The Critics Have Spoken - Master List Of Year End Top Ten Lists 2008.

Absentee Victory Shorts (Memphis Industries)
#09 Allmusic Blog Tim's Top Ten Albums of 2008

Akimbo Jersey Shores (Neurot Recrodings)
#15 Bill Gray of the Mae Shi - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Anathallo Canopy Glow (Anticon)
#04 Paste Magazine Andy Whitman's favorite albums of 2008
#05 Yoni Wolf of Why? - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#09 Nomo - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Matt Baldwin Paths of Ignition (American Dust)
#10 East Bay Express Tom Chandler's Top 10 The Best Music of 2008

Boston Spaceships Brown Submarine (Guided By Voices Inc.)
#12 Magnet Magazine Top 25 albums of 2008

The Bug London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
An album of the year in PLAN B "Poison Dart" DJ Magazine top 5 singles
#01 The Wire Magazine Top Albums of 2008
#01 The Quietus' Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 14 to One
#01 "Poison Dart" Dusted Ben Donnelly's favorite songs of 2008
#02 Pop Matters best electronic albums of 2008
#04 Exclaim! Frequencies: Year in Review 2008
#05 Pop Matter best of Britain 2008
#07 "Poison Dart" The Clash Top 40 of 2008
#07 BJ Warshaw of Parts and Labor - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#09 Mojo Magazine The 50 Best Albums of 2008
#10 "Poison Dart" Dusted's Brad LaBonte 10 favorite recordings of 2008
#11 The Observer Music Monthly 50 Albums Of The Year
#12 DJ Magazine top albums of 2008
#12 Mixmag Top 50 albums of 2008
#16 The Fact magazine 20 Best Best: Albums of 2008
#18 "Poison Dart" Amazon Editor Picks: Best Songs of 2008
#19 Guardian UK Albums of the Year
#20 LiffeyMusicEtc Top 25 Albums of 2008
#22 Hip Hop Connection 2008 The Albums
#28 Beats So Fast Favorite Albums 2008
#31 Rough Trade Shop / Drowned In Sound albums of the year
#38 Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2008
#42 "Ganja" Mixmag Best single of year
#62 Boomkat favourite 100 albums for 2008
#80 "Poison Dart" Pitchfork The 100 Best Tracks of 2008

Caïna Temporary Antennae (Profound Lore)
#08 Pop Matters best metal albums of 2008

caUSE co-MOTION: It's Time! (Slumberland)
#08 Crystal Stilts - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#09 Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Miller Carr And The Chalants Passage Through the Wilderness vol. 2 (American Dust)
#01 “Hay” The Totam Blog Songs of the Year 2008

The Chap Fun & Interesting 7” (Lo Recordings)
#53 "Fun And Interesting" The Fact magazine 100 best: tracks of 2008

Coffins Buried Death (20Buck Spin)
#18 Pitchfork/Show No Mercy 20 albums of the year
#40 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08
#43 Guardian UK Albums of the Year

Crystal Stilts Alight The Night (Slumberland)
#04 Bradford Cox or Deerhunter - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#05 "The SinKing" Fucked UP - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#07 Washington City Paper Music 2008: Red Onion Goes To 11
#08 Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#14 “Crystal Stilts” Stereogum 50 most popular MP3s of 0f 2008
#13 Beats So Fast Favorite Albums 2008
#34 17 Dots blog best 88 albums of 2008
#49 Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2008

Damon & Naomi More Sad Hits (20/20/20)
#08 Magnet Best Of 2008: Reissues

Daedelus Love To Make Music To (Ninja Tune)
#05 XLR8R staff's quick 'n' dirty 2008 Top 25
#42 Mixmag Top 50 albums of 2008

Dark Captain / Light Captain Miracle Kicker (Loaf)
#33 Guardian UK Albums of the Year

Davila 666 S/t (In The Red Records)
#01 KCRW Mario Cotto's Top 10 of 2008

The Death Set Worldwide (Counter Records)
#11 Artrocker Top 35 albums of 2008
#78 "Impossible", Etan's Positive Outlook Remix The Fact magazine 100 best: tracks of 2008

Dirtbombs We Have You Surrounded (In The Red)
#81 Amazon Best of 2008: Top 100 Editors' Picks

Eat Skull Sick To Death (Siltbreeze)
#08 Dean Spunt of No Age - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Fern Knight S/t (VHF)
#02 SFGate/ SF Chronicle Ten Best Pop Albums That Were Ranked Too Low or Left off the Critics' Consensus Lists

Fink Distance and Time (Ninja Tune)
#86 Amazon Best of 2008: Top 100 Editors' Picks

The Gates of Slumber Conqueror (Profound Lore)
#05 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08
#10 Broward-Palm Beach New Times Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008
#10 Miami New Times Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008
#10 Phoenix New Times Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008
#10 Saint Louis Riverfront Times Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008
#19 Pop Matters best metal albums of 2008

Gods and Queens Untitled (Robotic Empire)
#19 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Hammers of Misfortune Fields/Church of Broken Glass (Profound Lore)
#01 Mick Barr of Krallice top ten list for Pitchfork
#07 Pitchfork/Show No Mercy 20 albums of the year

HANK IV Refuge In Genre (Siltbreeze)
#01 SF Bay Guardian The Most Intriguing Reader Top 10: Mitch Cardwell
#07 Unblinking Ear blog what was great in 2008
#08 WFMU - Evan Funk Davies Top 28 of 2008
#09 WFMU - Jason Grote, Acousmatic Theatre Hour Top Twenty Records of 2008
#09 KDVS/Art for Spastics RICK ELE's Best of 2008
#10 WFMU - Terre T's, Top 40 Best Faves of 2008

Krallice S/t (Profound Lore)
#01 Jordan Buck of Wrath of the Weak top ten list for Pitchfork/Show No Mercy
#02 Ryan Adams top ten of 2008 for Filter Magazine
#03 Pitchfork/Show No Mercy 20 albums of the year
#03 Mary Pearson of High Places - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#03 Marnie Stern - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#04 Pop Matters best metal albums of 2008
#04 Zah Hill - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#04 Aesop Dekker of Ludicra top ten list Pitchfork/Show No Mercy
#12 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Larkin Grimm Parplar (Young God)
#02 John Darnielle of Mountain Goats - top ten of 2008 for Filter Magazine
#02 John Darnielle of Mountain Goats - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#08 Boomkat favourite 100 albums for 2008

Mr. Scruff Donkey Ride / Giant Pickle 12” (Ninja Tune)
#68 'Donkey Ride' Amazon Editor Picks: Best Songs of 2008

µ-Ziq: Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (Planet Mu)
#01 Dreck Factory DF's Top 10 Electronic Albums of 2008

Murcof Versailles Sessions (Planet Mu)
#43 The Wire Magazine Top Albums of 2008

Pop Levi Never Never Love (Ninja Tune)
#09 Kamau High 2008 Billboard Critics Choice Top 10s
#29 Under The Radar Top 50 Albums Best Of 2008

The Present World I See (Lo Recordings)
#06 Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Terry Riley The Last Camel in Paris (Elision Fields)
#30 The Wire Magazine Top Albums of 2008

Restiform Bodies TV Loves You Back (Anticon)
#07 Subtle - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Roots Manuva Slime & Reason (Big Dada)
Guardian UK The best albums of 2008 - by the hot artists
#19 Mixmag Top 50 albums of 2008
#33 'Buff Nuff' The Clash Top 40 of 2008
#65 'The Show Must Go On' The Fact magazine 100 best: tracks of 2008

Samothrace Life's Trade (20 Buck Spin)
#30 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Sic Alps USEZ (Siltbreeze)
#47 Uncut's Top 50 of 2008
#48 The Wire Magazine Top Albums of 2008

Son Lux At War With Walls and Mazes (Anticon)
#01 NPR.org Top 10 Great Unknowns, From Second Stage
#02 Paste Magazine Andy Whitman's favorite albums of 2008

Sparks Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil Beethoven)
#18 8/1 Blog Best of 2008

Syclops! I've Got An Eye On You (DFA)
#18 XLR8R staff's quick 'n' dirty 2008 Top 25

Tobacco Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
#05 KCRW Eric J Lawrence's Top 10 of 2008
#10 Diplo - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#10 Subtle - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#22 XLR8R staff's quick 'n' dirty 2008 Top 25

Torche Meanderthal (Robotic Empire)
#01 Decibel's Top 40 metal albums / Year-End Critics' Polls '08
#02 Pitchfork/Show No Mercy 20 albums of the year
#02 East Bay Express Kathleen Richards' Top 10 The Best Music of 2008
#03 Exclaim! Aggressive Tendencies: Year in Review 2008
#05 Last Blog On Earth best albums of 2008
#06 BJ Warshaw of Parts and Labor - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#10 Dusted Daniel Levin Becker's favorite albums of 2008
#10 Pop Matters best metal albums of 2008 #34 Paste Top 50
#44 Rough Trade Shop / Drowned In Sound albums of the year

Triclops! Out Of Africa (Alternative Tentacles)
#10 East Bay Express Kathleen Richards' Top 10 The Best Music of 2008

U.S. Girls Introducing… (Siltbreeze)
#01 Dusted's Brad LaBonte 10 favorite recordings of 2008

Vetiver Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)
#01 SFGate/ SF Chronicle Best Covers Album
#03 Everest top ten of 2008 for Filter Magazine
#10 Titus Andronicus - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#11 The Perfect Prescription My Favourite Albums of 2008: A List of 29

Vivian Girls Vivian Girls (In the Red)
#03 Chicago Sun Times 2008 Jim DeRogatis' 10 best albums of the year
#05 Best Rock Album Vinus Zine VZ's 2008 Hottt List
#05 Unblinking Ear blog what was great in 2008
#06 All Songs Considered The Year's Overlooked Gems
#06 Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes top 10 of 2008 for Filter Magazine
#06 "Tell The World" Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#07 Bradford Cox of Deerhunter - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#08 KCRW Mario Cotto's Top 10 of 2008
#09 Coke Machine Glow Top 50 Albums of 2008
#09 Rough Trade Shop / Drowned In Sound albums of the year
#09 2008 Pitchfork Readers Poll Best New(ish) Band
#10 "I Believe in Nothing" Fucked Up - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#11 Largehearted Boy Favorite Albums of 2008
#11 Washington City Paper Music 2008: Red Onion Goes To 11
#16 Exclaim! Pop Rocks: Year in Review 2008
#16 Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2008
#19 "Where Do You Run To" Pitchfork The 100 Best Tracks of 2008
#29 Beats So Fast Favorite Albums 2008
#54 Amazon Best of 2008: Top 100 Editors' Picks

The Week That Was S/t (Memphis Industries)
#08 Mojo Magazine The 50 Best Albums of 2008
#09 Uncut Best Of 2008
#10 London Sunday Times The 100 Best CDs of 2008
#44 The Observer Music Monthly 50 Albums Of The Year
#47 Under The Radar Top 50 Albums Best Of 2008

Why? Alopecia (Anticon)
#02 Dusted Daniel Levin Becker's favorite albums of 2008
#05 Gareth, Los Campesinos! - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#05 Fred Nicolaus of Department of Eagles - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008
#07 Drowned In Sound Top 50 Albums Of 2008
#10 East Bay Express Nate Seltenrich's Top 10 The Best Music of 2008
#11 Tiny Mix Tapes Favorite Albums of 2008
#13 Stereogum The 2008 Gummy awards
#16 2008 Pitchfork Readers Poll albums of the year
#24 Coke Machine Glow Top 50 Albums of 2008
#47 Culturedeluxe`s Top 50 Albums of 2008
#94 "Fatalist Palmistry" Pitchfork The 100 Best Tracks of 2008

Devon Williams Carefree (Ba Da Bing)
#09 Dan Bejar of Destroyer - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008

Wire Object 47 (Pink Flag)
#04 Jonathan Cohen 2008 Billboard Critics Choice Top 10s
#09 Troy Carpenter 2008 Billboard Critics Choice Top 10s
#17 The Perfect Prescription My Favourite Albums of 2008: A List of 29
#30 Chicago Sun Times 2008 Jim DeRogatis' 10 best albums of the year

Wooden Shjips Vol. 1 (Holy Mountain)
#6 Crystal Stilts - Pitchfork Guest List: Best of 2008 Yacht Summer Song 12” (DFA)
#41 "Summer Song" The Fact magazine 100 best: tracks of 2008

Zomes S/t (Holy Mountain)
#25 XLR8R staff's quick 'n' dirty 2008 Top 25

Revolver Bands On Tour December 31st 2008 - Last Tour Update of the Year.

