Confederate, Black Lips.
For more info:
www.myspace.com/meancreek
www.oldflamerecords.com
The Flaming Lips Make Me Feel Gooey
Go and see The Flaming Lips live if you can - so you can feel amazing too. Here is a view from the stage:
also, if you want to get sick to your stomach, here is a camera taped to Kliph's shirt while drumming:
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1 in Tokyo, 9 August 2009 from Kliph Scurlock on Vimeo.
also, if you want to get sick to your stomach, here is a camera taped to Kliph's shirt while drumming:
Kliph Cam - Race For The Prize - L.A. 17 Aug 2009 from Kliph Scurlock on Vimeo.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Carson Daily Still A Tool
So I was watching t.v. last night and noticed The Kills would be on The Carson Daily show. It was clearly a re-run. Anyway, I decided to watch, and Carson Daily actually said "Months from now people will be thanking me for introducing them to The Kills." This was a 2009 appearance. Yeah, thanks for introducing us to The Kills, you unbelievable douchebag.
Panther and Shaky Hands Free MP3 and Tour Dates
Panther "Love Is Sold"
click here
The Shaky Hands "Allison and the Ancient Eyes"
click here
Both bands have releases coming out September 29th:
PANTHER Entropy LP/digital
click here
THE SHAKY HANDS Let It Die LP/CD
click here
PANTHER
August 2009
28 - Portland, OR @ Work/Sound
September 2009
4 - Portland, OR @ Slabtown - w/ Tanning- Video Premiere Party!
11 - Portland, OR @ The Artistery - w/ Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark, Casino Demon
19 - Portland, OR @ Backspace - w/ Titus Andronicus - MFNW
25 - Portland, OR @ Rotture - Supernature
October 2009
1 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan - w/ The Shaky Hands - DOUBLE RECORD RELEASE SHOW
13 - Portland, OR @ Holocene - w/ The Raincoats, Explode Into Colors
November 2009
5 - Oakland, CA @ House of Nostromos
6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell - w/ Hawnay Troof, David Scott Stone, The Urxed
7 - San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink - FREE!
8 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock
9 - Arcata, CA @ Jambalaya
THE SHAKY HANDS
October 2009
1 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan - w/ Panther - DOUBLE RECORD RELEASE SHOW
8 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
9 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
10 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
12 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge
16 - Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club - w/ Blitzen Trapper
17 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle - w/ Headlights
21 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott - w/ Headlights
25 - Washington, DC @ DC9 - w/ Headlights
26 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 - w/ Headlights
November 2009
1 - Brighton, UK @ Prince Albert
2 - Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
3 - Manchester, UK @ The Ruby Lounge
4 - Glasgow, UK @ Captains Rest
5 - London, UK @ The Lexington - Fortuna Pop Night
6 - London, UK @ Cargo - last.fm presents
click here
The Shaky Hands "Allison and the Ancient Eyes"
click here
Both bands have releases coming out September 29th:
PANTHER Entropy LP/digital
click here
THE SHAKY HANDS Let It Die LP/CD
click here
PANTHER
August 2009
28 - Portland, OR @ Work/Sound
September 2009
4 - Portland, OR @ Slabtown - w/ Tanning- Video Premiere Party!
11 - Portland, OR @ The Artistery - w/ Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark, Casino Demon
19 - Portland, OR @ Backspace - w/ Titus Andronicus - MFNW
25 - Portland, OR @ Rotture - Supernature
October 2009
1 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan - w/ The Shaky Hands - DOUBLE RECORD RELEASE SHOW
13 - Portland, OR @ Holocene - w/ The Raincoats, Explode Into Colors
November 2009
5 - Oakland, CA @ House of Nostromos
6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell - w/ Hawnay Troof, David Scott Stone, The Urxed
7 - San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink - FREE!
8 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock
9 - Arcata, CA @ Jambalaya
THE SHAKY HANDS
October 2009
1 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan - w/ Panther - DOUBLE RECORD RELEASE SHOW
8 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
9 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
10 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
12 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge
16 - Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club - w/ Blitzen Trapper
17 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle - w/ Headlights
21 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott - w/ Headlights
25 - Washington, DC @ DC9 - w/ Headlights
26 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 - w/ Headlights
November 2009
1 - Brighton, UK @ Prince Albert
2 - Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
3 - Manchester, UK @ The Ruby Lounge
4 - Glasgow, UK @ Captains Rest
5 - London, UK @ The Lexington - Fortuna Pop Night
6 - London, UK @ Cargo - last.fm presents
Perez HIlton Signs Bands...
Just the fact that he is now signing bands and has a label makes me want to weep piss.
I feel slimy. And still I present you the press release unedited:
Perez Hilton Targets Fashion World with
French Pop Star Sliimy's Debut Album
Hilton's Perezcious Music To Launch First Release As a T-Shirt,
In Partnership with The Music Tee.
August 27, 2009, Burbank, California - In a bold marketing moved designed to reflect current trends in the way fans discover and consume music and fashion, Perez Hilton’s new music label, Perezcious Music (a division of Warner Bros. Records) will launch the label’s first signing, 20 year old French singer songwriter Sliimy (pronounced "Slim-ee" – rhymes with Jimmy), as both a digital release and a gorgeous new T-shirt distributed in partnership with The Music Tee, LLC. The move will allow the label to distribute Sliimy’s debut album, Paint Your Face, available September 15th, both digitally and in fashion retail outlets across North America, where the artist, already a fashion icon, is more likely to resonate with fans.
The Sliimy Music Tee, personally designed by Sliimy, is a T-shirt that features “album art” on the front, and the Paint Your Face tack listing on the back, reminiscent of traditional album packaging. Each shirt comes with a hang-tag containing a unique code that allows the owner to download a copy of Paint Your Face. The Sliimy Music Tee will be carried in fashion boutiques and clothing chains nationwide, and at TheMusicTee.com (suggested retail price $39). The shirt will be also featured at PROJECT in Las Vegas next week, and will be available to all traditional music retailers.
Sliimy, an irresistible 20-year old singer-songwriter, is already a media phenomenon on Twitter and MySpace with over a million streams. His album was #2 in France earlier this year. “Wake Up”, Sliimy’s first single, written by Sliimy and musical partner Feed, is currently available on iTunes bundled with Sliimy’s colorful video of “Wake Up.”
Sliimy will also be a featured performer on the upcoming Perez Hilton U.S. tour, a 17-city tour that kicks off in Atlanta, GA on September 10th. Other artists on the bill include Ladyhawke, Ida Maria, Sliimy, Julian Perretta, eric Hutchinson and Semi Precious Weapons. A Perez Hilton Tour Music Tee will also be released to commemorate the tour.
I feel slimy. And still I present you the press release unedited:
Perez Hilton Targets Fashion World with
French Pop Star Sliimy's Debut Album
Hilton's Perezcious Music To Launch First Release As a T-Shirt,
In Partnership with The Music Tee.
August 27, 2009, Burbank, California - In a bold marketing moved designed to reflect current trends in the way fans discover and consume music and fashion, Perez Hilton’s new music label, Perezcious Music (a division of Warner Bros. Records) will launch the label’s first signing, 20 year old French singer songwriter Sliimy (pronounced "Slim-ee" – rhymes with Jimmy), as both a digital release and a gorgeous new T-shirt distributed in partnership with The Music Tee, LLC. The move will allow the label to distribute Sliimy’s debut album, Paint Your Face, available September 15th, both digitally and in fashion retail outlets across North America, where the artist, already a fashion icon, is more likely to resonate with fans.
The Sliimy Music Tee, personally designed by Sliimy, is a T-shirt that features “album art” on the front, and the Paint Your Face tack listing on the back, reminiscent of traditional album packaging. Each shirt comes with a hang-tag containing a unique code that allows the owner to download a copy of Paint Your Face. The Sliimy Music Tee will be carried in fashion boutiques and clothing chains nationwide, and at TheMusicTee.com (suggested retail price $39). The shirt will be also featured at PROJECT in Las Vegas next week, and will be available to all traditional music retailers.
Sliimy, an irresistible 20-year old singer-songwriter, is already a media phenomenon on Twitter and MySpace with over a million streams. His album was #2 in France earlier this year. “Wake Up”, Sliimy’s first single, written by Sliimy and musical partner Feed, is currently available on iTunes bundled with Sliimy’s colorful video of “Wake Up.”
Sliimy will also be a featured performer on the upcoming Perez Hilton U.S. tour, a 17-city tour that kicks off in Atlanta, GA on September 10th. Other artists on the bill include Ladyhawke, Ida Maria, Sliimy, Julian Perretta, eric Hutchinson and Semi Precious Weapons. A Perez Hilton Tour Music Tee will also be released to commemorate the tour.
Dirty Projectors On Tour
Dirty Projectors Scheduled Tour Dates:
10/20 - BALTIMORE, MD - Ottobar
10/21 - PHILADELPHIA, PA - Trocadero
10/22 - WASHINGTON, DC - Black Cat
10/24 - ATLANTA, GA - Masquerade
10/25 - LAFAYETTE, LA - Nitetown
10/26 - AUSTIN, TX - Antones
10/28 - PHOENIX, AZ - Rhythm Room
10/30 - SAN DIEGO, CA - North Park Theatre
11/01 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Bimbo's
11/03 - PORTLAND, OR - Aladdin
11/04 - SEATTLE, WA - Neumo's
11/07 - SALT LAKE CITY, UT - In The Venue
11/08 - DENVER, CO - Bluebird
11/09 - LAWRENCE, KS - Granada
11/11 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
11/13 - CHICAGO, IL - Bottom Lounge
11/14 - TORONTO, ON - Opera House
11/15 - MONTREAL, PQ - National
11/17 - BOSTON, MA - Paradise
11/18 - NEW YORK, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11/19 - BROOKLYN, NY - Music Hall
11/21 - BROOKLYN, NY - Music Hall
11/22 - NEW YORK, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10/20 - BALTIMORE, MD - Ottobar
10/21 - PHILADELPHIA, PA - Trocadero
10/22 - WASHINGTON, DC - Black Cat
10/24 - ATLANTA, GA - Masquerade
10/25 - LAFAYETTE, LA - Nitetown
10/26 - AUSTIN, TX - Antones
10/28 - PHOENIX, AZ - Rhythm Room
10/30 - SAN DIEGO, CA - North Park Theatre
11/01 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Bimbo's
11/03 - PORTLAND, OR - Aladdin
11/04 - SEATTLE, WA - Neumo's
11/07 - SALT LAKE CITY, UT - In The Venue
11/08 - DENVER, CO - Bluebird
11/09 - LAWRENCE, KS - Granada
11/11 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
11/13 - CHICAGO, IL - Bottom Lounge
11/14 - TORONTO, ON - Opera House
11/15 - MONTREAL, PQ - National
11/17 - BOSTON, MA - Paradise
11/18 - NEW YORK, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11/19 - BROOKLYN, NY - Music Hall
11/21 - BROOKLYN, NY - Music Hall
11/22 - NEW YORK, NY - Bowery Ballroom
TRS-80 Live
TRS-80 will be performing at the brand new venue, Junction Block, in LA tomorrow at 10pm (sharp).
Also scheduled:
September 10 • Knitting Factory • Hollywood
Also scheduled:
September 10 • Knitting Factory • Hollywood
Legendary Punks Naked Raygun Plot Tour and Plan 7" Series
Naked Raygun recently entered the studio (Transient Sound in Chicago, to be specific), for the first time in over a decade. (Boys, you make us wait so long). The session marks the bands first new material since 1992 and their first official recording since 1997. THe resulting songs will be issued as a series of 7" records, the first going on sale at Riot Fest. As is the tradition with Naked Raygun, fans get more band for their buck, and early buyers will receive extra goodies, including an mp3 download card.
Naked Raygun headlines Riot Fest in Chicago, and follow with an east coast tour. Some of the towns on the tour have not had the pleasure of 'Raygun's company in about twenty years. And young punks and lovers of solid rocknroll will be in for a treat. Paint It Black and fellow Chicago band Shot Baker will jopin Naked raygun on their trek.
If you will not be in attendance at Riot Fest, you may order the 7" here: clickity
Naked Raygun East Coast Tour:
September 9, 2009
The Mideast (Cambridge, MA)
with Paint it Black, Shot Baker
18+ - tickets $15.00 – Showtime TBA
http://www.mideastclub.com/
September 10, 2009
First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
7:30pm - $12.00 – all ages
http://www.r5productions.com/
September 11, 2009
Ottobar (Baltimore, MD)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Doors 7pm Show 8pm - $15.00adv $17.00 doors – all ages
www.ottobar.com
September 12, 2009
The Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Show 8pm, $15.00 – 16 and over
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/search
September 13, 2009
Maxwell's (Hoboken, NJ)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Show 8pm Tickets $15.00 adv $17.00 doors
http://www.maxwellsnj.com/
Naked Raygun are: Eric Spicer (Drums), Bill Stephens (guitar), Pierre Kezdy (bass), and Jeff Pezzati on vocals.
Naked Raygun Trivia:
The band broke up in 1992 and save for a one-off reunion in 1997 to celebrate the release of the Last of the Demohicans collection, stayed inactive while band members tended to family business and occasionally other musical projects such as The Bomb and Pegboy.
