Posts Tagged ‘The Quietus’
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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11/24/09 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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10/28/09 News briefs: Super Furry Animals, Lindstrøm, The Quietus, Retribution Gospel Choir and The xx
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Super Furry Animals will perform songs from their Creation Records back catalogue at a gig in their hometown of Cardiff, Wales on November 20th. “Recreation” will be part of the Soundtrack and International Film and Music Festival, and will also screen frontman Gruff Rhys’ film Separado!.
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm is set to get into the holiday spirit by releasing a 40-minute version of “Little Drummer Boy.” His cosmic disco version of the Christmas classic will be available as a special bonus disc with his forthcoming album Real Life Is No Cool, a collaboration with singer Christabelle.
The Quietus is getting readers ready for Halloween this week with a series of spooky stories written by musicians. So far, Wild Beasts have contributed a tale they call “The Cottage,” while Alison Mosshart of The Kills and The Dead Weather handwrote hers, titled “The Black Marks.”
Retribution Gospel Choir have unveiled the most breathtaking album cover of this next year.
And The xx have remixed/covered Florence and the Machine’s “You’ve Got the Love” and it’s brilliant. Thankfully there is an eye-popping video with a throwback to Studio 54 to go with it.
Tags: Christabelle, Creation Records, Florence and the Machine, Lindstrøm, Retribution Gospel Choir, Super Furry Animals, The Dead Weather, The Kills, The Quietus, the xx, Wild Beasts, “Little Drummer Boy”
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