Autolux: The Science of Imaginary Solutions + The Afghan Whigs/Frank Ocean: Lovecrimes

 

 

Autolux and The Afghan Whigs will both be part of the eclectic line up at the September 21-23 All Tomorrows Parties 'I'll Be Your Mirror' festival, co-curated by The Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli.  This annual NYC event will include a performance on Friday, September 21 by headliner Frank Ocean whose "Lovecrimes", off his 2010 debut mixtape 'Nostalgia, Ultra', was recently covered by The Afghan Whigs.

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A connection to my previous post on The Raveonettes:  Sharin Foo is married to guitarist/vocalist Greg Edwards of L.A. based trio Autolux; the couple's daughter Molly was born in 2008. 

Autolux' most recent album 'Transit Transit" was released in 2010; the very trippy video for "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" was not uploaded to YouTube until in February of this year. 

Prior to their Sunday, September 23 festival gig in NYC, they have a show at The Bootleg Theater in L.A. on September 19.

www.autolux.net/indexB.html

www.facebook.com/autolux


Recently reunited after a 13-year hiatus, The Afghan Whigs will be following their Saturday September 22 NYC gig with an extensive U.S. fall tour; several of the shows have already sold out. 


www.theafghanwhigs.com

www.facebook.com/TheAfghanWhigsOfficial


Frank Ocean will be the musical guest on the September 15 season premiere of Saturday Night Live hosted by Seth MacFarlane.


www.twitter.com/frank_ocean

www.frankocean.com

The Raveonettes: She Owns The Streets

Danish duo The Raveonettes will be releasing their sixth album 'Observator' on September 11.  Reuniting with producer Richard Gottehrer for the first time since 2005,  Sharin Foo and Sune Wagner recorded for seven days at legendary Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, the city Foo now calls home.

A gorgeous ode to self-expression, 'She Owns The Streets' was inspired by Loan Tran, a young woman in New York City whom Wagner had noticed dancing around the city; they were introduced and struck up a friendship.

The video was directed by London/Berlin based German photographer Peter Kaaden.

www.peterkaaden.com/#about

The Raveonettes kick off their big fall tour with a show in Portland, Oregon on September 21. (NOTE: two shows are scheduled in Toronto and Montreal the first week of October.)   After a show in Mexico City on October 14, the tour moves on to Europe on October 20 before wrapping up in Istanbul, Turkey on December 15.

www.theraveonettes.com/tour/


www.facebook.com/theraveonettes

Tina Dico: Moon To Let

After a busy decade spent alternating her time between London/Copenhagen and touring the world (incl. many gigs with Zero 7 in 2004), Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico has found a life partner in fellow musician Helgi Jonsson whom she first met in 2008 when they each opened for Teitur at a show in Canada.  This year Dico and Jonsson settled down together in Reykjavik, Iceland where Helgi was born and raised and where their son Emil was born last month.

Her fifth studio album "Where Do You Go To Disappear?" drops the first week of September; all of the 12 tracks were recorded in her new home studio in Reykjavik.  The first single "Moon To Let" was released July 16.

Dico has two gigs scheduled in Zurich and Vienna in mid-October in between numerous shows in Germany.

www.tinadico.com/tour/

www.facebook.com/tinadico

Helgi Jonsson:
www.facebook.com/helgistrombone

"Moon To Let" was shot around Nuuk, Greenland by Martin Skovbjerg and Jacob Møller of SaunaCigar; the Copenhagen based team also did "Warrior/Worrier" for Outlandish.

www.saunacigar.com/music.html

NOTE to Dico's Danish fans: a lengthy interview was published in Politiken yesterday.

http://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/ECE1732120/lykken-med-mand-og-barn-udfordrer-den-dickowske-mol/

The Heavy: What Makes A Good Man

 

 

 

'The Glorious Dead' is the third album in five years from UK band The Heavy who are currently touring the U.S.  (two gigs in Canada are scheduled for late September).

www.theheavy.co.uk/gigs

www.facebook.com/theheavy73


Two videos were shot for the new single "What Makes A Good Man".

Two Door Cinema Club: Sleep Alone

Two Door Cinema Club of Bangor, Northern Ireland will be very busy in the coming months with shows in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Their second album 'Beacon' was recorded in Los Angeles; it will be released the first week of September.


www.twodoorcinemaclub.com/gigs

www.facebook.com/twodoorcinemaclub


The video for the first single "Sleep Alone" was directed by Paris based directors' collective AB/CD/CD.

Vacationer: Trip

Singer, bassist, and guitarist Kenny Vasoli has explored various genres and sounds in a multitude of rock combos and continues to do so, most recently in Philadelphia band Vacationer.

The video for the first single "Trip" off the 2011 debut album 'Gone' was uploaded to YouTube a week ago.  It's a great example of how a band/artist can reach out to the world by shooting a relatively low-budget visual companion piece to a great track that might otherwise not get the same degree of exposure due to the sheer volume of music makers offering up their goods in this day and age.


After a Hoboken, New Jersey gig on August 18 with Body Language, Vactioner takes a break before supporting Bombay Bicycle Club for several weeks around the U.S. in October, finishing with one show in Canada.  See link below for details:

www.facebook.com/vacationermusic/app_123966167614127

www.vacationer.tumblr.com/


The 'Trip' official music video was shot in Oahu, Hawaii by Dave Homcy on the very cool old-school-yet-very-21st century Lomography LomoKino analogue cameras.

www.lomography.com/


An excellent live version of the same sunny song was shot in the studios of U. of Minnesota college station Radio K.

Listen to Radio K at 770 AM, 100.7 FM and 104.5 FM, as well as online at www.radiok.org

Rumer: A House Is Not A Home + Sara Smile + Slow + Am I Forgiven

A goosebump inducing, heavenly mix of Karen Carpenter, Dusty Springfield, Eva Cassidy, and Joni Mitchell, Rumer had her full-length debut 'Seasons of My Soul' released on Atlantic Records November 1, 2010; she wrote or co-wrote all except one track.  A second album entitled 'Boys Don't Cry' dropped May 28 of this year; on it she covers 12 (16 on the special edition) of her favorite songs from the 1970s.

Born Sarah Joyce in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1979 to a British mother and a Pakistani father, Rumer began writing songs at age 20. In recent years she has played with Elton John, Jools Holland, and Jamie Callum and in May she performed at the Burt Bacharach/Hal David Library of Congress Gershwin Prize concert at the White House.


http://www.facebook.com/rumerofficial

http://www.rumer.co.uk/updates.htm