This Month
Bobby Womack News:
Bobby Womack gets all-clear from colon cancer
From www.nme.com at 24/05/12 03:49 PM. 0 comments.
Soul singer and Damon Albarn collaborator's doctors successfully remove tumor
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Adele News:
There's more music like The Bridge theme lurking in the Norwegian woods
From www.guardian.co.uk at 24/05/12 12:55 PM. 0 comments.
The Swedes are poppy, the Danes are laid back â€' but Norwegian musicians embrace the darkness
Anyone who became hooked on Danish-Swedish crime series The Bridge knows its theme tune set a perfect mood for the gruesome, dark and grainy drama. Back in 2010, I described Hollow Talk by Danish act Choir of Young Believers as "a melancholic Arcade Fire doing the soundtrack to Wallander" (I used them as an example of a band that made beautiful music, but couldn't or wouldn't do self-promotion on social networking sites). Seems I was just wrong about which crime series the track would eventually land in.
For those who became fans of this dark, melancholic music, there's plenty more where that came from. All you have to do is go a bit further to the north-west. Where the Swedes have a pop sensibility that's been carried through the decades since Abba,and the Danes are more laid back, the Norwegians tend to produce music that isn't as accessible to outsiders on a first listen â€' though it doesn't stop them from topping the charts in their native country. And for the past few years Norwegian artists â€' especially the female ones â€' have produced music drenched in melancholia.
Take Susanne Sundfor, whose last album The Brothel spent 30 weeks in the Norwegian album charts (it sold 40,000 copies, which is a platinum album in Norway). If Cate Blanchett, as Galadriel, had...
XL Recordings News:
Bobby Womack No Longer Has Cancer
From pitchfork.com at 24/05/12 11:40 AM. 0 comments.
Wonderful news: Bobby Womack's doctors have given the singer the all-clear from the colon cancer with which he was diagnosed in March. A posting on Womack's Facebook page reads:
"We're delighted to announce that Bobby Womack has successfully undergone surgery for suspected colon cancer. A tumour was removed last night which turned out to be cancer free. We wish him all the best in his recovery from the operation. Thank you for all your kind messages and support."
Womack is to release The Bravest Man in the Universe, an album co-produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, on June 11 in the UK and June 12 in the U.S. via XL Recordings. It's his first record in 13 years; listen to a funk version of album track "Please Forgive My Heart" below:
Jack Peñate News:
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell Apocalyptic reggae...
From www.jackpenate.com at 24/05/12 09:59 AM. 0 comments.
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell
Apocalyptic reggae coming from the one and only Cornell Campbell, a man with a vocal tone sent down from Mount Olympus...
Beck News:
Beck to release single on Jack White's Third Man Records label
From www.nme.com at 23/05/12 07:29 PM. 0 comments.
'I Just Started Hating Some People Today'/'Blue Randy' is out next week
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Beck News:
Beck to Release New Single on Jack White's Third Man Records, Hear Clips Now
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:17 PM. 0 comments.
Next up in Jack White's Third Man Records Blue Series of singles? Beck! On May 28, the label will release the one-off single "I Just Started Hating Some People Today" b/w "Blue Randy". Both tracks were recorded in Nashville last year when Beck was working on material for an upcoming album.
White produced both tracks and contributes "drums, acoustic guitar, punk vocal, background vocals" to the A-side, and drums to the B-side. Hear clips of both tracks here.
In addition to standard formats, a limited run of 100 tricolor 7"s will be available at Randy's Records in Salt Lake City on June 2. 50 more of those will also be "randomly inserted in mail orders for the single placed with Third Man Records."
The White Stripes News:
Watch: Carrie Brownstein Parties With the White Stripes and Furries in Pitchfork.tv's "Frames"
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 01:23 PM. 0 comments.
Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a new installment of its animated series "Frames". The show highlights first-person storytelling from artists, brought to life by Pitchfork.tv's animators.
This episode stars Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney, and "Portlandia" fame, discussing the dwindling allure of the post-show party. It features her bandmates, the White Stripes, and a congregation of furries (yes, furries) during two ill-fated attempts to "cut loose on tour."
Don't forget, Wild Flag perform at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday, July 14. Single-day tickets are on sale here.
Thom Yorke News:
I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot
From www.guardian.co.uk at 23/05/12 12:11 PM. 0 comments.
Scratch any literate songwriter â€' Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey â€' and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot
The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the poet's letters: "He tried to shut the door on modern life. It was too late of course. He was the author of Prufrock and The Waste Land. He was already inside."
Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece's treasure chest of arresting phrases: the "violet hour" and "bodies naked on the low damp ground" quoted in the Sisters of Mercy's Floorshow, "April is the cruellest month" kicking off Hot Chip's Playboy or the "red sails" picked up by David Bowie on Lodger (Bowie told William Burroughs in 1974 that he'd "never read" Eliot but I suspect he got around to it).
Likewise 1915's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. "Like a patient etherized on a table" is paraphrased by avowed Eliot fan Win Butler in Arcade Fire's We Used to Wait, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" became a song title for Chuck D, and "the Eternal Footman" crops up in Tori Amos's Pretty Good Year. "Alfred J Prufrock would be proud of...
Jack Peñate News:
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
From www.jackpenate.com at 23/05/12 10:53 AM. 0 comments.
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
Jack White News:
The Flaming Lips Will Attempt to Break Jay-Z's Guinness World Record
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:16 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White's not the only one with Guinness World Records on his mind-- according to the Flaming Lips' website, they're gunning for a record of their own. "Most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities" is currently held by Jay-Z, who broke the record in 2006 with seven shows in seven cities. The Lips will attempt to break the record on June 27 with eight concerts, which will stream live and coincide with the O Music Awards.
While Jay accomplished the feat via plane (it was called "the Hangar Tour"), the Lips will be traveling via bus through the American South. UPDATE: Mashable has a video interview with Wayne Coyne about the record attempt, which you can watch below.
Here's what Wayne Coyne said, via a press release:
"Like when the Sex Pistols did their one and only American tour, the weird mid-south (Memphis to New Orleans), has something very absurd about it when contrasted with radical visionary musicians. ... Elvis and Jazz were at one time radical, but are now mainstream tourist attractions. ... I don't remember if I was asked or if I volunteered. ... But, I've accepted the job of, not DRIVING, but commandeering the Magical Mystery Merry Prankster bus. ... I've accepted the attempt at breaking the world record of performing 8 shows in 24...
Tyler, The Creator News:
Pearl Jam to headline Jay-Z's Made In America festival
From www.nme.com at 22/05/12 07:47 PM. 0 comments.
