This week: Pitchfork launched Pitchfork.tv, a website featuring exclusive, high quality videos from your favorite Pitchfork bands including Radiohead, Man Man, Jay Reatard, and more.
This week: Stereogum launched Videogum, a new blog writing about film, TV, and other related pop culture obsessions.
Last month: We took this video of our dog.
I am only dealing with things that draw and entertain crowds this week. Actual Columbus Culture. Don’t know why anyone would talk about anything else. Killed In Action week and then some.
Killed in Action flyer/zine by Big Marty.
Courtesy Jim DeRogatis, here’s the full line-up to Lollapalooza 2008 (so far).
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley
Bloc Party
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Lupe Fiasco
Flogging Molly
Mark Ronson
Cat Power
The National
G. Love & Special Sauce
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Explosions in the Sky
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Dierks Bentley
Okkervil River
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk
Your Vegas
CSS
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
Battles
Steel Train
Jamie Lidell
Bang Camaro
Butch Walker
The Blakes
Mates of State
Tally Hall
Spank Rock
White Lies
Brazilian Girls
Magic Wands
Chromeo
Electric Touch
Duffy
Innerpartysystem
The Kills
The Postelles
Rogue Wave
The Parlor Mob
The Go! Team
Bald Eagle
Mason Jennings
Krista
The Gutter Twins
Ha Ha Tonka
Yeasayer
Witchcraft
Grizzly Bear
We Go To 11
MGMT
Sofia Talvik
The Weakerthans
Booka Shade
Santogold
Black Kids
Black Lips
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Whigs
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
Uffie
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
K’NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner
Photographer/Musician Cassie Lewis took photos of Jens Lekman’s performance at the Wexner Center earlier this week. Click here to see the entire gallery.
Get Right is back tonight. It grew too fast and needed a venue that could fit it. That spot is Club Karma aka the old Red Zone. Lets put it all on Front Street. At this point you can put Get Right, and Sweatin next to Ladies 80’s and the Clampdown as sureshot parties to find a packed crowd. Milk Bar is running laps on heads right now. Its weird what happens when people do things correctly.
What did the world do to deserve this?
Through her many real and apocryphal connections to “The Sandman” — Amos wrote the introduction to “Death: The High Cost of Living,” references author Neil Gaiman and the Dream King in her music, and is generally thought to be the inspiration for Delirium — Amos is known to comics fans as one of us. She aims to prove it with the help of editor Rantz Hoseley and Image Comics, who will this summer release “Comic Book Tattoo,” a nearly 500-page deluxe-packaged anthology featuring some of comics’ brightest talents including David Mack, Mike Dringenberg, Jonathan Hickman, Carla Speed McNeil, Laurenn McCubbin, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ivan Brandon, Callum Watt, Neil Kleid, Christopher Mitten, Elzabeth Genco, Chris Arrant, and Daniel Heard — all of whom turn in new work inspired by the music of Tori Amos. (full story)
If I read this 10 years ago I might have been excited, but now, man, I just don’t know.
If you find yourself in Columbus tomorrow, you’ve been ordered to go to the Ravari Room for a night of 100% pure rock and roll.
We’re really excited to present The Hard Lessons from Detroit along with our lovers The Evil Queens and Sin Nombre.
The Hard Lessons have been destroying stages all over the country for a long time now, so it’s good to get them in Columbus. On their website, they’ve been releasing all of their new music as free mp3s, so start downloading to prepare yourself for the event.
When word came out that the drummer from Caribou broke his wrist, I was really worried that the Columbus show with Fuck Buttons would be cancelled. Imagine my surprise when we learned that our great friend, Ahmed Gallab from Sinkane answered the call of duty and is going to be the replacement drummer for the tour!
Ahmed is one of the best musicians in Columbus, not to mention one of the nicest dudes. We’ve written about his band a few times in the past, and they even played the donewaiting.com 5 year anniversary show back in February. I am so happy about this, especially since the debut album by Sinkane is scheduled to come out very soon. Great timing indeed.
I e-mailed Ahmed yesterday to see what’s up. This is what he wrote:
it’s still a little surreal. if you remember me telling you about going to see caribou last october in cleveland and giving him my record. ive kept in contact with him. yesterday morning i found an email in inbox from him saying that he needed a drummer for the rest of the tour. their drummer broke his hand the night before. i think he sent some mass email out to a zillion people. i responded instantly and told him that i’d do it and he wrote back asking for my number and i gave it to him. he called me right away and an hour later i was at the airport going to north carolina to meet him up with them for rehearsal. we practiced from 7 pm to 1 am last night and from 11 am till right now. we’re playing in north carolina tonight. kind of nervous as ive had 1.5 days to learn 11 fucking songs and, let me tell you, theyre a lot harder than you think.
anyway, im out with them until may 4th. kind of weird and still very surreal. i dont feel like im actually doing this but i think after a week it will sink in. im very stoked.
If there’s anyone up for the job, we know it’s our man Ahmed. Can’t wait to see him perform in both his own band and in Caribou next week at the Wexner Center.
This new Bjork video is amazing. You need to check it out via beautiful, high res quicktime.
It’s sort of looks like a Hayao Miyazaki film come to life.
MP3: Fly Union:Kill Fly U
As Fly Union gears for up the release of their next album, “You’re Welcome”, the Columbus group has decided to give their first comp, “Kill Fly U!” away for free to the internets. You can hear a real Neptunes, and Jay-z influence on this but its still pretty fresh. Play “Dumb Down” loudly.
