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Silver Jews' David Berman Collaborates on Art Book

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Silver Jews' David Berman Collaborates on Art Book

From 1998 to 2005, former Silver Jews main man David Berman methodically logged twenty lines of writing per day. Many of the words he wrote were used in Silver Jews records. Some of the remaining writing will be featured in artist Friedrich Kunath's highly conceptual new book You Owe Me a Feeling.

The book is composed of 74 photographs shot by photographer Michael Schmelling, along with a dozen reproductions of Kunath's paintings. The subject of the paintings is the "male cliché of a drifter... [who] lives on his own terms with his own aesthetics and is somehow disconnected in a city that is all about connection," according to a statement.

At the request of Berman, Kunath and Schmelling went to Berman's home in Nashville to read the singer's notes and to choose words to accompany the photographs and paintings strung together for the book. "Berman's lines and lyrics range from the humorous to dour, but the overall sensation is one of an optimistic sadness," the statement reads. "Berman's lines function as a series of deadpan truths-- from the throwaway to what may become the lifelong, aphoristic companions of one's soul."

Here's an excerpt of Berman's contribution:

This life is not for you. It took forever to get home. Time is bullshit with top spin. He had goals but didn't call them goals. Bad ideas are good again. I will be modern until the day I die. There’s never enough sunset for all the birds. Me is my nickname. Passing out is traveling. You’re going to need a lot of memory to live with me. It was sunset and I felt a strong joy of getting away with it so far. I went down to the crossroads and there was a mirror planted in the road. Love is the 51st state.

You Owe Me a Feeling is out in March through Blum and Poe.

Watch the Silver Jews video for "Random Rules":


Listen: New Depeche Mode Single "Heaven"

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Listen: New Depeche Mode Single "Heaven"

On March 26, Depeche Mode will release their new album Delta Machine, their first since 2009's Sounds of the Universe. "Heaven", the first single, is here now. Listen to it at KROQ.

"Heaven" will be released alongside a group of remixes from Matthew Dear (as Matthew Dear vs. Audion), Blawan, Owlle and Steps to Heaven. The video will be released on Friday.

Found Footage: Justin Timberlake

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Found Footage: Justin Timberlake

With Found Footage, we dig through the depths of archival video on the internet. From performances to interviews to music videos, we uncover the best visual documents floating around the web.

Today we stroll through the career of Justin Timberlake, in honor of his return to music. Revisiting the various stages of Timberlake, who is one of the rare artists to transcend the "TRL" era of popular music, we're reminded of how uniquely and broadly talented he is. 

We've decided to focus just on Timberlake's music career. In addition to the following, we also recommend exploring more of Timberlake's extramusical adventures, like his classic"SNL"skits or his appearance on the first-ever episode of MTV's "Punk'd". Or that time he went on "Ellen" dressed up as a gingerbread man.

1. Performance of "Pop" with *NSYNC at the 2001 VMAs, featuring Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has a special combination of dancing and vocal prowess that places him on the shortlist of heirs to the Michael Jackson throne. When MJ made a surprise performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, joining *NSYNC during their performance of "Pop", it felt like past and future were merging for a historic moment. 

2. "Cry Me a River" on "TRL", 2002. During promotion for his first solo album, Justified, Timberlake appeared on MTV's "Total Request Live", literally stopping traffic with a performance in the middle of Times Square. Now that we have YouTube, the idea of trekking to Times Square to squeeze in with a mob of people to catch a "TRL" taping seems completely... unjustifiable

3. Performing with the Flaming Lips on "Top of the Pops" in 2003. Timberlake helped cement his indie cred with this especially strange appearance with the Flaming Lips on Britain's "Top of the Pops". He donned a furry dolphin suit and played bass on "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". A rep for his label, Jive, told MTV at the time, "Justin is a big fan of theirs... He likes to do things people don't expect."

