NEW VIDEO & ALBUM FROM JEALOUS GIRLFRIENDS HERE
April 30, 2008
The Jealous Girlfriends make it work. The Brooklyn four-piece pull together the tunefulness of Anglo New Wave and BritPop, the aggression and energy of Washingtonian indie rock – both district and state – and infuse it all with a little soul, working an alchemy that transforms these base musical elements into songs crackling with tension and excitement that are instantly memorable while revealing something new with every listen. Self Titled LP On Good Fences June 17th.
Click Here To View Debut Video “How Now”
Click Here To Listen To Entire Album On AOL Spinner
www.thejealousgirlfriends.com
www.myspace.com/thejealousgirlfriends
MOVEMENT 08: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MAY 24-26, 2008 AT HART PLAZA
April 30, 2008
Detroit Electronic Music Festival Showcases Strong Artist Line Up, Weatherproofed Stages, And Enhanced Sound System That Create A Diverse Music Experience!
Les Savy Fav Release “After The Balls Drop”
April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, Les Savy Fav released After The Balls Drop, the first ever live album from a band that built a decade-spanning career on the strength of its batshit-crazy stage presence.
BOSTON NATIVES TAB THE BAND NEW MP3 HERE
April 30, 2008
Their sophmore release retains the same rough and tumble nature of the first one. It sounds like a real band using real instruments recorded in an organic way. On this second release, the guys stretched the spectrum, some songs heavier and some more poppy.
Listen to “Where She Was on Monday”
ALEX MOULTON TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM ‘EXODUS’ THIS SUMMER
April 30, 2008
This summer, musician, producer, DJ, music video director and CEO of the Expansion Team media production company and record label, Alex Moulton sets the release of his sprawling solo debut Exodus. This is Moulton’s retro-utopian vision of a happier time, when albums were real albums and music was presented not just as disembodied chunks of digital information, but as a full-on experience.
Trained as a filmmaker, Moulton wrote Exodus with a visual in mind. In this case, he actually created a full-realized storyline—an epic sci-fi adventure, or a space-opera, if you will—that builds in a climactic arc with all the plot twists and turns. The songs are presented continuously like a DJ set, but they’re also like key scenes for a film. And even though Moulton knows what the characters are doing at every moment of each song, he hopes listeners will create their own story.
The fun begins when Exodus initiates lift-off with “Overture,” a churning, gurgling orchestral piece that morphs into a Blade Runner-like soundscape just as Daniel Correa (from the New York-based Colombian fusion band Samurindo) crashes in on a duly echo-kissed drum kit. As he does throughout the album, Moulton taps into a litany of Moog, ARP 2600 and Yamaha CS80 synth patches for a lush and endlessly layered sound. It’s a richness of analog synthesis that recalls the best work of Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Can, Neu! or any of the coolest motorik groups you can name, but when tracks like the trunk-bumping “Out of Phase” or the whimsical trance rocker “Flaming Swords” bang into the mix, it becomes clear that Moulton is equally enamored of the latest in minimalist techno and the psychedelic rock resurgence—and much more.
“All my inspirations get channeled through what feels right for the dancefloor today,” Moulton says, citing the mixing acumen of two-time Grammy-winning engineer Marc Urselli and the mastering stroke of Nilesh Patel (of Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers fame), “so there are some very modern elements to the music, and it’s mixed and mastered the way a record needs to be now. But again, it’s a total concept album. I wanted to make something like a Pink Floyd record, where you put it on and you listen to the whole thing all the way through and it takes you on this crazy journey. It probably has no place in a singles-driven market, but I’m doing it because when I was a kid this is what I had imagined music would sound like at the dawn of the 21st Century.”
With so many ideas to convey, Moulton couldn’t resist inviting a few other musicians and fellow travellers to the party. Along with Correa (who plays drums and percussion on over half of the 14 tracks on Exodus), Groove Collective’s Jonathan Maron adds an envelope-soaked wah bass to the disco-funk workout “Meridians,” while José Luis Pardo (aka DJ Afro of Los Amigos Invisibles) drops some slinky guitar riffage on “Paradise”— which surges into the sublime thanks to a murderous keyboard solo by Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (known for his stints with Beck and Air), who invokes Herbie Hancock and The Isley Brothers with some smoke to spare.
Exodus is released this summer on Expansion Team Records.
Exodus Painting By Boris & Julie
www.alexmoulton.info/
www.myspace.com/alexmoulton
Matt Zane Donates His Hair To Locks Of Love
April 30, 2008
It’s true. Matt Zane has donated over 17 inches of his trademark hair to the non-profit organization Locks Of Love. Locks of Love provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. They meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics.
Their mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children.
“People have identified who I am as my long hair for years. Something that I needed because it was expected of me and for awhile I have fallen into that trap. Recently I felt like I’ve entered a new chapter in my life and wanted to let go of certain expectations that people had. I was told about Locks Of Of Love and thought it was a great idea. I am glad some good can come of this considering all the hate mail I will get from girls on MySpace.” Says Zane
If you happen to be one of many woman upset by Zane’s decision you can still see him and his hair in all it’s glory on his latest movie Radium Volume #2 coming in May through Evolution Erotica.
www.MySpace.com/MattTheLordZane
www.LocksOfLove.org
MONOLITH FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 13-14 AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
April 30, 2008
MONOLITH FESTIVAL presented by Esurance returns to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday September 13 and Sunday September 14.
NEW ALBUM AND BOOK COMING FROM ROBERT POLLARD IN JUNE
April 30, 2008
Robert Pollard’s lone solo release for 2008, “Robert Pollard is Off to Business,” and the first album on newly founded Guided By Voices Inc. label arrives in stores this June. A hardcover, coffee table book comes on the heels of the new album with Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard arriving in stores on Aug. 6 from Fantagraphics.
In addition to being a prolific songwriter/recording artist, Pollard is a gifted and prolific visual artist, working mostly in the medium of collage. His work has been exhibited at Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante in New York and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. He has created the covers to almost every Guided By Voices record and countless other Pollard-related releases. Town of Mirrors collects the very best of Pollard’s visual art and lyrics/poetry.
Featuring over 180 of Pollard’s favorite collages, hand-picked by the artist, as well as over a dozen new collages produced exclusively for this collection, Town of Mirrors is the first comprehensive collection of Pollard’s visual art ever released. Pollard’s collages are the visual equivalent of his poetic and imagistic lyrics, surreal and reminiscent of the collages of Winston Smith.
TOWN OF MIRRORS: THE REASSEMBLED IMAGERY OF ROBERT POLLARD
By Robert Pollard
Introduction by Rick Moody
$29.99 Hardcover
Music / Art
144 pages, full-color, 10” x 10”
ISBN 978-1-56097-924-1
UNDEROATH TO RELEASE ‘SURVIVE, KALEIDOSCOPE’: FIRST EVER LIVE CD AND CONCERT DVD
April 30, 2008
UNDEROATH will release their first-ever live CD and concert DVD SURVIVE, KALEIDOSCOPE May 27 on Tooth & Nail/Solid State.
UK EXPORTS SOUTH NEW ALBUM IS OUT NOW
April 30, 2008
UK darlings South are thrilled to announce a stateside tour in support of their upcoming release, You Are Here. The album is set to hit on April 29th via bluhammock music/Young American Recordings.
