It's the night, I can be who you like

Eeeeee! GIRL TALK INTERVIEW WITH PITCHFORK. Reeeaaaddd!

Being an avid reader of the LJ community, ohnotheydidnt, I came across a girl who posted pictures of her playing onstage with Weezer! I guess I still have a bit of affection in my heart for them. I recently burned a copy of the Blue & Pinkerton albums for a friend who had only heard crap Weezer, aka Bev Hills/Red Album. I feel like I made the world a slightly better place after I gave him the CDs. Anyways, if you want to see Rivers in all his moustachio glory, click.

So The Decemberists have decided to call their new album, Hazards of Love. Indeed, indeed. The first single drops October 14. Pitchfork for detailz.

Deerhoof has a new video out for "Chandelier Searchlight." I like it, the song I mean. I never really got into Deerhoof too much because their music I guess wanders too much for me? I think it varies too much for my main alternative tastes. But they're still enjoyable. Stereogum has the vid & downloadable MP3.

Okay so seriously, LISTEN TO FRIGHTENED RABBIT. They are so good. Also, I know I've mentioned them before, but if you didn't listen to me then, listen to me now & LISTEN TO SEABEAR. They're from Iceland, so you know they have to be good. Maybe there's something in the ICE that makes Icelandic music so good? Haha...

You love, you despise

Bloc Party's new album is out today and they have a few more songs for you to listen to on their Mspaceee. The songs are... very crunchy- more electronic-ish stuff in there. Lots of fast drumming & scratchy effects. "Signs" is a very pretty song, sort of like the slower ones off their debut, Silent Alarm. I like the chimes. Anyways, here's a nice little interview with Gordon Moakes (bassist) & Pfork.

Weezer's Brian Bell has started a new band! It's called The Relationship. Check 'em out here, they have one song up. Don't worry, it sounds nothing like Weezer so click if you want an earful. [Source]

SAD NEWS. LeRoi Moore, saxophonist of Dave Matthews Band (the band my brother has seen, oh say 50 times) has died. There's a memorial fund being set up in his name if you want to donate. [Source]

Random tidbits:

-Yeah Yeah Yeahs & The Arcade Fire are set to do the music for the movie Where The Wild Things Are. [Source]

-Coldplay may follow in Bloc Party's footsteps & rush release another album... because Viva La Vida was such a huge success. [Source]

-A new Snow Patrol album, A Hundred Million Suns will be out October 27. [Source]

Look forward to all these things! Except maybe the Coldplay one... haha kiddingggg.

Pfork TV has this awesome live vid of Cut Copy's performance at Studio B that you should definitely definitely watch:

 

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Shake appeal feel so high & low

Ughhh... school starts on Monday. Last year of high school, but nonetheless, school. 

Well to cheer myself and whoever else might be subjected to the same horror on Monday, there's a download available of a new Los Camp

esinos song! It's like a weird mesh of normal Los Campesinos with a twiddling violin in the background and then BAM! Hardcore scissor snipping guitar riffs going all over your ear. Try it out for yourself. [Source]

Kings of Leon whines about not being able to play new material because it'll be leaked on the Internet. Wah-wah. Whatevs KOL, you still have a large fan base & it'll even grow because you'll have more exposure. [Source]

Nine Inch Nails is going on tour! & opposite of KOL, NIN's Trent Reznor actually encourages you to steal from the music industry. Tru fax. Check out the tour dates right here. (They're coming to Florida!) 

Okay, so WTF:

Why is this anime chick on the new Weezer single? That's all I really have to say about that.

The battle is on! Between Team Jack White/Alicia Keys & Team Amy Winehouse. Apparently the job of creating a new James Bond theme went to Winehouse, but the producers dropped it & went to White Keys (haha) instead. Winehouse is now threatening to release her version on the same day because it would be a "bigger hit." We shall see! [Source]

I will try to fix you

Holla at summer!!!!

Watch this cutesy vid of the making of "Pork & Beans." That is, if you aren't already full of Weezer (haha). But trust me, it's fun.

Weezer - The Making of "Pork and Beans"

Lolz, read this NY Mag interview with Lou Reed. Mr. Sunshine basically tells the mag to you know what, off. [Source]

Thanks to Sgum, I have been made aware of this awesome site, blackcabsessions.com & I have now taken it upon myself to make you, 

the reader, aware of this site as well. They have cool vids of nice little musicians playing in the back of a black cab. Creative, no? 

I particularly enjoyed the Death Cab one as well as the violinist, Charlie Siem. Enjoy!

Oh, & tomorrow, after I take the dreaded SAT's, I shall be attending Vampire Weekend! I'll be write lots about it & depending on how 

close I get to the stage, you'll get pictures too.

Golden slumbers fill your eyes

What we knew all along, but Pfork tells us anyways: Weezer's Red Album was a step below Maladroit, granted, a lot better than Make Believe, and nowhere near the genius of Blue or Pinkerton. Sadly enough, here's the review.

Something that generates a little more excitement and a more welcoming ear, is the new Ladytron album, Velocifero. Here's a tantalizing morsel of what Pfork had to say:

...Mira Aroyo, relatively scarce on Witching Hour, has more opportunities to showcase her icy, sharp, often-foreboding voice, singing in her native Bulgarian with a sinister deadpan on "Black Cat" and a sleek, mellifluous energy on traditional folk song "Kletva"; in English her raspy purr turns the circa-1990 techno-pop of "Deep Blue" into a seething come-on.