4. Performing "SexyBack" at Madison Square Garden in 2007. Here's Timberlake with an epic rendition of "SexyBack", the FutureSex/LoveSounds single that helped legitimize his work-- and changed pop music at the same time. And not without Timbaland, who joins him on stage for this one: "Give it up for my best friend, the greatest producer in the world, my man Timbaland," Timberlake tells the crowd. Awwww. 

5. "History of Rap" skit on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon", 2010. Jimmy Fallon is proof that Justin Timberlake is quite possibly the only white man alive who can rap and dance along to everything from "The Humpty Dance" to "Work It" and "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" without looking like an utter and complete nerd. (Watch parts 2 and 3 here.)



Watch: Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels_ Share New Video for "How long?", Plus Album Art, Tracklist

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Watch: Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels_ Share New Video for "How long?", Plus Album Art, Tracklist

Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels_ have shared the brutal, dystopian video for their track "How long?", directed by Shynola. It's off their upcoming album Welcome oblivion, which is out on March 5 via Columbia. Watch it below, via NPR.

Above, find the artwork for the vinyl version of the album. (Other formats will have different covers.) The vinyl version contains two extra tracks, which are also included on a white label CD that comes with the LP. See the tracklists for the CD and vinyl versions below.

The band, which also includes Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig and longtime collaborators Rob Sheridan and Atticus Ross, will make their live debut at Coachella.

Welcome oblivion:

CD:

01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Welcome oblivion
05 Ice age
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 How long?
09 Strings and attractors
10 We fade away
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 The loop closes
13 Hallowed ground

Vinyl:

01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Ice age
05 Welcome oblivion
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 The province of fear
09 How long?
10 Strings and attractors
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 Unintended consequences
13 We fade away
14 The loop closes
15 Hallowed ground

Iron & Wine Return With New Album Ghost on Ghost, Share New Track "Lovers' Revolution"

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Iron & Wine Return With New Album Ghost on Ghost, Share New Track "Lovers' Revolution"

Sam Beam's Iron & Wine are back with their follow-up LP to 2011's Kiss Each Other CleanGhost on Ghost is out April 16 in the U.S. via their new label home, Nonesuch. (It's out on April 15 via 4AD in Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.) Below, check out the band's first offering from the album, "Lovers' Revolution". 

The album was produced by Brian Deck, who has worked extensively with Iron & Wine in the past. The album cover, pictured above, is by photographer Barbara Crane, from her series "Private Lives". UPDATE: It's actually called "Private Views". Musicians on the album include Rob Burger of Tin Hat Trio, Steve Bernstein, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Briggan Krauss of Sex Mob, jazz drummer Brian Blade, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes of the Jazz Passengers, bassist Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan's band), cellist Marika Hughes, Maxim Moston and Doug Wieselman of Antony and the Johnsons, and Anja Wood.

In a press release, Beam said that his previous two albums contained an "anxious tension" that he wanted to move away from. "This record felt like a reward to myself after the way I went about making the last few."

Iron & Wine are planning to tour throughout the year-- dates will be announced soon.

Ghost on Ghost:

01 Caught in the Briars
02 The Desert Babbler
03 Joy
04 Low Light Buddy of Mine
05 Graces for Saints and Ramblers
06 Grass Windows
07 Singers and the Endless Song
08 Sundown (Back in the Briars)
09 Winter Prayers
10 New Mexico's No Breeze
11 Lovers' Revolution
12 Baby Center Stage

Watch Iron & Wine cover "Long Black Veil", written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and made famous by Johnny Cash and Lefty Frizzell:

Frank Ocean Confirmed to Perform at the Grammys

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Frank Ocean Confirmed to Perform at the Grammys

Photo by Erez Avissar

Last weekend's scuffle between Frank Ocean and Chris Brown produced one promising nugget of gossip:"Cut my finger now I can't play w two hands at the grammys", Ocean tweeted after the incident, alluding to an at-the-time unannounced appearance at the awards ceremony.

