Bloc Party to Release New LP Digitally on Thursday; I Hope It Gets Leaked Earlier Though
By Mango Starr on 08-18-2008
Oh my god. I'm so excited. This is so awesome. Bloc Party, perhaps the best band that has ever existed, will release their third album, Intimacy, this Thursday, August 21. Oh my god. I'm so excited. This is so awesome. According to the press release:
Bloc Party alerted fans to Intimacy’s existence, as well as their ability to purchase the record instantly, via their first-ever web chat this afternoon. After an unfinished version of their last album, A Weekend in the City, was leaked four months prior to its release, the band decided to get their newest collection of songs out to fans immediately upon the album being mastered and ready for the hearing.
Intimacy is available now for pre-order at the band's website. Meanwhile, the physical version is due October 28 via Atlantic Records and will apparently contain different tracks. It's unclear at this point whether or not these "different tracks" are shittier.
Intimacy tracklist:
% Foals
@ Apostle of Hustle
Built To Spill, Quasi, Citay Join Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker at the Fourth Annual Campout Music Festival
By Mario Speedwagon on 08-18-2008
September marks the fourth annual Campout Music Festival in Pioneertown, California. Yeah, I said Pioneertown, the very same town where Westerns and TV shows, like The Cisco Kid, were filmed in the ’40s. Badass. Music festivals are always more fun when they are held in cool locations. If only Dollywood was in California.
The festival will take place September 11-13 at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, a hot minute from Joshua Tree National Park. A pass for the whole festival is a cool $62, which includes camping fees. That shit sounds way nicer than hanging out next to some granola dude noodle-dancing in the mud in Tennessee.
Aside from the lineup, which includes Cracker, Built To Spill, Quasi, Citay, and Brant Bjork & The Bros, Camper Van Beethoven is celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band. Holla. For more information, check out the Cracker website.
Lineup:
Thursday, September 11:
- David Lowery & Johnny Hickman (acoustic duo-set)
- Greg Lisher, Victor Krummenacher, and Jonathan Segel
Friday, September 12:
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Built To Spill
- Quasi
- The Dangers
Saturday, September 13:
- Cracker
- Brant Bjork and The Bros.
- Citay
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Jonathan Segel
- Hod Hulphers
- Kenny Margolis Band
Abe Vigoda Tours, The Term “Tropical Punk” Still Conjures Mental Images of Tattooed Hipsters with Malaria
By Mike McHugh on 08-18-2008
Let me make this clear. Abe Vigoda, the California foursome so often referred to as “tropical punk,” is on tour, not Abe Vigoda, America’s favorite caterpillar-browed thespian. Well, maybe Peter Gallagher is more your style. Either way, this is about punk rock, not eyebrows.
Abe Vigoda (the band) will be trekking across a fine chunk of the USA this autumn, including a brief California jaunt with none other than Vampire Weekend, the group everyone loves to love but then hate when everyone loves them then love again because everyone hates them now and you need to keep yourself separated from the pack and so on and so forth. But as we saw in the inscrutable Abe Vigoda (the actor) vs. Peter Gallagher debate, all that shit doesn’t matter except for the fact that Abe Vigoda is a rad punk band that you should probably see on its current U.S. tour.
Dead City Waste Wilderness:
$ Vampire Weekend
# Diplo, Telepathe, Boy 8 Bit
Master P Officially Changes Name to P. Miller; Official Name Still Just Percy Miller
By Kid Midnight on 08-18-2008
The Rap Game, Part 26 in a Continuing Series:
A Day in the Life of Master P
After years of toiling under a moniker, struggling to find the credibility incapable with just a title and a letter, Master P seeks something more, something deeper, something prestigious. We enter into the life of the Master in a scene of heartbreak...
A Fortune 500 company, a floor higher than level 25, a department where the men are separated from the boys. Percy Miller waits patiently; he may have found the opportunity for which he has craved for so long: an office, a staff not made up of family members, friends, hangers on, and the respect of the business world at large. All that stands before him is the interview.
“Mr. Johnson will see you now, Mr. Master.”
Master P enters the office, brimming with confidence, sure of his future.
“Hello, Mr. Johnson.”
“Hello, Mr. ... P?”
“We’ve had a chance to go over your resume, and let me just say that we are quite impressed. You truly seem to be a man with goals and the drive to reach them. What you lack in formal education and training, you more than make up for with your ability to create your own opportunities. You seem adept at tapping into trends and exploiting them. Overall, you seem to be a great candidate for the job.”
“Thank you, Mr. Johnson. As I always say: No future but what we make for ourselves.”
“An excellent philosophy. However, we do have one, quite large, ‘problem.’ We can’t hire you until you have a last name. Our organization refuses to refer to anybody by just a letter, and we can’t write checks to pseudonyms. I’m sorry.”
Sad from the defeat, Master P later that night addresses Lil Romeo and the No Limit Army; "I'm changing my name, because Master P is who I used to be. I call it my childhood, and P. Miller marks my manhood... People grow mentally and spiritually through life experiences."
And that is how Master P grew mentally and spiritually into P. Miller.
Dischord Goes Digital
By Evan Kaloudis on 08-18-2008
Ian Mackaye and the boys over at Dischord Records have launched a DRM-free digital music store, which offers most of their catalog in 320 Kbps MP3 format. The store has nearly everything that comes to mind, including releases from the label's Dischord, Northern Liberties, Peterbilt, and Fugazi Live Series categories, with more rare and possibly unreleased material to come.
Along with digital downloads, the site continues to offer releases on LP, CD, and DVD. Everything is extremely affordable, with standard CDs and LPs going for about $10 and downloads going for a mere $7. The best part of it? Every 12-inch vinyl purchase comes with a free digital download of the album so you can listen to it before the record gets shipped to your house.
Now, excuse me while I purchase me some Red Medicine.
