Pixies Grow 'Minotaur'

Jun 16, 2009

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Rabid Pixies fan should now be positively frothing with the announcement that Minotaur, the definitive Pixies’ collector’s set, has gotten even bigger. The heavyweight piece of Pixies extreme memorabilia will be available in as a limited edition, with only 3000 copies available worldwide, or a deluxe edition. The former is housed in a custom clamshell container that weighs in at 25-pounds and contains so much newly announced goodness that it's best to use a list:

The limited-edition sets include:
• Blu-ray and DVD discs mastered for 5.1 audio surround sound at 24/192 and 24/96, respectively and two-channel stereo
• Five 12-inch albums cut from the original analog tapes and pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl
• A faux fur hardcover 96-page fine art book featuring the artwork of Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer who created the artwork for all of the Pixies' studio albums) and photographer Simon Larbalestier, the photographer for all of the band's original albums
• Two frameable 48-inch x 36-inch double-sided, fold-out, four-color wall posters
• A 54-page book of new art created by Oliver
• A 22-inch x 14-inch frameable Giclee print of a photo taken exclusively for Minotaur by Larbalestier

The deluxe-edition sets include:
• All five of the Pixies' studio albums on 24k gold-plated CDs and DVD and Blu-ray discs
• A DVD and Blu-ray of the band's previously unreleased 1991 performance at London's Brixton Academy and all of the group's videos

Just when you thought there was nothing left to give, all 3000 copies of the limited-edition sets will be individually numbered and hand-signed by all four members of the Pixies and Vaughan Oliver. The Minotaur Deluxe Edition will retail for $175, while the Minotaur Limited Edition is $495. The collections will be shipped sometime between late-September and mid-October.

Pre-orders start today at www.ainr.com.

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Passion Pit Unvelis "Little Secrets" April 24

Are you a "Secret" remix genius? Then throw your hat in the ring for Passion Pit's remix contest for a new song off their forthcoming LP, Manners, which is due out on May 19 via Frenchkiss. The Massachusetts electro-rockers are offering snippets of the track "Little Secrets" through their site, encouraging fans to trade with other participating remixers and build their own versions. Fans will vote on the final products, and of the top 10, five will be hand-selected by Passion Pit to be released as part of a special vinyl version of "Little Secrets," while the five runner-ups will receive a copy of the vinyl and a signed Manners CD.

Tour Dates For Passion Pit:

05/23 - George, WA - Sasquatch! Music Festival
05/24 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom

05/26 - San Francisco, CA - 365 Club

05/28 - West Hollywood, CA - Troubadour

05/29 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex

05/30 - Pomona, CA - The Glass House

06/02 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre

06/03 - Austin, TX - Emos

06/04 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live

06/05 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon

06/06 - Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn

06/08 - Richmond, VA - The National

06/09 - Washington, DC - Black Cat

06/11 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo

06/13 - Covington, KY - Mad Hatter

06/14 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom

06/16 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Place

06/17 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place

06/18 - Boston, MA - Paradise

06/19 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

06/20 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

07/01 - Longon, UK - Heaven

07/04 - Malsaucy, France - Eurockeennes

09/11 - Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival

Tracklist For Manners:

01. Make Light

02. Little Secrets

03. Moths Wings

04. The Reeling

05. Eyes As Candles

06. Swimming In The Flood

07. Folds In Your Hands

08. To Kingdom Come

09. Sleepyhead

10. Let Your Love Grow Tall

11. Seaweed Song

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Outside Lands Welcomes M.I.A., TVOTR, Tom Jones?

Apr 14, 2009

Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival is returning to San Francisco for it's second year. The fledgling festival is quickly making its mark, toting big gun acts like Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys and Dave Matthews Band. The roster also includes favorites like Modest Mouse, M.I.A., TV On The Radio, Built To Spill, Deerhunter, Akron/Family and Tom Jones (Yeah, you read that right.) The second annual festival runs from August 28 through August 30 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

The festival is a partnership between Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Productions, Starr Hill Presents, and The San Francisco Recreation And Park Department. Tickets for the three-day fest go on sale Sunday, April 19, at 10 PM PST, with a significant portion of all sales to benefit San Francisco's Recreation And Park Department.

