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Say what you will about Joan of Arc, but those guys have kept it going. Fifteen years in the business of experimental rock with a short breakup as their only real hiccup. Even with the ongoing reunion of frontman Tim Kinsella s original band, Cap n Jazz, Joan of Arc are still going strong with a lengthy fall tour. And while they haven t quite been on it enough to release a new record this year, they do have a new 7-inch called Meaningful Work coming out. It s a release that finds the band concerned with themes travel discount of money, environmental devastation, and economic collapse. Sounds peppy!
If you re the proprietor of a coffee shop, you probably went all-out and bought the deluxe edition travel discount of Andrew Bird s 2009 album Noble Beast ( TMT Review ), just for the bonus disc of latte-companion instrumental music titled Useless Creatures that came along with it.
But for everyone else that thought that Useless Creatures was just the most clever title for an ancillary collection of non-essential junkers since The Shitty travel discount Beatles, Andrew Bird s got a surprise for you. On October 25, Fat Possum (and Bella Union in the UK) is releasing said album on its own for the first time, thereby elevating the thing from throwaway sketchbook tracked with his buddies to ambient experimental record featuring Wilco s Glenn Kotche and jazz-trained bassist Todd Sickafoose. So we all have to run out and reckon with it this new way now, I think. Sorry, coffee shop proprietors.
travel discount Bird is also playing more than a handful of shows before the year is out, including a few European dates and several solo US winter dates, once again based around the Dutch concept of Gezelligheid . Yes, he s done this before. Why? Because re-contextualizing things is what artists DO, man.
What does an aging critically-acclaimed musician/band do when their time in the sun is long past but still want to be relevant? Well, they could go on a reunion tour, do something tragic to force fans to think about the good days (suicide is a good example), or do what most bands do: reissue a great album.
That s just what The Soft Boys are doing, as Underwater Moonlight is going back to the presses! The album (which falls into the category Great Albums That Had Influence But, Strangely Enough, Not Many Listeners, along with company travel discount like Big Star) will once again see the light of day with the helping hands of Yep Roc. This time around, Underwater Moonlight will be reissued in its 10-song travel discount original format on both CD and 180 gram vinyl.
The bonus material included on past reissues, which took up the majority of space, will only be available as digital downloads, but the big news of this reissue is the fact that this is the first time that the original form of the album has been reissued on LP, ever. And because The Soft Boys know that the true worth of an artist is based on their entire catalog travel discount and not just one release, they ve also announced the reissue of their first release, A Can of Bees . Similar to Underwater Moonlight , the album will be available on both CD and LP (this being the first time that the album has been repressed to vinyl) and will feature downloadable travel discount bonus tracks.
travel discount Alright, kids. Why even screw around here when it comes to a veteran band like Minus the Bear? At this point, you either like them, or you don t, right? I mean, I could do some sort of tie-in to their latest album, Omni , released this past spring on Dangerbird; but even that seems to matter little. You ve either got it already, or you don t really give a shit.
Or, I guess I could mention that they re touring the U.S. this fall, followed by a bunch of European dates opening for Jimmy Eat World. But let s face it, is it really doing Minus the Bear any good to be mentioned in the same sentence as Jimmy Eat World? Not around these parts, it ain t.
Well, it seems as though the least I could do is list the dates for you below, though even that seems kinda arbitrary to me. You re either so totally going, or you re not even reading this. Right? Right. But, hey, now that I think about it, I guess I can say one thing definitively about Minus the Bear: they are a band who is touring this fall. Yup. Sure as shootin .
Shucks, John Vanderslice, mighty thoughtful of you to put out a new digital EP for free. And just for my birthday, travel discount you ol dog! Granted, my birthday is in March, so I might be misinterpreting things just a bit. Whatever the case may be, the veteran indie-pop songwriter is giving the people of the world Green Grow the Rushes , a brand-new digital EP follow-up to 2009 s Romanian Names ( TMT Review ). The whole affair travel discount is available over at Vanderslice s website and comes in both 320 kbps MP3 and uncompressed WAV formats. It even comes with artwork and a lyrics/credits sheet! Now, if only there were a handful of Vanderslice live dates in the near future. Wait, there are. Nevermind.
The Legendary Pink Dots are, in many ways, a very unforgiving band. Unforgiving in their stark, haunting lyricism. Unforgiving in their dense, post-industrial rhythmic onslaughts. Entirely and especially travel discount unforgiving in their approach to recording and touring over the past 30 years. This trend will now be even more exaggerated with the impending release travel discount of Seconds Late for the Brighton Line , the band s 40th-something release (if you count all the CD-Rs and such).
The album is set to be regurgitated travel discount onto the populace on October 5 via ROIR, with the first 500 CDs displaying a deluxe cover, and the double-vinyl version sporting a bonus side. They, being the super (or non)-humans that they are, are of course running through the states too beginning October 15. As many of you LPD heads are well aware, longtime band members Neils Van Hoorn and Martjn have departed, forcing the band to bring on some guest players for this upcoming tour. Let that be no reason to think that they won t bring the pain, because I can assure you they will.