"Their music is really pretty effin' sweet, dude!" --Mojo
"Holy moly. I really like this band. Gooooood stuff I'm hearing here on this here album." --Rolling Stone
"Plenty of amazing tracks. Two thumbs up!" --Pitchfork
"Uh, like, can I have another album by Dirty Projectors pronto!? This shit is to [sic] awesome!" --Spin
The critics have spoken, and Dirty Projectors are a hit! Following up on the success of Bitte Orca (TMT Review), Dirty Projectors are set to release the four-track Temecula Sunrise EP on September 28 via Domino. The EP, available as a 12-inch, will feature two new tracks, "Ascending Melody" and "Emblem of the World," alongside Bitte Orca tracks "Temecula Sunrise" and "Cannibal Resource."
The Temecula Sunrise EP tracklist:
A1. Temecula Sunrise
A2. Cannibal Resource
B1. Ascending Melody
B2. Emblem Of The World
Tourdates: 09.09.09 - Paris, France - Maroquinerie 09.11.09 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival 09.12.09 - Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival 09.13.09 - London, UK - Scala 09.16.09 - Dublin, Ireland - Whelans 09.19.09 - Brussels, Belgium - Botanique 09.20.09 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg 09.21.09 - Berlin, Germany - Festsaal Kreuzberg 09.25.09 - Toulouse, France - Le Printemps de Septembre Festival
So, Radiohead didn't release a new EP this morning. But we did get both the new track "These Are My Twisted Words" free (via their website or torrent) and a message from Radiohead, which oddly fails to address the leak at all. (I bet it was Nigel Godrich! He always seemed prone to leaking tracks.) From Radiohead.com:
So here's a new song, called 'These Are My Twisted Words'.
We've been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We're pretty proud of it.
There's other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we've been practicing, and which we'll probably play at this summer's concerts. Hope you like it.
Obviously the website was created by someone else (someone in The Netherlands, in fact), and sure, TMT never posted on the rumor, but boy do we feel put in our place anyway. What a profound gesture. This website, my friends, will alter journalism forever.
Amidst all this do-gooder business, there is still an actual festival with real bands to see, including:
The Black Lips, Lightning Bolt, Tim & Eric, Lucero, Converge, Fucked Up, The Thermals, No Age, Matt Skiba, Glass Candy, Japanther, Times New Viking, Darker My Love, Carbonas, Peanut Butter Wolf, Crystal Antlers, AA Bondy, Mika Miko, Har Mar Superstar, Nobunny, Telepathe, Cold Cave, The Strange Boys, Katie Stelmanis, Dios, NinjaSonik, Kurt Vile, Eat Skull, Avi Buffalo, and more bands and comedians to be announced.
FYF Fest will be held on Saturday, September 5 at Los Angeles Historic State Park. Tickets are $20 and are on sale now.
...HUH? WHA?! Oh... sorry guys, I guess I nodded off there. Jeeeez I’m tired today. Um, I’m supposed to be writing this story about how MTV is apparently moving out of its “famed studio overlooking Times Square” in New York City at the end of this year, according to their landlord, SL Green. *Yaaawn*... oh, ‘scuse me... but yeah, I know, right? According to the New York Post, I guess that MTV's parent company, Viacom, didn't renew its studio lease when it extended its lease on more than 1 million square feet of offices at, ummmmmm... hang on... let me see... ah: at 1515 Broadway, between 44th and 45th streets, last year. And while it could still make an offer on the space (which is, I guess, now possibly 10 times more costly than it was 12 years ago, or whatever or something), it has not yet... you know... done that, blah blah blah. Man, I did NOT get enough sleep last night!
Ummm, mum, mum, mum, mum... lets see heeeeeere: It says here that “‘We're taking it back from MTV at end of year,’ SL Green Leasing Director Steven Durels said. ‘We're actively marketing it, and we think it will be the crowning touch of the retail development we've done since we bought the building,’ which signed store tenants Billabong, Element, and Bank of America.” God, this print is kinda small.
Well, whatever-his-name-is also said the 22,216-square-foot, second-floor studio -- which has block-long, 167-foot frontage and 16-foot-high windows visible to daily hordes of office employees, shoppers, and visitors from around the world -- could be used as a store, or for another "broadcast use." Like, duh right? God, my back hurts today... but yeah, sorry... uh, I guess old boy didn't say how much Green was asking, but databases list it at $450 per square foot for the studio, and a, *yaaaaaaaaaawn*, $1,000 per square foot for the 1,624-square-foot MTV store at street level, which must be taken with the studio space, for a total rent of... oh my fucking god, hang on... where’s that calculator... ah, yeah: of $11.6 million a year. Sheesh, how about that? Guess they probably can’t afford it or somethin’, huh? GOD, I am so HUNGRY too! Where’s that intern with those Jimmy John’s orders?
Siiiiigh. Whatever. Back to work. Focus, focus. Breaking news here. Aggggghhhhhhhm!!! Aaaaaaand, of course, MTV opened the studio there in 1997, when Times Square was emerging from its age of crappy, porny, violent, muggy whateverness, and blah blah blah, blah blah. The studio served as home to TRL and Carson Daly, da-dah, da-dah, da-dah. And it drew throngs of annoying tweens with cell phones to the "magical" sidewalks below, screaming and yelling and skipping school and hoping to spot their favorite stars and snag autographs and...
I've always thought it'd be thrilling to have people watch me and my boyfriend have sex. My boyfriend, Chris, is so hott -- about 6-feet tall, brown wavy hair, a nice lean body, and eyes you can get lost in -- that I could have his earthly delights just about anywhere, anytime. And I liked the idea of his friends thinking I'm a slut.
Speaking of earthly delights, Lightning Bolt have a new album coming out October 13*, and what do you know? It's titled Earthly Delights and is set for release through Load. Here's a vid of a Hypermagic Mountain (TMT Review) track to pump you uuuuup:
Earthly Delights tracklist:
1. Sound Guardians 2. Nation of Boar 3. Colossus 4. The Sublime Freak 5. Flooded Chamber 6. Funny Farm 7. Rain on Lake I'm Swimming In 8. S.O.S. 9. Transmissionary
* We originally posted a November release date, but drummer Brian Chippendale kindly told us that his original MySpace post was incorrect.
Neil Young, one of the awesomest dudes ever, has recently been announced as the recipient of yet another award. However, this new accolade, while recognizing Young’s artistic and musical achievements over a multi-decade career, primarily focuses on Young's philanthropic and humanitarian work.
The MusiCares Person of the Year award, first given in 1991 and previously held by such luminaries as Aretha Franklin, Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Bono, and plenty of others, hopes to establish the recipient as a truly caring and charitable musician... officially!
Yeah! That’s right! Neil Young totally gives a shit about you! Well, as long as you’re a farmer or a child with severe speech and/or physical impairments. Just joking, Neil Young totally cares about everyone (except Graham Nash); he just knows that farmers and physically disabled children could use a little help, which is exactly why Neil Young is receiving this new honor.
The singer/songwriter/guitarist began his philanthropic work in 1985 when he co-founded and organized the first Farm Aid concert along with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. (The benefit festival continues to raise money for farmers, and the next event is planned for October of this year.) Beyond helping the family farmers of America, Young and his wife also run the annual Bridge School Concerts. Started in 1986, the shows aim to raise money for physically impaired children.
Neil Portnow, president/CEO of the Recording Academy and the MusiCares Foundation, had this to say about Mr. Young: “Neil has set a standard of artistic integrity and iconoclastic creativity for more than four decades, and his achievements have been matched by his unwavering humanitarianism.”
The award ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on January 29, two days before the Grammy Awards.
