Releases
Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love Instores Oct. 12, 2010
After a 5-year hiatus that saw the release of solo projects, soundtracks and more, Glasgow’s beloved Belle And Sebastian have returned with one of their finest albums yet, Write About Love.
Marrying the intimacy of early works like Sinister and Tigermilk, with the production values of their more recent work, Write About Love is a varied, captivating and occasionally disturbing trawl through the mind of Stuart Murdoch and his band mates.
The album features duets with Norah Jones and actress Carey Mulligan (An Education) and, like their last album, was recorded with full orchestration with producer Tony Hoffer at the Sound Factory in Los Angeles.
Available on US import CD and LP, the booklet comes with essays about the recording of the album by Stuart, and the gatefold vinyl includes an MP3 download coupon of the entire record plus two bonus tracks.
For the first time ever the group will be on the road immediately following streetdate with a lone Canadian appearance October 12th at Massey Hall (Toronto), with additional dates coming early in the new year.
Jimmy Fallon appearence September 29th. They will also be performing at Matador’s 21st anniversary concert in Las Vegas October 1st alongside Pavement, Guided By Voices, Spoon and many, many others.
A special youtube TV special will begin running September 13th, get a sneak peak now at www.matadorrecords.com The featured track is called “I Want The World To Stop.”
- Special coupon inside 1st pressing of LP/CD to enter lyrics contest for love song “Write About Love”, winning lyrics will be set to music by band and released on Valentine’s Day.
In the 5 years since the release of The Life Pursuit, the band members have been taking a break and working on their own projects. Mick curated the children’s album, ‘Colours Are Brighter’ (2006) and has been arranging and writing for other bands, TV and film; Richard has been touring the world with Snow Patrol and Stuart has been working on the screenplay for his God Help The Girl film, the soundtrack for which was released on Matador / Rough Trade in 2009.
That album featured notable contributions from all the other members of Belle and Sebastian, as well as a host of guest vocal talent. The other band members have also been writing, recording and DJing for either
their own projects, collaborations or new B&S material.
During the period of hiatus, Matador Records also released a compilation of BBC Sessions in 2008, covering the period 1996- 2001. - For more information, please visit www.belleandsebastian.com
Glasser - Ring Instores Sept. 28th
GLASSER is one woman, Cameron Mesirow, and Ring is her debut album. Her intimate, luxurious music resonated widely on last year’s EP, Apply.
For this new album, recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm, she worked closely with producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Foreign Born, We Are Scientists) and Fever Ray’s Van Rivers and Subliminal Kid.
Ring displays a newly rich vision of her post-pop sound. Laced with strings, woodwinds and simple, angelic vocal melodies, Ring has the universal lure of a lullaby and a hymn.
She has completed tours with the XX, Jonsí and recently played shows in Montréal and Toronto with label mates Delorean. Her plan is to be on the road solidly through the fall with major opening slots September-December.
She has already attracted serious press and blog attention, including the cover of the upcoming issue of Fader Magazine (August / September).
Two recent 12” singles sold out immediately after release.
Available as a US import, the CD will be issued in limited edition fold-out jacket designed by Tauba Auerbach. LP pressings include a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
The LA Times has tagged Glasser as the Artist “Most Likely To Break in 2010”, saying “Glasser produces songs that veer from clear-voiced folk to layered tracks with an intercontinental / intergalactic edge…an intersection of pop, deconstructed beats, and ethereal noise.”
For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/glasssser
“These are beautiful songs, both sweet and abstract, deeply felt and anodyne.” – New York Times
“This synth siren sounds like a weirder and more credible version of Enya, all ethereal vocals and meandering melodies.” – Guardian UK
“(Tremel) builds its dreamy momentum via overlapping percussion, vocals, synthesizers/electronics, and a feel that’s both tropical and frozen.” – Stereogum
“(EP) Apply lives in its own submerged dream state where heavy breaths, tribal percussion, children’s lullabies, ambient clouds, and ghostly echoes all bubble to the surface right on time.” – Pitchfork
Glasser entered public consciousness in 2009 with her debut EP, Apply, on True Panther, and a UK-only 12” on the Young Turks label. The intimate, luxurious music resonated widely, despite being made by Cameron, alone and in airplanes and shoe stores, on Garage Band. Her EPs and live shows earned her
attention from producers Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid (who co-produced a few tracks and the transitions on this album).