Odd Future, Rita Ora, Passion Pit, Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex will also play the Philadelphia weekender
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Radiohead News:
office chart ...out from under a blanket
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 05:53 PM. 0 comments.
back in blighty humans running hither and thither stunned by the sudden release from under a grey thick blanket.
1. Wallow... Falty DL
2. Ratbastid... Mono/Poly
3. Dungeness... Tapes
4. Tears in the rain... Zomby
5. Mysty Garden... Semya
6. U don't survive (Chrissy Murderbot Rmx)... Machinedrum
7. She Died There (Traxman Rmx)... Machinedrum
8. Peace Beams... Semya
9. MS-14... Mono/Poly
10. Dibby Dibby Sound... DJQ
11. Mystics... Semya
12. Money... Jeremiah Jae
Thom
Willis Earl Beal News:
Jack White, M83, The Shins, Afghan Whigs, Neil Young, Stooges to Play Austin City Limits
From pitchfork.com at 22/05/12 11:30 AM. 0 comments.
The Austin City Limits festival has anounced its lineup. Jack White, the Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Iggy and the Stooges, Crystal Castles, Zola Jesus, Alabama Shakes, Andrew Bird, A-Trak, Black Lips, Afghan Whigs, the Roots, M83, Willis Earl Beal, the Shins, First Aid Kit, the War on Drugs, M. Ward, Die Antwoord, Weezer, Metric, Tennis, Tegan and Sara, Florence and the Machine, Big K.R.I.T., Stars, Los Campesinos!, and many more will perform in Zilker Park October 12-14.
Click here for the full line-up, and watch the Black Keys performing "Thickfreakness" at ACL 2011 below.
Update: It had been widely reported that Bon Iver was part of ACL's bill as revealed via the festival's scratch and win lottery, whereby cards deposited around Austin from May 18-21 unveiled acts prior to the full announcement. However, Bon Iver was not part of today's line-up, and his appearance at the festival remains unconfirmed for now.
Update 9:48 a.m.: Austin City Limits has confirmed that the lottery card announcing Bon Iver was fake.
Jack Peñate News:
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 22/05/12 10:59 AM. 0 comments.
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
Radiohead News:
Lost Angeles
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
The exhibition by Stanley Donwood, LOST ANGELES, is now in its LAST week.
See the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm, all in a quasi-Mediaeval style!
Marvel at a work of art so long that a special curved wall had to be built for it!
Covet artwork made with 24ct gold leaf!
Also showing is LONDON VIEWS, the original work that ended up as the cover of THE ERASER.
Both Los Angeles AND London destroyed! In the same room! Et cetera.
LOST ANGELES: APRIL 28 - MAY 26 2012, SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026, USA
subliminalprojects.com
Dizzee Rascal News:
News in Brief: Big Fun in the Big Town, Soulsavers, RWD, Joey Ramone
From pitchfork.com at 22/05/12 02:34 AM. 0 comments.
-- Big Fun in the Big Town, the 1986 hip-hop documentary that features footage of Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and others, will be available on DVD on May 22. It's the first time the film has been commercially available in 25 years. Check out a trailer here.
-- The Light the Dead See is the new album from UK production duo Soulsavers, out May 22 via Mute. The album features contributions from Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan. Listen to the album here.
-- Today, RWD Magazine released RWD - The Legacy, a three-CD compilation collecting UK garage, grime, and dubstep. The compilation features Katy B, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and many others.
-- Joey Ramone's second posthumous album, ...ya know?, is out May 22 via BMG Rights Management. Watch the video for "Rock 'N Roll is the Answer" here.
Tyler, The Creator News:
Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit, Pearl Jam to Play Jay-Z's Made in America Festival in Philadelphia
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 09:13 PM. 0 comments.
The first names have been revealed for the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made in America Festival, taking place on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia September 1-2. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, Pearl Jam's website has announced that Pearl Jam will perform in addition to Dirty Projectors and Passion Pit. (Unfortunately, President Obama isn't on the bill just yet.) UPDATE: D'Angelo, Odd Future, Maybach Music (featuring Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill), Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex, X, and more have been added to the lineup. The festival will benefit United Way.
Watch the brief "Made in America" teaser video Jay posted on Life + Times:
Radiohead News:
Listen: Radiohead's Entire <i>Kid A</i> and <i>OK Computer</i> Albums as 8-Bit Video Game Music
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 07:16 PM. 0 comments.
Ever listen to Radiohead's Kid A or OK Computer and thought, "I wonder what this would sound like as 8-bit Atari or Nintendo music?" Probably not. But one YouTube user, QuintonSung, has nonetheless painstakingly made vintage video game versions of both albums in their entireties , as At Ease points out (via i09). Check both albums out out below.
OK Computer [8-Bit]:
Kid A [8-Bit]:
Jack Peñate News:
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 21/05/12 07:09 PM. 0 comments.
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
Adele News:
2012 Billboard Music Awards
From www.adele.tv at 21/05/12 05:41 PM. 0 comments.
Adele collected 12 awards at last night's Billboard Music Awards including Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 album for
Top Artist
Top Billboard 200 Album
Top Female Artist
Top Hot 100 Artist
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Digital Songs Artist
Top Radio Songs Artist
Top Digital Media Artist
Top Pop Artist
Top Pop Album
Top Streaming Song (Audio)
Top Alternative Song ("Rolling In The Deep")
Vampire Weekend News:
Japandroids, Chromatics Added to Pitchfork Festival
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 05:00 PM. 0 comments.
Japandroids and Chromatics have been added to Pitchfork Music Festival 2012, which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes Beach House, Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, Flying Lotus, AraabMUZIK, A$AP Rocky and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14.
In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased! Individual day tickets are on sale now right here, but hurry, because they're going fast. Remember: ticket prices have not been raised this year. Individual day tickets cost $45.
Join the Pitchfork Music Festival on Facebook here and Twitter here.
Here's the breakdown by day. The full schedule, complete with times, will be revealed in the coming weeks:
Friday, July 13:
A$AP Rocky
Willis Earl Beal
Big K.R.I.T.
Clams Casino
Dirty Projectors
Feist
Tim Hecker
Japandroids
Lower Dens
The Olivia Tremor Control
Outer Minds
Purity Ring
Saturday, July 14:
The Atlas Moth
Atlas Sound
Danny Brown
Chromatics
Cloud Nothings
Cults
Flying Lotus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Friendly Fires News:
Watch Florence + the Machine cover Talking Heads
From www.guardian.co.uk at 21/05/12 10:06 AM. 0 comments.
To mark their Bestival appearance, Florence + the Machine have put on fancy dress and covered Talking Heads' Wild Wild Life
Florence + the Machine have been announced as the Friday night headliners for Bestival, the festival curated by Rob da Bank and his wife Josie, on the Isle of Wight in September â€' and to mark the fact they have covered Talking Heads' Wild Wild Life.
