The Black Lips are gearing up for the release of their brand new album, 200 Million Thousand. In keeping with the numerically-massive album title, the band doesn't want ONE video for the first single, 'Starting Over,' they want 200 Million Thousand. And they want you to make them.
The contest will run until the 200 Million Thousandth video has been submitted. Or until February 15th. Whichever comes first. So get started. Submissions can be uploaded to vimeo.com beginning January 12th, 2009.
Spin & Adidas Originals present Chromeo live at the Key Club in Los Angeles on January 22, 2009. On December 16th a limited number of tickets will go on sale. The pre-sale only last 48 hours so get your tickets here while you can:
Pitchfork's own Pitchfork.tv will screen Electroma for one night and one night only this very weekend. It's just like their usual "One Week Only" feature, except, you know, for a night. The "odyssey" begins tomorrow (Friday) at 8 p.m. EST and concludes precisely 24 hours later, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, which should provide ample time for approximately 19 successive viewings of the 74-minute film.
If you can't make the screening, make sure to pick up a copy of the DVD here.
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music
Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn
for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it
rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music
Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn
for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it
rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
The Raveonettes cap a successful 2008 today with the release of Wishing You A Rave Christmas,
the final installment in the band's digital-only EP series. The initial
installment was loaded with remixes courtesy of Trentemoller, Nic Endo
and 80KIDZ and we offered it up to you for free! The Raveonettes
followed that up with Sometimes They Drop By and Beauty Dies.
Stream Wishing You A Rave Christmas on AOL Spinner. Click here.
TOURDATES: January 2009 15 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club tickets 16 New York, NY @ Webster Hall tickets 17 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
tickets 23 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club tickets 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater tickets
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
October 30 Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre - w/ White Lies FREE November 1 San Francisco, CA @The Rickshaw Stop – w/ White Lies tickets 3 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's - w/ Electric Six tickets 4 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan – w/ Electric Six tickets 7 Sacramento, CA @ The Blue Lamp tickets 8 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar tickets 14 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre – w/ Mudhoney tickets 15 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah – w/ Mudhoney
tickets
This week Japanese Motors's Alex Knost lands in MTV's Hot Seat . Check it out here and see why he's interested in studying underwater basket weaving, among other things.
Do you like Chromeo? Have you heard their song Momma's Boy? Would you like the
opportunity to a) show Chromeo how badass you are and b) take home some
rad Chromeo swag?
Japanese Motors' new album Japanese Motors hits stores next week, but
you can get the party started a little early, by checking out the
entire album, right now, with The Leak on mtvU.
Vice Quebec is turning one and as an anniversary gift RVCA is sponsoring a party tomorrow and you are invited. Dark Meat, Quatro, Devil Eyes, and Amanita Bloom are going to be there. What an intoxicating line up! Plus, not only is our party free with RSVP but there's also going to be free stuff there. We can't tell you what kind of free stuff is going to be there, but it's the kind of free stuff that lubricates social situations and might make you late for work the next day.
VICE QUEBEC ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT POP MONTREAL
Presented by RVCA
Dark Meat (17 piece psychedelic punk free jazz band on VICE Records) Quatro (mems of Les Geoerges Leningrad, Duchess Says) Devil Eyes and Amanita Bloom
Chromeo have been nominated for the Left Field Woodie at this years mtvU Woodie Awards. Click here to vote for their amazing Momma´s Boy video. Check out the video below if you haven't already, and if you have, check it out again. Vote as many times as you like and watch for the results when the Woodie's air November 12th.
Dark Meat is touring USA and CANADA right now. Check out the mp3 of the song Three Eyes Open from Universal Indians, and make sure you check them out live. Dark Meat is also playing the VICE Quebec One Year Anniversary party at POP Montreal on October 1st. Entry is FREE if you RSVP: http://www.viceland.com/qc/events.php
TOURDATES:
September
22 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge
23 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry tickets
24 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter Sessions
24 Rock Island, IL @ Huckleberry's
25 Toronto, ON @ The Drake
26 London, ON @ Call The Office 27 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
28 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl tickets
30 Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox October 1 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi FREE 2 Portland, ME @ Space Gallery
3 New York, NY @ Rocks Off tickets
4 Brooklyn, NY @ Schmarket Schmotel
29 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre tickets
30 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree tickets 31 New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar
First two dates (and Detour Festival) also with Japanese Motors.
BLACK LIPS CALIFORNIA DATES: 10/2 Solana Beach, CA @ The Belly-Up Tavern – w/ Japanese Motors tickets
10/3 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar – w/Japanese Motors tickets
10/4 Los Angeles, CA @ Detour Festival tickets
10/6 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall KALX PRESENTS tickets
10/7 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall KALX PRESENTS tickets 10/8 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse tickets
Check out this live clip. This is not something you want to miss!
Stop Smiling did a great article on Electroma with an amazing video from the cover shoot. Check out the video below and read the article by clicking on the cover image.
