Dancing About Architecture 03.03.09
Posted by Ian Wright on 03.03.2009
A Neu! Tribute, Neil Young headed for Barcelona, Passion Pit, new releases from Wilco and the Field, the pitchfork festival and Jesus Lizard 7” reissues.
The bit at the start
I don't want to harp on about Primavera again after last week but the final headliner for the festival was announced on Friday and they've really landed themselves a doozey. The main stage on the Saturday will see Sonic Youth warming the crowd up for Neil Morthfuckin' Young.
I've never seen him play live before so the news that he's playing brought quite a skip to my step and a flutter in my heart. In fact I've spent about 20 minutes on Sunday night figuring out how to play "The Needle And The Damage Done" just in case the dude misses his flight or somethgn and the masses need to be entertained and consoled.
I figure I could jam that sum'bitch out to 2 or 3 hours with a little effort.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Rollarskate Skinny – Horsedrawn Wishes
Shoegavey brilliance from Kevin Shields' brother's band.
You news, you lose
Roger.
It's been almost 2 years since Wilco's massively disappointing Sky Blue Sky and Jeff and the boys are prepping work on their 8th record. There's no title as yet but some song titles have confirmed. "Wilco, the song" (which was performed on the Colbert Report late last year) "Deeper Down", "My Country Has Disappeared", "Sunny Feeling", and "One Wing" are all likely parts of the tracklist. According to Rolling Stone much of the album was recorded last month in New Zealand when a number of the band travelled down there to work on an upcoming Neil Finn charity record. The album is being produced by Jim Scott who has worked with the band before in a mixing capacity.
In other Wilco news the band's upcoming Ashes of American Flags live DVD is coming out late next month but as part of the record store day activities you should be able to pick it up earlier if you try out an independent store on April 18th.
Dancing in The Field.
Yesterday and today is the forthcoming second album from Axel Wilner a.k.a. The Field. It's out on May 25th in Europe and the following day in North America on supreme Berlin dance label kompakt.
According to the label the album is "more organic" than it's predecessor and will feature a guest spot from Battles' John Stanier.
Wilner is playing with a band these days and was in Dublin last month. I wasn't able to make it that night but some friends of mine were in attendance and from their reports the new record shouldn't disappoint if you enjoyed From Here We Go Sublime.
New Neu! tribute.
Sonic Youth, LCD Soundsystem, Foals. These are the sort of names that you might expect to crop up on a tribute to krautrock duo Neu!. But Oasis? Maybe not so much. Nonetheless all 4 bands as well as a number of others will be on Brand Neu! which Feraltone will release on May 11th.
It's a mix of previously released material by Ciccone (nee Sonic) Youth and Oasis as well as exclusives from bands like School Of Seven Bells. The comp also features material from both of Neu!'s members.
Tracklist:
01 Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth): "Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu!"
02 Primal Scream: "Shoot Speed / Kill Light"
03 Pets with Pets: "We Only Found This Place"
04 Oasis: "I Can See It Now"
05 Foals: "Titan Arum"
06 Cornelius: "Wataridori"
07 Holy Fuck: "Super Inuit"
08 LCD Soundsystem: "Watch the Tapes"
09 Kasabian: "Stuntman"
10 School of Seven Bells: "Device fuer M"
11 Fujiya & Miyagi: "Electro Karaoke"
12 Hook & the Twin: "They'll Get Your Head"
13 La Duesseldorf: "Sketch 1_08"
14 Michael Rother: "Neutronics 98"
Passionate about Pits.
Buzz band of '09 Passion Pit have announced details of their debut album and follow up to their Chunk Of Change EP. It's going to be called Manners and it's out on May 26th in North America on French Kiss and on Columbia in the UK on the 18th.
Tracklisting:
01 Make Light
02 Little Secrets
03 Moth's Wings
04 The Reeling
05 Eyes as Candles
06 Swimming in the Flood
07 Folds in Your Hands
08 To Kingdom Come
09 Sleepyhead
10 Let Your Love Grow Tall
11 Seaweed Song
Forkfest
Chicago's Union Park will play host to this year's (and the 4th overall) Pitchfork Music Festival. Details are really thin on the ground right now but it's taking place from July 17-19 and tickets for it will go on sale on Friday, March 13th.
Wow, that was a quick one.
Jesus, Lizard
More record store day goodness. April 18th will see the release of Inch, a 7" box set of out of print material from The Jesus Lizard. As with all the other record store day things it'll be an exclusive to independent record stores.
