Brilliantly crafted songwriting from Irish 4-piece whose debut album was released last week.
Recommended song: Eyes Open.
You news, you lose
I am so smart
I am so smart
‘S' 'M' 'R' 'T'.
I told ya, didn't I tell ya?
This year's pitchfork fest see the American debut of ATP's Don't Look Back Series which sees a band play one of their albums in full from start to finish. It had already been announced that Sonic Youth would be performing Daydream Nation in Union Park on July 13th and for the past number of weeks the fork have been teasing that there would be two more Don't Look Back performances taking place that weekend and for about as long I've been confidently declaring that Slint would be playing their 1991 proto post-rock classic Spiderland at it. Well on Friday it was announced that Slint would indeed join Sonic Youth and Gza ( who will be performing Liquid Swords) in Chicago.
Tickets are available from ticketweb and are priced in all sorts of combinations depending on how many days you want to go (here's a hint if you do live around there, ALL OF THEM).
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72 & JSBX)
Clipse
Iron and Wine
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
Battles
Fujiya & Miyagi
Oxford Collapse
Dan Deacon
Beach House
Professor Murder
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound
Sunday, July 15:
New Pornographers
Stephen Malkmus
De La Soul
Of Montreal
Jamie Lidell
Menomena
Klaxons
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic
On the subject of Slint, David Pajo is playing solo in Dublin this week. Worth checking out?
Zeitgeist: "You'll never capture me Billy."
The Billy And Jimmy Show Smashing Pumpkins announced the tracklisting of their upcoming (July 7th) first-in-7-years new album Zeitgeist. Judging by the titles of the songs don't expect a laugh riot but there's a chance it could be a quite political record.
Zeitgeist:
01 Doomsday Clock
02 7 Shades of Black
03 Orchid
04 That's the Way
05 Tarantula
06 Starz
07 United States
08 Never Lost
09 Bring the Light
10 Come On (Let's Go)
11 For God and Country
12 Pomp and Circumstance
"Father do you know me, can you hear me do you even care?".
Jeff's dad, aka Tim Buckley is set to ... well he's not set to, he OD'd in the mid 70's, but someone on behalf of his estate is set to release a DVD compiling 14 television performances (12 of which are previously unreleased in video/DVD format) by the folk-rock-jazz great.
My Fleeting House also includes interviews with Buckley, songwriting partner Larry Becket, guitarist Lee Underwood and Buckley biographer Larry Browne. The DVD is out on May 15th and if you live in Philadelphia, Chicago, LA, Austin, Portland or New York you could also go to a screening of the film in the days leading up to it.
My Fleeting House:
01 No Man Can Find the War [from "Inside Pop"]
02 Happy Time" [from "Late Night Line Up"]
03 Morning Glory [from "Late Night Line Up"]
04 The Dolphins [from "The Old Grey Whistle Test"]
05 Song to the Siren [from "The Monkees Show"]
06 Who Do You Love [from "Greenwich Village"]
07 Happy Time [from "Dutch TV"]
08 Sing a Song for You [from "Dutch TV"]
09 Sally Go Round the Roses [from "Music Video Live"]
10 Blue Melody [from "Boboquivari"]
11 Venice Beach (Music Boats by the Bay) [from "Boboquivari"]
12 I Woke Up [from "The Show"]
13 Come Here Woman [from "The Show"]
14 Pleasant Street [from "The Christian Licorice Store"]
Screenings:
05-10 Philadelphia, PA - Tin Angel
05-12 Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
05-13 Los Angeles, CA - Molly Malones
05-14 Austin, TX - Alamo Drafthouse
05-14 Portland, OR - Bagdad Theatre & Pub
05-15 New York, NY - Southpaw
Obligatory Radiohead news
Thom and the boys are such cock teases. If you head over to radiohead dot com and click on "hodiau direktion" you'll hear a brief clip of "15 step" which was performed over the course of their tour last year.
Well that was brief.
The world is full of crashing bores, and I am one.
Morrissey has snubbed the Rock n' Roll, though not for the obvious reason that the very idea of the institution is objectionable but because rather because he refuses to share the stage with his former Smiths bandmates, and lets fact it, if he'll turn down 10 mill from Coachella it's hardly surprising.
