ARCADE FIRE AUTOGRAPHED MIROIR NOIR DELUXE DVD + EXCLUSIVE SILK SCREENED POSTER
ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT PARTNERS IN HEALTH
Strictly Limited Edition of 250 Available Exclusively at Arcadefire.com

The members of Arcade Fire have signed 250 copies of the deluxe edition of the recently released Miroir Noir DVD and combined them with a limited edition hand silk-screened poster signed and numbered by the artist for a special package to benefit Partners In Health. The strictly limited deluxe signed edition with poster will be available exclusively at Arcadefire.com for $250 (plus shipping and handling), with all proceeds going to Partners In Health.

Arcade Fire donated a share of ticket sales from every headlining show on the 2007 Neon Bible tour to Partners In Health’s program in Haiti, which focuses on delivering high quality healthcare to the poor. Members of the band have visited Haiti to witness firsthand the results of these donations, which also include sending thousands of children to school with hot meals, providing housing for the poorest patients, and increasing the agricultural capacity of those families.

For further information, please visit Arcadefire.com or www.pih.org

SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE DIGITALLY ON JUNE 2
AND IN STORES JUNE 23 ON ZERO SUMMER RECORDS

Exploring the comedic twists and emotional turns in one couple’s journey across contemporary America, Away We Go (which Focus Features releases June 5 in N.Y. and L.A., and in June in select cities) is the new movie from Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes, from the first original screenplay by novelists Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida, and featuring the music of singer/songwriter Alexi Murdoch.

During the filming of Away We Go, Mendes began thinking about the music that would be the sound and soul of the film. When he first heard Murdoch’s acclaimed debut album, Time Without Consequence, he knew he had found what he was looking for.

Over the past 5 years, Alexi Murdoch’s music has been quietly engaging a fast-growing audience across the globe. After the unprecedented indie success of a first home-spun EP in 2003, which ultimately sold over 50,000 copies, Murdoch released the critically acclaimed debut album Time Without Consequence through his own label, Zero Summer Records, in 2006. Rolling Stone quickly named Murdoch one of that year’s “10 Artists to Watch,” while Interview lauded his “ability to directly communicate a wellspring of deep emotion,” Alternative Press awarded the album a 5 out of 5 rating, and similar raves came in from Entertainment Weekly, Paste, The Onion, and many more.

While his songs have been featured in such films as Gone Baby Gone and Garden State, as well as the trailer for Academy Award-nominated foreign film Paradise Now, his work on Away We Go represents the first instance where Murdoch is the primary musical voice of an entire film.

In addition to the tracks from Time Without Consequence that captivated Mendes, the Away We Go soundtrack album (available digitally June 2 and in stores June 23, from Zero Summer) features three previously unreleased Murdoch songs; “Towards The Sun,” “The Ragged Sea,” and the bonus track “Crinan Wood.” On the soundtrack, Murdoch finds himself in fine company with classics from Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, George Harrison, and The Stranglers.

A total of eight of Murdoch’s songs are featured in Away We Go which opens, fittingly, with “All My Days,” also the opening track from Time Without Consequence. The song has also been used in its entirety in the movie’s theatrical trailer, which is already creating a buzz about the film’s music.

The track listing is as follows:

1. All My Days
2. Blue Mind
3. What Is Life (George Harrison)
4. Song For You
5. Golden Brown (The Stranglers)
6. Towards The Sun
7. Meet Me In The Morning (Bob Dylan)
8. Breathe
9. Wait
10. The Ragged Sea
11. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (The Velvet Underground)
12. Orange Sky
13. Crinan Wood (bonus track)

For more information, please contact:

Steve Martin
Nasty Little Man
steve@nastylittleman.com
212-343-0740

Lauren Daddis
Nettwerk
For Zero Summer Records
lauren@nettwerk.com
323-301-4200

Inaugural Three-Night Festival To Take Place July 9, 10 & 11 at Stubb”s Amphitheater

Austin”s favorite sons SPOON will take a respite from their worldly travels and in-studio toiling to present SPOONX3, a three-night festival taking place July 9, 10 and 11 at Austin”s Stubb”s Amphitheater featuring the debut of new material from the band”s forthcoming album as best online casino well as different special guests nightly, all handpicked by SPOON.

Beginning Thursday April 23, three-day passes to SPOONX3 will be available via an exclusive pre-sale at www.Spoontheband.com, at a $10 discount from the price of individual tickets. General on-sale will begin 10 a.m. Saturday April 25 via Frontgate Tickets.

The SPOONX3 lineup is as follows:

July 9 – SPOON, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
July 10 – SPOON, Low, Dale Watson
July 11 – SPOON, Atlas Sound, the Strange Boys

Dave and Jordyn Grohl have welcomed the newest addition to their happy and healthy family: second daughter Harper Willow Grohl was born in the afternoon of April 17. Violet Grohl’s newly arrived little sister (named after Dave’s great uncle Harper Bonebrake. Yes, Bonebrake.) is according to her dad “7 lbs 8 oz, 20 inches long and loud as hell.”

OUT JUNE 23 ON WARNER BROS. RECORDS

APRIL 14, 2009 – Burbank, CA — The Mars Volta’s fifth studio album, Octahedron, will be released June 23 by Warner Bros. Records. The record will be preceded by its first single, “Since We’ve Been Wrong.”

Octahedron follows up last year’s The Bedlam In Goliath, which featured “Wax Simulacra,” the track that took “Best Hard Rock Performance” honors at the recent 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

Octahedron was written by The Mars Volta–Omar Rodriguez Lopez (music, arrangements, direction) and Cedric Bixler Zavala (vocals, lyrics)–and performed by The Mars Volta group: Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, Thomas Pridgen, John Frusciante, Isaiah Ikey Owens, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez.

Hailed by The New Yorker as “perhaps the most musically adventurous act currently signed to a major label,” The Mars Volta formed in 2001. The band’s recorded output includes the 2003 debut full length De-Loused In The Comatorium, as well as Frances The Mute (2005), Amputechture (2006) and the previously mentioned The Bedlam In Goliath (2008).

The Mars Volta is confirmed to appear at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester TN and the second annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco. Further U.S. dates will be announced as they are confirmed.

For further information, contact:
Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man
(212) 343-0740 / laura@nastylittleman.com

Luke Burland at Warner Bros. Records
(615) 214-1490 / luke.burland@wbr.com

“One Foot in the Grave presents our hero as an earnest young student of vernacular American music, knocking off Guthrie-esque sing-alongs, loose-stringed slide blues, and originals that come off as the alternative-rock equivalent to folklorist field recordings…a loving tribute”. -ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Released barely four months after Beck’s 1994 debut Mellow Gold, the minimalist mutant folk collection One Foot in the Grave was a curveball that temporarily threw casual “Loser” fans off Beck’s scent while presaging myriad musical adventures to come in the form of 1996’s multi-platinum breakthrough Odelay. On April 14, One Foot in the Grave will be reissued in a deluxe format including 13 previously unreleased tracks from the original sessions and three more from an out of print 7″ only release, including an early version of “It’s All In Your Mind” from 2002’s Sea Change.

One Foot in the Grave was released in June 1994 on K Records, and was recorded by Calvin Johnson, founder of the label and proprietor of Dub Narcotic Studios. Sessions began in the fall of 1993, a few months into the existence of Calvin’s Olympia, Wa basement studio on a reel to reel 8 track. Musicians from local bands such as Built to Spill, Spinanes and Love As Laughter made appearances backing up Beck on half of the original album’s 16 tracks. Released with little to no initial promotion or fanfare, the record has grown from a cult favorite to one of the most highly regarded releases of the extensive Beck oeuvre, with tracks like “Hollow Log,” “He’s A Mighty Good Leader” and “Asshole,” which was covered by Tom Petty on his She’s The One album.

“I’d never worked with anyone so focused, or whose creativity flowed so freely,” Johnson recently recalled. “Songs altered structure and lyrics take to take, a fascinating process to witness.” The the deluxe reissue of One Foot in the Grave yields additional insight into the process by including the above-mentioned never before released originals and alternate mixes from these sessions.

The complete track listing is as follows:

ORIGINAL ALBUM:

1. He’s A Mighty Good Leader
2. Sleeping Bag
3. I Get Lonesome
4. Burnt Orange Peel
5. Cyanide Breath Mint
6. See Water
7. Ziplock Bag
8. Hollow Log
9. Forcefield
10. Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods
11. Asshole
12. I’ve Seen The Land Beyond
13. Outcome
14. Girl Dreams
15. Painted Eyelids
16. Atmospheric Conditions

BONUS TRACKS:

17. It’s All In Your Mind (K Records 7″)
18. Whiskey Can Can (K Records 7″)
19. Mattress*
20. Woe On Me*
21. Teenage Wastebasket*
22. Your Love Is Weird*
23. Favorite Nerve*
24. Piss On The Door*
25. Close To God*
26. Sweet Satan*
27. Burning Boyfriend*
28. Black Lake Morning*
29. Feather In Your Cap (K Records 7″)
30. One Foot In the Grave*
31. Teenage Wastebasket*
32. I Get Lonesome*

* never before released

July 22-26 in Carrboro and Chapel Hill NC

In celebration of Merge Records’ 20th anniversary, Merge bands of the past and present will converge for XX MERGE: a 5-day live music event taking place July 22-26th in the label’s native North Carolina.

The first four nights of XX MERGE will take place at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro NC. The festival will wrap up with a final show at Memorial Hall on the UNC Campus in Chapel Hill.

MERGE XX will feature over 25 Merge alumni, with confirmed acts including Superchunk, Spoon, Conor Oberst, Spent, M. Ward, The Rosebuds, Destroyer, Guv’ner, Polvo, Pipe & The Broken West. Many more artists both expected and unexpected still to-be-announced.

5-Day Passes are $150 and will get you in to all XX MERGE festivities. Passes will go on sale on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 AM EST via catscradle.com and mergerecords.com. 5-day passes are nontransferable. A limited number of tickets for individual Cradle shows and the Memorial Hall show will be made available at a later date.

**Please note: Due to the size and scope of this event, the label will not be offering complimentary press passes. Paid reserve arrangements will be made (subject to availability and capacity) for media planning to attend the full 5-day event.

For further information, visit mergerecords.com/xxmerge or contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man laura@nastylittleman.com or Christina Rentz at Merge christina@mergerecords.com

DIGITAL ONLY LIVE ALBUM RECORDED AT ARIZONA FINALE’ OF CLARITY X 10 TOUR
AVAILABLE APRIL 7 EXCLUSIVELY AT JIMMYEATWORLD.COM

“The songs on Clarity convey acute self-awareness along with flashes of grace and insolence: the album is a pitch-perfect teenage plaint, though the concert made a case for continuing relevance beyond graduation.”–THE NEW YORK TIMES

For anyone who was unable to get a ticket to JIMMY EAT WORLD’s completely sold-out CLARITY x 10 tour, April 7 will provide some solace in the form of CLARITY LIVE, a digital-only document of the tour’s finale’ recorded March 7 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe AZ.

Available exclusively at JIMMYEATWORLD.COM, CLARITY LIVE will be available in multiple formats ranging from DRM-free MP3 to 24 bit/48K sample rate WAV files. In addition to the March 7 final front-to-back live performance of the CLARITY album, CLARITY LIVE will feature two bonus tracks recorded during the encore of that show, as well as a digital booklet featuring photos from the tour.

Additionally, JIMMY EAT WORLD will celebrate the April 7 release of CLARITY LIVE with an encore performance streamed live from from UNIT 2 in TEMPE on JIMMYEATWORLD.COM. The band previewed the CLARITY x 10 tour in a similar manner, using USTREAM.tv to stream live video of one of the tour’s rehearsals.

CLARITY x 10 was a series of ten one-time-only shows during which JIMMY EAT WORLD commemorated the 10th anniversary of its 1999 masterpiece CLARITY by playing the record in its entirety each night. The ten shows began February 23-the 10th anniversary of Clarity’s actual release date-at Terminal 5 in New York and concluded with the March 7 homecoming show at which the CLARITY LIVE album was recorded.

Criminally ignored upon its 1999 release, CLARITY has since amassed cult status as an overlooked masterpiece. The media ultimately came around to the record when it was recently reissued, with a 4.5 star BLENDER review hailing it as “masterful” and ALTERNATIVE PRESS calling it “one of the most beloved albums of the ’90s.” Ironically, it was CLARITY’s initial failure that put JIMMY EAT WORLD on the path to its eventual mainstream success: Left to its own devices after being dropped by Capitol, the band built up a base via relentless touring which funded the recording of its platinum-plus 2001 breakthrough BLEED AMERICAN.

The complete track listing for CLARITY LIVE is as follows:

Table For Glasses
Lucky Denver Mint
Your New Aesthetic
Believe In What You Want
A Sunday
Crush
12.23.95
Ten
Just Watch The Fireworks
For Me This Is Heaven
Blister
Clarity
Goodbye Sky Harbor
What I Would Say To You Now *
No Sensitivity **

*Original studio version on split single with Jejune (1998)
** Original studio version on split EP with Jebediah (2000)

MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS SELLING FROM $50 TO $5000

PHYSICAL RELEASE APRIL 14

The digital pre-release of Josh Freese’s Since 1972 that began March 24 exclusively at joshfreese.com has already seen several of the album’s more lavish versions sell, including the $20,000 limited edition of one that features such bonus material as a miniature golfing trip with members of Tool and Devo, a night aboard the Queen Mary, 2 songs written about the purchaser and made available on iTunes, a drum lesson or foot and back massage, any 3 items out of Freese’s closet and more.

Additionally, the $250 limited edition of 25 that includes lunch with Freese at P.F. Chang’s or the Cheesecake Factory has completely sold out, two of the $5000 limited edition of 3 and one of the $2500 limited edition of 5 have sold. The unlimited $50 version that includes a thank you call from Freese continues to sell briskly.

Since 1972 will be released to conventional retail on April 14.

Josh Freese has been playing drums professionally since his debut with a Disneyland Top 40 band at the age of 12. His recording and touring credits include work with the Vandals, Devo, A Perfect Circle, Guns N’ Roses, Sting, the Replacements and a host of others. Most recently, he left Nine Inch Nails following the completion of the band’s Lights In The Sky Over North America tour.

Since 1972, like his 2000 album The Notorious One Man Orgy, features Freese singing and playing more or less everything: vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass and of course drums. Unlike previous solo Freese records, Since 1972 is available in a total of eleven configurations, ranging from a basic $7 digital download that also includes three videos to a $75,000 limited edition of 1 that includes one of Freese’s drum kits, a flying trapeze lesson and Freese either joining the purchaser’s band or becoming his or her personal assistant for one month.

A list of configurations still available is detailed below. For further information, contact Steve Martin or Amy Grote at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e amy@nastylittleman.com

JOSH FREESE: SINCE 1972
$7
–Digital Download of “Since 1972” (including 3 videos)

$15
–CD/DVD Double Disc Set
–Digital Download

$50
–CD/DVD Double Disc Set
–T-shirt
–“Thank You” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like ‘Is Maynard really THAT weird?’ or ‘Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?’ or ‘Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?’ or ‘Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?’ It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$500 (limited edition of 15)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Signed Cymbal and sticks
–Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together in a Sensory deprivation tank (filmed and posted on youtube)
–Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and “all you can eat” Shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
–T-shirt
–Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks.
–Josh washes your car OR does your laundry….or you can wash his car.
–Have dinner with Josh aboard the “Queen Mary” in Long Beach, CA
–Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5–FOUR REMAINING)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
–Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
–Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
–Signed DW snare drum.
–Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
–Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3–ONE REMAINING)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
–T-shirt
–Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes.
–Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes.
–Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
–Get drunk together. If you don’t drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
–Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on “Since 1972”

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour.
–Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
–Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken n’ Waffle in Long Beach for dinner.
–Josh takes you and guest to “Club 33” (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror)
–At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours….take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
–Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
–Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
–Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
–Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….
–If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
–Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
–If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
–Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.

New York, NY – March 30, 2009 – Pre-orders go live today at www.beastieboys.com for the deluxe reissue of the band’s third album, Check Your Head. Check Your Head follows Paul’s Boutique in receiving the remastered expanded reissue treatment by Beastie Boys and Capitol/EMI, with multiple configurations ranging from a high quality DRM-free digital download of the album (including its numerous and classic B-sides and bonus tracks) to an ultra-deluxe 4 LP 180HQ vinyl version packaged in a fabric-wrapped hardcover coffee table book case and limited to 2000 copies. The retail release date of all physical editions other than the 4xLP version will be April 7, with the ultra deluxe following close behind.

The Check Your Head pre-order going live coincides with today’s announcement that Beastie Boys will headline the July 31 opening night of this year’s All Points West festival at New Jersey’s Liberty State Park. All Points West pre-sale will begin April 2, with general on-sale following on April 3. For details, visit www.apwfestival.com.

Other confirmed Beastie Boys tour dates thus far include June 12 at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, TN and the band’s first ever headline engagement at the Hollywood Bowl on September 24. For ticket info visit: www.beastieboys.com.

Originally released in April 1992, Check Your Head was a milestone for Beastie Boys on multiple levels: It was the first B Boys album to be produced in its entirety by Mario Caldato Jr. and to feature keyboard player Keyboard Money Mark, as well as the first to be recorded at the band’s own G-Son studios in Atwater Village, CA. Most significantly, however, Check Your Head marked the return of live instrumentation to the forefront and backbone of the Beastie Boys sound, with the bulk of the album featuring Mike D on drums, Adrock on guitar and MCA on bass for the first time since the band’s early 1980s hardcore punk recordings.

On the strength of now-classic singles and videos “So What’cha Want,” “Pass The Mic,” “Gratitude” and “Jimmy James” -all of which are included in their original 12″ vinyl incarnations in the ultra deluxe version-Check Your Head stormed the U.S. Top 10, ultimately returning Beastie Boys to hard-touring, platinum-selling status, and setting the band up for the pop cultural dominance it would achieve in the decade to come.

The full list of Check Your Head reissue configurations is as follows:

* Digital Download (album and b-sides)
– Deluxe Digital Option (also includes videos and video commentary)
* Deluxe, limited collector’s vinyl + Digital Download
* Standard double vinyl + Digital Download
* Ecopack double CD + Digital Download
* Shirt combos:
– Deluxe Digital + shirt
– Standard Vinyl + shirt
– CD + shirt:
– Deluxe, limited collector’s vinyl + shirt

For further information, go to www.beastieboys.com