Pittsburgh’s 1,2,3 have already been having quite a busy year and it seems like it will just get busier. To recap: they released their Dreamland Pt. 1 EP and now New Heaven LP, and they’ve already played a shit-ton of shows across this land we call the U.S.A. However, unlike other Pittsburghians, 1,2,3 will not be resting on their laurels and have announced a new set of dates to keep their fans happy throughout the month of May (a.k.a. the month my cat was born). 1,2,3 have also spilled the beans about what they will be doing on July 7: playing the Bunbury Fest with other (not) awesome bands Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
1,2,3 also need a new van to keep up this touring and they want YOU to help pay for it. But, this is America, right? So fuck that Commie bullshit because I have a new set of skis to buy and I can barely make ends meet on my six-figure salary already.
Oh, and as always, 3,4,5 will be following 1,2,3 around like a a shy younger brother. But you don’t have to worry about them, they’ll just go away after a while when you’ve had a few drinks and forget how to count.
1,2,3 tourdates:
05.09.12 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
05.10.12 - Detroit, MI - Albert’s on The Alley
05.11.12 - Columbus, OH - The Basement
05.14.12 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
05.15.12 - Raleigh, NC - Slims
05.16.12 - Atlanta, GA - 529
05.17.12 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
07.14.12 - Cincinnati, OH - Bunbury Fest
RIP Yacht Rock: 2005-2010. (What? This thing was on till like two years ago???? Who knew.) Your humorous skewering of smooth, soulful summer jams inspired a whole new generation of smooth, dark, skewed hipster R&B. Don’t believe me? Take a crayon and draw a family tree, Oh Ye Who Doubt. That 10cc root has grown and blossomed into a beautiful How to Dress Well EP, last year’s Just Once. Okay, okay, so maybe HTDW’s ethereal rhythm and blues is more likely to have descended from good old Janet Jackson and Sade, but never ever (sorry, Michael McD) has a night with friends on a pleasure boat beneath the stars had a better soundtrack than the shimmering swells of a How to Dress Well track.
And just as we’re about to set sail into summertime, HTDW has announced a brief string of tour dates. Now, the man behind the sentence fragment/band name, Brooklynite Tom Krell, doesn’t have a new release scheduled just yet, but that’s not gonna stop him from taking some smooth time with you, girl. Krell will hit up select cities in the US and Canada, accompanied by Vancouver music dudes Aaron Read and Warp Records’ Babe Rainbow. Babe Rainbow will do the opening act thang for most of the dates listed below.
06.07.12 - Toronto, ON - Underground at the Drake
06.08.12 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore
06.09.12 - Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
06.13.12 - Vancouver, BC - The Waldorf Hotel
06.14.12 - Portland, OR - Holocene
06.15.12 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
06.16.12 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
Listening to the works of Jean Piché, Canadian electronic music pioneer and video artist, is like walking into your own personal IMAX theatre, closing your eyes, and seeing what pops up behind your eyelids as you journey through the Amazon or watch a store being born or get stuck wandering inside a giant, pulsating womb. Piché’s minimalist electronic soundscapes take you there, maaaaaaan; listening is like meditating, but without all the hard work of making yourself not think and being afraid your roommates are gonna hear you doing some Enigma-style Gregorian chanting all weird and alone in your room. In short, his work is challenging, innovative, and fantastic.
Piché has taught electroacoustic music composition at the University of Montreal for the last few decades, all while building a rep as a software developer and audiovisual artist. But in a time long, long ago (the 1970s) and in a galaxy far, far away (Vancouver), dude was in college at Simon Fraser University, working on an LP made up of computer, digital synthesis, and acoustic jams. Called Heliograms, the album contains a track called “La mer à l’aube,” which has the distinction of being one of the first ever digital synthesis pieces produced in Canada. And like lots of long forgotten cool stuff and Great Art, Heliograms got lost in space when the small record label that had released it in 1982 went bankrupt.
Fortunately for music historians and fans of really freakin’ cool electronic music, Heliograms is getting a re-release through Digitalis Recordings in late May. Yankee guitarist/producer James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD, sunn 0))), ISIS) has remastered the album from ye olde original tapes, and the recordings have been magically transubstantiated into vinyl LPs. To accompany the release, Piché has created two new video projects for album tracks “Ange” and “Rouge.” No word on premiere dates for those videos yet, but you can check out excerpts from the album here:
And the plan means [extending summer tour through September]
But [the tour] won’t accomplish anything
If it’s not [surrounding recording sessions for a new record, set for release via Warner Bros. in 2013 and following 2009’s There Is No Enemy (TMT Review)]
Like it’s always been
And [Built to Spill touring and working on a new album] makes me think of everyone [that likes that song “The Plan”]
And the cause of this is evident [in those guitar riffs still being rad]
But the [reason for me incorporating a 13-year-old song into this 2012 news story] cannot be found
Cause it’s so well hidden[?]