It's official now: the Grammys have confirmed that Ocean will join Justin Timberlake, Jack White, the Black Keys, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, Rihanna, Mumford & Sons, Taylor Swift, and many more performers at the February 10 ceremony. But don't expect him to do the "Guitar Hero" bit. 

Ocean is up for six awards, including Record of the Year ("Thinkin Bout You") and Album of the Year (channelOrange). 

Watch the video for "Pyramids":

R.I.P. Service, Swedish Label Behind Jens Lekman, Tough Alliance, Studio, Whitest Boy Alive

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R.I.P. Service, Swedish Label Behind Jens Lekman, Tough Alliance, Studio, Whitest Boy Alive

Service, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based label behind albums from Jens Lekman, the Tough Alliance, the Whitest Boy Alive, Studio, and more, has shut down. They announced it in a cryptic note on their website. (Thanks to John Ficenec for the tip.) Here's what it says:

Service lived forever.

There is no "cause" for this. Except, possibly, the effect: desire already spreading along new lines, multiplying endlessly.

Service was a free zone, pop lab, gang turf and permanent vacation. Never an object, always a territory (the uncertainty principle). That's the main lesson I've been trying to teach. In that sense I gave to you my life, my ambition, my hope. And some haine of course.

And, as promised, Service is deterritorialising. Both are carbon, remember, the diamond can turn into a pencil. It's traces will always be there. And I hope they will live on as ever new paths, merging with their users, the nomads. That the music become weapons in the hands of new partisans.

Now take it, it's yours.

To accompany the announcement, Service shared a sampler of music from the label's history, including tracks from Jens Lekman, the Tough Alliance, the Embassy, and more.

Here's Jens Lekman performing "Erica America" from I Know What Love Isn't, the final album released by Service:

The Thermals Detail New LP, Sign to Saddle Creek

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The Thermals Detail New LP, Sign to Saddle Creek

Fresh off the announcement that the first three Thermals albums are getting reissued, the band have shared details of their new one. Desperate Ground is due April 16 on their new label home, Saddle Creek. (They previously released albums on Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars.)

As previously reported, the album was recorded with producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, the Hold Steady). A press release notes that the Thermals and Saddle Creek "have been bros for years. ... The Thermals have toured with Cursive, Hutch and Kathy put on the very first Bright Eyes show in Portland, and The Faint used to crash on Hutch's floor."

Desperate Ground:

01 Born to Kill
02 You Will Be Free
03 The Sunset
04 I Go Alone
05 The Sword By My Side
06 You Will Find Me
07 Faces Stay With Me
08 The Howl of the Winds
09 Where I Stand
10 Our Love Survives

The Thermals:

03-01 San Francisco, CA - Noise Pop (Rickshaw Stop)
03-02 Cupertino, CA - Homestead Lanes Bowling Alley
03-07 Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent
03-08 Clinton, NY - Beinekie Events Barn @ Hamilton College
03-09 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
03-13-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-18 Los Angeles, CA - Check Yo Ponytail at Echoplex

Here's the band's episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Daytripping":


DJ /rupture to Release New Album as Jace Clayton

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DJ /rupture to Release New Album as Jace Clayton

Jace Clayton is best known as DJ /rupture, but his new album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, is not a DJ /rupture album. It's a Jace Clayton album, and rather than drawing from a multitude of genres and sounds like he normally does as DJ /rupture, on this album, he focuses only on Julius Eastman-- the late gay African American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer. It's out March 26 via New Amsterdam, and you can stream the first three minutes of the album above.

Recently, Clayton has been performing a piece that he calls the "Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner", which re-imagines three Eastman compositions with new arrangements plus video and theatrical supplements. The album is a "depot" of some of the ideas from those live performances. Specifically, it focuses on two of Eastman's piano works: "Evil Nigger" and "Gay Guerrilla". It features one Clayton original, "Callback from the American Society of Eastman Supporters". 

