Bishop Allen Pictures

Grrr... by Bishop Allen

This is the third full-length for the Brooklyn, New York, indie-rock band. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-03-12 Provider: Metacritic

Tour Tracker: Sasquatch! Festival, No Doubt and PJ Harvey

Photo: Getty Images Rolling Stone predicted Nine Inch Nails and their new tourmates Jane’s Addiction would be hitting some festival this summer, and voila: the Sasquatch! Festival revealed that Trent, Perry and the rest of the gangs will headline this year’s fest at the Gorge in Quincey, Washington on May 23-25th. Kings of Leon will also headline a night at Sasquatch, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective and Santigold are also on a pretty strong bill. Check after the jump for the full initial Sasquatch! lineup. In other news, No Doubt announced that their reunion tour will kick off with a May 16th show at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for Tiger Woods’ Tiger Jam, an event that benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation and other Vegas charities. “Playing this show is going to be really fun for all of us. Tiger’s foundation empowers kids to achieve their dreams and we’re excited to help support that,” No Doubt’s singer Gwen Stefani said in a press release. Paramore and the Sounds will also appear. Plus, PJ Harvey revealed a trio of dates and a March 24th performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in support of her new album with John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked By (due March 31st). Check below for the Harvey & Parish dates, too. Sasquatch! Festival Jane’s Addiction (feat. all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Santigold, Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky, Devotchka, Peter Bjorn & John, Gogol Bordello, M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, Doves, Calexico, Grizzly Bear, M83, Girl Talk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Walkmen, Chromeo (dj set), Deadmau5, Mugison, Sun Kil Moon, Airborne Toxic Event, Blitzen Trapper, Shearwater, BLK JKS, The Wrens, Tobacco, Monotonix, King Khan & The Shrines, St. Vincent, Passion Pit, John Vanderslice, Bishop Allen, Blind Pilot, AA Bondy, Black Moth

Published: 2009-02-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Breaking: Bishop Allen

Who: A Brooklyn-based indie pop band fronted by two Harvard alums — singer-keyboardist Justin Rice and multi-instrumentalist Christian Rudder. The pair met in a mandatory English class in the mid-Nineties and formed a punk band called the Pissed Officers before starting up Bishop Allen, which they named after a Cambridge street. In 2006, the group put out an EP per month, and their third full-length, Grrr … is due in March. Sounds Like: A blend of Los Campesinos! and Yo La Tengo with a twee-folk vibe. The band’s literary influences, like Jorge Luis Borges and G.K. Chesterton, is evident on songs like Grrr …’s “The Ancient Common Sense of Things.” “There’s something cool about writing songs. You think, ‘Yesterday, this song didn’t exist but now it does,’ ” Rice says of the songwriting process. “But there’s something gratifying about playing shows because that you think ‘That thing I made in my room, these people appreciate it and they’ll give me a high-five.’ “ Vital Stats: • Moviegoers might recognize Bishop Allen from their appearance in last autumn’s hipstertastic Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, where they performed their song “Middle Management.” Rice and Rudder are no strangers to the silver screen: Rice recently starred in the indie film Let Them Chirp Away, while Rudder appeared in 2005’s Funny Ha Ha. • The band has been married to the road in recent years. Rice admits, “We make enough money if we play every night to just keep going, but if we ever stop we’ll be broke.” The band stopped touring long enough to record their new album, using obscure studio equipment like a 1950s Magnerecorder while recording with Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Apples in Stereo, Pavement and Luna. • Bishop Allen have had their share of awkward concerts. “We’ve had a show where the band that played before us unplugged all the power in the club because they wanted to beat us up or something,” Rice says. “They got evicted forcibly by the bouncers. Then we played a Christmas party

Published: 2009-02-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Breaking

The Broken String by Bishop Allen

After releasing an EP every month for a year in 2006, the Brooklyn-based band returns with a full-length album. [Indie, Rock]

Published: 2007-07-31 Provider: Metacritic

New Bishop Allen Video - "True Or False" (Stereogum Premiere)

Published: 2009-11-02 Provider: StereoGum

New Bishop Allen - "Dimmer" & "The Ancient Commonsense Of Things"

A line about a heart "pounding loud like a timpani" in "The Ancient Commensense Of Things"'s delivered with a sort of John Darnielle intonation. And "Dimmer" comes back a few times to an "olly olly oxen free." Bishop Allen's pop includes a variety of str

Published: 2009-02-02 Provider: StereoGum Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog

LISTEN UP: Comedy From the 50s That Didn’t Involve Wife-Taking

Nine Bullets provides a worthy tribute to Lenny Bruce on the 41-year anniversary of the legendary comedian's death, including mp3s of standup, Bob Dylan's song "Lenny Bruce," and a bizarre animated feature based on Bruce's bits. No Girl Talk remixes, though? The Go! Team are finally preparing a new album, and Pop Tarts Suck Toasted has two new unreleased mp3s, which do not suck if you're toasted (crowd woos). Culture Bully posts videos and mp3s of Common performing his single "The People" on both Jimmy Kimmel Live and Leno. The Kimmel Version is a lot better, cause he doesn't keep sampling Lewinsky jokes. You Ain't Got No Picasso posts an mp3 of the lo-fi pop group Bishop Allen covering Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." You won't be able to tell the difference! Finally, to slide into the weekend, The Late Greats has an extensive post of likeable, cathertic weekend tunes, opening with Adrienne Young's carefree "Happy Ending." Shouldn't that be the last song? Or does it precede "Regret," "Denial," and "Lay Off, I Just Needed A Massage?"

