Any Colour You Like: April 2011

2011/04/26

Austin City Limits 2011 Rumors, Speculation, Wishes, Etc.

The 10th Annual Austin City Limits Festival is Sept. 16-18 in Zilker Park. With Lolla celebrating it's 20th Anniversary a month earlier and Bonnaroo turning 10 in June, this year all the festivals are blowing out the candles and hopefully engaging in a game of one-upmanship with their respective lineups. The 20th Anniversary Lolla lineup doesn't exactly blow me away so let's hope C3 is just saving it for Austin this year, Last year's headliners included Phish, Muse and The Eagles. Please share your rumors, speculation and wishes in the comments section.

Rumored/Speculatory
Paul Simon (Hangout Fest headliner)
My Morning Jacket (Hangout, High Sierra, Bonnaroo, Lolla...ACL?)
Cee Lo (Confirmed)
Arcade Fire (Coachella, Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo...ACL? - Haven't played since '07 - Rumored on Consequence of Sound)
Kanye West
Wilco (Seems like a shoe-in with a new album in September)
David Bowie (rumored, but wishful thinking at this point)
Beastie Boys (Hot Sauce out, cancelled appearance in '09)
Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young
The String Cheese Incident
Ween
Bright Eyes
TV on The Radio
Soundgarden (headlined Lollapalooza 2010)
Robert Plant
Arctic Monkeys (Lolla '09/'11)
Kaiser Chiefs
Titus Andronicus
White Lies
Beirut
Flogging Molly
Big Audio Dynamite
Lucinda Williams
Death From Above 1979 (Lolla '11)
A Perfect Circle (Lolla '11)
John Prine
Gregg Allman
Pretty Lights
Amos Lee
She & Him
Delorean
North Mississippi All-Stars
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses
Fitz & The Tantrums
Futurebirds
Justin Townes Earle
Smith Westerns
T Bird and the Breaks
Reptar
Lance Herbstrong

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Phish - First Tube (Finale)

2011/04/25

Lollapalooza 2011 Lineup - Coldplay, MMJ, Muse, Foo Fighters

Lolla is no longer a teen. The 20th Anniversary edition will feature Coldplay, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo Green, A Perfect Circle, Girl Talk

Also on the bill - Bright Eyes, The Cars, Big Audio Dynamite, Ween, Arctic Monkeys, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Nas, Explosions in the Sky, Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Beirut, Flogging Molly, OK Go, The Kills, and Cold War Kids.

Some of the indie bands in the mix include The Mountain Goats, Atmosphere, Titus Andronicus, Ratatat, Best Coast, Crystal Castles, White Lies, Lykke Li, Local Natives, Black Lips, Delta Spirit, Sleigh Bells, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wye Oak, The Drums, Smith Westerns, The Naked and Famous, Phantogram, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Joy Formidable, and Cults.

Finally, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Cage the Elephant, Rival Schools, The Chain Gang of 1974, Friendly Fires, Portugal. The Man, Two Door Cinema Club, Noah & The Whale, Lissie, Foster the People, Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Fences, City and Colour, and Gold Motel are also confirmed.

This year’s edition will also feature an expansion of Perry’s Place, the festival’s electronic-oriented stage. Designed to accommodate a crowd of 15,000, the area will host the likes of Girl Talk, Kid Cudi, Pretty Lights, Skrillex, The Glitch Mob, Jay Electronica, Modeselektor, Daedulus, Feed Me, Busy P, and Joachim Garraud.

Three day and VIP passes are priced at $215.00 and $850.00, respectively, and are now available via the festival’s website.

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Consequence of Sound

Lollapalooza 2011 Lineup Rumors, Confirmations, Speculation

According to Chicago Tribune Music Insider and long-time Lolla scenester Greg Kot, folks can expect to see Foo Fighters, Eminem and Muse [confirmed again today 4/5/11 on Twitter] headlining in Grant Park come August. Also, he added that Best Coast, Girl Talk, Crystal Castles, Lykke Li will be there as well. As Lolla is a three-day festival featuring dualing headliners on opposite sides of the park, three more headlining acts will be included in addition to these rumored confirmations. Gonna need a lot more than those three to get me back up to Chicago for this year's festival (not to knock Eminem or Muse, both of which played great headlining shows at the Voodoo Experience in 2009 and 2010 respectively). Been dying to return since 2009 and I expect for the 20th Anniversary there will be (as usual), a few headlining acts that were around when the festival first got it's legs. Also, with both releasing their own albums and a collaboration this year, perhaps Kanye West is a possibility to also land on the bill this summer. The official, confirmed, non-speculatory lineup will be released in April.

