Videos : Learn how to be a real guitar hero with Vampire Weekend and The National

Q TV brings you an assortment of Indie Rock luminaries to teach you how to play your favourite tracks on guitar.

Our first one on one lesson is with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig showing us how to recreate "A-Punk".



The National's Aaron Dessner gives us a "Fake Empire" lesson.

NEW MP3 - The Big Pink mixtape for Fact Mag

Milo Cordell from The Big Pink has put together Fact mix 89 for UK Mag Fact Magazine.

Check out the tracklisting here

Listen up
The Big Pink: Fact mix 89 (mix tape) [mp3]

The Big Pink's A History Of Love is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New videos - The Mountain Goats on Colbert

Last week, The Mountain Goats made their late night television debut on the Colbert Report.

Take a look at the interview between Colbert and John Darnielle as they discuss the heavy religious influence on the new album and Darnielle's penchant for "cheerfully desolate" lyrics.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
John Darnielle
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore

The band then played a passionate rendition of Psalms 40:2 taken from the new album The Life Of The World To Come.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Mountain Goats - Psalms 40:2
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore

New MP3 - tUnE-yArDs 'Hatari'

tUnE-yArDs is the project of New England native, Merrill Garbus.

As well as marrying a vast range of musical styles, tUnE-yArDs has a fierce DIY approach.
She recorded and produced her whole album, at virtually no cost using free downloaded software (and you thought you were resourceful).

If you're into the folktronic stylings of Micachu and Coco Rosie take a listen to tUnE-yArDs.

Tune Yards - Hatari [mp3]

Future Of The Left announce Australian sideshows

Future Of The Left fans rejoice!
The welsh trio have announed sideshows for January 2010.

Falkous and co. will play three east coast shows in addition to playing the
Falls Festival and Southbound.
Matching brutal intensity with brilliant lyrical bite like no-one else, Future Of The Left are known for their highly volatile, knockout live shows.

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY OCTOBER 16



BRISBANE
Sunday January 3
The Zoo
Tickets from through Oztix phone sales 1300 762 545, The Zoo, Rockinghorse Records (City), Kill The Music (City), Butterbeats (City & Valley), Bombay Rock (Townsville), Cooly Hotel (Coolangatta), Disasterpiece (Southport), Gooble Warming (West End), Great Western (Rockhampton), Moshpit Music (Maroochydore), Rockaway Records (Springwood), Sands Tavern (Maroochydore) & Sunflower Music (Broadbeach)
Presented by Rave

SYDNEY
Thursday January 7
The Annandale Hotel
Tickets from the venue, online at the Annandale Hotel or 02 9550 1078
Presented by Drum Media

MELBOURNE
Friday January 8
Corner Hotel
Tickets from Corner Hotel Box Office on 03 9427 9198 or online at the Corner Hotel
Presented by RRR & Beat

Also appearing at:
Falls Festival (Marion Bay, TAS and Lorne, VIC - Sold Out)
For more info click here.
Southbound Festival (Busselton, WA)
For more info click here.




Travels With Myself And Another is out now through 4AD/Remote Control

St Vincent - Marrow

New St Vincent!
Marrow from her latest album Actor



If you missed it the first time around, check out her performance of Marrow on Letterman a few months ago.

Remote Control and Purple Sneakers launching The Big Pink

Remote Control are back again to take over Sneakers and this week we are celebrating the release of one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year, THE BIG PINK!

Described as a cross between The Stone Roses, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Massive Attack make sure you get to the club early and listen to the entire album played back in full.

Super rad and awesome tunes will be provided by Purple Sneakers DJs, WALKIE TALKIE, BENLUCID, NICK FINDLAY and M.I.T. As well as guest party starters MY GOODNESS! and NICKLEZ AND DIMES.

Check the website for The Big Pink album giveaways!

Don’t Forget Purple Sneakers Happy hour is from 7pm – 9pm every Friday! $10 Jugs of Coopers Lager and $3 glasses of Champagne.

7pm till waaaay late! $10

The Big Pink album streaming on line - out this Friday!

Ahead of the record's release on September 11, The Big Pink are streaming their debut album, A Brief History of Love:



You can also download the new single Dominos here
Dominos [mp3]

WHO ARE THE BIG PINK?

In case you missed the buzz,

Searing and soulful, transcendental and life affirming, The Big Pink are Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, two old friends in love with digital hardcore and the narcotic effects of blessed out electronic music. Woozy refrains become 'pink noise'. They dream of the future. More people should. There is an incredible human soul to all they do, something entrancing.


The Big Pink recorded their debut album at the legendary Electric Ladyland studios in New York. The album is self-produced, mixed by Rich Costey (Interpol, Glasvegas, The Mars Volta, Muse). Entitled A Brief History Of Love, Milo Cordell says of the album name “Every song is a love song to some degree, about every different aspect of love.

“The good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the dreams, the nightmares, the whole thing and I guess that’s what encompasses the whole album."


A Brief History Of Love is out through 4ad/ Remote Control September 11.

www.musicfromthebigpink.com

www.4ad.com/thebigpink

www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink

New video from The Big Pink - Dominos

The Big Pink have released a second video from their debut album A History Of Love, due for release Sep 12.

The track is the anthemic Dominos, and it will have you turning up the volume dial so you can sing along at the top of your lungs!

The video for their first single, Velvet, was a little too saucy for some (bondage, neck straps and all), making some commercial networks stop short of broadcasting it to the free to air masses.

What will they figure of these icy melting maidens being exploded across the screen? The clip features Robbie and Milo, but also their hot Japanese drummer Akiko Matsuura.



A History Of Love is out Sep 12 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

The Mountain Goats Go Biblical

John Darnielle and co have announced the release of a new album due out in October this year titled The Life Of The World To Come.

When questioned about the premise of the upcoming album, Darnielle says "It’s twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of."

With a tracklisting that reads like a Sunday school's curriculum you'd be forgiven for thinking that The Mountain Goats may have gone all Christian Rock on us!
Though Darnielle insists it isn't an album detailing a "religious awakening" rather an immersion in Biblical poetry and imagery.

Intriguing!

Take a listen to the first track from the album Genesis 3:23.

Genesis 3:23 [mp3]


The Life of the World to Come:

1 1 Samuel 15:23
2 Psalms 40:2
3 Genesis 3:23
4 Philippians 3:20-21
5 Hebrews 11:40
6 Genesis 30:3
7 Romans 10:9
8 1 John 4:16
9 Matthew 25:21
10 Deuteronomy 2:10
11 Isaiah 45:23
12 Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace

Deerhunter - Live at the Wireless on JJJ Mon Aug 3

Triple J will broadcast their live recording of Deerhunter from their recent tour, this Monday 3rd August at 8pm, and repeated at Sunday 9th August at 5pm.

Here are the photos they captured at the show:



If you're not in Australia, you can still tune in by streaming them on the net.
Mon Aug 3, 8.00pm AEST (Sydney time)
Sun Aug 9, 5.00pm AEST (Sydney time)

New Atlas Sound album and mp3

Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox is back with a new release under his solo guise, Atlas Sound, for another round of ethereal pop genius with his second solo album, Logos.

Whilst its predecessor (Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, 2007) was a record of fragile beauty and acute experimentalism in comparison to the often volatile bluster of Deerhunter, Logos has a far more rooted pop sensibility.

A draft version of the album leaked on the internet last year. Understandably, Cox was not happy Jan! In fact he almost abandoned the project but thank goodness he didn't.

Bradford says, "My last album was a bedroom laptop type thing. Very introverted. Logos is an album that was recorded all over the world. It's not about me. There are collaborations with other musicians. The lyrics are not autobiographical. The view is a lot more panoramic and less close-up. I became bored with introspection. This was also the case Deerhunter's Microcastle LP, which was written during the same period."

At its heart is ‘Walkabout’, a collaboration between Cox and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) put together whilst he was on tour with Animal Collective in Europe. Combining their love for tape loops and doo-wop, the track lifts the hook from The Dovers’ classic 1966 garage track ‘What Am I Going To Do?’ to form a glorious summertime jam.

Walkabout [mp3]

Elsewhere Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier also lends her vocals to the kaleidoscopic motorik number, ‘Quick Canal’.

The tracklisting is as follows:
'The Light That Failed'
'An Orchid'
'Walkabout' ft. Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)
'Criminals'
'Attic Lights'
'Sheila'
'Quick Canal' ft. Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)
'My Halo'
'Kid Climax'
'Washington School'
'Logos'

Read more of Bradford Cox's interview with Stereogum about Logos here.
Logos is out in October through 4ad/ Remote Control

The Big Pink announce debut album

[image from under the radar]

From 4ad:

As recording starts to come to a close out in New York, The Big Pink have revealed the title of their forthcoming debut record, due September.

