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Grinderman: New Album & Tour

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

GRINDERMAN 2 OUT SEPTEMBER 14; NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER
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Grinderman are Nick
Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. On September 14 they will release their new
studio album Grinderman 2 via Anti-Records and follow with a tour of North America beginning
on November 11.

The new album was co-produced by Grinderman and Nick Launay (Public Image Ltd, Birthday Party) and
mixed by Launay. Grinderman will kick off their North American tour November 11 in Toronto, Canada.

Tour Dates:

THU 11/11/2010 Toronto, ON Phoenix

FRI 11/12/2010 Montreal, QC Metropolis

SAT 11/13/2010 Boston, MA House of Blues

SUN 11/14/2010 New York, NY Nokia Theatre

TUE 11/16/2010 Washington, DC 9:30 Club

THU 11/18/2010 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

FRI 11/19/2010 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
SAT 11/20/2010 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
MON 11/22/2010 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre

TUE 11/23/2010 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue

FRI 11/26/2010 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom

SAT 11/27/2010 Seattle, WA King Cat Theater
MON 11/29/2010 San Francisco, CA Warfield

TUE 11/30/2010 Los Angeles, CA Music Box
WED 12/1/2010 San Diego, CA House of Blues

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The Disco Biscuits: Planet Anthem

March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

By: Dennis Cook

The Disco Biscuits have never been my thing. Long respected their general savvy and knack at carving out a unique niche for themselves, and there’s no denying they can play their butts off, but music either connects with us or it doesn’t. I offer this caveat because I came into Planet Anthem (released March 16 on Diamond Riggs Records) with ZERO expectations. And one’s POV on Bisco will heavily influence their response to their game changing new platter.

In a nutshell, the Biscuits have done what few bands to rise to prominence in the jam scene have done: Created a thoroughly modern, intensely sculpted set that has an honest shot of penetrating the mainstream. It’s also incredibly brave of a band to offer such a drastic reconfiguration of their sound this far into their career. They know dance music in ways few others can match, and they’ve whittled things down to a succinct beat science here. There’s some sexy space rock like “Uber Glue” likely to become live monsters, but there’s more cuts that could be singles or populist DJ fare (no problem imagining a Vegas disco spinning “You and I” next to Britney’s “Toxic,” or perhaps finding “The City” or “Big Wrecking Ball” sandwiched between videos by the Black Eyed Peas and Rihanna). Even if this doesn’t make it on the charts, the Biscuits now have a set custom made for the dance music underworld they’ve been French kissing for years.

For a band regarded by many as primarily a live entity, they’ve crafted a quality studio offering that holds up against the high gloss stuff on major labels and MTV. And as someone who didn’t come into this expecting “Morph Dusseldorf” or “Little Shimmy In A Conga Line,” I kinda dig this and see how it opens up a ton of new possibilities for them – fiscally, musically and otherwise. The ’60s psych-pop of “Fish Out of Water,” the Morcheeba-with-saucy-horns vibe of “Quad D,” the patient prog moan Of “Rain Song,” and post-punk, Public Image Ltd-esque “Sweatbox” are all fresh ground. And there’s little doubt the band will transform and trick out every tune in concert; their gift for variety and brainy rejiggering practically guarantees it.

There’s a sharp focus and pleasant disregard for their past on Planet Anthem that’s excitingÂ…if one can let go of insisting The Disco Biscuits continue to be as they have been.

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Public Image Ltd.: North American Tour

March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

LYDON AND THE LADS VISIT U.S. TO CELEBRATE 30TH ANNIVERSARY

PiL

Since returning in December 2009 for seven monumental concerts in the United Kingdom – their first shows in 17 years – Public Image Ltd. (PiL) now continue into 2010 with a headlining North American tour starting Saturday, April 17 in San Francisco.

After fronting the Sex Pistols, John Lydon formed Public Image Ltd in 1978. With their experimental sound fusing rock, dance, folk, ballet, pop and dub, PiL are regarded as producing some of the most diverse music of the ’70s and ’80s.

