JOHN
PEEL DIES
26 October 2004 |
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BBC
legend John Peel died of a heart attack last night at
the age of 65 while on a holiday in Peru. BBC Radio 1’s
longest serving DJ, with a career spanning over 40 years,
John Peel was made famous all over the world thanks to
his legendary Peel Sessions. Peel is almost solely
responsible for bringing some of the most obscure and
innovative music to the mainstream. Following the announcement
of his death, Radio 1 played his favourite song, Teenage
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JAGA
JAZZIST BACK IN THE STUDIO AND ON THE ROAD
24 October 2004 |
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Norwegian
jazz super-formation Jaga Jazzist have recently announced
that they have finally returned to the studio after a
break of a few months to put the finishing touch to the
follow up to 2002 The Stix, originally released
on Smalltown Supersound, before being snapped up by Ninja
Tune for international release a year later. Details about
the album should be announced in the next few weeks, and
it is expected to be released in early 2005. The ten-piece
formation also announced a string of US dates this November:
San Francisco (4-5/11) and Washington DC (7/11). Lars
Horntveth also announced a couple of solo European
dates, the first of which, in Barcelona at the Teatre
Lliure, will feature a 22-piece string orchestra. Lars
will also play live at the Trans Musicales Festival in
Rennes, France, on 3/12. For more information, check out
the Jaga
Jazzist and Smalltown
Supersound websites. |
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SMALLTOWN
SUPERSOUND JAPANESE MINI-TOUR
20 October 2004 |
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Norwegian
label Smalltown Supersound has recently announced a string
of live dates for a mini Japanese tour, starting on 18
November at Shibuya 0-Nest in Tokyo before heading for
Kyoto (Tranq Room, 19/11) and returning to Tokyo on 21/11
at Warszawa Forth Floor. Expect live performances from
Kim Hiorthøy and Sir Dupermann plus DJ set from
Joakim Haugland and additional performances for each show.
For more details, check out the Smalltown
Supersound website. |
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ANDREW
COLEMAN RELEASES NEW ALBUM ON TRIPEL RECORDS
10 October 2004 |
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Following
his 2001 album Everything Is Beautiful & Nothing
Hurt album on Thrill Jockey, Andrew Coleman, who
is better known for his Animal On Wheels project, under
which name he has released a handful of EPs and two albums
for Ninja Tune, is set to return with his second album
published under his own name. Demons, which is
due out this November, is released on Cambridge-based
label Tripel Records. The album is said to continue on
the footsteps of Everything Is Beautiful…
with Coleman experimenting further with found sounds,
prepared piano and acoustic guitars. For more information,
check out the Tripel
Records and Andrew
Coleman websites. |
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MANITOBA
BECOMES CARIBOU
7 October 2003
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Following
a lawsuit preventing him from using his stage name, Manitoba,
Dan Snaith will now be performing and releasing music
as Caribou. The lawsuit was brought by the lead singer
of American punk band The Dictators who, although he has
never released any music under his own stage name (Handsome
Dick Manitoba), sued Snaith for trademark infringement.
‘My immediate reaction was total disbelief. Most
of the people I’ve talked to about it see this case
as being utterly nonsensical. Unfortunately, US legal
precedent didn’t agree and faced with a court case
that I couldn’t afford to lose, I had no choice
but to change the name’ declared Snaith about the
affair. On his website (www.caribou.com),
he adds: ‘Due to a lawsuit in the US I've been forced
to change my name from 'Manitoba' to 'Caribou'. Full details
are below but suffice it to say I'm left in equal parts
confused, enraged and saddened by this aggressive litigious
behaviour which doesn't seem to me to have benefited anyone’.
His first two albums will be re-released under the new
name by Domino in North America and The Leaf Label for
the rest of the world. Snaith is currently recording the
follow up to last year’s Up
In Flames, which is expected. |
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!!!
REMIXED BY LFO AND UK LIVE DATES
6 October 2004 |
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LFO’s
Mark Bell has remixed !!!’s Me & Giuliani
Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story), and the track
is to be released as a limited edition one-sided 12”
later on in October to coincide with a string of !!! UK
dates as follow: London (13/10), Glasgow (16/10, supporting
Franz Ferdinand), Manchester (17/10), Nottingham (18/10).
For more info, check the !!!
website. |
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COCOROSIE
NEW SINGLE AND UK LIVE DATES
5 October 2004 |
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New
York-based band CocoRosie
will be following the release of their superb first album,
La Maion
De Mon Rêve, with a new double AA sided
single, Terrible Angels / By Your Side. Due out
on 8 November on Touch & Go Records, the single also
features a brand new track, Beautiful Boyz, which
has become a highlight of their live set. After having
spent the summer recording in the south of France, sisters
Bianca and Sierra Casady will be playing three UK dates.
The pair will be supporting Devendra Banhart at Shephard’s
Bush Empire on 21/10, before headlining at London’s
Islington Academy on 2/11 and Glasgow Mono on 4/11. The
second CocoRosie
album is expected spring next year. |
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