The Black Lips andGZA are formally releasing their track together, titled 'The Drop I Hold,' even if the former cops to the cheese often found with rap/rock fusion. "[It's a] bad idea," the Lips' Jared Swilley tells Spinner of rap/rock combos. "It's led to some of the worst music of all-time. It can be done tastefully, but there is a very fine line to be tread." Good luck with that, guys, but what inquiring minds really want to know: What would your Wu-Tang alias be? "Elvis' Pelvis," he says.
Listen to Black Lips Feat GZA - The Drop I Hold
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Randolph Chabot has been making albums since he was 12 years old -- now, at 22, the Detroit-based musician known as Deastro is ready for his close-up.
Chicago-based photographer/videographer James P. Morse -- a longtime friend and collaborator of Ghostly International's -- followed Chabot around Detroit for a day and edited the footage into "Ghostly Presents: Deastro," a video profile whose warm, colorful aesthetic matches Chabot's energy and positivity to a T. Chabot putters around his Detroit home, visits his favorite bookstore, gushes about Isaac Asimov and Simone de Beauvoir, and plays a sweaty, packed show with his band. It's a loving portrait of an artist who stays true to his beliefs, staying passionate, engaged, and creative in all of his endeavors.
Deastro's full-band debut, Moondagger, arrives on June 23rd, and the second single "Vermillion Plaza" -- along with its B-side, a squelchy, lumbering remix by Ghostly Swim featured artist Mux Mool -- drops May 12th on Ghostly International. In the meantime, enjoy "Spritle" which is taken from the "Spritle" 7" released on Five Three Dial Tone.
Listen to Deastro- Spirtle
The first single off Monuments and Melodies
In Stores 6/16
Tour Dates:
July 9th in San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre July 10th in Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl July 11th in Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint July 13th in Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Bowl July 16th in Salt Lake City, UT @ Usana Amphitheatre July 19th in Kansas City, MO @ City Market July 21st in Chicago, IL @ Charter One Pavilion July 22nd in Indianapolis, IN @ The Lawn at White River State Park July 23rd in St. Louis, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre July 25th in Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center July 26th in Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre July 29th in Celeveland, OH @ Time Warner Amphitheatre July 30th in Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre August 1st in Boston, MA @ Comcast Center August 2nd in Uncasville, CT @ The Mohegan Sun Arena August 4th in New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall August 5th in New York, NY @ P.N.C Banks Arts Center August 8th in Philadelphia, PA @ Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing August 9th in Washington, DC @ Merriweather Post Pavilion August 11th in Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre August 12th in Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre August 14th in Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre August 15th in Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre August 16th in Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheatre August 19th in Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall August 21st in Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion August 22nd in Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center August 25th in Phoenix, AZ @ Jobbing.com Arena
Listen to Incubus- Black Heart Inertia
Listen to My Dear Disco-Remix Kanye West's "Love Lockdown"
Listen to My Dear Disco- White Lies
Listen to My Dear Disco- Remix Franz Ferdinand- "Ulysses"
Emerging from the Ann Arbor suburb of Detroit, My Dear Disco has been cutting a path throughout the Midwest with its addictive self-branded style of “danethink” music which displays influences from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Daft Punk and Tom Waits. The band has kept busy in the studio as well, recently producing remixes of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” and Franz Ferdinand’s “Ulysses” that incorporate the band’s live instrumentation into each tune’s original tracks.
Known for its distinctive, “Dancethink Music,” My Dear Disco’s debut album Dancethink LP has met with much critical acclaim since its release and the band’s unique sound and style has begun to make waves nationwide. The album features mixes by Grammy-nominated engineer Mark Saunders and his multi-platinum record generating studio in New York, the same people responsible for the sound of Shiny Toy Guns’ We Are Pilots, Tricky’s Maxinquaye, David Byrne’s Feelings, and The Cure’s Wish. Additionally, the band’s high energy, inventive live shows have been generating hard-fought praise all their own.
In 2008, My Dear Disco was named one of the most promising bands in the country by American Eagle’s “New Music Union” and was invited to perform at the American Eagle Summer Festival, curated by Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers. This resulted in a fully-stocked summer 2008 festival schedule where the band performed alongside artists such as Lotus, Moe, Buckethead, and Bela Fleck. My Dear Disco continues on the road and will hit the festival circuit once again in the summer of 2009, in full-flight, following its “Dancethink Music,” wherever it takes them.
My Dear Disco Live:
03/26 Iowa City, IA @ The Mill
03/27 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
03/28 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
04/03 Marquette, MI @ Up Front & Company
04/04 Marquette, MI @ Up Front & Company
04/10 Ann Arbor, MI @ Neutral Zone
04/11 Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
04/16 Bowling Green, OH @ Howard's Club H
04/18 Kalamazoo, MI @ The Strutt
04/24 East Lansing, MI @ Club Rush
05/08 Chicago, IL @ The Gallaria Marchetti
05/09 East Lansing, MI @ Club Rush
05/14 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
05/15 Terre Haute, IN @ The Verve
05/16 Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick
05/22 Geneva, MN @ Bella Madre - Harmony Park
05/24 Thornville, OH @ Hookaville Festival
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It’s no mistake that Jacob, Abraham and David Houck of the Hungry Villagers can have this affect on music lovers. The brothers’ lives have been fully saturated with music, starting in South Africa as children, when their parents preached and played gospel music to the local villages. Thus the Villagers were born, and now with the rhythmic backbone added by drummer Ferrick Hallaron IV, the band is complete.
Hungry Villagers will release their first single "Little Fingers" digitally and on vinyl March 17.
Listen to Hungry Villagers-Tree Full Of Ghosts
Following 2005's highly acclaimed Live It Out, Metric returns with their highly anticipated fourth full length studio album Fantasies. Written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle and by frontwoman Emily Haines while on a soul-cleansing sojourn to Argentina, Fantasies is a densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro, and rock with a "really big and really dreamy" sound, says guitarist/co-founder Jimmy Shaw.
Haines adds, "For me, the major influences on the record were the places we wrote it: Bear Creek, this utopian farmhouse studio, and then our own studio in Toronto, which definitely brought in the electro, dance and rock elements because the city feels so good right now and so many of our musician friends were around. And then for me, being in Buenos Aires, most of the songs I brought to this record came out of being in exile with just a piano and a guitar. And then in the final stages, mixing at Electric Lady in NYC brought everything around to where we first met Josh and Joules.”
Listen to Metric- Help I'm Alive(acoustic)
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