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New Release: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Dirty Shirt Rock 'N' Roll: The First Ten Years

New Release: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: <i>Dirty Shirt Rock 'N' Roll: The First Ten Years</i>

Artist: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Album: Dirty Shirt Rock 'N' Roll: The First Ten Years
Release Date: March 30
Label: Shout! Factory/Majordomo

 

Broken Social Scene Curate Festival

Bring Pavement, Band of Horses to Toronto Broken Social Scene Curate Festival

The people of Toronto now have yet another reason to be thankful for their homegrown collective Broken Social Scene: This summer, the band will bring the reunited Pavement to town.

Broken Social Scene are curating the Toronto Island Concert, which will come to Toronto's Olympic Island on June 19. Thus far, we only know the names of three of the bands playing the fest, but all three are bands that you probably want to go see: Pavement, BSS themselves, and Band of Horses. More artists will be announced later, but the show's already off to a pretty great start.

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 14, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

Tags: Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Festival, Pavement, toronto island concert

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Wax Trax! Records' Dannie Flesher Dies

Wax Trax! Records' Dannie Flesher Dies

The Chicago Tribune reports that Dannie Flesher, co-founder of the tremendously influential Chicago record label and store Wax Trax! has died of pneumonia in Hope, Arkansas, his hometown. He was 58.

 

A Sunny Day in Glasgow Prep EP, Tour

A Sunny Day in Glasgow Prep EP, Tour

Philly shoegazers A Sunny Day in Glasgow will follow up last year's Ashes Grammar (Pitchfork's #42 album of 2009) with a seven-track EP named after Ashes highlight "Nitetime Rainbows". Along with the title track, the extended player features three new tracks and three remixes. It's out on MP3 and vinyl March 2 via Mis Ojos Discos.

A Sunny Day in Glasgow are also set to embark on a continent-spanning tour starting in New York at the end of February. Check out those dates and stream "Nitetime Rainbows" below:

 

New Hot Chip: "I Feel Better"

New Hot Chip: "I Feel Better"

Photo by Bevis Martin and Charlie Youle

It's another pulsing track from Hot Chip's upcoming fourth LP, One Life Stand, which is officially out February 9 via Astralwerks in North America (February 8 in the UK courtesy of Parlophone). Listen to "I Feel Better" at Hype Machine. (Via Pretty Much Amazing.) UPDATE: Song has been removed.

We have covered One Life Stand pretty extensively thus far here at Pitchfork News, including recent updates on the cover, single (and remix), video, tour, and an interview with co-lead singer Alexis Taylor about the record.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on January 14, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.

Tags: Audio, Hot Chip

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New Release: Bomb the Bass: Back to Light

New Release: Bomb the Bass: <i>Back to Light</i>

Artist: Bomb the Bass
Album: Back to Light
Release Date: March 1
Label: !K7

 

Video Premiere: Dan Deacon: "Woof Woof"

Video Premiere: Dan Deacon: "Woof Woof"

Created by the warped people (and puppets) over at Baltimore creative collective Showbeast, this short film for Dan Deacon's Bromst track "Woof Woof" is like the kid-TV parody "Wonder Showzen" except even more fucked up. It stars a guy in a zebra costume, a "Sesame Street"-style felt girl with allergies, and Dan Deacon as a mutant tiger from hell. It's 11 minutes long. Make sure to put on the LSD goggles for this one.

Watch it below or at Pitchfork.tv:

 

Artists React to Jay Reatard's Death

Bradford Cox, Ted Leo, No Age, and Pixies reflect Artists React to Jay Reatard's Death

Photo by Andy Eisberg

Yesterday brought the sad news that Memphis garage rocker Jay Reatard had died at the age of 29. As the news circulated, many artists and indie music figures who knew or admired Reatard expressed their feelings about his death. Below, we've collected the thoughts of many of those people.

UPDATE: Jay Reatard's website has posted his cover of Nirvana's "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle". It was recorded in May for a tribute to Nirvana's In Utero album. Jay played all the instruments.

 

Teddy Pendergrass R.I.P.

Soul singer passes away at age 59. Teddy Pendergrass R.I.P.

Soul man Teddy Pendergrass died of colon cancer Wednesday evening at a hospital in suburban Philadelphia, according to an Associated Press report. He was 59.

Pendergrass first gained notoriety in the early 1970s, when he became the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. The group's biggest hit, the string-laden Philly soul classic "If You Don't Know Me By Now", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and is still one of the most heartbreaking soul songs ever recorded. In 1976, Pendergrass left the Blue Notes and moved onto a successful solo career filled with effortlessly smooth funk ballads including "Love T.K.O." and "Close the Door". He was left paralyzed after a 1982 car accident yet remained musically productive through the 1990s.

Pendergrass's indelible grooves have been sampled by many, including Mobb Deep, D'Angelo, and Ghostface and Raekwon. Most recently, the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song "I Miss You" provided the backbone for Big Boi's 2009 track "Shine Blockas".

Watch Pendergrass perform "I Miss You" with the Blue Notes from a 1973 performance below. Unreal:

 

Photos: Surfer Blood / The Drums / The Depreciation Guild

[New York, NY; 01/13/10] Photos: Surfer Blood / The Drums / The Depreciation Guild

Surfer Blood (pictured above), the Drums, and the Depreciation Guild played Manhattan's Bowery Ballroom last night. The Drums were joined by guest Peggy Wang-East of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (whose Kurt Feldman also plays in the Depreciation Guild). Our photographer Will Deitz was on the scene.

 

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