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Smiths offered even more cash to reunite

Replacements reunite for new songs

Bloc Party unveil second album

Carl Barat discusses life after Libertines, new band Dirty Pretty Things

The Flaming Lips are on Letterman tonight

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Jose Gonzalez on Conan O'Brien tonight

Set your VCRs and mind meld your Tivos...Jose Gonzalez performs on Late Night with Conan O'Brien TOMORROW Wednesday, March 29 (following The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC). This is Jose Gonzalez' North American television debut, capping off a successful run at this year's SXSW festival in Austin and three sold out NYC dates this week alone!

Tune in to see Gonzalez perform Heartbeats, an acoustic cover of Swedish electronic band The Knife's breakout song. Heartbeats is also the feature track in the Sony Bravia TV campaign (running in Europe) and appears on Gonzalez' debut record Veneer. Originally released in America on Hidden Agenda in September 2005, Mute re-releases the highly acclaimed album April 4.

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Prince lands first #1 debut

DJ Shadow previews new album

Arctic Monkeys talk new material

Raconteurs slate first US date

Beck Gears Up For Euro Festivals, Radiohead Dates

Phil Spector Sued By Ex-Assistant

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Paul Simon collaborates with Brian Eno for new album set for May 9th

Morrissey boycotts Canada

Jack White loves the Arctic Monkeys

Rose Tattoo's Pete Wells Dies

Neko Case's new album profiled on NPR

Kingblind Band Profile:: (Band of Horses)

Seattle, WA's Band of Horses plays dense, aching mid-tempo indie rock reminiscent of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Formed in 2004 by multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Matt Brooke out of the ashes of former incarnation Carissa's Wierd, the group caught the attention of Sub Pop during a show with friends and future lablemates Iron & Wine. The label signed the newly minted outfit in 2005 and re-released their self-titled EP. Their full-length debut, Everything All the Time, arrived in March of 2006.

RIYL:: Neil Young, Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Acetone, The Shins.

Band of Horses:: MP3's

Bass Song (DEMO)
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Swell Maps' Nikki Sudden dies
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David Bowie releases Serious Moonlight DVD
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Jack White squashes rumors of White Stripes split
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Buck Owens dies at 76
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Bloc Party:: Silent Alarm Remixed
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Prince:: 3121 (Album Review)

After years of contractual disputes, name changes, musical experimentation and allegiance to The Watch Tower, Prince showed signs of reclaiming his pop crown with 2004's Musicology album. His first record released through a major label in years, it suggested The Artist was ready to stride back into public consciousness. A tour around its release was the most profitable of the year. He'd been a Slave, but now the master was set for his return.

In consequence of Musicology's success, its follow-up, 3121, has been the subject of that much more interest. Released through a different major on another one-album deal, 3121 finds Prince, after years in pop's wilderness, all funked up.

The multi-instrumentalist from Minneapolis has grown to be hugely influential since his late '70s debut. Influenced himself by Sly Stone and James Brown, his disciples now include everyone from Pharrell Williams to Alicia Keyes. His funkier, poppy flavours are the moments best remembered - 1999 and When Doves Cry amongst them.

The sleeve suggests Prince remains convinced of his own immeasurable worth. Photos of what seem to be his diva pad, complete with purple cushions embossed variously with his symbol or, in one case, the word "SATISFIED", are precious. There's a custom-built gold pool table, a jacuzzi complete with floating flower petals and a great deal of (what else?) purple. In this mausoleum-like tribute to himself everything looks ironed - even the tables. Move over, Mariah.

3121's opener, the title track, is a promising if jarring beginning toward justifying such outlandishness. Off-tone bass and a chugging rhythm, with effects-treated vocals reminiscent of his experimentation on The Rainbow Children, mix with squeaky, off-the-wall horns and a backing choir of munchkins to create an unsettling dungeon of demons. Lyrically it sets the scene for what will be an album with libidinous concerns at its core as Prince, sounding like a dirty old man in a beige coat, invites all and sundry back to his place: "U can come if U want 2 / But U can never leave."

The dirty old man theme continues with Lolita where, unlike Nobokov, he seems to turn down the attentions of an underage girl: "U're trying to write cheques / Ur body can't cash." But with phat, echoing synths and shimmering guitar, and The New Power Generation gang lending vocal support, it's one of the album's strongest moments.

Single Black Sweat reminds most of Pharrell Williams, with Prince's vocals ranging extraordinarily from camp-as-fake-tits falsetto to throaty growls, multitracked over a harsh backdrop of whistley synth, hand claps and bass-laden drums. A couple of tracks later, Love revisits a similar funky place, while later still Fury feels like a sample of his late '80s heyday.

Amongst the guests are Maceo Parker and Candi Dulfer with "hornz" (matron!), but Prince is well able to handle just about everything himself. One of the catchier moments is The Word, on which he sings and plays every instrument including sax. The Dance showcases that virtuosity again, with menacing synths and flamboyant piano set to a Cubanesque rhythm. Its counterpoint here is Te Amo Corazon, also taking its cue from Havana's beat but with more obvious radio play potential.

But it's not all booty-bouncing bohemia. Incense and Candles and Beautiful, Loved and Blessed, recorded with Prince's latest purple protégé Támar, are downtempo R&B numbers that seem to serve only to break up the record's better moments. On their evidence he can do syrupy ballads. But so can Craig David and Mariah Carey, and the world is not a better place for them.

He concludes with a foot-stomping homage to James Brown, Get On The Boat, where just about everyone joins him for an extended wig-out showcase of performance genius. It sounds like he's having fun leading a band and getting on down. It's a great note to finish on.

Prince is at his best when his music is unmistakably his. Half of the tracks on 3121 could not have been made by anyone else, but the slushy R&B ballads are not amongst them. Fast forward through these, however, and in the rest of his most accessible record in years hear why Prince is hailed a genius, and one who here sounds like he's having a ball.
(Michael Hubbard)

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South Park gets revenge on Isaac Hayes

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Eno not working on new Roxy Music album

Morrissey apologizes to Arctic Monkeys

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Prince sued by Utah Jazz's Carlos Boozer after renting, painting NBA star's mansion in purple stripes
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Bowie scoring Bruce Lee musical?
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Artic Monkeys:: DEMOS
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Liars:: Drums not dead (Album Review)

Liars have always flattered to deceive, but while their white hot gigs continue to slay all comers, Angus Andrews and his miscreant druids have never quite managed to replicate the excitement and sheer raw energy they convey in the live arena onto record. Until 'Drum's Not Dead', that is. While there were mutterings that this might be a more commercial record, it is of course nothing of the sort, though there is certainly some semblance of the recognisable to cling to here, unlike on the wilfully obscure 2004 witch concept album 'They Were Wrong, So We Drowned'. Always keen to rip it up and start again (remember this is the man who sacked the first successful incarnation of the band only to come back sounding completely damaged), Angus has delved even further into the very basics of music, utilising the instinctive and often terrifying primal drumming we've come to associate with Neanderthal and Cro-Mangon man. And while there are plenty of apes out there already making stupid music, it's Andrew's keen intelligence that's brought him to where he is, an awareness that musical progress can only be made ultimately by returning to and embracing Mother Earth.

If you enjoyed the primitive nature of single 'It Fit When I Was a Kid' then the likelihood is you'll love 'Drum's Not Dead' and its unbridled, feral oddness. 'Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack' is more of the same only more so; featuring ghostly vocal echoes and aboriginal didgeridoo madness, it is a thrilling, percussive masterpiece that threatens at times to take your spirit out of your body and send it on holiday. Conversely 'Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack' (the replication of Mt. Heart Attack through the song titles is a conceptual nod to the album's two characters, 'drum' and 'mount heart attack') is a less urgent offering, though the Velvet Underground-inspired noise and snare combo make it no less intense. The variation continues with 'Drums Get A Glimpse', which as the name suggests offers little in the way of percussion, relying instead on the shimmering and hypnotic instrumentation and Angus' enigmatic, doubled-up vocals, featured throughout the record.

This is music that relies entirely on feeling, and while not for everyone it is music at its most impulsively, spontaneously creative. If you've not given Liars a go before then isn't it time you tried dancing to a different drum?
(Jeremy Allen)

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It's Confirmed! Roxy Music Reunite with Brian Eno

In events which once seemed only slightly less unlikely than Mike Bloomfield, who died in 1981, reuniting with Paul Butterfield, it was reported over the weekend that the legendary Roxy Music have been recording with the legendary Brian Eno for the first time in more than 30 years. The full original lineup of Roxy Music, including Eno, lead singer Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, saxophonist Andy Mackay, and drummer Paul Thompson are working on a new album with producers Rhett Davies, and Chris Thomas. Preliminary planning is underway for a tour of Europe later this year, though neither times nor places have been confirmed.

