AMA Declares That Carnage from Le Loup’s Upcoming Tour CANNOT BE STOPPED, Requires Nurses to Join for Damage Control
By Elzee on Aug 25 2009
So you thought that Le Loup was a large band composed of nice musicians from DC who play otherworldly music that’s good for driving at night? Think again! According to a recent Associated Press report, the band’s true intentions have been revealed, despite the group’s French-translated trickery. Apparently they are all actually wolves and, in a Gwar-like fashion, will be using their upcoming tour to wreak havoc across the North American continent in hopes of raising the Great Wolf Spirit who will then take over the world. Sounds like an episode of Doctor Who to me.
Anyway, the American Medical Association has declared a state of emergency for music fans everywhere. They have decided that the only solution to this impending disaster is to send medical professionals along with the “band” to save audience members from bleeding out. These nurses have been highly trained to detect the early signs of rabies and, for some reason, lupus. Probably an administrative mix-up in there somewhere.
I guess it’s also possible this means that the band Nurses will be touring with Le Loup on a trip through the U.S. and Canada to promote their respective new albums. Le Loup, after all, is releasing Family on September 22 via Hardly Art, and Nurses already put out Apple's Acre on the Dead Oceans label a couple weeks ago. But no, that would be waaaaaaaay less crazy.
Take some self-defense classes first:
10.09.09 - Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar
10.10.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Kungfu Necktie
10.11.09 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
10.13.09 - Cambridge, MA - TT the Bear's
10.14.09 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore
10.15.09 - Toronto, ON - The Drake Hotel
10.16.09 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
10.17.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10.18.09 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown Jr
10.19.09 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
10.20.09 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
10.22.09 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret
10.23.09 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
10.25.09 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10.27.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
10.28.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
10.29.09 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
10.30.09 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
10.31.09 - Tucson, AZ - Plush
11.02.09 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
11.03.09 - Dallas, TX - Cavern Ale House
11.05.09 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
11.06.09 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
11.07.09 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
What This Country Needs Right Now Is a Robert Pollard DVD! Good News, There’s One Coming Out
By E. Nagurney on Aug 25 2009
The moments between new releases by Robert Pollard are few and far between, so we must use them wisely. Fill them with wonderful times with your friends and family. Enrich yourself with fine literature and film. Spend time outside appreciating the great outdoors. Discover your true self and how you view the world. Then once your time is occupied by the next Robert Pollard release, you’ll know you didn’t spend the downtime in vain.
Or you could forgo that and fill your life with even more Robert Pollard. Thanks to the good folks at Rockathon and MVD Visual, your precious eyeballs can feast on the glorious Pollard goodness contained on the new DVD, The Devil Went Home and Puked, out October 20. One need not even settle for one era of Pollard, as the film is a video collage consisting of footage from every era of Guided By Voices and solo Pollard since 1994, along with early GBV studio footage. Sounds like a lot of Uncle Bob, but to ensure that you will never find yourself Pollard-less, the DVD also contains nine hard-to-find music videos. If you’ve been spending all your Pollard downtime scouring GBV message boards looking for the video for “Circle Saw Boys Club” or “I-Razor,” then you may now rest, for your search is over.
As for news concerning what Pollard’s been working on lately, I don’t think he’s planning on putting anything out soon. I think he’s probably going to take it easy for a while. Just playing!
St. Vincent Plots 24-Date Fall Tour, Picks Out 24 Outfits Ahead of Time
By Nobodaddy on Aug 24 2009
Okay, okay. White flag. I’ll be the first male admit it: Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent is proof-positive of ye olde time-honored axiom that “Girls Rule, Boys Drool.” She’s cool, confident, and funny; she bros down and hangs out with dudes all day for months at a time, she covers The Beatles without fear (or even too much reverence), she releases top-notch records like this year’s Actor (TMT Review); she hangs out with Grizzly Bear; she’s a hell of a lot more lucid than that Marnie Stern; she presumably sweats up a storm at all of her shows while shredding the nickel-wound fuck out of that souped-up Harmony guitar like Thurston Greenwood... And yet, through all of that, her lipstick stays just perfect. If that’s not the model of a 21st-century career woman, I don’t know what is.
