C.C. DeVille sentenced to jail

C.C. DeVille

C.C. DeVille gets 80 days for DUI charge LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille was sentenced to 80 days in jail after pleading no contest to driving while intoxicated. DeVille, whose given name is Bruce Johannesson, was also sentenced to five years probation, fined $1,000 and ordered to surrender his license for a year, city prosecutors said Monday. The 43-year-old rocker known for his over-the-top antics hit a parked vehicle August 24 while he was backing out of the driveway of his girlfriend's home, prosecutors said. He allegedly rammed another parked car, deploying his vehicle's air bags and injuring his girlfriend.

He pleaded no contest Friday to a charge of driving under the influence causing injury, authorities said.

source: The Associated Press.

Celtic Frost Mainman Resumes Work On Solo Album

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "I worked on music for my solo album for the first time in many months this week. I had neither been in the frame of mind to write such material nor was there any chance to find the time to do it during this truly unique and unreservedly challenging year so far. Celtic Frost usurped anything and everything. And it will continue to do so shortly; there is so much taking place here with regard to the new Celtic Frost album.

"But in this brief moment of appropriated and utterly conceived quiescence, I sat down and listened to what I had written so far for my own album during the past few years, and I couldn't stop myself from working on it some more. It will be so endlessly dark. And even though it is something very different, it is at the same time so very closely related to Celtic Frost.

"Martin [Ain, Celtic Frost bassist] will kill me for this, for I am supposed to finish and submit my liner notes and the vast credits for the Celtic Frost album. And I am also working on some graphic design ideas with him. I am probably already very overdue, actually. And I am also supposed to hand in this month's installment of my column, for which I haven't written a single word yet.

"But my own sanity had to take priority, briefly, this once. I will be joining Martin at the studio all this week, working for CELTIC FROST again, at any rate."

As previously reported, Celtic Frost have set "Dark Matter Manifest" as the tentative title of their first album in 13 years. The culmination of some three and a half years of songwriting and recording work, the album was largely produced by the band themselves and financed by their own production company, with additional assistance from HYPOCRISY/PAIN mastermind Peter Tägtgren during the final recording and mixing sessions at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany. Negotiations with a variety of labels are currently underway, and the album is scheduled for a release in early 2006. Original Celtic Frost members Tom Gabriel Fischer (voice and guitars) and Martin Eric Ain (bass) are joined by Erol Unala (guitar) and Franco Sesa (drums). The band are now managed by Antje Lange for The A Label in Berlin, Germany.

source: blabberhmouth

Whitesnake Frontman: 'The DVD Will Be Ready When It's Ready' -

Whitesnake

Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "I have found out this year that being angry and pissed off has gotten me absolutely nowhere, so I am trying to allow events that are out of my control to unfold in their own way, and it is a good realization. I recommend this approach to all if you're encountering negativity in your lives. "The DVD will be ready when it's ready, and if anyone is interested, then they will acquire regardless of when it is released. The big thing for me is that is will represent Whitesnake in an appropriate way, and document a very special evening in the company of friends." As previously reported, Whitesnake's long-awaited live DVD, "In the Still of the Night" (AFM Records/Soulfood/CHS), has had its release date pushed back to January 27, 2006.

The set, which was recorded with 13 cameras in October 2004 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, was supposed to come out in time for the band's summer's U.S. tour, but was pushed back to later in the year because the producer suffered a heart attack. "The guy who's been coordinating everything has just had a heart attack," Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale told Launch. "I said, 'Was it that good?' I'm gonna put on the, the thing a disclaimer for, 'WHITESNAKE are not responsible for speeding tickets or damage to home furnishings.' You know, evidently now, we're gonna have to be, 'or cardiac arrest!'"

"In the Still of the Night" (view cover here) will feature the following track listing:

01. Burn
02. Bad Boys
03. Love Ain't No Stranger
04. Ready An' Willing
05. Is This Love
06. Give Me All Your Love
07. Judgement Day
08. Snake Dance
09. Crying In the Rain
10. Ain't No Love
11. Don't Break My Heart Again
12. Fool For Your Loving
13. Here I Go Again
14. Take Me With You
15. Still of the Night

WHITESNAKE recently completed a South American tour with JUDAS PRIEST.

source: blabbermouth

Kaiser Chiefs singer in onstage collapse

Ricky Wilson

Ricky Wilson keels over Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson dramatically collapsed following the band's O2 NME Rock 'N' Roll Riot Tour show in Birmingham. The band had just finished playing at the city's Academy on Sunday (October 23) when the energetic frontman rushed off stage and fainted. A statement from a source close to the band told NME.COM: "He got knackered and flaked out. There was first aid at the side of the stage and they gave him some water and then he was bright as a button two minutes later."

