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We've been very excited about news of the new Belle & Sebastian 2015 album for a while now, but the band recently made things official: It is called Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance
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BELLE & SEBASTIAN
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We've seen these type of crowd-source music videos before, the latest is from Scottish band Belle & Sebastian for the "Nobody's Empire" video. I've criticized a few bands for doing this, mainly because I feel it's a cheap of them (I know the band can afford to produce a music video). But hey, who am I to say, as long as fans love doing this for their favorite bands... Full details of this at
belleandsebastian.com.
They need the video clips by no later than Thursday 27th November so that we have time to edit them into the video.
Tour dates:
01/26/15 Auckland Laneway Festival, New Zealand
01/29/15 Sydney, Enmore Theatre
01/31/15 Australia, Taronga Zoo, Sydney
02/01/15 Melbourne, Palais Theatre
02/03/15 Australia, Perth, Astor Theatre,
02/10/15 Hong Kong, Asia World Arena
02/12/15 S.Korea, Seoul, AX Club
02/16/15 Hostess Club Taipei, Legacy, Taipei
02/21/15 Japan, Tokyo, Hostess Club
03/30/15 USA, Cambridge, House of Blues
04/01/15 Canada, Toronto, Massey Hall
04/02/15 USA, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak
04/03/15 USA, Riviera, Chicago
05/03/15 UK, Cardiff, St David’s Hall
05/04/15 UK, Bristol, Colston Hall
05/07/15 UK, Cambridge, Corn Exchange
05/08/15 UK, Norwich, Open
05/10/15 UK, Birmingham, Symphony Hall
05/11/15 UK, Westminster, Central Hall
05/12/15 UK, Westminster, Central Hall
05/14/15 UK, Manchester, Albert Hall
05/15/15 UK, Manchester, Albert Hall
05/16/15 UK, Newcastle City Hall
05/18/15 UK, Buxton, Opera House
05/19/15 UK, Leeds, Town Hall
05/22/15 Glasgow Hydro Arena
05/24/15 UK, Sound City, Liverpool
06/10/15 New York, Radio City Music Hall
07/02/15 KEFLAVIK, ATP Iceland
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She & Him
She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) just released a new EP called The Capitol Studios Session. The digital-only release features new version of four songs taken from their latest Volume 3 album.
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SHE & HIM
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She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) have a new cover lover album Classics this December 3rd, on Columbia Records.
The entire album was recorded live and and accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra.
Track Listing
1. Stars Fell on Alabama
2. Oh No, Not My Baby
3. It’s Not for Me to Say
4. Stay Awhile
5. This Girl’s In Love With You
6. Time After Time
7. She
8. Teach Me Tonight
9. It’s Always You
10. Unchained Melody
11. I’ll Never Be Free
12. Would You Like to Take a Walk
13. We’ll Meet Again
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Gardens & Villa
Gardens & Villa are back with Dunes, their second LP, which came out two weeks ago on Secretly Canadian.
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GARDENS & VILLA
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Gardens & Villa recently shared a remix from multi-platinum, Grammy nominated producer N.O. Joe of "Domino" off of Gardens & Villa's Dunes, released earlier this year on Secretly Canadian.
N.O. Joe (I believe the "N.O." stands for New Orleans, because he is based out of Louisiana) has worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Lil Wayne,
and is a multi-platinum Grammy Nominated producer.
The secret origin of this collaboration about when G&V randomly met with N.O. Joe at SXSW 2014 at a late-night tacos eatery. The two became friends and out of this, the remix of "Domino".
Hear it now:
Gardens & Villa will cap off their year with a headlining show at The Echoplex in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 13.
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Yoko Ono
Smith speaks on the phone with John & Yoko, who are in their suite at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal for the second of their two Bed-Ins. Among other things, they discuss selling Peace as a commodity, the Activist
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The Flaming Lips
I think this was my first time seeing The Flaming Lips, but I could be wrong. Seems odd that this was "a very special Early Evening performance", since the band's psychedelic/space rock seems to work better at night
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Jessica Hernandez
Jessica Hernandez is a first-generation American, living in Detroit, Michigan. She lists her influences are Gogol Bordello and Tom Waits, both bands that we like on W♥M.
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YOKO ONO & THE FLAMING LIPS
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I know it's only November, but Christmas time is almost here.
Yoko Ono & The Flaming Lips have teamed up to record "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" for
All Is Bright - The Exclusive Amazon Holiday Playlist.
The playlist features over 40 songs by artists such as the other ampersand artist Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Ashley Monroe, Brandi Carlile, Liz Phair, Jessie Baylin, Lucinda Williams, PHOX and many more
All Is Bright is an exclusive newly-recorded holiday songs available for listening on Amazon's Prime Music service. This is the first-ever exclusive holiday playlist from Amazon is available for unlimited ad-free listening on Prime Music for Amazon Prime members at no additional cost to their membership. If you want to own the album, they are not sold as an album, instead they are variously priced (mostly $0.99 each). It can end up costing you over $30, so the value isn't quite there if you want to own it.
Newly-written holiday songs for All Is Bright:
Anna Nalick — “Till the End of the Year (Bye Buy By)”
Blondfire — “Christmas Lights”
Emi Meyer — “Everything this Christmas”
Jenn Bostic — “Light a Candle For You”
Julian Moon — “Best Christmas Ever”
Liz Phair — “Ho Ho Ho”
Ruby the RabbitFoot — “Under Any Limb”
Selena Garcia — “Hold-up Holidays”
Never heard before renditions of holiday classics for All Is Bright:
Amanda Palmer — “The Angel Gabriel”
Ashley Monroe — “Tennessee Christmas”
Beth Orton — “River”
Brandi Carlile — “O Holy Night”
Elastic Bond — “Winder Wonderland”
Escort — “Last Christmas”
Heartless Bastards — “White Christmas”
Hero Fisher — “Pretty Paper”
Houndmouth — “Blue Christmas”
Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas — “I Want a Hippopotamus...”
