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Wirklich skurril. Auf dem offiziellen YouTube Channel von Beyonce ist jetzt das Video von “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” verschwunden und wird dank Copyright durch einen weiss-auf-schwarzen Hinweis ersetzt. Beyonce klaut also mit ihren eigenen Videos die Copyrights von Sony. War da ein Aibo im Video? Hatte nur jemand Angst, dass sie Lady Gagas Milliarden YouTube Views nahe kommt? Ist die YouTube Copyright Software einfach mal wieder in ihrem Übererfüllungswahn durchgedreht? Waren 12 Millionen Views einfach zuviel? Oder – total Paranoia Version – braucht YouTube noch ein paar gute Argumente im Viacom Prozess?

[Via Motherboard.tv]

Zeit für die Aufholjagd von Pomplamoose:

Radio ist eins der Medien, die ich wirklich seit Ewigkeiten nicht mehr nutze. Dabei ist klar, dass klassisches Broadcasting mehr als nur einen Vorteil hat. Mit Radio DNS soll jetzt jeder Radiostation eine Internetadresse zugewiesen werden, und so Broadcast und Internet auf einen Nenner gebracht werden. Damit lassen sich dann zum klassischen Broadcast Bilder, Infos, und ein direkter Rückkanal implementieren. Für, theoretisch, jede Radiostation die eine ID hat. Klingt so einfach, dass wir uns wirklich wundern warum das erst jetzt ins Leben gerufen wird. Ganz vorne mit dabei natürlich wieder die BBC. In Deutschland bislang als einziger Sender: der SWR. Aua. PS: das Video ist so prima überaltert, dass uns das alles gleich weniger wundert.

Shearwater @ Sasquatch 2009 (more by Chris Graham)

today in NYC
* Kraut @ Cake Shop
* Mr. Gnome @ Union Pool
* Bitch @ Knitting Factory
* Norah Jones @ The Theater @ MSG
* Miike Snow, Delorean @ Webster Hall
* Nada Surf @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Beaches, Flight, Total Slacker @ Death By Audio
* Love is All, Crystal Stilts, Beachniks @ Maxwell's
* Lymbyc System, Slow Six, Glass Ghost @ Glasslands
* Hawk and Dove, Pearl & The Beard @ The Bell House
* Basia Bulat, Sam Izdat @ Mercury Lounge (Early Show)
* Little Dragon, VV Brown @ Mercury Lounge (Late Show)
* Shearwater, Wye Oak, Hospital Ships @ Bowery Ballroom
* Mike Doughty & Christina Courtin @ (le) Poisson Rouge
* The Grates, Savoir Adore, Dappled Cities @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Extra Life, Zs, Skeletons, Nine 11 Thesaurus @ Silent Barn
* The Pack A.D., Cherie Lily, Zuzuka Ponderosa @ Santos Party House
* Erykah Badu, Spank Rock, MNDR, The Tony Castles @ Good Units
* Keren Ann, Joseph Arthur, Chris Garnaeu, Elysian Fields, Dayna Kurtz (Haiti benefit) @ City Winery

Tonight's Grant Hart / The Octagon show has been postponed to May 28th.

Though they still haven't made an official announcement, Nebula's break up is further confirmed by the cancellation of tonight's show at Pianos. Quest For Fire and Dangeroo won't be there either.

Drunkdriver broke up too and won't be playing their record release show at Market Hotel tonight. The other bands on the bill play 538 Johnson instead.

Delorean played two shows last night. First Music Hall of Williamsburg and then Coco66. Tonight they do it at Webster Hall (with Miike Snow).

Back from Mexico where she performed alongside Andrew WK at MtyMX, Cherie Lily can be found at Santos Party House tonight.

Pere Ubu is at LPR Sunday.

Jamie Lidell's new video for "The Ring" below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Saturday?" at BrooklynVegan.com

by Andrew Frisicano

Forward-thinking group Skeletons are a frequent live presence around NYC, but record-wise, they've been quiet since the release of their 2008 LP, Money. In recent months, Skeletons have played out as the expanded Skeletons Big Band, switched their core lineup, and continued to put on great shows. In the spirit of curiousity, we e-mailed member guitarist Jason McMahon for an update on their ongoing projects. He said,So, Skeletons, eh? Due to the inevitable departure of long-time band member Toby Lowe, Skeletons is changing. In the midst of mixing and mastering at least two brand massive new albums worth of material from the last two years, including the promised concept PEOPLE (an album about specific people), as well as recordings of the 16-piece Big Band, we're also now rehearsing with a new organ player (Mike Gallope, a friend from Oberlin and member of Starring) and a new bass player (Pete Vogl, from Bow Ribbons). I expect there to be a new album coming out on Tomlab this Summer or Fall, and that will be PEOPLE.