Speaking to 6Music, Milo Cordell discussed how A Brief History Of Love came to be the title for the release.

"Every song is a love song to some degree, about every different aspect of love.

"The good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the dreams, the nightmares, the whole thing and I guess that’s what encompasses the whole album, and we have a song called ‘A Brief History Of Love’ so it’s apt."

Currently still recording out in Manhattan with various production teams, Milo declared the heritage of the studio where they were recording had been crucial to the way they had gone about putting the album together.

"It’s been great doing it in New York, being in Electric Lady. We recorded it in the same room as Combat Rock by The Clash."

Partner Robbie Furze also revealed certain dimensions to their sound were developed as a result of them making the most of the studio.

"We’ve got Bowie’s piano, the one that he played on, we’ve actually got on our record.

"There’s a couple of slower ones that we don’t play live," Furze added. "We actually wrote a new song out in Electric Lady which came very quickly in that room.”

As part of our monthly mailout we have another competition for you to enter, this time with the chance to win one of the copies of the band's Japanese EP release, This Is Our Time. To be in with the running to win sign up to the 4AD mailing list.

More details on the record and the much-anticipated video for 'Stop The World' expected shortly.

In the meantime here is more to intrigue you:

St Vincent rocks it on Letterman

Here is the inimitable St Vincent ROCKING IT OUT on Marrow on Letterman earlier this week, full brass section in tow.

Very impressive!



Can someone please bring St Vincent BAND out here? PLEASE?

Actor is out now through 4ad. Get it already.

Pixies Do Doolittle live

Following the release of their Minotaur boxset and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal album Doolittle, the band will be playing a string of European shows where they will "play all the songs that feature on the album and its related b-sides at the shows" [nme].

The lucky northern hemisphere buggers get to see them do it in October. Dates are on Pitchfork.

New Beirut video Concubine

Check out the new video for Concubine from Beirut's March Of The Zapotec/ Holland EP.



March Of The Zapotec/ Holland EP is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New St Vincent videos - live for Lake Fever Sessions

Here is Annie Clarke, aka St Vincent performing 3 tracks acoustically: Actor Out Of Work and The Strangers from her latest album Actor. Plus Oh My God from her debut album Marry Me.

Recorded in Nashville by the Lake Fever Sessions.

St. Vincent "Actor Out Of Work" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

St. Vincent "The Strangers" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

St. Vincent "Oh My God" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

Actor is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Micachu video Golden Phone

More Micachu!

She's just given us a new mixtape to download, Kwesachu.

And now here's a finger snapping video to go with her super catchy song Golden Phone from her album Jewellery.



Jewellery is out now though 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Anni Rossi clip The West Coast

Check out the new clip for The West Coast from Anni Rossi's album Rockwell.



Rockwell is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

Download the Dark Was The Night concert from NPR

Remember how we were all getting our knickers in a twist over missing out on this?



Well bless NPR, they have now made it possible for us to listen to the whole concert! Get it here.

There are also photos and an interview with Bryce Dessner from The National who of course, helped curate the album.



Dark Was The Night is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New sounds from The National

In case you haven't heard, The National have been road testing new material.

Here are two new tracks that were captured in Montreal and Boston last month, in all their audio and visual glory:

Blood Buzz Ohio (Live In Montreal) [mp3]

The Runaway (Live In Boston) [mp3]

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FUTURE OF THE LEFT TRAVELS WITH MYSELF AND ANOTHER

"Future Of The Left have again made sounding mad - angry and crazy - totally genius." The Vine

"Travels With Myself And Another will leave you bleeding in the gutter and pleading for more." Inpress

Blunt 9/10
Spin ****

If you haven't already had a chance to listen to Future Of The Left's new one Travels With Myself And Another, we say you best crawl out from that rock you've been living under and check it out.

The album has been receiving glowing reviews left right and centre and has already been chosen as Album Of The Week by the lovely folk at RTR FM, SYN FM and PBS.

Just as gnarly, biting and badass as their last effort Curses, Travels With Myself And Another is a devilish masterpiece that has been captivating fans and newcomers alike.

Travels With Myself And Another is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

Deerhunter back in Australia and Atlas Sound gig in Sydney TONIGHT!

Deerhunter returned to Australia yesterday and played a stunning 2nd show in Melbourne.

One very special gig you might not have heard about is Bradford Cox from Deerhunter (USA) doing an exclusive solo show under his Atlas Sound guise to raise some much needed cash for FBi community radio. There are only 100 tickets available on the door and it's likely to sell out quick. Bradford is the only one playing so make sure you get there early if you don't want to miss out!

WHO: Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter).
DATE: Friday, June 19
TIME: 6:00pm
VENUE: Black & Blue Gallery (302 / 267-271 Cleveland Street, Redfern)
COST: $15, all proceeds go to FBi

Deerhunter play The Annandale in Sydney on Sat 20th June.

Microcastle and Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP are out now through 4ad.

THE BIG PINK PITCHFORK INTERVIEW

London duo The Big Pink have been busily working away at their debut album at Electric Lady Studio in New York.
In between sessions, Pitchfork caught up with one half of the band (Robbie Furze) to talk about The Big Pink's beginnings, Gang Gang Dance and Y2K paranoia amongst other things...

Read the full article here.

The Big Pink's next single Stop The World will be available from June 27th, whilst their yet-to-be-named debut album will be released later this year through 4AD/Remote Control.

Deerhunter and The Breeders get together for a Bragging Party

So damn cute. Bradford Cox and the Deal sisters jamming out together on The Amps 'Bragging Party' at ATP festival. Yeeee!

As blogged on Deerhunter's blog and Stereogum.

Don't they just sound beautiful together? Kelley gets the giggles towards the end. Yeeee!

TV On The Radio... on your radio Monday night!

Just a quick reminder that TV On The Radio's extraordinary live set from The Metro Sydney recorded in January this year is going to air on Triple J's Live At The Wireless this coming Monday 11th May at 8pm.

Tune in on the radio or stream on line from 8pm AESTtriplej.net.au.

Check out some of the accompanying footage here [Dancing Choose] and here [Wolf Like Me].

Dark Was The Night - Youtube Footage from the concert

Well the reviews for Dark Was The Night, the concert are in from Pitchfork and Stereogum overnight and it sounded incredible!

The setlist (courtesy of Pitchfork)

Dirty Projectors:
"Useful Chamber"
"Stillness Is the Move"
"Ambulance Man" [ft. David Byrne]
"Knotty Pine" [ft. David Byrne]

My Brightest Diamond:
"Feeling Good" (Nina Simone cover) [ft. the National]

The National:
"Slow Show"
"England"
"So Far Around the Bend" [ft. Bon Iver]
New Song [ft. My Brightest Diamond and Bon Iver]

Dave Sitek:
"With a Girl Like You" (The Troggs cover)

David Byrne:
"Don't Fence Me In" (Cole Porter cover)
"Dreamworld: Marco de Canavezes" [ft. Bon Iver]
"Waters of March" [ft. Feist]

Bon Iver:
"Brackett, WI"
"Blood Bank"
"Big Red Machine" [ft. the National]
"Flume" [ft. My Brightest Diamond]

Feist:
"Wagoner's Lad" (Tim O'Brien cover)
"Look at What Light Did Now" (Little Wings cover)
"Train Song" (Vashti Bunyan cover) [ft. Bon Iver]
"Someday Baby" (Bob Dylan cover)

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings:
"Not Gonna Cry"
"When I Come Home"
"Inspiration Information"
"100 Days, 100 Nights"

Dark Was the Night All-Stars/Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings:
"This Land Is Your Land"

And for those of us who were stuck on the other side of the globe while this all went down, we can attempt to piece together what we can of it thanks to the wonders of Youtube:

Looking for mp3s?
Check out our free mp3 download page here!

Dark Was The Night concert in NY this weekend

From 4ad, for the lucky buggers of NYC:

This weekend sees the special Dark Was The Night Live event in New York take place.

Happening at the famed Radio City Music Hall on Sunday evening (May 3rd), The National, David Byrne, Feist, Bon Iver, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio), The Dirty Projectors and My Brightest Diamond are all confirmed to appear and they be both performing songs from Dark Was The Night and other material as part of mini-sets and also numerous collaborations.

If you're in the city, please do come and join us celebrate Dark Was The Night. Some tickets are still available from here. All proceeds will benefit the Red Hot Organization and its mission to combat the AIDS pandemic. You can learn more about the project here.

For the unaware, Dark Was The Night is a 31 track charity compilation that both Aaron and Bryce Dessner from The National produced on behalf the Red Hot Organization, which was released by 4AD earlier in the year. More information here.

Dark Was The Night is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

Looking for mp3s?
Check out our free mp3 download page here!

