Kruder & Dorfmeister (live), She & Him, Miike Snow
and More!
OCTOBER 16 & 17, 2010
Two-Day and VIP Tickets on Sale July 13 @ 1pm EST / 10am PST
Single Day Tickets Available July 16 @ 1pm EST / 10am PST
San Francisco, CA - July 12, 2010– The gorgeous, panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay will serve as the backdrop for LCD Soundsystem and Belle & Sebastian when they headline The 2010Treasure Island Music Festival presented by Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment.The fourth annual festival, which takes place on Treasure Island over two days - October 16th and 17th – will carry on the tradition of featuring some of the music world’s most exciting artists. This year’s stellar lineup, in addition to LCD Soundsystem and Belle & Sebastian (making their first Bay Area appearance in four years), is a who’s who of the dance/electronic and indie rock worlds, including The National, BrokenSocialScene, She&Him, Deadmau5, Kruder&Dorfmeister (live) (with one of their first U.S. performances since 2001), MiikeSnow, !!!,Superchunk, SurferBlood, DieAntwoord, LittleDragon, FourTet, RogueWave, Ra Ra Riot, Monotonix, Phantogram, The Sea & Cake, Phosphorescent, HolyFuck, Jamaica, Wallpaper, Papercuts, MausHaus and TheMumlers. (See full list below.)
Two day and VIP tickets go on sale tomorrow at 1pm EST/10am PST via the Treasure Island website: http://www.treasureislandfestival.com. Single day tickets will be made available on Friday, July 16th at 1pm EST/10am PST. A limited amount of reduced price early bird tickets will be available. Full ticketing details are as follows:
Single Day - GA $67.50
Two-Day - Early $99.99
Two-Day - GA $119.50
Single Day VIP Two Pack $249.50
Two-Day VIP Two Packs $475.00
Selected for its stunning, picturesque views, Treasure Island lays just off the coast of Yerba Buena Island in the San FranciscoBay. When the festival of the same name began in 2007, it quickly became one of the premiere music events of the fall concert season thanks to its consistently fresh and exciting lineups (the festival has never repeated an act) and its intimate feel. A sellout crowd of just over 12,000 music fans per day descended on the decommissioned naval base last year to see headliners MGMT and The Flaming Lips. By splitting each day into genre-specific artists – the first day features dance/electronic artists, while the second features indie rock bands – the festival has previously hosted a wide range of acclaimed artists since its inception, including M.I.A., Modest Mouse, The Raconteurs, Justice, Spoon, Thievery Corporation, Vampire Weekend, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, The Decemberists and many more.
In addition to providing music lovers with the coolest artists and an incredible setting, Treasure Island Music Festival ensures that attendees never miss a note of music. With two stages that alternate between bands, rather than having them play simultaneously, concert-goers have the chance to literally hear every note of every artist for the entire weekend. When not watching bands, festival attendees can hop over to the Treasure Chest, the festival’s interactive village full of games, a live mural wall, a photo booth, local craft vendors and more. This,combined with a 60 ft. Ferris Wheel, gourmet food vendors from local San Francisco businesses, a refillable water program, and buses to and from the festival loaded with Wi-Fi make the Treasure Island Music Festival one of the most amazing and unique music experiences of the year.
This year’s logo for the Treasure Island Music Festival was designed by local San Franciscan Jeff Canham (http://www.jeffcanham.com/). Previous years logos have been supplied by Shepard Fairey, Jason Munn (of Small Stakes) and Josh Cochran.
Established in San Francisco in 1993, Noise Pop is the leading independent music festival in the Bay Area. Over the last 18 years Noise Pop has provided exposure to some of the top emerging artists, many of whom have gone on to widespread acclaim, including the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Bright Eyes, Fleet Foxes, Magnetic Fields and Wolfmother. In 2006 Noise Pop began expanding the scope and presence of its established brand into year-round events (including the Treasure Island Music Festival) in the Bay Area and beyond that celebrate all forms of independent culture, music, film, art and merchandise to an ever expanding community.