Why that song? Because the fancy dress theme for this year's festival is wildlife.
Rob da Bank says: "The first time I met Flo she was whirling around like a spinning top to a Paul Simon track at a party I was DJing at. I hadn't even heard her open her mouth but she had this alluring vibe already."
The other headliners for the festival are Stevie Wonder and New Order, with the xx, Sigur Ros, Friendly Fires, Orbital, Frank Ocean and Hot Chip among the other acts announced.
The Guardian is the media partner of Bestival.
Adele News:
Adele dominates Billboard Music Awards 2012 with 12 awards
From www.nme.com at 21/05/12 07:46 AM. 0 comments.
Coldplay, Rihanna and Lil Wayne also score gongs, but are eclipsed by the '21' singer
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Adele News:
Adele wins 12 Billboard awards
From www.bbc.co.uk at 21/05/12 07:06 AM. 0 comments.
The British singer was the big winner at this year's awards in Las Vegas winning top artist and album for 21.
Jack White News:
First Jack White <i>Guinness World Records</i> Attempt Uncountable
From pitchfork.com at 20/05/12 10:28 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Jo McCaughey
It looks like Jack White's first Guinness World Records attempt at "most metaphors in a single concert" didn't work out too well. According to White's website, after officials counted 1,203 metaphors in three minutes (!) at his performance in Gulf Shores, Ala., White "trivialized a metaphor by saying it too quickly." The attempt was forfeited, but he'll try again at tomorrow night's show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York.
Some of the attempted metaphors sound, uh, intricate:
Some metaphors were lyrical and others came from moments such as lighting changes and even the calm weather itself during the chorus which momentarily had the feel of Grandma's house in winter.
Also, the Guinness officials accidentally counted 312 similes and comparisons. Come on, guys.
Beck News:
Mick Jagger performs with Arcade Fire on Saturday Night Live
From www.nme.com at 20/05/12 10:57 AM. 0 comments.
The Rolling Stones frontman also sings with Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck
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Adele News:
2012 Ivor Novello Awards
From www.adele.tv at 19/05/12 02:33 PM. 0 comments.
Adele was named Songwriter of the Year at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards in London. Rolling In The Deep also won PRS for Music Most Performed Work.
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx News:
Report: The xx Live in London
From pitchfork.com at 19/05/12 12:47 AM. 0 comments.
Unveiling material from their forthcoming second album on the final date of a three-night run, the xx performed in front of visuals resembling the inside of a plasma globe, the kind you touch in science lessons to demonstrate the flow of energy through the body. If any band is an expert in the intricacies of bodily contact, it's the xx, whose self-titled debut spent most of its running time shirking the outer world to hide beneath the duvet, staring deep into another's eyes.
Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx's gentle but potent alchemy was one of the calling cards of The xx, a record that seemed so unique and significant that they couldn't (and shouldn't) hope to make it a second time. It's an album that undoubtedly soundtracked a lot of couplings at the time that have perhaps since disintegrated, a theme present in all of the new songs performed tonight bar one. But if there's been breakdowns in relationships, the band's sound has become fuller and more intricate in the process, most notably taking on elements of the style that Jamie xx has been honing with his solo work over the past couple of years-- and a palpable confidence. No one hid behind gallons of dry ice this evening.
"We're playing quite a lot of new songs-- I hope...
Willis Earl Beal News:
Festivals in Brief: Hozac Blackout Fest, Electric Daisy Carnival, London Calling Fest, Piknic Electronik
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 08:43 PM. 0 comments.
WHAT: HoZac Blackout Fest
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Roky Erickson, Redd Kross, Davila 666, Human Eye, Bare Mutants, Rayon Beach, Fungi Girls, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Ketamines, White Mystery
WHAT: Electric Daisy Carnival New York
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ
WHO: Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buuren, Tinie Tempah, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Richie Hawtin, Borgore, Art Department
WHAT: London Calling Fest
WHEN: May 18-19
WHERE: Amsterdam, Netherlands
WHO: Grimes, Japandroids, Austra, King Krule, Willis Earl Beal, Porcelain Raft, Au Palais, Spector, Outfit, Trust, Evian Christ
WHAT: Piknic
WHEN: May 20-September 30 (Sundays)
WHERE: Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Canada
WHO: Machinedrum, Benoit & Sergio, Jacques Greene, Wolf + Lamb, Art Department, Lunice, Manygances, Nina Kraviz, the Mole
Willis Earl Beal News:
This Week on Pitchfork
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 08:03 PM. 0 comments.
Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". In this week's installment, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized answers fan questions, Killer Mike talks about his new album R.A.P. Music, and Liars give us a sneak preview of theirs.
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 the Danny Brown documentary "Detroit State of Mind", the full Doug Aitken "SONG 1" Happening, a "+1" with St. Vincent, a "60 Seconds Left" with Tennis, and a music video by Royal Headache ("Girls"). Pitchfork.tv also posted a Yours Truly performance by Willis Earl Beal.
Below the video is a round-up of highlights from this week at Pitchfork.
This week in Pitchfork News:
- We said goodbye to disco queen Donna Summer.
- Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," passed away.
- Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. & the MG's and the Blues Brothers, passed away.
- Celso Chavez, guitarist for 1990s alt-rock band Possum Dixon, passed away.
- Animal Collective announced a new album, Centipede Hz.
- The Pitchfork-presented Douglas Aitken "SONG 1" Happening took place at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; check out photo and video.
- Jay-Z supports Obama's stance on marriage equality. He plans to
XL Recordings :
XL Recordings At The Independent Label Market
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XL Recordings At The Independent Label Market
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Dizzee Rascal News:
May's best music from across the MAP
From www.guardian.co.uk at 18/05/12 03:52 PM. 0 comments.
Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact
Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here.
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano - Ey, Esa No Es Forma De Decir Adios
PVACCM is a psychedelic rock duo (Mariano, drums and vocals; Prietto, guitar and vocals) from Buenos Aires. Their first recordings were kind of lo-fi experiments but in the past couple of years they've developed a unique sound with melodies and lyrics that grow on you in a melancholic way. This track is their rendition of Leonard Cohen's classic tune Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye and features on their last album, a 28-song double record that you can purchase from Bandcamp.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkoenig
Mile Me Deaf - Wild At Heart
Mile Me Deaf is one of the other bands Killed By 9V Batteries' Wolfgang Moestl plays in. And although side-projects - such an unfair name for a 500+ songs oeuvre - are usually a space for weird shit your band mates didn't agree to, their first album Eat Skull, and especially the first single Wild At Heart, is surprisingly free of noise and distortion. Instead, it creates the last-day-of-summer-holidays feeling you know...
