12/26/2014
12/17/2014
Jessica Pratt Announces 2015 Tour Dates
JESSICA PRATT IS ON TOUR AND ON HER OWN LOVE AGAIN
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Photo Credit: Colby Droscher
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"Inside the sparse 'Back, Baby; is the breezy pop song she plays when the skies are clear, blue, and unconditional. . . There's practically a beach and a palm tree in the background. She shines a light on that first hint of confidence that comes when you're just a little bit removed from love, which is why the song flows along such a straight line. Her steady hand makes it a perfectly geometric. . . " -Pitchfork ["The 100 Best Tracks of 2014/Best New Track"]
"Pratt's stream-of-consciousness feels otherworldly, transposed from space and time, where slowly strumming on your guitar while sitting on your bedroom floor is the same as taking the first step on a moon in a galaxy far away." - Stereogum ["The 5 Best Songs Of The Week"]
"Pratt writes songs that sound like they're 50 years old, and she sings them like they're 100 years old. I'm not sure if she's real or a ghost that's been haunting me for the past few weeks. Can you guys hear how pretty this is, too?" -Grantland ["Songs of the Week"]
"Jessica Pratt has a lot going for her: her guitar, her lyrics, her melodies. But, man, that voice. It's a conundrum, a honeypot mix of sweet and sour, the lightness of her highs given weight by the counterpoints of her lows. . . " - Flavorwire ["The 6 Best New Songs We Heard This Week"]
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The New Year is right around the corner and with a new year comes new beginnings! Since the announcement of Jessica Pratt's dazzling Drag City debut,
On Your Own Love Again, the world has collectively held their breath, awaiting the moment when Jessica arrives on their doorstep! Thankfully, Jessica has provided us with a sigh of relief, in the form of the salient "Back, Baby". With "Back, Baby", she sends her voice traveling into strange places, providing subtle hallucinatory moments of refinement. The timeless nature of her guitar and voice is both compelling and hypnotizing and it's impossible not to respond to the sound of her music, not to want more right away!
Jessica has heard the rallied cries of eager fans everywhere and, boy, does she deliver! Beginning in February, Jessica sets sail on a string of dates with Kevin Morby, hitting spots up and down the West Coast. This tour will mark a momentous occasion, her first steps on North American soil in support of On Your Own Love Again! So mark your calendars, cross off your New Year's resolutions and join Jessica Pratt on her celestial journey to serenade the streets of L.A., from the Bay Area and back again, baby!
Listen to "Back, Baby" now and stay tuned-in to the impending release of
On Your Own Love Again, out January 27th!
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' ON THIS WINTER'S DAY? DIG THE DATES BELOW!
Tues. Jan. 6-- Melbourne Victoria, Australia @ The Toff in Town
Thurs. Jan. 8-- Sydney New South Wales Australia @ City Recital Hall Angel Place
Sat. Jan. 10-- New South Wales Australia @ Sydney Festival Sydney
Fri. Feb. 20--Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern*
Sat. Feb. 21--Vancouver, BC @ Electric Owl*
Sun. Feb. 22--Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge*
Mon. Feb. 23--Eugene, OR The Barnlight @ University of Oregon*
Wed. Feb. 25--San Francisco, CA Noise Pop @ The Chapel
Thurs. Feb. 26--Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium*
Fri. Feb. 27--Long Beach, CA @ Carpenter House*
Sat. Feb. 28--Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo*
*w/Kevin Morby
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Jessica Pratt Online:
Twitter- https://twitter.com/JessicaPrattSF
Pre-Order Links:
Amazon- http://amzn.to/1vTmBKP
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Pinkflag Christmas & New Year Sale
Grab some festive bargains at the "Pinkflag Christmas & New Year Sale"
We've decided to put a few items on sale in the shop. We've never had a sale before so it's very much an experiment :)
They are -
WIRE ON THE BOX 1979 (DVD/CD) - previously £15.00 now £9.99
WIRE : THE SCOTTISH PLAY (DVD/CD) - previously £15.00 now £9.99
Red Barked Tree - previously £9.99 now £6.99
Read & Burn - A Book about Wire by Wilson Neate - previously £14.95 now £11.99
Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980 (CD Double Album only) - previously £11.99 now £9.99
Change Becomes Us Teeshirt (limited sizes) - previously £15.00 now £9.99
Grab them while you can!!
