January 2010
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J.D. Salingers Dies at 91
Turns out that the reclusive writer was still alive and died today. He had stopped publishing since 1965 and is known for writing one of the most famous novels of all time The Catcher In The Rye. The New Yorker has made available for free many of the stories that they published from Salinger over the year, you can see them here. His health declined rapidly and had been fine since brekaing his hip...
Watch Fever Ray's Acceptance Speech at P3 Gold
Look at this Fever Ray’s acceptance speech at P3 Gold in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Imagine having Karin and Lady Gaga at the same award show? How would weird would it get?
Coachella Does Away With Single-Day Passes
In a very disappointing move Coachella has decided that it has come time for them to do-away with their single-day passes. Festival director and Goldenvoice leader Paul Tollett had this to say about the move:
“I understand that every time you make a change it’s great for some people, and it’s not great for others, The other festivals around the world that have camping, you can buy only the pass....
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Joanna Newsom's New Album Rumoured To Be A Triple...
Freak-folkie Joanna Newsom will be releasing her new album “Have One On Me” this year. Now there are rumors that this new album will be a triple album. The NME is reporting this story, they have no evidence, probably a random tip that they received. I’m not going to be convinced until the actual tracklisting is released. “Have One On Me” will be released on February...
Jimmy Kimmel Presents The Late Night Wars
Jimmy Kimmel presented the internal struggle between NBC executives and Jay Leno against Conan O’Brien for control of the Tonight Show. It all ended yesterday with Conan O’Brien hosting his last Tonight Show. You can watch Jimmy Kimmel’s story of the Late Night wars.
Kanye West Not Invited To George Clooney's Haiti...
Its so obvious why Kanye West wasn’t invited to the telethon for Haiti. It just didn’t need to be said so harshly, this is what a producer told Popeater:
After what he said on the Katrina telethon and the way he behaved at the MTV Video Music Awards, everyone agrees it’s just best that he does not participate. Kayne has to make everything about himself. He will do anything to...
Jay-Z Loves "The Grizzly Bear"
Jay-Z loves “the Grizzly Bear”. Now I don’t know if he is just referring to the band’s material or if he thinks that the band’s name has a “the” at the beginning of it but it’s just funny. Here is what he told the The Village Voice:
I just love the Grizzly Bear. That project was great. It sounds like these church cathedral chords—it’s...
Kate McGarrigle Dies of Cancer at 63
Canadian folk pioneer Kate McGarrigle passed away on Monday at the age of 64 due to cancer. She leaves behind her children Martha and Rufu Wainwright. Over the course of her musical career she recorded ten album and performed with her siste Kate McGarrigle and influenced countless artists.This is what Rufus Wainwright wrote about the passing of his mother:
Note From Rufus Regarding Kate...
Animal Collective Top Pazz & Jop Poll (Shocker)
Like all of the other polls and lists for best-of 2009 Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion” topped the list as the best album of the year. Many of the other usual albums like Gizzly Bear’s “Veckatimest”, Phoenix’s “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”, Dirty Projectors’ “Bitte Orca” and The xx’s “XX” are...
Vampire Weeekend Top Billboard Album Chart
Vampire Weekend have actually done it they have topped the Billboard charts, which is very impressive for a band signed to an indie label. What is more remarkable is that the band is the onyl new entry to have made it to the top 10. “Contra” is great is you should get and congratulations to the band.
Gorillaz 'Stylo' Artwork Leaks
Gorillaz first single ‘Stylo’ will be played next week on the Zane Lowe show and the new artwork for the single has been released. The single will feature both Mos Def and Bobby Womack and will features words adapted from Michael Horovitz’ ‘A Postcard from Ireland’. This is what Zane Lowe had to say about their new album: “One more on this list which, i dont...
New Video: Vivian Girls - He's Gone (Acapella)
Vivian Girls performed an acapella version of The Chantel’s ‘He’s Gone’ in Liverpool yesterday. ‘He’s Gone’ will be the b-side on their new single ‘My Love Will Follow Me’. You can hear the studio version here. The sound quality is ok, while the video looks like it was taken by a camera phone. You can watch the video below. They announced a...