Don’t believe me? Well, hear the woman roar yourself this fall when Clark and her band of merry men criss-cross the U.S. on yet another victory lap for rock chicks everywhere. Though... actually, now that I think about it, I’m not so sure that the Annie-Clark-ruling-while-boys-drool thing is really all the Women’s Lib victory thing that it’s cracked up to be, since, in this case, the boys are actually just drooling at her. And hell, from the shows I’ve seen, most of the girls are just drooling at her too.
St. Vincent tour:
09.29.09 - Indianapolis, IN - The Murat Theater
09.30.09 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
10.01.09 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird
10.03.09 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's
10.05.09 - Birmingham, AL - WorkPlay Soundstage
10.07.09 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10.08.09 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10.09.09 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
10.10.09 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
10.12.09 - Charleston, SC - Mic Farm
10.13.09 - Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
10.14.09 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's - Front Room
10.16.09 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
10.17.09 - Madison, WI - Pabst Theater
10.18.09 - Birmingham, AL - The State Theatre
10.19.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Southern Theatre
10.20.09 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10.21.09 - Buffalo, NY - Asbury Hall @ Babeville
10.22.09 - Ithaca, NY - Castaways
10.24.09 - South Portland, ME - South Portland High School
10.25.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
10.26.09 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom
10.27.09 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
10.28.09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
More More More: Kurt Vile Announces Big U.S. Fall Tour in Support of Matador Debut
By Mario Speedwagon on Aug 24 2009
Kurt Vile (not to be confused with Kurt Weill, who is totally dead and who my boss keeps thinking I am talking about when I talk about Kurt Vile) will be heading out on a monster tour this fall in support of his forthcoming Matador debut, Childish Prodigy (TMT News).
Last week, Vile played shows in Jersey City, NJ (for WFMU) and Philadelphia, PA, but starting this week, he will be touring the West Coast non-stop until early September. He'll take a roughly month-long break before embarking on yet another extensive U.S. leg. that'll take him ALL OVER THE PLACE.
For more information, check out his MySpace.
Kurt Vile tourdates:
08.25.09 - Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Theature #%
08.26.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubador % !
08.27.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
08.28.09 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters %
08.29.09 - Big Sur, CA - Big Sur (Mexican Summer/Folk Yeah fest)
08.30.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill % !
09.01.09 - Portland, OR - Berbati’s Pan %!
09.02.09 - Eugene, OR - Basement 1287 ^
09.03.09 - San Francisco, CA - House Party ^
09.04.09 - Sacramento, CA - TBA ^
09.05.09 - Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest ^
10.02.09 - Philadelphia, PA - AKA Music
10.03.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Kungfu Necktie
10.07.09 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
10.08.09 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar College
10.11.09 - Lexington, KY - Al’s Bar (WFRL’s Boomslang After Show)
10.12.09 - Bloomington, IN - Video Saloon
10.13.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10.14.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10.17.09 - Seattle, WA - High Dive &
10.18.09 - Portland, OR - Holocene ^ &
10.21.09 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
10.22.09 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place
10.23.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
10.25.09 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
10.27.09 - Tempe, AZ - Modified Arts
10.29.09 - Lubbock, TX - Bash Riprocks
10.30.09 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
10.31.09 - Dallas, TX -Lounge on Elm Street
11.02.09 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone *
11.03.09 - Atlanta, GA - 529 *
11.05.09 - Washington DC - Black Cat
# Built to Spill
% Woods
^ Eat Skull
& Crystal Stilts
* Lovvers
! Dungen
[Photo: Justin Clowes]
Senator Al Franken to Attend the Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Summit
By Brom on Aug 24 2009
From October 4-6 in Washington D.C., various music industry nerds will come together to discuss riveting topics like "Ten Years after Napster," "Future of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," and "Intellectual Property, Privacy & Network Rights." Making an appearance at this year's Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Summit will be everyone’s favorite liberal comedian/Senator: Al Franken. Whilst America rages in battles over health care reform, climate change, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Senator Franken has shown admirable courage in getting the country’s priorities straight. Sure, there may be 46 million Americans without health insurance and the country accounts for a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions, but are we really going to be concerned about that when online pirates are out of control, musicians aren’t fairly compensated for their labor, and copyright becomes a laughing stock?
The question on everyone’s lips should be: Does one of America’s most famous senators support the war on illegal file-sharing? The political debate in this country drastically needs to turn to these important issues, now.
(I'm just joking around, kids. Find more info about the Future of Music Coalition's Policy Summit here.)
