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Monday, October 12

Grizzly Bear to Release Veckatimest Two-Disc Special Edition

Grizzly Bear to Release <i>Veckatimest</i> Two-Disc Special Edition

UPDATE: According to the band's publicist, the special edition is UK-only.

Veckatimest has taken Grizzly Bear to career heights that experimental Brooklyn chamber-pop ensembles don't often reach. They debuted in Billboard's top ten, Jay-Z digs them. We even gave the album the #42 slot of the decade. And now, the band is celebrating the album's success by releasing a double-CD special edition. Veckatimest is, after all, the rare album from which we'd actually want to hear a full disc of bonus material.

The Veckatimest Special Edition will drop in the UK and Europe November 2 via Warp. (No word yet on an American physical release, though the bonus tracks will be available worldwide on iTunes.) It'll include seven tracks recorded live in various studios. And both the CD and digital versions will also include a 24-page photo booklet. Check below for the tracklist.

 

Video Premiere: Camera Obscura: "The Sweetest Thing"

Video Premiere: Camera Obscura: "The Sweetest Thing"

We're invited to a classic rock costume party in this new clip from bittersweet Glasgow indie pop masters Camera Obscura. So we get lead singer Tracyanne Campbell looking like Paul Simon-- with full-on mustache-- along with a wannabe Garfunkel, Bowie, and Fleetwood Mac. Watch the clip directed by Blaire Young after the jump or at Pitchfork.tv:

 

Hear Full Songs From the Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack Now!

UPDATE: Aaaaand they're gone! Hear Full Songs From the <i>Twilight: New Moon</i> Soundtrack Now!

Over the weekend, the indie-riffic Twilight: New Moon soundtrack leaked. All of the songs hit YouTube instantly. (Of course, the copyright watchdogs began playing Whack-A-Mole just as fast.)

We've got a the songs from Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear with Beach House's Victoria Legrand, Bon Iver with St. Vincent, and Lykke Li embedded below. Catch 'em while you can!

UPDATE: Naturally, the audio has been taken down.

The Twilight: New Moon soundtrack is out October 20 on Chop Shop/Atlantic.

 

Friday, October 9

News in Brief: Moby, Viva Radio, Sole and the Skyrider Band, Nouvelle Vague

News in Brief: Moby, Viva Radio, Sole and the Skyrider Band, Nouvelle Vague

Photo by Jessica Dimmock

-- Moby is a good dude. Techno's most famous vegan will donate the proceeds from his three October California tour dates to the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. The money will be greatly needed, as Governor Schwarzenegger voted to eliminate state funding for domestic violence shelters as part of a budget cut in July.

-- American Apparel's radio station Viva Radio has released a compilation of songs and interviews called The Best of Me + You Vol. 1. It features live in-studio tracks and interviews from the Fiery Furnaces, the Black Lips, Jay Reatard, Andrew W.K., Times New Viking, King Khan, and others, and it comes with a 32-page zine. In fact, you can download the album for free if you buy the zine right here.

-- On October 13, Fake Four Inc. will release Plastique, the new album from the politically charged art-rap crew Sole and the Skyrider Band. The Notwist's Markus Acher guests.

-- On previous albums, French lounge-poppers the Nouvelle Vague have done vaguely ironic covers of punk classics. But 3, their forthcoming album, is inspired by American country and roots music. The album is due October 20 from Peacefrog, and guests include Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, and the Specials' Terry Hall.

Posted by Tom Breihan on October 9, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.

Tags: Benefit, Compilation, Moby, Nouvelle Vague, Sole and the Skyrider Band, Viva Radio

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Echo Chamber: M.I.A.

Echo Chamber: M.I.A.

"Obama winning the nobel peace PRIZE? he should give it back like john Lennon sent back his MBE"

-- M.I.A. joins the outcry against the President's Nobel win. (via @_M_I_A_)

Posted by Amy Phillips on October 9, 2009 at 4:55 p.m.

Tags: Echo Chamber, M.I.A.

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Watch a New Live Song From the Books

A few weeks back, the low-tech sound-collage duo the Books played to a tittering crowd at St. Louis' Luminary Center for the Arts. At that show, the band played a spacey, mellow new track called "Group Autogenics", and the rear projections that accompanied them made visual jokes out of the duo's trademark instructional snippets.

The performance has been captured on video, then posted online with a few extra bits of animation. Check it out below. Hopefully, that new Books album is imminent.

Posted by Tom Breihan on October 9, 2009 at 4:45 p.m.

Tags: The Books, video

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Video: Major Lazer: "Keep It Goin' Louder [ft. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze]"

Video: Major Lazer: "Keep It Goin' Louder [ft. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze]"

Back in June, Pitchfork's Scott Plagenhoef dropped a Best New Track designation on Major Lazer's shameless club jam "Keep It Goin' Louder", writing that the song "seems so in tune with the moment and the season, it doesn't matter that it may very well fall off of our collective radar before year-end." Well, Diplo and Switch know how to keep a song on our radar in October: Make a spooky Halloween-themed video for it!

The "Keep It Goin' Louder" clip, from directors Jason Miller and Ferry Gouw, follows what would be a really fun night out if everyone didn't keep transforming into animated demons. In any case, we now know that the closure of the Brooklyn club Studio B had something to do with neon cartoon zombies.

Check the video out below; and watch a behind-the-scenes clip here.

 

Watch: Three New Battles Songs Live

Watch: Three New Battles Songs Live

Photo by Kathryn Yu

At Warp's big 20th anniversary bash in New York City last month, experimental rockers Battles graced the crowd with three new songs that were twisty and proggy and totally impossible to digest on one listen.

Luckily, someone videotaped these songs and then put them on YouTube, so we can watch and listen over and over while waiting for their new LP, due next year. The video is not great (unless you're really into standing behind two tall dudes), but the audio is decent, so enjoy (Via We Listen for You):

 

Listen: A Piece of the Arcade Fire's Score for the Film The Box

UPDATE: It's confirmed! Listen: A Piece of the Arcade Fire's Score for the Film <i>The Box</i>

Back in December, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler talked to Pitchfork about the film score he'd written with wife/bandmate Régine Chassagne and Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett. The three of them got together to do music for The Box, the forthcoming thriller from Donnie Darko/Southland Tales director Richard Kelly. Here's how Butler described the score: "It's kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting."

 

Watch: Supremely Weird Trailer for the Knife's Charles Darwin Opera

Insane. Watch: Supremely Weird Trailer for the Knife's Charles Darwin Opera

Remember that Charles Darwin-inspired opera called Tomorrow, in a Year featuring new music from Swedish innovators the Knife that we told you about in the spring? It debuted last month at Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre, and we already Forkcasted a song from it, called "Colouring of Pigeons".

Now there's an official seven-minute trailer featuring snippets from the performance. It's embedded for your viewing convenience after the jump.

 

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