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Friday, June 19
Hear the New Bloc Party Single Here
Bloc Party's new single, "One More Chance", arrives August 10 via Wichita, but we've got a sneak peak of it right here. It was produced by Jacknife Lee (who also worked with the band on Intimacy and A Weekend in the City) and mixed by Philippe Zdar (who worked on the new Phoenix album).
Check out the old school house piano line!
Posted by Tyler Grisham on June 19, 2009 at 12:35 p.m.
Tags: Audio, Bloc Party
News in Brief: Georgia Theatre, Shunda K, Throw Me the Statue, Street Scene
Photo by Alyssa De Hayes
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Athens' Georgia Theatre, a longtime center for the Athens music scene, suffered extensive damage in a fire this morning. There were no injuries, but the entire building was destroyed except for the exterior. The cause of the fire isn't yet known. The venue was set to play host to a number of bands during next week's Athfest.
-- Shunda K, a member of the Tampa-based dance-rap crew Yo Majesty, has parted ways with Domino Records, Yo Majesty's label. She's also released two new mixtapes for free download. One of them, The Best Eva Written: OutKast, features Shunda spitting over OutKast instrumentals. The other, Kollaborations, consists of team-ups with artists like Peaches and Tha Pumpsta.
-- On August 4, Secretly Canadian will release Creaturesque, the sophomore album from Seattle indie-poppers Throw Me the Statue. West Coast indie go-to guy Phil Ek produces.
-- August 28-29, the 25th incarnation of the Street Scene festival will take over San Diego's East Village. This year's lineup includes M.I.A., Modest Mouse, the Dead Weather, Devendra Banhart, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Band of Horses, Girl Talk, Mastodon, No Age, Deerhunter, and, um, the Black Eyed Peas.
Posted by Tom Breihan on June 19, 2009 at 12:25 p.m.
Tags: Album, Festival, Georgia Theatre, mixtape, Shunda K, Street Scene, Throw Me the Statue
Clientele Announce New Album Details
"It's about watching yourself disappear."
On October 6, Merge will release Bonfires on the Heath, the fifth full-length of wispy, psychedelic folk-pop from the Clientele. It includes two covers. One is the band's take on "Tonight", a song by the obscure Swedish band Evergreen Daze Days. And the other is a new version of "Graven Wood", a cover of the Clientele's own song. In its original form, "Graven Wood" was the first song the band ever recorded.
Last month, Clientele lead singer Alasdair MacLean talked to Pitchfork about Bonfires on the Heath. Here's how he described the record: "It's more full of ghosts and doubts and signs and wonders than any other Clientele record. It's very spooky and tremendously sad at times. It's about watching yourself disappear." MacLean also said that it could very possibly be the band's final record: "I think it'd close the chapter quite well. If you don't have any more ideas you should just go away, I guess."
We've got the tracklist below.
P4K Music Festival Set Times Revealed
Sunday tickets sold out.
The Pitchfork Music Festival, which takes over Chicago's Union Park July 17-19, is only a month away. Now we've got the schedule for all three stages for all three days. Check below for the set times, and start planning now!
In other news, Sunday tickets are now completely sold out. Three-day passes and two-day passes are long gone. But we still have tickets left for Friday and Saturday; you can buy them here.
Stream: Modest Mouse: "Whale Song"
Modest Mouse are releasing their second 7" single in as many months, following up the post-Record Store Day offering "Satellite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" with "Autumn Beds" b/w "Whale Song". It's out in indie record stores tomorrow, June 20, for Vinyl Saturday, with a wide release set for Tuesday, June 23.
We've already shared the A-side with you, but now Tripwire has a stream of "Whale Song", and boy, is it as massively epic as the titular sea mammal.
Stream:> Modest Mouse: "Whale Song"
Posted by Tyler Grisham on June 19, 2009 at 11:05 a.m.
Tags: Audio, Modest Mouse
RIAA Wins $1.92 M in File-Sharing Suit
Billboard reports that a Minnesota jury has awarded the RIAA $1.92 million in their lawsuit against a woman named Jammie Thomas-Rasset. The jury found that she had willfully infringed on record labels' copyrights after she downloaded and shared 24 songs on Kazaa. So that works out to $80,000 in damages per song.
Flaming Lips and Bat for Lashes to Open for Coldplay
Say what you will about Coldplay, but they have good taste in opening acts. Coldplay have just announced the lineup of artists they'll be playing with on their European stadium tour, which kicks off in mid-August in Denmark, and it's a pretty great list.
New Release: Squarepusher: Solo Electric Bass 1
Artist: Squarepusher
Album: Solo Electric Bass 1
Release Date: August 17
Label: Warp
Thursday, June 18
News in Brief: Clark Sabine, Zero 7, Wheedle's Groove, Beachdown Festival
-- Clark Sabine, frontman for the DC postpunk band Statehood, died on Tuesday night after battling cancer for a year, according to the Statehood website. He was 33. Statehood, which also included the former rhythm section of the Dismemberment Plan, had 10 songs recorded for a second album, before Sabine died. Sabine was also a member of the DC bands Motorcycle Wars, Andalusians, and the City the Sea.
-- The British downtempo duo Zero 7 will release Yeah Ghost, their forth studio album, on September 8. The album, due out on Atlantic, features guest appearances from Eska Mtungwazi, Martha Tilston, and Rowdy Superstar. Zero 7 will play some European festivals this summer.
-- In 2004, Light in the Attic released a compilation called Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75. Since then, many of the forgotten soul greats featured on the compilation formed a band called Wheedle's Groove. And on September 8, Light in the Attic will release an album from the band called Kearney Barton, named after the veteran Seattle sound engineer who produced it. The album features a cover of Soundgarden's "Jesus Christ Pose", which should be fun. Also on September 8, Light in the Attic will reissue the Wheedle's Groove compilation.
-- August 28-31, the English seaside town Brighton, the site of the great mod/rocker rumble from Quadrophenia, will play host to the hopefully relatively peaceful Beachdown Festival. Grace Jones, Super Furry Animals, Saint Etienne, Grandmaster Flash, Prince Buster and the Delroy Williams Junction Band, the Fall, and Ida Maria will all take part. Lord willing, Sting won't show up looking to bust heads.
Posted by Tom Breihan on June 18, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.
Tags: Album, Beachdown, Clark Sabine, Festival, Obituary, Statehood, Wheedle's Groove, Zero 7
Beck Debuts Record Club With the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning"
And it sounds pretty amazing
Photo by Beck/Drew Brown, front page photo by Autumn de Wilde
Yesterday, we told you about Beck's new Record Club project, wherein Beck and friends will pick an album, spend one day recording a cover of the entire thing, and then post it on the internet, one song at a time.
Beck's starting the project off with his version of the Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico, and today he posted the first song from the project, perennial mixtape staple "Sunday Morning". You can hear it now, complete with intentionally grainy footage of the studio session, on Beck's website.
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