Dancing About Architecture Indie Music News 2.16.10
Posted by Ian Wright on 02.16.2010
More new music from, news about, book on Joanna Newsom, Small Black, The Walkmen sign new record deal, Bonnaroo news, Raw Power to be reissued, Doug Fieger dies, news on the next Bonnie "Prince" Billy and more.
The bit at the start
Hey, happy Chinese new year. My Chinese ex told me last week that people who are born in the year of the Tiger are bad at finding people to marry, so the year of the tiger starting on Valentine's day is a bit of a kick in the balls then I suppose.
But on to music.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Future Islands - In Evening Air
Fantastic synth-post-punk from the Baltimore three piece.
You news, you lose
More new music Joanna Newsom … again. And some other stuff.
In case you missed it last week's new Joanna Newsom song was a 9-minute long number called "Kingfisher", it's very reminiscent of material from Ys. The closing section of it also reminds me of some of the material from Sufjan Stevens' "A Sun Came". Very medieval. You can listen to it here.
In Newsom related news "Visions Of Joanna Newsom" is a new book which features a "selection of personal, scholarly, poetic, and artistic responses to her work." Or so says Roan who are publishing the thing. Contributors to the book include Dave Eggers and singer-songwriter Christian Kiefer as well as others. There's more info on the book, which sounds likes a load of wanky bullshit, here.
Also the tracklisting for Have One On Me was confirmed last week. It's as follows:
01 Easy (6:04)
02 Have One on Me (11:02)
03 '81 (3:52)
04 Good Intentions Paving Company (7:02)
05 No Provenance (6:25)
06 Baby Birch (9:30)
07 On a Good Day (1:49)
08 You and Me, Bess (7:13)
09 In California (8:42)
10 Jackrabbits (4:23)
11 Go Long (8:03)
12 Occident (5:31)
13 Soft as Chalk (6:29)
14 Esme (7:56)
15 Autumn (8:02)
16 Ribbon Bows (6:11)
17 Kingfisher (9:11)
18 Does Not Suffice (6:45)
Small Black sign to Jagjaguar.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine turned me on to Small Black, a 4-piece from Brooklyn in the form of an incredibly good song called "Despicable Dogs." Here's the video for it …
The band recently signed to Jagjaguar who will re-isssue a remastered version of the band's self-titled EP from last year on April 26th in the UK and the following day in North America. The reissue will also feature a couple of tracks that didn't feature on the original release, "Kings Of Animals" which was the b-side on the "Despicable Dogs" 7" and "Baby Bird Pt. 2."
Tracklisting:
01 Despicable Dogs
02 Weird Machines
03 Bad Lover
04 Pleasant Experience
05 Lady in the Wires
06 Kings of Animals
07 Baby Bird Pt. 2
You've got a nerve to be changing your label.
Whenever it comes out the next record from New York based garage rock big hitters The Walkmen will be released by Fat Possum records. The album will be produced by the band and Chris Zane, who worked on 2008's fantastic You And Me will once again engineer and mix the record.
That's about it for this story.
Ha ha, bonnar.
The initial round of band announcements for this year's Bonnaroo festival were announced last Wednesday and there's some pretty great stuff on the lineup with The National, Stevie Wonder, LCD Soundsystem, She & Him, Japandroids, Weezer, The Flaming Lips (performing Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, which sounds potentially hellish to me), Dan Deacon, The Melvins and The Dodos all scheduled to play.
The festival takes place in Manchester, TN between June 10-13 and you can view the currently announced lineup here.
Raw Power reissue.
April 13th is the release date for the release of Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power: Legacy Edition, and then surprisingly two weeks later it'll be followed up by Raw Power: Deluxe Edition.
The legacy edition will feature a remastered version of the album, with David Bowie's original mix on the first disc. The second disc is titled Georgia Peaches and features a recording of a live show the band played in Atlanta in 1973 which has been heavily bootlegged in the past but this edition will feature two previously unreleased tracks. It will also come with a 24 page booklet with essays about the band and writings by the surviving members.
The Deluxe Edition will feature all of the above which will also come with a third disc entitled Rarities, Outtakes, & Alternates From the Raw Power Era which will contain 8 tracks and a 4th disc which is a DVD featuring a 30 minute film called The Making Of Raw Power.
