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With a career spanning two decades, the Charlatans are back with their eleventh studio album, 'Who We Touch.' As singer Tim Burgess explains, the album represents "a soulful voyage." It's an album of twists and turns, uplifiting anthems standing alongside darker moments to create an album that surprises at every turn. This exclusive video for new single 'My Foolish Pride' finds the band adding to their already impressive back catalogue of indie anthems. Watch it after the jump...
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The audience at the packed-out venue included band producer and Grinderman drummer Jim Sclavunos as well as former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and his Beady Eye guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell.
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The Daily Mail reports that the Stones, themselves a 48-year old institution of sorts, have teamed up with the world's best-selling board game to celebrate the game's 75th anniversary.
The Stones have put their stamp on the new edition with street names like Mayfair, Park Lane and Old Kent Road being replaced by the titles of the band's most revered albums, such as 'Beggar's Banquet' and 'Sticky Fingers.' Houses and hotels have been replaced by gold and platinum records, while the traditional Community Chest cards will feature guitar licks and lyrics.
Now the hard-living group have announced a single to precede their fifth album. 'Radioactive' is out Oct. 11 with a video set to premiere at their website on Sept. 8. As previously reported on Spinner, 'Come Around Sundown' is due out a week after the single.
Further details unveiled include the artwork -- as with previous albums, the UK release will come with a unique design. 'Come Around Sundown' will be available as a download and on vinyl, along with two CD versions, a standard release and a deluxe set that includes live tracks recorded at the band's 30 June show in Hyde Park, London, when they played to a 60,000-strong audience. You can get the full tracklisting after the jump.
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Artist: Gold Panda
Hails From: London
Song: 'Snow and Taxis'
Album: 'Lucky Shiner'
Sounds Like: DJ Shadow, Four Tet
In Their Words: "It was made over Christmas in the countryside. I'd make the track for a couple of hours, record down to my headphones and listen to it while walking Daisy, the dog, through the snow, go back home and add more layers. Being a solo artist with some heavy gear I'd take taxis quite a bit to get to stations and airports. It is quite a surreal experience being in a taxi with some guy you don't know and it's just you and him in this 12 noon cowboy-style stand off." -- Derwin Panda
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Jakwob was a progenitor of luvstep/lovestep before anyone even thought to call it that—what can we say, he was apparently just an emotional dude ages before all y’all decided you needed to get girlfriends and boyfriends and whatever else you want to love. His remix of Ellie Goulding’s Starry-Eyed still sends us running for the [...]
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"This is an example of the Disco Biscuits just having fun and, artistically, doing something we've never done before," bassist Marc Brownstein (pictured) tells Spinner. "Film is just a natural extension of music, and our job has always been 30% acting -- playing the part of the characters in our songs as we sing them."
Apologies if we’re a little late to this party, but when it came through that The Tripwire, the FADER’s source for every awesome thing in rock. Starting next week, The Tripwire will become a weekly column on TheFADER.com, combining the latest music, news, interviews, haiku reviews, cheekiness and a fairly healthy amount of guitars. Stay [...]
After leading the Call through a 20-year career, Michael Been took an active role in his son's band, serving not only as BRMC's soundman but also as their mentor and adviser. He was on tour with the band at the time of his death. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, those who wish to honor Been's memory via a gift should make a donation to MusiCares or the Not For Sale Campaign. Clicking on those links will take you directly to their respective donation pages.
The Bushwick DIY show space Party Expo has had a wild year: after opening back in January with a booze-soaked benefit show featuring three of the rowdier bands in Brooklyn--Japanther, Death...
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Chilean DJ Paul Marmota plays UK funky and Afro-Latin house at clubs in his present hometown of Mexico City, a vocation made possible by technology’s global liberation effect at its finest. Marmota uploads his A Pata Pela mixes to SoundCloud (the now version of a bustling marketplace) and the latest is awesome—a painstakingly mixed bit [...]
Trey Songz is the Stephen Sondheim of fuck scenarios. “The Usual” is “Sweeney Todd.” He is the title character. You are Mrs. Nellie Lovett. Only instead of murdering people for meat pies (boring), you are going to pull over the whip so you can bone on the side of the road. This may sound like [...]
On the comedy stage of All Tomorrow's Parties New York this weekend is the recently minted 30 Rock writer Hannibal Buress. The local comic's been all over the festival circuit this summe...
The Onion’s AV Club recently petitioned 25 luminaries of indie rock (and Patrick Stump) to perform cover songs in a tiny, circular room at their offices. Being the bookishly suave gentlemen that they are, the Walkmen agreed to cover whatever song was left at the end of the series, which just so happened to be [...]
David Toop, author of Sinister Resonance, is interviewed by Keith Connolly of No-Neck Blues Band fame in the new issue of Bomb.