Other bands rumored --
A Perfect Circle
Cee-Lo
Glitch Mob
Decemberists
Ra Ra Riot
Foster the People
Panda Bear
Fistful of Mercy
Justin Townes Earle
Oh Land (Confirmed)
Deftones
Delta Spirit (Clue - Long Beach band that plays Trashcans (and a song called "Trashcan")
Death From Above 1979
Best Coast
Kid Cudi
Lykke Li
Titus Andronicus
~~The Flaming Lips~~? (appeared at Lolla Chile - Highly unlikely)
Weezer
Cold Cave
Flogging Molly
The Kills
Lance Herbstrong
Rubik

If you have any ideas, speculation, wishes, feel free to share in the comments section.

Who is the reported "electronic headliner"? [See poll to the right] -->

The Prodigy????
Daft Punk
Chemical Brothers

Take a look at the inaugural Lollapalooza Chile lineup here

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2011 Jazz Fest Late Night Schedule

Live Music Blog: NOLA

Thursday, April 28th

For the rest of the late night schedule, go here.

My Morning Jacket - Holdin' On To Black Metal - Rock and Roll's First Stab at 60's Thai Pop Soul

Click here to listen to the 2nd song to be released from the forthcoming 6th LP Circuital from My Morning Jacket. Got a feeling this one is gonna be a monster live.

Here's the tune that it reinterprets. Just further proof that no matter how much music you listen to, Yim Yames probably listens to more. Just when you think everything's been done in rock music, a new wormhole is opened. LET'S ROCK.

I like it even more now.

From SPIN

Ubon Pattana were an obscure Thai group that emerged in the late-'60s, and their music mixed the far-out adventurousness of American psych with traditional Thai instruments like the khaen and lyrics sung in their native language. James jokes that he first heard them in 1970 — he was born in 1978 — so allow the man a little narrative freedom as he talks about this long-forgotten band:

"It's 1970. I am in Thailand on a business trip. The plane got in late and after I check into the hotel I find my way into a little corner bar for a drink. As I sip my cocktail and slink down into my booth, the music overtakes me and I know I am in the presence of greatness: This band, Ubon Pattana, three or four kids sunk behind their instruments with big coats and sunglasses on, are just laying down the thickest groove, like they are deeply stoned or half asleep, lost in a highly functional trance.

"And this girl, the sign says her name is Angkana Khunchai...I can't understand what she is singing, but she is in some kind of real pain and she is just fucking laying it down for everybody, hunched over, holding all her weight up with the mic just wailing. And her sounds that I cannot understand turn into words I'd been thinking about anyway, tossing and turning hopes and fears like we all do, things I've been trying to figure out but just haven't been able to. And now I'm trying to process it all here in Thailand, to find a way to make it all make sense before I have to return home again. And I look up from my reverie and tears are rolling down her cheeks, out from under her sunglasses, and mine are falling onto my pink umbrella, rolling off into some drink I know ill never be able to finish."

2011/04/24

Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg (VIDEO) - Superman

A nice slow blues ramble with no rap and of course, (for any video involving Snoop and Willie) lots of marijuana.

2011/04/21

The Strokes Play New Song "Games" on Conan

For more on The Strokes and Jazz Fest, go here.

Jazz Fest 2011 Late Night Schedule

TVOTR Bassist Gerard Smith Passes Away at Age of 34

Gerard Smith, the bassist for TV on the Radio, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer at the age of 34. The band announced in recent weeks that Smith has been battling lung cancer and would not be touring with the band in support of their new album, Nine Types of Light. Here is what the band had to say today on their web site:

We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer. Gerard passed away the morning of April 20th, 2011. We will miss him terribly.

The following TVOTR dates have been canceled:

04/20/11 Wed St. Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
04/22/11 Fri Metro Chicago, IL
04/23/11 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/24/11 Sun First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/26/11 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO

R.I.P.

Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV Album Cover ??

Please let this be the one. Don't see how it could be anything else.

2011/04/18

My Morning Jacket - Octoplasm

On the heels of last Tuesday's release of the title track to the forthcoming My Morning Jacket album Circuital (Out 5/31 - ATO Records), MMJ released "Octoplasm", a Miles Davis-meets-Grateful Dead freeform jazzercise from way out in leftfield. Completely different from anything the band has released to this point and accompanied with a message revealing that there is plenty more unexpected weirdness to come from this Roll Call series.

Listen to Octoplasm:

“My Morning Jacket would like to welcome all those who join the new MMJ Roll Call fan club into their much talked about and highly controversial “Self-Hypnosis Series” as well. The Self-Hypnosis Series will begin an exploration into the core of each individual heart, mind, body, and soul that joins the Roll Call fan club.

Based on a desire to help each individual fan reach a state of emotional bliss, a new algorithm was recently developed at Removador HQ. It can sense listeners temperature and emotional climate at the time of listening-thru any listening device, be it speakers or headphones, and cater a listening experience truly unique for each listener.

MMJ will carefully handcraft and carve pieces of music that will provide a vehicle for the listener to enter a new gateway of self exploration and understanding based on their current state of mind at the time of each listen. The Self-Hypnosis Series will start with a piece entitled “Octoplasm” which will be available via download immediately upon joining Roll Call. New titles in the Self-Hypnosis series will appear randomly, or on a strict schedule and will be available only to Roll Call members. We hope you are to enjoy!”

