Radiohead Reportedly Scores Music to Palahniuk Adaptation, Exact Contributions Not Entirely Clear; Ex-Shudder to Think Member Writes Original Music
By Mango Starr on Aug 12 2008
According to a report on Radiohead fansite At Ease, Chuck Palahniuk (best known for authoring Fight Club) told BBC 6 Music that Radiohead have not only written the exit music for the film adaptation of his 2001 novel, Choke, but they have also reportedly "written the score."
Palahniuk apparently wrote the novel while listening to Radiohead's worst offerings, Pablo Honey and its hit track "Creep." The rest snowballed. According to Palahniuk:
So Clark [Gregg, the director] got Radiohead to contribute a song, to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits. Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s "Choke – with the music of Radiohead."
However, according to an earlier report by The Playlist, Radiohead's contribution is actually just "The Reckoner" and lists Rogue Wave's "Lake Michigan" as the final song during the credits. Things, of course, may very well have changed, but it's worth noting since no official announcements have yet been made. Meanwhile, Choke's IMDB entry lists ex-Shudder to Think's Nathan Larson as the composer of the film's original music.
So, while the news is exciting, it's best to wait for some official word from the Radiohead camp.
Choke hits theaters September 26 via Fox Searchlight. Check out the trailer here. You can't hear the Radiohead track, but it does have that annoying "Satan Said Dance" song from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Meanwhile, see Radiohead on tour in support of Pablo Honey.
$$ Grizzly Bear
$$$$$ Liars
J To The Dilla To The New Box Set: Stones Throw to Reissue Ruff Draft Box Set, Complete With Vile of J Dilla’s Sweat!
By Scout Leader Kyle on Aug 12 2008
As you may know, James Yancey (J Dilla) died from lupus a couple years ago, three days after both his birthday and the release of his last album, Donuts. Several albums have since been released or reissued, including The Shining (his second "official" album) and Ruff Draft, the latter of which was reissued by Stones Throw last year and fleshed out with additional songs to form a ‘complete’ version of its original EP form. For a limited time, the album was also released in cassette-form in a box set.
Due to popular demand, Stones Throw are now reissuing the box set again. Titled TURN IT UP! A Little Louder, the set includes the original version of the album on cassette, along with other assorted goodies like:
- A brown tee that says "TURN IT UP! A Little Louder."
- A "Reckless Driving Ticket" that Stones Throw created to ‘ticket’ people outside of Ruff Draft listening parties in Spring 2007.
- A photo of J Dilla taken by B+.
- A 15x12x3-inch box to keep all the goods in.
The box set retails at $39.95 (includes shipping) and you can purchase it from Stones Throw here.
Crystal Antlers Sign to Touch and Go, Album to be Released Early 2009
By Evan Kaloudis on Aug 12 2008
Crystal Antlers are no longer free agents. The Long Beach-based psychedelic/punk/soul band has signed with Touch and Go records, according to an announcement from the label. A full-length album is in the works and is expected out in the first part of 2009, but before that, Touch and Go will be reissuing the Crystal Antlers EP (produced by The Mars Volta's Ikey Owens) on CD in October and pressing it to vinyl for the first time in November.
You can catch Crystal Antlers live now or with The Strange Boys and Fucked Up starting at the end of the month. Or, of course, you can buy a costly badge and see them at the CMJ Music Marathon.
Tourdates:
# Fucked Up
$ The Strange Boys
Blitzen the Reindeer, Trapper John, and Blitzen Trapper Tour the U.S., Blitzen and Trapper John Cancel Due to Their Both Being Fictional
By Nobodaddy on Aug 12 2008
Ah, Blitzen Trapper. Them ragtags will just jump at any old chance to hit the road for a few months and live out of a trunk, now won't they folks? But then again, I suppose this ol' yarn-spinner reckons that that makes some sense. Of all the bands that I ever knowd of, none are born to ramble like these guys is born to ramble. Their ramshackle, country-fried indie-rock jamboree music was dag-gone practically built to be packed into the back of them li'l wood-paneled station wagons, carted around these you-nited states on America's bluest of blue highways, setup at a wood-built campground amphitheater near you, and packed back up again after the band done-gets paid-in-full in moonshine and whole chickens until tomorrow night's hoedown. Yup. As long as they can spread their gospel of animal-love and barefoot mountain livin' across the land, you can bet yer best rooster's lucky blue foot that they'll keep rolling along like so many frontiersmen before them, mouth harps and all.
And yessiree, releasing a brand new album for Sub Pop offers these here fellas the perfect excuse to blow-off any games of lawn darts or community puppet shows that they may have had planned in favor of feelin' that wind on their face, taking pride of the bug splatters on their windshield as they drive all across this here wild mountain nation that they love so much. Sure, the womanfolk might be a tad upset by their leavin' and all, but with the rootin-tootin outdoorsy album FURR due September 23 and a handful of dates with their alpha-rambler Stephen Malkmus out on the ol' card table, well shucks, you couldn't stop these boys with all the pork loins in a Ponderosa Steak House... though I reckon they'll be eaten at plenty of them on the road, god bless 'em.
Freakin' Blitzen Country Trapper Jambaroo '08:
* Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
**Iron and Wine
Matthew Herbert to Release Album of Unwieldy Orchestrated Samples, Avant-Big-Band Beats, Protest Lyrics; Listeners to Shrug
By Petey V on Aug 11 2008
Looking for some political content and ’30s-jazz horns with your innovative listener-oriented house music? Well, has Matthew Herbert got the album for you! Longstanding house godhead (and rock press fav) Herbert is gearing up to release There's Me and There's You. The record is out October 28 on Berlin's Studio !K7 records, perhaps best known for distributing the DJ-Kicks compilation series. Following on the jazz-throwback motif of his 2001 LP Goodbye Swingtime, the album will incorporate big-band instrumentation that will require an 18-person orchestra for its subsequent tour (for which a small handful of dates have been scheduled), as well as political lyrics excoriating the 21st century's pattern of abuses of power.
The real key ingredient to Herbert's sound — dubiously touted as "sophisticated subversion" by the official press release — is his use of bizarre, grandly conceived samples. Sounds incorporated into There's Me and There's You's aural fabric will include, among many, many others: (1) The sound of protesters in Palestine being shot against the West Bank wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories; (2) vocal sounds taped inside a London McDonalds; (3) the sound, not only of several dozen condoms being dragged along the floor of the British Museum, but also an orchestrated ruckus in the British Museum's entrance hall which includes the sound of several people spraying Britney Spears' perfume brand Curious; and (4) the machine used to keep Herbert's own premature son alive after his birth. Well, erm, I guess the British Museum's floors produce a remarkably unique timbre, and Britney Spears demanded the use of highly four-to-the-floor conducive spray bottles circa Curious' 2004 launch. Either that, or Herbert just has a penchant for gratuitous conceptual spectacle.
There's Me and There's You tracklist:
