Radiohead fans and other salivating webgeeks were disappointed last week when a site called radioheadlp7.com — which featured a countdown clock until the band’s supposedly new album — turned out to be a hoax.
But misdirection led to some truth, and tonight we are hearing news of a pending release: Radiohead has just put up a link on radiohead.com to pre-order their new album In Rainbows. The new material will available for download in only 10 days, October 10th. And in a case of the ultimate switcharoo, radioheadlp7.com now redirects you right to the official InRainbows site, where you can pre-order the album. Now that, my friends, is what we call craisins.
Or is this all just another hoax? If it’s real, Radiohead has found an incredibly creative way to bypass leaks and can revolutionize the industry with tonight’s announcement. Those old-fashioned types who want an actual CD will have to wait until December 3rd, when the discboxes will be shipped. We can’t wait to see what Bob Lefsetz has to say about this news. Thanks to Jez for the heads-up.
It’s a bad day to be a fan of the New York Metropolitans and a good day to support the Phillies. But as the Ultimate Schadenfreude concluded on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it turned out to be a great day to be a resident of Brooklyn: The 33rd annual Atlantic Antic street fair proved to be an orgiastic feast of pulled pork, live music, red velvet cupcakes, old-school buses and the unfulfilled promise of once-in-a-year shwarma. And I almost won a bike playing bocce.
We’ll have more from Atlantic Ave tomorrow…for now, here’s the best of last week:
Friday [all times Eastern]:
Saturday:
- Find out what happened Behind The Music of Pantera [VH-1 Classic 4:00 PM]
- An encore presentation of Damian Marley on Austin City Limits should tide us over until the new season begins next week [PBS Check Local Listings]
- Kanye West is the musical guest on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live [NBC 11:30 PM]
Sunday:
- Watch Tenacious D on their quest for The Pick of Destiny [Cinemax 12:10 PM]
- Moog is an amazing documentary on Robert Moog’s legendary synthesizers [Showtime Next 1:45 PM]
- Find out about the madness behind the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious relationship with Nancy Spungen by watching Sid & Nancy [IFC 10:45 PM]
Just when you thought the brooding 32-year-old was getting his shit together, and just when we devote some column inches to one of his fantastic late-September shows, Ryan Adams reminds us that he’s still as batshit crazy as he used to be. The Heartbreaker had another Headbreakdown.
The former target of Phil Lesh’s boycrushes showed up in Minneapolis last night and did, what you all thought he was gonna do, which is just flip out:
Throughout a show Thursday night, the 32-year-old singer-guitarist complained about the sound monitors onstage at the State Theatre. At one point, he moved two monitors, his microphone and his guitar pedals.
After 70 minutes he’d had enough. Adams announced “the last song,” played it and didn’t return for an encore. Many fans stood and booed.
You have to love a show where the paying audience stands up and boos. Please, YouTube Gods, make yourself visible and dredge up some goodness for us.
Well, we always knew Philadelphia was the City of WaWaWaWa — the proof now comes from the Phillies’ NL East and wild card playoff races: “It seems the market for nitrous balloons among the tailgating crowd has really taken off. I’ve heard about this at Dave concerts, but never at Phillies games.” [Philly Blog]
It’s time for another end-of-the-workweek communique from Neddy: Are you feeling saxy? Here are some mighty fine blowers for your Friday listening pleasure. As always, you are free to ignore the accompanying musicians, but it’s better when you don’t. Who am I missing, you nagging completists?
01 Donkey Walk — Lou Donaldson: Everything I Play Is Funky (1969)
02 East Broadway Run Down — Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down (1966)
03 Naima — John Coltrane: Giant Steps (1960)
04 Baba Yaga’s Seven League Boots — Jessica Lurie: Licorice & Smoke (2005)
05 Water Babies — Wayne Shorter: Super Nova (1969)
06 Portrait of those Beautiful Ladies — Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio color (1975)
Madonna, The Beastie Boys and John Mellencamp are among the nine bands nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We’re gonna predict that Afrika Bambaataa and Leonard Cohen will join the aforementioned acts on the stage at the Waldorf Astoria on March 10th, which would leave Chic, The Ventures, Donna Summer and the Dave Clark Five as nominees on the outside looking in. It blows our minds that Chic and Donna Summer were nominated, while Genesis, Rush, Yes, The Stooges and Metallica were ignored. I’m all for diversity but this ain’t the Disco Hall of Fame. You’re better than that, Rock.
Frustrating, but we’ve got plenty of other links to take your mind off that shit:
And, lastly, the Vancouver Police are speculating that a crowd-surfing or moshing accident led to the death of a fan at Monday’s Smashing Pumpkins concert. Stay safe out there, kids.
After more than a decade of trying, Van Halen finally took the stage with David Lee Roth last night at Charlotte Bobcats Arena in North Carolina. Van Halen played 26 songs, all of which came from the six albums they recorded before Sammy Hagar came along in 1986, none of which came from men with 1980s teased hairdos.