Eno, among the most respected innovators in music, first came to prominence as a member of Roxy Music but left the group after their first two albums. He went on to release artistically successful, culturally significant solo albums and produce classic albums like Remain in Light (Talking Heads), The Joshua Tree (U2), and No New York (the quintessential no wave compilation). Though Eno last recorded with Roxy Music as a group in 1973, Manzanera contributed to many of Eno's solo albums, and Eno appeared on Ferry's last solo album Frantic in 2002. Roxy Music reunited without Eno in 2001 and played several acclaimed live shows in Europe last summer, including Live 8 Berlin. Their last album was Avalon, released in 1982.

In advance of the new Roxy Music album, an album featuring remixes of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry classics by DJs and producers will be released.
(Via TMT)

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Gun Club:: Fire of Love
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Lollapalooza Lineup Announced

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New Cars ready new album, tour

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Jack Black -- Married!

The Racounteurs:: Stedy, As she goes (Music Video)

New video for The Raconteurs first single “Steady, As She Goes,” directed by Jim Jarmusch, on super 8mm film. CLICK TO VIEW

About The Racounteurs:
The project White Stripes vocalist/guitarist Jack White has been working on with singer/songwriter Brendan Benson and Greenhornes bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler. Their full-length debut, titled Broken Boy Soldiers, will be released on May 15, 2006 in the UK and May 16 in the US on Third Man Recordings/XL Recordings in the UK, and through Third Man Recordings/V2 Records in the US. More information and audio available at http://www.theraconteurs.com


Pronunciation: "ra-"kän-'t&r,
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Meaning: a person who excels in telling anecdotes.

See Pretty Girls Make Graves FREE in Seattle

Wanna see Pretty Girls Make Graves for free? Our good friends at Filter Magazine, along with the Honda Fit, can make that happen.

Filter is excited to announce the first ever series of Filter Music Appreciation Nights, presented by the all-new Honda Fit. These special events will take place in major markets across the country over the course of March and April. Admission to all of these events will be free, as a reward to Filter Magazine fans and as further promise that "Good Music Will Prevail."

Each Music Appreciation Night will feature one or two of the brand new Fit cars displayed inside the venue. Concert and clubgoers will be able to hop in the car to get their picture taken in the Fit Foto Booth and receive a complimentary CD compilation featuring top indie rock bands and electronic acts like Metric, Ladytron, Mates of State, Nine Black Alps, and Magnet.

The details: Pretty Girls Make Graves, along with the Helio Sequence and DJ Child of the Dust; March 27th at the Premier; 8pm; 21+.

RVSP via email to rsvpSEATTLE@filtermmm.com with your name and the number of additional guests you'll have in tow (e.g., John Smith +1). Arrive early, as even with your name on the list, admission is not guaranteed.

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NIN tour with Bauhaus, TV On The Radio

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Radiohead struggling with recording new album

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Belle & Sebastian:: "Life Pursuit" (Album Review)

“The Life Pursuit” is, in some senses, no different then previous Belle and Sebastian albums as it melds working class heroes with art school dropouts and runaways. Where it is different is that it is achingly mature, a synthesis of elements that have come before, married with a newer sunny jangly outlook – a departure from the some of the somber tones that made the band a cult favorite for all of us semi-goth-indie-britpop devotees who boldly proclaim pop as our salvation.

This is an album that needs a few listens to get to its full potential. At first blush the songs don’t seem to carry the melancholy weight of “The Boy With The Arab Strap” or “If You’re Feeling Sinister” – but listen closely – as the songs will stick in your head and make you realize that B&S has grown. While capitalizing on what made them loveable to begin with (crafty pop tunes that hold an intellectual storytelling soul at their core) – Stuart Murdoch has moved the band forward by experimenting with lounge-y slinky sounds, jazzy melodies, glam rock and girl group harmonies.
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The Belle and Sebastian band members must have spent countless cloudless Saturdays culling through the record bins in their hometown of Glasgow as the album is full of references that tip towards the power of music. Successful experiments that make you want to dance, Bowie-style, across the living room include “White Collar Boy,” with its synth backbeat, and “The Blues are Still Blue” a glam T-Rex little fey story. “Sukie in the Graveyard,” “Funny Little Frog,” and “Song for Sunshine” put a swinging soul Shuggie Otis style horn section in full frontal force with a positive result. “We are the Sleepyheads,” with an out of character guitar solo and falsetto vocals, could be a love letter to guitar masters of the 70’s. Ending the album on the thoughtful, piano fueled Rod Stewart-y “Mornington Crescent” is the final satisfying note to an album full of Belle and Sebastian signatures; afternoons in the park, laundry room loves, lazy sunny days, and dance parties.

