http://www.thetripwire.com Rock music mp3, podcasts, news, blogs, reviews. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:25:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alongside our FADER bros, we were very jazzed to throw our backs into presenting The Soft Pack's free record release show in NYC at the Cake Shop last Friday night. Lots of friends and a few vagrants came out to sweat along to Soft Pack songs old and brand spanking new. ... http://www.thetripwire.com/live/2010/02/08/live-the-soft-packs-record-release-show-cake-shop/ Hey, you know what's better than an unreleased No Age song? THREE unreleased No Age songs. And if you head over to the mighty Daytrotter blog at this very moment, that is exactly what you'll get. The "skaters, but not entirely skate-punk" duo burn through new jams "N.G.F.S" and "Depletion" ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/08/no-age-more-like-new-age/ Alright, so we were sitting here watching this clip for Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi's "Go Do," and we came to a heavy realization: how much does Jónsi look like Marilyn Manson in the video for "The Beautiful People" here? Seriously, between the pale-white face paint, the herky-jerky, sped-up camera footage, ... http://www.thetripwire.com/blog/2010/02/08/jnsis-new-video-establishes-our-sigur-rs-marilyn-manson-connection/ Q: Did you watch the Super Bowl last night? A) Yes -- WHO DAT?! B) Yes -- I DO NOT CARE FOR TRACY PORTER AT THE MOMENT. C) I hate football. D) Please stop. If you answered C or D, chances are you missed Grizzly Bear's very first foray into advertising! That's right, "Two Weeks" ... http://www.thetripwire.com/uncategorized/2010/02/08/punch-your-co-worker-if-you-heard-grizzly-bear-in-a-volkswagen-ad-last-night/ A funny thing happened on the way to Adam Green's Manhattan apartment the other week. Wait, no, that's wrong. A funny thing happened at Green's apartment: in all the conversational space left between two of the newer jams/froot looped mindspirals he thoughtfully shared, Green also gave us an extended tour ... http://www.thetripwire.com/tripwiretvspotlight/2010/02/08/a-visit-to-adam-greens-apartment/ WE'RE BIKINI KILL. AND WE WANT REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW! In keeping with the "now" part of that sentence, funny blogger/'90s feminist icon/BK singer Kathleen Hanna has started the millennial version of a fanzine—a Bikini Kill blog—where people can leave their memories of the band. Obviously testimonial and archivism was ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/08/wiki-ni-kill-riot-grrrl-gets-digital/ We know. They're hopeless, right? During their current trek through the UK, the men of Vampire Weekend stopped by the BBC’s Maida Vale studio last week to record a session for Radio 1’s Zane Lowe. Instead of doing their usual, they decided to lay down a relatively polite, delay-smeared cover of ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/08/vampire-weekend-now-appropriating-white-music-as-well/ Often times when we find a story that catches our fancy, we sort of summarize it for you and inject pith of such a high quality you can only find it here. But this time we're going to strongly encourage you go to the original source. MTV found a dude ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/dude-goes-to-p4k-and-juggalo-festivals-embraces-inner-juggalo/ Apparently, somebody claimed that Kanye West lost his shit on a plane from Los Angeles to New York because he was offered a seat in Business Class. We say "apparently" because we don't spend every moment of our day chasing down the seemingly endless flow of rumors concerning Mr. West ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/kanye-west-finally-breaks-caps-lock-button-is-sleeping-in-studio/ Last year, Delorean's 5-song EP Ayrton Senna made us profoundly weak in the knees. At the time, their euphoric, beachy brand of sunny electronica was dovetailing (in the best way) with a series of killer summer anthems. Now, according to Pitchfork, we're in for a new season of swooning. Their ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/get-your-beach-towel-and-your-bong-theres-a-new-delorean-lp-on-the-way/ This one is so weird, we're just going to straight up explain what's going on here with facts and shit. Basically, quiet-storm icon Sade commented on a radio show that she liked Wu-Tang OG Raekwon's searing, don't-call-it-a-comeback Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II. The news got to Rae, and he ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/raekwon-and-sade-together-at-last/ Oh, boy. First, there was R. Kelly's original five-part song-story-long-form-video-thing Trapped in the Closet, and that made us happy. You laughed, we laughed. Then, Kells was like, "Wait a minute, I have seven more chapters of this story for you," and we were all, "We feel happier than before." I mean, ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/r-kellys-closet-not-yet-closed-and-have-you-heard-echo-yet/ Dude. Have you ever seen Dazed and Confused? (Of course you have.) Remember that part where, like, there's that keg party in the woods, and everyone gets together and is just broing out all over the place? Man, this new Free Energy song, "Hope Child," would've been perfect for that ... http://www.thetripwire.com/listen/2010/02/05/bust-open-a-breeeeeeew-listen-to-free-energys-hope-child/ Frances Bean Cobain didn't exactly finish out the last decade with a smile on her