Posts Tagged ‘Pitchfork’
3/17/10 News briefs: Robyn, Saint Etienne, Chapterhouse, Girls and Little Boots
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Robyn is talking about her three new albums. She told Pitchfork, “Right now I’m finishing the first one, which is going to come out in June. I’m already working on the second album so I hope that’ll come out sometime after the summer. Then later on maybe another release.”
Having already reissued four albums last year, English dance pop institution Saint Etienne are continuing their reissue series with two more out on May 4th. The trio will re-release Tiger Bay and Finisterre with bonus tracks, the latter of which will include the Doctor Who-sampling “There There My Brigadier.”
Shoegaze pioneers Chapterhouse have announced a handful of tour dates that includes one Canadian date in Toronto at the Horseshoe Tavern on May 1st. The band told Under The Radar, “This really is a one off deal for us so there are no plans for any further shows after these North American dates. It is the original line up except for Greg Moore who is filling in for Russell Barrett on bass.”
Girls have announced a new EP set for release in the spring. Frontman Christopher Owens told Drowned In Sound that he’s written 70 songs and picked the six best. He added, “I want to call the a-side ‘Fucking A and the b-side ‘Fucking B’,” said Owens, “and I want it to be the best EP of all time!”
Finally, Little Boots has cancelled her North American tour. She was scheduled to play two Canadian dates: April 29th at Montreal’s SAT and the 30th at the Phoenix in Toronto. “Unforeseen circumstances and commitments in the UK” are the reasons given.
Tags: Chapterhouse, Girls, Little Boots, Pitchfork, Robyn, Saint Etienne
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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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1/11/10 News briefs: Dirty Projectors, Spoon, M.I.A., Swans and Pavement
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Dirty Projectors are giving away a brand new single. The band announced on their MySpace page that they’re giving away a digital download of the A-side “Ascending Melody” as well as B-side “Emblem of the World.” All you’ve got to do is register and give them your important deets. The band’s label Domino will also sell the single as a 7-inch.
If you’re just dying to hear the new Spoon album (and who isn’t?), you can now stream Transference in its entirety over at the NPR site. The album hits shops on January 19th.
M.I.A. is getting ready to drop her third album. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Maya Arulpragasam said most of the album was recorded with producer Blaqstarr. As for the music, she said the goal was “to be real, whatever that is” and to avoid making music that is “gimmicky or silly or hipstery.” The untitled album is set for summer.
Industrial noise merchants Swans have reunited. According to a MySpace blog posting, the band are working on a new album and have posted an acoustic demo for a song called “Jim.” Leader Michael Gira will be releasing an acoustic version of these songs on CD as well as a live DVD in a limited edition, hand-packaged set titled I Am Not Insane as a way of paying for the studio album.
Pavement are looking like the (obvious) headliners for this summer’s Pitchfork Music Festival. News has leaked online that the seminal indie rockers will indeed be one of the influential website’s evening closers over the weekend event, which usually occurs in mid-July .
Tags: Dirty Projectors, M.I.A., NPR, pavement, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spoon, Swans
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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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10/2/09 News briefs: Phoenix, LCD Soundsystem, Ramones, Libertines and Pitchfork
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Phoenix have a remix album coming out called Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Remix Album). The tracklisting has been released and there’s plenty of good lookin’ contributors, like Passion Pit, The Soft Pack, Friendly Fires, YACHT, Chairlift, and of course, Animal Collective.
We can expect a new album from LCD Soundsystem in March. The band’s boss James Murphy made the announcement on the wall of their Facebook page, of all places. He wrote: “record: march. tour: after.”
Fox Searchlight is in talks to bring a Ramones’ biopic to the screen. The film would be based on I Slept With Joey Ramone, the memoir written by brother Mickey Leigh and longtime punk writer and Ramones chronicler Legs McNeil. Sounds great, but didn’t they tell the band’s complete history in the End Of The Century doc?
Carl Barat has informed the NME that he is far too busy to reform The Libertines next year. Instead, it will happen “when it needs to happen,” which could be in 2011. Will anyone care at that point?
Pitchfork has completed its triumphant run through of its Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s, which begins with Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions and ends with Radiohead’s Kid A. We hope we didn’t ruin anything for you…
Tags: LCD Soundsystem, Libertines, phoenix, Pitchfork, Ramones
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