The White Stripes News:
Jack White Responds to <i>Guinness World Records</i> With Hilarious Record Attempt
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 03:33 PM. 0 comments.
As mentioned yesterday, Jack White recently criticized Guinness World Records as an elite and arbitrary organization, when he (erroneously) believed that they rejected the White Stripes' attempt to set the record for world's shortest concert. Guinness responded, encouraging White to explore different means of getting into the book.
And now, the plot thickens: According to a comedic press release, Jack White will spend the duration of his current Blunderbuss tour attempting to set the world record for "most metaphors in a single concert."
From the press release:
The attempt may prove very exhausting and at times even dangerous, but the results could prove to be glorious and possibly even vainglorious. White and Third Man Records are certain that the extremely scientific and intricate analysis of the metaphors that occur will be examined in accordance with Guinness' usually very thorough methods probably, or at the very least if somebody answers the phone at the pub.
Third Man Records encourages all attendees of said concerts to please not interfere or interject with any metaphors that they witness occur during the show as to not disqualify or worse yet, trivialize the metaphor in question. In addition all concert attendees are encouraged to entice as many metaphors to occur during the show that they possibly can as long as they don't endanger themselves or Mr. White.
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Thom Yorke News:
Lex Records: Through the Years in Video
From www.dazeddigital.com at 18/05/12 12:04 PM. 0 comments.
The founder of the independent label guides us through the years of the imprint through YouTube videos and tells us about the first Danger Mouse record
Lex Records is one of our favourite independent London labels whose wildly creative output spans over a decade of landmark releases that have changed the music industry no end. From underground rap heroes (DOOM) to harbouring super producers with a perchant for cult collaborations (the myriad of Danger Mouse projects with the once incarcerated rapper Jemini and the transcendental meditating David Lynch) to lush, cinematic electronics and pop (Boom Bip and Neon Neon) and even deluxe audio books (legendary comic book writer and Watchmen creator Alan Moore).
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Jack White News:
Jack White vows to break a new Guinness World Record on 'Blunderbuss' world tour
From www.nme.com at 18/05/12 11:10 AM. 0 comments.
Guitarist jokes that he wants to 'break the world record for most metaphors in a single concert'
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Adele News:
Michael Eavis reveals he asked Adele to headline Glastonbury 2013
From www.nme.com at 18/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
Festival boss says singer would find headlining 'too daunting' though
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Tyler, The Creator News:
Odd Future's 'Loiter Squad' TV show picked up for second series
From www.nme.com at 17/05/12 09:01 PM. 0 comments.
Adult Swim have commissioned a new season of the rappers' comedy programme
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Tyler, The Creator News:
Odd Future's "Loiter Squad" Gets Second Season
From pitchfork.com at 17/05/12 08:31 PM. 0 comments.
Who would have ever guessed that television audiences enjoy watching young men play pranks on people? So weird. Anyway, Adult Swim has announced that the Odd Future live-action prank/sketch show "Loiter Squad" has been renewed for a second season. No premiere date for the second season has been announced yet, but to tide you over, watch some clips from the first season below.
"Loiter Squad" trailer:
Tyler as Thurnis Haley in a laundromat:
Jasper Dolphin as an armless dentist:
Adele News:
Adele wins songwriter of the year
From www.bbc.co.uk at 17/05/12 06:40 PM. 0 comments.
Adele picks up two prizes at the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards - but misses out on two more trophies.
The White Stripes News:
<i>Guinness World Records</i> Respond to Jack White Diss
From pitchfork.com at 17/05/12 05:56 PM. 0 comments.
The latest issue of Interview magazine contains a chat between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Jack White. During the course of the interview, White expressed his frustruation with Guinness World Records. One would assume that White, with his many endeavors to perpetually out-do his own strangeness, must have broken a record along the way, but apparently not.
Back in July 2007, the White Stripes gave a performance that consisted of exactly one note in Newfoundland, Canada. The show, he said, lasted only a millisecond. Afterwards, White tried to have the event certified by Guinness World Records as the shortest concert in history.
"Ultimately they turned us down," White told Aldrin, calling the Guinness organizers "elitist" and their decision arbitrary.
"There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't. I mean, there is some stuff like Olympic records where they have a committee. But most of the records in there-who has the biggest collection of salt-and-pepper shakers or whatever-are just whatever they want them to be. So with something like the shortest concert of all time, they didn't think whatever we did was interesting enough to make it a record. I don't know why they get to decide that, but, you know, they own the book . . . Maybe this will help...
Adele News:
VIDEO: Donna Summer dies and more news
From www.bbc.co.uk at 17/05/12 05:18 PM. 0 comments.
Disco legend, Donna Summer, has died at the age of 63 and Adele wins two Ivor Novello awards plus the rest of the day's entertainment headlines.
Adele News:
Multiculturalism is what makes British music great
From www.guardian.co.uk at 17/05/12 04:04 PM. 0 comments.
Britain is celebrating Music is Great week with a DVD of iconic live moments. But why has the campaign ignored the melting pot that makes British music special?
Did you know this week is Music is Great week in Britain? You may think it's Music is Great week every week of the year, but this is part of the This is Great Britain campaign, celebrating everything that is British and, er, great.
As part of the Music is Great campaign, backed by the major labels, a DVD of "iconic live moments" by British artists has been released with all profits going to Save the Children, and the first clip â€' David Bowie performing Ziggy Stardust â€' reminded me of why I, as a child growing up in Stockholm, fell in love with British music in the first place. While Abba dominated my tape recorder as a child (I'm Swedish, after all), my older brother would be blasting Bowie through the wall into my bedroom. Pretty soon I was raiding my brother's collection of albums.
The reason I wanted to move to England was the music. That's what defined the country for me. Sure, I eventually got into numerous American artists, such as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones and Stevie Wonder, but the Brits were something else altogether. They did things no one else dared. They were over the top. They were larger than life.
Freddie Mercury, Kate Bush and,...
Adele News:
Adele, Lana Del Rey, PJ Harvey win at the Ivor Novello Awards
From www.nme.com at 17/05/12 03:37 PM. 0 comments.
Siouxsie Sioux, Ed Sheeran and Gary Kemp also pick up gongs at the annual awards celebrating British songwriting
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Willis Earl Beal News:
Willis Earl Beal: 'Simon Cowell told me to shut up when I auditioned for 'The X Factor''
From www.nme.com at 17/05/12 02:35 PM. 0 comments.
Singer also admits he wanted to win the show, but ultimately 'ruined' his chances
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Jack White News:
Guinness World Records respond to Jack White's rant
From www.nme.com at 17/05/12 01:29 PM. 0 comments.
