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Japandroids, Chromatics Added to Pitchfork Festival
Japandroids and Chromatics have been added to Pitchfork Music Festival 2012, which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes Beach House, Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, Flying Lotus, AraabMUZIK, A Rocky and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14. In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased! Individual day tickets are on sale now right here, but hurry, because they're going fast. Remember: ticket prices have not been raised this year. Individual day tickets cost $45. Join the Pitchfork Music Festival on Facebook here and Twitter here. Here's the breakdown by day. The full schedule, complete with times, will be revealed in the coming weeks: Friday, July 13: A Rocky Saturday, July 14: The Atlas Moth Sunday, July 15: A Lull ** just added Buy tickets here. Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:00 -0500 Watch R. Stevie Moore Perform in Brooklyn
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "+1", which offers footage of performances and interviews with artists about the experience of playing live. This installment features lo-fi lifer R. Stevie Moore, who discusses his massive back catalog and his cock rock band. He performs a song from his 1976 album Returns, "The Winner". Subscribe to Pitchfork.tv on YouTube here. Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 11:11:00 -0500 Watch Frank Ocean Play a New Song at Home, Possibly Called "Summer Remains"
Frank Ocean posted a screencap over the weekend of what appeared to be lyrics to a new song he's writing, possibly titled "Summer Remains". Then he uploaded a video of himself playing the song. Watch his intimate rendition, "just at home fuckin around, no judging", after the lyrics. Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 10:35:00 -0500 Listen: More Music From the Score to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom
The soundtrack to Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom is out tomorrow via ABKCO. The movie is in theaters May 25, and stars Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton. Here's the final track from the "Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe" suite by composer Alexandre Desplat. "After the Storm" is based on "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34", composed by Benjamin Britten, which also features on the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack. "After the Storm", which plays over the end credits is narrated by Jared Gilman, who plays Sam in the film. Update: And here's another track from the soundtrack, "Camp Ivanhoe Cadence Medley", composed by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh and performed by Peter Jarvis and His Drum Corps.
Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 10:21:00 -0500 Merge to Reissue Bob Mould's Sugar Discography
Earlier this year, former Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould announced that he had signed to Merge for a new album out this fall. But before Mould's new album comes out, Merge is giving Sugar's catalogue-- 1992's Copper Blue, 1993's Beaster EP, and 1994's File Under: Easy Listening-- the deluxe reissue and remaster treatment. They're out July 24. Check out a trailer for the reissues below. Copper Blue and Beaster will be combined into a three-CD or double vinyl set, including B-sides and a full 1992 live show from the Metro in Chicago. File Under: Easy Listening will be released as a double CD or single LP with bonus downloads. It includes B-sides and a 1994 live show in Minneapolis. Copper Blue/Beaster: Disc 1 (Copper Blue): 01 The Act We Act * B-sides Disc 2 (Beaster EP): 01 Come Around Disc 3 (Live at Cabaret Metro Chicago, Illinois, July 22, 1992:) 01 The Act We Act File Under: Easy Listening: Disc 1 (File Under: Easy Listening): 01 Gift * B-sides Disc 2 (The Joke Is Always On Us, Sometimes - Live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2, 1994:) 01 Gift Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 09:50:00 -0500 Video: Sigur Rós: "Ég Anda"
The video for Sigur Rós' "Ég Anda", the opening track from their upcoming album Valtari, is as strange as it is informative. The clip, directed by Ragnar Kjartansson, offers step-by-step instructions (spelled out on cue cards) about how to help someone who's choking. It's the "first of a series from 12 directors for a mystery film experiment," according to the band. Update: New videos from the "Mystery Film Experiment" will be unveiled every couple of weeks. Directors and artists who took part in the project include Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell, photographer/director Ryan McGinley (who recently shot Atlas Sound for Pitchfork.tv), Ramin Bahrani, Alma Har'el, Clare Langan, and more. Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 09:27:00 -0500 New Teengirl Fantasy: "Motif"
Electronic duo Teengirl Fantasy have a new album out later this year on R&S/True Panther, but first, they've got a new single due on R&S. "Motif" will be out on 12" June 25 and digitally July 9. The B-side features a track called "Eternal" and a remix of "Motif" by Actress. "Motif" won't be included on the album, but "Eternal" will. Motif: 01 Motif Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:00 -0500 Video: Hot Chip: "Night and Day"