PLUS …
A reproduction of a rare Japanese picture sleeve 7" single of "Raw Power" and "Search And Destroy," five 5*7 photo prints and a 7" soft cover booklet with contributions from Henry Rollins, Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Tom Morello and others. If you want the deluxe edition earlier than April 27th then you can order it from the Stooges website.
Tracklisting:
CD1 (Raw Power):
01 Search and Destroy
02 Gimme Danger
03 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
04 Penetration
05 Raw Power
06 I Need Somebody
07 Shake Appeal
08 Death Trip
CD2 (Georgia Peaches):
01 Introduction *
02 Raw Power *
03 Head On *
04 Gimme Danger *
05 Search and Destroy *
06 I Need Somebody *
07 Heavy Liquid *
08 Cock in My Pocket *
09 Open Up and Bleed *
10 Doojiman (outtake) *
11 Head On (CBS Studio rehearsal performance) *
CD3 (Rarities, Outtakes, & Alternates From the Raw Power Era):
01 I'm Hungry (outtake) *
02 I Got a Right (outtake) *
03 I'm Sick of You (outtake)
04 Hey, Peter (outtake) *
05 Shake Appeal (alternate mix version) *
06 Death Trip (alternate mix version) *
07 Gimme Danger (alternate mix from the 1996 Iggy "violent" remixes)
08 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (alternate mix from the 1996 Iggy "violent" remixes)
* previously unreleased
Knackered.
Doug Fieger, frontman of The Knack, passed away on Sunday of Cancer at the age of 57 in Woodland Hills California.
Fieger founded The Knack in 1978 and the following year the band released their biggest hit, and a song that pretty much everybody has heard, "My Sharona", which topped the Billboard singles charts for 6 weeks. The band released 7 albums over the course of their career but never really replicated the success of that single.
I heard a very funny but in incredibly poor taste joke about Fieger passing away. I won't repeat it in full but it involves the word "lymphoma."
New Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
First off a warning, these clips isn't all that SFW.
The above videos appeared online last week and were posted by Will Oldham's UK record label Domino and his American one Drag City which seem to indicated that there's a new Oldham record (credited to Bonnie "Prince" Billy and The Chain Gang) called The Wonder Show Of The World and it seems that depending on where you are in the world it'll be out on March 22nd or the 23rd. As yet though neither label are confirming the release.
The YouTube video of the week
And now for something whimsical.
If you can you should go to these gigs.
The National
03-28 Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre (Big Ears Festival)
04-22 Richmond, VA - The National
04-23 Richmond, VA - The National
05-06 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
05-07 Paris, France - Le Zenith *
05-09 Berlin, Germany - Astra
05-21 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
05-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern #
05-23 San Diego, CA - Spreckels Theatre #
05-26 Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
05-27 Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre #
06-02 Boston, MA - House of Blues
06-03 Boston, MA - House of Blues
06-04 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
06-05 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
06-06 Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
06-08 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
06-09 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
06-11-13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-16 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
07-27 Brooklyn, NY - Prospect Park Bandshell
* with Pavement
# with Ramona Falls
The Tallest Man On Earth
02-20 Blois, France - The Velvet
02-21 St. Malo, France - La Route Du Rock Festival
02-26 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
03-04 Hamburg, Germany - Astra Stube
03-05 Berlin, Germany - NBI Club
03-07 Den Bosch, Netherlands - fabrIQ Den Bosch *
03-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Bitterzoet
03-09 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
03-10 Paris, France - Le Scopitone
03-11 Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain - Teatro Municipal Pedro Munoz Seca
03-12 Granada, Spain - Centro Cultural
03-13 Barcelona, Spain - Sidecar
03-14 Mallorca, Spain - Teatre Lloseta
03-15 London, England - Bush Hall
03-17 Copenhagen, Denmark - Klub Shh at Din Nye Ven
03-25 Istanbul, Turkey - Indigo
04-14 Buffalo, NY - The Ninth Ward
04-15 Winooski, VT - The Monkey House
04-16 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus
04-17 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
04-20 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
04-21 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs
04-22 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live Upstairs
04-23 Washington, DC - Black Cat
04-26 Chapel Hill, NC - Gerrard Hall
04-27 Asheville, NC - Forsythia Hall
04-28 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
04-29 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree
05-02 Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ (Indoors)
05-03 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room
05-05 La Jolla, CA - UCSD (The Loft)
05-08 Brookdale, CA - Historic Brookdale Lodge
05-09 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
05-11 Portland, OR - The Mission Theater
