Here's the deets for another bonza Euro festen. Held over August 14-15 in the Slottskogen central park of Gothenburg ('Do You Remember the Riots?', sorry Jens), the line-up is typically strong and only a little diverse, but probably not too much. Here's the acts:
Amadou & Mariam, Antony & the Johnsons feat. Göteborgs Symfoniker, Wilco, Arctic Monkeys, Band Of Horses, My Bloody Valentine, Rise Against, Basement Jaxx, Beirut, The Big Pink, Bon Iver, The Bronx, Calexico, Chairlift, Crookers, Erol Alkan, Fever Ray, Florence and The Machine, Grizzly Bear, Jay Reatard, Jenny Wilson, Lily Allen, Magnetic Man, Monotonix, Seun Kuti & Fela´s Egypt 80, Timo Räisänen, Vetiver, Vivian Girls, Woodpigeon.
Tickets are on sale at Eventim on tel. +46 77 165 1000, or www.eventim.se (in Swedish).
While over two days, there is no camping for Way Out West. Visitors to Gothenburg can stay at the plethora of hotels and youth hostels situated in Sweden's second city.
Wilco have a new album coming called Wilco (The Album). They're big, they can pull that kind of caper off noo worries, mate. The Album will be releaed by Nonesuch on June 30. This is the tracklist:
1. Wilco the Song
2. Deeper Down
3. One Wing
4. Bull Black Nova
5. You and I
6. You Never Know
7. Country Disappeared
8. Solitaire
9. I'll Fight
10. Sunny Feeling
11. Everlasting
I reckon 'Everlasting' will sound like the closing tracks from Sky Blue Sky, 'On and On and On', and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's'Reservations', whaddaya think?
The band also have a new DVD, 'Ashes of American Flags', also from Nonesuch, featuring footage drawn from five shows (Tulsa, New Orleans, Mobile, Nashville and DC) of their 2008 US tour. The film was produced and directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi’s Brendan Canty. See the trailer here.
Inertia has signed Gotye (aka Melbourne sound-popster Wally De Backer) in a deal that will re-release (with Samples 'N' Seconds) and distribute his back catalogue, including 'Boardface' (2004), the acclaimed 'Like Drawing Blood' (2006) and its remix album 'Mixed Blood' (2007). So get on down to a store near you today!
Brent Harris, drummer for Kiwi pop-punk upstarts Cut Off Your Hands, has stepped down from his duties in an attempt to halt the progress of a hearing loss problem that has plagued him since his mid-teens. This follows guitarist Michael Ramirez's departure in January of this year. No replacement has been announced for Harris, but you can stay up to date on the band's blog here.
Fresh from a name change and dates around the world, Santigold (neé Santogold) will tour the US one more time before settling back into the studio to record the follow-up to 2008 smash Santogold. These will be the first dates in North America will full band and back-up dancers.
Thurs 21 May - The Warfield, San Francisco CA
Fri 22 May - Empire, Sacramento CA
Sun 24 May - Cuthbert Amphitheatre, Eugene OR
Mon 25 May - Sasquatch! Festival, George WA
Thurs 28 May - First Avenue, Minneapolis MN
Fri 29 May - Peoples Court, Des Moines IA
Sun 31 May - Rams Head Live, Baltimore MD
Mon 1 June - House Of Blues, Boston MA
Wed 3 June - Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON
Thurs 4 June -Metropolis, Montreal QC
Sat 6 June - The Roots Picnic @ Festival Pier, Philadelphia PA
Sun 7 June - The NorVa, Norfolk VA
Tues 9 June - Terminal 5, New York NY
Wed 10 June - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Fri 12 June - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester TN
Sat 13 June - Barcardi B Live @ The Pageant, St. Louis MO
Mon 15 June - Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin TX
Wed 17 June - House Of Blues, Houston TX
Thurs 18 June - House Of Blues, Dallas TX
Sun 21 June - Hollywood Bowl / KCRW World Festival Series, Hollywood CA
Their new album, My Maudlin Career, is shaping up to be a bit of a hit. Get onto the Glaswegian pop six-piece as they tour North America in May and June.