With Ring, however, Cameron worked for months with producer Ariel Rechtshaid to re-imagine her musical arrangements, incorporating organic instrumentation like strings, woodwinds, bass, and a wide array of percussion into her once-sparse recordings. Her simple, minimal melodies and rapturous vocals are perfectly complimented by the album’s maximalist arrangements. The voice becomes a focal
instrument, delivers abstract stories and sounds that drench the music in emotion without resorting to narrative cliches.
In Glasser there exists, side by side, the optimism of a woman captivated by creation and travel, as well as the anxiety that accompanies nomadism and change. Somehow, in Glasser’s efforts to make sense of her world, she has made an album with the universal lure of both a lullaby and a hymn.
Rhythm & Culture presents The Sound Of ryhthm and Culture - Instores Sept. 28th 2010
Known for releasing some of the most unique world-influenced dance music, the Ryhthm And Culture label is proud to present The Sound of Rhythm & Culture, a celebration of the artists that have contributed to the label by continually offering their talents and ahead-of-the-curve sounds.
Featuring artists such as Zeb, Second Sky and Nickodemus, this album is emotional, rare, satisfying, and provocative. It is intelligently crafted to expose the listener to a range of styles that encompasses the progression of electronic music since its embryonic stage in the mideighties.
The album takes its listeners around the world while maintaining the feel of Washington, DC’s multicultural social fabric. Each track focuses on a particular sub-amalgamation of cultures while holding true to Rhythm & Cultures goal of producing music that can be played through the speakers of a club or enjoyed in various other settings.
Artists on this album tend to all hold the same belief that the world is small and interactive: A track titled “Havana 2am” might imply an Afro-Cuban salsa club splurge, but instead Thomas Blondet hits the listener with big-band horns, Balkan rhythmic progressions, and wartime snare drum fills.
“Side Car” offers samples of multi-layered late 70’s R&B and Latin drum patterns, while the mystical melody of the song reflects Farid Nouri’s time-old passion for dancefloor trance.
Nickodemus’ track “2 Sips and Magic” is featured in Tru Thought’s “Label Love” compilation.
To get a taste of what you can expect, please visit www.myspace.com/rhythmandculturerecordings
Tracklisting:
Zeb – Nafas
Second Sky – Under The Line
Farid – Side Car
Thomas Blondet – Havana 2am
Second Sky – Too Far
Farid – Sound Champion
Nickodemus – 2 Sips & Magic (Second Sky & Thomas Blondet Remix)
Thomas Blondet feat. Subatomic Sound System – Dub Steppa
Farid – Freedom (Panic on the Dancefloor)
Thomas Blondet – Samba Soul
Farid – Balearic Devotion
Zeb – Rude Boy Style
Thomas Blondet feat E-Ball – The Way We Go
Zeb – Dunes
Matador At 21 Instores Sept. 28th
Matador Records, arguably one of the most important and influential record labels of a generation, is celebrating their 21st anniversary and to commemorate they have dug deeeep into their vault and come out with Matador At 21, an expansive, all-encompassing 6 CD Box Set to be released in conjunction with
their Las Vegas anniversary concerts Oct.1st-3rd
Available as a US Import, and in strictly limited numbers, Matador At 21 is presented in a linen covered box with 36 poker chips, an 85-page perfect bound book with history of the label, photos, ephemera, emails, and much more.
5 CDs are of remastered songs from the label’s history with 1 disc of unreleased recordings from the 10th Anniversary shows in NYC, 1999, recorded to multitrack via the Rolling Stones Mobile Truck.
Also available is a double LP of Disc 5, which compiles their current roster of artists including Kurt Vile, Fucked Up, Sonic Youth, Cold Cave, Cat Power, and others. Includes MP3 download coupon.
Oct. 1-3 the label and its hordes are taking over The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas for three days of shows with Matador artists past and present, including Sonic Youth, Pavement, Spoon, Yo La Tego, a reunited Guided By Voices, Come, Chavez, Fucked Up, Guitar Wolf and others.
