Coming off the success of Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective is set to release ODDSAC, its collaboration with filmmaker Danny Perez (known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear). According to the press release, “ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral, immersive experience.”
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The Portland Cello Project’s epic video for “Denmark”
The Portland Cello Project, which just stopped in Chicago for a headlining set in Millennium Park, is currently touring in support of its latest album, an instrumental odyssey entitled Denmark. The title song received music-video treatment by director Daniel Fickle from Two Penguins Productions. Depicting a shrimp attempting to escape from its polluted environment, the video offers timely social commentary while commemorating a friend of the band who struggled with cancer.
In other PCP news, the band is planning a fall tour of the USA and will begin work on a follow-up to The Thao and Justin Power Session. Read on for upcoming Portland Cello Project performances.
Buzzov-en is back on tour after 12 years
Stoner-core veterans Buzzov-en have reunited and will hit the road after a 12-year drought to tour the USA this fall.
For a handful of East Coast and Midwest dates, founding member Kirk Fisher has gathered the band’s original lineup, including bassist “Dixie” Dave Collins (also of Weedeater) and drummer Ramzi.
After the release of the band’s compilation album, Violence from the Vault (Relapse), this year, Buzzov-en is working on a new album called Revelation: Sick Again that will be out in 2011 on Hydra Head Records.
Help fund Kid Koala’s new project at MASS MoCA
Cut-up turntablist and musician Kid Koala is known for the detailed comic books that he creates for his albums, offering a unique visual accompaniment to his musical aesthetic.
Now he is planning a residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) for December of 2010 where he and a five-member team will create a live performance based on his long-awaited graphic novel and soundtrack, Space Cadet.
Indie pop and hip hop collide on Common Grackle’s The Great Depression
Common Grackle‘s release of their new album is only days away!
Kurt Rosenwinkel joins Portugal’s Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos for Our Secret World
Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, known for his distinct multi-effect-pedal sound and collaborations with Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, is set to release a new album with the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos. The Portugal-based big band contacted Rosenwinkel about a possible collaboration in 2007. Following a number of successful shows in Portugal, the idea to record an album was born.
Poster Art: Ryan Duggan’s punchy minimalism
Screen-printing poster artist Ryan Duggan grew up in Northern Illinois in a small town that Tom Waits wrote a song about. “There I spent all my time drawing and forming shitty bands with my friends,” he says. For reasons still unbeknownst to him, Duggan then relocated to Chicago to study advertising. Maps & Atlases was formed by friends shortly after, and Duggan has been screen-printing since.
“Many posters these days are meaningless collages made in Photoshop and distressed to look ‘rock and roll,’” he says. “It comes off looking very fake to me. I feel that music is a dirty, stupid ordeal and that this should come across in the imagery — it’s how you know everyone’s still having fun.”