Prince Rama warp space and time alongside Animal Collective’s Deakin this September
By Harold Shueberg on Aug 9 2010
If you read TMT regularly, or, you know, like musics and stuff, you probably have at least a rough idea of what Prince Rama are all about: they’re legitimately weird; the three members met on a Hare Krishna compound in Florida; they write concept albums based on the work of Paul Laffoley. Nuff said, really. You might also be privy to the fact that Paw Tracks is releasing their new LP Shadow Temple come September 14. Oh, and a couple dudes from AC helped them out in the recording of it. So obviously it would be fitting that they would tour alongside Deakin for the majority of their US tour:
08.09.10 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
08.14.10 - New York, NY - Cake Shop #
08.28.10 - Palmer, MA - Camp Stanica
09.13.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands (record release party) $
09.14.10 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs $
09.15.10 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore $
09.16.10 - Toronto, ON - Snowball Gallery $
09.17.10 - Chicago, IL - Mortville $
09.18.10 - Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College Gardner Lounge $
09.19.10 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock $
09.22.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Cobalt $
09.23.10 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project $
09.24.10 - Olympia, WA - Northern $
09.25.10 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios $
09.27.10 - Oakland, CA - The New Parish $
09.28.10 - Brookdale, CA - Historic Brookdale Lodge $
09.29.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Center for the Arts $ +
* Nite Jewel
# Cave, Psychic Ills
$ Deakin
+ Fennesz
• Prince Rama: http://princerama.com
• Paw Tracks: http://www.paw-tracks.com
This year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest: too much fun for you to handle; lineup announced
By Erika H on Aug 9 2010
There is almost no way that I could make this post more exciting, unless it were to announce that Fun Fun Fun Fest has decided to become a year-round touring affair, with cash give-aways and an alternating cast of celebrities in fishnet t-shirts (‘cause why not?).
The lineup for the fifth Fun Fun Fun Fest is now official, and it is so packed with gold it’s absurd. This year features a third day, stretching out the fest from November 5 to 7 in Austin, TX’s Waterloo Park, and beginning with Weird Al Yankovic (to think that I once thought Neil Hamburger emceeing this year’s Do-Division Fest in Chicago was the greatest thing ever!). Like Pitchfork with its token “hip hop” act per annum, there’s something for everybody. You can begin with the sort-of-indie stage (Orange), with Dirty Projectors, Devo, MGMT, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Wavves, and a surfeit of awesome etc.’s. You can then meander over to the Black Stage (whoo! punk rock?) to get covered in food coloring by Gwar and re-live your high school fantasy of seeing Bad Religion, old or not. Suicidals can get in on the action too; ST is on the list, along with Mastodon, Kylesa, and Municipal Waste. The Blue Stage is an amalgamation of most other genres with anything to do with R&B, soul, rap, or electronic something-or-other (Yelle to RJD2 and Dâm-Funk), while the Yellow Stage (including live action wrestling, Monotonix, Cold Cave, and a veggie hot dog eating contest) is just straight-up miscellaneous.
Purchase tickets here — early bird discounts are already sold out!
ORANGE STAGE:
Weird Al Yankovic
MGMT
Devo
Dirty Projectors
The Hold Steady
Man Man
Cap’n Jazz
Os Mutantes
Deerhunter
Wavves
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Polvo
Kaki King
Dum Dum Girls
Best Coast
Crocodiles
Magic Kids
Indian Jewelry
Appleseed Cast
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Toro Y Moi
Junius
Woven Bones
Royal Forest
Mother Falcon
BLACK STAGE:
Bad Religion
GWAR
The Vandals
Dwarves
The Gories
Municipal Waste
Strike Anywhere
The Casualties
Valient Thorr
Jeff The Brotherhood
The Briggs
Power Trip
Eagle Claw
Mastodon
Suicidal Tendencies
High On Fire
Snapcase
Floor
The Bronx
Ringworm
Kylesa
OFF!
Peelander Z
Hatred Surge
Black Congress
BLUE STAGE:
RJD2
Slick Rick (performing “Great Adventures Of”)
Deakin (of Animal Collective)
Delorean
Big Freedia
Designer Drugs
Devin The Dude
Invincible
Butcher Bear and Charlie
League of Extraordinary Gz
DJ Nick Nack
A-trak
Yelle
Pharoahe Monch
Jean Grae
POS
Dâm-Funk
Dominique Young Unique
Black Nasty
DJ Bird Peterson
Crew 54
YELLOW STAGE:
Cold Cave (live visual projection show)
Monotonix
Mariachi El Bronx
Live Action Wrestling
Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest
Punk Rock Story Time with Joe Sib (spoken word)
New Movement (live sketch comedy)
Air Sex Contest (presented by Alamo Draft House)
Live Stunt Show
Video Shows
Stand-up Comedy (Matt Bearden, Altercation Punk Rock Comedy tour, and more)
• Fun Fun Fun Fest: http://www.funfunfunfest.com
Black Mountain and The Black Angels join forces to create ultimate fall psych-rock tour
By Liz Louche on Aug 9 2010
Black Mountain and The Black Angels are teaming up to create fall’s Dropout Boogie tour, the ultimate fall psych-rock tour that features bands with the word “Black” in their names. (Hey, “Wolf” and “Crystal” bands, maybe you can put a name-themed co-headlining tour together in the spring or something. Don’t rest on your crystal wolf laurels.) Black Mountain’s new album on Jagjaguwar, Wilderness Heart, comes out September 14, while The Black Angels’ new album on Blue Horizon, Phosphene Dream, ALSO comes out on September 14! They are, like, musical soul twins or something. WOW. Listen to “Bad Vibrations” from the latter album at the Chocolate Grinder.
