Artist: The Pipettes Album: Earth vs. the Pipettes Release Date: June 28 [UK] Label: Fortuna POP!
Tracklist:
01 Call Me 02 Ain't No Talking 03 Thank You 04 I Need a Little Time 05 History 06 I Always Planned to Stay 07 Stop the Music 08 I Vibe You 09 Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen 10 Finding My Way 11 Captain Rhythm 12 From Today
Notes: Second album from this British girl group, now a duo after going through several lineup shakeups since 2006 debut We Are the Pipettes.
Media: Download "Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen" here (email address required). Watch the video here.
Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger formed the Düsseldorf duo Neu! in 1971, after both musicians left Kraftwerk. Over the next few years, they perfected a minimal, hypnotic pulse-groove that went on to have a seismic effect on krautrock and all the stuff that would be influenced by krautrock-- which is to say, a lot of stuff. (Take a look at the tracklist for this tribute album, for example.)
On May 10, Gronland will release a limited edition Neu! vinyl box set, offering a retrospective of the band's influential catalogue. This would be a pretty awesome thing to have in your possession.
The box includes all three of the duo's studio albums-- Neu!, Neu! 2, and Neu! '75-- as well as the previously unreleased LP Neu! '86, originally recorded in 1985 and 1986 and recently reworked by Rother, augmented by Rother and Dinger's most recent studio recordings. You'll also get Neu! '72, a previously unreleased 18-minute live maxi-single. There will also be a download code, so you'll get to listen to all this stuff on your morning commute.
A 36-page book includes Neu! photos from Anton Corbijn and Peter Lindbergh. And rounding out the package: A Neu! T-shirt and a stencil of the Neu! logo.
Say what you want about Jimmy Fallon's sometimes cringe-inducing and sycophantic interviewing style, but the dude's music booker has got the internet (or, at least, this particular web space) going nuts lately. Hot Chip, Beach House, Yeasayer, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, and Joanna Newsom are some of the names to grace the "Light Night" stage recently. Now we can add Ted Leo and the Pharmacists to that list. Leo played "The Mighty Sparrow" from his great (and just-released) new LP, The Brutalist Bricks, last night, and you can watch it below.
Monday night's show also featured the first ever live version of Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell's YouTube classic "Lazy Sunday", backed by the Roots. That's after the jump, too:
Record Store Day, your opportunity to cop tons of exclusive music from your local independent retailer, will arrive on April 17 this year. Sub Pop has announced a whole mess of RSD releases. We've already reported that about Beach House's ZebraEP, but that's just the beginning of what the label will offer.
Perhaps the most intriguing of Sub Pop's RSD releases is the live compilation Casual Nostalgia Fest. In 2008, the label celebrated its 20th anniversary with SP20, a festival in Seattle featuring performances from Sub Pop bands past and present. Casual Nostalgia Fest collects 19 songs taped live at the festival, including joints from Iron & Wine, Green River, Low, Flight of the Conchords, the Vaselines, Wolf Parade, and Blitzen Trapper. Proceeds from the CD go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Check the tracklist below.
For Record Store Day, Sub Pop will also release CocoRosie's "Lemonade" 7", which includes one track from the band's forthcoming Sub Pop debut, as well as a cover of the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl". The Album Leaf's There Is a Wind 12" features two new songs and two alternate takes of tracks from the band's last album. DumDum Girls and Male Bonding contribute one new song each to a split 7". Recent signing Happy Birthday include a couple of non-album tracks on their RSD 7". And the label will also reissue one of it's ancestral releases, Soundgarden's 1987 debut single "Hunted Down" b/w "Nothing to Say", on orange translucent vinyl.
A few Sub Pop bands will also play in-stores on Record Store Day. No Age will be at Miami's Sweat Records, DumDum Girls and Male Bonding will play L.A.'s Origami Records, and BassekouKouyate and Ngoni Ba will be on hand at Austin's Waterloo Records.
Casual Nostalgia Fest:
01 Green River: "Leech" 02 Wolf Parade: "Fine Young Cannibals" 03 The Vaselines: "Dying for It" 04 Obits: "Run" 05 Les Thugs: "Dirty White Race" 06 Eric's Trip: "Smother" 07 Beachwood Sparks: "You Take the Gold" 08 Blitzen Trapper: "Furr" 09 Flight of the Conchords: "Carol Brown" 10 Iron & Wine: "Woman King" 11 Constantines: "Why I Didn't Like August '93" 12 Seaweed "Baggage" 13 Grand Archives: "Dig That Crazy Grave" 14 Low: "Silver Rider" 15 The Helio Sequence: "Lately" 16 Kinski: "The Wives of Artie Shaw" 17 Pissed Jeans: "Caught Licking Leather" 18 Mudhoney: "The Open Mind" 19 Comets on Fire: "Dogwood Rust"
Last year, Dan Deacon released the heady album Bromst, a departure from the day-glo raveups he'd made in the past. And next month, a new EP will include remixes of a few tracks from Bromst.
On April 19, the British label Amazing Sounds will release the extremely limited Woof WoofEP-- just 500 vinyl copies are being pressed up worldwide. Hudson Mohawke's squiggly remix of the title track is available above.
The EP will also include remixes from Allez-Allez and Luke Abbot. That's the cover art up there, and you can see the tracklist below.
The new song by psych-rock duo MGMT features flutes, horns, and about seven different sections that reference doo-wop, old school rock'n'roll, electro balladry, Ariel Pink-style lo-fi, wall-of-Spector pop, and the Beatles at their most high. All in four minutes and sixteen seconds! (Via MGMT's site.)
In Yeasayer's confusing-but-awesome new video for "O.N.E", a guy with a morphing alien face walks into a severely made-up hipster party, where Yeasayer are playing on lit-up instruments and everyone else looks like they're trying out for a Lady Gaga video. He then proceeds to play a game of diamond Tron chess while an audience of futuristic mimes claps politely. None of it makes any sense, but the whole thing still rules hard.
Quite possibly the best freak-walks-into-a-party video since "You Could Be Mine".
Watch the clip over at the great British site Popjustice.