A STORM OF LIGHT
04/25 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

AKIMBO
01/29 Bellingham, WA @ Western Wa University
04/25 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

AKRON/FAMILY
12/31 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
03/06 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
03/07 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
030/8 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
03/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Steve Allen Theater 03/11 Los Angeles, CA @ Steve Allen Theater
03/12 Los Angeles, CA @ Steve Allen Theater
03/17 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
03/28 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
03/29 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

AMEBIX
01/22 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's (w/ Book of Black Earth)
01/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's
01/24 Austin, TX @ Emo's
01/25 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/27 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
01/29 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
01/31 Philadelphia, PA @ Starlite Ballroom

AMON TOBIN
01/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
01/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

BEIRUT
02/06 Brooklyn, NY @ BAM Opera House (Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival)
03/09 Minehead, UK @ Butlins Holiday Resort (All Tomorrow's Parties Festival)

BLOODHAG
02/07/09 Vancouver, BC @ Bourbon Street Pub
02/20/09 Tumwater, WA @ Tumwater Library

BLUES CONTROL
01/09 Providence, RI @ Stairwell Gallery
01/11 Edgatown, MA @ Aboveground Records
01/20 New York, NY @ Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios (w/ Animal Collective)

BONOBO
12/31 Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan Presents (DJ set)
01/02 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre (DJ set)
01/03 San Francisco, CA @ 111 Minna (DJ set)
01/04 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque (DJ set)

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH
01/21 Santa Barbara, CA @ Jensen Mainstage
01/22 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
01/23 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street
01/24 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
01/25 Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
01/26 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
01/27 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
01/28 El Paso, TX @ Uncle Paulie’s Pub
01/29 Austin, TX @ Red 7
01/30 Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
02/01 Metairie, LA @ High Ground
02/02 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Post 33
02/03 Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel Coffeehouse
02/04/09 Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
02/05/09 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
02/06/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
02/07/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
02/09/09 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
02/10/09 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street
02/11/09 Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
02/12/09 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock
02/13/09 San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle

BUTTHOLE SURFERS
12/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

DAEDELUS
12/31 Chicago, IL @ Silver Wrapper @ Abbey Pub

DAMON & NAOMI
01/15 London, UK @ Luminaire
01/16 Lisbon, PRT @ ZDB
01/17 Porto, PRT @ Plano B
01/18 Vigo, ESP @ Vademecum
01/20 Gijon, ESP @ Casino
01/21 Huesca, ESP @ Matadero
01/22 Tarragona, ESP @ Loop
01/30 Lyon, FR @ Sonic
01/31 Paris / St-Ouen, FR @ Mo'Fo Festival

DASH RIP ROCK
12/31 Russell, KS @ AmericInn Hotel
01/09 Pontchatoula, LA @ Pontchatoula Pub
01/10 St. Francisville, LA @ Magnolia Cafe
01/16 Baton Rouge, LA @ Mike's Grill
01/17 Angie, LA @ Birdie's Roadhouse
01/23 Lafayette, LA @ Artmosphere
01/24 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Roux House
01/31 San Antonio, TX @ San Antonio Rodeo BBQ Cookoff
02/06 Lake Charles, LA @ OB's Bar & Grill
02/13 Panama City, FL @ Buck Wild Saloon
02/14 Panama City, FL @ Buck Wild Saloon
02/20 Nashville, TN @ The End
02/2 St Louis, MO @ The Broadway Oyster Bar

THE DEATH SET
02/27 Cholula, MEX @ Anonimo
02/28 Monterrey, MEX @ Garage
03/13 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/15 Asheville, NC @ Emerald Lounge (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/16 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/17 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/21 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/23 St. Louis, MO @ Gargoyle Club (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/24 Chicago, IL @ AV-aerie (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/24 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque (DJ Set)
03/26 Madison, WI @ The Rathskeller (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/27 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/28 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)

DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES
01/15 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s Tavern
01/16 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center for the Arts
01/17 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
01/18 Cambridge, MA @ The Brattle Theatre
01/19 New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom

THE DEVIL'S BLOOD
03/06 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (w/ Pentagram)
03/07 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (w/ Pentagram)

DISASTER STRIKES
01/10 Wallingford, CT @ American Legion
01/11 Doylestown, PA @ Moose Lodge 1284
03/11 Flagstaff, AZ @ Stab Mountain
03/14 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street Project

DOSH
01/28 New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall (w/ Andrew Bird)

DROP THE LIME
12/031 New York, NY @ LPR (w/ Michna, Matthew Dear)
01/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood
01/16 Charlotte, NC @ The Forum
02/06 Mexico City, MEX @ Pasaje America
02/10 Portland, OR @ Holocene
02/11 San Francisco, CA @ Vessel

MICHAEL GIRA
01/09 Mt. Buller, AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties
01/12 Melbourne, AUS @ The Toff of the Town
01/14 Brisbane, AUS @ Powerhouse
01/15 Sydney, AUS @ The Vanguard
01/18 Sydney (Cockatoo Island), AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties/Barracks Stage
03/03 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge (w/Larkin Grimm)
03/04 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern (w/Larkin Grimm)
03/06 San, Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Cultural Hall (w/Larkin Grimm)
03/08 Los, Angeles, CA @ Echo (w/Larkin Grimm)

GRAILS
02/19 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
02/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
02/22 San Diego, CA @ Casbah

LARKIN GRIMM
01/15 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs
01/16 Providence, RI @ Jake’s Bar & Grill
01/17 Portland, ME @ SPACE Gallery
01/18 Hamden, CT @ The Space
02/04 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
02/05 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head Club
02/06 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
02/07 Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon Street
02/08 Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival (w/ Michael Gira)
02/11 Bloomington, IN @ Bear’s Place
02/12 Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
02/13 Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
02/14 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge @ Grinnell College
02/15 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
02/16 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
02/17 Madison, WI @ Frequency
02/19 Milwaukee, WI @ Stonefly Brewery
02/20 St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
02/22 Fargo, ND @ Aquarium
02/24 Spearfish, SD @ The Hyve
02/25 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
02/27 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
02/28 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
03/03 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge (w/ Michael Gira)
03/04 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern (w/ Michael Gira)
03/06 San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Cultural Hall (w/ Michael Gira)
03/07 Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place
03/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo (w/ Michael Gira)
03/11 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink
03/12 Phoenix, AZ @ Modified
03/13 Tucson, AZ @ Plush
03/18 Austin, TX @ Emo’s Inside (SXSW Leafy Green Showcase)

DANIEL HIGGS
01/05 Kennewick, WA @ Red Room (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/06 Olympia, WA @ The Big Room (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/08 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/09 Portland, OR @ Holocene (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/10 Eugene, WA @ Sams Bond Garage (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/11 Talent, OR @ Stillwater (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/12 Arcata, CA @ Humboldt Brews (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/14 San Francisco, CA @ Independent (w/Brightblack Morninglight)

INTELLIGENCE
12/31 Los Angeles, CA @ Show Cave
01/01 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink Elephant
01/02 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
01/03 Oakland, CA @ Stork Club

JUCIFER
01/02 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
01/03 Richmond, VA @ Nara Sushi
01/07 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
01/09 Charlotte, NC @ Milestone
01/15 Augusta, GA @ Sky City
01/16 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's
01/30 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
01/31 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia

MUMLERS
01/16 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
02/06 Mountain View, CA @ Red Rock Café
02/07 Merced, CA @ The Partisan
02/20 Sacramento, CA @ Old Ironsides
02/21 Stockton, CA @ Plea For Peace
02/23 Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
02/24 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
02/25 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
02/27 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
02/28 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
03/01 Fullerton, CA @ The Continental Room

NEUROSIS
04/25/09 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

NURSE WITH WOUND
02/15 Athens, GRC @ Kyttaro
03/14 Mexico City, MEX @ Por Confirmar
03/26 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

OM
02/13 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan (w/ Six Organs Of Admittance)
04/25 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

PAIN JERK
01/20 Glasgow, UK @ CCA (w/ Emeralds)
01/21 Edinburgh UK @ Henry's Cellar Bar (w/ Emeralds)
01/23 Gateshead, UK @ Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (w/ Emeralds)
01/24 London, UK @ Luminaire (w/ Emeralds)
01/27 Bristol, UK @ The Croft (w/ Emeralds)
01/28 London, UK @ Grosvenor

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
02/07 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge (w/ caUSE Co-MOTION)
02/08 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
02/09 Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage
02/10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
02/11 Chicago, IL @ Schubas
02/12 Toronto, ON @ Neutral
02/13 Montreal, QC @ l Motore
02/14 Winooski, VT @ The Monkey House
02/15 Boston, MA @ Middle East
03/13 Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House
03/14 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head Club
03/15 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
03/16 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L.
03/18 Austin, TX @ Red 7 (SXSW Terrorbird/Force Field Party)

PANSY DIVISION
01/29 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern
01/30 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman

POP LEVI
01/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

PORT O' BRIEN
01/31 Brisbane, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/01 Melbourne, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/03 Melbourne, AUS @ Corner Hotel
02/04 Sydney, AUS @ Manning Bar
02/06 Perth, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/07 Adelaide, AUS @ Fowler’s Live (Laneway Festival)
02/08 Sydney, AUS @ The Basement (Laneway Festival)

JAY REATARD
01/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
01/25 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

RIO EN MEDIO
01/03 San Francisco, CA @ The Hemlock
01/16 Santa Cruz, CA @ Historic Brookdale Lodge
02/26 San Francisco, CA @ The Hemlock
03/06 Joshua Tree, CA @ Pappy and Harriets

RESTIFORM BODIES ON TOUR WITH EGADZ
02/19 Portland, OR @ Backspace
02/20 Seattle, WA @ Lo-Fi Lounge
02/21 Boise, ID @ The Bouquet
02/22 Salt Lake City, UT @ Uprock Records (6:00 PM)
02/23 Fort Collins, CO @ Re-Evolution House Party
02/24 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
02/25 Santa Fe, NM @ Warehouse 21
02/27 Winterhaven, CA @ Open Aired
03/04 Los Angeles, CA @ Low End Theory @ The Airliner
03/05 San Francisco, CA @ Underground SF

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
02/13 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan (w/ Om)
04/25 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB
12/31 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
01/31 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater
02/01 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
02/03 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
02/04 Breckenridge, CO @ Three 20 South
02/05 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/06 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/07 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
02/08 Crested Butte, CO @ The Eldo

SPARKS
02/14 Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall (UCLA)

MARK SULTAN
03/10/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/12/09 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/13/09 Nashville, TN @ Exit In (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/14/09 Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/15/09 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/16/09 Dallas, TX @ Palladium Loft (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/17/09 San Antonio, TX @ The Warhol (King Khan & the Shrines)

TRICLOPS!
01/30 Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon

VETIVER
02/19 Paris, FR @ La Maronquinerie Le Nuit Alligators Festival
02/21 Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
02/22 Brussels, BEL @ Botanique
02/23 Gent, BEL @ Vorruit
02/24 London, UK @ Roundhouse (w/ Fleet Foxes)
02/25 Manchester, UK @ Dulcimer
02/26 Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
02/28 London, UK @ Cecil Sharp House

WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS
02/02 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/03 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/04 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda (w/ Lykke Li)
02/06 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix (w/ Lykke Li)
02/07 Chicago, IL @ Metro (w/ Lykke Li)
02/08 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity (w/ Lykke Li)
02/11 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/12 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne (w/ Lykke Li)
02/13 Seattle, WA @ Showbox (w/ Lykke Li)
02/15 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/17 Pomona, CA @ Glass House (w/ Lykke Li)

WOODEN SHJIPS
01/17 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater (w/ Autolux)
01/22 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Hank IV)

Killer Vetiver / Black Crows Hootenanny Photos.

Wikipedia definition: Hootenanny was used in the early twentieth century America to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown. In this usage it was synonymous with thingamajig or whatchamacallit, as in "hand me that hootenanny." Hootenanny was also an old country word for "party". Now, most commonly, it refers to a folk-music party.

Photographer Alissa Anderson captured these amazing photos of Vetiver & The Black Crowes doing a mega jam of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" in Milwaukee on December 7th ot this year. Anderson has taken countless photos of such artists as Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Espers, Fern Knight, Meg Baird, Port O' Brien along with many other folksters, rockers & hipsters. Check out more of her work at http://alissaanderson.com/

Link To Crystal Stilts' On-Air Performance On KEXP.

While the Crystal Stilts were up in Seattle last month they stopped by KEXP to play a batch of songs and do a goofy interview. Listen to the session in it's entirety HERE.

Vetiver In No Depression's 2008: In Review Series.

2008: In Review
Vetiver
Thing Of The Past / Gnomonsong
Vetiver, in a reflective mood.

"Music discovery" is a newish buzzword of this decade, now that it's easier than ever to make a recording yet harder to figure out which ones are worth listening to. Independent bloggers and web software tools have joined traditional press, radio, and our friends to guide us toward music of interest. But the musicians we like have always helped to cultivate our tastes as well, through their own social networks and the cover songs they teach us.

You probably hadn't heard half of the songs that Vetiver essays on Thing Of The Past, an all-covers album and the band's third full-length disc, before it appeared in May. You almost certainly hadn't heard Dia Joyce's "Sleep A Million Years" unless you'd been to Vetiver frontman Andy Cabic's house, because it appears he has the only copy in existence. Joyce's rescued song nests among artifacts from Iain Matthews, Elyse Weinberg and Bobby Charles that are far from obvious, as well as less obscure cuts that appeared on albums by Townes Van Zandt, Ronnie Lane, Hawkwind and Loudon Wainwright III.

Vetiver's approach is quite straightforward – they feature Cabic's close voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drums, and maybe some backing vocals, steel guitar or violin – but the band also divines a powerful atmosphere from taste and intuition. Cabic coos over fluttering strings as Garland Jeffreys' sad "Lon Chaney" portrait reaches its end; that's chamber music to my ears. Hawkwind's "Hurry On Sundown" becomes an unholy incantation to raise the spirits, with a bit of Led Zeppelin III mysticism. Perhaps best of all is sometime comic Biff Rose's solo piano lament "To Baby", remade with a wistful, drifting groove.

Vetiver's original songs are typically subtle and understated, with the overheard quality of a shared secret. This well-curated set has the same feeling of discovery, but with a sweet permanence that runs much deeper than ephemeral buzz.

iTunes SALE!: NOW until January 12!

We hereby alert you to the existence of Revolver USA/Midheaven's first iTunes Sale!

