Artist: pop group

All Tomorrow's Parties has announced plans to discontinue its annual installment of holiday festivals with one final event to take place in Camber Sands, UK later this year. The aptly titled End of An Era festival spans two consecutive weekends (Nov. 22th-24 and Nov. 29th-Dec. 1st), each featuring a different lineup. Primavera Sound curates weekend one, and they've recruited Television to top the bill. The New York alt-rock icons have played sporadically together over the last decade, with a lineup featuring founding members Tom Verlaine and Billy Ficca, Fred Smith, and Jimmy Ripp. [...]

Its time for this week's edition of Stupefied , and we're lucky to have the top 20 from Mr. Mark Stewart - Pop Group vocalist, leader of the Maffia, and occasional solo artist. I feel pretty safe in saying its the most "out" list I've run yet, and I love it. March of this year saw the release of Stewart's latest album, The Politics of Envy , co-produced by Youth, and which features guest appearances from the likes [...]

Amongst the various entries on this week's new release schedule, we were rather chuffed to see a new album by Washington, DC, hardcore progenitors Bad Brains. We'll be honest and admit we'd rather spaced on the fact that the band's classic lineup were playing together again — the last piece of Bad Brains-related material we got our hands on was frontman HR's solo record a few years back — and the news got us thinking about other great '80s bands whose continued existence is a cause for celebration. Sure, there've been a whole heap of lucrative high-profile '80s reunions over [...]

Man, oh, man. I watched the majority of this set on the live stream and let me tell you: Annie Clark can wail. And I mean both on vocals and on the guitar. I want you to especially rock out to the new song she plays near the end. It is apparently spelled "Krokodil" but no matter how you spell it, it has ROCK at the heart of it. Stay tuned to Appetite For Distraction. I have a new countdown posting at 10 and I may be mining YouTube for more sets to post! [...]

And for those of us who dig the post punk vibe...whatever that may mean...we also have new albums out, or coming very soon from Mark Stewart (Pop Group), Public Image Ltd, and Killing Joke! Interesting year so far for releases... The new album, MMXII , is out now. Listen to "Rapture" from it here . Killing Joke on Amazon . Visit their website - http://www.killingjoke.com/ [...]

• Slicing Up Eyeballs - Public Image Ltd., 'One Drop'

The things that stick out, they're kind of interesting anyway. As we mentioned  a couple of months back, Scottish popsters Belle and Sebastian have earned the honor of being invited to contribute a second mix to the Late Night Tales  compilation series, having turned in their first back in 2006. Granted, the band's idea of what constitutes the ideal late-night musical mix is probably quite a bit different from that of Air, Groove Armada, or MGMT, just a few of the other artists who have entered into the LNT realm. But [...]

LateNightTales es una serie de compilaciones que invita a los mejores artistas del mundo, para que indaguen dentro de sus colecciones de música y así creen una selección de lo mejor de su travesía musical nocturna, además de interpretar un cover de alguna de sus canciones favoritas. La serie ha contado con la participación de artistas como MGMT, Trentemoller, Snow Patrol, The Flaming Lips, Arctic Monkeys, etc. Para curar esta edición de LateNightTales, los invitados fueron Belle and Sebastian y nos presentan tracks de Broadcast, The Pop Group, Toro y Moi y Gold Panda, incluyendo [...]

Today's a day for Flavorpill central to get excited about music, and not just because it's the day the new of Montreal album comes out. February 7th also sees the re-release of A Trip to Marineville and Jane from Occupied Europe , the two studio albums that represent the career of hugely underrated UK post-punk band Swell Maps. For whatever reason, the post-punk era seems to have bred a great number of bands whose music was miles ahead of its time and whose output remains largely overlooked, even in 2012. So in honor of Swell Maps' prescient [...]

Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream Autonomia will be released through Future Noise Music on February 20th, a dense agit-protest superfunk monster with sirens and Bobby Gillespie 's frenetic 'keeping the dream alive' call-and-response chant with Mark Stewart who explains the story behind the song - "I'd written this song about Carlo Giuliani, who was killed at the G8 demonstrations in Genoa. At that point, it was a protest song... afterwards I started getting on with Bobby and I asked Adrian [Sherwood] about doing it. It's important that people [...]

Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those Studio 6B HD-cameras at our tag cloud: Bang the Fallon gong (btw, there should be a Fallon gong), a full 70% of this list comes from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 's 2011 archives . [And while we're blanket congratulating Fallon and his staff, please join us in a hat tip to the Roots for making the list's Top Two performances Top Two-ier.] This list is [...]

Photo: Chiara Meattelli/Dominic Lee As promised a couple of weeks back in my post about Mark joining St. Vincent onstage to cover one of his classic early Pop Group tunes, I have here a free MP3 procured from his website, www.markstewartmusic.com .  Said tune is a raging disco funk diatribe, Nothing Is Sacred, which is the AA of that super-limited Children of the Revolution 73 that came and went on Black Friday, and it beats the snot out of the current crop of bedwetters bleating about lacklustre sex. It comes backed [...]

"Nothing Is Sacred" is a new track from Pop Group & Mafia vocalist, Mark Stewart, and it sounds amazing. It has the pop & funk of the more accessible Pop Group material, and retains the fire and thought provocation of his usual lyrical subject matter. Watch the video above, or stream/download from Soundcloud below. Mark Stewart - Nothing Is Sacred by theQuietus His new album will be released in 2012, and includes guest shots from Kenneth Anger, Lee [...]

My love for a good cover remains strong with this one, St. Vincent's ridiculously good version of The Pop Group's She is Beyond Good and Evil - if you care for the excellent abuse of a good guitar, this one is quite clearly for you. If you just plain like St. Vincent like me , you should take some time to listen to her neweast album Strange Mercy or at very least hit play below. You will not be sorry.

If you're a fan of Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Fucked Up, Alec Empire, Primal Scream, !!! and many, many other purveyors of politically-charged musical rage, you owe Mark Stewart a pint.  St. Vincent is another one of those others, having been playing a very hot cover of The Pop Group's "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" in her recent live shows, which she busted out on US TV show Jimmy Fallon last night. It's sending the internet is all aflutter, and with good reason.  Her unhinged version more than does the original justice. It's prompted a twitter exchange between [...]

• The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good and Evil

Annie Clark ainda não desacelerou seu ritmo de divulgação de seu novo álbum sob a etiqueta St. Vincent , Strange Mercy . Mas para sua apresentação no programa de Jimmy Fallon, Annie deixou de lado seus singles Cruel e Surgeon e apresentou um cover de She is beyond good and evil , do The Pop Group . O cover, constante nas setlists recentes dos shows de St. Vincent (um deles, você inclusive pode baixar agora mesmo na NPR ), mostra uma abordagem mais direta [...]

Watch St. Vincent cover the Pop Group's 'She Is Beyond Good and Evil' on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.

• St. Vincent - She Is Beyond Good and Evil (The Pop Group cover)

St. Vincent took the Pop Group's " She Is Beyond Good And Evil ," a number she's been playing out for a little while , to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, which is probably the closest the Pop Group will ever get to network television. They'll take it! Ferocious performance. Check out the cover after the jump. Read More...

St Vincent performing a cover of "She Is Beyond Good and Evil” by The Pop Group on last night's Jimmy Fallon Show.

• Sixkz - Neutered Fruit (St. Vincent Remix)

It's not the worst thing to go to bed/wake up to is it? Annie Clark playfully teasing you with her raw sounding guitar tones and more than easy on the eye looks.... Last night St. Vincent performed on Jimmy Fallon and with her Annie brought a cover of The Pop Group's debut 1979 song, " She Is Beyond Good and Evil ". Take a look at the performance at the top courtesy of the sleep deprived Audio Perv .

l This sounds absolutely immense and bodes very well for those of us heading to see Annie Clarke at the Button Factory on Sunday night. St Vincent and that amazing distorted guitar sound just go so well together, something I wouldn't have expected after Actor. Listen to the original version [Read more]