Another witness posting on the Kaiser's official website kaiserchiefs.co.uk said: "He did literally just collapse and Nick (Hodgson - drummer) poured a bottle of water over his head and he still didn't get up."

The O2 NME Rock 'N' Roll Riot Tour hits London's Brixton Academy tonight for a three-night, sold-out stint and also sees performances from Maximo Park and The Cribs.

Kaiser Chiefs release their next single 'Modern Way' on November 7.

source: nme

Super Furry Animals and Caribou Star in the Too Clever for Prime Time Tour

Super Furry Animals

Tee, hee! I have a joke for you, inspired by the ingenious pairing of Super Furry Animals and Caribou as tour mates and by my inimitable funny bone... A welshman walks into an Irish pub in the middle of Winnipeg and says to the Canadian bartender, "Ysbeidiau heulog?" The bartender replies, "Take off, eh! I don't speak Cymraeg!" Pretty funny, huh? I'm thinking about taking my act on the road. Just that one joke, though. Every night, I'll get up in front of an audience that has zipped past their two drink minimum to teeter dangerously close to the precipice of the eighteen drink maximum and tell that joke and that joke only. And it will kill every night.

I'll become an overnight sensation, a media darling, an "it" person, and maybe, if my website takes off, I'll become that most DiCrescenzo of things, a welebrity. I'll have a movie that will be the perfect amalgamation of Man on the Moon and The Aristocrats. It will win all the Independent Spirit Awards and one Razzie. David Cross will make fun of me and Weird Al Yankovic will lampoon my Baz Luhrman-like novelty hit that features my voice intoning that joke over and over again to the backdrop of an Enya-style beat.

I will ride the wave into a cult comedy series that will start out on Spike but will then transfer to NBC when the ratings go through the roof. The suits at GE know a cash cow when they see one. There will be ass loads of merchandising including a Big Mouth Billy Bass type thing that spouts off my joke every time someone walks by, a foam rubber stress ball, an office foosball table, keychains and emory boards. I will be asked to curate the 2006 U.S. edition of the All Tommorow's Parties festival and I will choose Super Furry Animals and Caribou to play over and over and over again. Sometime during the 3rd performance by Dan Snaith and company, the crowd will overpower the band with their chants, begging me to come on stage and tell my joke. I am humble as I walk on stage to oblige my adoring legions of fans who cheer violently as I approach the mic. An eerie calm fills the air. Just as I am about to open my mouth, an arrow hits me square in my Adam's apple, sending buckets of blood gushing from my throat and covering the stage in a deep scarlet puddle. My last word as I gasp my final breath? "Pwned."

It's not Welsh, get it? It's Geek!:

11.01.05 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
11.02.05 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
11.03.05 - Ottawa, ON - Babylon*
11.04.05 - Alfred, NY - Powell Campus Center *
11.05.05 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
11.06.05 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
11.07.05 - Boston, MA - The Roxy
11.08.05 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11.09.05 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts
11.10.05 - Norfolk, VA - NorVa
11.11.05 - Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle
11.12.05 - Atlanta, GA - The Loft
11.14.05 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon*
11.15.05 - Houston, TX - The Meridian
11.16.05 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
11.17.05 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
11.18.05 - Tulsa, OK - The Venue$
11.19.05 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre
11.20.05 - Chicago, IL - Metro
11.20.05 - Chicago, IL - Smart Bar* (DJ Set)
11.21.05 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
11.24.05 - Vancouver, BC - Richards on Richards
11.25.05 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
11.26.05 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
11.28.05 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium
11.29.05 - Los Angeles, CA - Avalon Hollywood
11.30.05 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues Anaheim
12.01.05 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues San Diego
12.04.05 - Calgary, AB - Broken City*
12.05.05 - Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room#
12.06.05 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigos*
12.07.05 - Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret*
12.10.05 - Waterloo, ON - Starlight Lounge*
12.11.05 - Hamilton, ON - The Casbah*

* Caribou ONLY
# w/ Faunts
$ w/ Student Film

source: tinymixtapes

OK Go Get A Boost From Franz Ferdinand's Producer

Ok Go

When last we heard from synth-pop's best kept secret, OK Go, they were planning a fast and furious recording strike, hoping to get in and out of the studio in a couple of months with a follow-up to 2002's self-titled debut firmly in hand. A year later they've arrived back on store shelves with Oh No, a disc devoid of keys, instead beating down any sophomore worries with some punchy guitar rock. Buh? .

