Xiu Xiu Book Bumped, Bonus CD Tracklist Revealed
Way back in the idyllic days of May, whilst taking a break from frolicking through some meadow full of flowers in bloom, we brought you the dirt on Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The Book. Now the flowers are dead, the meadow has become a Starbucks, and the month of September-- when said tome was said to arrive-- has come and gone. So what the hell, Pitchfork?Easy, my friend! Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The Book is still coming out. It's still being published by Mark Batty. It still collects a bunch of David Horvitz's Polaroids, from the sensational to the mundane, documenting Xiu Xiu on the road. It still contains commentary from such folks as Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's Owen Ashworth, Barr, and members of Xiu Xiu. And it still comes bundled with a bonus CD compilation of mostly new tracks, as well as field recordings by Horvitz.
All that's changed, really, is the release month (now November 2007) and the cover (depicted above). Oh, and the bonus CD-- called A Soundtrack for a Polaroid of Two Trees in Indiana-- now has a tracklist, boasting previously mentioned winners like Casiotone, Yellow Swans, Parenthetical Girls, Grouper, Barr, This Song Is a Mess but So Am I, the Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff (who also mastered the disc), High Places' Mary Pearson (sister of a former Pitchfork staffer, truth told), and Xiu Xiu themselves. Catch that below.
Xiu Xiu's next LP and Air Force follow-up is still due early next year, with more details expected to come to light very, very soon. For now, if you dare, check out the rather ridiculous and fairly offensive "tracklist" Jamie Stewart posted on the Xiu Xiu site/blog. So NSFW.
Their CMJ showing now the stuff of memory, Xiu Xiu have no dates presently scheduled. Although if these Polaroids provide any indication of the fun these guys have on the road, we reckon they'll return there soon enough. [MORE...]
Photos: The Hold Steady / Art Brut [Philadelphia, PA; 10/23/07]
Photos by Michael Alan Goldberg
Eddie Argos and his Art Brut pals have been going steady with the Hold Steady on a joint U.S. tour that kicked off last week and will carry the two bands from sea to shining sea over the next month. Craig Finn's crew impressed the boys and girls of America at Philly's Electric Factory Fillmore at the TLA last night with their Boss-inflected tunes, while Argos strutted and shouted tunes from this year's It's a Bit Complicated.
After the inevitable break up, Art Brut will take their show down under for a few dates in December, while the Hold Steady will get a little bit of rest. More photos and tour dates below.
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The Rapture Release "The Sound" as New Single
The Thermals hold it, the Dandy Warhols are it, the Sounds pluralize it
With Daft Punk shows, radio-liberating comps, and soccer anthems out of their way, the Rapture will get back to providing party-rocking fodder this fall with the latest DJ-targeted release on their label Throne of Blood.
It's the 12" single for Pieces of the People We Love's "The Sound", which features the original version in addition to two remixes of the track: one by Gucci Soundsystem's Ben Trucker and the other by Max Pask.
"The Sound" is out November 26 with the help of Amato Distribution.
Future Throne of Blood releases include the Zombi single "Sapphire" / "Long Mirrored Corridor" with an Escort remix, and a 12" from Dances With White Girls.
The Rapture have four dates scheduled on our fair continent this week, starting tonight, October 24, with a show in Monterrey, Mexico. The mini-tour ends with a Halloween show in NYC that also features the B-52's, the most unexpectedly perfect pairing we can think of at the moment. [MORE...]
Blood Brothers Still Together...For Now
Photo by Nathan MartinMessage board-mongering fans of the Blood Brothers' agit-punk antics have been in mourning mode since Monday, when a Three One G records forum administrator (purportedly label owner and Locust/Head Wound City/Holy Molar/Ground Unicorn Horn member Justin Pearson) posted a troubling message on a thread discussing the break-up of Some Girls. In addition to briefs on the status of other Three One G bands, it read:
"the blood bros broke up."
Although rumored for a few months, the news spread quickly following this post-- given Pearson's close ties with the band-- and was even picked up by some press outlets. NME.com, notably, mistakenly reported that, in addition to the break-up, Blood Brothers drummer Mark Gajadhar "hates [his] own band." In the context of Pearson's post, however-- which you may read in full here or below-- it's Mark McCoy of Holy Molar who allegedly hates his band.
So what's really going on here? The word from the Blood Brothers' management: "They are taking a break currently for the rest of the year and will make any final decisions or announcements next year."
Perhaps the death knell has already rung for the Blood Brothers, or perhaps those guys can hold it together (fingers crossed!). We'll just have to wait and see. For now, you're invited to crank "Ambulance vs. Ambulance" and rock out in solidarity. Goddamn does that song kick ten kinds of ass. [MORE...]