With a mélange of melodies, “The Life Pursuit” could have fallen into the trap of confusing overkill (and, to be fair, some songs don’t live up to the experimental approach). But Belle and Sebastian can make these sounds their own. And they do, adding lyrics and timing that continue their tradition of perfect well-crafted pop vignettes. (by: DJ Snake Plissken)

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Kingblind band profile (Mogwai)

The cosmic post-rock band Mogwai was formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1996 by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist Dominic Aitchison, and drummer Martin Bulloch, longtime friends with the goal of creating "serious guitar music." Toward that end they added another guitarist, John Cummings, before debuting in March 1996 with the single "Tuner," a rarity in the Mogwai discography for its prominent vocals; the follow-up, a split single with Dweeb titled "Angels vs. Aliens," landed in the Top Ten on the British indie charts. Following appearances on a series of compilations, Mogwai returned later in the year with the 7" "Summer"; after another early 1997 single, "New Paths to Helicon," they issued Ten Rapid, a collection of their earliest material.

Around the time of recording the superb 1997 EP 4 Satin, former Teenage Fanclub and Telstar Ponies member Brendan O'Hare joined the lineup in time to record Mogwai's debut studio LP, Mogwai Young Team, exiting a short time later to return to his primary projects, Macrocosmica and Fiend. Again a quartet, Mogwai next issued 1998's Kicking a Dead Pig, a two-disc remix collection; the No Education No Future (Fuck the Curfew) EP appeared a few months later. In 1999, they released Come On Die Young. Rock Action arrived in early 2001. Late that year, the band released the My Father, My King EP; two years later, they issued the ironically titled Happy Songs for Happy People. Government Commissions BBC Sessions 1996-2004 arrived early in 2005. Mr. Beast, which was released in 2006, found the band going in a softer, more reflective direction.

MP3's and Video from Mr.Beast

Acid Food
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Folk Death 95
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Mogwai:: Friend Of The Night (Video)
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Kingblind.com Album Giveaway (La Rocca)

Kingblind.com is giving away (2) two signed copies of the new EP from La Rocca.. Let me tell you my friends.. I LOVE this EP.. Here is how you can win..

Send and email to kingblind(at)gmaildot.com with LAROCCA in the SUBJECT LINE and your NAME AND ADDRESS IN THE MESSAGE BODY.. We will randomly pick the winners later on this evening. YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR A CHANCE TO WIN.


About La Rocca
So how do 4 Irish boys end up playing rock n' roll in Los Angeles, preparing to cut their first long-player on Sunset Blvd, far from the dirty streets of Dublin? We can tell you it's a long and winding road that brought us here. 4 devils in the city of angels." Irish quartet La Rocca have recently released their debut EP, Sing, Song, Sung on Dangerbird Records. Acclaimed producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle and Sebastian, The Thrills) manned the boards, helping create an album of pop melodies, frantic guitars and introspective lyrics, evoking a band born of late-night jam sessions, Irish beer and brotherhood.

"Sing Song Sung" MP3

http://www.larocca.ie

On tour now:
Mon, March 13 - Tangier, Los Angeles CA
Wed, March 15 - sxsw Fader/Levis Party, Austin, TX, 3.30pm
Thurs, March 16 – sxsw Tambelao, Austin TX, 4.00pm
Fri, March 17 - sxsw The Stash, Austin, TX, 2.00pm
Fri, March 25 - the Beauty Bar, Las Vegas, NE
Thurs, March 30 - The Casbah, San Diego, CA
Wed, April 5 – Club Moscow, Hollywood, CA
Wed, April 6 - Santa Cruz, CA

Kingblind band profile (TV on the Radio)

