More TeenBeat re-issues

Our Teenbeat Originals® series resumes with two classics from the Teenbeat vaults:


UNREST | 'Lisa Carol Freemont' | 6
Twenty songs from Mark Robinson, Phil Krauth, and Tim Moran 1985. Includes the best of their improv-ed 'rehearsal tapes' and also their first studio session from which the songs for their debut 7" was culled. Remastered from the original cassette master.

track listing:
Happy Song ; The Hill ; Judy Says, part two ; Rigormortis ; Time ; Cats ; Laughter ; Holiday in Berlin, part two ; I've Come For Your Daughters ; Teenbeat Part 65 ; Happy Birthday ; Iwo Jima ; Sweet Home Alaska ; Usually on Fridays a Hamburger ; Fly to France ; Los Desasodiego ; Real Enemy ; Four Foot High Stone Wall ; Do it Now ; Frutti Column


CLARENCE | 5
Clarence is Phil Krauth from Unrest. He is joined by Mark 'Wolfgang' Robinson. These instrumental duets are precious home recordings done at their parents houses back in 1985. Remastered from the original cassette master.

track listing:
- (instrumental) ; New York ; Flowers ; -- (instrumental) ; Sequence 5 ; --- (instrumental) ; Another One ; Sentimental Bummer ; On Campus Housing ; Heroin ; Thoughts and Words ; ---- (instrumental) ; 16th Flamacue ; Xerox Twenty-Second ; Equinox ; The New Age (theme) ; Venetian Blinds ; Judy's Theme ; Opaque Windows ; Cardiod Elixsor ; ----- (instrumental) ; ------ (instrumental) ; Ballroom Variations ; Immediate Curtain ; ------- (instrumental)


All of our ORIGINALS CDs are recorded onto Teenbeat Archival quality CDRs and packaged with the original cassette covers into our deluxe six-panel custom Originals digipaks. They are also remastered with care.

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Mark Kozelek - White Christmas & Little Drummer Boy Live

"Vinyl Films Records and Caldo Verde Records are proud to announce the vinyl debut of Mark Kozelek’s two limited edition live albums, White Christmas Live and Little Drummer Boy Live. The former, released in 2001 in a limited pressing of 5000 CDs, contains such Red House Painters classics as “Things Mean A Lot” and “Cruiser” along with AC/DC covers “What’s Next To The Moon” and “Up To My Neck In You.” Little Drummer Boy Live, released in 2006, marries such Sun Kil Moon greats as “Salvador Sanchez” and “Carry Me Ohio” with Modest Mouse covers “Tiny Cities” and “Trucker’s Atlas,” as well as the previously unreleased “Moorestown” and “Unlit Hallway.” Both releases are now compiled in one 4-LP boxed set, with the box including the vinyl-only bonus track “Have You Forgotten.” White Christmas Live has been long out of print on CD, and Little Drummer Boy Live is rapidly on its way as well. Now, you can have both in this impressive vinyl box set! The release will be limited to 1000 copies on black vinyl. An ultra-limited tour/internet-only pressing of 300 copies on white vinyl will also be available, exclusively at auralexploits.com and at Mark Kozelek live shows this fall."

Beirut live in Paris

On 10th September, the guys from La Blogothèque recorded a Concert à emporter ("take away show") with Beirut in Paris.

#64.1 - Beirut - Nantes

#64.2 - Beirut - The Penalty

Dailymotion also hosts all videos self-recorded in Brooklyn for The Flying Club Cup microsite plus video profiles of the band members. [view]

Celebration's Campfire Songs and Tour Dates

Here is the first in a series of "Campfire Songs", a series of promo videos that Celebration will release in advance of their new album, The Modern Tribe due out Oct. 9th. The song is a stripped-down version of album standout "Tame the Savage" filmed in the woods around a virtual campfire, starring a little deer and Katrina Ford's inimitable voice:




September
20 - Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
21 - Floristree, Baltimore, MD

October
02 - Webster Hall, New York, NY (with Man Man)
16 - Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY (CMJ)
24 - The Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC
25 - Duke University Coffeehouse, Durham, NC
26 - The Map Room, Charleston, SC
27 - Taste, Orlando, FL
29 - The Earl, Atlanta, GA
30 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA (with Black Angels)
31 - The Bottletree, Birmingham, AL