For more information, please visiit www.matadorrecords.com/21
Disc One: The Pre-Dawn (1989-1992):
1. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
2. H. P. Zinker – Dancing Days
3. Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker
4. Dustdevils – Throw The Bottlefull
5. Railroad Jerk – These Streets
6. Come – Fast Piss Blues
7. Bettie Serveert – Kid’s Allright
8. Chain Gang – Cut Off The Drug Czar’s Head
9. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Glee
10. Unsane – This Town
11. Circle X – Compression Of The Species
12. Toiling Midgets – Mr. Foster’s Shoes
13. Bailter Space – The Today Song
14. Pavement – Perfume-V
*Disc Two: The Years Of Milk and Honey (1993-
1995):*
1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Afro
2. Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming
3. Railroad Jerk – The Ballad Of Railroad Jerk
4. Helium – Superball
5. Pizzicato Five – Baby Love Child
6. Liz Phair – Mesmerizing
7. Pavement – Silence Kit
8. Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
9. 18th Dye – Whole Wide World
10. Chavez – Peeled Out To Late
11. Come – String
12. Moonshake – Secondhand Clothes
13. Guitar Wolf – Midnight Violence Rock’n’Roll
14. San Francisco Seals – Back Again
15. Bardo Pond – Rumination
Disc Three: Days Of Whiskey and Tears (1996-2001):
1. Boards Of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
2. Spoon – Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
3. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
4. Chavez – You Must Be Stopped
5. Silkworm – Tarnished angel
6. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Flavor Parts 1 & 2
7. Pole – Fliegen
8. Cat Power – American Flag
9. Belle and Sebastian – We Rule The School
10. Mogwai – Helps Both Ways
11. Arsonists – Backdraft
12. Large Professor – ‘Bout That Time
13. Cornelius – Tone Twilight Zone
14. burger/ink – Flesh & Blood
15. Pavement – You Are A Light
16. Arab Strap – Blood
17. Matmos – L.A.S.I.K.
Disc Four: Don’t Call It A Comeback (2002-2007):
1. Interpol – Hands Away
2. Cat Power – He War
3. Yo La Tengo – Today Is The Day
4. The New Pornographers – From Blown Speakers
5. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
6. Dead Meadow – Good Moanin’
7. Mogwai – Kids Will Be Skeletons
8. Mission Of Burma – The Setup
9. Early Man – Death Is The Answer
10. Belle and Sebastian – Dress Up In You
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves – All Medicated Geniuses
12. Cat Power – Love & Communication
13. Shearwater – Johnny Viola
14. Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight
15. Lavender Diamond – You Broke My Heart
16. Jennifer O’Connor – Tonight We Ride
17. Earles & Jensen – The Yogurt Machine
18. Stephen Malkmus – Discretion Grove
Disc Five: Matador Today (2008 – ):
1. Fucked Up – Son The Father
2. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
3. Kurt Vile – Amplifier
4. Yo La Tengo – Nothing To Hide
5. Jay Reatard – There Is No Sun
6. Harlem – Friendly Ghost
7. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Bottled In Cork
8. Cold Cave – Youth and Lust
9. The New Pornographers – My Shepherd
10. Times New Viking- Sick & Tyred
11. Girls – Lust For Life
12. Interpol – Success
13. Shearwater – Castaways
14. Cat Power – Silver Stallion
15. Esben and the Witch – Marching Song
16. Delorean – Stay Close
17. Magic Kids – Superball
18. Perfume Genius – Learning
19. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional
Trash
*Disc Six: Unreleased & Live from Matador at 10,
1999:*
1. Pavement – Here (LIVE 1999)
2. Pavement – Trigger Cut (LIVE 1999)
3. Pavement – The Hexx (LIVE 1999)
4. Pavement – She Believes (LIVE 1999)
5. Pavement – Unfair (LIVE 1999)
6. Pavement – Zurich Is Stained (LIVE 1999)
7. Pavement – Debris Slide (LIVE 1999)
8. Pavement – Spit On A Stranger (LIVE 1999)
9. Come – New Coats (LIVE 1999)
10. Bardo Pond – Walking Stick Man (LIVE 1999)
11. Bardo Pond – Tommy Gun Angel (LIVE 1999)
12. Cat Power – Good Woman (LIVE 1999)
13. Cat Power – Naked, If I Want To (LIVE 1999)
14. Cat Power – You May Know Him/Sea Of Love
(LIVE 99)
15. Mogwai – Ex-Cowboy (LIVE 1999)
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle Instores Sept. 14th
Blonde Redhead return with their new release, and third for 4AD, Penny Sparkle. The album that marks another sonic twist in their already adventurous canon.
Made over the last year with the band journeying between New York and Stockholm to work with production duo Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Fever Ray, Glasser) with additional production work undertaken with Drew Brown (Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Radiohead).
As with their previous album, 23, Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) was enlisted to mix it.
Penny Sparkle is available in three configurations: standard digipak CD and LP versions, and a deluxe CD box set designed by long-time collaborators, Stefanie and David from Triboro Design.
The deluxe package feature a flip top box with the CD in a printed linen draw string purse and includes a poster. This version is limited to 2,000 pieces in Canada.
