19 Year Old Canadian Singer-Songwriter Taylor Mitchell Mauled by Coyotes at a National Park in Nova Scotia [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch Video For New No Age, “Losing Feeling;” Contains a Surprising Amount of Motion For Being Shot From the Perspective of An Inanimate Mouse Toy (But Seriously Guys, Mouse Toys Don’t Move) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
As If Social Networking Hasn’t Begun to Simulate Enough of Your Former Life, Facebook Takes Away Foo Fighters (Foo Fighters Are Playing A Gig on Facebook…They Haven’t Been Absorbed Into Mark Zuckerberg’s Web Infrastructure) [NME]
Google Launches “Music Discovery Service” – Service Incapable of Providing Any Music Other Than Lady Gaga and Pet Sounds [Google]
Happy Birthday, Darling, We Got You Exactly What You Wanted: A Cartoonish Cake Recreation of Lil Wayne’s Skull…Yes, Honey, It Is Purple Drank Flavored. Yep, Daughter of Mine, It Scares Me Too [Idolator]
Stream New Four Tet Single, “Love Cry” – Is This a Return to Relevance From Kieran Hebden?! (No…No It Probably Isn’t) [Pitchfork]
Stream Rock Plaza Central (Which Rivals the Worst Band Name I’ve Ever Seen) Covering Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde Classic “I Want You” – One of the Better Dylan Covers I’ve Heard [Prefix]
Goth-Brits The xx Cancel a Bunch of Dates on Their Tour; Say They are “Exhausted” After CMJ (City of Dreams, Make It Here, Make It Anywhere, You Got The Heart, You’ll Get Your Name In Lights, Other Vaudevillian Expressions) [Pitchfork]
Peter Gabriel Covers Radiohead, Magnetic Fields, Bon Iver, and Lou Reed on New Album, Scratch My Back; Released Spring 2010 – It Remains to be Seen Whether Peter Gabriel Will Be the First to Experience “The Vampire Weekend Effect” [NME]
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The Second Annual Beatles Complete Ukulele Festival Will Take Place on December 5 and 6 in Williamsburg; Every Beatles Song Will Be Played on the Ukulele…And All Money Goes to Yoko Ono (Last Year, It Went to Warren Buffet); All Reading This Ought Be As Confused As I Am [Jezebel Music]
Stream a Re-Recording of Wavvves Cut “To the Dregs,” and a New Wavves Song “Horse Sholes” – Have an Existential Crisis Over the Fact that You Don’t Really Hate Wavves Anymore, As Zach Hill Brings Much-Needed Chops to the Project; Feel Dejected; Claim to Hate Wavves Anyway [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Brooklyn Over-Hyped But Endlessly Catchy Dance-Pop Duo MGMT Title Upcoming LP Congratulations, As In: Congratulations, MGMT, You’ve Succeeded in Making a Typically Boring Album Title [Pitchfork]
Watch The Flaming Lips Cover Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse;” You Decide What’s More Entertaining: The Cover, or Wayne Coyne’s Self-Absorbed, Convinced-He’s-Funny Babbling [Stereogum]
Cash Money Records Says Lil Wayne Will Release Two Albums Before The End of 2009; The Rebirth, The Much-Delayed Weezy-Goes-Rock Album, and Tha Carter 4, The Follow-Up to Wayne’s Lauded 2008 Offering…My Guess: Neither Will Come Out and I Just Wasted Time Writing These Sentences [Pitchfork]
Beyonce Cancels a Show in Malaysia Due to Malaysia’s Islamic Conservative Party’s Concerns That She Might Promote “Western Sexy Performances;” I’m Outraged Over Use of the Word “Might” in That Sentence. All The Woman Does is Western Sexy Performances [Billboard]
U2 Frontman Bono Believes President Obama is Having Difficult Time, Realizes the Harsh Reactions Obama Faced When Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Doesn’t Know No One Gives a Shit About His Political Opinions, and Just Wants Him to Sing “With or Without You” In Front of Some Starving Kids [Idolator]
Watch Spike Jonze’s New Short Film Starring Kanye West, We Were Once a Fairytale; Features Kanye Being Hilariously Douche-y, Getting Really Drunk, And Then Vomiting Rose Petals With This Little Monster…So It’s Just Like the Real Kanye [NME]
No Age, Rain Machine (TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone), Mew, and Jay Reatard All Opening for Pixies Doolittle Shows; Universal Agreement Made That This Concert Will Be “Very Good” (Alternatively, “Beyond Satisfactory”) [CMJ]
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October 11, 2009
This Week In Shows
THIS WEEK IN SHOWS
WEDS, OCT. 14
No Age, Woods, Silk Flowers
(le) poisson rouge
10:00 PM, $15, 18+
I am pretty jealous of our photographer, who’s headed to see No Age at (le) poisson rouge this Wednesday. They’ll be in town all week, but why not hit a mid-week show with solid openers, in a smallish venue? Maybe you will remember, or realize, how much you love No Age, and you’ll go catch them again when they perform The Bear at the New Museum on Friday.
