Dancing About Architecture Indie Music News: 5.11.10
Posted by Ian Wright on 05.11.2010
Pavement live, one of Interpol leaves, Elliott Smith and the forces of good verses the evil empire of Pink Floyd, Dylan filmmaker vs. The National, Flaming Lips cancellations and more.
The bit at the start
Hello all, you'll have to pardon my if this seems a little rushed this week as I'm somewhat pressed for time because I'm going out to see Real Estate this evening.
However I can't start the column this week without talking about Pavement, who I saw (for the first time, being the eldest meant that while I got to raid my dad's Springsteen records as a youth I didn't have an older brother to turn me on to cool stuff that happened after the early 80's so I missed out on them the first time around) on Tuesday. I can honestly say that I can probably count on my fingers the number of times that I've seen a band live and they made me feel as good as Pavement did last week. They always did have a little bit of a reputation for being ramshackle live but I can't really fault them for their performance last week, things started a little slow maybe but from "Shady Lane" on it was sublime, after every couple of tunes I thought to myself, "that's it, I've heard all my favourites now" and then they'd immediately play something brilliant that I love but which had temporarily slipped my mind. In the end after about 30 songs I'd say "Major Leagues" and "Filmore Jive" were the only things I'd have really loved to have heard but missed out on but there'll be plenty of time to catch those tunes during the at least 2 more times that I get to see them in the coming months.
If you've got the chance to see them this year then I urge you, don't pass it up, everyone I know who I talked to about last Tuesday, from the excited college kids who weren't even teenagers when the band first split to the becoming more jaded folks in their 40's who remember seeing them in Dublin on the day that Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain came out had nothing but good things to say about it.
Can it be Primavera time now please?
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Phosphorescent – Here's To Taking It Easy
Matthew Houck's new record is brilliant.
You news, you lose
Carlos go bye bye.
Carlos Dengler has left Interpol. The departure was announced on the band's website with the following statement …
Dear fans,
As some of you have surely heard, Interpol has completed it's new album.
It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, and mixed with Alan Moulder at Assault and Battery, London.
The four of us poured our collective heart into this music and we are very proud and excited to share it.
It's a heavy record. But we're feeling limber; and we're going to carry it all around the world for you.
Touring begins this summer, so check here soon for announcements and show dates.
There is more:
Sadly, Carlos will not be joining us.
After the completion of the album, Carlos informed the rest of us that he would be leaving the band. He has decided to follow another path, and to pursue new goals. This separation is amicable, and we whole-heartedly wish him great happiness and success. We will remain, as always, deeply respectful fans of this blazingly talented individual.
We can tell you that we have some very exciting new recruits joining us on the road. So stay tuned - we will promptly be revealing the identities of these illustrious players.
We eagerly await the opportunity to reconvene with you all
- the greatest fans known to Rock.
Thank you.
Interpol
Well if the rumours about Dengler were in fact true then VD clinic owners around the touring circuit will be weeping tears of despair and financial ruination as they dream of the expensive colleges that they were going to send their children to but can't anymore. This truly was their Black Monday.
How dare he vandelise an already vandelised bit of ephemra.
I hate Pink Floyd.
I utterly despise them. As far as I'm concerned they're one of the worst bands to ever pick up guitars.
It's just fucking bullshit, all of it.
The reason I say this is because, well I enjoy venting about how much I hate them, but also because this story concerns ex-Floyd prick (they're all pricks, no one who makes that horrible music could be sound, even if David Gilmore did give away houses to charity, he gets annoyed when people call him Dave, he's on the list) Roger Waters.
As part of the advertising campaign for upcoming, most likely terrible The Wall tour Waters is covering parts of New York and LA with "projections, wheat pastings, and chalk drawings" of a Dwight Eisenhower anti-war quote. Jesus, doesn't it sound as bad as his music?
However part of this guerrilla advertising campaign has angered Elliott Smith fans because one of these wheat pastings found their way onto the Sunset Boulevard wall made famous by the cover to Smith's album Figure 8 which became something of a memorial to him after his death in 2003. Now admittedly the wall in question has seen better days …
but Elliott Smith was super awesome and Roger Waters is hella lame so fuck that guy. When he learned of the dun dun DUN desecration Waters told the LA Times, "It was absolutely an accident. I didn't want to disrespect Elliott Smith's fans, and I've instructed (the team) to remove the wheat paste immediately. It was a random pasting in the normal course of this, and I want to make it public that we had no intent to offend or cover up something precious," before adding, douchilly, "It's not like this was some pristine monument and Roger Waters is the Big Bad Wolf who covered it up."
Pennebaker to direct The National.
You probably know the name D.A. Pennebaker. Even if you can't place it if you're a music fan I'm sure it rings a bell with you somewhere.
