Thursday, May 31, 2012

Cheap Thrills: Fitz and The Tantrums - Live EP


While they're in the studio working on their sophomore set to follow up Pickin' Up The Pieces, here's a 5 song EP of live tracks and a remix of "Breakin' The Chains Of Love" to keep you busy...



Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tour Dates: The Shins

The Portland band heads around the world, ending up this fall at Austin's ACL Fest...




05-29 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater
05-31 Council Bluffs, IA - Harrah's Council Bluffs *
06-01 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater *
06-02 Kansas City, KS - Livestrong Park *
06-04 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
06-05 Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion *
06-06 Detroit, MI - Fillmore Detroit *
06-08 Cleveland, OH - Masonic Auditorium *
06-09 Louisville, KY - Iroquois Amphitheatre *
06-10 Murfreesboro, TN - Bonnaroo
06-22 Frankfurt, Germany - Luften Festival
06-23 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-24 Scheesel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-25 Hamburg, Germany - Grobe Freiheit 36
06-27 Arendal, Norway - Hovefestival
06-29 Helsinki, Finland - The Garden Party
06-30 Borlange, Sweden - Peace & Love
07-02 Gothenburg, Sweden - Pusterviksbaren
07-03 Malmo, Sweden - KB Club
07-05 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-07 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock
07-23 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall
07-25 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavilion
07-27 Byron Bay, Australia- Splendour In The Grass Festival
07-29 Niigata, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
08-03 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
08-04 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheater
08-17 Erfurt, Germany - Highfield
08-18 Hasslet, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-23 Zurich, Switzerland - Open Air Festival
08-24 Paris, France, Rock en Seine
08-25 Reading, England - Richfield Avenue
08-26 Leeds, England - Bramham Park
09-22 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
09-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
09-26 Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
09-30 San Diego, CA - SDSU Open Air Theatre
10-02 Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre
10-03 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
10-04 Albuquerque, NM - Kiva Auditorium
10-07 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
10-08 Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
10-10 Houston, TX - House of Blues
10-11 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
10-13 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits

* with the Antlers


MJTV: The Cribs - Glitters Like Gold

Great track from In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull, with cheeky use of Pop-Up Video technology...



MJTV: AmA - Sweet Spot

The latest video fron the beautiful, hypnotic AmA's Electric Life...



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Tour Dates: Yeasayer

Hitting the road behind the upcoming Fragrant World, due 8/21...



06-19 Richmond, VA - The National
06-20 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
06-21 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
06-22 Nashville, TN - The Cannery Ballroom
06-23 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
06-24 Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century Theatre
07-31 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre
08-01 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
08-02 Syracuse, NY - Westcott Theater
08-03 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall
08-04 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga
08-14 Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall
08-21 Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy
08-22 Chicago, IL - The Vic
08-24 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave
08-25 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown
08-26 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
08-27 Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
08-29 Vancouver, British Columbia - Malkin Bowl
08-30 Seattle, WA - Neptune
08-31 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-01 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
09-03 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
09-05 Dallas, TX - House Of Blues
09-06 Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
09-07 New Orleans, LA - Republic
09-08 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
09-09 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
09-11 Boston, MA - House Of Blues
09-12 New York, NY - Rumsey Playfield (Central Park -- Summer Stage)
11-14 Washington DC - 9:30 Club
11-16 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer





 

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

MJ Inbox 5.29.12


Today's Stuff = The Walkmen, Ladyhawke, Summer Camp, The Early November, Kissimmee and The Heavy
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The Walkmen

New album, Heaven, is streaming at NPR.org.


The Walkmen Tour Dates:
6/6 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
6/27 - WFPK Waterfront Wednesdays - Louisville, KY
6/28 - Plush - St. Louis, MO
6/29 - Summerfest - Milwaukee, WI
6/30 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
7/5 - Pioneer Park - Salt Lake City, UT
7/20 - Deer Lake Park - Burnaby, BC %
7/21 - White River Amphitheatre - Auburn, WA %
7/22 - Edgefield - Troutdale, OR %
7/25 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO %
7/29 - The Lawn @ White River State Park - Indianapolis, IN
7/30 - Jacobs Pavilion - Cleveland, OH %
7/31 - Fox Theatre - Detroit, MI %
8/2 - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre - Toronto, ON %
8/3 - Osheaga Festival - Montreal, QC
8/5 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL
8/10-12 - Outside Lands - San Francisco, CA

% - w/ Florence & The Machine
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Premiere: The Early November, “Frayed In Doubt”
The Early November - Tour Dates


MAY
29 – Chicago, IL – Metro *
30 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity *
JUNE
01 – Denver, CO – Summit *
02 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue *
04 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon *
06 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s *
07 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey *
08 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues *
09 – San Diego, CA – Soma *
30 – Philadelphia, PA – The Trocadero (In Currents release show)
JULY
01 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (In Currents release show)
03 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s (In Currents release show)
* = w/ The Wonder Years, The Swellers, Young Statues

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MJTV: Ryan Adams - Mother (Live)

Acoustic Danzig cover from Adams' recent performance in Paris...



