This Week
Monkey News:
Gorillaz Become Monkey for "Circus Opera" Soundtrack
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 23/07/08 07:00 PM. 0 comments.
Looking for an opera album to wedge between your mom's Josh Groban collection and your dad's Andrea Bocelli discography on the family CD shelf? Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have got you covered. The Gorillaz masterminds will release the soundtrack to "Monkey: Journey to the West"-- Albarn's "circus opera" collaboration with visual artist Jamie Hewlett-- via XL this summer in the UK and this fall in North America.
The album will be released under the title Journey to the West, with the artist's name listed as Monkey. According to a press release, the opera tells the story of "the Monkey King's journey to enlightenment as it takes him undersea, to decadent banquets in heaven, through encounters with Spider Maidens and Skeleton Demons, and eventually to paradise." Albarn produced the album, and its lyrics are entirely in Mandarin.
XL's release of the album will be digital and on CD. Vinyl Factory Ltd. is handling the release of a vinyl box set via the "Monkey: Journey to the West" website. It features etched heavyweight vinyl, a poster by Hewlett, a 60-page booklet, and comes housed in a handmade box.
The live version of "Monkey: Journey to the West" will make its London debut at the Royal Opera House tonight, July 23. It runs through Saturday, July 26.
Albarn and Hewlett are already hard at work on their next collaboration, a project for film and stage called "Carousel", according to an Observer...
Radiohead News:
Watch: new video from Radiohead
From drownedinsound.com at 23/07/08 03:07 PM. 0 comments.
We like the new(ish) video to Radiohead's 'House Of Cards', and figure you might, too. So here it is
Sigur Rós News:
round up
From www.sigur-ros.co.uk at 23/07/08 12:11 PM. 0 comments.
a one hour video of the bands concert in moma in new york city in june will be on current.tv (both online and tv) on august the 5th. further information here.
on the moma.org website there is a video of “við spilum endalaust” also from the same concert.
in anticipation of screenings of “heima” on the sundance channel this month - there is a minisite on the channels website that has a band interview and various videos from “heima”. (more heima screening info here)
on austrian fm4 radio there was a short interview with the band. here is the page about the band (in german) but the interview was conducted in english (with a little bit of german at the start). (mp3 link to interview)
M.I.A. News:
MIA and Santogold collaboration appears online
From www.nme.com at 23/07/08 11:55 AM. 0 comments.
A collaboration between MIA and Santogold has appeared online.
Sigur Rós News:
reviews
From www.sigur-ros.co.uk at 23/07/08 11:54 AM. 0 comments.
the first part of the bands summer tour ended a few days ago and we have put the setlists, pictures and reviews of the shows onto our tour archive page.
this part of the tour ended on a high at the latitude festival in england with astounding reviews. the tour continues in ten days time in melbourne.
as always you can send us reviews/pictures for inclusion onto those pages - follow the details here.
Monkey News:
Monkey magic
From news.bbc.co.uk at 23/07/08 10:38 AM. 0 comments.
Sideburns, kung-fu and bad dubbing. Why was it a hit?
Monkey News:
Gorillaz duo adapt ’Monkey’ opera for new record
From blog.myspace.com at 23/07/08 09:18 AM. 0 comments.
From NME.com:-
Gorillaz duo Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn are set to release a new album together based on their recent opera.The pair will release ‘Journey To The West’ under the name Monkey …
Devendra Banhart News:
Devendra Banhart recruits girlfriend Natalie Portman for new video
From www.nme.com at 22/07/08 04:50 PM. 0 comments.
Devendra Banhart has recruited his real-life girlfriend Natalie Portman to star in the video for his new single 'Carmensita'.
Magistrates News:
Magistrates tour dates y'all
From blog.myspace.com at 22/07/08 03:39 PM. 0 comments.
just incase you didn't know MAGISTRATES are heading out on the road start next tuesday; dates as follow
Tue 29-Jul Liverpool Korova Club Evol - £5 08444 77 1000 http://www.ticketweb....
Radiohead News:
Radiohead, Burial, Neon Neon Make Mercury Shortlist
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 22/07/08 03:20 PM. 0 comments.
