Cypress Hill announce first album in six years; stoners are stoked for five minutes until they forget what they’re stoked about
By Annapocalypse on Mar 22 2010
Hold on to your bong, sketchy thirtysomething dude that lives in my apartment building and still wears JNCOs! Cypress Hill is back with Rise Up, their first new album in six years. Due April 6 on (Snoop-helmed!) Priority/EMI Records, the first single “Armada Latina” (the video for which is streaming here) features Marc Anthony and Pitbull. Other guest appearances include Tom Morello, Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda, System of a Down guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian, Everlast, Young De, Evidence, The Alchemist, and Cheech & Chong. Basically a who’s who of the rap, metal, and pot-smoking worlds.
Rise Up tracklisting:
01. It Ain’t Nothin’ (feat. Young De)
02. Light It Up
03. Rise Up (feat. Tom Morello)
04. Get It Anyway
05. Pass The Dutch (feat. Evidence and Alchemist)
06. Bang Bang
07. K.U.S.H.
08. Get ‘Em Up
09. Carry Me Away (feat. Mike Shinoda)
10. Trouble Seeker (feat. Daron Malakian)
11. Day Destroys the Night (feat. Everlast)
12. I Unlimited
13. Armed & Dangerous
14. Shut ‘Em Down (feat. Tom Morello)
15. Armada Latina (feat. Marc Anthony and Pitbull)
• Cypress Hill: http://www.cypresshill.com
• Priority: http://www.priorityrecords.com
Timber Timbre get totally folked up on lengthy spring tour
By Liz Louche on Mar 22 2010
Do you like stories with little actual content but with a super-extensive list of tourdates? Well then this is the story for you! Ontario’s Timber Timbre, fronted by haunting folk rocker Taylor Kirk, is about to embark on the longest tour I’ve had to format on here in a long time. And boy is my carpal tunnel excited! The Arts & Crafts label signee will be heading out on an epic North American tour before heading to Europe to wow our friends in the Old World.
03.22.10 - Santa Fe, NM - Santa Fe Brewing Company
03.23.10 - Tucson, AZ - Plush Room
03.24.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Largo
03.25.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theatre
03.26.10 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
03.28.10 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03.30.10 - Vancouver, BC - St. James Cathedral
03.31.10 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
04.03.10 - London, ON - Aeolian Hall
04.09.10 - Buffalo, NY - 9th Ward
04.10.10 - Alfred, NY - Alfred University
04.14.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
04.16.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Bell House
04.17.10 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall
04.18.10 - Keene, NH - Heberton Hall
04.20.10 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
04.21.10 - Rimouski, QC - Salle Desjardins-Telus
04.22.10 - Sept-Iles, QC - La Salle de Spectacle de Sept-Iles
04.23.10 - Baie-Comeau, QC - Theatre de Baie-Comeau
04.25.10 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial Theatre
04.29.10 - Montreal, QC - La Tulipe
05.15.10 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape
05.17.10 - London, UK - Heaven
05.18.10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
05.19.10 - Cologne, Germany - Burgerhaus Stollwerck
• Timber Timbre: http://www.myspace.com/timbertimbre
• Arts & Crafts: http://www.arts-crafts.ca
Pioneering electronica/glitch label Mille Plateaux rises from the grave, continues Clicks + Cuts compilations
By Kid Midnight on Mar 22 2010
Mille Plateaux, who we last saw in 2006 after a brief revival, will be revived once again in May by Marcus Gabler. Known for a respected library of music that has covered styles like micro-house, glitch, and sound art, the label originally folded in 2004 after a 10-year run when its parent company went kaput. The label is responsible for works by Gas (Wolfgang Voigt), Kid606 (pictured), Alec Empire, and Vladislav Delay, as well as the groundbreaking Clicks + Cuts compilations that showcased younger talent within the avant-electronic world.
New company operator Marcus Gabler promises that the third time’s the charm and that the second resurrection promises “new artists, new music, new sub-labels, a new website, new pants, and further installments of the Clicks + Cuts compilations.” New sub-labels for a newly relaunched label? Gabler’s a gamblin’ man.
• Mille Plateaux: http://www.mille-plateaux.net
Hauschka touring NOW NOW NOW (and in Europe LATER LATER LATER)
By Harold Shueberg on Mar 22 2010
It’s very pleasant to see that the prepared technique hasn’t died with the recent waning of popular interest in the sonic possibilities of classical piano playing. With such modern technological advances in the field of musical instrumentation, most would treat the act of preparing or altering an acoustic piano by hand as a menial task that could be more easily achieved by the twitch of a knob or the slight touch of a button or two. Regardless of which technique you ascribe to, the difference has been working for Volker Bertelmann, virtuoso of the method scribed above and known to most by the moniker Hauschka. Anyone who is familiar with his recorded output, specifically 2008’s nostalgic Ferndorf (TMT Review), would more than likely agree with the previous statement. If you happen to agree, luck has it that Hauschka will be gracing the stage at a few select US venues with fellow pianist Dustin O’Halloran in support.
Just a tad late on this report, so by now he’s probably in transit to Seattle (it was a short tour), but in a few days he’ll also be in San Francisco, accompanied by members of Magik Magik Orchestra. And then he’s off to Europe with James Blackshaw and Nancy Elizabeth.
Dates:
03.24.10 - Seattle, WA - Triple Door
03.25.10 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
03.26.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Forever (Masonic Lounge)
04.24.10 - Barcelona, Spain - Electronica en Abril
05.10.10 - London, UK - Barbican @
05.12.10 - Cambridge, UK - Junction @
05.13.10 - Bristol, UK - St George @
05.14.10 - Oxford, UK - Holywell Music Room @
05.15.10 - Manchester, UK - Band on the Wall @
05.16.10 - Edinburgh, UK - Roxy @
06.03.10 - Recklinghausen, Germany - Ruhrfestpielhaus Marquis von O.
06.04.10 - Recklinghausen, Germany - Ruhrfestpielhaus Marquis von O.
06.05.10 - Recklinghausen, Germany - Ruhrfestpielhaus Marquis von O.
@ James Blackshaw & Nancy Elizabeth
• Hauschka: http://www.hauschka-net.de
• FatCat: http://fat-cat.co.uk
