Filed under: Uncategorized — Larry Fitzmaurice @ 9:55 pm
Well, this is pretty cool: On Sunday night, July 25, Damon Albarn brought his animated pop project Gorillaz all the way out to Damascus, Syria's 1,000-year-old Damascus Citadel for a special performance. The list of guest appearances is staggering: Bobby Womack, De La Soul, the Pharcyde's Bootie Brown, Paul Simonon and Mick Jones of the Clash, the Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder, UK rappers Bashy and Kano, and Syrian rapper Eslam Jawaad. NPR Music has a stream of the set, so trek over there to check it out.
Filed under: Uncategorized — Larry Fitzmaurice @ 9:00 pm
Former Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose has got a new band, the Outs, and a forthcoming self-titled full-length with that band out September 21 on Slumberland. About a month after that record comes out, Frankie Rose and the Outs will hit the road that month for a brief tour-- like, eight days brief. So if you're in the area where they're playing, make sure to catch the band live before Frankie goes along and joins three other bands or something.
Skronky garage-noiseniks Woven Bones will join her during the jaunt. Check the tour dates below.
Awesometastic. LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip, DFAlabelmates and two of the greatest live bands in dance music today, are hitting the road together. They're currently in Australia together and recently announced a few co-headlining dates in the UK in November, but LCD and Hot Chip are also planning a U.S. trip. So far, the only announced show is October 22 in Milwaukee, but more shows should be revealed shortly. LCD just added a show at the Hollywood Bowl on October 15 as well.
2010 is looking like Bob Pollard's most productive year since at least 2009. He's got the Guided By Voicesreunion tour coming up, sure, but if you thought he was just going to sit back and count that reunion cash for the rest of the year, well, you don't know Bob. The man is planning to release five albums over the next 10 months, starting off with Our Cubehouse Still Rocks, a new LP from his band Boston Spaceships due out September 7 on GBV Inc. Download a track from it above, and click on to read about all the other things Bob has planned.
Fact: The world is a better place with Kanye West on Twitter. Since his first Tweet about 24 hours ago, he's repped for Jimmy Fallon's suit game, revealed his favorite line on his as-yet-untitled new album ("I might walk in Nobu with no shoes"-- amazing), helped start at least one phenomenal trending topic (#PredictingKanyeTweets), poked fun at his current obsession with ancient artifacts, opened up about the downside of dating models, and took a photo of himself crushing his tiny jet. Follow him.
"I leave Snacks with Nathan Wavves sometimes when we go away on tour. Do I worry about Snacks getting tinnitus? No! He just watches Nathan play video games, he doesn't really move around the place too much. And he hates electric guitars anyway. His ears go up and he makes a weird face, so I'm not sure he'd be a big Wavves fan."