New Future Of The Left mp3 Arming Eritrea

Earlier this month we announced details for the new Future Of The Left album, Travels With Myself and Another, due out here June 20.

Now here is the first song from it:

Lead-off track Arming Eritrea sets the tone for the album. It lulls the listener into a false sense of security before exploding through the speakers with a bloodthirsty roar of fuzzy bass and distorted guitar lines.

Arming Eritrea [mp3]

Deerhunter announce 2 extra shows

Popfrenzy are very pleased to announced, due to overwhelming demand, Deerhunter will be playing two more Australian shows this June.

With the first Melbourne show already sold out, Deerhunter will be returning to The Corner Hotel Thursday, June 18 and to Sydney’s Annandale Hotel Saturday, June 20.

Having been referred to by Karen O of the yeah yeah yeah’s in NME as bordering on “a religious experience” – this is seriously one tour you don’t want to miss!

Catch Deerhunter on one of the following dates:

Thursday, June 11 SYDNEY - Manning Bar
Tickets through www.moshtix.com.au

Friday, June 12 MELBOURNE - The Corner Hotel SOLD OUT

Saturday, June 13 BRISBANE - The Zoo
Tickets through http://zoo.oztix.com.au

New shows:
Thursday, June 18 MELBOURNE - The Corner Hotel
Tickets through www.cornerhotel.com

Saturday, June 20 SYDNEY - The Annandale Hotel
Tickets through www.annandalehotel.com.au

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

DEERHUNTER’S ‘MICROCASTLE’ IS OUT NOW THROUGH 4AD/ REMOTE CONTROL.

New Broken Records video Until The Earth Begins To Part

A beautifully animated video for the Broken Records' album title track Until The Earth Begins To Part that is layered and lush as the arrangements on the album.



Animated by Gavin Wood.

We blogged the track last week too.

Until The Earth Begins To Part the single is out May 9.
Until The Earth Beings To Part the album is out May 30.

Both out through 4ad/ Remote Control.

Pixies Minotaur boxset announced

Goodness, didn't this Pitchfork tweet just send a flurry of questions our way yesterday.

Well thankfully 4ad have provided some answers:

Five classic 4AD releases from Pixies are going to be reissued as both Limited Edition and Deluxe Edition collector's sets entitled Minotaur. Spearheaded by Jeff Anderson, founder of A+R (Artist in Residence), who has put together expansive and eye-catching versions of releases by Nine Inch Nails, Beck and Sigur Ros - Minotaur will be available for pre-order at www.ainr.com beginning Monday, June 15, 2009. The Minotaur Deluxe Edition will retail for $175, while the Minotaur Limited Edition will be priced at $450.

The Deluxe Edition will include all five Pixies studio albums - Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), and Trompe le Monde (1991) - on 24k layered CD and Blu-ray (five discs total), with reinterpreted artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer who created all of the artwork that accompanied the Pixies' studio albums. Also included in the Deluxe Edition will be a DVD of a Pixies 1991 performance at the Brixton Academy in London, the group's videos, possible live tracks, and a 54-page book, all housed in a custom slipcase. The Minotaur Limited Edition version will include everything in the Deluxe Edition, as well as all five albums on 180 gram vinyl, a Giclee print of Oliver's artwork, and a 72-page hardcover book, all housed in an oversized custom clamshell cover.

Anderson explained the idea behind the set. "As a Pixies fan, I asked myself, 'How can we re-release this without making this just another box set?' I think we've all been down that road where you've purchased a box set and have been disappointed by only getting a few bonus tracks and a few extra photos. With the Pixies, because they remain such a contemporary band and their sound is still so relevant today, we wanted to re-introduce them to their fans, giving them something that they would truly appreciate and cherish. And also, how can we introduce the band to new fans? What soon followed was the idea of Vaughan Oliver."

Oliver - who was the resident album designer for 4AD - explains how he assembled the now instantly-recognizable album covers for the band. "My starting point would always be the music, reading the lyrics, talking with the band - what their preferences were, in film and painting. With the Pixies, it was work that was always close to my heart and my own personal aesthetic - the images that Charles [aka Black Francis] painted with his lyrics really struck a chord. His work is full of fantastic imagery that always appealed to me, and those were ideas I was trying to reflect with the packaging."

After discussing the project with Anderson, Oliver came up with an intriguing idea. "I said, 'That was then, this is now. Why don't we do a whole new body of work? It's all born of the same lyrics and albums - it would be evolving the ideas we had in the original packages.' I worked with the same photographer who I worked with back then, Simon Larbalestier. If there were a 'fifth Pixie,' it would have been Simon - his work so suited what they were doing. Simon's gone out and shot a whole new body of work. He was a bit panicked at first, he said, 'The old sleeves - with the topless Spanish dancer, the red planet - have become iconic.' I said to Simon, 'Don't be scared. You're 20 years on, you're a better photographer. Let's take all those same things and do a new body of work.' He shot some amazing images that I think surpass what we did first time around."

Now an art teacher at the University of the Creative Arts in Epsom [in Surrey, U.K.], Oliver called upon his students for some input for the Pixies set. "I selected a team of students under my direction to work with the titles in the track listing, in a three dimensional way. Cutting the track listing out of cards, shining light through it, making the track titles from nails - all very organic. We're using the type as 'image.' There's a link when you look at them visually with the images that I'm putting next to them in the book."

Upon seeing the gorgeous packaging and effort that has gone into both the Deluxe and Limited Editions of Minotaur, Pixies fans worldwide will get a chance to experience the Pixies in a whole new manner, thanks to Anderson, Oliver, and Larbalestier. "We design some interesting and innovative packages," adds Anderson. "We're not inexpensive, but I think there are still people out there who don't mind paying for great quality."

For more information and to pre-order, visit www.ainr.com

Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice vinyl EP - if you're quick enough to catch it!

Pitchfork report that Johns Darnielle and Vanderslice have joined forces to record "a collaborative vinyl-only EP called Moon Colony Bloodbath".

Released on Darnielle's Cadmean Dawn Records, the EP was recorded to sell on their recent Darnielle/ Vanderslice acoustic Gone Primitive tour but have a few leftover.

If you'd like to snap one up, we recommend you keep your eyes peeled on the 4ad website for details.

The tracklisting for Moon Colony Bloodbath is:

A1 Surrounded
A2 Lucifer Rising
A3 Satori in Denver
B1 Scorpio Rising
B2 Sudden Oak Death
B3 Columns Pillars Steps
B4 Emerging

New Deerhunter mp3 Rainwater Cassette Exchange

Deerhunter will be releasing a new EP just in time for their tour here in June.

The 5 track Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP will be released digitally May 18 and physically June 8 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

Listen to the title track:
Rainwater Cassette Exchange [mp3]

Download from itunes here.

The Deerhunter shows are already selling well so we wouldn't leave it too much longer before snapping a ticket up!

DEERHUNTER'S DEBUT TOUR OF AUSTRALIA
Thu 11 Jun - Sydney, Manning Bar
Fri 12 Jun - Melbourne, Corner Hotel
Sat 13 Jun - Brisbane, The Zoo

Looking for mp3s?
Check out our free mp3 download page here!

Elvis Perkins live on NPR

NPR are also streaming a live set from Elvis Perkins on their site.

They perform:
I Heard Your Voice in Dresden
Hours Last Stand
Stay Zombie + Shampoo

Check it out here.

TV On The Radio live on NPR

NPR have just uploaded some fantastic live sets.

Playing live as a four piece version of the band, sans Dave Sitek, the band performed four songs:

Love Dog
Family Tree
Crying
Stork & Owl

Check it out here.

New St Vincent mp3 Actor Out Of Work

St Vincent's Actor Out Of Work is the next single taken from the upcoming album Actor.

Actor Out Of Work is where Clark gets into 'rock mode' if you like, a succinct concoction of fuzzed out guitars, horns and thumping drums clocking in at just over two minutes.

Though don’t be mistaken, this aint your ordinary middle-of-the-road rock track.

Miss Clarke’s melodies and inventive arrangements ensure that this is yet another one of her kooky creations, impossible to pigeon hole yet easy to love.

Actor Out Of Work [mp3]

Buy the album Actor from iTunes.

Actor Out Of Work 7" is out now.

The album Actor is out May 2 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Breeders video and mp3

Like we told you last month, The Breeders have a new EP 'Fate To Fatal' that they are self-releasing.

Now you've seen the making of video, here's the finished product, and the mp3.



Fate To Fatal [mp3]

New video - St Vincent - Actor Out Of Work

The new clip from St Vincent. Actor Out Of Work from St Vincent's forthcoming new record Actor, out May 2 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Broken Records mp3 - Until The Earth Begins To Part

Armed with an onslaught of instruments including guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums (phew!), Broken Records are set to release their album Until The Earth Begins To Part.

