Dizzee Rascal Reveals New Album Details
Dizzee Rascal has set a June 4 UK release date for Maths & English, which will come out on XL and Dizzee's own Dirtee Stank label. June 4 also happens to be the release date of fellow grime MC/Dizzee nemesis Wiley's new one, Playtime Is Over.
According to Dazeddigital.com, the previously reported Joss Stone track was scrapped (whew!), but Maths & English still features Lily Allen on "Might As Well Quit". Other collaborators include UGK ("Where Da G's"), the Arctic Monkeys ("Temptation"), and Newham Generals ("Lemon"). Maths features production from Dizzee's manager and long-time collaborator Cage, Future Trax, and Shy FX, who produced "Da Feelin", "Industry", and "World's Gone Crazy".
In addition to "Pussy'ole", Dazeddigital.com also has the names of a few of Maths' raunchier numbers: "Suck My Dick", "stripper anthem" "Flex", and "Bubbles", which covers tried-and-true hip hop themes "money, gash, and champagne."
Maths' first single, "Sirens", will debut on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show tonight, with a release planned for May 21. Director Wiz is responsible for the song's video.
Dizzee will play several European festivals this summer, but his first show is a club date in Porto, Portugal on April 14. [MORE...]
Photos: Sufjan Stevens [Grand Rapids, MI; 03/30/07]
Sufjan Stevens traded his pen for those kooky wings this past weekend, bringing his army of butterflies to Grand Rapids' Calvin College for a pair of sold out shows. Many thanks to reader TJ Kosinski for these snapshots of Lil Suf and company. We like the shades, although we're a bit unsettled by the Supermans, which look an awful lot like that inflatable auto-pilot from Airplane!.Sufjan plays the MusicNow festival at Cincinnati's Memorial Hall on April 7, while a string quartet premieres arrangements from Sufjan's Chinese calendar paean Enjoy Your Rabbit as part of the fest's opening night, April 5.
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Pitchfork's T.V. Picks for This Week:
Monday, April 2:
CBS: "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson": The Noisettes
Tuesday, April 3:
CBS: "Late Show With David Letterman": Nas
Wednesday, April 4:
NBC: "Late Night With Conan O'Brien": Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Thursday, April 5:
ABC: "Good Morning America": Regina Spektor
NBC: "Late Night With Conan O'Brien": Kaiser Chiefs
CBS: "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson": Ice Cube, Omarion
Friday, April 6:
NBC: "Late Night With Conan O'Brien": Albert Hammond Jr.
NBC: "Last Call With Carson Daly": Bloc Party
Sunday, April 8:
MTV: "Subterranean": Ted Leo
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to Europe
Hot on the heels of their previously-announced slew of voice-cracking, hip-swiveling, hi-hat-ridin' U.S. and Aussie dates, the breezy gents in Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will keep the castles of Europe in the air and burning with, uh, rock. They'll eschew patriotism for Portugal July 4, hop a plane for a lone Japanese date, then spring back Ireland way August 1.As we also previously reported, the band will perform on the Conan O'Brien late-night variety program this Wednesday, April 4. But that's soon, and we always forget to TiVo that stuff, so we thought a friendly reminder would be in order. You're welcome. [MORE...]
The Rapture Announce Spring/Summer Tour
Whoo! Alright! Let's fall apart! The Rapture have announced their grueling tour schedule for the spring and summer of 2007, which places them on the road from April through July. (OK, they get June off.)
The trek takes them around the world, from Australia and Japan to North America to Europe, touring alongside the likes of the Killers, Shiny Toy Guns, and, of course, Daft Punk.
They're even playing the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida-- where Anna Nicole Smith died! [MORE...]
Hold Steady, M. Ward Pay Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Plus: Badly Drawn Boy, Steve Earle, Ronnie Spector, Josh Ritter
"The Music of Bruce Springsteen" straps its hands across the engines of New York City's Carnegie Hall on April 5. The Boss-baiting benefit bonanza, produced by Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf, will feature live Bruce covers from the Hold Steady, M. Ward, Juliana Hatfield, Steve Earle, Ronnie Spector (with Jesse Malin), Badly Drawn Boy, Josh Ritter, Elysian Fields, North Mississippi Allstars, Pete Yorn, and more.
