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Jack White News:
Jack White hits out at Guinness Book Of World Records compilers
From www.nme.com at 16/05/12 02:06 PM. 0 comments.
Guitarist labels the record book compilers 'an elistist organisation'
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Radiohead News:
Pulp's 'Common People' tops NME's 100 Best Tracks Of The Nineties list
From www.nme.com at 16/05/12 01:33 PM. 0 comments.
Nirvana, Oasis and Radiohead also feature highly in latest installment of our tracks of the decades series
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Jack White News:
Tenacious D: 'Our new album is better than Jack White's'
From www.nme.com at 16/05/12 11:11 AM. 0 comments.
Jack Black also says 'Rize Of The Fenix' is superior to Foo Fighters, Tom Waits and Gotye's latest LPs
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Radiohead News:
Bonnaroo Announces Schedule
From pitchfork.com at 15/05/12 06:52 PM. 0 comments.
The schedule for Manchester, Tennessee's sweatiest four days has been announced. This year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which takes place from June 7-10, will include performances from Radiohead, Bon Iver, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Feist, St. Vincent, the Shins, tUnE-yArDs, Bad Brains, Skrillex, Ludacris and literally hundreds more. (New additions to the lineup include GZA performing Liquid Swords, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Pelican.)
The entire festival itinerary can be found here. As far as scheduling conflicts go: If you're looking to see Feist AND Ludacris (you are, right?), Flying Lotus and Big Freedia, Bad Brains and Das Racist, Santigold and SBTRKT, the Roots and Mogwai, Skrillex and GZA, the Beach Boys, the Antlers, and the War on Drugs, you'll have to prioritize a little bit, because each pair is scheduled in the same time slot.
Jack Peñate News:
New Board (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 15/05/12 06:49 PM. 0 comments.
New Board (Taken with instagram)
Jack White News:
Third Man Selling "Triple Decker" Jack White Poster
From pitchfork.com at 15/05/12 06:17 PM. 0 comments.
In its unending quest to perpetually outdo itself, Third Man Records is this week offering a new "Triple Decker" Jack White poster, created, designed and printed by Matthew Jacobson and Bryce McCloud. When the project's three individual posters-- black, white, and blue-- are layered on top of one another, they create an image of Jack's face. (See the result here.) It's "kind of a 'fourth wall' inter-dimension type thing," according to the label's website.
The black poster is letterpressed, with images of "a peacock and vulture egg," while the other two are lasercut. The white poster features Jack's autograph.
In order to collect them all, you'll have to venture to Nashville. The white and blue posters will be available at the Ryman Auditorium, where Jack performs tonight and tomorrow, in a limited edition of 75 each per show. The black poster will be available exclusively at Third Man, also today and tomorrow beginning at 3 p.m., and also in a limited edition of 75 for each day.
Watch a short video on the making of the posters directed by Leigh Jurecka:
Radiohead News:
What do you think of David Cameron's taste in music?
From www.guardian.co.uk at 15/05/12 04:48 PM. 0 comments.
The PM has named Dark Side of the Moon as his favourite album of all time. How do you rate his musical tastes?
David Cameron has named Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as his favourite album of all time.
The Prime Minister revealed his choice on Facebook as part of the GREAT campaign, an initiative designed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to promote the UK abroad.
Given that the campaign "aims to deliver long-term economic benefits" from interest in the UK generated by the Olympics, a financially successful British act such as Pink Floyd is logical choice.
Cameron is not shy about sharing his music tastes. Appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2006, his selection included Bob Dylan's Tangled Up in Blue, Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, Perfect Circle by REM and This Charming Man by The Smiths. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph earlier this year he revealed he'd been listening to Lana del Rey and Band of Horses.
We've collected together a few of his top tracks into the playlist below, so that we might all listen and perhaps gain an improved understanding of what it's like to live inside David Cameron's head.
What does his professed love of these songs reveal about our leader? And how do you rate his tastes?