The first taste is the album’s title track, a lush and layered arrangement that has a beautiful balance of horns, strings and lively, dynamic vocals.

In a statement the band said "we’re trying to do something different. People forget that music doesn’t have to be just bass, guitar and drums. It can be just as loud and exciting with glockenspiel and trumpet". After one listen we can safely say they’ve pretty much nailed it.

Until The Earth Begins To Part [mp3]

New video - TV On The Radio 'Wolf Like Me' @ The Metro, Sydney

Time to get your diary out! Triple J filmed TV On The Radio's performance at The Metro Theatre in Sydney, back in January and will be airing it on Live At The Wireless in May.

In the meantime here is the footage of them performing Wolf Like Me at the show:



You can also catch Dancing Choose on the JJJ website here.

To catch the set in its entirety, tune into Live At The Wireless on Triple J on Monday 11th May at 8pm and Sunday 17th May at 5pm.

Looking for mp3s?
Check out our free mp3 download page here!

Stereolab on hiatus

Aren't you glad you caught Stereolab on their recent Australian tour? Coz now they've gone on hiatus so it was their last run here for what looks like could be quite a while.

From the band's website via Pitchfork:

Apr 2nd ////
Hiatus/Sabbatical/Pause/Intermission/Breather
Dear All,

As we recently made #51 with Emperor Tomato Ketchup in the Amazon 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of all Time we feel that our work is done for the moment.
We have had to cancel the last two shows that we were scheduled to play, apologies to all that had bought tickets, and there are no plans to record new tracks.
Duophonic are working on the release of Chemical Chords 2, we also have plans for a new Switched On and remastering of the back catalogue.
We are are all going to have a bit of a rest now after nearly 19 years and work on a few other projects.
The website will still be updated and disks released but there won't be any new Stereolab product for a while.

Cheerio
Pikey

New Beirut video of entire live set at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Beirut have just released a new double EP and many of the songs can be seen and heard in this performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, captured by Baeble Music.




Set list:
East Harlem
***The Shrew***
The Concubine
Mimizan
La Javanaise
The Akara
Cozak
My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles
Gulag Orkestar
Forks and Knives (La Fete)
Brazil

March of the Zapotec/Holland is out now.

New Future Of The Left album announced

Andy Falkous stalkers (of which there seem to be NUMEROUS in Australia) rejoice!

Future Of The Left have announced details of their forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2007's debut Curses.

Travels With Myself And Another boasts twelve new tracks (including the latest single 'The Hope That House Built', out now) and is set to be released here on June 20.

Future Of The Left Travels With Myself And Another
RELEASED June 20 2009

1. Arming Eritrea
2. Chin Music
3. The Hope That House Built
4. Throwing Bricks At Trains
5. I Am Civil Service
6. Land Of My Formers
7. You Need Satan More Than He Needs You
8. That Damned Fly
9. Stand By Your Manatee
10. Yin/Post Yin
11. Drink Nike
12. Lapsed Catholics

Deerhunter announce their first tour of Australia

Deerhunter have just announced their first tour of Australia!:

"A massive, psych‐heavy, art‐damaged four piece, and one of the most inspired new bands we’ve heard in quite a while... not to mention their absolutely fucking insane live shows." – Pitchfork

Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. Since then, the band has weathered chaotic line‐up changes, the death of a member and much discouragement, to emerge in the past two years as an unchallenged tenant of pop avantgarde, capturing listens the world wide.

The band creates songs in a psychophysical multitrack stream of‐consciousness rush but their most compelling asset is a penchant for unpredictability. No two performances are the same; rather the group's cerebral fingerprint shines through constantly morphing presentations.

Their live performances almost always leave audiences indoctrinated, having been referred to by Karen O of the yeah yeah yeah’s in NME as bordering on “a religious experience.”

Deerhunter have just completed a European tour where they played shows with Liars as well as festival slots at Pitchfork vs All Tomorrow’s Parties and Primavera.

Popfrenzy and triple j presents Deerhunter

Thursday, June 11 - SYDNEY
Manning Bar
Tickets through www.moshtix.com.au

Friday, June 12 - MELBOURNE
Corner Hotel
Tickets through www.cornerhotel.com

Saturday, June 13 - BRISBANE
The Zoo
'Tickets through http://zoo.oztix.com.au

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY APRIL 3

Deerhunter's "Microcastle" is out now through 4AD/Remote Control

Deerhunter on Myspace
Deerhunter on 4AD
Deerhunter Blog

Department Of Eagles video - No One Does It Like You

Department Of Eagles have just released a video for their song 'No One Does It Like You'.

The clip was directed by Patrick Daughters (who has previous done videos for Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, Interpol, The Shins and Depeche Mode) and New York based artist Marcel Dzarma.

Dzarma also designed the sets and costumes in this beautiful though slightly disquieting, surrealist dream of a clip.



The clip had its debut screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this week.

In Ear Park is out now through 4ad.

The Big Pink - Velvet

Who ever said jealousy was a bad thing?

The Big Pink started when label manager at Merock Records (Telepathe, Salem) Caleb Merock got a bit jealous of his bands going off and doing the rock star thing and decided to have a crack at it himself. Aren’t we lucky he did? The Big Pink essentially sound like electro kids brought up on a healthy diet of My Bloody Valentine and Jesus And Mary Chain, just take a listen to their single ‘Velvet”.

It’s a nice clash of swampy, dark atmospheric electro with a wall of guitar and soulful vocals thrown over the top.

Velvet [mp3]
Velvet single [iTunes]

And here's the video:

With the ink still drying on their 4AD signing, these guys have promised self produced album later this year.

http://www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink

The Breeders self release new EP

The Breeders are following up last year's Mountain Battles album with a self-released EP.

Entitled Fate To Fatal, it will be release April 21. It features 4 tracks including "The Last Time" (feat. guest vocals by Mark Lanegan), "Chances Are" (a Bob Marley cover and the title track "Fate To Fatal" which the band have shot a roller derby clip for.

The clip's not out yet but this making of is:



So why the self release? Kim Deal told Pitchfork:

It seems that now, more than at any other time in the past, we could put the music out ourselves - hand-screen some cool artwork ourselves, sell the EPs at our shows and on our website, as well as get them to traditional record stores and other online outlets. So we're just going to press up a thousand twelve-inch vinyls." (The Breeders remain signed to 4AD)

Those Deal sister sure like to keep themselves busy. The Breeders will also be playing and curating All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK in May.

Camera Obscura - French Navy clip

Last week we blogged the fantastic new single by Camera Obscura, French Navy, from their forthcoming album My Maudlin Career.

Here's the new clip for it!

Introducing Broken Records

Broken Records Release Their Debut Album Until The Earth Begins To Part On 4AD On June 1st. The Album Title Track Will Be Released As A Single On May 11th.

“We’re trying to do something different. People forget that music doesn’t have to be just bass, guitar and drums. It can be just as loud and exciting with glockenspiel and trumpet” - Broken Records

“How Nirvana might sound had they formed in Belarus instead of Seattle” - Q, Jan 2009

Hotly-tipped Scottish seven-piece Broken Records release their debut album Until The Earth Begins To Part on June 1st 2009.

The group, who formed in Edinburgh at the end of 2006, have already been tipped for greatness by publications as diverse as NME, Q, The Word, The Sun, The Fly, News Of The World, Clash and Drowned in Sound. A series of three independently released singles released in 2008 led NME to call them “an incredible proposition – set to go stellar as soon as they decide on a lucky label to sign to”.

The album features ten tracks and was recorded in Monnow Valley studio in Monmouth with producer Ian Caple.

The tracklisting is:
Nearly Home
If The News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It
Until The Earth Begins To Part
A Promise
Thoughts On A Picture
If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song It Would Sound Like This
Wolves
Ghosts
A Good Reason
Slow Parade

If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song It Would Sound Like This [mp3]

http://www.myspace.com/brokenrecordsedinburgh

The National - So Far Round The Bend from Dark Was The Night

For your downloading pleasure, from the brilliant Dark Was The Night compilation. If you haven't picked yourself up a copy yet, why the hell not? Get it already! Not only is an incredible collection of exclusive material from the likes of The National, David Byrne, Spoon, Sharon Jones etc, all proceeds go towards AIDs projects via the Red Hot Organisation.

So Far Round The Bend [mp3]

Dark Was The Night films - short films by Vincent Moon

The great Vincent Moon (the man behind those fantastic Take Away Shows) recently shot Dirty Projectors, the National and Yeasayer performing gorgeous renditions of their DWTN tunes - Pitchfork premiered all three clips this week.