05-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - St. James Hall
05-14 Edmonton, Alberta - Brixx
05-15 Calgary, Alberta - Local 522
05-17 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
05-18 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
05-19 Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theater
05-21 Iowa City, IA - The Mill
05-23 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
05-25 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
05-26 Bloomington, IN - The Dome House
05-27 Fort Wayne, IN - The Brass Rail
05-28 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
08-12 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival
* with Tiny Vipers, Karl Blau, Megafaun
Julian Casablancas
03-26 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
03-27 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
03-28 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head
03-30 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
04-01 Montreal, Quebec - National
04-02 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
04-03 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
04-05 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
04-06 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
04-18 Indio, CA - Coachella
Titus Andronicus
03-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
03-08 Fords, NJ - Vintage Vinyl (in-store)
03-09 Lakewood, OH - My Mind's Eye (in-store)
03-10 Columbus, OH - Used Kids (in-store)
03-11 Athens, OH - Ohio University
03-12 Louisville, KY - Ear X-Tacy (in-store)
03-13 Chicago, IL - Reckless Records Wicker Park (in-store)
03-14 St. Louis, MO - Vintage Vinyl (in-store)
03-16 Dallas, TX - Good Records (in-store)
03-20 Austin, TX - Red 7 Patio (SXSW) $
03-21 El Paso, TX - Black Market
03-22 Phoenix, AZ - Chryo Arts
03-23 Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater
03-24 Santa Barbara, CA - Club Mercy *
03-26 Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
03-27 Sacramento, CA - Luigi's Fungarden
03-28 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
03-30 Seattle, WA - Vera Project
03-31 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
04-01 Vancouver, British Columbia - TBD
04-02 Missoula, MT - The Palace
04-04 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
04-05 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
04-07 Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge
04-08 Detroit, MI - Majestic Cafe
04-09 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's
04-10 Montreal, Quebec - Green Room
04-11 New Paltz, NY - St. Paul Lutheran Church Parish Hall
04-12 Allston, MA - Great Scott
04-13 Bronx, NY - Rodrigues Coffee House (Fordham University)
04-14 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase Student Center
04-15 Philadelphia, PA - The Barbary
04-16 Washington, DC - Positive Force DC (St. Stephen's Church)
04-17 Charlottesville, VA - Random Row
04-18 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
04-19 Atlanta, GA - 529
04-20 Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio
04-22 Columbus, OH - Summit
04-23 Harrisburg, PA - Abbey Bar
04-24 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
# with Parts and Labor, the Babies
$ with Fucked Up, J Mascis
* with Ted Leo
Phoenix
02-25 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya-AX
02-26 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro
03-01 Brisbane, Australia - Convention Centre
03-02 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavilion
03-05 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall
03-06 Perth, Australia - Belvoir Amphitheatre
03-20 Marseille, France - Le Dock Des Suds
03-21 Dijon, France - La Vapeur
03-22 Paris, France - L'Olympia
03-23 Grenoble, France - MC2
03-24 Nancy, France - L'Autre Canal
03-26 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paradiso
03-27 Brussels, Belgium - A.B.
03-28 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Den Atler
03-29 London, England - Roundhouse
03-30 London, England - Roundhouse
04-17 Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst *
04-18 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-20 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre *
04-21 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre *
04-22 Louisville, KY - Louisville Palace *
04-23 Nashville, TN - Vanderbilt *
04-24 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle *
04-26 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall *
04-27 Norfolk, VA - The Norva *
04-29 Austin, TX - Stubb's *
04-30 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre *
06-11 Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheatre *
06-12 Charlotte, NC - The Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music Factory *
06-13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-19 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Fest
06-20 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Fest
07-08 Lisboon, Portugal - Optimus Alive Festival
07-31 London, England - Field Day Festival
* with Two Door Cinema Club
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
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The bit at the end
This is the last Dancing About Architecture for a couple of weeks, I'm going to New York to make an album. Take care folks, I'll see you in a fortnight.
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