Techno Legend Carl Craig Mixes for Fabric

Legendary producer/DJ/label owner/scene figurehead Carl Craig has been infecting listeners with his sticky, sweaty throb and dizzying patchwork of off-color brass bursts, tumble-dry techno, and theatric house vocals for the past decade and a half. With his Paperclip People, Innerzone Orchestra, and solo projects, his Planet E imprint, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and remixes for everybody from Tori Amos and Depeche Mode to Throbbing Gristle and Zap Mama, Craig has helped define modern electronic dance music, from techno to drum n bass and beyond.

He also really likes the Ying Yang Twins.

Craig's forthcoming mix CD, Fabric 25, set for release December 6 on the London club Fabric's record label, kicks off with the YYT banger "Wait (The Whisper Song)". After promising to beat the pussy up, the disc continues with seventeen more tracks by people you've probably never heard of, unless you're an avid XLR8R reader (hey look who's on the cover this month-- Carl Craig!) Since this is the latest entry in Fabric's esteemed mix series, we're sure it will sound awesome, even if all of the artist names are aliases for the same pasty white European sound engineer who never leaves the studio.

Wait til you see my tracklist:

01 Yang Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper Song)
02 Carl Craig - Angel (Caya Dub)
03 Trickski - Sweat
04 Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym
05 Just One - Love2Love [Phlash Edit]
06 Megablast - Jupita [Stereotyp Remix]
07 Scott Grooves - The Journey
08 Africanism - Imbalaye
09 Blaze Presents UDA feat. Barbara Tucker - Most Precious Love [DF Future 3000 Instrumental]
10 Rayon - The Panther [Rubber Re-Edit]
11 Soundstream - 3rd Movement
12 Dark Comedy - Good God
13 D'Malicious - Alive
14 Pasta Boys - Limit
15 DJ Yoav B. - Energize
16 Nick Petty & Shamus Coghlan - Crushing
17 Carl Craig - Darkness
18 Tokyo Black Star - Blade Dancer [Dixon Edit]

Craig will celebrate Fabric 25 with a pair of release parties in New York City and Chicago next week, each preceded by an in-store set:

12-01 New York, NY - Adidas Originals (in store)
12-01 New York, NY - APT
12-01 Chicago, IL - Gramaphone Records (in store)
12-02 Chicago, IL - Smart Bar

In addition to the Fabric mix, Craig has a crate-load of releases in the works, including a new artist album due next summer, Theo Parrish and Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom remixes, a Japan-only sequel to his Designer Music remix compilation, and a collection of influential techno tracks titled Kings of House, selected by Craig and Laurent Garnier, scheduled to come out on BBE in March. Also, Craig recently spun a set on DFA associate Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space radio show on New York City's WNYU, which can be downloaded from the Beats in Space website for home laptop-rocking.

*Fabric:http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/home.php

Ex-Beta Band Frontman Discusses Solo Project

When the Beta Band broke up last year, the smart money was on frontman Steve Mason as the Band member most likely to succeed in a post-Beta world. Now, he's got the chance to prove it, with the forthcoming debut album from his solo project, King Biscuit Time.

Mason released two King Biscuit Time EPs while the Beta Band were still going strong, 1998's Sings Nelly Foggits Blues in "Me and the Pharoahs" and 2000's No Style. The latter EP shares its name with the record label Mason recently started with his manager, legendary Creation Records honcho and current Poptones bigwig Alan McGee, to distribute King Biscuit Time's music. So far, No Style has released one single, the politically-charged space dub "C I Am 15" in September.

It's no surprise that Mason wanted to strike out on his own; the Beta Band's troubles with their former label have been well documented. "When the Beta Band finished I really didn't want to sign to another major label," Mason told Pitchfork last week, on the phone from his home in the Scottish town of Pittenweem. "It just doesn't make any sense, you know? Apart from the instant up-front cash, there's nothing they can really give me that I can't do through my own label. So I spoke to my managers about it. We can do it real easily because they've got all the things in place for the Poptones label."

"It's just a matter of not having that advance initially, so you have to wait for that money to come through. But when it does come through, it's actually my money, I don't have to start paying someone back for anything. So, I think it's going to be a lot more satisfying, and hopefully might make considerably more money than I would through a major label."

Mason is optimistic about going the independent route. "There really is a big resurgence in indie labels over here," he said. "Through the Internet and stuff like that, people are realizing that the major labels are just these huge lumbering dinosaurs, and you can do things on your own which take a major label six months to do, when they DO do it. Ninety percent of the time they kind of get it wrong anyway."

