The Rapture: "How Deep Is Your Love?":

The Rapture:

08-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
08-27 Charlesville Meziere, France - Cabaret Vert Festival
08-28 Vevey, Switzerland - Rocking Chair
08-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
08-31 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09-04 Trinity, Jersey - Jersey Live Festival
09-05 Paris, France - Maroquinerie
09-07 Manchester, England - Club Academy
09-08 London, England - XOYO
09-09 Berlin, Germany - Berlin Festival
09-22 Boston, MA – Royale
09-23 New York, NY – Webster Hall
09-24 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
09-25 Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall
09-27 Columbus, OH - TBD
09-28 Chicago, IL – Metro
09-29 Minneapolis, MN – The Varsity
10-01 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
10-03 Scottsdale, AZ – Martini Ranch
10-04 San Diego, CA – Belly Up
10-06 Los Angeles, CA – The Music Box
10-07 Pomona, CA – Glasshouse
10-08 San Francisco, CA – The Sound Factory
10-10 El Paso, TX – Club 101
10-11 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
10-12 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
10-13 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
10-15 Mexico City, Mexico - Corona Capital Festival
10-17 Miami, FL – Grand Central
10-18 Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theatre
10-19 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
10-21 Philadelphia, PA – Voyeur
10-27 Bristol, England - Thekla
10-28 Leeds, England - Cockpit
10-29 Coventry, England - Kasbah
10-30 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3
11-02 London, England - Koko
11-03 Brighton, England - Coalition
11-05 Cologne, Germany - Werkstatt
11-07 Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali
11-08 Munich, Germany - 591
11-09 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
11-12 Lille, France - Le Grand Mix
11-15 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rockhal
11-16 Caen, France - Cargo
11-20 Heidelberg, Germany - Karlstorbanhof
11-22 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 10, 2011 at 3:05 p.m.

Tags: Tours, The Rapture

Tracklist:

Disc One (The Crystals: The Crystals Twist Uptown, 1962):

01 Uptown
02 Another Country – Another World
03 Frankenstein Twist
04 Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby
05 Please Hurt Me
06 There's No Other Like My Baby
07 On Broadway
08 What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen
09 No One Ever Tells You
10 Gee Whiz Look at His Eyes (Twist)
11 I Love You Eddie

Disc Two (The Crystals: He's a Rebel, 1963):

01 He's a Rebel
02 Uptown
03 Another Country – Another World
04 Frankenstein Twist
05 Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby
06 He's Sure the Boy I Love
07 There's No Other Like My Baby
08 On Broadway
09 What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen
10 No One Ever Tells You
11 He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)
12 I Love You Eddie

Disc Three (Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans: Zip-a Dee-Doo-Dah, 1963):

01 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
02 Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Heart?
03 Let the Good Times Roll
04 My Heart Beat a Little Faster
05 Jimmy Baby
06 Baby (I Love You)
07 White Cliffs of Dover
08 This Land Is Your Land
09 Dear (Here Comes My Baby)
10 I Shook the World
11 Everything's Gonna Be All Right
12 Dr. Kaplan's Office

Disc Four (The Crystals: The Crystals Sing the Greatest Hits, Volume 1 1963):

01 Da Doo Ron Ron
02 On Broadway
03 He's a Rebel
04 The Ronettes: "Hot Pastrami"
05 There's No Other Like My Baby
06 The Ronettes: "The Wah Watusi"
07 The Ronettes: "Mashed Potato Time"
08 He's Sure the Boy I Love
09 Uptown
10 The Ronettes: "The Twist"
11 Gee Whiz Look at His Eyes
12 Look in My Eyes

Disc Five (Various Artists: Philles Records Presents Today's Hits, 1963):

01 The Crystals: "Then He Kissed Me"
02 The Crystals: "Da Doo Ron Ron"
03 The Crystals: "Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby"
04 Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
05 Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans: "Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Heart?"
06 Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans: "Not Too Young to Get Married"
07 The Ronettes: "Be My Baby"
08 Darlene Love: "Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home"
09 Darlene Love: "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry"
10 Darlene Love: "My Heart Beat a Little Faster"
11 The Alley Cats: "Puddin' N' Tain"

Disc Six (The Ronettes: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica, 1964):