As previously reported, Black Mountain will be spending the late summer/early fall months gallivanting through Europe, with select pre-Dropout Boogie tour stops in Los Angeles and New York.
Here’s them co-headlining dates:
10.28.10 - Chicago, IL - Metro
10.30.10 - Buffalo, NY - Tralf Music Hall
10.31.10 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
11.01.10 - Montreal, QC - La Tulipe
11.02.10 - Boston, MA - Paradise
11.03.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11.06.10 - Philadelphia, NY - Theatre of Living Arts
11.07.10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11.09.10 - Louisville, KY - Headliners
11.10.10 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
11.11.10 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
11.12.10 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
11.13.10 - Orlando, FL - The Social
11.15.10 - Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree
11.16.10 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s
11.17.10 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
11.19.10 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
11.20.10 - Dallas, TX - Kessler Theater
11.24.10 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
11.26.10 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
11.28.10 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
11.29.10 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox
11.30.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
• Black Mountain: http://www.blackmountainarmy.com
• The Black Angels: http://www.theblackangels.com
• Jagjaguwar: http://www.jagjaguwar.com
• Blue Horizon: http://www.bluehorizonrecords.com
[Photo: Mollie King]
Noveller tours through space, time, and Canada
By Harold Shueberg on Aug 6 2010
Ever tire of the limitations of experiencing a whirlwind of droning electronics and looped, equally droning inter-spliced guitar picking from the confines of your bedroom, living room, or even car for that matter? Sure you do. You and I both know the obvious perks to seeing something like this on the stage, at least in the case of Brooklyn-based musician Sarah Lipstate, a.k.a. Noveller. At the very least, her shows will incorporate something like this. So that’s why she’s doing you and I a favor by taking her star-swept epics to the road during the months of August and September, with a little in November too. Much of the tour will be alongside unFact, which is Jesus Lizard David Sim’s solo project, and will also include (!!!) performances with big-man-around-town Fennesz at the Decibel Fest in Seattle and at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA (the latter also featuring another TMT favorite Burning Star Core).
Last month, Noveller released Desert Fires via her very own Saffron label. It has since melted countless brains and will continue to do so exponentially with its vinyl release through No Fun Productions later this year. Meanwhile, her much-anticipated-by-TMT collaboration with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista) is set for release later this year on Not Not Fun, while her album for Important will likely materialize next year, according to Lipstate.
Star travels:
08.06.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Cinders Gallery (free show!)
08.12.10 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight &
08.13.10 - Baltimore, MD - The Windup Space & $
08.14.10 - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong &
08.15.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Highwire Gallery & ^
08.16.10 - Buffalo, NY - Gateway Gallery &
08.17.10 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks &
08.18.10 - Cincinnati, OH - Art Damage Lodge & %
08.19.10 - Columbus, OH - It Looks Like It’s Open & %
08.20.10 - Milwaukee, WI - Sugar Maple &
08.21.10 - Chicago, IL - Viaduct Theater (Neon Marshmallow Festival)
08.22.10 - Chicago, IL - Viaduct Theater (Neon Marshmallow Festival) &
08.24.10 - Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar &
08.25.10 - Iowa City, IA - White Lightning &
08.27.10 - Ann Arbor, MI - Hott Lava &
08.28.10 - Toronto, ON - Teranga &
08.29.10 - Montreal, QC - Casa del Popolo &
08.31.10 - Quebec City, QC - L’Agitée &
09.01.10 - Burlington, VT - The Monkey House & #
09.02.10 - Portland, ME - Apohadion & #
09.03.10 - Providence, RI - AS220 & #
09.04.10 - Boston, MA - It’s a Gift & #
09.05.10 - Easthampton, MA - Flywheel & #
09.09.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Littlefield @ !
09.20.10 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs +(
09.25.10 - Seattle, WA - Benaroya Hall (Decibel Festival) +
11.05.10 - Lab40 Festival – Augsburg
11.16.10 - Brussels, Belgium - DNA )
& unFact
$ Twig Harper
^ U.S. Girls
% Mike Shiflet
# Animal Hospital
@ Julianna Barwick
! Balmorhea
+ Fennesz
( Burning Star Core
) Aidan Baker
• Noveller: http://www.myspace.com/noveller
• Saffron: http://sarahlipstate.com/wordpress/?page_id=52
• No Fun: http://www.nofunproductions.com
[Photo: Chris Habib]
Tyondai Braxton leaves Battles in one of those “sad but amicable” sort of ways
By Mike McHugh on Aug 6 2010
A life on the road can be a rough way to earn your daily duckets. And you don’t need to be an old-school, pavement-pounding vet like some Allman or Doobie brother to tire of the endless parade of ratty motels and rattier food; it even happens to the mathiest of music’s ranks, too. Case in point, poor Tyondai Braxton, who has decided to split from Battles after tiring of the travel grind. From an announcement on the band’s website:
Due to Battles’ ambitions of finishing their second studio album followed by commitments to a full touring schedule in 2011, and Tyondai’s own commitments as a solo artist and his desire not to tour, both Battles and Tyondai have decided to move on without each other.
Sad news indeed, but at least both parties will continue to make music, albeit as separate entities. However, there’s still no release date on that proposed 2010 Battles album yet. In fact, there’s no Battles tourdate schedule available at this time either. So come on guys, throw your old boys in the indie music blogosphere some good juju after this most deflating of announcements, please.
• Battles: http://www.bttls.com
• Warp: http://warp.net
