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Arcade Fire, Press Releases

ARCADE FIRE TO RELEASE SPRAWL II / READY TO START REMIXES FOR RECORD STORE DAY

A limited edition 12” vinyl pressing of Arcade Fire’s Sprawl II and Ready to Start remixes will be released on April 21 via Merge to mark Record Store Day 2012.

Sprawl II and Ready to Start in their original form can both be found on Arcade Fire’s multi-platinum selling, Album of the Year Grammy-winning album The Suburbs but this special pressing is the first time these remixes, by Damian Taylor & Arcade Fire, have been made available on a physical format.

The Sprawl II remix can be heard in the dance motion-activated music video [sprawl2.com] by Vincent Morisset [Sigur Rós, Inni/Arcade Fire, Mirror Noir], while the Ready To Start remix has previously only been available as a bonus download to the deluxe and film-bundled version of the album.

The 12” will be available at shops participating in Record Store Day on the morning of Saturday 21 April.

Track-listing:
Sprawl II [Mountains Beyond Mountains] and Ready to Start, both tracks remixed by: Damian Taylor & Arcade Fire.

The aim of Record Store Day is to highlight the continuing contribution of indie stores to music.

The Arcade Fire are Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry.

Press Releases, Radiohead

RADIOHEAD ADD NORTH AMERICAN DATES

Radiohead has added another leg of North American dates to the ongoing world tour in support of its album The King Of Limbs.

The new dates begin May 29 in Mansfield MA, run through the band’s previously announced June 8 headline appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester TN, and conclude June 16 in Toronto ONT.

See below for the full run of dates and check Radiohead.com for on sale information.

05/29/12 – Comcast Center – Mansfield, MA
05/31/12 – Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
06/01/12 – Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
06/03/12 – Verizon Center – Washington, DC
06/05/12 – Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH
06/06/12 – Blossom Music Center – Cuyahoga Falls, OH
06/10/12 – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre – Tinley Park, IL
06/11/12 – The Palace of Auburn Hills – Auburn Hills, MI
06/13/12 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
06/15/12 – Bell Centre – Montreal, QC
06/16/12 – Downsview Park – Toronto, ON

Press Releases, The Shins

THE SHINS: “BAIT AND SWITCH” VIDEO LIVE NOW AT http://www.theshins.com/baitandswitch

“CLAPPING BUTTER” UP AT FUNNYORDIE.COM

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MARCH 10

PORT OF MORROW OUT MARCH 20 ON AURAL APOTHECARY/COLUMBIA

The Shins’ excellent new live in the studio “Bait and Switch” video is live now at http://www.theshins.com/baitandswitch.

Fans wanting a more behind the scenes look at The Shins’ studio experience can check out “Clapping Butter” at http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/6m4l. The Funnyordie.com clip is an intimate and triumphant look at James Mercer’s efforts to overcome obstacles in his path to aural perfection.

The Shins will be the musical guest on the March 10 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Port Of Morrow will be released March 20 on Aural Apothecary/Columbia.

Jack White, Press Releases

JACK WHITE’S BLUNDERBUSS PHYSICAL PRE-ORDER LIVE NOW AT www.jackwhiteIII.com

APPEARING ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MARCH 3

DEBUT ALBUM IN STORES APRIL 24

Physical copies of Jack White’s debut album Blunderbuss (Third Man Records/Columbia) are now available for pre-order in select countries. Full length vinyl can be pre-ordered worldwide viahttp://jackwhite.thirdmanrecordsstore.com/ while the CD is currently available to pre-order in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Finland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy,  Australia and New Zealand with additional countries to become available in the coming days.

“Love Interruption,” the first single from Blunderbuss, is now available digitally the world over, having previously been made available in the U.S. January 30 as a free stream and download for purchase via iTunes, and February 7 as a Third Man Records vinyl single featuring non-LP B-side ”Machine Gun Silhouette”–with 300 limited edition Tri-Color 45s pressed, 100 of which were sold at TMR’s Nashville storefront and select independent record stores on February 14, and 50 of which were inserted into random mail orders through www.jackwhiteIII.comand www.thirdmanrecords.com.

Prior to the March 10 kick-off of his tour at Track 29 in Chattanooga TN, Jack will drop in at Saturday Night LiveMarch 3 to give studio and home audiences a first taste of the Blunderbuss live experience.

For additional dates, further information, etc. continue to check back at www.jackwhiteIII.comand www.thirdmanrecords.com.

Press Releases, The Shins

THE SHINS: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MARCH 10

“SIMPLE SONG” VIDEO NOW STREAMING ON YOUTUBE/VEVO

http://youtu.be/RoLTPcD1S4Q

The Shins’ “Simple Song” video is now streaming on YouTube/VEVO at http://youtu.be/RoLTPcD1S4Q. Directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan a/k/a DANIELS, the clip puts a darkly brilliant narrative spin on the first single from the band’s forthcoming Port Of Morrow, which can be pre-ordered now at http://www.theshins.com/shop and is out March 20 on Aural Apothecary/Columbia.

