Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival Lineup Announced!
By Annapocalypse on Mar 28 2008
As your official random Midwest festival reporter here at Tiny Mix Tapes, I feel it's my duty to announce the lineup for the upcoming Mission Creek Festival, taking place in Iowa City, IA from April 2-5.
The festival, now in its third year, is being held in conjunction with Iowa City’s Documentary Film Festival. Mission Creek will take place at the following area venues: The Mill, The Picador, The Yacht Club, Java House, Englbert Theater, Black Box (IMU), and Hall Mall. All-access passes are available for purchase right here. Four-day all-festival passes are priced at $40 while two-day passes are $30.
- Mission Creek Festival lineup in graphic form:
- Mission Creek Festival lineup in text form:
Cursive, Dan Deacon, Bon Iver, Neva Dinova, The Hood Internet, Spoon, The Walkmen, Headlights, Evangelicals, Alejandro Escovedo, Pieta Brown, Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes, Oh Astro, Capgun Coup, Fourth of July, The Poison Control Center, White Rabbits, Cepia, These United States, So Many Dynamos, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, Baby Teeth, Brighton MA, Death Ships, Lair of the Minotaur, Caleb Engstrom, Samuel Locke-Ward, Vandaveer, The Western Front, The Gglitch, Master/Slave, Today is the Day, Datagun, Mannix!, Porno Galatica V. Zap!Rowsdower, Wolves in the Attic, The Wheelers, Michael Morris, The Glowing Glass, Mit’n, Kelly Pardekooper, Illinois John Fever, The Blacks, The Mayflies, Sam Knutson, Dennis McMurrin, Monadnoc, Sarah Cram and The Derelicts, Highway Shelter, Foul Tip, Birth Rites, MC/VL, Henrihenrietta, Complete Failure, Mouth of the Architect.
- Mission Creek Festival lineup in graphic form with cool Photoshop effects:
Tapes ’N Tapes Tour, Raise Money for Breast Cancer Cure, Serve You Breakfast in Bed
By Heidi Vanderslice on Mar 28 2008
Walk It Off is not only a snazzy (my mom likes that word a lot, it is a Mom Word), title for the new Tapes ’N Tapes album, it's also an indicator of great things to come! Instead of simply going on tour and making money cash hoes, the band is asking YOU to sign up for a breast cancer research walk in your neck of the woods and to sign up as "Team Tapes ’N Tapes"! Then, whichever team in each city raises the most cashish gets a signed and personalized copy of Walk It Off. Chee! That's a stand-up way of promoting a new record if I ever heard one. Speaking of which, the critics-that-be are saying some mighty good things about the aforementioned new album, and I'll have to agree: it's a powerful little force to be reckoned with, but I'll leave that to the pros. Who am I?
Information about how you can get involved in some of the walks, see below:
- American Cancer Society
- Avon Walk For Breast Cancer
- Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
- Additional info: Tapes 'N Tapes website
After you've fought the good fight, go par-tay down at one of these!:
“Smashing Pumpkins” To Release Only Ringtones, Or Whatever. PLUS: Another RIAA Label Lawsuit
By Nat Towsen on Mar 28 2008
According to a recent Spinner article, the band currently masquerading as The Smashing Pumpkins plans to record new material in late spring. The article explains, however, that "fans looking for a proper follow-up album to last year's Zeitgeist," assuming such people exist, "may be out of luck."
"I think what we'll do is start releasing songs," said the body that formerly housed the soul of Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. "People just don't buy records anymore. Anyone under the
age of 24 just buys songs," the body continued, finally alienating the
last young people still loyal to the band's former glory. Apparently
unaware that the last Smashing Pumpkins album came out eight years
ago, the body explained that the band wants to "get [their] music
across while remaining relevant."
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Corgan explained further:
I can tell that our plans right now are to do an album over two or three years and put it out in pieces and then maybe eventually bring it all back together. The album doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be ten songs. Some dumb white guy somewhere doesn't have to like it. Some old fart, out-of-touch has to decide, oh, these ten songs aren't as good as Sgt. Pepper's. Well, you know what? I don't think the Beatles would be making an album right now.
In related news, the "Smashing Pumpkins" are suing Virgin Records
over their use of the band in a recent "Pepsi Stuff" promotion. In an
exclusive interview with Billboard, Billy Corgan explained, "I'm sure they indicated to Pepsi that they had a right to do this, full well knowing they do not have the right." The promotion seriously damages the band's "artistic integrity," claims the former lead singer of Zwan. Corgan hopes to collect a large sum from the lawsuit, as the concept of irony has announced it will sue Corgan for "flagrant abuse." Corgan also told Billboard of his plans to release recordings of early Smashing Pumpkins shows, unreleased studio tracks, and/or alternate versions of songs from early Pumpkins albums in order to fund his defense.
And somewhere deep within me, there is a 10-year-old version of
myself clutching a copy of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
and crying.
Renaissance Man Thom Yorke Just Can’t Stop Doing Awesome Things: Saving the Earth, Interviewing Mayors – What Will He Do Next?
By Liz Louche on Mar 28 2008
Stars -- they're just like us! They shop for groceries, drink coffee, and even pick up dry cleaning! I know I can relate to that! But unfortunately all stars are not created equal. While the Lindsay Lohans and Ryan Phillipes of the world may be content to use their daily photo-op time to get snapped exiting Burger King or putting gas in the car, Thom Yorke is out there doing AMAZING things. Things so incredible, so Earth-conscious that you and I will totally never get to do them.
Like what, you ask? What could Thom be doing now that's even more astounding than forming Radiohead, releasing that solo record, and just generally seeming like a nice guy? Well, actually, he just finished a stint as guest-editor for The Observer Magazine's climate change special edition. Yorke discusses how he decided to go green and became involved with the Friends of the Earth organization. He explains how, after learning that Radiohead's biggest impact on the environment came from the way fans commuted to concerts, the band decided to only play venues accessible by public transportation. But it's not just Thom writing and editing here -- he also interviews London mayor Ken Livingston and touches on Ken's plans to incorporate a system (based on an already existing program in Paris) where bicyclists can use free bikes to cut down on emissions.
Wow, what will he do next? I hope he brings back oceanliners in an effort to combine eco-friendly transportation with pre-war glamor! If the next Thom Yorke coverage I see involves him visiting a laundromat, I am going to be so disappointed.
Nine Inch Nails (Named After Reznor’s Favorite Nail Salon) Announce Tour
By Mango Starr on Mar 28 2008
Last night from Los Angeles, Trent "It's Not A Tumor" Reznor posted the "first wave" of Nine Inch Nails tourdates. Because TMT has me working in the wee hours of the "Extra Early Morning Shit," as Mr P calls it, I was sleeping when the news was announced. That is, until my implanted TMT Newsfeed© abruptly kicked in:
NINE INCH NAILS HAVE ANNOUNCED A TOUR.
I immediately awoke from my slumber, ascended slowly from bed, raised my two arms in front of me, and, with enough dispassion so as to signify a zombie, said, "Muuuuust wriiiite stoooooory." So, here I am, in my Tonka truck pajamas, writing a story that won't even be published right away, about a band called Nine Inch Nails, who released an album called Ghosts (TMT Review), the majority of which probably won't be played live. And there you are, so beautiful and true, so lovely and amazing, so warm and inviting. You, my friend, are a TMT reader, and I want to have sexual relations with you.