Since its inception in 2003, Another Planet Entertainment has produced and promoted over 1,000 events with artists as diverse as Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young, Daft Punk, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Metallica and Kanye West. A Bay Area staple, Another Planet is the exclusive promoter for the Greek Theatre (Berkeley), Fox Theater (Oakland), The Independent (San Francisco) and Harvey’s Outdoor Amphitheatre (Lake Tahoe.) Another Planet also produces two major yearly festivals in San Francisco – Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival and Treasure Island Music Festival. In its first year of operation, Another Planet was selected by a vote of its concert industry peers as “Promoter of the Year” in the United States by Pollstar Magazine. In 2004 and 2005, Another Planet was pleased to be named “Independent Promoter of the Year.” In 2009 Another Planet Entertainment was named “Best Cultural Improvement” by the East Bay Express, and the Fox Theater as “Best Venue.” http://www.apeconcerts.com/
It’s time to come out of blog posting hibernation - hello again. Here are just a few of the many things we’re loving right now that we’d like to share with you:
*The Killers performed their new single, “A Dustland Fairytale,” with an orchestra on The Late Show with David Letterman this week. It’s swoon-worthy.
*This song by Dirty Projectors has been on heavy rotation in our offices - these guys played at our SXSW party and nearly knocked the tent over with their greatness. Is it wrong to wake up every day cursing our luck that we can’t sing like Amber Coffman?
*Like everyone else, we’re pretty obsessed with the new Phoenix album…
…and have you heard the super awesome new Mos Def songs?
*We’ve also been playing the new Camera Obscura album, My Maudlin Career, and counting the days until the Au Revoir Simone shows at the month’s end, which are going to be fantastic as always.
*And lastly, we may even be brave enough to attempt the line this year….
Now that December is upon us, we’re spending more and more time indoors, curled up with our computers and watching some of our favorite new music videos. Check them out…
Annuals - “Confessor”
Cold War Kids - “Something Is Not Right With Me”
The Kills - “Last Day of Magic”
Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning - “Churches Under the Stairs”
Already it’s a historic year for Rock the Vote. 1.5 million people and counting have registered to vote through Rock The Vote, making this the largest youth voter registration drive in history. In the last two weeks alone 231,371 people have downloaded voter registration forms from Rock The Vote’s website. Additionally in 2008, Rock the Vote has engaged more than 2.5 million members and over 100,000 mobile phone activists, plus innovative online programs are attracting the attention of millions more.
Register to vote now and encourage your friends to do the same!
Rock The Vote Road Trip 2008 events listed below:
Saturday, September 13 - Nashville, TN
Monday, September 15 – Blacksburg, VA
Tuesday, September 16 – Richmond, VA
Wednesday, September 17 – Annandale, VA
Thursday, September 18 & 19 - Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, September 20 – State College, PA
Sunday, September 21 - Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, September 23 – Youngstown, OH
Wednesday, September 24 - Akron, OH
Thursday, September 25 - Cleveland, OH
Friday, September 26 - Kent, OH
Saturday, September 27 - Columbus, OH
Sunday, September 28 - Cincinnati, OH
Tuesday, September 29 - Bloomington, IN
Thursday, October 2 - St. Louis, MO
Saturday, October 4 – Iowa City, IA
Monday, October 6 - Minneapolis, MN
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Anyone at a loose end tomorrow lunch time should pop into Other Music on East 4th Street, NYC for a special in-store performance by Conor Oberst. He’s playing at Bowery Ballroom too, but it’s been sold out for weeks.
Conor Oberst’s new album is out this week and the young man’s been very busy. He appeared on The Tonight Show with his Mystic Valley Band on Wednesday, performing the song “Get Well Cards” quite brilliantly and yesterday he popped up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson performing “Moab.” Neither of which are his current single. That title goes to “Souled Out!!!” for which he’s just released a video, directed by Alan Tanner. Check it:
Blur videos available:1. She’s So High
2. There’s No Other Way
3. Bang
4. Popscene
5. For Tomorrow
6. Chemical World
7. Sunday Sunday
8. Girls and Boys
9. To The End
10. Parklife
11. End Of A Century
12. Country House
13. The Universal
14. Stereotypes
15. Charmless Man
16. Beetlebum
17. Song 2
18. On Your Own
19. M.O.R.
20. Tender
21. Coffee & TV
22. No Distance Left To Run
There are simply way too many single highlights from Blur’s catalogue to pass on viewing any but Press Here cut a rug big-time to There’s No Other Way in the day so here goes:
Christie’s London sold the famous hand-painted drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band yesterday for $1.1 Million.