01 Walking in the Rain
02 Do I Love You?
03 Veronica: "So Young"
04 (The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up
05 I Wonder
06 What'd I Say
07 Be My Baby
08 You Baby
09 Baby, I Love You
10 How Does It Feel?
11 When I Saw You
12 Chapel of Love

Disc Seven (The Phil Spector Wall of Sound Orchestra: Phil's Flipsides):

01 Flip and Nitty
02 Walkin' Along La La La
03 Dr. Kaplan's Office
04 Git' It
05 Annette
06 Brother Julius
07 Tedesco and Pitman
08 Nino and Sonny (Big Trouble)
09 Miss Joan And Mister Sam
10 Harry and Milt Meet Hal B
11 Harry (From W. Va.) And Milt
12 Big Red
13 Larry L.
14 Chubby Danny D
15 Bebe and Susu
16 Irving (Jaggered Sixteenths)
17 Torpedo Rock (Surfing Corrido)

Notes: Seven-CD set of legendary producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound productions. Includes six albums released on Spector's Philles label between 1962-1964 and a disc of Spector's instrumental B-sides.

Media: Watch the Crystals perform "He's a Rebel" in 1965 below:

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on August 10, 2011 at 2:55 p.m.

Tags: Legacy, New Releases, Phil Spector

And speaking of Bird on tour, he'll play some U.S. shows this fall. Below, we've got those dates, as well as video of Bird performing "Anonanimal" live on Pitchfork.tv's "Cemetery Gates".

Andrew Bird:

08-10 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Auditorium ^
09-24 Chicago, IL - Hideout Block Party
10-12 Rochester, NY - Harro East Ballroom *
10-13 Troy, NY - Troy Savings Bank Music Hall *
10-14 Concord, NH - Capitol Center for the Arts *
10-15 Skowhegan, ME - Skowhegan Opera House *
10-17 Poughkeepsie, NY - Bardavon 1869 Opera House *
10-18 Binghamton, NY - Anderson Center for Performing Arts *
10-20 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theatre *
10-21 Tarrytown, NY - Tarrytown Music Hall *
10-22 Wilmington, DE - Grand Opera House *

^ with Haley Bonar
* with Dosh

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 10, 2011 at 2 p.m.

Tags: Andrew Bird, Film

Marissa Nadler:

09-09 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-10 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
09-11 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
09-13 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
09-15 Chicago, IL - Hideout
09-16 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall
09-17 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
09-23 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
10-04 London, England - Bush Hall
10-06 Berlin, Germany - Comet
10-07 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefährlich-Turmzimmer
10-08 Copenhagen, Denmark- Pumpehuset
10-09 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
10-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Hendriksberg
10-11 Oslo, Norway - Revolver
10-12 Bergen, Norway - Perfect Sounds Forever
10-14 Tampere, Finland - Klubi
10-15 Turku, Finland - Dynamo
10-16 Helsinki, Finland - Kuudes Linja

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 10, 2011 at 1:10 p.m.

Tags: Marissa Nadler, Video, Tours

Tracklist:

Disc One:

01 Interview with John Fahey on Fonotone Records and Joe Bussard
02 Franklin Blues
03 Smoketown Strut
04 Steel Guitar Rag
05 Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues
06 Buck Dancer's Choice
07 Medley: Pretty Polly / Shortnin' Bread
08 Barbara Namkin Blues
09 In Christ There Is No East or West
10 Stak 'o Lee Blues [Louis Collins]
11 The Transcendental Waterfall
12 John Henry
13 Over the Hill Blues
14 St. Louis Blues
15 On Doing an Evil Deed Blues
16 Reinumeration Blues
17 The Transcendental Waterfall
18 Mississippi Boweavil Blues
19 Green River Blues
20 Over the Hill Blues
21 Libba's Rag
22 Chris's Rag

Disc Two:

01 St. Louis Tickle
02 Pat Sullivan's Blues
03 Blind Blues [Martin's Esso Blues]
04 Poor Boy Blues
05 Long Time Town Blues
06 Gulf Port Island Blues
07 Blind Thomas Blues Part 1
08 Blind Thomas Blues Part 2
09 New Newport News Blues #2
10 Wanda Russell's Blues
11 Going Away to Leave You Blues
12 Lay My Burden Down
13 Hill High Blues
14 John Henry
15 Paint Brush Blues
16 Blind Thomas Blues Part 3
17 Blind Thomas Blues Part 4
18 You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
19 Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed
20 Banty Rooster Blues
21 Tom Rushen Blues