The album was recorded with pianists David Friend and Emily Manzo at New York's Merkin Concert Hall. It also features Sufi vocalist Arooj Aftab.

"I interpret the open-ended, irreverent nature of Julius Eastman’s legacy as a call to conversation," said Clayton in a press release. "Reverence can be a form of forgetting."

Check out Clayton's tour dates below.

The Julius Eastman Memory Depot:

01 Evil Nigger – Part 1
02 Evil Nigger – Part 2
03 Evil Nigger – Part 3
04 Evil Nigger – Part 4
05 Gay Guerrilla – Part 1
06 Gay Guerrilla – Part 2
07 Gay Guerrilla – Part 3
08 Gay Guerrilla – Part 4
09 Gay Guerrilla – Part 5
10 Callback from the American Society of Eastman Supporters

Jace Clayton:

02-02 New York, NY - Ecstatic Music Festival at Kaufman Music Center *
03-08 Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center *
04-05-06 Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center #
04-25-26 Minneapolis, MN - Liquid Music at the Music Room at SPCO Center #

* as DJ /rupture
# performing Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner

Watch: Co La Performs Material From His Upcoming LP, Discusses His Performance on Pitchfork.tv's "+1"

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Watch: Co La Performs Material From His Upcoming LP, Discusses His Performance on Pitchfork.tv's "+1"

The latest installment of Pitchfork.tv's "+1" series, which focuses on live performance, spends time with Matthew Papich, aka Co La, during his performance at the Brooklyn venue 285 Kent.

He performed tracks from his next album, which he said is due out in May. "When I've been playing the [new album] for friends, I've almost felt sympathy, because it goes to some intense and dark places at moments," he said.

Papich mentioned that he prefers doing one-off shows instead of touring. He also discussed his complex, performance art-like shows: 

"It's becoming more and more about simple movements with my body. I wouldn't classify it as dance, no. But it's related to that, I think. It's similar to performance, but it intentionally is between the lines.” 

Watch more episodes of "+1" here, and subscribe to Pitchfork.tv on YouTube here.

Aesop Rock Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates

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Aesop Rock Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates

A couple weeks ago, Aesop Rock postponed a series of shows due to a broken rib. Now, he's announced make-up dates for most of those shows. The trek coincides with his appearances at Coachella. Check out his full itinerary below.

Aesop Rock:

02-06 Baltimore, MD - Soundstage *$
02-08 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *$
02-09 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *$
02-11 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place *$
02-12 Boston, MA - Paradise *$
02-13 Pawtucket, RI - The Met *$
02-15 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *$
02-16 North Hampton, MA - Pearl Street *$
02-18 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *$
02-19 Columbus, OH - A&R Music Bar *$
02-20 Newport, KY - Thompson House *$
03-01 Minneapolis MN - First Avenue *$
03-02 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium *$ 
03-04 Chicago, IL- Metro *$
03-05 Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House *$
03-06 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room *$
03-08 Columbia, MO - Mojo's *$
03-09 Norman, OK - University of Oklahoma *$
03-10 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *$
04-12 Indio, CA - Coachella 
04-16 Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room *$
04-17 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern *$
04-19 Indio, CA - Coachella 
04-22 Oakland, CA - The New Parish *$
04-23 Ashland, OR - Ashland Armory *$
04-24 Portland, OR- Roseland *$
04-27 Bend, OR - Domino Room *$
04-28 Seattle, WA - Neumo's *$
04-30 Missoula, MT - Badlander *$
05-02 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *$

* with Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz
$ with Busdriver

Watch the video for the "Cycles to Gehenna" Zavala remix:

Modeselektor/Apparat Supergroup Moderat Announce New Album Moderat II

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Modeselektor/Apparat Supergroup Moderat Announce New Album Moderat II

Moderat, the supergroup-like merger of Apparat and Modeselektor, have shared details of their second album. Moderat II, the sequel to 2009's Moderat, will be out August 2 digitally and August 6 physically through Monkeytown Records. In addition to standard CD/vinyl/digital formats, II will be available as a deluxe edition 2xCD set and as a 2xLP colored vinyl set. Some tour dates have been announced as well, with a full world tour  to be announced.

