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Dissolver by Iran

TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone returns to his other band, Iran, to release its third album. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Metacritic

New Music Report: BLK JKS, Girls

In this week’s roundup of vital upcoming releases, Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell sizes up the new album from South African band BLK JKS (a recent RS Artist to Watch). Their debut ">After Robots is an awesome prog-rock odyssey, and the Johannesburg outfit spice up technically demanding songs with horns, African chants and sparkling Afropop guitars. If TV on the Radio aren’t adventurous enough for you, this may be what you’re after. And there’s Album, the LP from Girls. The band’s frontman Chri

Published: 2009-09-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, New Music Report, Podcasts

Breaking: Dirty Projectors

Who: Dirty Projectors, a Brooklyn five-piece led by mastermind David Longstreth whose unusual blend of blues and punk has captured the attention of David Byrne, Björk and TV on the Radio. Sound Like: The band’s latest album Bitte Orca mixes soul-inflected vocal harmonies, jagged art-rock guitar and Timbaland-like rhythms. Aging hipster’s gripe “Stillness Is the Move” sounds like Talking Heads by way of Destiny’s Child. Vital Stats: • Longstreth began the Dirty Projectors while studying classical

Published: 2009-06-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking

Progressive TV on the Radio: coming through loud and clear

Arts & EntertainmentTV on the Radio already had a singer before Kyp Malone joined the band. Tunde Adebimpe's soulful, oscillating croon was considered by many...

Published: 2006-10-02 Provider: Seattle Times

New Reviews: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wavves, Peter Doherty and More

Photo: Josh Wildman It’s Tuesday once again, which means there’s a whole slate of new CDs on sale now at your soon-to-be-closing record stores or favorite digital outlet. Before you brave the St. Patrick’s Day-celebrating masses on the way to the store, let Rolling Stone be your guide to the best of this week’s new releases. Indie rock (or, in this case, sorta indie rock) is the place to be this week, mostly because of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ third album It’s Blitz. Awarded four stars in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands tomorrow, It’s Blitz finds the YYYs throwing an art-punk dance party. “The turn toward the dance floor makes sense: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are drawing on a tradition of arty New York dance punk that extends from the Talking Heads to TV on the Radio, whose guitarist, Dave Sitek, co–produced It’s Blitz! The big news, though, isn’t YYY’s groovier sound — it’s the heat they radiate,” Jody Rosen writes in his review. Out of San Diego, California, we have Wavves’ Wavvves, the second LP by one-man surf-punk auteur Nathan Williams. (Be sure not to mistake Wavvves for the one-less-”v” of Wavves, the band’s debut album.) A cacophony of Brian Wilson melodies and Jesus & Mary Chain distortion, Wavvves is bad–trip music for cloudless days: surging distortion, sun–dazed hooks and a dark sense of humor,” Will Hermes writes in his three-star review. “The battle between noise and melody veers from scary to hilarious to heroic, and as a metaphor for trying to feel good in trying times, it may hit you close to home.” There’s also Grace/Wasteland, the first solo album by former Libertines/Babyshambles trainwreck Pete Doherty (now going by the first name Peter), with the oft-troubled guitarist managing to “make his dysfunction sing” on his debut LP. The album also features “Sheepskin Tearaway,” “a sketch of a chemical romance and one of Doherty’s prettiest songs ever.” For the rest of this week’s New Releases, check below: • MSTRKRFT’s Fist of God • Maria

Published: 2009-03-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

The Roots Recruit TV on the Radio, Public Enemy, Santigold for Philadelphia Picnic

Photo: Fusco/Getty This morning Billboard broke the news that The Roots will take a time out from serving as Jimmy Fallon’s house band when the hip-hop collective stage the second annual Roots’ Picnic on June 6th at their Philadelphia hometown’s Liberty Pier. Joining the Roots, who will play both the day’s opening and closing sets, are TV on the Radio, Public Enemy, the Black Keys and a fellow Philly native, Santigold. As if the Roots weren’t busy enough, they’ll also serve as Public Enemy’s backing band when the rappers perform their It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back in its entirety, marking the first time a live band has backed Public Enemy for the album. Also participating in the festivities: The Pipes featuring Zoe Kravitz, Busdriver and — spinning between sets — DJ Jazzy Jeff of Fresh Prince fame as well as DJ Cash Money. On the second stage, the City of Brotherly Love will get performances by Kid Cudi, Asher Roth, Back to Basics and more. Overall, this is the best thing to ever happen to Philadelphia, better than the Liberty Bell, the cheesesteak and the Phillies’ World Series win last year. If you can’t wait until June to catch Public Enemy and the Roots in action, Chuck D and Flavor Flav will be the musical guests on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this coming Monday, March 16th. Rock Daily recently talked to the Roots while the band rehearsed upwards of 200 songs in preparation for their nightly gig as Fallon’s house band. For much more from ?uestlove and the rest of the crew, check out our exclusive behind-the-scenes video here: Up Past Midnight With The Roots: Hanging With Jimmy Fallon’s New House Band

