Dancing About Architecture Indie Music News 6.08.10
Posted by Ian Wright on 06.08.2010
Primavera Sound festival thoughts, Arcade Fire are back, the Israeli indie-rock boycott, news on Interpol, new albums from Phil Selway, Superchunk, The Dodos
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Happy Tuesday again folks. I'm back after another week off. This time down to the rather excellent Primavera Sound festival which took place in Barcelona the weekend before this one just past. My third time there in 4 years and I have to say it was by far the most enjoyable one I've been to. When you get to 4AM on the final night of a festival, still nearly 5 hours from going to bed and you wind up commandeering a wheelchair for a ride you're never not having fun.
Anyway; Pavement, Best Coast, Titus Andronicus, Owen Pallett, Fuck Buttons, Shellac, Tortoise, Moderat, Les Savy Fav, Polvo, Built To Spill, Dum Dum Girls and Liquid Liquid were all fantastic. I doubt I'd see a better lineup anywhere in the world this year. Roll on 2011.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Quintette du Hot Club de France – ANYTHING BY THEM.
Trust me, amazing shit.
You news, you lose
Arcade Fire are back.
So the big news while I was away was probably that Arcade Fire announced the title and release date of their forthcoming third album. It'll be called The Suburbs and it'll be out, depending on where you live in the world, on August 2/3.
The band returned to live action on Friday night at Notman House in Montreal (also brilliantly known as the Margaret Home For The Incurables) for a very secret/private gig attended by about 60 or so people. Given that the audience seems to have been made up of people that are known to the band very little audio or video from the gig has crept out online save for these clips from Pop Montreal …
However they are returning to playing proper gigs this week in Sherbrooke, Quebec and actually by the time this column goes live on Tuesday morning they'll have finished up the first show and I imagine that live footage will have already cropped up on YouTube. At Friday's gig they played 8 new tunes so I'd imagine at least that many will get an airing this week.
Oh, oh, oh, by the way. If you live in Montreal they're playing the parking lot next to Place Longueuil on Wednesday. Also they're doing a secret gig somewhere in Toronto at the weekend but I don't have details on that.
(oh) VEY! Been trying to meet you.
I know this is a sensitive subject so I'm going to approach this story as though this were a Masonic meeting and keep politics and religion out of it (for real, they're supposed to not discuss either at their meetings, but how do they secretly run the world and scapegoat the jews I hear you say. I don't know, they just do). As I'm sure you're aware there was a bit of unpleasantness last week on a boat involving the people on it and the Israeli Defence Forces.
Anyway whatever the rights or wrongs of whatever went down as a result of it the AP are reporting that a number of bands have pulled out of the Pic.Nic festival in Tel Aviv this week as a result of … well, you know. Those being Pixies, Gorillaz and Klaxons (I've got a gag here but dammit, I can't use it, I really don't like Klaxons).
Also scheduled to play Israel but not anymore was Elvis Costello who also recently cancelled a couple of dates there, though they were pulled prior to that thing I've been skirting around. Explaining his reasoning Costello issued a statement saying, "There are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent... It is a matter of instinct and conscience."
Interpol News.
The title of Interpol's upcoming, presumably not as good as their first record, new album is called uhh … Interpol, obviously they forgot the NEVER CALL YOUR ALBUM THE NAME OF THE BAND UNLESS IT'S YOUR DEBUT rule.
Anyway for those of you that are distraught by the notion of an Interpol without cool bassist Carlos D the band announced his replacement last week and it's no other than indie royalty Dave Pajo. Pajo is most noted as a member of Sling but over the years has also played with/in the likes of Steroelab, Tortoise, Zwan, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's and Bonnie "Prince" Billie amongst others as well was releasing his own material under the names Papa M., Pajo, Aeriel M. and M. He's most noted as a guitar player but I'm sure he can handle this gig.
And now for some news on a new album: 1.
Radiohead drummer Philip Selway's debut record will be called Familial and it's out on August 30th. Here is the artwork:
and this is the tracklisting:
01 By Some Miracle
02 Beyond Reason
03 A Simple Life
04 All Eyes on You
05 The Ties That Bind Us
06 Patron Saint
07 Falling
08 Broken Promises
09 Don't Look Down
10 The Witching Hour
And now for some news on a new album: 2.
The first Superchunk record in 9 years will be called Majestic Shredding and it's out on September 14th on Merge. Here is the artwork:
and this is the tracklisting:
01 Digging for Something
02 My Gap Feels Weird
03 Rosemarie
04 Crossed Wires
05 Slow Drip
06 Fractures in Plaster
07 Learned to Surf
08 Winter Games
09 Rope Light
10 Hot Tubes
11 Everything at Once
And now for some news on a new album: 3.
In exchange for your e-mail you can download a free live album by The Dodos recorded live in Prague. Just go here. Here is the artwork:
and this is the tracklisting:
01 Walking
02 Red and Purple / Eyelids
03 Fools
04 Joe's Waltz
05 Winter
06 It's That Time Again
07 Paint the Rust
08 Jodi
09 Ashley
10 The Season
The YouTube video of the week
Awwwwww
If you can you should go to these gigs.
