Pitchfork

[Posted Tuesday, September 30th, 2003 01:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Eric Marth and Rob Mackey report:
In today's PC world, it seems we have parades for just about everything. Most parades are in honor of varying types of pride: you got yer Latin, gay pride, fat pride, Home Pride, foolish pride. But what about glitch-pop pride? Huh? I mean, it's only fair. And don't even mention Berlin's Love Parade, that raver shit doesn't count and you know it.

Well, it may not be their own glitch-pop parade, but it's pretty damn close; The Notwist, Ms. John Soda, Lali Puna, Console, Couch, and the Tied & Tickled Trio (in order of awesomeness) will be cramming their laptops into tiny vans and unleashing their blissful noise on all sorts of people in Germany, Belgium, and Austria. Granted, it's home or close to home for these bands, but it would be nice if they gave the U.S. some love. I mean, the PowerBook was developed in California. But for you lucky bastards studying abroad this semester, be sure to check the Weilheim Tour out at one of the following live music venues. Dates:

10-01 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Frizz
10-02 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Frizz
10-04 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
10-05 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
10-06 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
10-07 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
10-08 Koln, Germany - Stollwerck
10-09 Koln, Germany - Stollwerck
10-15 Munich, Germany - Alabamahalle
10-16 Munich, Germany - Alabamahalle
10-28 Vienna, Austria - WUK
10-29 Vienna, Austria - WUK

While we've got you, you might also be on the lookout for Ms. John Soda's forthcoming mini-LP, While Talking. The record reportedly contains four new songs and a remix medley of many of the tracks found on the band's 2002 release No P. or D., compliments of Anticon supergroup Subtle. According to sources at Morr Music, the CD version of While Talking (which hits shelves October 6th) will also include two QuickTime videos for the pop-click duo's songs.

According to the label, While Talking is both the study and result of constant exchange between human beings and it deals with communication in numerous ways: conversations that work and sometimes don't, contradictions, misunderstandings, and the incapacity to make oneself understood as well as to fully understand someone else. Yeah, sure, communication and stuff, but is it cute? Tracklist:

01 No One
02 Sometimes Stop, Sometimes Go
03 I & # 8217
04 If Someone Would Know
05 I Think It Could Work, Marilyn