1. The Smiths â€' This Charming Man
Beck News:
R.I.P. Celso Chavez of Possum Dixon
From pitchfork.com at 15/05/12 02:11 PM. 0 comments.
Celso Chavez, at right, with Possum Dixon
Celso Ricardo Chavez, guitarist for the 1990s alt rock band Possum Dixon, died May 9 due to complications from pneumonia. He was 44.
Possum Dixon were beloved among the 1990s scene in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. In March of 1995, they were first to perform at the indie rock club Spaceland, on a bill that included Beck, Lutefisk, and the Foo Fighters (their first show ever). Possum Dixon formed in 1989 and signed with Interscope in 1993. Following a self-titled LP that spawned the band's radio and MTV hit "Watch the Girl Destroy Me", the band released two more records: 1996's Star Maps and 1998's New Sheets.
"His infectious smile could light up any room he walked into," said Rob Zabrecky, Possum Dixon's frontman. "He was a mysterious and beautiful person. Celso was the heart and soul of our band."
Chavez's family asks that donations be made to the MusiCares/MAP Fund.
"Watch the Girl Destroy Me":
"Crashing Your Planet":
"Nerves":
The White Stripes News:
Alabama Shakes: 'Jack White is our dream collaborator'
From www.nme.com at 15/05/12 12:49 PM. 0 comments.
Band say they'd love to work with the former White Stripes man again
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M.I.A. News:
Mia Hansen-Love: Goodbye First Love
From www.dazeddigital.com at 15/05/12 09:30 AM. 0 comments.
Youthful passion and teenage melancholia colours the filmmaker's third feature film
Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love started her career at the age of 18 as an actress in Olivier Assayas’ Fin Aout, Debut Septembre. Now 31, she and 57-year-old Assayas are married and have a child. For her semi-autobiographical third feature, 'Goodbye First Love', Hansen-Love draws on her experience of youthful passion, teenager melancholia, and of meeting her future husband. Here, she tells Dazed why she chose to tell this story now.
Dazed Digital: It’s been said your films move forward by intuition. Is that a fitting description?
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Jack White News:
One Direction for iTunes festival
From www.bbc.co.uk at 15/05/12 09:06 AM. 0 comments.
One Direction and Usher to play the iTunes festival with Jack White and Norah Jones also performing at the month-long free music event in London.
Jack White News:
Jack White, One Direction, Usher confirmed for London's iTunes festival
From www.nme.com at 15/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
Norah Jones is also confirmed for the run of shows at London's Roundhouse
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Jack Peñate News:
Pompeii Ladies (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 14/05/12 08:11 PM. 0 comments.
Pompeii Ladies (Taken with instagram)
Friendly Fires News:
New music: Swiss Lips â€' Danz
From www.guardian.co.uk at 14/05/12 03:00 PM. 0 comments.
Fans of MGMT, Friendly Fires and the Rapture will find this Manchester band's latest single irresistible
This Mancunian five-piece may look like shy indie urchins, but given their name is slang for female genitalia and their artwork tends to feature naked flesh, perhaps all is not what it seems. While their latest single, Danz, doesn't appear to be about anything carnal, there is some pretty suggestive hip-swivelling going on in the video, which features a man dancing in a shopping centre, at a skate park and, most impressively, out Morrissey-ing Morrissey outside Salford Lads Club. Mind you, it's hard not to indulge in light toe-tapping once Danz gets into full swing. Mixing elements of MGMT, Friendly Fires and the Rapture it shifts from percussive verses to a sky-scraping chorus. Expect to be throwing some fairly awful shapes to it in a field somewhere this summer.
Adele News:
Adele becomes fourth British artist in five years to top global sales charts
From www.nme.com at 14/05/12 11:46 AM. 0 comments.
'21' singer follows Coldplay, Amy Winehouse and Susan Boyle in achieving globe-straddling achievement
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Adele News:
Prime Minister praises UK music
From www.bbc.co.uk at 14/05/12 11:04 AM. 0 comments.