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MJTV: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - God Save The Queen

Fron Young's upcoming album, Americana, due on 6/4...



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Monday, May 28, 2012

Bootleg Justice: The National Live @ Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, CA (9.11.11) (with guests St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten & Calder Quartet)



The National (with guests St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Calder Quartet)
09-11-2011
Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood, CA

01 - Runaway
02 - Ghost
03 - Bloodbuzz Ohio
04 - Slow Show
05 - Squalor Victoria *
06 - Afraid of Everyone #
07 - Conversation 16
08 - Available
09 - Sorrow #
10 - Abel
11 - England *
12 - Thirsty *#
13 - Fake Empire
14 - Think You Can Wait %*
15 - Mr. November
16 - Terrible Love #
17 - About Today
18 - Hollywood Bowl PSA

* w/ Calder Quartet
# w/ Annie Clark (St Vincent)
% w/ Sharon Van Etten

Text version of setlist

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Friday, May 25, 2012

MJTV: A Place To Bury Strangers - You Are The One

This might be the one that breaks them to a broader audience. The new CD, Worship, hits 6/26...



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MJTV: Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground

The latest video from The Boss's most recent, Wrecking Ball, somehow manages to feel very contemporary and very classic Bruce at the same time...



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MJTV: Mayer Hawthorne - Henny & Gingerale

Saw Mayer in Lawrence, KS this week. This one was a highlight with Hawthorne mixing drinks on stage for the folks down front. If you're a fan of blue-eyed soul and the man comes to your town, be there...



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Cheap Thrills: Yeasayer - Henrietta

A free legal download from the upcoming Fragrant World, due 8/21...

MP3: Yeasayer - Henrietta

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Cheap Thrills: Yacht - I'll Be Your Mirror

The Portland group covers Velvet Underground. The band is on a U.S. tour through early July then hits a couple of festivals later this summer.



MJTV: Afghan Whigs - I'm Her Slave (Live)

The Whigs' reunion continues with Greg Dulli and company sounding better than ever on this Jimmy Fallon web exclusive...



Cheap Thrills: Metric - Speed The Collapse

Second single from their upcoming Synthetica, which drops on 6/12.

(via Stereogum)

The Money Shot: RIAA's $72 *TRILLION* Shakedown of Limewire


"An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877."
- Judge Kimba Wood, RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T"

MJTV: Foo Fighters with Mick Jagger - Miss You (Live)

Looks like after their winning SNL performances this week, the Foos, Mick and the rest of the SNL cast took to Rockefeller Center for a round of hot covers. Jagger joined for "Miss You" while Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudekis and Andy Samberg added vocals on a couple of Joan Jett's finest...







Wednesday, May 23, 2012

MJTV: The Dandy Warhols - Sad Vacation

New video from the recently released This Machine...



MJTV: Gossip - Move In The Right Direction

Hot new video and second single from their new album, A Joyful Noise...



MJTV: Liz Phair - And He Slayed Her

From Phair's most recent album courtesy of Perez Hilton (who's SXSW showcase she played in 2011)...



MJTV: Best Coast - No One Like You (Live & Acoustic)

A rare acoustic performance on Rhapsody TV...



MJTV: Beach House - Myth (Live)

From their recent appearance on Later... With Jools Holland...



MJTV: Sleigh Bells - Demons

Having seen them @ this year's SXSW, this vid really captures the feel of their live shows...



Tuesday, May 22, 2012

MJTV: Sigur Rós – Ég Anda

First single from the upcoming Valtari, due 5/29...

MJTV: Florence + The Machine - Wild Wild Life

If you ever wanted to see them wearing animal costumes (Wildlife... Get it?) and covering the Talking Heads, this is your chance...


MJTV: Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts (New & Live)

Something from a new album? The band debuted new tracks at a live show in Ireland...

MJTV: Garbage - Automatic Systematic Habit (Live)

Welcome back Shirley Manson! Garbage sounding very, uh, Garbage-y on Jimmy Fallon last Friday in support of their latest, Not Your Kind Of People...

MJTV: Tennis - Origins (Live)

A live performance of their single from KCRW's Morning Become Eclectic...


Sunday, May 20, 2012

Remembering Robin Gibb: A Video History

A video retrospective of Gibb's career, starting with this 1963 TV appearance with a 14 year old Robin singing this cover of Lonnie Donnegan's 1960 UK #1 hit...



Another early TV performance...



One of Robin's best vocals.  This was their first UK #1 hit (#11 in the US):



A US top ten hit in 1968 and eventually covered by Faith No More, The Wallflowers, The Dirtbombs and Robbie Williams...



The group's first #1 US hit, remarkably it failed to dent the UK charts...



This non-album single hit the US top twenty



From the Bee Gees' 1975 "comeback" appearance on NBC's The Midnight Special...




