SXSW 2011: Six Day Parties To Attend

Posted on | February 24, 2011 | No Comments

I’ve already posted about the Filter Magazine Day Party as this year’s Fader Fort lineup is just about to be unveiled, I shall be on top of that aswell.

I also wanted to share the straight dope on some other day parties I will be
attending. You should probably add these to your schedule if you know
what’s good for ya.

Especially those 6 below:

Under The Radar Magazine SXSW Parties
Flamingo Cantina ( 515 E. 6th St. )
March 17th & 18th

No RSVP needed.

Pitchfork #Offline
East Side Drive In ( 1001 E. 6th St. )
March 17th & 18th

No RSVP needed.

Paste Magazine Day Parties
The Stage On 6th Street ( 508 E. 6th St. )
March 16th & 17th

RSVP right HERE.

Dickies @ SXSW
Lustre Pearl ( 97 Rainey St. )
March 17th, 18th & 19th

RSVP right HERE.

Mexican Summer / Gorilla Vs. Bear
Klub Krucial ( 612 E. 6th St. )
March 18th

No RSVP required.

Sea Now!
Annie’s West ( 706 W. 6th St. )
March 16th, 17th & 18th

RSVP right HERE.

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MVs Collection #28

Posted on | February 19, 2011 | No Comments

Elbow – “Neat Little Rows”
Directed by Mark Thomas.

Soundstage performance of the first single with a great, bouncy
piano line right in the chorus to make everything all shiny despite
the dark lyrics.

“Build A Rocket Boys!”, Elbow‘s 5th studio album and follow up to their
2008 Mercury Prize winning album “Seldom Seen Kid” will be out in the
UK March 7th on Polydor.

The Black Keys – “Howlin’ For You”
Directed by Chris Marrs Piliero.

A trailer to a Grindhouse movie I wish was coming soon to a theater
near me.

No one can beat this cast:

Tricia Helfer, Sean Patrick Flanery, Diora Baird, Shaun White, Corbin
Bernsen with Sir Todd Bridges and the BK boys as Mariachis.

Right now, The Black Keys are busy winning Grammy‘s (3 of ’em, 1 for
Best Alternative Music Album) and touring Europe.

My 3rd favorite LP of 2009 “Brothers” be in stores now.

The Kills – “Satellite”
Directed by Sophie Muller.

Dem cool mofos are back with the first single off their new album
“Blood Pressures” out April 5th on Domino Records.

They’ll hit the road starting with a few shows @ SXSW 2011, half a
dozen dates in Europe and then, the good ‘ol US of A and Canuckland.

They shall be in our neck of the woods April 30th @ L’Olympia. — > Tickets

Jenny And Johnny – “Big Wave”
Directed by Autumn De Wilde.

Awwwww … so gosh darn adorable.

They’ve got a few gigs scheduled for the West Coast this coming April
leading up to their Coachella appearance.

Their debut album “I’m Having Fun Now” is a great, overlooked gem from
last year.

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Radiohead “The King Of Limbs” Out Today! + New Music Video

Posted on | February 18, 2011 | No Comments

Radiohead
The King Of Limbs
February 18, 2011
Ticker Tape

Tracklist:

1. Bloom
2. Morning Mr Magpie
3. Little By Little
4. Feral
5. Lotus Flower
6. Codex
7. Give Up The Ghost
8. Separator

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I was already preparing a post to celebrate the release of this new opus
for tomorrow morning but sneaky Brits them Radiohead blokes are, they pulled
a fast one on us yet again and unleashed this (Nigel Godrich produced) monster
today.

Bonus:

We’re getting a music video for the first single “Lotus Flower”.

Radiohead – “Lotus Flower”
Directed by Garth Jennings.

Watch Thom Yorke bust out his sexiest, white boy moves on us.

It’s enthralling really.

Lowdown on how to get the album the legit way:

For North Americans, you go through HERE.

The “Newspaper” version (48$ W/MP3s ~ 53$ w/ WAVs) of the album includes:

* Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
* A compact disc.
* Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour
piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
* The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with
all good digital media players.
* One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased
from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.

Digital Version (9$ MP3s ~ 14$ WAVs):

* MP3 version is a 320K constant bit rate file.
* WAV version is a full CD quality uncompressed digital audio file.
* One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased
from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.

It will be released in stores by TBD Records in Canada/USA March 29th
and the day before in the UK through XL Recordings.

Please let there be a tour and please let this tour stop in Montreal and play
an indoor show.

How rad would that be.

FYI: The King Of Limbs takes its name from a millennial tree in Savernake Forest
in Wiltshire, England. It’s near Tottenham House, where part of 2007’s In Rainbows
was recorded.

So … Toughts? Comments? I’ll Tweet mine after my first listen this morning.