Hailed as being both the first concept album and the birth of Heavy Metal, the album helped to change the face of 20th Century music.
Also sold at the auction were John Lennon’s hand-written lyrics to Give Peace a Chance which went under the hammer for a staggering $834,000, well above the estimated $500,000. Wowzers!
With vinyl currently going though a steady resurgence and swiping back a massive portion of the recorded music market (currently 0.02%) we’re pleased to see that some truly awesome albums are getting a second chance to see the light of day. EMI will gradually reissue the catalogues of both Radiohead and Coldplay on 180 gm vinyl with original artwork and liner notes through their newly created series, “From the Capitol Vaults”.
This begs the question whether EMI will roll out this series across all of its labels so that we can pick up some modern classics from acts like The Beastie Boys, Blur, Sigur Ros, Mansun, Morrissey etc.
The Detroit Free Press ran a Calendar cover story yesterday about Jack White’s poem “Courageous Dream’s Concern“.
We think it’s beautiful (although, since we’re not native Detroiters many of the references are completely lost on us!)
‘Courageous Dream’s Concern,’ by Jack White
I have driven slow,
three miles an hour or so,
through Highland Park, Heidelberg, and the
Cass Corridor.
I’ve hopped on the Michigan,
and transferred to the Woodward,
and heard the good word blaring from an
a.m. radio.
I love the worn-through tracks of trolley
trains breaking through their
concrete vaults,
As I ride the Fort Street or the Baker,
just making my way home.
I sneak through an iron gate, and fish
rock bass out of the strait,
watching the mail boat with
its tugboat gait,
hauling words I’ll never know.
The water letter carrier,
bringing prose to lonely sailors,
treading the big lakes with their trailers,
floats in blue green chopping waters,
above long-lost sunken failures,
awaiting exhumation iron whalers,
holding gold we’ll never know.
I’ve slid on Belle Isle,
and rowed inside of it for miles.
Seeing white deer running alongside
While I glide, in a canoe.
I’ve walked down Caniff holding a glass
Atlas root beer bottle in my hands
And I’ve entered closets of coney islands
early in the morning too.
I’ve taken malt from Stroh’s and Sanders,
felt the black powder of abandoned
embers,
And smelled the sawdust from wood cut
to rehabilitate the fallen edifice.
I’ve walked to the rhythm of mariachis,
down junctions and back alleys,
Breathing fresh-baked fumes of culture
nurtured of the Latin and the
Middle East.
I’ve fallen down on public ice,
and skated in my own delight,
and slid again on metal crutches
into trafficked avenues.
Three motors moved us forward,
Leaving smaller engines to wither,
the aluminum, and torpedo,
Monuments to unclaimed dreaming.
Foundry’s piston tempest captured,
Forward pushing workers raptured,
Frescoed families strife fractured,
Encased by factory’s glass ceiling.
Detroit, you hold what one’s been seeking,
Holding off the coward-armies weakling,
Always rising from the ashes
not returning to the earth.
I so love your heart that burns
That in your people’s body yearns
To perpetuate,
and permeate,
the lonely dream that does encapsulate,
Your spirit, that God insulates,
With courageous dream’s concern.
Well….Times Square to be more precise. Never one to let an opportunity to be subversive and mess with the minds of middle-American tourists pass him by, the Sex Pistols brainchild has set his sights on MTV’s 40+ foot screen in the heart of one New York’s busiest attractions for his “Shallow” installation.
As part of the installation, McLaren will show heavily edited, old stag flicks set to music. Press Here is particularly intrigued by the portion of “Shallow” that’s set to the music of the Captain and Tenielle’s Love Will Keep Us Together and Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Check out the full story here and get along to the installation until August 14th.
Gizmodo have highlighted a hilarious Myspace page of a Kiwi outfit called The Trons….a band made up of er, robots. Have a listen and judge for yourself whether Gizmodo are correct in saying they’re “at least as good as Coldplay”.
You can definitely see the appeal of this band; no attitude, limited rehearsal time required and a touring company’s dream in that the artists get stowed under the plane with the gear, no hotel room is required, there are no bathroom stops and of course, no per diems!
Music fans in San Diego will recognize Troy Johnson as the producer and host of Fox Rox, a now sadly defunct music TV show which was known for its excellent taste in bands. The show is no longer airing, but Troy has been very busy with a book titled “Family Outing“. Subtitle: What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay. We know Troy well enough to know that this book is more likely to be hilariously funny musings than self-help philosophizing.