Naked Raygun headlines Riot Fest in Chicago, and follow with an east coast tour. Some of the towns on the tour have not had the pleasure of 'Raygun's company in about twenty years. And young punks and lovers of solid rocknroll will be in for a treat. Paint It Black and fellow Chicago band Shot Baker will jopin Naked raygun on their trek.
If you will not be in attendance at Riot Fest, you may order the 7" here: clickity
Naked Raygun East Coast Tour:
September 9, 2009
The Mideast (Cambridge, MA)
with Paint it Black, Shot Baker
18+ - tickets $15.00 – Showtime TBA
http://www.mideastclub.com/
September 10, 2009
First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
7:30pm - $12.00 – all ages
http://www.r5productions.com/
September 11, 2009
Ottobar (Baltimore, MD)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Doors 7pm Show 8pm - $15.00adv $17.00 doors – all ages
www.ottobar.com
September 12, 2009
The Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Show 8pm, $15.00 – 16 and over
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/search
September 13, 2009
Maxwell's (Hoboken, NJ)
with Paint It Black, Shot Baker
Show 8pm Tickets $15.00 adv $17.00 doors
http://www.maxwellsnj.com/
Naked Raygun are: Eric Spicer (Drums), Bill Stephens (guitar), Pierre Kezdy (bass), and Jeff Pezzati on vocals.
Naked Raygun Trivia:
The band broke up in 1992 and save for a one-off reunion in 1997 to celebrate the release of the Last of the Demohicans collection, stayed inactive while band members tended to family business and occasionally other musical projects such as The Bomb and Pegboy.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Another 9 Update / 9 prize pack challenge
More promotional news from the folks w/ the upcoming Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover film 9.
From the 9 camp:
"You may have been following the film’s Scientist on Facebook (facebook.com/9scientist).
The Scientist needs some inspiration in these dark times -- are you up to the
challenge?
Begin the challenge by visiting www.9experiment.com . When you scroll over to
the chalkboard, you can participate by clicking on the piece of chalk to draw
a picture. When you’re done drawing your picture, screen grab it, save it, and
post your drawing to the Scientist's wall at facebook.com/9scientist to be entered
into the Chalkboard Challenge sweepstakes to win a fabulous "9" prize pack! There
will be 9 winners, so the lucky winner could definitely be you. However, in
order to be eligible to win, you have to enter by September 9, 2009 (which is
the day that "9" is released in theaters)."
Official 9 Film Synopsis:
A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim
Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov
(Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's
distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly,
Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and
features the music of Danny Elfman. When 9 (The Lord of the Ring's Elijah Wood)
first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans
are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others
like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their
extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that
hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive,
and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place.
As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on
them.
From the 9 camp:
"You may have been following the film’s Scientist on Facebook (facebook.com/9scientist).
The Scientist needs some inspiration in these dark times -- are you up to the
challenge?
Begin the challenge by visiting www.9experiment.com . When you scroll over to
the chalkboard, you can participate by clicking on the piece of chalk to draw
a picture. When you’re done drawing your picture, screen grab it, save it, and
post your drawing to the Scientist's wall at facebook.com/9scientist to be entered
into the Chalkboard Challenge sweepstakes to win a fabulous "9" prize pack! There
will be 9 winners, so the lucky winner could definitely be you. However, in
order to be eligible to win, you have to enter by September 9, 2009 (which is
the day that "9" is released in theaters)."
Official 9 Film Synopsis:
A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim
Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov
(Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's
distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly,
Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and
features the music of Danny Elfman. When 9 (The Lord of the Ring's Elijah Wood)
first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans
are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others
like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their
extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that
hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive,
and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place.
As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on
them.
Win Free Mudhoney
Rhino has gotten into the digital game and they have offered me the opportunity to let one of you win a 100 percent bona fide legal download of either My Brother the Cow, or Piece Of Cake. The choice is yours. The albums are damn fine. Just comment on this post for a chance to win and I'll message you back with a super secret code. It's the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it.
20th Anniversary Multiple Editions of The Stone Roses Self Titled Album
Okay, so I admit I am an idiot for buying albums in multiple formats. I know I amount to a human cash machine. I know this is the record company squeezing every last ounce of money (and dignity) from me, but it's hard not to be excited about this announcement. September 8 four expanded editions of The Stone Roses eponymous album will be released. And this time they've all but provided the lube for us. I have a huge record geek boner right now. This album is fantastic and if you don't own it - please do yourself a favor and indulge.
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
3 CD/1 DVD/3 LP/USB/BOOK/PRINTS 88697430302-2
[barcode]
* Super deluxe, individually hand-numberd 12” album folder, slipcased with embossing and gold foil
* LIMTED EDITION – single run only
* Features classic John Squire artwork
* Box set includes re-mastered original album, re-mastered extras (including full-length “Fool’s Gold” and all B-sides), PLUS full CD of LOST DEMOS (including previously unreleased track “Pearl Bastard”)
* 180-gram heavyweight vinyl
* DVD features the Legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom gig plus 6 videos
* Lemon-shaped USB contains all audio, music videos, ringtones, wallpapers, previously unseen John Leckie home video footage of the “Fool’s Gold” recording, AND 5 previously unheard “backwards” tracks!
* 48-page bound book, crammed full of unseen photos and brand-new liner notes from the band, producer John Leckie, and high-profile fans, including Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Tim Burgess, Bobby Gillespie, and many more
* Six 12” John Squire single art prints of “I Wanna Be Adored,” “She Bangs The Drums,” “Elephant Stone,” “Fool’s Gold,” “I Am The Resurrection,” and “Made Of Stone”
CD 1 -The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Remaster)
** Original album plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold”
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs The Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don’t Stop
5. Bye Bye Badman
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made Of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This Is The One
11. I Am The Resurrection
12. Fool’s Gold
CD 2- The Extras
1. Elephant Stone (12” Version)
2. Full Fathom Five
3. The Hardest Thing
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fools Gold (Full Length)
10. What The World Is Waiting For
11. One Love (Full Length)
12. Something’s Burning (Full Length)
13. Where Angels Play
CD 3- The Lost Demos
**Includes previously unreleased “Pearl Bastard”
1. I Wanna Be Adored 3:45
2. She Bangs the Drums 3.46
3. Waterfall 04:45
4. Bye Bye Badman 04:20
5. Sugar Spun Sister 3.30
6. Shoot You Down (1 version) 4.20
7. This Is The One 4.00
8. I Am Resurrection 6.44
9. Elephant Stone 3.10
10. Going Down 2.40
11. Mersey Paradise 2:49
12. Where Angels Play 3.06
13. Something's Burning 03:00
14. One Love 6:22
15. Pearl Bastard 3.45
DVD
The entire legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom show plus videos for the six Silvertone singles.
Blackpool Live
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. Elephant Stone
3. Waterfall
4. Sugar Spun Sister
5. Made of Stone
6. She Bangs The Drums
7. Where Angels Play
8. Shoot You Down
9. Going Down
10. Mersey Paradise
11. I Am The Resurrection
Videos
1. Waterfall
2. Fools Gold
3. I Wanna Be Adored
4. One Love
5. She Bangs The Drums
6. Standing There
VINYL
LP 1 – Original album
LPs 2 & 3 – The Extras
THE BOOK
48-page softcover book containing unseen photos; new band interviews; interviews with producer John Leckie and high-profile fans, including Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Peter Hook, and others
LEMON USB
- All audio content
- John Leckie’s personal home video “Up at the Sawmill: The Making of Fool’s Gold”
- Five previously unheard backward tracks
- 48-page Digital Booklet
- Wallpapers
- Ringtones
ART PRINTS
Six 12” John Squire art prints taken from the UK singles: I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Elephant Stone / Fool’s Gold / One Love / I am The Resurrection
THE LEGACY EDITION
2 CD/1 DVD (need selection number)
[barcode]
CD 1 -The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Remaster)
** Original album plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold” (tracklist above)
CD 2- The Lost Demos
Includes previously unreleased “Pearl Bastard” (tracklist above)
DVD
The entire legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom show plus videos for the six Silvertone singles. (full menu above)
THE SPECIAL EDITION
1 CD (need selection number)
[barcode]
* Re-mastered original UK release plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold”
* Jewel case, 16-page booklet
THE VINYL EDITION
Gatefold 1 LP + 7” 88697546111-0
[barcode]
* Re-mastered original UK release
* Embossed gatefold vinyl with stunning new design layout
* Includes a white label 7” of lost track, “Pearl Bastard”
* Individually numbered, limited edition, single run only
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
3 CD/1 DVD/3 LP/USB/BOOK/PRINTS 88697430302-2
[barcode]
* Super deluxe, individually hand-numberd 12” album folder, slipcased with embossing and gold foil
* LIMTED EDITION – single run only
* Features classic John Squire artwork
* Box set includes re-mastered original album, re-mastered extras (including full-length “Fool’s Gold” and all B-sides), PLUS full CD of LOST DEMOS (including previously unreleased track “Pearl Bastard”)
* 180-gram heavyweight vinyl
* DVD features the Legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom gig plus 6 videos
* Lemon-shaped USB contains all audio, music videos, ringtones, wallpapers, previously unseen John Leckie home video footage of the “Fool’s Gold” recording, AND 5 previously unheard “backwards” tracks!
* 48-page bound book, crammed full of unseen photos and brand-new liner notes from the band, producer John Leckie, and high-profile fans, including Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Tim Burgess, Bobby Gillespie, and many more
* Six 12” John Squire single art prints of “I Wanna Be Adored,” “She Bangs The Drums,” “Elephant Stone,” “Fool’s Gold,” “I Am The Resurrection,” and “Made Of Stone”
CD 1 -The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Remaster)
** Original album plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold”
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs The Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don’t Stop
5. Bye Bye Badman
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made Of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This Is The One
11. I Am The Resurrection
12. Fool’s Gold
CD 2- The Extras
1. Elephant Stone (12” Version)
2. Full Fathom Five
3. The Hardest Thing
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fools Gold (Full Length)
10. What The World Is Waiting For
11. One Love (Full Length)
12. Something’s Burning (Full Length)
13. Where Angels Play
CD 3- The Lost Demos
**Includes previously unreleased “Pearl Bastard”
1. I Wanna Be Adored 3:45
2. She Bangs the Drums 3.46
3. Waterfall 04:45
4. Bye Bye Badman 04:20
5. Sugar Spun Sister 3.30
6. Shoot You Down (1 version) 4.20
7. This Is The One 4.00
8. I Am Resurrection 6.44
9. Elephant Stone 3.10
10. Going Down 2.40
11. Mersey Paradise 2:49
12. Where Angels Play 3.06
13. Something's Burning 03:00
14. One Love 6:22
15. Pearl Bastard 3.45
DVD
The entire legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom show plus videos for the six Silvertone singles.
Blackpool Live
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. Elephant Stone
3. Waterfall
4. Sugar Spun Sister
5. Made of Stone
6. She Bangs The Drums
7. Where Angels Play
8. Shoot You Down
9. Going Down
10. Mersey Paradise
11. I Am The Resurrection
Videos
1. Waterfall
2. Fools Gold
3. I Wanna Be Adored
4. One Love
5. She Bangs The Drums
6. Standing There
VINYL
LP 1 – Original album
LPs 2 & 3 – The Extras
THE BOOK
48-page softcover book containing unseen photos; new band interviews; interviews with producer John Leckie and high-profile fans, including Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Peter Hook, and others
LEMON USB
- All audio content
- John Leckie’s personal home video “Up at the Sawmill: The Making of Fool’s Gold”
- Five previously unheard backward tracks
- 48-page Digital Booklet
- Wallpapers
- Ringtones
ART PRINTS
Six 12” John Squire art prints taken from the UK singles: I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Elephant Stone / Fool’s Gold / One Love / I am The Resurrection
THE LEGACY EDITION
2 CD/1 DVD (need selection number)
[barcode]
CD 1 -The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Remaster)
** Original album plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold” (tracklist above)
CD 2- The Lost Demos
Includes previously unreleased “Pearl Bastard” (tracklist above)
DVD
The entire legendary Blackpool Empress Ballroom show plus videos for the six Silvertone singles. (full menu above)
THE SPECIAL EDITION
1 CD (need selection number)
[barcode]
* Re-mastered original UK release plus full 9:53 version of “Fool’s Gold”
* Jewel case, 16-page booklet
THE VINYL EDITION
Gatefold 1 LP + 7” 88697546111-0
[barcode]
* Re-mastered original UK release
* Embossed gatefold vinyl with stunning new design layout
* Includes a white label 7” of lost track, “Pearl Bastard”
* Individually numbered, limited edition, single run only
Attention Theramin Geeks (I say That Lovingly)
ART POP & THE POP MONTREAL SYMPOSIUM PRESENT:
A Community Curated, Built, & Performed Musico-Art Project: A Colossal Theremin Room
Installation & Workshop: Sept 30th - Oct 4th
Radio frequency oscillators? Variable Capacitors? It's as Sci-Fi as it sounds! The eerie and ethereal tones of early cinematic soundtracks such as those of Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing will be brought to life on a collossal scale at this year's Pop Montreal Symposium and Art Pop headquarters:
ESPACE RÉUNION - 6600 Hutchison, north of Beaubien
David Beaulieu and Christian Pelletier, the creators of the portable speaker suit worn by Patrick Watson during the Montreal International Jazz Fest (http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=fr-CA&brand=sympatico&vid=7180e7ea-c870-4a2a-bed6-149537034fca), envision a room of 16 antennas dispersed to create an interactive symphony of psychedelic sounds played by bodies in movement. This improvised and free-form communal experience is dependent upon the bodies present, but also upon funding from the community at large.