The National - So Far Round The Bend


Yeasayer - Tightrope


Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine

Anni Rossi live radio performance

Anni Rossi recently stepped in The Current studio for Minnesota Public Radio to perform 4 songs from her new album Rockwell.


Songs performed: "Machine," "Venice," "Ecology," and "Wheel Pusher".

You can listen to the set here:

New Camera Obscura track French Navy

Here is French Navy, the opening track on Camera Obscura's new album My Maudlin Career due out April 18.

French Navy [mp3]

French Navy will be released as a single on April 11.

http://www.camera-obscura.net/
http://www.myspace.com/cameraobscuraband

St Vincent delivers unto us The Strangers

St Vincent, aka Annie Clarke, has unveiled the first track The Strangers from her new album Actor, due out May 2.

Two years ago, Annie Clark’s recorded debut as St. Vincent, Marry Me, gave immediate notice that a dizzying new talent had emerged from the flatlands of Texas. Actor, St. Vincent’s beguiling, sophisticated new record, takes that debut’s ambition as its starting point and never looks back. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired.

A sneak peek:

right click here to download THE STRANGERS

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Dark Was The Night comes alive!

For those of you lucky enough to be on the right side of the globe at the right time, the Dark Was The Night live concert has been announced for Radio City Music Hall in NYC, Sunday May 3.

Performing will be:
David Byrne
Dirty Projectors
Feist
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
My Brightest Diamond
The National
and more to be announced

For more details including where to buy tickets, go to http://darkwasthenight.com/

St. Vincent talks Actor

Yesterday we posted some live videos of St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, performing tracks from her upcoming new album, Actor. Last week Pitchfork chatted to Clark about the inspirations for the new album which, as it turns out, range from Disney classics to Aerosmith. The interview's now up and you can read it here.

New video from Future Of The Left

Late last year, Welsh trio Future Of The Left released an mp3 of The Hope That House Built, the first single from their as yet untitled sophomore album due out later this year. A few months on and now comes the video:


The single is due out March 21 on 7".

And while you wait in anticipation for the new album, you can satiate yourself with their recently released live album Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires, featuring 19 tracks recorded at 2 shows back in August.

And for those music pirates out there, Andy Falkous has this to say:

"Oh, and by the way, the next person, male or female, who accosts me at a show, incredulous at our lack of success then tells me that they illegally downloaded all of our music gets punched squarely in the tits. No exceptions. Be a feckless, short-sighted fucking thief all you like but self-righteous hypocrites with no sense of the absurd are valid, vapid targets."

Bless them. More at their blog.

St. Vincent previews tracks from new album Actor

Last week we announced details of St. Vincent's new album Actor. Now comes your first taste of the album with St. Vincent previewing a couple of the tracks from the album at her NoisePop performance. First up, album opener The Strangers


Marrow


Releasing her debut album Marry Me on Beggars Banquet, last year's reshuffling of Beggars Group will see Actor released through 4AD (TV On The Radio, Scott Walker, Deerhunter) in early April.

Deerhunter previews new songs at NoisePop

Bradford Cox and co recently performed at NoisePop where they played a tracks from their latest album Microcastle, as well as brand new tracks and some old favourites from their 2006 album Cryptograms. The full set, clocking in at almost an hour, was captured by Wolfgang Vault.

It Hugs Back on Channelbee TV

It Hugs Back members Matt, Jack, Paul and Dimitri recently dropped in to the UK's Channelbee to chat about the new upcoming album Inside Your Guitar (due out early April) and how the band formed.



Their new single from the album is Now + Again, which we blogged about yesterday.

Free Hugs, Now + Again

Since forming back in 2006, Kent’s It Hugs Back have been quietly winning over the discerning populace with their dreamy indie-pop gems. Three years on, the four-piece are finally ready to unleash their debut album Inside Your Guitar, due out April 4th.

Having joined 4AD early last year they have been carefully honing their live shows through extensive touring, released the charmingly artworked single Work Day (currently soundtracking the Sundance Film Festival television coverage) and made idiosyncratic music videos with former Aardman animators.

As with previous single Work Day, Now + Again is lifted from Inside Your Guitar and is yet another great catchy guitar-driven track clocking in at just over two minutes, showcasing Matt Simms’ softly-spoken vocals masked by layers of feedback and fuzz. The single is backed by new song Both Arms and will be available on limited edition 7” vinyl.

Now + Again [mp3]


myspace.com/ithugsback

The Big Pink scoop an NME award

Signed to 4ad earlier this month, The Big Pink scooped up the Radar award at the NME awards last night, touting them as one of the biggest up-and-coming bands.

Check out their video for Velvet

Scott Walker duets with Bat For Lashes

Scott Walker has lent his incredible vocals to Bat For Lashes' latest album, duetting on "The Big Sleep".

If you're not up on the iconic Scott Walker already, seek out a copy of 'The Drift' and check out the "30 Century Man : A Scott Walker Documentary - Stephen Kijak's film about Scott's life and work" on DVD.

The Big Sleep

St. Vincent's new album details revealed

Actor is the much anticipated follow up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark) first album Marry Me, one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2007. Actor was co-produced by Clark and John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Polyphonic Spree) and features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark.

Actor, due out May 3, takes the ambitious compositional and sonic underpinnings of Clark's debut as a starting point and never looks back. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Those who saw St. Vincent at her recent sold out performances at the Sydney Festival will have been lucky enough to witness this first hand.

Speaking for the first time about Actor, Annie Clark commented, "I wanted to make these songs technicolour animatronic rides."

Clark, "a playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder" according to the New York Times, sings and plays guitar, bass and keyboard on Actor, with woodwind contributions from Hideaki Aomori (Sufjan Stevens) and Alex Sopp (Bjork, Phillip Glass), plus additional rhythm section work by McKenzie Smith and Paul Alexander of Midlake. Other musicians on the album include Mike Atkinson (French horn, score consultant), Daniel Hart (violin, sarongi), William Flynn (bass), and percussionists Jeff Ryan, Matthias Bossi and Aynsley Powell.

The first St. Vincent album Marry Me earned widespread praise and led to Clark being named Female Artist of the Year at the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards and she has toured extensively with artists such as The National, Death Cab For Cutie and Arcade Fire. Before recording as St. Vincent, Annie Clark was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band, and performed with Glenn Branca's guitar orchestra.

Actor album art:


Tracklist
1. The Strangers
2. Save Me From What I Want
3. Neighbours
4. Actor Out Of Work
5. Black Rainbow
6. Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
7. Marrow
8. The Bed
9. The Party
10. Just The Same But Brand New
11. The Sequel

myspace.com/stvincent

Dark Was The Night compilation out now

Dark Was The Night, the 20th release by the Red Hot Organization to raise funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS, is out now.

Produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, DWTN is available on double CD and triple vinyl and features 31 new and exclusive tracks from a vast array of indie's biggest names including Feist, Arcade Fire and Sharon Jones.

Here are just a few tracks from the release:

Jóhann Jóhannsson: NPR song of the day

Late last year Iceland's Jóhann Jóhannsson released Fordlândia, the second instalment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names.

Featuring on the album is instrumental epic Melodia (Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device based on Heim's Quantum Theory) . You can listen to the track over at NPR.

TV On The Radio live on The Colbert Report

TV On The Radio gave an energetic performance of Dancing Choose on The Colbert Report last night with a 4 piece brass section in tow.

Camera Obscura - new single and album details announced

As announced last week, Camera Obscura will be releasing their fourth album through legendary label 4AD in late April.

Entitled My Maudlin Career, the first single from the album is the title track and is now available for download.

Championed early on by John Peel, Glasgow’s Camera Obscura are fondly regarded by many as one of the UK’s finest acts; having built up over the years a dedicated following with must-have records and tours throughout Europe, USA, Mexico, Australia and South East Asia. Their last album, Let’s Get Out Of This Country (2006), was to prove pivotal for the band, taking them out of the shadows and to long-deserved new heights. “You might not find heartache as enchanting as this anywhere else,” stated All Music Guide in a familiar glowing review.

Having added successful touches to the previous album, Camera Obscura returned to Sweden to work again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen (Ed Harcourt, Peter, Bjorn & John, The Concretes). His wonderful understanding with the band continues to flourish, again fully realising not just the potential of Tracyanne Campbell’s songs and remarkable voice, but also the ensemble musicianship of the group as a whole.

Speaking for the first time about My Maudlin Career, lead singer Tracyanne Campbell commented, "Some people who have heard it say it's intense and quite dark. I suppose it is in a way. We were even more open and brave when making it than we were with the last record. I've never been so brutal when its come to writing lyrics. I wouldn't even call them lyrics. Just documentation of what was going on with me for a while. I truly believe it's the best we've done so far."

