Jacques Lu Cont is a many-monikered veteran British dance producer who has made tracks under any number of pseudonyms — Les Rhytmes Digitales, the Thin White Duke, the Zoot Woman project. He’s also produced for people like the Killers and Madonna. And right now, he’s releasing a series of his own tracks. He started it off two months ago with “Reload.” And below, we’ve got the second of those tracks: The blaringly catchy “Church.” Stream it after the jump.
Photographer Irish Willis Peele‘s thing was shooting punk band Frontline (and others) in Virginia, and his archive includes the above pic of students moshing at a Dead Kennedys show. According to Peele, the man in the center is none other than The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart, who was a student at William & Mary at the time. Fuckyeahjonstewart.tumblr.com to thread, immediately! (via Gawker)
Wilco :: 01.19.12 :: Fillmore Auditorium :: Denver, CO
Photo gallery below review!
Wilco by Brad Hodge
Underneath the ambient glow of the Fillmore Auditorium’s iconic purple chandeliers, a buzz began to grow. As the sold out crowd ushered in early for Wilco’s tour opener White Denim began to burrow into the ear holes of those paying attention. What often times is considered to be a rather heartless box of a venue with overpriced cocktails actually had a wonderful mix of sound. Heavy guitar riffs permeated throughout the venue, and many first timers were christened by the unique, harmonious indie pop sound of White Denim.
Despite the phenomenal opening set, the evening really was about Wilco. They had not been to Denver in a while, and I’m pretty sure they’ve never opened a tour here. The band seemed to really enjoy the scene as they got right down to business opening the show with an old delightful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot tune “Poor Places.” This was followed by the pairing of “Art of Almost” and “I Might,” early favorites from the band’s recent successful release, The Whole Love. In perfect harmony with the wants and needs of the audience, the band offered up a tasteful balance of old and new material with a song from almost every album in the band’s catalog.
Wilco by Brad Hodge
Jeff Tweedy, being the well-rounded showman he is, flaunted his sense of humor with between song banter including a rant about the aroma of the venue. “ Is pot legal here? It smells really legal in here.” This band reinvents themselves with every new album, and their live show almost always flawlessly offers up the seemingly impossible recreation of impeccable songs. Their ability to harmoniously assault the airwaves with a bevy of sounds while Tweedy’s voice slices through all the madness is really like no other.
As what seemed to be a perfect night started to fade with the set closing “Shot in the Arm,” satisfaction fell across the crowd. However, when Tweedy and crew stepped back out for the encore apparently they had no plans of going home, launching into an eight-song encore including “Whole Love” and finishing a good solid 45 minutes later with “I’m a Wheel.” The band seemed to really like Denver, and will hopefully make it back sooner than later, but for the rest of the country they are headed your way, and are not to be missed.
Setlist
Poor Places, Art of Almost, I Might, Misunderstood, Side With The Seeds, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, One Wing, She's A Jar, Impossible Germany, Via Chicago, Kamera, Born Alone, Capitol City, War On War, Box Full Of Letters, Pot Kettle Black, Dawned On Me, A Shot In The Arm
Encore: Whole Love, Heavy Metal Drummer, Walken, I'm The Man Who Loves You, Red-Eyed And Blue, I Got You (At The End Of The Century), Outtasite (Outta Mind), I'm A Wheel
AUSTIN BAND CURRENTLY SUPPORTING WILCO ON WEST COAST DATES
White Denim
Austin-based psych-garage troubadours, White Denim, are excited to extend their on-going spring tour across North America. The group, which is currently touring the West Coast in support of Grammy Award-winning rock heavyweights, Wilco, is set to bring their whirling, mellow and yet hard-driving signature sound to droves of devoted fans across the US and Canada. The foursome's headlining tour kicks off on April 4 in Houston at Fitzgerald's and will continue to traverse across the continent.
Here’s another video from Schoolboy Q’s Album Of The Week alum Habits & Contradictions, and it’s a dark, ominous clip that fits the menacing vibe of the song pretty well. The song, it should be noted, is produced by ASAP crew member Ty Beats who most memorably made the beat to ASAP Rocky’s “Peso.” Watch it below.
Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, frontman for jittery Danish punks Iceage, has a new side project called War, who could not possibly sound less like the Latin funk band with the same name. Instead, this War is a duo with Sexdrome’s Loke Rahbek, and they specialize in murky, diffuse, dark tracks that use loops and electronics. Below, listen to their track “Somme, Maggio,” their side of a split release with the Swedish band Lust For Youth. It’s five minutes long, the length of about four Iceage songs.
BOOK AVAILABLE NOW VIA BONNAROO.COM;
IN STORES NATIONWIDE APRIL 1
Superfly Presents, A.C. Entertainment, and publisher Abrams Image, are proud to announce the release of the book, Bonnaroo: What, Which, This, That, The Other. The book is available now, and can be purchased via bonnaroo.com. It will be in stores nationwide on April 1, 2012.
This first official book about the country's premier summer music and arts festival contains over 400 photos covering all 10 years of Bonnaroo, featuring shots taken by some of the best shooters working in music today, including Danny Clinch, C. Taylor Crothers, Jeff Kravitz, and Ryan Mastro, among others. It also highlights numerous personal anecdotes from fans, the festival producers, various staff, and some of the top musicians and comedians who have performed there.
Bonnaroo: What, Which, This, That, The Other boasts an essay written by Alan Light, frequent contributor to New York Times and Rolling Stone, and Bonnaroo veteran of many years. It was edited by Holly George-Warren, the award-winning author and editor of many books on music and pop-culture.
Fans of dorkily comedic things, take note: Nerd-rock veterans They Might Be Giants were on Conan last night, and it’s hard to imagine a more generally simpatico host. On the show, they played the recent track “When Will You Die.” And as a web exclusive, they also pulled out a noisy version of the 1988 relic “Ana Ng,” a song that you just know got major play in the SNL writers’ room when Conan was working there. Watch both below.
Name: Why? Progress Report: Yoni Wolf talks about the state of WHY? and the band’s sometime-to-be-released new record.
WHY? is one of those bands that will invariably cause you to sound like an asshole when you try and describe them. Hip-hop-inflected indie rock? Folk-hop? I’m gonna stop trying now. I will say, however, that the band’s last two albums — 2008’s Alopecia and 2009’s Eskimo Snow — are some of the most wonderfully unclassifiable and fantastically witty pop albums of those years. Fans of the band have been waiting nearly three years now for a new record that, according to frontman Yoni Wolf, is finished and ready to go. I had the chance to speak to Wolf a couple of days before the band played shows in NYC last month. As anyone who saw those shows can attest, the new material sounds great, so here’s hoping a release date gets announced sometime soon. Come on, dudes.
