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  • Interview: Lambchop

    We talk to Kurt Wagner about Lambchop's 10th full-length, OH (Ohio), how his background in visual art has informed his music writing, and the unintentional competition he launched between the new album's two Nashville-based producers.

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  • Ancestors: Neptune With Fire

    Combining the straightforward thickness of Corrosion of Conformity with the spaciness of Hawkwind, this L.A. five-piece shows much promise on their debut full-length.

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  • Stereophonics: Pull the Pin

    We'd love to say that the latest album from this plodding band, out last year in the UK and just now being released stateside, is a surprising career renaissance. However...

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  • Department of Eagles: In Ear Park

    After a brief hiatus, Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen has revived the Department of Eagles project, enlisted some of his bandmates, and created a sprawling pop record that evokes Sgt. Pepper's, Sung Tongs, Van Dyke Parks, and Gene Clark.

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  • The Spinto Band: Moonwink

    Bursting with melody but overorchestrated and overthought, Deleware's the Spinto Band have ideas and hooks in spades.

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  • The Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete

    The ninth Pretenders album and the first for Santa Monica-based indie Shangri-La Music features a new lineup that includes members of the Pernice Brothers and Son Volt. Resituating the Pretenders' sound in a roadhouse, the new band infuses leader Chrissie Hynde's lefty-righteous rockers with bar-band bravado.

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  • Pitchfork.tv: Department of Eagles: Live on "Don't Look Down" Part 1

    In Ear Park, the new album by Department of Eagles, comes out officially this week. It's pretty much the definition of a grower. The songs of Fred Nicolaus and Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen are immediately arresting and pretty, but it takes a few listens for all of their subtly odd twists and turns to really take root. Here they are performing a couple of them in the first of a two-part "Don't Look Down". The album's lovely title track is below, and head on over to Pitchfork.tv for "Around the Bay". 

    Pitchfork.tv page with embed code is here.

  • Tokyo Police Club to Guest on "Desperate Housewives"

    What do a fresh-faced Canadian power-pop foursome and the sexy sex-havin' sexpots of Wisteria Lane want with each other? More than you'd think, that's what!

    Today and tomorrow (October 6 and 7), the boys of Tokyo Police Club are hitting the set of ABC's popular suburban satire "Desperate Housewives" to tape both a performance and a little hot Thespian action for a forthcoming episode.

    It seems, through some wacky plot contrivance that probably involves lingerie, the men of "Desperate Housewives"-- played by James Denton, Doug Savant, Kyle MacLachlan, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, and Neal McDonough-- have formed a musical act. In an episode set to air sometime in November, their musical act will take all comers in a battle of the bands at a local club. Tokyo Police Club are indeed one of those bands that will be battling.

    Get this: Not only will Tokyo Police Club perform in the episode, but will also take on speaking roles. And then get it on with Eva Longoria, as seems to be the case with anybody I ever see on that show. Nice work if you can get it.

    In a bit of news that actually makes sense in a rational world, Tokyo Police Club are out on the road at the moment with Weezer.

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  • New Music: The Fireman [Paul McCartney & Youth]: "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight" [MP3/Stream]

    Hell hath no fury like a... Beatle scorned? No, that's definitely a stretch, but Paul McCartney still howls like he's mighty pissed off about a lover who's done him wrong on new track "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight". This vamping, Zeppelin-esque scorcher is from Electric Arguments, Sir Paul's third album collaborating with producer and Killing Joke bassist Youth as the Fireman, and the UK press is already calling it an attack on Macca's ex-wife Heather Mills. I have no idea if that's true, but I know how to find out: Ask, ask Paul McCartney.

    MP3:> The Fireman: "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight"
    [from Electric Arguments; due 11/17/08 in the UK and 11/18/08 in the U.S. on MPL/ATO]

  • Radiohead Lead New UK Musician Advocacy Group

    Over the weekend at Manchester, England's In the City event, a group of UK artists of note opened their pockets, saw a cartoon fly coming out, and decided to do something about it.

    Thus begat the Featured Artists Coalition, a new artist's advocacy group that "campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. [Via Billboard.com]

    The group's mission statement says, "We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age. We speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others, and are campaigning for specific changes."

    More than 60 acts have already signed on, including Radiohead, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd Gang of Four, Klaxons, the Verve and frontman Richard Ashcroft, Chrissie Hynde, Kaiser Chiefs, Travis, the Cribs, Billy Bragg, and Kate Nash.

    Wait, Chrissie Hynde? Isn't she from Ohio?

    The Coalition will soon begin lobbying for changes in laws that affect the British music industry. Their six-point plan can be found here.