There will be plenty more news for you next year but meanwhile please enjoy whatever festivals you celebrate (or don't) and may 2015 bring you everything you wish for!
All the best
pinkflag
12/16/2014
ADULT. Announce "Detroit House Guests" Project
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12/15/2014
SPARKS PERFORMING 'KIMONO MY HOUSE' W/ 38-PIECE ORCHESTRA ON VALENTINE'S DAY
SPARKS PERFORMING 'KIMONO MY HOUSE' PLUS ASSORTED SONGS FROM SPARKS' 23 ALBUMS - ACCOMPANIED BY A 38-PIECE ORCHESTRA . PRESENTED BY FYF, GOLDENVOICE AND ACE HOTELOn Valentine's Day, Sparks will perform their 1974 album, Kimono My House in its entirety accompanied by a 38-piece orchestra at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. Here is what Ron and Russell from Sparks had to say about the show -"We are thrilled to celebrate Valentine's Day, February 14, 2015, inLos Angeles with all our hometown Sparks fans at a special performanceof 'Kimono My House' accompanied by a 38-piece orchestra. We willturn the stunning Theatre at Ace Hotel downtown into symphonic heavenfor the only planned North American concert of this performance. Wehave also selected songs from Sparks' other 23 albums to round out theevening. Be our Valentine, LA!"This night will also mark the 1 year anniversary of the opening of theTheatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. We couldn't be more excited. Hope you will share it with us.Presale begins tomorrow, Tuesday, December 16th at 10:00am using the password EQUATOR. General on-sale will start Wednesday, December 17th.More information can be found at here:
12/13/2014
The Best Records of 2014
BEST RECORDS 2014
1. SWANS “To Be Kind”
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3. LEONARD COHEN “Popular Problems”
4. TY SEGALL “Manipulator”
5. PERFECT PUSSY “Say Yes To Love”
6. SHARON VAN ETTEN “Are We There”
7. FOXYGEN “and Star Power”
8. BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE “Revelation”
9. LITTLE DRAGON “Nabuma Rubberband”
10 PARQUET COURTS “Sunbathing Animals”
FOXYGEN (photo by Angel Ceballos)
11. SLEAFORD MODS “Divide and Exit”
12. SCOTT WALKER and SUNN O))) “Soused”
13. LANA DEL REY “Ultraviolence”
14. MAC DEMARCO “Salad Days”
15. LYKKE LI “I Never Learn”
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (photo by Angel Ceballos)
16. DEAN WAREHAM “Dean Wareham”
17. TUNE-YARDS “Nikki-Nack”
18. THE HORRORS “Luminous”
19. WHITE FENCE “For The Recently Found Innocent”
20. RAY LAMONTAGNE “Supernova”
TUNE-YARDS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
TUNE-YARDS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
21. LUKE HAINES “New York In The 70s”
22. ST VINCENT “St Vincent”
23. ANGEL OLSEN “Burn Your Fire For No Witness”
24. PROTOMARTYR “Under Color of Official Right”
25. OUGHT “More Than Any Other Day”
WARPAINT (photo by Angel Ceballos)
WARPAINT (photo by Angel Ceballos)
26. FUTURE ISLANDS
27. THEE OH SEES “Drop”
28. SUZANNE VEGA “Tales from the Realm of The Queen of Pentacles”
29. FANFARLO “Let’s Go Extinct”
30. LIARS “Mess”
TEEN (photo by Angel Ceballos)
TEEN (photo by Angel Ceballos)
31. TEEN “The Way and Color”
32. LES BIG BYRD “They Worshipped Cats”
33. WARPAINT “Warpaint”
34. QUILT “Held in Splendor”
35. FLYING LOTUS “You’re Dead”
LITTLE DRAGON (photo by Angel Ceballos)
LITTLE DRAGON (photo by Angel Ceballos)
36. MARISSA NADLER “July”
37. CARIBOU “Our Love”
38. THE ORWELLS “Disgraceland”
39. TEMPLES “Sun Structures”
40. EAGULLS “Eagulls”