The publisher says:
“With searing wit and candor, FAMILY OUTING details the metamorphosis of an average American kid from mom-hating bigot to Pride-going breeder, taking head on the politics of sexual identity, the delusions of suburban delinquency, and the salvation of getting a clue. You won’t find a bowl of Chicken Soup for the Kids of Gays here—just the truth, served up with a side of sarcasm and extra laughs”.
Apple Co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs today gave an official presentation of the highly coveted, highly anticipated 3G iPhone which will be rolled out in the US (and in this case, many other countries simultaneously) on July 11.
Promised is a longer battery life, faster connection speed, built-in GPS, a sleeker design (all black rather than metal back) and most importantly, a price-point of $199 and $299 for the 8GB and 16GB models respectively.
Converse, the iconic footwear brand has made your choice of footwear somewhat easier. They’ll roll out band-influenced Chuck Taylors and Jack Purcells starting in Fall ‘08. Let’s hope some other bands are included in forthcoming ranges. We’d be appreciative of a pair of White Stripes Chuck Taylors with candy swirl logo replacing the “All-Star” logo or a Stone Roses/Pollock-esque paint-splattered pair.
If you’ve had your ear to the floor, you’ll have heard there’s a new kid in town by way of Browstoner’s Brooklyn Flea, a new flea market that’s opened in Fort Greene.
If you, like Press Here have been monitoring the progress of these new upstarts in the well-trodden ‘Trash and Treasure’ circuit, you’ll have enjoyed the breath of fresh air that visiting Brooklyn Flea on a Sunday (despite poor weather!) brings.
Heavy on hipsters and not-so heavy on content, Brooklyn Flea is a mere pup who is yet to truly cut its teeth. There’s a small amount of furniture but really nothing too special. Some vintage clothes, but again nothing that we haven’t seen in greater abundance and collected with greater panache at other New York markets. And what about the junk? There’s very little in the way of old photographs, 60 year old lamps, ephemera, vintage paintings etc.
Fortunately those at Brownstoner have taken into account the many fickle shoppers that frequent a New York flea market and they’re actively seeking out feedback so that the market continues to evolve and develop into something rewarding.
It may never attract the high caliber of freakazoid that the Chelsea Antiques Garage attracts (have you seen the dealer there who paints her skin and hair silver?) nor may it possess such an eclectic array of beautiful oddities but perhaps this is a new beast altogether and somewhat safer for the untrained flea market-shopper who doesn’t mind spending $3.50 on a danish…..y’wot?
Brooklyn Flea is not a contender for the title (yet) but they’re making the right moves. With the news earlier this year that the Chelsea Antiques Garage will close its roller doors in November to make way for, you guessed it….another condo, we’re backing anyone and everyone with the moxie to start up a new flea market.
Watch this space…………………………..before a developer comes in and builds on it.
What better way to enjoy the live delights of Band of Horses, Laura Marling, Lightspeed Champion, The Panics, Sigur Ros, Devo, The Vines, The Presets, Cold War Kids (and many more) than to see them performing at Australia’s (and one of the world’s) great music festivals, Splendour In The Grass. The festival is located on the outskirts of Byron Bay, long-renowned for its incredible weather, great food, startlingly beautiful beaches and….er, dope. Stay tuned as the line-up additions will only get better and better.
Maybe it’s because spring has finally sprung in New York City or because I’m just in the mood for some total classics, but today, all I feel like listening to is Simon and Garfunkel. Is there a better album than Bookends for a day like today? Is there a better song than “Bridge Over Troubled Water” for any day at all? Does “America” make us long for the heady days of the late 60’s? (Click on that link to see the perfect use of this song in a film starring the lovely Zooey Deschanel.) The answers are “no,” “no,” and “yes,” in case you were wondering.
But bringing up Paul Simon allows me to talk about one of my other favorite things, which are The Rutles. The Rutles: All You Need is Cash was a film put out in the 70’s by Eric Idle and some of the Python crew spoofing the story of The Beatles and it remains one of our favorites to this day. If you haven’t seen it, you really must hunt it down, if only for its amazing cameos - including George Harrison (!), a very young and good looking Mick Jagger, some of the 70’s SNL folks (Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, etc.) and, tying it all together, Paul Simon. You can watch his bit here:
Our dear friend John Niven has just published his first novel. His first book “Music From Big Pink“, a novella, came out on the 331/3 imprint a couple of years ago. “Music From Big Pink” was, of course, based on The Band album of the same name, and famous Dylanologist Greil Marcuswas moved to call Niven’s book “An amazing piece of work - as powerful as it is ugly.”
