Dancing About Architecture 01.29.08
Posted by Ian Wright on 01.29.2008
She And Him, Man Man, Scarlett Johansson, Mogwai, My Morning Jacket and Portishead.
The bit at the start
It seems that every May and November a number of great bands roll through Dublin in quick succession and both my sleep patterns and wallet take a hammering during that period. This year May is going to be no different because in a 10 day period that month Yeasayer, The National (twice), Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene and Bruce Springsteen (thrice) will all be playing within an easy hour from my front door. Throw in 3 days of ATP in the middle and it's a prospective musical feast on a par with a small lunch at
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my mind has gone blank. I can't think of a single morbidly obese famous person right now. Why did Brando have to die on me?
A nice complaint to have I guess. All the gigs, not the lack of fat celebs.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Evangelicals – The Evening Descends.
A lovely mash-up of BSS, Animal Collective and Camera Obscura.
You news, you lose
A think I love Zooey Deschanel ... follow up.
She And Him, a.k.a. Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, have announced the details of their first record. Volume 1 is out on Merge (conveniently that's the label that Matt puts his own stuff out on) on March 18th.
Tracklisting:
01 Sentimental Heart
02 Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
03 This Is Not a Test
04 Change Is Hard
05 I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
06 Take It Back
07 I Was Made for You
08 You Really Got a Hold on Me (Miracles cover)
09 Black Hole
10 Got Me
11 I Should Have Known Better (Beatles cover)
There's a song available on Merge's website. It's uhh, not bad.
Evil Urges.
That's the title of My Morning Jacket's follow up to 2005's Z. It's out on June 10th on ATO.
That's about all I have right now about it.
Another anniversary reissue.
Mogwai are currently working on the follow up to Mr. Beast with a tentative release set for the summer.
However before that (April) will see the reissue of 1997's Young Team (and Jesus, "With Portfolio" is one of the most unsettling pieces of music I've ever heard with headphones on, it had me in a foetal position by the time it was over) in Chemical Underground.
The reissue will feature a remastered version of the album as well as an additional 8 bonus tracks.
It's pretty much all shout items this week. Sorry.
Shakes head.
I was going to go see Sunset Rubdown on May 20th but instead I might just spend the day listening to Anywhere I Lay My Head which comes out on Atco that day. It's Scarlett Johansson's collection of 9 Tom Wait's covers and one original song.
Oh wow, this could be a really bad idea.
David Sitek of TV On The Radio, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Celebration's Sean Antanaitis and Ryan Sawyer of Stars Like Fleas are all involved. I don't know if they're going to help.
That's a pretty shit album title guys.
It's been ten years since Portishead put out their second record. Whatever they've been up to it hasn't been thinking up album titles because when they finally put out their third record on April 14th via Island it'll simply be called Third.
It's got 11 songs on it.
It lasts 49:13.
That's about it.
The YouTube video of the week
Man Man in the studio.
If you can you should go to these gigs.
Liars/No Age co-headliner
01-25 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
01-26 Reno, NV - Club Underground
01-28 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
01-29 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market
01-30 Boise, ID - Neurolux
01-31 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
02-01 Denver, CO - Marquis Theater
02-02 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
02-04 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College
02-05 Chicago, IL - Metro
02-07 Buffalo, NY - Traif
02-08 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
02-09 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
02-10 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
02-12 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
02-13 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
02-14 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
02-16 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
02-17 Denton, TX - Hailey's
02-19 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
02-20 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse
02-21 San Diego, CA - Casbah
02-22 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
Animal Collective
03-16 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro *
03-17 Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro *
03-18 Tokyo, Japan - Liquid Room *
03-19 Tokyo, Japan - Liquid Room *
04-25 Indio, CA - Coachella
05-18 Minehead, England - Butlins Holiday Centre (ATP)
05-19 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod
05-20 Glasgow, Scotland - Oran Mor
05-21 Leeds, England - Brudell Room
05-22 London, England - Koko
05-23 Strasbourg, France - Laiterie
05-24 Paris, France - Alhambra Theatre
05-25 Lille, France - Grand Mix
05-26 Bordeaux, France - Krakatora
05-28 Braga, Portugal - Teatri Circo
05-29 Lisbon, Portugal - Lux Fragil
05-30 Malaga, Spain - AV Cervantes
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
* with Kria Brekken
Bon Ivor
02-10 Eau Claire, WI - The Nucleus
02-15 Bloomington, IN - Bear's Place
02-18 Chapel Hill, NC - The Local 506
02-19 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *
02-20 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
02-22 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
02-23 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands *
02-24 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs *
02-25 Portland, ME - The Space Gallery *
02-26 Moncton, New Brunswick - The Manhattan *!
02-27 Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Marquee Club *!
02-29 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *#
03-05 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *#
03-06 Cleveland Heights, OH - The Grog Shop *!
03-07 Louisville, KY - Headliners *
03-09 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light *!
03-10 Nashville, TN - Exit/In *!
03-11 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz *!
03-19 San Diego, CA - Che Cafe $
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo $
03-21 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters $
03-22 Visalia, CA - Cellar Door $
03-23 San Francisco, CA - The Independent $
03-24 Portland, OR - Holocene $
03-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club $
03-26 Seattle, WA - Nectar $
* with Black Mountain
! with Nordic Nomadic
# with Quest for Fire
$ with Phosphorescent
Feist
02-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre (2010 Olympic Launch)
02-23 Adelaide, Australia - Laneway Festival
02-24 Melbourne, Australia - Laneway Festival
02-26 Melbourne, Australia - Prince Bandroom
02-27 Perth, Australia - Perth Internal Arts Festival
02-29 Sydney, Australia - The Metro
03-01 Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival
03-02 Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival
05-13 Toronto, Ontario - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
05-20 Edinburgh, Scotland - Queens Hall
05-21 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
05-22 Manchester, England - Palace Theatre
05-24 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-25 Lille, France - Aero
05-27 Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali
05-28 Rome, Italy - Piper
06-01 Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
06-03 Paris, France - Grand Rex
06-04 Paris, France - Grand Rex
06-05 Lyon, France - Transbordeur
06-07 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo
06-08 Madrid, Spain - Sala Heineken
Sunset Rubdown
05-16-18 Minehead, England - Butlins Holiday Centre (Explosions in the Sky ATP)
05-19 Manchester, England - Moho
05-20 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
05-21 Bristol, England - Thekla Social
05-22 London, England - The Luminaire
05-26 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-28 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
05-31 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
06-02 Utrecht, Netherlands – Ekko
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
The bit at the end
Back in a week folks, take care.
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