Click for full read.

Here's something about Coldplay if you wanna read. Sgum is the source. For some reason peepz are calling it a rip off of Arcade Fire? I don't hear it at all. It's too poppy/mainstream to be anything like Arcade Fire. 

I fly like paper get high like planes

I know I didn't post a new muxtape on Sunday. MY B. With AP exams this week, I'm super busy but one will be up on this Sunday, pinky promise. 

Sigur Ros tantalizes us with mysterious incoherent bits of videos for their new album. Look hurrrr. Visit Pfork for their expanded tour dates.

After we've all had a little taste of "Pork and Beans" Weezer has decided that us, fans, need a bigger bite. They've decided to move up the release date for the Red Album. Yarrr. (News via Pfork)

Reviews are up for Death Cab's Narrow Stairs & Nine Inch Nails' The Slip. 

Also, listen to the new Cure single. It's pretty magical! Click to experience. My bruhhh is excited to see them in June. He acquired 5th row seats. I know not how. 

I'm alot like you so please, hello I'm here

If you head over to weezer.com, you can see they've revamped the website to make it match the "red" theme of their new album. Also you can stream the full length version of a new song, Pork & Beans. I don't know what to think. It's definitely not Pinkerton material but it's hands down better than Beverly Hills. The riffing sounds familiar, more like a mix of Maladroit & Green with the comical, slightly "self-deprecating" (as Stereogum described it) lyrics reminiscent of Blue Album: "Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the chart/ maybe if i work with him I can perfect the art I'ma do the things I wanna do I ain't got a thing to prove to you." We'll see though.

Speaking of new songs, Franz Ferdinand has been under the radar for a while until now! They have emerged from a basement it seems, tantalizing us with a small taste, rather a lick, of one of their new songs. News/video from Stereogum:

I rooted around Google & found these two interviews at Billboard.com & The Tripwire where Alex Kapranos describes the album as "the opposite of punk/pop" & also how Paul Thompson was listening to a lot of African stuff which would come through as well. 

I must say, I am thoroughly excited!

Also, I seriously recommend listening to Seabear. Their song, I Sing I Swim, kinda reminds me of Belle & Sebastian. They just have that overall Sufjan Stevens/Islands quality. I mentioned them in this Sunday Selections, a while back. 

Broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats

Cue the jealousy. My supa cool brother just got me an Atlas Sound poster as well as a Los Campesinos one! Granted I have to get into the Atlas Sound, but it's two more for the growing collection on my walls.

Yeah, basically. 

So the rumors are true. Weezer has confirmed that their new album will be, for the third time, a self-titled album. This time though, it'll be red. Don't believe me? I don't want to either but Pitchfork never lies. 

Speaking of Pitchfork, on Monday the website will open up Pitchfork.tv. The site will offer music videos & interviews. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited. Read up on all that jazz here. 

ZOMG alert! The 2008 Lollzapalooza lineup has been confirmed! Well at least part of it. If you're lucky enough to be able to attend, check out Stereogum for the lineup. You can check it out even if you're not going to just make yourself hate life even more. Bloc Party? Radiohead? Nine Inch Nails? Kanye West? Wilco?? BBL, crying. Not to mention, reading more of Stereogum just gave me another reason to cry. Apparently Entertainment Weekly just described Phantom Planet as "...such excellent Arcade Fire-style anthem builders." What do you think? Take a listen at EW.com & tell me you too, think the writer/listener was on drugs. 

Postscript: Almost Famous is a really good movie. I can add it to my list of inspirations.

Sidekick rings, whats up holla!

Have you heard the new Death Cab For Cutie song? If not, give it a listen here. Um.. I'm not sure what to say about it yet, except that it's long. Reallyyy long. As long as 3 normal Death Cab songs would usually be. Personally, I think lyrics are Gibbard's strong point, but they don't start until almost 5 minutes into the song. Yeah. Not to mention, I wish Ben Gibbard would play around with The Postal Service instead. But okay, whatevs, I am open to new things.

Wait. I take that back. I am open to new things EXCEPT for the new possibility that Weezer is naming their new album: Weezer, The Red Album. No. Just no. April Fool's Day joke maybe? (via Pitchfork)

Also via the ever reliable Pitchfork, new Wolf Parade album June 17! Yayayay. It's called Kissing The Beehive. I can't wait. Buy me a cool shirt? 

For some more musical joy, watch the new Los Campesinos video. I lurveee them. (via Stereogum) 

Fall in love all over again

For her 17th birthday I think it was, my friend Meg (who is my soulmate by the way) & I  saw Weezer & Foo Fighters. It was basically like a religious experience for us, mainly & more so for her. So much so, that even while I was a hardcore Blue Album & Pinkerton fan, as the quality of Weezer albums downgraded, Meg still stayed firm in her belief of Rivers Cuomo. So this post is for her!

Lover In The Snow

I am not getting my hopes up for another Pinkerton, but hopefully his solo album will be better than Make Believe?