Kill Your Friends is, again, pretty powerful and pretty ugly. We were lucky enough to have stolen a preview copy from our friend Ed (thanks Ed!) and it makes for a gripping read. A satire of the music industry in London in the late 90s, it tells the story of an ambitious A&R man who’ll do anything to succeed… except, perhaps, work very hard. Niven was, in fact, an ambitious A&R man during those very years…. but we hope (for his sake) the comparison ends there.
Perhaps not one for the faint hearted, but we couldn’t put it down.
Oh! We almost forgot to mention that prior to his adventures in major label A&R Niven was a member of shamefully underrated and sadly completely forgotten ’80s indie band The Wishing Stones.Whaddaya mean “Who?!”
Time for a short tribute to the genius of Mark E Smith. While The Fall have been churning out great records for the past two (or is it three?) decades, Mark E Smith is still something of an enigmatic figure. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in his head, wonder no longer because there’s an exciting new book coming out. Billed as an “autobiography” it’s titled “Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith“. The Guardian have been serializing some of it the last couple of days. This is worth 5 minutes of anyone’s time. Our favorite quote?
“I only have three chairs in the house: one for the wife, one for me, and one for a guest. No more. One guest at a time - that’s my philosophy. You don’t want your house turning into a hippy commune.”
In tribute to Mark and his special little ways, we’ve put together our 3 favorite Fall videos available on YouTube. The video for “Telephone Thing“, a performance of “Cruiser’s Creek” on long-dead British music show The Tube and the now-classic clip of Mark reading the weekend football results on Manchester TV.
In rather an interesting move, our good friends at XL Recordings (The White Stripes, MIA, Devendra Banhart, The Raconteurs, Vampire Weekend, Sigur Ros) have launched a new website.
Instead of going for a conventional site model employed by many other record labels they’ve opted to cater to an more discerning audience, demanding the most of-the-moment content. Videos, photos, MP3s, blogs, TV appearances, tour announcements etc can all be accessed from XL’s site as all the content is being fed through from external sites.
XL’s new site will draw in content from all manner of music and entertainment outlets such as artist Myspace pages, news outlets like BBC and NME, music blogs such as Pitchfork, DayTrotter and DrownedInSound as well as Flickr and YouTube - almost a one-stop for all your music information needs.
It’s hoping that this new model, complete with a user-friendly collection of unique artist content, will attract a wide community of music fans.
We wish we had a basement so that our favorite bands could drop by, play some songs, and we could post them on the interweb (hell, some of us here wish that we lived in more than one room, but now we’re veering off-track). And although we’re challenged when it comes to extra space, the very lovely Nigel Godrich - he who has produced some of my favorite albums of all time (ahem, OK Computer, ahem) - does have a basement, and uses it for the exact purpose stated in the sentence before this one. The result is one of the most fun interweb shows we’ve seen, simply called From the Basement. The concept is an easy one to get your head around: bands playing in a basement, shot in beautiful high-definition and recorded by Mr. Godrich.
Check out performances by some of the bands we represent — The White Stripes, Autolux, Super Furry Animals, Laura Marling — and some of the bands we love — Thom Yorke, PJ Harvey, Beck, The Shins.
Here’s a little sneak preview of the very lovely Laura Marlingsinging her heart out…
Omaha’s favorite tap-dancing, ass-shaking, harmony-singing five-piece - Tilly and the Wall - is going to be releasing a new record on June 17th on Team Love Records simply entitled….well, it doesn’t have a title. The album cover is serving as its title: it’s a frame in which artwork will be placed. The Tillies are asking everyone in their community to contribute artwork for the album’s cover, and will have limited edition runs of handmade prints available by different artists that will act as the album’s cover.
But back to the music! Did we mention that O is Tilly and the Wall’s most cohesive, sonically experimental album yet? We’re kind of addicted to it. O details the mixing of the personal and the organic world — songs on the record frequently feature grass, flowers, blood, trees, snow, water, dust, sand, trash, electricity and gardens, all tied up with loss, love, need and exploration.
