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1/25/10 News briefs: The National, Caribou, The Tallest Man On Earth, Pavement and Vampire Weekend
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The National will release a new album on 4AD in April. Currently untitled, the band’s fifth album will take the Brooklynites on a North American tour that includes one Toronto date: Massey Hall on June 8th.
Caribou will release the follow-up to his Polaris Prize-winning Andorra album this spring. Titled Swim, Dan Snaith describes the album as “dance music that sounds like it’s made out of water, rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does.” Merge Records will release Swim on April 20th, but you can hear a brand new track called “Odessa” right now.
Swedish folkie The Tallest Man On Earth (or just Kristian Matsson) has signed to Dead Oceans to release his new album. Speaking of that, The Wild Hunt will be released on April 13th and you can check out the first “King of Spain” over at Pitchfork.
Matador has released the tracklisting for the forthcoming Pavement greatest hits. Quarantine The Past will feature 23 of the bands “hits” including “Gold Soundz,” “Shoot The Singer,” “Shady Lane,” “Trigger Cut” and “Box Elder.” You can pre-order a copy here.
Finally, anyone curious as to how Vampire Weekend topped the charts last week in both the U.S. and Canada can learn more from an interview with the band’s A&R guy Kris Chen. And no, it’s not just a matter of people discovering the sweet nu-Soweto sounds of the band on MySpace. There’s actually a lot of work involved. GQ got the answers.
Tags: 4AD, Caribou, Dan Snaith, Dead Oceans, matador, Merge, pavement, The National, The Tallest Man On Earth, Vampire Weekend
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12/8/09 News briefs: DâM-FunK + Nite Jewel, The Big Pink + A Place To Bury Strangers, F**ked Up, Bon Iver and best albums of 2009
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Rising funk ambassador DâM-FunK has teamed up with nocturnal lo-fi mistress Nite Jewel. Together they are Nite Funk, and XLR8R has the premiere track, “Am I Gonna Make It.”
The Big Pink and A Place To Bury Strangers will become tourmates through March and April 2010. The two bands will stop in Vancouver on March 13th, Toronto on March 24th and Montreal on March 25th. Bring your earplugs…
F**ed Up have revealed the gloriously, spirited cover and more details on their star-studded benefit Christmas single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” According to their label Matador, it “should be available from iTunes on [today], and will be released as a 7-inch single with an unreleased F**ked Up song on the b-side in February 2010.”
Earlier this year, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon performed live with Eau Claire, a jazz band from his old high school. Now that performance has become an album. A Decade With Duke will feature a set of Vernon’s songs as well as a set of Duke Ellington standards.
Finally, a number of music sites/mags have unveiled their year end picks for best album. The Quietus chose Sunn O)))’s Monoliths & Dimensions. The NME picked The Horrors’ Primary Colours. Gorilla vs Bear selected Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II. SPIN championed Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. And FACT, well, it’s gonna stretch it out for the rest of the week and reveal the winner on Friday.
Tags: A Decade With Duke, A Place To Bury Strangers, bon iver, DâM-FunK, Do They Know It's Christmas?, Duke Ellington, F**ed Up, FACT, Gorilla vs Bear, justin vernon, matador, Nite Funk, Nite Jewel, NME, SPIN, the big pink, The Quietus, XLR8R
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11/30/09 News briefs: Blur/Gorillaz, The Strokes, She & Him, Godflesh and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Blur have announced plans to release a career-spanning documentary No Distance Left To Run will be in UK cinemas on January 19, 2010. You can watch the trailer here. Meanwhile, Damon Albarn has revealed to the Guardian that his other (cartoon) band Gorillaz has a new album coming out called Plastic Beach.
We’re unsure of when their album will be written/recorded/released, but good news in The Strokes’ camp is that they’ll be headlining the Isle of Wight Festival on June 12, 2010. That’s a start, I guess.
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward are set to release their second album as She & Him in the spring. “She” also confirmed that they will be touring in support of Volume Two.
Holy moly! Godflesh is reuniting! The legendary industrial metal act led by the ridiculously prolific Justin K. Broadrick will eat his own words when the band play at Hellfest in France on the weekend of June 18th to 20th.
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists have unveiled their first album for new label Matador. The Brutalist Bricks will hit shops on March 9, 2010. You can here a brand spanking new song called “Even Heroes Have To Die” here.
Tags: blur, Godflesh, Gorillaz, Hellfest, Isle of Wight Festival, Justin K. Broadrick, M. Ward, matador, No Distance Left To Run, Plastic Beach, She & Him, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks, the strokes, Volume Two, Zooey Deschanel
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Earworm: Cold Cave “Theme From Tomorrow-land”
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Who: Cold Cave
Sounds like: Bored art school students throwing loft parties in Berlin, trying to recreate their favourite 12-inches from synth-pop’s golden era (1979 – 85) with cheap Casios and distortion pedals.
RIYL: Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Knife, Art Of Noise, Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Soft Cell, Durutti Column, Junior Boys, Heaven 17, Tubeway Army, darkwave, none of Wes Eisold’s previous bands
Need to know: Before Cold Cave, founder Wes Eisold was a member of hardcore/noise bands like Some Girls, American Nightmare, XO Skeletons, Give Up the Ghost, Taylor Bow and Ye Olde Maids. Fall Out Boy were accused of plagiarizing Eisold’s lyrics on Infinity On High; they gave him songwriting credits on three songs and later called him “Inspirador” on their next album, From Under The Cork Tree. Other members in the group include Sarah Lipstate (formerly of Parts and Labor), Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Caralee McElroy (formerly of Xiu Xiu). The band’s debut album Love Comes Close was originally released this summer through Eisold’s Heartworm Press imprint; Matador re-released it this week.
Track: Taken from their recent Death Comes Close EP, “Theme From Tomorrowland” is one of the group’s more dynamic songs. A driving techno beat and zealous synths converge to give Eisold and McElroy the right amount of post-punk muscle to accompany their burning harmonies.
Buy: You can get a free copy of Death Comes Close when you buy Matador’s re-release of Love Comes Close.
Tags: Cold Cave, Death Comes Close, Love Comes Close, matador, Wes Eisold, “Theme From Tomorrowland”
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Pavement are reuniting!!! Pavement are reuniting!!!
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
As you can likely tell, seminal ’90s indie rock gods Pavement have agreed to reunite for some shows in 2010. Yes, get excited.
After years of rumours and close calls (I saw Stephen Malkmus play some Pavement tunes with Bob Nastanovich at the Pitchfork Music Festival in 2007) the band will play “multiple, possibly four, nights of shows at NYC’s Central Park Summerstage” and as the headline of today’s blog on the band’s label Matador says: “Coming To A Town Near You (If You Live Near A Big Town) In 2010.”
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Tags: matador, pavement
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