Posts Tagged ‘Primal Scream’
1/22/10 News briefs: Gang Gang Dance, She & Him, Suede, Franz Ferdinand and Primal Scream
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Brooklyn experimental crew Gang Gang Dance have rightfully signed to 4AD Records. The band will follow-up 2008’s brilliant Saint Dymphna later this year. (I smell a “best album of the year” candidate.)
We’re still a good two months and a day away from She & Him’s second album Volume 2, but the duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward have given us a taste of what to expect with a new song. You can download “In the Sun” over at Pitchfork.
So remember that Suede reunion we reported on? Well, it turns out that Bernard Butler is not part of it because he wasn’t asked to join. Speaking with BBC 6 Music, Butler explained that it’s nothing personal and he actually approves of it. However, at the one-off gig they’re doing, he added, “It’s a great charity and I’ll be in the front row chucking peanuts at them!”
Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos has gone off on his North American record label after they licensed the band’s song to McDonald’s. Kapranos logged on to Twitter to use some choice swear words (which we won’t reprint) to deride the “psychopathic corporation” that is Epic and Sony for ruining a lucrative proposed deal with White Castle. Wait, I think that White Castle bit was a joke…
Primal Scream have begun working on the follow-up to 2008’s Beautiful Future. Bassist Mani told NME.com, “We’ve got some half ideas left over from the last album, so we’ll bring them up and give them a kick around, we’re into it.”
Tags: 4AD, Bernard Butler, Franz Ferdinand, Gang Gang Dance, M. Ward, Mani, McDonald's, NME.com, Primal Scream, She & Him, Suede, Zooey Deschanel
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11/17/09 News briefs: Florence and the Machine, Paper Bag Records, NME, The Twilight Sad and The Cribs
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
It’s not uncommon for record companies to reissue an album months later as a bonus/deluxe package containing new goodies. But this news about the re-release of Florence and the Machine’s Lungs is a bit OTT. Her label will release a four-disc version of the singer’s Mercury-nominated debut album, with the bonus discs Live At Abbey Road, Remixes, Covers and Rarities and a Live From Rivoli Ballroom DVD. Is there anything left?
Paper Bag Records is celebrating its seven-year anniversary with a collection of 12 covers to download for free. Among the 12 songs are Winter Gloves doing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Laura Barrett doing Beck’s Gamma Ray” and most curious of all, CFCF doing OMC’s “How Bizarre.”
The NME has revealed its 100 albums of the decade… but only putting the top 50 up on its website. The five best albums are: 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell, 4. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, 3. Primal Scream XTRMNTR, 2. The Libertines Up The Bracket and drum roll… 1. The Strokes Is This It. (Like you didn’t know that….)
Scottish gloom rockers The Twilight Sad were robbed at gunpoint by two men dressed in fake police uniforms. I’m not sure why they thanked them for the experience, but they could be resorting to sarcasm after such a humiliating experience.
The Cribs have announced they will tour North America with ex-Smiths guitarist and newest member Johnny Marr. The Leeds-based band will play Toronto on January 5th and Vancouver on January 31st.
Tags: Arctic Monkeys, CFCF, Florence and the Machine, Johnny Marr, Laura Barrett, NME, Paper Bag Records, Primal Scream, The Cribs, The Libertines, the strokes, The Twilight Sad, Winter Gloves, yeah yeah yeahs
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