Noah and the Whale just released their third album, Last Night On Earth, this week via Mercury Records. And you may have already seen their video for the song “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N,” but you can now view a live performance of “Give It All Back,” which Charlie Fink, the band’s frontman, says is about “the infatuation you share with your friends for the bands and music you love. Music you feel so passionate about that you’re prepared to humiliate yourself in front of everyone you know.”
Damon and Naomi, two artists who have worked collaboratively and independently since the 80’s including the band Galaxie 500 are releasing another album together, False Beats and True Hearts coming out March 17th on their own label, 20/20/20. For a single off the album, “And You Are There,” they enlisted artist and filmmaker Chris Marker to provide the visual accompaniment to the track. You can’t really call it a video because it is a single still image and a pretty literal interpretation of the song’s concept as articulated by Naomi in Wired Magazine, the host that premiered the audio/visual partnership. That idea being losing oneself in and being consumed by a memory. That notion is close to Marker’s creative mind as his film La Jatee was the inspiration and catalyst for Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and likewise for Damon and Naomi’s new musical work of art.
Junip has teamed with Jose Gonzalez to embark on a huge North American tour, including a stop at Bonnaroo.
Junip recently released a new EP, In Every Direction, which was made up of remixes and unreleased tracks. You can hear one of those tracks, “Nackrosdammen” right here!
The band has also released a new video for their song “In Every Direction” which was directed by the band’s drummer, Elias Araya, who took inspiration from his father (Kent Karlsson). Check it out right here, and if you want to catch Junip and Jose Gonzalez on tour, they will be:
4.20 – Toronto, ON – Lees Palace
4.21 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
4.22 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig
4.23 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
4.24 – Evanston, IL – SPACE
4.25 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
4.28 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
4.29 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
5.1 – Spokane, WA – The Empyrean
5.2 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
5.3 – Vancouver, BC – The Rio Theatre
5.4 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
5.6 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
5.7 – Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar
5.8 – Tucson, AZ – Plush
5.10 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
5.11 – Houston, TX – Mink
5.12 – New Orleans, LA – Republic
5.14 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
5.15 – Columbus, OH – Wexner Center
5.16 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
5.17 – Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle
5.18 – Philadelphia, PA – World Café
5.19 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
5.20 – Wilmington, DE – World Café Live @ The Queen
Quartet rockers Rival Schools have been awfully busy. They’re in the midst of an East Coast tour and have just announced a West Coast tour. You can catch them here:
05/20: Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
05/21: Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
05/23: San Jose, CA @ The Blank Club
05/24: San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
05/26: Portland, OR @ Peter’s Room
05/27: Portland, OR @ Sasquatch Festival
The band has also just released a video for their latest single, “Wring It Out.” The single is from their just-released sophomore album, Pdeals.
Last nite (No pun intended) The Strokes headed over to The Late Show with David Letterman to perform yet another song from Angles (BMG), that was just released this week. The guys were in full form and seemed to be enjoying themselves again, which is a good sign for the band and fans involved. They had gotten quite a cheering roar from the crowd, which makes us wonder how much bigger the new found “Strokes Mania,” will get. There is no stopping them now, right? We hope so.
If you’re a fan of Le Tigre, this is for you. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour on DVD on June 7! Directed by Kerthy Fix, the cameras followed the electronic feminists during their This Island tour and includes never before seen live performances, archival interviews, and revealing backstage footage.
Watch a clip from the film below. Here’s Le Tigre performing “Deceptacon:”
The film will premiere at South By South West next week and will be screened in various cinemas around the world after that. Check out the dates below.
Here are the following movie screenings:
03/27: Melbourne, VIC, Australia @ Melbourne Queer Film Festival
4/4: New York, NY @ MoMA, 7 PM (Q&A feat. Johanna Fateman & Kathleen Hanna to follow screening)
04/12: Cologne, Germany @ International Women’s Film Festival
04/16: Orlando, FL @ Florida Film Festival
04/27: Boston, MA @ Independent Film Festival Boston
05/06: Vancouver, BC @ DOXA
05/27: Mexico City, Mexico @ Distrital Film Festival (Q&A feat. Kerthy Fix to follow screening)
06/28: Barcelona, Spain @ Barcelona Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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