The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians. Adebimpe is a graduate of NYU's film school and specializes in stop-motion animation, which his Brothers Quay-like video for the Yeah Yeah Yeah's single Pin demonstrates amply. He is also a painter, as is Sitek, who also produced the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Machine EP and their full-length Fever to Tell. The duo met when Sitek moved into the building where Adebimpe had a loft; each of them had been recording music on their own, but realized their sounds would work well together. Sitek's brother Jason, began playing drums and other instruments with the pair during their recording sessions, which resulted in a self-titled, 24-track CD released by the Brooklyn Milk imprint. Jason Sitek left the band for a short time due to other musical commitments but returned to the band when they recorded their Touch & Go debut, the Young Liars EP. After the EP was completed, TV on the Radio added guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone to their fold. Young Liars, which also features the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, was released in summer 2003 to critical acclaim, coinciding with their gigs opening for the Fall. Their first full-length release, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes arrived in spring 2004. The band remained busy for the rest of the year, embarking on their own tours as well as dates with the Faint and the Pixies. That fall, TV on the Radio was one of the ten finalists in 2004's Shortlist competition; they also released the New Health Rock EP around that time. Jump ahead to 2006 and TVOTR are ready to release their new LP "Return To Cookie Mountain".. It's release date is in June. Enjoy a pair of new tracks.

New MP3's from their upcoming album "Return to Cookie Mountain"
TV On The Radio - Playhouses

TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me

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Mogwai:: Mr. Beast (Album Review)

From the very first pompous, crashing piano chords and stern, slow-marching drums of 'Auto Rock', it's abundantly clear that 'Mr. Beast', Mogwai's fifth album proper, is going to be something very special indeed. It's a grandiose fanfare, heralding an album brim full of self-confidence and attitude, a culmination of all that Mogwai have done in the past ten years of their existence.

'Auto Rock' crashes into 'Glasgow Mega Snake', a song that builds with a galloping exuberance, luxuriantly obese guitar chords crashing around like a drunken Medieval monarch going for the last stuffed thrush at a banquet. As the live sets at the ICA earlier this year hinted, 'Mr. Beast' is Mogwai's most accessible album to date, but they aren't creeping upon the listener gradually, instead making it abundantly clear that all they've really done is fine tune their trademark dynamics, deft adjustments that aren't concessions to the mainstream as much as sneaky hooks to lure the unsuspecting listener into the maelstrom.

Take 'Acid Food', for instance. A respite from the opening salvo of '...Mega Snake' and 'Auto Rock', it drifts breezily by on metronome drums, languid pedal steel, glockenspiel and Stuart Braithwaite's hazy and modulated vocals. Pull up a chair, say Mogwai, crack open the Sunday papers and digest the roast. 'Friend Of The Night', meanwhile, is a gorgeous, piano led bit of drawing room histrionics, and 'I Chose Horses' is slow and meditative.

But then the ante is upped once more for 'Travel Is Dangerous'. Where Mogwai generally use vocals as a monotone atop their more minimal, quieter moments, 'Travel Is Dangerous' is the closest they've come to an anthem, Stuart singing lustily over a chorus wreathed in poignant tumult that, to me, might be perfect as a soundtrack to old Eastern Bloc propaganda reels.

Any die hard Mogwai fan lamenting a dearth of their start/stop smack-you-round-the-noggin desecrations of noise would do well to note that the mother of all behemoths 'My Father, My King' never actually appeared on a Mogwai album. And besides, ghoulish things come to those who wait. 'Folk Death '95' is as taught and vicious as anything Mogwai have recorded, but loaded with the fresh emotive punch that pervades 'Mr Beast' as a whole. And then for the dramatic conclusion of 'We're No Here', Mogwai really let themselves go, all theatrical atmospherics of thunder, lightning, driving rain and some mighty commander exhorting his doomed adherents to a final heroic act of defiance. Ten years after they first assaulted us, Mogwai remain as vital as ever. (Luke Turner via playl.com)

Sonic Youth Bring Seventies Rock

"Sonic Nurse" follow-up inspired by Blue Oyster Cult, "Friends" After spending last fall and early 2006 in the studio with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Son Volt), New York's favorite avant-garde rockers Sonic Youth are now mixing the follow-up to 2004's Sonic Nurse, set for release on June 13th. The band's latest, as-yet-untitled studio album, says guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore, drew upon some surprising sources.

"What was that band -- the Rembrandts? We're inspired by that!" says Moore with a laugh. This according to his daughter with singer/bassist Kim Gordon, Coco, when she first heard their new song "What a Waste." "Our eleven-year-old said, 'Hey! That's the theme song from Friends!'" he confesses. "And we're like, 'Oh, yeah!' So we're inspired by that -- and [the short-lived NBC comedy series] Freaks and Geeks, which is totally awesome and also early, thrash-era Go-Go's."