Well before the release of Moderat II, Apparat is releasing an album on his own. Krieg Und Frieden (Music for Theatre)-- a concept album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann's theatrical production of War & Peace-- is out on February 19 via Mute. Listen to the track "A Violent Sky" here.

After the live dates, watch the video for Moderat's "A New Error" from Moderat:

Moderat:

08-03 London, England - Eastern Electrics Festival
08-10 Saalburg, Denmark - SonneMondSterne Festival
08-16-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival

Kool A.D. of Das Racist Enlists Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, More for New Mixtape, Watch New Video Now

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Kool A.D. of Das Racist Enlists Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, More for New Mixtape, Watch New Video Now

Next Thursday, February 7, Victor Vazquez, aka Kool A.D., formerly of Das Racist will release a double-album collection of outtakes and collaborations, titled 19 and 63, respectively. (Like last year's 51, the albums are named after Bay Area bus lines.) It features production from Pictureplane, Young L, SKYWLKR, Keyboard Kid, Trackademicks, and more. (There's also a track that credits Kanye West with production, but it's not a new beat, just a sample.)

Most notably, the track "NPR" features a previously unreleased beat by Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys. He sent it to Das Racist a few years ago, but it was never used.

Below, check out the tracklist, as well as the video for "Eroika", produced by Steel Tipped Dove. On "Eroika", Kool A.D. namechecks some pretty heavy hitters: Justin Bieber. Madonna. Sammy Sosa. Kevin Sorbo. Garfield. A few of those names make cameos in the green screen-heavy video, too.

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19:

01 Knowledge Born (prod. Kool A.D.)
02 Eroika (prod. Steel Tipped Dove)
03 New World (prod. Plinio Trujillo)
04 Marine World Africa U.S.A. (ft. Issue) (prod. Issue)
05 Vendedores (ft. Tray 57) (prod. Young L)
06 Beautiful Naked Psychedelic Gherkin Exploding Tomato Sauce All Over Your Face (ft. Haji Springer and Bill Ding) (prod. Bill Ding)
07 Wow (Bay Shit) (ft. Trackademicks) (prod. Trackademicks)
08 Hawaii 510 (ft. Cuzzo Fly and Citizen Chance) (prod. Mac Mean)
09 Fresh Prince (prod. Skywlkr)
10 Jaleel White (prod. Young L)
11 Jenny Holzer (ft. Chippy Nonstop) (prod. Ryan Marks)
12 Kriss Kross (prod. Steel Tipped Dove)
13 NPR (prod. Ad-Rock)
14 Cheeba Cheeba (ft. Spank Rock) (prod. Ghostdad)
15 Attitude (ft. Cult Days) (prod. Pictureplane)
16 All Skreets (ft. Dada Powell) (prod. Keyboard Kid)
17 Finally Every Dimension of the Skreets (prod. Kool A.D.)

63:

