James Blackshaw is releasing a new album this summer, and it is called All Is Falling
By Brom on Mar 17 2010
James Blackshaw, the 12-string guitar GOD, will have a new record out this June/July. Titled All Is Falling, the LP will be one long piece with eight movements. It’ll be out on Young God. To help make the album, Blackshaw has enlisted Charlotte Glasson on violin and flute, Fran Bury on vocals, and Daniel Madav on the cello.
This is clearly the best news of the year. Forget all of those sanctimonious websites who told you Merriweather Post Pavilion was the best record of 2009. It was actually Blackshaw’s The Glass Bead Game (TMT Review), which failed to even get into the top 50 of those same smug websites’ 2009 year-end lists. The bastards!
Blackshaw is touring during March and May:
03.26.10 - London, UK - Cafe Oto
05.07.10 - Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow’s Parties
05.10.10 - London, UK - The Barbican
05.12.10 - Cambridge, UK - The Junction
05.13.10 - Bristol, UK - St George’s
05.14.10 - Oxford, UK - Holywell Music Room
05.15.10 - Manchester, UK - Band on the Wall
05.16.10 - Edinburgh, UK - Roxy Art House
• James Blackshaw: http://www.myspace.com/jamesblackshaw
• Young God: http://younggodrecords.com
Earth bring Karl Blau on tour, try out new material on West Coast tour with Wolves in the Throne Room
By Kid Midnight on Mar 16 2010
Earth, the drone-metal experimenters that presumably all of us at TMT love, have announced a week-and-a-half-long jaunt around the West Coast with labelmates Wolves in the Throne Room. The series of concerts will be opened by instrumental cellist Lori Goldston, who will actually perform again once Earth hits the stage. What’s more, Earth have tapped the ever incorrigible Karl Blau (D+, The Microphones, Kelp!, etc.) to play bass with them. Blau will even get to reunite with lover-in-crime Phil Elverum at the group’s final date in Olympia. Cute!
Speaking of cute, the tour will provide a chance for Earth to test new material that they’ve been finalizing for their full-length follow-up to 2008’s adorable The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull (TMT Review). If all goes to plan, the new album will be “released on Southern Lord Recordings by early 2011” and may very well have a couple tracks that drone on and on and on for 20 minutes.
If you’re curious, then you should know that Earth’s lineup for the shows will be as follows:
Dylan Carlson - Guitar
Adrienne Davies - Drums
Karl Blau - Bass
Lori Goldston - Cello
Wow! I didn’t know that Dylan Carlson was still playing with Earth! …
TOURDATES!
04.14.10 - Eugene, OR - The Oak Street Speakeasy
04.15.10 - Eureka, CA - Noctrum
04.16.10 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
04.16.10 - Santa Cruz, CA - Brookdale Lodge
04.17.10 - San Diego,CA - Ché Café
04.19.10 - Los Angeles, CA - The EchoPlex
04.22.10 - Portland, OR - Rotture
04.23.10 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
04.24.10 - Olympia, WA - Capital Theatre *
* Mount Eerie and Ô Paon
• Earth: http://www.myspace.com/earthofficial
• Wolves in the Throne Room: http://www.wittr.com
• Southern Lord: http://www.southernlord.com
Carpark Records signs Light Pollution, presumably in fear that all the good unsigned bands will be scooped post-SXSW
By Jon Lorenz on Mar 16 2010
SXSW has become somewhat of a staple event for people who want to get signed (but most often end up coming home empty-handed). Labels know this too, so they’ll either scout SXSW or snatch them up beforehand so they can show off their brand new signee to the industry fest that is SXSW. Case in point: Chicago’s Light Pollution, who have recently signed to Carpark Records (home to Dan Deacon, Beach House, Toro Y Moi, and a bunch of other artists) just in time for SXSW. The group’s debut full-length album, Apparitions, is due June 15 and will include “swirling analog synths, shimmering arpeggios, and washed out tape noiseembedded into combinations of 90’s shoegaze, chillwave, and vocal psych-pop.” You can check out what that sounds like at the Chocolate Grinder.
The group is currently on tour, and what do you know, they’re playing a bunch of shows at SXSW, including one in which they’ll join up with fellow Carpark artists for the SXSW Carpark/Paw Tracks showcase. Here are the dates:
03.16.10 - Denton, TX JnJ’s
03.17.10 - SXSW No Words / Day Bow Bow @ Ghost Room
03.18.10 - SXSW Hype Machine’s Lose Control @ Vice
03.18.10 - SXSW Two Syllable Acoustic Show @ Hideout Cafe
03.18.10 - SXSW Carpark / Paw Tracks @ Wave
03.19.10 - SXSW @ Justine’s
03.19.10 - SXSW Consequence of Sound @ Republic Live
03.20.10 - SXSW In-store @ End of an Ear Records
03.20.10 - SXSW Fast Folks @ The Gas Pipe Smoke Shop
03.21.10 - Wichita, KS Rock Island Live
03.22.10 - Springfield, MO The Outland Ballroom
03.23.10 - Columbia, MO Mojo’s
03.24.10 - St. Louis, MO Off Broadway
03.25.10 - Indianapolis, IN Local’s Only (MOKB & Scion event, free show!)
03.26.10 - Chicago, IL Mopery Loft
03.31.10 - Columbus, Ohio Wexner Center &
04.01.10 - Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge *
04.08.10 - Minneapolis, MN Hexagon Bar
04.09.10 - Northfield, MN The Cave @ Carlton College
04.17.10 - Bloomington, IN WIUX Culture Shock #
04.26 - Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
04.28.10 - Washington, DC Black Cat Backstage !
04.30.10 - Brooklyn, NY Glasslands $
# Best Coast
% Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
& Deerhunter
* Woodhands
! Willowz
$ Memoryhouse
• Light Pollution: http://myspace.com/lightpollution
• Carpark: http://www.carparkrecords.com
[Photo: Coach House Sounds]
Woods to release new album At Echo Lake, neither of which are actually found in Brooklyn
By The Creepster Network on Mar 16 2010
Woodsist is dropping records like mad lately, and on May 11 its flagship band/founding members Woods are joining in by releasing their fifth studio album. Titled At Echo Lake, Woods expands on the already-expanded roster of last year’s Songs of Shame (TMT Review) to flesh out a “diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows.”
Gonna’ make you privvy to the tracklist here:
01. Blood Dries Darker
02. Pick Up
03. Suffering Season
04. Time Fading Lines
05. From the Horn
06. Death Rattles
07. Mornin’ Time
08. I Was Gone
09. Get Back
10. Deep
11. Til the Sun Rips
Say… do you like MP3s? Here’s a little ditty you might enjoy: “I Was Gone,” which is also available on a newly released 7-inch of the same name.
Hey! They’re also on tour. Most likely because of that little event in Texas.
03.16.10 - Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Music Hall ^
03.19.10 - Austin, TX - French Legation Museum (Other Music SXSW)
03.19.10 - Austin, TX - Cheer Up Charlie’s a.k.a. Ms. Bea’s (SXSW)
03.20.10 - Austin, TX - Red 7 (Woodsist Showcase SXSW)
03.22.10 - Nashville, TN - The End ^
03.23.10 - Bloomington, IN - The Bishop ^
03.24.10 - Cleveland, OH - The Spot at Case Western ^
03.25.10 - Pittsburgh, PA - University of Pittsburgh ^
03.26.10 - Haverford, PA - Haverford College ^
03.27.10 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel ^
03.28.10 - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse ^
05.13.10 - New York, NY - Abrons Art Center / Joshua Light Festival *
^ Real Estate
# Happy Birthday and Wild Nothing
* MV + EE
• Woods: http://www.myspace.com/woodsfamilyband
• Woodsist: http://www.woodsist.com
