Actually, on latenightwithjimmyfallon.com. This hasn’t even aired yet. “Terrible Love” is our first listen from and the first track on the National’s forthcoming LP High Violet. Are you ready for some good music?
The band will play Brooklyn’s Bell House tonight and tomorrow. Tickets sold out in less than a minute.
High Violet is out 5/11 on […]
The National’s meaner Boxer followup, officially titled High Violet, comes out 5/11 via 4AD. You’ll probably catch some of the new songs on their spring tour. Remember, in case you were curious, “it can’t be described as happy.” Look at photos of the guys recording it at highviolet.com.
The grounds are being prepared in Golden Gate Park for this weekend’s second incarnation of the Outside Lands Music Festival, an event that I’ll be in attendance for once again this year. I’m excited for the weekend and the good lineup, and I’m looking forward to seeing a few bands that I’ve never seen before. I’m going to run down what I think I’m going to see this weekend and why I think you should join me. If you’re going to the fest tomorrow drop me a line and maybe we can hang out.
Tomorrow is the first day of the festival and I’ll likely be at West Indian Girl on the Twin Peaks stage to start things off at 1pm. Their former lead-singer, Mariqueen Maandig, who posed for Playboy and got engaged to Trent Reznor, just parted ways with the band. So we’ll see how this one comes across. Their music can be pretty cool pop-psychedelia at times and should be a good start to the day.
What Are You Afraid Of? By West Indian Girl (Live)! [YouTube]
From there I’ll be checking out Akron/Family at the Sutro stage as another band warming up my day. I’ve never caught them before and not too familiar with anything in their catalog, but they seem like an obvious choice before the set from Built to Spill on the big stage. I’ve caught them once at a festival and once at a club, and it’s hard for me to get super super into this band. But they seem like the perfect festival rockers to me, much like I felt the Broken Social Scene set from last year’s Outside Lands felt. Lots of guitars seems to work well in a festival crowd.
Plus, if they cover “Paper Planes,” I’m pretty sure everyone is going to lose their shit.
Built to Spill- Paper Planes [YouTube]
I’ve been hearing a lot of great things about The Dodos and they’re playing back at the Sutro stage after BTS.
The Dodos – Jodi [YouTube]
I’m excited that I’ll actually be seeing lots of new stuff on Friday, including the main stage act after with Silversun Pickups. That’s already a lot of new music right there, and I have no doubt that I’ll be enjoying myself at this festival once again. I may actually skip The National as I’m not much of a fan, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I’m actually pretty excited to see Incubus. They’ve long straddled the line between way too mainstream rap-rock and instrumentally stunning stoner space rock, in my opinion — so I want to see how they bring their show to the main stage. I hope that the girls in the audience can keep it together because there’s no way the lead guy will have his shirt off in that San Francisco summer weather.
INCUBUS – Megalomaniac (Live RAR 2008) [YouTube]
If that sucks I’ll definitely find my way over to Tea Leaf Green, but I’m in no rush considering how many times I’ve seen those guys already. Some of my better moments at a music festival have been when I’m watching some band new for the first time and not when I’m going to see someone I’ve already seen do a festival-style set with the hits. But wherever I’m at around 6:50pm, I’ll definitely be hoofing it over to see Tom Jones on the Sutro stage. I have an odd feeling this is going to be everybody’s standout set of the weekend; call it a hunch.
TOM JONES – She’s A Lady (Live at Glastonbury 28-6-2009) [YouTube]
For the headliner I’m definitely a bit torn. I’ve seen both Thievery Corporation and Pearl Jam before, both at Lollapalooza (2006 and 2007, respectively), and I really think I’m going to be more in the mood for a dance party vibe and not a set of rocking good music. I’m not huge on Pearl Jam even though I respect everything they do and what they stand for and all that good stuff, but I’m remembering the Thievery Corp. set from when I saw them and I think that’s going to be a better cap on a long day’s worth of music.
Thievery Corporation – Sound the Alarm (Live) [YouTube]
I’m predicting good times and good vibes. Drop some comments with your dream schedule if you’re going and planning ahead like me.
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The lineup for the Pitchfork Music Festival got a few additions the other day, with Matt and Kim, Fucked Up, M83, Black Lips, and a few others added to the already amazing festival roster. I really hope I’ll be able to attend this festival, with the Friday night “Write the Night” series seriously exciting the hell out of me. For those that haven’t heard about this already, check it:
A reminder: On Friday, July 17, we’ll launch the “Write the Night: Set Lists by Request” series, in which four bands will all play fan-selected set lists. Here’s how it works: You, the audience, vote on which songs all four bands– Built to Spill, the Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo, and Tortoise– will play. When you buy your ticket, you’ll get a confirmation email. That confirmation email will include a link to a page where you can vote on which songs from each band you want to hear. The bands will tailor their set lists accordingly. (Also worth mentioning: This will be the Jesus Lizard’s first American show in a decade.) Voting ends June 12.
Friday - “Write the Night: Set Lists by Request”
Built to Spill
The Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
Tortoise
Saturday
The National
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Fucked Up*
Matt and Kim*
Wavves*
Charles Hamilton*
The Duchess and The Duke*
Sunday
The Flaming Lips
Grizzly Bear
M83*
The Walkmen
Pharoahe Monch
Black Lips*
The Very Best*
Vivian Girls
photos by Tim Griffin
“It’s been 10 years since Tibet was the hot issue in the rock community, but some stars still carry the torch. One of the biggest forums for this activism is the annual Tibet House benefit in New York, where an eclectic group of artists bands together to salute Tibetan culture.This year’s concert, held [Tueusday] at Carnegie Hall, started off on an energetic note, with Antibalas raising the sedate crowd to its feet. After playing a song, they were joined by Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo, who wowed with an energetic cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” before performing one of her own songs, “Emma.” Antibalas then exited stage right, while bluesman Keb’ Mo’ joined Kidjo for one more tune.
Curator Philip Glass then took the stage to introduce his son Zack, who was performing with the Patti Smith Band. The younger Glass played two pleasant, mainstream folk-rock tunes, the furthest thing possible from his father’s experimental compositions. He was followed by Vampire Weekend, who played with a string quartet and debuted a new song that sounded even more influenced by Paul Simon’s “Graceland” than its previous work, as well as “M79″ from its self-titled debut.
At this point, the tone of the show changed, with the elder Glass perforing an original piano composition with the string quartet. The piece was lovely, but felt out-of-place after so much upbeat rock. To add to the discombobulation, the National, who played two excellent new songs, followed Glass.
…Patti Smith, a fixture at many Tibet House benefits, took the stage with her daughter Jesse accompanying her on piano…. [full review @ BILLBOARD]
More pictures below…
Continue reading “The National, Vampire Weekend, Patti Smith & more @ the Tibet House Benefit @ Carnegie Hall (2009) - pics” at BrooklynVegan.com
I’m really happy I stayed in a bit this weekend and took some time redesigning the site. It’s totally funny timing, too. I remember reading a little interview with Scott from Hidden Track where he mentioned that they were going to be launching a new version soon, and no sooner had I finished off the core of the new design when I checked on my feed reader to see that they had gone live with their new design also. Totally accidental that we launched at the same time. But kudos, guys! Congrats on the launch!
Let’s see what else is going on.
Last but certainly not least, our man Andrew has been on the scene at Monolith Festival all weekend and he’s captured some seriously fantastic photos already. Give them a look and expect an update from him real soon.
