More Announcements

The full line-up isn't scheduled to be announced until May 29, but news of the MFNW 2013 line-up is leaking faster than word of a military success from the Obama Administration (relax liberals - I'm still a believer). The latest news includes an announcement that Murder By Death will be playing Dante’s on Wednesday, September 4th as part of MFNW.

Then it was revealed that the new band Poolside will be playing the Doug Fir on Saturday September 7th. They're still working on their debut album, but the band apparently includes Filip Nikolic, a Danish producer now living in LA who plays bass in Ima Robot, and Jeffrey Paradise, who throws the infamous Blow Up party in San Francisco and used to be in the hardwave band, The Calculators. 

 

So here's what the schedule looks like so far:

Wednesday, Sept. 4 - Deerhunter at Crystal Ballroom, and Murder By Death at Dantes

Thursday, Sept 5 - Austra (venue TBA)

Friday, Sept. 6 - Superchunk at Crystal Ballroom, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Roseland Theater

Saturday, Sept. 7 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Roseland Theater, and Poolside at The Doug Fir

Broken Social Scene

Even though Broken Social Scene are on "indefinite hiatus," they're still promoting their upcoming appearance at record label Arts & Crafts' upcoming Field Trip anniversary celebration by releasing old videos on Facebook, such as the one above, the lead-in track to 2010's Forgiveness Rock Record.

However, this fan-produced video for Meet Me In the Basement is still my favorite BSS video:

Lovely Night

This made me smile:  SNL's Fred Armisen, Jason Sudekis, and Bill Hader, with (in order of appearance) Carrie Brownstein, Steve Jones, J Mascis,  Kim Gordon, Aimee Mann, and Michael Penn.

Update:  I just noticed that J Mascis is wearing the same Void t-shirt that Stephen McBean of Black Mountain wore at MFNW 2012.

Shit I Missed (continued)

Due to my on-going struggles with bath-salts addiction,  I missed this evening's performance of Terry Riley's seminal composition In C at The Goat Farm.  That record changed my life.

Okay, so I was kidding about the bath-salts addiction. I probably couldn't find bath salts on a map - I don't even know if they're around any more.  I actually missed the concert because I had forgotten the 7:00 pm start time, early by the rock-music standards I'm used to.

I wasn't kidding about the record's impact.  I didn't get a hold of a recording of the 1964 composition until about 1975, but like most people who've heard In C, it changed my whole perception of what music was and what music could be.

YACHT

This was released last February, so it's not exactly new, but I just finally came it across it today.  Pretty cool, so I thought I'd share.

Enjoy.