From single, to single, to EP: the lads of Liars keep on giving up the jams practically as fast as we can listen to them (no complaints here!). For the band's latest "release," Mute Records is unleashing the free-of-charge "Liars sessions" comprised of four demo versions of cuts from their latest LP.
Well, maybe not entirely free: to nab it, you'll have to head here and part ways with some personal info (and choose whether you'd like updates on "Liars", "Alternative", or both).** Your reward is four slices of scuzz-rock at its most primeval. For that, I'd gladly surrender my dental records. Molar city, man.
Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for the heads-up.
As for Liars, they've just wrapped their tour with Interpol, and are headed to Europe to kick off a headlining trek. They'll play the aforementioned ATP Release the Bats fest with Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Black Lips and Fuck Buttons early next month. [MORE...]
Califone, Dirty Projectors, Black Moth on Esopus Comp
The folks behind bi-yearly magazine Esopus recently decided to make some dreams come true-- through the magic of song!Guest editor (and Pitchfork contributor) Mike Powell, you see, assembled a crack team of musical types to tackle the sleepytime dreamstuff, however whimsical, weird, or worrying, of Esopus readers-- and now the fruits of their labors have been bundled onto a CD set to accompany the ninth issue of the magazine, which shipped to subscribers this week and will hit newstands the second week of November.
Readers were invited to submit writeups detailing their dreams, and 11 acts-- among them, Califone, Dirty Projectors, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Ida-- each chose one to interpret musically. If you haven't already done so, do check out the Projectors' "One Kill"-- inspired by subconscious wanderings of an Austin-based Esopus reader-- over in Forkcast. The complete tracklist follows. [MORE...]
Rakim Talks New Album, Tour, History Lessons
"When they created jazz years ago it was the best thing to happen since fried ice cream. But then you look at it now-- it's not so popular... The same thing can happen in hip-hop if we take it for granted and don't cherish it."
Photo by William Kirk
Rakim is back, or at least he's on his way. It's been eight years since he released his second solo album, The Master, and aside from rumors surrounding his signing to and subsequent drop from Dr. Dre's Aftermath label and some reissues, he's been relatively quiet since then.
In the last couple of years, he's taken to playing shows again, and over the course of this year, it came out that he was working on a new album called The Seventh Seal. The record is finally nearing completion, and it will likely hit stores early next year.
Though not a concept album, The Seventh Seal focuses on the theme of tearing hip-hop down to its essentials and building it back up to previously unknown heights. Rakim's done a little non-musical building as well, establishing his own Ra Records, which will not only release The Seventh Seal but also provide a label home, management company, and distribution for other artists.
Before the record comes out, Rakim will release a concert DVD titled The R-kives: Live Lost and Found. The DVD features performances from two shows at NYC's B.B. King Blues Club interspersed with interviews, backstage and tour bus footage, and a few other performances from around the U.S. It will also come with an enhanced CD featuring previously unreleased new material from the God MC.
Finally, Rakim has a previously reported tour coming up where he, Ghostface, and Brother Ali will front live band Rhythm Roots Allstars.
In the midst of all this activity, we spoke to Rakim about process, his return to recording and performing, and his role as an educator in hip-hop.
Pitchfork: What made you decide it was time to starting playing shows and recording an album again?
Rakim: Well, I've always been the type that didn't like to wear out my welcome mat, and I haven't dropped anything new, you know what I mean? But at the same time, you don't want to wait too long. You want to get out there, get your feet wet, test the waters, and reassure within yourself and with the crowd that it's time to do what you do. You get that cool sound from the crowd, and it puts everything in perspective. If I wouldn't have felt the response that I got, then I would've said, "I'm not going to do an album" or "I'm not gonna go on tour. I'd rather drop the album before I try to come out on tour." But the response was real good, and that's what I was speaking on as far as confirming with myself and with the crowd. Because as the artist, I'm modest, man. I don't take anything for granted, and my thing is if I get the welcome mat, then I do what I do. If I don't get the welcome mat, then I either got work to do or it's time to just fall back. I use my experiences as learning experiences.
Pitchfork: How are you rehearsing for your tour with Rhythm Roots Allstars, a live band? Do you work on your parts separately from the band of with them?
