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a propósito, foreros de Madrid: ¿que pasa con la programación del In-Edit que se celebra en vustra ciudad en unos días?.
Miro en la web del festival y todavia no hay nada colgado.
Si sabeis algo, seria de agradecer la información.

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[Madam Green.]

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¿ Ha muerto Jackie McLean?
Vaya por dios. Van quedando menos.

… el que también murió fué Gene Pitney...

...la versión que cantó junto Marc Almond no me gustó demasiado...però "24 Hours From Tulsa" creo que és una de las mejores canciones del mundo mundial y creo que jamàs nàdie ha cantado o la cantarà mejor que él...de echo creo que ya la mencioné por algún hilo del "gallina de piel" ...aunque yo casi que me moriría si álguien me dedicara esta canción

Gene Pitney Dead at 65

Matthew Solarski reports:
Legendary singer Gene Pitney passed away Wednesday morning at a hotel in Cardiff, Wales, according to various sources. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was 65 years old. Just the previous night, he had received a standing ovation for a performance at St David's Hall in the Welsh capital. The cause of death has yet to be determined, but officials do not suspect foul play, Reuters reports.

His career spanning over four decades, Pitney defied the simple "crooner" tag by singing with a conviction seldom heard among his contemporaries (who included Roy Orbison), exhibiting considerable range, and championing burgeoning acts like the Rolling Stones before their heyday. Indeed, early in his career, Pitney recorded a cover of the Jagger-Richards song "The Girl Belongs to Yesterday".

Pitney is perhaps best known for the hits "24 Hours From Tulsa" and "A Town Without Pity", the title song from the 1961 Kirk Douglas film. The latter number also wound up among tunes by Sonic Youth, Beck, and the Flaming Lips on the soundtrack to Richard Linklater's 1996 film SubUrbia. A dedicated live performer, the much-loved singer died while in the midst of a 23-date tour of Britain. He is survived by his wife Lynne and three sons.

Check out footage of the man in action here.(youtube) Però no està "24h"

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US singer Pitney found dead in Cardiff

Last Modified: 5 Apr 2006
Source: ITN

Singer Gene Pitney, 65, has been found dead in a Cardiff hotel room.
He was found in his bed at the Hilton Hotel in the city. Pitney was mid-way through a 23-date UK tour and had played St David's Hall last night and was due to perform in Bristol later.

South Wales police said they had been called to the hotel at 9.50am and that the death is not being treated as suspicious.

The US star had his breakthrough hit, 24 Hours From Tulsa, written by Bacharach and David, in 1962. He had 11 top ten hits in this country including That Girl Belongs To Yesterday and Looking Thru The Eyes of Love.

He had a number one with Marc Almond, singing Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart, in 1990. In 2002 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Pitney, who is credited with helping the Rolling Stones break into the US, is survived by his wife Lynne and three sons.

[Madam Green.]

Todo apunta a que Pitchfork ha metido la gamba y que Sufjan y Rosie no van a tener ningún bebé...hay mucha gente diciendo que Matthew malinterpretó las palabras de ambos durante la entrevista...però sólo son rumores..

( Pitchfork)

Sufjan Stevens + Rosie Thomas = New Album, Baby

Matthew Solarski reports:

Ah, springtime. It turns the world of indie into a freakin' love-fest, drawing artists to one another like bees to flowers. To make music, naturally. And sometimes…other things.

The latest salsa-hot collabo comes courtesy of lovable former Sub Pop songstress Rosie Thomas, who has recruited two fellow lovable, wholesome folkies to spruce up her latest batch of recordings. The boys in question: Sufjan Stevens and Philly singer-songwriter Denison Witmer.

The trio shacked up at Suf-jeezy's pad in New York City for three days, ate junk food, had pillow fights, and wound up recording some Thomas-penned songs on Witmer's laptop. According to Witmer's blog, Rosie played classical guitar, Sufjan plucked banjo, and Denison rocked the electric. All three sang.

