12/30/2011
12/26/2011
BEST of 2011
12/19/2011
Godard's "Weekend" @ Cinefamily
Godard's "WEEKEND" (brand new 35mm print!) Thursday, January 5th - Wednesday, January 11th! SCREENING SCHEDULE: |
12/17/2011
Gavin Friday "Catholic"
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12/14/2011
Marissa Nadler "In Your Lair, Bear"
"In Your Lair, Bear" with SPIN
Download her covers of "Learning to Fly" & "Motel Blues" feat. Carter Tanton
12/31 - Boston, MA - Boston Public Library-Rabb Hall
w/ Cass McCombs, Ida and Drew O'Doherty
12/13/2011
Cate Le Bon: US Tour
Cate Le Bon announces 2012 headlining tour, premieres new video - "Fold The Cloth" with Paste Magazine, to live stream Daytrotter session today
VIDEO: "Fold The Cloth" -
DAYTROTTER:
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/cate-le-bon/20055214-37382618
A new force in song craft, Cate Le Bon currently resides in Cardiff's infamous French quarter and befitting a songwriter who only writes in the dark, her music is a heady and highly personal Gallic stew of equal parts Nico, Malkmus and the chronicler's own emotional observations on the impossibility of existence.
Disheartened by the constant stream of dead animals she found herself burying in her parents farm in Penboyr, West Wales, and inspired by her fathers impeccable record collection (The Velvets, Neil Young, Pavement et. al) Cate packed her things and begrudgingly set sail for the neon lights and ample rehearsal space available in her country's capital.
Following a string of club night shows in the city, Cate caught the attention of Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys who over a cigar and a glass of brandy offered her some support slots with his band. Cate continued to gig extensively in the UK releasing singles and a Welsh language EP (Edrych Yn Llygaid Ceffyl Benthyg) on the Indie Record label Peski.
Knowing that there's never too much of a good thing, Rhys roped Cate into his hip hop exchange program Neon Neon. What began as a guest vocal appearance on their debut single, "I Lust You," resulted in a year of touring the world as part of their band.
During a month's break from the road, with her confidence and enthusiasm doubled, Cate retired to Y Gerlan in the mountains of North Wales for a prophetic 10 day recording session which resulted in the release of her debut full length album Me Oh My to rapturous critical acclaim. On the back of the album's US release in April 2010, Cate completed a two month tour stretching from SXSW in Texas to Café Hotel in Los Angeles, sending postcards from Boston, Buffalo, San Francisco and New York along the way.
Like a dutiful daughter Cate returned for the British festival season, seeing out the summer at Glastonbury, The Great Escape and Field Day to name a few, and snatching free time between performances to write new material in her North Walian bolthole.
At the dawn of 2011, Cate re-entered the studio to start work on a new record of her own. Drawing on her experiences of the last year, Cate has created collection of pop nuggets that sound like they've fallen off the back of a broken carousel, imbued with the playfulness of Faust and Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes. Existential word play abounds and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a CAN on CYRK, which is due in the US via The Control Group label in early 2012. "Puts Me To Work" is the first single from that record.
CATE LE BON
02/08 - Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bear's
02/09 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
02/10 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's
02/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kungfu Necktie
02/12 - Washington, DC @ DC9
02/14 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
02/16 - Madison, WI @ The Frequency
02/22 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/23 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
02/26 - Santa Monica, CA @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
02/27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bardot Hollywood (School Night)
12/03/2011
Mark Stewart + The Pop Group
- Primal Scream
“Its so cool that he did that, I loved it. I could not believe that he was singing, when I heard him open up at the start I thought that its the best thing ever. Its crazy to get to play with one of my heroes, I kinda can’t believe it”.
- St. Vincent
“The paradox of choice
Priceless Souls
In a neon wasteland...
Bankrupt ideologies
Litter the dealing rooms floors” – Mark Stewart
“Nothing Is Sacred” is available as a free download from www.markstewartmusic.com
on 2nd December 2011.
www.facebook.com/markstewartmusic
www.twitter.com/_markstewart
www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Mark Stewart full-length out SPRING 2012
12/02/2011
Best Records of 2011
12/01/2011
Little Dragon "Cocaine"
FACT MAG DROPS LITTLE DRAGON REMIX OF "COCAINE" BY THE INTERNET
(SYD THE KYD & MATT MARTIANS)
PURPLE NAKED LADIES DUE DEC 20 DIGITALLY, JAN 31 PHYSICALLY
After the recent release of the Cocaine EP featuring their track of the same name, The Internet is ready to share Swedish pop titans Little Dragon's remix of "Cocaine". Grab the track below from Fact Magazine or download via Soundcloud:
http://www.factmag.com/2011/11/30/the-internet-cocaine-little-dragon-remix/
http://soundcloud.com/wegetpress/cocaine-little-dragon-k-kejn
Odd Future's The Internet (Syd The Kyd & Matt Martians) will release their debut album Purple Naked Ladies featuring "Love Song -1", "They Say" and "Cocaine" on Odd Future Records digitally on December 20th. The physical version featuring 3 bonus tracks and exclusive art and packaging will be in stores Jan 17th. Digital release tracklisting below.