Vinyl configuration features a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
A video for ‘Not Getting There’ will be premiering on Pitchfork in late August followed by NPR ‘First Listen’ week of release, in addition to late night TV the same week.
Blonde Redhead were recently in Canada for a performance at the Ottawa Bluesfest and will return postrelease with confirmed Canadian dates Oct. 16 Montréal Metropolis, Oct. 17 Toronto Phoenix Concert Theatre, and Nov. 21 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom.
Opening the shows in Toronto and Montréal will be renowned German electronic musician and producer Pantha Du Prince, whose album, Black Noise, was released by Rough Trade records earlier this year.
Visit www..4ad.com to download the brand new track, Here Sometimes.
Michael Hoppe - Tapestry Instores Sept. 14th
Having recorded more than 20 albums in his career, Grammy-nominated composer Michael Hoppé continues his evocative, melodic artistry on his brand new release, Tapestry.
Tapestry is a series of soundtrack-like pieces elegantly produced and composed by Michael, recorded with some of the most accomplished musicians of the genre, including Alyssa Park (violin), Joe Powers (harmonica), Mitsuki Dazai (koto) and contralto AnDee Sanchez. Tapestry also features Prairie Moon, the dynamic opening track recorded with The Prague Symphony Orchestra.
The enhanced CD also showcases Heather Harlow’s multi-award winning Short Film “Nous Deux Encore” (Together Again), which features an original score by Michael. Screened at Cannes in 2009, the film has been seen at numerous national and international festivals, receiving several awards including two Audience Awards, Best International Documentary and Best Foreign Language Film.
On August 15th, Nous Deux Encores won Best Documentary at The HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood.
Visit www.nousdeuxencore.com to view the trailer, read a synopsis, and to see the impressive list of accolades that it has garnered around the world.
The Tapestry package features turn-of-the-century photographs from the celebrated photographer E.O. Hoppé, the artist’s grandfather, which are accompanied by a series of poems written especially for each piece by poet Therése Tappouni, both elegantly enriching a 20 page booklet.
This fall Napadogan will release a remastered version of The Poet: Romances for Cello, Michael’s classic collaborative effort with renowned Swiss cellist, Martin Tillman.
For more information, please visit www.michaelhoppe.com
“Inventively told, powerfully evocative of time and place, this is a love story that is both heartbreaking and exalting.” – Los Angeles Times on Nous Deux Encore
El Guincho - Pop Negro Instores Sept. 14th
After almost 2 years, Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho, is back with brand new longplayer, Pop Negro.
Though this is El Guincho’s 2nd full length, in many ways it’s the album he’s always dreamed of making. An 18 month process that saw him record for 3 months in Berlin’s infamous Planet Roc studio, and then mix with Jon Gass (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Babyface, Anita Baker, Boyz II Men etc).
The result is nothing short of a global music masterpiece. Both grounded in a personal knowledge and passion of music history, while utterly ground breaking, fun, and contemporary, El Guincho’s Pop Negro is a must have for anyone’s personal music library.
Pop Negro is a blend of afro-beat percussion, psych tropicalia, trance repetition, steel drums, and much, much more. It will transport the listener to an island paradise that no one has ever been to but that everyone knows exists somewhere in our collective music minds.
Available on US import CD and Deluxe LP, the vinyl configuration comes with complimentary MP3 coupon and poster + debossed sleeve and a 24 page colour booklet.
In addition to a Latin Alternative Music Conference appearance, El Guincho will be touring North America in the fall with Canadian dates to be confirmed very soon.
Have a listen to lead track, Bombay at www.myspace.com/elguincho
For more information, please vist www.beggarsgroup.ca
“And here comes Pablo Díaz-Reixav aka El Guincho, right when summer songlists need him most. “Bombay,” a track from the forthcoming Pop Negro LP, is a reliably superb sunny season track — ingredients like steel drums and equatorial rhythms help in that designation.” – Stereogram
“Mr. Diaz-Reixa makes joyful music from an international assortment of loops and drumbeats – African, South Asian, Caribbean, Brazilian – and vocals, with free-associative lyrics in Spanish, that sound like a bunch of guys in a bar celebrating to endless three-chord refrains full of la-las. The repetition of the loops
turns from mechanical to hypnotic to hallucinatory to ecstatic as the songs barrel along.” – The New York Times
“El Guincho’s sample-cluttered, buoyant avant-pop pulls in a world-wide array of sounds to captivate passive listeners and rowdy dancers alike… As El Guincho locks in a listener, his carefully calibrated espectro musical also opens up wide, showcasing bricolage constructions that Diaz-Reixa likens to Legos.” – Paste
Interpol - Interpol Instores September 7th, 2010
You can always go home again, and so after one lap around the Capital Records track, Interpol have returned to Matador Records for the release of their long-awaited fourth album, a self-titled offering available Sept. 7th, 2010.