In an email to Pitchfork, Thomas said, "[Sufjan and I] both decided that it would be refreshing and fun to just record some songs together on a whim and we did. The songs came out so good that we decided to finish the project this winter, and what I hoped would be an EP surprisingly turned into a full length." For the winter wrap-up, Rosie enlisted Witmer to add instrumentation and engineer.

"It was all a very organic process," mused Witmer via email. "The three of us have toured together a lot in the past, and I'm sure that had something to do with planting the idea in [Rosie's] mind. She (well, all of us) just wanted to have a fun, stress free, relaxing time recording with friends. As far as I know, that's our only real agenda at this point."

Rosie echoed his sentiments: "Somehow along the way the very thing I loved became more about touring and record labels and record deadlines and ordering tee shirts on time and press releases," she observed. "It was almost as if the business side of things took over the passion side, you know? And I desperately needed to work on something that brought me back to my core.

"Working with Sufjan reminded us both of how we used to love to write for our own sense of well being, not by any other expectation."

Since Thomas is no longer signed to Sub Pop, there's no word yet who will put out the joint recording or when the adoring masses can hear it. "Perhaps," suggested Rosie– who also has plans to record with Iron and Wine's Sam Beam sometime soon-- "it will end up being a record we give to our families for Christmas."
And that's not all Rosie and Sufjan have been collaborating on, as the two lovesongbirds are having a baby together. Serious! For once, Pitchfork is not joking.

"Sufjan and I are also expecting and that is something we both are beaming about," wrote Rosie. "Life is good."

Awwwwwwwww-- I mean, congratulations! And somebody please phone the Guinness Book, as the world is about the embrace the Cutest Kid Ever.

Rosie sets off on a spring tour tomorrow night, possibly her last one for a lil' while. Bring flowers, hugs, and diapers:
...
.....
...no tenía ni idea de quién és Rosie Thomas

[Madam Green.]

…y otro recopilatório homenaje a los Beach Boys:

Do It Again: A Tribute to Pet Sounds

01 Oldham Brothers: "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
02 Vic Chesnutt: "You Still Believe in Me"
03 Nobody and the Mystic Chords of Memory with Farmer Dave: "That's Not Me"
04 Centro-Matic: "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)"
05 Micah P. Hinson: "I'm Waiting for the Day"
06 Raygun: "Let's Go Away for a While"
07 Dayna Kurtz: "Sloop John B."
08 Daniel Johnston: "God Only Knows"
09 Mazarin: "I Know There's an Answer"
10 Jody Wildgoose: "Here Today"
11 Patrick Wolf: "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
12 Architecture in Helsinki: "Pet Sounds"
13 The Wedding Present: "Caroline No"

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más discos nuevos…

THE SILOS - COME ON LIKE THE FAST LANE

Esta vez no hay nombres de mujeres a la vista... aquellas estupendas Margaret, Susan, Mary, Caroline, Henrietta, Carol, etc que poblaban los títulos de los temas de los Silos no repiten esta vez. Pero tranquilos porque aún así la banda viene cargada de muchos otros atributos, entre ellos constancia, rigor y apasionado Rock n´Roll!!
'Come On Like The Fast Lane' cierra una trilogía que comenzó en 2001 con su álbum 'Laser Beam Next Door'.
Después de superar en la segunda mitad de los noventa un periodo de inestabilidad y numerosos cambios, Walter Salas-Humara retomó su carrera con nuevo ritmo y una formación de tres componentes. En el otoño de 2004 su álbum 'Telephone Rings' ya tenía de todo: una atmósfera incomparable, una calidad sobresaliente en los temas y la extraordinaria inteligencia que destilaban sus discos de quince o veinte años atrás, como Cuba, Silos y Hasta La Victoria.
Con una renovada cosecha de buenas críticas y acompañado por el batería Konrad Meissner y el bajista/guitarrista Drew Glackin -cuyo talento como maestro de las cuerdas es casi escalofriante-, Walter Salas-Humara apuntaló así su posición de destacado artista y compositor en el panorama de la música independiente y de la escena alternativa americana. No es exagerado hablar del mejor y más dinámico sonido de Silos hasta ahora. Mucho más que recomendable...

