June 29, 2009
Joining Beirut in the race for 2009's best hooker-titled song, BTW and OKX alum the Twilight Sad have lined up "I Became A Prostitute" as the second single from their forthcoming Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters followup, Forget The Night Ahead. It's track two from the album that's already impressed with the excellent "Reflection Of The Television," and another sample of the Scots' uncanny knack for steam-pressing smoldering, shoegazing guitars to anthemic, skyward bound choruses. James Graham doesn't fully explain how this song turned him into a whore, but as always his vocal, by turns tuneful and blistering, gets the benefit of that good gravitas that seems a birthright to the best Scottish accented singers. Hear it at MySpace. (via P4K)
The "I Became A Prostitute" will be available on 7" and digitally starting 8/3, and Forget The Night Ahead is out 9/22 (9/21 in the UK via FatCat.
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Paul McCartney Joins Neil Young On "A Day In The Life" • A day after headlining Glastonbury, Neil surprised Hyde Park by playing his favorite cover of late with the man who co-wrote it. Good quality fan video here.
New Jay-Z Video - "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)" • The clip for Jigga's auto-tune eulogy plays like a day with the world's loneliest billionaire. Except for when he's hanging with Harvey Keitel, because everyone needs to have someone to play high stakes poker with on some overturned pickle buckets in an Italian restaurant's walk-in cooler. Watch.
Aside from some heavy rains on Thursday and some quick showers Sunday, the throngs at Worthy Farm this year enjoyed some of the best weather in Glastonbury history. In return, the impressive lineup -- featuring headliners Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, and memorable sets from Blur, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Lily Allen, Spinal Tap, etc. -- logged memorable sets throughout a weekend when the world paused to mourn Michael Jackson. Glasto's Jacko tributes were nonstop, from MJ covers by the Streets, Dizzee Rascal, the Noisettes, and the Black Eyed Peas, to Lily Allen adorning her chest-baring outfit with a single white glove. The Boss continued his recent tear of onstage collaborations with artists that are clearly indebted to him (Arcade Fire, the Killers) and those less so (Phish) by performing "The '59 Sound" with the Gaslight Anthem. (They belong in the former category.) But the weekend's biggest buzz may belong to the reunited Blur, whose reportedly triumphant set was career spanning and NME stupefying. If you couldn't make it to the UK for these reunion sets, the band's making their upcoming Hyde Park shows available for professionally mixed and mastered download here. For now we've got Glastonbury in lots of pics, and we'll update with video as it pops.
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June 26, 2009
Beck's Record Club project promises a series of installments in which the man and a bunch of buddies ducking into the studio sans rehearsal and knocking out a cover version of an entire album. The Hansen family band got it running with the wise choice of The Velvet Underground & Nico, and the first listen was their take on the strung-out classic "Sunday Morning." Today the crew -- which features Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and Icelandinc "special guest" Thorunn Magnusdottir -- have upped the ante with the quintessential and anxious anthem of dope fiends everywhere, "I'm Waiting For The Man." Per Beck, with this cover "everyone untunes their instruments and nigel thrashes a dx-7, coaxing sounds hitherto unheard from the 80's power ballad beast." So there you go. Those hitherto unheard sounds bring a loopy and ramshackle strain of psychedelia to the song. The detuning and clattering percussion helps.
Continue reading Beck & Friends Cover "I'm Waiting For The Man"...
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The building blocks of perennial Stereogum favorites Air's followup to Pocket Symphony are slowly coming together. This next set of chilled and gauzy earphone candy is due this fall under the title Love 2. That's Nicolas and JB looking fittingly mellowed and pensive on the cover. Also, the duo's releasing a free MP3 of opening track "Do The Joy" on 7/6. To have receive it on that date, enter your email info at aircheology.com and wait for the confirmation that suggests you "Sit back and relax." Air know thyself.
Love 2 is out 10/6 via 10/6 via Astralwerks. After "Do The Joy," the first proper single will be "Sing Sang Sung," out 8/25. They'll launch a European tour in early 2010 at Casino de Paris then head to North America in the Spring.
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Spike Jonze & Kanye Debut Weird Film • West and Jonze premiered We Were Once A Fairytale at the Los Angeles Film Festival the other day. It was gonna be an 808s music video, but maybe the
pillow fucking, self-mutilation, and vomiting rose petals didn't pair well with autotune.
Aside from some one-off solo tracks as White Antelope, Robin Pecknold has been quiet since taking over playlists and year-end lists with his band of Fleet Foxes. He's shed his once-prolific Twitter account, and before deleting the archives he suggested it was time to strap in and get serious about writing new FF material. A reemergence might be approaching, if today's session for BBC6 Music's Glastonbury coverage is an indication: Here Robin performs a plaintive and existential, finger-picked folk ditty with the working title "Blue Spotted Tail." It's unaccompanied, so you'll have to fill in the harmonies yourself.
Continue reading New Fleet Foxes - "Blue Spotted Tail" (Live On BBC6)...
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