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12/15/09 News briefs: Elliott Smith, Pitchfork’s Top Tracks, Ten Years of ATP, Empire of the Sun and The Shins + Danger Mouse
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
While he may have left us six years ago, a new song from Elliott Smith has surfaced. His label Kill Rock Stars is giving away an MP3 of “Cecilia/Amanda,” which was originally recorded back in 1997. This gift comes along with news that KRS will remaster and re-release Smith’s first solo album, Roman Candle, along with the newly acquired final album, From a Basement on the Hill on April 6th, 2010.
The almighty indie bible Pitchfork has unveiled its Top 100 tracks of 2009. Topping the list? No surprises here: Animal Collective’s “My Girls,” followed by Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is the Move” and Phoenix’s “1901.”
Stereogum has been generous to share a photo album from the recent Ten Years Of ATP festival. There are some great pics of everyone from Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing Fever To Tell, Belle & Sebastian DJing, a fog-drenched Sunn O))) and a beardy Modest Mouse.
Though he found quite the buzz (and a fan in Jay-Z) with the dreamy psychedelic bubblegum of Empire of the Sun, Luke Steele is looking to release something new by his other band, The Sleepy Jackson. Steele told Aussie site Faster Louder he’s not sure when, but “the album should be out definitely in the next decade but not in the next 12 months – I’d want to, but I don’t think so, no.”
The Shins’ James Mercer and Danger Mouse have revealed details about their collaboration, Broken Bells. The two will release their self-titled, debut album on March 9th through Columbia Records. Described as ten “melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs,” as of December 21st you’ll be able to hear their first single, “The High Road.”
Tags: Broken Bells, danger mouse, Elliott Smith, Empire of the Sun, Faster Louder, James Mercer, Kill Rock Stars, Luke Steele, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Ten Years of ATP, The Sleepy Jackson
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Danger Mouse To Release New Album As Blank CD-R
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009After a disagreement with his record label, Gnarls Barkley member and super producer Danger Mouse has chosen to release his newest album as a blank CD-R. In a move that is sure to shake up the foundations of label/artist relationships, the controversial artist has bypassed a possible delay to release the new album with collaborator Sparklehorse called Dark Night of the Soul.
A statement on the album’s website reads: “Due to an ongoing dispute with [record label] EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artefact to use however you see fit.”
Whether this infringes on copyright law and EMI’s ownership of the album has yet to be decided. But according to 17 U.S.C. 1008 in the U.S. Copyright Law, if the CD-R is considered a “royalty-paid music CD-R” fans can make copies of the album as long as the digital audio recording medium is for noncommercial use.
Danger Mouse first made a name for himself as a maverick and innovator back in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, a lawsuit-baiting mash-up of the Beatles ‘White Album’ with Jay-Z’s Black Album. Though the album never saw a commercial release, it became wildly successful through file-sharing sites and P2P networks and spawned a surplus of copycats.
Dark Night Of The Soul features guest vocals by Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), James Mercer (The Shins), Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), Iggy Pop and ‘Twin Peaks’ director David Lynch, among others. Also included for the release is a 100-plus page book featuring photos by Lynch and an art installation set to run in Los Angeles beginning May 30.
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