Mission of Burma Reveal New Vs., Signals Dates
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--- - |- Photo by Nolan Wells Mission of Burma will take more vacation time from their day jobs this fall for a newly announced West Coast tour. The tour continues the band's trend of playing its classic Vs. and Signals, Calls & Marches records in their entireties.Be forewarned, however. Burma guitarist Roger Miller told us at the Pitchfork Music Festival that this would be "kind of the concl...
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Pitchfork.tv: King Khan and the Shrines: "Mr. Supernatural" [Video]
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--- - |- Now that King Khan and the Shrines have wrapped up their "psychedelic soul" summer tour, there are a few thoughts that will come to mind every time I put on The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines. Like, how exhausted must their cheerleader/dancer be at the end of each night? Wasn't it good to see Khan running around in his skimpy getup getting into waterfights with kids at the p
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Rage to Play Twin Cities During Republican Convention
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--- - |- Days after Rage Against the Machine's Lollapalooza set threatened to become a riot, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's website has reported [via Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily] that the band will play Minneapolis' Target Center on September 3. Making this show more than just another tour date is the fact that it's happening during the Republican National Convention, which will...
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Video: Wilco: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Live at Wrigley Field)
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--- - |- The first time I saw a game at the Chicago Cubs' historic Wrigley Field, Mel Gibson sang during the seventh-inning stretch. The afternoon after Wilco's favorably received Lollapalooza performance, some luckier baseball fans than I got to see the Sky Blue Sky guys come out to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". After the song, Jeff Tweedy talks about the band's Nudie-style suits, his ...
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Stooges' Gear Stolen!
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Album:The Weirdness
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Track:You Can't Have Friends
--- - |- Well son of a gun. It seems some thieves in Montreal decided to run off with a rented truck on the morning of August 4, and that truck happened to be packed with a whole bunch of gear belonging to the Stooges. I mean, shit, I don't want the Stooges to make another Weirdness either, but c'mon dudes!The truck was parked outside the Embassy Suites Hotel in Montreal, has Michigan plates w...
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Video: No Age: "Keechie"
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--- - |- The video for No Age's "Eraser" premiered on MTV, which makes no sense at all unless you know that Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz was hosting. The video for No Age's "Keechie"-- also from the Los Angeles duo's debut album, Nouns-- premiered on the internet, which makes quite a bit more sense. Even if you think these guys are 1990s indie-rock throwbacks, they couldn't have debuted a video i...
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Video: Fleet Foxes: "Blue Ridge Mountains" (Live on "Late Show With David Letterman")
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--- - |- David Letterman introduces Fleet Foxes with some kind of joke involving fleet foxes and dogs, because, um, I guess you don't want foxes in the dog house or something. "In the quivering forest/ Where the shivering dog rests," the group sings, in the dulcet harmonies that won me over at the Pitchfork Festival. The song is Fleet Foxes' "Blue Ridge Mountains", with mandolin and piano comp...
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TV on The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe Appearing in Jonathan Demme Movie With Anne Hathaway
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--- - |- Movie stills via IMDB and Sony Pictures Classics After all his lyrical musings on life and love, TV on the Radio lead singer Tunde Adebimpe will actually play someone's lover in the upcoming movie Rachel Getting Married [via One for the Good Days]. Adebimpe's character is named "Sidney," and from the looks of this trailer, he appears to be marrying the titular character, played by Ro...
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New Old Music: Elodie Lauten [ft. Arthur Russell and Bill Raynor]: "Vision" [MP3/Stream]
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Album:The Death of Don Juan
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--- - |- Like one of her mentors, La Monte Young, the microtonal composer Elodie Lauten is fond of funneling her music knowledge into passages of almost ascetic restraint. Like John Cage, she often gives these passages a mystical heft by yoking them to the vagaries of the I Ching and astrological systems of relation. On "Vision", from her recently re-released 1985 opera, The Death of Don Juan,...
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Metallica Reveal Magnetic New Album
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--- - |- Metallica's new album, Death Magnetic, will come out on a Friday, just like the band's last album, 2003's St. Anger, according to a post on the band's website (via Billboard.com). For the sake of Metallica fans everywhere, we hope the similarities between the two records end there.Warner Bros. will release Death Magnetic on September 12. Giving us hope that the album could be good is ...
