--- - |- Somebody must've finally broken the news to I'm From Barcelona about the whole "not really from Barcelona" thing. They're taking it hard. The Swedish indie-pop collective conquered faraway lands with simple, life-affirming pop songs backed by a choir of frontman Emanuel Lundgren's friends on their appropriately 2006 debut, Let Me Introduce My Friends, which featured the communal-spiri...
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--- - |- Yo La Tengo will release a compilation of their soundtrack work, titled They Shoot, We Score, via their own Egon imprint on September 5. It contains music from the movies Old Joy (starring Will Oldham), Junebug (featuring but not starring Will Oldham), Game 6, and Shortbus. (Their music for the forthcoming Ryan Reynolds vehicle Adventureland didn't make the cut.) Of the 27 instrumen...
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--- - |- Here's a "Take Away Show"-style video showing Lykke Li and her band performing Youth Novels' "Hanging High" acoustically in an empty space somewhere in the vicinity of the Øya Festival, which is going on right now. She handles the singing and the bells, someone else is tapping on something, there's a bit of acoustic guitar, and then some nice backing vocals. Great setting for a good t..
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--- - |- José González has been running on the fumes of last year's In Our Nature LP for a while now, but considering that since then he's released a remix EP and multiple singles and toured practically nonstop, those fumes seem to keep him productive, so why stop now?González's newest venture is a strange little U.S tour consisting of short residencies in Oakland and Brooklyn plus one-off dat
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--- - |- If caUSE co-MOTION! express some regrets about the past on new single "I Lie Awake", it's a subject the lo-fi Brooklyn quartet know well. Releasing singles on What's Your Rupture?, Cape Shok, and Can't Cope over the past three years, these notorious capitalizers/punctuaters have delighted in the sort of scruffy indie pop that the DIY likes of the Desperate Bicycles and the Buzzcocks p...
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--- - |- Photo by Kirstie ShanleyOh Radiohead, will your innovations ever cease? One minute you're dropping an album and a ground-breaking pay-what-you-want pricing scheme on us totally out of nowhere, the next minute you're blowing us away with one hell of a light show, and now you're adding two whole dates to your 2008 tour. Two dates! In Japan, no less!Yes, Radiohead's previously announced ...
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--- - |- Woke up, fell outta bed, picked up a Grace McSorely comic book. As Conor Oberst sings about magic bullets, grassy knolls, Snow White, and poison apples, the Bright Eyes frontman puts a playful spin on those day-in-the-life music videos in the clip for "Souled Out!!!", a polished, midtempo roots-rocker from his new album without usual producer Mike Mogis (and with backing group the Mys...
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--- - |- Lakes are awesome! Guns Babes Lemonade, the 2007 debut album by Australia's Muscles, is full of that sort of big, excited, super-obvious exclamation. See "Sweaty". See "Ice Cream". However, don't necessarily see "The Lake", which exclaims aplenty-- "You broke a promise!/ Just be honest!"-- but isn't nearly as euphoric, though it does start to surge, bittersweetly, right when Muscles a...
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Familial Tennessee throwbackers Kings of Leon have likely whipped up yet another tribute to their influences in the form of Only by the Night, their fourth album. The disc is due September 23 on RCA in the States, and September 22 in the UK from Columbia/RCA. A UK single for "Sex on Fire" comes at us September 8 digitally and September 15 in physical formats.The Kings have a big ol' tour of bot...
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--- - |- Photo by Ryan MuirYou can only have so much fun experiencing an album called Sensuous with just one of the five senses. Cornelius knows this, which is probably why he supplemented his 2007 offering with a dazzling multimedia live spectacle, the "Sensuous Synchronized Show". And soon, even folks back home will be able to take in the sights and sounds of Sensuous, thanks to the Sensurro...
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When it goes down all over downtown Reykjavik October 15-19, the Iceland Airwaves festival will have finally entered the double digits. Yep, the Nordic fest juggernaut is 10, and to celebrate, they're having a party! Coincidentally enough, it, too, is called Iceland Airwaves, and you're invited!Should you care to attend, you'll join fellow early RSVPers like CSS, Simian Mobile Disco, Junior Boy...
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--- - |- The second part of the Cut Copy episode of "Pitchfork Live", which captures a show taped at Brooklyn's Studio B, is up today. Two of the band's most notable songs to date, "Hearts on Fire" and "Lights and Music", are included. The link below will take you to "Nobody Lost, Nobody Found", and you can take it from there. Also check out Part 1, posted yesterday. Also, while you're over...
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--- - |- The second half of 2008 will see a couple of firsts for dreamy Baltimore duo Beach House. For starters, they've announced new tour dates taking place this summer, including their first trip to Australia and New Zealand.For finishers, Beach House will release their first 7" single, via Carpark on October 21. The single features brand new track "Used to Be" on the A-side while the B-sid...
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--- - |- Ebony and ivory run away together in gothy harmony in the latest clip from UK electro-poppers Ladytron. "Runaway", from the originally Liverpool-based group's new album Velocifero, is grimly monochromatic, its cold longing destroying everything it touches. The video follows suit, with a black-and-white color scheme that carries through to some geometric animation. Pitchfork contributo...
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--- - |- Pesky "recording commitments" have forced Crystal Castles to nix a whole bunch of UK dates that the blippy duo had planned for September. To make up for it, the Castles have thrown several more UK club dates onto their August itinerary since our last report, not quite covering the spread, but certainly earning them some brownie points with the folks who'd otherwise be stuck with the p...
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--- - |- Turns out the year for Years of Refusal-- Morrissey's latest solo opus and the follow-up to 2006's Ringleader of the Tormentors-- won't be this one after all. Once slated for release in September 2008, Years is now expected in early 2009, according to a Billboard.com report confirmed by the Moz-man's publicist.Billboard.com also notes that plans for that deluxe Southpaw Grammar reissu...
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The ninth installment of Kompakt's annual Total series, like the ones that came before it, gathers the best stuff from the label's last year and some exclusive goodies and presents all this in one tidy little package. Total 9, however, is also serving as a bit of a celebratory gesture, as 2008 marks the iconic German electronic label's 15th year of operations. And, boy howdy, what a soundtrack ...
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--- - |- Love? It's such an awkward word, man. I love coffee. I love beer. I love lamp. That's why kids are stuck talking about how much they "like like" their little, universe-encompassing crushes. It's even more complicated when you're a little bit older, a little bit "wiser," but still getting way too excited chatting with someone you've only recently met. And what if there's alcohol involv...
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--- - |- It's the year of hard-rocking tour partners for Ted Leo. He and his Pharmacists wrapped up a stint opening for Pearl Jam earlier this summer, and they'll play a bunch of dates with Against Me! to begin the fall.The tour begins September 30 in Birmingham, Alabama, and Leo has a solo show on August 12 in New York City as part of MoMA's PopRally. P.S. Sorry you didn't like our photo, Te...
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--- - |- Who says Rage Against the Machine have the market cornered on political protest? While the band is playing a show in the Twin Cities at the same time as the Republican National Convention descends on Minneapolis-St. Paul, so are a bunch of other acts. We previously reported that the Service Employees International Union's Take Back Labor Day festival would feature Rage guitarist Tom M...
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