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Kid Cudi and Ratatat Perform “Pursuit of Happiness” on Letterman

Rad Parker — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:44:13 +0000

Here is the video of Kid Cudi's performance from Friday night on the Late Show with David Letterman. Cudi makes a bold statement by choosing his 3rd single, titled "Pursuit Of Happiness", so close to the September 15th release date. Cudi's first lines from the song : "Crush A Bit; Little Bit; Roll It Up; Take A Hit Feelin’ Lit". Seems like he would promote either "Day N Night" or "Make Her Say" to appeal to the more mainstream crowd watching late night television. Regardless, we get to see Kid and Ratatat performing this song live for the first time and they do pretty well. I wish MGMT would have shown for the background vocals that are on the actual album track. Be sure to grab a couple of tracks from the album below the video, or if you are bold, the album did leak a few days ago.

And thanks to Kickin' the Peanuts! for some free downloads:

Pusuit of Happiness (Feat. MGMT And Ratatat)- Kid Cudi

Up, Up, And Away (The Wake And Bake Song)- Kid Cudi

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Lineup: 2009 All Points West Festival

Mark Jackson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:38:45 +0000

A bunch of big names are slated to play the second All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey the last weekend in July. Lineup is below.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (4/4) at noon via Ticketmaster. They are $89 for a single day ticket and $199 for a three-day pass.

A new addition this year is the option of rail and boat transportation in addition to the popular ferry service that arrives at Liberty State Park from lower Manhattan. More travel info here.

Girl Talk at All Points West 2008

Friday, July 31 : Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Flying Lotus, College Humor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman and Bo Burnham.

Saturday, August 1 : Tool, My Bloody Valentine, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, Yelle, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, The Cool Kids, Kool Keith, Cage the Elephant, Chairlift, White Rabbits, Electric Touch, The Postelles, Black Gold, College Humor Live, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander and Jim Jeffries.

Sunday, August 2 : Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, College Humor Live, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Todd Barry.

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Sasquatch > Bonnaroo?

Mark Jackson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:56 +0000

I can guarantee one thing: Sasquatch will not pull a Langerado.

A handful of big names overlap with Bonnaroo, but that's not a bad thing considering how far apart they are from each other: Sasquatch is in Washington state and Bonnaroo (lineup) is in Tennessee. Both still have more artists to add, but already it seems like both are upgraded from last year. I don't think Bonnaroo can be called a jam band festival anymore, but it's a wee bit more chill than its intensely indie counterpart. West Coast, start rounding up the troops.

Sasquatch! 2009 lineup
Jane's Addiction (feat. all four original members)
Kings of Leon
Nine Inch Nails
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Erykah Badu
The Decemberists
Fleet Foxes
TV On The Radio
Animal Collective
Silversun Pickups
Bon Iver
Santigold
Of Montreal
Explosions In The Sky
Devotchka
Peter Bjorn & John
Gogol Bordello
M. Ward
The Avett Brothers
Doves
Calexico
Grizzly Bear
M83
Girl Talk
The Gaslight Anthem
The Walkmen
Chromeo (dj set)
Deadmau5
Mugison
Sun Kil Moon
Airborne Toxic Event
Blitzen Trapper
Shearwater
BLK JKS
The Wrens
Tobacco
Monotonix
King Khan & The Shrines
St. Vincent
Passion Pit
John Vanderslice
Bishop Allen
Blind Pilot
AA Bondy
Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Knux
Ra Ra Riot
The Dodos
Beach House
Arthur & Yu
The Submarines
Owl City
Viva Voce
James Pants
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The Builders & The Butchers
The Dutchess & The Duke
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele
Fences
School of Seven Bells
Death Vessel
Horse Feathers
Hockey
Point Juncture, WA
The Pica Beats
Loch Lomond
Vince Mira
Comedians:
Zach Galifiankas
Demetri Martin
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Todd Barry
Jon Benjamin
God's Pottery
People's Republic of Komedy

Bands playing at both festivals:
Nine Inch Nails
of Montreal
Animal Collective
Santogold (now Santigold)
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bon Iver
Grizzly Bear
Girl Talk
Ben Harper & Relentless7

Tickets for Sasquatch! go on sale this Saturday (2/28) at 10am at for $154.40/$56.50 (three-day pass/single-day pass) if you buy them over the weekend. Once Monday hits prices will be bumped up to $199.50/$66.50. Buy them here.

Oh, and this could be the last Nine Inch Nails tour ever, so take your pick: Sasquatch or Bonnaroo?

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Bonnaroo Announces 2009 Initial Lineup

Mark Jackson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:08:55 +0000

The king of summer festivals is back on the beautiful 700-acre Manchester farm in June (11th-14th), and the announcement of (some of) the performers came this morning.

The lineup is packed full of big names and great accompanying artists. Metallica and Kanye are gone this year (YES!), and Phish is bringing back Bonnaroo as a jam band festival, doing two shows over the four days. It could use a dosage of hip-hop though, so hopefully that comes with the next announcement (last year I got front row for Lupe Fiasco and Talib Kweli followed - needless to say it was a highlight of the festival). Other than that, the lineup is spectacular. We'll let you know when more artists get announced.

