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Primal Scream have announced the release of their new album, ‘Beautiful World‘. The follow-up to 2006’s ‘Riot City Blues‘ is set for release on July 21 and will include guest appearances by CSS’s Lovefoxxx and Little Barrie. The first single from the new album, ‘Can’t Go Back‘, will be released on July 14.
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is among the artists who are taking part in a special birthday track to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Converse shoe. The track, which will be made available as a free download on the shoe’s site, will also include Santogold and Pharrell Williams, who is producing the track. Speaking about the track Santi White (aka Santogold) told Gigwise that “everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn’t do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate.” Is is reported that all three, including Pharrell, take turns singing verses on the track.
A review of the special track is up on Pitchfork with an excerpt below.
The Strokes
It sounds like a less shiny, more downtown version of the Timbaland/Justin Timberlake/Nelly Furtado jam “Give It to Me”, complete with silly disses of unidentified targets (”I find your approach so adolescent / I may look young, but your game is pre-pubescent,” Santogold sings.) Pharrell makes the unfortunate decision to try to sing (that has never worked out well in the past), crooning come-ons like “now thank you for coming to my drive-thru.” As usual, Julian sounds like he just woke up, making the line “if you wanna be like us you better work every night” kind of comical. There’s also a part near the end where everybody sings about how they “just wanna dance.”
Vampire Weekend, Cat Power and Animal Collective are among the impressive list of acts lined up to play this year’s Rogers Picnic festival. The one-day festival, which takes place at historic Fort York in downtown Toronto on July 20, will also include performances by Tokyo Police Club, Dizze Rascal, The Carps, and more.
Coldplay are such philanthropist. The band has just donated £3000 to a school hit by last summer’s floods. The school, St. David’s School in Moreton, Cotswald, received the money from the group to purchase a new piano after the flood destroyed the school’s instruments. Christina Windridge, a teaching assistant at St David’s, said, “The money that we would have had to use to pay for the piano has been used to buy other keyboard equipment” reports dotmusic.
Oasis has confirmed the pending release of their new album due out sometime this autumn. Speaking on Russell Brand’s Radio 2 show on May 17, Noel Gallagher said the band would be releasing the as-yet-untitled-album in September. Although no exact date was mentioned at least we got confirmation and an estimated time of release.
Many of you may have read earlier last week about Arcade Fire getting ready to work on the soundtrack for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s new film, The Box, well it turns out that’s not exactly true. The story all began after Kelly wrote on his MySpace post, “We’re staring to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first filmmakers they’ve ever scored a film with.” Then a few days later producer/engineer Markus Dravs wrote, on a note on his website, “[I'm] off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a Sound-track for the forth coming Richard Kelly film.” This led many in the media, including ourselves, to believe Arcade Fire would be scoring the film, as it turns out that isn’t 100% correct. Win Butler has clarified things for fans and media alike. On his blog post titled, “NO SUNDTRACKS GO”, Butler wrote:
Arcade Fire
Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring… just to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books, and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet [sic] and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly’s new movie…we met at a show this year and hit it off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or a release.
The upcoming Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour just got a whole lot longer. The band has just added a string of dates to their forthcoming tour which is set to kick off on May 17 in Columbus, OH. Among the new dates added are shows in Montreal, Sacramento as well as a stop at the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans on October 24.
Band Of Horses, The Black Keys and Sons & Daughters are among those added to the lineup for Seattle’s Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival. The three-day festival, now in its 38th year, will take place from August 30 to September 1 at the 74-acre Seattle Center. Also added to the bill are Paramore, The All-American Rejects and Estelle. All the new additions will be joining headliners Beck and Stone Temple Pilots.
More acts are due to be announced in the next few weeks.
Hot Chip are gearing up for a North American tour this autumn. The tour, in support of their album ‘Made In The Dark‘, will kick off with two consecutive performances at the Wilter Theatre in Los Angles September 21 and 22 and will also include performances in Austin (Austin City Limits), Montreal and New York before coming to an end in Atlanta on October 9.
Tickets for the tour are set to go on sale May 23, with pre-sale beginning May 20.
The Pierces and Nikolai Fraiture of The Strokes‘ are among those set to play tribute to Bob Dylan next week. The event, which celebrates the 67th birthday of Dylan, will also include performances by Adam Green, Marc Philippe Eskenazi, Matt Romano and Josh Lattanzi of Albert Hammond, Jr.’s band, Russell Simins of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Tracey Bonham and The Hymns. The tribute will take place on May 23 at Rehab in the East Village.