THE INTERNET
PURPLE NAKED LADIES
(ODD FUTURE RECORDS)
DEC. 20, 2011 (Digital)
1. Violet Nude Women
2. They Say/Shangrila (ft. Tay Walker)
3. She Dgaf
4. C*nt
5. Cocaine/Tevie (ft. Left Brain)
6. Ode to a Dream (ft Kilo Kish & Coco O.)
7. Gurl (ft. Pyramid Vritra).
8. Love Song -1
9. Lincoln (ft. Mike G & Left Brain)
10. Web of Me
11. She Knows
12. Fastlane
13. Visions (ft. Coco O.)
14. The Garden
VIDEO: "Cocaine" - http://oddfuture.tumblr.com/day/2011/10/31
MP3: "Love Song -1" - http://soundcloud.com/wegetpress/the-internet-love-song-1
MP3: "They Say" - http://soundcloud.com/wegetpress/the-internet-they-say
Black Bananas "Rad Times"
MP3: "Rad Times" -
http://www.dragcity.com/system/tracks/downloads/5180/original/1-07_Rad_Times.mp3
STREAM: Black Bananas & Kurt Vile - "Before They Make Me Run" -
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RTX are splitting into Black Bananas!!! The fruit is ripe and the bread will be FRESH.
After three albums under the name RTX, Jennifer Herrema and her bunch decided to flip the script, to kick open the doors of perception a little bit . See, RTX was not Royal Trux, not a metal band, not a 70's bar band and not a toxic substance; RTX was something, all of those things and none of them and way more, including Black Bananas bubbling in a witchy cauldron of their own herbaceousbrew. The title of a song on their RaTX album detailed a bit of the recipe, taking elements often tossed aside or thrown all the way out and combining them into something new and worthwhile...a new strain of the almighty green - to feed and elevate the hungry ones.
"I'm your garbage collector
I'll turn your trash to gold
What you cast off is what I hold,
End loafs of bread, black bananas and broken crackers
Scratched records, too dark pictures and torn jeans
All the shit that rips at the seams"
Josh T. Pearson "O Holy Night"
JOSH T. PEARSON RECORDS “O HOLY NIGHT”
Josh T. Pearson concludes an incredible year by receiving “Album of the Year” by the famous UK record store, Rough Trade, for the deeply affecting Last Of The Country Gentlemen. As a thank you, Pearson has recorded a special version of “O Holy Night”, it was recorded live to tape by Grammy winning Liam Watson at the legendary ToeRag Studios in Hackney, East London one dark October afternoon. Listen and download the track HERE.
Pearson also recorded a new Mute Studio Session, playing “Drive Her Out”, just one of the songs from Last Of The Country Gentlemen he’s recorded on camera and live at the Mute studio. You can listen to that along with studio versions of “Woman When I’ve Raised Hell” and “Sorry With A Song” by visiting Josh T. Pearson’s official YouTube page – www.youtube.com/user/joshtpearson
UK Praise for Last Of The Country Gentlemen
“A stone cold masterpiece…” - 5/5 ‘Album of the Month’ Uncut
“Last of the country gentlemen explores the death of love and chases elusive ghosts
across sadness-slaked country laments. Intimate, beautiful starkly candid. It’s an exceptional, powerful record.” 4/5 – Mojo
"Not since Leonard Cohen has an artist emerged who can evoke such profound extremes of human emotion through the device of a simple musical performance." 5/5 The Times
“Pearson is a one of a kind artist and words can't describe how f**king good Last Of The Country Gentlemen is - heavy, beautiful and brilliant.” Mark Lanegan
“Josh T. Pearson is a rare talent. One of a kind. I've been a great admirer of his sublime work for almost ten years now. When Josh comes on the stereo, we all stop in our tracks and listen.” Daniel Kessler (Interpol)
facebook.com/joshtpearson
11/29/2011
Slow Club "If We're Still Alive"
THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR HOLIDAYS
Their latest video for the song "If We're Still Alive" takes footage from this trip as well as travels in the UK to give an intimate look at life in a touring band, capturing live gigs, long drives, late nights, and days off at the beach.
Slow Club - If We're Still Alive |
Stream "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home"
11/21/2011
Noah and The Whale
All photos by Rachel Robinson. Noah and the Whale are playing at the Anaheim House of Blues tomorrow Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
11/12/2011
Trentemøller "Sycamore Feeling"
Makes Late Night TV Debut On 'Last Call with Carson Daly'
"Reworked/Remixed remains a compelling cross-section - and introduction to - Trentemøller's
catalog. " - ALARM 'This Week's Best Albums'
"It was a thrilling, all encompassing performance, where Goths, rave fans, and indie kids all elated.
