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New Release: Aloha: Home Acres
Artist: Aloha Album: Home Acres Release Date: March 9 Label: Polyvinyl Tracklist : 01 Building a Fire 02 Moonless March 03 Microviolence 04 Searchlight 05 Everything Goes My Way 06 White Wind 07 Cold Storage 08 Blackout 09 Waterwheel 10 I'm in Trouble 11 Ruins Note: Newest album from this ...
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Spencer Krug Goes Solo as Moonface
Spencer Krug is having a busy year. First Swan Lake , the side project he shares with Destroyer's Dan Bejar and Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer, released their Enemy Mine album. Then Sunset Rubdown , the outfit he fronts, dropped the BNM'ed Dragonslayer . (No activity from Wolf Parade , though.) ...
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xx to Tour With jj
Before they head out on a U.S. tour with Hot Chip come April, sultry electro-rock quartet trio the xx are now set to do seven American dates with fellow lowercase, double-lettered group jj starting in March. These shows mark the first U.S. live appearances ever for enigmatic Swedes jj. The xx ...
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News in Brief: Pablove Foundation, Odetta, Dukes of Stratosphear, Tristeza
-- Band of Horses, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Against Me!'s Tom Gabel, and Black Rebel Motorcycle club are some of the acts playing "stripped-down" sets at a benefit gig for tomorrow, November 21, at Hollywood's Avalon. Proceeds go to the Pablove Foundation , which fights pediatric ...
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Video: Neutral Milk Hotel Live in 1998
As previously reported , Merge has just reissued Neutral Milk Hotel 's two albums, 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's stone classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea , on 180-gram vinyl. To mark the occasion, the folks at Merge have posted two live Neutral Milk Hotel videos on Merge's blog. They ...
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Blur to Release Live CD With UK Paper
Following in the steps of everybody from Prince to Sigur Rós , Blur are set to release a free CD with a UK newspaper. The November 22 edition of the Sunday Times will come bundled with a 10-track disc featuring songs recorded live during Blur's summer reunion tour . According to the Times , ...
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Real Estate Bassist Alex Bleeker Recruits Other Real Estaters for Debut
We're in the midst of an absurdly productive few months for Jersey lo- fi up-and-comers Real Estate . The band's self-titled debut album dropped this week and scored a BNM from us, and they've got a new EP called Reality coming December 18 via Mexican Summer . And the Real Estate brain-trust ...
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Spoon Reveal First Transference Dates
Photo by Autumn de Wilde Spoon 's next album, Transference , is due January 25 in Europe via Anti- and January 26 in North America via Merge . And in the coming months, lucky folks in the U.S. and Europe will get a chance to hear Spoon play some of these songs live. Spoon's catalog of spiky ...
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Listen: The Big Pink Cover Beyoncé
Photo by Tim Saccenti Shoegaze-y British duo the Big Pink are no strangers to pop. Their 2009 anthem "Dominos" aims for the charts with one of the year's best, most massive hooks, and they remixed Lily Allen earlier this year. So it's not a huge surprise that they like Beyoncé enough to cover ...
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Califone Drop New Video, Add Dates
There's something comfortable about ramshackle roots veterans Califone 's new video for "Funeral Singers" . It's pretty minimal, with footage of dudes sitting in a circle playing acoustic guitars cut with flickering Super 8 footage. All the better to focus on the song, which, as Pitchfork's ...
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Director's Cut: Jarvis Cocker's "Further Complications" Video
From Radiohead's "No Surprises" to Red Hot Chili Peppers' " Can't Stop" , great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director's Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. The men and women behind ...
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Iggy and the Stooges to Perform Raw Power at ATP New York 2010
In 2010, the All Tomorrow's Parties festival will return to the scenic (and kinda creepy) Kutschers Country Club in Monticello, New York for a third year. ATP New York will take place over Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, so you'll have an extra vacation day to work off that hangover you ...
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Reminder! Pitchfork Presents All Tomorrows Parties Chicago Premiere
Reminder ! The Chicago premiere of All Tomorrow's Parties - The Film goes down tomorrow night at Facets Cinematheque . The movie documents the All Tomorrow's Parties music festivals that have taken place around the world for the past 10 years. Co-directed by Jonathan Caouette ( Tarnation ), ...
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New Release: Toro Y Moi: Causers of This
Artist: Toro Y Moi Album: Causers of This Release Date: February 23 Label: Carpark Tracklist : 01 Blessa 02 Minors 03 Imprint After 04 Lissoms 05 Fax Shadow 06 Thanks Vision 07 Freak Love 08 Talamak 09 You Hid 10 Low Shoulders 11 Causers of This Notes: Debut album from South ...
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Fiery Furnaces' Matt Friedberger Writes "Virtual Response" to Beck Song
So there's this weird and nonsensical semi-feud going down on the internet because the Fiery Furnaces ' Matthew Friedberger insulted Radiohead and Beck . (For the whole story so far, click on this link .) It started off marginally amusing, and then Beck put out a song that may or may not be ...
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New Release: Savath y Savalas: The Predicate (Dub Version)
Artist: Savath y Savalas Album: The Predicate (Dub Version) Release Date: Available digitally now, out physically January 2010 Label: Stones Throw Tracklist : 01 Adeu Salutation 02 Abri .l Closed 03 Pavo Real Plucked 04 Pajaros En Cadaques Shot 05 The Predicate and the Library 06 Me ...
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Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor Talks New LP
Since the release of their last album, 2008's Made in the Dark , Hot Chip broke the UK's Top Ten for the first time with "Ready for the Floor", put out a stellar EP with experimental rock godhead Robert Wyatt , teamed up with Peter Gabriel for a Vampire Weekend cover , compiled a Bugged Out ...
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News in Brief: The Hot Rats, Kría Brekkan, the Watson Twins, Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose
-- Back in June, we reported that Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich had teamed up with Supergrass members Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey to form a cover band called the Hot Rats . On Turn Ons , the band's debut album, they take on tracks by the Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, and the ...
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Decemberists Turn The Hazards of Love Into Animated Film
Photo by Brian Leli The Decemberists ' The Hazards of Love has taken on many lives. First, it was an ambitious concept album/rock opera about forest queens and shape-shifters. Then, the band took it on the road , playing the entire full-length album every night and bringing two of the ...
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New Interpol Album Coming Next Year
Interpol haven't released a new album since 2007's middling Our Love to Admire . Since then, the members of the band have been pretty busy with extracurricular activities: singer Paul Banks' solo project Julian Plenti , bassist Carlos D's short film , drummer Sam Fogarino's band with ...
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