Tayisha Busay and Guests
Glasslands
8:00 PM, $3/$5, 21+
From what I can tell, there’s always a lot of Spandex and a lot of dancing at Tayisha Busay shows. In fact, there tends to be a decent amount of dancing and Spandex at Glasslands, period. Then of course you have a guest performance from Cherie Lily, aerobics-musician (and Andrew W.K.’s wife), and you’re looking at a shiny, stretchy, sparkly (?), sweaty good time. It’s called the “Nasty Ass” dance party, but you could probably also name it the “Cheap Ass” dance party: $3 before 10:00 PM, open bar from 8:00 – 9:00.
More on This Week In Shows
Either Diplo and Switch are Making a Pointed Critique of Mainstream Nightlife, or They Are Just Really Excited for Halloween. Watch New Cartoon Zombie Major Lazer Video Here [Pitchfork]
For An Even Weirder Partially Animated Music Video, Watch Ida Maria Featuring Iggy Pop on “Oh My God.” Oh My God Is Right. This Shit Is Weird. [PopMatters]
No Age Designed A Vegan Skate Shoe. Very California. Oh Yeah, They’re In New York Next Week, Too. [The Tripwire]
Listen To New Song From Dum Dum Girls/Zoo Music Side Project Woven Bones [Stereogum]
Milkin’ It: Pixies Releasing Dolittle Shows as Live Albums…Ten Minutes After Show’s Are Over! [NME]
Listen To New Devendra Banhart “Wallilamdzi” [Stereogum]
Listen to Snippets Of New Moon Soundtrack. Not Sure How Much We Care…But Have Heard Good Things About Thom Yorke Track [Stereogum]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
Well, It’s Memorable, At Least. Check Out The Cover Art For Ghostface Killah’s New Album, The Wizard Of Poetry [Idolator]
Death Cab For Cutie Reveals New Moon Soundtrack Single, “Meet Me On The Equinox.” Sounds Rather Middle-School Romantic, Till You Realize That Means “Meet Me Twice A Year.” [Stereogum]
Goodness, Gracious! Jerry Lee Lewis To Release First Country Album Since 1978, Chock Full Of Kris Kristofferson Songs [The Tripwire]
Malaysian Muslims Banned From Black Eyed Peas Show. “Non-Muslims Can Go Have Fun,” Says Ministry Of Information [NME]
Download New Caspian Album, And Check Them Out Tomorrow Night At The Studio @ Webster Hall [Brooklyn Vegan]
Listen To HEALTH’s Daytrotter Sessions [Pitchfork]
Shot Down By Sound! Download No Age’s New Track, “You’re A Target.” [Pitchfork]
Watch Talking Heads, Reunited For 1999 Press Conference, In The Blu-Ray Edition Re-Release of Stop Making Sense [Rolling Stone]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
Roger Daltrey of The Who to Go On Solo Tour, Talk About His Generation to the Youngsters [BrooklynVegan]
As You May Know, We Love Talking Heads. So Please Don’t Call On Oct. 13, When Stop Making Sense Comes Out On Blu-Ray Format [Pitchfork]
Bad Blood Between Matador Records and Victory Records Getting Worse In Wake of House Fire [Pitchfork]
No More Albums Don’t Mean No More Music! Listen to New Radiohead Track, “These Are My Twisted Words” [Consequence Of Sound]
Are You On The Bus? Dan Deacon’s Bus That Is. Watch This Mini Documentary About Deacon’s “Vantastic” School Bus [Pitchfork]