Prime Minister David Cameron says he is "determined" to support British creative businesses after a rise in global sales for UK acts, led by Adele.
Monkey News:
Animal Collective Announce New Album
From pitchfork.com at 14/05/12 02:33 AM. 0 comments.
Photo by Francis Chung
Update: Domino have now announced the album's tracklist, which you can read below.
On Animal Collective's website, there's the below video that announces that the band's follow-up to 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion is called Centipede Hz and will be out in September on Domino. The video also offers a list of words and phrases that may or may not make up the tracklist on the album. Listen to two new Animal Collective songs, "Honeycomb" and "Gotham", here.
Centipede Hz:
01 Moonjock
02 Today's Supernatural
03 Rosie Oh
04 Applesauce
05 Wide Eyed
06 Father Time
07 New Town Burnout
08 Monkey Riches
09 Mercury Man
10 Pulleys
11 Amanita
Adele News:
Gossip's Beth Ditto: 'Adele is beautiful'
From www.nme.com at 13/05/12 11:51 AM. 0 comments.
"She gives me chills," says 'Perfect World' singer
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Adele News:
Adele: 'I don't want to be a celebrity'
From www.nme.com at 12/05/12 08:56 AM. 0 comments.
'21' songstress says she's only interested in singing
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Beck News:
Watch Doug Aitken's Happening at the Hirshhorn Museum Tonight on Pitchfork.tv on YouTube
From pitchfork.com at 11/05/12 09:00 PM. 0 comments.
Tonight, in Washington, D.C., Pitchfork partners with the Hirshhorn Museum and Wired to present one of multimedia artist Doug Aitken's "Happening" events for his public art project "SONG 1". The "Happening" features musical contributions from Animal Collective's Geologist, Nicolas Jaar, Oneohtrix Point Never, No Age, High Places, Tim McAfee-Lewis, and Leo Gallo. You can watch the whole event at Pitchfork.tv on YouTube starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Since March 22, "SONG 1" has transformed the exterior of the cylindrical museum into something of an outdoor cinema, casting nightly 360-degree projections onto the 82-foot building. The project's soundtrack has featured spliced-together renditions of the crooner staple "I Only Have Eyes for You" by Beck, Oneohtrix Point Never, No Age, Devendra Banhart, Lucky Dragons, and more.
At tonight's "Happening", the pre-recorded "SONG 1" soundtrack will be replaced by a live, continuous soundscape. Across multiple stages, artists will perform in accordance with a script organized by Aitken. Their various interpretations of "I Only Have Eyes for You" will blend seemlessly with help from Animal Collective's Geologist, who will DJ various versions of the song in between bands. Nicolas Jaar will sample and loop the set preceeding his own; No Age will perform with gospel singers. The program will run 75 minutes. Pitchfork editor Brandon Stosuy is tweeting from the event. Follow him at @brandonstosuy
Radiohead News:
This Week on Pitchfork
From pitchfork.com at 11/05/12 07:44 PM. 0 comments.
Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". This week's installment features Laurel Halo performing a new song and Kevin Shields discussing the My Bloody Valentine reissues.
Subscribe to Pitchfork's YouTube channel and stay tuned every Friday for new episodes of "Pitchfork Weekly." Other new Pitchfork.tv episodes on our YouTube channel this week included a film by Ryan McGinley of Atlas Sound's performance at McGinley's gallery opening, a preview of our Danny Brown documentary, "60 Seconds Left" with Suuns, a "+1" with Disappears, and music videos by VAR, the Iceage side project formerly known as War, ("In Your Arms"), Mister Lies & Different Sleep ("Safety Net"), Bodies of Water ("Rise Up, Careful"), and Curren$y with Daz ("Fast Cars Faster Women"). Pitchfork.tv also posted a Yours Truly with Korallreven.
Below the video is a round-up of highlights from this week at Pitchfork.