Jessie Baylin — “Purple Snowflakes”
Jillian Edwards — “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
Kat Parsons — “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Kate Davis feat. Gabe Schnider — “Greensleeves”
Kelly Hogan — “Blue Snowfall”
Ladyhawke — “Merry Xmas Everyone”
Laura Gibson — “A Wonderful Christmastime”
Lauren Shera — “(It’s Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas”
Little & Ashley — “Someday at Christmas”
Lucinda Williams — “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Mia Doi Todd — “The Cherry Tree Carol”
Natalia Clavier — “My Favorite Things”
Natalia Zukerman — “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”
No Sinner — “Baby Please Come Home”
PHOX — “The Christmas Song”
Ruby Jane Smith — “Make a Wish”
Ruthie Foster — “Amazing Grace”
Shaprece — “Carol of the Bells”
Shelby Earl — “We Three Kings”
Sinclair — “The Christmas”
Tal Wilkenfeld — “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
The Rosebuds — “Let it Snow”
This Is The Kit — “It’s Christmas Time”
Yoko Ono & Flaming Lips — “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”
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Sonny & the Sunsets
I Need You Bad is a compilation curated by Sonny Smith (of Sonny & the Sunsets) documenting the current garage rock scene in the Bay area and beyond (not every band included here is from the Bay area & it's not 100% garage rock!).
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SONNY & THE SUNSETS
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San Francisco's Sonny & the Sunsets is back with Talent Night at the Ashram, set for February 17, 2015, on Polyvinyl Records.
You may remember that we reviewed Sonny & the Sunset's compilation/curated album I Need You Bad, which wrote was, mostly from California's "60's surf".
Talent Night at the Ashram will be available in all the usual formats (CD, digital, cassette, and vinyl).
The 180g Vinyl will be limited edition of 500 exclusive to the Polyvinyl webstore on light blue (preorder now to guarantee a copy polyvinylrecords.com). There will also be an unlimited version on red vinyl.
Track List:
1. The Application
2. Cheap Extensions
3. The Secluded Estate
4. Talent Night at the Ashram
5. Alice Leaves for the Mountains
6. Happy Carrot Health Food Store
7. Blot Out the Sun
8. Baby Jokin
9. Icelene's Loss
10. Secret Plot
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Cracker
Upcoming December Shows
12/01/14 Allah-Las and Tashaki Miyaki at Turf Club
12/04/14 Cracker at Varsity Theater
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HUGH BOB & THE HUSTLE
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I believe Wisconsin's Hugh Bob & The Hustle (headed by 'North Country' singer/songwriter Hugh Robert Masterson) will be appearing with Cracker this December 4th at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. If you listened to our new podcast, you can clearly hear us singing to various Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven songs off the top of our heads.
Opening up the Minnesota show will be Hugh Bob & The Hustle, a band that's been compared to all the greats, including Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, etc.
Check out his song "Butternut":
When Masterson play live, he's joined by The Hustle, a band comprising of bassist Nicholas Stuart, keyboardist Bradley Kruse, guitarist Quinn Scharber, and drummer Justin Krol.
Hugh Bob & The Hustle's other show will be at The Frequency in Madison on December 5, 2014.
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Arrica Rose & the ...'s
Arrica Rose & The ... is essentially Arrica Rose, she's backed up by her band The ...'s (The Dots Dots Dots), and I'll bet that her latest album, La La Lost, is in reference to being lost in her residence of Los Angeles.
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ARRICA ROSE & THE ...'
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Remember Arrica Rose & the ...'s (The Dot Dot Dots)? They just released their latest album Wavefunction, out November 4th via pOprOck records.
The album was designed for vinyl, each side featuring a distinct mood. Rose explains, "We think of it as music for different occasions, a choose your own adventure kind of album." (Which incidentally, " Choose Your Own Adventure" one of the key creator R. A. Montgomery passed away November 9th).
Track List:
Song in Your Head
Love You Like That
Tiny Broken Boats
California On Repeat
Oh the Day (Then the Night)
In Dreams
Safety Pin
The Shallow End
Cut It Out
Where You've Been
(Oh the Day) Then the Night
BRIEFLY:
RAZOR & TIE
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Record label Razor & Tie had a breakout year at rock radio in 2014 with hits from The Pretty Reckless ("Heaven Knows" finishes the year as the #1 song at Active and Mainstream Rock), All That Remains and Starset making the label the most successful indie in the format and the second strongest rock label, second only to Warner Brothers.
TOOTH & NAIL
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Record label Tooth & Nail announced a new album from Copeland (who we saw in 2009) called Ixora.... his first album in six years.
Also, they recently also signed Long Beach's Hearts Like Lions.
MILK & BONE
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Montreal's Milk & Bone recently signed with Bonsound with a single and music video called "New York".
The electro-pop duo (Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne) will be releasing their debut album early spring 2015.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
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One of the most ridiculous band names, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are wrapping up their UK tour in support of their latest LP I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (released November 11th on Castle Face in the US and Heavenly in the UK).
Remaining tour dates: Bodega Social Club, Nottingham (11/26) and Rough Trade East, London (12/01).
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