face. Four years after Courtney Love regained custody of Frances Bean following an alleged 2003 Oxycontin overdose, Courtney lost custody of the 17-year-old Frances Bean again in late December of last year. A few ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/for-frances-bean-cobain-2010-is-already-better-than-2009/ Last night, Brit electro-funkers Hot Chip dropped by one of the better venues in New York -- that is, the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon -- to drop some dance-y knowledge from their new album, One Life Stand, on America's after-hours couch potatoes. Oh, and look who give ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/hot-chip-and-the-roots-team-up-to-form-rhythmic-voltron-for-jimmy-fallon/ Spoon's new video for single "Written In Reverse" just premiered. It's great, but it's also briefly disorienting. This, quite fortunately for you,  got us to thinking: Spoon is very likely the most precise band of our generation, particularly in a live setting.(People in the know sometimes use the adjective "tight.") ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/spoon-make-simple-video-that-gives-us-complex-ideas/ Previously, we alerted you to the awe-inspiring, genre-mashing partnership of one Mr. James Murphy and one Noah Baumbach, in which Murphy was to write several solo tracks for the director's forthcoming film, Greenberg, starring a surprisingly subdued Ben Stiller. Now, we are pleased to share the tracklisting for the movie's ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/james-murphys-soundtrack-to-ben-stillers-midlife-crisis-now-has-a-playlist/ That's not rain coming in, it's a tropical-punk thunder cloud! Aaaaaah! On a more serious note, Abe Vigoda will be embarking on a month-long trek across the States this Spring, a few dates of which they'll share with those pesky, French-speaking chartmongers, Vampire Weekend. The guys will debut some new ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/hear-new-abe-vigoda-now-see-them-open-for-vampy-weeks-later/ Magnetic Fields have had a pretty sensational month, and Stephin Merritt's kind of bragging about it (Q: "What are they making a documentary about you for?" A: "'Cause I'm fascinating," obviously.) Having just re-released their excellent new album Realism, confirmed news that songwriting maestro Stephin Merritt will be live-scoring ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/stephin-merritt-goes-head-to-head-with-taxi-driver-exhibits-strange-powers/ Steven Ellison, a.k.a. futuristic beatmaker Flying Lotus, has already made quite a name for himself with his brand of psychedelic instrumental hip-hop, best showcased on 2008's stunning Los Angeles. But getting Radiohead front man Thom Yorke to guest on his new record? That's big, man -- like, Avatar big. Alright, so ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/05/thom-yorke-guests-on-flying-lotus-forthcoming-album-imbues-it-with-avatar-like-qualities/ Do you live in the NYC-area and read our blog? If so, why do you always ignore us on the street? We get that it's cold, but C'MON. Anyway, our Fader compadres are throwing a little release party with us for The Soft Pack's delightful new album. The best part, it's ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/nyc-come-see-the-soft-pack-with-us-fo-free/ With our profession in constant turmoil these days, it's good to see these dudes have maintained their Editor'ing day jobs (Sorry—too inside baseball?). Seriously though, "Munich" was totally our sad party jam when it/they came out in '05, and now they're teaming up with Tripwire mainstays The Antlers. Dates below. 02.05 ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/editors-to-tour-correct-lousy-grammar-across-u-s/ Further proof neither Paul Simon nor his songwriting chum Art Garfunkel ever truly possessed the title of "only living boy in New York" (when will the lies stop?), a New York man (who our sources tell us was likely once a New York boy) attempted to steal Simon's identity yesterday ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/paul-simon-allowing-others-to-call-him-al-nearly-backfires/ Dust off that swan dress and start playing with Legos again -- two of Europe's most weirdly adorable artists, French director Michel Gondry and Icelandic avant-pop icon Bjork, are getting ready to work together. On what, you might ask? Well...we don't know. Neither do Gondry and Bjork, for that matter. ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/quirk-alert-bjork-michel-gondry-team-up-for-undefined-project/ A week ago, critical feathers seemed to be aruffle again all thanks to the men of Vampy Weeks. Jessica Hopper of the Chicago Reader took them to task for their defensive, elastic brand of bourgeois "whiteness" and the way in which they've plundered Third World sounds to backdrop their hits ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/vampire-weekend-speak-french-too-le-nerve/ Things we knew yesterday: 1. Paul Simon is the only Paul Simon. 2. Organic farming is a cool thing lots of people are doing. 3. That Men At Work song is a fine original piece of Aussie art. Things we know today: 1. Nothing. (Via: MTV) http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/04/men-at-work-copyright-infringement-case-ruins-simple-guilt-free-joys-of-novelty-songs/ We were pleasantly surprised upon hearing Rogue Wave's return to the fray a few weeks ago: "Good Morning," lead mpfree from their fourth-coming LP Permalight, was an unabashed rush through poptronica tropes that have quickly soured since nerds started hurling darts at Owl City last year. No matter. Like its album's title, ... http://www.thetripwire.com/listen/2010/02/04/exclusive-listen-rogue-waves-solitary-gun/ Speaking exclusively with SPIN yesterday afternoon, Patrick Stump has declared that he is no longer part of Fall Out Boy. He expands his statement to say, "One way or another, the band will always be around. Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/patrick-stump-leaves-fall-out-boy-not-really-worried-about-fall-out-boy/ Oh, dear: having taken inspiration from the drug-addled Keith Richards when crafting his Jack Sparrow persona, Johnny Depp has decided to direct a documentary on the Rolling Stones guitarist, who also appeared in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as Depp's father. "Now that I'm wiser, and that enough time has ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/johnny-depp-to-direct-documentary-on-his-peg-legged-father/ According to a report by Memphis' Commercial Appeal, Shelby County Medical Examiner Karen E. Chancellor is quoted as saying that garage-rocker Jay Reatard died January 13th due to "cocaine toxicity, and that alcohol was a contributing factor in his death." He was 29. (via P4k via Stereogum) http://www.thetripwire.com/uncategorized/2010/02/03/jay-reatards-autopsy-results-revealed/ Even cartoon characters can hacking websites these days: Gorillaz cartoon bassist Murdoc is broadcasting his own pirate radio show on AOL's Alternative Rock channel this morning. Check out all the mayhem here. http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/gorilla-takes-over-the-radio-interwebs/ As the giant "Recording" sign on their website indicates, the Strokes have headed back into the studio, partnering with producer Joe Chiccarelli (who has worked with U2, Beck and Bjork) and engineer Gus Oberg to record a follow-up to First Impressions of Earth. The band promises to post videos from their ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/the-strokes-return-to-the-studio-together/ Okay, maybe not instant fame and maybe we just made that bit about the jacuzzi up. But the Guitar Center is hosting an unsigned band competition, the winner of which will write, record, and perform a 3-song EP with Slash, and hero-producer Mike Clink. Additional benefits of winning? A management development ... http://www.thetripwire.com/blog/2010/02/03/guitar-center-competition-promises-instant-fame-limousine-jacuzzi-dips-with-slash/ Maybe you've tried to find meaning in a Pink Floyd laser show, psychedelics in your system. Maybe you've sat on your couch with the shades drawn in a cloud of weed smoke as Pink Floyd dripped out of your stereo. If so, get thee to Tennessee come June: having already ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/the-flaming-lips-understand-you-and-want-you-to-enjoy-bonnaroo/ Oh, those pealing bells of joy you hear? No, no, it's not a wedding. It's almost better! On May 4th, 2010, Broken Social Scene will release the long-awaited follow-up to their 2005 self-titled record via Arts & Crafts. The as-yet-untitled album will sport not only the collective's current members, but ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/03/the-burdens-of-being-epic-broken-social-scene-unleashing-new-album-may-4th/ Why would anyone willingly sacrifice themselves to the whims of the Los Angeles freeway system? If you're going to sacrifice yourself, do it for something really worthwhile--like promoting your LP. That's what The Soft Pack did just recently, performing ten shows in one L.A. day (although one, to be fair, ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/02/my-tour-makes-your-tour-feel-inadequate-10-shows-in-1-day-the-soft-pack-edition/ From the Bonnaroo folks: Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment are excited to announce that a unique unveiling of the 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival lineup will take place next Tuesday February 9th. This will unfold throughout the entire day creating a virtual event for Bonnaroo fans, who will be able ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/02/finally-the-bonnaroo-lineup-annoucement-can-be-just-as-nerdytechy-as-your-fantasy-football-draft/ So Dave and the DP crew are getting together to play their 2005 album The Getty Address in full later this month at a couple venues. When it came out, the album garnered some slight critical praise but went largely unnoticed. Now, they'll be playing it to sold out ballrooms ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/02/dirty-projectors-get-strange-pleasure-of-playing-album-from-when-they-werent-famous-to-sold-out-crowds-backed-by-famous-symphony/ A while back we mentioned that a remake of 1985's charity single "We Are the World" was in the works as a benefit for the crisis in Haiti. Well, turns out they didn't drop the ball. Fuss over the inadequacies of today's pop crop all you want, but "We Are the ... http://www.thetripwire.com/blog/2010/02/02/1985-luminaries-meet-your-replacements-we-are-the-world-reloaded/ We admit that Green Day's musical bit at the Grammys didn't get us all that stoked for the whole rock n' roll musical so much as it just made us feel awkward. Thankfully, Tom Waits seems too odd to ever create anything that might absorb the cheesiest parts of Glee. ... http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2010/02/02/tom-waits-forms-dream-team-for-upcoming-stage-musical-growls/