Check out the video for the track, One, below. You can get the record on CD or vinyl and there will be a release party in Minneapolis at The Cedar, October 11, 2012. You can pre-order the record and buy tickets to the show HERE.
Minneapolis hip hoppers Big Cats! (of The Tribe & Big Cats!) is getting read to release an instrumental solo record. "Big Cats!" is one half of the duo. The record was made possible via a grant from American Composers Forum and the McKnight Foundation and is a homage to his mother, who passed away from ovarian cancer. The record is entitled For My Mother and comes out October 2, 2012. Seventy-five percent of proceeds of the record will be donated to the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance. Check out the video for the track, One, below. You can get the record on CD or vinyl and there will be a release party in Minneapolis at The Cedar, October 11, 2012. You can pre-order the record and buy tickets to the show HERE.
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Dispatch’s tour begins today (September 21) in Seattle and winds up just shy of a month from now. The group is touring to support Circles Around The Sun, the band’s first album in over ten years. It is out now on Dispatch’s Bomber Records. The band is also appearing on two late night television shows--The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on September 26 at 12:35 a.m. and on VH1’s Big Morning Buzz on October 5 at 10 a.m EST/PT. You can also check out the band’s tour documentary from 2002 on their Youtube channel. Dispatch, as you may know, have always been supporters of worthy causes. On this tour they are working to help Amplifying Education, an organization working to improve education in the USA. There will be events on this tour on September 29th in Denver, October 3rd in Chicago, October 5th in Metro NYC, and October 6th in Boston. Want to get involved? Head tot amplifyingeducation.org. Tour
September 21st Seattle, WA Moore Theatre 22nd Portland, OR Roseland Theatre 26th Los Angeles, CA House of Blues 29th Broomfield, CO 1st Bank Centre October 1st Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre 2nd Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre 3rd Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre 5th New York, NY Radio City Music Hall SOLD OUT 6th Boston, MA Agganis Arena 8th Toronto, ONT Sound Academy 9th Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre 11th Washington, DC Constitution Hall SOLD OUT 12th Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre Les Claypool, of Primus, is auctioning of one of his main basses to benefit his baby nephew, Matthew. Matthew has a rare infant leukemia. His family needs help. Matthew is undergoing a marrow transplant at St Jude’s new. You can own a Les Claypool bass and help a little boy. Go here to bid on this final prototype Les Claypool Pachyderm. He has been using it for a year and it is the design all future Pachyderm basses will be “bassed” on. The auction is LIVE now HERE. Dispatch are not only heading out on tour but have released the director’s cut of their video for Not Messin’. I am not sure if this is the first time I have heard of a director’s cut of a video. But I do not recall another instance. The group’s tour starts in earnest in the fall but Festival dates are a preview. They will be at Bonarroo beginning today and later in the summer at the Outside Lands Festival. The band’s latest record, Circles Around The Sun, come out August 21, 2012. You can pre-order it (in a deluxe vinyl edition, 28 page hard cover book.. CD …and find all sorts of other cool stuff like autographed photos) at the band’s webstore. This is the band’s first studio effort in 12 years and the band are donating one dollar per pre-order to Amplifying Education. An additional dollar from ticket sales on the upcoming tour will likewise go to the cause. Given the size of some of the venues? This ain’t chump change. For more info on this head to www.dispatchmusic.com/giving_back. Tour/Festival Dates
JUNE 8-10 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo AUGUST 10-12 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Festival SEPTEMBER 20th Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 21st Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre 22nd Portland, OR Roseland Theatre 26th Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium 28th Broomfield, CO 1st Bank Centre 29th Broomfield, CO 1st Bank Centre OCTOBER 1st Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre 2nd Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom 3rd Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom 5th New York, NY Radio City Music Hall 6th Boston, MA Agganis Arena 8th Toronto, ONT Sound Academy 9th Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre 11th Washington, DC Constitution Hall 12th Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre _ Bonnaroo is a festival that you have probably heard about and possibly attended. Most folks do not know that during the festival’s ten year run they have donated more than five million dollars to local, regional and national charities. This year festival partner Rick Farman says that they plan to surpass that amount in the next ten years with new programs and upgrades to current charitable outreach through the Bonnaroo Works Fund , Bonnaroo’s charitable arm. BWF is administered by the East Tennessee Foundation which identifies (and vets) organizations looking for assistance. They help BWF get money to where it can do the most good. Some of the organizations helped include; Doctors Without Borders, the American Red Cross. Head Count, MusiCares, Boys and Girls Club of America, Habitat for Humanity ,Rock the Earth and the Sierra Club and others. Assistance has also been provided for disaster relief in the USA and abroad—help for victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake, the recent floods in Nashville and during the Gulf oil spill. Good for Bonnaroo. Other festivals like this should do more as well. _ Just like Honey is a benefit compilation for Breast Cancer Care in the U.K. The wonderful artist, Oh Minnows, recorded a cover for the comp--The Jesus & Mary Chain’s Just Like Honey for this release. 