Panic at the Disco but for Art School Dropouts
As any viewer of HBO's Flying of the Conchords serial knows, protagonists Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are not simply musically inclined, but also devout only bad-mannered admirers of the female populace. And here, with "Ladies of the Earth," a tune from last season, also equally the New Zealand-born duo'due south forthcoming Sub Pop full-length, …
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"I used to get night terrors," says These New Puritans' vocaliser/guitarist Jack Barnett, backstage before a bear witness in South London. "I once saw a ghost — a glowing blue true cat in my room — and these purple and yellow orb things. It was really scary."
Due to bad weather, and peradventure the collapse of the massive Wilkins Ice Shelf (scary!), Fall Out Boy'southward flight to Antarctica, and the subsequent tape-breaking gig set for March 25, accept been postponed, at least for the fourth dimension being. Conditions permitting, the quartet, currently holed upwards in their hotel rooms in Punta Arenas, Chile, hope …
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Estelle Swaray just can't understand the pickup techniques of American men. But the recently transplanted Londoner is learning fast. "They talk so much. By the time they get your number, y'all forgot what their proper noun was," groans the chic 28-year-old, complaining near the "negging" tricks picked up in Neil Strauss' seduction primer, The Game. "I've …
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It's widely reported how much the wealthiest pop stars make. Pick up a fi nancial mag and you'll read about the 2007 earnings of the Rolling Stones ($88 million), U2 ($30 million), and Britney Spears ($9 million). Even Elvis Presley took in $49 million terminal year — and he's been expressionless for 30 years. But …
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As blinding neons, symmetrical shades, and lo-fi production resurface in hip-hop, it has get evident that the retro, flagrant stylings of the '80s are reclaiming the genre. And while Windy City acts like the Cool Kids (featured in Spin's March issue) wax nostalgic, across the land in Los Angeles, Time Machine are paying dues to …
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What's the Bargain? Fusing ingredients similar Stax-era horns, scathing punk guitars, back alley croons, and funky, fuzz-drenched instrumentals, the Heavy debut with Swell Vengeance and Furious Burn down, an astonishingly cohesive anthology due stateside April 8. Opener "That Kind of Man" (picket below) sets the tone, bouncing like an acid-fueled scrap from The A-Squad film soundtrack. …
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In 2005, Panic at the Disco's debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, arrived overflowing with logorrheic song titles, histrionic hooks, and teenage malaise. Information technology earned them a platinum record, but as well scores of skeptics — among them the band'due south ain guitarist/lyricist Ryan Ross (okay, virtually). "I can't knock that album too much," says Ross. …
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16 years have passed since these Athens, Georgia natives last pondered love, sexual practice, and outer space over untamed trip the light fantastic beats. Here, they refresh all their tricks, with stripped-down, energetic guitar plus lithe electronics. "Pump," "Hot Corner," and the title track utilize scampy rhythms that, in places, escalate into melodic headbanging equally Kate Pierson and Cindy …
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Here'southward a rundown of what's out in tape stores this calendar week. Click each anthology title to read Spin's review: Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple: The dynamic duo of eccentric pop render with polished predictability. Panic at the Disco, Pretty. Odd.: Dearest is all these emo moptops demand to silence the haters. The B-52's, Funplex: New-wave …
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Members of most bands pay their dues in a van with no money and no audience, simply Panic at the Disco'south Ryan Ross played nurse to an alcoholic dad who died when the young quartet beginning hit the road. And it'southward given the Vegas kids an astute sense of responsibility. Since few but the 1.v …
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In 2006, two avantgarde hip-hoppers — a producer known for DJ'ing in a mouse costume and a Muddied South MC who abandoned a legendary crew to brand psychedelic soul and wear a pinkish feather boa — released a little indie project. Suddenly, shit was crazy. Or, to be specific, "Crazy": that year'southward Great Pop Moment, …
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Four vets of the Chicago outsider-stone scene practise non quite a supergroup make, but when the band includes two guys from U.S. Maple, whose output features some of the nearly deeply alien takes on punk e'er, you pay attention. Like Maple, Singer necktie minimalist songs into Gordian knots:Clean guitars stab and moan, while drums skate …
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Smashing Pumpkins take filed a lawsuit against former label Virgin Records, challenge the EMI subsidiary used the band's image and music in a worldwide Pepsi Stuff promotion in collaboration with Amazon.com and Pepsi Co., which has "irreparably harmed the group, their reputation, and goodwill with their fans."