Rakim: We're going to sit down and have a few rehearsals so we can give a real good show. I want it to be tight, and I want to make sure that our chemistry is there. The last show that we did in Texas [at SXSW 2007], it was funny because I was supposed to get out there a little early, but I got out there late and we didn't have time to practice. They knew the songs, but we never got a chance to sit there and mesh, so we went on stage that day and winged it. But they're so professional in what they do, and they're so tight that at the end of the day it's just like having a DJ put on a record: You can get up there and kick your verse, and you can turn around and wave your hand and they're going to stop just as a DJ would. So everything worked out perfect, and hopefully too many people didn't realize that we didn't practice. I was surprised everything went real good, so that's another reason why I'm looking forward to this tour. I'm going to be able to do some things that I normally wouldn't be able to do.
Pitchfork: What kinds of things?
Rakim: Just show the power of live music and explain to the crowd and almost teach them the reason why we sampled records. We're going to have a little fun up there. We're going to learn a little something, and we're going to hear some real good music.
Pitchfork: Do you feel like it's your responsibility to teach people about the origins of hip-hop?
Rakim: At this point in hip-hop, [the history] definitely needs to be expressed a little more and put in front of their faces so that they won't forget where the essence of hip-hop came from. If I'm one of the artists that knows about it then yeah, I'm responsible to keep that alive and keep it in the listeners' faces and give them access to it. So hopefully I can do that. To me, at the end of the day, it's just doing my job. If this was something political or something dealing with the world and there was something that I knew, I would feel obligated to inform people. This music thing, there's a lot to know about it. And we're definitely going to have fun with it, but at the same time, we have to keep it alive. This hip-hop thing-- if we don't do it, it will die out. So definitely, I want to do my job.
I think it's important that we cherish this right here. It belongs to the youth. It belongs to the older people who were brought up on hip-hop. It's not just a young music. We created this in the suburbs and the cities and around the parks, and what we have to understand is that that's big. You look at jazz. When they created jazz years ago it was the best thing to happen since fried ice cream. But then you look at it now-- it's not so popular as far as [being] universal. The jazz lovers still support their music, but when you look at it on the wide span it went from being the only thing to one of the many. The same thing can happen in hip-hop if we take it for granted and don't cherish it. We've got to understand that it's that first impression that made hip-hop take the world by storm. And once we start forgetting those recipes, after awhile they're going to look at it like just another music. And not just them. Us. We're going to look at it like it's not special; it's not going to have that same appeal that it had. So of course we've got to understand the root before we start picking from the tree. [MORE...]
Bob Dylan Releases DVD of Newport Performances
What's life without the occasional DVD? No stranger to cross-media promotions, XM radio host Bob Dylan will release The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 via Columbia/Legacy on October 30.
Collected on the DVD are 80 minutes of Dylan's performances at the titular festival during the titular years, most of which are previously unreleased. Aside from an interview with the project's Academy Award-winning director and producer Murray Lerner, the DVD has no bonus features.
For those who can't confine themselves to the mere home theater experience when it comes to live Dylan, he and his band have a handful of U.S. dates left on their previously reported tour with Elvis Costello. The next of those shows is in Iowa City on October 24.
After that tour ends, the I'm Not There Dylan tribute concert takes place November 7 in New York City. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the I'm Not There soundtrack drops October 30, the same day as the Newport DVD. [MORE...]
Crystal Castles, New Puritans, Teenagers Do Vice Tour
Vice magazine has gone and united the musical offspring of three different countries-- Canada's Crystal Castles, England's These New Puritans, and France's the Teenagers-- for one sure-to-be decadent tour of the UK. And it's all free! Less money for shows means more money to buy you know what.They're calling it UNITAUR, and it kicks off October 30 in Glasgow. Along the way, these three young bands will cross paths with some special guests, including DJ Mehdi. Oh, and although it's free, sounds like you have to register at the UNITAUR site for passes.
Crystal Castles are also making good on some promises. They've lined up that winter tour of Australia and Japan-- alluded to in our last article about the tour-friendly twosome-- to follow the Vice jaunt. Of course, many of the Japanese dates are waiting confirmation, but we're just so darn fond of honesty and following through on things, we just had to make note.
CC also have some European dates in queue, and hope to tour the U.S. in February. Catch all those dates, plus non-UNITAUR These New Puritans and Teenagers dates, after the jump. [MORE...]
Mum Spread Poison Ivy on Tour
Dismayed audiences still recovering from M.I.A.'s "Bird Flu"
Múm will go smear Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy across the world on a tour that kicks off tomorrow, October 24, in Los Angeles. The trek was originally supposed to start today, October 23, in Solana Beach, California, but that date was canceled due to visa issues.
The trek includes the band's previously reported pair of appearances at the Wordless Music series in NYC, and it ends with almost a month of shows in the UK and Europe.
In fact, aside from a short break in November, the Icelandic post-rockers will go non-stop until mid-December. That's a lot of calamine lotion. [MORE...]
