Liz Phair to Perform Exile In Guyville In Its Entirety

By Mango Starr on

Fact: The Don't Look Back concert series is influencing the music community outside of the ATP world. How do I know this? Well, word just got in that Liz Phair will perform Exile In Guyville in its entirety June 25 in New York!

The performance will take place at the Hiro Ballroom and is expected to be Phair alone on acoustic guitar, à la MTV Unplugged, the show that may very well have invented the acoustic guitar. Coincidentally, the event is just a day after the release of the Exile In Guyville reissue, which contains three unreleased B-sides ("Ant in Alaska," "Say You," and an untitled instrumental), as well as a DVD titled Guyville Redux. The ultra, mega, super deluxe reissue will be released digitally, physically, and vinyl-ly through ATO Records.

Tickets for the NY performance go on sale Wednesday, with Chicago and San Francisco events planned for the very near future. Pretty cool stuff, but it'd be much cooler to me if it were "Liz Phair to Perform Exile In Guyville In Wisconsin!"

High Places and Pontiak to Monkey Around with Thrill Jockey

By Mr P on 05-19-2008

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- High Places' 03/07 - 09/07 is getting a physical release July 22 via Thrill Jockey. A new, as-yet untitled full-length is coming in September.
- Pontiak's Thrill Jockey debut, Sun on Sun, is being released September 9.
- More info on both bands and releases here.
- More monkey jokes here.

High Places tourdates:

# Wye Oak (hell, why not?)

Stephen Malkmus Will Not Be Appearing on the Kim Deal Tribute Album

By Heidi Vanderslice on 05-19-2008

Yyyeah. Anyway! American Laundromat Records announced that it will be releasing Gigantic - A Tribute to Kim Deal right about... uh, now, actually! That is, if you buy it directly from the label or on iTunes. For the brick-and-mortar set, the tribute album will drop June 3. You won't recognize too many of the artists appearing on this compilation, and that was done on purpose.

“This project was a pure labor of love for the label," says founder and president Joe Spadaro. "We wanted to get back to working with lesser-known indie arists. We started to produce Gigantic in the middle of producing the Pixies and Neil Young tributes. It was fun to work directly with the bands and hear their reinterpretations of Kim’s impressive body of work."

Tanya Donnelly of the Breeders/Belly/Throwing Muses penned the liner notes for Gigantic, so this is sure to be a Deal-approved tribute to her own art. Wise, I say. If there's anything we learned last month, it's that Kim Deal doesn't like it when people talk shit. Or allegedly talk shit. Either way...

Tracklisting:

Unwed Sailor Tour States With Syphilis, I Mean, Sybris

By Hanky Panky on 05-19-2008

Unwed Sailor, of the Seattle, ambient-rock persuasion, are moving to infiltrate dozens of bars, taverns, and lounges across America with Sybris, in an effort to share their instrumental love with as many anonymous partners as possible, in what will be an epic act of unprotected rock ‘n’ roll.

Their latest album Little Wars was released in 2007 and is touted in the group's MySpace blog post, "Little Wars Release Date Announced," to be the "most ambitious and complex release yet," which they're probably contractually obligated to say about every new album. The post goes on: "The songs are energetic and highly melodic, but gently colored and focused by layered keyboards and percussion with a delicate ambience [sic]."

But as interesting is what blog commentators had to say: "Congratulations, guys. I'm really looking forward to giving the whole thing a listen," "cant wait for this," and "AHHHHHH!!!!!!!" The post garnered a total of six kudos, which I would say certainly warrants your attendance at one of their shows.

See you in Reno:

* Sybris

^ State Radio

Firewater Tour Begins In About One Week, So Start Researching Who They Are Right Now

By C. Schell on 05-16-2008

Hurry up! Don't miss the next voyage of this vessel called Firewater. The New York group, led by Tod A. (who was also in the excellent Cop Shoot Cop), has been taking multicultural elements and making (non-traditionally) beautiful, humorous, pissed off, and thoroughly great tunes for about 13 years. Go look through your older brother's Magnet or CMJ magazines if you want to know the score.

The band released possibly their best LP just a couple weeks ago, The Golden Hour (Bloodshot). The record was greatly influenced by Tod's three-year trek through India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey, which was apparently brought on by his divorce and the reelection of W. Well, one good trek deserves another, so in that spirit, the band is set to depart on a three-week tour all over this failure pile in a sadness bowl know as the USA. Check them out, beginning May 23 in Boston, before they (rightfully?) give up on the U.S. for good.

Tourdates:

Sharon Jones Inspires Audience To Move About Rhythmically, Using Patterns of Steps And Gestures

By Mango Starr on 05-16-2008







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