November 7, 2009
The Stroke's first solo gigs were in Japan this summer, and Monday's Spaceland show was a last minute surprise, so while last night was JC's 4th ever solo show, it was most stateside fans' first shot to see his synth-pop makeover in person. With elaborate stage backdrops and light-up costumes for their encore, Julian and band played the 8-track Phrazes along with b-sides like "I'll Try Anything Once." (Sadly "Christmas" didn't come early.) Perhaps the real spectacle was Fabrizio Moretti and Albert Hammond, Jr being mobbed by fans upstairs. The pair posed for pics, signed autographs, and -- since they arrived separately -- fans cheered when they hugged. Andrew Youssef delivers these shots, where you'll also see openers Rainbow Arabia and Julian's drummer's oh-so-controversial Mets jacket. Maybe it's his only jacket, you guys! We've also got the tour itinerary after the jump; NYC shows haven't been announced yet, but we're told those'll happen in January.
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Tags: Albert Hammond Jr. | Fab Moretti | Julian Casablancas | Rainbow Arabia | The Strokes
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Pavement Headline Sasquatch! 2010 • Or, as The Portland Mercury puts it, "Finally, a Pavement show not in New York or overseas." The reunited indie crew is the only act announced for the 5/29-5/31 Gorge fest, but more details are coming soon.
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November 6, 2009
The video for The High End Of Low's "Running To The Edge Of The World" features Brian Warner up-close and remorsefully weepy when not beating a bloodied woman senseless. It is a painfully weak attempt at shock, sure. (As Videogum put it: "Maybe we shouldn't judge this video too harshly until we've seen it through the window of our Time Machine on the way back to late 1997, the day before Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up' video first aired, when this might have seemed even slightly shocking and not just the obnoxious work of an aging asshole who's run out of ideas.") Thing is, it surfaced the day Rihanna's much-discussed 20/20 interview airs, in which she talks publicly for the first time about being beaten by Chris Brown before the Grammys. The link isn't easy to overlook. Especially with details like these from a Billboard piece posted earlier:
After confirming original reports that he'd bitten and punched her to the point she had a bloody mouth, Rihanna said that Brown had completely "blacked out. It wasn't the same person that says I love you. It was not those... eyes," she said. "He had no soul in his eyes -- just blank. He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him. All I kept thinking all the time, 'When is it going to stop? When it is going to stop?'
So what's up, Marilyn? Bad timing? Half-digested transgression? Creative impasse? Sad old man? Desperate P.R.? Discuss.
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Tags: Chris Brown | Marilyn Manson | Rihanna
With all the news of Jarvis writing songs to soundtrack other people's motion picture projects -- some for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall sequel, one for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox -- it's nice to have him soundtrack one of his own, here in this Stéphanie Di Guisto-directed clip for the title track from his Further Complications LP. It's a Cockerlover's delight, nothing but Cocker, bending over, being folded up and pushed around, mugging for the embed player. Watch:
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Pixies Release Free Live EP • In the spirit of the digital age, Pixies have released a free EP featuring four songs -- "Dancing the Manta Ray," "Monkey Gone To Heaven," "Crackity Jones," "Gouge Away" -- from the 10/16 Paris gig, the last of the European leg of their tour. Insert email at pixiesmusic.com.
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Grizzly Bear's Amazon-approved Veckatimst has birthed another aesthetically appealing video. (At the beginning of September it was Sean Pecknold's fencing vignettes for "While You Wait For The Others," but the one folks will likely remember most featured exploding choir boy faces.) Here, artist Allison Schulnik creates a smeary rainbow-dripped Claymation landscape for Late Night favorite "Ready, Able." It takes me all the way back to "Knife" for its surreal mix of sadness, repulsion, and a kind of otherworldly beauty.
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In conjunction with yesterday's 16th annual European Music Awards, MTV set up a special, free U2 concert at the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate the 20th anniversary of tearing down the Berlin Wall. And in order to secure the premises or whatever, MTV set up a special Berlin wall of their own, a metal barricade that ran the perimeter of the concert grounds and kept out people who hadn't registered online for a free ticket. A wall keeping people out from freedom? Yes, irony and outrage galore. But those that were lucky enough to be on the right side of the wall were treated to a six-song set of U2's classics, kicking off with Bono yelling "Berlin, Du bist wunderbar!" (Berlin, you are wonderful!)(better than calling yourself a jelly donut) and highlighting with Jay-Z joining the band on "Sunday Bloody Sunday." It's not the first time he's rapped over the song (that'd be at last year's Glasto), but now you can see it happen live, all the principals in place and filmed all nice and MTV-like:
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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke Going Solo, Working With Someone From Spank Rock • From this quote producer Hudson Mohawk gave the BBC, it's hard to say if he's working on Kele's solo album with someone from Spank Rock or if they're two separate projects, but whatever: this is happening.
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