Dancing About Architecture Indie Music News 8.03.10
Posted by Ian Wright on 08.03.2010
Talking about canceled bad taste sit-coms, Built To Spill remixes, new music from Jens Lekman, a whole bunch of Robert Pollard releases on the way, Avey Teres solo album, and more.
The bit at the start
Hi all, just give me a second why I skim through my excuse Rolodex to see why this week's intro section is so short
It's a public holiday here.
Actually it is and I slept in till 1PM because I stayed up till 5AM drinking wine and watching things that have future wife* Lizzy Caplan in it. If you haven't seen "Party Down" before it's worth catching, they only made 20 episodes before it got cancelled but they're all pretty funny though at times the brow is hanging somewhere below the knees. Really good cast too; Martin Star, Adam Scott, Caplan and until Glee took off and she had to bail at the end of season 1 Jane Lynch, who is almost always very good.
Anyway I want to play some guitar at some point this afternoon so lets get started.
* In the event of Clemence Posey's unavailability.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Popical Island Popical Island #1
15 track indie-pop compilation from Ireland. Stream or buy here.
You news, you lose
Built To Spill remixed by Built To Spill.
Well actually remix isn't quite right, it's more that they've completely remade some of the songs in their catalogue with drum machines and 80's synth sounds, only the melodies and Doug Martsch's plaintive vocals. The project was undertaken by Martsch and bandmate Brett Nelson under the name The Electric Anthology Project and the 7 song EP will be available at upcoming BTS gigs or from CDBaby. Each of the songs is retitled with an anagram of the tune's original name and to be honest the results are a little mixed with the stand out track of the seven being this re-imagining of Keep It Like A Secret's "Else," or "Eels" if you prefer.
01 "I Dim Our Angst In Agony" ("Goin' Against Your Mind")
02 "Age I Felt" ("Get A Life")
03 "At The Where" ("The Weather")
04 "Eels" ("Else")
05 "What If Your Dull" ("I Would Hurt A Fly")
06 "A Gloss Siren" ("Israel's Song")
07 "Far Path Tall Sign" ("Things Fall Apart")
New Jens Lekman music.
After a couple of years of a break Jens Lekman is back on the road. He actually played Dublin last night but I skipped it as the last time I saw him live he pissed me off something rotten due to repeated the exact same shtick that he had the previous time that I'd seen him but tweets from people that were there seem to indicate that he was pretty great. He's also got a new song out on the interwebs called "The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love" and you can download it below in exchange for your e-mail address as is now fashionable.
You can also read the "making of" story on the Secretly Canadian website.
Pollard never stops.
So there's the little matter of the Guided By Voices reunion tour to take care of but that doesn't mean that Robert Pollard doesn't have a whole bunch of new releases in the pipeline.
Because he does.
5 of them.
Indie's most productive man will be practically flinging out records in the next 10 months with albums from Boston Spaceships bookending what promises to be a typically fertile period in Pollard's career. The first of the Spaceships records is out on September 7th and is called Our Clubhouse. (Listen to "Come on baby Grace" from it here.)
After that he's on the road with GBV so there's a gap of a few months before his latest solo offering, the 18 track Space City Kicks kicks 2011 off in January. The following month sees the new release from Lifeguards, his project with ex-GBV guitarist Doug Gillard entitled Waving At The Astronauts. In March he'll release a yet to be titled album with Big Dipper's Gary Waleik under the monikor Mars Classroom.
Finally in May the second Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard and rather excitingly will feature guitar guest spots from J. Mascis, Wire's Colin Newman, the Dirtbombs' Mick Collins, King Missile's Dave Rick, and the Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn.
Avey Tere solo album.
There's been a whole lot of chatter this year about the upcoming solo record from Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear of Animal Collective) so the announcement that his bandmate Dave Portner would be releasing his debut solo record this year came as something of a bolt from the blue.
Down There is out on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label on Ovetober 26th and the 9 song affair was recorded by Josh Dibb, otherwise known as AnCo's Deakin.
Tracklisting:
01 Laughing Hieroglyphic
02 3 Umbrellas
03 Oliver Twist
04 Glass Bottom Boat
05 Ghost of Books
06 Cemeteries
07 Heads Hammock
08 Heather in the Hospital
09 Lucky 1
Artwork:
The YouTube video of the week
New video for Broken Social Scene's Forced To Love.
09-04 Los Angeles, CA - F Yeah Fest
09-07 Philadelphia, PA - 1st Unitarian Church
09-08 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
09-09 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Fest
09-10 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #
09-11 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light #
09-12 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge #
09-14 St. Louis, MO - Gargoyle *
09-15 Appleton, WI - Lawrence University *
09-16 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
09-18 Chicago, IL - Metro *!
