duo have graduated from the heavily punctuated beginnings of second single to release their first full-length record. The 16-track album is self-titled, and it will come out August 28 on DFA/ in the U.S.
The Up! Up! Up!
single, backed by B-side Hamworthy Sports and Leisure Center , will be released as a 7 on June 19.
In addition to both of those tracks, the album also includes the contents of the band s first single, .
Prinzhorn have a handful of UK and Irish dates scheduled for this month.
They begin June 12 in Sheffield, England.
is a singer and a songwriter. Jos e makes music, and many people think Jos e s music is very good.
Jos e put some of his very good music on an album called , and that album made many people happy. Like, 700,000 people, all over the planet Earth! That is a lot of people!
Now Jos e will make those people happy all over again. Hey, maybe he will make even more people happy this time! That s because Jos e has put more of his music on another album.
That album is called In Our Nature, and will release it in North America on September 25.
But what will Jos e do right now? He will tour, that s what!
See Jos e tour in Mexico and South America and Europe and Japan and New York soon. Also, that Jos e , he s crazy! He has a show in Tijuana tonight, and it s still TBA.
By: Matthew, age 7 Waits, Glass, Kronos Quartet Begin the Healing Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, Batman and Robin, Laverne and Shirley...
Waits and Dalai? Apparently so, as Tom Waits, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, and, yes, the Dalai Lama himself all feature on Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation. s document of the September 2003 live performance of the same name at Lincoln Center s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City sees release July 10.
The benefit concert was the culmination of the Dalai Lama s 20-day U.S. tour (just imagine those hotels!
), and it also included performances by Anoushka Shankar, the Gyoto Tantric Choir, and some other artists whose names we can t pronounce. Waits contributions includes the previously unreleased Diamond in Your Mind and Way Down in the Hole (aka the song that plays over The Wire s opening credits).
According to a press release, Proceeds from the sales of the CD will benefit (a non-profit organization Richard Gere formed in 2001 in order to aid humanitarian crisis) and its Tibetan Health Initiative, which provides health insurance to Buddhist monks and nuns.
Translation: When you buy a copy of this CD, you provide one year of health insurance for an impoverished monk or nun in a refugee settlement.
Waits had the following to say about his participation in the event: I m no fool. It s a spiritual insurance policy.
Hell, at my age, the next group I put together, everyone may be playing a harp. All kidding aside, I owed His Holiness a favor. He did all my papers in school.
reports that Healing the Divide will also have a DVD release. He s mixed and remixed the likes of the Rapture, Goldfrapp, Franz Ferdinand and Gwen Stefani, but on his soon-to-be-issued entry in London s club mix series, producer/DJ/man about town sticks to subjects even more intimate with the dancefloor. The 35th installment of the monthly serial will be available July 16 in the U.
K., though members of the Fabric First club will get a crack at it two weeks early. On Fabric 35, Pearson gets his messy hands all over tracks from the likes of Liquid Liquid, Kaos, Snax, and others.
Pearson has a few live dates over the next month or so, culminating in a set at the London club from which all things Fabric emanate.
is following the of the first two albums with reissues of the band s third and fourth LPs-- Learning to Crawl and Get Close-- on June 5. Though both reissues are confined to a disc apiece, each still contains various demos, live recordings, and alternate versions of songs as bonus tracks.
Originally released in 1984, Learning to Crawl featured a revised Pretenders lineup following the drug-related deaths of original guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and original bassist Pete Farndon. Thus, the album has Robbie McIntosh on guitar and Malcolm Foster on bass.
Get Close was originally released in 1986 and showcases a greater variety of contributors, including Indian violinist L.
Shankar, Elvis Costello bassist Bruce Thomas, and one-time James Brown and David Bowie bandleader Carlos Alomar. The album s closing track is a cover of Jimi Hendrix s Room Full of Mirrors .
Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde continues to tour with the Pretenders, who have quite a few summer tour dates scheduled for July and August.
They begin July 19 in happening Bridgeview, Illinois. Eleven years in , and never once donned so much as a skirt live.
I had this rule, it was kind of like an anti-fashion thing, she revealed to Pitchfork recently.
Being in a band, I always had this thing about not wanting to be pushed forward as the only female in the band, so to go along with that I just wanted to blend in-- I didn t want to go walking around on stage dressed in ridiculously, overtly colorful dresses or anything like that.
Times have changed. Now that I m doing my own thing, I thought Oh, to hell with it, I ll do whatever I want!
Indeed, Pitchfork caught up with Pollock via phone whilst she was in the midst of, in her words, introduc[ing] a bit more flair into my wardrobe -- shopping for dresses mid-tour at a retro clothes shop in Birmingham, England.
At that point, Emma had spied a couple of 60s dresses that have got ridiculous print on them that I normally wouldn t wear in everyday life-- but I think on stage they would work.
According to Pollock, the softening of her anti-fashion stance comes with the territory of being a solo artist.
It s much much easier to be personally understated within a band...
but the solo thing automatically forces attention onto me as an individual. There s an element of it which is visual, and I suppose I feel a bit more comfortable with that now than I did before.
