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Animal Collective to Release "Grass" Single

Rob "Giraffricorn"* Kleckner reports:
Hot 97s and Kiss FMs the world over are not excited about this news. But college radio and people like you are, so here's the scoop: The first single from Animal Collective's forthcoming album, Feels, is set to be released in the U.S. on October 18.

The single, "Grass", will be available in both 7" and CD, and will feature two additional tracks: "Must Be Treeman" and "Fickle Cycle". The track has lyrics, but I can't decipher them and neither can you. But you can hit me with your best shot beginning September 26 in the UK, and presumably September 27 in the States, because, you know, Americans are too busy coping with "the Mondays" to run down to the record store until Tuesday.

The band-- sorry, collective-- has also just announced three coastal U.S. tour dates for November. European dates are also being scheduled and when they are all confirmed, you'll be the first to know. But don't expect to hear any of the new songs at these shows, because Animal Collective are constantly moving forward with new material. If you attended their last tour, then you'll already be familiar with the new album when you hear it, provided your memories of the show aren't too damaged. Yes, that was a drug reference. Call your dealer:

11-20 New York, NY - Webster Hall
11-21 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11-22 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre

* "Giraffricorn" is my Animal Collective name. It's exactly what it sounds like. And no, you can't have one.

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Radiohead Start Blog, Track Progress of New LP

Here's a little internet history for ya: back in the day when weblogs were just diaries about whining about your breakup, online journals were almost entirely comprised of Radiohead lyrics and pictures of one's cat. Now that Radiohead has started their own blog, Dead Air Space, to document the creation of their new album, the internet world is about to see some closed loop, snake-eating-its-own-tail shit that could cause a second big internet bust, if not the destruction of the entire space-time continuum.

The band is recording in an as-yet-undisclosed location. In the first week of the blog's existence, all five bandmembers have already posted to it; except for Thom Yorke's entries, the posts consist largely of photographs. Sunday's entry from guitarist Ed O'Brien reads in part, "So here we are in studio recording and it feels right. its only day 4, its really early days but really good things are happening....lots of deconstructing and reassembling. we've been working on mornin' m 'lud and pigsee." We are informed elsewhere on the site that the second song O'Brien refers to, "Pigsee", may also be called "Pig's Ear". Beyond that, the blog contains scant reference to Radiohead's music, choosing to focus on photographs of a dog, a man in a crown making a rude gesture, and someone stroking a potted plant.

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Arcade Fire, Annie, Goldfrapp to Head c/o Pop Festival

Cologne looks like the city to be in this week if you're Catholic and/or love electronic music. Mere days after Pope Benedict wrapped up World Youth Day 2005, Cologne will play host to the c/o Pop Festival, which starts tomorrow with a Goldfrapp performance and lasts through Sunday. What with "tomorrow" being so soon, you probably won't make it unless you're already in Central Europe, so allow us to torture you with some details.

The festival mixes concerts, conferences, and nightly parties all revolving around electronic music and the business thereof. Labels showcasing at c/o Pop include Komapakt, Areal, Bpitch Control, Trapez, Ware, and Firm. Are other types of music represented, you ask? Does the pope perform some sort of bodily function in the woods? Yes. On Friday and Saturday, two open-air shows will feature less abstruse rock and pop lineups, including the Go! Team, Hot Hot Heat, Dinosaur Jr., Arcade Fire, Annie, Hard-Fi, Maxïmo Park, and Saint Etienne.

Two million people are expected to make it to Cologne for the festival, which also includes something known as the Ringfest on Friday. According to the Nice City! Cologne tourist website, "The city of Cologne will change into a 2 km long concert area. Along the Ring streets and onto the squares of Neumarkt, Rudolfplatz, and Friesenplatz there are about 10 large stages built." The other nights, events take place in over 50 clubs around the city with shows involving (to name just a few) grime MC Tinchy Strider, Hrvatski, Ricardo Villalobos, and Burnt Friedman.

c/o Pop Festival: http://www.c-o-pop.de
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Fifth Cave In LP Out Next Month

Like a real cave-in, Massachusetts band Cave In are sudden, chaotic, and made of hard rock. Unlike a real cave-in, they've never killed any coal miners, or if they did, they didn't send us a press release about it. Cave In will drop their fifth album, Perfect Pitch Black, on September 15 via Hydra Head Records. Hydra Head were the band's label for its first three albums, before the members of Cave In took a little time off from being a metal band to sign to RCA and release a pop hardcore record. Relaxing! According to a live review from last week's Boston Phoenix, it looks like the new record sounds more like the Cave In fans know and love. Tracks:

01 Perfect Pitch Black
02 The World Is In Your Way
03 Off to Ruin
04 Trepanning
05 Paranormal
06 Down the Drain
07 Droned
08 Ataraxia
09 Tension in the Ranks
10 Screaming in Your Sleep

Cave In plan on hitting the road sometime in October to support their new release. Converge drummer Ben Koller, who replaced injured drummer JR Connors, will accompany the band for the fall tour, though according to his band's website, Converge is also hitting the road at about the same time. So either the bands will be touring together, or Koller's going to have to pull some Scooby Doo-type hijinx, possibly using a disguise, to make this happen. We suggest a fake mustache. Works every time.

