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Watch Jack White's New Band Right Now! Live on "From the Basement"!

The Dead Weather, streaming "From the Basement"! Watch Jack White's New Band Right Now! Live on "From the Basement"!

UPDATE: It's Over! Hope you enjoyed it. We'll keep you posted if the performance is archived.

At 4 p.m. Eastern time today-- that's right now, pretty much-- Jack White's new band the Dead Weather will play their first European show. "From the Basement", Nigel Godrich's web TV show, is hosting the performance, and we've got it here for you as well. Enjoy!

Posted by Tom Breihan on June 22, 2009 at 3 p.m.

Tags: The Dead Weather, TV, video

 

A Sunny Day in Glasgow Announce Second Album

Ashes Grammar, due September A Sunny Day in Glasgow Announce Second Album

Scribble Mural Comic Journal, the debut album from A Sunny Day in Glasgow, established the Philly dream-pop crew as one of the few psych-pop bands willing to do more than play around in the shadow of Loveless. The album's 13 tracks went in at least 13 different directions, from the muffled jangle of "A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons" to the glimmering soft-focus Orb-isms of "5:15 Train".

On September 15, the band will return with a new album called Ashes Grammar, due via Mis Ojos Discos. And while we haven't heard the thing yet, we do know that it opens with an homage to the composer Arvo Pärt, so we're thinking they're not done pushing boundaries.

The album is the result of, among other things, band members Ben Daniels and Josh Meakim renting a cavernous New Jersey dance studio and using it to play around with sounds.

The cover is above, and the tracklist is below.

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T.V. Eye: June 22-28

T.V. Eye: June 22-28

Live music on T.V. this week:

Monday, June 22:

NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Sonic Youth, the Roots (house band)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: The Juan Maclean
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Iggy Pop and the Brighton Port Authority
NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: Pete Yorn
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Black Kids (rerun)

Tuesday, June 23:

NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Iggy Pop and the Brighton Port Authority, the Roots (house band)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: MSTRKRFT with John Legend
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Crocodiles
NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: Elvis Costello

Wednesday, June 24:

NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: Wilco
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: St. Vincent
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Bat for Lashes
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Roots
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Ida Maria
PBS: Tavis Smiley: Femi Kuti
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Bettye Lavette

Thursday, June 25:

NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Dinosaur Jr., the Roots (house band)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Bat for Lashes

Friday, June 26:

NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Grizzly Bear, the Roots (house band)
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Phoenix, David Cross
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Regina Spektor
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Chairlift
NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: Snoop Dogg, Adele

Saturday, June 27:

PBS: Austin City Limits: Crowded House (rerun)
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Kings of Leon (rerun)

Posted by Tom Breihan on June 22, 2009 at 1:45 p.m.

Tags: TV Eye

 

Video: Clipse [featuring Kanye West]: "Kinda Like a Big Deal"

I never thought I'd live to see the day when Kanye West would absolutely brutalize Malice and Pusha T on their own song. But it happened, and the resulting jam, "Kinda Like a Big Deal", still bangs pretty hard.

The first single from Clipse's forthcoming Till the Casket Drops LP now has a video. The clip seems to take place entirely in awesomely lit stairwells and freight elevators. These guys are just too cool for actual nightclubs, I guess. (via Spinner)

Posted by Tom Breihan on June 22, 2009 at 1:10 p.m.

Tags: Clipse, Kanye West, video

 

Radiohead/Wilco/Marr/Finn Supergroup Benefit Album Details Revealed

Radiohead's Phil Selway makes vocal debut. Radiohead/Wilco/Marr/Finn Supergroup Benefit Album Details Revealed

This past winter, former Crowded House/Split Enz frontman Neil Finn assembled a dizzying cast of music luminaries in New Zealand. Johnny Marr, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, and Pat Sansone, and plenty of others got together with Finn to record a follow-up to Finn's all-star 2001 album 7 Worlds Collide. The album will be a benefit for Oxfam International. Now, NME reports that it'll be out on August 10.

NME says that the album, titled The Sun Came Out, will be a double album, and it'll feature the singing debut of Radiohead drummer Selway. And according to NME, Marr collaborated with Wilco on the song "Too Blue". The tracklist, via NME, is below.