THE ORWELLS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
THE ORWELLS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
41. ALLAH-LAS “Worship The Sun”
42. GOAT “Commune”
43. PERFUME GENIUS “Too Bright”
44. FIRST AID KIT “Stay Gold”
45. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS “Wig Out at Jagbags”
PERFUME GENIUS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
PERFUME GENIUS (photo by Angel Ceballos)
46. JULIE BYRNE “Room With Walls and Windows”
47. AVI BUFFALO “At Best Cuckold”
48. KLARA LEWIS “Ett”
49. SHELLAC “Dude Incredible”
50. DUM DUM GIRLS “Too True”
FIRST AID KIT (photo by Angel Ceballos)
FIRST AID KIT (photo by Angel Ceballos)
12/11/2014
JUST ANNOUNCED: Neutral Milk Hotel, Shlohmo, Title Fight
Hello, Hello, Hello
Hope you are well.
We have just announced a number of shows this week, most of which go on sale tomorrow. Hope you will join us for one of them.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
- Joyce Manor at the Glasshouse on Friday, February 13th
- Hundred Waters at the El Rey on Friday, February 13th
- Dan Deacon at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock on Friday, February 27th
- Title Fight (w/ Merchandise & Power Trip) at the Regent Theater DTLA on Saturday, March 14th and the Glasshouse on Sunday, March 15th
- Andrew Jackson Jihad at the Echoplex on Saturday, April 11th
- Shlohmo at the Fonda Theatre on Thursday, May 7th
- Neutral Milk Hotel at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown on Saturday, May 30th
Right now we are having an FYF presale for Shlohmo's show at the Fonda. Use the password WEDIDIT at the following link to get your tickets before tomorrow's 10:00AM onsale. Check out his new track "Emerge From Smoke" from his forthcoming record on True Panther Sounds.
And then on Friday, January 9th, we have Holly Herndon playing the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. Tickets are still available and can be purchased in-store at Origami Vinyl and Mount Analog. Check out the music video for her excellent song, "Home".
And our reminder we have a three night run with Caribou at the Fonda from February 26th to 28th. The 27th and 28th are sold out but a small amount of tickets are still available for 26th.
Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook for the latest in our world. Complete show details below and on our website - fyfpresents.com.
Tickets for Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Echo and Echoplex are available at Origami Vinyl in Echo Park and Vacation Vinyl in Silverlake with a $2- $3 service fee. Tickets for the Fonda are available at Origami Vinyl & Amoeba with a $3 service fee. Support your local record store and buy in person.
12/10/2014
Maps feat. Polly Scattergood Begin Mute Holiday Countdown
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12/08/2014
"How I Became a Downtown Writer"
"How I Became a Downtown Writer"
The literary insider explores downtown writing,
Samuel Beckett and the new Classical Hardcore
By Alexander Laurence
After having lived in busy New
York City for a while, living in the decadent East Village, hanging out with
brutal thugs, icy strippers and teddy bear junkies, and frequenting writers
such as Bruce Benderson, Richard Hell, and Ursule Molinaro, I felt that my
writing was subtly changing, and then noticed that many stories I wrote took
place on Avenue A, usually describing the life of some down-and-out prostitute,
involved heroin addiction and general impending decay.