The shortlist for the Nationwide Mercury Prize-- bestowed upon the finest album from the previous year by a British or Irish artist-- was announced today, and as usual, the chatter's more than likely going to surround the records that aren't on the list rather than the dozen that are. Last year's award went to Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future, and you can find its successor in glory somewhere among these 12 platters [via the Guardian]:
Adele - 19
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial - Untrue
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle - Shine
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North Sea
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - The Bairns
There's some fine choosin', sure, from Radiohead's In Rainbows to Burial's stunning Untrue to Neon Neon's Stainless Style. There's the now-requisite appearance from Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, a winner in 2006 and nominated in 2007 with his primary band and now given the nod for the Last Shadow Puppets' The Age of the Understatement. And there's the usual array of head-scratchers, like Rachel Unthank and the Winterset's The Bairns (who?) and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand (at least one of those people is so not from the UK).
But no...
M.I.A. News:
Video: Devendara Banhart: "Carmensita"
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 22/07/08 01:00 PM. 0 comments.
Well, this is sorta unexpected. A full 10 months after Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon hit stores, Devendara Banhart releases the first proper video from the album, and it looks like it actually cost a few bucks and also stars his girlfriend, Natalie Portman. Like last year's clip for M.I.A.'s "Jimmy", the saturated aesthetic of Bollywood serves as the inspiration.
[From Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon; out now on XL]
Radiohead News:
2008 Mercury Music Prize nominees announced
From drownedinsound.com at 22/07/08 11:04 AM. 0 comments.
The nominees for the Mercury Prize 2008 have been announced with Radiohead, British Sea Power and Burial all in contention for the annual music award
Radiohead News:
Radiohead, Robert Plant lead Nationwide Mercury Prize shortlist
From www.nme.com at 22/07/08 09:30 AM. 0 comments.
The shortlist for the Nationwide Mercury Prize has been announced today (July 22).
Dizzee Rascal News:
Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Saturday
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 22/07/08 09:05 AM. 0 comments.
Part two of our 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival recap includes photos of the entire day's sets and interviews with Titus Andronicus, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jay Reatard, Icy Demons, Dizzee Rascal, Vampire Weekend, !!!, the Hold Steady, No Age, and Animal Collective.
Beck News:
Video: Beck: "Orphans"
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 21/07/08 08:30 PM. 0 comments.
Writing about this track when it first streamed in advance of the album, Marc Hogan said, "'Orphans', one of two Modern Guilt trips just posted on Beck's iLike page, has Beach Boys-esque harmonies, backwards guitar effects, jangling strums, reverberant tambourines, and other Sgt. Pepper's-era standbys, but it's also got a booming ostinato bass line and snare-clapping drums. Better yet, Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) adds her soft voice to those aforementioned Beach Boys-esque harmonies. The lyrics are typically inscrutable Beck, at least on a few quick listens, with lyrics about being stranded and 'fighting fire with your bare hands.'" The video adds little-- you get to watch Beck and his band performing the song in a bare white studio while he wears that new hat he likes so much.
[from Modern Guilt; out now in the UK and Europe on XL and in North America on DGC]
Beck News:
"Orphans" Video Premiere
From blog.myspace.com at 21/07/08 08:13 PM. 0 comments.
Visit orphans.modernguilt.com to watch.
M.I.A. News:
New Music: Santogold [ft. M.I.A. and Gorilla Zoe]: "Get It Up (Radioclit Mix)" [Stream]
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 21/07/08 06:20 PM. 0 comments.
Tracks from the Santogold/Diplo Top Ranking mixtape continue to stream out. We had "Guns of Brooklyn" last week, and here she hooks up with kindred spirit M.I.A. and rapper Gorilla Zoe on a Radioclit-mixed track called "Get It Up".
[from Top Ranking; out now on Mad Decent]
The Cool Kids Video:
The Cool Kids "What It Is" on Jimmy Kimmel Live 7-17-08
From www.youtube.com at 21/07/08 01:08 PM. 0 comments.
Dizzee Rascal News:
Black Kids, Dizzee Rascal for MTV Liverpool Music Week
From www.nme.com at 21/07/08 12:52 PM. 0 comments.
The organisers of the forthcoming MTV Liverpool Music Week have announced details of the first shows taking place as part of this year's event.
