Weezer have unveiled the album artwork for their forthcoming record
Hurley. It's a picture of Hurley. From
Lost. You idiot.
Frontman Rivers Cuomo told
Pitchfork: "We just wanted to use that picture of Jorge Garcia's face on the cover. It's such an amazing album cover, and we didn't want to have any other words on it, so we just figured everyone was going to call it
Hurley, so that's what we call it." A good name would also be
Megalomania.
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LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy really enjoyed the
Arcade Fire concert at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night:
According to Arcade Fire's manager Scott Rodgers, the webcast of the show on YouTube brought in 1.8 million viewers. You can view most (but not quite all) of it
online now.
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New York electronic artist
Matthew Dear has a new album out this weekend called
Black City and it's fantastic and addictive and weird and a series of other adjectives and expletives. As one of us possibly
tweeted, it's: "As if James Murphy took ketamine and produced Bowie covering
Amnesiac." Or Liars pretending to be Hot Chip. Or something. Here's some stuff:
Matthew Dear - I Can't Feel by ghostly. Uploaded with Scup
Matthew Dear - 'Slowdance'
Matthew Dear - Soil To Seed by mjvisme
He recently told Adelaide mag
Onion that he should be out to Australia in 2011:
“I’d love to tour Australia in 2011. Depends if we can get the band there, it’s a hefty flight for four gentlemen but if we can make it work feasibly and people can buy us canned food and bring us McDonald’s just to feed us as we go along, I think we can do it. I should add that I am quite into food and not into McDonald’s and Australia offers very, very good cuisine and I’ve had some amazing meals in Australia, so you can bring me grass-fed beef as well.”
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*brain off*
Justin Bieber got "nailed" in the head with a water bottle:
*brain on*
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Melbourne kids
Cut Copy played at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago over the weekend, where they debuted another new song from their forthcoming follow up to
In Ghost Colours. It's called 'Blink And You'll Miss The Revolution' and -
according to Hipster Runoff - ushers in the era of 'business casual':
Cut Copy - 'Blink And You'll Miss The Revolution' live at Lollapalooza
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Thom Yorke played a solo set at the Big Chill festival in the UK over the weekend, and performed a new
Radiohead song. Yorke has performed 'Give Up The Ghost' solo before but until now has never mentioned whether it would be a fully fledged Radiohead song. I know, right?
In an interview with Pitchfork a few weeks back, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway said of the current Radiohead recording sessions:
“We’re still writing – we’re slap dab in that middle of it”.If it's anything like the recording sessions for
Kid A, as
documented here by guitarist Ed O'Brien, chances are it's a sloooow process. Still, rumour is that the ensuing LP will be out before the end of the year.