3/31/2012
3/30/2012
Electric Flower Group @ Origami Vinyl
3/29/2012
Ty Segall & White Fence "Hair"
Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
Street Date, April 24th, 2012, Drag City
Here's a note from Ty Segall about the project:
Hair is the new collaboration from the two minds of Ty Segall and Tim Presley (White Fence), co-written, with shared and solo penned tunes dripping from each side. Presley plays the organ, guitar, percussion, voice, bass, harmony, vibes and faders and so does Ty. A complete collaboration. A new project. This is not the follow up to either members solo releases... it is the first LP of many in the Ty Segall and White Fence (AKA THE HAIR) roster.... so, Let it grow MAAAAANNN....
More about Hair:
Whether you’re walking, rolling and tumbling, flying, driving your car, or sitting still and meditating, wherever you go, Hair you are. You don’t always see the wild mystery that comes with everyday life on this rock, but your connection to the Eternal is always present. You just can’t see it. Today, you’re in luck - up to your frontal eye-lobes in luck. Ty Segall & White Fence have thrown their X-ray vision upon you and see the blood rocking through your veins and all the blood vessels in your brain. They can see them…
Hair it is - to stuff the cracks in your mental chrome dome. Hair for you to stare for awhile. Hair grows like grass beneath your feet, opens up your mind and reflects you in the fun house mirror - spreading past your borderlines, bouncing like rubber, growing and grooving towards the sky (with diamonds). Was it yesterday or yesteryear or is it happening now, on five-second synaptic delay? You were tall, you were high…you went farther than you’ve ever been.
Chanting to and from the dome is your living soundtrack and providing the Hairdressing for your psychic salad are Ty Segall and White Fence sitter Tim Presley with Sean Presley and Mikael Cronin along on the carpet ride. It unrolls from within them and in between them, and electricity takes many forms, from poppy lunges to acoustic strolls to freak-downs at end of the side. Hair gets tangled deep in clouds of guitars and drums and counter-riffs and percussion, then pressed flat with harmony vocals and compression. Whatever got them through the night, it launches the ship into the stratosphere. And Hair you are again.
Coming April 24th, 2012 from Ty Segall and White Fence: Hair.
Track List:
1 Time
2 I Am Not a Game
3 Easy Ryder
4 The Black Glove/Rag
5 Crybaby
6 (I Can’t) Get Around You
7 Scissor People
8 Tongues
Tour Dates:
TY SEGALL & WHITE FENCE
5-2 San Francisco - Independent *
5-3 Portland, OR - Star Theater
5-4 Vancouver, BC - Waldorf Hotel
5-5 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
5-6 Missoula, MT - The Palace
5-8 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
5-9 Madison, WI - High Horse Saloon
5-10 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall !
5-11 Detroit, MI - Lager House !
5-12 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern !
5-13 Montreal, QC - Il Motore !
5-14 Portland, ME - Space Gallery !
5-16 New York, NY - Webster Hall $!
5-18 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
5-19 Raleigh, NC - King's Barcade
5-20 Atlanta, GA - Earl
5-21 Nashville, TN - The End
5-22 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
5-23 Little Rock, AR - Whitewater Tavern
5-24 Houston, TX - Walter's
5-25 Austin, TX - Mohawk (outside)
* = w/ Shannon and the Clams, The Mallard
! = w/ The Strange Boys
$ = w/ The Men
WHITE FENCE ONLY
4-22 Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium +
8-4 Big Sur, CA Woodsist Fest / Henry Miller Library
+ = w/ The Shins
TY SEGALL ONLY
4-13 Gambier, OH- Kenyon College [solo set]
4-15 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
CAN "The Lost Tapes"
CAN
THE LOST TAPES
RELEASED JUNE 19th 2012
3CD BOX SET OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR UNRELEASED MATERIAL – BRAND NEW TRACKS
AS IF YOU WERE THERE – HALCYON DAYS, NOT OUTTAKES
The original track that opens the forthcoming Can album The Lost Tapes
SPECIAL NYC EVENT – APRIL 17TH – LE POISSON ROUGE
An Evening of Unreleased Music and Discussion
by Irmin Schmidt + Jono Podmore
Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can - The Lost Tapes; the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
The Lost Tapes, out on June 19th 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.