The release of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack took the band to new heights with 5 Gibb-written songs in the Top 10 at the same time. It also marked the effective end of the Robin's trembling tenor balancing lead vocals duties with Barry's breathy falsetto due to the sheer magnitude of these megahits...


His biggest U.S. solo hit (#15) from the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack in 1978




The 1967 folk tragedy (performed in Australia in 1989) was the band's first US top 40 hit...



Another great early single from the Australian performance...



This is the Bee Gees' One Night Only, shot in 1997 at the MGM Grand. It's almost 2 full hours of the best of the group and one of the few full concert videos ever shot of them.



And finally, here's Gibb's last great vocal, from his Titanic Requiem recorded for the 2012 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic:

R.I.P Robin Gibb (1949 - 2012)

MJTV: Robin Gibb - I've Just Gotta Get A Message To You (Live With The Frankfort NPO)

R.I.P. to one of the most unique voices in the history of pop music.  Gibb passed away today at the age of 62.


Robin Gibb - I've Got To Get A Message To You... by EagleRockTV

 

Saturday, May 19, 2012

MJTV: Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game (Live on Conan)

Sounds like the new Mark Ronson-produced record might be Wainwright's best in awhile...


MTJV: Gossip - Perfect World (Live at Cannes)

Here's a strange video of a dressed-to-kill Beth Ditto dancing with Sasha Baron Cohen as his character from  The Dictator...



MJTV: Fun - Somebody That I Used To Know (Featuring Hayley Williams)

Terrific cover of the Gotye track from their appearance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.



Cheap Thrills: The Walkmen - The House You Made

The Walkmen's latest, Heaven, is out 5/29.  Here's a non-album B-side for the first single (and title track).


MJTV: Paul Weller - That's Entertainment (Live)

The classic Jam track on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this week...


Friday, May 18, 2012

MJ Inbox - 5.18.12


Today's Stuff = Silversun Pickups, Summer Camp, Lana Del Rey remixed, rare Robyn Hitchcock, Antibalas, Rachael Sage, Crystal Shipss, Elite Gymnastics
Daily Disclaimer: We get sent stuff. We're sharing it. This isn't an endorsement. There's so much we can't always keep up with it all, but rather than just let it sit in our inbox, we're putting it out there for you to judge. Give a listen and tell us what you think.
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Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)



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Summer Camp - Life



Summer Camp Tour Dates
28 May London Palladium - supporting St Etienne
2 June Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
2 June London, Field Day
3 June Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival
4 June Manchester, Dot to Dot Festival
7 June Derbyshire, Indietracks
6 July Canterbury, Lounge on the Farm
29 July Skipton, Magic Loungeabout
5 August Derby, Y Not Festival
31 August London, Underage Festival

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Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (Kyle Rapps & Diwon Remix)



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Antibalas - Sare Kon Kon (Redux)


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MP3:  Rachael Sage - Invisible Light

Rachael Sage Tour Dates:

05/19 | Joe's Pub | New York, NY | 9:30pm
05/23 | Club Cafe | Pittsburgh, PA | 8:00pm
06/01 | Natasha's Bistro | Lexington, KY | 9:00pm
06/02 | Uncommon Ground | Chicago, IL | 10:00pm
06/03 | SPACE | Evanston, IL | 7:00pm
06/05 | The Frequency | Madison, WI | 8:00pm
06/07 | Ritual Cafe | Des Moines, IA | 7:00pm
06/09 | Rudyard Kipling | Louisville, KY | 8:00pm
06/10 | Fallen Leaf Concert Series | Indianapolis, IN | 7:00pm
06/12 | The Tin Angel | Philadelphia, PA | 8:00pm
06/13 | Jammin Java | Vienna, VA | 8:00pm
06/14 | The Blues BBQ Co. | Roanoke, VA | 10:00pm
06/15 | Pour House Music Hall | Raleigh, NC | 7:00pm
06/19 | The Evening Muse | Charlotte, NC | 8:00pm
06/20 | Eddie's Attic | Decatur, GA - 8:00pm
06/21 | Evans Amphitheatre at Cain Park | Cleveland Heights, OH | 8:00pm
06/22 | Moonlight on the Mountain | Birmingham, AL | 7:30pm
06/23 | Moondilla House Concert | Opelika, AL | 7:30pm
06/24 | The Altamont | Asheville, NC | 7:00pm
06/28 | Geneva Relay for Life Fundraiser | Geneva, NY | 10:00pm
08/09 | Katherine Hepburn Center (w/ Judy Collins) | Old Saybrook, CT
08/10 | Shalin Liu Performance Center (w/ Judy Collins) | Rockport, CT
08/11 | Shalin Liu Performance Center (w/ Judy Collins) | Rockport, CT
08/25 | Two River Theater (w/ Judy Collins) | Red Bank, NJ

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Video: Crystal Shipss - Smile



MP3: Crystal Shipss - My Dark Slimy Soul

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Video: Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice




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Elite Gymnastics - Life/Trap