"The actual recording of the record took about two months," frontman Damian Kulash explains. "But writing the record, which we thought would be like, just come off the tour, guns a-blazing, ready to go — you know, after you've been on tour for two years you think that you're going to have all these bottled up ideas

Because every time you get over-caffeinated on an airplane somewhere you're like 'I've got the best idea for a song!' and so you think these things have all built up inside of you. And then you stop, you get off tour, and you're like 'OK! Open the floodgates! Here comes my masterpiece!' And instead it's this tiny trickle of, like, atrophied mess. It was really bad, for a few months it was really depressing trying to write. So it took about six months to get to the point where we actually liked what were writing."

"We ended up writing something like 60 to 100 songs, in about six months," bassist Tim Nordwind interjects.

"Most of which I never want to hear again," Kulash laughs. "Some of it was so bad; it was awful. I mean there's a song on our new record called 'It's A Disaster.' That was the turning point. And you can see exactly how we were feeling at that point, all the lyrics are like, 'Everything fucking sucks! It's a fucking disaster! I hate it! G'night!'"

Once the grueling writing sessions were behind them, OK Go's four members went to the city of Malmo, Sweden, to record with Tore Johansson, an understandably popular producer since sitting at the dials for Franz Ferdinand's influential debut LP. Following that success, Johansson's been hard to get, but the relatively unknown band had no problem fitting into his schedule.

"He really liked our demos, so I don't know. I don't know how many other people approached him," Kulash says. "His rules were pretty specific — he was only going to record in Malmo, because he has a four-year-old daughter and he didn't feel like not being around and he really only wants to work on things that are artistically interesting to him.

And I mean, every producer always kinda says that — everybody in the whole music industry always claims, 'Hey I only work on things I really like' and every publicist you ever meet is like, 'Luckily, I love every band that gets assigned to me,' you know?"

"But he seems to be pretty choosy," Nordwind agrees.

"He actually turned down Depeche Mode while we were there, he turned down a bunch of shit that I can't imagine other producers turning down," Kulash says.

OK Go are more than happy with Johansson's work and their new rock edge, and while Oh No may have tossed aside the synth-pop, it still overflows with catchy hooks and fun, smart-ass lyrics.

Fans in the Toronto area can catch the band when they make a lone Canadian detour to the Horseshoe Tavern on November 7.

source: chartattack—David McDougall

Mogwai slate two November fundraising shows

Mogwai

The band to aid two Scottish charities. Mogwai have announced two winter shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow in aid of local charity organisations, Sound Generator can report. The first show comes November 28 at Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire and will raise funds for One In Four, a mental health charity that aims to promote awareness of a number of illnesses. The following night, the band play the Glasgow Arches in support of Refugee Awareness, which aids refugees in the city. Tickets for both shows are priced at £10, £14 on the door.

In other news, the band have confirmed the completion of their new album, due early 2006.

source: soundgenerator

New York Dolls Documentary Opens This Week

New York Dolls

Along with the Stooges, Rocket from the Tombs, the MC5, and many others, the New York Dolls have helped make the past few years a heyday for proto-punk reunions (not to mention Just For Men's shareholders). After a number of hi-octane live dates, the Dolls' 2004 Morrissey-instigated regrouping will soon be bolstered by a new-- albeit somber-- documentary, chronicling late bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane's return to the group.

Offering a blend of music history and human drama, the upcoming film New York Doll, explores Kane's difficult decision to rejoin the legendary punk instigators after a three-decade separation, during which time he made a decidedly un-punk conversion to Mormonism.

The film features interviews with Kane and his bandmates, as well as friends and fellow musicians as it traces the history of the Dolls and from their early 70s prime up through last year. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a happy ending: only weeks after rejoining singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain for the Dolls' reunion debut at London's Royal Festival Hall during the 2004 Meltdown Festival, the 55-year-old Kane passed away from leukemia.

