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Jolie Holland Kicks Off Fall Tour, Still Probably Gets Pissed When Mistaken for Neko Case
Wistful Americana torch singer and former Be Good Tanya, Jolie Holland takes to the road next week in support of her latest, electrified effort, The Living and the Dead (via ANTI-), which features cameos from M Ward and Marc Ribot. It’s too bad that so many venues have gone smoke-free, as smoke-filled rooms accent perfectly the intimately dark, roots-tinged western folk that radiates through most of her catalog.
If you haven’t seen her before, Holland jumps through multiple genre hoops on stage, combining musky vocal jazz with sparse remnants of blues, gospel, and, of course, folk, serving as equal parts Nina Nastasia, Tom Waits, and Andrew Bird. More than anything else, she’s an excellent orator and narrator in the fabled troubadour style. Oh look at that, she’s even playing the Troubadour, lol, etc.
10.12.08 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern 10.13.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour 10.14.08 - Santa Barbara, CA - SOhO Restaurant & Music Club 10.15.08 - San Francisco CA - Bimbos 365 Club 10.17.08 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir 10.18.08 - Olympia, WA - Capitol Theater 10.19.08 - Vancouver, BC - Richards on Richards 10.20.08 - Seattle, WA - Triple Door 10.22.08 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge 10.23.08 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater 10.24.08 - Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Lounge 10.25.08 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Culture Centre 10.27.08 - Lakeshore Theatre - Chicago, IL 10.28.08 - Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room at The Crofoot 10.29.08 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern 10.30.08 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire 10.31.08 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground South 11.01.08 - Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts 11.03.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Tin Angel 11.04.08 - Arlington, VA - IOTA 11.05.08 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle 11.06.08 - Decatur, GA - Eddie’s Attic 11.08.08 - Louisville, KY - The 930 Listening Room 11.09.08 - Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird Cafe 11.13.08 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
In these hard economic times, parents have to do anything in their power to make sure they can provide for their children. Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, better known to you and I as Mates of State, are doing just that — except, unlike normal parents who are working longer hours or cutting expenses, the parental unit of Mates of State is heading out on a newly confirmed tour for the rest of the fall, including a show at the Barking Tuna Festival in Kalamazoo, MI. But who can blame them? How else are little Magnolia and June Elizabeth (aww cute children names, guys!) going to be able to afford Hannah Montana concerts?
Tourin’ hard for the money:
10.13.08 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues & 10.14.08 - Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern % 10.16.08 - Marquette, MI - Northern Michigan University 10.17.08 - Gramd Rapids, MI - Calvin College 10.18.08 - Kalamazoo, MI - Kalamazoo State Theater ** 10.19.08 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick 11.07.08 - Asbury Park, NJ - Wonder Bar 11.08.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero 11.09.08 - Morgantown, WV - Mountainstage (NPR show) 11.10.08 - Lexington, KY - The Dame 11.11.08 - Washington, DC - Black Cat 11.12.08 - Charlottesville, VA - Gravity Lounge 11.13.08 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre 11.14.08 - Lexington, KY - The Dame 11.15.08 - Louisville, KY - Headliners 11.16.08 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle 11.17.08 - Nashville, TN - Exit / In 11.19.08 - Jacksonville Beach, FL - Freebird Live 11.20.08 - Atlanta, GA - The Loft 11.21.08 - Greenville, SC - The Handlebar 11.22.08 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle 11.23.08 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
& Santogold, Low vs Diamond
% Santogold, The Ting Tings, Low vs Diamond
** Barking Tuna Festival: School of Seven Bells, Daestro, and more (Thanks Brendan!)
Psychedelic rockers Mammatus are planning to hit the road in October for a 12-date West Coast tour, "playing all new BRAIN songs that you’ve never heard before," according to the band. The Santa Cruz, CA three-piece have released two albums since their 2005 inception — 2006’s Mammatus and 2007’s The Coast Explodes — to much praise and acclaim. And it’s no surprise. Mammatus have a singular sound.
