Music News Highlights

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The new R. Kells album, Double UP, got a 6.7 rating on Pitchfork.

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The Fork also reports on Iggy Pop, Jeff Tweedy and Frank Black’s participation in Comedy Central’s new show Lil’ Bush.  Hopefully that show is better than the previews indicate…

Jarvis Cocker is not real huge on American Idol brought to you by Gigwise.

NME reports that Sufjan’s next piece of music will be about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Next exit: wtf.

Out today:  Architecture in Helsinki – Heart it Races (Includes covers by Dr. Dog and Hey Willpower!), Shellac – Excellent Italian Greyhound, Tiffany – Just Me

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Why do I look like Cher now?

Do you ever find yourself wondering what Grizzly Bear’s “Knife” sounds like a cappella by the Carleton Singing Knights?

 

Usounds Does Sasquatch!!!

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Usounds writers Scott Roots and SnuggleBot (Jared Fiechtner) head to George, Washington for the 6th annual Sasquatch Music Festival. They wanted to keep a journal to document the weekend…what they end up with is more important than all of the world’s newborn infants.

DAY 1, SATURDAY

9:30 am, SR: Sasquatch 07. It begins. Our anxiousness is palpable. Snuggle Bot is running slow on sleep, but the needle points to F as far as his excitement is concerned. Sasquatch is jamming a car with people and stuff and driving two or three hours to a big field to drink with ten thousand people that all could be your new friends, more or less. Sasquatch is sitting, standing, and not much in between. Sasquatch is weed brownies. For me, last year?s ?Quatch was tarnished by a bad back that translated into a bad attitude. That?s why now, as I sit left nut in Holly?s ?92 Cavalier, I am so ready to turn this year?s festival on its head. Jared asks, ?Are those cows tiny or are they just far away? They look like little dogs.? As the urban jungle of Seattle gives way to the rolling hills and ?little cows? of rural Washington, I let the pre ?Quatch energy run over me. Picture it like I?m walking through a car wash and it?s set to “pre-‘Quatch with wax”.

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Music News Highlights

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NME report that Albert Hammy Jr. of The Strokes is writing a screenplay adaption of Charles Bukowski’s novel Pulp.

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Also in NME, Jack White tears Chicago DJ a new one for leaking new album on the air.

Damon Albarn’s newest project/opera is called, “Monkey:  Journey to the West.”  It’s like a special monkey train with Chinese acrobats. 

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goin’ west

Do you ever find yourself wondering what a Spoon/Ghostface Killah mash-up would sound like? 

Folk-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords sign to Sub Pop. FotC claim to be “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk-comedy duo.”