The Pop team and theremin creators have only 30 days to raise the 5000$ required to pay for the equipment, and thanks to Kickstarter.com, a free, invite-only way to fund ideas and endeavors, they can offer you a range of exclusive prIzes in exchange for your support of this mind-blowing endeavour! In exchange for your support, you may even be eligible for the following rewards:
• an exclusive track from Gentleman Reg or Dishwasher
• a VIP Festival Pass to the Pop Montreal International Music Festival
• a musical about you and 3 of your friends, written and performed by us.
• a custom-made Loudspeaker Suit built byBeaulieu and Pelletier themselves!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gianttheremin/lets-build-a-giant-room-sized-theremin-with-16-an
The backers pledge deadline is September 21st, so act quick! This project won't happen without you!
With love,
Pop Montreal, Art Pop, and the Symposium
A Community Curated, Built, & Performed Musico-Art Project: A Colossal Theremin Room
Installation & Workshop: Sept 30th - Oct 4th
Radio frequency oscillators? Variable Capacitors? It's as Sci-Fi as it sounds! The eerie and ethereal tones of early cinematic soundtracks such as those of Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing will be brought to life on a collossal scale at this year's Pop Montreal Symposium and Art Pop headquarters:
ESPACE RÉUNION - 6600 Hutchison, north of Beaubien
David Beaulieu and Christian Pelletier, the creators of the portable speaker suit worn by Patrick Watson during the Montreal International Jazz Fest (http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=fr-CA&brand=sympatico&vid=7180e7ea-c870-4a2a-bed6-149537034fca), envision a room of 16 antennas dispersed to create an interactive symphony of psychedelic sounds played by bodies in movement. This improvised and free-form communal experience is dependent upon the bodies present, but also upon funding from the community at large.
The Pop team and theremin creators have only 30 days to raise the 5000$ required to pay for the equipment, and thanks to Kickstarter.com, a free, invite-only way to fund ideas and endeavors, they can offer you a range of exclusive prIzes in exchange for your support of this mind-blowing endeavour! In exchange for your support, you may even be eligible for the following rewards:
• an exclusive track from Gentleman Reg or Dishwasher
• a VIP Festival Pass to the Pop Montreal International Music Festival
• a musical about you and 3 of your friends, written and performed by us.
• a custom-made Loudspeaker Suit built byBeaulieu and Pelletier themselves!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gianttheremin/lets-build-a-giant-room-sized-theremin-with-16-an
The backers pledge deadline is September 21st, so act quick! This project won't happen without you!
With love,
Pop Montreal, Art Pop, and the Symposium
This Week On Daytrotter
HEALTH at Daytrotter, 8/26/2009
Chuck Ragan at Daytrotter, 8/25/2009
Mew at Daytrotter, 8/24/2009
The Jones Street Station at Daytrotter, 8/23/2009
Arizona at Daytrotter, 8/22/2009
Barcelona at Daytrotter, 8/21/2009
Blk Jks at Daytrotter, 8/20/2009
Jackie Greene at Daytrotter, 8/19/2009
Still Flyin at Daytrotter, 8/18/2009
Alec Ounsworth at Daytrotter, 8/17/2009
Culture Reject at Daytrotter, 8/16/2009
Chuck Ragan at Daytrotter, 8/25/2009
Mew at Daytrotter, 8/24/2009
The Jones Street Station at Daytrotter, 8/23/2009
Arizona at Daytrotter, 8/22/2009
Barcelona at Daytrotter, 8/21/2009
Blk Jks at Daytrotter, 8/20/2009
Jackie Greene at Daytrotter, 8/19/2009
Still Flyin at Daytrotter, 8/18/2009
Alec Ounsworth at Daytrotter, 8/17/2009
Culture Reject at Daytrotter, 8/16/2009
Happy Anniversary Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo are Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew. They celebrate their 25th anniversary with the release of their sixteenth album, Popular Songs, on September 8. The band will be touring heavily to promote this release, so stay tuned for more information.
Confirmed Live Shows:
September 15 Winooski, VT Higher Ground
September 16 Boston, MA Wilbur Theater
September 17 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
September 18 Durham, NC Carolina Theater
September 19 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
September 21 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
September 22 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theater
September 23 Louisville, KY Headliners
September 24 Nelsonville, OH Stuart's Opera House
September 25 New York, NY Roseland (NYC)
October 02 Montreal, QC Le National
October 03 Toronto, ON Opera House
October 05 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
October 06 Chicago, IL The Vic
October 07 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
October 09 Omaha, NE Slowdown
October 10 Denver, CO Ogden
October 11 Solano Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
October 12 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
October 14 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theater
October 15 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
October 16 San Diego, CA Soma
October 17 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theater
October 18 San Francisco, CA 100% Equal Festival
October 20 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
October 21 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
October 22 Seattle, WA Showbox
There are MP3s available for "Here To Fall" and "Periodically Double Or Triple"
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/07/22/yo-la-tengo-here-to-fall-mp3/
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/06/04/coming-september-8-yo-la-tengos-popular-songs/
You may view videos here:http://www.matadorrecords.com/yo_la_tengo/just_listen/
Confirmed Live Shows:
September 15 Winooski, VT Higher Ground
September 16 Boston, MA Wilbur Theater
September 17 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
September 18 Durham, NC Carolina Theater
September 19 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
September 21 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
September 22 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theater
September 23 Louisville, KY Headliners
September 24 Nelsonville, OH Stuart's Opera House
September 25 New York, NY Roseland (NYC)
October 02 Montreal, QC Le National
October 03 Toronto, ON Opera House
October 05 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
October 06 Chicago, IL The Vic
October 07 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
October 09 Omaha, NE Slowdown
October 10 Denver, CO Ogden
October 11 Solano Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
October 12 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
October 14 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theater
October 15 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
October 16 San Diego, CA Soma
October 17 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theater
October 18 San Francisco, CA 100% Equal Festival
October 20 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
October 21 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
October 22 Seattle, WA Showbox
There are MP3s available for "Here To Fall" and "Periodically Double Or Triple"
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/07/22/yo-la-tengo-here-to-fall-mp3/
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/06/04/coming-september-8-yo-la-tengos-popular-songs/
You may view videos here:http://www.matadorrecords.com/yo_la_tengo/just_listen/
Psychic Ills Tour W/ The Butthole Surfers
September 24th at House Of Blues in Houston, TX
September 25th at House Of Blues in New Orleans, LA
September 26th at The Masquerade in Atlanta, GA
September 28th at Sonar in Baltimore, MA
September 29th at Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA
September 30th at The Paradise in Boston, MA
October 2nd at Phoenix Concert Theater in Toronto, ON
October 5th at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH
October 6th at Barrymore Theatre in Madison, WI
October 9th at Ogden Theater in Denver, CO
October 10th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City, UT
October 12th at Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC
October 13th at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, WA
October 14th at Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR
October 16th at Grand Ballroom - Regency in San Francisco, CA *
October 17th at Canes Bar & Grill in San Diego, CA *
October 18th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA *
All dates are with Butthole Surfers.
* also with The Melvins
September 25th at House Of Blues in New Orleans, LA
September 26th at The Masquerade in Atlanta, GA
September 28th at Sonar in Baltimore, MA
September 29th at Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA
September 30th at The Paradise in Boston, MA
October 2nd at Phoenix Concert Theater in Toronto, ON
October 5th at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH
October 6th at Barrymore Theatre in Madison, WI
October 9th at Ogden Theater in Denver, CO
October 10th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City, UT
October 12th at Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC
October 13th at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, WA
October 14th at Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR
October 16th at Grand Ballroom - Regency in San Francisco, CA *
October 17th at Canes Bar & Grill in San Diego, CA *
October 18th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA *
All dates are with Butthole Surfers.
* also with The Melvins
Pete Townshend Writing New Musical FLOSS
A message from Pete (via The Who.com),
"I am writing a new musical.
FLOSS is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages. FLOSS will be a son-et-lumiére musical piece, intended for outdoor performance, or arenas. Several of the more conventional songs from FLOSS will be featured on a forthcoming Who recording for release in 2010. FLOSS will be heard in concert for the first time in 2011, at a venue and date yet to be established. I am already having talks with producers in New York.
The collected music and sound for FLOSS convey the story of a married couple whose relationship gets into difficulty. Walter, a straight-cut pub rock musician, is able to retire when one of his songs becomes the TV anthem of a big car company. He becomes a house-husband while his wife Floss devotes herself to a riding stables and stud. When he tries to return to music after a fifteen year hiatus, he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged. A series of dramatic events in a hospital emergency ward bring them both to their senses.
While Roger Daltrey exercises his ageing vocal chords by embarking on a two month USE OR LOSE IT solo tour, my focus is on FLOSS, which touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll."
"I am writing a new musical.
FLOSS is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages. FLOSS will be a son-et-lumiére musical piece, intended for outdoor performance, or arenas. Several of the more conventional songs from FLOSS will be featured on a forthcoming Who recording for release in 2010. FLOSS will be heard in concert for the first time in 2011, at a venue and date yet to be established. I am already having talks with producers in New York.
The collected music and sound for FLOSS convey the story of a married couple whose relationship gets into difficulty. Walter, a straight-cut pub rock musician, is able to retire when one of his songs becomes the TV anthem of a big car company. He becomes a house-husband while his wife Floss devotes herself to a riding stables and stud. When he tries to return to music after a fifteen year hiatus, he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged. A series of dramatic events in a hospital emergency ward bring them both to their senses.
While Roger Daltrey exercises his ageing vocal chords by embarking on a two month USE OR LOSE IT solo tour, my focus is on FLOSS, which touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll."
Daniel Johnston and Jason Falkner Collaborate / Live Dates
"Everyone needs to take their demos and go back to the studio." Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston will release, Is And Always Was, October 6, via his own Eternal Yip Eye Music . He collaborated with Jason Falkner (Jellyfish, Beck, Air, Paul McCartney), who worked his studio trickery to help Johnston achieve his goals. guitar/piano and vocal melodies are backed by Falkner on guitar, bass, and keyboards with help from Joey Waronker (REM, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins) on drums.
Of the experience with Johnston, Falkner says, "He possesses that rare individuality that makes the listener wonder where this music comes from. It was challenging to make our minds work together but I really found myself immersed in his musical world. It's a unique place to live, that's for sure!"
Freedom MP3:click here
Live:
09/03/09 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
09/04/09 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/05/09 - Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
09/07/09 - Calgary, AB @ Knox United Church
09/08/09 - Edmonton, AB @ Meyer Horowitz Theatre
10/02/09 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/13/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/14/09 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
10/15/09 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10/16/09 - Montreal, PQ @ UK Fed
10/17/09 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
10/22/09 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
10/23/09 - San Diego, CA @ Caines
10/24/09 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
Official site - http://hihowareyou.com/
Trivia:
Johnston's art was included in the Whitney Museum Of American art Biennial in 2006. And his art book was released in March of this year by Rizzoli Publications.
Daniel Johnston will release, Is And Always Was, October 6, via his own Eternal Yip Eye Music . He collaborated with Jason Falkner (Jellyfish, Beck, Air, Paul McCartney), who worked his studio trickery to help Johnston achieve his goals. guitar/piano and vocal melodies are backed by Falkner on guitar, bass, and keyboards with help from Joey Waronker (REM, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins) on drums.
Of the experience with Johnston, Falkner says, "He possesses that rare individuality that makes the listener wonder where this music comes from. It was challenging to make our minds work together but I really found myself immersed in his musical world. It's a unique place to live, that's for sure!"
Freedom MP3:click here
Live:
09/03/09 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
09/04/09 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/05/09 - Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
09/07/09 - Calgary, AB @ Knox United Church
09/08/09 - Edmonton, AB @ Meyer Horowitz Theatre
10/02/09 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/13/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/14/09 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
10/15/09 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10/16/09 - Montreal, PQ @ UK Fed
10/17/09 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
10/22/09 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
10/23/09 - San Diego, CA @ Caines
10/24/09 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
Official site - http://hihowareyou.com/
Trivia:
Johnston's art was included in the Whitney Museum Of American art Biennial in 2006. And his art book was released in March of this year by Rizzoli Publications.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A Reminder About The Burroughs Naked Lunch Event / Tortoise After Party
The following special event is a benefit for the film William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.