My Maudlin Career tracklist:

1. French Navy
2. The Sweetest Thing
3. You Told A Lie
4. Away With Murder
5. Swans
6. James
7. Careless Love
8. My Maudlin Career
9. Forest And Sands
10. Other Towns And Cities
11. Honey In The Sun

It Hugs Back's new video 'Now & Again'

Inside Your Guitar is the debut album from UK's It Hugs Back and is due out April 4th.

The 11-track album is the result of a year's labour of love for the band and was recorded in their home studio, The Record Room in Maidstone, Kent. It is an album that wears its heart on its sleeve as Matthew Simms' softly spoken vocals turn the captivating guitar licks, rhythms and feedback fuzz into something wistful, imaginative and charming.

Their latest video is for the track Now & Again featuring stop-motion Tetris blocks, as directed by Martin Rhys Davies.

Now & Again


myspace.com/ithugsback

3 new signings for 4AD

The spate of new signings continues with 4AD announcing that Camera Obscura, The Big Pink and Broken Records will be joining their roster, which already hosts many luminaries including Deerhunter, The National and Beirut.

Forming over a decade, Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura will be releasing their follow up to 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country early this year.
On being signed to 4AD, the band have posted on their myspace that they "are understandably excited about this but will endeavor not to reflect this in our facial expressions so as not to cause unnecessary alarm."

Taking their name from The Band's 1968 album, The Big Pink are a London duo who create electronic soundscapes described as "The Teardrop Explodes being played by MBV whilst Suicide man the mixing desk". They are long time friends Milo Cordell (founder of Merok who has released Klaxons and Crystal Castles to name a few) and Robbie Furze (former guitarist with electro-punk singer Alec Empire).

There must be something in the water in Scotland that makes people want to form large bands, as Broken Records one up Camera Obscura with 7 members. Using a range of instruments including guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums, they create a sound combining traditional European folk with modern Scottish alternative music. Last year the band released a limited edition single If The News Makes You Sad Don't Watch It on Young Turks (El Guincho, Holy Fuck, Jack Peñate).

Stereolab tour starts this weekend

Seminal UK band Stereolab head to our shores for the first time in six years, starting with an appearance at Brisbane's Laneway Festival on Saturday.

The band has produced some of the most consistent, experimental and downright beautiful records of the past 17 years, elevating them to company of legendary acts such as Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth. Led by Timothy Gane and vocalist Laetitia Sadier, the cult band will be trying out tracks from Chemical Chords, their Motown-flavoured, rather gorgeous release of 2008, along with perfectly-formed tunes from their extensive back catalogue.

If cascading harmonies, mesmerising synths and inordinately pretty songwriting are your thing, don’t miss Stereolab, touring nationally for the Laneway Festivals they'll also be doing sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney.

TOUR DATES
Sat 31 Jan - Brisbane, Laneway Festival
Sun 1 Feb - Melbourne, Laneway Festival
Tue 3 Feb – Melbourne, Billboard
Thu 5 Feb – Sydney, Metro
Fri 6 Feb - Perth, Laneway Festival
Sat 7 Feb - Adelaide, Laneway Festival
Sun 8 Feb - Sydney, Laneway Festival

Dark Was The Night Widget

February 14th will see the release of the 20th Red Hot Charity compilation, Dark Was The Night, curated by The National's Dessner brothers.

Over the past week or so, a different track from the album has been uploaded on the DWTN MySpace page. Already uploaded have been a collaboration between Dirty Projectors + David Byrne (on first single Knotty Pine, downloadable here), as well as songs from Bon Iver, The National, Feist and My Brightest Diamond.

If you missed them the first time around, you can now head over to the DWTN website and make your widget player.



For those unaware, the Red Hot Organisation is an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS, using music as a great way of achieving both. Their track record is second-to-none, having worked with many greats in their time (including U2, George Michael, Madonna, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Wu Tang Clan among many, many more) and Dark Was The Night is the next instalment in an already esteemed compilation series.

TV On The Radio take on Bowie

TV On The Radio have been selected by the one and only David Bowie to cover his 1977 hit Heroes.



The glam rock legend chose TVOTR to perform the title track of the Heroes compilation put together by War Child, a network of independent organisations helping children affected by war. War Child asked 15 ultimate icons to select a song from their back catalog and to entrust one of their favourite acts to create a unique interpretation of that track.

The 16 track compilation also features Peaches' interpretation of Iggy Pop and The Stooges' Search And Destroy. Peaches is currently working on her new album due out later this year, with guests on the album including Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism and Canuck Gonzales.

First single from Dark Was The Night compilation

Dark Was The Night is a 31-track compilation produced for noted AIDS charity The Red Hot Organisation and features a stellar cast of musicians including Cat Power, The Decemberists, Sharon Jones and Arcade Fire. Out February 14th, Dark Was The Night was produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner from The National with John Carlin (the charity’s founder).

The first single is Knotty Pine, a fantastic collaboration between Dirty Projectors and David Byrne. The 7" is backed with an excellent new track from The National, So Far Around The Bend.

Knotty Pine by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne [mp3]


To hear more tracks from Dark Was The Night, head to their MySpace where they are currently uploading a new track each day. The full tracklist can be found here.

Dark Was The Night tracklist revealed

The tracklist for Dark Was The Night, a Red Hot charity compilation curated by The National's Dessner brothers, has been revealed. The release will be available on double CD and triple vinyl on February 14th.

DISC ONE:

1. "Knotty Pine" - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2. "Cello Song" - The Books featuring Joses Gonzalez
3. "Train Song" - Feist and Ben Gibbard
4. "Brackett, WI" - Bon Iver
5. "Deep Blue Sea" - Grizzly Bear
6. "So Far Around The Bend" - The National
7. "Tightrope" - Yeasayer
8. "Feeling Good" - My Brightest Diamond
9. "Dark Was The Night" - Kronos Quartet
10. "I Was Young When I Left Home" - Antony with Bryce Dessner
11. "Big Red Machine" - Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12. "Sleepless" - The Decemberists
13. "Die" - Iron & Wine
14. "Service Bell" - Grizzly Bear + Feist
15. "You Are The Blood" - Sufjan Stevens


DISC TWO:

1. "Well-Alright" - Spoon
2. "Lenin" - Arcade Fire
3. "Mimizan" - Beirut
4. "El Caporal" - My Morning Jacket
5. "Inspiration Information" - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
6. "With A Girl Like You" - Dave Sitek
7. "Blood Pt. 2" - Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8. "Hey, Snow White" - The New Pornographers
9. "Gentle Hour" - Yo La Tengo
10. "Amazing Grace" - Cat Power
11. "Happiness" - Riceboy Sleeps
12. "Another Saturday" - Stuart Murdoch
13. "The Giant Of Illinois" - Andrew Bird
14. "Lua" - Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch
15. "When The Road Runs Out" - Blonde Redhead & Devastations
16. "Love Vs. Porn" - Kevin Drew

4AD Download Sampler

4AD have released a new download sampler giving listeners a taste of their best releases of 2008. The tracks featured range from 4AD favourites such as The Breeders and Mountain Goats right through to the labels newer artists such as Anni Rossi and It Hugs Back.

Download the 12 track sampler by signing up to the mailing list on the
4AD website.

1. TV On The Radio Golden Age (from Dear Science)
2. Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened (from Microcastle)
3. Department Of Eagles No One Does It Like You (from In Ear Park)
4. Anni Rossi Ecology (from Afton)
5. Stereolab Neon Beanbag (from Chemical Chords)
6. Atlas Sound Rivercard (from Let The Blind...)
7. It Hugs Back Work Day (from Work Day)
8. Minotaur Shock My Burr (from Amateur Dramatics)
9. Johann Johannsson Melodia (i) (from Fordlândia)
10. Bon Iver Skinny Love (from For Emma, Forever Ago)
11. The Breeders Bang On (from Mountain Battles)
12. The Mountain Goats Sax Rohmer #1 (from Heretic Pride)

TV On The Radio sideshows SOLD OUT

On sale for just one day, TV On The Radio's sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne, both supported by Wolf & Cub, have already sold out! You snooze, you lose. If you didn't manage to get yourself a ticket, you can console yourself by seeing them at Big Day Out.

The National's Dessner brothers curate new Red Hot compilation

In conjunction with WORLD AIDS DAY on Monday December 1, 4AD have announced the official release date, complete list of participating artists and cover art for the upcoming release Dark Was The Night.

Dark Was The Night will be released in Australia on February 14th, 2009. The album is produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, and John Carlin - founder of the Red Hot Organization - is the album's executive producer. Dark Was the Night comprises 31 exclusive tracks on double CD/triple vinyl and will benefit the Red Hot Organization - an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Red Hot was founded on the premise that even without a cure, AIDS remains a preventable disease, and that music is a great vehicle to raise money for and awareness of it. This is the 20th year of Red Hot and Dark Was the Night is the 20th release.

The complete list of artists (in alphabetical order) on the album is:
Andrew Bird
Antony + Bryce Dessner
Arcade Fire
Beirut
Blonde Redhead + Devastations
Bon Iver
Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner
The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Seregeti)
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
The Decemberists
Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
Kevin Drew
Feist + Ben Gibbard
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear + Feist
Iron & Wine
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Kronos Quartet
Stuart Murdoch
My Brightest Diamond
My Morning Jacket
The National
The New Pornographers
Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
Riceboy Sleeps
Dave Sitek
Spoon
Sufjan Stevens
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo

Dark Was The Night will be out through 4AD/ Remote Control on February 14, 2009.

Simian Mobile Disco vs Deerhunter

Simian Mobile Disco have waved their electro wand over Deerhunter's track Octet from the previous Cryptograms album.


[mp3] via Pitchfork

Deerhunter's new album Microcastle is out now.

myspace.com/deerhunter

Future Of The Left cancel tour

Welsh trio Future Of The Left have reluctantly pulled out of all their upcoming tour dates, including shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as dates in the UK and China.

The band released a statement attributing the decision to building pressure to release their second album in the first half of 2009.
“We have been unable to write the second record and we are increasingly aware of the need to do so. We want to get it out before summer so we can spend next year playing it to people.

"It is against everything the band stands for to pull shows, or anything that we have already committed to doing, and we apologise to everyone who had bought a ticket or was going to come along.

"We will be back as soon as we can next year and we promise to make it worth the wait."

Future Of The Left were scheduled to play in Australia in early January.

Prior to the release of their official second album, the band will be releasing new live album Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires in the coming months.

myspace.com/futureoftheleft

Stereolab sideshows announced

Already announced as playing the 2009 Laneway Festivals, UK's Stereolab have announced sideshows in Melbourne in Sydney.

Over fifteen prolific years of, Stereolab have accrued a vast, peerless cache of work, hallmarked by a unique, carefully evolving but instantly recognisable sonic signature, as evident on their 11th and most recent album, Chemical Chords.

Tuesday 3 February
Billboard The Venue, Melbourne
billboardthevenue.com.au (03) 9639 4000

Thursday 5 February
The Metro Theatre, Sydney
metrotheatre.com.au (02) 9550 3666

Laneway Festival 2009 Dates
Sat 31 Jan - Brisbane
Sun 1 Feb - Melbourne
Fri 6 Feb - Perth
Sat 7 Feb - Adelaide
Sun 8 Feb - Sydney

TV On The Radio sideshows announced

The sideshows for TV On The Radio have just been announced. They will be supported at both shows by Wolf & Cub.

TV ON THE RADIO
plus WOLF & CUB

SYDNEY l Saturday 24 January l THE METRO
Presented by triple j l Tickets Metro Box Office Ph 02 9550 3666 & www.metrotheatre.com.au +Ticketek Ph: 132 849 & www.ticketek.com.au

MELBOURNE l Thursday 29 January l THE HI FI BAR
Presented by triple j l Tickets: The Hi Fi www.thehifi.com.au + Ph: 9654 7617, Polyester, Missing Link & Greville Records

St Vincent announced for Sydney Festival

The inimitable Annie Clarke will be returning to our shores for a run of three shows at Sydney Festival in January 2009.

A touring member of Sufjan Steven's band, Annie performed a one off show with My Brightest Diamond for a lucky Melbourne audience but the rest of the country missed out. Not this time, fingers crossed. She will be performing three shows in at The Famous Spiegeltent for Sydney Festival. No news yet on other side shows just yet but fingers and toes are crossed.

ST VINCENT
Fri 16 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent
Sat 17 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent
Sun 18 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent

If you haven't picked up a copy of St Vincent's debut album 'Marry Me', now would be a great time to seek it out.

St Vincent "Now, Now" [6MB]
mp3 (from Marry Me)

And the fantastic Dumbo Sessions videos including a stunning performance of the Jackson Browne penned 'These Days' (originally recorded by Nico)



And if you just can't get enough of the gorgeous Annie Clarke here are some great polaroids that the peeps at Gorilla vs Bear recently took at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

Deerhunter limited edition cassettes

In memory of John Peel's famous Radio 1 Sessions, last month Deerhunter recorded the On Platts Eyott Island Session which will be released on 200 strictly limited edtion cassettes, 100 orange, 100 pink.

Intended to be listened to in order and uninterrupted. Listen to it in full via 4AD's player here.

Deerhunter's new album Microcastle is out now.

myspace.com/deerhunter

Beirut's new EP and Natalie Portman charity collaboration

Beirut's Zach Condon is set to release a double disc package. Disc one is March of the Zapotec with 6 new tracks recently recorded in Mexico. Disc two is entitled Holland and features the track My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille.

Natalie Portman recently declared Beirut to be her "new favourite band", so when she was asked to curate the charity mix CD Big Change: Songs for FINCA, she asked Beirut first. You can listen to the track over at EW.

myspace.com/beruit

And not only is Natalie charitable, she has also come up with a brilliant plan to save the global economic crisis, endorsed by us here at RC:

Atlas Sound remixes Stereolab

Having just finished touring with Stereolab, Atlas Sound (aka Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) has released a 'Southern Baptist' remix of the track Neon Beanbag off Stereolab's new album Chemical Chords.

Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound 'Southern Baptist' Remix) [mp3] (128kbps)



Stereolab will be touring Australia in January/February next year for the Laneway Festivals. Tour dates here.

myspace.com/stereolab
myspace.com/bradfordcox

In the studio with Deerhunter

Pitchfork.tv takes a look into the making of Deerhunter's just released album Microcastle, recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn.

Part 1


Part 2 (features a picture of the male anatomy at the start, care of Microcastle contributor Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, so maybe a bit NSFW...)


myspace.com/deerhunter

New releases from Deerhunter, Lou Reed and Anni Rossi

Microcastle is a hazy and dream like gem from Bradford Cox and his band. The follow-up to Deerhunter’s critically lauded debut Cryptograms, Microcastle is in parts kraut, shoe-gazy, ambient and majestic. Featuring 12 tracks, the album also comes backed with 13 track bonus disc Weird Era Cont.

Nothing Ever Happened [mp3]

myspace.com/deerhunter


Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse is a recording of the recent live performance of Lou Reed's classic 1973 album in its entirety. With guests Antony (Antony & The Johnsons) and Sharon Jones, plus live versions of the Velvet Underground’s Sweet Jane and Candy Says.

Caroline Says, Pt. II. [mp3]


loureed.com


Afton is the debut 4AD release from 22 year old multi-instrumentalist Anni Rossi. From Minnesota via Los Angeles she is classically trained from a young age with the viola forming the centrepiece to her music. Currently working with Steve Albini (Pixies, Joanna Newsom, PJ Harvey) on her debut album due out next year, she can count artists like Electrelane and The Ting Tings among her admirers and has toured Europe and the US with both of them.

Wheelpusher [mp3]


myspace.com/annirossi

Department of Eagles Daytrotter session

Department of Eagles now have a 5 track session up on Daytrotter, featuring 3 tracks for new album In Ear Park, as well as unreleased track 1997 and What Is Your Deal?.

You can hear and download the tracks here.

myspace.com/deptofeagles

Future Of The Left announce East Coast tour

Fiery, brash and irreverent, Welsh trio, Future Of The Left have already torn up Australian stages once before in March 2008 off the back of their magnificent Curses album. Never ones to shy away from a rematch, Future Of The Left (the band are comprised of ex-Mclusky and Jarcrew members) are heading back to Australia for a lightning 3 shows in 3 nights to promote the release of their forthcoming live album, Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires. The album was recorded in August at two live shows - Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach and London Water Rats. It not only features tracks from feted debut album Curses but also four new ones - Drink Nike, Distant Jabs At A Soul, V.D.F.A and Cloak The Dagger. Click here for a full tracklisting.

Manchasm (LNISHFV live version) [mp3]

FOTL will also be releasing their sophomore studio album in 2009 which will include The Hope That House Built [mp3]

AUSTRALIA 2009 TOUR DATES
Tickets on sale Friday October 31

Melbourne
Friday January 9, 2009
The Corner Hotel
Tickets from cornerhotel.com or Ph: 9427 9198)
Presented by Beat & RRR

Sydney
Saturday January 10, 2009
The Annandale Hotel
Tickets from annandalehotel.com, Ph: (02) 9550 1078 or in person over the bar)
Presented by Drum Media

Brisbane
Sunday January 11, 2009
The Zoo
Tickets from thezoo.com.au, ph 1300 762 545, Rockinghorse, Skinnys, Butterbeats, Moshpit Music, Sunflower, Music Mania, Cosmic Music, Central Station Music, Cooly Hotel, Bombay Rock, Gooble, Warming, Kill The Music
Presented by Time Off

myspace.com/futureoftheleft

New releases from Department of Eagles, Brightblack Morning Light and Tom Cooney

This weekend saw the release of yet another trio of albums from an eclectic mix of artists: there’s a Brisbane troubadour, a couple of hippies and a duo from Brooklyn.