When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.
Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.
What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.
Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren't really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn't allow forgetting.”
The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.
On April 17th at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, Irmin Schmdit and Jono Podmore will present “The Music Of Can: An Evening of Unreleased Music and Discussion.” The two will debut unreleased music from the forthcoming release The Lost Tapes, discussing the music with each other and answering audience questions about The Lost Tapes, CAN and their incredible history and story. For tickets, purchase online here:
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3250
Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.
Can’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied from John Lydon to Radiohead, The Fall to Portishead.
With a phenomenal cannon of work that includes Tago Mago, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2011, The Lost Tapesis an opportunity to hear unreleased material from this iconic band – whoever thought that would be possible?
3/27/2012
Electric Flower Group "Eclipsed"
ELECTRIC FLOWER GROUP'S EP II OUT TODAY
ON NARNACK RECORDS
"ECLIPSED" MUSIC VIDEO CURRENTLY PREMIERING AT CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
March 27, 2012 - Los Angeles, CA - Electric Flower Group, the visceral realist duo consisting of guitarist/singer Imaad Wasif and drummer Josh Garza, today released their sophomore EP, entitled EP II, via Narnack Records. The offering showcases the band expanding their sound beyond the rawness of their first EP to explore the dimensions of depth and width. In celebration of the release, the group will be performing an intimate in-store set at Origami Vinyl in Echo Park, CA on Friday, March 30th at 7:00p. The show is free and will be the band's first performance since their return from the SXSW Music Festival.
Today the duo also premiered the music video for the the EP's leading track, "Eclipsed", via Consequence of Sound. Click here to watch: http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/03/video-electric-flower-group-eclipsed-cos-premiere/
Electric Flower Group "Eclipsed" Official Music Video - Premier |
In Electric Flower Group, rock is not dead but realized. The chemistry between Wasif and Garza is undeniable. These are two true modern rockers that can and will break sound barriers. They create the kind of loudness that makes you glad, with songs that have an immediate and tangible impact on the contemporary pop musical landscape. Artifice is devalued; pure emotion is king.
"Eclipsed" is a standout single, part loose metaphor, part nod to Dylan's 'Don't Think Twice' and Big Star's 'September Gurls,' yet carving a space of its own. "Cocoon" is a markedly weirder track; the repetition of the mantra-like lyric "To see your love come shining" gives way by sudden schism into an unexpected extraterrestrial soundscape, veering between CAN-esque Mesmer beats and a guitar angularity akin to This Heat, all the while carrying the current of a song unlike either.
EP II is proof that music today can be cinematic and conceptual without the complications of over-instrumentation as demonstrated within the modern overarching epic. Conversely, it moves against the wake of new-fangled blues stomp rock and the limits of its obligatory two-piece bands. Side two of the EP is dedicated to a cover of Scott Walker's dark symphonic ode to S&M, "The Electrician," done to such effect that it cuts to the core of the original, its primitive brightness reaching far out into other corners.
If the world ever catches up to them, we can then be sure that times really have changed, that the end is nigh, that "the circle" is unbroken. Electric Flower Group are on a journey through a modern kaleidoscope of rock 'n' roll, transcending mainstream influence and incorporating strong minimalist elements into their modern psychedelic music. In Garza's pummeling beats and Wasif's vocal and guitar exorcisms, we are not listening to just two men, but to an orchestra of the damned. Electric Flower Group wakes the ghosts of rock's most daring days, while never following them.
Electric Flower Group will be performing at the Moon Block Party at the Desert Daze Festival on Friday, April 20th. For more details on the show, click HERE.
ELECTRIC FLOWER EP II
1. Eclipsed
2. Cocoon
3. The Electrician
"Crispy psych-pop beauty"
The Dø "Both Ways Open Jaws"
Having had a lot of love from the likes of Pitchfork, Uncut, BBC, Both Ways Open Jaws will strike you as both new sounding and classic, as both fresh and rooted in tradition. Most importantly, it will strike you as a treasure, and probably, as the best album you have heard in a long time.