King Khan and the Shrines brought their soulful antics to the Rhythm Room in Phoenix this summer and filled the house on a hot Tuesday night, emptying beers on eager show-goers.
Following the success of this year's critically adored album Lust Lust Lust, Danish noir-rock duo The Raveonettes today announce plans to release a series of digital only EPs. Following today's remix EP will be Sometimes They Drop By on September 23. Two more EPs will follow on October 21 and November 25.
Today's free Remixed EP centers around three standout tracks from Lust Lust Lust, presented in radically different new versions. Hypnotic Japanese electro producer 80KIDZ, Alec Empire-conspirator Nic Endo, and Danish DJ superstar Trentemøller reconstruct these now familiar songs into new shapes.
Tracklisting for today's three song free remix EP: 1. Dead Sound (80KIDZ remix) 2. Aly, Walk With Me (Nic Endo remix) 3. Lust (Trentemøller Remix)
At Lollapalooza, Jared from the Black Lips drops by Roxwel.com and talks about touring,
getting free swag and tattoos. He also talks about the strippers in their latest music video
"It Feels Alright".
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED OUT OCTOBER 7 ON VICE RECORDS
Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, will be delivering his fourth album, everything is borrowed October 7th on Vice Records. Never one to take the same approach twice, Skinner is contemplating the impermanent nature of life this time around. Skinner has made a record to console the lonely and bring a smile to the saddest visage. Applying his homespun hip-hop sensibility to real instruments, Mike comes up with sing-a-long musings on such unconventional subjects as religion ("Alleged Legends"), evolution ("The Way of the Dodo"), biological destiny ("On the Edge of a Cliff"), and male friendship ("The Sherry End"). From the first time people heard The Streets' Mercury Prize-nominated debut Original Pirate Material, they couldn't make their minds up whether the person making this music was black or white, from London or the Midlands, serious or a joker. Having given the world plenty of time to get acclimated, Skinner now rediscovers his old irrepressible buoyancy and takes his trademark stop-start lyrical flow to entirely new places. Watch "The Escapist" video and receive a free download of the track:
"British MC Mike Skinner is a pale-faced poet laureate the geezer is so real it hurts." - SPIN
"Mike Skinner is to hazy slacker downtime what Hunter S Thompson is to Americana: a shrewd chronicler, a dizzying blurrer of creative forms." - INTERVIEW
"It's important to note that Mike Skinner (aka the Streets) is pop music's rarest commodity: a singular talentŠimplausibly imaginative." - ESQUIRE
"Skinner's ear for language and detail is vivid and hilarious. Call it Zen Hooliganism - ROLLING STONE Skinner, though, is life's real deal, an artists who knows that, if rendered honestly, even mundane experiences can produce the most powerful music." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Dark Meat just announced a North American jaunt starting September 17 in Chattanooga.
The tour is in support of the Universal Indians release from earlier this year, and it ends on October 31 in the
perfect city for a Halloween show: New Orleans. They're also playing with Vivian Girls on a boat in New York City on October 4.
DARK MEAT September 17 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia 18 Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club tickets 19 Peoria, IL @ The Red Barn 20 St. Louis, MO @ Billiken Club FREE 21 Chicago, IL @ Hideout Block Party, 4:45 pm tickets 22 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge 23 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry tickets 24 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter Sessions 24 Rock Island, IL @ Huckleberry's 25 Toronto, ON @ The Drake 26 London, ON @ Call The Office 27 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah 28 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl tickets 30 Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox October 1 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi FREE 2 Portland, ME @ Space238 3 New York, NY @ Rocks Off tickets 4 Brooklyn, NY @ Schmarket Schmotel 29 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre tickets 30 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree tickets 31 New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar
The episode with Chromeo on
“Live From Daryl’s House,” the online music show masterminded by Hall
& Oates frontman Daryl Hall, has just premiered. Their set include the Hall
& Oates songs “Family Man” and “Adult Education” and a pair of
Chromeo songs: “Tenderoni” and “Waiting 4 U.” . “We’ll be pinching ourselves for years
to come,” Chromeo guitarist/singer Dave 1 said of the experience.
“Given that he pretty much wrote half our songs, it was about time we
met Daryl Hall in real life." Check out the entire episode here.
MySpace, the world’s premier social network, today announced a series of East Coast headlining tour dates featuring Chromeo the two-stepping Montreal/New York-based duo.
After playing every major North American festival this summer to rave reviews (including Coachella, Pemberton, Lollapalooza, All Points West, and Virgin Mobile), selling out a string of high profile headlining shows on the West Coast, Chromeo have set their sights on the East Coast to further their world conquest of love, funk, and vocoder. Presented by MySpace Music, the tour begins October 1st in Boston, MA and finishes October 4th in Washington, DC.
