David Lynch to release solo album Crazy Clown Time — wait, you’re a director ya dingus!
By Emceegreg on Aug 18 2011
David Lynch, director of cult-hit The Straight Story, will release music of his own that promises to be audible and not misleading. The idea of Lynch providing vocals and playing guitar may feel too reminiscent of other directors’ attempts at music (e.g., Roman Polanski’s boy band days or John Hughes’ death metal project), but it’s comforting knowing that Lynch has always been a part of the memorable sounds heard in his works. For example, the ambience of the Iowa landscape balanced with the rumbling of Richard Farnsworth’s lawn mower couldn’t have been brought into focus so eloquently if not for the hideously keen ear of Lynch.
The album, Crazy Clown Time, appears to be a composite of Lynch’s psyche, and a creative outlet. Lynch recorded the tracks for the album at his own Asymmetrical Studio with engineer Dean Hurley, who also plays guitar and drums on various songs. The opening track “Pinky’s Dream” features artist Karen O, who is best known for lending vocals on an album for kid punk rock group Tiny Masters of Today.
Crazy Clown Time is as much a collection of music as it is a time for “clown-people” to behave crazily. With an open mind and open wallet, you can experience Lynch’s experimental musical qualities when the album releases on November 8 on Sunday Best Recordings with a Collector’s Edition CD, double LP with bonus tracks, and iTunes exclusive with a video.
Crazy Clown Time tracklist:
01. Pinky’s Dream
02. Good Day Today
03. So Glad
04. Noah’s Ark
05. Football Game
06. I Know
07. Strange and Unproductive Thinking
08. The Night Bell with Lightning
09. Stone’s Gone Up
10. Crazy Clown Time
11. These Are My Friends
12. Speed Roadster
13. Movin’ On
14. She Rise Up
• David Lynch: http://davidlynch.com
• Sunday Best: http://www.sundaybest.net
Sigur Rós to release live album, artsy film, and commemorative tiger shark plush dolls
By Nobodaddy on Aug 18 2011
Last week, we dutifully reported on some mysterious shit called Inni from Icelandic teen heartthrobs Sigur Rós, regardless of how much bullshit “information” there was to back it up at the time. That was cool with me, because information is for scientists, and scientists are nerds. This week’s all kinds of different, though. Because A) we’ve got lots of information about that mysterious clip now, and B) I’ve coincidentally undergone a personal revelation and don’t think that way about scientists anymore! So look out, internet. It’s raining facts:
The band has now made clear that Inni will consist of both a live film and a double live album, and that XL is releasing the thing in November (which is probably the Sigur Rósiest month there is). The film part is currently set to debut September 3 at the Venice Film Festival. The guy behind the camcorder is Vincent Morisset, who movied the band’s last show at London’s Alexandria Palace before their “indefinite hiatus” (and subsequent wonky-ass solo endeavors) was announced. Aside from being presently regarded as their last performance, that show is notable for being the first time in like 10 years that the band played as an unadorned four-piece without the help of Amiina, the string quartet they’d been using to turn their their twee songs into what my art school friend calls “compositions” since the early aughts.
As far as the audio part is concerned, the band’s usual engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson recorded the show, which runs 105 minutes and includes the entire London show minus one song. As far as the artsy film part goes, Morisset originally filmed the set digitally, then played that back and re-filmed it on 16mm, then played THAT back and re-filmed it again, sometimes through weird filters like “prisms and other found objects,” which, according to the press release, will make everything look all weird and claustrophobic and otherworldly and fucked-up (and according to that same art school friend, will look “sick”). So… get ready to feel sick, I guess.
• Sigur Rós: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk
• XL: http://www.xlrecordings.com
• Vincent Morrisset: http://www.vincentmorisset.com
Mount Eerie announces “Phil Elverum is Super Great” tour, probably because Phil Elverum is super great
By E. Nagurney on Aug 17 2011
Phil Elverum is great. We can all agree. If you like the works of Mount Eerie/The Microphones, then you already know that he is great. If you do not like the works of Mount Eerie/The Microphones, then look into the closest mirror and slap yourself with your right hand. There, now you know that Phil Elverum is great.
Because Phil Elverum is great, it would be similarly great if he went on tour with Mount Eerie. Fantastic (read: great) news everybody, Mount Eerie is going on tour! Prepare for your eardrums to be crushed by chunks of blistering guitar. Prepare for aforementioned eardrums to be subsequently strained through attempts at hearing whispered vocals and the world’s most lightly strummed guitar. It’s not just a party for you, it’s a party for your ears.
Many of these upcoming Mount Eerie dates will also feature appearances from drone-metal kings Earth. You may know Earth from the fountains of praise bestowed on them from this very website. And those fountains of praise may seem familiar simply because they resemble the fountains of praise we employ for the purpose of telling Phil Elverum that he is great. If neither band performs in front of a banner reading “TINY MIX TAPES LUVS U 4EVER,” then mistakes are being made. It’s a thing that they could do, as well as a thing that they should do.