The album INTERPOL finds the New Yorker’s exploring dark musical landscapes of layered depth and intensity. In contrast to 2007’s ‘Our Love To Admire’, this self-titled opus hangs together as an album, a set of very different songs that thematically connect.
“The new record falls back towards the first,” drummer Sam Fogarino told Paste Magazine recently. “In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realisation that you can’t let go of your sonic defining tag. There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]‘s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year
without anybody. The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere. That big wash of reverb? It’s back.”
Available on US import, Interpol is presented in 4 unique configurations: deluxe CD with O-card (5,000 pieces earmarked for Canada), a deluxe gatefold double vinyl, plus standard CD and LP. Both LP versions feature a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
The deluxe limited edition CDs feature an O-Card and poster, while deluxe limited edition 2 LP sets are pressed on 120 gram vinyl with two 45 RPM 12″‘ discs with large centre holes. There will be limited quantities of a specially designed Interpol 45rpm adapter available.
The album has been prefaced by the track ‘Lights’, which has been downloaded over 200,000 times from the band’s website, and a video directed by legendary artist Charlie White, which is available to view at www.interpolnyc.com
A second advance offering, ‘Barricade’ is available now from iTunes, and will be performed by the band on David Letterman July 29th. A Jon Watts directed video will be premiering in mid-August. Jon has previously worked with TV On The Radio, Fatboy Slim, Death Cab and more.
Interpol will perform on Jimmy Kimmel the day following release with Jimmy Fallon happening in early November.
In the wake of bassist Carlos D’s departure following the completion of the new album, Paul, Daniel and Sam have augmented Interpol’s touring lineup to include David Pajo (Slint, Papa M, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) on bass and Secret Machines’ Brandon Curtis on keyboards.
Interpol will debut music from the album on an east coast tour this summer, with confirmed Canadian dates August 9th Montréal (Metropolis) and August 10th Toronto (Kool Haus). Another round of touring will include western Canada commencing in Oct. followed by another North American trek in Jan.
For more information, please visit www.matadorrecords.com and www.beggarsgroup.ca
“‘Barricade,’ is exactly the kind of energetic, heated track you’d expect from the legendary New York band. After an opening cascade of building drums and guitars, the single bursts open, and the roller coaster begins. As with most Interpol songs, ‘Barricade’ vacillates between intense anguish (“Guess there must be a time / When there’s no more tears to cry”) and pure, humanist energy.” – AOL Radio
““Barricade” features a fairly constant boiling climatic feel. The ups and downs of tempo combined with singer Paul Banks’ urgent sounding vocals, has this single making you pay attention.” – Filter
“It’s a challenge to be dark and brooding by the seashore when July temperatures make your all-black wardrobe seem like a gross miscalculation, but having a brand-new Interpol moper on your iPod certainly helps.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver) on Barricade
From the highly melodic “Barricade” and “Lights” through the snarling “Memory Serves” and the extraordinary triptych of connected tracks that close the album, Interpol have never made work this emotionally resonant or packed with crescendos.
Mixer Alan Moulder has brought the rhythm section back to the fore, anchoring a thicket of orchestral sound that brings to mind touchstones from black metal to ‘70s art rock, but always remains identifiably Interpol. Hypnotic, bizarre, always indelible, ‘Interpol’ is the band’s magnum opus.
Deerhunter - Revval 7" Instores Aug. 31st
Revival is the debut single release from Deerhunter’s forthcoming album, Halcyon Digest.
Available on UK import 7” vinyl, the title track is b/w Primitive 3D, exclusive to this release.
A full North American headlining tour begins October 1, with confirmed Canadian dates Oct. 17th Montréal (La Tulipe), Oct. 19th Toronto (The Opera House), and Oct. 26th Vancouver (Commodore)
Leading up to the new album, there will be massive online & print advertising campaign with major press coverage confirmed in SPIN, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, Fader, New York Times & more.
For more information, please visit www.4ad.com or www.halcyondigest.com
“On ‘Revival’, the band finds another well of influence to draw from: themselves.” – Pitchfork – Best New Music
“A woozy, swaying will-o’-the-wisp of a track with a sweet Breeders-ish menace, a ghostly banjo and eerie
death rattles.” – NME – Track of the Week
Vampire Weekend Holiday 7" Instores Aug. 31st
Holiday is the brand new single release from Vampire Weekend, taken from their #1 North American SoundScan album, Contra.
Available on Limited Edition US import 7” vinyl, the title track is b/w Ottoman, taken from the Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist soundtrack.
Beginning Aug. 27th, Vampire Weekend will embark on a North America wide tour, seeing them play the biggest venues of their young career.
Starting in Vancouver with two sold out shows at The Malkin Bowl (August 27 / 28), they will continue down the US west coast and make their way east for a show at Toronto’s Molson Canadian Ampitheatre Sept. 7th and Montréal’s Metropolis on Sept. 8th.
Also included on the latest trek are 3 sold out shows at New York’s Radio City Hall.
Beach House and Dum Dum Girls will open all shows with the exception of Montréal, where Dum Dum Girls get all the glory.
A video for Holiday is available now. In this clip the band drive around So Cal dressed as 18th century baroque noblemen, partying poolside, eating In-N-Out burgers, and beating up surfers, in perfect VW style.
MTV says “(The Holiday video is) the kind of whip-smart pop that’s in short supply these days — a cranky and clever tweaking of hideous Americans abroad, and equally hideous Americans at home.”
Coming Sept .7th will be the digital sinle release of ‘Giving up The Gun’ available through iTunes and www.thinkindie.com. Featured will be the album version plus an extended remix done by XL Recordings
boss, Richard Russell.
To see the video, or for the latest tour information, please visit www.vampireweekend.com
For the latest information, please visit www.beggarsgroup.ca
Holy Fuck - Latin America 7" Instores Aug. 31st
- As Holy Fuck prepare to embark on an expansive North American tour, including 14 Canadian dates, they release their newest single, ‘Latin America’.
- Available on UK import 7” Vinyl, the title track is b/w the previously unavailable, ‘Foxy’.
Taken from their third album, Latin, the follow-up to the JUNO and Polaris nominated Beggars Group debut, LP.
A video for the song is available to watch at www.holyfuckmusic.com
Already touring the world over since the May ‘10 release of Latin, Holy Fuck will begin a massive North American trek on Sept. 8th. Canadian dates begin Sept. 27th in London Ontario and continue across the country, wrapping up in Vancouver on Oct. 12th.
These won’t be the group’s first Canadian dates however. The Maritimes recently played host to Holy Fuck for a series of shows in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and NFLD, plus a hometown celebration special guesting with Metric at The Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Where Holy Fuck in the past were a rotating cast of musicians, Latin showcases for the first time their permanent touring line up. Drummer Matt Schulz and bass player Matt McQuaid provide a complex rhythm foundation that at times feels like an invisible hand leading you through a dark hedge maze.
For more information, please visit www.beggarsgroup.ca
“ On Latin, the quartet sounds confident, creatively invigorated and, to paraphrase our review of Holy Fuck’s recent show at Wavelength 500, “brimming with spontaneity.” – Exclaim
“Hands down, this is the best Holy Fuck record to date. It shows the band both growing and growing up.” – Hour
CANADIAN TOUR DATES
Sept 27th London Music Hall
Sept 28th Hamilton Studio Theatre
Sept 29th Toronto The Phoenix
Sept 30th Montreal E Space Reunion
Oct 1st Peterborough The Red Dog
Oct 2nd Ottawa Capital Music Hall
Oct 3rd Sudbury Little Montreal
Oct 5th Winnipeg Pyramid Cabaret
Oct 6th Saskatoon Louis
Oct 7th Calgary, AB The Republik
Oct 8th Edmonton, AB Pawn Shop
Oct 9th Edmonton, AB Pawn Shop
Oct 11th Victoria, BC Element
Oct 12th Vancouver, BC Rickshaw
Thievery Corporation - 3 LP Deluxe Radio Retailiation instores Aug. 31st
Thievery Corporation raised the bar once again with Radio Retaliation, their fifth studio album and first all new release since The Cosmic Game in 2005.
Available initially as a deluxe CD (Grammy nominated in the Best Recording Package category), Radio Retailiation is now available as a US Import gatefold triple vinyl.
With longtime microphone co-conspirators like Sleepy Wonder, Lou Lou, and Notch the Outernational DJ, the production team of Eric Hilton and Rob Garza are joined by a new cast of musical collaborators including Nigeria’s afro-beat heir Femi Kuti, Brazilian star vocalist and guitarist Seu Jorge, Indian sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska, and Washington DC’s
own godfather of go-go, Chuck Brown.