The Smiths were in the running to be inducted in 2008 but it won't happen now because Mozza is still pissed at drummer Mike Joyce for suing him and Johnny Marr over unpaid royalties in 1996.
I may shed a tear at the next full moon.
Patrick Wolf posted the following on a fan message board last night in response to a thread about him doing an interview whilst drunk and smacking/firing his drummer during a gig ...
dear all...
I should never have read this.. I really shouldn't.
I don't think when I was 16 and dreamt of releasing records there would ever
be so much crazy speculation about the person I am and that you want me to be.
I have become so tired of this behaviour, sometimes I wake up and have to do six hours
of interviews before doing a show, then go straight to bed to sleep a couple of hours
to fly to a new country to be cross examined in the same way.. I dont know what is left of
me sometimes, some mornings i dont know how i get on the flight or even open my mouth to sing that night. If I choose after working since the early hours of a day and then pouring my heart out for an hour and a half that I really have nothing left to give.. that I cannot be a fake politician and sign autographs for an hour.. does this make an asshole?
because my drummer was causing arguments within my road family, taking sedative drugs before an important show in a city i really love, so much so he could not play the music I wrote, the songs that I have survived on in the last six years... because I had to slap him to see if he was even CONSCIOUS on stage.... the fact that the only thing that got any reaction out his corpse happened to be made of metal.. because all of this.. does this make me seem like I was on cocaine, or on some power trip? I was pissed off because this was just one more musician or businessman taking my good nature and generosity for a ride... trust me, that moment onstage was the end of a long line of bad behaviour that it would unfair to go into in public. Yes I was drunk, but It was one oclock in the morning after seven hours of interviews.. i had been running on about four hours of sleep a night for about two weeks... such is the joy of promoting a record. Anyway, I was having FUN until that moment. So was the rest of my band until we realised my drummer was taking the piss out of all of us and our hard work. I dont work with liars and I dont work with thieves.
I dont want to have to share this information with you but so many seem so interested...
I have made a decision, my final concert will be this november, a retrospective with an orchestra in London. I am not sure wether there will be anymore public communications after that, Infact I am pretty sure there will be none. Of course, this has nothing to do with my drummer.. but a creative clock is ticking and I have many many projects to be creating with my time left on this earth. I hope to share my last shows with you this year.
I have enjoyed making and performing music for you all, I have enjoyed trying to give a little hope
and inspiration to the world. But I feel, especially when I read all this and I go about my days that I have failed.
Im not seeking sympathy or empathy, god, I have to go find something I love and am inspired by in this world again. Many of you will never know the amount of work and emotion that goes on behind the scenes for me and many of your other favourite artists or musicians and why should you? I wanted to give you disneyland.. I wanted to give you a world at the back of your wardrobe, now im just feel a fool for bothering.
I am in berlin today, i know I should never have read this, I dont know who any of you are, just strangers talking amongst themselves,
and I wish I was stronger minded today, but i have to take enough bullshit from other parts of the world for what I do and who I am without getting it from here.
Im going off for a walk now.. clear my heart and head. Thanks to all you with the intelligence to see past the superficial chaos of the media and the various ridiculous personalities and characters that have been painted around me over the years, the problem is, unfortunately many of you will never get to know the truth, but many will still speculate, and play chinese whispers with interviews and
opinions from the friend of a friend. This is nothing new to me, unfortunately, luckily I have always had a close set of dear friends that will always know me for who I really am, just as I do.
If I can give any advice, is, if anything, just listen to the music, watch the videos, read the lyrics, see the artwork, these are my communications, not others.
still love x patrick
I'm not a huge Patrick Wolf fan, I saw him open for Arcade Fire in Dublin and was all that impressed but he's a good pop songwriter and "The Magic Position" is a nice tune but I'm taking the statement with a pinch of salt. It reads like it was written in a tired and emotional state and perhaps with a bit more time to think things over he'll reconsider.