01 63 (Amaze 88 Intro)
02 Moneyball (prod. Mike Finito)
03 Froyo (ft. Detroit Cydi and Selfsays) (prod. Illingsworth)
04 Sclera (prod. Amaze 88)
05 Chuck Very (ft. Young Dave) (prod. Amaze 88)
06 Airplane Flight (ft. Davinci) (prod. Amaze 88)
07 Finito Posse Jawn (ft. Chaz Van Queen, DVS, Lakutis, Mike Finito, and Davito) (prod. Mike Finito)
08 Get a Job (prod. Alex Kestner)
09 Mass Appeal (ft. Young Dave and Amaze 88) (prod. Amaze 88)
10 Future Primitive Culinary School (ft. Chippy Nonstop) (prod. SPVCE)
11 Rap Genius (ft. Lakutis, Dallas Penn, DVS, and Meyhem Lauren) (prod. Amaze 88)
12 OK Computer (ft. Verbs and Maffew Ragazino) (prod. Amaze 88)
13 Question Jam Answer (ft. Busdriver and Beans of Antipop Consortium) (prod. Amaze 88)
14 Ken Burns (ft. Kassa and Dada Powell) (prod. Illingsworth)
15 Red Wine (ft. Open Mike Eagle) (prod. Amaze 88)
16 Saved by the Bell (ft. Kassa) (prod. Amaze 88)
17 Lush (ft. Ne$$ of Weekend Money) (prod. Amaze 88)
18 Hydrants (ft. Meyhem Lauren) (prod. Mike Finito)
19 Bering Sea Gold (prod. Amaze 88)
20 Exotische Kunst (prod. Kanye West)
21 Equality Understanding (prod. Kool A.D.)

Savages Announce First North American Tour

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Savages Announce First North American Tour

Photo by Ben Sklar

Surrounding trips to SXSW and Coachella, the London post-punk band Savages will tour the U.S. in March and April. This is the band's first U.S. tour, following an impressive debut at CMJ. They're also planning a full-length record for later this year.

Revisit Laura Snapes' 2012 interview with the band, and watch them perform "I Am Here" in London, after the dates.

02-08 Derry, Northern Ireland - The Glassworks (Other Voices Festival)
02-21 London, England - Electric Ballroom
02-23 Paris, France - Le Nouveau Casino
03-12-17 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03-19 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
03-23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee’s Palace (Canadian Music Fest)
04-13 Indio, California - Empire Polo Club (Coachella)
04-15 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar
04-16 Seattle, WA - Neumo’s 
04-18 San Francisco, CA - The Independent 
04-20 Indio, California -  Empire Polo Club (Coachella)
05-23 Barcelona, Spain - Parc del Fòrum (Primavera)
05-25 London, England - Victoria Park (Field Day Festival)

Watch Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles Play "Tried to Quit Smoking" for a "Take Away Show"

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Watch Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles Play "Tried to Quit Smoking" for a "Take Away Show"

For its latest "Take Away Show", the Paris-based music site La Blogothèque tapped Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles for a stripped-down, solo warehouse performance. Filmed in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood by Derrick Belcham, the clip sees Stickles doing the piercing, 10-minute Local Business closer "Tried to Quit Smoking" with just his electric guitar, harmonica, and pedals.

The location had apparently just undergone a demolition, leaving behind "layers of dust and decay," but the clip still feels sharper and more polished than typical Titus.

After the segment, watch Titus Andronicus play "In a Big City" in Brooklyn for Pitchfork.tv.


Beyoncé Sings National Anthem A Cappella, Addresses Lip Sync Controversy at Press Conference

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Beyoncé Sings National Anthem A Cappella, Addresses Lip Sync Controversy at Press Conference

Beyoncé just wrapped up a live pre-Super Bowl press conference. She began by addressing the inauguration backing-track controversy in the most effective way possible: by giving a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella. "Any questions?" she asked the delighted crowd of reporters.

They had questions galore, many of which were about the backing track, all of which were posed fawningly. It certainly wasn't the most enlightening press conference ever held, but it was a remarkable little summary of American celebrity deification and its attendant cycle of faux scandals.  

According to Vulture, she said, "I am a perfectionist. I practice till my feet bleed. I didn't have time to practice with the orchestra. So due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking the risk."

But, she added, "I will absolutely be singing live [at the Super Bowl]. I am well-rehearsed and I will be singing live," she told the crowd. "This is what I was born to do... I always sing live."

As for the rumors that she'll be performing at this year's Grammy Awards: "Who said I was performing at the Grammys? I don't know if I'm performing at the Grammys," she said, laughing.

