Yo La Tengo -'We Have Amnesia Live' Rebroadcast This Weekend
This Saturday and Sunday at 1pm CEST and 7pm CEST (7am EDT and 1pm EDT) you'll have two additional chances to watch Yo La Tengo's performances of 'We Have Amnesia Live'. All proceeds go to benefit the Brennan Center For Justice. Purchase tickets via Noon Chorus. Ira Kaplan will be be in the chat room for the latter of Saturday and Sunday's replays, but by no means should you confuse this experience with an Reddit AMA (no disrespect intended to those who enjoy that sort of thing. OK, maybe a little bit).
Yo La Tengo's two acoustic shows at North Adams, MA's MassMoca scheduled for August 7 and 8 are sold out.
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Yo La Tengo online:
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Official Site
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VIDEO : Muzz - "Summer Love"
Video by Muzz
Collages courtesy of Andrew McGranahan
Animations by Sabrina Nichols
Edited by Paul Banks
Last month, Muzz released their self-titled debut, “an album that bears the tide marks of its creators — Matt Barrick’s jazzy swing, multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman’s soft warmth, Paul Banks’s instantly identifiable baritone — but it defies easy categorization” (The FADER). Today, the longtime friends and collaborators present a video for the laid back and nostalgic “Summer Love.” On “Summer Love,” muted organ by Kaufman and flute by Stuart Bogie drift along as the song rides out on the main vibe and vocal line by Banks: “I?m in the race//I?m on the get-go//I wanna skate//I want the XO// Summer love//Summer love ends//Silence is sung we won?t remember.” The video combines “footage Matt shot a few years ago of a deserted drive-through theater, with clips we individually generated during lockdown and the majestically psychedelic collage work of the great Andrew McGranahan. It’s what we feel is a nice visual poem to accompany the song,” says Banks. “Rather than a summer lockdown document, we aimed more to emulate the work of Truffaut, Fellini, or Cassavetes and to capture three stories of romance and solitude. Lofty aspirations, humble result; but we hope you enjoy it even a fraction as much as we did creating it.”
photo by Driely S
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Perfume Genius - "Without You" Video Competition WInners Announced
Around the release of his critically acclaimed new album 'Set My Heart On Fire Immediately' , Perfume Genius, announced the “Without You” video competition. Mike Hadreas asked his fans to submit music video ideas and 3 winners have now been chosen. Each director received $1,000 to make their vision come to life as well as $1,000 to be donated to the charity of their choice. The winners are Liz Lian, whose video will premiere today, Samantha Mitchell whose clip will debut August 4, and Kristin Massa, whose video will premiere on August 11.
"This song, and Mike's artist's statement about it, reassures me that moments of comfort and clarity are just as certain to appear as confusing, lonely moments are. It reminds me to be patient and to turn toward conflict within myself and view it as a beautiful, imperfect metamorphosis, rather than hide from it. This music video is about the exploration and discovery of self through the natural world. I aim to depict the unfamiliar, abstract, and jumbled parts of ourselves through elements of surrealism and magical realism. Narratives of self-discovery in media often center around coming-of-age stories of young white people as they enter adulthood. But self-discovery and reinvention occur throughout our lifetimes. Seeds of change sown within us can blossom into exciting, life-altering experiences when we least expect it. Annie Tezuka, who stars in this video, did a beautiful job embodying this experience. I wanted to shine a particular light on the experience of women who, as they age, are increasingly seen as they are in relation to others – mothers, wives, grandmothers – and for this video to be a tribute to the complexities and constant change within all of us, especially those women." - Liz Lian
Lian has designated The ACLU of Southern California as her charity of choice. SoCal’s long history of advocacy, litigation, and education defends civil rights and liberties regarding racial and economic justice, freedom of speech, government transparency, LGBTQ rights, privacy, gender equity, reproductive justice, immigrants’ rights, criminal justice and drug policy reform, and police practices.
Samantha Mitchell will donate to the Baltimore chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project. Sex work is work. The Sex Workers Outreach Project is committed to ending violence and stigma against sex workers. Their national social justice network that advocates for the fundamental human rights of sex workers, including harm reduction, positive representation, and decriminalization.
Kristin Massa will donate to RAICES
RAICES is a non-profit organization in Texas that provides legal services and advocacy for immigrant children, families, and refugees. Every immigrant deserves the right to human dignity, and RAICES defends this right by providing legal services for thousands of children in tent cities, bond assistance, and by training pro-bono lawyers to aid detained clients forced to navigate the ICE detention system. By donating to this organization, you will directly contribute to the quality of life for immigrants caught up in the deliberately oppressive immigration policies in the United States.