Dr. Dre to Rescue Your Ears From All Those Sad Tinny mp3s You’ve Been Listening To, Thus Saving the World of Digital Music! [Pitchfork]
What Dislocated Shoulder? Randy Randall and No Age Back On Tour, Hitting New York In October [Tiny Mix Tapes]
RIP Rashied Ali, Jazz Drummer, Coltrane Collaborator [NME]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
Stream/Purchase New Radiohead Song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of);” All Proceeds Go To The Royal British Legion; Song Is a Dedication To The Last Remaining WWI Veteran Harry Patch, Who Passed Away Last Week [Brooklyn Vegan]
This Is Not News, But Music Go Music’s “Warm in the Shadows” Is The Best 9 Minute Disco Revival Track Of The Year Thus Far; Stream It (And Frontwoman Gala Bell Does A Mean Debbie Harry) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
NME Releases List Of 50 Things Pushing Music Forward – Animal Collective Named Number One, Which Means By “Forward,” NME Means “Most Aptly Revives Styles and Techniques Used In 1966” [NME]
Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, Better Known As MCA, Is Recovering Well From First Cancer Surgery; Will Undergo Radiation Therapy – With Jay Pushing For Him, MCA’s Got To Feel Pretty Good [Spin]
Jack White To Release Solo Single, “Farm Fly Blues;” Released August 11 [NME]
Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and Led Zeppelin’s Bassist John Paul Jones Announce Supergroup, Them Crooked Vultures (Which Couldn’t Be A Better Name Combination of Grunge, Sludge, and Blues, Repsectively) [Spin]
Stream (Allegedly; This Player Hasn’t Worked On Like Four Different Browsers Update: Player Works and EP Is Awesome) New No Age EP Losing Feeling Super Early; Released October 6 [Pitchfork]
Watch Deerhunter, Dan Deacon, and No Age Play Through 10-Minute Deerhunter Noise-Jam “Cryptograms” All Together – It’s Like A Really Filthy Looking Frankenstein of Noise Bands [Pitchfork]
Stream Folkie Guy William Fitzsimmons’s Smokey, Acoustic Cover of Kanye West’s 808s Single “Heartless” (Or, Better Yet, Stream This Version of “Heartless” – You Know 808s Is A Pretty Serious Album, And I Didn’t Realize How Serious It Was Until I Heard It Inappropriately Sung By A Small Army of Preschoolers) [Popmatters]
Stream All of Mount Eerie’s Loud, Abrasive, and Interesting New Album Wind’s Poem; Released August 18 [Stereogum]
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! Tour Won’t Hit Brooklyn [The Tripwire]
The Scoop on Snoop [NYTimes Arts]
Rihanna Tries to Reclaim Rocks [Rolling Stone]
New iPhone Apps Search Blogs [CNET] and Spin Records [Prefix]
Village Voice Siren Fest Still at Coney Island – Initial Lineup Announced [Brooklyn Vegan]
Eminem’s Relapse Track List Leaked [Prefix]
No Age, Deerhunter, and Dan Deacon, Oh My! [Pitchfork]
Decemberists Appear on Colbert Report [Videogum]
Destroyer and Sunset Rubdown Schedule (Separate) NYC Shows [Brooklyn Vegan]
Sonic Youth Summer Tour [Prefix]
Rooftop Films Returns [Brooklyn Vegan]
compiled by Elana Jacobs