Published: 2007-08-03 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

LISTEN UP: Amy Winehouse Sobers Up Long Enough To Be Awesome

Amy Winehouse bothered to show up to one of her scheduled performances and ended up impressing T-Sides enough to post a few of her tracks. *Sixeyes flirts with some cute Canadian girls and posts tracks from Feist, Tegan and Sara, and Mary Margaret O'Hara. Bishop Allen has recorded a very unlikely cover of a Fugazi song, and You Ain't No Picasso is there to tell you about it. Speaking of interesting/unlikely covers, Fabulist! has The Cure doing their best Jimi Hendrix. Described by one my friends

Published: 2007-03-16 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

LISTEN UP: Friday the 13th

What better way to get into the blood-curling spookiness of this cursed day than by heading over to Rewriteable Content and grabbing a track from The Blood Brothers! It’s scary how prolific and talented those Bishop Allen kids are, and You Ain’t No Picasso knows what I’m talking about. What are you dressing up as for Halloween? [...]

Published: 2006-10-13 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

To Do: Your Weekend Of 'Evil Dead' Drive-In Marathons

Friday · Southern Culture on the Skids at the Echo, The Black Lips at the Troubadour, Dios Malos at the Little Radio Warehouse. · We all have our favorite UCB Offensive Week memory--ours was Greg Fitzsimmons reminiscing about the time he worked as a producer at The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Don't worry Greg, we'll never tell.) You still have a chance to make your own at the final event of the series, The Dirtiest Sketch Contest.Saturday · Silversun Pickups at the Wiltern, The Warlocks at Safari Sams, Bobby Bare Jr. at El Rey. · Before he sold out to the web-slinging Man, Sam Raimi made some low-budget horror movies you may have heard of. The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 screen at the Angel City Drive-In (Lot 1), where you can lecture your date on the genius of Bruce Campbell before getting some action. · Catch the Immigrant Punk group show at the Black Maria Gallery. Sunday · The Go! Team at the Echoplex, Bishop Allen at the Echo, Ken Andrews at the Troubadour. · The Center for Inquiry hosts Skepticism for Students and Adults: An Aussie Perspective, featuring The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal author Lynne Kelly. But can she explain...this!.

Published: 2007-10-19 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do

MERRY LISTMAS: Dan Hopper’s Year-End Pix (which are too cool for that “cks” sh*t)

Behold, my list of reordered hipster goodness mixed with things that are deliberately non-hipster in order to reaffirm said hipsterness, topped off with, well, a bunch of things I just really happened to enjoy this year. I'll let you figure out which picks fall into which category (Answers at the bottom!): Top 5 (Hundred) Songs 5. "Rain" by Bishop Allen - Why is it that I instantly rip on any movie that feels the slightest bit unoriginal, yet I'll happily listen to 3-minute pop songs about "rain" again and again and again? Does that mean I'm not a complete A-hole? Or maybe that makes me more of an A-hole? Man, I am complicated. 4. "The Underdog" by Spoon - Was never a big Spoon man before this year (meaning, I didn't literally play the spoons), but I greatly enjoyed Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Wasn't too big on that Jason Lee movie this song inspired, though. 3. "Sunndal Song" by Apples In Stereo - Not much to say about this track other than it's super catchy, it's super likable, and eff the music blogs for not at least giving Apples In Stereo some love on their Songs of the Year lists. 2. "Australia" by The Shins - "Garden State" sequel, anyone? Starring the two leads from "Cruel Intentions 2"? 1. "374 Wave Backwards to Massachusetts" by Hallelujah The Hills - The thing I miss most about doing the daily "Listen Up" feature was finding random, hidden gems like this one; what I miss least about the feature was coming up with a different New Pornographers joke twice a week. More like... OLD... Pornographers...... See? Honorable Mentions: "A Bottle of Buckie" by Ted Leo "O Valencia!" by The Decemberists "Climbing The Walls" by They Might Be Giants "Good Day" by Jukebox the Ghost "The Year Before The Year 2000" by Les Savy Fav "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" by Radiohead "Fireworks" by Animal Collective "It Won't Be Long" by The Hives "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse" by Of Montreal "Melody Day" by Caribou And what the hell, Favorite Albums, for the record: 5. Les Savy Fav - Let's

Published: 2007-12-31 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

Grrr... - Bishop Allen

Grrr... by Bishop Allen

Published: 2009-03-11 Provider: iTunes Keywords: Alternative