However, Mason thinks that the major label system is less broken in America, and he hopes to sign with the Beta Band's former home, Astralwerks (a subsidiary of EMI) for Stateside distribution. "Astralwerks, to be honest, it's quite a small group of people you actually work with-- it's only two or three people. So, for me it's always had that atmosphere of being a very small label anyway, and they are really enthusiastic about music and they don't have that kind of major label "blaséness" about things."

King Biscuit Time's debut album, The Crunch, is tentatively scheduled to be released by No Style in the February of 2006. A second single, "Kwangchow", is due in January. Mason wrote, produced, and played almost everything on the record, and he said that the majority of its tracks don't sound anything like "C I Am 15". "It sounds more like a band," he said. "I wanted to make 'C I Am 15' quite stripped down and more concentrated on the vocal and beat and the bass, but the rest of the songs are more densely packed melody-wise and a little bit more kind of like stuff I've done in the past."

Here's the tracklist for The Crunch:

01 C I Am 15
02 Izzum
03 Impossible Ride
04 Kwangchow
05 Lefteye
06 All Over You
07 Way You Walk
08 Paperhead
09 Rising Son
10 Metal Biscuit

King Biscuit Time has one show scheduled for the remainder of 2005, a benefit concert on November 30 at Club Ego in Edinburgh, as part of the One in Four festival to raise awareness of mental health issues (Mogwai are also performing during the fest). Mason hopes to tour extensively next year, including America.

But recreating his dense soundscapes on stage is no easy task. "At the moment, since I don't have any money, I can't afford to pay a full band," he explained. "So at the moment, we take out a Mac laptop and run it off that. Then I've got a friend that plays bass and guitar and then another friend who runs the laptop and plays piano and does some percussion."

"I really didn't want to play too much live in King Biscuit Time, I just wanted to be more concentrated on the singing. So it's very, very simple live, although it sounds pretty big. It's almost like karaoke. It's such a total opposite from the Beta Band."

Speaking of which-- what does Mason think of the recent Best of the Beta Band collection? "I haven't actually listened to it," he said. "But there's a few omissions and a few things that I wouldn't have put on, and also one track that we did for the album which didn't end up on there. It's never been heard, and it's a quite good one. It's called 'All Alone'. It's a very slow, sad song."

Mason said that he still keeps in touch with Beta Band bassist Richard Greentree, who is currently working as a carpenter and finishing a solo album. He doesn't speak to his two other former bandmates, drummer Robin Jones and turntablist John Maclean.

In addition to King Biscuit Time, Mason said that he's been working with Scottish composer Paul Leonard on a project, as well as composing the score for a short film entitled Bowl Cut, featuring Scottish actor Charlie Creed-Miles.

Run the Road 2 Coming to U.S. in February

Would you honestly watch a Cleveland Cavaliers game if Lebron James was out with an injury? Dig into a bowl of Chex Mix that didn't have any mini-pretzels? Probably not, right? But how about an ambitious UK grime comp without Dizzee Rascal?

Sure, the makers of Run the Road are walking that line with their notoriously Dizzee-free second volume, which hits American shores via Vice Records February 7. But as a consolation, Run the Road Volume 2 includes plenty of grime's other heavy hitters, like Lady Sovereign, Wiley, Kano, and Sway. See for yourself:

01 Bear Man feat. Doctor & Fender: Drink Beer
02 Big Seac: Nah Nah
03 Crazy Titch: World Is Crazy
04 Doctor & Davinche: Gotta Man?
05 Dynasty Crew: Bare Face Dynasty
06 Ghetto feat. Katie Pearl: Run the Road
07 JME: Serious (Run the Road Remix)
08 Kano feat. Demon & Ghetto: Mic Check
09 Klashnekoff: Can't You See?
10 Lady Sovereign: Little Bit of Shhh! (DJ Wonder Remix)
11 Low Deep feat. Kano, Ghetto, Big Seac, Demon, & Doctor: Get Set
12 Miss Beats feat. Wiley, Jammer, Earz, JME & Sier: Saw It Comin
13 No Lay: Unorthodox Chick
14 Plan B: Sick 2 Def (Acoustic)
15 Sway feat. Bruza, Skinnyman, Pyrelli, Bigz & Tripple Threat: Up Your Speed
16 Tribal: They Gave Him an Inch

Ben Folds to Release Live DVD

For those who find Ben Folds' humorous piano-pop a skosh too much like school in the summer time (no class!), his latest release should serve as a resounding "Hey, hey, hey!" reminding you that one's redneck past doesn't necessarily preclude one from occasionally bringing the swank. And what says "swanksta" better than an 83-piece symphony orchestra?