Disc Three:

01 Yallaboosha River Blues
02 You Gonna Miss Me
03 Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 1
04 Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 2
05 Zekiah Swamp Blues
06 Nobody's Business
07 Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 1
08 Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 2
09 You Better Get Right So God Can Use You
10 Weissman Blues
11 Dasein River Blues
12 Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 1
13 Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 2
14 Smoky Ordinary Blues [Dance of the Inhabitants]
15 I Shall Not Be Moved
16 Old Country Rock
17 Little Hat Blues
18 Guitar Solo Title Unknown [Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent]
19 Guitar Solo Title Unknown [Night Train to Valhalla]
20 Some Summer Day
21 The Langley Two-Step
22 Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River

Disc Four:

01 Saint John's Hornpipe
02 Sail Away Ladies
03 Dreamin Under the B & O Trestle
04 900 Miles
05 Prince George's Dance
06 Improvisation for Flute and Guitar
07 Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues [Brenda's Blues]
08 Brenda's Blues
09 Buck Dancer's Choice
10 Night Train to Valhalla
11 In the Pines
12 Pretty Polly
13 Take This Hammer
14 Yazoo Basin Blues
15 Stomping Tonight on the (Old) Pennsylvania / Alabama Border
16 Smoky Ordinary Blues [Dance of the Inhabitants]
17 Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent
18 Bean Vine Blues [Pea Vine Blues]
19 Green Blues
20 Stone Pony

Disc Five:

01 Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues [Brenda's Blues]
02 Days Have Gone By
03 Some Summer Day
04 Texas & Pacific Blues [My Bucket's Got a Hole In It]
05 John Henry Blues
06 Brenda's Blues
07 St. Patrick's Hymn
08 Bicycle Built for Two
09 The Blues You Saved for Me
10 House Carpenter
11 How Long
12 The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California
13 You Take the E Train [The Last Steam Engine Train]
14 I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
15 How Long
16 O Jesus I Have Promised
17 Untitled
18 Medley: Untitled / O Jesus I Have Promised
19 I Am a Rake and Rambling Boy
20 Medley: Goodbye Old Paint / Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies
21 Goodbye Old Paint
22 Simple Gifts
23 Untitled
24 Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
25 Goodbye Old Paint
26 Western Medley
27 Durgan Park
28 The Bitter Lemon
29 Old Southern Medley (Fragment)
30 Bottleneck Blues

Notes: Five-CD box set compiling the late, influential guitarist's earliest recordings; includes an 88-page hardcover book containing notes, essays, and photos.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on August 10, 2011 at 12:40 p.m.

Tags: Dust to Digital, New Releases, John Fahey

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on August 10, 2011 at 11:50 a.m.

Tags: Video, The Shins

The Guardian points out the LabelLove campaign, which allows visitors to donate money towards the cause. Those who want to find out how they can be of further assistance can email labellovebenefit@gmail.com. LabelLove also has a Twitter account to keep people updated. Organizer Dan Salter tells the Guardian that LabelLove plans to "organise a series of live events to help this cause."

The Guardian also reports that Sean Adams, head of music website Drowned in Sound, has put together a spreadsheet of labels distributed by PIAS along with relevant information pertaining to them (check out a full list of those labels at the end of this story). "I imagine there are some life-changing labels, who've bravely put out records that have shaped our music scene, who may struggle over the coming weeks and months," Adams told the Guardian. "The idea [to compile the spreadsheet] came because I couldn't find one place with links to all the labels' websites and I thought it'd be cool to look at all those amazing labels' catalogues, and perhaps link it with Last.fm to see which acts it recommends or to create a video jukebox or do something amazing with SoundCloud players."

FatCat have issued an official statement regarding the damages done by the fire, saying, "The warehouse was the primary stock holder for over 150 independent labels of varying size, including FatCat and our sister label One Little Indian. Unfortunately, due to the damage to the building and the sheer size of the fire, the likelihood is that all of FatCat's stock housed at the warehouse is lost. We'd like to extend our thanks to everyone who has offered their support and kindness, as well as our sympathy and solidarity with the other labels affected."

