Dancing About Architecture 10.20.09
Posted by Ian Wright on 10.20.2009
Possibly exclusive news on the new Arcade Fire album, Pavement down under, a new Atlas Sound EP, a Bon Iver bootleg, Tom Waits live album, and new music from Spiral Stairs, LCD Soundsystem and more.
The bit at the start
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Umm.
*tumbleweed*
Hi
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground.
Often overlooked but still a fantastic album.
You news, you lose
Go down under for your Gold Soundz, but it's just a one time thing.
Okay, it's finally confirmed, the start date for the Pavement reunion.
March 1st 2010.
In Auckland, New Zealand of all places.
In fact the first seven dates of the reunion tour will take place down under to coincide with the Antipodean festival season. The band will play the Gold Plains festival as well as 6 other dates over the course of two weeks. Tickets for all gigs bar the festival date went on sale last Friday and the itinerary for the trip looks like:
03-01 Auckland, New Zealand - Town Hall
03-04 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
03-06 Meredith, Australia - Supernatural Amphitheatre (Golden Plains Festival)
03-07 Adelaide, Australia - Thebarton Theatre
03-08 Perth, Australia - Metro City
03-10 Brisbane, Australia - Tivoli
03-12 Melbourne, Australia - Palace Theatre
You should also note that if you'd like to see Pavement play again then perhaps the only opportunity you have to do it will be next year. In an interview with The Quietus recently Bob Nastanovich backed up what was said in the original reunion press release ("This tour is not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reunion.") by answering a question about whether or not the tour would see any new material played with a simple and definitive "no".
Talking about how the tour came about Nastanovich said "Did it take a lot of prolonged dialogue and intense meetings fueled by whisky drinking? No, our longtime U.S. booking agent Boche had dinner with Stephen [Malkmus] in Chicago this summer and they agreed to work on Pavement in 2010. The rest of us have always been willing."
Free new music of the week: 1
On a related note the Spiral Stairs debut album The Real Feel is out today. Here's the video to "Stolen Pills" from it.
Why it pays to be on Twitter sometimes.
Last week Twitter had the scoop on Jay Reatard's band quitting on him and this week it reveals that Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) might just be supremely enthusiastic about the upcoming third Arcade Fire record.
On Sunday night he tweeted: "Can't contain it. I just completed 10 days on the best album I've ever had the pleasure of working on."
Ten days prior to that he wrote: "Arcade Fire have some pretty gorgeous microphones right here. It'd be so easy to slip one into my bag."
Okay, so maybe it's conjecture and putting 2 and 2 together. But it's very likely that he's talking about the Arcade Fire album #3. Pallett has previously done the string arrangements for AF's first two albums so and if they're at the point of doing string arrangements one would think that they're very close to nearing an end point for the record. Early-mid year release in 2010 perhaps?
Very exciting anyway.
Free, new music of the week: 2
LCD Soundsystem's next single is a cover of "Bye Bye Bayou" by Suicide's Alan Vega. You can stream it from .
The single will be out on November 7th on 12" from independent record stores and digitally on the 24th of that month.
Oh that wacky Bradford Cox and his never ending stream of new music.
Bradford Cox will release his second album under the Atlas Sound (his solo Deerhunter side project) next week Logos on the Kranky label. However if you order the album from Rough Trade you'll also get a bonus 6 tack CD EP with the album. The EP features reworked versions of songs from the album as well as unreleased material.
Tracklisting:
01 Ruben (traditional)
02 Criminals (electronic)
03 Kid Klimax (acoustic)
04 Reminder *
05 I Know I Will Escape *
06 Nightwork *
* previously unreleased
Free, new music of the week: 3
Bon Iver's October 11th set in Milwaukee was, according to the band's website the last Bon Iver show "for the foreseeable future".
Glitter and Doom is the new Tom Waits live album to be released on Anti on Novmeber 24th. The albums will be on double CD and vinyl with disc 1 collecting 16 songs from various dates on the tour and programming them like a setlist while disc 2 will be made up entirely of Wait's on stage banter.
You can download 8 tracks from the first disc of by filling in the form below …
Tracklisting:
CD1:
01 Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down (Birmingham - 07/03/08)
02 Singapore (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
03 Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
04 Fannin Street (Knoxville - 06/29/08)
05 Dirt in the Ground (Milan - 07/19/08)
06 Such a Scream (Milan - 07/18/08)
07 Live Circus (Jacksonville - 07/01/08)
08 Goin' Out West (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
09 Falling Down (Paris - 07/25/08)
10 The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
11 Trampled Rose (Dublin - 08/01/08)
12 Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville - 6/29/08)
12 I'll Shoot the Moon (Paris - 07/24/08)
13 Green Grass (Edinburgh - 07/27/08)
14 Make It Rain (Atlanta - 07/05/08)
15 Story (Columbus - 06/28/08)
16 Lucky Day (Atlanta - 07/05/08)
CD2:
01 Tom Tales
Squirming like an Eel
There's a lot to be said for having a home studio, not least the fact that you're able to come up with ideas and record them in an ultra quick manner. Like Mark Everett (or E) has done with his upcoming new album End Times which is due in January less than a year after the last one. Most of the 14 songs on it were recorded in E's basement studio and this is the shortest period between albums in the career of The Eels.
The YouTube video of the week
Built To Spill, an entire set on YouTube, from Minneapolis back in June. Here's opening number Traces.
10-13 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
10-15 Madison, WI - The Annex
10-16 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10-17 Chicago, IL - Double Door
10-18 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
10-19 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Place
10-20 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore
10-22 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs
10-23 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
10-24 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10-25 Washington, DC- Black Cat
11-06 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium *
11-08 Oakland, CA - Fox Oakland Theater *
11-12 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre *
11-14 Eugene, OR - Hult Center *
11-25 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom *
11-28 Boston, MA - Wang Center *
* with the Pixies
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
Phosphorescent - Pride
The bit at the end
The Marge Simpson playboy pictures are genuinely some of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.
