Monster Bobby Needs You to Name His Tune
Sometimes after you nail a winning melody, finesse some fitting chord changes, and pen the perfect lyrics, there just isn't a drop of creative juice left to devote to the fine art of nomenclature.Such is the recent plight of Pipettes backbone and indie-pop songwriter Monster Bobby, who had no trouble summoning all the component parts of a new tune for his next album on Hypnote, but has found himself hopelessly stuck on a name.
That plight soon developed into a tour-wide quest for a title, but even show-goers failed to come up with anything that tickled Bobby's fancy. Monster Bobby now turns to you, loyal patrons of the interweb, for the divine arrangement of letters, spaces, and punctuation that folks will forever connect with his composition.
Download the song at the link below, rack your brain for that title of titles, and submit your suggestions direct to Bobby via his MySpace. The person who comes up with the best name is promised "some kind of lovely glittering prize."
The forthcoming Monster Bobby album, meanwhile, is titled Forty Winks and will feature 40 different one-minute jams about-- how clever-- sleeping and beds and the like. Which means you'd better come up with a damn good title, since you'll be up against 39 others on roughly the same subject.
And while we're on the subject of Monster Bobby, it wouldn't hurt to know that he's got a trio of London dates lined up, plus he'll appear tonight (January 30) on Radio 1 as part of a "BBC Introducing... Night on Radio 1" special. Bobby's bit is expected to air around 7 p.m. Eastern, so tune in! [MORE...]
MBV Add More Shows, Including Roskilde and Oya
Contrary to a lot of expectations, the My Bloody Valentine Carnival and Olde Tyme Reunion Show won't stop at Coachella this April. The band's dates remain concentrated in the summer, with a few added since our last report.MBV are now scheduled to appear at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in early July (alongside Radiohead), as well as at the Øya Festival in Norway in early August. They've also added a July show in Paris and a fifth (and apparently final) ATP-sponsored show at London's Roundhouse at the end of June.
Oh, and (we wish) they (would) also have a full-blown North American tour starting right now! [MORE...]
Destroyer Announces North American Tour
Hello Blue Roses schedule Brooklyn show
As promised, Mr. Dan Bejar and his Destroyer will bring their rollicking recondite revue on the road this spring for a fairly extensive North American tour. Kicking off in Minneapolis come mid-April, Bejar's bunch will unpack their adjectives all over the continent through May, recounting his Trouble in Dreams all the while. That new album emerges March 18 on Merge in the U.S.
Can't bear another moment without your Bejar? Well, if you can hang tight 'til March, there's always South by Southwest, at which Destroyer are slotted to appear. Or, for a quicker fix, you could always check out the album with the really long name Bejar and ladypal Sydney Vermont recently issued as Hello, Blue Roses. That particular coupling has a lone scheduled date, February 16 at Brooklyn's Glasslands alongside Locust labelmates Begushkin. [MORE...]
Photos: Vampire Weekend [New York, NY; 01/29/08]
Photos by Jason BergmanVampire Weekend, perhaps you've heard of them? The Columbia-educated quartet took to the stage at New York City's Bowery Ballroom last night for a record release show that just as well might have been a post-tour homecoming gig: smiles all around, loads of people singing along, spastic fans losing their shit. Instead it was an auspicious start to an ambitious tour that won't wrap up until April. Given the rate things are going, these guys should have called themselves Vampire Decade.
Meanwhile, openers Beat the Devil came just shy of living up to their name, beating some drums instead and wielding an oversize shovel while screaming. Fun! More photos and all VW's tour dates below.
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Karen O, TVOTR's Adebimpe, Wyclef Judge Fulbrights
Also: System of a Down's Serj Tankian
Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships are sponsored by MTV's college network and the U.S. Department of State, and the purpose of the program is to aid students who want "to travel abroad for a year and study how music can serve as a global force for mutual understanding," according to a press release.
Last year, the first Fulbright-mtvU Fellows were chosen with input from Apple, Common, and the Shins' James Mercer, all of whom remain more likely to win a PLUG Award than a Nobel Prize.
Still, we wouldn't put it past a dude like Serj Tankian to grind out a thesis on the relationship between international politics in the post-Vietnam War era and the music of the Dead Kennedys.
Applications for 2008-09 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships are due March 1, and the application materials can be obtained here.
Kanye West to Tour With Lupe, N.E.R.D., Rihanna
As the Star Wars universe goes, C-3PO is probably the least Kanye West-like character one can think of. But that lovable, bumbling protocol droid appears to be the loose inspiration for the pretty freakin' badass tour poster you see up there, posted yesterday to Kanye's blog. (Thanks to reader Dallan Guzinski for the tip.)And how can we gripe when the supporting cast looks as rock solid as this? Lupe Fiasco! N.E.R.D.! Rihanna! No word on dates for the "Glow in the Dark" tour just yet, but given the rate at which Kanye has been posting things to his blog lately, we reckon we won't have to wait long.