New York Doll, directed by Greg Whitely, was a hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and will debut in theaters in New York and Los Angles on October 28.

Johansen, Sylvain and the rest of the current Dolls lineup (guitarist Steve Conte, bassist Sami Yaffa, drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin) are scheduled to enter the studio later this year to record a new album, tentatively set for a spring 2006 release on Roadrunner Records. They will play four shows this week, including performances at both the New Orleans and Memphis dates of the Voodoo Music Experience.

Looking for a kiss:

10-27 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
10-28 Orlando, FL - House Of Blues
10-29 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Festival
10-30 Memphis, TN - Voodoo Music Festival

* New York Dolls: http://www.new-york-dolls.com//
* New York Doll: http://www.newyorkdollmovie.com//

source: ptchfork_James Gregory report

Death Cab Blasé Over Big Chart Debut; Say Next LP Will Be 'Complicated'

Death Cab for Cutie

It's essential that Plans follow-up is different, Ben Gibbard insists. When Death Cab for Cutie learned that their latest album, Plans, had debuted at #4 on the Billboard albums chart last month (selling more than 89,000 copies in its first week), they celebrated big-time — just like any long-in-the-tooth, hard-workin' rock and roll band would. Well, sort of.

"We kind of woke up in the morning and were checking our e-mails and someone was like, 'Hey, you guys are #4!' And we were like, 'Great!' - and took a slurp of coffee and ate some cereal," DCFC frontman Ben Gibbard laughed. "So it was pretty much just like every other day."

"I was in the middle of doing data-transferring and had been spending the entire day doing that," guitarist Chris Walla added. "And all of a sudden, our manager interrupted me to tell me that we had the #4 album, and I was like, 'Great, that's awesome. I have to get back to this.' So nothing really changed."

Okay, so strippers and champagne it ain't, but if the guys in Death Cab are anything, it's humble. And whether it's Gibbard's lyrics - honest yet wide-eyed ruminations on life and death - or Walla's earnest guitar playing (see "Death Cab For Cutie Living Up To The 'Death' Part On Next LP"), clearly a lot of people are listening: sales of the album have already soared past the 240,000 mark. And so, with the video for the album's first single, "Soul Meets Body," currently rotating on MTV, they're doing what any big-label rock act would do: trot out a second single.

"We're going to shoot a video for 'Crooked Teeth.' We're choosing a treatment and director right now, but it'll be difficult because the song is kind of a tough one to figure out," Gibbard said. "I'm fascinated with how people end up in the situations they're in, and the obstacles that they basically put in front of themselves to stay sedentary in that position. So that's what the song's about: skylines like crooked smiles, state lines being like the Berlin Wall. It's like there's no way to get over those boundaries, though there clearly is. It just takes a bit of dedication to change one's position in life."

And though Death Cab still have about a month left in their North American tour (see "Death Cab For Cutie Plan Fall Tour, Even Though That Goes Against Their Nature"), they're already thinking about getting back in the studio to record a follow-up to Plans (we told you they were hard-workin'). And while both Gibbard and Walla have a whole lot of ideas about just what that new record will sound like, there's one thing they both can agree on: It's going to be different.

"I'm incredibly proud of [Plans], but I feel we had to make it exactly when we did. It's a transitional record for our transitional time. I think we'll make the free-jazz record next time around," Gibbard laughed. "I think it will be essential for the growth of the band to do something different next time, whether that means bringing in an outside producer or making the album only six songs long. Who knows?"

"Ben's been talking off and on about concepts for the next record. Like, maybe they're a bunch of pop songs but all strung together, like some old Yes record or something," Walla added. "I don't know what's going to happen, but I think everyone's ready to do something complicated."

source: mtv_James Montgomery

Yeah Yeah Yeahs album details emerge

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Karen O speaks out Yeah Yeah Yeahs have confirmed first details of their second album. As previously reported, the band have been recording for much of this year and guitarist Nick Zinner has been spotted in London, where he's been mixing the follow-up to 2003's 'Fever To Tell' with producer Alan Moulder.

The untitled record is due for release in March this year. Speaking to fans online, singer Karen O revealed the titles of two songs, and said some of the older tracks worked on in the sessions may still see the light of day, despite not featuring on the album.