They’ll be going on tour with WILDILDLIFE. Don’t know them? Perhaps Mammatus can convince you:
If you haven’t heard them please enlighten yourself, these guys are not only pushing the boundaries of heavy music into the outer dimensions of human comprehension, they also write wicked catchy pop hooks that’ll get stuck in yer head for centuries! So come out and experience an evening of insane electric wankery, eXtreme headbangin, drum destruction, and DUDEAGE!
Try and see them if you can.
10.11.08 - Portland OR, Jackpot Records (free in-store) 10.11.08 - Bainbridge Island, WA – IMG @ 10.14.08 - Seattle, WA - Funhouse @ 10.15.08 - Portland, OR - Someday Lounge 10.16.08 - Eureka, CA - Auntie Mo’s Lounge 10.17.08 - Oakland, CA - Stork Club # 10.18.08 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place 10.20.08 - Davis, CA - The Firehouse $ 10.21.08 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo & 10.22.08 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Sports Club % 10.23.08 - Long Beach, CA - Prospector 10.24.08 - Monterey, CA - Lounge Underground * 10.25.08 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock
@ Emeralds # Pegatuar, Kowloon Walled City $ San Francisco Water Cooler & Magic Lantern % Red Octopus * Serpico Three Leafs
Have you ever seen the movie Badlands? You know how the Martin Sheen character hangs out in these Voice-O-Graph personal recording studio booths and makes these records detailing how he met his teenage girlfriend and embarked on a killing spree? Or, say, have you ever been subjected to crappy mall-recorded tapes of your girlfriend and her middle school pals doing lame dance moves and lip-syncing to a Paula Abdul song? Well, if you ever felt envious of these brushes with fame, these recordings for posterity, these kind-of-self-produced shots at the big time, well now you’re in luck! (Except for hopefully without the statutory girlfriend or the swath of murdered South Dakotans.)
That is, now that the greatest of American dreams — to be able to walk into a shopping mall and cut your demo — will once again be available to a diverse cross section of humanity! Thanks to Studio One Media, you don’t have to be Britney Spears or Boyz II Men to walk into, say, the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall in Phoenix (where the service is debuting) to lay down some smooth vocal grooves. Hell no! As long as you got money, you got access to 3,000-5,000 songs from EMI Music Publishing’s roster and the chance to make music videos, audition reels, or any kind of personal message, which can then be uploaded to the web. It’s called mystudio.net, and it’s how I plan on auditioning for the next season of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF... assuming there is a next season. I think they’re only on episode three right now, NOT THAT I KNOW. If you are a lucky resident of California, New York, Nevada, or Florida, keep an eye out for your very own Studio One Media outlet to make an appearance, with possible other locations in the works.
Next Wednesday, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain will debate for the third and final time before Election Day. Also next Wednesday is Blog Action Day 2008, started by a non-profit, grassroots movement of bloggers with over 6,500 participating blogs. But the same day, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will hold the Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church. And who could forget National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD)? Or what about the first CC Salon, a global event to raise awareness about Creative Commons, in Paris?
Frankly, I could care less about Blog Action Day or CC Salon. And I say screw the debate, to hell with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and FUCK National Latino AIDS Awareness Day — I’ve got Mirah on the mind! She’ll be starting her 10-date tour that very same day, supporting her latest album, The Old Days Feeling (Modern Radio). Sweetening the tour will be No Kids, who released Come Into My House earlier this year on Tomlab.
Now, get your tickets, chubby!