DOM MARIANI - POPSIDED GUITAR - ANTHOLOGY 1984-2004

The Stems, Stonefish, Someloves, DM3 y The Majestic Kelp. ¿Qué tienen en común? Pues que son cinco pasos en la interminable búsqueda de Dom Mariani de la más nueva y radiofónica obra maestra del pop guitarrero. Porque “Popsided Guitar” es un vistazo general a la obra de Dom: un doble CD que escoge con sumo cuidado las 38 mejores piezas de un artista pop que sabido otrorgar una intransigente pasión a la escena rock australiana.
Su trabajo destila energía, melodías imparables, guitarras repicantes y coros que se entonan con una precisión sorprendente y lograda gracias a más de veinte años de directos. Décadas antes de que el mundo se quedase boquiaberto con Jet, The Hives o The Strokes, a él también le sirvió de inspiración la escena del garage-punk americano de los sesenta.
Despertar una más que considerable atención en los escenarios de Europa y Escandinavia fue su último éxito. Mientras tanto su más modesta repercusión en su país le otorga un temperamento más dedicado a la continua búsqueda de la perfección pop que a las distraciones propias de la fama.
Ahora de nuevo 'Popsided Guitar' ha cambiado todo eso. De la eufórica prisa de 'Sunshine Glove' a la apocalíptica melancolía de 'Something Heavy', del viejo órgano de escuela de 'For Always' al swing de 'Homespun Blues' (tema de su disco en solitario en 2004 'Homespun Blues and Greens'), todos son temas efusivamente empeñados en iluminar cualquier lugar. Y bien que lo consiguen...

MR TUBE & THE FLYING OBJETS - LISTEN UP

La historia de Mr. Tube merece ser contada. Cuando en verano de 2002 Paulo Zappoli, de BLACK HEART PROCESSION, conoció a Freddie Dilinger, alias Mr. Tube, no tardó en darse cuenta de que un talento como el suyo no podía seguir oculto por más tiempo.
En los sesenta y setenta Freddie Dillinger lideraba una banda llamada Freddie Feelgood and the Real Good Feelings. Estos más tarde se convirtieron en Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects. Durante todo este tiempo habían escrito y tocado cientos de canciones pero nunca habían publicado un solo álbum.
Por casualidad Paulo escucho alguno de los temas de Freddie y después de varios intentos le convenció para grabar alguna de aquellas impresionantes piezas que había compuesto durante todos esos años. Pero Freddie quería hacerlo bien, así que convenció a Paulo para buscar a unos músicos que encajasen a la perfección en aquellos temas. Mr.Tube escribiría, arreglaría, grabaría y produciría los diez temas que formarían el disco en el Paulo Stereo Disguise Recording Laboratories.
Era 2006 y estos temas, escritos entre 1968 y 1979, incluían tanto clásicos como más actuales. Sonidos que te transportan a tiempos pasados, a los tiempos en los que se compusieron, y que van creando una nueva dimensión astral contaminada con veneno galáctico.
Desconocido e inalcanzable hasta ahora, por fin se nos revela este estupendo artista. Agárralo con fuerza y consigue ser uno de los primeros en escucharle.

