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Infinite Mixtape #33: The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt"

Story goes, God turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for looking back, but that sure as fuck hasn't stopped the Thermals from culling the best elements of their first two records, cranking the energy to eleven, and barnstorming heaven and earth with The Body, the Blood, the Machine, due out tomorrow via Sub Pop. "A Pillar of Salt" perhaps best exemplifies that relentless energy, as headcharging guitars assault the opening hi-hat bar and never slow down, evoking, if you will, a frenzied retreat from doomed Sodom. Well-timed chord changes put some heart behind the kinetic grit, while atop it all, Hutch Harris enunciates excitedly, "A giant fist is out to crush us!" Talk about Catholic guilt! Here's penance for you: three Hail Marys and add this scorcher to your infinite mixtape immediately.

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#0032 > The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt"
[from The Body, the Blood, the Machine; Sub Pop]
Info: [The Thermals] | [MySpace] | [Sub Pop]

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// Previously on The Infinite Mixtape:
#0032: Grizzly Bear: "Lullabye"
#0031: Swan Lake: "All Fires"
#0030: Killer Mike: "That's Life"
#0029: Ratatat: "Lex"
#0028: Sally Shapiro: "I'll Be by Your Side"
#0027: Junior Boys: "In the Morning"
#0026: Mew: "The Zookeeper's Boy"
#0025: Annuals: "Brother"
#0024: My Robot Friend: "One More Try (Vocals by Antony)"
#0023: Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
#0022: Girl Talk: "Smash Your Head"
#0001 - #0021: 21 of 2006's Best Tracks

Posted by Matthew Solarski in infinitemixtape on Mon: 08-21-06: 03:48 PM CDT | Permalink

Video: The Rapture: "Get Myself Into It" (Final Version)

When the Rapture got down to business filming the video for their new single "Get Myself Into It", they discovered, to their horror, that a certain pop starlet had stolen their idea. The band takes their revenge in this new version of the clip. Blink and you'll miss it.

Video: The Rapture: Get Myself Into It (Final Version)

Posted by Amy Phillips in video on Mon: 08-21-06: 03:31 PM CDT | Permalink

Jay-Z Announces World Tour Dates

Plenty of MCs brag about their standings in the crack game, but Jay-Z is probably the first to lay claim to Krakow. Well, the first non-Polish MC, that is.

On Friday, Jigga announced the dates of his world tour to raise water crisis awareness, which we reported on previously. The itinerary is listed after the jump, and if anyone wants to send a ticket to Tanzania my way, I would be much obliged. Let the (world) takeover begin. [MORE...]

Video: Jay-Z and Kofi Annan: Press Conference

Posted by Dave Maher in tour on Mon: 08-21-06: 03:06 PM CDT | Permalink

Jack White's Detroit Home Up for Sale

All right, friends. Ready for a bidding war you can't refuse? One clue: it's black and white and red all over. Any guesses?

All right, it's Jack White's old house.

The White Stripes/Raconteurs main man has put his former Detroit lair on the market. For a mere $930,000, you could be the owner of this mammoth masterpiece. Interested? Go here.

The manse includes a secret garden, a master bedroom hand-painted by White himself, the grand staircase/foyer (aka Third Man Studios, where the Stripes have recorded), and a red-and-white-striped laundry room and bathroom. [MORE...]

Video: The White Stripes: My Doorbell

Posted by Kati Llewellyn in misc. on Mon: 08-21-06: 02:10 PM CDT | Permalink

Figurines Schedule North American Tour

Danish quartet Figurines will once again make their way to the States and Canada in support of this year's Skeleton LP. The trek kicks off after a series of European dates this month and next, and concludes in Seattle on Halloween. We hope they dress up as bobbleheads.

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MP3: Figurines: The Wonder [Infinite Mixtape #4]

Posted by Kati Llewellyn in tour on Mon: 08-21-06: 02:00 PM CDT | Permalink

Video: The Killers: "When You Were Young"

The Killers take their Duran Duran obsession to the next level with the video for Sam's Town's first single, "When You Were Young", appropriating the "Hungry Like the Wolf" clip's fetishizing of the "exotic" Other. An all-Mexican cast acts out a telenovela while the pasty white Killers perform in the background; somewhere, an Ethnic Studies major finds her senior thesis topic.

Posted by Amy Phillips in video on Mon: 08-21-06: 01:35 PM CDT | Permalink

Exclusive: Domino to Release Josef K Anthology
Gregor Samsa anthology coming in 25 years

While "justice" for Kafka's Josef K. was prolonged, crude, and nothing of the sort, justice for American fans of early-1980s Scottish dark indie-poppers Josef K was just ridiculously prolonged. Twenty-odd years prolonged to be exact. That all ends November 7 when the magnanimous folks at Domino Records issue the very first official U.S. Josef K release, a 22-track compilation titled Entomology.

Comprised of vocalist/guitarist Paul Haig, guitarist Malcolm Ross, bassist David Weddell, and drummer Ronnie Torrance, Josef K sounded a wee bit like Joy Division with jangle, and were part of that whole Postcard Records scene that people cooler than you are always talking about. Fellow Postcarders Orange Juice and the Fire Engines were both subjects of Domino releases last year. Can Aztec Camera be far behind...?

Entomology collects a number of JK singles, B-sides, album cuts, requisite Peel Sessions, and even six tunes from the unreleased Sorry for Laughing album, rejected by Postcard way back in the day ("Heads Watch", "Drone", "Sense of Guilt", "Citizens", "Variations of Scene", and "Endless Soul"). Some 25 years on, the taut rhythmic intensity, eerie atmospherics, and looming paranoia of these recordings still resonate-- which is to say, they're pretty effing awesome. [MORE...]