She told a fan website: "Songs to be included on the new album include 'Cheated Hearts' and 'Honey Bear'. All the rest are new tracks. Some older tracks such as 'Down Boy' used in a special EP, but only MAYBE."

Recording was completed on August 24 - almost two-and-a-half years after the release of 'Fever To Tell' in April 2003.

source: nme

U2 Cash-In

Johnny And Rosanne Cash

U2 and the Foo Fighters are to star in a special tribute show to Johnny Cash, just days before the long-awaited Hollywood biopic about the late country legend is released. Bono and Dave Grohl will be amongst the rock'n'roll luminaries expected to feature in "I Walk The Line: A Night For Johnny Cash", on November 16. They will be joined by Norah Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sheryl Crow, Alison Krauss, Kris Kristofferson and Dwight Yoakam on the CBS show, which will be presented by the film's lead Joaquin Phoenix, reports Billboard. None of the acts have as yet said which songs they'll perform, although organisers have confirmed "I Walk the Line", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "I Still Miss Someone", "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Home of the Blues" will be covered.

November 16 will see the American release of the Johnny Cash movie, "Walk the Line", starring Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.

The film soundtrack is released on November 15, includes performances from Phoenix and Witherspoon, plus tracks by Jennings, Johnathan Rice, Waylon Payne and Tyler Hilton.

source: dotmusic

Devendra Banhart announces new single

Devendra Banhart

'Heard Somebody Say' is out next month Devendra Banhart will release a brand new single next month. 'Heard Somebody Say' will hit the shops on November 21 through XL Recordings and is taken from the singer's latest album, 'Cripple Crow'. The single will come backed with three exclusive new songs. The CD edition will feature 'Lickety Split' and 'Chicken' on the B-sides, whilst the 7" vinyl will include 'La Pastorcita Perdida'.The video for 'Heard Somebody Say' was directed by Simon Henwood and features a cast of the singer's band mates and friends including Antony of Antony & the Johnsons.

Devendra Banhart and his band Hairy Fairy will be headlining London's Astoria on November 16

source: nme

Alice Cooper: Hero to Homeless?

Alice Cooper (1973)

Alice Cooper wants to help the hungry men of London, even if they don't want pizza. According to the U.K. website Playlouder.com, Cooper is pitching a reality TV show in which he will save a homeless man from the streets of London. "It will be about a guy who is sleeping in downtown London and life is totally gone for him," Cooper reportedly said of his new show. "He's just a bundle of rags. We find out how he got there and reconstruct his life. That would be great TV." Apparently Alice will search the gritty parts of London for the "right type" of homeless man.

Maybe he means the kind who wears ghoulish makeup, likes to play golf, and wants to open sports bars, just like Alice. After wrapping up a U.S. tour, Cooper heads to England for the month of November, ostensibly to tour, but perhaps to pound the pavement in search of the right derelict.

Alice Cooper official site

source: spin

Eurythmics On Reunion: 'We Don't Know'

Eurythmics

Next month will return the spotlight to pop duo Eurythmics, with a best-of disc featuring its first new songs in six years and a reissue campaign featuring expanded editions of the group's entire catalog. But Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart insist nothing has been decided about potential future collaborations. When asked if they consider Eurythmics an ongoing concern, even though they may go years without recording, they do not answer, instead noting that they had to have some time apart after the first decade of incessant touring and recording. "But we never fought," Stewart tells Billboard. "We did too fight," Lennox counters. "Did we?" Stewart asks.

They agree that they had to get off the schedule they were on in order to "do regular things," Stewart says. "I wanted a family," Lennox adds, "and they don't come off the shelf."

When asked if they plan on working on a new album, they just laugh. "I'm always amazed when people ask us," Lennox says. "We don't know."

Regardless, response has been highly positive for new single "I've Got a Life," which boasts an uplifting melody juxtaposed with sad lyrics. "That's every Eurythmics song," Stewart says with a laugh. "There's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of angst and melancholy in the same song, which is unusual."

