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Monday, October 14th, 2002
Loose Fur to Rock Brooklyn in December
"Furburgers" for sale near venue probably not officially sanctioned by band
Will Bryant reports:
The trio of hairy-ass indie heavyweights known as Loose Fur will make
their live debut this December at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn,
NY, according to the organizers' official website. Jeff Tweedy, Jim
O'Rourke, and Glenn Kotche will finally be performing the "folk-rock"
compositions recorded over the last three years in a live setting.
"Combining Tweedy's wistful lyricism and multi-faceted melodies with
O'Rourke's technical wizardry and Kotche's inventive percussion," the
organizers' press release reads, "this sneak preview of Loose Fur's
debut is destined to meet the highest of expectations and then blow
them all away."
The Arts at St. Ann's collective is a sponsor of eclectic and
experimental music now in its 23rd season. Having outgrown its
original space at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights, ASA now
operates from a warehouse space on the waterfront which includes
performance and practice spaces and an "acclaimed professional puppet
theater workshop" for you Spinal Tap fans. Lou Reed and John Cale's
"Songs for Drella" and David Byrne's "The Forest" are among some of
the collective's more notable productions.
As previously reported, Loose Fur's self-titled album is scheduled
for release in January 2003 on Drag City, though believe it or not,
a tape of a recent performance is already circulating on file-sharing
services. The two Brooklyn performances are the only other live shows
announced so far. Those dates:
12-06 Brooklyn, NY - St. Ann's Warehouse
12-07 Brooklyn, NY - St. Ann's Warehouse
.: Pitchfork News: Jeff Tweedy and
Jim O'Rourke Get Loose In January
.: Arts at St. Ann's: http://www.artsatstanns.org
.: Drag City: http://www.dragcity.com
White Stripes to Play SNL This Weekend
Rehearsing a down-and-dirty blues riff on "Underage Bichon"
Ray Suzuki reports:
The White Stripes have signed on to play Saturday Night Live
this weekend, October 19th, with Arizona senator John McCain hosting
the show. While we're absolutely sure that Jack and Meg waking the
dead next Saturday night will be a high point in the notoriously
uneven program's 2002-2003 season (last weekend's guest was Faith
Hill, for crissakes), there's no way it will be even half as
kickass as the sight of Jack White removing the cigar from Triumph
the Insult Comic Dog's filthy mouth and french-kissing the rubber
puppet soulfully, as he did during Conan O'Brien's coverage of the
MTV Video Music Awards.
In the meantime, we hear that the Stripes' fourth album, still called
Elephant for the time being, is now completely finished and
ready to go. And though we don't have a final tracklist available
just yet, there's a good chance Jack and Meg will play a new song
this weekend for a radio session before the year's end. It had
been rumored that the White Stripes and the Strokes might issue a split
single around Christmas with new recordings from each band, but that
has apparently been put on the backburner as the Strokes had no new
recordings suitable for release. The Stripes have also been tapped
to open two shows for the Rolling Stones this week and next. Tour
dates:
10-16 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
10-20 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
.: Pitchfork News: White
Stripes: White Blood Cells
.: Pitchfork News: White
Stripes: The White Stripes and De Stijl
.: White Stripes: http://www.whitestripes.com
.: Jack White Frenching Triumph: http://www.insultcomicdog.com
Peaches Re-Release All Tricked Out with Remixes
Clingy Peaches won't stop slathering my leg in heavy syrup
William Cameron reports:
From Canada, a country that probably invented the term potty-mouth,
comes one of the most fantastically dirty albums you're likely to
hear this year. Peaches' first LP The Teaches of Peaches
was reissued just last week on XL Recordings with a bonus disc of
remixes, so the hipsters who already shelled out will be suckered
into buying it again. The bonus disc features a full-on menagerie
of all the sensation-of-the-moment talent that you can handle,
such as Kid 606, Mignon and Peaches herself! It's also enhanced
with videos for two of the mixes of "Set It Off." This is an album
that is strictly for rollin' wit da homies, and trust me this time,
no matter how hip your parents are, unless they're involved with
the porn industry they should be shocked upon first listen. Let's
see Duran Duran "Cum Undun"!
Fresh off a tour with some of her biggest fans (Queens of the
Stone Age and Trail of Dead), Peaches will again be heading out on
yet another U.S. tour, this time though with more genre-appropriate
artists, and a very genre specific title. The "Electroclash Tour"
sees Peaches headlining, and features the talented Chicks on Speed,
W.I.T. and Tracy & The Plastics. Peaches packs more crotch-rubbin'
action into her show than you're likely to see all year, and you
don't even have to tip!
Providing further proof that Peaches is everywhere, word has it that
she has been cast in an upcoming film project by none other then John
Malkovich himself, titled The Hideous Man. She is currently
working on the follow-up to The Teaches of Peaches, due to hit
in 2003. Tracklist:
Disc one:
01 Fuck the Pain Away
02 AA XXX
03 Rock Show
04 Set It Off
05 Cum Undun
06 Diddle My Skittle
07 Hot Rod
08 Lovertits
09 Suck and Let Go
10 Sucker
11 Felix Partz
Disc two:
01 Keine Melodien [Jeans Team cover]
02 Cassanova [featuring Mignon]
03 Sex [Berlin cover]
04 Felix Part II [Kid 606 remix]
05 Set it Off [Tobi Neuman remix]
.: Pitchfork News: Peaches Touring
with Queens, Chicks, Plastics
.: Peaches: http://www.peachesrocks.com
The Cure to Perform "Dark Trilogy" Live for DVD
George Lucas insists on digitally inserting a young Count Dooku into all three albums
Rob Mackey reports:
It appears The Cure are set to play three very special shows in
Belgium and Germany this December, performing the three albums in
their "dark trilogy" (Pornography, Disintegration, and
Bloodflowers) in their entirety for a future live DVD. And
oddly, in full KISS makeup? Those dates:
11-07 Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
11-09 Hamburg, Germany - Color Line Arena *
11-11 Berlin, Germany -Tempodrom
11-12 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom
* Just a plain ol' live show, no "dark trilogy" for Hamburgers!
In other Cure news, nü-metal mutts Vex Red have apparently been asked
to play a part in the recording of Grandparents of Goth's fourteenth
studio album. Ross Robinson, the Pied Piper of radio-rock, helmed
the board for Vex's debut Start with a Strong and Persistent
Desire and bizarrely enough has signed on to produce the latest
batch of Robert Smith tunes.
.: Pitchfork Review: Cure:
Bloodflowers
.: The Cure: www.thecure.com
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