We're playing on March 27th at the SILENT BARN, a venue we founded in 2005 and haven't been to in years, with sister bands Zs (of which Tony Lowe is now a member), and Extra Life (whose leader Charlie Looker used to be in Zs). It's all very incestuous. It should be a grand reunion/show down of bands that have so much in common that they're actively differentiable.The Silent Barn show is also a CD release party for Extra Life whose new album Made Flesh is out March 30 on LOAF. Zs have a new album coming too. It's called "New Slaves" and will be released on May 11th by Social Registry.

Continue reading "Skeletons, Extra Life & Zs are releasing new music, playing a show together tonight at Silent Barn" at BrooklynVegan.com

DOWNLOAD: Wye Oak - I Hope You Die (MP3)

Wye Oak @ Galaxy Room (BV/M For Montreal SXSW 2010 day party)
"If Wye Oak performed in D.C. once a week for a year, I'd go at least 20 times. So why go see the band at SXSW, when dozens of bands I don't already love are playing? What if one of them is amazing? Because that would mean missing Wye Oak, that's why." [NPR]Wye Oak have a new EP entitled My Neighbor / My Creator - it's out digitally, or you can wait until June 5th when Merge Records releases the CD. Now on tour with Shearwater, you can catch both bands at Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight (3/27). Tickets are still available, and I have a pair to giveaway. Details at the end of the post (under all the tour dates).

Last Saturday, 3/20, they were the first band of the day to play our party at Galaxy Room, outdoors and in the uncharacteristic-of-Austin freezing cold. To quote myself, their noon set "was a great way to wake up". Their short set (which was just a couple of hours before they played Stereogum's shindig) consisted of at least two songs off their five-song EP. "I Hope You Die" elicited a chuckle from the crowd when they introduced it. Grab a free MP3 of that song above. The other new one I know they played was "My Neighbor". Proof is in the video below which you can watch along with a video from their set at the official Merge showcase. The full EP tracklist & cover art, another picture and other stuff is down there too...

Continue reading "Wye Oak have a new EP (MP3), are now on tour w/ Shearwater (win tix for NYC tonight), played SXSW (pics & videos)" at BrooklynVegan.com

MoMA's Party in the Garden (more by Ryan Muir)
The Party in the Garden
Honoring Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Cocktails at seven o'clock
Supper at eight o'clock
After-Party from nine to midnight

Featuring a performance by Karen O and Nick Zinner
of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with special guests
Music by Mister Saturday Night-Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West Fifty-third Street, New York

Set in the beloved Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, this special evening benefits the Museum's general operating fund, supporting our award-winning educational programs and the care, study, and exhibition of the collection.Tickets to this year's MoMA Garden Party will set you back anywhere from $100 to $100,000. Last year's musical guest was Estelle. M.I.A. played it the year before that.

Continue reading ""Karen O & Nick Zinner" (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) playing MoMA Garden Party" at BrooklynVegan.com

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
02. Donkeyboy - Caught in a Life
03. Aleksander With - Still Awake
04. Diverse artister - Melodi Grand Prix 2010
05. Jenny & Arne - From Our Hearts
06. Thom Hell - All Good Things
07. Raga Rockers - Shit Happens
08. Jahn Teigen - Teigen - 40 Største Hits
09. Ingrid Olava - The Guest
10. Navigators - The Straight And Narrow
11. WigWam - Non Stop Rock'N'Roll
12. John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen - For Sant Til Å Være Godt
13. Batteri - Batteri
14. Burzum - Belus
15. Sigrid Moldestad - Sandkorn
16. Frøya - My American Dream
17. Britt-Synnøve Johansen - Skyt Meg Med Tre Roser
18. Röyksopp - Junior
19. Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne
20. Vidar Vang - Sleepless songs

Finnish act Villa Nah will be releasing a 7" via Moshi Moshi's famed singles club featuring the track "Running on" b/w "Ways to be". Official release date is May 3, listen to the flipside at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/villanah
The duo's new full-length album "Origin" comes out on May 17 via Keys of Life/

LPR will be hosting a benefit on May 6 for New Zealand artist Chris Knox who suffered a series of strokes last year. Many of the aritsts performing at this show have contributed to a fantastic tribute/benefit album for Knox that was recently released.

