The music streaming service Lala is shutting down as of May 31, 2010. They are no longer accepting new users, and a notice on the Lala website explains how the shutdown will affect current users.
Lala says, "In appreciation of your support, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store." (Lala was purchased by Apple earlier this year.)
Pitchfork is exploring new media possibilities. Stay tuned.
Putting a small dinosaur puppet named Frank in your video-- as the Black Keys did with their recent "Tighten Up" clip-- is one thing. But put that same small tyrannosaurs poolside among a bevy of bikini babes and you've got "Next Girl"-- a potential viral hit that actually deserves to be a viral hit. It can happen, people.
The self-aware scrolling text at the bottom of the clip shows that the blues duo are in on the joke, and the video falls in line with the deadpan cover of the Black Keys' new album, Brothers, out May 18 on Nonesuch. Watch it below or here:
-- Boston indie-pop bad Pants Yell! are breaking up. The band's upcoming May shows will be their last. Check out their blog for more info.
-- Field Lines is a new, interactive computer program designed to accompany Flying Lotus's forthcoming LP, Cosmogramma. It's trippy and features some atmospheric FlyLo music and is probably best appreciated under some sort of influence.
-- Former Lungfish leader Daniel "A.I.U." Higgs returns with a new, Dave Sitek-assisted album of "gospel songs and poems" called Say God on May 18 via Thrill Jockey.
-- Drag City reissues Kansas City singer-songwriter Jeff Eubank's cult artifact A Street Called Straight on May 18.
"off-shore drilling seems like the 'shooting-up between ur toes' phase of oil addiction. and the Gulf spill might be the 'stealing ur mama's sofa' phase. or selling - either way."
-- Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, extending an analogy about as far as it can go. (via three successive tweets on @arzE)
Once again, Pitchfork has curated a stage at the San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival, which takes place at Parc Del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain May 27-29. Now, we can reveal our stage's lineups. Acts playing the Pitchfork stage include No Age, Titus Andronicus, Sleigh Bells, Diplo, Surfer Blood, Lee "Scratch" Perry, the Antlers, the Field, Atlas Sound, and many more.
There are bands playing other stages at Primavera, but we still like them. They include Pavement, Wilco, Broken Social Scene, the xx, Grizzly Bear, Pixies, Beach House, Spoon, the New Pornographers, and Sunny Day Real Estate. The full list of every band playing the fest is here.
A three-day Primavera pass costs $240 (180 €) and a single-day pass costs $100 (75 €). You can buy them over here.
And now, the Pitchfork stage lineup at this year's San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival:
Titus Andronicus
Surfer Blood
Sleigh Bells
Delorean
The Big Pink
Wild Beasts
The Slits
Sic Alps
Biscuit
Friday, May 28:
Major Lazer
Diplo
Best Coast
Japandroids
Here We Go Magic
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Cold Cave
Joker & Nomad
Ganglians
Wild Honey
Saturday, May 29:
The Antlers
No Age
Atlas Sound
Dum Dum Girls
Real Estate
The Field
The Smith Westerns
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Fake Blood
Lidia Damunt
Artist: Light Pollution
Album: Apparitions
Release Date: June 15
Label: Carpark
Tracklist:
01 Good Feelings
02 Oh, Ivory!
03 Drunk Kids
04 Fever Dreams
05 Deyci, Right On
06 Bad Vibes
07 All Night Outside
08 Witchcraft
09 Ssslowdreamsss
Notes: Debut album from indie-rocking Chicago four-piece.
Media: Stream or download lead track "Good Feelings" here.
Photo by Tim Saccenti
"Tonight", the new single from the blaring London duo the Big Pink, is out now in the UK via 4AD; it's got a cover of Beyoncé's "Sweet Dreams" as the B-side. The band is celebrating the single's existence by releasing a free remix EP into the world.
Right now, you can click on over to the Big Pink's site to cop the Tonight Remix EP, which includes four different reworkings of the title track. We already Forkcasted one of those remixes, from the spooky, unpronounceable producer oOoOO. The EP also features remixes from Coyote Clean Up, Ghost Hunter, and Von Haze. Click here to get it.
"She was trying to show violence to end violence. It's for all the people that are doing the genocides in real life. Italians, Africans-- wherever it's from, it's still a genocide."
-- Ian Hamrick, the 12-year-old redhead who gets shot in the head in M.I.A.'s wildly NSFW "Born Free" video, gives us his interpretation of the clip, which he has yet to see in full. The quote comes courtesy of a creepy TMZ paparazzo, who is really working overtime on this one. (Via TMZ.)
The new clip for Liars' "The Overachievers" stars an American psycho and a dripping bag of blood. The band's own Aaron Hemphill directed the low-budget video, which is about as unsettling as you'd expect. Did we mention the bag of blood is dripping onto a bowl of eggs? Yeah. Watch it here.
Liars are also currently taking part in Beck's Record Club cover of INXS's 1987 bestseller Kick. Watch lead singer Angus Andrew rap lines like "rape an ape" and "my boner aches" in the crew's take on "Mediate" below:
This year's Øya Festival crashes down in Oslo, Norway August 10-14. And here's another list of bands that'll make you want to book a flight to Europe ASAP: M.I.A., Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, the Stooges, Big Boi, the xx, Air, Jónsi, Raekwon, Girls, Robyn, Major Lazer, Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, Converge, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Fucked Up, the Gaslight Anthem, tUnE-YarDs, and Local Natives. And that's not all. Check out the fest's official site for all the details.
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