Categories such as shortest gig are too trivial, say book compilers
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Adele News:
Mark Ronson denies saying that Amy Winehouse was 'freaked out' by Adele's success
From www.nme.com at 17/05/12 07:21 AM. 0 comments.
Producer says he was misquoted
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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.
Adele News:
VIDEO: Albarn 'would've waited' for Adele speech
From www.bbc.co.uk at 10/05/12 02:43 PM. 0 comments.
Blur and Gorrillaz frontman Damon Albarn has said he would have waited another 10 minutes for Adele to finish her Brit Award speech.
Jack White News:
The Strokes, Jack White, Foster The People, Arctic Monkeys on why they love Alabama Shakes
From www.nme.com at 10/05/12 12:48 PM. 0 comments.
The Vaccines, Bon Iver and Jarvis Cocker are also fans of the world's hottest new band
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Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend speak about 'open-minded' approach to new album
From www.nme.com at 10/05/12 12:18 PM. 0 comments.
Bassist Chris Baio tells NME about the follow to 'Contra' and his new solo EP
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Radiohead News:
Radiohead Producer Nigel Godrich Forms New Band
From pitchfork.com at 09/05/12 06:44 PM. 0 comments.
Nigel Godrich, the man best known for his production for Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney, and others, as well as his work with Thom Yorke in Atoms for Peace, has somehow found time to start a new band. He's collaborating with L.A. drummer/producer Joey Waronker (who's worked with everyone from Beck to Elliott Smith and the Smashing Pumpkins, and also plays in Atoms for Peace) and London artist Laura Bettinson under the band name Ultraista.
So far, they've released one song and video: "Smalltalk"
The White Stripes News:
Jack White: 'I want to play the first vinyl record in outer space'
From www.nme.com at 09/05/12 08:30 AM. 0 comments.
Guitarist also tells Buzz Aldrin about the break-up of the White Stripes
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Willis Earl Beal News:
Festivals In Brief: Liverpool Sound City, Tom Tom Founders Festival, Girls Got Rhythm, Playground
From pitchfork.com at 09/05/12 03:20 AM. 0 comments.
WHAT: Liverpool Sound City
WHEN: May 17-19
WHERE: Liverpool, England
WHO: Bear in Heaven, Tim Hecker, Charli XCX, Willis Earl Beal, Niki & the Dove, Pond, Forest Swords, Slow Club, Bleached, White Arrows, Electric Guest, White Denim, more
WHAT: Tom Tom Founders Festival
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: Charlottesville, VA
WHO: The Walkmen, Here We Go Magic, Hospitality, Those Darlins, Cotton Jones, Spinto Band, more
WHAT: Girls Got Rhythm Fest
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: St. Paul, MN
WHO: Ronnie Spector, Pierced Arrows, White Mystery, the 5.6.7.8's, more
WHAT: The Playground Fest
WHEN: May 12
WHERE: London, England
WHO: A-Trak, SebastiAn, Porter Robinson, Borgore, Dillon Francis, more
M.I.A. News:
M.I.A. Working on New Album, Designing Beer Labels
From pitchfork.com at 08/05/12 02:37 PM. 0 comments.
M.I.A. tells Spin that in addition to working on her fourth studio album, she's got a gig we might not have anticipated: custom-designing labels for bottles of Beck's beer. The German beer company reached out to her during her time in India, and she sent them back some of the art she'd been working on there, to be used on a series of limited-edition labels.
"Before, artists would struggle with the art and commerce thing, but now I think you have to have a certain conviction about your work and the canvas is irrelevant, you can put it on anything these days", she said. "Sitting down and having a drink, and having a little chat is a good thing, and that's what people tend to do, you know."
Spin also reports that M.I.A.'s finishing her new album in London and India right now, working with producers including Switch. They say the album is titled Matangi; M.I.A.'s birth name is Mathangi.
Below, watch her discussing her art for a Beck's promo.
Willis Earl Beal News:
Who to see at the Great Escape 2012
From www.guardian.co.uk at 08/05/12 02:10 PM. 0 comments.
As 300 acts prepare to descend on Brighton for this year's festival, we gather some of your top-notch recommendations. Plus, listen to a Spotify playlist of hotly tipped bands
Ahead of this weekend's Great Escape festival in Brighton, we asked you to recommend who to see from a lineup of more than 300 artists.
Kitty Empire recommended the Black Belles, Spoek Mathambo, Devin, Django Django and Willis Earl Beal. Here are some more recommendations from @guardianmusic followers.
Tall Ships: Pav Tav 1am Sat, The Hope 10.15pm Sat
@patrick_kane_
"Tall Ships â€' debut album released later this year and one of the most exciting and energetic acts at the moment"
Curxes: Riki Tik 1.30am Sat
@BMWavesBlog
"Curxes â€' Because they're an eye candy boy /girl synth duo sounding like robots f***ing to the sound of Siouxsie & Depeche"
Ben Salter: The Hub 4pm Thu, Unitarian Church 8.15pm Sat
@artschoolbop
"Ben Salter â€' because his song The Coward is the best song I've heard all year!"
Cloud Nothings: Above Audio 9.45pm Thur
@cBaylizz
"Cloud Nothings â€' because Attack on Memory blew me away (and continues to do so)"
Nils Frahm: St Mary's Church 8pm Fri
@Bronte_M
"Nils Frahm. Felt was my album of 2011 and he's playing in a stunning church"
For a comprehensive Great Escape primer, the organisers have put together this substantial Spotify playlist:
• Which Great Escape acts are most worth seeing? Let us know below.
The Guardian is a...
Radiohead News:
Dot Connectors
From www.radiohead.com at 05/05/12 07:01 PM. 0 comments.
I was very sad to hear the news of Adam Yauch's death yesterday.
We looked up to the Beastie Boys a lot when we were starting out and how they maintained artistic control making wicked records but still were on a major label, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts they organized had a very big influence on me personally and the way Adam conducted himself and dealt with it all impressed me a lot. He was a mellow and v smart guy. May he rest in peace.
On another note check this out> people connecting the dots of our weird weather patterns, though the climate change deniers still frantically shout their voice is getting quieter.
climate dots around the world
and some music..
1. Kurduli Hidjazkiar Taxim Kementchedi Alecco Open Strings
2. Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet The Ultimate Collection
3. Too Polite Feat. Louis Vines Throwing Snow
4. When the Ship Comes In Bob Dylan
5. Gene Piece, R.A.I Bird Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer
6. Strange Fruit Sidney Bechet
7. Shake Your Rump Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
8. Ghana: Voices + Percussion Vocalists and drummers of Ghana African Rhythms + Instruments: Vol 1
9. Caves Of Paradise Actress R.I.P.
Radiohead News:
One Little Plane - " Into the Trees "
From www.radiohead.com at 04/05/12 01:04 PM. 0 comments.