The National
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 %
06-18 Buffalo, NY - Knox Gallery @
06-26 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-01-04 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-06 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paradiso
07-07 Utrecht, The Netherlands - Tivoli
07-08 Hamburg, Germany - Stadtpark !
07-09 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
07-12-13 Lyon, France - Les Nuits de Fourviere
07-14 Munich, Germany - Rathausplatz
07-16 Southwold, England - Latitude Festival
07-16-18 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock
07-27 Brooklyn, NY - Prospect Park ^
07-31 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
08-02 Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion %
08-03 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Theatre %
08-04 Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theatre %
08-05-06 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue %
08-06-08 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-11 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-13 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-14 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival
08-15 St. Malo, France - Le Route du Rock
08-17 Graz, Austria - Kasematten Schlossberg ^
08-18 Vienna, Austria - Arena
08-20 Lausanne, Switzerland - For Noise Festival
08-21 Hasselt-Kiewit, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-22 Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
09-03-05 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
09-09-10 Vancouver, British Columbia - Malkin Bowl +
09-11 Redmond, WA - Marymoor Amphitheater >
09-12 Portland, OR - Musicfest NW
09-24 Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theatre *
09-25 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Library Hall of Homestead *
09-27 Louisville, KY - Brown Theater *
09-29 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre *
09-30 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
10-02 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Egyptian Room *
10-03 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *
10-04 Raleigh, NC - Memorial Hall *
10-05 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theater *
10-06 Orlando, FL - House of Blues *
10-08 Houston, TX - House of Blues *
10-09 Dallas, TX - House of Blues *
10-10 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-13 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theater *
10-14 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theater *
10-16 Pomona, CA - Fox Theater *
10-18 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium *
11-21 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
11-23 Paris, France - Olympia
11-24 Bristol, England - O2 Academy
11-25 Coventry, England - Warwick Arts Centre
11-26 Glasgow, Scotland - O2 Academy
11-27 Manchester, England - O2 Academy
11-30-12-01 London, England - Brixton Academy
% with the Antlers
@ with Rufus Wainwright, Atlas Sound, Martha Wainwright
! with Midlake, the Middle East
^ with Beach House
+ with the Walkmen
> with Okkervil River
* with Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett
06-02 Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
06-03 Bergen, Norway - Landmark
07-31 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
09-07 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
09-08 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *
09-11 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
09-13 Boston, MA - Wilbur *
09-24 Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theater #
09-25 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead #
09-27 Louisville, KY - W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre #
09-29 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre #
09-30 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant #
10-02 Indianapolis, IN - Old National Centre #
10-03 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium #
10-04 Raleigh, NC - Raleigh Memorial Auditorium #
10-05 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theater #
10-06 Orlando, FL - House of Blues #
10-08 Houston, TX - House of Blues #
10-09 Dallas, TX - House of Blues #
10-13 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre #
10-14 Tempe, AZ - The Marquee #
10-16 Pomona, CA - Fox Theater #
10-18 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium #
* with Dirty Projectors
# with the National
Panda Bear
07-17 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
08-13 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
09-06 San Francisco, CA - Fox
09-08 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-10 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
09-11 New York, NY - Governor's Island
Pixies
06-06 Ferrara, Italy - Piazza Castello
06-09 Tel Aviv, Israel - Expo Grounds
07-30 Woodford, Australia - Splendour in the Grass
08-03 Christchurch, New Zealand - Westpac Arena
08-07 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic Festival
09-07 Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre *
09-10 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *
09-13 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre *
09-17 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre *
09-18 Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre *
09-19 Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre *
09-20 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre *
09-22 Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall *
09-24 Mesa, AZ - Mesa Amphitheatre *
09-25 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint *
09-26 San Diego, CA - RIMAC Arena *
* Doolittle tour with Fuck Buttons
Superchunk
05-21 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
05-27 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-19 Denver, CO - Westword Music Festival
06-20 Chicago, IL - Taste of Randolph Street Festival
07-24 Omaha, NE - MAHA Music Festival
09-17 Washington, DC - 930 Club
09-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-19 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
09-21 Boston, MA - Royale
09-22 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
Islands
06-27 Brooklyn, NY - Northside Music Festival
06-28 Allston, MA - Harper's Ferry *
06-29 Providence, RI - Jerky's Live Music Hall *
06-30 Philadelphia, PA - The Barbary *
07-01 Washington, DC - The Black Cat *
07-02 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
07-03 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum *
07-04 Mobile, AL - Alabama Music Box *
07-05 Houston, TX - Mangos *
07-06 Austin, TX - The Parish *
07-07 Dallas, TX - The Loft *
07-08 Norman, OK - Opolis Productions *
07-09 St. Louis, MO - Firebird *
07-10 Madison, WI - The Terrace (University of Wisconsin) *
07-12 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
07-13 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
* with Active Child, Steel Phantoms
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
LCD Soundsystem – This is it.
The bit at the end
Bye folks, back in a week.
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