The North American tour will be preceded by a special performance at the Coachella on Friday, April 16 (opening day of the three-day event) in Indio, CA, and a recently announced intimate performance on Tuesday, April 13 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Tickets for the Club Nokia show go on sale Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 a.m. These dates are the band’s first concerts in the United States in 18 years.

Cited as one of the most innovative and influential bands in music history, PiL return to a country where they enjoyed a special relationship throughout their career for what are set to be stunning shows. The North American dates will be followed by a series of high-profile summer European Festival appearances. John Lydon (vocals), Lu Edmonds (guitar), Bruce Smith (drums) and Scott Firth (bass) earned critical and public acclaim for their concerts in December 2009, with many British media outlets championing them as the shows of the year.

“I sound like a bag of kittens thrown down the staircase,” says Lydon with characteristic “charm.”

2010 sees the 30th anniversary of the band’s first U.S. tour and also their U.S TV debut on American Bandstand, where Lydon invited the audience onstage to dance with the band! Host Dick Clark famously introduced their appearance as “a memorable moment in rock n roll, something special and interesting.” With a wide and varied back catalogue spanning three decades, Public Image Ltd will be showcasing the unique sounds of tracks such as “Public Image,” “This Is Not A Love Song,” “Rise,” and “Disappointed,” with many further surprises in store.

Check out JamBase’s recent video salute to John Lydon.

PiL Tour Dates

Fri 4/16 – Indio, CA – Empire Polo Field/Coachella
Sat 4/17 – San Francisco, CA – Grand Ballroom @ Regency Center
Tue 4/20 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at The Market
Wed 4/21 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
Fri 4/23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
Sat 4/24 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
Mon 4/26 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
Sun 5/2 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Tue 5/4 – Boston, MA – Royale Boston
Wed 5/5 – Boston, MA – Royale Boston
Fri 5/7 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus
Sat 5/8 – Montreal, QC – Theatre L’Olympia de Montreal
Tue 5/11 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
Wed 5/12 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Fri 5/14 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Zoo
Sat 5/15 – Atlantic City, NJ – The Borgata Music Box
Tue 5/18 – New York, NY – Terminal 5

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Sun Eye Candy: John Lydon

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments

HEY, JOHNNY ROTTEN, YOU’RE MIDDLE AGED!

A hearty, happy 54th birthday to John Lydon! As the frontman/shit instigator for the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. (PiL) he’s shaken up the musical establishment, left bruises on his contemporaries, hawked up more spit on stages than almost anyone but Joan Jett, and coincidentally made some of the most memorable (and forgettable) rock of the past 40 years. Love him or hate him (or perhaps most appropriately, a swirled mixture of the two), but there’s really no way to NOT react to Lydon, who excels at getting a rise out of even the most jaded amongst us. For example, JamBase’s Associate Editor – a Lydon vet since the early ’80s – once saw the man perform two songs before revealing that he had a banana lodged in his bum, which he then gave to a fan in the front row. Such antics are commonplace and intrinsic to Lydon’s, uh, charm. He’s one of those beasts put here to scatter the herd and incite riots, big and small. So, we say screw the Queen, God save Johnny Rotten!

We begin our natal day salute with some sandpaper PiL fun captured in the early ’80s in Tokyo.

Still a dead sexy spot of rebellion despite being covered by some god awful establishment acts in the ensuing decades, “Anarchy In The UK” will be a musical middle finger held aloft around the globe for as long as young men and women have a need to tell off those in charge.

There’s a great many Public Image Ltd. echoes in the current crop of Brooklyn indie acts rising in fame and popularity. Lydon just got to this sound about three decades before y’all!

Here’s Johnny and PiL’s Keith Levene chatting about their high minded notions for the band. It’s hard to know how much of what Lydon says is pure cheek and how much pure inspiration.

Today’s highly lucrative pop-punk acts have done little to improve on this one.

The sessions for 1986′s Album, where these two cuts are plucked from, featured Bill Laswell, Ginger Baker, Nicky Skopelitis, Tony Williams, Bernie Worrell, Jonas Hellborg, Steve Vai and other revered jam/jazz scene luminaries. It remains one of the great distillations of ’80s Cold War fear and apprehension.

And one for the Queen, and we think they really mean it, man.