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- BrakesBrakesBrakes Announces October North American Tour, Plans for Single and Live Album
- ‘White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day’ in Philly August 4th
- Spinnerette – Spinnerette
- Elbow Announces Support Acts for American Headlining Shows
| BrakesBrakesBrakes Announces October North American Tour, Plans for Single and Live Album Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:45 PM PDT Brighton band BrakesBrakesBrakes (aka Brakes in their native England) have confirmed on their official website they will be joining the FatCat Records tour with We Were Promised Jetpacks and the Twilight Sad. This comprises six dates: five on the American East Coast plus one date in Toronto. Dates for BrakesBrakesBrakes’s headlining club tour of the West Coast from October 12 to 22 are forthcoming. The band also plans to release a new live album called Rock Is Doderlijk (the title inspired by the warning printed on Dutch cigarette packages) on November 2 in the UK. A double-A single, “Why Tell The Truth (When It’s Easier To Lie)?” /”Worry About It Later”, will be released a week later, on November 9. Tour Dates: BrakesBrakesBrakes: website | myspace  Related Posts |
| ‘White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day’ in Philly August 4th Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:50 AM PDT On Tuesday, August 4th, music historian/author Richie Unterberger is hosting an event to discuss his new book, White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day, from 7pm-9pm at Robin’s Books/Moonstone Arts Center at 110a S. 13th Street in Philadelphia (13th between Sansom and Drury/Chestnut). The presentation will include rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground’s career and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. Admission is free. The Velvet Underground, fiercely confrontational, literate, primitive, and heartbreakingly melodic, remain one of the most influential bands in the history of rock, inspiring everyone from David Bowie to The Jesus and Mary Chain. Surprisingly, the group was unsuccessful in its day, selling small numbers of records, largely because its monochrome look and photo-realist lyrics were at odds with the garish colors and peace fantasies of the hippie era. It was only when Bowie started to champion the band in the early '70s, after the group had split up, that the Velvet Underground's reputation started to spread. In White Light/White Heat, Unterberger analyzes the band's career and influence in forensic detail, drawing on dozens of new interviews with band members and associates, previously undiscovered archive sources, and a vast knowledge of the music of the times. The result is an articulate, authoritative, immensely detailed history, the most thorough work on the band yet published.Unterberger is an acclaimed author and music historian, renowned for his meticulous research, so it should be no surprise that In White Light/White Heat is poised to become the quintessential Velvet Underground tome. White Light/White Heat, now available on Jawbone Press, is by far the most comprehensive book on the Velvet Underground ever published. The 368-page volume details the group’s recording sessions, record releases, concerts, press reviews, and other major events shaping their career with both thorough detail and critical insight. Drawing on about 100 interviews and exhaustive research through documents and recordings rarely or never accessed, it unearths stories that have seldom been told, and eyewitness accounts that have seldom seen print, from figures ranging from band members to managers, producers, record executives, journalists, concert promoters, and fans. White Light/White Heat also features more than 100 illustrations, including reproductions of rarely or never seen photos, concert posters, letters, and other assorted documents and memorabilia. It’s the ultimate history of the band that did more than any other to break down barriers between rock music and the avant-garde, incorporating electronic innovations, experimental instrumentation and improvisation, and lyrics detailing the realities of sex, drugs, and rock’n'roll with greater skill and daring than anyone else. In addition to being a regular contributor to the All Music website, Mojo, Record Collector and many other publications, Unterberger has also written dozens of liner notes for CD reissues of classic 60s and 70s albums. His previous books include Unknown Legends of Rock’n'Roll, Eight Miles High and Turn! Turn! Turn! No music fan should miss Unterberger’s appearance on Tuesday, August 4th from 7pm-9pm at Robin’s Books/Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia. It’s the best music event in the city that night until Gang Gang Dance takes stage at Kung Fu Necktie later that night, and it’s free! So no excuses! Richie Unterberger: website | buy now Related Posts |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2009 09:15 AM PDT Be honest. Lately, the music scene has been a pool of pretty calm waters lately, and you've been dipping into your old collection for some feel-good nostalgia. Don't lie, I've been doing it, too. Some Sunny Day Real Estate and Get Up Kids especially, because of recent re-banding and touring announcements. And that's okay; nothing is wrong with a little pure blood recycling. If you're Brody Dalle—who is now known as Brody Dalle-Homme, just to make this point clearer—must've been missing the same sounds of younger times. The signature Brody voice may be the front woman behind Spinnerette, but the impassioned, stick-it-and-DIY! powerhouse that all but carried the aesthetic of punk is still buried in the past. The self-titled album cover may sum it up for the average listener before the music is even heard—it's a girly adaptation of Queens of the Stone Age's self-titled album. That's clever husband and wife collaboration right there. Thankfully, in such a social media saturated community, it's more likely you'll hear a digital play before any album art exposure. The first single, "Ghetto Love", actually riffs off with some of that vocal grit we first were enamored by years ago. But the going-nowhere distortion and boring drumbeat lend no real excitement for a base. It's friendly and catchy local radio play, graciously. And without stretching comparison, "Baptized By Fire" has to be Dalle's sleepy version of any Shiny Toy Guns single. I suppose "Distorting A Code" was created as a syncopated ballad. It features a toned-down—and almost tone-deaf—vocal monotony, and piano. "Sex Bomb" has both good and bad qualities. Obviously, it loses points by being titled "Sex Bomb". And with lyrics like "Oh won't you be my daddy/ please me daddy/ be my daddy, please/ I love you madly, sex bomb" I wonder if Tim Armstrong penned the intelligence of the Distillers' hooks. Remove the lyrics, or at least fill them with Lorem Ipsum, and admittedly it's a shaker. If you're jonesing for some Courtney Love-esque rawness, or a female version of Dalle's voice, this wouldn't be the worst album ever to pick up. I just wonder if they were purposely trying to pay homage to the pop rocks era of 1993 or just wanted to be able to hit MTV again. Just be aware that Spinnerette's self-proclaimed influences—Black Flag, Gunclub, My Bloody Valentine—would have said bands' fans guffawing at any proclaimed resemblance. Spinnerette is out now on Anthem Records. Tracklisting: Spinnerette: website | myspace  Related Posts |
| Elbow Announces Support Acts for American Headlining Shows Posted: 18 Jul 2009 06:35 PM PDT
Tour dates * w/ Coldplay Elbow: website | myspace  Related Posts |
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