James Murphy :: LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem has confirmed May 18 as the U.S release date of its as yet untitled third album. The record will be released on DFA/Virgin in the U.S. and will consist of the following songs:

Dance Yrself Clean

Drunk Girls *

One Touch

All I Want

Change *

Hit *

Pow Pow

Somebody’s Calling Me *

What You Need

The above were recorded at The Manshun in Los Angeles and the DFA studios in New York and mixed at DFA from April 2009 through February 2010. The album was written and produced by James Murphy. Additional mixes were done by Dave Sardy as indicated (*).

The new album is LCD Soundsystem’s first full offering of new studio material since 2007’s Sound Of Silver, which was named best album of the last decade by NPR, ranked #1 in the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, landed at #12 and #17 respectively in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork’s best albums of the decade, and like its predecessor, 2005’s LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Sound Of Silver also featured “All My Friends,” ranked #4 by Time in its Best Songs of 2007 and named single of the year by Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly #8 song of 2007 “Someone Great.” In 2008, LCD Soundsystem contributed the track “Big Ideas” to the soundtrack of the movie 21. The band has since released the 45:33: The Remixes EP and a cover of Alan Vega’s “Bye Bye Bayou,” issued to commemorate Record Store Day 2009 and earning LCD its fifth NME single of the week. The album will be preceded by the March 23 release of the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, which features both composition’s from James Murphy’s original score for the film and the new LCD Soundsystem song “Oh You (Christmas Blues).”

The record’s release will be supported by a world tour beginning with an April 16 penultimate slot at the Coachella festival in Indio, CA and continuing with a run of U.K./Europe headline dates (several of which have sold out well in advance and necessitated added dates) and further worldwide festival appearances.

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Baaba Maal

Legendary Senegalese singer and star of the world stage Baaba Maal will head out on a coast to coast U.S. tour this spring, marking his first stateside dates in four years. The master musician will also make his debut on the Bonnaroo stage this June, bringing his signature blend of electronic dance elements and timeless West African musical tradition to this year’s festival. These upcoming shows will be the first opportunity for Baaba’s adoring American fans to hear tracks live from his new album Television (Palm Pictures), released last year to critical acclaim. Joining Baaba onstage are Aliou Diouf on drums, Massamba Diop on talking drum, Mbara Cisse on bass, Ibrahima Cissokho on electric guitar, Hilaire Felicien Chaby Hary on keys, Cire Sall on hoddu and Mouhamadou Lamine Sarr on percussion. The U.S. leg begins April 8 in Wisconsin and wraps May 7 at the Lake Eden Festival in North Carolina.

Television is a collaboration primarily between Baaba Maal and singer Sabina Sciubba and keyboardist Didi Gutman, both members of New York’s Brazilian Girls. The result is a stunningly beautiful and diverse record that meshes two genres, generally unfamiliar to each other, to produce an eclectic and romantic sound. The enigmatically named title-track refers to a relatively recent phenomenon in Africa – ubiquitous TV screens. “The television set is like a stranger you didn’t ask for coming into your living-room,” explains Baaba. “You don’t care about who he is: he just seems to come from nowhere and gives you information.”

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Surprise Me Mr. Davis

The often elusive American rock and roll band SURPRISE ME MR. DAVIS, comprised by members Nathan Moore, Brad and Andrew Barr, Marc Friedman and Marco Benevento, have announced an April 13 release for their long-awaited EP, THAT MAN EATS MORNING FOR BREAKFAST. On the same day, the band will commence their first shows of 2010 with a five-date Northeast run that begins in Boston, stops in Providence and Albany, and concludes with back to back nights in Brooklyn and New York City. Later in the month, they’ll play two late night shows during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. SMMD also plans three dates in the Northwest at the end of June before heading to California for two sets at High Sierra Music Festival.

THAT MAN EATS MORNING FOR BREAKFAST, also known to fans as the “demo sessions,” took a circuitous route from seed to market. Nathan Moore explains: “I was on my way with Marc Friedman to Montreal where we were going to record in Brad and Andrew Barr’s new studio. Unfortunately, I got turned away at the border. We soon found ourselves back in Burlington, Vermont drinking in a bar. Brett Hughes, a local musician there, was like ‘just come into my barn studio and do it.’ So Brad and Andrew came down this way and we ended up recording there all week at Brett’s house. We got all these tracks done and then we went back into another studio and tried to work them up even bigger, but we started to feel that we were exceeding our initial ideas by trying to make them too big. In the end we reverted back to the original demos. They had the raw spirit and energy we were trying to capture. So now it is finally seeing the light of day.”

The seven song EP will be available at all major digital retailers, including iTunes, Amazon and Emusic, while a limited edition CD release will be sold exclusively at the band’s shows and through their website.

The track listing for THAT MAN EATS MORNING FOR BREAKFAST is:

1. Roses In Bottles

2. Sissyfuss

3. One Sick Knave

4. I’m No Good At All

5. Emily Green

6. Joelle

7. Home Away From Home

Upcoming tour dates are:

April 13 | Club Passim | Boston, MA

April 14 | Red Square | Albany, NY

April 15 | Firehouse 13 | Providence, RI

April 16 | Union Hall | Brooklyn, NY

April 17 | Mercury Lounge | New York, NY*

April 24 | Tipitina’s French Quarter | New Orleans, LA**

April 30 | Hi Ho Lounge | New Orleans, LA

June 24 | Tractor Tavern | Seattle, WA***

June 25 | Doug Fir Lounge | Portland, OR***

June 26 | Axe & Fiddle | Cottage Grove, OR***

July 1 | High Sierra Music Festival | Quincy, CA

July 4 | High Sierra Music Festival | Quincy, CA

July 6 | Cafe Du Nord | San Francisco, CA

July 7 | Moe’s Alley | Santa Cruz, CA

*w/ Yellowbirds

**w/ The Slip & Marco Benevento Trio

***w/ Marco Benevento Trio

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“The Truckers do here what they do better than almost anyone elseblow the fucking roof off.” – 5 stars Uncut

Drive-By Truckers

The Drive-By Truckers will appear on Late Show with David Letterman on Friday, March 12 and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, March 31. They’ve also added additional dates to their The Big To-Do tour including nine dates with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

The Big To-Do will be released on Tuesday, March 16 on ATO Records and has already been in the Top 10 in music on Amazon. The band is offering an exclusive deluxe pre-order from their web site www.drivebytruckers.com. The deluxe package includes a 52-page color book with the art and text from the album, a Wes Freed limited edition, signed and numbered giclee, 18 postcard set, and 180 gram double gatefold vinyl. The band has also posted “You Got Another” as the third preview track on the record. The track is streaming on the band’s website.

The band will kick off the tour this week in Atlanta, GA with a two-night stand at the Variety Playhouse then heading to SXSW where they’ll play an in-store at Waterloo Records on Thursday, March 18 at 2 p.m. and then perform at Stubb’s at 10:30 p.m. with Band of Horses and Broken Social Scene. iClips Network will broadcast the band’s performance live from the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA on Friday, March, 12 and their sold out show on Saturday, March 13. The band’s long-time producer David Barbe will open the show with his band the Quick Hooks and they will also participate in the broadcast.

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