AN HOMAGE TO WILLIAM S.BURROUGHS’ THE NAKED LUNCH
TH!NKART,
BULLETPROOF FILM,
CIMMFEST & STOP SMILING MAGAZINE PRESENT
THE NAKED LUNCH 50th ANNIVERSARY
A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND
TIMES OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Please join Academy Award Nominee Peter Weller
for an evening of art, readings, happenings, and performances
to support the new documentary
“William S. Burroughs: A Man Within”directed by Yony Leyser
Featuring an exhibition of William Burroughs’ artwork
with a special preview screening of documentary trailer
5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.–Friday, August 28, 2009
TH!NKARTTMSalon 1530 N. Paulina, Suite F, Chicago, IL
Authors, poets & Beat scholars:
Penny Arcade, AndyWarhol Superstar
Anne Waldman, Poet & Co-Founder (with Allen Ginsberg) of the
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Hal Willner, Saturday Night Live’s musical director
James Grauerholz, William S. Burroughs Estate Executor
John Long,author, new book Drugs and the Beats
Kurt Hemmer, author, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
Tony Trigilio,author, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics
Dr. Bill Ayers, DistinguishedProfessor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Live music by Anni Rossi & Maya Jensen
Sumptuous cuisine catered by Chef Daniel Mejia
Open bar serving Burroughs’ special elixirs
9:30 pm After-Party
Penny Arcade, David Daniell & Doug McCombs (Tortoise), and DJs
STOP SMILING Magazine 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Donations accepted online atwww.cimmfest.org for $60 or at the door for $75
Price includes both events.For more information call 773.252.2294
PARIS, LONDON, NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO & NOW ...CHICAGO
AN HOMAGE TO WILLIAM S.BURROUGHS’
THE NAKED LUNCH
TH!NKART Salon
1530 N.Paulina, Suite F
Chicago, Illinois 60622
One More Chance To Win Jack White's Golden Ticket
(If you live in L.A. that is)
A message from The Dead Weather:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday, Third Man Records in Los Angeles opens tomorrow, new t-shirts available & Mexico City on sale!
The Dead Weather will be performing on the outside stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Friday, August 28th which airs at 12:05 am/11:05 pm CDT. If you are in the area and are interested in seeing the performance go HERE for ticket info.
New t-shirts have been added to The Dead Weather webstore. To visit, please click HERE.
Don't forget to stop by the Grand Opening of Third Man Records and Novelties West tomorrow, doors open at 10 am and The Dead Weather will be performing at noon. Entrance to the performance is on a first come, first served basis so be sure to get there early.
A reminder that we will be giving away our last "golden ticket" trip to Nashville to tour the original Third Man Records facility and we are giving you twice as many chances to win! Purchase a copy of “Horehound” on either vinyl or CD (or both if you want to double your chance at winning), and your name will be entered into a drawing for the trip that will occur on Friday, August 28th as we celebrate the closing of our beloved, short lived, LA cousin at 8 pm. *You no longer need to be present to win.
We look forward to seeing you, here's a reminder of our location, days of business and store hours:
Third Man Records and Novelties West
448 S. Main Street (between 4th and 5th)
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013
Wednesday, August 26th: 10 am - 8 pm
Thursday, August 27th: 12 pm - 8 pm
Friday, August 28th: 12 pm - 8 pm
More live shows announced:
Mexico City October 8
Venue: Jose Cuervo Salon
Address: Lago Andromaco #17 esq. Moliere, Col. Ampliación Granada, México, DF 08400
Guadalajara October 9
Venue: Teatro Estudio Cavaret
Address: Av. Parres Arias esquina Periférico Frente a Belenes, Zapopan, JAL 44630
On Monday, October 5th The Dead Weather play the House of Blues in Dallas, TX. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 28th at 10 am CDT. Pre-sale tickets will be available Wednesday, August 26th at Noon CDT EXCLUSIVELY to members of the Vault, the fan subscription service of Third Man Records.
A message from The Dead Weather:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday, Third Man Records in Los Angeles opens tomorrow, new t-shirts available & Mexico City on sale!
The Dead Weather will be performing on the outside stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Friday, August 28th which airs at 12:05 am/11:05 pm CDT. If you are in the area and are interested in seeing the performance go HERE for ticket info.
New t-shirts have been added to The Dead Weather webstore. To visit, please click HERE.
Don't forget to stop by the Grand Opening of Third Man Records and Novelties West tomorrow, doors open at 10 am and The Dead Weather will be performing at noon. Entrance to the performance is on a first come, first served basis so be sure to get there early.
A reminder that we will be giving away our last "golden ticket" trip to Nashville to tour the original Third Man Records facility and we are giving you twice as many chances to win! Purchase a copy of “Horehound” on either vinyl or CD (or both if you want to double your chance at winning), and your name will be entered into a drawing for the trip that will occur on Friday, August 28th as we celebrate the closing of our beloved, short lived, LA cousin at 8 pm. *You no longer need to be present to win.
We look forward to seeing you, here's a reminder of our location, days of business and store hours:
Third Man Records and Novelties West
448 S. Main Street (between 4th and 5th)
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013
Wednesday, August 26th: 10 am - 8 pm
Thursday, August 27th: 12 pm - 8 pm
Friday, August 28th: 12 pm - 8 pm
More live shows announced:
Mexico City October 8
Venue: Jose Cuervo Salon
Address: Lago Andromaco #17 esq. Moliere, Col. Ampliación Granada, México, DF 08400
Guadalajara October 9
Venue: Teatro Estudio Cavaret
Address: Av. Parres Arias esquina Periférico Frente a Belenes, Zapopan, JAL 44630
On Monday, October 5th The Dead Weather play the House of Blues in Dallas, TX. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 28th at 10 am CDT. Pre-sale tickets will be available Wednesday, August 26th at Noon CDT EXCLUSIVELY to members of the Vault, the fan subscription service of Third Man Records.
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band Between My Head And The Sky
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band will release Between My Head And The Sky, September 22nd On Chimera Music.
Below you will find the press release info and liner notes' credits:
From Fluxus and performance-art pioneer and Two Virgins to chart-topping dance-music heroine (inspiring punk rock along the way!), Yoko Ono has been an innovative and influential force on music and art, while simultaneously campaigning for peace on the world's stage. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass -- and is preparing to release BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY, a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future.
The sessions happened at NYC’s Sear Sound, the same studio that used to house the old Hit Factory, where Double Fantasy was recorded. Sean Lennon both produced with Yoko and acted as musical leader for a group evenly divided between Japanese avant pop musicians, and downtown Manhattan improvisers. In the Japanese contingent is Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, plus the current group led by Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada, which includes Yuko Araki and Hirotaka Shimmy Shimizu. Cornelius and Ms. Ono performed together in Tokyo in January, and Yoko was so happy with the result she invited them over to record. In the Manhattan improv camp we find Shahzad Ismaily (guitar, bass, percussion), Erik Friedlander(cello), Michael Leonhart (trumpet, vibes), Daniel Carter (reeds) and Indigo Street (guitar) -- a singularly gifted group of instrumentalists.
As Sean says, “Yoko unleashed a deluge of new songs, writing about 16 songs in six days. The most prolific day peaking out at six songs written and tracked in an afternoon. The recording session was like a tornado of inspiration. Some of the best lyrics on the record Yoko actually 'freestyled' as if she were a lyrical divining rod.”
The results are amazing. The opening track, “Waiting for the D Train” is a raw, gorgeous rocker in the classic Plastic Ono Band style, with orgone guitar bursts opening the way for a wild cascade of vocals. The following track, “The Sun Is Down!” is a softly charming cord of electronic pulse-glimmers intertwined with casually ecstatic vocal inventions. The third track, “Ask the Elephant!” has the feel of a dark, smoky room, late at night, with the musicians holding the edges of an avant groove while Yoko improvises over them. BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY fluctuates between these styes, and variations thereon, in a very organic way, adding pieces and removing them with a master artist’s logic.
The lyrically elegiac feel suffusing this album is especially evident on the last three songs – “Unun. To,” “I’m Going Away Smiling” and “Higa Noboru” – two of which are sung partly in Japanese. But Ms. Ono takes a variety of textual approaches, and they are brilliantly matched by the ensemble. While each of Yoko’s individual stylestreams will have its proponents, it’s hard to imagine a more beautifully balanced collection of work by one of contemporary culture's reigning geniuses.
Yoko Ono. BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY. Hold that thought.
Biography
YOKO ONO is a force of nature. She is also one of the most important and enduring artists of the last half-century. Her physical trajectory took her from Japan in the 1940s to America in the ‘50s and ‘60s. There was a momentary return to her homeland in the early ‘60s, then back to America (specifically New York City). After that, there’s her mid ‘60s visit to London, where she met John Lennon, and all that transpired henceforth -- famous and infamous. Hers is a spectacular timeline through the counterculture of the late 20th century.
The celebrated flash notes of her life with Lennon have been obsessively documented and analyzed. Yoko’s own, autonomous history as an academic, musician, artist, filmmaker and a radical innovator in all of these fields has been perennially overshadowed in mainstream journals. It has only been within the last decade that serious consideration of Yoko’s work by above-ground culturistas has even been considered. But it remains a subject that most media-types approach with mincing trepidation and uncomfortable jokes.
When the fantastic Yes Yoko Ono exhibition (and its amazing catalogue, published by Harry N. Abrams) was realized at Japan Society in New York in 2000, art critic Michael Kimmelman reviewed it succinctly in the New York Times (October 27, 2000), detailing Yoko’s rich art lineage. He noted how Yoko established, alongside La Monte Young, the first real artist’s loft, where music and performance were united with the shock of art-as-action. This was where Yoko created works such as “Smoke Piece,” where the audience was asked to burn the art and the self-explanatory “Painting To Be Stepped On.”
Yoko’s loft is where the iconoclast George Maciunas -- a formidable outsider force in his own right, who ran the AG Gallery uptown -– first became entranced by Buddhist positivity with its smiling, gentle nature. This was an element Maciunas immediately grabbed and threw into the berserk counterculture soupcon he christened, Fluxus. If there’s anything that prefigures punk rock it’s Maciunas, Yoko and the Fluxus movement.
Interestingly, Kimmelman blows his cover as one art critic who might fully grasp Yoko’s genius, by denouncing her musical activities. He proclaims her visual art, in retrospect, to be underappreciated. He posits her marriage to Lennon was a leap into celebrity, but one to which she absolutely brought an awareness of celebrity-as-performance. He even opines that her films are her greatest achievements (alongside her brilliant, pre-feminist performance masterwork, “Cut Piece”). But he negates these opinions by tossing out a dismissive kneejerk comment about her music, one whose idiocy is not mitigated by its wide currency. “The music is unbearable,” he writes. “And let's leave it at that”.
An art critic without the ability to assess musical art with the same aesthetic consciousness he applies to visual art is, to some degree, crippled. But Kimmelman’s myopia is not confined to the compartmentalized world of conventional art critics. There has been a general idea bruited about that Yoko Ono’s art, particularly in its musical form, is not worth much or is some kind of cruel joke being played on the public. This idea is so foreign to our ears that it’s almost ungraspable.
Yoko’s music and her visuals have always been stunning, and not easily separable. Yoko Ono as musician, as composer, inhabits personae explicitly integral to her life and career as an artist. The ideas and sounds that run throughout her compositions are as filled with wonder and humor and ingenuity as her most engaging work in film, object art, et al. Indeed, her vocal concepts, inside the context of Beatles recordings -- the highest profile pop music recordings in history -- are astounding, not only for their organic thought-tongue individuality, but also for their ability to deliver genuinely avant-garde statements to a mainstream world.
The fact that this person is female, Japanese, an artist, and was married to John Lennon is something people are still trying to figure out. For many, it’s just a weird bit of proof that there’s a world out there (somewhere) far more fascinating than Main Street. But Yoko’s music is still regarded by the straight press and the bulk of its adherents as an anomaly, some sort of eccentric affectation. The truth is that Yoko studied and practiced traditional composition in the 1950s, while simultaneously exploring ideas of alternative notational theory. This places her right in the same class as such acknowledged transitional thinkers as John Cage, Henry Cowell, and David Tudor. Yoko’s compositional work, perhaps especially the “instruction pieces,” and her sharp-edged performances, were profound by any measure. When you factor in her ethnicity and gender, it’s easy to believe her efforts were more functionally radical than those of any contemporaries. In the context of her partnership with John Lennon, we got to experience a premier avant garde artist’s attempt to unify her own process with a rock n’ roll dynamic. Which, alongside the art/music relationship of Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground and the influence these mutually beneficial connectives have had on the modern state of art/rock, is pretty goddamn revolutionary.
Since her first commercially released recording – Two Virgins – created in partnership with John Lennon, Yoko has breathed life into a brilliant body of musical work. Initially, this fact was only grasped by listeners at the fringes – proto-punks, improvisers and experiementalists of various stripes – but the last decade has finally seen the beginnings of a serious re-evaluation of her oeuvre. And whilst the wilder parts of her whole seem to still be beyond the grasp of squares, her 2007 album, Yes, I’m a Witch, on which she was joined by a who’s who of the international rock underground, show that many people have figured out the secret beauty of her moves. This graceful arc continues with Between Her Head and the Sky.
- Byron Coley, June, 2009
Words and Music By Yoko Ono, © Ono Music (BMI), 2009
Produced by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon
Assistant Producer: Yuka Honda
Mixed by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda
Except Watching the Rain and The Sun Is Down! mixed by Cornelius, with Toyoaki Mishima and Toru Takayama
And Ask The Elephant! mixed by Scott Hollingsworth
Yoko Ono: vocals
Sean Lennon: acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion
Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada: guitars, bass, Tenorion, programming, percussion
Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu: guitars, percussion
Yuko "mi-gu" Araki: drums, percussion
Shahzad Ismaily: guitars, bass, drums, percussion
Yuka Honda: Pro-tools editing, sampler, e. piano, organ, percussion
Michael Leonhart: trumpet, vibraphone, percussion
Erik Friedlander: cello
Daniel Carter: tenor saxophone, flute
Indigo Street: guitar
Chief Engineer: Christopher Allen
Assistant Engineer: Dave Schoenwetter
Recorded & Mixed at Sear Sound
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
Cover and booklet design: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl
Photographs: Greg Kadel
Below you will find the press release info and liner notes' credits:
From Fluxus and performance-art pioneer and Two Virgins to chart-topping dance-music heroine (inspiring punk rock along the way!), Yoko Ono has been an innovative and influential force on music and art, while simultaneously campaigning for peace on the world's stage. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass -- and is preparing to release BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY, a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future.