Vanderhoof Leaves Akron/Family for Buddhist Center
The sheer number of bearded dudes holding guitars onstage at any given Akron/Family event being what it is, you'll have to forgive the absence of one (even one as notable as occasional lead vocalist and original member Ryan Vanderhoof) for escaping notice until now.Turns out Vanderhoof departed the group "amicably sometime between the completion of [2007 release] Love Is Simple and the start of the band's U.S. tour [which just wrapped up this past weekend]," according to Akron/Family's publicist. This leaves Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton, and Dana Janssen as the core members of A/F, although the band is often supplemented by their recent tour buddies, namely Greg Davis and members of Megafaun.
As for Vanderhoof? Seems "he went to live in a Buddhist Dharma center in the Midwest." So there you go.
Though they're down a dude-- and short some stuff, still-- Akron/Family will soldier on with a European tour in a month or so. Those dates after the jump. [MORE...]
Portishead Album One Day From Completion
Challenge Madlib to soccer match?
Photo by Grumpy Man DJs
From close, to, well, closer: in fact, as Geoff Barrow of Portishead tells it, the band's third proper LP is just one day away from completion. Barrow, checking in on the band’s blog, says Portishead spent a few days in London finishing things up, but are back in Bristol making executive decisions regarding album art and plotting their return to the stage. "i think one more day messing about with it and it will be done," Barrow writes. "then into the wonderful world of mastering.. [joke]" He doesn't actually like mastering all that much, see.
Barrow then mentions that megaproducer Madlib will join the band at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas event they're curating. He adds "im putting a footy team together for a little 6 a side comp for a laugh." Does that mean he's challenging Madlib to a soccer match? Ooh, we hope so!
The three-day Nightmare begins December 7 at Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead, England.
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- Photos: Los Campesinos! / The Most Serene Republic [Los Angeles, CA; 11/27/07]
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- Arcade Fire Add More 2008 Dates
- Coil Issue Naples as Vinyl Box Set With Bonus LP
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- Un-T.V. Eye: November 26-December 3, 2007
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- Morrissey Plans 2008 Gigs
- Photos: Dinosaur Jr. [Boston, MA; 11/24/07]
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- Circulatory System, Daedelus, Liz Janes Play Athens Fest
- Bruce Springsteen and Band Add Even More 2008 Dates
- Justice, Peaches, 2 Live Crew, A-Trak Do NYE in L.A.
- Bat for Lashes Drop iTunes EP With Plaid Remix
- Michael Showalter Talks Sandwiches, State Reunion
- Tim Hecker Preps New Vinyl EP
- The Mountain Goats Reveal New Album
- Wu-Tang Clan Plot Winter Diagrams Tour
- Dresden Dolls Tour, Amanda Palmer Goes Solo on LP
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- Photos: Peter Moren (of Peter Bjorn and John) [New York, NY; 11/19/07]
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- NIN Remix Site Halted by Universal Music Group
- Gang of Four Share Demos, Plan EP
- The Kooks Head to the U.S. on Tour
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- Un-T.V. Eye: November 19-25, 2007
- Bjork Adds More 2008 Dates, Plots New Single
- Deerhunter "Going on Hiatus"
- Kanye, Rapture, Pharoahe Monch Play Good Vibrations
- Bodies of Water Sign to Secretly Canadian
- Sian Alice Group Prep Debut LP for Social Registry
- Obscure French Synth-Wave Collected on Comp
- Photos: Spiritualized [New York, NY; 11/16/07]
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- Photos: Black Kids [Athens, GA; 11/16/07]
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- Spoon Close Out 2007 With More Dates
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- Band of Horses Turn Down Wal-Mart TV Ad
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- White Williams Announces 2008 Tour
- My Bloody Valentine Add Reunion Gigs
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- Handsome Furs Revive Touring Plague
- Cat Power Covers Lil Wayne on Updated Jukebox
- Thurston, Pornos, Liars, Deerhunter Do Barcelona Fest
- Franz's Thomson Drums Up Domino 7" With Correcto
- Vincent Gallo, Hole's Eric Erlandson Form Improv Act
- New My Bloody Valentine Album Due This Year??
