11/20/09 News briefs: The Big Pink, Sonic Unyon Xmas, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The xx and Daft Punk

November 20th, 2009

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Strapping dream pop duo The Big Pink have covered Beyonce’s “Sweet Dreams.” Stereogum has an MP3 of the song and it sounds exactly how it should: a very haunting, stripped down take that sounds as much The Big Pink’s as it does Beyonce’s.

Sonic Unyon will throw its annual Christmas Bash at This Ain’t Hollywood in Donut Rock City, Ontario on December 19th. But the real news is that former flagship band Tristan Psionic (made up of the label’s co-owners) will reunite for the festive show. SIANspheric and Spirits will also perform. No word on whether TP will bring back those nifty three-quarter sleeved “Pslop” shirts for the occasion.

The Brian Jonestown Masscare have previewed their forthcoming new album, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, in a unique way: through YouTube videos. It’s rather genius, come to think of it. This way if anyone wants to rip the music and leak it as an album the quality will be so horrendous no one will accept it. We all know how horrendous YouTube’s audio is… The album will be out to buy on January 1, 2010.

The xx will play a free gig in Vancouver before their sold-out show later that night with Friendly Fires on November 26th. The band’s free in-store performance at Zulu Records will begin at around 5:00 p.m. Better get there early.

Finally, there is word circulating that Daft Punk are set to tour in 2010. The only North American date would be at Yankee Stadium on August 15th, but it looks like there’s plenty of space to squeeze in some more shows. I wouldn’t get your hopes up though - Daft Punk are known to be an easy target for such rumour mongering.

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Posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm by Cam and is filed under News, The New Music.

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