Thievery Corporation have been touring world wide in support of the album, with sold out shows in Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver in early 2009 and then a return swing in October ‘09 that pushed sales beyond 10,000 units!
Fall 2010 sees Thievery once again on the road, this time as part of a co-headlining package with Massive Attack that will stop in Montréal at The Bell Centre Oct. 18th.
Coinciding with their Massive Attack tour dates, Thievery Corporation will be releasing their first ever Best Of compilation, It Takes A Thief Sept. 21st. The album is a collection of tracks specially selected by Rob and Eric Hilton for longtime fans and for music lovers who have heard of Thievery Corporation but may not have previously listened to the band.
Features Lebanese Blonde, used on the Grammy award-winning Garden State Soundtrack, as well as Sound the Alarm, the funk infused killer that has become a live staple. Also included are Shadows Of Ourselves, Warning Shots, The Richest Man In Babylon, Sweet Tides and more, 16 tracks in all.
- Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation recently released his directorial film debut, Babylon Central. Available as a CD / DVD package, the film was shot on location in Washington, DC. An accompanying 17- song soundtrack includes rare, vintage, out-of print, and unreleased sonic gems, including an previously
unavailable remix of “Amerimacka” by Thievery Corporation.
One of the most important and well-loved artists in the world of electronic music, the entire Thievery Corporation catalogue is consistently among the Beggars Group’s best-selling titles in Canada. - For more information, please visit www.eslmusic.com, or www.beggarsgroup.ca.
Magic Kids - Memphis Instores August 24th 2010
True Panther Sounds is pleased to present Memphis, the label debut from Magic Kids. Named in homage of their Tennessee hometown.
The album calls on the sounds of a diverse orchestra of local musicians and friends playing oboes, strings, horns, 808s and synths. The songs are unapologetically joyful, unrestrained in their celebration, and fearless in their expression.
There are hints of late 80’s Britpop, the Delphonics’ heartbreaking harmonies, ELO’s grandeur and Belle & Sebastian’s intimacy. Ultimately though the music is all theirs, a collection of eleven instant classics, a glimpse into Magic Kids’ incredible world.
The sound of the album is defiantly contemporary. Recorded at Doug Easley’s studio by Shane Stonebeck (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells), Memphis packs a seriously powerful sonic punch.
The band will be touring all summer with Ariel Pink. onfirmed Canadian dates July 14th Vancouver (Biltmore), July 22nd Toronto (Mod Club), and July 23rd Montréal (La Salla Rosa).
A full North American headlining tour will take place Aug-Sept.
A video for “Superball”, directed by Focus Creeps, will be premiering soon.
Features in Nylon, Paste, Pitchfork, Spin, NME, Stereogum, Gorilla vs. Bear and tons more to confirm shortly.
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“Without sacrificing its way with a melody, it takes its sweet time (almost four minutes) getting where it’s going. It also feels like the band has picked up a thing or two from Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. In other words, this is to “Hey Boy” as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is to “Little Deuce Coupe.” – John Sakamoto /
Toronto Star on Summer
“The five piece Magic Kids have got me completely addicted to their sound.” – Alan McGee
“Their infectious upbeat music is instant sunshine.” – Pitchfork
“Rarely has a band with so little output attracted so much attention.” – LA Times
“Magic Kids’ “Summer” makes me think of Elvis Costello crooning vintage Brian Wilson lyrics with the help of Sufjan Stevens’ backup singers.” – Stereogum
“Shades of the timeless pop of Odessey & Oracle-era Zombies on this beautifully restrained track… If the lush, soaring Memphis tracks I’ve heard so far are any indication, this record represents a huge leap forward for the young band.” – Gorilla vs. Bear on Summer
In 2009, a troupe of Tennessean teenagers named Magic Kids dished up one of the year’s best popsongs. Channeling the Beach Boys by way of the Langley Schools Music Project, “Hey Boy” delivered 135 seconds of pure pop bliss: cascading vocal harmonies, Spector-esque wall-of-sound production, tinkling xylophone, blasting saxophone, and sweeping string parts.
Proving they weren’t just one-jam wonders, Magic Kids threw out another couple of killer cuts: the rollicking “Good to Be,” which kind of reminds me of Danielson Famile, and the suitably springy “Superball,” all twee keyboards and sad swipes of violin. Musically speaking, it’s a case of old is the new new: each song is hopelessly, romantically in debt to the Beach Boys, but the familiar chord-changes on display sound gloriously innocent in Magic Kids’ hands.
On the back of such sterling songwriting, Magic Kids have just signed to True Panther Sounds, the impossibly hip imprint that’s recently nestled into a cosy working relationship with indie behemoth Matador. – atl.com
Dylan LeBlanc - Paupers Field Instores August 24th
Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the release of Dylan LeBlanc’s debut full length, Paupers Field, which he worked on with Grammy award winning engineer Trina Shoemaker in Nashville.
The songs on the debut are beautifully nurtured, gently astonishing, stop you in your tracks reveries – gilded with strings, smokey organ lines, and keening pedal steel.
Despite his age (20 years old), Dylan’s worn yearning voice already has the mark of aged experience. Neither the feel nor sound of the album, nor the haunted ghost summoning songs he has written, can be faked. ”If Time Was Wasting” for instance, seems to be wrenched from the heart of ever present currents in Deep South life – where the pull of the past is unavoidable.
Dylan LeBlanc was born in the Parish of Caddo in northwest Louisiana. He was exposed to a wide variety of music whilst growing up in Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Inspired by Willis Alan Ramsey, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt and Tennessee Williams, he joined the House of Fame as a writer at 18.
Dylan’s approach to music is to write and sing about things that are real, that convey humanity, so all can relate. His inspiration comes from experience, and watching, listening, and absorbing everyday life around him.
Dylan will launch his frst North American tour this fall.
Available on US import digipak CD and LP, vinyl pressings feature a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
- Check out www.dylanleblanc.com where you can see his new video for “If Time Was For Wasting” and to download MP3.
“The Shreveport native’s got a great voice, older than his age with just a touch of a southern accent, but without the gruffness that people usually expect when you say “this kid sounds older than his age.” In the one-sheet LeBlanc mentions drinking a bit while writing this song, and the video shows him smoking, so
that voice may be ruined in a few years, or ten times better.” – Stereogum
“Swaddled in reverb and distinctly mournful in demeanor, singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc’s high, lonesome folk songs will send Ryan Adams fans into paroxysms of delight.” – Spinner
“Dylan LeBlanc, a 19-year-old lad from Louisiana headed to SXSW with the ink on his Rough Trade record deal barely dry. His heartfelt Americana, which owes much to Neil Young and Jim James, is blissfully pure.” – Spin.com
On Dylan LeBlanc’s debut album, Paupers Field, a lost world is brought to life – both in the carefully sculpted songs and rich well of country soul from which those songs emerge. Although the Golden era of Alabama’s fabled Muscle Shoals sound had passed by the time Dylan was born in1990, his ancestral roots and family background connected him to one of the most significant sources in the rich tapestry of American music. His father’s position as a Muscle Shoals session player and songwriter meant that early in life Dylan was privy to the sights and sounds of an unvarnished, vanishing epoch and such legends as Spooner Oldham.
“I grew up around a lot of the session players. When I was 11 or 12 I would watch and ask a lot of questions, so for me it was like going to music college,” is how the tall, gentle voiced, lank haired Shreveport, Louisiana native remembers it.
“It seemed like a much simpler world – it was romantic to me the way everyone sat in a circle and took it from the top, they just played and hit the record button. That’s the path I followed when I made this album.” This music is in the blood.
“For me music is about getting together with a group of people who feel like family – you create a bond, feeding off each other. Just a look or a hand gesture and they know what you are talking about.” Dylan’s progress was natural, organic – learning the ropes working as a sideman, helped define his own world view and artistry through his teens. A friend of such celebrated local outfits as Drive By Truckers, LeBlanc piggybacked on no-one. Paupers Field is a singular record from a singular performer.
Gary Numan Deluxe 4LP Boset Instores August 17
Reissue imprint Vinyl 180 is prepping an ultra-limited four-record box set that collects remastered editions of the first three albums by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army — as well as an LP stocked with era-specific demos and rarities called The Plan — on high-quality, 180-gram vinyl.
Entitled 78/79 Box Set and limited to 500 copies globally, the new collection is available August 17th. It features 1978’s Tubeway Army on blue vinyl to mimic its original run, 1979’s Replicas (which was later credited to Numan and Tubeway Army) and The Pleasure Principle, also released in 1979, and credited solely to Numan.
The set is accompanied by The Plan, a 15-track LP featuring demos and rarities from the 1978-79 era, although it has a different tracklist and cover art than either the 1984 compilation of the same name, or its 1999 expanded CD reissue.
The new box set comes in advance of The Pleasure Principle (North American) Tour 2010 during which he’ll play the landmark album in its entirety.
There will be one Canadian show Oct. 24th at The Opera House in Toronto.