Although they have not ruled it out, it's unlikely the pair will tour behind the "Ultimate Collection" set, in part because Lennox dislikes many aspects of being on the road. "I get all anxious and I can't calm down. And to do the 54 dates I did with Sting [last year], it was mad," she says. "I don't really know why I did it. I thought I misread the amount of dates."

source: billboard_by Melinda Newman

Liam Gallagher: 'I Don't Like Bloc Party Or Babyshambles'

Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher has dismissed Bloc Party saying that he doesn’t “give a fuck” about them. The Oasis singer admits that he doesn’t like the band who have been billed as the next Oasis, Blur and Radiohead in the past. Speaking to mtv, he said: "Fair play to them (Bloc Party), they're having a go, doing what they're doing and all that and people seem to be in to them." He continued: "People ask me these questions like 'are they the new fucking Oasis, new fucking Blur or the new fucking thing?' I couldn't give a fuck, I don't like them." "I don't wish anything bad to happen to them, its just not my kind of thing. Same goes for fucking Babyshambles."

Sadly, Liam says that he won’t resort to violence against the foursome, saying: "I don't want to fight them, I don't want their fucking birds, I don't want to shoot their dogs, I don't want to stand on their hamsters head. I'm just not into their music."

source: gigwise

The Clientele Kick Off North American Tour

The Clientele

The Clientele isn't just for corporations or Ghostface; bands have clientele, too-- it's you, the fans. Even the Clientele have clientele (whoa, did your brain just liquefy?), and in order to stay in business, the British indie pop band must offer products desirable to consumers. The Clientele's latest piece of merchandise, the Best New Music-anointed album Strange Geometry, came out last week on Merge Records and, well, talk about a proof for an excellent album (geometry...proof...get it)! Starting Sunday night in Toronto, the Clientele will hawk their goods and services across North America. We already reported these dates, but hey, a reminder can't hurt.

Step into the light:

10-24 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
10-26 Boston, MA - Middle East *
10-27 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse *
10-28 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
10-29 Arlington, VA - IOTA *
10-31 Carrboro, NC - Local 506 *
11-01 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
11-02 Nashville, TN - The Basement *
11-04 Austin, TX - Parish *
11-05 Denton, TX - Hailey's *
11-08 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture#
11-09 San Diego, CA - Casbah #
11-11 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory *#
11-12 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *#
11-14 Portland, OR - Doug Fir *#
11-15 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey *#
11-18 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar *
11-19 Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub *
11-20 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *&
11-21 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *
11-23 New York, NY - Knitting Factory *

* with Annie Hayden
# with the Radar Bros
& with Pas/Cal

Throughout the tour, the band will be selling It's Art Dad, a self-released collection of recordings from 1991 to 1996. Pick it up and show your appreciation.

Tracklist:

01 Graven Wood
02 Dear Jennifer
03 February Moon
04 Elm Grove Window
05 The Night That Changed Our Minds
06 When She's Tired of Dancing
07 Untitled #2
08 The Evening in Your Eyes
09 St James' Walk
10 Shadow of Your Life
11 August Sky
12 The Words We Knew
13 St Paul's Beneath a Sinking Sky
14 Can't Sleep
15 Sweeten Your Eyes
16 Graven Wood (Rehearsal)

source: pitchfork_by Kati Llewellyn

Black Mountain Tour with Dead Meadow, Wolf Parade; Worm

Dead Meadow

Treat me like a fool, Chan Marshall, treat me mean and cruel, but love me, for Christ's sake, and let's make children (oh yeah, Black Mountain tour w/ Dead Meadow and a little bit w/ Wolf Parade). Thanks for the banana info, Mango. Based on your recommendation, I ate one for breakfast, and now I feel like--do you remember that monkey on Friends that had to go to the zoo because it wanted to hump everything?--like that. You know, energetic.

It's possible, though, to get too jacked up on bananas. As with tequila, too much banana can make you do strange things like worm on the kitchen floor. Some of you may like worming on the kitchen floor. Others of you, however, may prefer to avoid such potentially hazardous and embarassing situations. If you belong to the former, you may stop reading: this article is not for you.

For the month of November, Tiny Mix Tapes will be imposing a rolling "Worming on the Kitchen Floor" ban on the European continent and, what the hell, the British isles as well. This has been timed to coincide with the upcoming Black Mountain tour, since the last thing we need is people worming on the kitchen floor at Black Mountain shows. Such an occurrence, already terrifying to imagine, would be made even worse by the fact that Dead Meadow would see you do it. These guys spent the summer opening for Sleater-Kinney, alright? These guys have smoked pot through Carrie Brownstein's shitkickers. You want them to see you doing the worm on the kitchen floor? And were you to worm on the kitchen floor at one of the UK shows, you'd suffer the ridicule of Wolf Parade, who would blast you right out of your Chucks and back into dorkdom with their hype laser slash beast-mastering twelve step program.

