Sex, News & Violins 06.20.07
Posted by Jamie Buttineau on 06.20.2007
The Go! Team are go!ing to North America, we get some new music from the Broken Social Scene...sort of, a parade rebegins, someone messes with Sufjan Stevens and thus earns my eternal hatred and an awesome tour is about to start. I know I'm making good friends with you, because I'm shaking my good frame.
So David Milch lets Deadwood die so he can do a show about pseudo-supernatural surfers? Man, now there's a gamble that won't pay off. Dumbass.
Coming To You Live From A Series Of Tubes
The Pixies "Tame"
Live from Brixton Academy, London, June 26, 1991
I've decided that from now on whenever I don't have good recent live clips, I'm just gonna post clips of old Pixies performances. Because after watching some Youtube clips I'm convinced they're probably one of the most awesome bands to see live. Black Francis absolutely nails this performance, I mean it's practically flawless. I'll even say it's probably one of the best live performances I've ever seen. The whole thing works, the music, the singing, the atmosphere, even the audience who go apeshit over this song. Watch it, because once you do you'll probably want to watch it again.
Headlines!
They're Here To Rock The Microphone
The Go! Team's new album has a North American release date! YES! I was worried for a second there when they didn't have a label here but luckily they've signed to Sub Pop who will release their sophomore LP Proof Of Youth here on September 11, while in the UK they get it a day earlier.
Guests on the new album include Solex, The Rappers Delight Club who are of course the intercity kids who rap over Sufjan Stevens and Jens Lekman songs, Bonde de Role's Marina Ribatski ( .do not know who that is), but in the most exciting news of all, motherfuckin' Chuck D of Public Enemy will make a cameo on the song "Flashlight Fight"! Oh that might rock old school style. Here's a tracklist of this incredibly highly anticipated album:
Proof Of Youth Tracklist:
01 Grip Like a Vice
02 Doing It Right
03 My World
04 Titanic Vandalism
05 Fake ID
06 Universal Speech
07 Keys to the City
08 The Wrath of Marcie
09 I Never Needed It Now So Much
10 Flashlight Fight
11 Patricia's Moving Picture
There were rumours that The Go! Team would be playing at Lollapalooza but those have been debunked. The band does have a tour though, but there isn't a single damn North American date on there. Which is mondo disappointing. Regardless, it may be of interest to people who live in Gothenberg, Sweden, so here is their itinerary.
Green light rock!:
06-24 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-29 Beijing, China - The Star Live
06-30 Shanghai, China - Absolute House
07-05 London, England - Electrowerkz
07-22 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival
07-28 Berlin, Germany - Berlin Festival
08-10 Gothenberg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-11 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-15 Saint-Malo, France, La Route Du Rock Festival
08-16 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-18 Brighton, England - Loop Festival
08-26 London, England - Get Loaded Festival
08-31 Argyll, Scotland, Connect Festival
09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09-07 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
One Man Social Scene
Ah Broken Social Scene, the first true leaders in indie rock supergroups. Plus they're partly responsible for giving us Feist, Metric and Stars so bonus on that. Unfortunately information about a new album hasn't been released since their self-titled album dropped in 2005. Until now!
Well, sort of.
Kevin Drew, the sort of mastermind behind BSS, will be releasing his solo album under the title of Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew's Spirit If. So no, it's not a new Broken Social Scene album, BUT it's almost like one! It has the band name in the title and everything. While the album is Kevin Drew's solo effort, there will of course be several guest performers, and most of them will probably be fellow BSS members. Drew and the gang will play a few gigs to support this album, but for now all they have lined up is one date on August 29 at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool, a date that another fellow BSS member Feist will headline.
Interesting note, according to Kevin Drew's wikipedia page, he's reportedly dating Feist. I'm not sure if that's actually true, but those two ever procreated that kid would probably put out some awesome albums.
Now then, this would be a fine place to put the tracklisting for Kevin Drew's new album wouldn't it? Yes it would:
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew's Spirit If Tracklist:
01 Farewell to the Pressure Kids
02 Tbtf
03 F-ked Up Kid
04 Safety Bricks
05 Lucky Ones
06 Broke Me Up
07 Gangbang Suicide
08 Frightening Lives
09 Underneath the Skin
10 Big Love
11 Back Out on the...
12 Aging Faces / Losing Places
13 Bodhi Sappy Weekend
14 When It Begins
Montreal Has Wolf People
Despite the almost endless amount of side projects that the members of this band are involved in, Wolf Parade has announced plans for a tour. And considering how their other groups like Sunset Rubdown and Handsome Furs are still playing around it just goes to show that these guys have a hell of a lot of work ethic. There's also talk of a new album coming out but there's no info on it so right now that's just conjecture. Conjecture says I! For now, here are some tour dates.