Like last fall's Bob Dylan tribute, proceeds here go to the United Jewish Appeal-Federation's Music for Youth initiative, which aims to fund music education programs for underprivileged youth. That's reason enough to sit through Jewel's Springsteen cover. Get your tickets here.In summary: Bruuuuuuuuuuuuce!
New Pornos, Malkmus, De La Soul Added to P4K Fest
Also Battles and the Ponys!
Stakes is high! The Pitchfork Music Festival, taking place July 13-15 at Union Park in Chicago, is pleased to pull back the curtain on several additions to our all-star lineup: indie rock heavy hitters the New Pornographers and Stephen Malkmus, hip-hop legends De La Soul, art-rock supergroup Battles, and hometown heroes and recent Matador signings the Ponys!
All will join the company of previously announced festival performers Cat Power, Clipse, Of Montreal, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound, and, of course, Sonic Youth performing their landmark 1988 album Daydream Nation (in collaboration with All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back).
If that's looking pretty good to you so far, keep in mind, more than 40 artists will perform at this year's Pitchfork fest-- we haven't even announced half of them yet! Plus, there are still two more artists to announce who, like Sonic Youth, will be performing their classic albums as part of Friday's ATP/Don't Look Back festival kickoff.
Here's the lineup as it stands today:
Friday, July 13:
Sonic Youth performs Daydream Nation
Saturday, July 14:
Cat Power
Clipse
Iron and Wine
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
Battles
Professor Murder
Sunday, July 15:
New Pornographers
Stephen Malkmus
De La Soul
Of Montreal
Jamie Lidell
The Ponys
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound
Tickets are on sale now at Ticketweb. Three-day passes cost $50, Friday night costs $15, Saturday and Sunday individual passes cost $25, and a Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35.
Keep up on all the latest festival news and details by bookmarking the Pitchfork Music Festival webpage and by tuning into the Pitchfork Music Festival podcast.
Dan Deacon Spazzes Across America Some More
Since the tragic death of Wesley Willis, the indie world has longed for some uninhibited, outsider, music-making type to melt our hearts with bizarre referential antics and drive us completely batty with relentless childlike sonics-- and that somebody is upon us.Dan Deacon is his name. He's just signed to Carpark, he has an LP called Spiderman of the Rings out May 8 (and some reissues as well), and he's out there right now, terrorizing the status quo with his own bonkers brand of electronic pop.
Deacon has tacked a whole mess of dates onto his tour since we last reported, including a couple with similarly spastic Girl Talk, and quite a few with road warriors ADULT. and Parts & Labor. Catch him before he's the next Death Cab for Cutie. [MORE...]
Jana Hunter Sets Home Free, Tours
C'est chic, le freak-folk
Texan songstress and Gnomonsong signee Jana Hunter will cast off the shackles of domesticity on her sophomore disc, There's No Home, heading to the buyer's market April 2. Fans of the strummy stuff may recall "Farm, CA," the Hunter tune stuck in the mangy beard that was the Devendra Banhart-curated Golden Apples of the Sun freak folk showcase record, as well as her own well-received 2005 effort Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom.
Recorded at a friend's home in Houston, There's No Home packs plenty of the cathedral-ceiling harmonies, finger-plucked acoustic guitars, and freeform song structure you've come to expect from the freak-folkies. Guest-turns on the record are slim given the collective's tendency towards collaboration, but Jana's brother John Hunter contributes a few vocals, and John Adams of the Fatal Flying Guilloteens and Matt Brownlie of Bring Back the Guns handle a few instrumental duties.
The now Home-less Hunter will hit the road for a number of U.S. dates through April, then take a spin around Europe this May. [MORE...]
Gonzales Enlists Feist, Jamie Lidell for DVD
Also releases solo album
Electro-MC, symphony-minded producer, Feist/Jamie Lidell/Daft Punk/Peaches collaborator, and sometimes-solo pianist Gonzales has of late been working a little harder on that "sometimes" gig, as evidenced by the Solo Piano CD he'll drop on our heads April 3. Yeah, so maybe the creative synapses weren't fully firing in the title department, but that doesn't mean Gonzales won't blow minds with his signature blend of classical forms and electronic flourishes.