Hot Chip have unveiled the video for their new single, "Night and Day". Directed by British comedy hero Peter Serafinowicz (whose first music video was Hot Chip's "I Feel Better") and starring supermodel Lara Stone, the clip boasts an abomination of monks worshipping an egg-shaped deity through the medium of synchronized dance. In Our Heads is out on June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK, via Domino. Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 06:48:00 -0500 Watch: Two Kreayshawn and 2 Chainz Videos: "Breakfast (Syrup)" and "Murder"
An entire year removed from the single and video that earned her a reported $1 million major-label deal, Kreayshawn's got a new single and video. "Breakfast (Syrup)", which stars everyone's favorite feature-rapper 2 Chainz, is here, and it's everything it needs to be. A pajamas-and-pancakes party, lots of syrup, eye-popping accessories, ridiculous nails and 2 Chainz getting incredibly aggy over his breakfast. ("You don't like what we doin'?/Shut the fuck up!" Haha. TRUUUUU.) Watch it below. Also check out the Alex Nazari-directed new clip for "Murder", another Kreayshawn/2 Chainz collab from 2 Chainz' T.R.U. Realigion mixtape. Kreayshawn's debut album Somethin' Bout Kreay is allegedly due out this summer, featuring production from Boyz Noize, Diplo and more. Update: Something' Bout Kreay is scheduled for release on August 14 through Columbia. The single "Breakfast" is out digitally on May 22. "Breakfast (Syrup)": "Murder": Publ.Date : Mon, 21 May 2012 04:05:00 -0500 R.I.P. Robin Gibb
Rolling Stone reports that Robin Gibb, one-third of Australian disco legends the Bee Gees, has died after a long fight with cancer. He had several health scares in recent years, including a recent case of pneumonia. He was 62. Gibb was born on the Isle of Man, later moving with his family to Brisbane, Australia as a young boy. In 1958, as a 9-year-old, Robin started singing with his brothers Maurice and Barry. In 1965, they released their first album, Barry Gibb & the Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs. They had minor hits around that time, including "Wine and Women" and "New York Mining Disaster 1941", which made them a minor entity in the British Invasion. In 1969, they released the double LP Odessa, which was critically acclaimed. Shortly after the release of that album, Robin quit the band due to a strained relationship with his brother Barry. In 1970, he released Robin's Reign, a solo album that went gold in the UK and featured a minor hit in "Saved By the Bell". Robin rejoined the band, and starting with their 1975 album Main Course and single "Jive Talkin'", they became a staple of disco. In 1977, the band provided five new songs for the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, one of the best-selling albums of all time. Robin, both solo and with the Bee Gees, released albums through the subsequent two decades. The band released This Is Where I Came In in 2001. Maurice Gibb died in 2003, making that album the band's last. Recently, Gibb and his son RJ composed The Titanic Requiem for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It was recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and was released March 26. Due to health complications, Gibb was in the hospital during the April 10 world premiere performance. Bee Gees - "Wine and Women": Robin Gibb - "Saved By the Bell": Bee Gees - "Stayin' Alive": Robin Gibb - "Don't Cry Alone" (from Titanic Requiem): Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 18:21:00 -0500 First Jack White Guinness World Records Attempt Uncountable
Photo by Jo McCaughey It looks like Jack White's first Guinness World Records attempt at "most metaphors in a single concert" didn't work out too well. According to White's website, after officials counted 1,203 metaphors in three minutes (!) at his performance in Gulf Shores, Ala., White "trivialized a metaphor by saying it too quickly." The attempt was forfeited, but he'll try again at tomorrow night's show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. Some of the attempted metaphors sound, uh, intricate:
Also, the Guinness officials accidentally counted 312 similes and comparisons. Come on, guys. Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 17:28:00 -0500 Watch Arcade Fire and Foo Fighters Perform With Mick Jagger on "Saturday Night Live" Last Night
As promised, the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" was a musical extravaganza. Episode host Mick Jagger used Arcade Fire and Foo Fighters as his backing band for two performances. Arcade Fire, with the Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture on bass, joined him for the Stones' "The Last Time", while Foo Fighters and Jagger did a medley of the Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)". At the end of the show, Arcade Fire returned to join Jagger and the "SNL" cast to perform "She's a Rainbow" and "Ruby Tuesday" in tribute to Kristen Wiig, who is leaving the cast. Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire: "The Last Time": Mick Jagger and Foo Fighters: "19th Nervous Breakdown"/"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "She's a Rainbow"/"Ruby Tuesday" Kristen Wiig farewell Episode promo video: Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 10:53:00 -0500 Watch the xx Perform Another New Song
Last night, Laura Snapes filed a report on the xx's show at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, where they played material from their upcoming album. Now, Consequence of Sound points to video from that show of a currently untitled song, which Snapes described thusly: "Hooked around a beautiful, languid guitar slide, it's initially not wildly dissimilar to something off of Beach House's Bloom. Then it breaks into militaristic drumming, followed by coy stadium heft." Publ.Date : Sat, 19 May 2012 14:07:00 -0500 Listen to Nicolas Jaar's BBC Essential Mix
Photo by Francis Chung Last night, Nicolas Jaar took over BBC Radio 1 for two hours with his Essential Mix. The mix features Jaar material and music by Jay-Z, Jonny Greenwood, Beyoncé, Aphex Twin, Feist, Marvin Gaye, Bill Callahan, the Field, and, uh, *NSYNC. Listen to it here. And remember, Jaar will perform Saturday, July 14 at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Single day tickets are on sale here. Publ.Date : Sat, 19 May 2012 10:51:00 -0500 Watch Beach House on "Letterman"
Following their release show in New York, Beach House celebrated the release of Bloom with a performance on "Late Show With David Letterman". They performed the album's opening cut, "Myth". Watch it below, via the Audio Perv: And don't forget: Beach House perform Sunday, July 15 at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Single day tickets are on sale here. Publ.Date : Sat, 19 May 2012 10:20:00 -0500 Watch Hot Chip Play "Jools Holland" (Again)
The second round of performances from this week's "Later With Jools Holland" aired in England tonight. Hot Chip played "Night and Day" earlier this week, and this time, they did "Don't Deny Your Heart" and "How Do You Do", all from their forthcoming album, In Our Heads, out June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK via Domino. Watch video of the two new performances below. And don't forget: Hot Chip is playing the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park on July 14. Single-day passes are on sale now. "How Do You Do": "Don't Deny Your Heart": Publ.Date : Fri, 18 May 2012 20:01:00 -0500 Report: The xx Live in London
Unveiling material from their forthcoming second album on the final date of a three-night run, the xx performed in front of visuals resembling the inside of a plasma globe, the kind you touch in science lessons to demonstrate the flow of energy through the body. If any band is an expert in the intricacies of bodily contact, it's the xx, whose self-titled debut spent most of its running time shirking the outer world to hide beneath the duvet, staring deep into another's eyes. Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx's gentle but potent alchemy was one of the calling cards of The xx, a record that seemed so unique and significant that they couldn't (and shouldn't) hope to make it a second time. It's an album that undoubtedly soundtracked a lot of couplings at the time that have perhaps since disintegrated, a theme present in all of the new songs performed tonight bar one. But if there's been breakdowns in relationships, the band's sound has become fuller and more intricate in the process, most notably taking on elements of the style that Jamie xx has been honing with his solo work over the past couple of years-- and a palpable confidence. No one hid behind gallons of dry ice this evening. "We're playing quite a lot of new songs-- I hope that's okay," Romy offered as a disclaimer to anyone who'd come expecting a greatest hits set. It was definitely okay. "This has been our first week of shows in almost two years, so you might have to bear with us!" said Oliver. Prior to the set's penultimate song, he called for the lights to be brought up so that he could take a photo of the crowd and the beautiful venue. The Battersea Arts Centre in south London is a grand former town hall that stands on the same street as the pub in which the band played their second-ever gig, when they were 16 years old. They've since lost a member, Baria Qureshi, making the material premiered at this week's shows the first they've written as a three-piece to be heard publicly, other than a demo: "Open Eyes", released on Christmas day 2011. Creeping on stage in the dark as usual, they open with a brand new song (none of them have titles available yet) featuring Romy on lead vocals. Hooked around a beautiful, languid guitar slide, it's initially not wildly dissimilar to something off of Beach House's Bloom. Then it breaks into militaristic drumming, followed by coy stadium heft. "They will be as in love with you as I am," Romy insists, as Jamie softly jangles a tambourine in the background. "And with words unspoken, the silent devotion/ I know you know what I mean and the end is unknown/ But I think I'm ready as long as you're with me-- being as in love with you as I am". The song chronicles a relationship based on subtler emotions than those visible near the stage. The arts centre's bar apparently offers full bottles of wine and plastic cups, and the couple in front of me was torn between falling all over each other, drawling "I love you so much, so much" declarations, and screaming through every vocal-less second of "Islands". Jamie was a dynamic presence at the back, beating his MPC pads with a precision that looked as if he was solving a deeply difficult kinetic problem. He built a beautiful, fragmented structure beneath the next new song, a smoky track in which Romy's vocal tangles around Oliver's noticeably filigreed croon: "Just looking for a vision/ Something of my own creation," "I know your face all too well/ Still I wake up dreaming/ Friction," they smouldered, subtly slipping prickles into soft, comforting rhymes. After a stinging "Crystalised", they showcased what was arguably the most exciting song of the set: a lengthy, mutating lament about "The way we act like strangers after all that we had," built around undulating bass and a shy, desperately sad steel drum chime that slipped into the most four-to-the-floor, manifestly danceable song they've ever written. Flowing through airy wooden clicks from Jamie, it ends as if catching its breath, a pale drum track fading to mute. "As a friend, it is understood/ We gave it all that we could," sang Romy, a forlorn acceptance of an ending. "Basic Space" felt eerie and disquieting, the choruses sung boldly and without instrumentation, the middle eight encrusted with a grittier drum machine itch from Jamie. The arts centre's sound did the subtle additions to older songs immense justice, offering a beautiful, intimate tone that felt rare for London. Romy and Oliver's traded vocals at the start of another new song were obscured like low light calls. Jamie underpinned the slowly revealed sadness of "We used to be closer than this/ Is it something you miss?" with a burning kindling crackle that snapped into bolder, flaming boughs. It was the only new song to feature any of the soft "oh-whoa-whoa"s that meandered through their first LP. They injected "Shelter" with space, Romy's voice cracking on the final line. She and Oliver shared a grin when they paused during "Infinity" for Jamie to fill the gaps with harsh cymbal crashes and a scraping clang. They executed a quick, perfunctory stage exit before returning for one last new song: tagged onto a short snippet from their debut, it was a sparse number built around an awkward bass note, echoing clatters, and a slow, almost backpacker-ish rhythm. "Remember the time," Romy and Oliver offered, "I wouldn't leave us alone when we could be so close, close, close." It reflected on a past that was a far cry from the future offered by the set's closing song, "Stars", which promises that the start of a relationship isn't the be-all and end-all. And that's it: It was an hour-long set nearly to the minute, leaving the room tingling and rubbing shivers off skin as the lights went up. Publ.Date : Fri, 18 May 2012 19:47:00 -0500 Sigur Rós' Kjartan Sveinsson to Sit Out World Tour
Photo by Lilja Birgisdottir In an interview with Icelandic newspaper The Reykjavík Grapevine, Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi said that band member Kjartan Sveinsson is "tired of touring." Thus, he will not accompany his band mates when they go on their world tour to promote the upcoming album Valtari. Rumors that the band is breaking up or that Sveinsson's left altogether are false, Jónsi and band member Georg "Goggi" Hólm told the Grapevine. Sevinsson just "wants to spend his time doing something else" and says that time spent touring is "not necessarily the most productive." Ólafur Björn Ólafsson of Stórsveit Nix Noltes and Benni Hemm Hemm will replace him on keyboard and oboe, and Hólm's younger brother Kjartan Dagur Hólm (from the band For a Minor Reflection) will play guitar in his place. Valtari is out May 29 in North America and May 28 in Europe via XL. Listen to album cut "Ekki Múkk": Publ.Date : Fri, 18 May 2012 16:34:00 -0500 Festivals in Brief: Hozac Blackout Fest, Electric Daisy Carnival, London Calling Fest, Piknic Électronik
WHAT: HoZac Blackout Fest WHAT: Electric Daisy Carnival New York WHAT: London Calling Fest WHAT: Piknic Publ.Date : Fri, 18 May 2012 15:43:00 -0500 This Week on Pitchfork
Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". In this week's installment, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized answers fan questions, Killer Mike talks about his new album R.A.P. Music, and Liars give us a sneak preview of theirs. Subscribe to Pitchfork's YouTube channel and stay tuned every Friday for new episodes of "Pitchfork Weekly." Other new Pitchfork.tv episodes on our YouTube channel this week included the Danny Brown documentary "Detroit State of Mind", the full Doug Aitken "SONG 1" Happening, a "+1" with St. Vincent, a "60 Seconds Left" with Tennis, and a music video by Royal Headache ("Girls"). Pitchfork.tv also posted a Yours Truly performance by Willis Earl Beal. Below the video is a round-up of highlights from this week at Pitchfork. This week in Pitchfork News:
We named one Best New Track:
Notable album reviews include:
And for some longer reads, our new features include:
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