Music Post! Feat. Radiohead, Jay-Z, Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, Bikini Kill, Bobby Womack
Watch Radiohead's Episode of "Austin City Limits"
By Evan Minsker on October 7, 2012 at 04:17 p.m.
Last night, PBS aired Radiohead's episode of "Austin City Limits" (which they previewed earlier this year with video of "Morning Mr. Magpie" and "Lotus Flower"). The full episode is now available to stream via the PBS website. Watch it below, and check out the full setlist from the episode.
Watch Radiohead on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.
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Jay-Z Announces Live in Brooklyn EP
Available to pre-order on iTunes now
By Evan Minsker on October 6, 2012 at 02:52 p.m.
Jay-Z just tweeted that on Tuesday, he'll release the Live in Brooklyn "optic EP", which presumably features video and audio of his recent Brooklyn performances at the Barclays Center. It's available to pre-order on iTunes now, though there's no tracklist. His final performance at the Barclays Center is tonight, and it's streaming at 9:30pm EST on YouTube. Read Ryan Dombal's live report from the first night of Jay's residency here.
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Watch: Arcade Fire Perform a New Song
Reportedly titled "Crucified Again"
By Evan Minsker on October 6, 2012 at 10:07 a.m.
Yesterday, Arcade Fire Tube posted video of Arcade Fire performing a new song in New York on Thursday. The band debuted the track, reportedly titled "Crucified Again", earlier this year at a show in Haiti, but this is the first video of the song. Check it out below.
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Photos: Crystal Castles Slay NYC
By Larry Fitzmaurice on October 4, 2012 at 01:00 p.m.
Crystal Castles returned to the stage last night, with a show at New York City's Roseland Ballroom. The performance was heavy on disorienting lighting, as the duo performed highlights from their excellent first two albums, as well as what sounded like new material from their forthcoming album, (III), out November 6 via Casablanca/Fiction/Universal Republic.
Alice Glass was as intense of a performer as ever, jumping into the crowd at one point while shouting into her microphone-- but the crowd's energy suggested that even if she had stood still the entire time, they still would've been wilding out.
Photos by Erez Avissar. Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our slideshow and Facebook page for even more photos.
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Bikini Kill to Reissue Debut EP
By Carrie Battan on October 4, 2012 at 01:46 p.m.
The first release from the newly launched Bikini Kill Records is a special one. The label will kick off its reissue campaign by celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bikini Kill's door-stomping self-titled debut EP with a reissue out November 20. That'll include a new fanzine/poster with archival photos, liner notes by Skinned Teen's Layla Gibbon, pages from Bikini Kill's zines, and interviews with Ian MacKaye (who recorded four of the EP tracks) and Bratmobile's Molly Neuman.
Read our recent interview with Kathleen Hanna here, and watch a vintage clip of the band performing "Suck My Left One" and "Rebel Girl" below.
Bikini Kill EP:
01 Double Dare Ya
02 Liar
03 Carnival
04 Suck My Left One
05 Feels Blind
06 Thurston Hearts the Who
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Watch: Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, Richard Russell Chat About The Bravest Man in the Universe
Bobby Womack on making the album: "I got to know freedom."
By Jenn Pelly on October 8, 2012 at 10:51 a.m.
Pitchfork.tv recently sat down with Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, and XL Recordings' Richard Russell to discuss the making of Womack's album The Bravest Man in the Universe, which Albarn and Russell produced.
This interview clip comes in advance of a special presentation of performances of several Universe songs, performed live in New York by Womack, Albarn, and Russell. Stay tuned to Pitchfork.tv for those videos.
Comparing the creative process to his previous recording experience, Womack said:
I got to know freedom and a lot of things I never had a chance to try when I was recording, and I had been with a lot of companies. It was in the days [when] you had to cut two albums a year. They would be asking me-- "if you had a hit record, cut one like that record you just cut." How can you grow?
Damon Albarn explained how he teamed with Womack and described their initial sessions:
I managed to contact Bobby and we had a conversation and agreed to meet in New York. I had the raw, basic track and put it on. Bobby almost immediately started singing… and kept on singing… and singing. For me it was incredible. Every time the phrases came up they got stronger and stronger. But it just kept going and going. It was going towards an hour and I was like... I don't want this to stop because this is a dream come true. But at the same time… it has been an hour [laughs].
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Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor Is Writing a Cookbook
"Making cooking approachable for people in a different way"
By Jenn Pelly on October 5, 2012 at 01:20 p.m.
Photo by NKSW
Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor has a lot of ambition. Along with performing with Grizzly Bear, who are currently touring in support of Shields, he's found time in recent years to release his own music as CANT; introduce the world to artists like Twin Shadow and Kindness via his label Terrible Records; mix/restore Arthur Russell's Love Is Overtaking Me, and more.
His latest endeavor is cookbook writing. In New York magazine's new Grizzly Bear profile, Pitchfork contributor Nitsuh Abebe writes that Taylor recently began renting a house in the woods near Germantown, New York, where he plans "to hole up between tour stints and write a cookbook for Random House."
In the September/October issue of SPIN, Taylor explained:
It doesn't have a title yet, but at the moment it's 20 dinners, fully coursed, all seasonally relevant. I think a lot of people open a cookbook and they're like, "Where do I start?" And this is just like: "Make this dinner." It's making cooking approachable for people in a different way. I love throwing dinner parties. I used to have a fire pit until I got the cops called on me.