Mirah and No Kids tourdates:
10.15.08 - Chicago, Illinois - Epiphany 10.16.08 - Pontiac, Michigan - The Crofoot Ballroom 10.17.08 - Columbus, Ohio - Milo Arts 10.18.08 - Buffalo, New York - Soundlab 10.19.08 - Ithaca, New York - Castaways 10.20.08 - Northhampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall 10.21.08 - Boston, Massachusettes - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 10.22.08 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom 10.24.08 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - First Unitarian Church - Sanctuary 10.25.08 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
No Kids and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone tourdates:
10.26.08 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s & 10.27.08 - Providence, RI - Club Hell 10.29.08 - Athens, OH - The Crystal Castle 10.30.08 - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern 10.31.08 - Louisville, KY - Pour Haus 11.01.08 - Indianapolis, IN - Locals Only
& Katie Eastburn
Jeff Mangum Might Make Appearances on the E6 Holiday Surprise Tour, As If It Weren’t Already Full of Surprises! Oh, You Guys!
This is your lucky day. Maybe. Speaking to Billboard, William Cullen Hart (Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control) brought up the possibility of Jeff Mangum, the ever reclusive, deified artist, participating in the upcoming Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise tour (TMT News). "Jeff told me he wants to make it to the Chicago show and maybe the Kentucky show, so we’ll see," says Cullen Hart. "I know he hasn’t played out much in the past few years, but he seemed very excited about this tour when I talked to him."
The tour, headed by Music Tapes frontman Julian Koster, made its debut October 7 in Athens, GA. The show ended up being three-and-a-half hours long, so the artists — ranging from Koster, Cullen Hart, and Laura Carter (Elf Power) to Eric Harris (OTC), Nesey Gallons, Scott Spillane (NMH, The Gerbils), and many more — are planning to "trim it down a little bit," says Cullen Hart. And, as we’ve reported earlier, the tour also includes screenings of the much-anticipated short film Major Organ & The Adding Machine, tentatively set for DVD release via Orange Twin next year.
In related news, Circulatory System have reportedly three albums’ worth of material and are currently looking for a label, while Koster is loosely planning yet another concept tour, currently being touted as "The Music Tapes Caroling Tour." Can’t. Fucking. Wait. In the meantime, buy Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (TMT Review), out now on Merge.
10.09.08 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 10.11.08 - New York, NY - Knitting Factory 10.12.08 - Boston, MA - The Church 10.14.08 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery 10.15.08 - New Haven, CT - The Space 10.16.08 - Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase 10.17.08 - Rochester, NY- The Bug Jar 10.18.08 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox 10.19.08 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center 10.20.08 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Pike Room 10.21.08 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge 10.22.08 - Bloomington, IN - Cinemat 10.23.08 - Lexington, KY - University of Kentucky
Brian Eno has always been more of an AV dork than a rock star. He began his career as “technical advisor” to Roxy Music, he created all those wonderful system sounds for Windows 95, and recently he collaborated with fellow musician/dweeb Peter Chilvers for the soundtrack to the evolutionary escapades of the video game Spore . Don’t let all of his sexy-glammy photos from the ’70s fool you; the dude’s a Nerd with a capital Nerfherder.
The latest dorky addition to Eno’s extensive résumé is Bloom, a music making application for the iPhone created with Spore collaborator Chilvers. According to Wired, the app has two fairly self-explanatory modes, Listen and Create. Listen employs a generative music algorithm to play an off-the-cuff composition, while Create lets the user, you guessed it, create the sounds themselves. When the user taps the screen, a reverb-riddled note sounds and a bluish orb expands then eventually dissipates on the point of contact. The same spot will produce the same note if pressed again, so the program isn’t just a randomly placed series of tones. As with most instruments, the higher up the screen, the higher the note, and vice versa.
The program is also polyphonic and can either generate set tonal patterns or freeze user-generated patterns for easy riffing. It even employs state-of-the-art Etch-a-Sketch technology that lets the user delete their work by giving their iPhone a good shake. Compositions cannot be saved on Bloom, but that’s just as well. I don’t need my already irritating iPhone-having friends shoving their mobile in my face every time they make a minimalist masterpiece. Then again, I’m probably just jealous of them because this application looks really cool. Stupid friends and their stupid expensive phones...