"When I came across Sinister Resonance at the bookshop I was eerily drawn to it by its title. Then I flipped through it, and there were Machen, and Blackwood, and Malevich, and so much more. Upon reading it I was even a little spooked: the resemblance of some of its contents with my own explorations and impressions were, to borrow one of Toop’s key words, uncanny. From prenatal listening to impressions of birdsong, and from Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Woolf to Harpo Marx and David Lynch, Sinister Resonance investigates listening as experience as well as its portrayal. It is, in my opinion, a work unmatched, a veritable sourcebook with innumerable points of departure, and overall a stunning achievement."
Yesterday, the tasteful-culture bible Paste abruptly suspended its print edition, the latest music-related publication to shut down in the past few years. The Paste website, on which the di...
For one of Zola Jesus‘ loneliest songs in a repertoire filled with them, she cast herself in two of the most isolating situations imaginable: sole person in a giant house, and stuck inside the television. Actually both of those situations are mostly just terrifying, but director Jacqueline Castel put some tragic beauty among the fright. [...]
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Artist: Goldfrapp
Video: 'Alive'
Highlight: "I had a fantastic time making the video. Everyone involved was amazing and we all had such a great time," Alison Goldfrapp tells Spinner. "Working with [director] Legs was a joy." Watch as death metal enthusiasts dance it out to techno disco and then it gets weird.
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We’re pretty psyched at how pretty our print magazine looks when you download it from our new Zinio spot, so we’re glad to announce you can now get FADER 68, our blow-out Summer Music Issue, right over here. Featuring MIA, The-Dream, Wavves and Ariel Pink, reading it feels like there is literally a party happening [...]
Ain't no shortage of sweet (and often free) parties around here this weekend, but if you're looking to attend the one with the most guys who've been on the cover of XXL, do consider the Fool...
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'Come and Get It'
Eli 'Paperboy' Reed
Speaking of school, Reed had been accepted to the University of Chicago, but he found better music education in Mississippi juke joints and the More Like Christ Christian Fellowship Church on Chicago's South Side, where he not only performed but found mentors who taught him authentic soul. This horn-heavy tune, led by Reed's Jackie Wilson-like energy, is good ole sweaty soul.
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When Big Boi was in our office a couple weeks ago, we asked him what newer rappers he’s feeling. Without hesistation, he responded, “I’m digging that Yelawolf right now… just his lyrical style, his delivery, is not one-dimensional. He’s a cool guy, and he’s definitely gonna be one of the premiere MCs as soon as [...]
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Yoko Ono performs a very, very ecstatic voice solo at the MoMA. [BestWeekEver] Guns N' Roses need to work on punctuality. [Gawker]
Lady Gaga as the world's most glamorous vagrant. [Idolator]
Cee Lo Green partakes in sweet, sweet revenge in his new video for 'F--- You' . [Aol Music Blog]
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We're constantly getting turned on to new music here at Spinner HQ. Between our Free MP3 of the Day and weekly Free CD Listening Party, we hope you are too. To help further the cause, we're gonna bring you our personal must-hear music picks with Listen Up! -- Spinner's weekly spotlight on staff-approved artists who rock our world.
Hail From: San Diego, Calif.
Why We Love Them: These Southern Calif. rockers demonstrate what sunshine can do to your psyche and sound. Bouncy riffs adorn playful synths, ready for your next road trip sing-a-long or backyard barbecue.
Essential Listening: 'Twisting and Turning' (MP3 Download)
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Exclusive Q&A With Singer/Guitarist Timothy Hines and Bassist Robert Netcoh:
What's your favorite album right now?
Timothy Hines: The Lines' 'Memory Span'
Robert Netcoh: Ariel Pink's 'Haunted Graffiti.'
German producer Boys Noize has unleashed 50 releases on his imprint Boysnoize Records, and he’s getting a little nostalgic. For his next single, he’s paying homage to his label’s first-ever release, his own “Optic/He-Man” single, returning to the same squawky acid house vein he mined all the way back in 2005. There’s no denying he’s [...]
Holy shit, everybody: Das Racist has their own video game.
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Pianist Eden Brent falls into this nebulous musical world, singing in a raspy voice and banging away on her piano as if she was playing at a speakeasy during Prohibition. Perhaps she could have been a contemporary of Bessie Smith, but to see this woman play and hear her speak leaves little doubt that she lives in the here and now. The proof is also on her third album, 'Ain't Got No Troubles,' which was recorded at the famed Piety Street Studio in New Orleans.
We very rarely find ourselves leaving the safe confines of downtown Manhattan during a weeknight outing. Anywhere north of 14th Street seems impossibly far and unfortunately stereotyped. Bu...