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Perfume Genius Online
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Spoon - 'Telephono' & 'Soft Effects' reissues out today, Britt Daniel AMA at 1pm
Spoon - "Not Turning Off" (directed by Brett Vapnek, 1996), from 'Telephono')
our reissues of Spoon's 'Telephono' and 'Soft Effects' are available today
badger Britt Daniel in a Reddit AMA on r/Music today at 1pm EDT at reddit.com/r/music
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Spoon online :
Official Site
Perfume Genius - "On The Floor", "Jason" from "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon"
"On The Floor"
"Jason"
Last night, Perfume Genius performed the single “On The Floor,” from the recently release 'Set My Heart On Fire Immediately,' for NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon". The performance was shot at Los Angeles' The Lodge Room. In addition to the televised performance, Hadreas also shared an online-only performance of his ballad “Jason,” a stunning and relatable retelling of a fictional one night stand. Hadreas was backed by a band of notable performers including his long time collaborator Alan Wyffels and Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy.
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Pavement : 5 Albums On Bandcamp
(photo : Gail Butensky)
Pavement’s 5 studio albums, 'Slanted & Enchanted', 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain', 'Wowee Zowee', 'Brighten The Corners' and 'Terror Twilight' are now available for the first time on Bandcamp.
Pavement Online :
Pavement - official site
Pavement at Bandcamp
Yo La Tengo - 'We Have Amnesia Sometimes' + 2 Live Performances Streaming This Weekend
(photo : James McNew)
In case you haven’t caught on already, Yo La Tengo have spent the week quietly seeding the web with new music -- posting one song a day via their freshly minted Bandcamp page.
Today, we’re gathering it all into a single tidy zip file: 'We Have Amnesia Sometimes'. This digital collection features five instrumental compositions that Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew recorded over 10 days in late April and early May during socially distanced sessions at their rehearsal space in Hoboken, NJ. A vinyl edition will be available at a later date on Bandcamp via Egon.
Improvisatory and atmospheric, the music expands upon the moods and processes that informed the trio’s now-more-timely-than-ever 2018 full-length, 'There’s a Riot Going On'.
If you’ve spent any time hanging out with us at our rehearsal space in Hoboken — that pretty much covers none of you — you’ve heard us playing formlessly (he said, trying to sidestep the word “improvising”). Most of the songs we’ve written in the last 25 years have begun that way, but often we do it for no other reason than to push away the outside world.
In late April, with the outside world weighing on everybody, we determined that the three of us could assemble in Hoboken without disobeying the rules laid out by Governor Murphy, and resumed . . . “practicing” hardly describes it, because we’ve done no practicing per se, and anyway what would we be practicing for . . . playing. James set up one microphone in the middle of the room in case we stumbled on something useful for the future. Instead we decided to release some of the things we did right now.
-- Ira
Initially exclusive to Bandcamp, 'We Have Amnesia Sometimes' is today available via the streaming service of your choice.
'We Have Amnesia Sometimes' - Track List
1. "James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday)"
2. "Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday)"
3. "James gets up and watches mourning birds with Abraham (Wednesday)"
4. "Georgia considers the two blue ones (Thursday)"
5. "Ira searches for the slide, sort of (Friday)"
This weekend Yo La Tengo will be streaming two performances shot at their rehearsal space, Saturday, July 18 at 9pm EDT and Sunday, July 19 at 1pm EDT, under the name 'We Have Amnesia Live'.
The sets will be unique, approximiately 30-45 minutes in length and generated in the “formless” style of the 'We Have Amnesia Sometimes' recordings. Tickets will be $10 (or $18 for both shows) . All proceeds from the event will benefit the Brennan Center For Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute fighting for democracy – to ensure fair elections, to end mass incarceration, and to preserve civil liberties.
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preorder 'We Have Amensia Sometimes' on vinyl
Official Site
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Gang Of Four - First 3 Albums, 14 Concert Recordings Now Streaming
(photo : Andrew Corrigan)
We are pleased to announce that Matador Records will now oversee a number of key catalog titles by the legendary Leeds band Gang of Four, including the classic albums 'Entertainment!' (1979), 'Solid Gold' (1981), and 'Songs of the Free' (1982).
These records are once again available across streaming services and are joined by 14 live releases capturing performances between 1979 and 1984. Find a curated playlist of highlights from the live tapes here.