November
02 - Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge, LA
03 - Rubber Gloves, Denton, TX
04 - Fun Fun Fun Festival, Austin, TX
07 - Casa Blanca Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
09 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
11 - The Independent, San Francisco, CA
12 - Rotture, Portland, OR (with The Get Hustle)
13 - Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA
14 - Plaza Club, Vancouver
16 - Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
17 - Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
19 - Slowdown Jr., Omaha, NE
20 - Aquarium, Fargo, MN
21 - 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN
23 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
24 - Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN

Minotaur Shock News

Record
"so last weeeek i put a lid on the can that is the next Minotaur Shock album. it feels a bit like finally handing in a bit of coursework or something, its kind of nice knowing that you can't do any more fiddling and editing and business. i'm pleased with it, it sounds almost like i meant it to. i guess now we have to wait and see what happens with it.
the record wouldn't have been possible without the talent of real musicians Emily, James and Anna-Lynne, to which i am supergrateful. but hey, the C90 is still warm, so lets not get ahead of ourselves here. anyhow, had to tell someone, so thanks for checking in."

(from David's MySpace)

And on an absolutely unrelated note: Principal Participant now has an official website.

The Mountain Goats

"So, OK, yeah, technically speaking you oughta hear about new tour dates here first, but we've been busy. The new album has been recorded and we're hoping for an early '08 release. The big news from where I stand is that this album will be the first Mountain Goats record since 1996 to feature members of the Bright Mountain Choir: Rachel and Sarah came up from L.A. to San Francisco and put down backing vocals on three songs, all of which ("New Zion," "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature," and "Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident") have made the final sequence. I have tried several times to write a sentence that would convey just how wonderful it was to make music with the Choir again, but if such a sentence is out there in the ether anywhere, I haven't been able to find it. I resort again to native Californianisms. It was completely rad." [more]

There is also an article in the Washington Post's Express in which John is interviewed about the new album.

Blonde Redhead on KEXP

KEXP have finally archived the Blonde Redhead session that was recorded on April 21, during their headline spring US tour. [more]

Tracks:
23 ; Dr Strangeluv ; (We Are A Real Team) Harry And I

Emma Pollock in The Scotsman

"Years earlier, the folks at veteran indie label 4AD had floated the idea of a Pollock solo album. 'I thought that was a lovely thing to say but I write songs for a band', she says. Now the conversation resurfaced, and the offer remained. 'I didn't want to do it on Chemikal Underground, to tell the truth', she says, addressing the obvious question. 'It just felt too close, everything that had happened was still too recent. I didn't want to turn round to my ex-bandmates and ask them to put out my record'." [more]

The Return of Black Francis

The Pixies' iconic lead singer Frank Black dons his decades-old moniker - Black Francis - and, imbued by the spirit of eccentric Dutch painter/musician Herman Brood, recorded a brand new set of 11 songs, collectively titled Bluefinger.

"I privately went back to the old stage name, if that even makes any sense, almost as a joke, explains Black Francis. "I couldn’t get The Pixies back into a studio, but I would transform into my alter ego of yesteryear. I spoke the magic syllables aloud and nothing happened; just as I thought. Soon after, my new manager asked me for a bonus track for a “best of” compilation to be released later in the year. And as I prepared for the session, I became (honestly) gripped by the spirit of Herman Brood, and my bonus track expanded into an 11 song record called BLUEFINGER in just a few days. Thank you Herman. You were at the distant edge of my vision for years when suddenly I was under your influence like a cloud of opium, like the scent of the house of the rising sun. Bliss. Bliss. Bliss. I had spoken the magical name and nothing had happened, but I was impatient, and like so many people, I thought the magic would reveal itself in an instant, as depicted in films. Magic is more subtle. And Herman Brood did turn me back into BLACK FRANCIS. Funny how things work out. You just never know." [more]

SamadhiSound News

Steve Jansen "Slope"

Tension underlies the crisp rhythms and intricate programming, while a collection of distinctive vocalists draw out the sentiment in his songwriting. As Jansen explains, "with this album I approached composition attempting to avoid chord and song structures and the usual familiar building blocks. instead I wanted to piece together unrelated sounds, music samples, rhythms and 'events' in an attempt to deviate from my own trappings as a musician."

The album features guest contributions from Tim Elsenburg, Thomas Feiner, Anja Garbarek, Nina Kinert, David Sylvian, Theo Travis and Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman). Presented as ever in a beautiful digipak with design by Chris Bigg.