Video: Josef K: Sorry for Laughing

Posted by Matthew Solarski in album, reissue, compilation, greatesthits, exclusive on Mon: 08-21-06: 12:43 PM CDT | Permalink

Photos: Japanther / This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb [Beat Kitchen; 08/12/06]

The kids are alright, and they came out en masse to pack Chicago's Beat Kitchen last weekend for Mauled by Tigers Fest, which featured rousing performances by Brooklyn's Japanther, Pensacola, Florida's This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, and several other Plan-It-X punk notables.

A series of last-minute play-order swaps caught drummer Ted Helmick of This Bike (who were supposed to play last) off-guard, but that didn't stop the friendly, country-tinged punk trio from cutting through a high-energy set that included standouts "Imperfection" and "Mouseteeth"-- and ended with a good dozen slap-happy youngins bum-rushing the stage.

Japanther played last, with their bad-ass banner, trademark telephone-mics, and corny-ass but charming, silver-streaked, matching costumes. Just as they found their fire, however, some fiend (The Man??) pulled the plug on the gig, and the kids were sent home with barely 10 minutes of Japanther in their systems. So off they went, all devious smiles, giddy and eager to make mischief with a certain band's sticker.

Photos after the jump. [MORE...]

Posted by Matthew Solarski in photos on Mon: 08-21-06: 12:20 PM CDT | Permalink

Girl Talk's Night Ripper Dissected

A magician doesn't reveal his tricks, and neither does a DJ. But that hasn't stopped an enterprising fan from listing as many of the samples on Girl Talk's Night Ripper as he/she could find in a Wikipedia entry on the popular mash-up album.

The entry comes with the disclaimer that it is “an incomplete list”, but there are at least four and up to 17 samples listed for each song, making it pretty close to definitive. In true wiki spirit, the entry also calls for additions and corrections, and the end of the album seems to be missing the most info at this point. So if you know the sample that opens “Double Pump”, get your edit on.

Gregg Gillis, we know your number! Or at least your record collection.

MP3: Girl Talk: Smash Your Head [Infinite Mixtape #22]

Posted by Dave Maher in misc on Mon: 08-21-06: 11:46 AM CDT | Permalink

T.V. Eye: August 21-27, 2006

Pitchfork's T.V. Picks for This Week:

Monday, August 21:

CBS: "Late Show With David Letterman": Outkast
NBC: "Last Call With Carson Daly": Aimee Mann (rerun)

Tuesday, August 22:

CBS: "Late Show With David Letterman": Razorlight
NBC: "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno": T.I. (rerun)

Wednesday, August 23:

CBS: "Late Show With David Letterman": Busta Rhymes
NBC: "Last Call With Carson Daly": José González

Friday, August 25:

NBC: "Last Call With Carson Daly": Mobb Deep

Saturday, August 26:

IFC: "The Henry Rollins Show": Rollins Band (rerun)

Posted by Kati Llewellyn in tveye on Mon: 08-21-06: 11:41 AM CDT | Permalink

Exclusive: Grizzly Bear to Tour With TV on the Radio

Time to tear yourself away from sending Sgt. Grumbles to everyone on your buddylist (it's hard, we know) and check out our second-favorite four-legged friend-- NYC's Grizzly Bear.

The Brooklyn quartet has just announced that they will spend the fall touring North America, mostly in the company of TV on the Radio. The trek is in support of the Grizz's Warp Records debut, Yellow House, due September 5 (September 4 in Europe).

A video for track three, "Knife", is currently in the works, and Grizzly Bear have put their own spin on Of Montreal's "I Was a Landscape in Your Dream" for the latter band's upcoming remix album, Satanic Twins, due tomorrow via Polyvinyl.

And just for fun, make sure to check out Grizzly Bear's tour blog to scope out pictures of Chris Taylor giving Rose of the Pipettes a haircut! We are so jealous right now.

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MP3: Grizzly Bear: Lullabye [Infinite Mixtape #32]

Posted by Kati Llewellyn in tour, album, remix, exclusive on Mon: 08-21-06: 11:07 AM CDT | Permalink

Stream: Darkel (Air Solo Project)

When it came time for Jean-Benoit Dunckel-- one half of French electronica poster boys Air-- to choose a name for his solo getup, he really set those cogs in motion, concluding after much deliberation that "dark" sounds and looks substantially sexier than "dunck." Genius! Hence, the world gets Darkel, who, as previously reported, has a self-titled album of Air-y electro pop coming out on Astralwerks on September 19.

Darkel is now streaming assorted tracks from the album on his sci-fi sound effect-happy official website, as well as his MySpace-- or, for ad-free, instant gratification, click the stream links below. iTunes fiends can also download Darkel's first single, "At the End of the Sky" from the iTunes store now.

Air, meanwhile, are putting the wraps on their latest long-player, tentatively due for release in early 2007. If you need an Air fix this year, however, and can't wait until Darkel drops, try French actress/singer/hottie Charlotte Gainsbourg's new disc 5:55, due August 28 in Europe and September 5 in the UK, and featuring music composed by your favorite French space cadets. Then chase that Gainsbourg/Darkel with a hit of Air's contribution to the Sofia Coppola-directed flick Marie Antoinette, opening this fall.

Stream: Darkel: At the End of the Sky

Stream: Darkel: Earth

Stream: Darkel: TV Destroy

Posted by Matthew Solarski in audio, solo, sideproject on Mon: 08-21-06: 10:40 AM CDT | Permalink

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Mon: 08-14-06: 05:11 PM CDT
TV on the Radio Announce Fall Tour