Memphis Industries write on their website, "With around 90% of our stock having been warehoused there, this obviously has implications for us in the short term. What we can say is that we will be repressing and getting our physical distribution in the UK and Eire back up and running as soon as is humanly possible. In the meantime, what stock we have left is available for sale at our online store, and of course all our catalogue is still available digitally."

Angular has issued their own statement, too:

I just hope the rioters orchestrated this as a KLF-esque commentary on art and the value of commodity. Or maybe they'd seen The Wicker Man and decided to sort us all out with a good old sacrifice to ensure a good harvest next year.

Was it a crime or was it art? Was it destruction or was it rock n roll?

Either way, we and 164 other labels have lost EVERYTHING. All of our cds and records, all of our stock is gone. Entire back catalogues will never be the same again. Everything on Angular is now very very rare...

If you'd like to help us recover our losses and get back on our feet, the most helpful way would be to buy some mp3s from iTunes or from our online shop.

Thank you for all the kind messages of love and support we've been receiving, it's good to know you're out there. :-)

UPDATE: Secretly Canadian have issued a statement on the blogs of family labels Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans, and Jagjaguwar:

As many of you have read in the press or via social media, a large part of the independent music community took a serious hit very early Tuesday morning, when the Sony DADC / PIAS warehouse in the Enfield neighborhood of London burnt to the ground amidst continuing riots and unrest across England. A good summary of what occurred and which labels were affected can be read here: http://pitchfork.com/news/43478-labels-react-to-sonypias-warehouse-fire/

Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian, as well as our SC Distribution label brethren Asthmatic Kitty, Lovepump United, No Quarter, Suicide Squeeze Records, Post Present Medium and We Are Free, all lost significant amounts of stock in this fire. This being said, our primary thoughts and concern are with the Sony warehouse staff and PIAS sales staff whose lives were all massively disrupted by the tragic event, as well as our independent label peers who had a more significant portion of their worldwide stock committed to the Sony DADC / PIAS warehouse. We extend our support to them, and we are committed to doing all that we can to help them with the recovery.

With regards to how this affects us and our releases, Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian are in the fortunate position of having significant stock holdings dispersed around the world. We’re working very quickly now to shift some of that existing stock to make our records available in the UK and Ireland as soon as possible. Also, we have the utmost confidence that the emergency plan that PIAS and Sony are currently implementing will result in a new fulfillment system being up-and-running very quickly. Currently no release dates outside of the UK and Ireland will be delayed, and it is looking more and more like release dates within the UK and Ireland will be delayed by no more than a few weeks.

Although the lost sales and the amount of extra work will be significant, Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian are healthy enough to be able to weather this unfortunate storm. So it is that our more primary concern, again, is with those outside of our camp – the peer labels that we madly respect who have more of their stock more centrally committed to the Sony DADC / PIAS system – as well as the overall health of the independent music sector in the UK, especially at a time when over the past few years, physical retail and music sales in general had already been taking such a significant hit. Above all, we hope that the violence and vandalism in the UK gives way to peaceful demonstration and a thoughtful dialogue. Particularly to our friends in London, we wish you safety and a return to normalcy soon.

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on August 10, 2011 at 11:10 a.m.

Tags: Industry News

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on August 10, 2011 at 10:30 a.m.

Tags: TV, Video, the Kills

The Smoker's Club:

10-12 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
10-13 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
10-14 New York, NY - Best Buy Theater
10-15 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
10-16 Providence, RI - Lupos
10-18 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
10-19 Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
10-20 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
10-21 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
10-22 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall
10-23 Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
10-25 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
10-26 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
10-28 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-29 Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium
10-30 Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
11-01 Reno, NV - Harrah's Convention Hall
11-02 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
11-04 Scottsdale, AZ - Venue of Scottsdale
11-06 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
11-09 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
11-10 Austin, TX - Stubb's
11-11 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
11-13 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
11-15 Charleston, SC - Music Farm
11-16 Charlotte, NC - Amos
11-17 Richmond, VA - The National
11-18 Norfolk, VA - Norva Theater
11-20 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
11-21 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11-22 Allentown, PA - Crocodile Cafe

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 10, 2011 at 9:50 a.m.

Tags: Curren$y, Tours, Method Man, Big K.R.I.T.