The bespectacled "Brick"-layer does just that with Ben Folds & WASO - Live in Perth, to be released by Epic Records on December 6. Culled from a two-night stint this past March at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, the DVD documents Folds "in a way never heard or seen before." Sorry, not smell-o-vision, but we do get the angry dwarf performing with the solemn faces of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, most of whom, if memory of high school band kids serves, you wouldn't want to smell anyway. Carrying those tubas is sweaty business!

For those of y'all who wear fanny packs, here's the tracklist:

01 Zak and Sara
02 Smoke
03 Fred Jones part 2
04 Steven's Last Night in Town
05 Boxing
06 Annie Waits
07 Brick
08 Evaporated
09 Not the Same
10 The Ascent of Stan
11 Lullabye
12 Narcolepsy
13 Rock This Bitch
14 The Luckiest

No need to fret if you can't stand to wait until the 10th day of Advent for your fix of live key pounding, as Folds is currently touring in support of his latest album, Songs for Silverman.

Rock these bitches:

11-18 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live *
11-19 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre *
11-20 Austin, TX - University of TX at Austin - Bass Hall *
11-29 Hempstead, NY - JC Adams Playhouse #
12-12 Birmingham, England - NIA Academy
12-13 London, England - Brixton Academy
12-15 Manchester, England - Manchester Apollo

* with the Fray
# with Corn Mo

Exclusive: Kevin Shields Remixes the Go! Team

It's a match made in surround-sound heaven: Kevin Shields, the mysterious, reclusive genius behind My Bloody Valentine, has ventured out of hibernation to create a mega-remix of the Go! Team songs "Ladyflash" and "Huddle Formation", to be included on the forthcoming "Ladyflash" single. Due January 30 on Memphis Industries in the UK, the single will also include a RJD2 remix of "Huddle Formation", a Simian Mobile Disco remix of "Ladyflash", and a brand new Go! Team song, "The Wrath of Mikey". It will be available as a 7", CD, and download.

According to Memphis Industries, the genesis of the Shields collaboration began when label representatives approached him following a Go! Team show. Shields told them that the performance was the greatest concert he had ever seen in his life, and expressed his desire to work with the band. The resulting mix is, according to Memphis' Ollie Jacob, "really really happy". He added, "Kevin Shields out-Go! Teamed the Go! Team."

In other Go! Team news, the band recently turned down the opportunity to open for Duran Duran, and announced a new round of shows in the UK in February and March. Let's cross our fingers for a live Shields Team mash-up.

The Power Is On:

11-26 Munich, Germany - Bayerische (Rundfunk Festival)
11-27 Berlin, Germany - Magnet *
11-28 Cologne, Germany - Prime Club *
11-29 Hamburg, Germany - Logo *
12-01 Basel, Switzerland - Kaserne
12-02 Bologna, Italy - Covo *
12-03 Rome, Italy - Circolo degli Artisti *
12-04 Turin, Italy - Cafe Procope *
12-05 Zurich, Austria - Mascotte *
12-06 Vienna, Austria - Flex *
12-08 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique *
02-15 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy
02-16 Leeds, England - Leeds Metropolitan University
02-17 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
02-18 Manchester, England - Academy
02-20 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
02-21 Newcastle, England - Newcastle University
02-22 Sheffield, England - The Plug
02-24 Reading, England - University of Reading
02-25 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
02-26 Bristol, England - Academy
02-27 Norwich, England - Waterfront
03-01 London, England - KOKO
03-05 Oxford, England - Brookes University
03-06 Leicester, England - University of Leicester
03-07 Cardiff, Wales - Coal Exchange
03-08 Southampton, England - University of Southampton

* with Her Space Holiday

* Pitchfork Review:The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike (U.S.)
* Pitchfork News: The Go! Team Release New Single, Cheer up America

Single Frame Get Remixed by Nick Zinner, Tour

Now that you've sent creepy messages to every attractive 16-year-old girl you could find, and the number of people in your Friend Space is greater than your annual salary, you're left wondering what your next MySpace move should be. How about surfing over to Austin, TX indie-electro-ites Single Frame's page and downloading the band's new collection of remixes? Previously available only as promotional 12"s, the tracks are reinterpreted by J-MPRINT, Creepy Kid, and the skinniest boy in garage rock, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

It's been quite a year for Single Frame. They released a record (Body/End/Basement on Volcom), lost guitarist Brendan Riley, and replaced him with Ian Graham (a guy they claim to have dug up in the backyard). The band will close out 2005 with a bang; in addition to the MySpace remixes, they'll be hitting the road with lo-fi video game rockers Mixel Pixel.