This week in Pitchfork News:
- Against Me!'s Tom Gabel came out as transgender and announced plans to being living as a woman named Laura Jane Grace.
- Following Adam Yauch's death, the Beastie Boys' record sales skyrocketed.
- Grimes, Diplo, and Skrillex announced a train tour across Canada. Grimes also shared a new music video for "Nightmusic", starring those infamous "pussy rings".
- Andre 3000 will play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic, but...
Adele News:
Adele Live in London with Matt Lauer
From www.adele.tv at 11/05/12 04:58 PM. 0 comments.
Tune in to NBC on Sunday June 3 at 8 PM ET for "Adele Live in London with Matt Lauer". Adele sits down with Matt Lauer for an exclusive interview from London to recap the amazing year that followed the release of 21. The special also features, for the first time on network television, six performances from the previously released “Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall” DVD. Performances include “Hometown Glory,” “I’ll Be Waiting,” “Set Fire to the Rain,” “Chasing Pavements,” “Someone Like You,” and “Rolling in the Deep.”
Beck News:
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Ed Banger's Busy P Team Up for Levi's Store in Paris
From pitchfork.com at 11/05/12 04:24 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya
Quite a busy year for James Murphy in his post-LCD life, with no signs of slowing, either. Murphy has teamed up with Pedro Winter (a.k.a. Busy P) of Ed Banger Records on a series of collaborations to celebrate the opening of a new Levi's store on Champs Elysees in Paris. The pairing was commissioned to symbolize a union between French and American creative cultures.
Murphy and Winter co-designed limited edition T-shirts and trucker jackets to be sold at the store during its opening months, and curated collections of albums that will soundtrack the store. (Check out their selections, below.) The store will also host an exhibition of artifacts from DFA and Ed Banger. Next month, artists Shepard Fairey and Mr. Andre will conduct a similar collaboration.
Check out a trailer for the whole project after Murphy and Winter's playlists.
James Murphy:
The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow
Suicide: S/T
Modern Lovers: S/T
Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
The Stooges: Fun House
The Beatles: Revolver
The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace
Can: Ege Bamyasi
The Rapture: Echoes
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate
David Bowie: Heroes
Ministry: With Sympathy
John Cale and Lou Reed: Songs for Drella
Kraftwerk: Computer World
The Birthday Party: Prayers on Fire
Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Organisation
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
Public Image Ltd: Metal Box
Radiohead News:
Radiohead's Thom Yorke: 'I can see why 'The King Of Limbs' alienated people'
From www.nme.com at 11/05/12 03:28 PM. 0 comments.
Frontman says he felt like the band's eighth studio album 'didn't really exist'
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M.I.A. News:
New Azealia Banks: "Jumanji"
From pitchfork.com at 11/05/12 02:46 PM. 0 comments.
Artwork by Christina Lu
As promised, Azealia Banks has posted the first taste of her upcoming mixtape, Fantastic. It's called "Jumanji" and features tropical production from Hudson Mohawke and Nick Hook.
As of a schedule reported a few days ago, Banks' 1991 EP will be out within the month, Fantastic will arrive this summer and her debut full length Broke With Expensive Taste will be out in September.
And! The rapper will appear alongside Baltimore party-starter Rye Rye and (!) Missy Elliott on a remix of M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls". "Fuck!!!! you all killed it !!!!!! in your own wayzzzzzzzz high in the himalays again!", Maya Tweeted at the group of collaborators.
Thom Yorke News:
Video: Modeselektor and Thom Yorke: "This"
From pitchfork.com at 11/05/12 01:50 PM. 0 comments.
Here's the new video for Modeselektor's collaboration with Thom Yorke, on a song called "This" from Modeselektor's album Monkeytown. (The also did another track on the album together, "Shipwreck".) Directed by Andrew Jones for FutureDeluxe, it falls in line with the clip for "Shipwreck", using slightly disturbing childlike imagery, including creepy dolls and wooden puppets.