Category Archives: News

09.15.10
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Girl Talk To Release New Year’s Eve Documentary

Do you remember how you celebrated the new millennium?  No matter how much fun you  had that night, I guarantee Girl Talk had more.

For the 4,500 full-capacity crowd at the Congress Theater in Chicago, Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) had a two story, five room house built on stage. Yes, he built a house. On stage.

The house had a kitchen, with a fridge (which had a note on the door) as well as a bathroom (with shower and sink) and two bedrooms.

At first, the house was dimly lit. But as it got closer to midnight, more and more lights began to turn on until the clock struck twelve. Then the kitchen turned into a dance floor while the bathroom  had a strobe that flashed any color.

Holy cow. Now he’s released a DVD documentary of the experience. You can see a preview right here.

Girl Talk has been touring relentlessly since the release of Feed The Animals in June of 2008. Now, after almost 240 shows he is planning his next album, which should be around sometime in 2011.

If you want to catch Girl Talk (house or no house), you can see him…

Fri. Oct. 29 – Asheville, NC @ MoogFest

Sat. Nov. 20 – Sao Paulo, Brasil @ Planeta Terra Festival w/ Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement

09.15.10
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Tame Impala Hit The Road


Spaced-out psych wanderers Tame Impala will be returning to American soil this Fall, heading out on a month-long headlining tour across the US and Canada to support their debut record. Released in June, Innerspeaker received mostly positive reviews and landed the band on Stereogum’s 40 Best New Bands of 2010 list.

Stardeath and White Dwarfs and Kuroma will join Tame Impala on their upcoming tour, the dates of which can be found below.

FALL US TOUR DATES
Tuesday Nov 16th || Black Cat || Washington, DC*#
Thursday Nov 17th || Bowery Ballroom || New York, NY*#
Sunday Nov 21st || First Unitarian Church || Philadelphia, PA*#
Monday Nov 22nd || Paradise Rock Club || Boston, MA*#
Tuesday Nov 23rd || La Sala Rossa || Montreal, QC*#
Wednesday Nov 24th || The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern || Toronto, ONT*#
Friday Nov 26th || Double Door || Chicago, IL*#
Saturday Nov 27th || 7th Street Entry || Minneapolis, MN*#
Monday Nov 29th || Jackpot Music Hall || Lawrence, KS*#
Wednesday Dec 1st || Emo’s Alternative Lounge || Austin, TX*#
Thursday Dec 2nd || The Loft || Dallas, TX*#
Saturday Dec 4th || Bluebird Theater || Denver, CO*
Monday Dec 6th || Urban Lounge || Salt Lake City, UT*
Tuesday Dec 7th || Neurolux || Boise, ID*
Thursday Dec 9th || The Biltmore Cabaret || Vancouver, BC*
Friday Dec 10th || Neumos || Seattle, WA*
Saturday Dec 11th || Doug Fir Lounge || Portland, OR*
Monday Dec 13th || The Independent || San Francisco, CA*
Tuesday Dec 14th || Echoplex || Los Angeles, CA*

* = with Stardeath and White Dwarfs
# = with Kuroma

09.15.10
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Jukebox the Ghost Gets A Little Schitzo


It was only one week ago that Jukebox the Ghost released their sophomore album, Everything Under the Sun. But, the video for their second single “Schizophrenic” has already made its way online. Like Everything Under the Sun‘s first single, “Empire,” “Schizophrenic” features a distinct piano melody. In fact, it has two!

Says lead singer Ben Thronewill of the track, “Years ago I learned that often schizophrenics become schizophrenics in their early twenties after a traumatic experience. So the song is from the point of a schizophrenic who still has the wherewithal to talk coherently about his illness. Secondly, the song was born of the two piano melodies of the verses that were both technically very difficult to play and which, after I learned them, screamed ‘schizophrenic.'”

The video plays with the song’s theme in a clever manner, but also employs the use of TVs in an extremely cliche way. All the same, it’s definitely worth checking out down below.

01.10.10
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Fredrik Choose An Album Release Date

 

Swedish trio Fredrik have announced the release date of their third full-length album, Flora. The album is a continuation of the group’s EP Origami and will be in stores and online March 29th .

The duo of Fredrik Hultin and O. Linderfelt added a third person to the party on Origami, with instrumentalist and singer Anna Moberg joining in.

Flora’s complete track list looks like this:

01 Ylva

02 Vattenfront

03 Chrome Cavities

04 Rites of Spring

05 The North Greatern

06 Caleido Kalahari

07 Inventress of Ill (and Everything)

08 Naruto and the End of the Broken Ear

09 The Shape and Colouor of Things Gone Blind

10 I’m Pretty Sure He Said Killdren

11 Axis

You can listen to the single from Origami called “White on White” right here and look for Fredrik’s latest album March 29th on The Kora Records.

01.05.10
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Bill Laswell’s Back to Mess With You, Releases “Praxis” in January 2011


If there are two things music should probably always be, it’s eclectic and experimental, or more commonly known as: Bill Laswell. The legendary producer and musician has been responsible for more magic than you likely know, unless you are lucky enough to be in the know in which case you can skip past this next sentence. Tabla Beat Science, Gigi, Sting, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Jah Wobble, Bootsy Collins, Sly & Robbie, Ginger Baker, Bob Marley and freaking Miles Davis have all worked with Laswell or been lucky enough to have him do dirty, sexy, H O T things to their songs even the most adventurous couples never attempt in the bedroom.

Laswell, alongside fellow weirdos Buckethead and Brains equals Praxis, the hard rock mania a la Zappa gone wild style. Their new album, Profanation: Preparation for a Coming Darkness features a who’s who in freakland including Wu Tang’s Killah Priest, System of A Down’s Serj Tankian, master of madness front man of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk and Peeping Tom, Mike Patton, and the Duracell battery of punk rock himself: Iggy Pop.

Due for release stateside on January 25th 2011, consider Profanation: Preparation for a Coming Darkness the apocalyptic sign we’ve all been fearing, but strangely enough, it’s actually going to be a really delicious and amusing Armageddon.