Among the planned offerings so far are world-class food and artisan wine tents. More details on the festivals multifaceted events, as well as more of the lineup, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Full Line-Up For The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival 2009

Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Beastie Boys
Incubus
Black Eyed Peas
M.I.A
Jason Mraz
Ween
Mars Volta
Thievery Corporation
Modest Mouse
Band Of Horses
TV On The Radio
Dead Weather
Atmosphere
Tom Jones
Silversun Pickups
The National
Q-Tip
Brett Dennen
Built To Spill
Mastodon
Raphael Saadiq
Calexico
Os Mutantes
Midnite
JJ Grey And Mofro
Kinky
Deerhunter
Lila Downs
Trombone Shorty And Orleans Avenue
Dodos
Bettye LaVette
Dengue Fever
Heartless Bastards
Dirtbombs
Lenka
Akron/Family
John Vanderslice
Matt And Kim
Portugal. The Man
Morning Benders
Duke Spirit
Zee Avi
Blind Pilot
SambaDa
Ryan Bingham
West Indian Girl
Extra Golden

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Meat Puppets To Hit The Road Legendary punk band, Meat Puppets, are set to hit the road this spring. In support of the May 12th release of their forthcoming record, Sewn Together, the tour kicks off in Los Angeles at The Mint. Meat Puppets Tour Dates: May 12 Los Angeles, CA - The Mint 27 Louisville, KY - Waterfront Park 28 St Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill 29 Madison, WI - High Noon 30 Chicago, IL - Schubas 31 Chicago, IL - Schubas June 2 Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio 3 Columbus, OH - The Summit 4 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick 5 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr Smalls 6 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop 7 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place 9 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground 10 Boston, MA - Paradise 11 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge 12 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge 13 Washington, DC - Rock n Roll Hotel 14 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 16 Altanta, GA - The Earl 17 Exit/In - Nashville, TN 19 Cambridge Room - Dallas, TX 20 The Parish - Austin, TX

Camera Obscura Announce US Tour Glasgow sextet, Camera Obscura, will return stateside for an upcoming US trek. In support of their new record, My Maudlin Career, which drops April 21st, the tour will kick off with two NY gigs in March, before fully taking off at the end of May. Camera Obscura Tour Dates: March 24 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House 25 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge May 27 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge 28 Newport, KY - Southgate House 29 Chicago, IL - Metro 30 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center June 1 Denver, CO - Bluebird 2 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge 4 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom 5 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore 6 Seattle, WA - Showbox 8 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 9 Pomona, CA - Glasshouse 11 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre 13 Mexico City, Mexico - Lunario 15 Austin, TX - Antone's 16 Dallas, TX - The Loft 18 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree 19 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 20 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 21 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 22 Philadelphia, PA - TLA 24 New York, NY - Webster Hall 25 Boston, MA - Somerville Theatre 26 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe 27 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace 29 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center at Ohio State University 30 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's

Amadou & Mariam Announce Spring Tour Husband & wife teams are a bit of the rage touring right now with Bird & Bee, Dresden Dolls, Mistress Stephanie, and well . . . Husband & Wife among others making party music for us and piling up stress on their relationships. Go ahead and add Mariam Doumbia and her husband Amadou Bagayoko, better known as Amadou & Mariam, to my woefully incomplete list. For 30 years A & M have been making and performing their ballad/Afro-pop music. Welcome To Mali, their latest LP releases March 24th, and the duo plan a Spring tour in support. These are big venues, so in a struggling $$$ environment the artists are showing confidence that M & A can place paying butts in seats. Just last month in San Diego Political Afro-Pop sensation Fema Kouti had to cancel a gig at the much smaller capacity House of Blues [when compared to Cricket in Chula Vista] for lack of ticket sales. hmmm. Amadou & Mariam Tour Dates: June 2 Chicago, IL - Park West 4 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre 5 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis 6 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 8 New York, NY - Webster Hall 10 Alexandria, VA - Birchmere July 10 Portland, OR - The Amphitheater at Clark County 11 George, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre 13 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre 16 San Diego, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre 18 Carson, CA - Home Depot Center 21 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center 22 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 24 Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The eighth annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 11 - 14 on the same beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. Every year Bonnaroo seeks to make history by offering unique and exclusive performances by rock’s greatest legends as well as its most significant newcomers. A full list of confirmed acts follows, and more will be announced in the coming weeks. The final Bonnaroo 2009 lineup will total over 120 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days. Tickets go on sale exclusively through www.bonnaroo.com on Saturday, February 7 at 12:00 PM Eastern.

Official festival website is www.bonnaroo.com

2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Confirmed Artists:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 Shows)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello Solo
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov’t Mule
Andrew Bird
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury Band
of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross