Since sticksman Jim White helped lay the rhythm on s past two solo albums and has long served in her live band (not to mention his work with a kajillion other folks), it s hardly surprising singer/guitarist Nastasia and drummer White have joined forces for a new album that will bear both their names.
by Nina Nastasia Jim White serves as the follow-up of sorts to last year s Nastasia disc . It arrives August 14 in North America and May 28 elsewhere via , which Google still seems to think is a hip British IDM label.
White and Nastasia recorded You Follow Me with Steve Albini at in Chicago, and developed their compositions with help from Nastasia s partner Kennan Gudjonsson. The result sounds a bit like free jazz tugging at the seams of traditional folk.
Nastasia will Follow Adem and Richard Swift to a string of UK gigs next month.
White won t be around, as he s touring Europe presently with Dirty Three. He also performs as part of Cat Power s band on her , which includes a stop at the rather nifty .
Put us, them, and the Knife together, and you've got yourself a dinette set Anticipation is running high for s , which is still curiously named, and still hitting shelves July 10 from .
Chalk up all the folks going ga-ga in the pre-release frenzy to the efforts of the tireless Texan tunesmiths, who are out, as always, fighting the good fight for hyphen-free indie rock n roll. The underdogs have a smattering of live dates on deck for the summer, setting off tonight in San Francisco.
Though their sound is graciously gimmick-free, their rollout of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is rife with em.
Not that we re complaining, given the quality of the schwag. Visitors to Spoon s online store can slide their slender frames into a surprise new t-shirt, designed by Britt Daniel himself, and the first pressing of Ga will come bundled with Get Nice!, a twelve-track, 22-minute EP packed with new jams, instrumental cuts, and a few early spins through Spoon classics past and future.
We ve been assured that Ga highlight You Got Yr Cherry Bomb and centerpiece I Summon You are the only Get Nice! tracks anyone s ever heard before. Nice!
That generous streak continues at Spoon s dual Portland gigs over the weekend. Dubbed The Spoon Spring 07 Awareness Benefit Stand , the shows feature the band facetiously throwing their weight (and any scraps of wood) behind the Salvation Army and Sea Otter Conservation League of America. Only, not really.
An email from the band reads:
Canned good and timber donations accepted at the door. Requests to be considered after each show.
Jokers.
Recent inductees are going to be staying out super late many a night over the remaining months of 2007, picking apples and making pies live on stage for your amusement.
In addition to already tattooed into your cranium, the New Yorkers will ring the bell on another two rounds of dates with .
The Mendoza Line Splinter, Enter 30 Year Low Breaking up sucks!
Nonetheless, a lot of good music has come out of crumbling relationships. The latest victims: primary songwriters Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle have dissolved both their marriage and their musical collaboration. To, um, celebrate, they will release the mini-album 30 Year Low on August 21 on .
In addition to the songwriting talents of the ex-couple, it features a Jimmy Silva cover and s Will Sheff duetting with McArdle on the Bracy-penned Aspect of an Old Maid .
Upon its release, Low will come packaged with a second disc titled The Final Remarks of the Legendary Malcontent. Final Remarks is an odds and sods collection of sorts, featuring live tracks, demos, and covers of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson, and Arab Strap, among others.
The Mendoza Line have just two forthcoming shows scheduled, one tonight (May 24) in Boston and one tomorrow night in Providence. After wrapping things up as a band, McArdle will focus on other projects, and Bracy will continue on with the Mendoza Line.
Please, don't let them be the new Harajuku Girls Man, this post-post-modern period is great, isn t it?
Time was, a band like doing two dozen shows with a megastar like was akin to cred hara-kiri. Sure, it s not exactly Amy Grant with Bikini Kill, but in 2007, it s a coolness-boosting gesture for both, and we totally wish we lived in Antwerp so we could witness the once-improbable spectacle. Seeing big pop stars and cool rock bands making nice sure does warm our hearts, and we re gunning for a Justin Timberlake/Jamie Lidell double bill this fall.
CSS-- the , Brazilian super-sextet-- are hitting the road for a truly massive tour, starting June 1 and tentatively ending sometime in October. Whatever your hood, CSS will be there, hitting festivals and club dates aplenty before taking up with the Hollaback Girl in Europe. If they keep throwing dates on the back of their schedule like this, you may get your shot at being sick of em.
Nah...
not gonna happen. Pretty Girls Make Caves, Cave Singers Sign to Matador Those still mourning the of (R.I.
P.) can get their more acoustic kicks out via PGMG/Murder City Devils bassist Derek Fudesco s , , who have just signed to .
Percussionist Mary Lund (formerly of Cobra High) and former frontman Pete Quirk join Fudesco in the Cave Singers, and PGMG vocalist Andrea Zollo even augments the trio on occasional washboard duties.
Yes, you read that correctly: she plays the washboard.
The Singers are rearin to get things started with Matador, as they have already recorded their debut album with producer Colin Stewart (PGMG, Black Mountain). The album is titled Invitation Songs, but Matador has yet to give it a release date.