Here's the good news:

11.11.05 - Utrecht, NED - Ekko
11.12.05 - Den, NED - Bosch
11.13.05 - Hamburg, GER - Molotow
11.14.05 - Berlin, GER - Knaack
11.15.05 - Dresden, GER - Schlachthof
11.16.05 - Munich, GER - Feierwerk
11.17.05 - Vienna, OST - Flex
11.18.05 - Bergamo, ITA - Zero Club
11.19.05 - Bologna, ITA - Il Covo
11.20.05 - Basel, SUI - Kaserne
11.22.05 - Evreux, FRA - MJC
11.23.05 - London, GBR - Scala ^
11.24.05 - Nottingham, GBR - Rescue Rooms ^
11.25.05 - Glasgow, GBR - ABC2 ^
11.26.05 - Manchester, GBR - Roadhouse ^
11.28.05 - Paris, FRA - La Boule Noir
11.29.05 - Hasselt, BEL - M.O.D.
11.30.05 - Amsterdam, NED - Paradiso

^ w/ Wolf Parade; otherwise, w/ Dead Meadow

source: tinymixtapes

Franz Ferdinand Promise Radical Direction

Alex Kapranos

Franz Ferdinand have promised fans a far more radical sound for their third album after enjoying worldwide success with ‘You Could Have It So Much Better…”. Being interviewed by the Observer at the weekend Alex Kapranos said of their next project: "It's not about getting to the white hot heart of pop. We just want to get to the next place after this one." Kapranos also admitted that he has a somewhat explosive relationship with guitarist Nick McCarthy but it all helps when they’re writing new material. He admitted: "We're both quite strong characters. We have a lot in common, but what we don't have in common is drastically different. It's explosive as well as symbiotic. It gives it an edge."

Nick McCarthy revealed in the interview that the band had recently met one of their idols David Bowie and were completely star struck: "I spoke to him and I asked him if he'd ever been to Harlem.”

"He said the first time was 'When I was Ziggy'. I thought, bloody hell, you really are that guy, aren't you?”

source: aversion

Yoko Ono Says Bono Is John Lennon's Son

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

U2 front man Bono has revealed that Yoko Ono once told him that he was John Lennon’s son. Speaking to the Rolling Stone Bono said: “Yoko came up to me when I was in my twenties, and she put her hand on me and she said, 'You are John's son.' What an amazing compliment!” He also told how Lennon’s solo album with the Plastic Ono band in which he deals with the death of his mother Julia helped him cope with the death of his own mother when he was 14. He said: "For me it was like he Lennon was talking about the veil lifting off, the scales falling from the eyes. Seeing out the window with a new clarity that love brings you. I remember that feeling."

source: gigwise

The Sun & The Shout Out Louds Join Forces

Shout Out Louds

The worlds of Swedish pop and Ohio rock are merging as the Shout Out Louds will be touring with The Sun (just for the record, the Shout Out Louds are the Swedes) starting in November. Both bands are continuing to tour in support of newly released albums, with the Shout Out Loud's Howl Howl Gaff Gaff being released in May of this year while The Sun's DVD album Blame It On The Youth having just been released last month.

Much has been said about The Sun's new album, which is the world's first all DVD release. And much has been said about the Interactive Video Player for their song "Romantic Death", which can be viewed and "played" here:
|"Romantic Death" Interactive Video Player|


Also, here is some info that is guarenteed to please!! The Sun are giving away a limited amount of free tickets to their shows if you attend an instore performance. And it's first come, first serve, so don't blow this one!

Shout Out Louds & The Sun Tour Dates:

11/3 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
11/4 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11/5 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
11/8 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
11/9 - Chicago, IL - Double Door
11/10 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
11/14 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café
11/15 - Portland, OR - Douglas Fir Lounge
11/16 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11/18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
11/19 - Pomona, CA - Glass House
11/21 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
11/22 - Tucson, AZ - Plush
11/25 - Austin, TX - The Parish
11/26 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
11/27 - Houston, TX - Meridian
11/30 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
12/1 - Orlando, FL - The Social
12/2 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room

source: filtermag