Released 22nd October. [more]


The World is Everything Tour Brochure

This limited edition brochure which accompanies The World is Everything tour features a selection of photographs by David, many of which can be found elsewhere on this website, plus a sampler CD of material from the SamadhiSound label including a track from Steve Jansen's 'Slope' and two exclusive tracks by David. Available exclusively at venues during The World Is Everything tour.

The tour site will be updated regularly with confirmed dates and links to online ticket sales. [more]

The Flying Cup Club Photo Album

Beirut have set up a micro site for their forthcoming album, The Flying Cup Club. The site features commentaries and video clips on each song which are added on a song-by-song basis. [more]

Emma Pollock UK radio dates

Emma's (photo by Jenny Lewis) interview and performance from last Friday on 6 Music's Gideon Coe can be streamed for a week; Tom Robinson stood in for Gideon. [listen].

On Saturday, she played 'Acid Test' live on BBC2 with Russell Brand. [more]

Tonight she'll be performing with band on Vic Galloway's show on BBC Radio Scotland. [more]

Plus, she'll be artist in residence on Xfm X-posure next Monday Sep. 17. [more]

The filmmakers formerly known as gusGus

Former gusGus members Stefan Arni and Siggi Kinski (aka Kjartansson) have been building a strong reputation as filmmakers for both commercials and music videos since the demise of the original gusGus collective in 2000. Clients include Sigur Ros, Iggy Pop, Dave Gahan, Travis, Hummer, Mercedes-Benz, Macy's, Budweiser, Dockers, Ikea, among others. [more]

Beirut live at KEXP

For the third time in about a year, Beirut will appear live at Seattle's KEXP 90.3 FM. The broadcast is scheduled for October 3. [schedule]

Listen to previous performances:
[March 16, 2007]
[October 24, 2006]

Michael Brook News

Limited Edition
In the works for 2008: a Special Editon of Cobalt Blue, with remixes and new live material; 'Infinite,' a 'Best of' Michael's ambient work in a continuous mix; and plans for a limited special edition boxed set...

Into The Wild
Sep 21 is the scheduled release date for Paramount Vantage's "Into the Wild" the latest movie for which Michael has composed the score. Directed by Sean Penn, this powerful, moving, and at times harrowing film is based on the #1 bestselling book by Jon Krakauer.

Bellcurve
Michael Brook's new solo album will be available digitally and in stores October 2, 2007. A companion piece to RockPaperScissors, one of Amazon.com's Records of 2006, this reinterpretation by James Hood (Moodswings, Pretenders) will appeal to friends of Air, Zero 7, Pink Floyd and the Buddha Bar series.

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Kristin / Tanya Brattle Ticket Update

Special Live Music Event!
An Evening with Kristin Hersh & Tanya Donelly

Saturday, October 6 at 5:30 and 8:30
The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Two of the leading ladies of Boston music pay a visit to the Brattle stage in a show which is sure to be a highlight of our year. Hersh and Donelly were famously paired in the great Throwing Muses but have since established themselves individually with strong careers. This evening will see both play separate sets and then play a set together!

Tickets are $30 general admission (see link below for all tickets); $75 for a premium ticket to one show; and $100 for a premium ticket to both shows (premium tickets include preferred seating, meet and greet, plus other special goodies to be announced). All tickets will be available here starting at 12:00 Noon on Saturday, September 1. Tickets for this event will only be available online."

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(from the Brattle Theatre page)

The Throwing Muses Cover Story

Coverville, a podcast dedicated to promoting cover versions of songs recently featured the Throwing Muses. [more]

Beirut News

"August 30
Beirut's new record, The Flying Club Cup, will be available in stores October 9th. The record features the whole live band, as well as some notable contributions from Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy and Heather Trost of A Hawk And A Hacksaw. It is very much inspired by the music and culture of France, especially the emotional pull of a musician like Jacques Brel (whom you should really check out if you haven't heard him). We have a few fun surprises in store for the lead up to the album release, so keep vigilant on the internets.

At present, the band is busy rehearsing in Brooklyn for their upcoming shows. In September and October, they will be playing in the US and Canada at some very special venues. They are performing at nice theaters and will be debuting the new songs from The Flying Club Cup at these shows. Expect those, in addition to the "hits." After that, in November, the band will be headed to Europe for a few weeks of shows. Check out the tour section for all upcoming dates."

(from the band's redesigned website)