But overall, the tracks -- which include the titles "Rats," "Lights Out," "The Neutral" and "Turqoise Boys" -- take cues from Seventies efforts by Long Island hard rockers the Blue Oyster Cult. "Like their third, fourth album," Moore explains.

Sonic Youth plan to tour America in support of the effort from June through September, pairing up for a handful of dates with pals the Flaming Lips. "We like each other," Moore says. "We've played together -- but it's always at some festival in Brazil or something. So we thought we should really cut across the U.S. together."

Before that happens, the band will also release a host of reissues on March 14th: Moore's "only above-ground solo record," Psychic Hearts; the group's 1989's experimental side project Ciccone Youth; and Sonic Youth's 1982 self-titled debut EP, packaged with seven extra songs.

"The first EP is really exciting because we actually unearthed a cassette recording from when we were actually first getting onstage somewhere," Moore recalls. "Most of the material was never recorded beyond playing it live. We sound completely different -- we were coming out of this New York No Wave atonal guitar world."

Moore himself will follow up the reissues with a handful of solo live appearances, beginning with an experimental guitar set on March 16th at the Table of the Elements record label show at Austin's South by Southwest Music Festival. He'll wrap things up March 18th at Brooklyn, New York's No Fun festival, alongside one of his favorite guitar hopefuls, Ohioan Leslie Keffer.

"She's part of this whole burgeoning Midwest subterranean noise scene," explains Moore. "It's great -- you can really see very intense displays of noise music by women there." (JOLIE LASH Via R.S.)

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Ray Davies Plays North America, Europe

Following February's release of his new solo LP, Other People's Lives, Kinks frontman Ray Davies has recently announced plans for a month-long tour of North America. Kicking off next week in Wisconsin, the 61-year old legend's trek will hit up 11 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including three stops at New York City's Irving Plaza. Six dates in Scandinavia and one in Belgium will follow in late April, with more shows likely to follow in his native UK later this year.

Come dancing:

03-13 Madison, WI - Barrymore Theatre
03-14 Nashville, TN - City Hall
03-18 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
03-20 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03-21 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
03-24 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
03-25 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
03-26 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
03-28 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
03-29 Montreal, Quebec - Olympia Theatre
03-30 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
04-01 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
04-02 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
04-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04-14 Reykjavik, Iceland - Haskolabio
04-15 Helsingfors, Finland - Finlandia
04-17 Goteborg, Sweden - Tradgarn
04-18 Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus Djurgarden
04-20 Trondheim, Norway - Royal Garden (Nidaros Blues Festival)
04-21 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
04-24 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique

As for the Kinks, while guitarist Dave Davies' tragic stroke in 2004 laid to rest any immediate chances for a reunion for the group, brother Ray recently alluded to Rolling Stone about the possibility of some future musical activity from the classic outfit (who haven't issued a new disc since 1993's Phobia).

"I met them all again last week and we had dinner," he shared. "I hadn't seen them all in ten years. And I realized there was a chemistry there. At the end of the day, bands can have fights, argue all the time, battle through mishaps, brawls and lawsuits, and still come out with a string of great albums. And I got the feeling that there was still something special there." (via PFM)

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London's Legendary Toe Rag
Although made famous by the White Stripes recording 'Elephant' there, countless hipster bands have flowed through London's legendary Toe Rag studios. 'The Sympathetic Sounds of Toe Rag' is a compilation recorded on their vintage, sixties era equipment and features bands like the Kaisers, the Rapiers and the Bristols. After spending the last ten years rolling tape, Toe Rag has been used by hundreds of musicians from around the globe. This compilation gives the listener a feel of that vintage sound that has made it so noteworthy.
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After SXSW, the band will hit the road for a round of shows across North America. To top off their touring schedule, Nine Black Alps will be making an appearance on day one of this year’s Coachella Valley Music Festival joining White Rose Movement, Wolfmother, The Duke Spirit and many others.

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Ray Davies:: Other People's Lives (Album Review)

This is a brilliant album—a collection of smart, funny, catchy, soulful, touching songs that come from a pen you might have forgotten over the years. But how many rockers can make a chorus of the phrase, “Is there life after breakfast? Yes there is!”?

One: Ray Davies.