In other Eno news, don’t forget to check out his latest collalbum with David Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (TMT Review). And here’s one last bizarre Spore video to cap this thing off. God bless us, everyone.
According to Billboard, Chinese Democracy, the long-awaited sixth GNR album, finally has a firm release date: November 23. Odd, though, because that falls on a Sunday. Even more odd — well, actually, not odd, but shitty — is that the album will be released exclusively through Best Buy. Incidentally, November 23 does share significance with China, as the date marks the first time representatives from the People’s Republic of China attended the United Nations, but I’m pretty sure Axl don’t give a sheeeeit.
Of course, Guns N’ Roses are wasting no time licensing their music, as track "Shackler’s Revenge" will debut in Rock Band 2, while "If the World" is expected to play during the end credits of director Ridley Scott’s latest film, Body of Lies, which opens tomorrow. Meanwhile, Dr. Pepper is gearing up to give you some free drinks. So, thank Axl, Dizzy Reed, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Chris Pitman, Bryan Mantia, Richard Fortus, Bumblefoot, Frank Ferrer, and Geffen for that!
I still think it’s really funny that most of the album has been leaked.
If you thought Ticketmaster was annoying, I bet you will find or do find TicketsNow even more annoying. TicketsNow is the Ticketmaster-owned company that allows you to buy premium-event tickets from ticket agencies, sometimes before they even go on sale. This means what could be a $50-face price ticket is instead a $300-face price ticket. It kind of makes you feel like an idiot knowing you paid $250 more than the person sitting next to you, just so you could be sure you got a ticket in the first place.
Well, now after you buy your insanely priced ticket from TicketsNow, you can resell it to some other dumbass for even more! The new service introduced by TicketsNow is called “Sell Your Tickets On TicketsNow” and gives ticket sellers access to tons of fans looking for tickets. The seller has the ability to set the ticket price to whatever they feel is appropriate and can be changed at any time. The seller can even list their tickets as free and just pay the commission fee to TicketsNow. How it works is you list your tickets for whatever asking price, and when someone buys them, TicketsNow sends you notification and a link to a printable shipping label.
Sorry, I know this article is pretty much all ‘opinion.’ I just think this service sucks. I’d rather just sell my ticket to an honest fan for face value.
UPDATE: A recent press release confirms everything. Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective’s ninth album, is set for release January 20 via Domino Records on CD, 2xLP and digital formats.
Okay, I’ll admit, I didn’t entirely believe Gorilla Vs. Bear when it speculated earlier this week that Animal Collective were releasing a new album in January 2009 called Merriweather Post Pavillion. Now? I believe it.
Thanks to Stereogum, all you have to do is poke around on Animal Collective’s website and you’ll find the forthcoming album’s tracklisting. First, you’ll see (and want to eat) a fish by Wolf Eye’s Nate Young, but if you click on the lettering, you’ll get another somewhat creepy video revealing the full tracklisting. Now that’s what I call a complete aestheticization of the tracklist!
Maybe somewhere between now and January, when the album’s released via Domino, they’ll add another click to let us hear the full album. In the meantime, check out Paw Track’s MySpace and see our animated mix tape enlarged and in action!
