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New Reviews: Sade, Hot Chip, Yeasayer and More

The mysterious Sade returns after a 10-year hiatus with Soldier of Love, Sade Adu and her band’s first album since 2000’s Lovers Rock and only their second album in 18 years. Despite the lengthy break, Sade pick up where they left off on their latest album, delivering another set of sultry and beautiful R&B songs. On the amazing title track, “Sade’s voice, as slinky and smoky as ever, has that instantly recognizable ache,” Rob Sheffield writes in his three-and-a-half star review. “Beloved by all

Published: 2010-02-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Breaking: Yeasayer

Who: Electro-tribal trio who formed in Baltimore, where singer Chris Keating and guitarist Anand Wilder attended prep school. The group bonded over seeing shows by classmates Animal Collective and turned a 2008 LSD trip in New Zealand (with singer-bassist Ira Wolf Tuton) into the inspiration behind their latest disc Odd Blood, which positions them as the next weird-ass band to break out of the Brooklyn scene. Sounds Like: The band’s new LP is a dizzying, hyperdetailed mix of heady prof-rock, New

Published: 2010-02-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking, Podcasts, Videos

Tour Tracker: Basement Jaxx, CMJ Festival and Fun Fun Fun Festival

Photo: Alban/WireImage Basement Jaxx embark on a rare DJ tour in support of their upcoming album Scars. Plus, the CMJ Festival in New York announces its initial slate of artists while Yeasayer and Atlas Sound join a roster that includes the Jesus Lizard and GZA at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. Full Jaxx dates and the current festival lineups, after the jump. Basement Jaxx Oct. 30 – San Francisco, CA @ Mighty Oct. 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ HARD Nov. 1 – Toronto, ON @ Century Room Nov. 6 – Chicago, IL

Published: 2009-08-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

SXSW Day Two Wrap-Up: Lou Reed, Vampire Weekend, Black Mountain and More

Follow all of Rolling Stone’s ongoing SXSW coverage — photos, video, interviews and live reports — here. Before most bands rolled out of bed Thursday morning, Lou Reed delivered his SXSW keynote speech. Though Reed doesn’t always strive to be a crowd-pleaser, he was in a surprisingly sharing mood, earning laughs with lines like “I have a B.A. in dope, but a Ph. D in soul,” and by explaining how The Bourne Ultimatum is one of his favorite movies. In addition to discussing Berlin (”It’s about jealousy, and in that sense, it’s romantic”) and Julian Schnabel’s live document of the album, Reed ripped into the rise of MP3s — “Here’s your song reduced to a pin-drop,” “You have a lot available and it all sounds bad.” He also gave an impromptu spoken-word performance of “Rock Minuet,” praised the music of Dr. Dog and Holy Fuck, and left the door open for the possibility of full performances of Magic and Loss and Street Hassle, although he called the Berlin shows “not an audition” for playing other albums live. A few hours later in the afternoon, scads of Vampire Weekend fans lined up outside the Parish three hours before were scheduled to play, and those who got into the venue early had the pleasure of seeing Yeasayer — whose tweaked, psychedelic take on art-funk made us wish we had a blunt to blaze. The NPR party eventually wrapped with that anticipated Vampire Weekend performance, a loose-limbed take on their usual set, including “M79,” “A-Punk” and “Blake’s Got A New Face” among its finer moments. Kings of Leon’s Nathan Followill was in the house for much of the event, noting the physical similarities between VW’s Rostam Batmanglij and American Idol’s adorable David Archuleta. (Look again. They could be cousins.) It was worth getting to the Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans s

Published: 2008-03-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

Lindsey Buckingham Returns to Rock

Lindsey Buckingham intended to put out a solo album years ago, but the Fleetwood Mac shows up. “They said, ‘Let’s do a studio album!’” Buckingham explains. Those songs lead to 2001’s Say You Will. The new solo album Gift of Screws ironically came from a period where Buckingham was less focused on music and more centered on his family. Click below for more on Buckingham, including what poet inspired the title of his new album and the status is of the Sheryl Crow/Fleetwood Mac collaboration. • Lindsey Buckingham’s Return to Rock Related Stories: • Album Review: Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws (3.5 stars) • On Tour: Lindsey Buckingham, Coldplay and Yeasayer • Lindsey Buckingham Rocks Us — Hard

Published: 2008-09-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Simian Mobile Disco - Creepy Simian Mobile Disco

Simian Mobile Disco's new single sounds like a "creepy N'Sync".The dance duo drafted in Yeasayer singer Chris Keating to provide vocals on 'Audacity of Huge' and...