When probed about her plans for a tour to support her forthcoming album, she said: "When am I going back on tour? I would say soon. I may have an announcement after the [Super Bowl] performance-- fans should just stay tuned to see."

In the dwindling moments of the conference, the mic was handed off to a reporter from Denmark, who worked up the courage to hammer home the truly difficult question. "What color is your toothbrush?", he asked. "I love your question! It's multicolored," Beyoncé replied. "Blue and white... blue and yellow, maybe?" We can safely assume Bey is now consulting her vast archives of footage of her tooth-brushing routine so she's better prepared for this one next time. 

Watch her do the National Anthem at the beginning of the conference:

Drake to Release New Single on Grammy Night

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Drake to Release New Single on Grammy Night

Even if Drake walks away from the Grammys without a trophy, he'll still have everyone's attention. On the evening of the televised ceremony, February 10, he'll release the first single off of his forthcoming third full-length, as Billboard reports. This is his follow-up to Take Care, one of our top records of 2011.

The single, out via Universal, is rumored to be called "The Start From the Bottom" or "Started From the Bottom", according to Billboard.

Drake is up for several Grammys, including Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album, as mentioned.

Watch the video for "HYFR":

Watch Depeche Mode's Supernatural Video for "Heaven"

Morrissey Clarifies Health Issues, Fully Determined to Resume Touring

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Morrissey Clarifies Health Issues, Fully Determined to Resume Touring

Last week it was reported that Morrissey had been hospitalized due to a bleeding ulcer, leading to the cancellation of several of his U.S. tour dates. The erstwhile Smiths frontman has now released an idiosyncratic comment on the state of his health (and touring schedule), via fansite True-to-You:

The reports of my death have been greatly understated. Once admitted to the William Beaumont Hospital at Royal Oak in Michigan, I received treatment for concussion, a bleeding ulcer, and Barrett's esophagus. The positive from all of this is that there are now no known ailments left for me to try.

I am fully determined to resume the tour on February 9 at the Chelsea Ballroom in Las Vegas. If there's an audience of any kind in attendance, I just might die with a smile on my face, after all. If I am not there, I shall probably never again be anywhere. Equally, I am determined to play Flint (Michigan) if it kills me (which, on the face of it, it almost has.)

Thank you to everyone present at both Brooklyn (New York) and Melbourne (Australia) during recent weeks for two of the best nights of what might charitably be termed my "career". My debt to you will outlive time itself.

pause at my headstone,

MORRISSEY

31 January 2013.

True-to-You also reports that EMI (UK) will release a remastered "The Last of the Famous International Playboys", Morrissey's third solo single, this March on vinyl and CD.

All being well, Morrissey should fulfill the following tour dates:

02-09 Las Vegas, NV - The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
02-10 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theatre
02-12 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
02-13 Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall
02-15 Pharr, TX - Pharr Events Center
02-16 Beaumont, TX - Jefferson Theater
02-18 Dallas, TX - Palladium
02-21 Denver, CO - Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
02-22 Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall
02-24 San Francisco, CA - Davies Symphony Hall
02-27 San Diego, CA - Balboa Theatre
03-01 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center * 
03-02 Sparks, NV - John Ascuaga's Nugget - Rose Ballroom
03-04 Davis, CA - Robert Mondavi Center at UC Davis
03-06 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
03-08 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
03-09 San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom

* with Patti Smith

Reminder: Pitchfork.tv to Webcast Mac DeMarco Performing Live at Pitchfork.tv's Office Today

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Reminder: Pitchfork.tv to Webcast Mac DeMarco Performing Live at Pitchfork.tv's Office Today

This afternoon, Pitchfork.tv on YouTube will webcast a "Safe For Work" session from Mac DeMarco, live from Pitchfork.tv's office in Brooklyn. Tune in at 2:30pm Eastern Time to watch.

Check out a teaser for the webcast below:

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