Stereogum premiered a new track from the forthcoming múm album, Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know, in their weekly GumDrop newsletter. The track is called “Illuminated” and you can download it here.
Múm will be performing at LPR on Oct. 24. You can get tickets here….
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Moving Sounds Festival
Find more information on The Moving Sounds Festival, including a performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and a show with JACK Quartet, here….
Listen: Atlas Sound on Pitchfork
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Atlas Sound (the solo project from Deerhunter frontman, Bradford Cox) will release his new album, Logos on October 20th in the US and October 19th in the UK. Head over to Pitchfork… to check out “Attic Lights”, a cut from the LP.
Atlas Sound will be appearing with Broadcast on October 20th.
Just Added: Woods to support No Age on 10/14
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Brooklyn-based psych folk rock band Woods will be opening for No Age on October 14th. Tickets are available HERE.
Download: Woods, “Rain On”Download: Woods, “To Clean”…
Just Added: Marlon James to InDigest 1207 Reading Series (9/2)
Marlon James will join Neil Smith and Franz Nicolay on Wednesday, September 2nd as part of LPR’s InDigest 1207 Reading Series.
The event is FREE and begins at 6:00PM in LPR’s Gallery Bar.
MORE INFORMATION HERE…
Just Announced: The Freedom Party Presents Naughty By Nature
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“YOU DOWN WIT O.P.P.?”“HIPHOP HOORAY!… HO!… HEEEEYYYY!… HO!”
The HipHop Anthem?…
Naughty By Nature… invented it!
The Grammy Award winning, Platinum-album selling, New Jersey super-group, Naughty By Nature, has nearly a twenty-year track record of creating the hits and party anthems that have become
Diane Birch Show Reviewed in New York Magazine
Mark Graham, writing for New York Magazine, had some nice things to say about last night’s Diane Birch show at LPR: “she dazzled a standing-room-only crowd at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village last night with a set consisting mainly of songs from her debut album, Bible Belt.”
Read more here….
Just Announced: Air Waves and JacksonKnife
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Air Waves…Nicole first found solace in her guitar, composing escapist songs with fantastical stories and catchy choruses. Having since teamed up with Dave Ferraro and Ryan Trott, Nicole is a stage veteran. In 2006 they took on the name Air Waves. She has played with many well-known musicians such as Cat
Updated: Warp20 Closing Party w/ Warp DJS w/ The Hundred in the Hands and Born Ruffians
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Since its birth as a shop and record label in Sheffield in 1989, Warp… has become one of the World’s most respected creative organisations. Quickly developing into a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking music talent, Warp became synonymous with such artists as LFO, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and most recently
Just Announced: Line-ups for Three Cabinet of Wonders Shows
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders is back this fall at LPR and some of the upcoming guests are absolutely amazing. Below is a complete line-up for the September, October, and November shows. These are not to be missed. Get your tickets now by clicking here.
September 16…Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies)Eugene MirmanDavid GatesElizabeth
Listen: Box Elders on Pitchfork
Box Elders’ “Hole in my Head” is up over at Pitchfork for your listening pleasure: “Hole In My Head” bounces on scuzzy guitars, powerful drumming, and barely audible organ. Cranial injuries have never been this joyous.”
Box Elders will be at LPR on Oct. 1. Get your tickets here….
Jay Reatard in the New York Times
Tonight at LPR…: Jay Reatard Album Listening Party. Come out and hear Jay Reatard’s new release “Watch Me Fall” in celebration his 8/18 Matador Records release. With complimentary open bar hour to start off the party.
Catch a screening of “Waiting For Something”, a Jay Reatard documentary right before album playback! RSVP required, email:
Friendly Fires on MTV in Prefix
“This band is set to blow up soon; this performance is pretty great,” says Andrew Winistorfer at Prefix Magazine. We don’t need any more proof of that than the sold out show at LPR last week.
Click here to watch a live performance of “Kiss of Life” and here… to see more photos of
Pitchfork Reviews Mount Eerie’s "Wind Poem"
So, is Phil Elverum‘s latest black metal or not? Last week we learned here that Elverum doesn’t think so, but he understands why people are saying that. Matthew Solarski, writing for Pitchfork…, weighed in on the discussion saying, “Poem has been touted as Elverum’s “black metal” album, and Phil has made no secret
Just Announced: The London Souls This Friday
The London Souls will perform this Friday, August 21 along with Reni Lane and Curtana Veil.
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The London Souls… are rock’n’roll, straight up with the slightest twist of soul and a little dash of the blues. They play loud, they play raucous and they play with every bit of their bodies, as
Interview with Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum in Village Voice
In an interview with Sound of the City Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum explains why it’s his fault people are calling his latest album Wind’s Poem black metal, what it’s like being a frontman, and how Twin Peaks has influenced him.
Read the interview here….
Just Announced: Jonathan Biss, piano w/ music of Janáček, Kurtág, and Schubert
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Jonathan Biss… was born in 1980; his professional debut preceded this event by several months, when he performed, prenatally, the Mozart A Major Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall, with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel. Subsequent violin performances have shown greater independence, though they have also been more likely
Just Announced: Calder Quartet and Iva Bittová w/ music of Janáček and Fred Frith
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Calder Quartet…Caldera Quartet an LA based string quartet specializing in classical and contemporary repertoire as well as discovering young, emerging composers and pursuing unique collaborations. We perform different eras and genres of music side by side so that both types of music are seen in a new light. A lot of
Just Announced: Martyn w/ Kotchy and Starkey
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Martyn…Martyn is a Dubstep producer, originally from Eindhoven in the Netherlands. After helping start up an influential Drum and Bass night ‘Red Zone’ in his home city, together with Nymfo, Pressure & mc Jay, he turned his hand to producing, releasing a string of tracks and remixes for labels like Marcus
Just Announced: The Blackened Music Series presents Shrinebuilder
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“So it was that the calling was answered as simply as a phone call could have been and was made. Cisneros called Weinrich, Kelly, and later Crover and decided, in full-blown ex nihilo fashion to make some music beyond the summed parts of all what had been done before and in doing
Just Announced: Gil Shaham, violin with Music of Pablo Sarasate
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Performing selections from Gil Shaham’s forthcoming Canary Classics release devoted to the music of Pablo Sarasate.
Violinist Gil Shaham… is internationally recognized by audiences and critics alike as one of today’s most virtuosic and engaging classical artists. He is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with celebrated orchestras and conductors,
Teengirl Fantasy Video on Pitchfork
Watch the video… that Pitchfok calls a “gorgeously trippy video.” Gorgeously trippy? That seems about right whose band’s bio reads as follows:
“Sometimes when I close my eyes I picture a club far away where there is free piña coladas. People are happy and no one can hurt me, not even myself. Suddenly a glitter
Atlas Sound Covers "Walk a Thin Line"
Bradford Cox has a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Walk the Thin Line” from their album Tusk. Pitchfork describes the cover this way: “The rendition is spare, with Cox’s acoustic strumming the only accompaniment to his single-tracked voice, which rises to an echoed falsetto on the chorus.”
Listen to it on Pitchfork or download it here…
Jolie Holland on Daytrotter
Love might kill Jolie Holland (@LPR on Sept. 18). At least that’s how Sean Moeller over at Daytrotter… feels about the folk singer. “Holland is a hypochondriac with very specific particulars attached to her mania,” Moeller writes. “As a lyricist, she’s almost positive that love is going to kill her. She’s sure that