From tonight until January 12th we're offering a special selection of Revolver USA-distributed titles digitally on the iTunes Music Store at savings up to $4.00 off the usual price of $9.99 (or so).

A full list of participating titles is here:

http://www.midheaven.com/iTunesSale.html

The links on that page will take you to the iTunes Music Store album page (assuming you have iTunes installed on your computer) for the particular album you're interested in.

The page mentions December 23rd as the starting date, but the prices on the iTunes Music Store are in effect NOW and the discounts will be granted until 1/12/09.

Please take a look and tell your friends!

(For our customers outside the USA: some titles listed on the above webpage may not be available for sale in your country, but albums that ARE ok for your territory-- and are delivered to iTunes by Revolver USA-- should be on sale at equivalent discounts, as well!)


also, a friendly reminder about:

http://www.midheaven.com/downloads.html

The Downloads page also gives you a complete rundown on all free and for-pay downloads-- including iTunes, e-music.com and AmazonMP3-- available from Midheaven/RevolverUSA-exclusive (and otherwise!) artists, as well as directing you to all Midheaven site entries where free MP3s, RealAudio and AACs reside.

Thank you for your kind indulgence and happy holidays!

Sounds From The Stacks: Employee Top Tens 2008.

CAMERON BLACKWELL
1. Teenage Jesus & the Jerks - Beirut Slump/Shut Up & Bleed CD (Atavistic)
2. Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby CD (Water)
3. Miss Pussycat & Quintron - Trixie & the Tree Trunks Season 1 DVD (Rhinestone)
4. Subhumans - Death Was Too Kind LP (Alternative Tentacles)
5. George Coleman - Bongo Joe LP (Mississippi)
6. Zomes - s/t LP (Holy Mountain)
7. Sharron Kraus - Foxes Wedding CD (Durtro/Jnana)
8. Drinking on the Oakland Alameda Ferry
9. V/A - Sprigs of Thyme: 78s from the EMI Archives LP/CD (Honest Jon's)
10. V/A - Victrola Favorites CD+Book (Dust to Digital)

CRISTIAN CEIA
1. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent CD (Castle)
2. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside CD (Probe Plus)
3. The Bug - London Zoo 3xLP/CD (Ninja Tune)
4. DJ/Rupture - Uproot CD (Agriculture)
5. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles 2xLP/CD (Warp)
6. Portishead - Third 2xLP/CD (Island)
7. V/A - Mary Ann Hobbs Presents Evangeline 4xLP/CD (Planet Mu)
8. Neil Landstrumm - Lord for £39 3xLP/CD (Planet Mu)
9. Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals 2xLP/CD (Type)
10. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House 2xLP (Lovepump United)
Single of the Year: DJ Mujava - Township Funk 12-inch (Warp)

JERRY CONNOLLY
1. V/A - Des Jeunes Gens Modernes 1978-1983 LP (Born Bad)
2. V/A - IVG: French Futur Anterieur 1979-1985 CD (Born Bad)
3. Mayyors - Live & Singles
4. Cheveu - s/t LP (S-S)
5. Aufgehoben - Khora CD (Holy Mountain)
6. Black Boned Angel - Endless Coming Into Life CD (20 Buck Spin)
7. Houston's - Veggie Burger
8. Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar
9. White/Light - Black Acts CD (Smells Like)
10. Ludella Black & the Masonics - From the Witness Stand LP/CD (Damaged Goods)

THEE MIKE DOYLE
1. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends CD/LP (Anticon)
2. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night CD/LP (Slumberland)
3. The Week That Was - s/t CD/LP (Memphis Industries)
4. V/A - Notwave CD (DFA/Rong)
5. Eden Express - Que Amors Que CD/LP (Holy Mountain)
6. Diplo & Santogold - Top Ranking CD (Mad Decent)
7. Sic Alps - A Long Way Around to a Short Cut CD (Animal Disguise)
8. Jonas Reinhardt - s/t CD (Kranky)
9. Eddie Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colors CD/LP (Goner)
10. Personal & the Pizzas - Live!!!

ULI ELSER
1. Devon Williams - Carefree CD (Ba Da Bing)
2. The Duke Spirit - Neptune CD (Artist First)
3. DJ/Rupture - Uproot CD (Agriculture)
4. Diplo & Santogold - Top Ranking CD (Mad Decent)
5. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals CD (Illegal Art)
6. 16 Horsepower - Live 2001 2xCD (Alternative Tentacles)
7. El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars CD (Control Group/TCG)
8. John Maus - Love Is Real LP/CD (Upset The Rhythmn)
9. Kill Surf City - EP (Morr Music)
10. Zomes - s/t LP/CD (Holy Mountain)

THURSTON GRAHAM
1. XYX - Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7-inch (S-S)
2. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night LP/CD (Slumberland)
3. Animals and Men - Never Bought Never Sold LP (Mississippi)
4. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ LP/CD (Siltbreeze)
5. V/A - IVG: French Futur Anterieur 1979-1985 CD (Born Bad)
6. Zomes - s/t LP/CD (Holy Mountain)
7. Jean-Pierre Massiera - Psychoses: Freakoid 1963-1978 LP/CD (Mucho Gusto)
8. Los Llamarada - Take the Sky LP (S-S)
9. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends LP/CD (Anticon)
10. Mac Blackout - s/t LP/CD (Deadbeat)

DAVE GULBIS
Wow, this was a really hard list to make this year, not even to mention all the incredible reissues that came out. Keep it up, music!
1. Burning Star Core - Challenger LP/CD (Plastic Records/Hospital)
2. Sight Below - Glider CD (Ghostly International)
3. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ LP/CD (Siltbreeze)
4. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me CD (Audika)
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna LP/CD (Social Registry)
6. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill LP/CD (Type)
7. Billy Bao - Dialectics of Shit LP (Parts Unknown), Accumulation 7-inch (Xerox), Fuck Separation 10-inch (S-S)
8. Dead C - Secret Earth LP/CD (Ba Da Bing), DR503 & Eusa Kills 2xLPs (Ba Da Bing/Jagjaguwar)
9. Pigeons - Virgin Spectacle LP (Black Dirt)
10. Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption CD (Neurot)
Re-issue of the Year: Better Beatles - Mercy Beat LP (Hook or Crook)
Live Show: clearly, Celine Dion

KYLE KRAMER
10. The Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD)
9. Aidan Baker - I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed 2xCD (Important)
8. Darkspace - III CD (Avantgarde)
7 1/2. Ladytron - Velocifero 2xLP (Cobraside)
7. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing 2xLP/CD (ATP)
6. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ LP/CD (Siltbreeze)
5 1/2. The Pink Noise - Dream Code LP (Sacred Bones)
5. Cobalt - Landfill Breastmilk Beast CD (Profound Lore)
4. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. 2xCD (Kranky)
3. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends LP/CD (Anticon)
2 1/2. Trelldom - Til Minne CD (Regain)
2. Blank Dogs - On Two Sides CD (Sacred Bones)
1. Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood CD (Crucial Blast)

POTSIE "UTRILLO" KUSHNER
1. Eric Chenaux - Dull Lights CD (Constellation)
2. Clark-Hutchinson - A = MH2 Expanded CD (Sunbeam Records)
3. Earth - Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 2xLP/CD (Southern Lord)
4. Padded Cell - Savage Skulls CDEP (DC Recordings)
5. Zomes - s/t LP/CD (Holy Mountain)
6. Devon Williams - Carefree CD (Ba Da Bing)
7. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends LP/CD(Anticon)
8. Burning Star Core - Challenger LP (Hospital Productions)
9. The re-opening of Sam Adato's Drum Shop
10. Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker CD (Gulcher)

MATTHEW J. LAMMIKINS, JR.
1. Der TPK - Games for Slaves LP (Siltbreeze)
2. The Bug - London Zoo LP/CD (Ninja Tune)
3. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton LP/CD (PPM)
4. Devon Williams - Carefree CD (Ba Da Bing)
5. Nodzzz - s/t LP (What's Your Rupture)
6. Earth - Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 2xLP/CD (Southern Lord)
7. Colossal Yes - Charlemagne's Big Thaw LP (Ba Da Bing)
8. Eat Skull - Sick to Death LP/CD (Siltbreeze)
9. DJ Rupture - Up/Root mix CD (Agriculture)
10. Vampire Weekend - s/t LP/CD (XL)
Oh yeah, and reissues (too easy to list in the top 10): V/A - Auteur Labels: Object Music CD, Earles & Jenson - Just Farr a Laugh (Matador), V/A - Victrola Favorites CD+Book (Dust to Digital), The Lines CD, Performing Ferret Band & all the new Messthetics comps

ANDY LARSEN
1. Black Time - Double Negative CD/LP (In The Red)
2. Der TPK - Games For Slaves LP (Siltbreeze)
3. Viva l'American Death Ray Music - Sangre Libre 2xLP (Sangre Libre)
4. Irma Thomas - Sings LP (Change)
5. XYX - Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7-inch (S-S)
6. Cold Cave - Trees Grew Emotions and Died 12-inch (Dais)
7. Human Eye - Fragments of the Universe Nurse LP (Hook or Crook)
8. V/A -Local Anesthetic CD/LP (Smooch)
9. Mystery Girls - Incontinopia CD/LP (In The Red)
10. The Nixe - s/t LP (Polly Magoo)

MURPH
1. Common Eider, King Eider - Figs, Wasps, & Metronomes CD (Root Strata, please buy it)
2. Hank IV - Refugee in Genre LP (Siltbreeze)
3. Get Offs - Airplane Fight 7-inch (self-released)
4. The VSS - Nervous Circuits CD/DVD (Hydrahead)
5. Bum Kon - Drunken Sex Sucks LP/CD (Smooch/Maximum Rocknroll)
6. V/A - Local Anesthetic CD (Smooch)
7. Soul Merchants - s/t 2xCD (Smooch)
8. Horn of Dagoth - demo
9. Woven Hand - Ten Stones LP/CD (Sounds Familyre)
10. Git Some - Cosmic Rock LP/CD (1-2-3-4 Go!)

KEN OLSON
1. V/A - Weird Records Compilation 4xLP (Weird)
2. The Clean - Compilation LP (Little Axe)
3. The Rats - s/t LP (Mississippi)
4. Sex/Vid - Communal Living 12-inch (Dom America)
5. V/A - Local Anesthetic CD (Smooch)
6. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night LP/CD (Slumberland)
7. XYX - Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7-inch (S-S)
8. Subhumans - Death Was Too Kind LP/CD (Alternative Tentacles)
9. Animals and Men - Never Bought Never Sold LP (Mississippi)
10. Leuzemia - s/t LP (Lengua Armada)

RANDY RANSONE
1. Lebenden Toten - Near Dark CD (Wicked Witch/Feral Ward)
2. XYX - Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7-inch (S-S)
3. V/A - Obsession 2xLP/CD (Bully)
4. V/A - Psychedelic Snarl LP (Rubble)
5. V/A - Pop Sike Pipe Dreams LP (Rubble)
6. Leuzemia - s/t LP (Lengua Armada)
7. Debris' - Static Disposal LP/CD (Anaopheles)
8. Zomes - s/t LP/CD (Holy Mountain)
9. Hunches - Exit Dreams LP/CD (In The Red)
10. Subhumans - Death Was Too Kind LP/CD (Alternative Tentacles)

TIM SOETE
1. V/A - Obsession 2xLP/CD (Bully)
2. Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker CD (Gulcher)
3. Jonas Reinhardt - s/t CD (Kranky)
4. Ariel Pink - Oddities Sodomies vol. 1 LP (Vinyl International)
5. Lindstrom - Where You Go, I Go Too 2xLP/CD (Smalltown Supersound)
6. Bum Kon - Drunken Sex Sucks LP/CD (Smooch/Maximum Rocknroll)
7. La Dusseldorf - Viva LP/CD (Water)
8. John Maus - Love Is Real LP/CD (Upset The Rhythm)
9. Wooden Shjips - Vol. 1 LP/CD (Holy Mountain)
10. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ LP/CD (Siltbreeze)

TOPPE
1. The Week That Was - s/t CD (Memphis Industries)
2. V/A - Notwave CD (Rong/DFA)
3. Chap - Mega Breakfast CD (Ghostly International)
4. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Worker CD (Loaf)
5. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends LP/CD (Anticon)
6. Milk & Cookies - s/t 2xLP (Radio Heartbeat)
7. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel CD (Kranky)
8. Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling CD (Environ)
9. Sexy Kids - Sisters Are Forever 7-inch (Slumberland)
10. Rodriguez - Cold Fact LP/CD (Light in the Attic)

Vashti Bunyan Commercial On Year End Wrap Up.

Vashti Bunyan's 'Trian Song ' used on the Reebok: Join The Migration commercial made it on the Advertising Age top ten ad songs of the year list. Ad songs of the year? Wow man, there really are year end lists for every conceivable topic (shitty or otherwise) known to man.

9. VASHTI BUNYAN: "TRAIN SONG"
REEBOK

Many of you will probably recognize players in this spot like Eli Manning, Peyton Manning and about 18 others trudging through deserts and abandoning half-mowed lawns to arrive at a stadium in a migratory V formation for the fall season. Of course, we were drawn to the recently rejuvenated folk hero Vashti Bunyan, who sings about glow worms; we're not the type to get chills just thinking about fourth-and-goal crunch-time, so McGarryBowen has obviously done something right.

Some Much Deserved Murcof Coverage.

