John Parish and PJ Harvey Make Beautiful Music Together Again
By Liz Louche on 03-03-2009
John Parish and PJ Harvey are touring together across Europe this spring. They'll be playing cards on the bus, taking photos in front of the Eiffel Tour, telling each other ghost stories, and all the other fun things people presumably do on tour. But wait -- who is John Parish, you ask? Well, ask no more. Perhaps you are familiar with his 1996 joint album with Ms. Harvey, Dance Hall at Louse Point. Perhaps you recall that he produced her latest full-length, White Chalk (TMT Review). But there is soooo much more to John Parish than just the aforementioned facts.
Let me lay it down for ya. The working relationship between these two fine English artists started in the late 1980s, when they were in a band together called Automatic Dlamini -- one of PJ Harvey's first musical projects. Parish then began working as a producer, both with Harvey and with a spectrum of artists like Giant Sand, Sparklehorse, Tracy Chapman, and 16 Horsepower. He co-wrote an Eels album, guested on the first Goldfrapp album, and collaborated with Portishead's Adrian Utley. Quite an impressive pedigree, mmmm??? All I've done in the past 10 years is work retail and learn how to make Thai green curry. And now the Parish/Harvey partnership is back in effect. Not only is this tour in the works, but a new album, A Woman a Man Walked By, is slated for a March 30 release on Island Records
04.15.09 - Brighton, UK - Corn Exchange
04.16.09 - Oxford, UK - Regal
04.18.09 - Bristol, UK - Anson Rooms
04.20.09 - London, UK - Shepherds Bush Empire
04.22.09 - Birmingham, UK - Town Hall
04.24.09 - Manchester, UK - Ritz
04.26.09 - Edinburgh, UK - Queen's Hall
05.02.09 - Porto, Portugal - Casa Da Musica
05.04.09 - Milan, Italy - Auditorium
05.06.09 - Stuttgart, Germany - Theaterhaus
05.07.09 - Berlin, Germany - Passionskirche
05.09.09 - Stockholm, Sweden - Nalen
05.10.09 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
05.11.09 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
05.13.09 - Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
05.14.09 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
05.17.09 - Paris, France - Bataclan
Beach House Embarks on Short Tour
By Kasia Galaxy on 03-03-2009
The last we heard from Beach House was, well, the last time you listened to "Gila" on iTunes. Not much news has trickled in from their front, but at the rate the year is going, I fully expect them to surprise and wallop us with a fantastic EP in the fall.
Beach House will mostly breeze through the South on an upcoming tour that starts March 11. Actually, is there a minimum requirement of dates for it to qualify as a tour? Lawd knows.
Here's the schedule:
03.11.09 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
03.17.09 - Houston, TX - The Orange Show *
03.18.09 - Austin, TX - Forcefield PR/Terrorbird SXSW Day Party
03.18.09 - Austin, TX - Red 7 and The Radio Room
03.19.09 - Austin, TX - Volume (Carpark/Paw Tracks SXSW Showcase) #
03.20.09 - Austin, TX - Cedar Street Courtyard
03.21.09 - Austin, TX - Auditorium Shores
03.31.09 - Lexington, KY - Hop Hop
04.01.09 - Bloomington, IN - Waldron Arts Center
04.02.09 - Iowa City, IA - The Picador
04.03.09 - St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club
05.25.09 - George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
* Jana Hunter
# Adventure, Belong, Ear Pwr, Ecstatic Sunshine, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Twitter Tussle! Brian Eno and Former Boss Alan McGee Fight Through Twitter
By Mango Starr on 03-03-2009
We love Twitter because bite-sized conversations are the future. Fuck depth, fuck substance, and -- most of all -- fuck Alan McGee (Alan McWho?). The former Oasis manager and one-time boss of Brian Eno is using the social networking site to pick a fight with old-man Eno. See the following:
@Brian_Eno put on any record you have ever produced brian if you want people to sleep.was it your idea to dress up coldplay as the beatles@Brian_Eno morning brian wondered when you would wake up when are you going to make a decent record again it was 1972 was the last one cunt
@Brian_Eno or should i say obnoxious cunt
@Brian_Eno what boring shit are you going to produce next brian old bean?
@Brian_Eno i would have stuck to the art installations more chance of having a decent conversation with a bulb than coldplay or dido/bland
So far, Eno only had this to say:
@alanjmcgee Fuck off, wanker
Maybe Twitter's not so bad after all. Actually, don't we have a Twitter too?
Ticketmaster Tries to Pull a Fast One on Canada/Leonard Cohen, Fails
By Kat Gardiner on 03-03-2009
Last week, as part of a recent settlement with New Jersey regarding its Great Leader Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, Ticketmaster said it would stop redirecting visitors to its solely-owned resale site, TicketsNow, before tickets went on sale to the general public (TMT News). Because, you know, it's kind of a little bit unethical. Fast forward to now. Looks like the company is doing just that with tickets to see The Patron Saint of Canada Leonard Cohen. Ontario's Attorney General Chris Bentley won't have it and says his office is now looking into a whole slew of entertainment and sporting events that Ticketmaster is in charge of. In layman's terms: you screw with The Kinky Jew/Monk, you screw with Canada, eh?
"Sometimes it's a matter [in] large corporations like that of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Is that understandable? Yes. Is that excusable? No. Do they need to correct it? Absolutely. We're not happy and I think fans are justifiably very unhappy," Copps Coliseum chief executive officer, Duncan Gillespie said. "The reality is that somebody will pay $1,000 for a Cohen ticket, but he [The Good St. Cohen] wants to keep it at reasonable prices for people, so this undermines [his intensions] totally."
Tickets with a face value of $99 to $250 were being sold on TicketsNow.com for between $568 to $856, plus a service charge ranging from $85 to $128 per ticket. Ticketmaster took a break from cackling and rolling in the money of the Great White North to insist that it hasn't done anything wrong whatsoever. It then let out a high-pitched shriek, morphed into a Jabberwocky, and flew off into the night.
Ticketmaster has already been hit with four Canadian lawsuits. The latest represents Canucks in Manitoba going all the way back to February of '07. It was initiated by a woman who tried to purchase Carrie Underwood tickets in an attempt to see the subtle differences in vocal inflection between the recorded and live versions of such hits as "Jesus Take the Wheel." She tried to buy tickets on the Ticketmaster website, but kept being redirected to TicketsNow where she thought she purchased four tickets at $57 a pop. Later, the credit card was charged $917.75 including "service" and a "delivery charges." After seeing the bill (and I can only assume after actually listening to Carrie Underwood), she tried to cancel the order, but was denied. Cohen wept.