09-21 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *
09-22 Columbus, OH - Summit *
09-23 Cincinnati, OH - MPMF *
09-24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
09-27 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
09-28 Boston, MA - Middle East *
09-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
09-30 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10-26 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
10-28 Portland, OR - Holocene ^
10-29 Vancouver, British Columbia - Cobalt ^
10-30 Seattle, WA - Neumo's ^
10-31 Spokane, WA - Stage 54
11-02 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge ^
11-03 Denver, CO - Bluebird ^
11-05 Dallas, TX - Granada ^
11-06 Houston, TX - Mango's ^
11-07 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-09 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room ^
11-10 San Diego, CA - Casbah ^
* with Male Bonding
# with Cults
! with Titus Andronicus, Free Energy
^ with Sonny & the Sunsets
The Thermals
09-06 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival
09-08 Bend, OR - The Tower Theatre
09-09 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom (Music Fest Northwest)
09-12 Portland, OR - Kennedy School (You Who Kids Show)
09-25 Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo *
09-26 Spokane, WA - The Seaside
09-27 Billings, MT - The Railyard Ale House
09-29 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium (Dempsey's Upstairs)
09-30 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club #
10-01 Iowa City, IA - The Mill #
10-02 Madison, WI - The Annex #
10-03 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
10-04 Bloomington, IN - Rhino's #
10-06 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick #
10-07 Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern #
10-08 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom #
10-09 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace #
10-10 Ithaca, NY - Castaways #
10-12 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #
10-13 New York, NY - Irving Plaza #
10-14 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club #
10-15 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
10-17 Mt. Pleasant, SC - Village Tavern #
10-19 Athens, GA - 40 Watt #
10-20 Nashville, TN - Exit/In #
10-21 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree #
10-22 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks #
10-23 Austin, TX - Red 7 #
10-24 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater #
10-28 Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theater
10-29 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
10-30 Boise, ID - Neurolux
* with Japandroids
# with Cymbals Eat Guitars
Interpol
08-04 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre !#
08-05 Boston, MA House of Blues !#
08-06 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights !#
08-09 Montreal, Quebec Metropolis !
08-10 Toronto, Ontario Kool Haus !
08-11 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo !
08-13 Milwaukee, WI The Rave !
08-14 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue !
08-15-16 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre !
08-18 Charleston, SC The Music Farm !
08-19 Lake Buena Vista FL House of Blues !
08-21 Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore !
09-16 Caen, France - Le Cargo
09-18 Paris, France - Stade De France *
09-21 Lille, France - Aeronef
09-22-23 Brussels, Belgium - Stade Roi Boudoin *
09-25 Bordeaux, France - Le Vigean
09-26 San Sebastian, Spain - Anoeta Stadium *
09-28 Grenada, Spain - La Industrial Copera
09-29 Seville, Spain - Olympic Stadium *
10-01 Santiago, Spain - Santiago De Compostela
10-02-03 Coimbra, Portugal - Estadio Cidade Coimbra *
10-05 Bilbao, Spain - Teatro Campos Eliseos
10-06 Toulouse, France - Li Bikini
10-08 Rome, Italy - Olympic Stadium *
10-16 Mexico City, Mexico - Corona Festival
10-18 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
10-21 San Diego, CA - Soma
10-22 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
10-23 Los Angeles, CA - The Greek
10-25 Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
10-27 Dallas, TX - Palladium
10-28 Austin, TX - Stubb's
10-29 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
10-31 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Festival
11-01 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
11-03 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
11-04 Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre
11-05 New York, NY - United Palace
11-12 Lisbon, Portugal - Campo Pequeno
11-13 Madrid, Spain - Palacio Vistalegre
11-14 Barcelona, Spain - San Jordi Club
11-16 Marseille, France - Dock Du Sud
11-17 Milan, Italy - Palasharp
11-18 Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
11-20 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom
11-21 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall
11-22 Dortmund, Germany - Westfalenhalle 2
11-24 Nottingham, England - Rock City
11-25 Newcastle, England - O2 Academy
11-26 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy
11-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange
11-29-12-01 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia
12-03 Manchester, England - Apollo
12-04 Liverpool, England - Liverpool University
12-06-07 London, England - O2 Academy Brixton
! with Twin Tigers
# with the Postelles
* with U2
LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip
10-22 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave *
11-10 London, England - Alexandra Palace *
11-12 Cardiff, Wales - International Arena *
11-13 Sheffield, England - Magna Arena *
11-15 Manchester, England - Apollo *
Fennesz
08-06 Katowice, Poland - OFF Festival
08-26 Dortmund, Germany - ISEA
08-28 Catania, Italy - Uva Grapes Festival
09-04 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge %
09-05 Philadelphia, PA - The International House
09-20 Cambridge, MA - The Middle East
09-21 Washington, DC - Sonic Circuits Festival
09-22 Brooklyn, NY - Littlefield
09-23 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09-25 Seattle, WA - Decibel Festival
09-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Western Front
09-28 San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
09-29 Los Angeles, CA - Center of the Arts
09-30 Austin, TX - Emo's
* with Ulver
% with Soap & Skin
Grinderman
09-25 Nottingham, England - Rock City
09-27 Leeds, England - University
09-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
09-29 Manchester, England - Academy
10-01 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo
10-04 Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks
10-05 Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
10-06 Milan, Italy - Live
10-07 Rome, Italy - Atlantico
10-10 Vienna, Italy - Gasometer
10-11 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
10-13 Leipzig, Germany - Haus Auensee
10-14 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
10-15 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
10-17 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
10-20 Utrecht, Netherlands - MCV
10-21 Hamburg, Germany - Docks
10-23 Copenhagen, Denmark - Falkoner Theatre
10-24 Randers, Denmark - Power Station
10-26 Paris, France - Cite de la Music
10-28 Groningen, Netherlands - Groningen De Oosterpoort
11-11 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
11-12 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
11-13 Boston, MA - House of Blues
11-14 New York, NY - Nokia Theatre
11-16 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11-18 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
11-19 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
11-20 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
11-22 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
11-23 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
11-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
11-27 Seattle, WA - King Cat Theater
11-29 San Francisco, CA - Warfield
11-30 Los Angeles, CA - Music Box
12-01 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
The Electronic Anthology Project - Electronic Anthology Project EP
The Walkmen Lisbon
Various MP3's by Hired Hand, Frankie Rose, Corin Tucker and Boston Spaceships.
The bit at the end
Saw Calvin Johnson on Friday, he was only so-so. Seeing Pantha Du Prince on Saturday. Should be good.
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