Check out this breathtaking video for their latest single, “Gonna Be Sick!” It is a stunning piece both visually and musically in which Olivia (the heartbroken heroine) sets sail on a stormy sea of silk to create an epic look that takes its cues from Fellini’s Casanova, Shakespeare’s Tempest – and also homages the silent era. Feel free to post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
There is also this amazing Behind the Scenes video of The Dø recording the 'Live Sessions at Studio Pigalle' in Paris, June 2011. Here is “Gonna Be Sick!”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Dø have already captured a global audience with their acclaimed second album and its unique approach to beautiful "avant pop" sounds. Now some of the most interesting electronic producers from around the world have put their own unique sonic stamp on the Dø's music. The Both Ways Open Jaws Remix EP which is out NOW features fascinating new mixes from Trentemoller, Vitalic, Mylo, Sei A, and Fever Ray's C-Berg.
3/26/2012
3/25/2012
Madonna @ Ultra Music Festival
MADONNA
MAKES SURPRISE GUEST APPEARANCE
AT ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL
GLOBAL POP ICON INTRODUCES
AVICII AND HIS REMIX OF “GIRL GONE WILD” AT THE
WORLD’S PREMIER ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVENT
Madonna and Avicii. Photo Credit: Seth Browarnik/Worldredeye.com
Last night, Saturday, March 24, Miami’s ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (ULTRA), the world’s premier electronic music event, took the genre to the next level. For the first time ever at ULTRA, global pop icon MADONNA appeared as a special surprise guest—the festival’s gift to their fans—to introduce the main stage final headlining artist AVICII. After her introduction, she joined the Swedish producer and DJ behind the decks and together they premiered his remix of her new single “Girl Gone Wild” from her upcoming album MDNA.
“I’ve been here in spirit for many years, but it’s good to finally be standing on the stage, looking at all you people who have come here from all around the world,” said MADONNA as she took ULTRA’s Main Stage. “In my world the words ‘music’ and ‘dance’ are not separated. Electronic music has been a part of my life since the beginning of my career. I can honestly say that a DJ saved my life.”
Beyond the weekend’s 165,000 fans in attendance of the sold-out festival in downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park, the event was captured on a world-wide scale over UMF TV’s free HD live stream, happening now via Google Play on YouTube at www.youtube.com/umtv.
View MADONNA’s intro now on www.youtube.com/user/MDNADNA.
Follow ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL at:
Avicii and Madonna. Photo Credit: Seth Browarnik/Worldredeye.com
Xavier de Rosnay (Justice), Madonna, David Guetta and Avicii. Photo Credit: Seth Browarnik/Worldredeye.com
3/21/2012
Val Kilmer as CITIZEN TWAIN
IMPORTANT UPDATE! DATE CHANGES FOR:
Val Kilmer will present his one man play, Citizen Twain,
which he wrote, directed and stars in
for a limited two weekend run
at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
*** All performances will be followed by a Q&A with the artist! ***
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Tickets are $60 and can be purchased from:
hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com
Free, onsite parking is available
Due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, the opening weekend workshop performances of Citizen Twain have been rescheduled to alternate dates. New dates below:
The updated confirmed dates for all the performances are as follows:
Friday, March 30th, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Saturday, March 31st, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 - Matinee - doors 2pm - show 3pm
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Saturday, April 7th, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Sunday, April 8th, 2012 - Matinee - doors 2pm - show 3pm
Sunday, April 8th, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 - doors 7pm - show 8pm
Val Kilmer will present his one man play, Citizen Twain, in a limited run at The Historic Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery over just two weekends this March.
"The recent news of my death has been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain
Created and performed by acclaimed actor Val Kilmer, and seen recently in development by sold out audiences in venues in Los Angeles such as Disney Concert Hall, Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang, and The United States Veterans Artists' Alliance Hall, Mr. Kilmer's production delves into the heart and soul of Samuel Clemens and conjures forth the great spirit of Mark Twain, America's greatest storyteller.
3/20/2012
Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Americana"
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Sub Pop Record Store Day 2012
Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop’s Free 16-Track 2012 Label Sampler Will Also Be Available On Record Store Day
Pre-orders for the new Beach House Album Bloom Start March 20th!