Hi, and here's the first record for the summer! I was chuffed when Kathryn asked me to play on it, it's a lovely thing, and heralds bright days and warm nights. Kieran ' Fourtet' Hebden is at the controls, and Giles Petersen has picked ' She Was Out in the Water ' to play on BBC Radio 6.
It comes out next week, Monday May 7th.
You can pre - order it on Itunes
You can get the cd from Boomkat
There are two tracks streaming on Soundcloud, and the whole record's going up to Soundcloud next week.
Colin
The Horrors News:
The Horrors' Faris Badwan: 'Working on a new album's like getting obsessed with Thundercats toys'
From www.nme.com at 04/05/12 12:42 PM. 0 comments.
Frontman reveals the band's obsessive recording process
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The Horrors News:
Land of Kings: Hannah Holland
From www.dazeddigital.com at 04/05/12 11:21 AM. 0 comments.
The Dalston festival arrives once again this weekend, with the likes of The Horrors, to Kwes, Bicep and Hannah Holland playing who we speak to here about her Jungle set to come
Ahead of playing a special Jungle set at East London's annual Land of Kings Festival over this weekend, 4-5th May, Hannah Holland of Bastard Batty Bass spoke to us about her new label's ongoings and current musical faves.
I think living in Berlin really helped me learn [the art of mixing and groove]. I guess the essence of my sets has always been there, it's just the way I play it has been refined over the years
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Adele News:
Adele overtakes sales of Thriller
From www.bbc.co.uk at 04/05/12 08:47 AM. 0 comments.
The singer moves up to fifth on the all-time UK best-selling album list overtaking Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The Horrors News:
The Horrors: 'Small venues are where the exciting stuff happens' - video
From www.nme.com at 03/05/12 01:48 PM. 0 comments.
The 'Skying' rockers also reveal their favourite small venue
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Willis Earl Beal News:
The Great Escape: listen to the lineup
From www.guardian.co.uk at 03/05/12 01:39 PM. 0 comments.
Click on the poster to hear bands appearing at Brighton's new music festival â€' and let us know who's worth checking out
The Great Escape, Brighton's new music festival, is just a week away. Now in its seventh year, the festival sees more than 300 bands play across 30 venues in the city from 10â€'12 May.
In last Sunday's Observer Kitty Empire picked five bands who are worth a look:
The Black Belles
"A garage band with a penchant for the sepulchral ... shrouded in mystery."
"The South African is one of a number of artists in recent years who are exploding (white, western, blinkered) cultural assumptions about what non-white, non-western music can be."
"His core allegiance is to the excitable Jerry Lee Lewis, but you can hear the sneer of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground in the raucous tumble of Devin's debut album."
"Imagine Franz Ferdinand playing Animal Collective, or Hot Chip covering the Beach Boys with burbles."
"He sounds like something between a self-consciously naive DIY lo-fi outsider artist and an avant-garde diddley bow player."
• Who else will be worth seeing? Via the interactive poster above (or below) you can check out lots of the listed bands and artists. Have a listen, and leave your Great Escape recommendations in the comment thread below.
Jack White News:
Jack White scores US number one
From www.bbc.co.uk at 03/05/12 09:23 AM. 1 comments.
Jack White has scored his first number one album in the US with his debut solo record, Blunderbuss.
Adele News:
Adele overtakes Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' in UK's all-time biggest selling albums list
From www.nme.com at 03/05/12 08:19 AM. 0 comments.
Singer's second album '21' has surpassed Michael Jackson's classic
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Tyler, The Creator News:
Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt gets his own record label imprint
From www.nme.com at 02/05/12 09:41 PM. 0 comments.
The rapper has inked a deal to set up the Tan Cressida label
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The White Stripes News:
Jack White Hits Number One
From pitchfork.com at 02/05/12 03:00 PM. 0 comments.
Yahoo! Music reports that Jack White's Blunderbuss has sold 138,000 copies in its first week, making its Billboard 200 debut at number one. This is the first top seller in Jack White's career-- the White Stripes, Dead Weather, and Raconteurs never reached the honor. The album's sales surpassed Adele, Nicki Minaj, Lionel Ritchie, Gotye, the Wanted, and One Direction, among others, in the top 10. He also topped the UK's charts, according to Billboard.
The Horrors News:
The Horrors: 'We won't ever headline arenas'
From www.nme.com at 02/05/12 10:29 AM. 0 comments.
Joshua Hayward also gives an update on the band's plans for the follow-up to 'Skying'
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Bobby Womack News:
Bobby Womack unveils new Damon Albarn-produced track from 'The Bravest Man In The Universe' â€' listen
From www.nme.com at 01/05/12 01:30 PM. 0 comments.
Album is due to be released on June 11
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XL Recordings News:
Listen: New Bobby Womack
From pitchfork.com at 01/05/12 11:52 AM. 0 comments.
Last month, XL Recordings unveiled "Please Forgive My Heart", the first song from soul legend Bobby Womack's forthcoming solo LP, The Bravest Man in the Universe, due out on June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK. Below you can hear the title track from the album, which constitutes Womack's first LP of original material since 1994.
The White Stripes News:
Maggoty Lamb goes in search of the relaunched Spin magazine's lost chord
From www.guardian.co.uk at 30/04/12 12:08 PM. 0 comments.
This month's foray into the frontline of music journalism finds some Spin doctors forgetting how many chords kick off Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Oh well, whatever, never mind
In the current economic and publishing climate, any magazine relaunch must perhaps have a counterintuitive element. But the once brand-leading American music title Spin's recent "Retro-Active" relaunch sees your counterintuitive and raises it a paradoxical.
The unbylined "Opening Act" advertorial at the front of this new-look, heritage-feel artefact thanks readers for holding the magazine in their hands, then advises them to drop it. "That sound you heard? The dull gentle thud as it landed? That might be the most important sound in this magazine's history, all apologies to the first three chords of Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Hang on a moment. Setting aside the instinctive concern anyone old enough to remember NME editor Conor McNicholas's "New Rock Revolution" must inevitably feel about a magazine trying to identify itself too closely with a particular moment in musical history, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to refer to the first four chords of Nirvana's self-lacerating 90s youth anthem?
As a music journalist, it is obviously not my professional duty to know anything about how a classic song is actually put together, but surely a reasonable layman's estimate of Kurt Cobain's most celebrated Boston-inspired guitar riff is F5, B Flat, G Sharp, C Sharp? Oh well, whatever, never mind. Readers worried about the fate of that all-important...
M.I.A. News:
MIA releases teaser video for new track 'Come Walk With Me' â€' listen
From www.nme.com at 30/04/12 11:19 AM. 0 comments.
