Tom Zé box set promises rare recordings, dayglo magic
By Liz Louche on Aug 9 2010
The lingering aroma of campfires wafts through the evening air; the leaves lose their green and descend into the gutters; and temporary Halloween stores pop up in strip mall complexes around America. These signs can only point to one thing: the beginning of box set season! And Luaka Bop is kicking this unofficial new pre-holiday shopping holiday in style, with the release of a 3LP vinyl-only Tom Zé collection entitled Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You on October 5. The collection includes the recordings Estudando o Samba, Estudando o Pagode, and Estudando a Bossa, all of which feature Brazilian artist Tom Zé’s takes on the respective musical genres. Pagode and Bossa have never before been on vinyl, and Samba has never had a US release. (You can also get Bossa as a standalone CD release come October 5.)
Extras include a live 45 of Zé’s collaboration with Tortoise at the Barbican in London circa 2001; a CD featuring a 1993 conversation between Luaka Bop founder David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, and Tom Zé; a booklet by Brazilian music scholar Chris Dunn; and according to the press release, “a touch of day glow.” The box set also comes with digital download codes. Have at it!
• Tom Zé: http://www.myspace.com/tomzefrombrazil
• Luaka Bop: http://luakabop.com
Today in pointless news: Kazaa relaunches as a paid music subscription service “in the cloud”
By Annapocalypse on Aug 9 2010
Following in the footsteps of Napster — a fellow former peer-to-peer music community that has now transformed itself into a paid music subscription service — Kazaa has converted into a “cloud-based streaming service with access to 1.6 million songs and 1 million song lyrics,” according to the press release. They will offer a free seven-day trial and then start charging users $15 a month.
Kazaa’s CTO, Emanuel Krassenstein, said in the release, “While there is no shortage of smart devices in the market until Kazaa’s launch no one was offering music consumers the opportunity to fully integrate their music into their lives and social networks.”
Pricier and with less songs than the competition. SOUNDS GREAT.
• Kazaa: http://www.kazaa.com
Prince Rama warp space and time alongside Animal Collective’s Deakin this September
By Harold Shueberg on Aug 9 2010
If you read TMT regularly, or, you know, like musics and stuff, you probably have at least a rough idea of what Prince Rama are all about: they’re legitimately weird; the three members met on a Hare Krishna compound in Florida; they write concept albums based on the work of Paul Laffoley. Nuff said, really. You might also be privy to the fact that Paw Tracks is releasing their new LP Shadow Temple come September 14. Oh, and a couple dudes from AC helped them out in the recording of it. So obviously it would be fitting that they would tour alongside Deakin for the majority of their US tour:
08.09.10 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
08.14.10 - New York, NY - Cake Shop #
08.28.10 - Palmer, MA - Camp Stanica
09.13.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands (record release party) $
09.14.10 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs $
09.15.10 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore $
09.16.10 - Toronto, ON - Snowball Gallery $
09.17.10 - Chicago, IL - Mortville $
09.18.10 - Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College Gardner Lounge $
09.19.10 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock $
09.22.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Cobalt $
09.23.10 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project $
09.24.10 - Olympia, WA - Northern $
09.25.10 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios $
09.27.10 - Oakland, CA - The New Parish $
09.28.10 - Brookdale, CA - Historic Brookdale Lodge $
09.29.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Center for the Arts $ +
* Nite Jewel
# Cave, Psychic Ills
$ Deakin
+ Fennesz
• Prince Rama: http://princerama.com
• Paw Tracks: http://www.paw-tracks.com
This year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest: too much fun for you to handle; lineup announced
By Erika H on Aug 9 2010
There is almost no way that I could make this post more exciting, unless it were to announce that Fun Fun Fun Fest has decided to become a year-round touring affair, with cash give-aways and an alternating cast of celebrities in fishnet t-shirts (‘cause why not?).
The lineup for the fifth Fun Fun Fun Fest is now official, and it is so packed with gold it’s absurd. This year features a third day, stretching out the fest from November 5 to 7 in Austin, TX’s Waterloo Park, and beginning with Weird Al Yankovic (to think that I once thought Neil Hamburger emceeing this year’s Do-Division Fest in Chicago was the greatest thing ever!). Like Pitchfork with its token “hip hop” act per annum, there’s something for everybody. You can begin with the sort-of-indie stage (Orange), with Dirty Projectors, Devo, MGMT, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Wavves, and a surfeit of awesome etc.’s. You can then meander over to the Black Stage (whoo! punk rock?) to get covered in food coloring by Gwar and re-live your high school fantasy of seeing Bad Religion, old or not. Suicidals can get in on the action too; ST is on the list, along with Mastodon, Kylesa, and Municipal Waste. The Blue Stage is an amalgamation of most other genres with anything to do with R&B, soul, rap, or electronic something-or-other (Yelle to RJD2 and Dâm-Funk), while the Yellow Stage (including live action wrestling, Monotonix, Cold Cave, and a veggie hot dog eating contest) is just straight-up miscellaneous.