05-22 Paris, France - Grand Rex
05-26 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
05-28 Landgraaf, Netherlands - Megaland (Pinkpop Festival)
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-02 Nürburgring, Germany - Nürburgring Race Track (Rock am Ring)
06-03 Nuremburg, Germany - Zeppelinfeld (Rock im Park)
06-09 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisbon Festival
06-12 Madrid, Spain - Las Ventas
06-15 Nickelsdorf, Austria - Nova Rock Festival
06-16 Venice, Italy - Heineken Jammin' Festival
06-17 Interlaken, Switzerland - Greenfield Festival
07-07 East Rutherford, NJ - Giants Stadium (Live Earth Festival)
08-05 Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Park (Virgin Festival)
08-24 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-26 Reading, England - Reading Festival
09-08 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
09-09 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival
Modest Mouse
04-17 Boise, ID - Big Easy Concert House #
04-20 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre #
04-21 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre #
04-22 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre #
04-24 Toronto, Ontario - Hummingbird Center for the Performing Arts
04-25 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis *
04-26 Rochester, NY - Main Street Armory *
04-27 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre *
04-29 New York, NY - The United Palace *
04-30 New York, NY - The United Palace *
05-02 Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel *
05-03 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory *
05-04 Greensboro, NC - Coliseum Special Events Center *
05-05 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Music Park *
05-06 Birmingham, AL - BJCC Arena Concert Hall *
05-08 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues *
05-09 Austin, TX - The Backyard *
05-10 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre *
05-12 Mesa, AZ - Mesa Amphitheater *
05-13 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre *
05-14 San Diego, CA - Cox Arena at San Diego State University *
05-16 San Jose, CA - San Jose State University
05-20 Somerset, England - Butlins Minehead (ATP vs. the Fans)
05-23 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
05-26 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
05-27 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
05-28 Nottingham, England - Rock City
05-29 Manchester, England - Ritz Ballroom
06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-06 Munich, Germany – Georg Elser Halle
06-07 Berlin, Germany – Postbahnhof
06-10 Frankfurt, Germany – Batchkapp
06-11 Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
06-16 Interlaken/Schweiz, Switzerland – Greenfields Festival
06-23 Scheeßel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
06-24 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany – Southside Festival
06-30 Arendal, Norway – Hove Festival
08-03-05 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-31-09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
Decemberists
04-20 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theater #
04-21 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater #
04-22 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium #
04-25 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theater #
04-26 San Francisco, CA - Warfield heater #
04-27 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
04-28 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-03 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theater #
05-04 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater #
05-05 Bellingham, WA - Western Washington University #
06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-07 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood Bowl (orchestral show) *
07-13 Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park (orchestral show)
07-14 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (orchestral show)
07-15 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center (orchestral show)
07-16 New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage ^
07-18 Chicago, IL - Pritzker Pavilion (Millennium Park) (orchestral show)
07-22 Portland, OR - Edgefield Winery $
09-22 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
09-23 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
09-24 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
09-25 Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
09-27 Vienna, Austria - Arena
09-28 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
09-29 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
09-30 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit
10-02 London, England - Royal Festival Hall
10-03 Cambridge, England - Junction
10-05 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
10-06 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms
10-07 Oxford, England - Academy
10-09 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street
10-10 Liverpool, England - Academy
10-11 Newcastle, England - Academy
10-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Academy
10-13 Leeds, England - Metropolitan University
# with My Brightest Diamond
* with Band of Horses
^ with Grizzly Bear, Land of Talk
$ with Menomena
Jesus And Mary Chain
04-26 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-21 New York, NY - Webster Hall
05-22 New York, NY - Webster Hall
07-04 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock
07-13 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-14 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
08-12 Hildesheim, Germany - M'era Luna Festival
08-31 Argyll, Scotland - Inveraray Castle (Connect Festival)
09-01 Stradbally, Ireland - Stradbally Hall (Electric Picnic)
Mogwai
05-11 Zurich, Switzerland - M4 Festival
05-13 Edinburgh, Scotland - Liquid Rooms
05-18 Minehead, England - Butlins Holiday Centre (ATP vs the Fans)
05-26 Seville, Spain - Monastery Cartuja
06-16 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar
06-23 Scheeßel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-24 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
07-12 London, England - Somerset House
07-14 Birmingham, England - Supersonic Festival
09-01 Argyll, Scotland - Inveraray Castle (Connect Festival)
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Elliot Smith – A 2000 bootleg from The Black Cat in Washington.
The National – BBC 6Music Session
The Apples In Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
The bit at the end
My current National infatuation has reached its logical conclusion. I'll be in London on May 22nd seeing them in the Astoria as I decided I can't wait till November.
Check out the sports zone for the champions league semi-final roundtable to see who I think will be playing in Athens in a month or so.
