11/29/2011

Slow Club "If We're Still Alive"

SLOW CLUB RELEASE VIDEO FOR "IF WE'RE STILL ALIVE"
FROM THEIR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM PARADISE
CHRISTMAS, THANKS FOR NOTHING EP
THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR HOLIDAYS

British duo Slow Club were thrilled to visit the United States in early November to support their sophomore album Paradise (iTunes), released this past September via Moshi Moshi Records to wide spread praise ranging from the New York Times and Rolling Stone, to Pitchfork and the Under The Radar.

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
Slow Club - If We're Still Alive
With the approach of the winter holidays, Slow Club are gearing up for their annual Christmas show at Union Chapel. Even if you can't be there in person you can still enjoy a little Slow Club Christmas cheer with their much loved Christmas, Thanks For Nothing EP. Available on iTunes

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"

Trentemøller Debuts Video For "Sycamore Feeling (Marie Fisker Version)" From Reworked / Remixed Double LP, Out This Week

Makes Late Night TV Debut On '
Last Call with Carson Daly'
Wednesday, Nov. 16th

"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

JT

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

"...straight-to-the-head industrial rock, bull-rushing into a two-minute coda of pure squall and feedback that's not unlike having hot club soda poured in your ears." -SPIN
"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





Tennis SINGLE 'ORIGINS' TO BE RELEASED AS 7" ON FOREST FAMILY RECORDS


TENNIS TO RELEASE YOUNG AND OLD FEBURARY 14th ON FAT POSSUM




SINGLE 'ORIGINS' TO BE RELEASED AS 7" ON FOREST FAMILY RECORDS
“I am really proud to say I worked on the new Tennis album. I think they are a really talented
band, and it's exciting to work with a band who is trying to move forward. Patrick, Alaina and
James have great ideas -- everything really comes together on this record.”Patrick Carney
The much anticipated second album from Denver-based Tennis, Young and Old, is set for releaseFebruary 14th, 2012 on Fat Possum Records. Their widely praised debut Cape Dory, which The WallStreet Journal called “a winsome set of breezy pop songs,” was released earlier this year. For theirforthcoming album guitarist Patrick Riley, vocalist Aliana Moore and drummer James Barone headedto Nashville to work with The Black Keys’ Patri ck Carney. The first single from these sessions,Origins,” will be released on limited edition blue 7” vinyl on December 6 via Forest Family Records.The session was a truly sublime collaboration between producer and artists, and the richness of the
output
is a great indicator of the chemistry the band shared wi th Carney. On the Origins 7" double
A-Side "Deep In The Woods" you will find the title track's perfect counterpart. The self-produced
"Deep In The Woods," displays vintage warmth and intimacy while still being ripe with the ban d'screative progress. You can currently pre-order the Origins 7" from Forest Family Records.
After the success of their first album and touring for the better part of a year that included shows as
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.
Over the last few months, Tennis has also released a series of covers as free downloads
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.

Tour Dates
12/6 - The Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ - Buy Tickets
12/7 - The Satellite - Los Angeles, CA - Buy Tickets
12/8 - The Casbah - San Diego, CA - Buy Tickets
12/9 - Velvet Jones - Santa Barbara, CA
12/10 - Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco - Buy Tickets
12/12 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR - Buy Tickets
12/13 - The Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, BC
12/14 - Crocodile Cafe - Seattle, WA - Buy Tickets
12/17 - Hi-Dive - Denver, CO - Buy Tickets

11/02/2011

Antony and the Johnsons "Swanlights"

Antony and the Johnsons Announce Swanlights Concert & Performance Event at Radio City Music Hall, TURNING Documentary Film Premiere
One-Night-Only Performance on January 26 Commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art; TURNING Documentary with Charles Atlas to Premiere in Copenhagen November 11

Photo by Mark Seliger
The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned artist/musician Antony to conceive, produce, and perform a large-scale concert and performance event, Swanlights, with Antony and the Johnsons, on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. at Radio City Music Hall. Featuring a 60-piece orchestra, the performance piece is conceived as a new commission especially developed for the January 26 performance, and an evolution of the highly acclaimed The Crying Light, which was presented at the Manchester Opera House for the 2009 Manchester International Festival. Envisioned as a meditation on light, nature, and femininity, Swanlights includes songs from all four of Antony and the Johnsons’ albums (self-titled, I am a Bird Now, The Crying Light, and Swanlights), set to symphonic arrangements by Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Maxim Moston. It is produced in collaboration with light artist Chris Levine, lighting designer Paul Normandale, and set designer Carl Robertshaw. Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large of The Museum of Modern Art and Director of MoMA PS1, with the assistance of Eliza Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

This month also sees a work-in-progress screening of TURNING, a film by Charles Atlas and Antony on November 11th at Copenhagen’s Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX. In 2006 Antony and the Johnsons and Charles Atlas toured Europe with a concert and live video portrait of 13 women from New York City. The Guardian called their presentation at The Barbican, "fragile, life affirming, and truly wonderful (five stars)." Le Monde in Paris hailed the performance at the Olympia as "Concert-manifeste transsexuel." The film TURNING explores the heart of that performance. Through its synthesis of Antony´s songs and unfurling video portraiture of the beauties who performed on stage, TURNING creates an intimate and cinematic experience exploring the themes of identity, transcendence and the revelation of essence.

Since being awarded the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize in 2005, Antony has collaborated with musicians including Björk, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Boy George, CocoRosie, and Lou Reed, and recently he has performed with symphonies around the world. Reed has said, "When I first heard him I knew I was in the presence of an angel.” Anderson adds, “Two words and he has broken your heart. When he sings it is the most exquisite thing you will hear in your life.”
Following its acclaimed presentation at the 2009 Manchester International Festival, the group’s performance of Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light was included in the exhibition 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009) at MoMA PS1, which was organized by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg, Performa Director and Curator.

Last summer, Antony was the musical director and a performer in the critically lauded The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, directed by Robert Wilson. This piece will tour Madrid, Amsterdam, Basel and Antwerp in Spring 2012.

As a visual artist, Antony has exhibited drawings at Palais Des Beaux Arts in Belgium, Isis Gallery in London, Accademia Albertina in Turin and the Triennale in Milan. Antony’s premier exhibit of drawings in the US will be held at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in January 2012, curated by James Elaine.

Tickets to Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights will go on-sale to the public on Saturday, November 12, at 10:00 a.m. via Ticketmaster phone charge at 1-866-858-0008, and online at www.radiocity.com and www.ticketmaster.com.

Ticket prices are $35.00 to $70.00. A limited number of VIP packages will be available for $95.00, which include premium seating and a copy of the Swanlights publication (Abrams Image). All ticket and package

RIDE @ Fonda Theatre // 12.19.24 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE

All photos taken by Martin Worster