I was aware that the writer
Edward Dahlberg has said "We are too often reminded that many people have
all of Baudelaire's abnormalities and are not artists but just hapless
bores." I was becoming a downtown clone. In fact, if there was a software
program that was both a generator of this end-of-the-world "downtown
writing" and a surrealistic mad-lib, it would look something like this:
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The slimy rain was coming down on
this muggy night, while I was standing on Avenue ___. I had been trying to get
off _____ for a few weeks, while my girlfriend was having ____. I went over to
the grimy apartment of _____ who wanted to get together to have sex or get
high. We walked over to Avenue ___ where we tried to cop some drugs. We were
jonesing for some ____. That's when we ran into ____ who was coming back from a
bondage club. When we took a train to Times Square, we saw ____ who was now a
prostitute and a ____ addict. Later we arrived at the small apartment of ____
where we had sex with ____ while getting high on ___. Then we brought out the
____. The urban sky was dark and people walked around the streets without hope.
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Words to choose from:
A--B--C--D--Heroin--Crack--LSD--Poppers--anal
sex--withdrawals--an abortion--Richard Kern--Kathy Acker--Bruce
Benderson--Lydia Lunch--Dee Dee Ramone--The Unbearables--a puerto rican
prostitute--rubber gloves--lube--sex
What is "downtown
writing?" There have been magazines like Between C & D, Cuz, The
Portable Lower Side, and others, that have published this sort of decadent
writing. The Low Rent and The Unbearables anthologies are other examples.
"Downtown writing" has become the Kurt Cobain of today's literary
scene (drugs, sex, success), and you know how Cobain dealt with success.
Dahlberg spoke on the subject: "Man survives disease, paralysis, a
thousand humiliations, almost any travail but success."
Since the 1970s, many of these
writers have moved out of New York or have went uptown, but the
"hard" writers like myself are still hanging out at Sin-é, looking
for an angry fix and an un-angry woman. I remember what Dahlberg said on the
subject: "After I discovered that Goethe, Heine, Beethoven and Nietzsche
had all had syphillis, I thought I could not be a genius unless I found a woman
who would be lenient enough to share this disease with me."
Actually the East Village has
become too safe and yuppified for a delicate, hard, "downtown" writer
like me, so I have moved to desperate Williamsburg, where the Downtown
tradition is continuing and thriving on arty Bedford Avenue. If you want to be
a Downtown writer, you can't live Downtown anymore, because you can't afford
to.
New York Literary Pilgrimage
New York Literary Pilgrimage
by Alexander Laurence
If you take a walk around New York, you can find places
where several previous writers have lived, worked, and died. This is a list of
notable places around Manhatten.
James Agee
The author of A Death
In The Family (1957) lived in New York City the last two decades of his
life in alchoholic bliss.
38 Perry St (Greenwich Village)
172 Bleeker Street
33 Cornelia Street
W. H. Auden
Famous poet had a few years of expatriate living. His works,
The Age of Anxiety and The Rake's Progress were written here.
7 Cornelia Street
77 St. Mark's Place
Djuna Barnes
Born in upstate New York, lived in Greenwich Village and
Paris most of her life. She wrote Nightwood
and worked for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Patchin Place
The Chelsea Hotel
Opened in 1884. Many writers came here to stay like Mark
Twain and O. Henry. Thomas Wolfe wrote You
Can't Go Home Again. Other residents include James T. Farrell, Dylan
Thomas, Edward Dahlberg, Brendan Behan, James Schuyler and Arthur Miller.
222 West 23rd Street
John Dos Passos
Author of several novels including The Manhatten Transfer.
14A Washington Mews
106-10 Columbia Heights
214 Riverside Drive
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The author of The
Great Gatsby spent a few years in New York.
200 Claremont Avenue
The Biltmore Hotel: East 43rd Street
Langston Hughes
Author of The Weary
Blues and Mulatto lived in New
York City most of his life.
634 St. Nicholar Avenue
20 East 127th Street
Henry James
Born at 21 Washington Place, left for Europe and returned
several times. Author of Washington
Square, The Ambassadors, and Daisy Miller.
Jack Kerouac
He wrote On The Road
in a room on West 20th Street. Lived off and on in Manhatten for years.