Seems that we can also look forward to seeing Kanye in a video for the Estelle track "American Boy" on which he's featured.
Death Cab for Cutie Name New Album
And the new album from Death Cab for Cutie is called...
Yup. Just about as exciting a title as Plans.
Siouxsie Plans Gigs Near and Far
Proto-punker turned musical chameleon Siouxsie Sioux has lined up tours on both sides of the pond in support of her 2007 (and, somehow, first) solo disc Mantaray.Siouxsie will put the emphasis on the Mantaray tracks at these shows, but she'll also spend time mining three decades' worth of mood pieces from her impressive back catalog as leader of both the Banshees and the Creatures.
The U.S. leg of gigs (with Rasputina supporting on most dates) kicks off February 8 in NYC, while Siouxsie graces her native UK beginning February 29. If all goes according to plan, these won't be Siouxsie's only live outings in 2008. [MORE...]
Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue Finally Reissued
Late Beach Boy Dennis Wilson's legendary solo album Pacific Ocean Blue is beloved by those who've waded in its grandiose psych-soul... and all but unknown to those who haven't. The album's been out of print for over 10 years, rendering the audience for this forgotten gem smaller and smaller. But after all that time spent out to sea, Pacific Ocean Blue will come crashing back to shore May 13 as a two CD set from Caribou/Epic/Legacy and a double LP vinyl version from the Sundazed label.
In addition to Pacific Ocean Blue's original 12 tracks, the discs will contain a slew of previously unreleased bonus tracks mixed by original Ocean engineer John Hanlon and Caribou Records owner Jim Guercio. Many of these songs were meant for Bambu, the album intended to follow Pacific Ocean Blue that Wilson never completed. Man, what is with those Wilsons and keeping the follow-up albums to themselves?
The set will be further bolstered by photos by Dean Torrence of Beach Boys contemporaries Jan & Dean, and liner notes by Beach Boys scholars David Leaf, Jon Stebbins, Ben Edmonds, and David Beard. [MORE...]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Announce Tour
Photo by Richard Sharman
Europe, lock down your valuables and keep an eye on your daughters: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are heading out for a spring tour of your fair continent, and sin-- not to mention well-crafted facial hair-- will be the order of the day. As will sorta spooky rock'n'roll of course, including plenty from the band's latest opus (you know, in the Biblical sense), Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, out March 3 in the UK from Mute and April 8 in the States on Anti-.
Will Nick and the Seeds be able to keep their hands to themselves and leave it all onstage as they wind their way around Europe? [MORE...]
Death in Vegas, APTBS, Dirty on Purpose Dudes Link Up
Plan album, tour as Black Acid
Black Acid may not be an ingestible commodity, but boy oh boy is it a potent mixture indeed. Combining the face-melting capabilities of bandleader Fearless with those of Ackermann, Marvin, and Nymph's Matty McDermott, the troupe has prepared an LP for release before the summer.
The band's Fearless leader will take Marvin and a ragtag bunch of Acid-heads on the road next month for a Black Acid tour sans Ackermann, who's all over the record but has this other band to attend to.
Death in Vegas freaks, no need to freak: Fearless and his DIV compatriot Tim Holmes are spending this year concentrating on solo projects before heading back to the Strip for some carnage. [MORE...]
Vampire Weekend Kick off Big Tour Tonight
Add UK dates
As you know, we've fallen pretty hard for Vampire Weekend here at Pitchfork. (Full disclosure: one of us knows these dudes from college.) And, heck, maybe you have too, in the handful of hours you've had to have and hold their Best New Music-earning self-titled debut.
So, fans to fans and friends to friends, let us help you help yourself to a little slice of the Weekend smack in the middle of the workweek: Vampire Weekend are heading out on a sizable tour starting this evening in their native New York City. It will lead them from their native New York to the UK, from Langerado to Coachella, and quite a few points in between. Whether with the Walkmen or without, on a stage large or small, from Williamstown, Massachusetts to as far outta Cape Cod as they can get themselves, it's the freakin' Weekend, and baby, you're about to have you some fun.
BONUS! Want to see some stills from Vampire Weekend, the film that inspired the band name? Check out frontman Ezra Koenig's old blog here.
And what's the film about? Koenig writes, "I play the protagonist Walcott, a young man whose country is invaded by
vampires. The film opens with the death of Walcott's father at the
hands of a sunglasses-wearing werewolf vampire. His dad's last words
are:
Walcott, you must go to
Cape Cod. Tell the Mayor that vampires are taking over your country.
You must kill as many of them as...possible.
The rest of the film is Walcott's bloody march to the Cape!"
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