Director: Tim Kiernan Director of Photography: Jason Arthurs
The Love Language are playing shows with Guided by Voices this weekend. Libraries is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
The Love Language with Guided by Voices:
Oct 29 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
Oct 30 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
Oct 31 Oberlin, OH Oberlin College Hales Gym
Telekinesis presents the Parallel Seismic Conspiracies EP – available today from finer digital retailers, the Merge store and your local record store!
The limited-edition CD is sure to get everyone all warmed up for Telekinesis’ 2011 full-length follow-up to the acclaimed debut Telekinesis! – the EP contains a full-band version of the first album’s “Calling All Doctors,” plus covers of Guided By Voices’ “Game of Pricks” and “The Drawback” (borrowed from the proto-Joy Division project Warsaw) and a dazzling new Michael Benjamin Lerner treat called “Dirty Thing” that just could be the summer hit you’ve been waiting for!
Watch the new and sprightly video for “Dirty Thing” now!
The Love Language with a little help from their friends in Lost in the Trees covered The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” last night at King’s Barcade in Raleigh.
Libraries is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
See the Love Language on tour!
Oct 23 Durham, NC Motorco Music Hall
Oct 25 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
Oct 26 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theater
Oct 29 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
Oct 30 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
Oct 31 Oberlin, OH Oberlin College – Hayes Gym
The new documentary feature – Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields – will be released in North American theaters starting October 27.
Fresh from a highly successful festival run (including SXSW, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary and Outfest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature), the film will open in select theaters this fall. Shot over a period of 10 years, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields explores Merrittʼs recording and songwriting process and focuses on his relationships with his band mates, specifically longtime friend-manager Claudia Gonson. The film traces a 20-year career that has yielded one of the most engaging bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.
Oct 15–16: London Film Festival (NFT1, the ICA)
Oct 27–Nov 9: Film Forum, NYC
Opens Nov 4: Tiff Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON
Opens Nov 5: Laemmle Sunset 5, Los Angeles, CA
Opens Nov 7: Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, Austin, TX
Opens Nov 12: Roxie Film Center, San Francisco, CA
Nov 18: Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Opens Nov 19: Texas Theater, Dallas, TX
Opens Dec 10: NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA
More cities announcing opening dates soon….
See Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields for free at the Nasher Museum in Durham, NC on November 6 as part of “The Full Frame Fix” event. For more information, visit fullframefest.org.
A digital release and DVD are expected in early 2011.
The Magnetic Fields’ epic release 69 Love Songs is available on CD and digital download in the Merge store and as a limited-edition vinyl box set in stores now.
photos by PJ Sykes
Fresh from the west coast shows, Superchunk have now added new dates in December!
Dec 1 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue – On Sale Saturday, October 23 @ 10 AM CST
Dec 2 Chicago, IL Metro – Pre-Sale Friday, October 22 @ Noon CST (Password: SHREDDING)
Dec 4 Tampa, FL Czar Ybor – On Sale Now!
Dec 9 Toronto, ON Sound Academy w/ Broken Social Scene – On Sale Now!
Majesty Shredding is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
ABC Amplified’s Dan Harris had lunch with Superchunk at the Momofuku Noodle Bar and found out what Jon, Mac, Laura & Jim have been up to for the past nine years.
Superchunk finishes up their Majesty Shredding tour tonight in Los Angeles at the Music Box and will perform at Origami Records today at Noon PST. You can buy tickets for the Music Box online or at Origami!
Superchunk played a live set on KEXP while in Seattle for the Teenage Fanclub / Telekinesis mega-show at the Showbox on Thursday! Listen to the archive at KEXP.org.
North Carolina’s Superchunk was high on the list when it came to great indie-rock of the ‘90s (a time when that term actually made sense) and they haven’t lost a step with their 2010 LP of catchy, buzzing, riff-heavy pop “Majesty Shredding.” They play tracks from the new record and some classic singles live at KEXP. – W. Myers
Set List:
Cool
Digging for Something
Rosemarie
Cast Iron
Tour Dates:
10-15 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
10-17 San Francisco, CA Treasure Island
10-19 Los Angeles, CA The Music Box at Fonda
12-09 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
And check out their in-store performances in Portland, San Francisco, and LA!
Find the “rock” version of “Crossed Wires” on Majesty Shredding which is available now on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
Watch and listen to streaming sets by The Mountain Goats & Spoon live at the Austin City Limits music festival in Austin, TX happening today! The Mountain Goats are on at 2PM CST / 3 PM EST and Spoon will play at 8PM CST / 9PM EST.
Click here to watch & listen!
While in NYC in September to play two sold out shows and rock Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Superchunk sat down with John Norris for an interview on Noisevox. Watch the interview here, and see Superchunk on the west coast starting next week!
Majesty Shredding is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
Superchunk on tour:
Oct 13 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret w/ Telekinesis
Oct 14 Seattle, WA – The Showbox w/ Teenage Fanclub & Telekinesis
Oct 15 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/ Teenage Fanclub & Telekinesis
Oct 17 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Festival
Oct 19 Los Angeles, CA – The Music Box at Fonda w/ Telekinesis & The Vaselines
photo by Max S. Gerber
We asked one half of The Extra Lens – Franklin Bruno - for an update on what was happening with him other than their upcoming Merge debut Undercard, and he was happy to oblige!
So, here is “what one of the Extra Lens does when he’s not being an Extra Lens:”
My main band, the Human Hearts, has a 7″ (“Art Books”) out soon, and a track on an upcoming benefit compilation for City Harvest. Both are on Fayettenam Records, which released my compilation of 4-track/Shrimper-era solo recordings last year, and just put out Peter Hughes’s “Fangio” albums.
I’m playing as the pianist/musical director (backed by viola and trombone) for my partner Bree Benton’s solo performance piece, “Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away,” at the venerable experimental theater venue La MaMa E.T.C., Oct. 1-10. The show is built around truly obscure vaudeville and parlor songs, dating from the 1890s on. Plenty of press and performance clips at here.
The Human Hearts are playing at the L.I.C. Bar in Long Island City on Oct. 11. For more on The Human Hearts’ tour dates, visit my blog.
Plus, I’ve been writing short essays for Thought Catalog, on topics from Robyn and Kelis to New York poet James Schuyler to ’40s actress/director Ida Lupino.
The Extra Lens’ Undercard will be released on CD, LP and digital download on October 19. Pre-order the album now in the Merge store & see them on tour!
The Extra Lens on tour:
*all dates with John Vanderslice
Oct 19 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel
Oct 20 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
Oct 21 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
Oct 23 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall
NPR’s Science Friday Arts blog went to Caribou’s Webster Hall show to talk about the connection between math & science. Watch the video here and be sure to see the full Caribou band on tour now!
Swim is available on CD, dbl-LP and digital download now in the Merge store.
Caribou on tour:
Oct 05 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom*
Oct 06 San Francisco, CA – Regency*
Oct 07 Los Angeles, CA – Dance Right @ La Cita
Oct 08 Los Angeles, CA – Music Box*
Oct 09 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouseb Oct 11 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Oct 12 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre*
Oct 14 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
Oct 15 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
Oct 16 Tallahassee, FL – Engine RoomB Oct 17 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
Oct 18 Orlando, FL – Backbooth
Oct 19 Miami, FL – Grand Central
Oct 21 Guanajuanto, Mexico – Mutek/Cervantino Festival
Oct 23 Santiago, Chile – Festival Fauna Primavera
Oct 27 Sao Paulo, Brasil – Clash Club
Oct 28 Bogota, Colombia – Downtown
Oct 30 Asheville, NC – Moog Festival
Oct 31 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle
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