MacGruber Trailer Released
I heard rumours about this movie being made and screened with even one of the guys from We Are Scientists attending a screening. The trailer is ok, I don’t know if it makes me want to go see it but it made me laugh a little, maybe just to see Kristen Wiig. I still can’t believe they made a whole movie out of one of the shortes sketches on SNL. You can watch the trailer below....
How Can Anyone Not Like Conan?
Conan O’Brien was swindled by NBC into believing that he could inherit the Tonight Show from Jay Leno but Leno didn’t actually retired. After NBC had him still be in the shadow of the former Tonight Show host Conan took it and just kept going with his dream job but after NBC decided that they still needed Leno at late night that is when Conan finally said no. In a letter he wrote why...
Arcade Fire Urge For Donations For Haiti
As most of you might know Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne is of Haitian descent and must have some family there. After the country’s capital Port-au-Prince was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake they are urging fans for donations. On their official website Arcade Fire posted this:
Friends,
Haiti needs your help in her darkest hour.
We just got off the phone with our friends at...
New M.I.A. Track Official Information
Apparently the track that I posted in the main part of the blog two days ago is titled ‘Space Odyssey’. It was produced by M.I.A. herself and Rusko on Monday. I posted the video and the song here. You can watch the video below.
Teddy Pendergrass Dies at 59
There have been too many deaths as it is in 2010 but now soul legend Teddy Pendergrass has died at the age of 59. He died in Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia, eight months ealier he had a colon cancer surgery and he had a difficult time recovering. He was paralyzed in 1982 after crashing his Rolls-Royce and performed live at Live Aid in 1985. Its a sad time in the music world with many deaths.
Owen Pallett Now Streaming New Album "Heartland"
Owen Pallet formerly FInal Fantasy is now streaming his new album “Heartland”. The album is his first on his new label Domino Records. The album came out on January 12 but you can listen to it before you buy it here.
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Video: Girls - Wild Eyes (Vivian Girls cover)
My little brother told me about this video earlier today I had not seen it. Its San Francisco’s Girls covering Vivian Girls’ ‘Wild Eyes’ Some of the reverb of the original is lacking but that doesn’t mean it sucks, the anemic vocal delivery however is a little off putting. You can watch the video below.
Gorillaz New Single Features Bobby Womack
Gorillaz-Unofficial posted that a tweet from the BBC 6Music show The Laverne Show. The host Lauren Laverne tweeted:
Listening to the new Gorillaz single - BOBBY WOMACK ATTACK!
This is great news, I just hop we can hear it soon. The single will have remixes from Alex Metric, Yuksek and Steven Angello, (I wonder who this jp917 person that keeps sending them news?)
Someone Actually Avoids Talking To Vampire Weekend...
NY Mag’s Vulture interviewed Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend for the release of their sophomore album “Contra” and they avoided talking about their African influence and preppy fashion. Here is an excerpt from the more interesting part of the interview:
In the recent profile of the band in The New Yorker, there was a part in which Tom DeLonge, the lead singer of Blink-182,...
Mike Love Is An Asshole!
What kind of acceptance speech is this? I saw on the Daily Swarm reasons why people hated Mike Love. At first I was like he can’t be that bad until you go down the list and see the crap people had to take from him. Then I came upon his speech for the Beach Boys being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame andit was horrible. He calls out The Rollings Stones, The Beatles, Bruce...
Of Montreal Announce Tour Dates
Kevin Barnes and co. are busy working on the new of Montreal but have decided to take a break to play some shows. Their live shows are all about theatrics and usually involve costumes and weird props even resorting to nudity sometimes. The band is taking a break from the follow-up to 2008’s “Skeletal Lamping”, they have recorded with Solange Knowles and Jon Brion is said to be...
Santigold Producing New Devo
Somebody must still be checking this website and I update very irregularly. But here’s something that fits well here. The artist formerly known as Santogold has been producing some of Devo’s new material. This is what she had to say to Paste about producing some sessions for the band: “It was amazing. They’re just, like, my band idols. Them and The Smiths. But Devo, I made them...