We here at Sub Pop Records love few things more than Record Store Day. We’ll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.
In further Beach House news: fans can now pre-order the band’s May 15, 2012 release Bloom from iTunes, Amazon, Insound, and Sub Pop. Fans who pre-order the vinyl LP
format of the new record directly from Sub Pop [link: http://www.subpop.com/releases/beach_house/full_lengths/bloom] will receive the limited, white vinyl Loser Edition. And all pre-orders (CD and LP) will receive a bonus poster. A new Bloom t-shirt design is also available for pre-order at subpop.com. Please find and enjoy the cover art for Bloom included here as well.
Beach House
“Lazuli” b/w “Equal Mind” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 2,400 copies on blue vinyl)
1.Lazuli
2. Equal Mind
Beach House
Bloom Album Artwork
Pre-order: iTunes/ Amazon /Insound / Sub Pop.com
Blitzen Trapper
“Hey Joe” b/w “Skirts on Fire” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 1800 on yellow vinyl)
1. Hey Joe
2. Skirts on Fire
Shabazz Palaces
Live at KEXP12” EP
(From the band’s spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station’s most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)
1. bop hard
2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk
4. free press and curl
Various Artists
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts
1. Shearwater – “You as You Were” (demo version)
2. Memoryhouse – “Walk With Me”
3. feedtime – “rock n roll”
4. Spoek Mathambo – “Kites”
5. THEESatisfaction – “QueenS”
6. Poor Moon – “People in Her Mind”
7. Retribution Gospel Choir – “The Stone (Revolution!)”
8. Shabazz Palaces – “bop hard” (From the Live at KEXP 12” EP)
9. Father John Misty – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
10. Beach House – “Myth”
11. King Tuff – “Bad Thing”
12. Jaill – “Waste a Lot of Things”
13. Beachwood Sparks – “Forget the Song”
14. Debo Band – "Asha Gedawo"
15. Husky – “History’s Door”
16. Niki & The Dove – “DJ, Ease My Mind”
3/17/2012
3/16/2012
Hugh Cornwell + Glen Matlock @ Echoplex
HUGH CORNWELL and GLEN MATLOCK play at the Echoplex on Saturday March 17th. They will be joined by Clem Burke, James Stevenson and Fish. They will be playing a collection of new songs and classics by the Sex Pistols and Starnglers. All photos by Rachel Robinson.
Slow Club "The Dog"
Slow Club - The Dog |
Stream "The Dog" on Soundcloud
Stream "The Dog (Tom Vek's Yes Mix)" on Soundcloud
Friday 3/16
Address: 715 Red River Street
Address: 605 Brazos St. (off 6th)
Address: 512 San Jacinto Blvd.
With the conclusion of SXSW, Slow Club will have completed their most extensive North American tour yet. Their sophomore album Paradise has received nods from Under The Radar (8 of 10) who featured the band in their year end issue, The New York Times, Rolling Stone who labeled them a "Band To Watch", and Pitchfork who write that "the duo has evolved from being among the best of an indie pop field overcrowded with cutesy duos to carving out a distinct niche for itself that opens up further opportunities for creative growth."
Paradise at iTunes, Insound
Watch videos for the singles "Where I'm Waking" and "Two Cousins"
www.slowclubband.com
3/13/2012
3/12/2012
Korallreven @ SXSW
Performs at SXSW This Week
Wed 3/14 - Red 7 (Terrorbird/Forcefield Party) - 3:35pm
Wed 3/14 - 508 (House Virgin/C3 Party)- 8pm
Wed 3/14 - Barbarella (Acéphale/Dummy/Hippos In Tanks/RVNG) - 10:20pm
Thurs 3/15 - Hotel Vegas (BrooklynVegan Party) -TBD
Thurs 3/15 -Hype Hotel (Yours Truly/GvB/Hype Machine Party) -11pm
Thurs 3/15 - Pure Volume House - Stereogum Party (DJ Set) - 1:30am
Fri 3/16 - Hype Hotel (No Modest Bear/Cream Team/Hype Machine) - 4pm
3/10/2012
RIDE @ Fonda Theatre // 12.19.24 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE
All photos taken by Martin Worster
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