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1. LIVE: EYELESS IN GAZA & MARTYN BATES gives new concerts in
Brussels this June! First real Eyeless In Gaza concert outside
England since 1986!!! If that is not enough Martyn Bates will perform
in solo capacity the day before at the same venue – a wonderful
venue -- ‘Eglise Sainte-Catherine’, one of the largest churches in
Brussels. Book June 9-10 as the weekend you will visit Brussels this
year if you do not enjoy living there already! For full information,
press release and most importantly how to get tickets -- visit the
www.Anymoments.net site:
http://www.anymoments.net/index_files/Page327.htm

2. SUBWAY SUN, SUMMER SALT -- EYELESS IN GAZA album
Work continues somewhat sporadically on this seemingly Herculean
project, due in part to teething troubles with the new studio set-up.
Recordings have been concluded for this album (finally!), with
editing and mixing beginning this week. The genesis of this
particular project, I think it's fair to say, is proving to be one
the most chequered and 'peculiar' in the history of the band, as yet
another sea-change is sensed at work within the music. It is
beginning to feel like a single album again, and NOT a double, as
last reported. This is principally due to the exciting nature of the
concluding recording sessions, where inspiration and energy focussed
upon a completely different strand of creativity. This resulted in
the creation of several brand new songs and pieces, which will be
developed to, it is hoped, eventually coalesce as an entirely
separate set of recordings entitled ''MONSTER FIELD''. Meanwhile, a
summer release date is still hoped for SUMMER SALT, and negotiations
are imminent for a release outlet outside of the more usual (of late)
A-Scale aegis. Watch this space.

3. PLAGUE OF YEARS -- MARTYN BATES "overview" album
To be released on SubRosa, this Martyn Bates' overview album, will be
released early June 2006, coinciding nicely with the Brussels solo
and EYELESS IN GAZA concerts.

4. FROM INSIDE THE WALLED GARDEN -- TWELVE THOUSAND DAYS album
This third album length release from Martyn Bates' and Alan Trench's
TWELVE THOUSAND DAYS is due to appear in May , on the Shining Day
label -- the quite, effective hand at work behind the release of the
AT THE LANDGATE ep. This batch of recordings is (at last!) at the
cutting stage (the cut has in fact been approved), and the sleeve
design is been readied as these words are being written. According to
Martyn the album has ''a different feel from the others -- it is
still Twelve Thousand Days, but the canvas and foregroundings of this
particular reading are eminently more visible somehow ... the record
definitely reflects the organic circumstance of its making. Its an
obliquely personal album as well, in that the music bears evidence of
visibly marking the passage of time and events in both our personal
as well as our musical lives -- as individuals and as individuals
coming together to create.''

A second TWELVE THOUSAND DAYS CONCERT, in Bristol, is a distinct
possibility for the late Summer. Meanwhile, the SEVEN VOYAGES arm of
the Cryphanthus nexus has been busy building upon the success of
their live settings of the HEXEN film, hatching various soundtracks
-- for example, for a 20's silent version of THE MAGICIAN -- and
preparing various scattered examples early cinematic films of renown
-- for an unsuspecting Chinese market: East meets West, in what
threatens to be a most distinctive, and perhaps hitherto unsuspected
manner.

5. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND -- TROUM/MARTYN BATES album
To A Child Dancing In The Wind, Martyn Bates’ collaboration with
Troum is definitely out by the end of this month (April).
Transgredient Records releases the album and it will be announced at
the Troum http://www.troum.com/ and Drone Records <http://
www.dronerecords.de/> web sites soon for the price of 12 Euro. (It
will also be available directly from A-Scale.)

The album features settings of works by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats,
the release comprises the following tracks: The Arrow/Mad as the Mist
and Snow/The Magi/Mad Reprise/I Made My Song. The album has been
described as being a "lush and sublimal interplay with and
investigation of Yeats’ lyric sensibility … a kind of mystic folk
marriage of the supine and the airborne … ." Martyn is singing on 4
of the tracks.

6. DISSONANCE -- MARTYN BATES’ first solo project
Talks continue -- something of a 3D nature is getting closer!
(Curiously, copies of the original American version of Dissonance
have been selling for $300 plus, of late ... this augur well for the
long looooooooong overdue first 'full' release of this curio?)