Murcof's stunning Versailles Sessions has been getting some much deserved media attention. Among the more notable accomplishments Murcof made the cover of Italian music magazine Rockerilla (pictured above), was #43 on Wire's Record of the Year list, and has recieved reviews from Exclaim, Tinymixtapes and Almostcool.

Here are a few relevant web links:
Tinymixtapes
Irishtimes.com
Exclaim.com
Thefourohfive.com

More on The Versailles Sessions:

"Fabulous...It brings nothing to mind so much as Vangelis in his Blade Runner mode, performing to Louis XIV" The Word

"it's freaking massive" Almost Cool

"impressive in its reach and seriousness" BBC Music

"sublime" **** Time Out

"a grand and elegant opus" Metro

“Corona’s exquisite touch, attention to detail and disarming sense of originality remain as haunting and beautiful as ever” 4/5 DJ

"an absolute pleasure" The Wire (#43 Record of the Year 2008)

"Corona’s work is becoming increasingly complex and fascinating, and this piece shows him at his most versatile and confident yet." 4.9/5 Album of the Month, themilkfactory

"Mind-blowing" 8/10 AU

Unreleased Wooden Shjips Holiday Tracks Posted.

Those Wooden Shjips guys are always thinking.... Just for fun the band recorded a couple holiday-themed stompers to send out as a limited cassingle to their friends. For a short period of time the band has graciously posted the two tracks on their website. Check it here. Hjo Hjo Hjo!

Revolver Bands On Tour December 17th 2008.

A STORM OF LIGHT
04/25/09 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

AKIMBO
01/29/09 Bellingham, WA @ Western Wa University
04/25/09 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

AKRON/FAMILY
12/28 Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear’s Place
12/29 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
12/31 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory

ALIAS
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

AMEBIX
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's (w/ Book of Black Earth)
01/23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's
01/24/09 Austin, TX @ Emo's
01/25/09 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/27/09 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
01/29/09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
01/31/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Starlite Ballroom

AMON TOBIN
01/31/09 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

BEIRUT
02/06/09 Brooklyn, NY @ BAM Opera House (Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival)

BLACK TWIG PICKERS
12/20 Mount Airy, NC @ Downtown Theater (WPAQ Merry-go-round)
12/26 Floyd, VA @ Floyd Country Store dance

BLOODHAG
12/19 Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
02/07/09 Vancouver, BC @ Bourbon Street Pub
02/20/09 Tumwater, WA @ Tumwater Library

BLUES CONTROL
01/20/09 New York, NY @ Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios (w/ Animal Collective)

BONOBO
12/30 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Heaven Room) (DJ set)
12/31 Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan Presents (DJ set)
01/02/09 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre (DJ set)
01/03/09 San Francisco, CA @ 111 Minna (DJ set)
01/04/09 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque (DJ set)

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH
01/21/09 Santa Barbara, CA @ Jensen Mainstage
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
01/23/09 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street
01/24/09 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
01/25/09 Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
01/26/09 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
01/27/09 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
01/28/09 El Paso, TX @ Uncle Paulie’s Pub
01/29/09 Austin, TX @ Red 7
01/30/09 Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
02/01/09 Metairie, LA @ High Ground
02/02/09 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Post 33
02/03/09 Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel Coffeehouse
02/04/09 Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
02/05/09 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
02/06/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
02/07/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
02/09/09 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
02/10/09 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street
02/11/09 Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
02/12/09 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock
02/13/09 San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle

BOSS HOG
12/17 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

BUTTHOLE SURFERS
12/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
12/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

COLOSSAL YES
12/27 Oakland, CA @ Happiness Hotel

CRYSTAL STILTS
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Vetiver)

DAEDELUS
12/13 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge
12/16 Los Angeles, CA @ Space 15 Twenty (DJ set)
12/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
12/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle/STS9
12/31 Chicago, IL @ Silver Wrapper @ Abbey Pub

DAMON & NAOMI
01/15/09 London, UK @ Luminaire
01/16/09 Lisbon, PRT @ ZDB
01/17/09 Porto, PRT @ Plano B
01/18/09 Vigo, ESP @ Vademecum
01/20/09 Gijon, ESP @ Casino
01/21/09 Huesca, ESP @ Matadero
01/22/09 Tarragona, ESP @ Loop
01/30/09 Lyon, FR @ Sonic
01/31/09 Paris / St-Ouen, FR @ Mo'Fo Festival

DASH RIP ROCK
12/19 St. Martinville, LA @ Teche Theater
12/20 New Orleans, LA @ Louisiana Music Factory
12/20 New Orleans, LA @ Old Point Bar
12/26 Alexandria, LA @ Spirits Foods and Friends
12/27 Houston, TX @ Continental Club
12/27 Houston, TX @ The Continental Club
12/31 Russell, KS @ AmericInn Hotel
01/09/09 Pontchatoula, LA @ Pontchatoula Pub
01/10/09 St. Francisville, LA @ Magnolia Cafe
01/16/09 Baton Rouge, LA @ Mike's Grill
01/17/09 Angie, LA @ Birdie's Roadhouse
01/23/09 Lafayette, LA @ Artmosphere
01/24/09 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Roux House
01/31/09 San Antonio, TX @ San Antonio Rodeo BBQ Cookoff
02/06/09 Lake Charles, LA @ OB's Bar & Grill
02/13/09 Panama City, FL @ Buck Wild Saloon
02/14/09 Panama City, FL @ Buck Wild Saloon
02/20/09 Nashville, TN @ The End
02/2/09 St Louis, MO @ The Broadway Oyster Bar

THE DEATH SET
02/27/09 Cholula, MEX @ Anonimo
02/28/09 Monterrey, MEX @ Garage
03/13/09 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/15/09 Asheville, NC @ Emerald Lounge (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/16/09 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/17/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/21/09 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/23/09 St. Louis, MO @ Gargoyle Club (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/24/09 Chicago, IL @ AV-aerie (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/24/09 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque (DJ Set)
03/26/09 Madison, WI @ The Rathskeller (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/27/09 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)
03/28/09 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop (w/ Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik)

DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES
01/15/09 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s Tavern
01/16/09 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center for the Arts
01/17/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
01/18/09 Cambridge, MA @ The Brattle Theatre
01/19/09 New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom

DISASTER STRIKES
01/10/09 Wallingford, CT @ American Legion
01/11/09 Doylestown, PA @ Moose Lodge 1284
03/11/09 Flagstaff, AZ @ Stab Mountain
03/14/09 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street Project

DOSH
12/27 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
1/28/09 New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall (w/ Andrew Bird)

MICHAEL GIRA
01/9/09 Mt. Buller, AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties
01/12/09 Melbourne, AUS @ The Toff of the Town
01/14/09 Brisbane, AUS @ Powerhouse
01/15/09 Sydney, AUS @ The Vanguard
01/18/09 Sydney (Cockatoo Island), AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties/Barracks Stage

GRAILS
02/19/09 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
02/21/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
02/22/09 San Diego, CA @ Casbah

LARKIN GRIMM
01/15/09 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs
01/16/09 Providence, RI @ Jake’s Bar & Grill
01/17/09 Portland, ME @ SPACE Gallery
01/18/09 Hamden, CT @ The Space

DANIEL HIGGS
01/05/09 Kennewick, WA @ Red Room (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/06/09 Olympia, WA @ The Big Room (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/08/09 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/09/09 Portland, OR @ Holocene (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/10/09 Eugene, WA @ Sams Bond Garage (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/11/09 Talent, OR @ Stillwater (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/12/09 Arcata, CA @ Humboldt Brews (w/Brightblack Morninglight)
01/14/09 San Francisco, CA @ Independent (w/Brightblack Morninglight)

JANA HUNTER
12/18 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (Baltimore Round Robin)
12/19 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (Baltimore Round Robin)

MICHAEL HURLEY
12/20 Portland, OR @ Papa G's Organic Deli
12/29 Astoria, OR @ Ft. George Brewery

INTELLIGENCE
12/13 Seattle, WA @ Holy Moutain
12/26 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
12/27 Portland, OR @ Slabtown
12/28 Arcata, CA @ Big Pete's Pizza
12/29 Sacramento, CA @ Luigi's Fun Garden
12/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Redwood
12/31 Los Angeles, CA @ Show Cave
01/01/09 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink Elephant
01/02/09 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
01/03/09 Oakland, CA @ Stork Club

JEL
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

JUCIFER
01/02/09 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
01/03/09 Richmond, VA @ Nara Sushi
01/07/09 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
01/09/09 Charlotte, NC @ Milestone
01/15/09 Augusta, GA @ Sky City
01/16/09 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's
01/30/09 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
01/31/09 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia

NEUROSIS
04/25/09 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

ODD NOSDAM
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
12/17 London, UK Sazerac
12/18 London, UK The Forum

PEDESTRIAN
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

PEEL
12/17 Austin, TX @ Emo's

POP LEVI
01/09/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

PORT O' BRIEN
01/31/09 Brisbane, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/01/09 Melbourne, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/03/09 Melbourne, AUS @ Corner Hotel
02/04/09 Sydney, AUS @ Manning Bar
02/06/09 Perth, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/07/09 Adelaide, AUS @ Fowler’s Live (Laneway Festival)
02/08/09 Sydney, AUS @ The Basement (Laneway Festival)

JAY REATARD
01/23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
01/25/09 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

RESTIFORM BODIES ON TOUR WITH EGADZ
02/19/09 Portland, OR @ Backspace
02/21/09 Boise, ID @ The Bouquet
02/22/09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Uprock Records
02/24/09 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
02/27/09 Winterhaven, CA @ Open Aired
03/03/09 Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse
03/05/09 San Francisco, CA @ Underground SF

JACK ROSE
12/18 Chapel Hill, NC @ Night Light
12/19 Asheville, NC @ Harvest Records
12/20 Memphis, TN @ Odessa
12/30 Austin, TX @ Mohawk

SIC ALPS
12/20 New York NY Knitting Factory

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
04/25/09 Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Beyond The Pale @ Roadburn Festival)

SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB
12/30 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
12/31 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
01/31/09 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater
02/1/09 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
02/3/09 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
02/4/09 Breckenridge, CO @ Three20 South
02/5/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/6/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/7/09 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
02/8/09 Crested Butte, CO @ The Eldo

SOLE
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

SPARKS
02/14/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall (UCLA)

MARK SULTAN
03/10/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/12/09 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/13/09 Nashville, TN @ Exit In (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/14/09 Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/15/09 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/16/09 Dallas, TX @ Palladium Loft (King Khan & the Shrines)
03/17/09 San Antonio, TX @ The Warhol (King Khan & the Shrines)

THEMSELVES
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

TRICLOPS!
01/30 Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon

VENETIAN SNARES
12/20 Portland, OR @ The Fez Ballroom (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/21 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge (w/ Otto Von Schirach)

VETIVER
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ( w/ Crystal Stilts)

WHY?
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS
02/02/09 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/03/09 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/04/09 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda (w/ Lykke Li)
02/06/09 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix (w/ Lykke Li)
02/07/09 Chicago, IL @ Metro (w/ Lykke Li)
02/08/09 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity (w/ Lykke Li)
02/11/09 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/12/09 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne (w/ Lykke Li)
02/13/09 Seattle, WA @ Showbox (w/ Lykke Li)
02/15/09 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/17/09 Pomona, CA @ Glass House (w/ Lykke Li)

WOODEN SHJIPS
01/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Hank IV)

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "Industry" Day Jobs Revealed On Stereogum.

Quit Your Day Job: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Unless you were born with one of those silver spoons, you likely work a day job, sneaking time for your own business when not taking care of someone else's. You're not alone. Every week, Brandon Stosuy finds out how our favorite indie artists make ends meet...

In February, New York BTW the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are releasing their self-titled full-length collection of jangly, noisy indie pop on the most fitting of labels, Slumberland. We recently posted the video for album track "Everything For You," which might have reminded you of Black Tambourine or other bands Slumberland was releasing in the '80s/early '90s.

The quartet's at Quit Your Day Job today because they also work outside of the band: Peggy's an editor at BuzzFeed, Kurt teaches music at a day camp in the summer and at a "rock workshop" during the school year, Alex is the editor of eMusic's Canadian site, and at the time of this interview Kip did marketing at Drillteam, but he just lost his job (yes, the economy even sucks for indie pop bands). After you read their tales of the best and worst viral videos and learn how kids find out about Franz Ferdinand make sure to stick around and listen to "Come Saturday." (Because it's all about the weekend.)

Alex, bass

STEREOGUM: How long have you been at eMusic?

ALEX: It'll be one year in February.

STEREOGUM: Did you have anything to do with the High Places release?

ALEX: The wheels were set it motion for the High Places release just before I started. The whole Selects program is probably the most fun and rewarding part of working in editorial at eMusic -- getting bands we like some exposure and some (usually much needed) cash. I was proud and excited to be a part of getting Crystal Stilts on board as a Selects band. Those guys deserve every bit of hype and attention. Great people, great band.

STEREOGUM: Can you explain a typical day? Peggy said you do merchandizing, write reviews, etc. What are your specific duties in your job description?

ALEX: I'm the editor of the Canadian site, so I choose which albums show up as "New & Noteworthy," which albums are "Review of the Day," which features run on the homepage, etc. and I do some back-end twiddling to schedule things to run. On top of that, all of us in Editorial write reviews, copy edit -- the standard stuff. Basically I listen to, think about, write about and am generally immersed in music all day, every day. It rules.

STEREOGUM: How did you end up as the editor of the Canadian site? Are Canadian's pissed? How do you know what will go over well in Canada?

