Mario Speedwagon’s Under The Radar News Round Up: Fenn O’Berg To Release A Double-Reissue and New LP, James Blackshaw Summer Tourdates, Martin Scorsese To Direct Sinatra Movie, Harvey Milk To Tour With Torche
By Mario Speedwagon on 05-15-2009
Hey bitches, here’s the HOT GOSS for Friday.
- The Magic Sound of Fenn O’Berg (1999) and The Return of Fenn O’Berg (2002) by Fenn O’Berg (duh) will be reissued by Editions Mego in mid-June as a double-album. In October of 2009, Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke, and Peter Rehberg will head over to Tokyo to record a new studio album slated for 2010. You can pre-order the reissue at the Editions Mego website.
- James Blackshaw will be hitting the road this summer in support of his latest record The Glass Bead Game, out May 26, 2009 via Young God Records. The tour starts June 8 in Brooklyn, NY at Issue Project Room and ends June 20 in Easthampton, MA... somewhere (venue TBA). He also has a few festival dates in Europe. For more information, you can get all the deetz at the Young God Records website.
- Martin Scorsese will be directing a movie about Frank Sinatra. Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures have been developing the project with the Sinatra Estate and Warner Music Group by securing life and music rights of Ol' Blue Eyes. The screenplay was written by Phil Alden (Field of Dreams).
- Harvey Milk will head out on tour this summer with Torche. Shit kicks off July 11 in Miami, FL at Churchills and ends in Harvey Milk-home Athens, GA at the 40 Watt Club on August 1. You can find a list of all the dates on the Harvey Milk MySpace page. Holler!
XOXO
G’Bye Blueballs! Hardly Art Signs Talbot Tagora and Unnatural Helpers
By David Nadelle on 05-15-2009
While one cannot force labels to sign artists, we did expect more contractual movement within the Hardly Art camp. The Sub Pop-affiliated imprint popped its cherry a couple of years ago, and although it is frequently seen out with present flings Arthur & Yu, The Dutchess & the Duke, Le Loup, and Pretty & Nice, we expected to see a number of other acts roster-tied by now. Well, the pent-up frustration was worth the wait because Hardly Art has announced not only that it has deflowered hometown sweetheart Talbot Tagora, but the young stud has also bedded village bicycle Unnatural Helpers!
Keeping it homespun, Hardly Art have signed Seattle three-piece Talbot Tagora who will release their debut album July 21 through the energetic upstart. Chris Ando, Mark Greshowak, and Ani Ricci will release Lessons in the Woods or a City after a lengthy period of self-administering sneaky CD-R, cassette, and 7-inch teasings.
Lessons in the Woods or a City tracklisting:
1. Mixed Signals through Miles of Pilgrimage
2. Ichthus Hop
3. Bounty Hunter
4. Solar Puppets
5. Hunger Strike
6. Black Ice
7. Mouth Rainboy
8. Hidden Note
9. Hairspray
10. Johnny Lazor
11. Replacing the Northwest
12. Perception Stick
13. Belt of Cander
14. Ephemeral Summer
Meanwhile, Unnatural Helpers are helmed by Double Fudge’s Dean Whitmore and also feature Leo Gebhardt (The Catheters, Tall Birds), Kimberly Morrison (The Dutchess & the Duke), and Brian Standeford (The Catherters, Idle Times). Less is known about their future record plans, but when they do decide to go all the way with their sophomore album it will definitely be with rock-hard Hardly Art. Until, then, feast your ears on some tunes from their MySpace page or catch one of these three Seattle-centric live shows:
05.16.09 - Seattle, WA - Neumos #
06.20.09 - Seattle, WA - Underground Events Center $
08.22.09 - Seattle, WA - Funhouse %
# Obits, The Lights
$ Fresh & Onlys
% Box Elders
Mount Eerie Issues New CD from Experience, Titled White Stag Building , Sheds Tear For Indians While Hiding In a Creepy Building Scared of the Howling Wolves Off In the Distance
By Jon Lorenz on 05-15-2009
On March 30, 2009, Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum entered the White Stag Building in Portland, OR on invite from Matther Stadler and his Publication Studio Organization. The building, owned by the University of Oregon, sits on the old mud where Portland began. Elverum was invited to occupy the building for one week and record the sounds he made within the structure. What came out of this experience is a 10-song CD of 4-track recordings titled White Stag Building.
The CD-R, which comes, in classic Elverum-style, folded inside a "poster with words and imagined historical scenery," is limited, though it will probably be officially released on vinyl at some point in the future. According to an interview that Elverum did with the Portland Mercury, White Stag Building is about "how hard it is to maintain a relationship with memory when something bad has happened. It's an extreme view, but that's essentially what happened: White men decided to build here and oppress native peoples and nearly destroyed the environment in the process. Living with a memory of darkness almost requires that it be repressed or else covered up with a thin veneer of wholesomeness. With all its brutal bricks and sustainable eco-wood, this building represents that."
Get it before it's gone here! (And don't forget to purchase our benefit comp, which features an exclusive Mount Eerie track.) Meanwhile, the new "proper" Mount Eerie album, Wind’s Poem, is completed and should be out relatively soon.