454 West 20th Street
501 East 11th Street
Herman Melville
He was born at 6 Pearl Street, and lived at 33 Bleeker
Street and 675 Broadway as a child. He wrote Typee and Moby Dick. He
lived in obscurity for thirty years till his death in 1891.
104 East 26th Street
Arthur Miller
Author of Death of a
Salesman and husband of Marilyn Monroe grew up in Brooklyn and Harlem.
444 East 57th Street
The Chelsea Hotel (1962-1968)
Marianne Moore
Famous 20th Century poet, associated with Modernism, and
rival of artist/poet Mina Loy.
14 St. Luke's Place
35 West 9th Street
Dorothy Parker
Poet, writer for Vanity
Fair and subject of the movie, Mrs.
Parker and Her Vicious Circle. Grew up on 57th Street, and spent her last
days at The Volney Hotel.
57 West 57th Street
Volney Hotel, 23 East 73rd Street
Edgar Allen Poe
Spent most of his time in Baltimore but was in New York City
for a few years between 1837-1844. He wrote most of his well known poems at The
Poe Cottage.
West 84th Street (at Broadway)
85 Amity Street (now West 3rd Street)
John Reed
Revolutionary and author of Ten Days That Shook The World. He lived in New York City between
1911-1919.
42-43 Washington Square South
23 5th Avenue
147 West 4th Street
John Steinbeck
California's great novelist lived in New York City's upper
east side for the last three decades of his life with his third wife. Cannery Row and East of Eden were written at this time. In 1962, he won the Nobel
Prize.
206 East 52nd Street
Edith Wharton (née Jones)
Part of one of New York City's prominent families, she wrote
several novels including The Age of Innocence
and The House of Mirth. Close friends
with Henry Miller. Born at 14 West 23rd Street.
28 West 25th Street
884 Park Avenue
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12/07/2014
Tashaki Miyaki play west coast shows this week
Photo by BEV DAVIES taken in vancouver
12/09 The Catalyst Atrium Santa Cruz, CA
12/10 Brick & Mortar, San Francisco, CA
12/11 Los Angeles show at the El Rey
12/12 The Casbah San Diego, CA
12/13 Observatory Constellation Room Santa Ana, CA
TY SEGALL comes to Australia
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THUNDERSNOW IN DECEMBER? GET READY FOR THE SPACE-BLIZZARD OF OZ TO HIT DOWN UNDER
Falling down to Earth from the seedy innerbelly of Jupiter, the Ty Segall
man, man, along with his Manipulator band, have slashed and shredded their way across America and Europe this fall, in support of their otherworldly double album. Since their planetary visas have a couple more weeks left on 'em before the band is rocked like vile, vile cargo back into outer-space, Ty and co. concurred - "let's take this mother down under!" Which raises the question - how do these freaks make it through airport security? Do they travel in their own, invisible vessel? A flying teapot, perhaps? We don't know for sure! The only thing that's certain, no matter how they get there, is what they'll do when they arrive: annihilate each and every night. Hopping into the 'roo pouch with propulsion drums on solid attack and pedals switched from "stun" to "melt,"Ty and his MB force will boomerang their amplified fuzz blasts over an Australian audience ready and waiting for transportive, inter-stellar musics and energies surely unseen since the dawn of Goodbye Bread. Now THAT's a knife! It all starts next week in the land of Perth - catch the good comet Manipulator before it blazes to another dimension!
12/11/14 The Bakery Perth Australia
12/13/14 Meredith Festival Meredith Australia
12/14/14 Corner Hotel Melbourne Australia 12/15/14 Corner Hotel Melbourne Australia 12/17/14 Oxford Art Factory Sydney New South Wales Australia 12/18/14 Oxford Art Factory Sydney New South Wales Australia 12/19/14 The Zoo Brisbane Australia 12/20/14 The Northern Byron Bay Australia
Back in the USSA:
1/30/15 Great American Music Hall San Francisco CA
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