Myspace Music Presents:
October
1 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club tickets
2 New York, NY @ Webster Hall tickets
3 Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero Theater tickets
4 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club tickets
VICE and DELL put together a cool summer mixtape as part of the Dell Summer Rocks tour. You can download a mix of VICE tracks and tracks by bands we love like Neurosis, Howlin Rain, Annihilation Time, Boris, High On Fire, Jay Reatard, Panda Bear, Thurston Moore, and more here.
It was a heady time for America; the economy was doing something, the kids were jamming to some new band or another, and the popularity of bum bums continued to soar unabated.
In the midst of this turmoil, god-like Japanese musical experimenters the Boredoms embarked on a project of unprecedented scale: 77 drummers playing for 77 minutes starting at 7 PM on 7/7/07, accompanied solely by EYE on a custom-built guitar gong and the sound of 8,000+ eyeballs not blinking.
The world's most numerologically significant all-drum concert, a ten part documentary with new episode every day this week. Part 1 - 4 are now live.
And speaking of rare Boredoms action, if you find yourself in Brooklyn stop by the this-month-only VICE Gallery and check out 2008 Photo Show:
The 2008 Vice Magazine Photo Show, 8/1 - 8/31
VICE Gallery
99 N 10th St, between Berry and Wythe
Hours: Tue-Fri 3-7pm, Sat 12-6pm (Closed Sundays and Mondays) Flyer
We say so 'cause we'll have the entire Boredoms' Super Roots catalogue for 25% off, as well as other VICE goods, available for sale at the Gallery.
King Khan and The Shrines really knows how to put on a good show. Check out these great performances from the Daily Habit on Fuel TV. FIRECRACKERS! No Regrets:
King Khan stopped by Studio Q at CBC to talk about how he used to listen to Indian music in the womb and how he now (to kill time while touring) makes collages of Syd Barret with the body of a naked lady. Check it out here.
Also head over to Pitchfork and read another King Khan interview and watch a video.
Black Lips, Deerhunter and King Khan and The Shrines are also the bestest friends. Check out a clip Khan did for MTV Newsroom below and see photos from the McCarren Park Pool Show at brooklynvegan.com (more photos of the pool show here).
Know what? You can actually help nominate Chromeo, The Raveonettes and Black Lips for the MTV Music Awards.
It is possible to vote for Chromeo "Fancy Footwork" and Raveonettes "Dead Sounds" as best dancing in video.
You can also vote for Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin" and Black Lips "Veni, Vidi, Vici" as best new artist.
Japanese Motors are the most exciting band to emerge from Orange County since the heyday of Social Distortion and TSOL. Hailing from Costa Mesa and comprised of RVCA pro-surfer and singer Alex Knost, guitarist Nolan Hall, bassist Chris Vail, and drummer Andrew Atkinson, the band is known around Southern California for the insane, all-night blowouts they put on as much as for the driving, raucous garage pop they set the partying to.
Rather than fight the influence of their surroundings like so many of their So Cal contemporaries, Japanese Motors have channeled it into their music, making tunes every bit as sun-baked and laid-back as their coastal environs and rife with positive imagery. "Most bands from here are trying to sound like they're from London or New York," Nolan says. "We embrace where we're from." In return for their local pride, the Southern Californian surf community has embraced them right back. Japanese Motors are part of RVCA's Artist Network Program and fellow surfers Emmett and Brendan Malloy (who made three White Stripes videos) directed the video for the band's first single "Single Fins & Safety Pins."
On August 19th, Vice Records will release this single, "Single Fins & Safety Pins," which contains the album version and a radio edit of the song, as well as b-side "Coors Lite," another track from their upcoming self-titled full length debut, due in October 2008. Japanese Motors hit the road in August, starting off in NYC, winding their way down the East Coast before heading back home to play with the Black Lips and at LA's Detour Fest (see full list of dates below).
The Black Lips announce new tour dates, playing Lollapalooza (tomorrow), Free show at McCarren Park Pool (Aug 3), Detour Fest and many more:
BLACK LIPS
August 1 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza tickets 1 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle tickets 3 Brooklyn, NY @ MacCarren Park Pool FREE SHOW 2PM October 2 Solana Beach, CA @ The Belly-Up Tavern tickets 3 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar tickets 4 Los Angeles, CA @ Detour Fest tickets 6 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall tickets 7 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall tickets 8 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse tickets November 3 Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm 8 Mexico City, Mexico @ Alameda Poniente, Santa Fe 15 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
Watch King Khan perform Welfare Bread on this years Pitchfork Music Festival:
And last, but not least: King Khan makes a grand entrance during his raucous and crowded in-store performance at Sonic Boom in Toronto. This is a must see. Click here.
The Black Lips are gearing up for the release of their brand new album, 200 Million Thousand. In keeping with the numerically-massive album title, the band doesn't want ONE video for the first single, 'Starting Over,' they want 200 Million Thousand. And they want you to make them.
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