Chapterhouse @ the Troubadour

The Lonely Trees @ Bootleg Theater

Playing at the Bootleg tonight!! October 26th 9pm

WIRE: new album 2011

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October 15, 2010

Red Barked Tree - Release dates

As previously announced in our newsletter Wire has a new album - Red Barkeed Tree (pf18) set for release on 10th Jan (UK) 11th Jan (USA) with digital available from 20th December.
The Full tracklisting of the album , described as Wire's most diverse (and accomplished) for many years, is
01 Please Take
02 Now Was
03 Adapt
04 Two Minutes
05 Clay
06 Bad Worn Thing
07 Moreover
08 A Flat Tent
09 Smash
10 Down to This
11 Red Barked Trees.

One track Two Minutes is already available for preview on Pitchfork.com.
Mail Order Order customers will also be able to receive a free bonus EP Strays featuring live favourites which have never acheived greatness as recorded artefacts.
There are extensive touring plans which we will share as soon as we are able. Meanwhile sign up to the mailing list to keep track of the latest Wire news.

Antony and the Johnsons

Antony and the Johnsons Release Swanlights Today!

Celebrate Release with Letterman Performance,
Pitchfork Video premiere and Guardian Take Over



Following the success of last year’s The Crying Light, the Mercury Prize winning Antony and the Johnsons release their 4th album Swanlights on Secretly Canadian to heaps of critical praise. Swanlights may be Antony's most wide-rangingly emotional work to date. It is a record that is at moments heartbreakingly tender, and at other times has a joyful gleam to its teeth. Included on the album is “Flétta”, an Icelandic duet with Antony’s fellow avant-garde singer/songwriter Björk. A special edition, which includes a 144-page hardcover book of Antony’s paintings, collages, photography and writing , is also out today and available through Abrams Image.

In celebration of the release of Swanlights, Antony premiered the new video for “The Spirit Was Gone” on Pitchfork today. The track is also available on RCRD LBL where it premiered today. Antony and the Johnsons performed the album’s lead single, “Thank You for Your Love”, on The Late Show with David Letterman this past Friday. In addition to Swanlights streaming in its entirety on AOL Spinner and RollingStone.com, Antony is taking over The Guardian all week. The site will feature interviews with Antony and Marina Abromovic and Björk as well as exclusive videos. See the takeover here.

Off! @ Club Lingerie tomorrow

There is this super group that is called OFF! They are playing at Club Lingerie for this special show on the 13th. When was the last time anyone saw a show at Club Lingerie? For me, it was somewhere around 1988. The band is Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag) with Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), Dmitri Coats (Burning Brides) & Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless, Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes).

They were definitely a highlight at FYF Fest.

They are resurrecting the infamous Club Lingerie for this first LA club show. Before it they’ will do an Amoeba instore at 7pm.

KEITH MORRIS
(founder of Black Flag, Circle Jerks)

STEVEN MCDONALD
(Redd Kross)

DIMITRI COATS
(Burning Brides)

MARIO RUBALCABA
(Earthless, Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes)

Sleigh Bells @ Hollywood Bowl

Playing the Bowl on the 15th, Detroit Bar on the 19th, El Rey on the 20th.





All photos taken by Lila Schaffler in Seattle.

Reefer Movie Madness

I am a contributor to this new book.

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Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Dazed and Confused, How High, Half Baked, Friday, Easy Rider… over the last four decades, the “stoner movie” has become its own genre. Now, with digital delivery offering a virtual arsenal of films at someone's fingertips, how's a marijuana enthusiast to choose the right flick for the next smoke-out? Enter: Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide, the highly anticipated sequel in the successful Pot Culture series, providing another twisted take on the reference manual with the most extensive list ever compiled of movies with specific stoner appeal, as well as hundreds more that contain pot scenes or are simply fun to watch stoned.