Dizzee Rascal News:
Dizzee Rascal added to Underage Festival line up
From www.nme.com at 21/07/08 11:47 AM. 0 comments.
Underage Festival have announced Dizzee Rascal will play this year's event.
Friendly Fires News:
Melt!
From blog.myspace.com at 21/07/08 10:04 AM. 0 comments.
Having spent the last day there, I can't really recommend Melt festival enough. It all takes place around a disused mine in the German countryside, with all the rusting machinery surrounding the stage...
Dizzee Rascal News:
The Ting Tings to collaborate with Dizzee Rascal
From www.nme.com at 21/07/08 09:35 AM. 0 comments.
The Ting Tings have revealed they will take up Dizzee Rascal's offer and work together.
Dizzee Rascal News:
Dizzee Rascal retains UK top spot
From news.bbc.co.uk at 20/07/08 06:06 PM. 0 comments.
Dizzee Rascal retains the number one slot in the UK singles chart and DJ Basshunter goes straight to the top of the album charts.
Dizzee Rascal News:
Dizzee Rascal retains top spot in singles chart
From www.nme.com at 20/07/08 05:30 PM. 0 comments.
Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris have retained number one spot in the singles chart today (July 20).
The White Stripes News:
Jack White triumphs at Benicassim Festival
From www.nme.com at 19/07/08 11:48 PM. 0 comments.
Jack White's 'other' band The Raconteurs were the highlight s of the third day of Spain's Benicassim Festival (July 19).
Radiohead News:
HOUSE OF CARDS
From www.radiohead.com at 19/07/08 06:30 PM. 1 comments.
so as you may know we have completed a video the song- it has been in the land of google, and now also if you want to download a higher quality version without the internet streaming pixellation squash and enjoy it on whatever screen appliance the link be here+gt;
it was a strange experience, sitting in front of a lazer in the dark, then emailing back an forth with James the director as he sat in front of computers for a whole month with the amazing technicians who processed the data etc.. but it says something about the song and came out better than i had dared hope.
Thom
Dizzee Rascal News:
Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: It's On!
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 18/07/08 07:40 PM. 0 comments.
All right people, it's showtime! This weekend, the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival and all the good times that come with it will descend on the Windy City. Will Spoon send us home with an oh-so-fitting spin through "Chicago at Night"? Will Hold Steady fans single-handedly consume the fest's entire beer allotment? Will Dizzee Rascal's gravity-defying pants prevail yet again? This weekend we find out.
The essentials: the Pitchfork Music Festival goes down at Chicago's Union Park from Friday, July 18, through Sunday, July 20. Not sure how to get there? The festival website has you covered.
Tickets for both Saturday's and Sunday's festivities have sold out, but a few passes for Friday night remain. Score those while you can at the festival box office, located next to the Ashland Ave. entrance at Union Park.
Just to recap, El Guincho has cancelled, and Ghostface & Raekwon did a little set time/stage switcheroo with the Dodos, bringing the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival schedule to this:
A = Aluminum Stage; B = Balance Stage; C = Connector Stage
Friday, July 18 (in conjunction with All Tomorrow's Parties/Don't Look Back):
6:00 p.m. Mission of Burma performing Vs. (C)
7:15 p.m. Sebadoh performing Bubble and Scrape (C)
8:30 p.m. Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (A)
Saturday, July 19:
12:30 p.m. Boban...
Be Your Own Pet News:
August UK Shows Announced!!!
From blog.myspace.com at 18/07/08 05:31 PM. 0 comments.
After Reading & Leeds we will play Liverpool & London before heading back to the states. Check out our tour dates for all the info - tickets are on sale now!www.beyourownpet.com
M.I.A. News:
Santogold and Diplo Team for Top Ranking Mixtape
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 18/07/08 04:45 PM. 0 comments.
Santogold and Diplo, together on a mixtape? It's enough to make your Day Glo all on its own. She, still rising the release of her self-titled LP, and he, making the beats that make the bodies rock, have teamed up for Top Ranking, a 35-track mixtape out now from Diplo's label Mad Decent.