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By Evan Minsker on October 7, 2012 at 04:17 p.m.
Last night, PBS aired Radiohead's episode of "Austin City Limits" (which they previewed earlier this year with video of "Morning Mr. Magpie" and "Lotus Flower"). The full episode is now available to stream via the PBS website. Watch it below, and check out the full setlist from the episode.
Watch Radiohead on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.
Source
Jay-Z Announces Live in Brooklyn EP
Available to pre-order on iTunes now
By Evan Minsker on October 6, 2012 at 02:52 p.m.
Jay-Z just tweeted that on Tuesday, he'll release the Live in Brooklyn "optic EP", which presumably features video and audio of his recent Brooklyn performances at the Barclays Center. It's available to pre-order on iTunes now, though there's no tracklist. His final performance at the Barclays Center is tonight, and it's streaming at 9:30pm EST on YouTube. Read Ryan Dombal's live report from the first night of Jay's residency here.
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Watch: Arcade Fire Perform a New Song
Reportedly titled "Crucified Again"
By Evan Minsker on October 6, 2012 at 10:07 a.m.
Yesterday, Arcade Fire Tube posted video of Arcade Fire performing a new song in New York on Thursday. The band debuted the track, reportedly titled "Crucified Again", earlier this year at a show in Haiti, but this is the first video of the song. Check it out below.
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Photos: Crystal Castles Slay NYC
By Larry Fitzmaurice on October 4, 2012 at 01:00 p.m.
Crystal Castles returned to the stage last night, with a show at New York City's Roseland Ballroom. The performance was heavy on disorienting lighting, as the duo performed highlights from their excellent first two albums, as well as what sounded like new material from their forthcoming album, (III), out November 6 via Casablanca/Fiction/Universal Republic.
Alice Glass was as intense of a performer as ever, jumping into the crowd at one point while shouting into her microphone-- but the crowd's energy suggested that even if she had stood still the entire time, they still would've been wilding out.
Photos by Erez Avissar. Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our slideshow and Facebook page for even more photos.
Source
Bikini Kill to Reissue Debut EP
By Carrie Battan on October 4, 2012 at 01:46 p.m.
The first release from the newly launched Bikini Kill Records is a special one. The label will kick off its reissue campaign by celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bikini Kill's door-stomping self-titled debut EP with a reissue out November 20. That'll include a new fanzine/poster with archival photos, liner notes by Skinned Teen's Layla Gibbon, pages from Bikini Kill's zines, and interviews with Ian MacKaye (who recorded four of the EP tracks) and Bratmobile's Molly Neuman.
Read our recent interview with Kathleen Hanna here, and watch a vintage clip of the band performing "Suck My Left One" and "Rebel Girl" below.
Bikini Kill EP:
01 Double Dare Ya
02 Liar
03 Carnival
04 Suck My Left One
05 Feels Blind
06 Thurston Hearts the Who
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Watch: Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, Richard Russell Chat About The Bravest Man in the Universe
Bobby Womack on making the album: "I got to know freedom."
By Jenn Pelly on October 8, 2012 at 10:51 a.m.
Pitchfork.tv recently sat down with Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, and XL Recordings' Richard Russell to discuss the making of Womack's album The Bravest Man in the Universe, which Albarn and Russell produced.
This interview clip comes in advance of a special presentation of performances of several Universe songs, performed live in New York by Womack, Albarn, and Russell. Stay tuned to Pitchfork.tv for those videos.
Comparing the creative process to his previous recording experience, Womack said:
I got to know freedom and a lot of things I never had a chance to try when I was recording, and I had been with a lot of companies. It was in the days [when] you had to cut two albums a year. They would be asking me-- "if you had a hit record, cut one like that record you just cut." How can you grow?
Damon Albarn explained how he teamed with Womack and described their initial sessions:
I managed to contact Bobby and we had a conversation and agreed to meet in New York. I had the raw, basic track and put it on. Bobby almost immediately started singing… and kept on singing… and singing. For me it was incredible. Every time the phrases came up they got stronger and stronger. But it just kept going and going. It was going towards an hour and I was like... I don't want this to stop because this is a dream come true. But at the same time… it has been an hour [laughs].
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Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor Is Writing a Cookbook
"Making cooking approachable for people in a different way"
By Jenn Pelly on October 5, 2012 at 01:20 p.m.
Photo by NKSW
Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor has a lot of ambition. Along with performing with Grizzly Bear, who are currently touring in support of Shields, he's found time in recent years to release his own music as CANT; introduce the world to artists like Twin Shadow and Kindness via his label Terrible Records; mix/restore Arthur Russell's Love Is Overtaking Me, and more.
His latest endeavor is cookbook writing. In New York magazine's new Grizzly Bear profile, Pitchfork contributor Nitsuh Abebe writes that Taylor recently began renting a house in the woods near Germantown, New York, where he plans "to hole up between tour stints and write a cookbook for Random House."
In the September/October issue of SPIN, Taylor explained:
It doesn't have a title yet, but at the moment it's 20 dinners, fully coursed, all seasonally relevant. I think a lot of people open a cookbook and they're like, "Where do I start?" And this is just like: "Make this dinner." It's making cooking approachable for people in a different way. I love throwing dinner parties. I used to have a fire pit until I got the cops called on me.
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