Gonzales has been tickling ivories aplenty of late in his Piano Vision performance series, which finds him on the bench by his lonesome, schooling a "masterclass" of stage-storming audience members, and capping things off with appearances by the likes of Feist, Jamie Lidell and Mocky. Gonzales' vision will see its way to you in DVD form May 8 when From Major to Minor, a film capturing Gonzales and friends at play, sees release. Note that the US release of this DVD will differ from the double-disc version already available in Europe.
Gonzales is also looking to unlock his 88 keys for a handful of late-spring dates. [MORE...]
Interpol's Sam + Swervedriver's Adam = Setting Suns
Getting to kick out some jams with your idols is any young musician's dream come true, and for a young musician named Sam Fogarino from a young band called Interpol, that dream recently exploded into reality.Fogarino met former Swervedriver lead Adam Franklin over dinner a winter ago, and the two must have hit it off, 'cause they done gone and formed a band. "i've been a swervedriver fan from the start, still am," wrote Fogarino on the Setting Suns' newly inaugurated MySpace page. "i would have killed just to bang a can for adam franklin. now, he makes sense of my melodies, and turns our ideas into a beautiful din. i feel lucky and alive.... and a bit sick from my own sap."
Thus far, the duo has posted two slow-burning bits of beautiful din on their MySpace: piano-dappled rainy-day dirge "Yesterday's Flowers", and a track called-- no joke-- "Cold War Kids".
As Franklin explained in a recent post, he's had the "Cold War Kids" idea for some time-- and even considered naming the band that until learning some youngins already snatched it up. "The inspiration behind [the song]," wrote Franklin, "was Bowie's Heroes, the film Christiane F and a song called Only The Dead Dreams Of A Cold War Kid by Hawklords, which was in effect Hawkwind contractually obligated to alter their name whilst playing Noo Wave music circa 1978." Good to know, good to know.
The Setting Suns have not yet unveiled any release details or tour plans. Franklin, meanwhile, has retired his Toshack Highway moniker for the moment, and will release an album called Bolts of Melody later this spring under his own name. Bolts will include Adam's cover of Wolf Parade's "Shine a Light", and several tracks off it may be streamed right now at dude's MySpace.
As previously reported, Sam Fogarino has put together a benefit for Callum Robbins, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The event goes down April 16 at NYC's Bowery Ballroom and features performances from Bob Mould, Radio 4, and Mercury Rev offshoot Harmony Rockets. Expect special guests as well.
Interpol, that Capitol Records-signed band Fogarino drums for, embark on a totally epic Canadian tour next month, with several festival dates to follow. A Las Vegas gig recently popped up on Ticketbastard, and there's an awfully suspicious month-long gap between it and Interpol's Sasquatch! appearance at the end of May. Consider our fingers crossed. [MORE...]
Man Man to Open Modest Mouse Tour!
Mmmm...
It's nice to see hardworking, talented bands hit it big, to see a band like Modest Mouse match their record geek/fanperson credibility with the commercial success of a #1 debut. And Modest Mouse keep adding chapters to the indie rock success story with the tourmates on their previously reported tour in support of We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
Those tourmates? Man Man!
Yep, the Philly boys will join Isaac Brock, Johnny Marr, and co. on the road this spring. How sweet. Those audiences won't know what hit 'em.
But first, Man Man have to finish their own previously reported dates. Godspeed, U.S.S. Man Man! [MORE...]
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- Sasquatch! 2008 Lineup Revealed
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- Rhino Reissues Otis Redding's Otis Blue
- The New Hold Steady Album: Stay Positive
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- Howlin Rain Issue Strange New CD, Tour
- All Points West to Be Radiohead's Only NYC Appearance
- Reunited Young Marble Giants to Play Primavera Sound
- M.I.A., Vampire Weekend, Lupe, Girl Talk Play Brown
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- Tokyo Police Club Give Shell a Release Date, Add Shows
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- Radiohead to Headline San Francisco Festival?
- Photos: The Magnetic Fields [New York, NY; 02/21/08]
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- Third Annual Pitchfork-Windish Austin Bash Revealed
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- All Points West Festival Lineup Announced
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- Disfear Head to North America This Spring
- Photos: Blood on the Wall [New York, NY; 02/20/08]
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- Cat Power Adds Even More Dates
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- Mission of Burma Reissues: Now With Tracklists
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- Morrissey's Greatest Hits Collection Coming to U.S.