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Videos: Biffy Clyro @ La Sala Rossa (02. 15. 2011)

Posted on | February 16, 2011 | No Comments

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Only took 9 years to get a headlining show out of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro
and it finally happened last night @ La Sala Rossa.

Packed to the hilt, the place turned into a sweatbox right quick. No one was
immuned except for bassist James Johnston who (why I noticed this I do not know)
had not one drop of moisture on him. I fear he may be a cyborg.

At any rate, it was 90+ minutes of pure UK rock, the sweet sound of frontman and
lead singer Simon Neil‘s buzzsaw guitar mixed with the mad drumming skills of
Ben Johnston.

It was a pretty good mix of all 5 albums, mostly cuts from their 2009
Mercury Prize nominated album “Only Revolutions” and a few oldies
from “Blackened Sky” which is still to this day, my favorite album
of theirs.

The few videos I shot:

Biffy Clyro – “57”

Biffy Clyro – “Many Of Horror”

Biffy Clyro – “Whorses”

Their remaining North American tour dates:

Feb. 16 – Toronto, ON – Garrison
Feb. 18 – Columbus, OH – Basement
Feb. 19 – Chicago, IL – Double Door
Feb. 20 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
Feb. 24 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
Feb. 25 – Vancouver, BC – Venue
Feb. 26 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile Cafe
Feb. 28 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
Mar. 1 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour

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Timber Timbre New Album “Creep On Creepin’ On” Out April 5th

Posted on | February 15, 2011 | No Comments

Timber Timbre
Creep On Creepin’ On
April 5, 2011
Arts & Crafts

Tracklist:

01. Bad Ritual
02. Obelisk
03. Creep On Creepin’ On
04. Black Water
05. Swamp Magic
06. Woman
07. Too Old To Die Young
08. Lonesome Hunter
09. Do I Have Power
10. Souvenirs

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Timber Timbre, led by Taylor Kirk and other current Montreal residents are back
with the follow up to 2009‘s amazingly fantastical (and Polaris Music Prize
nominated) self-titled album with their 4th full-length titled “Creep On
Creepin’ On” out April 5th on Arts & Crafts.

Their delightfully dark, folk-y, swamp-y blues sound with it’s ghostly, etheral vibe sounding like it’s coming from the great beyond, makes them in a class of their own.

Arts & Crafts released a stream of the first single “Black Water” available
for purchase today on iTunes and on A&C’s website.

You can already pre-order the new album in 2 ways:

Album download in the MP3 (320kbps), FLAC and Apple-Lossless formats.

Or

Get your hands on the CD/LP Deluxe Packages which includes:

– CD (or LP) / 7″ / Poster Bundle
– Black Water 7″
– Creep On Creepin’ On 18″ x 24″ Screenprint
– MP3 digital download of album on release day
– Instant digital download of the new single “Black Water”

Click HERE to place your order.

The one thing you must do is to see them live. I had a chance to do so last
Fall @ the Ukrainian Federation for Pop Montreal and it was one of my favorite
concert experience of 2010.

Right now, they are touring la France for the next 2 weeks and at the end of March
they shall begin a tour in our neck of the woods with a few cities in the US of A and Europe aswell.

The hometown show will be April 16th @ the Corona Theatre. — > TICKETS

2/15 – Mérignac, FR – Krakatoa
2/16 – Clermont-Ferrand, FR – Cooperative De Mai
2/17 – Orléans, FR – L’Astrolabe
2/18 – Rouen, FR – Le 106
2/20 – Saint-Malo, FR – Chapelle St Sauveur
2/21 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
2/22 – Tourcoing, FR – Le Grand Mix
2/24 – Caen, FR – Le Cargo
2/25 – Mâcon, FR – Cave A Musique
2/26 – Annecy, FR – Brise-Glace

3/24 – Longueuil, QC – Théâtre De La Ville
3/25 – Sain-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC – Cabaret Théâtre
3/26 – Saint-Thérèse, QC – Théâtre Lionel-Groulx
4/02 – Peterborough, ON – Murray St. Baptist Church
4/07 – Hamilton, ON – Centenary United Church
4/08 – Toronto, ON – Trinity Church
4/09 – Ottawa, ON – First Baptist Church
4/11 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
4/12 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
4/13 – New York, NY – Joe’s Pub
4/14 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands
4/16 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre

4/18 – Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet/Paradiso
4/19 – Hamburg, DE – Prinzenbar
4/20 – Berlin, DE – Postbahnhof
4/22 – Brussels, BE – AB
4/23 – Bourges, FR – Le Printemps De Bourges
4/27 – London, UK – ICA
4/28 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
4/30 – Kilkenny, IRE – Kilkenny Roots
5/01 – Kilkenny, IRE – Kilkenny Roots

In the meantime, you can stream an hour long, live interview/performance
conducted @ the 116 bar for FIP Radio France last week. — > STREAM

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