The Flaming Lips' Forthcoming LP Is Titled Embryonic, Is Due in September, Is a Double LP
The Mutants are Back! The Mutants are Back! Os Mutantes! Os Mutantes! Os Mutantes! Ahhhh!
Tropicália legends Os Mutantes are releasing a new album, Haih, September 8 on ANTI- Records. Not only is this their first full-fledged studio album in 35 years, it is also the first ever to be released to an international audience. Yow-zah! I wonder if these guys know what they're getting themselves into: Screaming music nerds everywhere! Sold out shows! Psychedelia fans who know no Portuguese, but do their best to sing along to the lyrics they've memorized based on pure phonetics! It'll be like ABBA reversed (or was that Ace of Base?). Word has it that Tom Zé and Jorge Ben are on a couple tracks, too. Double, triple extra sweet.
“Living the conception and birth of this album, as an individual, was the most intense experience," according to Sergio Dias, the brains behind the psycho-tropic beast, "for it was as if time has ceased to exist, and I was bouncing from life to life, decades through decades, revisiting myself as a 16-year-old boy playing guitar and feeling so free and, as any teenager, indestructible.” Sergio, you're not the only one who feels like a teenager right now. Mutant-mania, anyone?
Maple Leafers in Vancouver will be able to catch the pop masters on September 3 at The Commadore Ballroom and in Montreal at the Pop Montreal festival, which runs from September 30-October 4, and also features such acts as Faust, The Oh Sees, Tobacco, Destroyer, Wovenhand, The Butthole Surfers, Lou Barlow + The Missing Men, Dinosaur Jr., Matt & Kim, as well as others, both announced and unannounced.
Swedish Court Rules Judge Was Not Biased Against Pirate Bay (North Korea Would be Proud!)
The Pirate Bay has lost its change for retrial. Now, let’s get this straight… the sentencing judge who ruled against The Pirate Bay in their recent court case is apparently not biased, even though he’s a member of several groups that lobby for the rights of copyright holders. The ruling by a Swedish court means the four men convicted of operating the file-sharing site are unable to have the case against them thrown out.
Seriously, this sounds like a justice system delivered by those freedom-lovin’ North Koreans. The Swedish court’s argument was that the judge in question, Thomas Norstrom, “joined the associations to keep abreast of copyright issues and that it found no evidence of bias.” Unfortunately for the founders of The Pirate Bay, this throws a real spanner into their appeal since they were going to base it on Norstrom’s connections to these lobby groups.
I’m no expert on the rule of law in Sweden, but surely it must have occurred to somebody that there was a serious conflict of interest in this particular case. Kim Jong-il salutes you Sweden!
RIP: Bob Bogle, Lead Guitarist and Co-Founder of The Ventures
From Rolling Stone:
Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band the Ventures, passed away on June 14th, the band’s Don Wilson told their native Tacoma, Washington’s News Tribune. Bogle, who suffered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma for the past several years, became ill this weekend and was taken to the hospital, where he died at the age of 75.Bogle and Wilson were construction workers who moonlighted as musicians when they formed the Ventures in 1958, and two years later their classic rendition of the instrumental “Walk, Don’t Run” catapulted the surf-rock band up the charts. They went on to have hits with “Telstar,” “Perfidia” and “Hawaii Five-O,” releasing more than 40 albums and charting in the Top 40 with 17 of them, according to AllMusic. Overall, the band sold more than 100 million records, News Tribune reports.
- The Ventures official website
- The Ventures Wikipedia entry
HEALTH Announce New Fall Tour, Maintain Tough Guy Noise-Rock Status by Touring with The Crips
Remember when I told you last month that HEALTH recorded parts of their new album, Get Color, in a not-so-great part of Los Angeles? Well it turns out that The Crips recorded a guest appearance on the album, quickly became fast BFF’s with HEALTH, and decided to join them on their upcoming fall tour. I’m not sure what instruments or musical talents The Crips possess, but I’m pretty much terrified to ask them, so let’s just leave it at that. Get Color is due September 8 on Lovepump United.
Tourdates:
06.18.09 - Toronto, Ontario - NXNE Festival
06.19.09 - Toronto, Ontario - NXNE Festival
06.20.09 - Brooklyn, NY - New York Night Train Happening ^
06.26.09 - Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island Festival
06.27.09 - Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island Festival
07.26.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Jelly NYC Pool Party
08.06.09 - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - Creepy Teepee Festival
08.07.09 - Myslowice, Poland - Off Festival
08.08.09 - Berlin, Germany - Berlin Festival
08.14.09 - Hamburg, Germany - Dockville Festival
08.15.09 - Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival
08.17.09 - Nuremberg, Germany - K4 @
08.19.09 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Bolsjefabrikken
08.21.09 - Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08.22.09 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08.24.09 - London, England - Koko #
09.09.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour *
09.10.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
09.11.09 - Portland, OR - Time-Based Art Festival *
09.12.09 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project *
09.13.09 - Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival *
09.17.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *
09.18.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
09.19.09 - Toronto, Ontario - Wrong Bar *
09.20.09 - Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
09.21.09 - Providence, RI - Club Hell *
09.22.09 - Allston, MA - Harper's Ferry *
09.24.09 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
09.25.09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
09.26.09 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar *
09.27.09 - Washington, DC - Sonic Circuits Festival *
^ Awesome Color
* Pictureplane
@ Crystal Antlers
# Deerhunter
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Criticizes Radiohead’s In Rainbows Model but Wishes She Had Come Up
There’s nothing quite like an indie spat! In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Kim Gordon described Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want-cos-we’re-so-good-and-are-better-than-you online model for In Rainbows (TMT Review) as “a marketing ploy” and “It seemed really community-oriented, but it wasn’t catered towards their musician brothers and sisters, who don’t sell as many records as them. It makes everyone else look bad for not offering their music for whatever.”
Ms. Gordon went on to say “It was a good marketing ploy and I wish I’d thought of it! But we’re not in that position either. We might not have been able to put out a record for another couple of years if we’d done it ourselves: It’s a lot of work. And it takes away from the actual making music.”
Dunno ‘bout you but all I could think when reading this was “WHAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA! WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA! WHAAAAA!”
