2008 Siren Festival ( more ) Photo : Jon Klemm Hey, hey, hey, you know summer's here when you start hearing about the annual Village Voice Siren Festival . Here's what the initial lineup for the 9th Annual Siren Festival looks like so far: The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, is excited to announce the initial line-up for the 9th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL at Coney Island on Saturday, July 18, 2009 from 12:00 [...]
See some good bands for free and potentially get talked into riding the Cyclone? We're in. The Village Voice announced today the initial line-up for its ninth annual Siren Music Festival , going down as always at historic Coney Island and this year featuring Built to Spill , The Raveonettes and more. The festivities take place Saturday, July 18 from noon to 9 p.m. on two stages at Coney Island. Built to Spill, The Raveonettes, Frightened Rabbit , Grand Duchy , Monotix and [...]
9th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL™ at Coney Island on Saturday, July 18, 2009 from 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m. Scheduled performers include BUILT TO SPILL, THE RAVEONETTES, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, GRAND DUCHY, MONOTONIX, MICACHU & THE SHAPES, DJs and more to be announced. Share This:
Remember when we leaked the date of the 2009 Village Voice Siren Festival ? Well, now we got the initial lineup as well! It's all after the jump, but let me just start out by saying, I am so ready to see Monotonix lay waste to whatever remains of Brooklyn's Coney Island on July 18. http://siren.villagevoice.com Built to Spill , The Raveonettes , Frightened Rabbit , Grand Dutchy , Monotonix , and Micachu & the Shapes have all been announced so far. [...]
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Tá ligado nesse cara aí, né? Dispensa apresentação. E esse duo - ele ao lado da Violet Clark - é, pra dizer ao mínimo e tentando não ser só tendencioso, bem bacana. Ouça e aprecie, pois o álbum foi lançado meses atrás e você está perdendo tempo, sério. Uma provinha de leve disso é essa faixa, sente: Grand Duchy - Ermenside ps.: viram que coloquei no título o barato ali, [...]
With all the related Pixies items of the coming months (see: one-offs and box sets ), the last thing one would expect to see is news that the band's fearless frontman, Frank Black, has started a new band. But that's indeed the case. According to Rolling Stone , Black recently joined forces with wife Violet Clark for Grand Duchy , and come next month, will embark on a west coast tour in support of the band's newly released debut LP, Petit Fours . Tour dates below. Petit [...]
Black Francis , Frank Black or Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV, and his missus , Violet Clark, or Violet Clark Thompson , have just done a new LP. The collabo is called Grand Duchy , and that doesn't sound kinda like douchey, nor does the album itself. In fact, it's a rather subtle likkle surprise if the truth be known, and the truth should always be known, should it not? What do you get when you take classic Pixies inclinations and fuse them with just a smidgen of synth pop and new wavey gorgeousfulness, and then have [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Frank Black , the artist legally known as Charles Thompson, has lived in Eugene, Oregon for half a dozen years, during which time he's led the reunited Pixies , put out records as both Black Francis and Frank Black, worked with the late cult Christian rocker Larry Norman and produced the newest Art Brut record . He's also been a husband, and a father to five kids. Now his home life and his music life have merged: Black Francis and [...]
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I'm not sure I'm the one that should be writing this review. I respect the work of Frank Black because I see the influence the Pixies had on alternative rock and how his solo work led the way for modern noise rockers and power poppers. Honestly? I'm that guy that likes "Where Is My Mind?" but hasn't gotten around to absorbing the rest of the Pixies catalog. Come on, I know I'm not the only one. Raise your hands. All that said, I figured the debut album from [...]
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When he's not producing other bands' records , touring with the Pixies, or working on his solo career, Frank Black (aka Black Francis) is busy with some project or another. His latest, Grand Duchy, is a collaborative project with his wife, Violet Clark. The pair's debut, Petits Fours , is set to be released tomorrow, April 14. www.grandduchymusic.com www.cookingvinyl.com Tracklisting is after the jump... 1. Come On Over To My House 2. Lovesick 3. Fort Wayne 4. Seeing Stars [...]
Grand Duchy es el más reciente proyecto de Frank Black, Black Francis, Charles Thomposon, el vocalista de los Pixies, o como le quieran decir. Está formado por nuestro gordo favorito y su esposa, Violet Clark. Su debut llevará el título de Petits Four y saldrá el 14 de abril en Cooking Vinyl . Por cierto, la pareja fue invitada esta semana a la versión en línea de la revista Magnet , así que si quieren leer sus posts (por ahí hay uno en el que hablan de su gusto por Woody Allen [...]
mp3: Grand Duchy - Ermesinde (2009) New Black Francis outfit with his wife Violet. Feels a bit like a return to early, poppier, more unconventional Frank Black. Plus it has a vocoder (so everybody wins). web myspace
(Cooking Vinyl) Grand Duchy's debut album 'Petit Fours' is consistently and bizarrely experimental. Opener Come On Over To My House dabbles in soft-core metal and lightly strained lyrics. Standout track Fort Wayne goes for a heavy sixties-pop sound with added Fratellis-style la-la-las. Long Song ' heads off on another tangent, with attitude-fuelled girl vocals and old-school synthesizers. As individual tracks, these all work at least passably well; throw them together in an album, however and you're left with a bit of a musical car crash. Despite the odd gem, [...]
If you grew up in the 90s like some of us (no names will be mentioned), then you must be creaming your collective pants. Let's see, we've had Jane's Addiction , Blur , Faith No More , Sublime , Jesus Lizard , Pavement , Orbital and The Libertines all in the news in the past couple months about confirmed or rumored reunions. And that's not even taking into account The Specials or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . Well, add one more to your list. The already [...]
Endnu en tirsdag og en lækker omgang Hvis musik var... , i ugens udgave er der fokus på kvindelige musikere i form af Lily Allen , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Howling Bells , Heartless Bastards og The Joy Formidable . Så nyd dem :) [...]
Et nyt tiltag her på bloggen er at jeg hver søndag vil poste Seven Sunday Slammers , et indlæg med 7 sange som jeg føler omverdenen skal kende til. Det vil for det meste være sange som jeg ikke har kunne få plads til i Hvis musik var... . Coverbilledet har ikke rigtig noget som helst med noget at gøre, synes bare det er et godt billede fra Roskilde Festival :D [...]
I think I'll preface this with the fact that Pixies are my No. 1 Favorite Band Of All Time. Basically, in my eyes, Black Francis can do no wrong (outside of his tiff with Kim Deal, but they're both crazy, so, really, whose fault was it?). I haven't listened to every Catholics record (there's EIGHT of them, for chrissakes), or heard every single solo album (there's eight of THEM, for chrissakes!) Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV has released over the past decade and a half. The man is prolific, by every definition of the word. But when I heard [...]
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