Maybe you'll run into TiffanyLou69 or BobisRad at one of these shows:

11-30 Denton, TX - Hailey's
12-01 El Paso, TX - House of Rock & Roll
12-02 Albuquerque, NM - Atomic Cantina
12-03 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts
12-04 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory Front Bar
12-05 Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
12-07 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern *
12-08 Chico, CA - Off Limits
12-09 Portland, OR - Towne Lounge
12-10 Aberdeen, WA - Alfie's
12-12 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
12-13 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Saloon
12-14 Des Moines, IA - Vaudville Mews
12-15 Detroit, MI - Corktown Tavern
12-16 Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar
12-17 Chicago, IL - Red Line Tap
12-18 Columbus, OH - The High Five
12-19 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
12-20 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber

* with Chromatics

Exclusive: Boy Least Likely To Plan U.S. Release, Tour

Ironically or not, it was always hard to imagine The Boy Least Likely To throwing the Best Party Ever exclusively in the UK. It's just not so easy to join in on the whimsy while paying import prices.

Well, release the half-empty helium balloons and break out the crooked party hats, 'cause the boys from Wendover have told Pitchfork that they will deliver their carefully crafted indie-pop debut, The Best Party Ever, to our shores on April 4, on their own label, Too Young to Die. The album will feature the same 12 songs as the UK version, but will also come strapped with a bonus disc of five songs in their first widely available format, boasting such least likely titles as "Every Grubby Little Memory" and "Rock Upon a Porch With You."

Main album tracklist:

01 Be Gentle With Me
02 Fur Soft as Fur
03 Monsters
04 Paper Cuts
05 Warm Panda Cola
06 I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes
07 I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star
08 The Battle of the Boy Least Likely To
09 Sleeping With a Gun Under My Pillow
10 Hugging My Grudge
11 My Tiger My Heart
12 God Takes Care of the Little Things

The Boy Least Likely To will gently nudge U.S. audiences into a frenzy with their first American tour, scheduled to begin at the South by Southwest music festival in March. It will continue into April, and will conclude with a record release party in New York City. Details have yet to be confirmed, but, ya know, it's only a matter of time.

In the meantime, the Boys will fête their homeland with a one-off Christmas concert, as well as a series of February shows.

When it's time to party, we will party hard:

12-15 London, England - Luminaire
02-16 Brighton, England - Hanbury Ballroom
02-17 Bristol, England - Louisiana
02-18 Southampton, England - Joiners
02-19 Oxford, England - Zodiac
02-20 Birmingham, England - Bar Academy
02-22 Sheffield, England - Leadmill
02-23 Manchester, England - Night & Day Café <br> 02-24 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tuts
02-25 York, England - Fibbers
02-26 Nottingham, England - Social
02-28 London, England - Bush Hall

Exclusive: Liars' Angus Andrew Discusses New Record

Liars haven't been seen in public much in 2005, with just a few live performances and a provocatively-packaged single to show for the year. Meanwhile, rumors have swirled about the trio of Angus Andrew, Julian Gross, and Aaron Hemphill: they all moved to Germany; they recorded, then canned an album; their label, Mute, rejected the album; the band broke up.

Some of these things are true. Some aren't. Pitchfork recently caught up with Andrew, on the phone from a tour stop in Belgium. He's been living in Berlin, Germany, for two years, he said, and the rest of the band moved there recently to work on their forthcoming album, Drum's Not Dead. Gross and Hemphill will probably return to the U.S., but Andrew doesn't plan on it.

"It's really cheap and I enjoy it," he said of Berlin. "I only need a bike and I don't need anything else. I lived in America for ten years after I left Australia, and I haven't experienced anything else. Moving to Berlin was a real shock to the system in terms of having another historical context to draw from. It's really good for me actually."