The sessions happened at NYC’s Sear Sound, the same studio that used to house the old Hit Factory, where Double Fantasy was recorded. Sean Lennon both produced with Yoko and acted as musical leader for a group evenly divided between Japanese avant pop musicians, and downtown Manhattan improvisers. In the Japanese contingent is Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, plus the current group led by Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada, which includes Yuko Araki and Hirotaka Shimmy Shimizu. Cornelius and Ms. Ono performed together in Tokyo in January, and Yoko was so happy with the result she invited them over to record. In the Manhattan improv camp we find Shahzad Ismaily (guitar, bass, percussion), Erik Friedlander(cello), Michael Leonhart (trumpet, vibes), Daniel Carter (reeds) and Indigo Street (guitar) -- a singularly gifted group of instrumentalists.
As Sean says, “Yoko unleashed a deluge of new songs, writing about 16 songs in six days. The most prolific day peaking out at six songs written and tracked in an afternoon. The recording session was like a tornado of inspiration. Some of the best lyrics on the record Yoko actually 'freestyled' as if she were a lyrical divining rod.”
The results are amazing. The opening track, “Waiting for the D Train” is a raw, gorgeous rocker in the classic Plastic Ono Band style, with orgone guitar bursts opening the way for a wild cascade of vocals. The following track, “The Sun Is Down!” is a softly charming cord of electronic pulse-glimmers intertwined with casually ecstatic vocal inventions. The third track, “Ask the Elephant!” has the feel of a dark, smoky room, late at night, with the musicians holding the edges of an avant groove while Yoko improvises over them. BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY fluctuates between these styes, and variations thereon, in a very organic way, adding pieces and removing them with a master artist’s logic.
The lyrically elegiac feel suffusing this album is especially evident on the last three songs – “Unun. To,” “I’m Going Away Smiling” and “Higa Noboru” – two of which are sung partly in Japanese. But Ms. Ono takes a variety of textual approaches, and they are brilliantly matched by the ensemble. While each of Yoko’s individual stylestreams will have its proponents, it’s hard to imagine a more beautifully balanced collection of work by one of contemporary culture's reigning geniuses.
Yoko Ono. BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY. Hold that thought.
Biography
YOKO ONO is a force of nature. She is also one of the most important and enduring artists of the last half-century. Her physical trajectory took her from Japan in the 1940s to America in the ‘50s and ‘60s. There was a momentary return to her homeland in the early ‘60s, then back to America (specifically New York City). After that, there’s her mid ‘60s visit to London, where she met John Lennon, and all that transpired henceforth -- famous and infamous. Hers is a spectacular timeline through the counterculture of the late 20th century.
The celebrated flash notes of her life with Lennon have been obsessively documented and analyzed. Yoko’s own, autonomous history as an academic, musician, artist, filmmaker and a radical innovator in all of these fields has been perennially overshadowed in mainstream journals. It has only been within the last decade that serious consideration of Yoko’s work by above-ground culturistas has even been considered. But it remains a subject that most media-types approach with mincing trepidation and uncomfortable jokes.
When the fantastic Yes Yoko Ono exhibition (and its amazing catalogue, published by Harry N. Abrams) was realized at Japan Society in New York in 2000, art critic Michael Kimmelman reviewed it succinctly in the New York Times (October 27, 2000), detailing Yoko’s rich art lineage. He noted how Yoko established, alongside La Monte Young, the first real artist’s loft, where music and performance were united with the shock of art-as-action. This was where Yoko created works such as “Smoke Piece,” where the audience was asked to burn the art and the self-explanatory “Painting To Be Stepped On.”
Yoko’s loft is where the iconoclast George Maciunas -- a formidable outsider force in his own right, who ran the AG Gallery uptown -– first became entranced by Buddhist positivity with its smiling, gentle nature. This was an element Maciunas immediately grabbed and threw into the berserk counterculture soupcon he christened, Fluxus. If there’s anything that prefigures punk rock it’s Maciunas, Yoko and the Fluxus movement.
Interestingly, Kimmelman blows his cover as one art critic who might fully grasp Yoko’s genius, by denouncing her musical activities. He proclaims her visual art, in retrospect, to be underappreciated. He posits her marriage to Lennon was a leap into celebrity, but one to which she absolutely brought an awareness of celebrity-as-performance. He even opines that her films are her greatest achievements (alongside her brilliant, pre-feminist performance masterwork, “Cut Piece”). But he negates these opinions by tossing out a dismissive kneejerk comment about her music, one whose idiocy is not mitigated by its wide currency. “The music is unbearable,” he writes. “And let's leave it at that”.
An art critic without the ability to assess musical art with the same aesthetic consciousness he applies to visual art is, to some degree, crippled. But Kimmelman’s myopia is not confined to the compartmentalized world of conventional art critics. There has been a general idea bruited about that Yoko Ono’s art, particularly in its musical form, is not worth much or is some kind of cruel joke being played on the public. This idea is so foreign to our ears that it’s almost ungraspable.
Yoko’s music and her visuals have always been stunning, and not easily separable. Yoko Ono as musician, as composer, inhabits personae explicitly integral to her life and career as an artist. The ideas and sounds that run throughout her compositions are as filled with wonder and humor and ingenuity as her most engaging work in film, object art, et al. Indeed, her vocal concepts, inside the context of Beatles recordings -- the highest profile pop music recordings in history -- are astounding, not only for their organic thought-tongue individuality, but also for their ability to deliver genuinely avant-garde statements to a mainstream world.
The fact that this person is female, Japanese, an artist, and was married to John Lennon is something people are still trying to figure out. For many, it’s just a weird bit of proof that there’s a world out there (somewhere) far more fascinating than Main Street. But Yoko’s music is still regarded by the straight press and the bulk of its adherents as an anomaly, some sort of eccentric affectation. The truth is that Yoko studied and practiced traditional composition in the 1950s, while simultaneously exploring ideas of alternative notational theory. This places her right in the same class as such acknowledged transitional thinkers as John Cage, Henry Cowell, and David Tudor. Yoko’s compositional work, perhaps especially the “instruction pieces,” and her sharp-edged performances, were profound by any measure. When you factor in her ethnicity and gender, it’s easy to believe her efforts were more functionally radical than those of any contemporaries. In the context of her partnership with John Lennon, we got to experience a premier avant garde artist’s attempt to unify her own process with a rock n’ roll dynamic. Which, alongside the art/music relationship of Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground and the influence these mutually beneficial connectives have had on the modern state of art/rock, is pretty goddamn revolutionary.
Since her first commercially released recording – Two Virgins – created in partnership with John Lennon, Yoko has breathed life into a brilliant body of musical work. Initially, this fact was only grasped by listeners at the fringes – proto-punks, improvisers and experiementalists of various stripes – but the last decade has finally seen the beginnings of a serious re-evaluation of her oeuvre. And whilst the wilder parts of her whole seem to still be beyond the grasp of squares, her 2007 album, Yes, I’m a Witch, on which she was joined by a who’s who of the international rock underground, show that many people have figured out the secret beauty of her moves. This graceful arc continues with Between Her Head and the Sky.
- Byron Coley, June, 2009
Words and Music By Yoko Ono, © Ono Music (BMI), 2009
Produced by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon
Assistant Producer: Yuka Honda
Mixed by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda
Except Watching the Rain and The Sun Is Down! mixed by Cornelius, with Toyoaki Mishima and Toru Takayama
And Ask The Elephant! mixed by Scott Hollingsworth
Yoko Ono: vocals
Sean Lennon: acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion
Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada: guitars, bass, Tenorion, programming, percussion
Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu: guitars, percussion
Yuko "mi-gu" Araki: drums, percussion
Shahzad Ismaily: guitars, bass, drums, percussion
Yuka Honda: Pro-tools editing, sampler, e. piano, organ, percussion
Michael Leonhart: trumpet, vibraphone, percussion
Erik Friedlander: cello
Daniel Carter: tenor saxophone, flute
Indigo Street: guitar
Chief Engineer: Christopher Allen
Assistant Engineer: Dave Schoenwetter
Recorded & Mixed at Sear Sound
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
Cover and booklet design: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl
Photographs: Greg Kadel
Corn Mo's .357 Lover
Corn Mo's band .357 Lover release Diorama of the Golden Lion, September 29. Aditionally they've released tour dates in promotion of the self released album.
"Time travel, making out at the mall, werewolves, rock operas and a German lady. It’s not the recipe to the greatest teenage, sci-fi horror movie ever made; it’s .357 Lover." - press materials
"By the time he was through, I had no idea if Corn Mo was a comic hack, a real retard or a true genius. And I'm still not sure, which gives even more credence to that genius theory." - New York Press
Rolling Stone:
"Jon Cunningham, aka Corn Mo is the future of music. Maybe it's the look, the long blonde mane, the big sideburns, the sparkling outfits...arena rock magic"
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
"The holy offspring of Meatloaf and ELO. Hysterically delicious poprocks!"
Tracklisting:
1. Diorama of the Golden Lion
2. Nighttime School
3. Maybe Tonite
4. Give It Up
5. Event Horizon
6. Time Cop
7. German Lady Special
8. Old Man
9. Sweet Kentucky Girl
10. Junior High
11. I'm Sorry
12. High on the Horse
13. Thank You
14. You're My Baby
15. Hava Nagilah Monster
"Time travel, making out at the mall, werewolves, rock operas and a German lady. It’s not the recipe to the greatest teenage, sci-fi horror movie ever made; it’s .357 Lover." - press materials
"By the time he was through, I had no idea if Corn Mo was a comic hack, a real retard or a true genius. And I'm still not sure, which gives even more credence to that genius theory." - New York Press
Rolling Stone:
"Jon Cunningham, aka Corn Mo is the future of music. Maybe it's the look, the long blonde mane, the big sideburns, the sparkling outfits...arena rock magic"
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
"The holy offspring of Meatloaf and ELO. Hysterically delicious poprocks!"
Tracklisting:
1. Diorama of the Golden Lion
2. Nighttime School
3. Maybe Tonite
4. Give It Up
5. Event Horizon
6. Time Cop
7. German Lady Special
8. Old Man
9. Sweet Kentucky Girl
10. Junior High
11. I'm Sorry
12. High on the Horse
13. Thank You
14. You're My Baby
15. Hava Nagilah Monster
2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest Line-up
Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Tx:
RATATAT - OF MONTREAL - CRYSTAL CASTLES - LES SAVY FAV - YEASAYER - MISSION OF BURMA - LUCERO - WHY? - BROADCAST - ATLAS SOUND - DEATH (DETROIT) - NO AGE - RED SPAROWES - SHONEN KNIFE - FUCK BUTTONS - TIMES NEW VIKING - THIS WILL DESTROY YOU - CRYSTAL ANTLERS - GROWING - BLACK AND WHITE YEARS - ROYAL BANGS - THE LAUGHING - JESUS LIZARD - DANZIG - GORILLA BISCUITS - FACE TO FACE - FUCKED UP - 7 SECONDS - D.R.I. TORCHE - MELT BANANA - FLIPPER - COALESCE RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS - STREET DOGS - RUSSIAN CIRCLES NIGHT MARCHERS - METALLAGHER - YOUTH BRIGADE - MIKA MIKO ALL LEATHER - YOUNG WIDOWS - COLISEUM - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND - OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - REIGN SUPREME - RAT KING - PACK OF WOLVES - ROLLER - THE COOL KIDS - PHARCYDE - GZA/GENIUS (PERFORMING LIQUID SWORDS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS) - KID SISTER BARUKA SOM SISTEMA - DJ NUMARK (JURASSIC 5) - HEALTH NEON INDIAN - MC CHRIS - SSION - ALASKA IN WINTER - VEGA - FOOT PATROL - ASTRONAUTALIS - CAR STEREO (WARS) - THE DJ MELEE - SUGAR & GOLD LAX - PELIGROSA DJS - BETA PLAYER - DESTROYER - WHITEST KIDS YOU KNOW SKETCH COMEDY TROUPE - BRIAN POSEHN - KING KHAN BBQ - SHEARWATER - TODD BARRY - DEAD CONFEDERATE - NICK THUNE - HARLEM - JOSH FADEM - STRANGE BOYS - HANNIBAL BURRESS - JAMES HUSBAND (OF MONTREAL) - BRENDAN WALSH - CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNING MALCOLM - CHELSEA PERETTI - BANKRUPT AND THE BORROWERS - ALTERCATION COMEDY HOUR - MOONLIGHT TOWERS - LOW LINE CALLER - NEW MOVEMENT COMEDY GROUP - AND MORE TO COME
Tickets go on sale today at the brand new Fun Fun Fun Fest website (http://www.funfunfunfest.com/).