ALEX: The Canada site launched for a combination of business and legal/licensing reasons and they needed someone to work out of the New York office. In I stepped, ready to take on the Toyko Police Clubs of the world. Merchandizing/editing is a bit of a behind-the-curtain job, so I don't think Canadians had much reason to be pissed. I hope not, anyway! Knowing what'll go over well is a combination of checking stats/past download behavior for artists, knowing what's popular in general and working with a label relations team to be aware of exclusives and such. Largely, Canadian eMusic subscribers lean similarly to U.S. subscribers: large-ish, melodic indie rock. Obviously there are some Canadian bands (Broken Social Scene and off-shoots, The Dears, etc.) that do especially well, also.

STEREOGUM: Any reviews you're particularly proud of writing/or that you think turned out well?

ALEX: I'm kind of a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to hold one thing up and say "man that was great!" Most recently I was pretty happy with the Josef K and Vivian Girls reviews. It's sometimes a lot harder for me to write about music I love in an intangible/personal way, but I think those came out okay.

STEREOGUM: Do you have to write any reviews of bands you don't like?

ALEX: Occasionally I do. I try to be diplomatic.

STEREOGUM: Do you work on this from the road?

ALEX: I actually just got a laptop, so for this next tour, I'll bring that and do some stuff from the road. It'll be hard to keep up with the day-to-day things, but I should be able to pitch in on occasional things -- small blurbs, etc.

STEREOGUM: What are some of the most popular downloads right now?

ALEX: Most of the stuff that does really well on eMusic is kind of more mainstream indie. So the bigger albums for us this year have been She & Him, Walkmen, Cat Power. The heavy hitters. Right now, for some reason, the Thievery Corp album is doing gangbusters. Also the Raveonettes album sold really, really well -- that was a nice surprise.

STEREOGUM: The Thievery Corp? Weird. Any theories why?

ALEX: Yeah we did think that was a bit weird. Riding the wave of the '08 Trip-hop revival, perhaps?

STEREOGUM: Who's your favorite Slumberland band ever?

ALEX: Probably Rocketship. It's hard not to say Black Tamborine, but I actually heard and loved Rocketship first and that sound ... man, it's so simple but it's so perfect.

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Peggy, voice, keyboards

STEREOGUM: How long have you been at Buzzfeed?

PEGGY: Two years as of this past October. The site launched about a year and a half ago. The guy who started the company was actually my high school computer teacher.

STEREOGUM: After graduation you kept in touch with your high school computer teacher? I guess he doesn't teach anymore?

PEGGY: Well, it was a very small Southern high school. I think he thought I was cool because I listened to Stereolab and Sonic Youth instead of Garth Brooks, and that is a good qualifier to be a trend editor. I contacted him when I moved up to NYC, and then I ended up doing some freelance web design stuff for Huffington Post, which he helped start up.

STEREOGUM: What do your daily duties involve? Maybe walk us through a typical day.

PEGGY: Literally, I surf the internet all day. I have an RSS reader that compiles all my favorite blogs and news sources, it's something like 300 blogs probably at this point. Basically, I find things like viral videos, cute animals, people that are getting lots of attention for doing things like auctioning off their virginity or getting tased while doing a striptease. Just anything random or anomalous.

STEREOGUM: How much did that person get for their virginity?

PEGGY: She got a million dollars, apparently. There was also a gay banker who auctioned off his virginity as part of a financial bail-out plan.

STEREOGUM: Are you full-time? Are you able to work from tour?

PEGGY: Yep, it's pretty much a 10-6 job, and I have to actually show up in an office in Chinatown. I've used up all my vacation days for 2008 from touring already, so yeah, I'll definitely be working from this UK tour. I really hope they have wi-fi in pubs.

STEREOGUM: BuzzFeed's called a "'trends' aggregator." Can you explain how it works?

PEGGY: The goal of BuzzFeed is to be the source of viral media content on the web. So we have lots of statistical analysis that detects whether something is going to take off, whether it's because of Google search traffic, links from other blogs, or users clicking from our homepage. Not only do we publish our own curated content of buzzy links, videos, and images, but we also aggregate content from sources like Digg, the New York Times, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.

STEREOGUM: When a video crosses your desk are you able to sense if it's going to be a hit?

PEGGY: I have pretty high standards and most people who use the internet are dumb. No, I'm kidding. Sort of. Most viral videos that people pass around I do find pretty dumb. So if I see something that's truly funny that can break through my stern Asian exterior and make me laugh, then I do my best to make sure people see it. But those sorts of things are so few and far between that I feel like if I find anything that I can sense might go viral, I'll post it. For instance, I got a lot of hits on the Montauk Monster trend, but honestly, I had no idea that that thing would have been as big of a deal as it was.

STEREOGUM: I'm curious about some of the most popular recent stories ... and some all-time popular items.

PEGGY: Hmm, we get a lot of mileage out of posting about any hot person who isn't just a hot person. Like, a girl who's hot ... but she's also a champion pole vaulter! I also love sites like Face Transformer and Yearbook Yourself, or just hilariously-themed blogs like ManBabies or Old Men Who Look Like Lesbians or Erotic Falconry. Also, there was this photoshop contest we did of Disaster Girl that kind of took off with a life of its own. And we collaborate a lot with Ze Frank, who is awesome. Oh yeah, and remember Vagina Power? I still go on YouTube and watch that sometimes. Okay, I guess the internet is kind of amazing. I take back the part about it being dumb.

STEREOGUM: In you're opinion: Worst viral video ever?

PEGGY: I don't really understand how rick-rolling is funny to anyone who isn't your Great Uncle. Unless maybe you are Kip or Kurt and enjoy rick-rolling with sites like (editor's note: NSFW!) http://www.lemonparty.org.

STEREOGUM: What is it about cute animal pictures?

PEGGY: Cute animal photos are for everyone and cross all cultural boundaries. You send them to your mom, your girlfriend, your therapist. You would never send a photo of a cute animal to someone and get a response like "that's dumb" or "thanks for wasting my time, asshole." Whether you are an eight-year-old girl or a Rhodes scholar, chances are you will enjoy a good cute animal picture.

STEREOGUM: Your staff bio: "I'm a senior editor at BuzzFeed. I like shopping and bubblegum. Ask me about my emo band." OK, can you tell me more about your emo band?

PEGGY: Yes! It's called Misery Hates Company and we'll be opening for Dashboard Confessional (Chris Carrabba will never die!) across Eastern Europe next summer. But for now, I'm trying to focus on the goth band I'm in.

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Kip, vocals and guitar

STEREOGUM: Can you explain Drill Team? I was looking at the website and it was non-music marketing w/ clients like Nike, Zune, Toyota, etc. Is this correct?

KIP: Well, Drillteam was originally part of Insound (i.e. all the original employees applied for jobs at Insound, but...). Ever since ADA/Warner bought Insound, we're independent. I suppose they didn't want us ... all those fancy clients you mentioned from on the website we no longer have -- but I do wonderful work on behalf of the sneaker company, Saucony Originals, who employed me to watch people play dodgeball and drink beer at the McCarren Pool Parties this summer. Sometimes I give away free shoes too. It's a rough job ... oh, I also write to bloggers and say stuff like "Incase has these limited edition Diplo/Mad Decent Macbook cases we want to give away--would you like to do run a contest and do that?"

Oh, by the way, we really do have a lot of these 15" Macbook Pro cases left over -- are you sure you don't want one? There's like, Abe Vigoda and Telepathe on them too... are you a size 12 shoe, by chance? I got a pair of Jazz O's at my desk ... Yup. It's a rough job...

STEREOGUM: So why did Insound start it initially?

KIP: It was started to help large companies not be totally awful when trying to get people (like me?) to like their products. But I liked Saucony Originals and Incase before hand, so they didn't really have to twist my arm too much...

It's at least cool, as most of our clients are fairly hands off and like, "can you give our stuff away to your friends for us -- we feel awkward doing it ourselves." So we do. Like, most of the time it's just setting up companies that want to sponsor a fun party with a fun party. Like, Incase will sponsor a Finger on the Pulse party and screenprint a one-off design on 50 tote bags and give away free iPhone and iPod cases to the people there. Or with Saucony it was like, helping them sponsor the Dodgeball this summer at McCarren park-- It's not obtrusive or a "hard sell" sort of thing. It's actually mostly fun.

STEREOGUM: How long have you been there?

KIP: I've been here almost three years.

STEREOGUM: What are your duties?

KIP: I do a lot of online promo stuff -- everything from updating our client's blogs/websites to writing bloggers about various events and promotions. I'm glad I haven't gotten fired yet (editor's note: Sorry, Kip) -- I think it's because I bring in cookies a lot and sometimes bagels -- they keep me for the baked goods. My boss is rad and has been really cool about letting me go on tour and stuff. And we do still share an office with Insound and get an employee discount, which is definitely nice -- especially since they sell a lot of vinyl, and I'm nerdy like that.

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Kurt, drums

STEREOGUM: How old are the day campers?

KURT: I am assigned 6 different bands each semester, which are groups of 3-5 kids with an age range of 9-15.

STEREOGUM: Do the bands have names, etc? Like actual bands? If so, can you share some?

KURT: Yes. This year we haven't come up with most of the band names, since the kids usually do that towards the end of the semester. As for last semester, let's see ... there was Page One, Call Of Death (which they changed to Silver Titans), The Yoshi's, Driven To Tears, Midtown Traffic (who are now called Knave's 13).

STEREOGUM: Can you describe the place a bit? Where's it?

KURT: The music school is located up in Chappaqua, NY -- a pretty hefty commute. The facilities are beautiful and the school has really great gear for kids to practice on (it's also host to a variety of other lessons including, violin, piano, vocal training, etc.) the concerts are held at a nearby library with a pretty decent stage setup (motion sensitive lights and -- always essential -- fog included!) and it's really rewarding to see them perform.

STEREOGUM: Do you ever "sit in" on any of these performances? For instance, show up and do a guest guitar solo?

KURT: Occasionally, the bands are formed without all the positions being fulfilled, like bass or drums, and I'll have to play that instrument during the rehearsals and also during the performance at the end. It's cool though because it's actually really fun playing music with the kids.

STEREOGUM: Is this year-round? If so, what makes day camp different than, say, school?

KURT: Well, during the school year it's just held intensively every Sunday. But in the summer, it's held every day, like a normal day camp.

STEREOGUM: But it's run by the same organization?

KURT: Yes, the organization is just Music In Chappaqua which is a small music school in Chappaqua.

STEREOGUM: I interviewed some other School Of Rock instructor, Citay, and asked them about tuition. They said, "It's definitely not free. I think they do give scholarships, but I'm not sure how that all works." Do you have any idea?

KURT: At Music In Chappaqua's program, there is no application process -- you just sign up and pay the tuition fee. Some kids come in having never played guitar before and some kids can totally shred. They're placed into bands that are at their level/age group or they sign up with their friends and enter pre-formed bands. As far as i know, there aren't any scholarships for the Music in Chappaqua Rock Workshops.

STEREOGUM: Do you have a background in music education?

KURT: My formal training for this job was actually not in music education, but I have been teaching private lessons for several years. I have a Bachelor's Degree from NYU in General/Special Education, which comes in handy in that I'm dealing with large groups of kids armed with drum kits and loud guitars -- classroom management skills and endless patience are a definite necessity.

STEREOGUM: How many students per class? What are the classes like? Are you teaching a specific instrument? An array?

KURT: I teach every instrument in each band (bass, drums, guitars, vocals, keys). The kids learn cover songs of bands they are into and I attempt to widen their musical horizons with somewhat more obscure music (i.e. The Pixies if they're into, let's say Weezer). I also help them write and arrange their own original compositions. The music school Calendar follows the Junior High calendar for the local school district, so there's three trimesters. At the end of each trimester, there's either a concert or a recording session that the kids prepare for, for about three months prior.

STEREOGUM: Do the students request specific songs? If so, what are some popular ones?

KURT: As for popular songs kids want to learn ... let's just say AC/DC's "Back in Black," Metallica's "Enter Sandman," and a song by Led Zeppelin are performed in every concert. I think it's because a lot of the kids' parents are into classic rock. Occasionally I'll get a weird request like, "Hey can we learn 'Take Me Out' by Franz Ferdinand?" to which I'll reply, "How do you know Franz Ferdinand? You're 9." The answer is always "Guitar Hero."

STEREOGUM: Do think Guitar Hero at all prepares them for playing a real guitar? The general line on this seems to be "no."

KURT: Rhythmically, perhaps ... If they're playing on "expert" mode -- but there is no correlation between a button press on guitar hero and the actual notes on a guitar...

STEREOGUM: What's your favorite summer camp-themed movie?

KURT: Wet Hot American Summer!

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is out 2/3 via Slumberland. Right now they're on tour in the UK. They play a show with the Wedding Present tonight:

12/16 - London, UK @ Old Blue Last
12/17 - London, UK @ The Lexington
12/18 - London, UK @ Forum
02/07 - New York City @ Mercury Lounge
02/08 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
02/09 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage
02/11 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
02/12 - Toronto, ON @ Neutral
02/13 - Montreal, CA @ Il Motore
02/15 - Boston, MA @ Middle East

Cobra Verde Reviewed On Dusted.

Dusted Reviews
Artist: Cobra Verde
Album: Haven’t Slept All Year
Label: Scat
Review date: Dec. 5, 2008

Ostensibly nothing more than a solid mid-western rock band from the indie underground, Cobra Verde has always been about much more than the sum of its deceptively simple parts. Rising from the ashes of Cleveland’s Death of Samantha in the early 1990s, Cobra Verde puts an arty, glam-tinged spin on bad-ass bar rock. And quite frankly, no one does it better.