As for Drum's Not Dead, originally supposed to come out this fall, but now scheduled for release on March 21, 2006, the delay was due to a combination of artist tinkering and Mute scheduling problems. "We've been through a few different variations of [Drum's Not Dead]," Andrew said. "The first was stuff we were still working on after [2004's They Were Wrong so We] Drowned that we thought we were going to release but decided not to. I think we recorded another time and kept some of that but thought about it a bit more, and then finally finished it."

He continued, "We finished it quite a while ago. Recently it's been more of a label issue about when it exactly comes out." Did the delay have anything to do with the DVD being packaged with Drum's, containing three different videos for every track?

"No, it's more like they had to put out Depeche Mode and were not willing to put ours out at the end of this year. So they delayed it to next year. It was real disappointing for us. In the end you come to realize it's not all about you. There are other things going on that you have to fit into, I suppose. It's a real learning experience, you know?"

But Andrew was quick to add, "I'm definitely happy with Mute and the way things are going."

The Drum's DVD, with films by Andrew, Gross, and German filmmaker Markus Wambsganss, also lengthened the creation process. While on tour in Eastern Europe, the band shot footage to go with an earlier version of the record, but by the end of the tour, they had written all new songs to better compliment the images. "We went and recorded those, and we were really happy with that, but the film wasn't finished at all," explained Andrew. "So we still had time to make more music. It's this ongoing process with the DVD idea and how to really get them together."

Andrew described the DVD as "three visual versions of the album." He continued, "Neither Julian nor I really had any experience with video or making this kind of thing. The chance to learn and make stuff at the same time and be able to put it out is really fun. It became this sort of monumental challenge for us. In the end I'm really happy, I think."

Don't expect to be overwhelmed by the thrilling, action-packed plotlines of the films, though. "Mine is quite simplistic," Andrew said. "It features a snail that drifts through the whole record. Whether or not that's going to be captivating, I like it." Ooh...exciting.

As the album title suggests, the audio portion of Drum's is all about rhythm. "A lot of what we've been doing recently is dual drumming," Andrew said. "The interest is in the immediacy of the drum and how you don't need to be an expert to hear a different tone. It's very instinctual and that's very much us."

"We tried to experiment, but in a more traditional sense. We made a song with piano, or an acoustic guitar. For me, there was a point where I felt I needed the challenge of how to play a song for someone on a guitar. I've never done that before. I'm not a musician. Usually the songs come to me as drum-based. And then I put them together and I make something with that. I'm not going to sit around a campfire and sing a song to someone. For me, a lot of this record was that sort of challenge to make songs in that very simplistic way."

He added, "We concentrated on drums for the record, and in the process of that, the way we've learned to work with one another, (which is always an ongoing experience), we were able to relax a bit more."

Evidence of that relaxation can be found in the cover artwork for Drum's first single, "It Fit When I Was a Kid", released yesterday in the UK and due out on December 13 in America. It features Photoshopped images of Andrew's, Gross', and Hemphill's faces attached to the naked bodies of what appear to be gay porn stars, captured in compromising positions.

According to Andrew, it isn't a joke: "I'm sure tons of bands tell you they feel like they're married. You live and sleep together. It just seems like the next step, more intimate contact with each other. The relationship is kinda like that. We tend to fuck each other in the ass a bit, but also give each other fellatio at other times."

Although the Mute version of the single will feature censored artwork, Liars plan to release a limited-edition full-frontal version themselves. Oh, and the sleeve will be printed on edible paper.

"We have a problem because any sort of confectionary place you go to with that image seems not too happy about it," Andrew explained. "What's happening right now is the band will have to print it ourselves around the Christmas season."

And what will the paper taste like? Andrew doesn't know. "Maybe it will taste like Julian's underarms."

As previously reported, here's the "It Fit When I Was a Kid" tracklist:

7":

A: It Fit When I Was a Kid
B: It Fit When I Was a Kid (Don't Techno for an Answer remix)

CD:

01 It Fit When I Was a Kid
02 Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood
03 Bingo! Count Draculuck
04 It Fit When I Was a Kid (Don't Techno for an Answer remix)
Videos:
It Fit When I Was a Kid (Video by Julian Gross)
Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood (Video by Aaron Hemphill)
Bingo! Count Draculuck (Video by Angus Andrew)

Andrew said the band is looking forward to finally touring America in support of the album. "It's like the pot at the end of the rainbow, hopefully," he said. "I've been dying to play there for so long. When the record comes out we're going to do a six-week or eight-week tour. Back to the roots. Tallahassee, Florida or something. Try to get back to those places we played before."

