Sunday, April 2, 2017
X-Ray Spex’s Poly Styrene Subject of New Documentary: Watch Trailer
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A new documentary on X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene is in the works. It's called Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché and it arrives November 2018. Check out the trailer below. Director Paul Sng has started an IndieGogo campaign for the film, and you can back it now. Some of the perks for backing the project include a lunch with the film’s director, writer, and narrator at Styrene’s favorite restaurant in London. They’re also offering tickets to a private VIP screening. According to the campaign description, the film will depict Styrene's “struggles with misogyny, racism and mental health issues.” Narrated by her daughter Celeste Bell, I Am a Cliché will also cover the formation of X-Ray Spex. Poly Styrene died of cancer in 2011.
Read Pitchfork’s list “The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs,” and read the Sunday Review of the X-Ray Spex classic Germfree Adolescents.
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
Joey Fatts and Vince Staples Share New Track “562”: Listen
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Joey Fatts and Vince Staples are back with a new collaboration. This one’s called “562,” and it was produced by Supah Mario. Check it out below. The track was released alongside two other new Joey Fatts songs: “Everybody Knows” (which features Curren$y and JMSN) and “Swingin’.” The two Long Beach collaborators previously teamed up on “Farrakhan” from the mixtape I'll Call You Tomorrow. The song got a music video where the two rappers got their revenge on some crooked cops.
Watch Vince Staples perform “Lift Me Up” at Primavera Sound:
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Former Cedric Bixler-Zavala Bandmate Running Against Ted Cruz
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Democratic Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke is officially running for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, as Spin points out. In the 1990s, O’Rourke was a singer and guitarist in the band Foss, which included Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta) on vocals and drums. “I wasn’t very good at it,” O’Rourke told the Washington Post earlier this year, explaining that his father didn’t fully back his musical aspirations either. “He won’t say it, but the expectation is: We didn’t take out loans for you to go to Columbia and then [play] in a punk band your whole life.”
O’Rourke, an underdog in the Senate race, is the “first prominent Democrat” to challenge Cruz for the Senate seat, according to the AP. In his campaign launch announcement earlier today, he promised to resist Donald Trump, saying he’d “fight when necessary against a president who is focused on building walls, or conducting military immigrant round-ups.”
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Dr. Dre Joins Bid to Bring 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles
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Dr. Dre has been named to the Board of Directors of a group vying to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles, as Spin points out. The group, called LA 2024, is led by Casey Wasserman and includes Magic Johnson, Disney CEO Bob Iger, opera superstar Plácido Domingo, record executive David Geffen, Jason Collins (the first publicly gay NBA player), Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, and many others on the Board of Directors. L.A. is up against Paris in its bid for the 2024 games. The International Olympic Committee will elect the host city on September 13 in Lima, Peru. The Olympics have not been in the United States since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Read “9 Olympic Medalists Share Their Workout Music” on the Pitch.
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Father John Misty Cuts 13-Minute New Song “Leaving LA” for 3-Minute Radio Edit: Listen
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Father John Misty has shared a “radio edit” of “Leaving LA,” a 13-minute song from his upcoming album Pure Comedy (out April 7 via Sub Pop/Bella Union). The new version is under three minutes and consists of just the song’s first and final verses, cutting out some of its more topical lyrics (such as “Oh great, that’s just what we all need/Another white guy in 2017 who takes himself so goddamn seriously.”) Listen to “Leaving LA (Radio Edit)” below. Josh Tillman has previously shared several songs from the album, including “Ballad of the Dying Man,” “Two Wildly Different Perspectives,” “Total Entertainment Forever,” and “Pure Comedy.”
Read Pitchfork’s feature “Here Is the Scandalous Father John Misty Interview You’ve Been Waiting For.”
Watch Father John Misty perform “Bored in the USA” at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2015:
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Sufjan Stevens Announces New Carrie & Lowell Live Album
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Sufjan Stevens has announced a new audiovisual live album, Carrie & Lowell Live, due out April 28 on Asthmatic Kitty. It was recorded on November 9, 2015 at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina, on Sufjan’s tour in support of his last album, Carrie & Lowell. As Asthmatic Kitty points out, today, March 31, is the birthday of the titular Lowell Brams, who is Sufjan’s stepfather and co-founder of the label. It is also the two-year anniversary of the album's release. The album will be released in both audio and video forms, with the video available on YouTube and Vimeo. The tracklist, which can be found below, features Sufjan and Gallant’s cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”
Last year, Sufjan released a video of his performance of the title track from this North Charleston concert. Watch that below.
On June 9, Sufjan will release Planetarium, a collaborative album with the National's Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly.
Revist Pitchfork’s feature, “True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens,” and revisit our interview with Brams. Also read about Carrie & Lowell in “Albums That Empathize in Times of Cancer and Loss” on the Pitch.
Carrie & Lowell Live:
01 Redford (For Yia-Yia and Papou)
02 Death With Dignity
03 Should Have Known Better
04 All of Me Wants All Of You
05 John My Beloved
06 The Only Thing
07 Fourth of July
08 No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
09 Carrie & Lowell
10 Drawn to the Blood
11 Eugene
12 Vesuvius
13 Futile Devices
14 Blue Bucket of Gold
15 Blue Bucket Outro
Encore:
16 Hotline Bling* (featuring Gallant)
Watch Sufjan perform "I Want to Be Well" at Pitchfork Music Festival 2016
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