The group’s latest, Haven’t Slept All Year, works as an interesting companion piece to its previous release, 2005’s Copycat Killers. The latter album is a strangely brilliant collection of covers that runs the gamut from the Easter Monkeys’ “Underpants” to a deliciously menacing recasting of Pink’s dance-pop anthem “Get This Party Started.” Haven’t Slept All Year is all new original material, yet it exhibits the same willingness to tackle any genre with both a dead-on stare and an arched eyebrow that made Copycat Killers so much twisted fun.

Establishing the album’s carefree romanticism is the opener "Riot in the Food Court, " which features a gargantuan hook for a chorus and plays like a lost track from the soundtrack to Fast Times at Ridgemont High. This may seem like an unlikely pose for a bunch of middle-aged rust belters to strike, yet not only does it works, it’s quite contagious. Frontman John Petkovic croons like he’s getting ready for the prom on the synth-poppy “Something About the Bedroom” and contemplates being stuck “between a boy and a man” on “Freeride,” evoking a genuine sweetness that should play well with any post-OC fans the band may have made.

Cobra Verde have always been stylistically restless and unpredictable, but never to such a degree over the course of a single album. While this is a rock album first and foremost (see “World Can’t Have Her”), there are touches of country (the aforementioned “Freeride”), debauched beat cabaret (“Wasted Again”), synth anthems (“Run Away”) and subtly swingin’ acoustic numbers (“Together Alone”).

The only thing more surprising than Cobra Verde’s existence this far into the new millennium is the quality of its recordings. Fifteen years since Viva La Muerte, their debut on Scat Records, Petkovic and Co. continue to rock hard in the face of the impending cultural apocalypse. With that in mind, Haven’t Slept All Year is an ideal soundtrack for the current trash heap that is our society. Cobra Verde cast their net wide and work with whatever comes slithering back, compressing it all into a weighty chunk of glittering pop-rock smite to be hurdled at whoever needs a knock on the head.

By Nate Knaebel

Tiny Mix Tapes Gives A HEAVVVY Review Of Pussygutt.

Pussygutt
She Hid Behind Her Veil
[20 Buck Spin; 2008]
Styles: doom-noise
Others: Hammers of Misfortune, Samothrace, Rakhim
Original review

Even in an era when a huge strain of sub-guitar noiseniks are doing anything they can to sound as dark and ominous as possible, the bands of the 20 Buck Spin label sound, well, just a little extra dark and ominous. It’s at least the case with Rakhim, a positively grimy duo with an excellent doom-noise album to their credit, and now with Pussygutt, who vomit out 45 minutes of impending wrath like vengeful gods with She Hid Behind Her Veil. It makes all the sense in the world that they hale from the methland that is Idaho, as they can’t seem to put together a collage that doesn’t sound dipped in drugs.

A single-track, sitting-on-a-cloud drone excursion that plays like a deathly, wordless after-school special minus the commercials, the cliché images you’d expect march through your mind as Veil unfolds: red, fiery timpanis larger than the earth itself banging out a sparse rhythm; an orchestra of skeletons playing strings atop a floating piece of ice, just drifting to nowhere; decapitated bunnies — you get the idea. It has a dank-dungeon feel and smell, the sound of six-foot nails being driven into the earth, with a downpour of fuzz that doesn’t relent until it’s time to neatly tie it all up with the aforementioned string of strings.

There are more complex thrills out there if you’re looking for obscure product, but Pussygutt is what they is. Don’t begrudge them for that.

1. She Hid Behind Her Veil

by Gumshoe

Revolver Bands On Tour December 11th 2008.

AKIMBO
01/29/09 Bellingham, WA @ Western Wa University

AKRON/FAMILY
12/28 Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear’s Place
12/29 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
12/31 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory

AMEBIX
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's (w/ Book of Black Earth)
01/23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's
01/24/09 Austin, TX @ Emo's
01/25/09 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/27/09 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
01/29/09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
01/31/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Starlite Ballroom

AMON TOBIN
01/31/09 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

ANATHALLO
12/13 Kouenji, JPN @ Marble Tron

BLACK TWIG PICKERS
12/13 Blacksburg, VA @ Cellar
12/20 Mount Airy, NC @ Downtown Theater (WPAQ Merry-go-round)
12/26 Floyd, VA @ Floyd Country Store dance

BLOODHAG
12/19 Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
02/07/09 Vancouver, BC @ Bourbon Street Pub
02/20/09 Tumwater, WA @ Tumwater Library

BLUES CONTROL
01/20/09 New York, NY @ Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios (w/ Animal Collective)

BONOBO
12/30 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Heaven Room) (DJ set)
12/31 Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan Presents (DJ set)
01/02/09 San Francisco, CA @ 103 Harriet Street
01/03/09 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
01/04/09 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH
01/21/09 Santa Barbara, CA @ Jensen Mainstage
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
01/23/09 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street
01/24/09 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
01/25/09 Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
01/26/09 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
01/27/09 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
01/28/09 El Paso, TX @ Uncle Paulie’s Pub
01/29/09 Austin, TX @ Red 7
01/30/09 Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
02/01/09 Metairie, LA @ High Ground
02/02/09 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Post 33
02/03/09 Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel Coffeehouse
02/04/09 Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
02/05/09 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
02/06/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
02/07/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
02/09/09 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
02/10/09 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street
02/11/09 Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
02/12/09 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock
02/13/09 San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle

BOSS HOG
12/17 New York NY Bowery Ballroom

THE BUG
12/11 San Francisco, CA @ 103 Harriet Street
12/12 Sacramento, CA @ Arco Arena (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/13 Las Vegas, NV @ Planet Hollywood (w/ Nine Inch Nails)

BUTTHOLE SURFERS
12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw (w/ Black Dice)
12/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
12/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

COLOSSAL YES
12/27 Oakland, CA @ Happiness Hotel

CRYSTAL STILTS
12/11 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern (w/ Love Is All)
12/12 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick (w/ Love Is All)
12/13 Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing Company (w/ Love Is All)
12/14 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (w/ Love Is All)
12/15 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Times New Viking, Love Is All)
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Vetiver)

DAEDELUS
12/13 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge
12/16 Los Angeles, CA @ Space 15 Twenty (DJ set) 12/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
12/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle/STS9
12/31 Chicago, IL @ Silver Wrapper @ Abbey Pub

DAMON & NAOMI
01/15/09 London, UK @ Luminaire
01/16/09 Lisbon, PRT @ ZDB
01/17/09 Porto, PRT @ Plano B
01/18/09 Vigo, ESP @ Vademecum
01/20/09 Gijon, ESP @ Casino
01/21/09 Huesca, ESP @ Matadero
01/22/09 Tarragona, ESP @ Loop
01/30/09 Lyon, FR @ Sonic
01/31/09 Paris / St-Ouen, FR @ Mo'Fo Festival

DASH RIP ROCK
12/27 Houston, TX @ Continental Club

DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES
01/15/09 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s Tavern
01/16/09 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center for the Arts
01/17/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
01/18/09 Cambridge, MA @ The Brattle Theatre
01/19/09 New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom

DIRTBOMBS
12/11 Gothenburg, SWE @ Pusterviksbaren
12/12 Stockholm, SWE @ Gearclub @ Debaser
12/13 Lund, SWE @ Mjeret
12/14 Berlin, DEU @ Magnet
12/15 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
12/16 Antwerp, BEL @ Trix

DOSH
12/27 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
1/28/09 New York, NY Carnegie Hall (w/ Andrew Bird)

MICHAEL GIRA
01/9/09 Mt. Buller, AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties
01/12/09 Melbourne, AUS @ The Toff of the Town
01/14/09 Brisbane, AUS @ Powerhouse
01/15/09 Sydney, AUS @ The Vanguard
01/18/09 Sydney (Cockatoo Island), AUS @ All Tomorrow's Parties/Barracks Stage

GODS & QUEENS
12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

HANK IV
01/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Wooden Shjips)

JANA HUNTER
12/18 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (Baltimore Round Robin)
12/19 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (Baltimore Round Robin)

MICHAEL HURLEY
12/11 Astoria, OR @ Redhare
12/20 Portland, OR @ Papa G's Organic Deli
12/29 Astoria, OR @ Ft. George Brewery

INTELLIGENCE
12/13 Seattle, WA @ Holy Moutain
12/26 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
12/27 Portland, OR @ Slabtown
12/28 Arcata, CA @ Big Pete's Pizza
12/29 Sacramento, CA @ Luigi's Fun Garden
12/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Redwood
12/31 Los Angeles, CA @ Show Cave
01/01/09 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink Elephant
01/02/09 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
01/03/09 Oakland, CA @ Stork Club

JEL
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

JUCIFER
01/02/09 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
01/03/09 Richmond, VA @ Nara Sushi
01/07/09 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
01/09/09 Charlotte, NC @ Milestone
01/15/09 Augusta, GA @ Sky City
01/16/09 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's
01/30/09 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
01/31/09 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia

KID606
12/12 Berlin, DEU @ Berghain/Leisure System

KRALLICE
12/13 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside (w/ Ludicra)

LARKIN GRIMM
12/12 Richmond, VA @ Thanky Space
12/13 Greensboro, NC @ Green Bean
12/14 Greenville, SC @ Reverb
12/15 Athens, GA @ Tasty World
12/16 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L.

KRALLICE
12/13 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside (w/ Ludicra)

LARKIN GRIMM
12/12 Richmond, VA @ Thanky Space
12/13 Greensboro, NC @ Green Bean
12/14 Greenville, SC @ Reverb
12/15 Athens, GA @ Tasty World
12/16 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L.

LESBIAN
12/12 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey

LUDICRA
12/13 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside (w/ Krallice)

NADJA
12/11 Madrid, ESP @ El Perro
12/12 Bilbao, ESP @ Santana27
12/13 San Sebastian, ESP @ Sound Of Silence

ODD NOSDAM
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
12/12 Glasgow, UK Captain’s Rest
12/13 Leeds, UK The Cockpit
12/14 Nottingham, UK The Social
12/16 London, UK Old Blue Last
12/17 London, UK Sazerac
12/18 London, UK The Forum

PEDESTRIAN
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

PEEL
12/17 Austin TX Emo's

POP LEVI
01/09/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

PORT O' BRIEN
12/11 Hamburg, DEU @ Fabrik
01/31/09 Brisbane, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/01/09 Melbourne, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/03/09 Melbourne, AUS @ Corner Hotel
02/04/09 Sydney, AUS @ Manning Bar
02/06/09 Perth, AUS @ Laneway Festival
02/07/09 Adelaide, AUS @ Fowler’s Live (Laneway Festival)
02/08/09 Sydney, AUS @ The Basement (Laneway Festival)

PYLON
12/15 New York, CA @ Knitting Factory (WNYU 35th Anniversary Concert)

JAY REATARD
01/23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
01/25/09 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

RESTIFORM BODIES ON TOUR WITH EGADZ
02/19/09 Portland, OR @ Backspace
02/21/09 Boise, ID @ The Bouquet
02/22/09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Uprock Records
02/24/09 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
02/27/09 Winterhaven, CA @ Open Aired
03/03/09 Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse
03/05/09 San Francisco, CA @ Underground SF

JACK ROSE
12/11 Oslo, NOR @ Gronland Kirke
12/12 Oslo, NOR @ Podium
12/13 Den Haag, NL @ Paard Van Troje State Forms X Festival
12/16 Philadelphia, PA @ 1st Unitarian Chapel
12/18 Chapel Hill, NC @ Night Light
12/19 Asheville, NC @ Harvest Records
12/20 Memphis, TN @ Odessa
12/30 Austin, TX @ Mohawk

THE SHINING PATH
12/12 Brussels, BEL @ FM Brussels Live Performance and Interview
12/13 Brussels, BEL @ Belgie Kunstencentrum

SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB
12/30 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
12/31 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
01/31/09 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater
02/1/09 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
02/3/09 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
02/4/09 Breckenridge, CO @ Three20 South
02/5/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/6/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/7/09 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
02/8/09 Crested Butte, CO @ The Eldo

SPARKS
02/14/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall (UCLA)

THEMSELVES
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

TIMES NEW VIKING
12/15 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Crystal Stilts)

VENETIAN SNARES
12/11 Austin, TX @ Elysium (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/13 Oakland, CA @ Historic Sweets Ballroom (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/20 Portland, OR @ The Fez Ballroom (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/21 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge (w/ Otto Von Schirach)

VETIVER
12/11 Des Moines, IA @ ValAir Ballroom (w/ Black Crowes)
12/12 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr
12/13 Denver, CO @ Filmore Auditorium (w/ Black Crowes)
12/14 Lawrence, KS @ Jack Pot Saloon
12/15 St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Night Club
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ( w/ Crystal Stilts)

VIVIAN GIRLS
12/12 London, UK @ Vice Kills Proud Galleries
12/13 Bristol, UK @ Club Kute at Cooler

WHY?
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS
12/11 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
02/02/09 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/03/09 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/04/09 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda (w/ Lykke Li)
02/06/09 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix (w/ Lykke Li)
02/07/09 Chicago, IL @ Metro (w/ Lykke Li)
02/08/09 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity (w/ Lykke Li)
02/11/09 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/12/09 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne (w/ Lykke Li)
02/13/09 Seattle, WA @ Showbox (w/ Lykke Li)
02/15/09 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/17/09 Pomona, CA @ Glass House (w/ Lykke Li)

DEVON WILLIAMS
12/12 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (w/ 18th Dye)

WOODEN SHJIPS
12/12 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (w/ Mudhoney)
12/13 Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theater (w/ Mudhoney)
01/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Hank IV)

Listen To What's Upcoming On DFA.