And as a treat for those of you who stuck it out all the way to the end of this massive story, we've finally got the full tracklist for Drum's Not Dead. Once again, Liars seem to be trying to tell some sort of story with their song titles:

CD:

Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack!
Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
A Visit From Drum
Drum Gets A Glimpse
It Fit When I Was A Kid
The Wrong Coat For You Mt. Heart Attack
Hold You, Drum
Its All Blooming Now Mt. Heart Attack
Drum And The Uncomfortable Can
You, Drum
To Hold You, Drum
The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack

DVD:

Julian Gross - Drum's Not Bread
Angus Andrew - The Helix Aspersa
Markus Wambsganss - By Your Side

Right now, Liars are finishing up a European tour with shows in Ireland and England. Snails and gay porn stars welcome here:

11-22 Belfast, Northern Ireland - The Bunker at Laverys
11-23 Limerick, Ireland - The Green Room at Trinity Rooms
11-24 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
11-25 Cork, Ireland - Club 1
11-26 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's *
11-28 Manchester, England - Bierkeller #
11-29 London, England - Luminaire #

* with Betamax Format
# with Celebration

* Pitchfork News: Liars Launch European Trek, Get Naked

Death Cab, Shins, Blood Bros. Rock for Vera Project

Major cities, take note: decent nightlife shouldn't only be for the 21 and over set. The Vera Project understands this. The Seattle all-ages music and arts venue provides local teens the opportunity to see shows, perform on stage, or work behind the scenes. And there's even a snack bar where you can buy candy, juice, and soda during shows!

To cap off a successful year of fundraising awareness efforts, the Vera Proejct will be the beneficiary of Seattle radio station 107.7 The End's annual Deck the Hall Ball, taking place December 8 at Seattle's Showbox, and featuring local acts Death Cab for Cutie, Harvey Danger, Aqueduct, and the Saturday Knights.

Adding to the holiday cheer, all ticket holders get a copy of Live From the Morning Alternative: A Benefit for the Vera Project Volume II before it hits stores December 9. The disc contains songs recorded live on the Morning Alternative radio show on The End, with the exception of two EndSessions, by the Shins and the Blood Brothers, recorded at the Vera Project.

The album will mostly be distributed locally, but out-of-town folks can order it through the Sonic Boom Records online store. All proceeds from the sale of the album go to the Vera Project. Tracklist:

01 Post Stardom Depression: "What You See Is What You Get"
02 The Pale Pacific: "Gravity Gets Things Done"
03 Supersuckers: "I Like It All Man"
04 Schoolyard Heroes: "They Live"
05 Slender Means: "I Could Be Cruel"
06 The Cops: "Don't Take It Personal Dave"
07 The Posies: "Conversations"
08 Aqueduct: "Growing Up With GNR"
09 The Shins: "Gone for Good (EndSession track)"
10 The Briefs: "Shoplifting at Macy's"
11 Kinski: "The Wives of Artie Shaw"
12 Harvey Danger: "Wine, Women, and Song"
13 Pleasurecraft: "Simplicity"
14 Minus the Bear: "Drilling"
15 Tullycraft: "Rumble With the Gang Debs"
16 The Blood Brothers: "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck (EndSession track)"
17 The Divorce: "Call the Police"
18 The Saturday Knights: "Motorin'"

Pretty Girls Make Graves Tour in Advance of Album

Everyone knows that Pretty Girls Make Graves, but we also know that at the end of the month, the Matador Records power-punk band will embark on a grave procession across their home continent. PGMG will hit both the Northwest and the Northeast, before wrapping it all up in mid-December (like a present). Short and sweet.

This teensy trek might not hit your hometown, but before doing something that will put you on Santa's "Naughty" list, remember that PGMG have a new album in the works, following up 2003's The New Romance.

Aimed for an April 2006 release on Matador, the record is said to be completely different than the oldies. It even features some n00bs to the PGMG crew: producer Colin Stewart (Black Mountain) and multi-instrumentalist Leona Marrs (in place of former guitarist Nathan Thelen).

Bassist Derek Fudesco told Canada's ChartAttack.com, "The difference between Good Health and New Romance is not that big, but sort of big. This one is so much different than both of those. People who liked those two records might not really be into what's going on on this one." Gee, that's descriptive. He also told Milwaukee's Shepherd Express Online that the album is "less guitar-oriented than our other records," and "this is the first record where individual members wrote whole songs. There are a lot of different personalities." Once again, not too helpful.

Pretty girls, make some noise:

11-29 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar
11-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Red Room
12-01 Tacoma, WA - Hell's Kitchen
12-02 Seattle, WA - Husky Union Building, University of Washington *
12-05 New York, NY - Knitting Factory #
12-06 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw #
12-08 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
12-09 Bellmore, NY - Live Trax #
12-10 Providence, RI - The Living Room #
12-11 Cambridge, MA - Middle East #
12-12 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar #

* with Andrew W.K.
# with The Double

Bauhaus to Reissue Videos, Live Film on DVD

VHS tapes-- remember those things? Remember how they went out of style and all of us film enthusiasts were forced to repurchase our whole collection on DVD just for a few deleted scenes and lousy commentary tracks from co-executive producers? Yeah, that sucked...like a vampire!

Until now, Bauhaus fans have had a reason to hold onto their VCRs: two live concert videos, Shadow of Light and Archive.

But guess what! Those performances are now being released on a DVD, appropriately titled Shadow of Light/Archive. So go ahead and chuck those VCRs out the window (unless you still need to tape Lost, in which case you have my permission to keep yours until you hook up the TiVo).

The DVD hits shelves on December 6, courtesy of Beggars Banquet. Between its two discs, the set contains all of the band's promo videos, as well as a live performance recorded at London's Old Vic Theatre in 1982.

Bela Lugosi's still dead:

Shadow of Light:

01 Bela Lugosi's Dead
02 Telegram Sam
03 Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
04 Mask
05 Spirit
06 In the Flat Field
07 Ziggy Stardust
08 Hollow Hills
09 She's in Parties

Archive:

01 Lagartija Nick
02 The Passion of Lovers
03 Kick in the Eye
04 A God in an Alcove
05 Dancing
06 Hair of the Dog
07 Stigmata Martyr
08 Dark Entries
09 We Love our Audience
10 Sanity Assassin

And as you surely remember, Bauhaus in the midst of a massive reunion tour, draining the blood out of fans'...wallets. Since it would be irresponsible of us not to give you the dates, here's what's left of them:

11/22 Bethesda, MD - Strathmore
11/24 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
11/25 Orlando, FL - House of Blues
11/26 Pompano Beach, FL - Club Cinema
11/29 Guadalajara, Mexico - Teatro Diana
11/30 Mexico City, Mexico - Palacio de los Deportes
12/09 Anaheim, CA - The Grove
12/10 Ventura, CA - Ventura Theater
12/12 San Diego, CA - Copley Hall
12/13 San Diego, CA - 4th & B
01/28 Dublin, Ireland - Ambassador
01/29 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
01/30 Newcastle, England - Academy
02/01 Manchester, England - Academy
02/02 Birmingham, England - Academy
02/03 London, England - Brixton Academy
02/05 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
02/06 Paris, France - Bataclan
02/07 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
02/09 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
02/10 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
02/11 Haarlem, Netherlands - Patronaat
02/13 Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
02/15 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
02/16 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
02/17 Oporto, Portugal - Colliseum

Poker Flat to Release Massive Box Set

Proving electronic music has come a long, long way since C+C Music Factory, preeminent German techno/house label Poker Flat Recordings will soon release an expansive mega-set entitled Poker Flat Volume 1-4: The Ultimate Box-Set Collection. Poker Flat, founded by Steve Bug and home to beloved producers like Håkan Lidbo and Märtini Brös, celebrates six years of cutting choice twelve-inches and occasional CDs with the December 6 release.

We bluff you not: the six-disc scorcher compiles more than 80 tracks, including exclusives from John Tejada, Martin Landsky, and others, as well as cuts from Swayzak, Jimmy Edgar, Richie Hawtin, Josh Wink, and Detroit Grand Pubahs. Live turntable mixes by Tejada and Landsky fill two of the discs, while the last was mixed by Seattle DJ Jeff Samuel. The whole enchilada clocks in at over seven hours.

The epic tracklist:

CD1:
01 Håkan Lidbo: "Televinken"
02 Märtini Brös: "Tanzen"
03 Steve Bug: "Fog You"
04 Håkan Lidbo: "Meta-Matic"
05 Steve Bug: "At the Front (David Carretta remix)"
06 Jackmate: "The Jacker"
07 Märtini Brös: "Baby Haze"
08 Tom Clark: "Snap-Shot"
09 Steve Bug: "Loverboy (Josh Wink remix)"
10 Steve Bug & DJ T: "Monsterblaze"

CD2 (live-turntable mix by Martin Landsky):
01 Jackmate: "The Child"
02 Steve Bug: "A Night Like This (Richie Hawtin remix)"
03 Steve Bug & Clé: "Downunderware"
04 Märtini Brös: "Flash"
05 Jeff Bennett: "Last Breath"
06 Swayzak vs. Roger 23: "Toir"
07 Steve Bug: "A Night Like This"
08 Robotman: "Hypno Freak (Steve Bug's Hypnotized remix)"
09 Orbit Starz: "Undefined Emotionz"
10 Jeff Bennett: "Recognition"
11 Håkan Lidbo: "Kiki de Montparnasse"
12 Martin Landsky: "Use Me"
13 A.D.N.Y.: "Realm Of Spirits"
14 Benjamin Wild & Meta.83: "Bit One"
15 Martin Landsky: "Sweet Sweet Morning"
16 Steve Bug: "The Morning After (Steve O'Sullivan remix)"

CD3:
01 Detroit Grand Pubahs: "The Clapper"
02 Märtini Brös: "Mattel Baby"
03 Steve Bug: "Okoubaka"
04 Phonique: "There It Is"
05 Phonogenic: "Guilty Spark"
06 Jackmate vs. Nick Reiff: "Every Step"
07 Håkan Lidbo: "Give Me Your Disease"
08 Jeff Bennett: "Motion"
09 Jeff Samuel: "Get It"
10 Martin Landsky: "Housed"
11 Märtini Brös: "Love the Machine (Robag Wruhme remix)"
12 Growing Glisses: "Gayo"

CD4 (live-turntable mix by John Tejada):
01 Jeff Samuel: "Get It"
02 Glowing Glisses: "On the Bridge (Justus Kohnke remix)"
03 Guido Schneider: "Moved"
04 Phonique: "Trip to Texas"
05 Glowing Glisses: "Ball"
06 Steve Bug: "November Girl"
07 Detroit Grand Pubahs: "The Clapper (Phonique Remix)"
08 Märtini Brös: "Hot (Mr Brook's Cold Turkey remix)"
09 Phonique: "Beat'n'Greet"
10 Martin Landsky: "Reject"
11 Steve Bug: "That's What I Like (Steve Bug's Funk a Duck Mix)"
12 John Tejada: "Flight to Tokyo"
13 Martin Landsky: "Mission Upskirt"
14 Jussi-Pekka: Dancing Queen (Jussi-Pekka's Germanny Mix)"
15 Steve Bug: "That Kid"
16 John Tejada: "Flight to Berlin"
17 Jimmy Edgar: "We Like You"
18 Brian Aneurysm: "Delta"
19 Jeff Bennett: "Swapping"

CD5:
01 Martin Landsky: "FM Safari (Patrick Chardronnet's Silent Snake mix)"
02 Steve Bug: "Loverboy (re-bugged by Steve Bug)"
03 John Tejada: "Steppa"
04 Vincenzo: "Peng"
05 ADJD: "Bring It Back"
06 Martin Landsky: "Fools (They Don't Know the Time)"
07 Detroit Grand Pubahs: "Big Onion (Joakim Slap on It remix)"
08 Alexi Delano: "Can You Compute?"
09 Argy: "Nuthouse"
10 Märtini Brös: "(She's) Heavy Metal (Prins Thomas remix)"

CD6 (mixed by Jeff Samuel):
01 Detroit Grand Pubahs: "Surrender (Martin Landsky remix)"
02 Steve Bug: "Bug in Your Brain"
03 Chardronnet vs. Afrilounge: "Just for a Little Peek"
04 ADJD: "Save Me"
05 Guido Schneider meets Jens Bond: "Oh My Buffer (Jeff Samuel remix)"
06 Guido Schneider: "As Dry as I Can"
07 Martin Landsky: "FM Safari (Patrick Chardronnet's Cheeky Chimp mix)"
08 Steve Bug: "Loverboy (re-worked by Steve Bug feat. Cassy)"
09 Phonique & The Usual Suspects (Duriez & Weeks): "Altered Rock"
10 Jeff Samuel: "Glurf"
11 Guido Schneider: "Las Cuerdas De Las Canarias"
12 John Tejada: "Sweat (On the Walls)"
13 Donnacha Costello: "The Plan"
14 Phonique: Suspicious Kermit Dance"
15 ADJD: "Getting Closer"

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