PJ Harvey : Sheela Na Gig :: Video
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The Bravery : Slow Poison :: Video
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ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL ANNOUNCES NEW NOVEL, HIBERNATES FOR THE WINTER
November 30, 2009 by greg
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Chris Eaton, frontman and principle songwriter of Rock Plaza Central, has announced that the band is currently on a break from touring so he can concentrate on finishing his third novel before the arrival of his other project, an as-yet-unnamed-and-unborn baby.
While perhaps best known for his work with the band, including this year’s critically-acclaimed At the Moment of Our Most Needing…, and 2006′s breakthrough Are We Not Horses?, Chris Eaton is also the author of The Inactivist (2003) and The Grammar Architect (2005). Despite his relatively young age, his work has been studied on three university courses in North America, and papers on both The Inactivist and RPC’s Are We Not Horses? (2006) were delivered at this year’s Midwest Modern Language Annual Conference in St Louis.
After completing a near sold-out tour of the eastern United States with The Weakerthans in September, Eaton decided he’d been putting this third novel off for too long. “I actually started the book while I was living in Panama four years ago, right before recording Are We Not Horses?, and then immediately got caught up in all these requests for us to come tour. But being on the road can be horrible on the kind of writing that I do, where I need my complete focus at all times.”
The new novel, tentatively titled Chris Eaton: a Biography (a novel by Chris Eaton), is about twenty-five different people who all share the author’s name, based on other real Chris Eaton’s around the world he’s been painstakingly researching. The twenty five characters never meet, and the book instead relies on coincidence and the biographical form to create a story about identity and how we see each other and ourselves. The stories begin to blur into each other with the idea that, in the end, we are all living the same life, dealing with the same hopes and fears. And even when we are ostensibly talking about other people, we are still just talking about ourselves.
A section from the upcoming Chris Eaton: a Biography can be found on the Joyland website:
http://www.joyland.ca/stories/toronto/chris_eaton_a_biography
Created by writers Emily Schultz and Brian Joseph Davis, Joyland: a hub for short fiction has been called “the go-to spot for readers seeking the best voices in short fiction.” Operating out of San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York and Vancouver, they have also recently published works by Jonathan Lethem (winner of the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award), Lydia Millet (winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction), and founding editor of The Believer, Ed Park.
Chris Eaton’s work has also recently been featured in Australia’s The Lifted Brow with Ben Greeman, Rick Moody, Daniel Handler and Brian Evenson, and Britain’s We Are The Friction with Spencer Krug and Carey Mercer. Rock Plaza Central will play one remaining show on Jan 23 in Toronto at The Garrison. Meanwhile a new video for “Handsome Men” should appear around the same time.
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NITZER EBB INDUSTRIAL US TOUR 2009
November 30, 2009 by greg
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Some of the songs they’ll be performing live from the Industrial Complex project have already been heard on various film and television soundtracks, including Saw IV, Saw VI, NCIS and Fringe. Another track, “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” is featured on the upcoming Tony Hawk: RIDE video game released by Activision on November 17, 2009.
Nitzer Ebb will be the opening act for the final European leg of Depeche Mode’s “Tour of the Universe” in January and February 2010.
12.1 Toronto @ Mod Club
12.2 Montreal @ Le Foufounes
12.3 Boston @ Paradise
12.4 New York @ Gramercy Theatre
12.5 Philadelphia @ The Starlight
12.6 Fairfax @ Jaxx
12.8 Jacksonville @ Jackrabbit’s
12.10 Atlanta @ Masquerade
12.11 New Orleans @ The Hangar
12.15 Tucson @ The Rock
12.16 Tempe @ Marquee Theatre
12.17 San Diego @ Brick By Brick
12. 18 Ventura @ Majestic Ventura
12.19 Santa Ana @ Galaxy
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MISFORTUNE CAT ‘Original’ Letterpress Print Release Info
November 30, 2009 by greg
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Lettra 100% cotton paper.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Fifth Studio Album Due March 9
November 30, 2009 by greg
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The band’s accustomed globetrotting will recommence with an initial headline tour, kicking off February 26 in Sacramento and culminating at New York City’s Webster Hall on April 8. Pre-sale for all shows will start Wednesday, December 2, available here.
February 27 – Reno, Nev. @ Knitting Factory
February 28 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Wasted Space/ Hard Rock Hotel
March 2 – Denver, Colo. @ Ogden Theatre
March 4 – Boise, Idaho @ Knitting Factory
March 5 – Seattle, Wash. @ Showbox Market
March 6 – Vancouver, B.C. @ Commodore
March 7 – Portland, Ore. @ Wonder Ballroom
March 9 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Slim’s
March 13 – San Diego, Calif. @ House of Blues
March 14 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Echoplex
March 18 – Dallas, Texas @ House of Blues
March 20 – Houston, Texas @ House of Blues
March 21 – Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain’s Ballroom
March 23 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Pageant
March 24 – Madison, Wisc. @ High Noon
March 25 – Chicago, Ill. @ Metro
March 26 – Milwaukee, Wisc. @ Turner Hall Ballroom
March 27 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Ave.
March 30 – Columbus, Ohio @ Newport Music Hall
March 31 – Cleveland, Ohio @ House Of Blues
April 1 – Toronto, ONT @ Phoenix
April 2 – Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
April 3 – Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues
April 5 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
April 7 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Theatre of Living Arts
April 8 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
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CRACKER / CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN 2009/10 WINTER TOUR!
November 30, 2009 by greg
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Fall Out Boy ‘Believer Never Die’ out Tomorrow
November 30, 2009 by greg
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Multi platinum selling Fall Out Boy are set to release a Greatest Hits album on November 30th through the Mercury Music Group.
The 18-track BELIEVERS NEVER DIE – GREATEST HITS will contain two rarities and two never released tracks. Final track listing for BELIEVERS NEVER DIE – GREATEST HITS is listed below. Also included will be a DVD with Fall Out Boy’s 14 Greatest Hit videos with exclusive band commentary.
Fall Out Boy have sold a total of over 7 Million albums worldwide. Their last three albums ‘(Folie A Deux’, ‘Infinity On High’ and ‘From Under The Cork Tree’) have spurned such hits as ‘Sugar We’re Going Down’, ‘Dance, Dance’, ‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race’ and their cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’.
TRACK LISTING FOR BELIEVERS NEVER DIE – GREATEST HITS
- Dead On Arrival
- Grand Theft Autumn
- Saturday
- Sugar, We’re Goin Down
- Dance, Dance
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”
- This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
- Thnks fr th Mmrs
- The Take Over, The Breaks Over
10. I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
11. Beat It
12. I Don’t Care
13. Americas Suitehearts
14. What A Catch, Donnie
15. Alpha Dog
BONUS Tracks
“From Now On We Are Enemies”
Yule Shoot Your Eyes Out
Growing Up
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Alicia Keys announces 2010 UK Tour
November 30, 2009 by greg
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MAY 2010: BIRMINGHAM, GLASGOW, LONDON, MANCHESTER
TICKETS GO ON SALE Monday 30th NOVEMBER
12 x Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys will be touring the UK in May 2010 as part of her pan European Tour. These shows will be the multi-award winning singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist’s first in the UK since her critically acclaimed As I Am Tour in 2007.
Alicia Keys’ 2010 UK and Europe tour will follow the release of her highly anticipated fourth studio album, ‘THE ELEMENT OF FREEDOM’, (out on December 14th 2009) and first single, ‘DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING’, (out on November 30th 2009)
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R.E.M. : Live At The Olympia In Dublin 39 Songs :: Review
November 29, 2009 by greg
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In the 80’s, R.E.M. was one of my favorite bands that could do no wrong. In the 90’s, R.E.M released a couple of great albums and declared that they would break up on the verge of the millennium. While saddened, I knew the band had a good run and that the memories they created would be with me forever. Fate intervened and instead of breaking up as they had claimed during this period, R.E.M. lost their drummer Bill Berry in 1997 but continued to soldier on as a “three-legged dog.” Rather than become a band that was content to sit on its back catalog in the 00’s, bandleader Michael Stipe claimed that R.E.M. would now be an experimental band with alternative forms of percussion on their subsequent releases and that ultimately illustrated that the band was dangerously treading water.
Fast forward to 2007 and after the abysmal release of R.E.M’s last proper album “Around The Sun,” R.E.M. acknowledged that they needed some type of intervention. R.E.M. wished to create a better album and reconvened in the winter to write stronger songs. During late June and early July, R.E.M. appeared reinvigorated and rehearsed the new material on a 5 day stint at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland from where the origins of “Live At The Olympia 39 Songs” stems. “Live At The Olympia 39 Songs” is a live compilation that showcases the new material that would later appear on “Accelerate” along with large amounts of “Reckoning,” “Fables of the Reconstruction,” and “Chronic Town.” It is evident R.E.M. had a blast playing the older songs as some of the renditions remain among their best of recent interpretations.
What’s not surprising is that the newer material on “Live At The Olympia 39 Songs” is the weakest and doesn’t necessarily jive with the vibe that the classic material conjures. It seems out of place and doesn’t really connect with anything much like the rest of R.E.M’s hollow 00’ output. Granted, this recording is patched together from a series of nights, but the new stuff feels a bit shallow and soulless. Had this new stuff been excised from the recording, I would enjoy the album a whole lot more. Luckily with the advent of playlists, you can arrange the songs in any way possible and I will probably do just that. Whether this release is a contractual obligation or one off is negligible, take it at face value and listen to a band that is happy to reconnect with its audience.
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