100 percent of the profits from this release (unlike any of those shite pink ribbon products) will go to Breast Cancer Care. Find out more at www.breastcancercare.org.uk/. Oh Minnows plays all the instruments himself and recorded the track in his Brooklyn home studio. You can hear at Bandcamp here, http://justlikehoney.bandcamp.com/track/oh-minnows?permalink You can buy the compilation here--http://justlikehoney.co.uk/covercompil/ Tim Heidecker has nine new songs coming out on a release entitled Cainthology. All the tracks are inspired by GOP presidential candidate, Herman Cain. Initially Heidecker wrote a song inspired by the now infamous Cain “smoking ad.” But Cain is a veritable fountain of material so eight more songs were created. Heidecker enlisted DJ Douggpound (Doug Lussenhop), Gregg Turkington, Mark Proksch and Chris Bagnall and the songs poured forth. The whole thing took 2 weeks and you can now buy it via download at LittleRecordCompany.com. It will be available at other online retailers soon as well. ALL proceeds from the sale of Cainthology (Songs In The Key Of Cain) will be donated to the VIP Community Mental Health Center, a violence intervention program. You can find out more about them at www.violenceinterventionprogram.org. Summer Camp are having a Halloween Party on Tumblr. Their new video for, Down, was directed by Chris Boyle and employs an infinite loop of 50 gifs. The band is going to let 50 different fans debut one of the gifs on their blog or Tumblr page. Find out more HERE. Summer Camp are also about to release Welcome To Condale (November 8) and tour Europe. A USA tour is in the works for 2012. If you pre-order Welcome To Condale, by the way, a portion of your money will go to Shelter From The Storm, a homeless shelter in London. This advance order gets you the digital download—and various “album packages” which include a film night with the band, brownies baked by the band etc. YOU HAVE TWO DAYS INCLUDING TODAY TO DO THIS HERE. Tour
October 29 - Battersea Power Station - Relentless Freeze Festival November 4 - Rome, Italy - Animal Social Club 5 -Bologna, Italy - Covo 9 - Lancaster, UK - Library 10 - Liverpool, UK - Mojo 11 - Newcastle, UK - Dog & Parrot 12 - Leeds, UK - Constellations Festival 14 - Southampton, UK - Joiners 15 - Oxford, UK - Jericho 17 - London, UK - Efes Pool Hall (Dalston) 18 - Canterbury, UK - Farmhouse 19 - Brighton, UK - Green Door Store 21 - Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso 23 - Brussels, Belgium - WitloofBar, Botanique 24 - Paris, France - Le Petit Bain 25 - Berlin, Germany - Levee 26 - Utrecht, Holland - Le Guess Who @ Ekko Music folks—promoters bands and eve PR PEOPLE…brrr (I tease them as I was once one of them) have the potential to do a lot of good. One recent example of all of the above (and more) stepping up to the plate is the Life is Good Festival which had 20,000 in attendance and raised a million dollars for Life is Good Playmakers (the “action arm” of the Life is Good Kids Foundation). Life is Good is a Boston based company with a social mission to help kids overcome life-threatening challenges. And this festival fundraiser partnered with Superfly Presents (wait? A PROMOTER WITH A SOUL…HOW CAN IT BE…but it IS) and put some super musical acts on three stages. There were kids performers but also included were Ray LaMontagne, The Avett Brothers, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The Levon Helm Band, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Martin Sexton, Raphael Saadiq, Ingrid Michaelson and The Hold Steady. Brandi Carlile and The Levon Helm Band did sets with The Boston Pops. Life is Good donated 100 percent of theprofits from ticket sales, sponsors and onsite apparel and merch sales to the foundation. ALSO the festival aimed at getting people to do good. They arranged for numerous people to sign on as VGAs (Very Good People) and raise funds for the Life is Good Playmakers. These folks raised over $435,000. If you were wondering (you cynical bastard), “The Life is good Kids Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit committed to helping children overcome life-threatening challenges such as violence, illness and extreme poverty. Its Playmakers initiative provides innovative training and support to the frontline child care professionals dedicated to helping these children so that all involved lead healthier, more joyful lives. To date, the Life is good Playmakers have trained more than 2,500 Playmakers across the country who have provided joyful, healing play to over 130,000 children.” This last part was a boiler plate description that is going to hurt me with Google I bet. But, I cannot say it better. The fest had lots of extras and stuff for kids, games, art projects, food and mascots from pro sports teams for photos. Good for everyone involved. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has a new single…Trouble…coming on October 18th. You can see the video below. TEEN is Orlando Higginbottom who recently traveled to the Congo with Damon Albarn to be one of the producers for the DRC Music project. This project benefits Oxfam and includes eleven producers from Western nations with musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aside from Albarn and Higgenbottom, Dan the Automator and Richard Russell were participants. It is not just a good cause, music from the Congo is well worth a listen songwriters and guitarists from the massive nation people now associate only with war have been making fantastic music for decades. Not a lot of it gets much play in the USA. TEEN will be playing US dates beginning in October. |
Constantly Consuming Culture--The Waterfront show crowdfunding effort now live. Shows in Miami and Chicago. Help us out. You can own the painting above.
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