Purchase tickets here — early bird discounts are already sold out!
ORANGE STAGE:
Weird Al Yankovic
MGMT
Devo
Dirty Projectors
The Hold Steady
Man Man
Cap’n Jazz
Os Mutantes
Deerhunter
Wavves
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Polvo
Kaki King
Dum Dum Girls
Best Coast
Crocodiles
Magic Kids
Indian Jewelry
Appleseed Cast
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Toro Y Moi
Junius
Woven Bones
Royal Forest
Mother Falcon
BLACK STAGE:
Bad Religion
GWAR
The Vandals
Dwarves
The Gories
Municipal Waste
Strike Anywhere
The Casualties
Valient Thorr
Jeff The Brotherhood
The Briggs
Power Trip
Eagle Claw
Mastodon
Suicidal Tendencies
High On Fire
Snapcase
Floor
The Bronx
Ringworm
Kylesa
OFF!
Peelander Z
Hatred Surge
Black Congress
BLUE STAGE:
RJD2
Slick Rick (performing “Great Adventures Of”)
Deakin (of Animal Collective)
Delorean
Big Freedia
Designer Drugs
Devin The Dude
Invincible
Butcher Bear and Charlie
League of Extraordinary Gz
DJ Nick Nack
A-trak
Yelle
Pharoahe Monch
Jean Grae
POS
Dâm-Funk
Dominique Young Unique
Black Nasty
DJ Bird Peterson
Crew 54
YELLOW STAGE:
Cold Cave (live visual projection show)
Monotonix
Mariachi El Bronx
Live Action Wrestling
Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest
Punk Rock Story Time with Joe Sib (spoken word)
New Movement (live sketch comedy)
Air Sex Contest (presented by Alamo Draft House)
Live Stunt Show
Video Shows
Stand-up Comedy (Matt Bearden, Altercation Punk Rock Comedy tour, and more)
• Fun Fun Fun Fest: http://www.funfunfunfest.com
Black Mountain and The Black Angels join forces to create ultimate fall psych-rock tour
By Liz Louche on Aug 9 2010
Black Mountain and The Black Angels are teaming up to create fall’s Dropout Boogie tour, the ultimate fall psych-rock tour that features bands with the word “Black” in their names. (Hey, “Wolf” and “Crystal” bands, maybe you can put a name-themed co-headlining tour together in the spring or something. Don’t rest on your crystal wolf laurels.) Black Mountain’s new album on Jagjaguwar, Wilderness Heart, comes out September 14, while The Black Angels’ new album on Blue Horizon, Phosphene Dream, ALSO comes out on September 14! They are, like, musical soul twins or something. WOW. Listen to “Bad Vibrations” from the latter album at the Chocolate Grinder.
As previously reported, Black Mountain will be spending the late summer/early fall months gallivanting through Europe, with select pre-Dropout Boogie tour stops in Los Angeles and New York.
Here’s them co-headlining dates:
10.28.10 - Chicago, IL - Metro
10.30.10 - Buffalo, NY - Tralf Music Hall
10.31.10 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
11.01.10 - Montreal, QC - La Tulipe
11.02.10 - Boston, MA - Paradise
11.03.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11.06.10 - Philadelphia, NY - Theatre of Living Arts
11.07.10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11.09.10 - Louisville, KY - Headliners
11.10.10 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
11.11.10 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
11.12.10 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
11.13.10 - Orlando, FL - The Social
11.15.10 - Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree
11.16.10 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s
11.17.10 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
11.19.10 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
11.20.10 - Dallas, TX - Kessler Theater
11.24.10 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
11.26.10 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
11.28.10 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
11.29.10 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox
11.30.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
• Black Mountain: http://www.blackmountainarmy.com
• The Black Angels: http://www.theblackangels.com
• Jagjaguwar: http://www.jagjaguwar.com
• Blue Horizon: http://www.bluehorizonrecords.com
[Photo: Mollie King]