Photos via Yahoo! News
Reports say 16-year-old Wolfgang Van Halen handled both the bass playing and background vocals extremely well. It’s also nice to hear that David Lee Roth’s vocals are sounding good, and that Eddie Van Halen is still tearing it up. We just hope that Eddie and David Lee can continue to put the music above their petty bickering (at least until they hit the NYC area in early November). Van Halen plays their second show on Saturday night at the Greensboro Coliseum. Read on for the setlist from Charlotte…
Middle school can be rough, a time when even the most well-adjusted kids are doing everything they can to look as cool as possible in the company of others. But some kids are just born that way, and the best thing they can do to look cool is just be cool. Sophie, Lucio and Izzy — Care Bears on Fire — are three such kids.
The three seventh-graders met in kindergarten, and since the fall of 2005, Sophie (guitar and vocals), Izzy (drums) and Lucio (bass) have been playing gigs in rock clubs, dances and parties under a moniker that’s far too clever for your average 12-year-old. Care Bears on Fire isn’t exactly breaking the mold and reinventing rock and/or roll with each show, but any power trio that can make a room full of adults grin from ear to ear and throw up the rock horns deserve at least a modicum of our undivided attention.
The pre-teen punk-infused power trio releases its first full-length debut album, I Stole Your Animal, on Tuesday, October 2nd, and the band will host a CD release party at Brooklyn’s Southpaw tomorrow night (the 29th). There you’ll be reminded of the teenage angst that once plagued your every thought, and you’ll most definitely smile along with the band as they throw down rockers like “Met You on MySpace” and “Five-Minute Boyfriend.”
Feel free to get sloshed on all the tequila you can stomach, but this is one show you should be careful not to offer anything to the band. Care Bears on Fire was kind of enough to answer a battery of questions for us, and our interview as well as the band’s debut video for Everybody Else follow after the jump…
The Last Waltz, No Direction Home, Comes A Time…now Marty will produce a documentary about the life and times of George Harrison: “Pic will cover Harrison’s Beatles career and later years that included a successful solo music career as well as a foray as a movie mogul when he backed Handmade Films and made pics such as Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Time Bandits. Scorsese…will also focus closely on the Eastern spiritual pursuits that were central to Harrison’s life.” [Variety]
Sometimes you wonder why some bands don’t get the nostalgic reacharound that others so readily do. Can’t get enough of The Stones, gotta have more of The Who…The Beatles could take a dump in a jewel case and it’d fly off the shelves.
But where’s the love for the Faces? Where’s the schmaltzy ol’ sentiment for Rod, Ron, Ronnie, Ian and Kenny? Chris Robinson owes his whole shtick to Rod Stewart’s Faces days. Watch the right video and you’ll wonder why these guys are constantly omitted from the classic rock vernacular. Here’s one of those videos, a clip of Bad n’ Ruin from Top of the Pops in 1971. And if you’re really looking for an over-the-top reason to watch this one, just check out Ron Wood playing a guitar made from a toilet seat and strings. Don’t get better than that.
I spent 13 minutes between 11:32 and 11:45 last night watching Wes Anderson’s short film, Hotel Chevalier, which iTunes has begun showing online freegratis.
Whether or not the short film has anything to do with this weekend’s highly anticipated release of The Darjeeling Limited, or whether it’s just a 13-minute commercial for Wes’ genius, remains to be seen. The Anderson short stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman in a hotel penthouse, which would be sufficient enough to get me to watch. But there’s also the matter of nudity: Portman shows her hot naked ass, which will be sufficient enough to get most males between 18-40 to watch. Jewish porn on a hotel bed…lovely.
It’s visually stimulating, and a baker’s dozen worth of minutes is all you’ll need to see some quality filmmaking in advance of a big cinematic weekend. Do it.
Umphrey’s McGee has grown its fanbase extensively over the past two years, and the amazing podcasts that the band distributes to its fan and potential fans every two weeks can be credited as a main driver. Just this week, producer Jon McLennand released the 52nd edition of the podcast, featuring the best of April 2007. Why all bands don’t employ this fan-friendly technique is beyond me.
If you have any bootlegs to bring to our attention, or suggestions about what artists you’d like to see us find, leave us a comment for us below…
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Ms. Sharon Jones at first glance. She’s at once a struttin’ storyteller, a sassmouthed soulstress, and a sensational seductress, all backed by the tightest, most professional band of funk misfits on either side of the Mississip: the Dap-Kings. If love means making me sweat my awkward white tuchus off at every show, I’ve surely been lovestruck by this lovely lady.
The Dap Queen’s new album, 100 Days 100 Nights, hits store shelves on October 2nd, but you can stream it now courtesy of the [good folks] over at AOL. It’s a perfect study in soul, a more restrained and mature album than to what we’re accustomed, and I recommend canceling all your morning appointments to listen.
Ms. Jones and the Dap-Kings have also added a surprise New York show to her tour. We’ve known for months she’ll be tearing down the house at legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem on Saturday, October 6th, but she’ll also be performing at the Virgin Megastore four days in advance of that gig, on the evening that her album drops (BrooklynVegan’s giving away some tickets). Something tells me you’ll have to line up early on the 2nd to catch a glimpse of the female James Brown, but it’ll easily make your night, and maybe your month. Good God.
Live Nation has announced they are building a new Fillmore club in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of our nation’s capital. The new Fillmore, which is due to open in late 2009 or early 2010, will accommodate audiences from 500 (seated) to 2,000 (standing). And why is it that I start thinking about Ricky Schroder whenever anyone mentions Silver Spring? [Washington Post]