Wed 27 May - Mercy Lounge, Nashville TN
Thurs 28 May - Southgate House, Newport KY
Fri 29 May - Metro, Chicago IL
Sat 30 May - Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis MN
Mon 1 June - Bluebird, Denver CO
Tues 2 June - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
Thurs 4 June - Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR
Fri 5 June - Commodore, Vancouver British Columbia
Sat 6 June - Showbox, Seattle WA
Mon 8 June - The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
Tues 9 June - Glasshouse, Pomona CA
Thurs 11 June - Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Sat 13 June - Lunario, Mexico City Mexico
Mon 15 June - Antone's, Austin TX
Tues 16 June - The Loft, Dallas TX
Thurs 18 June - Bottletree, Birmingham AL
Fri 19 June - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
Sat 20 June - Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC
Sun 21 June - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Mon 22 June - TLA, Philadelphia PA
Wed 24 June- Webster Hall, New York NY
Thurs 25 June - Somerville Theatre, Boston MA
Fri 26 June - La Tulipe, Montreal Quebec
Sat 27 June - Lee's Palace, Toronto Ontario
Mon 29 June - Wexner Center at Ohio State University, Columbus OH
Tues 30 June - Mr. Small's - Pittsburgh PA
After reforming for the second time in 2006 and playing a bunch of ATPs, the Meat Puppets are set to release their twelfth album, following on from 2007's Rise to Your Knees. Sewn Together comes out May 12 and will be the legendary Arizonan band's first on Megaforce Records. The record is set to continue Curt Kirkwood's spontaneous approach to recording, after the band's more produced 90s albums.
1. Sewn Together
2. Blanket Of Weeds
3. I'm Not You
4. Sapphire
5. Rotten Shame
6. Go To Your Head
7. Clone
8. Smoke
9. S.K.A.
10. Nursery Rhyme
11. The Monkey And The Snake
12. Love Mountain
The Meat Puppets will tour the US through May, June and July.
"If this were Ben World, this would be my greatest hits album. I'd rather this be my greatest hits record than someone collecting my masters and slapping on a photo of me leaning against a piano". That's how Ben Folds describes University A Capella, recordings of university singing groups covering his songs, out next week on April 28.
Maybe feeling jealous, Folds recorded two a capella versions himself, 'Boxing' and 'Effington'. All the solo Bens can get cringy, but I reckon this seems like a good way to do Folds' material.
1. Not the Same - The Spartones from Greensboro, NC. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2. Jesusland - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Loreleis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3. Brick - The Ohio University Leading Tones
4. You Don't Know Me - The University of Georgia's With Someone Else's Money
5. Still Fightin It - Washington University in St. Louis's Mosaic Whispers
6. Boxing - Ben Folds
7. Selfless, Cold and Composed - The Sacramento State Jazz Singers
8. Magic - The University of Chicago's Voices In Your Head
9. Landed - The University of Colorado Buffoons
10. Time - The Princeton Nassoons
11. Effington - Ben Folds
12. Evaporated - The Newtones from Newton, MA, Wellesley College
13. Fred Jones Part 2 - The West Chester University of Pennsylvania Gracenotes
14. Army - The University of Rochester Midnight Ramblers
15. Fair - University of Wisconsin's Eau Claire's Fifth Element
16. The Luckiest - The Washington University in St. Louis Amateurs
Many of the groups will open dates on Folds' upcoming tour.
Oops, totally forgot to tell all of you. Eddy Current Suppression Ring won the Australian Music Prize for their brilliant record Primary Colours! They beat Ross McLennan, Cut Copy, the Drones, Beaches, etc. ECSR say they will use the $30,000 in prize money to 'severely over-produce [our] next record', to be hopefully entitled Sufficient Funds, after their first two records were recorded for a sum totalling under a tenth of their AMP prize.
The Red Bull Award in Recognition of Outstanding Potential (at a not paltry $15,000) went to Jack Ladder, for Love is Gone.
Elvis Costello is a smart cookie. Seen him chatting with Bill (Clinton) and Smokey (Robinson) on his show, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...? Well, he's obviously not the sort of bloke to shrink into contentment and his new album sounds intriguing.
Secret, Profane and Sugarcane will come out June 2 on Hear Music (the Starbucks label) and is set to be an all-acoustic, country-bluegrass affair. Costello enlisted T-Bone Burnett to produce and play, as well as a host of session players, while Loretta Lynn co-wrote a song and Emmylou Harris sings on another.
European fans of Antony and the Johnsons have a chance to witness something special this summer. Antony will be playing a string of shows with local large format orchestras (36-52), with arrangements Hegarty has developed with Nico Muhly.
Sun 21 June and Mon 22 June - Holland Festival at Royal Theatre Carré (with the Metropole Orchestra), Amsterdam Holland
Fri 3 July and Sat 4 July - Manchester International Festival at the Opera House (with the Manchester Camerata), Manchester UK
Tues 21 July July – Les Nuits de Fourviere (with the Opera de Lyon Orchestra), Lyon France
Tues 28 July - Cavea at Il Parco della Musica (with the Rome Sinfonietta), Rome Italy
Sun 9 August - Oslo Jazz Festival, inauguration of the open air venue of the Opera House (with the Oslo Opera House Orchestra), Oslo Norway
Fri 14 August - Way Out West Festival (with the Gothenburg Symphonic Orchestra), Gothenburg Sweden