Fans can see The Shins play the song straight on Saturday Night Live on March 10, when The Shins will return to 30 Rock for their second SNL appearance.

Press Releases

METRIC ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM

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ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM

SYNTHETICA

TO BE RELEASED ON JUNE 12th, 2012

*(high res quality media photo available via link below)

METRIC has confirmed June 12th, 2012 as the North American release date for their fifth, full-length studio album, Synthetica.

Following the success of their last album Fantasies, which was self-released outside Canada and sold well over a million albums/singles worldwide, Synthetica will continue the trend and be released through the band’s own label (with joint venture partner Mom + Pop in the USA).

While many artists feel strangled by the industry’s power structure, the Toronto-based quartet has undone all their business entanglements and started their own company, Metric Music International (MMI) with the help of independent managers Mathieu Drouin and Françoise de Grandpré.

On Fantasies, they became the first artist in history to achieve their first ever Top 20 hit at U.S. commercial radio without the backing of a traditional label; sold out arenas and headlined festivals; picked up JUNO Awards for “Alternative Album of the Year” and “Band of the Year”; had a hand in scoring films for everyone from Edgar Wright to David Cronenberg, and wrote the theme song for the Grammy nominated and Academy Award shortlisted Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack with composer Howard Shore. They even performed “Gimme Sympathy” at a private event for the Queen of England.

Work on Synthetica began literally the day after the Fantasies tour ended in Miami at the Art Basel modern art festival in November 2010. METRIC’s Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw, Joules Scott Key and Joshua Winstead returned to Giant Studios in Toronto and work on the album concluded a year later at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. Synthetica was produced by Jimmy Shaw and mixed by John O’Mahony.

Shaw describes Synthetica’s enthralling balance of futuristic and organic sound on the new record as “[…] the culmination of everything we’ve done. We’ve always had a sound in our heads that we hoped to realize. We finally heard it coming back out of the speakers this time.” Haines first envisioned the word “Synthetica” as the name for a particularly resilient skin-job from Blade Runner, a female replicant who voices an inner monologue of all your human imperfections. “If you imagine a nightmarishly fake version of me as a pop star, that’s her,” she says.  “And this record was about me saying, I’m going to give more to the music than ever, but there’s no way I’m going to turn into someone like that.” As she sings on the album’s hard-rocking title track; “We’re all the time confined to fit the mold / But I won’t ever let them make a loser of my soul.”

Further details of the album, tour dates, and more will be announced shortly.

Check back at: http://www.ilovemetric.com/

For high res media photo, by Brantley Gutierrez available for download at:

http://www.ilovemetric.com/press

Electric Guest, Press Releases

ELECTRIC GUEST: FIRST EVER NATIONAL TOUR EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 10

FIRST SINGLE “THIS HEAD I HOLD” ON SALE DIGITALLY, STREAMING FREE AT http://soundcloud.com/electricguest/this-head-i-hold

DANGER MOUSE-PRODUCED DEBUT ALBUM MONDO OUT APRIL 24 ON DOWNTOWN RECORDS

ElectricGuest.com

COVER ART ATTACHED

Following the February 27 conclusion of their residency at Los Angeles’ Echo club, Electric Guest a/k/a Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton will saddle up their supporting musicians to take their live experience, hailed by NYLON as  ”pretty much irresistible,” out on a full North American tour–one that now runs through May 10 with the addition of the new dates listed below.

The new leg of the tour commences the day after the April 24 release date of  Electric Guest’s Danger Mouse-produced Downtown Records debut album, Mondo. The record’s first single, “This Head I Hold,” was released digitally January 24 and  can be streamed free at http://soundcloud.com/electricguest/this-head-i-hold.

Prior to the April 25-May 10 tour, Electric Guest will play a handful of dates in the southwestern U.S., including a first visit to South By Southwest in Austin (Details TBD). See itinerary below and check back at ElectricGuest.comfor updates.

Mar 10 –     Flagstaff, AZ – The Green Room
Mar 11 –     Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Sol
Mar 13 –     Dallas, TX – Club Dada
Mar 14-17 – Austin, TX –  SXSW
Mar 19 –     El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
Mar 20 –     Tucson, AZ –  Club Congress
Mar 21 –     Phoenix, AZ –  Sail Inn
April 26 –   Lawrence, KS  – Granada Theatre
April 27 –   Chicago, IL – Schubas
April 29 –   Toronto, ON – Underground at The Drake
April 30 –   Montreal, QC – Il Motore
May 1 –         Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
May 2 –        New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
May 4 –        Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
May 5 –        Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel
May 7 –         Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
May 8 –        Baton Rouge, LA – Chelsea’s
May 9 –        Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds
May 10 –      Austin, TX – The Parish

Jack White, Press Releases

JACK WHITE TO APPEAR ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MARCH 3

THIRD MAN RECORDS VAULT ‘BLUNDERBUSS’ LISTENING PARTY TODAY 11 am CST

COVER ART AND TRACK LISTING REVEALED

Jack White has been confirmed as Saturday Night Live musical guest for the show’s next live episode on March 3rd. It will be White’s first television appearance in support of his debut album Blunderbuss, out April 24 on Third Man Records/Columbia.

