January 6, 2009

Tiny Mix Tapes

MUSIC REVIEWS


Pretty & Nice
Get Young

Peter Grummich
Dinner Music for Clubbers: Peter Grummich Plays Staubgold

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
by Mr P

Hatchback
Colors Of The Sun

=Eureka!=
Uton

We’re Only In It For The Spirit

Nudge
Infinity Padlock [EP]


Latest News



Mirah Will Finally Let Us Know What A Four-Year Album Sounds Like

Mirah has never been a lover of the limelight. She doesn’t do a ton of interviews. She takes her time. And, in this instance, she’s taken over four years to get us her fourth full-length solo album, a (spera). The long-awaited follow up to 2004’s C’mon Miracle (TMT Review) comes after a lot of time spent touring small clubs and participating in quirky collaboration efforts. Joyride: Remixes, for example, found her first three albums remixed by friends like Bryce Panic and YACHT, while 2007 brought Share This Place: Stories and Observations, a collaboration with Spectratone International (read: Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson writing songs about insects).

Lori Goldston is just one of many friends appearing on a (spera). Mirah also brings along Chris Funk, Tara Jane O’Neilm and Phil Elverum — all of whom she’s worked or toured with in the past.

(a)spera still won’t be here until March 10, but what’s a few months in the scope of four years?

(a)spera tracklist:

1. Generosity 2. The World Is Falling Apart 3. Education 4. Shells 5. Country of the Future 6. The Forest 7. Gone Are the Days 8. The River 9. Bones & Skin 10. While We Have the Sun

Posted by Melissa Muenz on 01-06-2009


Live Wilco DVD to Precede New Album, Proceeds to Benefit Tweedy Family College Fund

In these tough economic times, you’ve got to look for those ever-elusive alternate streams of income. Especially when you’ve got a family to support. Just ask the coolest Dads on the planet: Jeff Tweedy and co. Do you think that they’re just sitting around and resigning themselves to the fact that, you know, Spencer Tweedy isn’t going to be able to go to a good University?

Hell no. Instead they’re just cranking out some more merchandise.

First on the docket is a lovely and long-due Wilco concert DVD, titled Ashes of American Flags, which chronicles a couple of February 2008 visits to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Cain Ballroom. (Auditorium?? Ballroom?!? Classy!) The footage was assembled by longtime collaborators Brendan Canty (of Fugazi fame) and Christoph Green of Trixie Films, who previously worked on Tweedy’s solo DVD Sunken Treasure and the behind-the-scenes film that accompanied certain editions of Wilco’s 2007 dad-rock opus Sky Blue Sky (TMT Review).

The whole shebang is due in February or March from Nonesuch, cleverly in advance of another fine consumer product: namely, the next Wilco studio album, which currently boasts little more detail than the band’s assurance that they are hitting it hard in the studio at the moment. Still, it never hurts to start the hype early. Will the synths and laptops return? Will Glenn Kotche do that thing where he blows into his drums? Stay tuned!

According to a recent fan newsletter, Wilco will play "a handful of gigs" in the southern U.S. in April, to be followed by an extensive tour of Spain in May and then "the usual summer hijinks with a new record and gigs everywhere imaginable." Meanwhile, Tweedy also has three solo shows on tap in Michigan and Illinois later this month. And while he’s there, you can be sure that he’ll be checking out those Colleges.

Jeff Tweedy:

01.29.09 - Kalamazoo, MI - State Theatre
01.30.09 - Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium
01.31.09 - Champaign, IL - Foellinger Auditorium

Wilco:

04.25.09 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Posted by Nobodaddy on 01-06-2009


RIP: Ron Asheton, Guitarist/Bassist of The Stooges

From YouTube

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From NME:

Ron Asheton, the guitarist and bassist with The Stooges, has been found dead today (January 6). He was 60. Asheton was found at his home in Ann Arbor this morning, according to police. A cause of death is yet to be confirmed, although initial reports suggest that Asheton died of a heart attack.

- Ron Asheton MySpace
- Ron Asheton Wikipedia entry

Posted by Shane Mack on 01-06-2009


The Darkness Are Buying a One-Way Ticket to Reunite... And Back

You guys remember The Darkness, right? Well, according to the same hype machine that caught wind of their meager talent and ridiculous personalities and blew them way out of proportion before their first album dropped (NME), there has been talk of a Darkness reunion. However, relationships within the band have never recovered since Justin’s retreat into Betty Ford: Justin and brother/guitarist Dan Hawkins are not in good standing with each other, and the fact that Dan and drummer Ed Graham are suing the band’s management over missing cash makes this all the more crippling. There are also no known attempts to contact Frankie Poullain, their original bassist, who walked away during the recording of One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back. In fact, the only reason it’s even being mentioned is because some rich festival guy has an offer on the table.