EARLY BIRD TICKETS (LIMITED FOR 2 WEEKS)
$67.50 / WEEKEND PASS
EARLY BIRD PIP TICKETS (LIMITED FOR 2 WEEKS)
$135 / PIP WEEKEND PASS
RATATAT - OF MONTREAL - CRYSTAL CASTLES - LES SAVY FAV - YEASAYER - MISSION OF BURMA - LUCERO - WHY? - BROADCAST - ATLAS SOUND - DEATH (DETROIT) - NO AGE - RED SPAROWES - SHONEN KNIFE - FUCK BUTTONS - TIMES NEW VIKING - THIS WILL DESTROY YOU - CRYSTAL ANTLERS - GROWING - BLACK AND WHITE YEARS - ROYAL BANGS - THE LAUGHING - JESUS LIZARD - DANZIG - GORILLA BISCUITS - FACE TO FACE - FUCKED UP - 7 SECONDS - D.R.I. TORCHE - MELT BANANA - FLIPPER - COALESCE RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS - STREET DOGS - RUSSIAN CIRCLES NIGHT MARCHERS - METALLAGHER - YOUTH BRIGADE - MIKA MIKO ALL LEATHER - YOUNG WIDOWS - COLISEUM - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND - OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - REIGN SUPREME - RAT KING - PACK OF WOLVES - ROLLER - THE COOL KIDS - PHARCYDE - GZA/GENIUS (PERFORMING LIQUID SWORDS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS) - KID SISTER BARUKA SOM SISTEMA - DJ NUMARK (JURASSIC 5) - HEALTH NEON INDIAN - MC CHRIS - SSION - ALASKA IN WINTER - VEGA - FOOT PATROL - ASTRONAUTALIS - CAR STEREO (WARS) - THE DJ MELEE - SUGAR & GOLD LAX - PELIGROSA DJS - BETA PLAYER - DESTROYER - WHITEST KIDS YOU KNOW SKETCH COMEDY TROUPE - BRIAN POSEHN - KING KHAN BBQ - SHEARWATER - TODD BARRY - DEAD CONFEDERATE - NICK THUNE - HARLEM - JOSH FADEM - STRANGE BOYS - HANNIBAL BURRESS - JAMES HUSBAND (OF MONTREAL) - BRENDAN WALSH - CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNING MALCOLM - CHELSEA PERETTI - BANKRUPT AND THE BORROWERS - ALTERCATION COMEDY HOUR - MOONLIGHT TOWERS - LOW LINE CALLER - NEW MOVEMENT COMEDY GROUP - AND MORE TO COME
Tickets go on sale today at the brand new Fun Fun Fun Fest website (http://www.funfunfunfest.com/).
EARLY BIRD TICKETS (LIMITED FOR 2 WEEKS)
$67.50 / WEEKEND PASS
EARLY BIRD PIP TICKETS (LIMITED FOR 2 WEEKS)
$135 / PIP WEEKEND PASS
Monday, August 24, 2009
Morphine 2 Disk of Rarities Set At Your Service
Rhino will release a Morphine compilation, At Your Service, consisting entirely of previously unreleased live and studio tracks, on October 6. Die hards will likely have some of these tracks, but certainly not all...
10-Year Anniversary of Lead Singer’s Untimely Death
Surviving Members to Play Tribute Show on September 27 in Cambridge
All songs previously unreleased
Disc 1 - Shadows
1. “At Your Service”
2. “Come Over”
3. “Come Along”
4. “It’s Not Like That Anymore”
5. “Patience” (Alternate Version)
6. “Call Back”
7. “Bye Bye Johnny”
8. “Hello Baby”
9. “Women R Dogs”
10. “You’re An Artist” (Alternate Version)
11. “5:09”
12. “Lilah II”
13. “Moons Of Jupiter”
14. “Lunch In Hell”
15. “Imaginary Song” (Alternate Version)
16. “Shadow (I Know You Part V)”
Disc 2 - Shade
1. “Good” (Live – WMBR ’92)
2. “Only One” (Live – WMBR ’92)
3. “Shoot ’Em Down” (Live – WMBR ’92)
4. “Saddest Song” (Live – WMBR ’92)
5. “Claire” (Live – WMBR ’92)
6. “I Had My Chance” (Alternate Version)
7. “Buena” (Alternate Version)
8. “Empty Box” (Alternate Version)
9. “All Wrong” (Alternate Version)
10. “Put It Down (Wo-Oh)” (Live – WMBR ’93)
11. “Free Love” (Live – WMBR ’93)
12. “Sexy Christmas Baby Mine” (Live – WMBR ’93)
13. “Scratch” (Live – WMBR ’93)
14. “Super Sex” (Live – WMBR ’93)
15. “Radar” (Live – WMBR ’93)
16. “I’d Catch You”
17. “The Night” (Alternate Version)
18. “Take Me With You” (Alternate Version)
19. “Shade (I Know You Part IV)”
10-Year Anniversary of Lead Singer’s Untimely Death
Surviving Members to Play Tribute Show on September 27 in Cambridge
All songs previously unreleased
Disc 1 - Shadows
1. “At Your Service”
2. “Come Over”
3. “Come Along”
4. “It’s Not Like That Anymore”
5. “Patience” (Alternate Version)
6. “Call Back”
7. “Bye Bye Johnny”
8. “Hello Baby”
9. “Women R Dogs”
10. “You’re An Artist” (Alternate Version)
11. “5:09”
12. “Lilah II”
13. “Moons Of Jupiter”
14. “Lunch In Hell”
15. “Imaginary Song” (Alternate Version)
16. “Shadow (I Know You Part V)”
Disc 2 - Shade
1. “Good” (Live – WMBR ’92)
2. “Only One” (Live – WMBR ’92)
3. “Shoot ’Em Down” (Live – WMBR ’92)
4. “Saddest Song” (Live – WMBR ’92)
5. “Claire” (Live – WMBR ’92)
6. “I Had My Chance” (Alternate Version)
7. “Buena” (Alternate Version)
8. “Empty Box” (Alternate Version)
9. “All Wrong” (Alternate Version)
10. “Put It Down (Wo-Oh)” (Live – WMBR ’93)
11. “Free Love” (Live – WMBR ’93)
12. “Sexy Christmas Baby Mine” (Live – WMBR ’93)
13. “Scratch” (Live – WMBR ’93)
14. “Super Sex” (Live – WMBR ’93)
15. “Radar” (Live – WMBR ’93)
16. “I’d Catch You”
17. “The Night” (Alternate Version)
18. “Take Me With You” (Alternate Version)
19. “Shade (I Know You Part IV)”
Brand Spankin' New Record Label RJ’S ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS
RJD2 is the label's first signing. The first ever digital release of 3 cds of b-sides and rarities previously released on Bustown Pride: Your Face Or Your Kneecaps, In Rare Form, and Things Go Better Instrumentals. Your Face Or Your Kneecaps also features 2 brand-new, previously unreleased tracks, as a bonus.
On October 20, there will be the release of a box set commemorating close to 10 years in the game: RJD2 2002-2010. A strictly vinyl affair, it will include full length LP versions of Dead Ringer, The Horror EP (first time on vinyl!), Since We Last Spoke, The Tin Foil Hat EP (a BRAND NEW EP of 7 unreleased songs!), a hand silk screened, signed and numbered poster, a download card for exclusive treats, plus a beautifully printed box.
RJD2-Your Face Or Your Kneecaps, In Rare Form, and Things Go Better-Instrumentals out now digitally on RJ'S ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS, available at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, 24/7.
RJD2-2002-2010 box set released October 20, 2009.
RJD2-The Colossus coming early this winter.
On October 20, there will be the release of a box set commemorating close to 10 years in the game: RJD2 2002-2010. A strictly vinyl affair, it will include full length LP versions of Dead Ringer, The Horror EP (first time on vinyl!), Since We Last Spoke, The Tin Foil Hat EP (a BRAND NEW EP of 7 unreleased songs!), a hand silk screened, signed and numbered poster, a download card for exclusive treats, plus a beautifully printed box.
RJD2-Your Face Or Your Kneecaps, In Rare Form, and Things Go Better-Instrumentals out now digitally on RJ'S ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS, available at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, 24/7.
RJD2-2002-2010 box set released October 20, 2009.
RJD2-The Colossus coming early this winter.
Gogol Bordello DVD/CD and Tour Dates
SIDEONEDUMMY Records will release Gogol Bordello:
Live From Axis Mundi, on CD/DVD OCTOBER 6.
DISC 1 - CD
Track Listing:
1. Ultimate (BBC Sessions)
2.Wonderlust King (BBC Sessions)
3. Mishto (BBC Sessions)
4. Alcohol (BBC Sessions)
5. American Wedding (BBC Sessions)
6. You Gave Up (Roumania) (BBC Sessions)
7. Stivali E Colbacco (Super Taranta Sessions)
8. Troubled Friends (Gypsy Punk Sessions)
9. 60 Revolutions (Demo)
10. Immigrant Punk (Demo)
11. Immigrant Punk (Instrumental)
Disc 2 - DVD
LIVE FROM AXIS MUNDI
Ultimate
Sally
Not A Crime
Dogs Were Barking
Wonderlust King
Mishto
Forces of Victory
Tribal Connection
60 Revolutions
Start Wearing Purple
Think Locally, Fuck Globally
Punk Rock Parranda
Illumination
Baro Foro
XTRA TRACKS
Immigrant Punk
East Infection
Avenue B
Harem In Tuscany
VIDEOS
Start Wearing Purple
Not A Crime
Wonderlust King
American Wedding
BONUS CHRONICLES
Creative People Must Be Stopped!
Sacred Darling
Purple (The Pizdetz)
Musika Agressia
Upcoming NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Tour Dates:
DATE CITY, STATE/PROVINCE VENUE
10/03/09 Winnipeg, Manitoba Burton Cummings Theater
10/04/09 Saskatoon, Saskatchawan The Odeon
10/05/09 Calgary, Alberta MacEwan Hall
10/07/09 Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton Events Centre
10/09/09 Vancouver, British Columbia Vogue Theatre
10/10/09 Vancouver, British Columbia Vogue Theatre
10/11/09 Spokane, Washington The Knitting Factory
10/12/09 Boise, Idaho The Knitting Factory
10/13/09 Eugene, Oregon McDonald Theatre
10/15/09 Oakland, California Fox Theatre
10/18/09 Anaheim, California The Grove of Anaheim
10/20/09 Tempe, Arizona Marquee Theatre
10/21/09 Tucson, Arizona Rialto Theatre
10/24/09 Lawrence, Kansas Liberty Hall
10/25/09 Columbia, Missouri The Blue Note
10/27/09 Columbus, Ohio Newport Music Hall
10/28/09 Richmond, Virginia The National
10/30/09 Atlanta, Georgia Variety Playhouse
10/31/09 New Orleans, Louisiana Voodoo Music Experience
12/1/09 St. Petersburg, Russia Glav Club
12/2/09 Moscow, Russia Grand Milk Theatre
12/4/09 Kiev, Ukraine Balkan Fest
12/8/09 Warsaw, Poland Stodola
12/9/09 Krakow, Poland Rotunda
12/11/09 Prague, Czech Republic Sporthall
12/12/09 Dresden, Germany Reithalle
12/13/09 Erlangen, Germany E Werk
12/14/09 Karlsruhe, Germany Tollhaus
12/16/09 Thessaloniki, Greece Principal Club
12/17/09 Athens, Greece TBA
12/19/09 Tel Aviv, Israel Hangar 11
12/20/09 Tel Aviv, Israel Barbey Club
Live From Axis Mundi, on CD/DVD OCTOBER 6.
DISC 1 - CD
Track Listing:
1. Ultimate (BBC Sessions)
2.Wonderlust King (BBC Sessions)
3. Mishto (BBC Sessions)
4. Alcohol (BBC Sessions)
5. American Wedding (BBC Sessions)
6. You Gave Up (Roumania) (BBC Sessions)
7. Stivali E Colbacco (Super Taranta Sessions)
8. Troubled Friends (Gypsy Punk Sessions)
9. 60 Revolutions (Demo)
10. Immigrant Punk (Demo)
11. Immigrant Punk (Instrumental)
Disc 2 - DVD
LIVE FROM AXIS MUNDI
Ultimate
Sally
Not A Crime
Dogs Were Barking
Wonderlust King
Mishto
Forces of Victory
Tribal Connection
60 Revolutions
Start Wearing Purple
Think Locally, Fuck Globally
Punk Rock Parranda
Illumination
Baro Foro
XTRA TRACKS
Immigrant Punk
East Infection
Avenue B
Harem In Tuscany
VIDEOS
Start Wearing Purple
Not A Crime
Wonderlust King
American Wedding
BONUS CHRONICLES
Creative People Must Be Stopped!