Tickets for the benefit will go on sale through Kickstarter on March 30 (more details coming soon).

Artists appearing will include Yo La Tengo, Kyp Malone (of TV on the Radio), Portastatic, Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields, Sharon Van Etten, and The Clean. There will also be a short acoustic performance by Jeff Mangum (formerly of Neutral Milk Hotel).

Continue reading "Le Poisson Rouge hosting Chris Knox benefit w/ Jeff Mangum on the bill (and Yo La Tengo, Kyp Malone & others) " at BrooklynVegan.com

April 18th at Coachella won't be Pavement's first US reunion show anymore. An April 15th show at The Fox Theater in Pomona has been added to their schedule. The Middle East open. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10AM (PDT). Tickets are on sale now for other pre-NYC North American shows too, like Philly and Boston. Their first reunion show took place in New Zealand in March. Their nexts ones are in Japan in April (right before the West Coast shows). All dates below...

Continue reading "Pavement add pre-Coachella show w/ The Middle East (plus Philly & Boston on sale) - updated 2010 Tour Dates " at BrooklynVegan.com

Deerhunter @ Outside Lands 2009 (more by Chris Graham)

today in NYC
* Seabear, Via Tania, Soley @ Southpaw
* Joseph Arthur, Keren Ann @ City Winery
* Crayon Fields, Yawn, Apollo Run @ Pianos
* Nada Surf, John Roderick @ The Bell House
* The Ruby Suns, Toro y Moi @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Surf City, Fan-Tan @ Mercury Lounge (Late Show)
* Delorean, Gatekeeper & Mirror Mirror @ Coco66
* Miike Snow, Delorean @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Revival Times, Moon High, Amazing Baby @ Zebulon
* Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon & others @ the Whitney
* Gil Scott Heron, Talib Kweli, Gary Bartz @ Littlefield
* Endless Boogie, Coconuts, Silk Flowers @ Public Assembly
* The New Standards, The Sharp Things @ (le) Poisson Rouge
* Spoon, Deerhunter, The Strange Boys @ Radio City Music Hall
* You Say Party! We Say Die!, John Biz @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* World Atlas, The Smittens, Knight School, Old Books @ Bruar Falls
* Miles Kurosky (of Beulah), Pancho-san @ Mercury Lounge (Early Show)
* Flight, Reading Rainbow, Rooftop Vigilantes, Anasazis @ Cake Shop
* Holy Ghost!, Bear Hands, lissy Trullie, Acrylics, Pocketknife @ Glasslands
* The Vandelles, Pirate Love, Thee Vicars @ The Cameo Gallery

The Big Ears Festival kicks off today in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Rooftop Vigilantes had to cut their tour short. They will not be appearing at Cake Shop tonight.

Earth Hour happens tomorrow.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Friday?" at BrooklynVegan.com

Delorean are playing Coco66 at 2am tonight (3/26, after GATEKEEPER, Mirror Mirror, Blondes & DJ Gavin Russom). That's a bunch of hours after they open for Miike Snow at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and a bunch of hours before they open for Miike Snow at Webster Hall (Saturday) which is one day before they open for Miike Snow at Bowery Ballroom (Sunday) which is a day before they play Mercury Lounge with Lemonade and Brahams (Monday). Check out their new video for "Look Alice" below...

Continue reading "Delorean add last minute NYC show tonight 2 (after Miike Snow) + new video " at BrooklynVegan.com

photos by Bryan Bruchman

Spinner: You had an EP out in October, produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor. How did you team up with him?

Acrylics: Chris Taylor saw us play some shows, and we had some friends in common. He asked us to record initially one track that was going to be on a split 7-inch, and we got into it and recorded an EP. We had about a week to do it. We were in his church studio, which is a beautiful place to record. We had fun. We had been working on a whole record prior to that, and we're still working on that record, slowly. So it was fun that he gave us the opportunity.Below you'll find:

• A flyer for tonight's (3/26) show at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn
• More Acrylics tour dates (w/ The Smith Westerns)
• A video of Acrylics at SXSW
• More pictures of Acrylics at SXSW
Acrylics played many shows at SXSW this year, including the very first one apparently. Great bill at Glasslands tonight. All that stuff below...

Continue reading "Acrylics played SXSW (pics), play Glasslands w/ Lissie Trullie, Bear Hands, Holy Ghost! & others tonight + other dates" at BrooklynVegan.com

Long-running Swedish black/death metal act Necrophobic have a new video for the track "Revelation 666": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5WxnKn_iL4
Some goofy visual to be sure, but the song is good (albeit a bit too long).

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
02. The Playtones - Rock'n roll dance party
03. Björn Skifs - Da capo
04. Sophie Zelmani - I'm the rain
05. Rigmor Gustafsson & Radio String Quartet Vienna - Calling you
06. Treat - Coup de grace
07. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
08. Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
09. Kent - Röd
10. Torgny Melin - Dansbandsnatt
11. Neo - Human frontier
12. Bruket - En annan klass
13. Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
14. Erik Grönwall - Erik Grönwall
15. Reeperbahn - Samlade singlar
16. Nordman - Korsväg
17. Zekes - En sån natt
18. Claes Lövgrens - Vi lever nu
19. Calle Kristiansson - Calle Kristiansson
20. Tomas Andersson Wij - Spår

Swedish stonerrock act Truckfighters will be touring Europe in May:

05/20 - Wild at heart, Berlin (GER)
05/21 - Arena, Vienna (AUS)
05/22 - MKK, Crnomelj (SLO)
05/23 - Spinnerei, Traun (AUS)
05/24 - Backstage, Munich (GER)
05/25 - Les Passagers, Besancon (FRA) 05/26 - Le Klub, Paris (FRA)
05/27 - Luxor Live, Arnhem (NL)
05/28 - Haus 73, Hamburg (GER)
05/29 - NIL, Potsdam (GER)

words & photos by Ben Lozovsky

Oh No Ono might have a solution to the fuel crisis. After a manic SXSW run that saw them play six shows in four days, the Danish band continued to churn out gigs, making their last two pit-stops in America before heading back to Europe. The first was Wednesday (3/24) at Mercury Lounge; showing little signs of road wear, the five piece brought back their big hair and bigger musical ambitions to one of the same venues they played in January.

With a seemingly endless supply of renewable energy, Oh No Ono kept their Egg rolling, playing a set packed with numbers from their 2009 album. If there was perhaps any consequence of exhaustion, it could have been Oh No Ono delving into longer stretches of ambient territory as wide rumbling preludes smoothly introduced circuitous numbers like "Swim" and "Eleanor Speaks." It could also be more of an elaboration on the moments of quiet discomfort that pop up throughout their last recorded effort. On Eggs, those spots of downtime and atmosphere hardly prepare you for the largeness of oncoming numbers. Live, Oh No Ono used those build-ups more effectively, adding anticipation and counter balances to their riotous assemblage of electronic fuzz and extraterrestrial power pop.

Oh No Ono's singular variety of space funk surely is not without influences; at times on the album, they channel predecessors ELO, Of Montreal, and Air. But as a red-cheeked bunch of Danish lads only could - by replacing cocaine-induced sunshine (of the former) and sexualized serotonin (of the two latter) with a full on barrage of plutonic happiness.

They still might be drugged or sexed up on the side, but musically Oh No Ono represent a youthful abstention from all those frontiers of full-on adulthood. Sometimes it worked to their disadvantage, when things got off-kilter and out of sync at times Wednesday night.

But for the most part, in concert, they used their unrelenting rambunctiousness to move away from the more borrowed elements of their sound. Even during a jaw-dropping cover of Radiohead's "Weird Fishes (Arpeggi)," which has now been planted firmly in their repertoire, they took momentary ownership of the slinky number with a post-rock meets punk-fireworks interpretation. In drilling the depths of well-known rock iconoclasts, they've found a new source of fossil fuel all their own.

Their show last night was with Little Dragon and VV Brown at Music Hall of Williamsburg. More pictures from Mercury Lounge where Cate Le Bon was the opener (and their setlist), below...

Continue reading "Oh No Ono & Cate Le Bon @ Mercury Lounge - pics & setlist" at BrooklynVegan.com

Swedish act Oh! Custer will be releasing a 7" on Cloudberry Records in the not-so-distant future.

I've started to add vinyl tags to all relevant postings. It's also available in the custom filter list, should you want to use it there as well.

Earlier this week, the trailer for the new comic book adaptation flick Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World debuted online and sent dorks worldwide into spasms of ecstasy. One more reason to get geeked up about the movie and its trailer: Amidst all the dialogue and booming sound effects, apparently you'll hear slivers of a couple of new Beck songs, the Playlist reports. According to the Playlist, Beck wrote the songs for Sex Bob-Omb, the titular character's fictional band.

The L.A. Times reports that the Universal movie, which opens August 13, also features a new song from Metric, and Radiohead/Beck producer Nigel Godrich serves as music supervisor.

Click below to watch the trailer:

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