Rapper took to Twitter to unveil two-minute preview to new material
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Radiohead News:
Anon Exclusive Mix
From www.dazeddigital.com at 30/04/12 10:25 AM. 0 comments.
The new mysterious producer makes us an exclusive mix featuring Pariah, Nosaj Thing and Radiohead, as well as a video premiere of the 'Jungle Rag' single
Alongside a premiere of the new video for 'Jungle Rag' directed by Oliver Jennings, we meet the mysterious new producer making experimental electronic sounds dipping into trip hop beats and electro who goes by the name of 'Anon'.
What's special about me? Music-wise I play out my set with a full home made midi controller. Nothing on the market has enough knobs
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The White Stripes News:
White knocks Adele off top spot
From www.bbc.co.uk at 30/04/12 08:26 AM. 0 comments.
Former White Stripes frontman Jack White goes straight in at number one on the UK album chart with his solo debut, Blunderbuss.
M.I.A. News:
Preview New M.I.A.: "Come Walk With Me"
From pitchfork.com at 30/04/12 12:30 AM. 0 comments.
Earlier today, M.I.A. tweeted "mannnnnnn , days like this i wanna jus upload the songs right now and go clime the himalays with ikhyd on my back." Then, she tweeted a two-minute preview video of a song titled "Come Walk With Me", which features a roomful of people dancing. Watch it below.
Willis Earl Beal News:
Festivals In Brief: +(PLUS) Fest, Great Escape, Los Lobos Fest, Sonar Sao Paulo
From pitchfork.com at 29/04/12 11:33 PM. 0 comments.
WHAT: +(PLUS) Fest
WHEN: May 4
WHERE: Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Chapel Hill, Columbia, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC
WHO: Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, MSTRKRFT, Big Freedia, Rob Garza (Thievery Corporation), the Hood Internet, more
WHAT: The Great Escape Festival
WHEN: May 10-12
WHERE: Brighton, England
WHO: Shabazz Palaces, Perfume Genius, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Alabama Shakes, Willis Earl Beal, Kwes, Com Truise, YACHT, the Twilight Sad, Bass Drum of Death, Django Django, Ben Kweller, Porcelain Raft, Gang Colours, Stay+, Keep Shelly in Athens, Milagres, Willy Mason, Pond, Jam City, more
WHAT: Los Lobos Festival
WHEN: May 5
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Neko Case, X, Alejandro Escovedo, Los Lobos, more
WHAT: Sonar Sao Paulo
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: Sao Paulo, Brazil
WHO: Kraftwerk, Cee Lo Green, James Blake, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Justice, DOOM, Rustie, John Talabot, Austra, Mogwai, Cut Chemist, Chromeo, Squarepusher, Modeselektor, James Pants, KTL, more
The White Stripes News:
Jack White tops the UK Album Chart with 'Blunderbuss'
From www.nme.com at 29/04/12 05:16 PM. 0 comments.
The White Stripes man topples Adele with debut solo album
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The Horrors News:
Festivals In Brief: Beale Street, Camden Crawl, Asymmetry, Land of Kings
From pitchfork.com at 28/04/12 07:00 PM. 0 comments.
WHAT: Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival
WHEN: May 4-6
WHERE: Memphis, TN
WHO: Girl Talk, My Morning Jacket, Big K.R.I.T., Jane's Addiction, Florence + the Machine, Black Lips, Wiz Khalifa, Al Green, the Cult, Lupe Fiasco, Cold War Kids, Little Richard, more
WHAT: Camden Crawl
WHEN: May 4-6
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Actress, Charli XCX, Rustie, Kwes, Niki & the Dove, the Raincoats, the Cribs, the Big Pink, Veronica Falls, Loney Dear, the Futureheads, Keep Shelly in Athens, Glasvegas, Young Man, more
WHAT: Asymmetry Festival
WHEN: May 3-5
WHERE: Wroclaw, Poland
WHO: Sleep, Black Tusk, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Panacea, Killing Joke, Red Fang, more
WHAT: Land of Kings Festival
WHEN: May 4-5
WHERE: London (Dalston), England
WHO: Male Bonding, Factory Floor, Kwes, Maria Minerva, The Horrors (DJ), Trevor Jackson, Slow Club, Stay+, Bullion, Toy, Speech Debelle, Rough Trade (DJs), No Pain in Pop (DJs), more
Radiohead News:
Watch: Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich Debut New Atoms for Peace Songs in DJ Set
From pitchfork.com at 28/04/12 05:17 PM. 0 comments.
Last night at Beastie Boy Mike D's "Transmission LA: AV Club" festival at MOCA in Los Angeles, Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich debuted new Atoms for Peace songs during a DJ set, Radiohead At Ease points out. Although Yorke and collaborator Flea revealed that an album was nearly finished in interviews last fall, details have been otherwise scarce. Check out video from the DJ set in five parts below.
The White Stripes News:
Watch Jack White and Alabama Shakes on "Jools Holland" (Again)
From pitchfork.com at 28/04/12 04:04 PM. 0 comments.
The second round of performances from Jack White, Grimes, and Alabama Shakes aired tonight on "Later With Jools Holland". This time around, White performed the White Stripes' "Ball & Biscuit" with his all-male band and his own "Sixteen Saltines" and "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy" with his all-female band. Alabama Shakes did "Hold On" and "Hang Loose", and Grimes did "Genesis" once again. Video of Grimes hasn't surfaced yet, but watch performances by Jack White and Alabama Shakes below, as well as Holland's interview with White.
Radiohead News:
Thom Yorke debuts new Atoms For Peace songs
From www.nme.com at 28/04/12 03:35 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead frontman played new tracks during LA DJ set
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Jack White News:
Watch the Jack White Live NYC Concert Webcast Directed by Gary Oldman Right Now
From pitchfork.com at 28/04/12 01:00 AM. 1 comments.
Starting right now on Vevo/YouTube, watch Jack White perform at New York's Webster Hall to celebrate the release of his debut solo effort Blunderbuss. The stream is part of the "American Express Unstaged" series, and it's directed by actor Gary Oldman.
Jack White News:
Jack White: 'Being an artist is like going to war and coming back a completely different person'
From www.nme.com at 27/04/12 05:01 PM. 0 comments.
'Blunderbuss' singer says being an artist is all about sacrifice
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The White Stripes News:
Think Jack White has a problem with women? You don't know rock'n'roll
From www.guardian.co.uk at 27/04/12 04:20 PM. 0 comments.
The former White Stripes star shouldn't be decried for his supposed attitudes but celebrated for his masculinity
A rather curious posting appeared over on the Atlantic's entertainment pages this week. Titled Jack White's Women Problem, it set out the case against the former White Striper, Raconteur, Dead Weatherer and lately Blunderbussing solo artist as a man waging a personal war against the ladies.