Merriweather Post Pavillion tracklisting:
1. In The Flowers 2. My Girls 3. Also Frightened 4. Summertime Clothes 5. Daily Routine 6. Bluish 7. Guys Eyes 8. Taste 9. Lion In A Coma 10. No More Runnin 11. Brothersport
Tourdates:
10.11.08 - Berlin, Germany - Berghain $ 10.12.08 - Warsaw, Poland - Fabryka Trzciny $ 10.13.08 - Krakow, Poland - Jazz Club Hipnoza $ 10.14.08 - Prague, Czech Republic - Archa Theatre $ 10.15.08 - Vienna, Austria - Arena $ 10.16.08 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Menza pri Koritu $ 10.17.08 - Bratislava, Slovakia - A4 $ 10.18.08 - Zagreb, Croatia - Teatat and TD $ 10.19.08 - Belgrade, Serbia - Dom Omladine $ 10.20.08 - Skopje, Macedonia - Mac MKC $ 10.21.08 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Principle Theatre $ 10.22.08 - Athens, Greece - Gagarin 205 $ 10.23.08 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Zappa 10.24.08 - Istanbul, Turkey - Babylon 10.25.08 - Valencia, Spain - Greenspace Festival 11.06.08 - Santiago, Chile - Industria Cultural 11.08.08 - São Paulo, Brazil - Planeta Terra Festival 11.09.08 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - La Trastienda 11.13.08 - Lima, Peru - Centro Fundación Telefónica
$ Axolotl
[Photo: Adriano Fegundes]
Sometimes news is short and sweet; this is one such instance. M. Ward, also known as Matt Ward, is ready to release a new solo record, titled Hold Time, and according to Paste, we should all get our greedy hands on it February 2009. That’s about all we have confirmed, (...)
• My Morning Jacket Torso Accident Forces Band to Cancel Shows
Due to a stage accident committed by Mr. Jim James, My Morning Jacket were forced to cancel the rest of their Iowa City gig yesterday, and have now officially postponed a couple Chicago shows. I’d paraphrase the rest, but what’s the point when you can read it (...)
No, not The Ruby Suns and, no, not Joe Versus the Volcano (a 1990 film starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Lloyd Bridges — fucking great movie). I’m talking about Volcano Suns, a Boston group founded in 1983 by Mission of Burma’s drummer Peter Prescott. (...)
Attention band geeks, comp majors, and idealistic grade school music teachers with ’70s hairstyles everywhere! Get ready to flip-on the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 9th and rejoice! NoteFlight, a flash-based service for composing, editing and sharing musical (...)
NEW TELEFON TEL AVIV ALBUM NEWS: New Orleans electronica ambient magic duo Telefon Tel Aviv are back after five years, and they have a new album called Immolate. Which is totally rad! They’re releasing the album January 20 on Bpitch. Yes! TRACKLISTING: 1. The (...)
Apologies for the weak pun, and apologies to those Canucks who rely on a U.S.-based internet music zine for their tour news, because you have indeed missed some Herman Dune shows. Perhaps you should keep more of an eye out, so then next time you won’t miss out on the (...)
• Clinic Collaborate with Animator Clemens Habicht as Planetarium of the Soul on Upcoming Tour
Ade Blackburn and his cronies in Clinic are once again setting their sights on YOUR money with a relatively short European stint in November. But this ain’t no typical stint. This tour will see Clinic collaborating with animator Clemens Habicht as Planetarium of the (...)
Market instability, oil price lunacy, hearing 30 seconds of 30 Seconds to Mars... it doesn’t take much to get some organizations in a huff over what they believe to be their bucks. Music’s publishing bodyrollaz like ASCAP and BMI are always trying to get paid in (...)
The very strange/very talented band we know as Ween will be taking fans on a trip down bizzaro memory lane November 11 with the release of an early live CD/DVD package from MVD. The CD will contain an entire show from 1992 at The Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC (which (...)
Math Rockers rejoice: masters of intricate music Don Caballero are hitting the road in Europe this month to support their most recent album, 2008’s Punkgasm. The Pittsburgh-based trio has developed quite the following over the last 17 years, presumably for their (...)
Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “Isn’t it about time for a new Andrew Bird album? Because I could really use one.” Turns out, it is that time, which is great! Due January 27, 2009 from Fat Possum Records, Bird will bring us Noble Beast, the (...)
• Asobi Seksu Announce U.S. Fall Tour, Only If That’s Alright With You, White People!
Asobi Seksu are often compared to My Bloody Valentine, but they’ve also proven that they do have their own special sound. That’s partly why Polyvinyl has signed the band and are set to release the single "Me & Mary," both digitally and on 7-inch vinyl, on (...)
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