- Electrelane Go on “Indefinite Hiatus”
- Hot Chip Line Up 2008 Dates
- Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend Play Charity Concert in Memory of Ra Ra Riot's John Pike
- Radiohead Box Set: Label's Idea, Not Band's
- Sub Pop Opens Digital Download Store
- Lily Allen, Lingerie Model
- Girl Talk Tours Into 2008
- Hello, Blue Roses [ft. Dan Bejar] Reveal LP Details
- Wilco Add Bonus Tracks to Sky Blue Sky
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Singles Comp Due Soon
- Faint Guitarist's Metal Side Project Preps LP for Relapse
- Del the Funky Homosapien Signs to Def Jux for New LP
- Ghostface Doll Finally Available
- Photos: Tanned Tin Festival [Castellon, Spain; 10/31-11/04/07]
- Photos: Pylon [Atlanta, GA; 11/01/07]
- Radiohead Rainbows CD Due Via ATO New Year's Day?
- Raveonettes Sign to Vice, Overload on Lust for New LP
- Hold Steady, Black Lips, Deerhunter Join ATP vs. P4k
- LSF's Harrington Plays Mosquito in Commercial
- White Stripes Ready New Mystery Songs, Collab, Video
- Sufjan Stevens Tours Australia, Japan in January
- Photos: SunnO))) / Jesu [Portland, OR; 11/03/07]
- Carrie Brownstein Blogs for NPR
- Weller, Coxon, Rourke, Ditto Do Wacky Charity Collab
- PJ Harvey Preps "Piano" Single, Plays Shows
- Photos: Modest Mouse / Man Man [Edmonton, Alberta; 11/03/07]
- Un-T.V. Eye: November 5-11, 2007
- Photos: ATP Presents Release the Bats [London, England; 11/02/07]
- Franz Ferdinand Subject of New Book
- Yeasayer Close Out 2007 With Live Dates
- Photos: Fun Fun Fun Fest [Austin, TX; 11/03 - 11/04/07]
- Loney, Dear's Sologne Reissued in the States
- Grizzly Bear, Belle & Sebastian Members <3 the City
- The Magnetic Fields Announce 2008 Dates
- Radiohead's First Seven LPs Collected in Box Set
- Bjork, Sufjan, Newsom, Brian Wilson Play Sydney Fest
- Andrew W.K., Malajube, Bon Iver Do Madison Pop Fest
- Man Man Sign to Anti- Records
- Mount Eerie Unleashes Massive Photo Tome With LP
- Richard Youngs Preps Response for Jagjaguwar
- Morrissey Close to New Label Deal, Plans New LP, Tour
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig in for New LP
- New From Dust-to-Digital: Field Recordings, Tuvan Throat Singing, Global Music, Old Music
- Califone Hit the Road With Iron & Wine
- A Place to Bury Strangers Add Dates to Tour
- Suicide, Liquid Liquid on Downtown 81 Soundtrack
- Destroyer, Black Mountain Play Scratch Records Parties
- Oldham, Sweeney, W.K. on Baby Dee's Drag City Debut
- YACHT, Islands, Elverum Bring Noodles to NYC
- Sonic Youth, Low Play Don't Look Back Down Under
- Bright Eyes Guys Help Lightspeed Champ Cross Bridge
- Thao Nguyen Signs to Kill Rock Stars for Second LP
- Photos: World Premiere of Sufjan Stevens' "BQE" [Brooklyn, NY; 11/01/07]
- Dominik Eulberg to Issue Bionik in December
- Dirty on Purpose Decide They Like Bees on New EP
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Name New Album
- Photos: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / The Pogues [Los Angeles, CA; 10/31/07]
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Sufjan's "BQE"
- Chamberlin Sick, Pumpkins Reschedule Dates
- Daniel Johnston, Lightning Bolt's Chippendale Show Art
- Darnielle Writes About Sabbath, Drew Daniel Writes About Throbbing Gristle, Plus More 33 1/3 Series News
- Decemberists Cancel Rest of "Long and Short of It" Tour
- The Rumble Strips Come to America
- Michaels Showalter & Ian Black Tour Together
- Interpol Expand Love With DVD, Prep Single
- Photos: M.I.A. [Atlanta, GA; 10/31/07]
- Isis 10th Anniversary Bash: Two Singles, One Tour
- Reactivated Pylon Embark on Fall Tour
- Photos: The B-52's / The Rapture [New York, NY; 10/31/07]
- Robert Pollard Attack! Two More LPs, Art Show/Book
- Lil Wayne Precedes Tha Carter III With Leak
- Photos: The Hold Steady / Art Brut [Chicago, IL; 10/31/07]
- Feist, Kevin Drew, Okkervil, Deacon Play Laneway Fest
- Ex-Ramones Manager/Seymour Stein's Ex-Wife Slain
- Thrill Jockey Reveals Chicago Anniversary Bash Details
- PB&J;'s Peter Moren Reveals More Solo Album Details
- The Shins Cover Magnetic Fields on New Single