The wonderful creatures and critters of Paw Tracks have awaken from their Winter Hibernation to bring us news that the boys of Black Dice will shed their winter coats April 7 with REPO, their fifth full-length album. When we last heard from them, they were blowing our loads on Load Blown (TMT Review), their unique style of noise gibber jabbering into hearts everywhere. Well, on REPO, it seems the crew has picked up a “blues-band philosophy,” which has allowed the band to “loosen up.” Can't wait to see what this all means.
As for what Black Dice are repossessing, it seems that these jokesters are out to get the “landscape popular culture would have us believe we cannot afford.” How exactly will this be done? By mulching sounds and images of radio, TV, and the internet into a compost heap of new life (and new songs), we will have what is ours. Ahhh, the smell of new life -- isn’t it great? A bit confusing, but that’s good, right? Right?
REPO tracklist:
1. Night Cream 2. Glazin 3. Earnings Plus Interest 4. Whirligig 5. La Cucaracha 6. Idiots Pasture 7. Lazy 8. Buddy 9. Inches 10. Vegetable 11. Urban Super Mist 12. Ultra Vomit 13. Gag Shack
Animal Collective's show tonight at Los Angeles' Henry Fonda Theatre has been cancelled due to illness. The band aims to reschedule the show for Sunday, but nothing's set in stone yet. According to the band's MySpace:
LOS ANGELES SHOW 1/23/09 CANCELLED
Hello, very sorry to announce that we have had to cancel the Henry Fonda.. theater show in LA this evening due to illness. We had hoped to make it through, but after sound check it's apparent it just cannot happen. We have a hold for a possible show on Sunday in LA, that will honor the Fonda tickets so please stay tuned, and sincere apologies to all, the band is very upset to have to cancel but they have no other choice. be well
Hey chumps. Sorry for the lack of “News Roundup” last week. I’m sure you all were bummed out. NOT. None of you fuckers even noticed. Mr P didn’t even notice until Monday. Anyway, I wrote about some shit for this week. Brace yourself.
- Ugh, Mos Def is releasing a record on February 9, 2009. The Ecstatic is his first record in three years and will be released on Downtown. Like, okay, I don’t care that Mos Def is releasing a new record, but what worries me is that he wants to revive Def Poetry on HBO. I hated that shit. I’d rather watch re-runs of Dane Cook’s Tourgasm.
- FCC Chairman Kevin Martin quit his job as commissioner. His last day was January 20, 2009 – inauguration day. Word on the street is my main man, President Obama, plans to nominate Julius Genachowski to succeed Martin.
- Kanye West has a mullet. Yeah, that’s it. I just wanted to bring it up. Check it out here.
- Montreal DJ/Producer CFCF released an EP this week exclusively on Paper Bag Digital. Panesian Nights is available for download as 320 kbps MP3s. CFCF is known for his bumpin’ remixes for Crystal Castles, HEALTH, The Presets, The Teenagers, and many others. Check it out, ya’ll.
- So, if you live in New York City and you don’t have shit to do on Monday, there is a secret YACHT show. No, not on an actual yacht, but rather those artsy hipsters from Portland. Here are the deetz: the show is Monday, January 26, 2009. It’s called the (CLL) PHN-LCKN, which is ‘Master-kraft’ for Cell Phone Lock-In. It’s at 9PM and is located somewhere in Tribeca. Other than that, I can’t help you out, but you can buy tickets at the official site. I’m not sure what the “ticket type” thing is about, but it looks like the only people who can still get in are some alt-bros and one keut azn.
- In my most recent (and first) tour roundup post, I mentioned how Deerhunter canceled their European tour. Remember? Well, turns out they've already rescheduled part of the tour (which now starts in May with their ATP appearance) and they expect to confirm even more dates next week! Check out the rescheduled dates here, and then stick 'em up, motherfucker!
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are at it again, starting a short U.S. tour today that will continue throughout January (opening act: Bulgarian/Balkan folk group Ivan Milev Band), with scattered dates afterward, including two Valentine's Day performances in New York at the Nokia Live Theatre in February and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April. That was just one sentence, FYI.
- Fruit Bats and Sera Cahoone are starting a tour together on January 27 in Eugene, OR. In order to fuck up the whole synchronization of it all, Cahoone will play a show at the Red Room one day earlier. Not sure what Fruit Bats' thoughts are on this, but I'd personally call off the tour. Dates can be found here.
- Passion Pit start their tour next Monday, January 26, at Pontiac, MI's Crofoot and end in Northampton, MA's Iron Horse Music Hall. They'll be playing with Cale Parks and Paper Route for most, if not all, the North American dates (I'm too lazy to check it up myself). Afterward, the band will head to Europe, with a break in March before playing more shows in April. Meanwhile, the band is preparing a 2009 full-length, and if you're reading this, I bet you're really excited!
David "Fathead" Newman, a jazz musician who played with the Ray Charles Band and won fame as a tenor sax soloist, has died at age 75.
Newman played and recorded with a wide range of jazz and soul luminaries, such as Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin and Aaron Neville. He also led a successful solo career.
He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 for his work with Art Blakey and Dr. John.
Manager Karen Nemman says the jazz musician died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer in a Kingston, N.Y., hospital.
According to his Web site, Newman spent 12 years with the Ray Charles Band beginning in 1954. He began as the baritone sax player and became the star tenor sax soloist.
Sometimes you just get the feeling that the guys from Radiohead are just, I don’t know, advanced aliens that decided to camp out on earth for a while to do a bit of recon work on the behaviors of primitive life forms for their own home planet’s anthropology records. Being the advanced beings that they are, Radiohead are, at times, unable to resist bestowing small tokens of their advanced culture upon us lowly human beings from time to time. However, also being the advanced beings that they are, the aliens sometimes get bored with just being all “wise” and “stately” all the time, and they have to do something to “amuse their curiosities,” as it were.
Case in point? Jonny Greenwood apparently recently decided that he’d written enough incendiary movie scores and innovative orchestral works, and thus, took a bit of a slacker break to work with Israeli pop singer Dudu Tasa on his newest single. What’s that? Never heard of him? Well, by all means, let me introduce you to what you’ve been missing:
Yes, a recent interview on Israeli news site and TMT sister-publication Ynet confirms (er, trust me, it really does) that Greenwood and Tasa worked together on Tasa's new single, which is titled "What a Day." “It gave the song some depth that was not there before,” Tasa said to Ynet of the collaboration. “Jonny loves what I do and thats very flattering.”
I know, I know, let's get down to business here: what does this whole ethno-world-pop-art-explosion sound like? Well, you may be in luck, as you can stream the song here with Internet Explorer. And since most of you are probably working your shitty day job where you’re using PCs from the mid-to-late-’90s right now, I’m guessing that most of you will be able to check it out!
By the way, the track is sung in Hebrew and, according to Pitchfork’s own diabolical sleuthing techniques, contains lyrics to the effect of "I was already drunk/ Now I'm clever/ And again like an idiot/ I tend to argue.” What a day, indeed. Now... get back to work, Jonny!!!