It's a monster of a thing, sporting a ton of exclusive material from Santi White alongside tracks and remixes alike from Three 6 Mafia, Switch, Desmond Dekker, the Clash, and so so many others. (It's kind of like the Piracy Funds Terrorism mix Diplo made with M.I.A. back in 2004.) Perhaps you heard the slightly cheeky (but nevertheless banging) "Guns of Brooklyn" over in Forkcast the other day? The CD is available now from Turntable Lab, with an arrival scheduled at the Mad Decent webstore (and "everywhere else") soon.
Both Santogold and Diplo have a mess of tour dates coming up, including one they'll share over the weekend in New York.
The White Stripes News:
Nigel Godrich's "From the Basement" Coming to Cable
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 18/07/08 12:00 PM. 0 comments.
To us Yanks unwilling to plunk down the extra dough for HD cable, Nigel Godrich's basement sounds like a realm of great mystery, like Kraftwerk's studio, or wherever Kevin Shields has been holed up for the last decade. But, every so often, the superproducer/gracious host lets folks slip down the stairs for a little program he calls "From the Basement", featuring sets from the likes of Thom Yorke, Sonic Youth, Jarvis Cocker, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey, the Shins, and more.
The show has aired on the net (our DSL at home sucks, too), in the UK on Sky Arts, and in the States on a channel I don't get called Rave HD. This fall, however, "From the Basement" will go quite wide, as it graces the Independent Film Channel's new Tuesday night lineup [from The Hollywood Reporter, via Idolator].
"From the Basement" will debut on IFC September 30 as part of the network's "Automat" block of shows aimed at the young male demographic. "The Henry Rollins Show", which features the hardcore icon chatting with/mildly intimidating your favorite stars, and sketch comedy show "The Whitest Kids U' Know" are also due to hit "Automat".
It's a bit unclear as to whether Godrich and company will tape new episodes of the show for IFC, but as a member of their target demographic, let me just say: get Animal Collective.
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend 'go goth'
From www.nme.com at 18/07/08 11:56 AM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend have ditched their preppy look for goth garbs in the video for their forthcoming single, 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa'.
Ratatat News:
Pornos, Neko, Black Mountain, Ratatat Do Hideout Fest
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 18/07/08 11:00 AM. 1 comments.
Chicago's Hideout is a favorite destination for the city's live music fans roughly 51 weekends out of the year (and darn near every other day in between). But for one fateful weekend each of the last 11 years, the relatively tiny spot (and nearby parking lot) has become a favorite destination for what can sometimes seem like half the city.
That would be due to their fabulous Hideout Block Party, which crams a whole lotta rock and such into one truly epic weekend. The lineup for the 12th Hideout Block Party is coming together nicely at this point, and, well, if you didn't have plans the weekend of September 20-21, now you do.
So who will be helping the Hideout ring in a dozen years of Block Parties? Why, the New Pornographers, Neko Case (who, it's probably safe to assume, will be performing with said Pornographers), Black Mountain, Ratatat, Czech revolutionaries Plastic People of the Universe, Vieux Farka Touré, Monotonix, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Dark Meat, Tim Fite, kid-friendly Mekons offshoot Wee Hairy Beasties, the Uglysuit, and Devil in a Woodpile, amongst others.
Magistrates Link:
Make This Work - Track Of The Day on Times Online
From entertainment.timesonline.co.uk at 18/07/08 10:23 AM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend tickets on sale this week - Ticket News
From www.nme.com at 18/07/08 07:00 AM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend are about to embark on their biggest UK tour yet.
Be Your Own Pet News:
August UK Shows Announced!
From beyourownpet.net at 18/07/08 04:22 AM. 0 comments.
After Reading & Leeds we will play Liverpool & London before heading back to the states. Check out our “shows” page for all the info - tickets are on sale now!
Be Your Own Pet News:
Dingwalls - London, UK
From beyourownpet.net at 18/07/08 04:20 AM. 0 comments.
August 26, 2008
7:00 pm
Dingwalls.com Tickets on sale now!
Be Your Own Pet News:
Carling Academy 2 - Liverpool, UK
From beyourownpet.net at 18/07/08 04:13 AM. 0 comments.
August 25, 2008
7:00 pm
www.liverpool-academy.co.uk Ages 14+ Tickets onsale now!