The Cave Singers will hit the West Coast on a short tour this summer, starting June 20 in their hometown of Seattle. Pretty Girls Make Graves farewell tour continues tonight (May 24) in Orlando and ends on June 9, also in Seattle. Former PGMG guitarist Nathan Thelen s are opening those dates.
Moonrats will also play the Fuck Yeah Fest in Los Angeles on June 30.
PGMG drummer Nick DeWitt-- whose split from the group catalyzed their breakup-- has one show scheduled with his own new band, . The band, whose recent album Of Honey and Country is available now from , will play in Seattle on June 21 as part of a Rocky Votolato CD release party.
It s been mere months since the of art-punk outfit , gleaning what we could about their work on the follow-up to last year s impressionistic . But, thanks to some far-less cryptic information just delivered to the Pitchfork news team in the form of a press release, we re now caught up on all things Angus.
On August 28, the folks at will release Liars Liars, the band s fourth long-player.
Yes, a self-titled album from the band that brought you They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top and They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. (Looks like their first choice , We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, was already taken.)
Apparently, this new album serves as Angus Andrew s big Neil Young moment.
Says Andrew: I d never felt like a songwriter til this album...
If you said I d be playing guitar solos, I d have called you a liar. So that s the chilled out vibe they muttered about on last check, eh? Liars will come three ways: on a CD, a slab of albino vinyl, and through the magic of computer technology.
The tracklist is posted below; you ll note the utter lack of longwinded statements-as-titles this time out, a trick Modest Mouse can apparently keep for themselves. Also, Liars freaks not already up on the free track posted as part of the comp should click accordingly.
Hottest State [ft.
Cat Power, Feist] Gets Release Date The for the -directed of the Ethan Hawke The Hottest State now has a label and a release date: Hickory Records and August 7.
Except for the fact that the songs we originally credited to Rosario Ortega are actually credited to Rocha , the tracklist from our remains intact. Cat Power, Feist, Bright Eyes, M.
Ward, the Black Keys, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson, among others, perform songs written by Jesse Harris (in addition to two score pieces).
The Hottest State hits theaters on August 24 via . It stars Ethan Hawke.
Ah, the cycle of the seasons. know it well. The duo of Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Zach Smith IV returns September 11, 2007 with , the follow-up to their 2004 debut , and fourth full-length proper overall.
Does this mean we can look forward to the next Pinback release bearing a wintry Biblical title circa 2010?
Produced by the band, Seraphs collects 11 samplings of the angelically-sung, see-saw pop we ve come to expect from these gentlemen. Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Black Heart Procession) and Chris Prescott (No Knife) split drumming duties on the new disc as well, while did the artwork.
And it s Touch and Go s 300th release! Congrats, guys!
Pinback have designs on taking Autumn on the road in, you guessed it, autumn.
, meanwhile, has been , helming his label, and with his former Heavy Vegetable buds as . Robcore released Other Men s debut, Wake Up Swimming, a couple months back. The imprint promises a new disc from Crow s Goblin Cock, titled Come With Me If You Want to Live, in the near future, as well as releases from Optiganally Yours and Aspects of Physics.
Zach Smith has not yet started a Zachcore label, but he is reportedly working on new material under the recently revived guise.
They hold the sound, but you can buy it off 'em It s been a minute since we ve heard from s Tour Support series, which issued limited batches of goodies from Bright Eyes, Ted Leo, the Rapture, and others at the beginning of the decade. But now, after a three year hiatus, it s back as Tour Support 2.
0, and Insound has picked a winner for the triumphant return: a baker s dozen of live tracks from Portlandic punk-pop powerhouse . The comp, available at live shows and via Insound starting July 3, gathers tracks from a gig at San Francisco s Bottom of the Hill, a few from a studio session at Seattle s KEXP, and a trio of acoustic takes. One of those, Welcome to the Planet , had only been previously available on one of those DVDs.
We ll stress again just how limited this edition this truly is, so those of you looking to score one would be advised to jump on that.
In other Thermals release news, is putting out a download/7 single for A Pillar of Salt June 4, featuring previously unreleased track Product Placement , as well as the four-track demos of tracks Pillar and St. Rosa and the Swallows .
The kids are in Scotland tonight, with a mess of Euro dates to come before their ever-expanding late-summer U.S. tour.
Happy trails, Hutch.
Just too darn mysterious for U.S.
Customs to handle Man, what a bad week to be a border-crossing band. First , then , and now British five-piece have canceled their due to visa issues. According to a press release, the issues are simply the result of the unfortunate reality of delays in paperwork and processing and nothing more, and the Jets now hope to resume the tour after the summer.
As , the band will pass their newfound free time by recording the follow-up to their U.S. debut, Zootime ( in the UK.
..yeah, it s weird), with producer .
Zootime came out on on May 8.
Mystery Jets do have one show still scheduled, an August 10 set in London as part of the . They will announce the rescheduled dates of their North American tour soon.
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