7. MARTYN BATES’ solo MYSTERY SEAS (Letters Written #2)
Re-released in Europe (Switzerland) by Shayo http://www.shayo.com.
This release is now available for purchase via A-Scale (see web page
for postage details and address (currently via me until Paypal
payments have been worked out by the offices of A-Scale). It does
sound different (and the packaging is different) from the previous
release (but no remixes or added material).

P.S. I must also mention two more somewhat related news items:

a, ORCHIS have a wonderful new EP -- 'Other Days' -- released in mp3
format, which can be bought from Woven Wheat Whispers: <http://
www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Label-Review-Orchis.htm>

b, BRON AREA: Fragile Sentences EP -- you can finally get your hands
on this long sought after early A-Scale release!! Scroll down the
Marz Imprintz web site: http://www.dnastudio.freeserve.co.uk/
Thanks Kevin for making it available again!

[thought I sent this out yesterday, but only to myself ;-/ … ]

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PRIMAL SCREAM estreno en exclusiva ayer su nuevo album en el astoria de London.

A falta de escuchar las nuevas canciones, este repertorio me pone …

Country Girl
Dolls
Jailbird
Shoot Speed Kill Light
Detroit
Nitty Gritty
Suicide Sally And Johnny Guitar
Kill All Hippies
When The Bomb Drops
The 99th Floor
Medication
Rocks
Kowalski
Swastika Eyes
Moving On Up
Slip Inside This House
Accelerator
Skull X
Gimme Some Truth
Country Girl
Rocks

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Micah P.Hinson & John Mark Lapaham

The Late Cord are John Mark Lapham and Micah P. Hinson. Both are natives of Abilene Texas. Their debut mini album "Lights From The Wheelhouse" is scheduled for release in the UK on April 24 on 10" vinyl and CD.

Por lo visto, el resultado es música para rezar:

http://www.thelatecord.com/my_most_mean ... people.mp3

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OTRO nuevo disco de SUFJAN STEVENS

Extraido de muzikalia:

El 25 de julio, Asthmatic Kitty pondrá en circulación un nuevo disco de Sufjan Stevens. Se llamará The Avalanche, y en él se incluirán veintiún temas recogidos de las grabaciones de Illinois, entre temas, intrumentales, interludios y demos, además de tres versiones alternativas de “Chicago”. En el disco participan los Illinoismakers, James McAlister, Craig Montoro, Shara Worden y Katrina Kerns, además de Rosie Thomas.

Los temas que formarán The Avalanche son:

"The Avalanche"
"Dear Mr Supercomputer"
"Adlai Stevenson"
"The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dargarius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies"
"Chicago" (acoustic version)
"The Henney Buggy Band"
"Saul Bellow"
"Carlyle Lake"
"Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair"
"The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)"
"Kaskaskia River"
"Chicago" (adult contemporary easy listening version)
"Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne"
"No Man's Land"
"The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake"
"The Pick-up"
"The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?""
"For Clyde Tombaugh"
"Chicago" (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
"Pittsfield"
"The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)"

¿¿¿ALGUN DIA LO PODREMOS VER POR AQUI???

[RX456 Seed]

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a mi me continua intrigando si conseguira hacer un disco por cada estado de los fucking usa. A disco por año son 52 años. no se si lo vere.

[RX456 Seed]

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[pumpkin57]

Supongo que habrá cosas interesantes que decir sobre Dakota del Norte, Maine o Montana, pero a mi ahora mismo no se me ocurren, y menos a ojos del indie europeo medio.

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a mi se me ocurren cosas interesantes que decir de tejas y su familia predilecta.

[RX456 Seed]

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[30segundossobreTokyo]

vaya panda estais hechos… con la de cosas que se podrian decir sobre Marbella y siempre mirando al exterior y a esos pescados hervidos de rednecks.
Si SPK estuvieran en activo y bien, más de uno se enteraria...

