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Jay-Z and Kanye Open Pop-Up Store in NYC

Watch the Throne come to life in retail form

Jay-Z and Kanye Open Pop-Up Store in NYC

Watch the Throne, the BNM'ed collaborative album from Jay-Z and Kanye West, is in stores today. As MTV reports, Jay and Kanye have opened a Watch the Throne pop-up store in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood. Located at 201 Mulberry Street, the store is wrapped in gold, made to look like the album's cover.

 

Listen: Lil Wayne and Drake: "She Will"

Also, Wayne and Drake may be working on a collaborative album

Listen: Lil Wayne and Drake: "She Will"

Lil Wayne's long-awaited new album Tha Carter IV is still due for an August 29 release on Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown, and the latest single from it hit the internet today. "She Will" features Wayne's Young Money crewmate Drake. Listen to it at Weezy Thanx You.

 

Sigur Rós' Inni Is a Film

Will screen at Venice Film Festival

Sigur Rós' <i>Inni</i> Is a Film

Yesterday, we reported on a mysterious teaser video that was posted to Sigur Rós' website for something called Inni. What is Inni? Well, The Playlist reports that Inni is a film directed by Vincent Morisset (Arcade Fire's Miroir Noir) that's set to screen as part of Venice Days, an offshoot of the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off on August 31.

 

R.I.P. Warrant Frontman Jani Lane

R.I.P. Warrant Frontman Jani Lane

MTV reports that Jani Lane, former frontman for the L.A. glam-metal mainstays Warrant, was found dead in a Woodland Hills, California hotel room yesterday. No cause of death has been revealed. Lane was 47.

 

New Feist: "How Come You Never Go There"

Hear the first single from new album Metals

New Feist: "How Come You Never Go There"

Photo by Mary Rozzi

Feist: "How Come You Never Go There":


Metals, the new album from Feist, lands October 4 on Cherrytree/Interscope in the U.S., October 3 in the UK via Polydor and October 4 in Canada via Arts&Crafts. Just now, the radio network KBCO debuted the album's first single, "How Come You Never Go There". Not surprisingly, that song is now on the internet. Listen to a radio rip here, via the NJ Underground.

UPDATE: Listen to the non-radio rip above.

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 12, 2011 at 9:05 a.m.

Tags: Audio, Feist

 
 

Coldplay Announce New Album: Mylo Xyloto

No, we don't know what it means either

Coldplay Announce New Album: <i>Mylo Xyloto</i>

Mylo Xyloto is the new album from Coldplay. (No, we don't know what that title means either). It comes out October 25 in the U.S. and a day before in the UK on Capitol. Brian Eno provided additional composition, as well as "enoxification," which is technically not a real word. The video for the album's first single, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall", is below; the record's second single, "Paradise", will be released on September 12.

 

Thursday, August 11

Video: Jay-Z and Kanye West: "Otis"

Spike Jonze gives the world the first Watch the Throne clip

Video: Jay-Z and Kanye West: "Otis"

Jay-Z and Kanye West like to do things big. So in making a video for "Otis", the BNM'ed single from their collaborative Watch the Throne album, they've recruited one of the greatest music video directors of all time: Spike Jonze.

The video, which just debuted on MTV, eschews the narrative spazzouts and stoner-boggling tricks of previous Jonze video, preferring instead to luxuriate in the icon status of its two principals. We get fireworks, fist bumps, a fast car, and general larger-than-life camaraderie rather than, say, guys on fire running in slow-motion. It's like The Expendables, if that movie only starred two guys, and both of them were rappers who didn't do any onscreen fighting. It also features a cameo from Aziz Ansari!

Watch it below:

 

News in Brief: Black Francis and Reid Paley, Gene Clark, Tommy Stinson, Sunset Junction Fair

News in Brief: Black Francis and Reid Paley, Gene Clark, Tommy Stinson, Sunset Junction Fair

-- Pixies leader Black Francis has hooked up with singer-songwriter Reid Paley to record the album Paley & Francis, which Sonic Unyon will release on September 13. Muscle Shoals veterans David Hood and Spooner Oldham played bass and piano, respectively. Hear the track "Crescent Moon" at Spinner.

-- On October 18, High Moon Records will reissue Two Sides to Every Story, the out-of-print 1977 solo album from Byrds member Gene Clark, on CD and vinyl. The reissue will include rare bonus material and extensive liner notes.

-- Former Replacements/current Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson will release the solo album One Man Mutiny on his own Done to Death label on August 30. Some of the album's proceeds will go to Haiti's Timkatec Schools.

-- The Sunset Junction Fair comes to L.A.'s Silverlake neighborhood August 27-28, bringing with it a bizarre lineup that includes Gayngs, Dum Dum Girls, the Butthole Surfers, Melvins, Bobby Womack, Art Brut, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes N' Tapes, Charles Bradley, the Soft Pack, Helmet, the Ladies of Motown Revue, Hanson, and DJ sets from Lil Jon and Peaches. So yeah, it's a weird one.

Posted by Tom Breihan on August 11, 2011 at 5 p.m.

Tags: Black Francis, Sunset Junction, Benefit, Tommy Stinson, New Releases, Festivals, The Byrds

 
 

Ghostface Killah Sues Universal

Over unpaid royalties

Ghostface Killah Sues Universal

Last month, we reported that TV composer Jack Urbont was suing Ghostface Killah because Ghost's 2000 album Supreme Clientele allegedly unlawfully sampled "The Iron Man Theme", which Urbont wrote for the 1960s TV show "The Marvel Super-Heroes". At the same time as Ghost fends off that lawsuit, he's filing one of his own. Billboard reports that Ghost is suing the Universal Music Group for unpaid royalties.

 

The Antlers Add Fall Dates

The Antlers Add Fall Dates

Photo by Alexander Stein

Still rolling on the momentum of their recent BNM'ed sophomore album Burst Apart, Brooklyn indie anthem-slingers the Antlers will keep good and busy over the next few months, playing shows across Europe and North America. They'll also play "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on September 6 and Fuse's "Hoppus on Music" on August 12.

Below, we've got all of their dates listed out, as well as the video for "Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out":

 

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