Regardless of how flimsy this "news" is, allow me to go ahead and join the massive preemptive wave of "please gawd, no." Don’t even think about it, guys. Cheeseball cock rock with Quiet Riot guitars, inappropriate hair, and a nasally douchebag lead singer is on the outs, and the irony that fueled the adoration of gold-crusted one-pieces and piercing falsettos is nowhere near recharged. Even the Kings Of Leon got haircuts, followed by their first record in the Billboard Top 10, and their music isn’t even accidentally humorous (or amusing at all, for that matter). Give it at least another lifetime. Besides, the remains of The Darkness already reformed as Stone Gods, and Justin is currently pimping a comical new band called Hot Leg. It’s best for everyone if you just admit your five minutes is up.

Posted by Filmore Mescalito Holmes on 01-06-2009




RIP: Eartha Kitt

From YouTube:

From the New York Times:

Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut.

The cause was colon cancer, said her longtime publicist, Andrew E. Freedman.

- Eartha Kitt official website
- Eartha Kitt Wikipedia entry
- Eartha Kitt IMDB entry

Posted by Shane Mack on 01-05-2009












• RIP: Davy Graham, Folk Musician
From YouTube: From Davy Graham’s official website: It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Davy passed away on the 15 December 2008 from a seizure at home after a short battle with lung cancer. Davy will be missed by those of us who loved him. The (...)
Posted by Shane Mack on 01-05-2009


• How Does Radiohead Make Love to Millions of People in Mexico and South America? They Use the Vorsprung Durch Technic, of course! Kraftwerk to Play Shows with Radiohead
Now, bear in mind that this time of the year is historically a “down” time for tour news. So, please don’t write in to complain about the coverage we will be doling out to the likes of Buddy Dunker and the Rox (hosting a blues jam residency down at The (...)
Posted by David Nadelle on 01-05-2009


• Another Magazine Makes Layoffs — Surprise, Surprise
Like most print publications right now, Rolling Stone has been hurt by the recession. Late last year, RS made some layoffs at its New York City staff — which included Kyle Anderson, Melissa Maerz, an assistant, and a fact-checker — and it also closed its Detroit (...)
Posted by Jenn on 01-05-2009


• RIP: Freddie Hubbard
From YouTube: From Rolling Stone: Famed jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died yesterday in Los Angeles, more than a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70. In a career in jazz that spanned 50 years and more (...)
Posted by Shane Mack on 01-05-2009




• Tiny Mix Tapes 2008 Year-End Fest!
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Posted by TMT Staff on 12-17-2008


• of Montreal Plan World Tour, Wyld Stallyns to Open??
When you think about it, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan probably would have been pretty geeked about Kevin Barnes and his merry crew in of Montreal if that movie franchise had been set here in the early 21st century instead. After all, throughout (...)
Posted by Nobodaddy on 12-16-2008


• Morrissey Tours: The Greatest Gift of All!
Finally the months spent preparing my annual Christmas wishlist, splurging on the special holiday stamps I put on my letters addressed to the North Pole, and generally denying myself of everything fun in order to be "good" have paid off: One of my greatest Christmas wishes (...)
Posted by Liz Louche on 12-16-2008


• Bell Orchestre Sign To Arts&Crafts, What A Shocker!
Q: How many Montreal musicians does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Seven. One to screw in the lightbulb, the rest to form a band, sign to Arts&Crafts, and write an instrumental album about the plight of the light bulb. ...which is kinda sorta what Bell Orchestre (...)
Posted by Annapocalypse on 12-15-2008


• Serge Gainsbourg Biopic to Begin Filming in January, Will Render Both Music and Pornography Obsolete Upon Its Release
I can’t decide which is the better question: Why has it taken so long to make a biopic about French lothario/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, or why did Gainsbourg never appear on film as a Bond villain? Gainsbourg’s unfathomable ability to seduce the most beautiful (...)
Posted by Mike McHugh on 12-15-2008


• New Layoffs at Epic Records and Last.fm; No Wonder My Last.fm Profile Stopped Scrobbling!
Reading articles about new layoffs each week has sadly become too common the past couple months. This week, two more music-related casualties were announced, beginning with the rumored layoffs at Epic Records of Brett Greenberg (Texas/Oklahoma/Arkansas promotion regional) (...)
Posted by Annapocalypse on 12-15-2008


• So, yeah…This is hard for me to say…Okay, here it goes: Cut Copy, Deerhoof, and of Montreal Remixed Maroon 5 on their new album…Uh huh, yeah, I understand. I’ll wait here while you pack up your stuff and start hating those bands.
It’s okay, Indie States of Internet America. We’ll get through this. Catch your breath, have a drink of water, just try to calm down a bit. And please, keep reminding yourself: They did it for the paycheck. It’s just for a paycheck. At least let’s (...)
Posted by Mike McHugh on 12-15-2008




• Mario Speedwagon’s Under The Radar News Roundup: Big Ears Festival, Crazy Bitch Stabs Her Guitarist, Arcade Fire Release “Film,” Langerado Lineup Is Ballz, Waxploitation Release Darfur Benefit Compilation
Big Ears Festival. Not the greatest fest name; however, the lineup includes Fennesz, Michael Gira, Philip Glass, Anthony and the Johnsons, and Matmos, with more to be announced. The festival will take place February 6-8, 2009, in, get this, KNOXVILLE. Yeah, Tennessee in the (...)
Posted by Mario Speedwagon on 12-12-2008