Beck News:
Jamie Lidell Enlists Beck, Feist For 'Compass'
From www.billboard.com at 08/02/10 09:39 PM. 0 comments.
Jamie Lidell, the celebrated singer and electronic musician known for his unique, soulful voice and funky, improvisational live performances, has enlisted an all-star group of collaborators for his upcoming album "Compass," due May 18 on Warp Records.
The White Stripes News:
The White Stripes: The Ballet!
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/02/10 08:40 PM. 0 comments.
Homepage photo by Autumn de Wilde
Update: In other Stripes news today, the band and its management's Third Man Records site is claiming that an ad that ran during the Super Bowl for the Air Force reserve is a re-recorded, unauthorized version of "Fell in Love With a Girl". Go to their site for a side-by-side comparison and the Stripes' understandable anger.
Chroma is a contemporary ballet by choreographer Wayne McGregor that features music by the White Stripes as interpreted by an orchestra. The award-winning piece debuted at London's Royal Opera House in November 2006, and now it's coming to Toronto as part of the National Ballet of Canada's forthcoming season. (Via CBC News.)
Chroma features five pairs in flesh-colored outfits artfully moving to White Stripes songs like "The Hardest Button to Button" and "Blue Orchid", according to a Guardian review of the London show.
The CBC reports that Jack White has been invited to the Canadian premiere, which takes place in November. And the Stripes love them some Canada, so a Jack sighting does not seem completely out of the question. Head over to the National Ballet of Canada's site for more info.
Thanks to reader Damien Ferland for the tip.
Beck News:
Beck, Feist and Grizzly Bear guest on new Jamie Lidell album
From www.nme.com at 08/02/10 06:00 PM. 0 comments.
Wilco and Gonzales also appear on 'Compass'
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Radiohead News:
a week of number 13s
From www.radiohead.com at 08/02/10 03:52 PM. 0 comments.
1. Murderer by Low from Drums and Guns
2. Hotel Freund by Black to Comm from Alphabet 1968
3. If you go away by Scott Walker from Scott 3
4. Ancestors by Gonjasufi from 2010 from Warp Records
5. Turn it on (instrumental) by Mark Pritchard + Steve Spacek
6. Homenagem A Unios do Viradouro by Macunaima from Sambas de Enredo 2000 Ate 2006
Thom
Vampire Weekend News:
Listen: Vampire Weekend Cover Rancid
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/02/10 03:20 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Napoleon Habeica
During a BBC radio session last week, chart-topping indie rock band Vampire Weekend played a cover of Rancid's 1995 pop-punk hit "Ruby Soho". (Via Abeano.) If you think about this for more than five seconds, it makes a lot of sense. And, unsurprisingly, the cover is a relatively tucked-in alternative to the spiky original. Check it out here.
As Abeano also points out, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij compiled a mini-mix for Annie Mac's Radio 1 show, featuring Vampire Weekend's "Taxi Cab", the 6ths' "As You Turn to Go", and a Vampire Weekend remix of Lykke Li's "Dance Dance Dance". Listen to that over at Abeano as well.
Beck News:
Beck, Feist Guest on Jamie Lidell LP
From www.pitchfork.com at 08/02/10 02:00 PM. 0 comments.
If you've ever seen electro-soul whiz Jamie Lidell live, you know the guy can deliver ample amounts of ecstatic joy. It just feels good to be in the same room as him. So it makes a lot of sense that talented people including Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, Daniel Rossen, and Chris Bear, Wilco's Pat Sansone, legendary R&B drummer James Gadson, soul belter Nikka Costa, Beck keyboardist Brian LeBarton, and producer/songwriter Gonzales would want to help out on Lidell's new album. That album is titled Compass and due out May 18 courtesy of Warp.
This isn't the first time Lidell has worked with Feist (he contributed to The Reminder sessions) or Beck, who got Jamie (and Feist and Wilco and Gadson) to sing and play on his most recent Record Club covers project. Compass was recorded at Hudson Studios in Los Angeles (where Beck and Lidell teamed up to write and produce some songs), Hollywood's Ocean Way Recording, New York City, and Feist's ranch in Ontario's Niagara Escarpment (where Feist helped write and sang background vocals, while Chris Taylor did some producing, mixing, and bass clarinet playing). Expect dates for a full-band Lidell tour soon.
Stream the album's title track below:
The White Stripes News:
Jack White as a svengali? Here's how not to do it
From www.guardian.co.uk at 08/02/10 12:44 PM. 0 comments.