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China veta cinco canciones de los Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger, líder de los Rolling Stones, ironizó ayer sobre la censura que el Gobierno chino ha impuesto a la banda ante su esperado concierto de esta noche en Shanghái, el primero que el grupo ofrece el país asiático.
"Me satisface que el Ministerio de Cultura proteja la moral de los banqueros expatriados y de las amiguitas con las que vendrán al concierto", declaró ayer Jagger con sorna en alusión a la prohibición de cantar cinco canciones. El cantante de rock no las enumeró todas, sólo cuatro: Brown sugar, Honky tonk woman, Beast of burden y Let's spend the night together. Por su parte, Keith Richards, quien afirmó sentirse en China "como si fuera Marco Polo" propuso una solución: "Podríamos tal vez tocar las canciones dejando que Mick descansara, y sólo presentar la versión instrumental".
Algunas piezas censuradas son auténticos himnos del banda inglesa formada por Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts y Ron Wood. Pero la noticia no les ha sorprendido demasiado ya que las cuatro canciones citadas habían sido vetadas anteriormente en China por su contenido sexual.

VIEJA HISTORIA
La primera vez fue en el 2003 cuando la banda tenía previsto aterrizar con la gira Forty licks, que se suspendió por la gripe asiática. Las piezas tampoco figuraban en el disco recopilatorio que dio nombre a la gira.
Jagger, un abuelo del rock con más de 40 años de carrera, recordó que la historia de sus relaciones con las autoridades Chinas viene de lejos. "La primera vez que quisimos venir, el Ministerio de Cultura nos pidió educadamente si podíamos intentar no tocar ciertas canciones", recordó. "Esta vez, esperaba que no habría problemas con la censura…, pero han vuelto a la carga con las mismas cuatro canciones y han añadido una más", dijo. Y acto seguido el cantante reconoció: "Hubiera sido estúpido por nuestra parte no pensar que eso no existía".
Los integrantes del longevo grupo sabe que los precios desorbitados de las entradas impedirán a muchos asistir al concierto en una sala para 8.000 personas, ubicada en una metrópoli donde habitan 17 millones de personas. Sólo los nuevos ricos chinos y los extranjeros pueden pagar precios que oscilan entre los 30 y los 300 euros. Aunque eso no fue impedimento para que se agotaran en a las pocas horas.
El show de A bigger bang podrá seguirse, en diferido, por televisión "y de forma gratuita", recalcó Jagger.
Pero podría peligrar si se sale de las pautas marcadas por las autoridades. Hace poco la primera edición de la emblemática revista Rolling Stone en versión china fue suspendida. Según las autoridades se debió a un tema de licencias mal tramitadas, pero varias voces aseguraron que en realidad la medida era efecto de otra cosa. Los artículos con temas políticos y sociales habían soliviantado a las autoridades chinas.

[Madam Green.]

..un día se me ocurriò poner la tv a la hora que estaba anunciado que iban a dar "Six feet under" y resulta que me tuve que tragar unos 20 minutos de una série espantosa llamada "Gilmore Girls" ...bueno pues el caso és que Sonic Youth van a salir actuando allí... bueno podría haber sido peor y tener que tragarse algún capítulo de "O.C." para ver a Coco,la hija del happymatrimonio de los Sonic Youth... (yo les ví a los tres un día pul·lulando por Castellòn )

Sonic Youth Rock @ "Gilmore Girls"

Busy day for Sonic Youth!

Pearl Jam continues its longstanding tradition of inviting bands much, much cooler than they are to tour with them, as it was announced today that the second leg of PJ's summer tour will feature not only Sonic Youth, but Robert Pollard, filling opening duties. Onward, to the MGM Grand Arena!

As previously reported, My Morning Jacket will join Eddie Vedder and his crew for the first part of their stadium-oriented U.S. stint. Then, Pollard will fill in for a couple shows, followed by, yes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for four performances. (No, Tom Petty is not opening for Pearl Jam; they seem to be co-headlining.) Sonic Youth will bring things to a close with a seven-show run.