Indeed, the change in wardrobe reflects on Pollock s solo debut, Watch the Fireworks, out this September on .
It s totally, unashamedly pop and it doesn t pretend to be anything else, said Pollock.
To be completely honest with you, I m just a sucker for great pop songs. I love Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark-- a lot of the classic female singers.
There was just something fresh about them, and their voices just seem to transcend anything else that you hear nowadays. But most importantly the songs-- just the way that they re effortlessly melodic, great production, really, really great fun. Comrade Yeltsin may have passed on (though he s ), but at least we have one left to strike fear into the hearts of Europeans everywhere.
No, not . Try the -signed, monolithic Japanese trio behind last year s envelope-obliterating .
In a tour of truly epic proportions, Boris will descend upon Europe next month, joined on occasion by like-minded earth-rattlers like Isis, Pelican, and Oxbow.
Indeed, the Boris/Isis/Oxbow leg that hits former Soviet satellites in mid-June is being billed as Love s Holiday . Now isn t that just adorable?
Do you have what it takes to lay crushing rhythms behind heavy jams like It Was There That I Saw You and Homage ?
Do you relish smashing your instruments to bits on a nightly basis? Can you put up with ? What if he ?
If you re still with us, you might be just the thing need right now. The Texan blockbusters have set their sights on a European tour in August and September (exact dates coming soon), but usual kit-crasher Doni Schroader can t make the trip. This is where you come in.
Send an email to if you think yourself fit for Doni s shoes. It s a temp job, mind you, but it s one to tell the folks about.
In other Trail of Dead news, the boys have been working on composing songs for a new record, as Trail-blazer and recent Austin expat Conrad Keely wrote last month on the band s .
That new record would be the follow-up to last year s .
Typically cagey Keely also railed on Trail of Dead s -- the Cat Solen-directed Naked Sun -- calling it atrocious and a worthless piece of crap and explaining that the band did not approve it and had nothing to do with it whatsoever. Ah well, so much for being .
But hey! Conrad also says touring Europe is fun. He also promises a U.
S. tour, but only to keep our American booking agent happy. Aw gee guys, thanks!
The band also recently posted a dance remix of Naked Sun on their . The revamping comes courtesy of one DJ Cat, who, we assume, is not related to Cat Solen. Liars, Lightning Bolt, Oneida on Mighty Robot DVD The Brooklyn-based underground performance space / art collective Mighty Robot threw some of the best shows and parties New York City saw at the beginning of this young millennium, introducing the world to bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Les Savy Fav, and more.
Mighty Robot met a premature end in late 2005, but thanks to the power of digital media and the fine people at , it s not forgotten. On the DVD Sleep When You Are Dead, out June 30, Contact has collected 73 minutes of performances from various Mighty Robot events in and around their Williamsburg space. Bands representin include Liars, Lightning Bolt, Oneida, Ex Models, Coachwhips, Hospitals, Sightings and more.
Shows from 2004 and 2005 are featured, as is a documentary on the last two days of the venue s life.
Also: Low, !!
!, Fujiya Miyagi, the Concretes It s doubtful that the organizers of the will serve actual sundaes at their festival (if only!), but they ve nonetheless assembled a fairly sumptuous lineup of performers to play on five stages at De Montfort Hall and Gardens in Leicester, England from August 10-12.
This year s lineup includes Spoon, the Hold Steady, Low, Spiritualized (a J. Spaceman Acoustic Mainlines set), Echo and the Bunnymen, !!
!, Fujiya Miyagi, the Aliens, the Concretes, Gruff Rhys, Vetiver, the Magic Numbers, the Divine Comedy, Two Gallants, Rumble Strips, Malcolm Middleton (formerly of Arab Strap) and Wild Beasts, though there are plenty of acts still to be confirmed.
Jennifer Gentle Prep LP, Peddle Condoms in China If it turns out the burgeoning economy of the new China is built on a steady supply of peyote, you ve got two things to thank: condoms, and psychedelic pers .
A prophylactic ad featuring I Do Dream You from the Italian band s last record, , is taking the world s most populous nation by storm. And after a few viewings of the , we too are feeling an odd compulsion to bump our uglies with some fuzz bass.
Midnight Room, the second Sub Pop offering from the psych-popping safety advocates, will come, sheathed in protective plastic, on June 19.
The band will set off on a tour in support of the ten-track offering next week-- including a few dates on the Chinese mainland. Mayer, Superpitcher, Koze on Kompakt Speicher Comp The third installment in a series compiling the finest 12 cuts from label s Kompakt Extra/Speicher imprint-- sporting the frill-free title Speicher CD3-- will hit U.S.
shores June 19.
Once again curated by Michael Mayer, the creation of Speicher 3 was also helped along by Kompakt vet J o rg Burger. Choice cuts by Superpitcher, DJ Koze, and Mayer himself (with Kompakt co-honcho Wolfgang Voigt) are among the highlights of the mix, heavy on the microhouse and easy on the filler.
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