Sacred Darling
Purple (The Pizdetz)
Musika Agressia
Upcoming NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Tour Dates:
DATE CITY, STATE/PROVINCE VENUE
10/03/09 Winnipeg, Manitoba Burton Cummings Theater
10/04/09 Saskatoon, Saskatchawan The Odeon
10/05/09 Calgary, Alberta MacEwan Hall
10/07/09 Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton Events Centre
10/09/09 Vancouver, British Columbia Vogue Theatre
10/10/09 Vancouver, British Columbia Vogue Theatre
10/11/09 Spokane, Washington The Knitting Factory
10/12/09 Boise, Idaho The Knitting Factory
10/13/09 Eugene, Oregon McDonald Theatre
10/15/09 Oakland, California Fox Theatre
10/18/09 Anaheim, California The Grove of Anaheim
10/20/09 Tempe, Arizona Marquee Theatre
10/21/09 Tucson, Arizona Rialto Theatre
10/24/09 Lawrence, Kansas Liberty Hall
10/25/09 Columbia, Missouri The Blue Note
10/27/09 Columbus, Ohio Newport Music Hall
10/28/09 Richmond, Virginia The National
10/30/09 Atlanta, Georgia Variety Playhouse
10/31/09 New Orleans, Louisiana Voodoo Music Experience
12/1/09 St. Petersburg, Russia Glav Club
12/2/09 Moscow, Russia Grand Milk Theatre
12/4/09 Kiev, Ukraine Balkan Fest
12/8/09 Warsaw, Poland Stodola
12/9/09 Krakow, Poland Rotunda
12/11/09 Prague, Czech Republic Sporthall
12/12/09 Dresden, Germany Reithalle
12/13/09 Erlangen, Germany E Werk
12/14/09 Karlsruhe, Germany Tollhaus
12/16/09 Thessaloniki, Greece Principal Club
12/17/09 Athens, Greece TBA
12/19/09 Tel Aviv, Israel Hangar 11
12/20/09 Tel Aviv, Israel Barbey Club
Good Old War Tour Dates
Good Old War tour:
Aug 26 Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone +
Aug 27 W.Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern +
Aug 28 Virginia Beach, VA @ ECSC - Hurley Free Festival
Aug 31 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy's +
Sep 01 Metarie, LA @ The High Ground +
Sep 02 Little Rock, AR @ Sticky Fingers +
Sep 05 Tulsa, OK @ Marquee +
Sep 06 Dallas, TX @ The Prophet Bar +
Sep 07 San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit +
Sep 08 Austin, TX @ Emo's +
Sep 09 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad +
Sep 11 San Diego, CA @ Epicentre +
Sep 12 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory +
Sep 13 San Francisco,CA @ Bottom of the Hill +
Sep 14 Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk +
Sep 15 Portland, OR @ Satyricon +
Sep 16 Seattle, WA @ Studio 7 +
Sep 18 Boise, ID @ The Venue +
Sep 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater +
Sep 20 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater +
Sep 22 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck +
Sep 24 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock +
Sep 25 Dekalb, IL @ House Cafe +
Sep 26 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's +
Sep 27 Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter +
Sep 28 Toledo, OH @ Frankie's Inner City +
Sep 29 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot +
Sep 30 Akron, OH @ Musica +
Oct 02 Harrisburg, PA @ Whittaker Center +
Oct 03 Allston, MA @ Harpers Ferry +
Oct 04 Rockville Center, NY @ The Vibe Lounge +
Oct 06 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's +
+ = w/ The Honorary Title & Cory Branan
Upcoming Radio Appearances:
KZMV in Breckenridge, CO
KSMT in Breckenridge, CO
WXRY in Columbia, SC
WNKU in Cincinatti, OH
WSGE in Charlotte, NC
KTGB in Kansas City, MO
Aug 26 Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone +
Aug 27 W.Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern +
Aug 28 Virginia Beach, VA @ ECSC - Hurley Free Festival
Aug 31 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy's +
Sep 01 Metarie, LA @ The High Ground +
Sep 02 Little Rock, AR @ Sticky Fingers +
Sep 05 Tulsa, OK @ Marquee +
Sep 06 Dallas, TX @ The Prophet Bar +
Sep 07 San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit +
Sep 08 Austin, TX @ Emo's +
Sep 09 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad +
Sep 11 San Diego, CA @ Epicentre +
Sep 12 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory +
Sep 13 San Francisco,CA @ Bottom of the Hill +
Sep 14 Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk +
Sep 15 Portland, OR @ Satyricon +
Sep 16 Seattle, WA @ Studio 7 +
Sep 18 Boise, ID @ The Venue +
Sep 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater +
Sep 20 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater +
Sep 22 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck +
Sep 24 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock +
Sep 25 Dekalb, IL @ House Cafe +
Sep 26 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's +
Sep 27 Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter +
Sep 28 Toledo, OH @ Frankie's Inner City +
Sep 29 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot +
Sep 30 Akron, OH @ Musica +
Oct 02 Harrisburg, PA @ Whittaker Center +
Oct 03 Allston, MA @ Harpers Ferry +
Oct 04 Rockville Center, NY @ The Vibe Lounge +
Oct 06 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's +
+ = w/ The Honorary Title & Cory Branan
Upcoming Radio Appearances:
KZMV in Breckenridge, CO
KSMT in Breckenridge, CO
WXRY in Columbia, SC
WNKU in Cincinatti, OH
WSGE in Charlotte, NC
KTGB in Kansas City, MO
New Times New Viking Album / MP3s
Times New Viking will release Born Again Revisited, via Matador, September 22nd.
Download "Move To California" here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/08/21/tnv-m-o-v-e-t-o-c-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a/
(the four song 7" is out September 8th)
TNV will be touring heavily once again in support of Born Again Revisited, with a European tour in September, and US tours in Oct. - Nov. and Feb. - Mar. 2010.
They can be seen in the following Yo La Tengo Video "Nothing To Hide"
MP3 for "No Time, No Hope" is available here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/07/07/coming-sept-22-times-new-vikings-born-again-revisited/
More info: http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking
Download "Move To California" here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/08/21/tnv-m-o-v-e-t-o-c-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a/
(the four song 7" is out September 8th)
TNV will be touring heavily once again in support of Born Again Revisited, with a European tour in September, and US tours in Oct. - Nov. and Feb. - Mar. 2010.
They can be seen in the following Yo La Tengo Video "Nothing To Hide"
MP3 for "No Time, No Hope" is available here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/07/07/coming-sept-22-times-new-vikings-born-again-revisited/
More info: http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking
Canadian Pop Chanteuse Jenn Grant
Jenn Grant will have a full length release, Echoes, on on Six Shooter Records "this fall".
Press release:
Echoes was recorded and mixed with a full analog process at The Studio at Puck’s Farm in Schomberg, Ontario – a location which is a throwback to a quieter, more simplistic time much like the three-stoplight town it is located in. Grant and her band - Goldsmith, Kinley Dowling (violin), David Christenson (bass clarinet), Sean MacGillivray (bass), and Gary Craig (drums/percussion) – utilized the tranquil setting of the studio to craft the 11 tracks featured on the record. The warm yet rustic sounds of the album are perfectly complimented by Grant’s vocals and the result is a collection of sincere and personal songs filled with heartbreak, love and a touch of whimsy.
Grant first burst onto the Canadian music scene in 2007 with her debut full-length Orchestra for the Moon on which she collaborated with talented musicians Ron Sexsmith and Matt Mays. The album earned her four-star reviews in Harp and The Globe and Mail (Canada’s largest-circulation national newspaper) among others, and the Toronto Star called the release a “critical smash”. It wasn’t long before Grant found herself quickly climbing the indie-pop ranks to tour and share the stage with musical peers The Weakerthans, Great Lake Swimmers, and Hayden.
For more info (and perhaps a less general release date):http://www.jenngrant.com or www.myspace.com/jenngrant1
Press release:
Echoes was recorded and mixed with a full analog process at The Studio at Puck’s Farm in Schomberg, Ontario – a location which is a throwback to a quieter, more simplistic time much like the three-stoplight town it is located in. Grant and her band - Goldsmith, Kinley Dowling (violin), David Christenson (bass clarinet), Sean MacGillivray (bass), and Gary Craig (drums/percussion) – utilized the tranquil setting of the studio to craft the 11 tracks featured on the record. The warm yet rustic sounds of the album are perfectly complimented by Grant’s vocals and the result is a collection of sincere and personal songs filled with heartbreak, love and a touch of whimsy.
Grant first burst onto the Canadian music scene in 2007 with her debut full-length Orchestra for the Moon on which she collaborated with talented musicians Ron Sexsmith and Matt Mays. The album earned her four-star reviews in Harp and The Globe and Mail (Canada’s largest-circulation national newspaper) among others, and the Toronto Star called the release a “critical smash”. It wasn’t long before Grant found herself quickly climbing the indie-pop ranks to tour and share the stage with musical peers The Weakerthans, Great Lake Swimmers, and Hayden.
For more info (and perhaps a less general release date):http://www.jenngrant.com or www.myspace.com/jenngrant1
They Might Be Giants Free MP3 and Tour Dates
"I Am a Paleontologist" http://sendshack.com/download/4hj3vayMP3
Here Comes Science
the new 2-disc set by TMBG will be available physically and exclusivelyvia Amazon and digitally on iTunes September 1, with a full-scale release September 22 on Idlewild/Disney Sound.
They Might Be Giants Tour Dates:
NJ @ Union County Music Fest @ Oak Ridge Park
09/19: Raleigh, NC @ North Carolina Museum of Art
10/01: Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre
10/02: Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre/The Egg
10/03: Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre/ The Egg
10/04: New York, NY @ American Museum of Natural History
10/08: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
10/09: St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
10/10: Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
10/11: Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre
10/13: Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
10/15: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
10/16: Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theater
10/17: Kutztown, PA @ Kutztown University - Schaeffer Auditorium
10/18: New York, NY @ NYU - Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
11/14: Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall @ UCLA
11/15: Santa Barbara, CA @ Campbell Hall @ UCSB
11/21: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
11/27: Uncasville, CT @ The Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Casino
11/28: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Here Comes Science
the new 2-disc set by TMBG will be available physically and exclusivelyvia Amazon and digitally on iTunes September 1, with a full-scale release September 22 on Idlewild/Disney Sound.
They Might Be Giants Tour Dates:
NJ @ Union County Music Fest @ Oak Ridge Park
09/19: Raleigh, NC @ North Carolina Museum of Art
10/01: Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre
10/02: Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre/The Egg
10/03: Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre/ The Egg
10/04: New York, NY @ American Museum of Natural History
10/08: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
10/09: St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
10/10: Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
10/11: Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre
10/13: Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
10/15: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
10/16: Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theater
10/17: Kutztown, PA @ Kutztown University - Schaeffer Auditorium
10/18: New York, NY @ NYU - Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
11/14: Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall @ UCLA
11/15: Santa Barbara, CA @ Campbell Hall @ UCSB
11/21: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
11/27: Uncasville, CT @ The Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Casino
11/28: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
More About The Upcoming R.E.M. and a New Video "Living Well Is The Best Revenge"
"Living Well Is The Best Revenge" (shot by Vincent Moon and Jeremiah).
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
This embed will be updated weekly:
The press release:
R.E.M. will release a brand-new double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia on October 27th, 2009 via Warner Bros. Records. The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band’s 2007 “working rehearsals” at Dublin’s fabled Olympia club where singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.’s 2008 studio album Accelerate.
The material was tested were five nights before fired-up, capacity crowds comprised of fan-club members, friends, family, and fans from all over the world who were privy to R.E.M.'s so-called “experiment in terror,” as guitarist Peter Buck puts it. “We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," Buck says, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well. Which was kind of good — there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."
For more info, please refer to:
www.remdublin.com
www.remhq.com
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
This embed will be updated weekly:
The press release:
R.E.M. will release a brand-new double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia on October 27th, 2009 via Warner Bros. Records. The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band’s 2007 “working rehearsals” at Dublin’s fabled Olympia club where singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.’s 2008 studio album Accelerate.
The material was tested were five nights before fired-up, capacity crowds comprised of fan-club members, friends, family, and fans from all over the world who were privy to R.E.M.'s so-called “experiment in terror,” as guitarist Peter Buck puts it. “We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," Buck says, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well. Which was kind of good — there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."
For more info, please refer to:
www.remdublin.com
www.remhq.com
Camera Obscura Announce Tour
"Camera Obscura has been crafting its own blend of shimmering chamber-pop since first forming in Glasgow in 1996. Now, more than a decade later, the group [is about to} release its richest and most ambitious album to date."
-NPR's Exclusive First Listen
I really like this band.
HEAR the title track "My Maudlin Career": http://tinyurl.com/bkzpyh
WATCH the video for "French Navy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CkfvYMCWM
LOOK at the band's brand new online store: http://www.camera-obscura-shop.net/
UK/EUROPEAN dates are here: http://www.camera-obscura.net/gigs
US DATES:
Wed 11/18 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's
Thur 11/19 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Fri 11/20 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Sat 11/21 Norfolk, VA Attucks Theatretickets-Norfolk/venue/8900
Sun 11/22 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tues 11/24 Northampton, MA Pearl Street Ballroom
Wed 11/25 Rochester, NY The German House
Thur 11/26 Toronto, ON Phoenix
Fri 11/27 Pontiac, MI Crofoot Ballroom
Sat 11/28 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall
Mon 11/30 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
Tues 12/01 St Louis, MO Off Broadway
Wed 12/02 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Thur 12/03 Athens , GA 40 Watt Club
-NPR's Exclusive First Listen
I really like this band.
HEAR the title track "My Maudlin Career": http://tinyurl.com/bkzpyh
WATCH the video for "French Navy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CkfvYMCWM
LOOK at the band's brand new online store: http://www.camera-obscura-shop.net/
UK/EUROPEAN dates are here: http://www.camera-obscura.net/gigs
US DATES:
Wed 11/18 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's
Thur 11/19 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Fri 11/20 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Sat 11/21 Norfolk, VA Attucks Theatretickets-Norfolk/venue/8900
Sun 11/22 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tues 11/24 Northampton, MA Pearl Street Ballroom
Wed 11/25 Rochester, NY The German House
Thur 11/26 Toronto, ON Phoenix
Fri 11/27 Pontiac, MI Crofoot Ballroom
Sat 11/28 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall
Mon 11/30 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
Tues 12/01 St Louis, MO Off Broadway
Wed 12/02 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Thur 12/03 Athens , GA 40 Watt Club
Friday, August 21, 2009
Big Star Are Heaven In Your Ears
Here is a press release from Rhino about the upcoming box set. I've been listening to it, and it's everything a fan could want, and everything someone who doesn't own anything by the band needs (but doesn't know it yet).
BIG STAR
Keep An Eye On The Sky
4-Disc Boxed Set with 98 Tracks Spanning 1968-1975
$68.98
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=519760
PRE-ORDER IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Release Date: 9/15/09
Big Star's trek from obscure Memphis band to standard bearers for an entire genre of music has never been fully mapped - until now. Rhino presents the definitive look at the power-pop band with a 4-disc boxed set divided between key cuts from Big Star's three studio albums and a treasure trove of unreleased demos, unused mixes, alternate versions of songs, and a 1973 concert recorded in Memphis.
In these 98 tracks you can hear what turned artists as diverse as Cheap Trick, R.E.M., and The Replacements into Big Star fans.
The deluxe packaging for KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY includes extensive liner notes, rare and never-before-seen photos, and insightful essays about the cult of Big Star and the band's history.
NEW CHRIS BELL RELEASE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Chris Bell's I AM THE COSMOS - DELUXE EDITION will be released September 28th - only at Rhino.com - but pre-orders are now available with a BONUS 7" replica Car Records single going to the first 1000 orders.
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=521305
PLUS, RECORD STORE DAY SPECIAL
Limited edition Big Star 7" Vinyl
Only 3,500 pressed, arriving September 5th at an
independent record store near you.
Click below to find a participating retailer:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues
BIG STAR
Keep An Eye On The Sky
4-Disc Boxed Set with 98 Tracks Spanning 1968-1975
$68.98
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=519760
PRE-ORDER IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Release Date: 9/15/09
Big Star's trek from obscure Memphis band to standard bearers for an entire genre of music has never been fully mapped - until now. Rhino presents the definitive look at the power-pop band with a 4-disc boxed set divided between key cuts from Big Star's three studio albums and a treasure trove of unreleased demos, unused mixes, alternate versions of songs, and a 1973 concert recorded in Memphis.
In these 98 tracks you can hear what turned artists as diverse as Cheap Trick, R.E.M., and The Replacements into Big Star fans.
The deluxe packaging for KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY includes extensive liner notes, rare and never-before-seen photos, and insightful essays about the cult of Big Star and the band's history.
NEW CHRIS BELL RELEASE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Chris Bell's I AM THE COSMOS - DELUXE EDITION will be released September 28th - only at Rhino.com - but pre-orders are now available with a BONUS 7" replica Car Records single going to the first 1000 orders.
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=521305
PLUS, RECORD STORE DAY SPECIAL
Limited edition Big Star 7" Vinyl
Only 3,500 pressed, arriving September 5th at an
independent record store near you.
Click below to find a participating retailer:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues
The Black Hollies Are Groovy, Baby
Softly Towards The Light, will be in stores October 6th on Ernest Jenning Record Co. They're groovy. Check out / download the mp3 of their single "Run With Me Run" here: click here
http://www.myspace.com/theblackhollies
August 2009
29 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar Scooter Rally
September 2009
04 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
05 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
06 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
09 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern *
10 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Cafe *
11 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's Rock Club *
12 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
13 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird *
15 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge *
16 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
17 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone *
18 - Norfolk, VA - The Boot *
19 - Arlington, VA - IOTA *
October 2009
02 - Reaction @ Sidebar, Baltimore MD
03 - 4th Street Art & Music Festival, Jersey City, NJ
http://www.myspace.com/theblackhollies
August 2009
29 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar Scooter Rally
September 2009
04 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
05 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
06 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
09 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern *
10 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Cafe *
11 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's Rock Club *
12 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
13 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird *
15 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge *
16 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
17 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone *
18 - Norfolk, VA - The Boot *
19 - Arlington, VA - IOTA *
October 2009
02 - Reaction @ Sidebar, Baltimore MD
03 - 4th Street Art & Music Festival, Jersey City, NJ
White Denim Announce Tour Dates
10/24 - Mohawk - Austin, TX
10/31 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
11/02 - Firebird - St Louis, MO
11/03 - Jackpot - Lawrence, KS
11/04 - 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
11/05 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI
11/06 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
11/07 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH
11/09 - Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
11/10 - Il Motore - Montreal, QC
11/11 - TT the Bears - Cambridge, MA
11/12 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
11/13 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
11/14 - Rock N Roll Hotel - Washington, DC
11/16 - The Basement - Nashville, TN
11/17 - The Bottletree - Birmingham, AL
11/18 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
11/19 - The Social - Orlando, FL
11/20 - Cafe Eleven - St Augustine, FL
11/22 - One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA
www.myspace.com/bopenglish
whitedenimmusic.com
10/31 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
11/02 - Firebird - St Louis, MO
11/03 - Jackpot - Lawrence, KS
11/04 - 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
11/05 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI
11/06 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
11/07 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH
11/09 - Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
11/10 - Il Motore - Montreal, QC
11/11 - TT the Bears - Cambridge, MA
11/12 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
11/13 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
11/14 - Rock N Roll Hotel - Washington, DC
11/16 - The Basement - Nashville, TN
11/17 - The Bottletree - Birmingham, AL
11/18 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
11/19 - The Social - Orlando, FL
11/20 - Cafe Eleven - St Augustine, FL
11/22 - One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA
www.myspace.com/bopenglish
whitedenimmusic.com
Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story
The new Michael Moore film, Capitalism: A Love Sotry, will be in theters October 2.
"It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship. It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make. It's a comedy."
— Michael Moore
"It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship. It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make. It's a comedy."
— Michael Moore
65daysofstatic Live
65daysofstatic
Escape From New York (Live CD/DVD)
(Monotreme Records)
Available now
Directly from the press release: Three albums in, 65daysofstatic is currently locked away in Sheffield battling with the writing for their fourth album. Mean time, the band and its longtime label, UK’s Monotreme Records, has released a definitive document of the final two dates of the band’s recent 50-something show tour with The Cure. Escape From New York deftly presents what 65daysofstatic are best at: setting the house on fire. For this eponymous CD/DVD release, the houses in question are New York’s famed Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall.
Live: Aug 28 Leeds Festival @ Leeds, UK | Aug 29 Reading Festival @ Reading, UK | Sep 10 Digital @ Brighton, UK | Sep 11 Bestival @ Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight, UK | Sep 25 Netto @ Mouscron, Belgium | Sep 26 Muziekodroom @ Hasselt, Belgium | Nov 17 Academy 2 @ Manchester, UK | Nov 18 Heaven @ London, UK
Escape From New York (Live CD/DVD)
(Monotreme Records)
Available now
Directly from the press release: Three albums in, 65daysofstatic is currently locked away in Sheffield battling with the writing for their fourth album. Mean time, the band and its longtime label, UK’s Monotreme Records, has released a definitive document of the final two dates of the band’s recent 50-something show tour with The Cure. Escape From New York deftly presents what 65daysofstatic are best at: setting the house on fire. For this eponymous CD/DVD release, the houses in question are New York’s famed Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall.
Live: Aug 28 Leeds Festival @ Leeds, UK | Aug 29 Reading Festival @ Reading, UK | Sep 10 Digital @ Brighton, UK | Sep 11 Bestival @ Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight, UK | Sep 25 Netto @ Mouscron, Belgium | Sep 26 Muziekodroom @ Hasselt, Belgium | Nov 17 Academy 2 @ Manchester, UK | Nov 18 Heaven @ London, UK
The Blakes New Album and Tour
After touring the world with The Gossip, The Kills, and Brian Jonestown Massacre,
The Blakes will embark on a fall tour Sept 25th to promote their upcoming album Souveneir (October 13th).
Tour Dates
Sep-25 Fri Spokane, WA The BLVD
Sep-26 Sat Yakima, WA Yakima Sports Center
Sep-29 Tue Seattle, WA Neumos
Oct-01 Thu Portland, OR Rotture
Oct-02 Fri Arcata, CA Humboldt Brews
Oct-03 Sat Sacramento, CA Marilyn's On K
Oct-04 Sun San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
Oct-06 Tue Hollywood, CA The Viper Room
Oct-07 Wed Hermosa Beach, CA Saint Rocke
Oct-08 Thu Los Angeles, CA The Rumble @ 3 Clubs
Oct-09 Fri Las Vegas, NV Beauty Bar
Oct-10 Sat San Diego, CA The Rumble @ Casbah
Oct-12 Mon Lubbock, TX Bash Rip Rocks
Oct-13 Tue Austin, TX MoHawk
Oct-14 Wed Denton, TX Haileys
Oct-15 Thu Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz
Oct-16 Fri St. Louis, MO Firebird
Oct-17 Sat Rock Island, IL Rock Island Brewing Company
Oct-20 Tue Pontiac, MI Pike Room
Oct-22 Thu New York, NY CMJ
Oct-23 Fri New York, NY CMJ
Oct-24 Sat New York, NY CMJ
What "they're" saying:
Daytrotter
The same kind of Seattle Band that takes you on with their dirty fast and
dangerous rock-n-roll. They've made Iggy Pop stop and take notice.
NPR
...similarly primed for success... there's no containing the primal, giddy energy that crackles through it...
It's innocent and raunchy, wide-eyed and tunnel-visioned, all at once.
Spin
Soak the Kinks in cheap booze, reignite the Stooges' strut and add some
modern Strokes of ambition, and you have the Blakes
The Blakes will embark on a fall tour Sept 25th to promote their upcoming album Souveneir (October 13th).
Tour Dates
Sep-25 Fri Spokane, WA The BLVD
Sep-26 Sat Yakima, WA Yakima Sports Center
Sep-29 Tue Seattle, WA Neumos
Oct-01 Thu Portland, OR Rotture
Oct-02 Fri Arcata, CA Humboldt Brews
Oct-03 Sat Sacramento, CA Marilyn's On K
Oct-04 Sun San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
Oct-06 Tue Hollywood, CA The Viper Room
Oct-07 Wed Hermosa Beach, CA Saint Rocke
Oct-08 Thu Los Angeles, CA The Rumble @ 3 Clubs
Oct-09 Fri Las Vegas, NV Beauty Bar
Oct-10 Sat San Diego, CA The Rumble @ Casbah
Oct-12 Mon Lubbock, TX Bash Rip Rocks
Oct-13 Tue Austin, TX MoHawk
Oct-14 Wed Denton, TX Haileys
Oct-15 Thu Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz
Oct-16 Fri St. Louis, MO Firebird
Oct-17 Sat Rock Island, IL Rock Island Brewing Company
Oct-20 Tue Pontiac, MI Pike Room
Oct-22 Thu New York, NY CMJ
Oct-23 Fri New York, NY CMJ
Oct-24 Sat New York, NY CMJ
What "they're" saying:
Daytrotter
The same kind of Seattle Band that takes you on with their dirty fast and
dangerous rock-n-roll. They've made Iggy Pop stop and take notice.
NPR
...similarly primed for success... there's no containing the primal, giddy energy that crackles through it...
It's innocent and raunchy, wide-eyed and tunnel-visioned, all at once.
Spin
Soak the Kinks in cheap booze, reignite the Stooges' strut and add some
modern Strokes of ambition, and you have the Blakes
The Builders and the Butchers w/Brand New And Manchester Orchestra
The Builders and the Butchers are on tour (with Brand New and Mancghester Orchestra), in support of their latest album Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well.
9/19 - Crystal Ballroom (MUSICFEST NW) - Portland, OR
10/08 - in Fillmore - Denver, CO
10/09 - Salt Palace Convention Center - Salt Lake City, UT
10/13 - Roseland - Portland, OR
10/15 - Rabobank Arena - Bakersfield, CA
10/16 - Event Center at San Jose - San Jose, CA
10/17 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
10/20 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
10/21 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
10/22 - Mesa Ampetheater - Mesa, AZ
www.myspace.com/thebuildersandthebutchers
thebuildersandthebutchers.com
Willamette Week’s “Best New Band of 2008” and Seattle Sound’s “Best Live Performers 2008”
9/19 - Crystal Ballroom (MUSICFEST NW) - Portland, OR
10/08 - in Fillmore - Denver, CO
10/09 - Salt Palace Convention Center - Salt Lake City, UT
10/13 - Roseland - Portland, OR
10/15 - Rabobank Arena - Bakersfield, CA
10/16 - Event Center at San Jose - San Jose, CA
10/17 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
10/20 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
10/21 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
10/22 - Mesa Ampetheater - Mesa, AZ
www.myspace.com/thebuildersandthebutchers
thebuildersandthebutchers.com
Willamette Week’s “Best New Band of 2008” and Seattle Sound’s “Best Live Performers 2008”
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