AWOOOOOOOO:
08-11 Kingston, Ontario - Wolf Island Festival
08-18 Boston, MA - Tweeter Center (Download Festival)
08-19 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
08-20 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
08-21 Washington, DC - Black Cat
08-22 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
08-24 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
08-25 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
08-26 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
08-27 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
09-02 Milwaukee, WI - Alpine Valley (Download Festival)
09-06 Victoria, British Columbia - Sugar
09-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
09-08 Seattle, WA - Neumos
09-09 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-10 Eugene, OR - W.O.W. Hall
09-12 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
09-13 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
09-14 San Diego, CA - Cane's
09-15 Pomona, CA - Glass House
You've Pissed Off The Majesty Snowbird!
Well this is annoying. Some guy apparently spread a rumour that Sufjan Steven's next entry into his ongoing series of albums based on the 50 states would be based on Oregon. It was apparently going called Oregon, With The Wind. There was even a song there called "Portland, Or Whistling Underwater", which is a rather Sufjany sounding title. It was posted on a PureVolume page which had the following message:
"This time around Sufjan decided to let all of his influences shine through, from straight-up nasty noise rock to glitchridden electronica to modern classical. As 'In the Words of the Governor' from the 2007 Believer Music Issue CD, showed, some of Oregon is going to be fun and simple, harkening back to his earliest experiments tinkering with transistors in his parents basement. Some will expand into bona fide orchestral moments, like live favorite and album centerpiece 'Majesty, Snowbird'. Others will tread familiar territory, like the chamber-pop barnstormer 'Three Sisters, Three Brothers'. The exclusive PureVolume preview track, 'Portland, or, Whistling Underwater', straddles more than a few of these boundaries."
"Above all, the goal of Oregon was to rediscover the joy of making music, free of self-imposed boundaries. Ironic, you might say, given the context of the 50 States Project, but Sufjan Stevens was never a man to shy away from contradiction. Recorded at record pace, with some tracks nearly improvised, it is a conscious attempt to capture the moment of creation, the warm glow of the live performance, an eclectic mixture of unforgettable songs blazing trails westward, reminding of home, encompassing all sounds and textures."
Sounds pretty sweet huh, a new Sufjan Stevens album? Well I have some shocking news for you. It was .
A HOAX!!
I've been looking for a way all week to work that into the column.
Yes, Sufjan's label debunked these rumours and apparently Sufjan has had absolutely nothing to do with everything involved. So some jackass wrote up a Purevolume page and even made up a song just to piss everybody afterwards because that means there's still no new news on Sufjan's follow up to the super awesome Illinois. If this man is ever found, he deserves to beaten with seven swans and left for dead in Michigan. It's the only way he can get his comeuppance. Not sure how you would beat a man with seven swans, but there are probably some creative people out there who could figure it out.
Also, Sufjan? Start working on your next damned album already! Lazy ass music genius.
Just One More Thing
Apparently The Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are going to tour together. Yeah that's right, let the unbridled pure awesomeness of that announcement wash over you.
So far the only date scheduled is a performance at Morrison, Colorado's Red Rock Amphitheatre on September 17. But more and more dates will be forthcoming. And it will be so, so, so awesome.
RAPIDFIRE NEWS SMARTASSERY!!
Bonnaroo was this week. It was probably awesome but since I didn't go I wouldn't know and am thus disappointed. I missed Coachella and Bonnaroo. Why can't I ever go to bizarrely titled music festivals? Maybe I'll start my own music festival called Quazzelpegbergle Festival '07. I'm not sure what it means, but with a name that weird the lineup would probably be awesome.
Kelly Clarkson called off her summer tour because of low ticket sales. Meanwhile Clive Davis sits in his giant chair, drinks a sifter of brandy and laughs and laughs and laughs.
Fabolous was cleared of all weapons charges stemming from an arrest last October. Huh, that's the first time in a long time I can remember reporting a rapper not only not getting into trouble but actually getting out of trouble. It feels so weird, like something's wrong with the world.
Oh wait, The Game recently rejected a plea offer after he was charged with impersonating a police officer last year. Ah, there we go, rappers acting stupidly, all that was wrong is right again.
Tool may make a movie. Well, if it's anything like this:
That will be one fucked up movie. But at least Maynard will have some more wine money.
Chamillionaire's newest album's release date has been pushed back to September. You know what's sad? I hear "White & Nerdy", the Weird Al version of "Ridin' Dirty" more in clubs than the original. I don't know if that's a commentary about the lack of street cred of the clubs in my area or what. But it doesn't really bother me, "White & Nerdy" is better and everyone knows it. Admit it, you know it.
Asia is making a new album. Yeah, that's right, the guys who did "Heat Of The Moment", they are making a new album. And so is Foreigner. And let's not forget Poison's epic comeback. We are THIS close to a Quiet Riot reunion album people, THIS close. And who knows where it could go from there! Dare I say it, we may even see a reunion of Starship! Egads!
Lou Pearlman, the man behind the creation of boy bands like the Backstreet Boys or N'Sync (it was him! GET HIM!), has been arrested in Indonesia and is being extradited to the US. Apparently he's defrauded more than a 1000 investors out of $315 million in order to cover his losses in his other business ventures. Wait, this guy is responsible for putting together two of the most popular boy bands of all times, guys so popular at the time they probably could have made licensed toilet paper, and he managed to piss all that money he must made away? Either that dude is a bad business man or he has a predilection for young girls and coke. And considering he was in Indonesia where you can probably pick up both of those items at the local grocery store I think we know the answer. Dumbass.
Rod Stewart married another model. Ah to be Rod Stewart, he gets to be beloved by his fans, nail models, plus he gets the senior citizen discount. What a life.
Moby has signed onto a new label, so expect pseudo-electric music about why we're all bastards for eating meat any day now. Grow some hair hippie.
Ringo Starr has apparently signed a deal to allow his solo material to be downloaded off the interweb. Of course no one cares, but hey Paul McCartney did it so why not?
At an auction last week, a pill bottle that belonged to Elvis Presley went for ₤1335, or $2640 in normal human dollars. Yes kids for $2640 you too can own the last thing Elvis Presley probably held before he died on a toilet. God bless capitalism.
The Libertines might get back together. Because once you've spent time away from the irritating, heroin fuelled jackass antics of Pete Doherty you just can't wait to go back!
The cartoon character band Gorillaz will apparently be immortalized as vibrators. Well at least we now know what business "Feel Good Inc." is in.
Rumour has it that Britney Spears is thinking of getting back together with Kevin Federline. Because she apparently wants to prove to us that she can be even stupider than we could have possibly imagined. That's Britney Spears, raising the bar on how low she can sink.
Billboard Top 20
1. T-Pain, Epiphany Note to all you readers out there, 9 times out of ten if the artist has a letter before his name, you probably shouldn't buy that album.
2. Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad You know, not enough people seem to realize the sexiness of an umbrella. I've glad Rihanna has utilized the sexual power of this water resistant friend of ours, it's about time someone did.
3. Paul McCartney, Memory Almost Full I wish all the good Beatles were still alive.
4. R. Kelly, Double Up Urine idiot for buying this.
5. Maroon 5, It Won't Be Soon Before Long Adam Levine has predicted the apocalypse! The end of days is near, and he hs foretold with it with crappy wuss pop rock! REPENT!
6. Big & Rich, Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace So this is like purgatory then? Man, purgatory has some shitty music.
7. Linkin Park, Minutes To Midnight How are you guys not washed up like Fred Durst? You suck almost the exact same amount! Come on cosmos, make this right!
8. Marilyn Manson, Eat Me Drink Me You could make a cannibal become a vegan.
9. Daddy Yankee, El Cartel: The Big Boss Why don't you make like a good Latin American drug lord and die in a Scarface-esque blaze of glory?
10. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black I don't know how you could marry this girl, even her cooch is probably filled with sorrow.
11. The Police, The Police As much as I love The Police, this whole reunion thing is basically just a big cash grab. You didn't even need to reunite The Police, you could have just said "Sting playing nothing but the hits of The Police and none of his crappy solo work" and the tickets would have sold like hotcakes. Although "Desert Rose" was a cool little song. What ever happened to that little East Indian midget he used to have sing with him anyway?
12. Daughtry, Daughtry Who would thought losing a talent contest would be such a lucrative business venture?
13. Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Thing My hatred for her transcends words.
14. Michael Buble, Call Me Irresponsible Giving hope to all those losers who make a living singing Sinatra covers in bars across the world.
15. Jason Aldean, Relentless When I don't know who they are they're usually either country or Christian musicians. Either way, it's pretty safe to say they suck. Hard.
16. Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts She had a soul once. That's the saddest part of all.
17. Chris Cornell, Carry On Well it's nice to see a crappy rock artist who doesn't debut at number one for a change. You peaked at "Black Hole Sun" Chris, deal with it!
18. Ne-Yo, Because Of You God, stop being such a little bitch Ne-Yo.
19. Dream Theater, Systemic Chaos DREAM THEATER?!! In the top 20?! Serious-fuckin'-ly?! Dream Theater, the prog rockers with music so complicated you could probably take a college course on it? Selling well in the mainstream music world? The world just turned all upside-downy.
20. Fergie, The Dutchess But of course, Fergie somehow remains popular. So we haven't quite reached a renaissance yet. Seriously, stop buying her albums, it makes her think she's talented.
Important New Releases Of The Week .According To Me
Ah, The White Stripes, no matter who you are, everybody loves them. Except for Ben Czajkowski who appears to hate the shit out of them. I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death the right for you to say it. This is the sorta reunion album for the band, since Jack went off to do some more mainstream normal rock with The Raconteurs and Meg .bought a cat maybe? I don't know how these guys manage to churn out awesome pieces of rock in short hour long sessions yet it takes Axl Rose nearly two decades to fine tune Chinese Democracy. Of course, the band actually took about three weeks to record this album, which is much much longer in White Stripes' recording time. Gone are the crazy marimbas and jazzy feel of Get Behind Me Satan and back is the more garage rock feel of the earlier albums. Although the organ playing is still there, and also they manage to cram in some bagpipes. To each their own I suppose. Overall, it's an improvement over Get Behind Me Satan, although I actually liked that album. But it doesn't quite outshine White Blood Cells or Elephant. But does that make any less great? Of course not. Viva la Whites!
I was gonna post this last week but it got too late and I got too lazy so I ran out of time. However this week I gladly sing the praises of the latest rocktastic album from Josh Homme and his band of miscreants. For some reason I hear people declaring this a return to the better days of the band and an improvement over Lullabies To Paralyze. And again I gotta what is with all the hate? I loved Lullabies To Paralyze, how can you hate an album that makes such great use of the cowbell? Sadly, the cowbell isn't as prevalent on Era Vulgaris but the songs are still catchy and rock harder than a hard rock. Because I imagine there are few thing that could rock as hard as a rock, I mean that's just common sense.
The Greatest Video Ever Made Of The Week
The Go! Team, "Grip You Like A Vice"
From the upcoming album Proof Of Youth, 2007
Ah, it's so great to hear new music from The Go! Team. That's how much my love extends for The Go! Team, I don't even mind the exclamation point in the middle of the name. Normally I would find that retarded, but with The Go! Team, it just exemplifies their awesomeness. Panic! At The Disco can't get away with that shit because they don't possess even a molecule of the greatness that The Go! Team possess. This video isn't so much a video as it is an onslaught of images being hurled at your face. There's an ever present girl with an afro, a drummer in a Mexican wrestling mask, 60's esque hippie chicks booging down, etc etc. There might be a message of some sort underneath it all, but good luck trying to find it. Besides that, the song is awesome and the video is the right amount of weird to enjoy it so it's win win for everybody.
Support The Municipality!!
Ian Wright agrees with me on the Joanna Newsom getting royally screwed out of the Shortlist Music Prize front. Granted, Cat Power is awesome, but Ys makes Jesus want to cry and write poetry about why he's crying. He also shares my annoyance with the radical exclamation point in The Go! Team's name, although again, their awesomeness makes up for it. Reading his column also made me realize that I'm severely underschooled on my knowledge of Sonic Youth's discography. I gotta grab EVOL sometime this week.
Fact Or Fiction this week has Mikey MiGo and Jesse Coy in each corner. Apparently Mikey doesn't think Akon is wrong in tossing a kid offstage, which is kinda funny. I dunno, if Mick Jagger grabbed a guy and chucked him offstage he'd probably get in trouble. Although if Mick Jagger tried to grab a guy he'd probably break in two. The man looks malnourished at times.
And Ben Czajkowski (I can spell his name without looking now! I'm awesome!) has a new column where he rates the latest modern rock singles. It's pretty good, although he did give The White Stripes a 2/5 while Linkin Park managed to score a 4/5, which is wrong on several many different levels. But again, to each their own I suppose .Although seeing Linkin Park get any praise does hurt my insides.
IT'S OVER
There we go, a nice full column. It's always good to finish up one of those. And finish it I shall. See you next week friends, well wishers and people who wound up here due to a wayward Google search. I bid you adieu.