When it’s drizzling rain outside on a Monday there’s not much that can put us in a fantastic mood. We could watch the meercats on YouTube, or - even more heartwarming - catch up on some recent Super Furry AnimalsTV performances.They toured here in January/February in support of their latest album Hey Venus!, and popped up on TV sets across the nation, The Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O’Brien and Fuel’s The Daily Habit, who have just started posting their music performances on their website. The Daily Habit performance is a particularly beautiful Gruff + Bunf acoustic performance of “When The Wolves Howl At The Moon.” They also performed “Run Away” in the same way, with some additional help from a drum machine and some one-handed xylophone playing from the multi-talented Mr Bunford.
If this doesn’t make today’s grey skies a little brighter we don’t know what will….
If you’ve lived in Southern California at any point in the past 30 years then you probably know that Robert Hilburn’s music writing for the Los Angeles Times is one of the best things about living in LA. He’s one of the most passionately enthused music critics in the world so it’s exciting to learn that he’s announced plans for a book. The publishing company ModernTimes/Rodale released the following press release today:
In addition to his own search to understand what enabled these artists to make essential contributions to the evolution of pop music from the energy and innocence of the 1950s to the sophistication and commentary of a true art form, the book will share intimate moments with artists that are revealing, humorous and titillating. For example on a visit with Michael Jackson, Hilburn reveals, “I didn’t think anything odd about it at the time when Michael asked me to climb onto the bed with him and watch cartoons on television,” or one of the many late evenings he spent with the brilliant but eccentric producer Phil Spector in the 1970s, including one in which Spector, waving a handgun, barked, “No one leaves the house until Smith & Wesson says so.”
The Last Shadow Puppets played TWO secret shows in New York this week. The Sound Fix show on Tuesday was superb fun, and they played again on Wednesday night at Cake Shop. Alex Turner and Miles Kane didn’t have a full band, they were performing stripped down versions of their songs with just their guitars, but the result was pretty damn special all the same. For a glimpse of the full-blown sound of the record check out their first video, for title single The Age Of The Understatement. Filmed in Moscow. Brrrr…..
We’re reeeeeally excited about the forthcoming sophomore album from Brooklyn’s My Brightest Diamond – spearheaded by Shara Worden – who has been established as one of independent music’s most vibrant, creative and original voices. The album’s called A Thousand Shark’s Teeth, and it’s coming out on Asthmatic Kitty Records on June 17th. Charming, playful, daring, foreboding, graceful, eclectic, exciting and visceral: these are all the first words that come to mind after a full listen through A Thousand Shark’s Teeth. It is a record that evokes and challenges, full of the sorts of melodies and arrangements that make a hell of an impression. Shara started working on some of the songs for the record nearly six years ago, and recorded it in all different places – Berlin, NYC, LA – with twenty different players to help achieve her vision. With everything from strings to marimbas, harps, French horns and her own amazing guitar playing (those of us who play guitar here might be more than a little jealous of her skill!), A Thousand Shark’s Teeth is simply a beautiful album made by a brilliant artist. When you hear it, we think you’ll probably agree with us.
Here’s a video of Shara playing A Thousand Shark’s Teeth first single – “Inside a Boy” – at a show this past fall…
The very lovely Krista Blake in Glasgow sent us a very limited 7” of the 1990s“Sorry For Laughing” (bw The Royal We’s “Poor Old Soul”). It was extremely nice of her to think of us and remember how much we enjoy 45s. The single’s being released by Hitherto with help from the Six Cities Design Festival in Glasgow. Hitherto is a shop/gallery/performance space in the back of Tinderbox on Ingram Street in Glasgow, Scotland. It sells lovely and wonderful objects d’art, music, books, bags, stationery and clothes.
Our friend Andrew Kuo has recently been doing some of his “rock graphs” (for want of a better word) for the New York Times.You might have seen his “7 days of Bright Eyes at Town Hall” uber-graph last year. We like to check them out on Sunday mornings before coffee…it can make for a confusing and hilarious few minutes. Kuo’s two favorite bands are also two of our favorite bands – Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend-although we’re not mathematically-minded enough to explain how much we like them in flow chart form. Kuo’s the only guy who has that particular gift. Check it out here.
