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Music Links – 07/17/2007

July 17th, 2007 | Comments Off | Filed in Links, Music

Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 – Friday
Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 – Saturday
Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 – Sunday
Check out Pitchfork’s coverage of their own music festival in convenient bite-sized daily recaps. There are tons of photos here, especially of the madness that was Of Montreal’s Sunday evening set.

Gorilla vs Bear: Pitchfork Music Festival
None of their favorites are my favorites, but their recap of the overall festival experience is right on.

Brooklynvegan: Rilo Kiley announces some 2007 tour dates
No Milwaukee yet, but there are some gaps in the schedule, so let’s wait and see…

Pitchfork: Of Montreal announce Fall tour
They were thoroughly entertaining during their hour-long set at P4k and they’ve got a nice tour coming up, including a stop in Milwaukee (at the Pabst) on October 4th.

Music Links – 07/16/2007

July 16th, 2007 | Comments Off | Filed in Links, Music

Brooklyn Vegan: fire marshall shuts down DAN DEACON & GIRL TALK @ the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival
The Pitchfork Music Festival was this weekend in Chicago’s Union Park. We were there. It was fun. My brief review:

  • The weather was awesome — absolutely zero complaints
  • The non-music components of P4K are VERY well done – water (and Fuze!) were only $1 a bottle, and that was for the mega 25 oz bottle of H2O. Beers were $4, and it wasn’t your typical watered down Light beer either, it was one of three varieties of Goose Island. Giveaways were plentiful, the merchandise tents actually had merchandise that you know, you might actually buy. (If you like to collect vinyl versions of today’s best Indie Rock, you could probably find it here.
  • The people were friendly
  • There were some great performances – New Pornographers, Of Montreal, and Cat Power (even though she kept apologizing) were the most memorable
  • Union Park is super easy to get to and from

We were on the other side of a fence for the start of the Dan Deacon show, and as the link above explains, it was a little crowded (we left when we couldn’t see and the crowd started to get annoying).

The only downside of the entire fest experience? The two d-bags who forced their way into the crowd and acted like idiots during the New Porno show. I hope their hangovers were massive, causing them to get fired from their jobs today…

Pitchfork: Overlooked Records of 2007
Looking for some less-hyped music than say, Feist, The National, St Vincent, etc? Well, look here!

The New Pornographers are coming to Milwaukee
, with the FULL band (including Neko and Dan!!!) — I couldn’t be more excited!
- Tickets go on sale this Friday

Music Links – 07/02/2007

July 2nd, 2007 | Comments Off | Filed in Links, Music

Nothing like a couple weeks of work travel to make me incredibly tardy with the updates here…

Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Rilo Kiley: “The Moneymaker”
The video for one of the tunes from Rilo’s upcoming Under the Blacklight release (August) – this includes 9 minutes of porn star interviews before the video itself (which features three of those porn star interviewees)

Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Feist: “Somewhere Down the Road”
Feist just might be the most buzzed about new act of 2007. Here, a recording of a cover song she’s done for an upcoming movie. Like all her stuff, it’s good.

Brooklyn Vegan: VIDEO: Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – “Two” on Letterman
I love this song, and the performance on Letterman is just as delightful as Dave predicts.

Links: They Might Be Giants Video, TV Eye + Lollapalooza Lineup

June 12th, 2007 | Comments Off | Filed in Links, Music

Brooklyn Vegan: VIDEO: They Might Be Giants – ‘With the Dark’
I spent the first minute of this thinking that maybe the Giants had gone all mellow, then the squid showed up.

Pitchfork: TV Eye: June 11-17
Feist, Andrew Bird, Bloc Party and Lily Allen highlight this week’s late night show music lineup

Lollapalooza released their schedule today
From the initial artist lineup, I was only a little disappointed that I was going to be out of the country during this year’s Lollapalooza. Now that the schedule is out, I’m actually bummed big time. A quick rundown of what I’m going to be personally missing:
Friday (Day 1):
11:45 – The Fratellis (helluva band to basically kick this thing off – nice work, MySpace stage)
then, I would wander, probably grab some lunch at one of the food vendors
1:30 – Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
2:30 – The Polyphonic Spree (appropriate timing if the sun is shining brightly for this upbeat group)
3:30 – probably wander all four concurrently playing stages to see what they all sound like
4:30 – M.I.A. (as I get all hip hoppy)
5:00 – Silversun Pickups (to get my rock back on)
5:30/6:00 – I’d probably stay for the full Silversun show to make sure I heard “Lazy Eye”, but then I’d go check out the last half of Blonde Redhead
6:30 – Satellite Party (let’s see how this new super group collective sounds live)
7:30 – LCD Soundsystem
8:30 – Daft Punk or Ben Harper (probably a little of both)

Saturday (Day 2)
11:45 – I’m From Barcelona (Lolla would be encouraging the early arrival this year)
12:30 – Fields
1:30 – Pete Yorn (Because I like him, but I’d be tempted to check out Tapes N Tapes too)
then I’d grab a late lunch
3:30 – Cold War Kids
4:30 – Roots (I’d probably pick their Southern rap rock over Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah)
5:30 – The Hold Steady (I really liked their album last year – Regina Spektor’s got the pipes to offer a worthy alternative at this time)
6:30 – Snow Patrol (although I’d probably want to rock to a little Yeah Yeah Yeahs too)
7:30 – Patti Smith or Spoon (both would be good)
8:30 – Interpol (although Muse is no slouch either as they co-headline)

Sunday (Day 3)
I skipped Sunday last year, but this year, I’d probably sleep in, eat a non-palooza lunch, and head down in the early afternoon
1:45 – Smoosh (nothing like two indie rockin’ underaged sisters)
2:15 – Amy Winehouse (even if just for the hair)
3:15 – Blue October (this is on reputation, not because I could name one of their songs)
4:15 – Kings of Leon (I’ve heard great things about their live shows)
5:00 – Peter Bjorn and John
5:15 – Yo La Tengo
6:15 – Modest Mouse
7:15 – TV on the Radio
8:00 – Pearl Jam (I don’t loooooove Pearl Jam, and they weren’t that great the last time I saw them, but this should be a pretty live crowd)

[sigh] That would be fun. But, I’ll be having a blast at the Galway Races that weekend, so it’ll be up to P4k ‘07 and Lolla ‘08 to entertain me!

Music Links – Monday, 6/11/07

June 11th, 2007 | Comments Off | Filed in Links, Music

A bunch of music links from this fine Monday morning:

new-porn-dewall-2.jpg Pitchfork: New Pornographers Trick Out LP, Announce Fall Tour
Ok, so the “executive box set” is only $5 more? Count me in. These guys are the main reason I’m psyched about the p4k festival!

// PRODUCT SHOP NYC: Bumbershoot – The Shins, Wu-Tang, Kings of Leon, Etc
This Seattle-based music festival has a decent lineup for a $75 three-day outing.

My Old Kentucky Blog: Yeasayer : Be careful of my hollow bones.
Yeasayer has been getting all kinds of blog love

gorilla vs. bear: alright!: new M.I.A. video: “Boyz”
I don’t know why exactly, since I’m not a huge dance or rap music fan, but I like some of M.I.A.’s stuff

brooklynvegan: BFD 2007, BLOC PARTY, MP3’s, pics, tour dates
A bunch of Bloc Party MP3 links, plus tour dates (which will be most applicable if you live in Europe)

brooklynvegan: SPOON add more shows (CMJ) — presale, Tour Dates, MP3s
Spoon will be at Lollapalooza (me, I’ll be in Ireland)

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