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Cave In: http://www.cavein.net
Hydra Head: http://www.hydrahead.com
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Isolée, Fennesz Head Decibel Lineup

Listen up: Seattle ain't just grunge and coffee and rain. It's also electronic and coffee and rain. And to prove it, the city is set to play host to its second annual Decibel Festival. The festival's aim is to promote awareness of electronic music and media over four days comprised of audio clinics, panel discussions, film, art installations, and, of course, live performances.

The festival will be held from September 22 through September 25 and will feature a horde of electronic acts from around the globe. The venues will be splashed across Seattle's Capitol Hill district. Among the artists scheduled to perform: Isolée, Fennesz, Thomas Fehlmann, Akufen, Apparat, Styrofoam, Deadbeat, Tim Hecker, Loscil, Tipper, Aeroc, Pan American, Machine Drum, Her Space Holiday, Bruno Pronsato, Lusine, Kero, Deru, Caro, Cepia, Proem, Jeff Samuel, Strategy, Jerry Abstract, Jacob London, Deceptikon, Gel-Sol, Nudge, and many more.

Tickets range from $10 for some individual events to $50 for an all nights/all areas dealie.

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Paul Weller Plans New Album, Tour

Ex-Jam frontman Paul Weller has had an increasingly prolific solo career over the past few years-- he's racked up four LPs, a B-sides compilation, and an entry in the UK's ongoing Under the Influence series since the new millennium broke. And while he's no Ryan Adams or anything, the Mod revivalist is already back with his latest studio LP, As Is Now, set for release on October 10 in the UK and October 18 in the U.S.

The record will be Weller's eighth studio LP as a solo artist, and first since 2004's Studio 150-- which featured covers of classic singer/songwriter-ish tracks (at least our other favorite Paul, Mr. Westerberg, has yet to pull that one). The first As Is Now single, "From The Floorboards Up", was made available via Apple's iTunes this July; the full album tracklist looks like this:

01 Blink and You'll Miss It
02 Paper Smile
03 Come On / Let's Go
04 Here's the Good News
05 The Start of Forever
06 Pan
07 All on a Misty Morning
08 From the Floorboards Up
09 I Wanna Make It Alright
10 Savages
11 Fly Little Bird
12 Roll Along Summer
13 Bring Back the Funk (Pts 1 & 2)
14 The Pebble and the Boy

In other news, Weller also has a number of live dates planned through the rest of 2005 in support of the new LP. Kicking off mid-September in Los Angeles, there are currently six U.S. shows scheduled before the style counselor heads back across the pond for a year-end tour through Europe. In these cities:

09-16 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern LG
09-17 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
09-20 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
09-22 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
09-24 New York, NY - Roseland
09-25 Boston, MA - Avalon
10-18 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
10-19 Hamburg, Germany - Docks Konzerte
10-20 Bielefeld, Germany - Ringlokschuppen
10-21 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
10-23 Offenbach, Germany - Capitol
10-24 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
11-01 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
11-03 Madrid, Spain - Riviera
11-10 Edinburgh, Scotland - Usher Hall
11-11 Dundee, Scotland - Caird Hall
11-13 Glasgow, Scotland - S.E.C.C.
11-15 Doncaster, England - The Dome
11-16 Leeds, England - Leeds University
11-18 Brentwood, England - Leisure Centre
11-19 Cambridge, England - Corn Exchange
11-20 Newcastle, England - Metro Radio Arena
11-22 Brighton, England - Brighton Centre
11-23 Birmingham, England - NIA Academy
11-24 Manchester, England - Manchester Evening News Arena
11-26 Cardiff, Wales - Cardiff International Arena
11-27 Oxford, England - New Theatre
11-29 Bournemouth, England - International Centre
11-30 Bristol, England - Colston Hall
12-02 Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom
12-04 Nottingham, England - Nottingham Arena
12-05 London, England - Alexandra Palace

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Paul Weller: http://www.paulweller.com
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