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Wu-Tang Clan Brings Us Chamber Music

Wu-Tang Clan Brings Us <i>Chamber Music</i>

It's not quite the same thing as a Wu-Tang Clan group album, but the forthcoming Chamber Music compilation, due June 30 from E1 Music/Universal, is a welcome flashback to the era when it felt like a new Wu-affiliated album came out every week. For this one, the Brooklyn soul crew the Revelations laid down backing tracks, which Clan abbot the RZA oversaw and edited. You know you're dealing with a genuine Wu-Tang project when there are songs called "Radiant Jewels" and "Enlightened Statues" on there.

Six Wu-Tang members show up at least once on the album: RZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Masta Killa. Various other veterans of New York rap's hoodies-and-Tims era also show up, including Sean Price, Masta Ace, Cormega, M.O.P., and Kool G Rap.

The leaked tracks "Harbor Masters" and "Ill Figures" make this thing sound like some serious heady throwback evilness, the kind of thing that will keep us wearing out our rewind buttons until Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II finally comes out.

Tracklist below.

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TVOTR's Kyp Malone Signs to Anti- for Solo Project, Rain Machine

TVOTR's Kyp Malone Signs to Anti- for Solo Project, Rain Machine

Photo by Eric Martin

Kyp Malone is going solo. TV on the Radio's prodigiously bearded, falsetto-voiced zen master has a solo project, and he's calling it Rain Machine. This fall, the first Rain Machine album will be released on Anti-.

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ATP Announces 10th Anniversary Festival

Explosions in the Sky, Deerhoof, Tortoise, Shellac join the birthday party ATP Announces 10th Anniversary Festival

The folks behind All Tomorrow's Parties, the international festival juggernaut, are throwing themselves a birthday party! December 11-13, the Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead, England will play host to the Ten Years of ATP Festival, which will celebrate a full decade of Steve Albini whupping drunk fools at poker.

The ATP folks have invited their closest friends to play this shindig, so past ATP curators and ATP recording artists will be on the bill. Right now, the lineup includes Explosions in the Sky, Deerhoof, Shellac, Dirty Three, Tortoise, Melvins, the For Carnation, Papa M, Fuck Buttons, the Drones, Sleepy Sun, Bardo Pond, and Mudhoney, with more bands to be announced.

Posted by Tom Breihan on June 22, 2009 at 10:45 a.m.

Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties, ATP, Festival, Ten Years of ATP

 

Triumph Takes on Bonnaroo

Insult comic dog vs. Beasties, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Neko Case, Jenny Lewis Triumph Takes on Bonnaroo

Perpetual "Conan" mainstay and Eminem foe Triumph the Insult Comic Dog made the trip to Bonnaroo this year, gleefully shooting every fish in every last barrel that you'd expect. Obvious rimshots abound: "Is there nothing you Phish fans can't make out of hemp? I mean, besides deodorant?"

On "The Tonight Show", Triumph had words for the likes of TV on the Radio and the Beastie Boys ("You're like a living Pep Boys logo.") And sharp-eyed wielders of camera phones caught Triumph all over the festival grounds, interviewing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and singing atonal duets with Jenny Lewis and Neko Case. Videos below. (via Stereogum)

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Flaming Lips Set LP Title, Digital EP

Plus digital bootlegs Flaming Lips Set LP Title, Digital EP

Front page hoto by Aaron Vanimere

Alert the fearless freaks! The Flaming Lips have confirmed the title of their forthcoming album. As previously hinted, it will indeed be called Embryonic, and it will indeed be a double album. No release date has been set yet.

The Lips have a summer full of tour dates coming up, including a set at the Pitchfork Music Festival. For several dates on the tour, they're offering a special bundle when you purchase a ticket online. Your ticket will come with a digital EP featuring three Embryonic tracks ("Convinced of the Hex", "The Impulse", and "Silver Trembling Hands") as well as three previously released B-sides. Plus, after the show, you'll also get a digital bootleg of the performance you just saw. Pretty sweet deal, huh?

Flaming Lips tour dates below:

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