Presque Vu (meaning “almost seen”) is the debut album from Tom Cooney, sonically pivoting on Tom’s guitar, lyrics and melodies. Many friends added the spokes to roll Presque Vu along including Whitley, and members from Subaudible Hum, Boat People and McKisko. Having previously performed with Fionn Regan and M. Ward, as well as playing at Splendour in the Grass and Homebake, Tom will be launching the new album along the East Coast over the next two weeks, starting in Sydney this Wednesday.

Wednesday 15th - Will & Toby’s, Sydney
Thursday 16th - The Troubadour, Brisbane
Wednesday 22nd - East Brunswick Club, Melbourne

Beneath the Wheel [mp3]



Their hair is long. Their music warm and hazy. They are Brightblack Morning Light. Haunting, beautiful and weird in equal doses, their new album Motion To Rejoin is the perfect Saturday night and Sunday morning album. Recorded entirely under solar power in a remote adobe cabin in the New Mexican mesa, the album recalls musicians as diverse as Bob Dylan, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Young and Otis Reading.

Oppressions Each [mp3]


Department of Eagles are Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear alongside his friend Fred Nicolaus, plus additional help from two other members of Grizzly Bear, Christopher Bear and Chris Taylor. In Ear Park is a delight; both colourful and expansive, built upon an intimate and personal framework of songs and is a definite highlight of 2008. Full of joyful moments, lush production and concise songwriting, In Ear Park is an album that stays with the listener and only encourages repeat visits.

No One Does It Like You [mp3]

Jay Reatard and Stereolab hit the streets

Jay Reatard and Stereolab have both been announced to play next year's Laneway Festivals.

It's been six long years since Stereolab last graced Australia's shores and four since their last album release, Margerine Eclipse. Stereolab recently released their 11th studio album in an illustrious career, Chemical Chords. According to Tim Gane the album is a collection of “purposefully short, dense, fast pop songs”. It is classic Stereolab; like all their best work it is the perfect melding of an implausibly cool past and a shamelessly exotic future.

Three Women [mp3]


myspace.com/stereolab

Last week saw the release of Jay Reatard's new album Matador Singles '08. The release compiles the 12 punk pop gems that Jay has released over the past few months on limited 7" through Matador. With Jay already working on his debut album proper for Matador, we can all look forward to hopefully hearing this new material live.

Always Wanting More [mp3]


myspace.com/jayreatard

Laneway Festival 2009 Dates

Sat 31 Jan - Brisbane
Sun 1 Feb - Melbourne
Fri 6 Feb - Perth
Sat 7 Feb - Adelaide
Sun 8 Feb - Sydney

Tickets on sale Monday 27th October. More info at myspace.com/lanewayfestival

Department of Eagles on Pitchfork.tv pt 2

Pt 2 of Pitchfork.tv's Don't Look Down series featuring Department of Eagles is now up. The latest chapter features track No One Does It Like You off the album In Ear Park:


Also in Pt 2 is DoE's performance of non album track 1997, which you can watch here. Pt 1 sees the band playing versions of the album title track and Around The Bay.

In Ear Park, out this Saturday, has just been given an 8.3 rating on Pitchfork and is described as "a sprawling pop record (complete with guitars, piano, horns, banjo, and more) that evokes Sgt. Pepper's, Sung Tongs, Van Dyke Parks, and Gene Clark. Ambitious and complex, it's stuffed with cocooning harmonies and shimmering, sunlight-smacking-the-Pacific melodies."

Hear more of the album at myspace.com/deptofeagles

Department of Eagles on Pitchfork.tv

Department of Eagles currently feature on Pitchfork.tv's Don't Look Down series that has previously seen performances by Bill Callahan, The Futureheads and Yeasayer.

Part 1 sees DoE duo Fred Nicolaus and Daniel Rossen performing their unique style of nostalgic, guitar driven pop on a Manhattan rooftop. Joining them live are Rossen's Grizzly Bear counterparts Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear.

Below is their performance of the title track of their new album In Ear Park, out this Saturday.


You can watch their performance of Around the Bay, which also features on the new album, from the DLD session here.

Download and listen to more tracks from the album here.

www.myspace.com/deptofeagles

Department of Eagles make live debut

For the first time ever, Brookly duo Department of Eagles have performed live in public as a band, playing the track No One Does It Like You on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

DoE areDaniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Fred Nicolaus. Joining them on their live performance were Grizzly's Chris Bear on drums (who also features on the album), Dirty Projectors' Angel Deradoorian on background vocals and Nat Baldwin on bass.


Video care of Stereogum.

Department of Eagles' new album In Ear Park is out October 11th.

No One Does It Like You [mp3]


In Ear Park [mp3]


www.myspace.com/deptofeagles

Deerhunter's new, new, new cover

Yes, Deerhunter have changed the cover for their new album Microcastle again. Third time's a charm, right?

Microcastle is the follow-up to 2006’s critically lauded Cryptograms and was recorded over the course of a week in Brooklyn with Nicolas Verhes (Les Savy Fav, Silver Jews).

The band on the record are a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox (you may recall his recent solo ventures as Atlas Sound), Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver and Moses Archuleta (they have since been joined by an additional guitarist, Whitney Petty).

Microcastle is due out physically on October 25th with both the CD and LP versions featuring bonus disc Weird Era Cont. (track list here). The first single from the album is Nothing Ever Happened b/w Little Kids (demo) and will be issued on limited edition 7”.

Nothing Ever Happened [mp3]


myspace.com/deerhunter

TV On The Radio on Letterman and to play BDO

“This is one irresistible party… a great, great record.” 5* Q
“Brooklyn art-rockers' clearest transmission yet.” Mojo

In a case of the worst kept secret ever, TV On The Radio have now been officially announced to play next year's Big Day Out.

They released their third album Dear Science last week and recently performed the track Dancing Choose off the album on the Late Show with David Letterman:



BIG DAY OUT 2009 DATES
Gold Coast – Jan 18 Parklands
Sydney – Jan 23 Sydney Showgrounds
Melbourne – Jan 26 Flemington Race Course
Adelaide – Jan 30 Adelaide Showground
Perth – Feb 1 Claremont Showgrounds

Tickets on sale
Sydney – Wed 8 October
Gold Coast – Thur 9 October
All other cities – Fri 10 October

Dancing Choose


myspace.com/tvotr

New track from Jóhann Jóhannsson

An American magnate builds a doomed utopia in the depths of the Brazilian rainforest. A Victorian poetess laments the death of Pan. A pagan rocket scientist blows himself up in his Californian garage. A crippled German physicist draws up the equations which can make faster than light travel possible, unseen by the rest of the world.

Jóhann Jóhannsson is an Icelandic composer and musician. His spellbinding new album, Fordlândia, draws these tantalising threads together, weaving a musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth.

The first glimpse of the album is the cinematic track The Rocket Builder:

The Rocket Builder [mp3]


His music is stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, frequently combining electronic processing with classical orchestrations, that has been quietly bewitching listeners for the last few years.

His first solo album Englabörn was originally released in 2002 and re-released on 4AD last year, getting an 8.0 review on Pitchfork. The album was derived from music that Jóhann wrote for an Icelandic play using string quartet, piano, organ, glockenspiel and percussion. These elements were processed and manipulated, adding delicate electronic accents to the otherwise entirely acoustic recordings.

Jóhann's first release for 4AD, IBM 1401 - A User's Manual (2006), involved a sixty-piece string orchestra recorded at Prague's legendary Barrandov sound stage and incorporated electronics and vintage reel-to-reel recordings of a 1960's IBM 1401 mainframe computer and its accompanying instruction manual.

Fordlândia is Jóhann Jóhannsson's most complete and beautiful piece of music to date; a fascinating, immersive and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies, which is sure to win him a legion of new listeners. The album is due out November 1.

You can hear more tracks from the album on his myspace: myspace.com/johannjohannsson

New Future Of The Left track

Forming from the ashes of Mclusky and Jarcrew, Future of the Left released their debut album Curses late last year to a slew of praising review. Earlier this year they brought their sweaty, ferocious shows to Australia for the first time, playing to sold out crowds.

They are set to release their as yet untitled sophomore studio album next year on 4AD. Featuring on the album will be their new track The Hope That House Built:

The Hope That House Built [mp3]

adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood (from the album Curses) [mp3]

myspace.com/futureoftheleft