Tracklist:

01 Radcliffe
02 Green Africa
04 The Way to Nice
04 Assosa
05 I Faram Gami I Faram
06 Mulatu's Mood
07 Ethio Blues
08 Boogaloo
09 Motherland
10 Derashe *

* Digital-only bonus track

Notes: New studio album from this Ethio jazz pioneer. Recorded with members of Either/Orchestra and the Heliocentrics, as well as traditional Ethiopian musicians.

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 4:40 p.m.

Tags: Art, mulatu astatke, New Releases

Depending on how fast Weston works, we might even get the album in time for that projected March release date, though I wouldn't bet money on that. A second behind-the-scenes video chronicling the making of the record was recently posted on the LCD website. We've embedded it below.

Meanwhile, Murphy's got a busy few months coming up. Alongside the album, he's also been at work on the score to the forthcoming Noah Baumbach movie Greenberg. And come April, Murphy will hit the road on a tour that'll take him to both sites of the Atlantic. Stops will include Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and our Pitchfork Music Festival. Dates below.

LCD Soundsystem:

04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-20 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod *
04-21 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod *
04-23 London, England - Brixton Academy *
04-24 London, England - Brixton Academy *
04-26 Birmingham, England - Academy *
04-27 Leeds, England - Academy *
04-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
04-29 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
05-01 Manchester, England - Academy
05-02 Bristol, England - Academy *
05-04 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso *
05-05 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique *
05-06 Berlin, Germany - WMF *
05-08 Paris, France - Bataclan *
05-09 Paris, France - Bataclan *
05-30 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
06-11 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
07-17 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
09-12 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival

* with YACHT

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 4:15 p.m.

Tags: James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, New Releases, Tours

Here We Go Magic:

03-13 Washington, DC - Rock N Roll Hotel
03-14 Carrboro, NC - Local 506
03-15 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
03-17-20 Austin, TX - SXSW
04-05 Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater *
04-06 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle *
04-09 Orlando, FL - The Social *
04-10 Jacksonville, FL - Jax Live *
04-11 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder *
04-13 Houston, TX - Walters on Washington *
04-14 Austin, TX - The Independent *
04-16 Phoenix, AZ - The Clubhouse *
04-20 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
04-21 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater *
04-24 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
04-25 Chicago, IL - Metro *
04-26 Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio *
04-27 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
04-28 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus *
05-01 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club *
05-14-15 Brighton, England - The Great Escape Festival
05-18 London, England - The Lexington
05-19 London, England - Electric Ballroom
05-20 Liverpool, England - Liverpool Sound City Festival
05-21 Berlin, Germany - Magnet ^
05-22 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow ^
05-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg ^
05-25 Brussels, Belgium - Orangerie ^
05-26 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie ^
05-27 Toulouse, France - Cafe Rex ^
05-27 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-10 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-18 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
09-11 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival

* with White Rabbits
^ with the New Pornographers

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.

Tags: here we go magic, Tours

Tracklist:

01 Lonely, Lonely, Lonely
02 A Glorious Time
03 Sur Nous Les Étincelles Du Soleil
04 Echoes
05 Only You Can Break My Heart
06 Colors in Time
07 Deaf *

* digital only

Notes: Debut EP from this Paris band, led by former M83 member Nicolas Fromageau. Available on digital download and limited edition 10" vinyl.

Media: Hear a non-EP track, Team Ghost's mix of Yeti Lane's "Twice", below.

MP3:> Yeti Lane: "Twice (Team Ghost Mix)"

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 3:20 p.m.

Tags: Art, Audio, M83, New Releases, team ghost

In other Kanye news, his forthcoming album seems to be moving along nicely-- on January 26, producer and collaborator Devo Springsteen posted the following on Twitter: "Heard the new Kanye West album. Inspiring." So hopefully the man can tear himself away from posting photos of cool couches and light fixtures long enough to finish it up soon.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on February 24, 2010 at 3 p.m.

Tags: Kanye West

Public Image Ltd.:

04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival
04-17 San Francisco, CA - Grand Ballroom
04-20 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market
04-21 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
04-23 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
04-24 Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
04-26 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre
05-02 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
05-04 Boston, MA - Royale Boston
05-05 Boston, MA - Royale Boston
05-07 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
05-08 Montreal, Quebec - Theatre L'Olympia de Montreal
05-11 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
05-12 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
05-14 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Zoo
05-15 Atlantic City, NJ - The Borgata Music Box
05-18 New York, NY - Terminal 5
07-11 Liege, Belgium - Les Ardentes Festival
07-17 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 2:45 p.m.

Tags: John Lydon, Public Image Ltd., Tours

Posted by Ryan Dombal on February 24, 2010 at 2:25 p.m.

Tags: Jack White, Karen Elson, New Releases, video

Pitchfork: Where does the name Primary 1 come from?