Foo Fighters and Oasis volition headline the 2008 installment of Toronto's Virgin Fest, slated to hit the city's Island Park Sept. half dozen-7. Besides on the bill: Bloc Party, Paul Weller, Spiritualized, Constantines, Stereophonics, and the Weakerthans. More international and Canadian acts will exist added to the lineup in the coming months. [Via the Daily Swarm]
Guilty Simpson is the nigh recent Detroit groovy blessed by the tardily J Dilla. The producer contributed a few tracks to Ode to the Ghetto, Guilty's coming out party, along with Madlib, D12's Denaun Porter, Black Milk, and other backpack thugs. The overall sound is impressively bleak, typified by hard, stomping bass drums. And Guilty's …
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With a scattering of well known favorites such as the spacey apocalyptic ode "Citizens of Tomorrow," and the ready endmost self-proclamation "Cheer It On," Canuck post-punkers Tokyo Constabulary Society kept the oversupply at San Francisco's Independent in place terminal night (March 24), blasting through much of their old material, while unveiling a plethora of new …
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Daughter Talk, a.k.a. Gregg Gillis, the trip the light fantastic party rockin' DJ machine known to mix artists similar Enya and Clipse into rapturous delight, has been difficult at work on the follow up to 2006'due south breakout LP Dark Ripper, and hopes to drop the new record, tentatively titled Wild Peace 4: Feed the Animals, Raise the Expressionless, …
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Possibly spooked by the specter of global warming, this freakfolk spin-off from Godspeed Yous! Black Emperor shakes the new-age romanticism of their earlier albums and makes similar a doomsday cult. The Montreal grouping has never sounded so desperate or epic as on their 5th album's iv earth-scorching, quarter-60 minutes compositions. The cleaved rhythms and angry call-and-response …
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After a handful of EPs, a much-publicized sign to local characterization Sub Popular, loads of online love, and SXSW hype aplenty, Seattle's Fleet Foxes accept finally appear the release of their debut LP: Fleet Foxes will drib June 3.
What's the Deal? Jack White'due south evil scheme failed, the 1 where he'd sneak the second Raconteurs anthology into stores today, nether the cover of darkness, bypassing the customary press accelerate copies, and so that all fans could hear the music for the first time at the aforementioned fourth dimension, pure and untainted by critical white racket. But …
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Three tunes off Be Your Ain Pet'southward new LP Get Awkward — "Blow Twelvemonth Mind," "Blackness Pigsty," and "Becky" — have been barred from the album'due south U.Southward. version after being deemed as well trigger-happy by Universal, which releases the quartet's albums through a deal with their U.Due south. label, Ecstatic Peace. "I guess that's but what happens …
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It appears Velvet Revolver's current U.K. tour may really exist the decease knell for this supergroup of seasoned hard rockers. Co-ordinate to a Blabbermouth report (via the Daily Swarm), concluding week during a gig in Glasgow frontman Scott Weiland told fans, "You lot're watching something special… the last tour by Velvet Revolver." In response, drummer Matt …
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3 weeks later stirring interest with the announcement of headliners Radiohead, Tom Fiddling, and Jack Johnson, officials for San Francisco'southward inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, a three-day event slated to striking Gold Gate Park Aug. 22-24, have finally unveiled the complete bill — and information technology'southward pretty stellar.
Sporting a sparkly gold, sequin-covered top and black brusque-shorts, spunky frontwoman Adele Bethel led the Sons and Daughters through a fix heavy in tracks from sophomore LP This Gift Friday night (March 21) at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, as a thin oversupply of local devotees boogied to the band'south punked-out-twist-and-shout rockers. Guitarist Scott Paterson …
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Man, even on our days off we nevertheless political party like we're on Stone of Love with Bret Michaels. Get this, I'm just rockin' it erstwhile school on this internet here, and the other guys fell asleep watching the Justice League total-length cartoon motility picture — Party!!!
Who: Against Me!, Angels and Airwaves, Paramore, and Gym Class Heroes highlight the Vans Warped Tour'due south exhaustive 2008 bill also featuring Say Anything, Rise Against, Relient M, Pennywise, As I lay Dying, Cobra Starship, and Jack'due south Mannequin, among many, many others.