Pop songwriting can be so many things—and it usually isn’t. A great pop song is a condensed gem that can swing from love to tragedy in eight bars—or from the horrible to the hilarious, from the hopeful to the wistful. Terrific pop songwriting simultanesouly entertains and reveals, and it does it in the name of increasing your pulse and swishing your hips back and forth. When it’s done right, it’s genius. But how often is that?

Mr. Ray Davies has done it more than almost any other man in rock, and Other People’s Lives is as a good a collection as you’re going to hear in 2006. “You Really Got Me” and “Lola” made Mr. Davies’ band, The Kinks, the rawest and weirdest of the British Invasion bands. When they were a mop-topped garage band, The Kinks were the scrappiest. When they adopted British folkisms, The Kinks did it without preciousness. When Mr. Davies wrote linked song cycles, they were the smartest. And when the 1970s and punk dared him to mature, he found ways confound critics with a minor masterpiece (Sleepwalker, the band’s 1977 Arista debut) and a deeply ironic hit song ("A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy” from 1978’s Misfits).

So how can it be that one of the greatest rock songwriters is only now releasing an album of spanking new material?

Well, you could get analytic about it, but Other People’s Lives will quickly end your discussion. Now long-released from commercial expectations or the directive to write for a narrow “Kinks” identity, Mr. Davies is producing crazy, crafted, witty music—the kind of stuff that reminds us that the best rock writers have always just been good songwriters, regardless of style. Like Elvis Costello, Mr. Davies wears his rock persona easily into middle age, while not being afraid to incorporate the odd saxophone or bossa nova coloring. These are great pop songs put across in fantastic performances.

“Things Are Gonna Change” snaps the album open with organ-and-guitar rock built on heaping doses of melody: a great riff, a bitten-off verse, a rising chorus, and a strong bridge. Mr. Davies sings about “the barrier we cross” as “we crawl outside ourselves”—an optimistic song about the “morning after” something that might be 9/11 but is just as likely a smaller problem—yours or mine. The second song starts to bring the album title to life—the first in a series of character-driven songs: “I just had a really bad fall, and this time it was harder to get up than before.’ Mr. Davies cranks his voice into a nasal overdrive, but still harbors optimism—seeing the moment “after the mist clears” even though the narrator is a “sinner waiting at the travelers’ rest seeking refuge from the storm” who is “falling upwards into the great, wide blue”. The song explodes outward with exuberance on a great Fender power chord.

The quaint side of Ray is in evidence too, though. “Next Door Neighbor” is a classic Village Green Preservation Society-esque story that floats on a bed of horns and a jaunty beat. And the humorous Ray is everywhere: “Is There Life After Breakfast?” doles out feel-good advice with tongue in cheek, and “Stand Up Comic” starts with a culture-mocking monologue suggesting that “Shakespeare is the schmooze of the week and anyone who says different is a fuckin’ antique” and “now the clown does a fart and we all fart back . . . and that’s that.” But as much as anything, we get the best Ray of all—the songwriter who can manage to be sweeping and grand without ever seeming to reach too far toward anthem or bullshit. “Creatures of Little Faith” moves inevitably toward its irresistible chorus, but it does so through lyrics detailing a domestic dispute. “All She Wrote” starts with a break-up letter sung over folk-guitar simplicity, then it explodes into a funky rock that dismisses the “few cute lines to get my goat”. “Over My Head” rises up on heartbreak again, the narrator reaching for optimism by letting negativity fly over his head, powered by a wah-guitar groove punched up by grand piano thump. If you heard this stuff coming from a car window in June, you’d want to push the accelerator down, but you’d listen to the lyrics too.

Some critics will surely want to accuse Mr. Davies of reaching too far beyond his style or audience. “Other People’s Lives” has a Latin rock feel, a female background croon, and references to internet-spread scandals. “The Getawa (Lonesome Train)” is, essentially, an alt-country song with a Neil Young twang. But these tracks aren’t betrayals of some patented “Kinks Sound” as much as further demonstration that Mr. Davies has always been more a songwriter than a “rock songwriter”. Whatever window dressing he may find for each song’s proper style, Ray’s British growl and snarly pout tells each story with humor, affection, and conviction.

This is a great collection of songs from an artist who has not tested our affection with meandering solo material or endless mercenary reunion tours. He’s the real thing: a rocker who’s an artist. And with Other People’s Lives, well, he’s really got you.

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