A master class in leaving it all onthe stage." - Under the Radar
"The album's wide range of instrumentation... truly explains why Trentemøller is one of the most talked about producers working in electronic music." -Zink
Watch "Sycamore Feeling (Marie Fisker Version)" at the Stereogum premiere or YouTube
Download Trentemøller's Remix of "Neverglade"
Danish electronic artist Anders Trentemøller has debuted a brand new video with Stereogum for the opening track "Sycamore Feeling (Marie Fisker Version)" on his recently released double CD, Reworked / Remixed. The video features the Danish singer stoically sifting in and out of people's apartment's and thoughts. After an incredible spring tour including performances at this year's SXSW, Ultra Music Festival, and Coachella, resulting in Yahoo! Music saying he was the "biggest breakout of Coachella 2011...perhaps he'll be headlining Coachella in 2012," Trentemøller just wrapped up his second exhilarating full-band run through North America this year including an amazing NYC set with expert theremin player Dorit Chrysler and Coco Sumner (I Blame Coco). The producer and his lauded band will make their late night television debut next week on Last Call with Carson Daly. Tune in Wednesday night Nov. 16th/ Thursday morning at 1:35am EST.
Reworked / Remixed is out now on Trentemøller's own label In My Room and celebrates some of the producer's favorite remixes he's crafted for other artists, as well as his own songs that other musicians have reworked. Featuring UNKLE, I Blame Coco, Depeche Mode, Modeselektor with Thom Yorke, Efterklang, Mew, Kasper Bjørke and many more, CMJ says, the "beats are crisp and instruments are perfectly mixed, mastered and balanced, fitting together like pieces in a very exact glass puzzle."
11/09/2011
A Place To Bury Strangers EP
A Place To Bury Strangers Announce EP Onwards To The Wall New Release Due on Dead Oceans February 7 | |
A Place To Bury Strangers is pleased to announce their Dead Oceans debut release, Onwards To The Wall. The EP contains 5 brand new, pummeling tracks that will melt the smile off a listener's face. The band has also released their first MP3 from the EP, "So Far Away," to the public via Pitchfork. "So Far Away" takes all the pure pop perfection of The Box Tops' "The Letter" and shoots it through with a barely-harnessed dark energy and snarling propulsion. Onwards To The Wall packs every bit of the searing sonic maelstrom listeners have come to expect from APTBS. Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by APTBS themselves, this is the sound of a band in control of making out of control music. Now joined by bassist Dion Lunadon, formerly of The D4, lead singer and guitarist Oliver Ackerman has found a crucial companion in pulling timeless melodies from their jet engine textures. The adroit songcraft that's always been there is brought to the fore, with familiar pop hooks repurposed for maximum carnage. A handful of contemporary bands are currently exploring the new limits of loud. Here, APTBS proves that they have not only been leading that charge, but that they are also evolving and maturing on those front lines. Onwards To The Wall is a fresh, complete artistic statement from APTBS. It’s a new chapter, a prelude for what awaits us on the horizon. It is a taste of greatness to come. Tracklisting: 1. I Lost You 2. So Far Away 3. Onwards To The Wall 4. Nothing Will Surprise Me 5. Drill It Up | |
PRAISE FOR APTBS "A Place to Bury Strangers can pull beauty out of eardrum-puncturing bleakness…" -PITCHFORK "Drawing inspiration from shoegaze, classic indie rock, and atmospheric and dark sounds of all stripes...[APTBS have] honed their songcraft as well as their committment to beautiful noise." -ALL MUSIC GUIDE "...now in their eighth year of making cochlea-assaulting rock music in the most classic vein, which somehow achieves the decibel level of a jet engine with the crisp fidelity of a Bose commercial." -CAPITAL NEW YORK | |
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Tennis SINGLE 'ORIGINS' TO BE RELEASED AS 7" ON FOREST FAMILY RECORDS
SINGLE 'ORIGINS' TO BE RELEASED AS 7" ON FOREST FAMILY RECORDS
output is a great indicator of the chemistry the band shared wi th Carney. On the Origins 7" double
far away as Moscow, Riley and Moore returned home and realized what was initially a bedroom-
recording project had quickly evolved into a band. The challenge of a second record was upon
them, but songwriting came quickly and in three months the duo had most of the material for
their new album. The goal this time was to mature and vary their sound. Riley describes the new
direction as “Stevie Nicks going through a Motown phase.” By the time they hooked up with Carney,
they had fleshed out most of the songs that w ould comprise Young and Old. With their friend and
mentor at the producer helm, the recording progressed naturally and within 3 weeks the album
was done. While their debut was written with a third touring member in mind, the new album is
written and recorded with the addition of a fourth.
including “Is It True” by Brenda Lee and their take of “Tell Her No” by The Zombies. To
support the new 7” and road rehearse new songs, the band will embark on a December
run of west coast dates with The Miniature Tigers supporting. See below for dates.
RIDE @ Fonda Theatre // 12.19.24 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE
All photos taken by Martin Worster
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