What's the Bargain? Moz is back, sort of, with a hits package that features two new songs: "That's How People Grow Up" and "All You Need Is Me." There's a bonus disc too, featuring 9 tracks from Morrissey's show at the Hollywood Bowl terminal June. Sadly, y'all can only imagine the repeated attempts by …
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Nosotros but write the stories here at SPIN. Just every month, as with loads of other magazines worldwide, the rest of the media chooses bits and pieces of our effect to repackage as news. And every at present so, one story gets picked up again and again, fifty-fifty when the angle isn't quite right, every bit …
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The psychedelic minds of MGMT's Andrew Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal'south Kevin Barnes accept united to course side projection Blikk Fang, and hope to release a debut LP in early on 2009. Until so sate your curiosity with two tracks — "(Just a Piddling) Judas Tonic" and "Nupital Eagles Sharpened" — posted at purevolume.com. [Pitchfork]Boston's Dresden …
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This by Mon (March 17), in an industry-shaking proclamation, the Raconteurs revealed that Consolers of the Solitary, the quartet's much-mooted sophomore LP, would drop March 25 in digital, CD, and vinyl formats via Warner — eliminating any lead time for press or marketing the album. Simply today (March 21), the album apparently popped upwards for …
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Fresh on the heels of SXSW, Manchester's newest Columbia signees the Ting Tings were all spunk-cheer concluding nighttime (March 20) during a gig for budding mode entrepreneurs in Chicago'southward warehouse district. As videos illustrating select designers' garments rolled, the Ting Tings commandeered an evening of make-name chichi and vanquish-infused networking.
Subsequently a four yr absence, Alanis Morissette, the once-jagged, multi-platinum-selling Canuck, will return June 10 with her 7th LP to engagement, Flavors of Entanglement.
No matter if you're altar bound or not, frontman David Gedge's the Wedding Present will return to the LP game May 20 with the release of El Rey, the band'south eighth studio anthology to date and follow upwardly to 2005's Take Fountain, set to get in stateside courtesy of Manifesto. The fresh eleven-runway set, produced by …
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What's the Deal? No, they're not the latest garage-metal-punk-electro- Vice-canonical band of the month. This British duo from Bristol owe more to Boards of Canada and tweaked-out, early-oughts electronica than anything seen or heard at the latest Bushwick loft party.Their zen-like arrangements often start out meditative, and when barrels of screaming noise get worked into …
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From Peter, Bjorn and John's Peter Morén to Sonic Youth'south Thurston Moore, to Tilly and Wall guitarist Derek Pressnall'southward project Flowers Forever, going solo was name of the game at SXSW '08. Circa Survive frontman Anthony Dark-green joined the pack, surprising SPIN.com with a vast deviation from his band's epic wall of sound on a …
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DeVotchKa gained mainstream exposure in 2006 via their Grammy-nominated score for Little Miss Sunshine, but the Denver band still cavort like daffy outsiders on their stirring 5th album, a sultry mash of Gypsy, Mexican, and pop ingredients that's adorably silly and unexpectedly moving. A dizzy crooner in the mode of Andrew Bird and Rufus Wainwright, …
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Welcome to British Hip-Hop Slang 101, students! Today your professor, London's grime rhymer Dizzee Rascal, will kick off the semester with a bones exercise in footwear. So have a torch to those French, Castilian, and German language textbooks, and pay attention as Mr. Rascal offers a truly valuable lesson you can take to the streets:
Who: Reigning alt-rockers Pearl Jam return to the road, sandwiching their Bonnaroo appearance with 10 East Declension dates. Kings of Leon and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists divide the tour's opening spots.
Okay, so tonight (March xix) the weblog will be shorter than usual. The reasons are threefold:
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks kicked off their tour backside new LP Existent Emotional Trash last nighttime (March 19) at Minneapolis' First Avenue, simply not before catching the Timberwolves game at nearby Target Eye. The T-Wolves "utterly dominated," said Malkmus, a renowned sports fanatic, before driving the audience through his post-Pavement catalogue, playing not only …
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Neat Pumpkins will return to the studio this spring to begin working on new material for a forthcoming release, simply they'll evangelize them in a surprising manner. "Billy [Corgan] and I are going to starting time working every twenty-four hour period like we used to," drummer Jimmy Chamberlain told Spinner.com (via the Daily Swarm). "But I don't think …
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Haven't caught a live gear up from Nada Surf every bit the trio bout the nation behind their latest LP, Lucky? Well, if not, don't fret for MySpace Transmissions, an original programme offering exclusive music and video to users, has come up to the rescue with its second installment featuring video of a live seven-tune fix, as well …
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This style-fixated pair first appeared several years ago with a rut-seeking update of the Jesus and Mary Chain's fuzz-soaked '60s-pop affair. But unlike the Reid brothers, singer/guitarist Sune Rose Wagner and vocaliser/bassist Sharin Foo looked like people who'd rather be having sex in an alley than poring over Brian Wilson's old studio logs by candlelight. …
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It's a hard-knock life for Coldplay: They've been in Espana for months, recording in cathedrals alongside producer Brian Eno and infusing the country'south "sights, sounds, and flavors" into the follow upward to 2005'southward X&Y. Now, with the rioja and paella digested, the ring has appear a June 17 release date for the fittingly titled Viva …
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