Posts Tagged ‘Panda Bear’
2/1/10 News briefs: Broken Social Scene, F**ked Up, Panda Bear, Beach House and Phoenix
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Broken Social Scene have announced they’ll release their first album in five years on May 4th. Though it’s still untitled, Kevin Drew told Pitchfork that the album will be mostly a six-piece version of the band with guest appearances by Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Millan, Sebastien Grainger, Pavement’s Spiral Stairs and John McEntire from Tortoise, who also acted as producer. You can read the interview here.
Last week we told you that the beef between Fucked Up and Sonic Youth was not actually real, but that the Polaris Prize winners had a new song called “Cranking To Sonic Youth.” Well, you can now download that song for free on a new mixtape from guitarist and Young Governor frontman Ben Cook. Grab it from his No Guv No Luv blog.
Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) has revealed more details about his massively anticipated new album. Tomboy (yep, that’s what it’s called) will be out some time in September.
We love the new Beach House album, Teen Dream, so to hear that they performed four songs from it for the new Daytrotter Session is beautiful news to us.
And congratulations to Phoenix, who took home the only real Grammy Award that matters: Best Alternative Music Album. Okay, they’re all pretty meaningless, but the fact that they managed to win seems sweet on some level.
Tags: Beach House, Ben Cook, broken social scene, Daytrotter Session, Fucked Up, Grammy Awards, Kevin Drew, Panda Bear, phoenix, Pitchfork, Teen Dream, Young Governor
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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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11/24/09 News briefs: Spiritualized, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, The Yummy Fur and Coldplay side-project
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Jason Pierce has hinted there will be a new Spiritualized album in 2010. Speaking with The Quietus, Mr. Spaceman said, “I am making a record… It’s early days. We’ve put down some great, great songs.” Well, great!
Speaking of highly anticipated new albums, LCD Soundsystem have not only one possible album, but also a score coming up… possibly. James Murphy told Drowned In Sound, “i guess it sounds like LCD, really. i mean, it’s different in some ways, maybe the same amount that SOS was different than the first record–maybe more different.” Meanwhile, the score will be for the forthcoming film by Noah Baumbach starring Ben Stiller. Murphy says “it has been really fun,” but not much else. The Playlist, however, says Murphy will be making a cameo in Greenberg.
Wait, another highly anticipated album? You don’t say. But yes, Panda Bear has revealed to Pedestrian.TV that he’s working on his next record. In a nutshell: “The rhythms are really basic and kind of raw and simple and are electronic. It’s not live instrumentation, I’ve been playing guitar but I feed it through the same thing that the sequences are on. It’s a very electronic sound and very voice heavy. A simple arrangement of drums, the guitar and singing. Really there are only two or three elements to every song. It’s pretty raw sounding for better for worse.”
Late great Scottish indie act The Yummy Fur are reuniting. Somewhat famous for once featuring Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and Paul Thompson as members, the awkward cult band will play gigs in the UK and U.S. next January.
Coldplay’s Guy Berryman has formed a side-project with members of Mew and er, A-ha? Apparatjik will release their first track, “Electric Eye” on November 30th through their website, Apparatjik.com.
Tags: A-ha, Add new tag, Apparatjik, Ben Stiller, Coldplay, Drowned In Sound, Franz Ferdinand, Greenberg, Guy Berryman, James Murphy, Jason Pierce, LCD Soundsystem, Mew, Noah Baumbach, Panda Bear, Pedestrian.TV, Spiritualized, The Playlist, The Quietus, The Yummy Fur
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