Give a hoot about DFA? Check out the following links for upcoming release promo players.

Capracara
Cage & Aviary
Woolfy (In Flagranti Mixes)
Woolfy (Whatever/Whatever Mixes)

Restiform Bodies 7.1 Review On Pitchfork Today.

Restiform Bodies:
TV Loves You Back
[Anticon; 2008]
Rating: 7.1
Original Review

California is a big state. And hip-hop aficionados, with their firm sense of place, tie Oakland to a unique style of rap that bears little resemblance to its famous counterpart in Los Angeles. The brightest lights of the Bay Area, E-40 and Too $hort, never fully bought into the dark, trigger-happy sensationalism of the Death Row artists: Guns simply weren't part of their vision of, or path to, the good life. Emphasizing the joy of letting loose, the hyphy movement that sprang up a few years ago only cemented the scene's drama-free outlook.

But Oakland's Restiform Bodies are agitators. And what better place for this hall of modest fame-- the indie-rap supergroup of Passage, Bomarr Monk, and Telephone Jim Jesus-- than Anticon? Their debut on the label, TV Loves You Back, presents a furious, righteous, and not entirely subtle dissatisfaction with capitalism. Thanks to the recent tumult in the world's markets, the album, like the DNC platform, has an added punch of timeliness. To be fair, mindless consumerism is more the target here than, say, overly leveraged banks. In short, the rappers mount their attack on low culture, not high finance.

"Consumer Culture Wave" suggests a fight-the-Man mission with its title. Luckily, the song is better than that, too gloriously strange and oblique to be pressed into the service of jam-band leftism. (Love and gender seem to be the real subject, anyway.) Better to revel in the fluorescent textures and spastic rhythms, an accurate evocation of life in the attention-deficient multimedia slipstream, than to grope for political provocations in the lyrics. After all, it would have sufficed to attack QVC in only one song, you'd think. Docking too many points here isn't fair, anyway: Laid out on the page, even the best songs forfeit their essence. But when you spit nonsense with the apocalyptic ferocity of El-P, in many ways the hyperpolitical white rapper's template, that nonsense may as well be scripture.

Ever eager to disquiet, the Bodies even stoke the listener's anxieties about machines (on the sludgy, horror-string-laced "Pick It Up, Drop It") and modern medicine ("Ameriscan"). If there's a paranoid style in American hip-hop, this may be its purest expression. Nodding to the post-Thanksgiving virus that turns the lanes of Wal-Mart into the Ben-Hur chariot race, "Black Friday" bounces between drum'n'bass speed and trip-hop languor to manic-depressively link consumerism and domestic life. That the Bodies lean on everything from the New Romantics to crunk to post-rock to ghettotech to paint this cultural self-portrait only amplifies the strangeness-- and accuracy-- of TV Loves You Back.

"Movies are for entertainment," Louis B. Mayer famously stated. "If you want to send a message, send a telegram." The role of art isn't quite that narrow, of course, but the legendary producer knew that audiences didn't want to be lectured. And sadly that's what a lot of independent rap does. The Restiform Bodies avoid this. As Passage put it: "All the information on TV Loves You Back is stuff I'm trying to make peace with as a person, and that I think we all have to make peace with as a society." That sums up why the record is not only digestible, but outright luscious. We're not watching a presentation or reading a complaint. We're not being condemned for watching "The Hills". We're living, for a YouTube minute, inside three minds warped and wracked by our national addiction to the screen. It's equal parts unsightly and arresting in the way that most pathologies are.

- Roque Strew, December 10, 2008

Tour plans for next year:
02/19/09 Portland, OR @ Backspace (w/ EGADZ)
02/21/09 Boise, ID @ he Bouquet (w/ EGADZ)
02/22/09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Uprock Records (w/ EGADZ)
02/24/09 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive (w/ EGADZ)
02/27/09 Winterhaven, CA @ Open Aired (w/ EGADZ)
03/03/09 Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse (w/ EGADZ)
03/05/09 San Francisco, CA @ Underground SF (w/ EGADZ)

Lakin Grimm In Time Out New York.

Time Out New York / Issue 688 : Dec 4–10, 2008
By Jay Ruttenberg
Photo: Ports Bishop
GRIMM TIDINGS Singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm chronicles a berserk American experience on her new album, Parplar.

The itinerant folksinger Larkin Grimm has come downtown from her current home in Spanish Harlem—length of residence: one week—to grab breakfast on her way out of town. Rain tumbles down with a ferocity generally seen in movies about shipwrecks, yet she dines outside, beneath the restaurant’s modest canopy, remaining miraculously dry as the city soaks. To the musician’s right sits a drunk, welcomed to Grimm’s table after he drifted by requesting money. “Arggh!” he mumbles. “No mucho English.” The aromatic stranger drifts in and out of consciousness, missing the fantastic, at times unbelievable life story that the singer recounts with a monologuist’s poise.

Grimm is 27, the colorful tattoos of her generation splayed across her arms. Her riveting new album, Parplar, is her third full-length, yet the first to feature nonimprovised material and gain wider distribution, courtesy of Young God Records. Her songs are at once witchy, funny and intensely sexual—as befits an album that she claims to be “about Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and the battle between male and female energies in the world.”

Like many eccentric young artists, Grimm is a child of hippies. “There are a lot of us making psychedelic folk music, and we’re not freaky or fakes,” she contends. “We’re just our parents’ children—this is our culture.” Parplar was recorded earlier this year, but its roots lie in the late ’60s, when Grimm’s mother dropped acid on a family sailing trip, “realized that everything was messed up” and ran away from home. The future Mother Grimm hitchhiked to Haight-Ashbury, where she minded children of the Grateful Dead and enlisted in the Holy Order of MANS, a religious commune into which Larkin was born.

The singer’s parents left the Order when she was six. “In the ’80s, the utopian communities that thrived in the ’60s started transforming into the weird cults that we have now,” explains Grimm, who continues to dabble in various factions “because they remind me of home.” The family moved to the Appalachian Mountains so that her fiddler father could immerse himself in hillbilly music. The young singer, accustomed to socializing with pacifists, reacted to the rednecks she suddenly encountered in predictable fashion: When her parents found Grimm throwing knives, they enrolled her in a liberal boarding school. “No longer was I the delinquent bad kid,” she says. “Now, I was class president.”And so, a decade after leaving the Holy Order of MANS, Grimm matriculated at Yale, where she soon befriended the scion of a far more demented American sect: presidential daughter Barbara Bush. “She was interesting,” Grimm claims. “Her best friend was a black gay guy—the gayest man on campus. She was in love with a radical environmentalist, who broke up with her because he didn’t want the Secret Service snooping around. She drank a lot and had problems with boys. There was this very mean plan to get her pregnant and then follow her when she got her abortion. Guys were trying to sleep with her and they were planning to poke a hole in the condom.”

“Hech hech!” the homeless man murmurs. “Acapulco mucho bueno.”

“You can’t blame people for who their parents are,” Grimm adds.

The singer had her own plans for the President’s daughter: She hoped to involve Bush in a performance-art piece, “turning her into a fabulous Paris Hilton character.” Before this could unfold, however, an unpleasant drug experience caused Grimm to cease talking for months and flee to Alaska, where she fasted on a mountaintop. She was discovered there by a kindhearted shaman—named Jezebel Crowe!—who taught her the ways of the medicine woman…and encouraged her to return to Yale. (These days, even witches harbor Ivy League ambitions.)

Returning to school, Grimm broke her silence. She began playing music both as a member of the Dirty Projectors—a band she has since left—and solo. “I realized that when you’re singing, all your emotional truth comes through,” she says. It’s these voices from Grimm’s life that aggregate on her broad, bizarre, uniquely American record, with its collegiate folk and Appalachian howls, ’60s spirituality and contemporary pop culture, chaste hymns and sexual deviance.Her story drawn to the present, the singer rises from the table, gives a piece of corn bread to the homeless man and walks alongside Tompkins Square Park. The rain has cleared, casting the city in a luminous glow. “That Mexican guy totally just felt me up,” she says. “I’m probably the only woman he’s touched in ten years, which is so sad. I’m okay giving him a little bit of sexual healing.”

Larkin Grimm plays the Charleston Fri 5, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine Sat 6 and Housing Works Bookstore Café Wed 10.

SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN! The Complete Recordings now on iTunes!

Paraphrased from the (NEWLY RELAUNCHED!) SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! website:

The long-awaited, much-requested Complete Recordings of Shut Up Little Man! are now available digitally in seven separate volumes. The original recordings have been carefully edited and sound engineered for higher fidelity and clarity, so that every moment of audio savagery and drunken hilarity of Peter and Raymond has been preserved and represented. Unlike the short snippets on the popular "Best Of" album, the new Complete Recordings feature mostly unexpurgated dialogues, enabling the listener to get a truer sense of the putrid flow of an evening with the infamous duo-- the absurd barbs back and forth, the snowballing aggression, and the booze-laden verbal and physical exchanges. Each volume of the Complete Recordings is different and jammed with 74 minutes of Pete & Ray rants with disturbing and humorous one-liners not found on the "Best Of" CD.

iTunes is exclusively selling digital downloads of these titles between now and December 23rd. Own all seven!

Complete Recordings, Volume 1: "I Can Kill You From a Sitting Position"

Complete Recordings, Volume 2: "I Was A Mean Motherfucker in My Time"

Complete Recordings, Volume 3:"You Think Your Mother and Father Were a Couple of Boys?"

Complete Recordings, Volume 4: "A Night in the Stony Lonesome"

Complete Recordings, Volume 5: "I Don't Like All This Cuteness"

Complete Recordings, Volume 6: "Stop Stealing My Vokda!"

Complete Recordings, Volume 7: "The Peter and Tony Interview"

Stereogum Announces Upcoming MV & EE Release.

MV & EE sneak preview song download and feature on Stereogum today.

Prolific deepwoods Vermonters Matt Valentine (who played in the excellently ramshackle Tower Recordings) and Erika Elder are back with Drone Trailer. They're not shy about releasing recordings (together and apart), but the collections often show up in limited runs or on smaller labels. The forthcoming six-song collection Drone is out via the (slightly) easier to locate DiCristina. On it, the duo's backed by three-dude strong Golden Road, as you should be able to deduce after listening to the dense, full-band psych of cathartic opener "Anyway." We asked Valentine to unpack the lyrics. Let us know if it helps.

What inspired "Anyway"'s "anyway I can" theme? Y'know "space" was once the end all for the conqueroo ... Now that scene is a mere blip on the sonar of Spit James. We hinted at it sometime back with our "Meditations On Payday," that rub was as much Mississippi John Hurt as it was Rip Torn. Now we gotta go beyond nomenclature into some sorta '"any" "way" -- the "many are one" philosophy, you'd be as grateful as we if your "many" were a true singular "one," or one within a pair. It all gets in there anyway.

And, what was the spaceman's master plan? The spaceman could be Bill Lee. In his "space" the main aim to the end of the game is not allow anyone "on" base. That's the key, like salts to alchemists and the Masonic depth to baseball, turning "on" has always been where it is at. Tesla, the energy monopolies ... dig the idea of standing tall, as in the indian chief, or the inverse of laying low. You "can't stand" can be many rooms, mebbe the Velvets said it best ..."I Can't Stand It Anymore." Dig their castle, we are just a mere moat in this thing, swimming as best we can. This song is about a river and a life raft.

Drone Trailer is out 1/20 on DiCristina.

Revolver Bands On Tour December 3rd 2008.

AKRON/FAMILY
12/03 Bloomington, IN @ Waldron Arts Center Firebay
12/28 Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear’s Place
12/29 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
12/31 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory

AMEBIX
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's (w/ Book of Black Earth)
01/23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Safari Sam's
01/24/09 Austin, TX @ Emo's
01/25/09 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/27/09 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
01/29/09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
01/31/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Starlite Ballroom

ANATHALLO
12/04 Sendai, JPN @ Junk Box
12/05 Yamagata, JPN @ Sandinista
12/06 Shinjuku, JPN @ Marz
12/07 Shibuya, JPN @ Shibuya O Nest
12/09 Nagoya, JPN @ Tight Rope
12/10 Osaka, JPN @ Sunsui 12/12 Kashiwa, JPN @ Alive
12/13 Kouenji, JPN @ Marble Tron

BLACK TWIG PICKERS
12/13 Blacksburg, VA @ Cellar
12/20 Mount Airy, NC @ Downtown Theater (WPAQ Merry-go-round)
12/26 Floyd, VA @ Floyd Country Store dance

BLOODHAG
12/19 Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
02/07/09 Vancouver, BC @ Bourbon Street Pub
02/20/09 Tumwater, WA @ Tumwater Library

BLUES CONTROL 01/20/09 New York, NY @ Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios (w/ Animal Collective)

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH
01/21/09 Santa Barbara, CA @ Jensen Mainstage
01/22/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
01/23/09 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street
01/24/09 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
01/25/09 Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
01/26/09 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
01/27/09 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
01/28/09 El Paso, TX @ Uncle Paulie’s Pub
01/29/09 Austin, TX @ Red 7
01/30/09 Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
02/01/09 Metairie, LA @ High Ground
02/02/09 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Post 33
02/03/09 Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel Coffeehouse
02/04/09 Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
02/05/09 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
02/06/09 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
02/07/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
02/09/09 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
02/10/09 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street
02/11/09 Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
02/12/09 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock
02/13/09 San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle

BOSS HOG
12/17 New York NY Bowery Ballroom

THE BUG
12/04 Kelowna, BC @ Prospera Place (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/05 Victoria, BC @ Save on Foods Memorial Centre (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/07 Portland, OR @ Rose Garden Arena (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/08 Nampa, ID @ Idaho Center (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/09 Missoula, MT @ Adams Center (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/11 San Francisco, CA @ 103 Harriet Street
12/12 Sacramento, CA @ Arco Arena (w/ Nine Inch Nails)
12/13 Las Vegas, NV @ Planet Hollywood (w/ Nine Inch Nails)

BUTTHOLE SURFERS
12/09 Barcelona, ESP @ Sala Apolo 2
12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw (w/ Black Dice)

COLOSSAL YES
12/06 Brussels, BEL @ Beursschouwburg (Intimate Strangers Festival)

CRYSTAL STILTS
12/07 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (w/ Love Is All)
12/08 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
12/10 Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa (w/ Love Is All)
12/11 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern (w/ Love Is All)
12/12 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick (w/ Love Is All)
12/13 Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing Company (w/ Love Is All)
12/14 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (w/ Love Is All)
12/15 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Times New Viking, Love Is All)
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Vetiver)

DAEDELUS
12/13 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge
12/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
12/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle/STS9
12/31 Chicago, IL @ Silver Wrapper @ Abbey Pub

DAMON & NAOMI
01/15/09 London, UK @ Luminaire
01/16/09 Lisbon, PRT @ ZDB
01/17/09 Porto, PRT @ Plano B
01/18/09 Vigo, ESP @ Vademecum
01/20/09 Gijon, ESP @ Casino
01/21/09 Huesca, ESP @ Matadero
01/22/09 Tarragona, ESP @ Loop
01/30/09 Lyon, FR @ Sonic
01/31/09 Paris / St-Ouen, FR @ Mo'Fo Festival

DASH RIP ROCK
12/27 Houston, TX @ Continental Club

DIRTBOMBS
12/03 Belfast, IRE @ Limelight
12/04 Leeds, UK @ The Faversham
12/05 Minehead, UK @ ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Festival
12/07 Rotterdam, NL @ Waterfront
12/08 Hamburg, DEU @ Molotow
12/10 Oslo, NOR @ Garage
12/11 Gothenburg, SWE @ Pusterviksbaren
12/12 Stockholm, SWE @ Gearclub @ Debaser
12/13 Lund, SWE @ Mjeret
12/14 Berlin, DEU @ Magnet
12/15 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
12/16 Antwerp, BEL @ Trix

DOSH
12/27 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
1/28/09 New York, NY Carnegie Hall (w/ Andrew Bird)

DROP THE LIME
12/05 Providence, RI @ Jerky’s Music Hall
12/06 Allston, MA @ Harpers Ferry

EAT SKULL
12/06 Portland, OR @ East End

THE GATES OF SLUMBER
12/03 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop (w/ Midnight, Argus)
12/04 Columbus, OH @ Ravari Room
12/05 Chicago, IL @ The Metal Shaker
12/06 Indianapolis, IN @ Emerson Theater

MICHAEL GIRA
12/10 New York, NY @ Housing Works Bookstore Café (w/ Larkin Grimm)

GODS & QUEENS
12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

HANK IV
12/06 San Francisco, CA @ El Rio
01/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Hank IV)

HELMS ALEE
12/05 Seattle, WA @ The Comet

MICHAEL HURLEY
12/11 Astoria, OR @ Redhare
12/20 Portland, OR @ Papa G's Organic Deli
12/29 Astoria, OR @ Ft. George Brewery

INTELLIGENCE
12/27 Portland, OR @ Slabtown
12/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Redwood
01/01/09 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink Elephant
01/02/09 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern

ISIS
12/04 London, UK @ Scala (w/ Torche)
12/06 Minehead, UK @ ATP
12/07 Sheffield, UK @ Corporation (w/ Torche)
12/08 Oxford, UK @ The Regal (w/ Torche)
12/09 Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
12/10 Gent, BEL @ Voorul

ESSIE JAIN
12/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall

JEL
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

KID606
12/05 Glasgow, UK @ Barfly
12/07 Edinburgh, UK @ Coalition (Sneaky Petes)
12/12 Berlin, DEU @ Berghain/Leisure System

KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW
12/05 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace 12/06 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon

KRALLICE
12/13 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside (w/ Ludicra)

LARKIN GRIMM
12/05 Brooklyn, NY @ The Charleston
12/10 New York NY Housing Works Bookstore Café (w/ Michael Gira)
12/12 Richmond, VA @ Thanky Space
12/13 Greensboro, NC @ Green Bean
12/14 Greenville, SC @ Reverb
12/15 Athens, GA @ Tasty World
12/16 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L.

LESBIAN
12/12 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey

LUDICRA
12/13 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside (w/ Krallice)

NADJA
12/04 Lisbon, PRT @ ZDB
12/05 Porto, PRT @ Fábrica de Som
12/06 Bragança, PRT @ Central Pub
12/07 Avilés, ESP @ Festival Articulo
12/08 Leon, ESP @ Hellraiser
12/10 Sevilla, ESP @ Utopia
12/11 Madrid, ESP @ El Perro
12/12 Bilbao, ESP @ Santana27
12/13 San Sebastian, ESP @ Sound Of Silence

ODD NOSDAM
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
12/05 Leicester, UK The Charlotte
12/06 Manchester, UK Club Academy
12/08 Cork, IRE Pavillion
120/9 Dublin, IRE Andrews Lane Theatre
12/10 Belfast, UK Limelight
12/12 Glasgow, UK Captain’s Rest
12/13 Leeds, UK The Cockpit
12/14 Nottingham, UK The Social
12/16 London, UK Old Blue Last
12/17 London, UK Sazerac
12/18 London, UK The Forum

PEDESTRIAN
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

PEEL
12/17 Austin TX Emo's

POP LEVI
12/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
01/09/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

PYLON
12/15 New York, CA @ Knitting Factory (WNYU 35th Anniversary Concert)

JACK ROSE
12/03 Lisbon, PRT @ Caberet Maxime
12/05 Dublin, IRE @ Aouglas Hyde Gallery
12/06 Stockholm, SWE @ Stand
12/07 Gothenburg, SWE @ AFK in Gothenburg (ideal privat)
12/09 Bergen, NOR @ Landmark
12/10 Aarhus, DNK @ Cafe Lobby
12/11 Oslo, NOR @ Gronland Kirke
12/12 Oslo, NOR @ Podium
12/13 Den Haag, NL @ Paard Van Troje State Forms X Festival
12/16 Philadelphia, PA @ 1st Unitarian Chapel
12/18 Chapel Hill, NC @ Night Light
12/19 Asheville, NC @ Harvest Records
12/20 Memphis, TN @ Odessa
12/30 Austin, TX @ Mohawk

THE SHINING PATH
12/12 Brussels, BEL @ FM Brussels Live Performance and Interview
12/13 Brussels, BEL @ Belgie Kunstencentrum

SKULL DEFEKTS
12/10 Paris, FR @ Sonic Protest @ Instants Chavirés

SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB
12/30 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
12/31 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
01/31/09 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater
02/1/09 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
02/3/09 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
02/4/09 Breckenridge, CO @ Three20 South
02/5/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/6/09 Vail, CO @ Sandbar
02/7/09 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
02/8/09 Crested Butte, CO @ The Eldo

SPARKS
02/14/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall (UCLA)

THEMSELVES
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

TIMES NEW VIKING
12/03 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live (w/ Deerhunter)
12/04 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon (w/ Deerhunter)
12/05 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (w/ Deerhunter)
12/06 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree (w/ Deerhunter)
12/07 Miami, FL @ Marcy Bldg. (w/ Pink Reason)
12/09 Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone
12/15 Columbus, OH @ The Summit (w/ Crystal Stilts)

TRICLOPS!
12/03 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (w/ Hanson Bros)

VENETIAN SNARES
12/05 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/06 Miami, FL @ 305 Music Lounge (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/10 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/11 Austin, TX @ Elysium (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/13 Oakland, CA @ Historic Sweets Ballroom (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/20 Portland, OR @ The Fez Ballroom (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
12/21 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge (w/ Otto Von Schirach)

VETIVER
12/04 Louisville, KY @ Museum Atrium Gallery
12/05 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater (w/ Black Crowes)
12/06 Detroit, MI @ The Filmore @ State Theater (w/ Black Crowes)
12/07 Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom (w/ Black Crowes)
12/08 Grinnell, IA @ Herrick Chapel @ Grinnell College
12/09 Fargo, ND @ The Venue (w/ Black Crowes)
12/10 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (w/ Black Crowes)
12/11 Des Moines, IA @ ValAir Ballroom (w/ Black Crowes)
12/12 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr
12/13 Denver, CO @ Filmore Auditorium (w/ Black Crowes)
12/14 Lawrence, KS @ Jack Pot Saloon
12/15 St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Night Club
12/17 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ( w/ Crystal Stilts)

VIVIAN GIRLS
12/03 London, UK @ Old Blue Last
12/04 Nottingham, UK @ The Social
12/05 Liverpool, UK @ Club Evol
12/06 Glasgow, UK @ Captain's Rest
12/07 Leeds, UK @ Cockpit
12/08 Coventry, UK @ Colosseum
12/09 London, UK @ Madame Jojo's - White Heat
12/10 Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
12/12 London, UK @ Vice Kills Proud Galleries
12/13 Bristol, UK @ Club Kute at Cooler

VOLCANO!
12/06 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge

WHY?
12/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (Anticon's 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary)

WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS
12/05 Vancouver, BC @ Transmission
12/07 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
12/09 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
12/11 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
02/02/09 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/03/09 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall (w/ Lykke Li)
02/04/09 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda (w/ Lykke Li)
02/06/09 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix (w/ Lykke Li)
02/07/09 Chicago, IL @ Metro (w/ Lykke Li)
02/08/09 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity (w/ Lykke Li)
02/11/09 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/12/09 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne (w/ Lykke Li)
02/13/09 Seattle, WA @ Showbox (w/ Lykke Li)
02/15/09 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore (w/ Lykke Li)
02/17/09 Pomona, CA @ Glass House (w/ Lykke Li)

DEVON WILLIAMS
12/03 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot (w/ 18th Dye)
12/04 Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop (w/ 18th Dye)
12/05 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (w/ 18th Dye)
12/06 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry (w/ 18th Dye)
12/09 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey (w/ 18th Dye)
12/12 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (w/ 18th Dye)

WOODEN SHJIPS
12/12 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (w/ Mudhoney)
12/13 Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theater (w/ Mudhoney)
01/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Eagle Tavern (w/ Hank IV)

The Week That Was On Uncut's Year End Best Of List.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Video Premiere On Yesterday's Forkcast (12/1/08).

Pitchfork.tv: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: "Everything With You" [Video Premiere]

An iffy economy, a war in Iraq, and a Democrat returning to the White House aren't all the late 2000s have in common with the early 1990s. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's "Everything With You" is the type of melodic, love-blissed noise-pop single that could have come out on Slumberland years ago, but instead it's taken from the New York four-piece's forthcoming full-length debut for the label. The video, too, recalls an era when handheld camcorders rather than cell phones and digital cameras were the most convenient way of making home videos. Directed by Art Boonparn, it follows two likable young women goofing around and having adventures. In indie pop, it's always OK to have a best friend.

TPOBPAH make the pilgrimage to Indie-Pop Mecca this December:
12/02 Colchester, UK Arts Center
12/05 Leicester, UK The Charlotte
12/06 Manchester, UK Club Academy
12/08 Cork, IRE Pavillion
12/09 Dublin, IRE Andrews Lane Theatre
12/10 Belfast, UK Limelight
12/12 Glasgow, UK Captain’s Rest
12/13 Leeds, UK The Cockpit
12/14 Nottingham, UK The Social
12/16 London, UK Old Blue Last
12/17 London, UK Sazerac
12/18 London, UK The Forum

Larkin Grimm New York Times Review Yesterday (Sunday 11/30/08).

Larkin Grimm
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Combing through the singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm’s strange and deeply original new record, “Parplar” (Young God), you keep picking up rude shocks, some of them sung in a pleasant, cooing voice, over original and hypnotic combinations of different kinds of folk music. “Oh Mama, I’m a bad spirit, be my host,” she sings. And: “My hooks are sharp, my heart is cold.” And: “Damn the man in you.” And: “Who told you you’re going to be all right? Well, they were wrong.”

A lot of her lyrical images (and the arrangement ideas, like mariachi brass with fingerpicked guitar and synthesizer) seem to come from dreams. But her dreams aren’t utopian; they’re as complicated as real life.

Upcoming Grimm shows:
12/10 New York @ NY Housing Works Bookstore Café (w/ Michael Gira)
12/12 Richmond, VA @ Thanky Space
12/13 Greensboro, NC @ Green Bean
12/14 Greenville, SC @ Reverb
12/15 Athens, GA @ Tasty World
12/16 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L.

Revolver USA Podcast #13 Is Posted And Raging!

Podcast # 13 : This week you can here the delightful sounds of: Restiform Bodies, Absentee, Apache, Roots Manuva, Vivian Girls, and Zomes. Whole Lotta Love.

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