Published: 2009-03-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tour Tracker: TV on the Radio, Band of Horses and Manchester Orchestra

Photo: Jelonek/WireImage TV on the Radio hope to prove that ill-fated Saturday Night Live performance was just a fluke with their summer tour, Band of Horses gallop back onto the road and Manchester Orchestra set out to promote their sophomore album Mean Everything to Nothing. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump… TV on the Radio April 18 - Indio, CA @ Coachella May 12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall May 16 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s BBQ May 17 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues May 18 - Oklahoma, OK @ Diamond Ballroom May 22 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre May 23 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre May 25 - Vancouver, BC @ Malkin Bowl May 27 - Edmonton, ALB @ Edmonton Events Center May 28 - Calgary, ALB @ Macewan Hall May 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Louis’s Pub June 2 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy June 3 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis June 4 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues June 5 - New York, NY @ Central Park Summer Stage June 8 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club Band of Horses April 15 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst April 17 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater April 18 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival June 10 - Norfolk, VA @ The Norva June 11 - New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall June 12 - Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live June 14 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival June 16 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel June 17 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre June 18 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues Manchester Orchestra April 21 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In April 22 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt April 23 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle April 24 - Richmond, VA @ The National April 25 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar April 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero April 29 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom April 30 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East May 1 - Rochester, NY @ Water St. May 2 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s May 3 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop May 5 - Pontiac, MI @ Eagle Theater May 6 - Columbus, OH @ Skully’s May 7 - Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter May 8 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean May 9 - Minneapolis, MN @ Station 4 May 12 - Denv

Published: 2009-02-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Is the Rock World Ready for the Return of Limp Bizkit?

Photo: Mazur/WireImage Back in 2001, Limp Bizkit had sold 14 million records and frequently clogged New York’s Times Square with their appearances on MTV’s Total Request Live. But by the time they put out 2005’s The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1), the band (without guitarist Wes Borland) was releasing albums without advertising pushes and SoundScanning 37,000 in the first week. In a joint statement released last Thursday, Fred Durst and Borland announced they were ready to get Limp Bizkit back together. But the question remains: Are we ready for Limp Bizkit? It’s no industry secret that the landscape has changed in the eight years since this lineup was actively touring and releasing records. Heavy music comes with eyeliner instead of fitted caps, rap-rock bands like Linkin Park have traded beats for ballads, and Fred Durst is best remembered for his macho posturing and public tantrums instead of a lasting music legacy. So will a reanimated Limp Bizkit work in the year 2009? “It depends if the statute of limitations is up on Limp Bizkit being the most hated band ever,” says Tom Beaujour, editor in chief of metal magazine Revolver, who put Durst on the cover in 2000. “Like, is it acceptable to like them? It’s okay for people to like Poison and Warrant again. Bret Michaels is a TV star. Is it okay to like Limp Bizkit again? I don’t know. Hopefully for them it is.” What’s certain is that rock radio isn’t playing the Bizkit as much as the band’s contemporaries. Rock stations like Q101 in Chicago and New York’s 101.9RXP fill their playlists with ’90s brooders like Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots and Bizkit cohorts like Linkin Park, Staind and Puddle Of Mudd. But rarely do they dive into “Nookie.” “We played all Limp Bizkit,” says Danni, assistant program director and music director for New York active rock station 92.3 KRock. “We had huge ratings. It was all about Limp Bizkit. And then there was sort of a shift and people stopped caring and stopped wanting to hear about