The White Stripes front man and his latest project, the Black Belles, should beware! Rock history is littered with manager-producers who got a little too hands-on
Alongside a wonderful version of Amy Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good by rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson, the latest batch of releases from Jack White's Third Man record label contains a minor mystery. Released in shops today on the usual extremely limited seven-inch is a record by The Black Belles, a group about whom little is known except that they were assembled by White, feature Nashville burlesque model Erin Belle and have a fondness for slightly medieval-looking wide-brimmed hats. As well as recruiting the Belles, Jack produced and wrote one of the songs on the record (the other is a cover of The Knickerbockers' great 1960s Merseybeat homage, Lies) and directed the accompanying video.
What is clear, however, is that The Black Belles mark another stage in Jack White's strange career. After being an upholsterer, actor and mogul (Third Man is the umbrella name for an organisation that includes a record company, pressing plant, photo studio and design agency in a building in downtown Nashville) it appears that White is now trying on the role of svengali for size.
Both White and the Belles themselves would do well to take a lesson from rock history, the pages of which are littered with stories of what happens when the manager-producer gets...
Vampire Weekend Link:
Line of Best Fit: Bexhill live review
From www.thelineofbestfit.com at 08/02/10 10:49 AM. 0 comments.
Basement Jaxx News:
The Look of Love
From www.basementjaxx.net at 06/02/10 02:46 PM. 0 comments.
Valentines Day is approaching fast.
Worried about what to get for your loved ones ? Don’t panic !
Basement Jaxx provide the perfect romantic gift - just click on the heart below for immediate delivery.
Thom Yorke News:
Billboard Bits: Kanye, Howard Stern, Noel Gallagher, Thom Yorke and More
From www.billboard.com at 05/02/10 10:46 PM. 0 comments.
Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.
Titus Andronicus News:
Whisper words of wisdom - let me pee
From titusandronicustheband.blogspot.com at 05/02/10 08:17 PM. 0 comments.
Hey gang. Did you see this little blurb about us that is in Rolling Stone this month? Pretty cool, right?
Yeah, except for one thing - the actual lyric is "let IT BE on a stretcher if I get carried away," not "let ME PEE on a stretcher if I get carried away," even though that is funnier. Hopefully that bodes well for the critical response to the abundance of actual scatalogical references on the record. Anyway, just wanted to clear that up. Heh heh... let me pee.
Yr friend,
Patrick
Radiohead News:
Why British pop let cool get in the way of a good charity single
From www.guardian.co.uk at 05/02/10 04:18 PM. 0 comments.
How amazing would it have been if Radiohead, Dizzee and Elbow had contributed to Everybody Hurts? Sadly, they are too cool to return Simon Cowell's phonecalls
There's nothing like a charity single for making musicians pull together â€' as long as they're American. The lineup that recorded We are the World 25 Years for Haiti in LA this week is impressive no matter how you look at it. Proper legends â€' Brian Wilson, Tony Bennett, Gladys Knight â€' appeared with young guns like Kanye West, Pink and Lil' Wayne. No matter how wretched the music (Celine Dion is involved, so expect, at the least, crescendo after raging crescendo), that's a premium-rate cast.
And the British effort? Not so premium. If the "official" British single, a cover of REM's Everybody Hurts, appears to have been made by people who've come straight from the X Factor green room, that's because they have. Virtually every artist on the single, from anomalous Americans (Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus) to pop heavies (Kylie, Robbie Williams, Take That) to actual X Factor winners (Lewis, Burke, McElderry) is associated with Simon Cowell's evil empire. Cowell himself masterminded the single, which will be released Monday.
So there you are: the UK music industry's response to a shattering natural disaster. America musters some of its greatest pop names; the British turn to reality TV. Where are the Brits who would have given the thing some gravitas? Radiohead, Dizzee Rascal, Arctic Monkeys, Damon Albarn,...
The White Stripes News:
Jack White plays plays surprise show in Nashville record shop
From www.nme.com at 05/02/10 03:30 PM. 0 comments.
White Stripes man plays in his own Third Man store
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Friendly Fires News:
XL Eggs Benedict Mix
From wearefriendlyfires.com at 05/02/10 11:15 AM. 0 comments.
Tracklist:
Jesse’s Gang – ‘Real Love’ – Geffen
Jodie ‘Fingers’ Finch – ‘Jack Your Big Booty (BHQ No Acid mix)’ – Lets Pet Puppies
Terre Thaemlitz – ‘Masturjakor (Kink and Neville Watson remix)’ – Mule Musiq
Green Velvet feat. Kid Sister – ‘Everybody Wants’ – Relief Records
Ike – ‘Dizkadenz’ – Philpot Records
KZA – ‘On&On&On’ – Endless Flight
King Cosmic – ‘Freaky Queen (Paul Hardy remix)’ – Hot Milk
Basic Soul Unit – ‘Hope Unity Vision’ – New Kanada
Kink – ‘Psyche Funk’ – Kolour Recordings
Quince – ‘Electric’ – Delsin Records
Rebolledo – ‘Guerrero’ – Comeme Records
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – ‘Don’t Think Twice (Love)’ – Paw Tracks
The White Stripes News:
Liam Gallagher teams up with Paolo Maldini - Daily Gossip
From www.nme.com at 05/02/10 10:56 AM. 0 comments.