Paste Magazine Wants YOU! (To Give Them Money)
By Annapocalypse on 05-15-2009
You know how every print publication has been writing articles recently about how print is dead? Well, it’s more than just a marketing ploy, as Paste Magazine has been forced to reach out to their readers this week for monetary donations to help them stay in print. In a statement on their website, Paste writes:
The global recession has taken its toll on Paste as advertisers have slashed their spending. We are turning to our readers to help bridge the gap. Even a small contribution can make a big difference. Join 75+ of our favorite artists in the campaign to save Paste and get rare & exclusive tracks as a thank you.Artists include The Decemberists, Neko Case, She & Him, Cowboy Junkies, Of Montreal, Indigo Girls, Jayhawks, String Cheese Incident, G. Love, Josh Rouse, The Hives, Matthew Sweet, The Avett Brothers, Joe Henry, John Roderick of The Long Winters, Over the Rhine, Bob Mould, Arrested Development, Brandi Carlile, John Doe, Josh Ritter, Marc Broussard and more. We also have a number of goodies (such as signed R.E.M. and Band of Horses posters, an ocean-view cabin on next year's Cayamo cruise, and more) to give to donors in random drawings.
As a thank you for donating, you will be able to download over 70 rare and exclusive MP3s from Paste. Any donations of $350 or more will be given a lifetime Paste print subscription with CD, as well as access to their digital edition and CD sampler download. If you’re interested in donating, please visit their website.
Stone Roses Prepare Debut Album Reissue Onslaught. There May Be Blood. There Will Be Nonsense.
By David Nadelle on 05-15-2009
Holy shit, has it been that long? The Stone Roses reunion rumors will forever continue to swirl but what is certain is that the Manchester quartet’s eponymous debut album will definitely be reissued to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The much-loved album will be released by Silvertone (who will cease repackaging The Stone Roses catalogue when it is pried from their cold dead hands) and Legacy (friendly reissue pixies) on August 11 (Joe Rogan’s birthday, for all of you completely unrelated bracket-filler lovers). The album has been remastered by producer John Leckie and singer Ian Brown and contains a lot of goodies, depending on which version you can afford (note: the remastered album will be a hybrid of the original U.K. issue and the second 1989 U.S. issue; so, minus "Elephant Stone" but plus "Fools Gold").
Three of the planned releases below are real. One was written after a dream fueled by ecstasy and bad cocktail shrimp. Think you can tell which one is the stooge? It may not be as easy as you think…
1. Stone Roses: Special Edition includes the remastered album and an expanded booklet. Simple, understated, pure.
2. Stone Roses: Legacy Edition is a three-disc set that groups the remastered album with a second disc entitled The Lost Demos which features 15 tracks, including the previously unreleased song (“Pearl Bastard”) and a Live in Blackpool concert DVD filmed in 1989. All of this will come in a 28-page booklet. Let us pray Brown’s live voice has been doctored for the Blackpool DVD.
3. Stone Roses: Collector’s Edition is that special something for that special mixed-format friend in your life. Packing the remastered album, the Lost Demos collection, and a third CD compilation of B-sides and non-album tracks, it also comes with a 12” album folder with three vinyl albums, believed to include “the original album as well as 13 B-sides and non-album tracks housed in a gold foil-embossed hardback slipcase.” If that doesn’t sound quite ridiculous enough for you, it also comes with a lemon-shaped USB stick that holds some promo videos, ringtones, wallpapers, single cover art prints, and home-video footage of Leckie’s documenting the recording of seminal Madchester baggy indiedance anthem “Fools Gold.” AND it will come with a 48-page book of photos and band notes and celebrity fan quotes courtesy of The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, and star producer Mark Ronson. Holy marketing working overtime, Batman!
4. Stone Roses: Lunatic Edition includes the remastered album, The Lost Demos, the B-side compilation, the Live in Blackpool DVD, all of John Squire's post-Roses music and artwork, all of Ian Brown's solo albums and singles, Mani's Primal Scream work, and every demo version of all members post-Stone Roses music. It also comes with a bronze gatefold picture frame containing ultrasound images of all four band members in their mothers' wombs. The Lunatic Edition comes with a functioning R2 droid unit that produces holographic images of the band playing in Glasgow in 1990. Vouchers in select copies are redeemable for a free haircut by the band member of your choice (not including Brown or Squire). A hand-painted, Jackson Pollock-inspired thimble is thrown in the mix, as is a giant pair of foam-rubber flares. The entire thing is crammed into a Frank Gehry-designed “Stone Rose” granite complex that can only be opened by clicking your heels three times and chanting “I’m off me ‘ead! I’m off me ‘ead! I’m off me ‘ead!” The edition comes hand-delivered to your door by a bartender from the original Manchester hotspot The Hacienda who will proceed to administer a foot massage and make you dinner (the meal will consist of lychee-infused snow peas and some sort of turkey and rice concoction).
If I weren’t surprised whatsoever by the repackaging stunts I have seen over the years I would think this was an elaborate joke by Silvertone to raise Stone Roses awareness. But it's no biggie, I guess. I’ll buy all three editions if it will delete all recollection of their second album abomination, The Second Coming, from my memory.
The Stone Roses:
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don't Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This Is the One
11. I Am the Resurrection
12. Fools Gold
The Lost Demos:
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Bye Bye Badman
5. Sugar Spun Sister
6. Shoot You Down (1 version)
7. This Is the One
8. I Am Resurrection
9. Elephant Stone
10. Going Down
11. Mersey Paradise
12. Where Angels Play
13. Something's Burning
14. One Love
15. Pearl Bastard
The B-Sides & Non-Album Singles:
1. Elephant Stone
2. Full Fathom Five
3. The Hardest Thing
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fools Gold
10. What the World Is Waiting For
11. One Love (Full Length)
12. Something's Burning (Full Length)
13. Where Angels Play