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Breaking: Audrye Sessions

Who: Audrye Sessions, an Oakland, California-based quartet who craft gorgeous guitar-powered pop that ranges from giant, U2-style anthems to more introspective ballads that call to mind Bends-era Radiohead. Frontman Ryan Karazija started the group as a one-man outfit, gigging around at local coffeeshops before teaming up with bassist Alicia Marie Campbell, drummer James Leste and guitarist Michael Knox. As you can guess, there’s no one in the band named Audrye. “I didn’t want to play under my own name anymore,” says Karazija. “So one day when I was watching TV, there was this Sony commercial where a little blue alien burns a CD for a girl and calls it Audrye Sessions. I thought [our name] would change. But after a year, you’re like, ‘I can’t change the name because everyone will forget who I am.’ ” Sounds Like: For their self-titled debut, Audrye Sessions teamed up with rock-savvy producers Andrew Scheps (U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Matt Radosevich (the Hives, Taking Back Sunday) to cut radio-ready guitar anthems like the gorgeous lead single “Turn Me Off.” But Karazija’s voice steals the show: a high-pitched, soaring falsetto that is a dead ringer for Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, one of Karazija’s biggest influences. Vital Stats: • Knowing full well what can happen when you date your bandmate, Karazija and Campbell did just that before mutually breaking up four years ago. As if that weren’t weird enough, Campbell’s new boyfriend occasionally joins the band for live shows. But Karazija’s totally cool with it. “It was weird at first but we’ve gotten through it,” he says. • Audrye Sessions wrote and recorded many early versions of the songs on their debut in a setting that belies the cheeriness of their tunes: a haunted house in Catoti, California. “Things were really weird,” says Karazija. “You’d hear strange noises every once in a while. Apparently, there’s a lady who always lurks around the house or something. But nobody told us prior to going there that it was mayb

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Unveil Eye-Popping Cover for “It’s Blitz!” Single “Zero”

There it is: the eye-catching (apologies) cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first single from It’s Blitz!, “Zero.” Does it make you feel squeamish? Kind of dirty? Yeah, that’s about right in the band’s wheelhouse. You can read all about the New York trio’s adventures on a Texas pecan orchard where they recorded most of the April 14th disc in the current issue of Rolling Stone, but we can tell you this: “Zero” is a synth-charged dance-floor album that Karen O says will definitely inspire spontaneous dancing. As the frontwoman told RS, It’s Blitz! is about “Less angst and more positivity, man!” It’s Blitz!, the follow-up to 2006’s Show Your Bones, was produced by Nick Launay (who you’ll recall from the band’s 2007 EP Is Is) and TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. A few other TVOTR folks cameo on the album, too: Tunde Adebimpe sings, Kyp Malone contributes tambourine (it must be some pretty bangin’ tambourine) and Stuart Bogie adds saxophone to “Dragon Queen.” Other guests include cellist Jane Scarpantoni, famous for her work with 10,000 Maniacs, R.E.M., and a little-known guy from New Jersey named Bruce Springsteen. Track list, thanks to Spin is below. And get a load of the album’s egg-smashing cover art over at Pitchfork. 1. “Zero” (4:25/ Eric Biondo - trumpet, Stuart Bogie - saxophone) 2. “Heads Will Roll” (3:41) 3. “Soft Shock” (3:53) 4. “Skeletons” (5:02) 5. “Dull Life” (4:08) 6. “Shame and Fortune” (3:31) 7. “Runaway” (5:13 / Jane Scarpantoni - cello, Greg Kurstin - piano) 8. “Dragon Queen” (4:02 / Tunde Adebimpe - vocals, Stuart Bogie - saxophone, Kyp Malone - tambourine) 9. “Hysteric” (3:50 / Eric Biondo - trumpet, Stuart Bogie - saxophone) 10. “Little Shadow” (3:57/ Imaad Wasif - guitar)

Published: 2009-02-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “It’s Blitz”: “Less Angst and More Positivity, Man”

Photo: Malluk/WireImage One of New York’s finest rock trios, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, are returning in April with a new album called It’s Blitz — and Rolling Stone has the scoop with an in the studio story in the next issue (on newsstands this week!). “We’re always going to have Yeah Yeah Yeahs hooks and energy,” Karen O tells us. “But we came up with something new that we’ve never heard before from ourselves. Less angst and more positivity, man!” It’s Blitz, the follow-up to 2006’s Show Your Bones, was produced by Nick Launay (who oversaw the band’s 2007 EP Is Is) and TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Recording went down in the band’s native Brooklyn and in Texas where — no joke — the crew lived on a pecan orchard. It was certainly a far cry from the sessions that produced the trio’s raw 2003 debut Fever to Tell. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are already booked for two of the year’s biggest festivals, Coachella and Bonnaroo, where they’ll certainly be road-testing their newest tunes. The last time the Yeahs rocked New York City (an August ‘07 gig at Webster Hall) they tested out a new song and brought one of their sweatiest, passionate performances yet. Before the set ended with “Maps,” Karen O gave fans a little preview of this newfound positivity: “This brings us to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs love song,” she wailed as her parents looked on. “Love is real and this is for each and every one of you!” Related Stories: • Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Goth, Nerd, Slut • Yeah Yeah Yeahs Deliver Sex, Violence and Perversion

Published: 2009-02-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Dear Science, by TV On The Radio

The fourth album for the New York band was produced by Dave Sitek. [Rock]

Published: 2008-09-23 Provider: Metacritic