Posts Tagged ‘Beyonce’
4/19/10 News briefs: PJ Harvey, Blur, Gay Indie Rock, Jose Gonzalez and Jay-Z + The xx
Monday, April 19th, 2010
PJ Harvey has told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that half of her new album was made with an autoharp. “I’ve written about half of my new record on one of these,” Harvey said before she performed a new song called “Let England Shake.” “I’ve got three autoharps and I’ve had them tuned in slightly different chords, uh, fixtures here, so that they’re slightly out of the normal line of what an autoharp would sound like. There’s a lot more minor keys, a lot of darker keys.”
Didn’t get one of the 1000 copies of the brand new Blur 7″ released this past Saturday for Record Store Day? Well, the band feel so bad about it that they’re now giving away the track digitally over at their website.
In case you’ve always thought indie rock was a little too straight, Queerty has compiled a list of ten influential gay indie rockers, profiling their work and how their sexuality has played a part in their music. Click here and see who they outed.
Jose Gonzalez’s old band Junip have reunited and will be playing some North American dates. There aren’t any Canadian shows, but the band will be releasing both an EP and an album on Mute later this year.
And because it’s a slow news day, I thought I’d point out that Jay-Z and Beyonce are fans of The xx. Cool or who cares? Diplo outed the couple peeping the band’s performance at Coachella this past weekend.
Tags: Beyonce, blur, Diplo, Jay-Z, Jose Gonzalez, Junip, PJ Harvey, Queerty, the xx
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12/4/09 News briefs: Andrew W.K., Phoenix, Animal Collective, Spacemen 3 and Of Montreal
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Andrew W.K. has contributed to a re-imagining of The Simpsons’ famous theme tune. Andrew played piano and threw in some scatting over top of some production by hip-hop crew People Under The Stairs. Their version will air on January 14th, the final episode of the show’s 20th season.
Phoenix are the stars of three new videos featuring them playing around various spots in Paris. Shot by Vincent Moon (The National, R.E.M., All Tomorrow’s Parties), the clips show the band stripping down their flashy studio sound to a couple of acoustics, a rinky-dink Casio keyboard and Thomas Mars’ unwavering voice.
Animal Collective will premiere their movie with director Daniel Perez at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The official description of ODDSAC is “an earthy, psychedelic experimental narrative infused with the band, Animal Collective’s aural and musical sensibilities.” Basically what we’d want in such an endeavour.
Jason Pierce has said he’s “not interested” in ever reuniting his former band Spacemen 3. About his notorious old bandmate Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, Mr. Spaceman said, “The split was so acrimonious and my view of him hasn’t changed.”
The other day we mentioned how Beyonce and Of Montreal are interested in working with each other. Well, it appears Kevin Barnes has already jumped at the opportunity and begun working on a song for Ms. Knowles. On Twitter, he posted that the song will be called “He’sMyPartyDrug” and it “sounds like The Time meets Four Tet.” Ooh!
Tags: andrew wk, animal collective, Beyonce, Daniel Perez, He'sMyPartyDrug, Jason Pierce, Kevin Barnes, ODDSAC, Of Montreal, People Under The Stairs, Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, phoenix, Spacemen 3, Sundance Film Festival, The Simpsons, Twitter, Vincent Moon
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12/2/09 News briefs: Dum Dum Girls, Cocteau Twins, Of Montreal + Beyonce, Fugazi and Arcade Fire
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Sub Pop has announced details about the debut album from Dum Dum Girls. Titled I Will Be, the LP was produced by Dee Dee herself along with Dee Dee and the legendary Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes) and will be released on March 30, 2010. Oh boy!
Elizabeth Fraser has told the Guardian that despite offers of £1.5 million each, Cocteau Twins will never reunite. The “voice of God,” however, can still be heard on a new single called “Moses.”
Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes told Paste that he “would be fully psyched” to collaborate with Beyonce. This comes after the former Destiny’s Child singer said she’d “love to do something like that” on her next album.
Chunklet has a wicked 40-minute montage of Fugazi on-stage banter to download for free. No band both takes the piss and keeps a crowd in line as good as Fugazi did.
Arcade Fire are indeed hard at work on a new album with Markus Dravs, who engineered their last one, Neon Bible. A member of Mumford and Sons let it slip to BBC 6Music that Dravs has been working on it for six months. Surely they’re close to finishing… surely!
Tags: Arcade Fire, Beyonce, Chunklet, Cocteau Twins, Dee Dee, Dum Dum Girls, Elizabeth Fraser, Fugazi, Guardian, I Will Be, Kevin Barnes, Markus Dravs, Mumford and Sons, Of Montreal, Paste, Richard Gotteher, Sub Pop
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11/25/09 News briefs: Ariel Pink, SXSW, ATP New York, Animal Collective and NME’s 100 Tracks of the Decade
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Madcap lo-fi whiz Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti have signed to 4AD and will release a new album in 2010.
The first crop of talent confirmed for the 2010 installment of South By Southwest has been announced. Among the hundreds of acts on the lengthy list are Japandroids, Warpaint, Frightened Rabbit, We Are Wolves, Plants and Animals, Timber Timbre and We Are Scientists. Umm, we expect them to announce a lot more in the coming months.
Tickets have now gone on sale for the All Tomorrow’s Parties New York 2010 event. Taking place the weekend of September 3 - 5 at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, performances include Iggy & The Stooges doing Raw Power, Sleep doing Holy Mountain, Mudhoney doing Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles, and The Scientists doing Blood Red River.
Animal Collective have completed their long-awaited “visual album.” Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) said it should be out next year and that the band will also begin writing a new album.
NME has named its 100 Tracks of the Decade, selecting Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” as the best song of the aughties. MGMT, The Strokes, M.I.A. and OutKast round out the top five.
Tags: 4AD, All Tomorrow's Parties, animal collective, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Beyonce, Iggy & The Stooges, Mudhoney, NME, Panda Bear, Sleep, South By Southwest, sxsw, The Scientists, Tracks of the Decade
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11/20/09 News briefs: The Big Pink, Sonic Unyon Xmas, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The xx and Daft Punk
Friday, November 20th, 2009
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.
Tags: Beyonce, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Daft Punk, Friendly Fires, Sonic Unyon, Sweet Dreams, the big pink, the xx, Tristan Psionic, YouTube, Zulu Records
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