If it does then where you most likely know him from is from his role of director of the 1965 Bob Dylan tour film No Direction Home but he's also noted as director of the Monteray Pop festival documentary and Bowie concert flick Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
Now 84 years old Pennebaker's next project will involve Brooklyn based Cincinnatians The National. On May 15th the band will play The Brooklyn Academy Of Music in aid of The Red Hot organisation. You may remember them as being the beneficiaries of last year's Dark Was The Night compilation which the Dessner brother's put together. The gig will stream live on YouTube and will then remain online for a month after it happens. This is where Pennebaker comes in, he and his wife Chris Hegedus will direct the webcast. Though the pair have collaborated frequently over the years this will mark the first occasion thatthey'll have worked together on a concert. In a way the pair will also open the show as a short film by the pair will be screen prior to The National's performance.
Get well soon Steve: Redux
Just a quick update on last weeks story about The Flaming Lips cancelling gigs due to Steve Drozd's hospitalisation. Three cancelled Florida dates in St. Petersburg, Lake Buena Vista and St. Augustine have been rescheduled for October. All original tickets valid.
Told you it was short.
The YouTube video of the week
Joanna Newsom on Jools Holland
If you can you should go to these gigs.
The Morning Benders
05-18 San Diego, CA - Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay *
05-19 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre *
05-21 San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom *
05-24 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *
05-25 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market *
05-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *
05-29 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *
05-31 Chicago, IL - Vic Theater *
06-01 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall *
06-02 Toronto, Ontario - Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
06-04 Boston, MA - Royale NightClub *
06-05 New York, NY - The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza *
06-06 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory *
06-07 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
06-10 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage *
06-11 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club *
07-23 Canandaigua, NY - CMAC Performing Arts Center @#
07-26 Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall #
07-27 New York, NY - Central Park SummerStage #
07-28 New York, NY - Central Park SummerStage #
07-30 Philadelphia, PA - Great Plaza at Penn's Landing #
07-31 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion #
08-01 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
08-03 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus #
08-04 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus #
08-06-08 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-07 Chicago, IL - Metro #
08-08 Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom #
08-09 Omaha, NE - Anchor Inn #
08-11 Louisville, KY - Iroquois Amphitheater #
08-12 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium #
08-13 Columbus, OH - The LC Amphitheater #
08-14 Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit #
* with Broken Bells
# with the Black Keys
@ with Flaming Lips
Swans
09-28 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero Theater
09-29 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-30 Boston, MA - Middle East
10-01 Montreal, Quebec - Pop Montreal Festival
10-02 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
10-04 Detroit, MI - Crofoot Ballroom
10-05 Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
10-08 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Masonic Temple
10-09 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10-22-24 Birmingham, England - Supersonic Festival
Broken Social Scene
05-13 London, England - Brixton Academy *
05-14 Minehead, England - All Tomorrow's Parties
05-15 Brighton, England - The Great Escape
05-17 London, England - Heaven
05-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
05-19 Cologne, Germany - Burgerhaus Stollwerck
05-21 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
05-23 Linz, Austria - LinzFest
05-24 Berlin, Germany - Kesselhaus
05-27 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
05-29 George, WA - Sasquatch
06-19 Toronto, Ontario - Toronto Island *#
06-22 Vienna, Austria - Flex Club
06-23 Zagreb, Croatia - T-Mobile INMusic Festival
06-24 Munich, Germany - Backstage Werk
06-26 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy
06-27 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-28 Manchester, England - Academy
06-29 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
06-30 London, England - HMV Forum
07-05 Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
07-06 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefahrlich
07-08 Liege, Belgium - Les Ardentes Festival
07-09 Sheffield, England - Corporation
07-10 Kinross, Scotland - T in the Park
07-11 Punchestown, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
07-16 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
07-25 Taipei, Taiwan - The Wall
07-27 Singapore - Esplande Concert Hall
08-01 Woodford, Australia - Splendour in the Grass
08-28 St. Louis, MO - Lou Fest
09-08 Pittsburgh, PA - Byham Theater
09-09 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
09-10 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
09-11 Richmond, VA - The National
09-13 Washington, DC - The Warner Theatre
09-14 Philadelphia, PA - TLA
09-17 Boston, MA - House of Blues
09-18 New York, NY - Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
09-20 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
09-21 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theater
09-22 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
09-24 Ithaca, NY - State Theater
09-25 Buffalo, NY - Town Hall
10-01 Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
10-03 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
10-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-06 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
10-07 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Odeon
10-08 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall
10-09 Edmonton, Alberta - Winspear Centre
10-10 Kelowna, British Columbia - Community Theatre
10-12 Victoria, British Columbia - Element
10-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore
10-15 Seattle, WA - Paramount
10-16 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
10-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
* with Pavement
# with Band of Horses
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
Real Estate – Real Estate
Phosphorescent – Here's To Taking It Easy
The bit at the end
I'm just back in now from Real Estate and it's really late so I'm going to warp things up here, they were excellent I must say.
Oh, I also hate Led Zeppelin and the Stones as well.
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