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Pitchfork.tv: The Hold Steady: "Constructive Summer" / "Sequestered in Memphis" (Live on "Don't Look Down")
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--- - |- Part one of a two-part episode of "Don't Look Down" features the Hold Steady running down two favorites from Stay Positive high above the streets of New York City. This is how this band should play all their gigs-- okay, not really, but they do sound pretty great. The link below will take you to "Constructive Summer", and "Sequested in Memphis wil start immediately after. Stay tuned ...
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Rock the Bells Tour [Wantagh, NY; 08/03/08]
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--- - |- Hip-hop royalty reigned supreme as the Rock the Bells tour made a flagship stop at Jones Beach in Long Island yesterday. As if scheduled appearances by Nas, A Tribe Called Quest (including a Q-Tip solo set), De La Soul, Ghostface & Raekwon, Method Man & Redman, Mos Def, Afrika Bambaataa, the Cool Kids, and Spank Rock weren't sensational enough, this Rock the Bells came packed with a f...
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Video: Pavement: "Cut Your Hair" / "Stop Breathin" / "Unfair" (Live in 1994 on "120 Minutes")
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--- - |- MTV's Subterranean blog posted an amazing performance of Pavement's "Cut Your Hair" from 1994, when they appeared on "120 Minutes". They were so much younger then, to offer an obscure R.E.M. reference that surely Stephen Malkmus would appreciate. A special new band indeed. MTV proper has two more songs from the same set, "Unfair" and "Stop Breathin'", but you'll have to sit through mi...
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Diplo and Abe Vigoda Join Up for Fall Mad Decent Tour
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--- - |- Top Ranking party magnate Diplo and tropical punk Skeleton kings Abe Vigoda will join forces for a North American tour this fall. The outing is billed as a Mad Decent tour, though Abe Vigoda and fellow tourmates Telepathe have no prior association with the label other than, we assume, mutual respect and admiration. In addition to Diplo, Boy 8-Bit and-- on some dates yet to be determin...
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XL Recordings Compiles Early 1990s Club Hits
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--- - |- XL Recordings has dug into its vaults for the release of a compilation called XL Recordings: The First Chapters. The compilation collects dance singles and remixes the label released between 1990 and 1995, including tracks from the Prodigy, SL2, Kicks Like a Mule, and Awesome 3.XL will release The First Chapters-- out now in the UK-- digitally tomorrow (August 5) in the U.S. The State...
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Georgie James Break Up
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--- - |- Photo by Shervin LainezAugust isn't exactly a transitional season, but this particular August seems to be fast turning into a time for bands to move on. On Friday we learned we'll soon lose first-rate firebrands Be Your Own Pet, and today comes the sad news that the members of DC indie-pop act Georgie James have decided to go their separate ways. But Georgie James, we hardly knew thee...
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Premiere: Bat for Lashes: "A Forest" (The Cure cover) [MP3/Stream]
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--- - |- You hear the phrase "Bat for Lashes covering the Cure's 'The Forest'" and you think to yourself, "Yeah, that could be good." As heard on the upcoming Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, the combination is indeed organic, as Natasha Khan sounds right at home inside the spooky confines of the dark new wave tune. She swaps out some of the pulsing guitar of the original for the clangi...
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Pitchfork.tv: Thunderheist: "Jerk It" [Video Premiere]
--- - |- "Bright, uncomplicated jock-jam synths and muted, subterranean percussion underpin hypnotic female chanting, for a combination not too far off from Simian Mobile Disco's 'Hustler'-- only about dancing rather than stealing records, and closer to crunk than to Justice. Getting more regionally specific: "Jerk It" distills the essence of the electro-fixated hip-hop and funk of Montreal ne...
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Beck Covered by Jay Reatard on "Gamma Ray" Single
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--- - |- Beck's own spastic youth is in the past, but he'll get to relive it vicariously through spaz king Jay Reatard's cover of "Gamma Ray" on the Modern Guilt track's forthcoming single. XL will release "Gamma Ray" in Europe on August 11 with Beck's original on the A-side and Jay Reatard's cover on the B-side.Speaking of Jay Reatard and singles, don't forget that Jay's Matador Singles '08 c...
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