Published: 2009-08-24 Provider: Contact Music

Two Suns by Bat For Lashes

The second album for the singer was produced by David Kosten and features guest appearances by Yeasayer and Scott Walker. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-04-09 Provider: Metacritic

Bat for Lashes Return With Scott Walker, Multiple Personalities on April’s “Two Suns”

Photo: Forrest/WireImage Last year English songstress Natasha Khan grabbed our attention with her incredible Donnie Darko-esque one-take video for her band Bat for Lashes’ “What’s a Girl To Do.” The album it came from, the well-received 2006 debut Fur and Gold, led to a prestigious European tour support slot with Radiohead: “Thom Yorke told me I should do what I want and fuck everyone else,” she recalls. And so she has — Bat for Lashes will return April 6th with Two Suns, an album heavy on musical method acting. Khan tells Rolling Stone that the record was inspired by intensely personal experiences that followed ’06’s hauntingly ethereal Fur and Gold. But instead of writing first-person confessionals, her new lyrics are channeled through two main personas, one of which is Pearl, an egotistical (and blond!) femme fatale. “When I was recording and struggling with relationships and being away from home, I would sometimes go out to a bar and get drunk and then dress up and some of the characters on the album,” she says. “It was like an escapist fantasy — a way for me to help make sense of what I was feeling. It sounds a bit mental but then again, I was feeling a bit mental at the time.” Brooklyn experimentalists Yeasayer contribute to the album and Khan has even managed to lure the famously reclusive Scott Walker into providing vocals on the album’s finale “The Big Sleep.” “That song was meant to be drag queen’s dying song and I wanted it to be very theatrical. I was trying to sing the low part like a man but when I did, I just heard Scott Walker’s voice in my head,” she says. “It was all done by e-mail and we didn’t even meet. I sent him the song with some notes and he sent it back saying he really tried to get into character and that he hoped he had done it justice — which he definitely has! He also said it was the quietest he’d sung in years.” Related Stories: • Breaking: Bat for Lashes • Single Minded: Bat for Lashes Cover the Cure

Published: 2009-01-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tour Tracker: Lindsey Buckingham, Coldplay and Yeasayer

Lindsey Buckingham sets out without the Mac, Coldplay Viva La Atlanta and Philadelphia with the second leg of their U.S. tour and Yeasayer promise to play new songs on their autumn/winter affair. Click the jump for the full dates for all three treks. Coldplay October 20 - Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place October 21 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena October 26 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center October 29 - Boston, MA @ TD Banknorth Gardens October 31 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center November 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center November 3 - Detroit, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills November 5 - Atlanta, GA @ Phillips Arena November 7 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Arena November 9 - Sunrise, FL @ Bank Atlantic Center November 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena November 13 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center November 14 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center November 16 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center November 18 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center November 19 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center November 21 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center Arena November 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Energy Solutions Arena November 26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Jobing.com Arena Lindsey Buckingham September 7 - Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery September 9 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre September 10 - Portland, OR @ Newmark Theatre September 12 - Lake Tahoe, CA @ Harrah’s Casino September 13 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts September 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall September 16 - San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s September 18 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Orpheum Theatre September 19 - Anaheim, CA @ The Grove of Anaheim September 20 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint September 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot September 24 - Denver, CO @ Opera House September 26 - Tulsa, OK @ Brady Theatre September 28 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre September 29 - St Louis, MO @ The Pageant October 1 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blue October 2 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues October 4 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre October 5 - Indianapolis, IN

Published: 2008-08-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Yeasayer and MGMT Team Up For Tour

The buzz-stirring Brooklynites in Yeasayer and MGMT have announced a month-long North American tour starting on January 16 in Washington,

Published: 2007-12-13 Provider: Artist Direct

Yeasayer/Warpaint @ Natural History Museum, Los Angeles 2/5/10

Published: 2010-02-08 Provider: StereoGum

Sleigh Bells Tour With Major Lazer, Yeasayer

Published: 2010-02-02 Provider: StereoGum