2011/04/14

Glastonbury 2011 Lineup Revealed

Mumford & Sons -- Appearing at this year's festival

The official lineup for this year's Glastonbury Festival has been revealed. Set for June 22-26 on Worthy Farm. U2 on Friday, Coldplay on Saturday, and Beyoncé on Sunday. Check out some of the other confirmed acts below and click here for day by day and stage breakdowns, as well as the complete lineup.

LINEUP
U2
Coldplay
Beyonce
Paul Simon
Morrissey
Biffy Clyro
B.B. King
Wu-Tang Clan
Elbow
Don McLean
Laura Marling
The Low Anthem
Primal Scream
Big Audio Dynamite
Pendulum
Mumford and Sons
Fleet Foxes
The Kills
The Wombats
Tame Impala
Bright Eyes
The Chemical Brothers
Queens of the Stone Age
Kaiser Chiefs
Jenny & Johnny
Jimmy Eat World
Warpaint
Pretty Lights
James Blake
Little Dragon
Battles
The Eels
TV on the Radio
Jah Wobble
Cold War Kids
The Vaccines
Cee-Lo Green
Jimmy Cliff
Big Boi
Janelle Monae
OK Go
Aloe Blacc
Kool & The Gang
Hercules and Love Affair
Cults
Mirrors
Robyn Hitchcock
DJ Shadow
Cage the Elephant
The Streets
Lykke Li
Robyn
Crystal Castles
Caribou
Fatboy Slim
Carl Cox
Pete Tong
Steve Lawler
Ke$ha
Beardyman
John Digweed
Lee Scratch Perry
Asian Dub Foundation
Don Letts

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Bonnaroo 2011 Cafe Artist Lineup Additions

The Beautiful Girls-Mat McHugh Solo & Acoustic

The Black Box Revelation

Bobby Long

Cheer Up Charlie Daniels

Chancellor Warhol

Chris Harford and the Band of Changes

Civil Twilight

Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons

Cristina Black

The David Mayfield Parade

J. Roddy Walston & The Business

The Parkington Sisters

The Pimps of Joytime

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

River City Extension

Rotary Downs

Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

Good stuff on here. Rotary Downs! JEFF the Brotherhood! Pimps of Joytime!

The Bonnaroo lineup is complete (until someone drops out and needs to be replaced).

Next up: SET TIMES

Coachella 2011 Webcast Trailer

2011/04/13

The Shins Added To Outside Lands Lineup

Tickets for the festival go on-sale tomorrow at 12 p.m. PST. For more information about this festival, go here. Also, Lord Huron has been added to the lineup, a great new band still yet to release a full-length album. You can listen to both of their EP's here. This is the Shins first performance in over a year.

Post about The Meters appearance at Outside Lands from earlier this week.

Relix - Features - Photos - Fan Photo Gallery: Furthur, Dap-Kings, Radiators, David Gans, Josh Ritter

2011/04/12

Artist of the Month: Generationals

This post originally appears on Live Music Blog: NOLA - Facebook - Twitter

This month local indie rock duo the Generationals are the LMB NOLA Artist of the Month. With their new album Actor Caster out now on Park The Van Records (for starters, check "Yours Forever", "Greenleaf" (below) and "Please Be It"), a lengthy tour getting kicked off this week and a stop in New Orleans for the final day at Jazz Fest, the buzz is growing louder for these guys. The Generationals are New Orleans' response to internationally-renowned electro-infused indie pop bands like Peter Bjorn & John and MGMT. The indie rockers are in rare company around these parts as purveyors of radio-ready sunny afternoon pop tunes more catered towards the college radio dial and tastemaking outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum and Paste than just about any other local act.

The band is currently out on two-month tour in support of the new record alongside Ra Ra Riot, Oh No Oh My and Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr at varying legs of the tour. Also, the Generationals are making an appearance at Jazz Fest on the festival's final day (May 8) on the Lagniappe Stage from 3:10-4:10. To download two of the band's new tracks, enter your e-mail address below. Check out the interview with Grant and Ted below where they discuss the genesis of the band name, their label Park the Van, influences and a memorable childhood trip to Jazz Fest.

Live Music Blog: NOLA - Generationals is a pretty stellar name, it carries a certain majesty and importance to it - how did you guys come up with the band name and please also answer the following: The Generationals are the _________ [Fill in the blank] of our generation.

Grant: Most epic appreciators of BBQ.

Ted: We were recording our first record Con Law in Washington D.C. over the Summer of 2008. It was the Summer before the presidential election and you would hear the word "generational" alot in the news coverage of the election, in the context of issues being split down generational lines. Grant just had the idea to pluralize it and I was like O.K. sure, lets be Generationals.

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