- Blitzen Trapper Release iTunes, Tour EPs
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- PJ Harvey to Issue "The Devil" Single
- Pumpkins Add Dates, Corgan Sings for Hook's Freebass
- Spoon Announce Spring Tour With the Walkmen
- Arctic Monkeys' Turner Preps Last Shadow Puppets LP
- Dalek Tour With Russian Circles, RJD2
- Black Mountain, Bon Iver Kick Off Joint Tour Tonight
- Hot Chip, Diplo, Spank Rock Remix Delicious Vinyl
- Tilly and the Wall Tour, Pressnall Does Flowers Forever
- TVT Files for Bankruptcy, Trent Reznor Rejoices
- Matthew Friedberger, Times New Viking Play Book Party
- Lyrics Born Goes Everywhere at Once on New LP
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- Boris Reveal Smile Tracklist, Artwork, New Dates
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- Andre 3000 Designs Clothing Line
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- Headlights Deliver Some Album, Tour With Evangelicals
- T.V. Eye: February 18-24, 2008
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- The National Release Live EP
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- Black Kids Announce Tour With Cut Copy
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- Battles Sketch out Spring Tour
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- Modest Mouse, Of Montreal, Diplo Set for Rothbury Fest
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- Timbaland Launches "Mobile Album" With Verizon
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- Leonard Cohen to Play Glastonbury
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- Subtle Reveal New Album ExitingARM
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- Slits Hit the States on Tour, Cut New EP
- Coroner Rules Pimp C's Death Accidental
- Boris Announce Smile Release Date, Single Details
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Announce More Dates
- National, TVOTR Members Play Brooklyn Next Fest
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- Feist Announces Spring American Tour
- School of Language Plans North American Tour
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- Black Kids Sign to Almost Gold Outside North America
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- The Hold Steady's Tad Kubler Playing Gig for Kids
- Love Is All Name New Album, Gain Member, Plan Shows
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- Jay-Z to Headline Glastonbury
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- Prodigy to Perform H.N.I.C. 2 Live in Its Entirety
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- American Music Club Tour the World
- Black Moth, Seven Bells, Bazan Do Suicide Squeeze 7"s
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- Microphones' The Glow Pt. 2 Reissued With Bonus Disc
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- King Khan Takes BBQ Show, Shrines on the Road
- Photos: Peter Moren [Los Angeles, CA; 01/30/08]
- Neon Neon (Gruff Rhys + Boom Bip) Debut LP Revealed
- Elf Power Head In a Cave for New Album
- Futureheads Start Their Own Label for New Album
- Earth, Sir Richard Bishop Link Up for European Tour
- Saul Williams Plots "Tar Spangled Banner" Tour
- RJD2 Announces Spring U.S. Tour
- David Yow Recovering, Appearing in Film
- Jim O'Rourke Reissues, New Album Due on Drag City
- Peter Moren's The Last Tycoon Tracklist Revealed
- Eels Announce World Tour
- Thurston Moore Releases iTunes Live EP
- Xiu Xiu Fun: Video Zine, Song Project, Haiku Offerings
- Monster Bobby Needs You to Name His Tune
- MBV Add More Shows, Including Roskilde and Oya
- Destroyer Announces North American Tour
- Photos: Vampire Weekend [New York, NY; 01/29/08]
- Karen O, TVOTR's Adebimpe, Wyclef Judge Fulbrights
- Kanye West to Tour With Lupe, N.E.R.D., Rihanna
- Death Cab for Cutie Name New Album
- Siouxsie Plans Gigs Near and Far
- Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue Finally Reissued
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Announce Tour
- Death in Vegas, APTBS, Dirty on Purpose Dudes Link Up
- Vampire Weekend Kick off Big Tour Tonight
- Rob Lowe, U.S. Maple Guys Form Singer, Issue Debut
- Jaguar Love (ex-PGMG, Blood Brothers) Sign to Matador
- D'Angelo, Soulwax, Peaches Grace Prince Tribute Comp
- Photos: Liars / No Age [Portland, OR; 01/28/08]
- Count & Sinden Sign to Domino, Prep "Beeper" Single
- PB&J;'s Peter Moren Signs to Quarterstick for Solo Debut
- Simian Mobile Disco Prep Another EP, Add Dates
- David Byrne, Grizzly Bear to Join Paul Simon in Concert
- Gnarls Barkley Are The Odd Couple on New LP
- M83 Talks New Album, New Direction, 1980s