JF: It started out completely on my own. I wasn't even playing the music to anyone. For at least three or four years, it was just me making things for me to walk around and listen to. So I guess it just means on your own.

Pitchfork: On your blog, you recently wrote that Arthur Russell's "That's Us/Wild Combination" is the song that made you want to make music.

Joe Flory: Yeah, it's definitely one of them. I think it's just all the different things that he does; he can do so many different styles. I was always really inspired by it.

Pitchfork: What are some of the other tracks that made you want to make music?

JF: I was really into this guy Kim Hiorthøy. He's a Norwegian electronica artist, and he's got an album called Melke, which is really brilliant homemade electronic stuff, and it's very personal. And there's a track called "Doktor Watson-Trikset"; that was one of my favorites. It's got these weird horns that are treated in a really beautiful way. I play a trumpet, but then I'll record it in a way so it sounds like it's a sample. I used to play trumpet in bands when I was a kid, but I never really started recording it until I found a way to make it sound more like a sample or like an old record or something.

Pitchfork: The cover art for Mess Detective is really great. Those are all made-up tapes, right?

JF: Yeah. This guy Hollis Brown Thornton did that. It was really great. It's really cool on the back. There's a photo of the original tapes that he made. He basically made those tapes in the style of all these tapes I had when I was a kid, like Guns N' Roses and Right Said Fred and Michael Jackson and all this kind of stuff. So he actually physically made them and then illustrated from that picture.

Pitchfork: On your MySpace, you've got a couple of tracks with the dance producer Riton, and they're a lot more direct than the stuff on Mess Detective.

JF: Yeah, they're much more recent. We wanted to write really simple tracks based around dancier stuff, whereas my stuff on my own is influenced by dance, but not something you would play in a club or anything like that. It's just for my own personal listening. When I'm on my own, I tend to do much hazier-sounding things.

Pitchfork: So when your album comes out, will it be more in a hazier sort of vein?

JF: Yeah. It's like Mess Detective, but a bit further on and more developed. A lot of songs on Mess Detective are two-minute things, and they're great like that. I don't think they would be better by being developed into longer songs. I used to do it until I got bored of it, and then move onto the next thing. But what's been really fun and really challenging about doing an album is it's now about writing songs with a beginning, a middle and an end, that isn't just an atmosphere. Now I'm doing a live show, so I want to make the songs work in a band situation.

Pitchfork: You're on Atlantic Records, right?

JF: Yeah, the new record I've got is coming out on Atlantic. That's what's different for this new one. It's not going to be free on the Internet. It's going to be big-- a proper "try and get a band together and go tour it" thing. So it's totally different.

Pitchfork: There's been this kind of hazy bedroom quality to a lot of your stuff. How does it feel to make music like that and exist in a major label environment? Does it seem weird?

JF: Yeah, it's been really, really difficult, but it's also made me a hell of a lot better at music. Making that music in that way wasn't necessarily a deliberate thing; that was what I could do, and that was the best I could do, I think. A lot of those tracks, if you did try and reproduce them or do them in a big studio, would never get any better. But what we're developing now is seeing what I can do with more material, more things available for me to use. So it's not just ideas, but it's following through with the whole idea and making a full record. Working with other people has been the most interesting thing. I never thought that I would ever work with anyone else, but I've really enjoyed working with different people, different producers and musicians. It's been really good.

MP3:> Primary 1: "Foaming (Memory Tapes Remix)"

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 2:05 p.m.

Tags: Interview, Primary 1, Rising

The Places Between: The Best of Doves:

CD1 (The Best Of):

01 There Goes the Fear
02 Black and White Town
03 Snowden
04 Here It Comes
05 Words
06 Kingdom of Rust
07 Sea Song
08 Pounding
09 10:03
10 Catch the Sun
11 Jetstream
12 The Man Who Told Everything (Summer Version)
13 Andalucía
14 Caught by the River
15 The Cedar Room

CD2 (Rarities, B-sides, and alternate versions):

01 Blue Water
02 Eleven Miles Out
03 Rise
04 Darker
05 Push Me On
06 Willow's Song (Bury Version)
07 Valley
08 Northenden
09 M62 Song
10 Drifter
11 Friday's Dust (Capitol Tower Session)
12 Almost Forgot Myself (Demo)
13 Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
14 The Last Son
15 The Sulphur Man
16 At the Tower (Instrumental Edit)
17 Reprise
18 Ambition
19 Firesuite (Noise Version)

DVD (music videos):

01 The Cedar Room
02 Sea Song
03 Here It Comes
04 Catch the Sun
05 The Man Who Told Everything
06 There Goes the Fear
07 Pounding
08 Caught by the River
09 Black and White Town (Director's Cut)
10 Snowden (Live Edit)
11 Sky Starts Falling
12 Kingdom of Rust
13 Winter Hill

Posted by Tom Breihan on February 24, 2010 at 1:35 p.m.

Tags: Doves, New Releases