(BRIDGE: bum-bum-bum-bum BAHH! etc… Built to Spill fucking rules…)
This [goddamn website] doesn’t make any sense
In any less than [$30 per-thousand-impressions] increments
Of [Frito-Lay ad sales].
06.22.12 - Boston, MA - Paradise
06.23.12 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
06.24.12 - New York, NY - Governors Ball Music Festival @ Randall’s Island
07.08.12 - Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival
08.24.12 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
08.26.12 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
08.27.12 - Des Moines, IA - Wooly’s
08.28.12 - Toledo, OH - Mickey Finns
08.30.12 - Portland, ME - The State Theatre
09.05.12 - Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar
09.06.12 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater
09.07.12 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
09.08.12 - Charleston, SC - The Music Farm
09.09.12 - Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
09.10.12 - Orlando, FL - The Social
09.11.12 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
09.12.12 - St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
09.13.12 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
09.14.12 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In
09.15.12 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
09.18.12 - Madison, WI - The High Noon Saloon
09.19.12 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
09.20.12 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
09.21.12 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
09.22.12 - Bellevue, CO - Mishawaka Amphitheatre
Not two weeks after announcing an extension to their spring/summer Money Store tour, Pitchfork brings us the news that Death Grips have done a 180 and cancelled their tour in its entirety. The band dropped the news on Facebook, bluntly stating, “we are dropping out to complete next album NO LOVE [reportedly to be released Fall 2012]. see you when it’s done. (there are no longer any scheduled shows).” The resulting comments are a mix of outrage and disgust. It seems as if the band, what with all their current critical adulation, wanted to stir some shit up to maintain their gruff relationship with the public. It has worked.
No word on refunds, but a quick check of the venue where they’re supposed to play in Chicago still shows tickets for sale. Hopefully this is just a really bad joke and the shows aren’t actually cancelled; otherwise, someone needs to give these 40-odd venues a heads up.
Tourdates ??:
05.18.12 - Dublin, Ireland - The Academy
05.19.12 - Glasgow, UK - Stag & Dagger
05.20.12 - Manchester, UK - The Roadhouse
05.21.12 - Nottingham, UK - The Bodega
05.22.12 - Norfolk, UK- Norwich Arts Center
05.23.12 - Brighton, UK - Green Door Store
05.25.12 - London, UK - All Tomorrow’s Parties
05.26.12 - Paris, France - Grande Halle de La Villette
05.27.12 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Worm
05.28.12 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - OT301
05.29.12 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Merleyn
06.01.12 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06.02.12 - Barcelona, Spain - Field Day Festival
06.04.12 - Brussels, Belgium - Magasin
06.05.12 - Ghent, Belgium - Charlatan
06.06.12 - Cologne, Germany - Mtc
06.07.12 - Berlin, Germany - Gretchen
06.08.12 - Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
06.09.12 - Porto, Portugal - Optimus Primavera Sound
06.12.12 - Philadelphia, PA - The Barbery
06.13.12 - New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
06.14.12 - Boston, MA - TT The Bear’s
06.15.12 - Montreal, QC - Club Lambri
06.16.12 - Toronto, ON - Wrong Bar
06.18.12 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
06.19.12 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
06.20.12 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
06.21.12 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
06.22.12 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
06.23.12 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
06.26.12 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club
06.27.12 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
06.28.12 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
06.30.12 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
07.01.12 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
09.23.12 - Asbury Park, NJ - I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have decided to extend their stateside visit after determining it would be too depressing to get a dozen high-fives from Ryan Schreiber in July and then just get lost in the shuffle of another stacked ATP lineup in September. The hope now is that more meaningful connections will develop during the first half of October, when the Godspeed Tank rolls through the East (of the West) and leaves tread marks on our children’s hearts.
Speaking of which, what will we say to our children when they return from the Godspeed show and ask irritating questions about the gated palatial estates we raised them in? It won’t be easy to look them in the eye, but your best bet is to promise them that a new GY!BE album will be waiting for them under the Christmas tree this year (all the while knowing that the band has only mentioned working on new material and might not debut it for some time). If that’s not enough, throw in a $50 gift card to the PlayStation Network. A small group of extremist children will get even more annoyed by this, and in those cases it’s simply time to buy new locks for your bedroom door. They’ve been brainwashed, they’re coming for your hard-earned jewels, and you’ll burn the goddamn place down before those little brats make it to the hidden safe!
Dates:
07.14.12 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
09.23.12 - Asbury Park, NJ - ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror NJ
10.01.12 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
10.02.12 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
10.03.12 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
10.04.12 - Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle
10.05.12 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre
10.06.12 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
10.07.12 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitinas
10.09.12 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
10.10.12 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
10.11.12 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre
10.12.12 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
10.13.12 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
10.14.12 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
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