Madonna vs McCartney, Cullum loves Jack White, Marina's fame â€' your music gossip stop
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Thom Yorke News:
Thom Yorke Guests on New Flying Lotus Album Cosmogramma
From www.pitchfork.com at 04/02/10 10:55 PM. 0 comments.
In an interview last month, Los Angeles beat mangler Flying Lotus told us a little bit about Cosmogramma, his forthcoming album: "I'm finally getting to the point where I can make the kind of records that I want to make-- that I wanted to make when I was younger, things that I dreamed about making. It's this fusion-y kind of thing where all the elements of the music that I love are there."
Warp will release Cosmogramma in the U.S. on May 4 and a day earlier in the UK. And hey, look who's on there! Some guy named Thom Yorke.
Yorke sings on a song called "...And the World Laughs With You". Other guests include vocalist Laura Darlington, who sang on previous FlyLo album Los Angeles, and jazz sax great Ravi Coltrane (who is Flying Lotus's cousin).
That image above is the cover art, and we've got the tracklist below.
Cosmogramma:
01 Clock Catcher
02 Pickled!
03 Nose Art
04 Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05 Zodiac Shit
06 Computer Face//Pure Being
07 ...And the World Laughs With You [ft. Thom Yorke]
08 Arkestry
09 Mmmhmm [ft.Thundercat]
10 Do the Astral Plane
11 Satelllliiiiiteee
12 German Haircut
13 Recoiled
14 Dance Of the Pseudo Nymph
15 Drips//Auntie's Harp
16 Table Tennis [ft. Laura Darlington]
17 Galaxy in Janaki
M.I.A. News:
Sleigh Bells Working With M.I.A.
From www.pitchfork.com at 04/02/10 08:35 PM. 0 comments.
Last night, Diplo posted the following message on his Twitter: "All day finishin up these @_m_i_a tracks... Its official.. This team is from the FUTURE!! - diplo rusko switch mia blaqstarr sleighbellz FTW"
And while we already knew most of those producers were getting in on M.I.A.'s forthcoming LP, the addition of Brooklyn noise-pop act Sleigh Bells is new. And it's official, according to Sleigh Bells' manager, who told The Village Voice that Sleigh Bells songwriter "Derek [Miller] did production work on the album." The duo's publicist confirmed it as well.
It seems like just yesterday we were watching M.I.A. watch Sleigh Bells perform at Brooklyn DIY haven Market Hotel during CMJ. How far they've come. If you want to see what all the Sleigh Bells fuss is about, try to check them out when they open for Yeasayer and Major Lazer in the coming months.
M.I.A.'s album is due out this summer.
Titus Andronicus News:
MONITOUR eFlyer 1.0, plus, "I won't fuck us over, I'm Dr. Pepper"
From titusandronicustheband.blogspot.com at 04/02/10 08:06 PM. 0 comments.
Hello friends. I hope this blog finds you well. Do you guys remember that short tour of record stores that we said we were going to do? Well, we are still going to do them, and to make it easier for you to remember to participate, the good people at Extra Large Recordings have prepared this eFlyer for you to look at. Behold!
Damn, that looks sharp. Well, now that we have that out of the way, let's get down to more serious (read - YouTube related) business.
Did you happen to see this video of us that was posted on PitchforkTV a couple weeks ago? It was from a performance we did at their offices as part of a birthday party for Pitchfork founder Ryan Schrieber. Do you like it? It is just another classic from the magical eyes of Ray Concepcion, who really stepped up his usual game into new, more psychedelic, high-octane territory. Yr crazy for this one, Ray! It will also give you a chance to observe Dave and Amy outside the context of a still photograph, which isn't really very helpful when you are wondering what something sounds like, know what I mean?
Speaking of PitchforkTV, you know what video I like to watch on that website? This one, of the National performing their song "Mr. November" from the album Alligator....
Titus Andronicus News:
Spoon, Broken Social Scene, She & Him, Titus Andronicus Headed to SXSW
From www.pitchfork.com at 04/02/10 04:10 PM. 0 comments.
The annual Austin feeding frenzy SXSW has already announced a bunch of the bands who will play this year, and now we've got another set of names to report. The shindig will take over Austin March 17-21, and the following people will be there:
Spoon, Broken Social Scene, She & Him, Titus Andronicus, Les Savy Fav, Fucked Up, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Bear in Heaven, the Very Best, !!!, jj, Here We Go Magic, Hudson Mohawke, Killer Mike, Black Milk, Grant Hart, the Drums, Trae, and Cold Cave.
And as a special bonus to Texas rap nerds: Paul Wall and Chamillionire. Together.