The New Deal is playing North Coast Music Festival this weekend then moving onto a fall tour, plus recent tour announcements from Signal Path, Big Gigantic and Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad…
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Pavement are no strangers to cool contests, but this latest one definitely beats roaming around IKEA with Bob Nastanovich (no offense Bob/Sweden). Pavement will perform on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 9/23 and one lucky fan will be joining the band on guitar. To enter, upload a video of yourself covering one of the songs listed below by Wednesday 9/8 at 4:35 AM ET. You also have to live in the continental United States, since the winner will be flown out to NY for the occasion. A “panel of qualified judges” will pick five finalists; then we (the Internet) will vote on the winner.
Fans release “Radiohead in Prague - 23 08 2009,” a live DVD media extravaganza.
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This video for The Valusia EP’s “Sea Talk” was directed by Jacqueline Castel, who also did the video for “Night.” Like last time, Nika Rosa Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, aka one of Sterogum’s 40 Best New Bands Of 2010, stars. Castel noted the “Night” video’s apocalyptic tone was partially “the product 1980s futurism via nightmares, Cocteau, and the work of pornographer Rinse Dream.” She says this one was “inspired by the acts of sleepwalkers, caught in their own separate, solitary dream reality, locked into cycles of actions every night.” It’s like she’s reading my diary. (And you might also want to think Poltergeist.) Watch at NME.
The Valusia EP is out 10/12 via Sacred Bones.
This Exploding Motor Car-directed video for No Ghost’s second single “Restoration” was shot on location at “the Mataseje Family Farm” in Beamsville, Ontario. The footage of the band at their time-lapse BBQ is pretty standard nature-folk/pop whatever, but once the sun drops they make beautiful use of simple lighting on the surrounding trees, leaves, moths, etc.
As we prepare ourselves for this weekend’s pleasingly loud ATP NY (see: Holy Mountain, Superfuzz Bigmuff, Raw Power, Sunn O))) + Boris, SY, ATP regulars Fuck Buttons, etc.), it’s been announced that on 7/1 of next year Flaming Lips will do the 11-year-old The Soft Bulletin, Dinosaur the older Bug (one of my all-time favorites), and Deerhoof the less-than-classic Milk Man at London’s Alexandra Place as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Don’t Look Back series. Tickets go on sale Friday 9/3. More info at ATP (via NME).
Phish just released the first of the video highlights from the Telluride run, the jam out of “Boogie On” leading into “Piper” from the August 9th show. Phish – 8/9/10 “Jam > Piper” from Phish on Vimeo. Related posts:Video: Phish – “Mike’s Song (jam) > Simple” (Live in Berkeley 8/6/10) August Phish Shows in Telluride […]
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Brooklyn twee shoegaze trio, the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart spin-off, and Internet Warriors the Depreciation Guild don’t appear in the Maura Milan-directed video for “My Chariot.” Instead, two Japanese school girls act as protagonists for the Spirit Youth track. The clip was shot on location in Tokyo.
Brooklyn twee shoegaze trio, the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart spin-off, and Internet Warriors the Depreciation Guild don’t appear in the Maura Milan-directed video for “My Chariot.” Instead, two Japanese school girls act as protagonists for the Spirit Youth track. The clip was shot on location in Tokyo.
I know I’ve waxed a bit on this in the past, but there’s an album from my musical past that continues to have a firm place on my iPhone these days and I’m convinced that not enough people were ever converted to its genius. The album was a self-titled debut from Heroic Doses, put out […]
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