See the whole thing at bonnaroo.com. Tickets go on sale Feb. 7. The first wave sold out already (before the artists were even announced), so the next price level is $234.50, then $249.50 once those sell out.

Image via BandBuilder.com

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MGMT and of Montreal Side Project Update

Rad Parker — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:15:47 +0000

What an incredible match up. Kevin Barnes, frontman from of Montreal, and Andrew Vanwyngarden, lead singer of MGMT, are going to take psychedelic rock to a new level. Their upcoming side project, Blikk Fang, is planing to head into the studio in early 2009. The two met while touring together in 2005 and 2007.

According to a recent Rolling Stone interview with Kevin Barnes, their debut LP is "probably gonna be a pretty schizophrenic, crazy album". Should we expect anything else from these two? They are planning to enlist the skills of producer Jon Brion, who has worked on projects with the likes of Kanye West, Aimee Man, Dido, Spoon, Keane, and Elliott Smith.

Barnes admitted that they have been wanting to do the project for a while, but have been waiting for both of their schedules to be clear. That might be a problem considering the success of MGMT's Oracular Spectacular and of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping, which both happen to be in the running for Music Leech Top 25 Albums of the Year (slated to come out around the new year).

Although they have "actually created about 20 minutes of music" so far, the apparent releases from Blikk Fang over at Pure Volume are nothing but outdated songs from MGMT and of Montreal and will not be on the upcoming album.

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Video: MGMT: “Pieces Of What” (Live on Spinner)

Mark Jackson — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:30:54 +0000

MGMT hit real big with Oracular Spectacular, and rightly so. The album never seem to get old and this performance on Spinner's "The Interface" is proof.

Watch MGMT: "Pieces Of What" (Live on Spinner)

As we told you back in July, MGMT plans to start recording their next album in January, hopefully in time for a summer '09 release.

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MGMT Team-Up With Chemical Brothers

Rad Parker — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:16:28 +0000

MGMT thought they'd go for the "clichéd, overly ambitious sophomore album", Andrew VanWyngarden announced in a recent NME interview. In order to accomplish this feat, MGMT has enlisted the help of electronica/dance single kings The Chemical Brothers.

This is big change from when the duo recorded with The Flaming Lips' music producer Dave Fridmann in 2007 for their major label debut, Oracular Spectacular. If you think that this new match-up may be a stretch for the psychadelic rock duo, you are not alone.

VanWyngarden has attempted to quell those concerns by saying that "We'll experiment with them to create a different sound, [but] it won't be dance music." Instead of dance music, MGMT are considering a gigantic double album – one disc of pop music, the other of psychedelia.

If you can't hold out for the album, be sure to check out MGMT's latest EP, Metanoia.

MGMT's tour dates are found here.

via Guardian

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MGMT plan to finish tour, then head right back to the studio

Mark Jackson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:37:33 +0000

After their round of US tours, highlighted by Coachella and Bonnaroo, the indie synth-pop phenoms have their hands VERY full over the next year and a half or so.

"We’ve been longing to get in the studio for a while because we got out of it recording our last album about a year ago. So we’re definitely ready to start working on some new stuff but I think in January we’re gonna start recording and hopefully put an album out next summer."

The group says they have some of the songs for their next record ready in very basic form, but made no comment about the musical or lyrical make-up of the songs.

Singer Andrew VanWyngarden talked also about improving their live show by adding some "bells and whistles" they currently do without. But after seeing them at Bonnaroo, I can tell you they don’t really need it.

Their never-ending tour goes as follows:

July

12 – Balado, Scotland – T in the Park

13 – Punchestown, Ireland – Oxegen Festival

23 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club

24 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club

25 – Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom

27 – Brooklyn, NY – McCarren Park Pool Party

28 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

29 – Richmond, VA – The National

August

1 - Chicago, Ill. - Double Door

2 - Chicago, Ill. - Lollapalooza

4 - Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts Montreal, Quebec

9 - Osaka, Japan - Summersonic Festival

10 - Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic Festival

13 - Budapest, Hungary - Sziget - Óbudai Island

15 - El Ejido, Almeria, Spain - Ola Festival

16 - Kiewit, Belgium - Pukkelpop Hasselt -

17 - Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands - Lowlands

22 - Reading, U.K. - Reading Festival

23 - Leeds, U.K. - Leeds Festival

6 - Toronto Ontario - Virgin Festival

September

19 - San Diego, Calif. - Street Scene 08

20 - Los Angeles, Calif. - Hollywood Bowl

27 - Austin, Texas - Austin City Limits

November

5 - Leeds, U.K. - Leeds Academy

6 - Nottingham, U.K. - Rock City

7 - Bristol, U.K. - Carling Academy Bristol

9 - Glasgow, U.K. Barrowland Ballroom

10 - Birmingham, U.K. - Carling Academy

11 - Manchester, U.K. - Manchester University

16 - Hamburg, Germany - U&G

18 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall

22 - Berlin, Germany - Kesselhaus

24 - Munich, Germany - Backstage (Werk)

27 - London, U.K. - The Forum

28 - London, U.K. - Shepherds Bush Empire

[via Paste Magazine]

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