In other Sonic Youth news, Sonic Youth's upcoming record, Rather Ripped, is scheduled for a June 13 release courtesy of Geffen (the vinyl lands on the band's Goofin' Records). But you knew that already.

What you didn't know, and what Billboard.com has just reported, is that Moore, Kim Gordon, and their daughter Coco will appear on the May 9 season finale of "Gilmore Girls". Apparently, the trio (with Coco on "shakers"?!) will play an acoustic version of the Rather Ripped song "What a Waste".

Interested parties can also tune into Air America's Marc Maron show tonight, where Moore will reveal more about the album. A few weeks prior to Ripped's release, Matthew Stearn's 33 1/3 series book analyzing SY's 1988 classic, Daydream Nation, will be published by Continuum Books.

Finally, Thurston has been tapped to curate All Tomorrow's Parties' Nightmare Before Christmas festival, taking place this December in England. So far, the only acts announced are Sonic Youth and Iggy & the Stooges, but can you really fuck with that? No.

Report by Kati Llewellyn and Amy Phillips

[Unreleased Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu on 5RC Comp](1xm2dkde)

[![:arrow:]({SMILIES_PATH}/icon_arrow.gif "Arrow") Kavitha Chekuru and Amy Phillips report:](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-04/06.shtml:1xm2dkde)

![:arrow:]({SMILIES_PATH}/icon_arrow.gif "Arrow") This Tuesday, April 11, Kill Rock Stars' sister label, 5RC, will release their very first sampler. Since the experimental/avant garde/whatever imprint likes to do things their way, Sur La Mer Samp-le-mer won't be your average hype-mongering throwaway rundown of the latest buzz bands, available for free with purchase at your local big box store.

Oh no-- this lovingly compiled, seventeen-track disc features 10 never before released songs from the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, The Robot Ate Me, Slim Moon and What Army, No-Neck Blues Band, Amps for Christ, The Planet The, Need New Body, the Punks, and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. Now that's value and quality.

If this tracklist didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent it:

01 The Robot Ate Me - "Lynching Luncheon" *
02 Xiu Xiu - "Pox: Austin, TX parking lot chopped & screwed remix" *
03 Slim Moon and What Army - "Fanfic" *
04 No-Neck Blues Band - "Nothing For Money" *
05 Amps for Christ - "Old Shepard" *
06 Deerhoof - "Running Thoughts"
07 Hella - Madonna Approaches R&B Blonde Wreckages"
08 The Planet The - "You Absorb My Vision" *
09 The Mae Shi - "Remarkably Dirty Animals"
10 The Advantage - "Castlevania III - Boss Music, Willow - Village, Megaman II - Bubble Man"
11 Deerhoof - "Chi-Tan First Guitar" *
12 Need New Body - "Endless Sky in ihe Mind's Eye" *
13 Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - "The Chapel" *
14 The Punks - "We're the shit, pt. 2" *
15 Metalux - "Shelldrum"
16 Excepter - "One More Try"
17 Barr - "My List of Demands"

* exclusive track

5RC will also release the Mae Shi DVD Lock the Skull, Load the Gun on April 11\. It features a tour documentary and a shitload of music videos. On May 9, the label will put out the brain-shredding Mick Barr/Zach Hill collaboration Shred Earthship and a re-release of Wooden Wand's Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg. June 6 will bring Amps for Christ's Every Eleven Seconds and the Robot Ate Me's Good World.

Good god, do these people ever sleep? ![:roll:]({SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif "Rolling Eyes")

[Charles Bourbon]

Pues a mi me molan las Chicas de Gilmore, es un humor un poco simple a veces, pero me rio bastante y paso un buen rato. A veces tiene toques a lo Doctor en Alaska con ese aire de pueblo donde todos se conocen, como la asamblea donde eligen al trobador oficial del pueblo.