Third Man Records will unveil Blunderbuss in an advance listening party for 20 lucky contest winners to be held 11 am CST TODAY at the label’s Nashville HQ.

The contest was exclusive to The Vault, Third Man Records’ subscription service offering members-only limited edition vinyl, exclusive ticket pre-sales, contests, and other Vault-only giveaways and events. For more information, check out http://modlife.com/thirdmanrecords

The cover art and complete track listing for Blunderbuss are below:

1. Missing Pieces

2. Sixteen Saltines

3. Freedom At 21

4. Love Interruption

5. Blunderbuss

6. Hypocritical Kiss

7. Weep Themselves To Sleep

8. I’m Shakin’

9. Trash Tongue Talker

10. Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy

11. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep

12. On And On And On

13. Take Me With You When You Go

Foo Fighters, Press Releases

DAVE GROHL CLARIFIES HIS GRAMMY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

Oh, what a night we had last Sunday at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The glitz! The Glamour! SEACREST! Where do I begin?? Chillin’ with Lil’ Wayne…meeting Cyndi Lauper’s adorable mother…the complimentary blinking Coldplay bracelet…..much too much to recap. It really is still a bit of a blur. But, if there’s one thing that I remember VERY clearly, it was accepting the Grammy for Best Rock Performance…and then saying this:

“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do… It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].”

Not the Gettysburg Address, but hey……I’m a drummer, remember?

Well, me and my big mouth. Never has a 33 second acceptance rant evoked such caps-lock postboard rage as my lil’ ode to analog recording has. OK….maybe Kanye has me on this one, but….Imma let you finish….just wanted to clarify something…

I love music. I love ALL kinds of music. From Kyuss to Kraftwerk, Pinetop Perkins to Prodigy, Dead Kennedys to Deadmau5…..I love music. Electronic or acoustic, it doesn’t matter to me. The simple act of creating music is a beautiful gift that ALL human beings are blessed with. And the diversity of one musician’s personality to the next is what makes music so exciting and…..human.

That’s exactly what I was referring to. The “human element”. That thing that happens when a song speeds up slightly, or a vocal goes a little sharp. That thing that makes people sound like PEOPLE. Somewhere along the line those things became “bad” things, and with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years they became easily “fixed”. The end result? In my humble opinion…..a lot of music that sounds perfect, but lacks personality. The one thing that makes music so exciting in the first place.

And, unfortunately,  some of these great advances have taken the focus off of the actual craft of performance. Look, I am not Yngwie Malmsteen. I am not John Bonham. Hell…I’m not even Josh Groban, for that matter. But I try really fucking hard so that I don’t have to rely on anything but my hands and my heart to play a song. I do the best that I possibly can within my limitations, and accept that it sounds like me. Because that’s what I think is most important. It should be real, right? Everybody wants something real.

I don’t know how to do what Skrillex does (though I fucking love it) but I do know that the reason he is so loved is because he sounds like Skrillex, and that’s badass. We have a different process and a different set of tools, but the “craft” is equally as important, I’m sure. I mean…..if it were that easy, anyone could do it, right? (See what I did there?)

So, don’t give me two Crown Royals and then ask me to make a speech at your wedding, because I might just bust into the advantages of recording to 2 inch tape.

Now, I think I have to go scream at some kids to get off my lawn.

Stay frosty.

Davemau5

Explosions In The Sky, Press Releases

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY: SAN FRANCISCO SHOW SELLS OUT INSTANTLY, SECOND DATE ADDED

ZAMMUTO CONFIRMED AS SUPPORT FOR U.S. TOUR

Explosions In The Sky’s triumphant return to the road is already adding dates by popular demand: The band’s April 16 show at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theater sold out in a matter of hours, necessitating the addition of a second date at the venue on April 17.

In other Explosions touring news, Zammuto has been confirmed as support for the upcoming tour. The new project of Nick Zammuto, half of highly acclaimed collage-pop duo The Books and Explosions’ Temporary Residence label mates, will join the tour beginning with its April 5 kick-off in Boulder, CO.

Explosions In The Sky’s 2012 shows expand on an itinerary that has included its biggest ever headline dates–from New York’s Radio City Music Hall to London’s Brixton Academy–and a 2011 debut performance on The Late Show With David Letterman.

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Dana West dana@nastylittleman.com

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
On Tour 2012

04/05/12 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
04/06/12 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater & Club
04/07/12 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue
04/08/12 – Missoula, MT – Wilma Theater
04/11/12 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theater
04/12/12 – Reno, NV – Knitting Factory
04/13/12 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/16/12 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts Theater
04/17/12 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts Theater
04/20/12 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/22/12 – Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theater
04/24/12 – San Antonio, TX – Backstage Live
05/25/12 – George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival