Vampire Weekend News:
VAMPIRE WEEKEND ON TOUR NOW + FREE BASEMENT JAXX REMIX + SUPPORT CONFIRMED FOR EUROPEAN DATES
From blogs.myspace.com at 03/09/10 12:56 PM. 0 comments.
..We're excited by the prospect of sweater weather, our busy Fall and our crazy touring adventures that have recently begun. We're out west at the moment and touring all over the US from now until mid...
Gotan Project Photos:
Eduardo Makaroff (Gotan Project)
From www.flickr.com at 03/09/10 09:45 AM. 0 comments.
Radiohead News:
Radiohead help fans 'bootleg' their own gig
From www.nme.com at 03/09/10 09:14 AM. 0 comments.
Band get involved in free 'by the fans for the fans' concert film
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The xx News:
The Big Pink's Milo Cordell to release 'Tapes' compilation
From www.nme.com at 02/09/10 04:53 PM. 0 comments.
The xx, Salem and These New Puritans feature on mixtape
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Radiohead News:
Radiohead-Approved, Fan-Shot Concert Movie Released
From pitchfork.com at 02/09/10 04:00 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Sung Kim
At a Radiohead gig at Prauge's Vystaviste Holesovice Exhibition Hall on August 23, 2009, more than 50 fans collaborated to shoot in-the-crowd footage on Flip phones. The video was assembled and edited to make a concert film called Live in Praha, and then Radiohead themselves gave the Czech fans behind the concert film their own audio masters from the show, according to the Live in Praha site and confirmed by a representative from the band. (Via The Guardian.) It sounds amazing.
Download or stream the entire 25-track set, in formats ranging from DVD quality on down, for free here (the site seems to be overwhelmed with traffic, but you can also watch on YouTube) and check the trailer for the film below:
Vampire Weekend News:
Seattle CrowdSurge Refunds/Exchages
From blogs.myspace.com at 02/09/10 12:30 PM. 0 comments.
We've seen a few comments from people who bought their tickets through CrowdSurge and how those exchanges or refunds should be handled. CrowdSurge will be contacting you today to process your exchan...
Giggs News:
Wiley's Ustream is more addictive than any music journalism
From www.guardian.co.uk at 02/09/10 11:59 AM. 0 comments.
Fancy seeing Wiley jogging in the park? Arguing on the phone? Sitting around in a vest? He's been filming himself for the last few days and we can't take our eyes off it
"Your day will pass and you'll just be another person on the internet" â€' Wiley, on Ustream, two hours ago.
Right now one of Britain's most talented, eccentric and least appreciated musicians is broadcasting live to an audience of 192. He's been on-screen for the best part of the last two days and is â€' whether he knows it or not â€' helping to kill the practice of music journalism stone cold dead.
Wiley, a notoriously unpredictable grime producer and MC, has been filming himself for the last 48 hours and has provided more great quotes than you could squeeze into ten years of PR-led junkets. From advice on how to break the music biz ("Wiley's quite human, 'cos actually he puts his ear out and he listens to more than the others do. No-one don't show Skepta shit, because you know he don't give a shit and he won't listen.") to musings on religion ("Just wake up and live your life until you're dead. People get excited â€' 'We don't eat bacon. We don't eat that or this. We eat soya meat sausages. SOYA MEAT SAUSAGES'. Don't hype about bacon or beef or whatever. Fuck's sake bruv.") to his thoughts on hip hop today ("Eminem is the best battle rapper...
M.I.A. News:
The Joy of Six: Mariel Manuel
From www.dazeddigital.com at 02/09/10 09:00 AM. 0 comments.
This 22-year-old Antwerp student of Walter van Beirendonck has already worked for Jeremy Scott and produced her own line for Swedish brand Weekday
Selected by the designer, artist, curator and tutor at Antwerp's infamous Royal Academy of Art, Walter van Beirendonck, Swiss born 22-year-old Mariel Manuel is already on her way to becoming fully recognized for her designs. Starting the course in Antwerp at the tender age of 19, Manuel graduated earlier this year after having interned with the LA based favourite of Rihanna and M.I.A, Jeremy Scott, and being chosen to produce her own capsule collection for Swedish brand Weekday. Not just a designer, Mariel is also a talented illustrator, having been published in various international magazines including Vice, Kinki and D-Mode. Inspired by traveling and discovering new cultures and people, Ma... article continues »
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The Horrors News:
The Charlatans, Four Tet, Diana Vickers to kick off Oxfam's Oxjam 2010
From www.nme.com at 02/09/10 12:01 AM. 0 comments.
Members of The Horrors are also set to play in charity shops
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Peaches News:
Peaches Last Wheelchair Show â€' Part 1
From www.peachesofficialblog.com at 01/09/10 08:48 PM. 0 comments.
Fresh from a GWAR concert in Berlin on 18th August, with blood-stained skin and hair, Peaches and Sweet Machine boarded the bus for the last run of the wheelchair show!!
Two final dates at the Frequency Festival, Austria and Lausanne Noise Festival, Switzerland brought an incredible 18 months of touring to an end!!!
Before we show you the magical grand finale of the wheelchair show, here’s a little peek behind the scenes of the last days of tour! Hold on for some great live footage!!
Vampire Weekend News:
Seattle Make-Up Shows
From blogs.myspace.com at 01/09/10 05:03 PM. 0 comments.
We have now firmed up details about our Seattle make-up
date...actually there will be 2 dates. On September 22nd and 23rd we
will play at the gorgeous Paramount Theatre. Opening these shows will b...
Titus Andronicus News:
Director's Cut: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: "Bottled in Cork"
From pitchfork.com at 01/09/10 01:00 PM. 0 comments.
From Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Pill's "Trap Goin' Ham", great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director's Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. The men and women behind the camera are often overlooked in today's YouTube era, but this feature aims to highlight their hard work while showcasing the best videos currently linking around the internet. A little behind-the-scenes dirt couldn't hurt, too.
Tom Scharpling is half of the comedy duo Sharpling and Wurster with Superchunk/Mountain Goats drummer Jon Wurster. He hosts the cult favorite "The Best Show" on WFMU in New Jersey. He was a writer and a co-executive producer on the TV show "Monk". And now, thanks to his work on Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' "Bottled in Cork" clip, he's also a music video director. Scharpling's ridiculous video finds Ted Leo attempting to sell out with a Broadway musical that uncannily recalls Green Day's American Idiot. Comedy-world buds like Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Julie Klausner appear, as does a particularly manic Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles.
We talked with Scharpling about the Green Day musical, the Bon Jovi musical that should exist, Stickles' acting, and how to not make an OK Go video. Our interview is below.
The White Stripes News:
Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music?
From www.guardian.co.uk at 01/09/10 11:59 AM. 0 comments.
Indie likes to pride itself on having an enlightened sense of gender relations. But that doesn't stop female audience members from being groped at shows
I've often thought that indie kids try to purport a more enlightened sense of gender relations between themselves (the boys and the girls dress really similarly, for example). Is this the case, and is their subculture some kind of equality-based utopia? Or are gender stereotypes still present but instead played out in a different way?
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Without a doubt, indie has a more enlightened sense of gender relations than many musical genres. You can see this in a number of areas, such as pioneering co-ed bands (Pixies, Arcade Fire, Lush, the White Stripes, Elastica, My Bloody Valentine, Quasi, Slowdive, the xx , Autolux, Beach House, the Kills, feel free to carry on) and the blending of gender-coded imagery where androgyny has been consistent in clothing and physicality. Blur didn't write "Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys" for nothing. Androgyny can even been seen in the common use of falsetto by male singers as a higher register is usually associated with femininity. The blending of gender imagery is common in rock and pop, but the central value of equality, even between performers and audience has made humanist gender relations the ideal in indie.
However, in practicality, indie does not exist in...
Radiohead News:
Paul McKenna to buy Michael Jackson 'death' house? - Daily Gossip
From www.nme.com at 01/09/10 09:53 AM. 0 comments.
Liam goes to the Met Bar, Sugababe covers Nirvana and Radiohead â€' your music gossip stop
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Basement Jaxx News:
JAXX DJ SET PACHA NYE @ IVY
From www.basementjaxx.net at 31/08/10 12:04 PM. 0 comments.
Basement Jaxx will be heading to Sydney to DJ Pacha NYE @ Ivy
Tickets on sale from the 1st September, get your tickets here!
Vampire Weekend News:
Troutdale, OR/Edgefield Amphitheater
From blogs.myspace.com at 31/08/10 12:02 PM. 0 comments.
Friends - we are pleased to say that tonight's show in Troutdale, OR will go on as planned. Ezra has been keeping silent and is ready to perform again. Thanks for your support + well wishes!
Peaches News:
Chilly Gonzales' Ivory Tower
From www.dazeddigital.com at 31/08/10 09:00 AM. 0 comments.
The producer teams up with fellow-Canadian Turbo boss Tiga and electro popstress Peaches to make an unforgettable feature film.
An 'existential sports comedy', Ivory Tower is the dramatic tale of two brothers and their all-consuming rivalry over both the chessboard and a lady (none other than Peaches). Hershell Graves (played by Chilly Gonzales) is the nomadic chess 'purist' who decides to pursue his Jazz Chess ideology - chess for chess' sake, reduced to pure movement, whilst his brother Thadeus (Turbo Recordings founder Tiga) is now a fierce competitor, earning him a chess celebrity status back in their h... article continues »
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Peaches News:
Chilly Gonzales' Ivory Tower Film
From www.dazeddigital.com at 31/08/10 09:00 AM. 0 comments.
The producer teams up with fellow-Canadian Turbo boss Tiga and electro popstress Peaches to make an unforgettable feature film.
An 'existential sports comedy', Ivory Tower is the dramatic tale of two brothers and their all-consuming rivalry over both the chessboard and a lady (none other than Peaches). Hershell Graves (played by Chilly Gonzales) is the nomadic chess 'purist' who decides to pursue his Jazz Chess ideology - chess for chess' sake, reduced to pure movement, whilst his brother Thadeus (Turbo Recordings founder Tiga) is now a fierce competitor, earning him a chess celebrity status back in their hometown and the lauded face of energy drinks. Upon Hershell's return after his years of travelling, he finds his former love Marsha is now engaged to his brother, the Canadi... article continues »
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The xx News:
News in Brief: The Acorn, Twig Harper & Daniel Higgs, Parenthetical Girls, Pop Montreal
From pitchfork.com at 30/08/10 09:15 PM. 0 comments.
-- Ottawa indie-folk band the Acorn has recruited friends like Four Tet, Born Ruffians, Megafaun, Diamond Rings, Chad VanGaalen, and Jokers of the Scene to contribute to the remix album Make the Least of the Day. Physical copies are only available at the band's live shows, but the digital version is due September 14 via Paper Bag.
-- Two Baltimore out-music kingpings, former Lungfish frontman Daniel Higgs and ex-Nautical Almanac member Twig Harper, have hooked up to record the collaborative album Clairaudience Fellowship. It's coming September 21 from Thrill Jockey.
-- Portland skrokers Parenthetical Girls are in the midst of releasing Privilege, a series of five limited-edition 12" EPs, on their own Slender Means Society label. The second entry, The Past, Imperfect, is due September 21. It's limited to 500 copies, each of which features original art from illustrator Jenny Moertsell, and each of which comes hand-numbered in the blood of band member Rachael Jensen.
-- The Pop Montreal International Music Festival comes to the Quebec city September 29 - October 3. This year's lineup features Liars, Swans, Solange Knowles, the xx, Tom Tom Club, Les Savy Fav, Bear in Heaven, Van Dyke Parks, the Dears, Deerhoof, Marnie...