Mount Eerie dates:
09.03.11 - Missoula, MT - Zoo City Apparel *
09.05.11 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center *&
09.06.11 - Chicago, IL - Berry United Methodist Church *^
09.08.11 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle %
09.09.11 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
09.10.11 - Athens, GA - Caledonia %
09.11.11 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl %
09.12.11 - Huntsville, AL - Flying Monkey %
09.13.11 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree %
09.14.11 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks %$
09.16.11 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Cafe %
09.17.11 - Nashville, TN - The End %
09.18.11 - Gressnboro, NC - Legitimate Business *
09.19.11 - Charlottesville, VA - UVA Chapel *
09.21.11 - Brooklyn, NY - 210 Kent *
09.22.11 - Boston, MA - Pozen Center at Mass Art *
09.23.11 - Waltham, MA - Brandeis University *
09.24.11 - Biddeford, ME - The Oak & Ax *
09.25.11 - Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase *
09.26.11 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *
09.27.11 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
09.28.11 - Braddock, PA - Carnegie Library *
09.29.11 - Gambier, OH - Kenyon College *
09.30.11 - Bloomington, IN - Russian Recording *#
10.01.11 - St. Louis, MO - Pig Slop Studios *
10.02.11 - Lincoln, NE - Drift Station *
* Nicholas Krgovich
& Andrew Broder
^ Cains & Abels
% Earth
$ Thou
# Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, Stagnant Pools
• Mount Eerie: http://www.pwelverumandsun.com
Oneohtrix Point Never puts down the CGI fishbone and preps new album Replica
By Squeo on Aug 17 2011
Though the masses were beating on his door for months, chanting at his concerts and holding up signs, begging for at least one blooper reel with outtakes of him eating CGI food, Oneohtrix Point Never a.k.a. Daniel Lopatin looked inside himself, reevaluated his core beliefs, and ultimately decided that he wouldn’t let himself get pigeonholed as “the guy who ate animated hot dogs in a fake jungle with a fake dragonfly looking on and another guy with a ponytail eating even more animated food.” Sure, the girls in the front row at Ford & Lopatin shows screaming at him to “bring out the spinning pizza” were nice enough, and he did have a spinning CGI pizza that he kept with the road crew, but what would that mean for his legacy? The moving finger points at a polygon shaped like french fries, and having pointed, moves on.
And so, O.P. Never hauled his gear into the Mexican Summer studio to start work on the follow-up to last year’s Returnal (TMT Review) — if only to take his mind off the flood of offers from animation studios in his inbox, where they’ve detailed pivotal scenes in their films where a bearded man is called on to consume hundreds of pounds of food suspended in the air. Along with his wide array of synthesizers, dials, knobs, buttons, attack/decay boosters, sawtooth wave massagers, and flange-control gels, OPN brought along some “lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations.” Apparently this will be used as the basis for a 10-track song cycle about memory, gaseous clouds, spectral mapping, the mirror stage, flawless spheres, regret, acid reflux, generational disconnect, aloe vera, other lotions, and hormonal reverb. Other things that are actually promised with this new album and not just made up include “darker, propulsive terrains using samplers, analog filtering, tape manipulation, acoustic piano, plate reverb and sub-frequencies.”
The name of the album is Replica, the label that will put it out is Software, and it comes out November 8. We’re done here.
Replica tracklisting:
01. Andro
02. Sleep Dealer
03. Power of Persuasion
04. Remember
05. Replica
06. Nassau
07. Submersible
08. Up
09. Child Soldier
10. Explain
Live dates:
09.08.11 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Fest
10.06.11 - Pittsburgh, PA - FRKWYS Borden Ensemble @ Carnegie Melon
10.28.11 - Asheville, NC - Moogfest
• Oneohtrix Point Never: http://www.pointnever.com
• Software: http://softwarelabel.net
Moogfest 2011 announces new additions to their lineup: Brian Eno and other non-Eno performers
By Kid Midnight on Aug 17 2011
Moogfest 2011, “the annual festival of electronic and visionary music, celebrating the innovative spirit of Bob Moog,” is happy to announce a list as long as my… arm… full of new performers scheduled for the event. However, the biggest announcement is that Brian Eno will be there!
Eno, best known for being fucking awesome, will be on hand at the event to present his 77 Million Paintings art installation/soundscape/musical picture that explores light as an artistic medium. Besides the chance to be around Eno, Moogfest is also exciting because this will be the first time that 77 Million Paintings will be presented in a non-West Coast city in the US. In addition to 77 Million Paintings, The Eno will also be presenting one of his “Illustrated Talks,” wherein the musician makes caricatures of various people while having mini-discussions with each subject during the drawing process — or is that just what I did at Valley Fair this weekend?
Anyway, as noted above, plenty of other non-Eno acts have been added to the lineup and they are as follows:
TV on the Radio, Special Disco Version (feat. James Murphy and Pat Mahoney), Flying Lotus, Childish Gambino, St. Vincent, Beats Antique, Zomby, YACHT, EOTO, SBTRKT, The Drums, Savoy, John Maus, Mimi Goese & Ben Neill, Araabmuzik, Baths, Fareed Haque + MathGames, Moon Duo, Cloud Canyon, Active Child, Warm Ghost, Grimes, Fine Peduncle
Wow! And there are plenty others that have already been announced:
The Flaming Lips, Moby, Passion Pit, STS9, Tangerine Dream, Anika, Ford & Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Causing A Tiger, Wham City Comedy Tour, Brandt Brauer, Frick, Lunzproject (feat. Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story), Stickmen (Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto), Austra, CANT, Matthew Dear, Toro y Moi, Atlas Sound, Kode9, Glasser, Gold Panda, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, BEAK>, Twin Shadow, Adrian Belew Power Trio, Holy Fuck, The Naked & Famous, Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Tim Hecker, M83, Battles, Dan Deacon, Suicide (performing Suicide), Crystal Castles, Umphrey’s McGee, Chromeo, Amon Tobin, Ghostland Observatory
This year’s Moogfest runs the weekend of October 28-30 in Asheville, North Carolina, and still has plenty of information regarding panel discussions, workshops, art exhibitions and installations, “interactive experiences,” and other non-Eno activities yet to announce.
• Moogfest: http://moogfest.com
