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Hear Two New Arcade Fire Singles

"Ready to Start" and "We Used to Wait" Hear Two New Arcade Fire Singles

We All Want Someone to Shout For points out that Seattle radio station 107.7 The End has the stream of the new single from the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs. Hear "Ready to Start" here.

Over in the UK, Zane Lowe just premiered the track "We Used to Wait". We All Want Someone to Shout For has that radio rip.

Posted by Amy Phillips on June 14, 2010 at 1:55 p.m.

Tags: Arcade Fire, Audio

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Video: Big Boi: "General Patton"

Big Boi, we learn, is good at bowling Video: Big Boi: "General Patton"

Big Boi's last video, for "Shutterbugg", was a dizzy, glossy pile-up of funky non sequiturs from veteran rap video director Chris Robinson. But Big Boi's latest clip, for the operatic banger "General Patton", is a way, way lower-budget affair: it mostly consists of Big Boi and friends dumbing out at a bowling alley. But the "General Patton" video is almost as much fun as the "Shutterbugg" clip, and it'll make you wonder why it's been so long since you've gone bowling. Watch it below, via the Fader.

 

Ryan Adams Releases Archival Albums

Two unheard albums, fresh from the mastering plant Ryan Adams Releases Archival Albums

Ryan Adams has put out a lot of albums during his career, but he's also apparently cut a few that were never released. And in the wake of ORION, his vinyl-only metal album, Adams may have plans to issue some of these unheard archival albums.

As Rawkblog points out, Adams updated his Facebook page yesterday with news of two unreleased albums, one of which is a double LP with his old backing band the Cardinals. First off, Adams wrote, "Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, "III/IV" Double LP, (unreleased and in the vault since 2006) fresh from the mastering plant!" After that, he wrote, "oh yeah, p.s. the "Blackhole" LP (recorded over Christmas in 2005) is also back from the mastering plant. I f'n love this thing. It took 4 years to make it and to me it is basically Love Is Hell Part 3... lots of shimmery guitar love on this. Exciting times!!!"

 

The Books Tour North America

Freaky projections coming to your town The Books Tour North America

The Way Out, the new album from sound-collagists the Books, is due July 20 from Temporary Residence; you can hear "Beautiful People", a song from the album, here. And this fall, the duo will bring their intensely visual live show to venues across North America. Before the tour kicks off, they've got festival gigs planned at the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts and at ATP New York, and they'll also play a free outdoor show in Chicago later this month.

To catch a glimpse of the Books' live show, check out this video. To see their dates, click below.

 

Hear James Mercer Cover Neil Young

Hear James Mercer Cover Neil Young

Photo by Nilina Mason-Campbell

180° South is a new adventurer documentary featuring music from Issac Brock's Ugly Casanova project as well as Shins/Broken Bells frontman James Mercer. The soundtrack features Mercer covering of Neil Young's "Journey Through the Past" and you can hear it over at I Guess I'm Floating. (James talked to us about recording the movie's music in an interview last year.)

The 180° South soundtrack is out at the end of the month via Brushfire. The film is streaming on Netflix right now.

As a bonus, check out an incredible live version of the track performed by Young in 1971 below (there's a great take on Young's Live at Massey Hall, too):

 

Watch: Videos From Bonnaroo

LCD Soundsystem, Jay-Z, the Flaming Lips, Conan O'Brien, Phoenix, the National, the Dead Weather, Neon Indian, Weezer, and more Watch: Videos From Bonnaroo

This year's Bonnaroo Festival is in the books. The bands are back in their tour buses, the crowds have presumably showered all the sweat and mud off of themselves, and the cleanup crews are faced with what must be a stunning expanse of garbage. And now those of us who didn't attend the gigantic festival in Tennessee this weekend can pick through all the videos of what happened, which is sort of like being there except not really anything like being there.

A professionally filmed webcast combined with the fact that the kids have video cameras in their cellular phones nowadays means we have plenty of moving-picture evidence of this year's festivities. So below, you can see videos of LCD Soundsystem, Neon Indian, the Flaming Lips, Phoenix, the National, the Dead Weather, the Gaslight Anthem, Weezer, Conan O'Brien, and what looks like a frankly incredible Jay-Z headlining set.

In other reliving-the-glory news, NPR Music is streaming a ton of sets from the festival. Click here to check it out.

 

Video: The Flaming Lips: "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine" [NSFW]

A half-naked woman gets tortured by creepy figures. Video: The Flaming Lips: "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine" [NSFW]

The last time Oklahoma psych warriors the Flaming Lips dropped a clip from last year's Embryonic on our noggins, it was for the paranoia-fried jam "Powerless", and featured a girl tied and bound to a chair, accompanied by a monkey. The band's latest video, for fellow album track "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine", features what looks like the same girl (and monkey) again-- only this time, she's wearing very little clothing and being physically tortured by mysterious, hooded figures. There's tons of blood. So, yeah, definitely NSFW, unless you work at a pretty fucked-up place. Check out the video below, or at Pitchfork.tv.

 

News in Brief: Amanda Palmer Does Radiohead, RJD2, Zero 7, Telluride Wine

News in Brief: Amanda Palmer Does Radiohead, RJD2, Zero 7, Telluride Wine

-- The title Amanda Palmer Plays the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele is fairly self-explanatory. The Dresden Dolls frontwoman's covers EP is due out July 17 digitally and on limited edition vinyl. Click here to listen to her "Idioteque" redo and for more info.

-- Inversions of the Colossus features instrumental versions of the vocal tunes on RJD2's recent The Colossus along with seven new tracks. It's out June 22 on MP3, vinyl, and CD via RJ's Electrical Connections.

-- Trip-hop mainstays Zero 7 release their greatest hits comp June 28 via Atlantic. The record-- called Record-- also features a bonus disc of old and new remixes from a really nice roster of producers: Carl Craig, Joker, Madlib, and others.

-- Watch blissfully tipsy sets from Blitzen Trapper and Devotchka at this year's Telluride Wine Festival, which goes down June 24-27 in Telluride, Colorado.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on June 14, 2010 at 10:10 a.m.

Tags: Zero 7, Amanda Palmer, RJD2, New Releases, Festivals

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Listen: New Track From TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek's Maximum Balloon

Album features guest vocals from Karen O, David Byrne, and more. Listen: New Track From TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek's Maximum Balloon

TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has a new solo project called Maximum Balloon and-- based on its lone press photo and the cover of first single "Tiger" (left)-- he's taking the whole balloon thing pretty literally. And, hey, who doesn't like balloons? Nobody, that's who. Take a listen to "Tiger", which features vocals from Dragons of Zynth's Aku, over at the official Maximum Balloon web space.

Related: A new Esquire video featuring irrationally sexy model Daisy Lowe dancing to "Tiger" is available here. (She's the girl sitting upside down on the "Tiger" sleeve, too.)

The Maximum Balloon album is due August 24 via DGC/Interscope and will feature several yet-to-be-named guest vocalists including Karen O, David Byrne (Byrne is not confirmed at press time), TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano, Holly Miranda, and Theophilus London.

You can buy "Tiger" on iTunes starting tomorrow.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on June 14, 2010 at 10:05 a.m.

Tags: Dave Sitek, Maximum Balloon, Audio,

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Fucked Up: Public Enemy, Singles, More

Cover Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" Fucked Up: Public Enemy, Singles, More

Fucked Up are staying busy as fuck. On their plate, they've got new singles, split releases, a charity appearance, a cover of an '80s classic, and, apparently, touring and collaborating with Public Enemy (!)

 

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