Gang of Four was formed in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies — favoring tense rhythms, percussive guitars, and lyrics that traded in Marxist theory and situationism. This first lineup of the group released two monumental albums, 'Entertainment!' (1979) and 'Solid Gold '(1981). A third, 'Songs of the Free' (1982), was recorded with Sara Lee replacing Allen. These records have endured as a formative influence, not only to subsequent generations of musicians, but also activists, writers, and visual artists.
“Ether,” the introductory track on 'Entertainment!', was recently sampled by Run The Jewels, who used the song’s core riff to form the backbone of their track “the ground below” on the newly released 'RTJ4'.
More to come.
Gang Of Four online :
website
Gang Of Four / Matador Records
Algiers - EU Tour Dates 2021 + 'Animals (Redux)' Live Version
Photo by Christian Hölgstedt
Today Algiers announce a batch of rescheduled European tour dates for quarter one of 2021. Nary ones to shy away from hitting the road, the band will be performing twenty seven shows across twenty different territories throughout February and March next year. Tickets go on-sale at 10:00 local times on Friday, July 17th.
Accompanying today's announce, the band have released a live and improvised version of 'Animals' - a track that featured on their second studio record 'The Underside of Power'. 'Animals (Redux)' was performed and recorded in Atlanta last month, and you can watch that new transmogrified take below:
Tour Dates
Monday, February 1st - Knust - Hamburg, DE
Tuesday, February 2nd - Stengade - Copenhagen, DK
Thursday, February 4th - Revolver - Oslo, NO
Friday, February 5th - Nalen Klubb - Stockholm, SE
Saturday, February 6th - Mejeriet - Lund, SE
Tuesday, February 9th - Lido - Berlin, DE
Wednesday, February 10th - Drizzly Grizzly - Gdansk, PO
Saturday, February 13th - Morze club - St. Petersburg, RU
Sunday, February 14th - Shagi Club - Moscow, RU
Wednesday, February 17th - Brugge club - Minsk, BY
Friday, February 19th - Caribbean club - Kiev, UA
Sunday, February 21st - Bandabar - Chisinau, MD
Tuesday, February 23rd - Control Club - Bucharest, RO
Wednesday, February 24th - Terminal 1 - Sofia, BG
Friday, February 26th - ?ightball Club - Thessaloniki, GR
Saturday, February 27th - Temple - Athens, GR
Monday, March 1st - MKC - Skopje, MK
Tuesday, March 2nd - Elektropionir club - Belgrade, RS
Wednesday, March 3rd - Form Space - Cluj, RO
Thursday, March 4th - Dürer Kert - middle room - Budapest, HU
Saturday, March 6th - Nova Cvernovka - Bratislava, SK
Sunday, March 7th - Vintage Industrial - Zagreb, HR
Monday, March 8th - Pogon culture - Rijeka, HR
Tuesday, March 9th - Posthof - Linz, AU
Thursday, March 11th - ISC - Bern, CH
Friday, March 12th - Bogen F - Zurich, CH
Saturday, March 13th - Serraglio - Milan, IT
Algiers online:
VIDEO : Muzz - "Everything Like It Used To Be" (acoustic)
Earlier this morning, Muzz debuted an acoustic performance of "Everything Like It Used To Be' ; the studio version can found on the trio's recently released debut album, 'Muzz'.
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boygenius : demos EP (Bandcamp) (24 Hours Only)
(photo : Lera Pentelute)
On Friday, July 3 boygenius -- Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus – will make three demos from their 2018 EP available digitally exclusively through Bandcamp.
The music will remain online for one day only, coinciding with the site’s 24-hour waiver of its revenue share.
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Proceeds will be split between three charities, each member having selected an organization local to them :
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus.
OUTMemphis, Downtown Women’s Center, and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Richmond.
The demos are voice memo recordings of the songs “Bite the Hand,” “Me & My Dog,” and “Stay Down” that were taped in rehearsal on June 5th, 2018 the day before the group would enter the studio to record its eponymous EP.
Tracklist:
boygenius demos
1. Bite The Hand (June 5, 2018 demo)
2. Me & My Dog (June 5, 2018 demo)
3. Stay Down (June 5, 2018 demo)
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Julien Baker Online
Website
Phoebe Bridgers online :
Website
Lucy Dacus online :
Website
VIDEO : Spoon - "Small Stakes"
Monday's announcement of the Spoon 'Slay On Cue' reissue series was accompanied by a restored and remastered video for the 'Kill The Moonlight' classic 'Small Stakes’, developed from the original 8mm film. “It’s a little glimpse into life in the studio in 2002 during the recording of 'Kill The Moonlight', filmed by our friend Peter Simonite”, says Britt Daniel.
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