All of the material on the box set has been out of print for at least 6 years so the news is a bit of a boon for fans of the Chicago rockers. Remastered by Bob Weston of Shellac (and more recently of Mission Of Burma) and coming in a "foldable clear plastic package" (wow) and including the JL half of a split 7" they did with Nirvana as well as "Gladiator", which the band gave away at a 1992 London show and was never sold elsewhere (eBay dudes are weeping as that news spreads, bang goes the kids college funds, but if you were relying on sending your kid to college thanks to an indie bands' vinyl then your pretty fucked, well unless you're Jack White).
Inch:
A Chrome
B 7 vs. 8
A Mouthbreather
B Sunday You Need Love
A Wheelchair Epidemic
B Dancing Naked Ladies
A Gladiator (live)
B Seasick (live)
A Puss
Lash 3x7":
A Glamorous
B Deaf as a Bat
A Lady Shoes (live)
B Killer McHann (live)
A Bloody Mary (live)
B Monkey Trick (live)
A (Fly) On (the Wall)
B White Hole
The YouTube video of the week
I really love Phosphorescent.
If you can you should go to these gigs.
Frightened Rabbit – Acoustic Tour
03-26 Newcastle, England - The Castle Keep
03-27 Barrow-in-Furness, England - The Canteen
03-29 Leicester, England - The Musician
03-30 Birmingham, England - Glee Club
03-31 Glasgow, Scotland - Captain's Rest (two shows)
04-01 Dublin, Ireland - Academy 2
04-03 Edinburgh, Scotland - The Bowery
04-15 London, England - Scala (not acoustic)
Band Of Horses
04-15 Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst
04-17 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
04-18 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival
06-10 Norfolk, VA - The Norva *
06-11 New York, NY - Carnegie Hall *
06-12 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live *
06-14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
06-16 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
06-17 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre *
06-18 Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues *
08-15 Copenhagen, Denmark - Beatday Festival
* with Arbouretum
Dinosaur Jr.
03-20 Austin, TX - Cedar St. Courtyard
04-01 Milford, CT - Daniel Street
04-02 Providence, RI - Club Hell
04-03 Portland, ME - The Station
04-04 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
04-06 Buffalo, NY - The Town Ballroom
04-07 State College, PA - Lulu's
04-08 Akron, OH - Musica
04-09 East Lansing, MI - The Small Planet
04-10 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird Nightclub
04-11 Dekalb, IL - Otto's Nightclub
04-13 Chattanooga, TN - Rhythm and Brews
04-14 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
04-15 Baton Rouge, LA - The Varsity Theatre
04-16 Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room
04-17 Fayetteville, AR - George's Majestic Lounge
04-18 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry's
04-20 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
04-21 Augusta, GA - Sky City
04-22 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds
04-23 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon
04-24 Jacksonville Beach, FL - Freebird Live
04-25 Charleston, SC - The Music Farm
04-26 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
04-27 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
04-29 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
04-30 Richmond, VA - Toad's Place Richmond
05-01 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
05-02 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
Wilco
03-26 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground (Jeff Tweedy solo) *
03-27 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theatre (Jeff Tweedy solo) *
03-28 Beacon, NY - Beacon High Auditorium (Jeff Tweedy solo) (Benefit for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater)
04-14 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre #
04-15 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre #
04-16 Bloomington, IN - IU Auditorium #
04-17 Athens, OH - Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium #
04-18 Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre #
04-20 Athens, GA - Classic Center #
04-21 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium #
04-22 Birmingham, AL - Sloss Furnaces #
04-23 Oxford, MS - Lyric Oxford #
04-25 New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05-23 Tenerife, Spain - Tenerife Auditorium
05-25 Malaga, Spain - Teatro Cervantes !
05-26 Madrid, Spain - Teatro Calderon !
05-29 Seville, Spain - Territorios Festival, La Cartuja
05-30 Oporto-Braga, Portugal - Teatro Circo
05-31 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisbon Coliseu
06-01 Santiago de Compostela-Galicia, Spain - Palacio de Congresos, Sala Braque
06-03 San Sebastian, Spain - Kursaal
06-04 Barcelona, Spain - Auditori Barcelona
07-11-14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
07-22-25 Detroit Lakes, MN - 10,000 Lakes Festival
08-21 Erfurt-Hohenfelden, Denmark - Highfield Festival
* with Pronto
# with A Hawk and a Hacksaw
! with Akron/Family
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall 1971
Mono – Hymn to the immortal wind
The bit at the end
It's Watchmen week. I'm going to a free screening on Wendesday. WHOOP!