White, its author insisted, unleashes vitriol on any woman who threatens his "control"; his songs reveal a man who wants women to be "quiet and submissive" while storing up special rage for the "modern-day woman, with her sexual freedom and iPhone [representing] power and choice". His professional dealings with female artists, meanwhile, show nothing more than a fellow who delights in shaping and controlling women. And furthermore: "As a lyricist [he] has been obsessed with women for more than a decade now, perhaps to a greater extent than any other rock star in his generation."
Tell that to Dave Grohl. Or the Kings of Leon. Or Josh Homme.
It wasn't the most robust of arguments, fuelled by supposition and leaps of speculation, and the cherrypicking of White lyrics to fit the cause. But it's worth disputing, because this type of character assassination is too easily and too casually spun, and perhaps more importantly, it bleeds all the joy out of rock'n'roll.
Listen to any of the most revered artists of the past 80 years, be they male or female, and you'll see their...
Radiohead News:
Caribou to support Radiohead on UK arena tour
From www.nme.com at 27/04/12 03:05 PM. 0 comments.
Canadian musician will open up on all dates of 'The King Of Limbs' European tour
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Jack White News:
Watch Jack White on "The Colbert Report"
From pitchfork.com at 27/04/12 10:13 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White stopped by to visit his buddy Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report" last night, performing Blunderbuss track "Freedom at 21", and slipping backstage for a goofy chat with Stephen.
Adele News:
Adele's label wins industry award
From www.bbc.co.uk at 27/04/12 08:28 AM. 0 comments.
XL Records, the independent label which released Adele's 21, wins three prizes at the Music Week Awards.
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend: 'We have a ton of stuff for our next album'
From www.nme.com at 27/04/12 07:44 AM. 0 comments.
Brooklyn indie trio say follow up to 2010's 'Contra' could be released this year
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Jack White News:
Jack White: 'I've got another 12 songs that I haven't finished yet'
From www.nme.com at 26/04/12 05:13 PM. 0 comments.
Singer confirms he has another album's worth of material yet to be released
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The White Stripes News:
AUDIO: 'White Stripes finished while on top'
From news.bbc.co.uk at 26/04/12 09:57 AM. 0 comments.
The BBC's Mark Coles spoke to Jack White, former front man with The White Stripes, who has released his debut solo album to rave reviews.
The White Stripes News:
Jack White's 'Blunderbuss' set to hit Number One on both sides of the Atlantic
From www.nme.com at 26/04/12 07:23 AM. 0 comments.
Ex-White Stripes man is predicted to top Billboard 200 next week
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Jack White News:
Jack White set to top the UK Album Chart with 'Blunderbuss'
From www.nme.com at 25/04/12 04:56 PM. 0 comments.
Calvin Harris is also heading for the top of the charts
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Jack White News:
Preview Jack White's Gary Oldman-Directed Webcast
From pitchfork.com at 25/04/12 01:00 PM. 0 comments.
On Friday night, Jack White will perform at New York's Webster Hall in celebration of his just-released album Blunderbuss. The concert will stream live on Vevo/YouTube as part of the "American Express Unstaged" series, and the footage will be directed by Sirius Black/Sid Vicious himself, Gary Oldman. In the past week, White has posted some short, silly teasers for the show featuring him and Oldman. Here's a new one, in which White and Oldman discuss how White decides whether to use his all-girl band or his all-boy band. Check out all of the teasers below.
Jack White News:
Jack White to write Ranger music
From www.bbc.co.uk at 25/04/12 11:50 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White will write, produce and perform the music for the Lone Ranger movie, the film's producer confirms.
The White Stripes News:
Jack White to write musical score for Disney's 'The Lone Ranger' film
From www.nme.com at 25/04/12 08:04 AM. 0 comments.
Former White Stripes man set to follow up new album 'Blunderbuss' with his first film soundtrack
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Jack White News:
Jack White to Score Disney's <i>Lone Ranger</i> Movie
From pitchfork.com at 25/04/12 01:25 AM. 0 comments.
Photo by Jo McCaughey
As if Jack White wasn't busy enough (he just released Blunderbuss and played "Jools Holland" today), the man has been tapped to write, produce, and perform the original score for Disney's The Lone Ranger, in theaters May 31, 2013. According to Variety, the idea to have White do the score came from the film's director, Gore Verbinski. Johnny Depp is tapped to play Tonto-- he'll look like this.
Jack White News:
Watch Jack White, Grimes, and Alabama Shakes on "Jools Holland"
From pitchfork.com at 24/04/12 11:30 PM. 0 comments.
Tonight, Jack White, Grimes, and Alabama Shakes performed on the British TV show "Later... With Jools Holland". White performed "Sixteen Saltines" and "Freedom at 21" from Blunderbuss. Grimes played "Genesis" from Visions. Alabama Shakes did "Hold On" and "Be Mine" from Boys & Girls. Watch the performances below.
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx News:
Drake: 'My next album is one of the most exciting projects I've worked on'
From www.nme.com at 24/04/12 08:12 PM. 0 comments.
He is expected to work with Jamie xx on the follow up to 2011's 'Take Care'
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Jack White News:
Alabama Shakes Announce Summer Tour
From pitchfork.com at 24/04/12 07:45 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Will Deitz
Alabama Shakes will hit the road in support of their debut record Boys & Girls, routing through Europe, the UK and North America into the end of the summer. They'll share a bill with Jack White for a number of U.S. shows.
The Horrors News:
The Horrors, Vaccines, Tribes-featuring Chazzstock festival forced to move to one-dayer
From www.nme.com at 24/04/12 01:17 PM. 0 comments.
Organisers cite 'unforeseen licensing issues' for moving summer bash dedicated to late Charles Haddon of Ou Est La Swimming Pool
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Jack White Blog:
Jack White's Blunderbuss Out Now
At 24/04/12 11:44 AM. 0 comments.
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Jack White’s solo debut album, Blunderbuss, is released today on XL Recordings.
The vinyl looks like this:
To celebrate the release of Blunderbuss, Jack is playing intimate shows this week in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. The NYC show on Friday 27 April will be streamed live and directed by the heroic Gary Oldman. Tune in to Jack’s VEVO channel at 2AM GMT to watch the live show. The whole concert will also be available to watch again for 24 hours after the show, so you could watch it at least another ten times, if you didn’t sleep.
You can also catch Jack playing live on Later…With Jools Holland on BBC2, 10pm Tuesday and 11.50pm Friday.
Jack White’s Blunderbuss will be the second album released by XL Recordings in 2012, following Willis Earl Beal’s Acousmatic Sorcery.