Feist Preps Remix LP, Works With Jamie Lidell

The disc includes that Postal Service "Mushaboom" remix currently available on iTunes, an acoustic BBC Session recording of "Inside & Out", "Tout Doucement" from the French version of Let It Die, a cover of Peaches' "Lovertits" by Feist and Peaches cohort Gonzales, and more. See for yrself:

Opean Season:

01 Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)
02 The Buildup (Kings of Convenience Feat. Feist)
03 The Simple Story (Jane Birkin and Feist)
04 Elle Aime (Albin de la Simone Feat. Feist)
05 One Evening (Gonzales Solo Piano)
06 Inside & Out (Acoustic: BBC Session)
07 Mushaboom (Solo from the Red Demos)
08 Tout Doucement (From French release of Let It Die)
09 Gatekeeper (Alternate Version)
10 Lonely Lonely (Frisbee'd Remix)
11 Gatekeeper (DoRight Remix)
12 Lovertits (Feist/Gonzales cover of Peaches)
13 When I Was A Young Girl (VV Remix)

Gonzales and Feist aren't only collaborating in the remix realm, however. Gonzales, in addition to Jamie Lidell, Mocky, and Renaud LeTang, will soon begin work on the follow-up to Let It Die in both Berlin and Paris. Feist's website says, "More US touring is booked for March, but in the meantime, it's tea, notebooks, a piano and a parlour guitar." Mmm, how European.

Let It Live:

03-25 Los Angeles, CA - Universal Amphitheater (KCRW Sounds Eclectic Evening) *
03-26 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern #
03-27 Sparks, NV - Great Basin Brewery #
03-28 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club
03-30 Seattle, WA - Neumos #
03-31 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom #
06-25 New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage
07-15-16 Vancouver, British Columbia - Vancouver Folk Music Festival
07-27 Calgary, Alberta - Calgary Folk Music Festival
08-4-6 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-11 Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Folk Music Festival
08-13 Regina, Saskatchewan - Victoria Park (Regina Folk Festival)

* with Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Harper, Gomez, Sia, Goldspot
# with Stephen Fretwell

* Pitchfork News: Feist Begins North American Tour Tonight

Feist: http://listentofeist.com/

The Slits Reunite!

If drool has yet to hit your keyboard, do some homework: the Slits formed in 1976. By 1977 they were on the White Riot Tour, opening for the Buzzcocks and the Clash. Sure beats your gig at the roller rink.

In 1979, they released Cut, one of the greatest punk albums ever made. No, fuck that--one of the greatest albums ever made, period.

On-U Sound's Adrian Sherwood (Depeche Mode, the Fall, Nine Inch Nails) will mix the shows live, and he's on board to produce a new Slits album, tentatively due in the fall.

Swim if you have to:

05-03 Dublin, Ireland - The Crawdaddy
05-04 Berlin, Germany - Festsaal Kreuzberg

The Slits: http://www.theslits.co.uk/

Radiohead Get Reggae Makeover

Ohhh, we here at Pitchfork News know there's plenty left (hell, this is our third Radiohead story in four days). You just have to be patient. In fact, on August 15 you'll be faced with one of the biggest Radiohead fan challenges yet, when Brooklyn's Easy Star Records releases an all-reggae covers version of OK Computer, entitled...wait for it...Radiodread.

Uggggggggh.

Easy Star main man Michael G. has already corralled quite a few big (and not so big) names into the project. Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals tackles "Let Down", Citizen Cope does "Karma Police", Sugar Minott takes on "Exit Music (For a Film)", Junior Jazz does "Subterranean Homesick Alien", and Tamar-Kali voices "Climbing up the Walls". Horace Andy, Morgan Heritage, Frankie Paul, and Kirsty Rock also contribute.

Michael G. captured Toots' vocal at Inner Circle's studio in Florida, so it's only a matter of time before "Karma Police" replaces "Bad Boys" on Cops.

In press materials, the G-Man has said, "We're at the stage where we can all sense what an incredible album this will be. We can't wait to get started with the mix of Radiodread as that is where the true soul of the album will emerge."

And if you think he's not serious, consider this: Easy Star All-Stars released Dub Side of the Moon, a reggae take on, yes, Pink Floyd, in 2003. That's experience talking, kid.

In real Radiohead news, Thom Yorke updated Radiohead's official mouthpiece/blog "Dead Air Space" on Monday, and from the sound of it, the band is making still more steady progress towards the follow-up to 2003's Hail to the Thief. Quoth Thom: "Listening back to things we are doing and looking through the lyrics today and stuff it feels like we are finally getting somewhere. There are lots of songs. Too many to get together straight away. So we will be furiously rehearsing and writing as we go."

"We're just going to do what feels right at the time, quite into the idea of singles at the moment (that don't get on the radio)."

"No grand design. Wherever we are at. Some of the random stuff we have at the moment could be the most exciting...anyway it is not important. There is more to life than freaking out about petty bullshit like this. There are more important things to think about."

That's it for today's episode of "As the Radiohead Turns". And in case you missed them, here are those tour dates we reported on Tuesday:

05-01 London, England - KOKO (Friends of the Earth benefit with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood)
05-06 Copenhagen, Denmark - KB Hall *
05-07 Copenhagen, Denmark - KB Hall *
05-09 Amsterdam, Holland - Heineken Music Hall *
05-10 Amsterdam, Holland - Heineken Music Hall *
05-12 Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom *
05-13 Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom *
05-15 Wolverhampton, England - Civic *
05-16 Wolverhampton, England - Civic *
05-18 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo *
05-19 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo *
06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival #
08-12 Budapest, Hungary - Óbudai Island (Sziget Festival) %
08-19 Chelmsford, England - Hylands Park (V Festival) ^
08-20 Staffordshire, England - Weston Park (V Festival) ^
08-22 Edinburgh, Scotland - Meadowbank
08-24 Dublin, Ireland - Marlay Park

* with Willy Mason
# with Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Ben Folds, Common, Sonic Youth, My Morning Jacket, Cat Power, Atmosphere, Amadou & Mariam, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Magic Numbers, Dungen, Andrew Bird, et al
% with Franz Ferdinand, Ministry, Robert Plant, Natacha Atlas, Sick of It All, et al
^ with Beck, Bloc Party, The Magic Numbers, Keane

Radiohead: http://www.radiohead.com/
Easy Star: http://www.easystar.com/

Les Savy Fav Return With Digital EP, 7", Reissue

Tim Harrington and co. set it off with the Plagues & Snakes EP, an eMusic.com digital exclusive featuring live staple "Raging in the Plague Age" and "Wake up a Snake", which we hereby declare the unofficial theme song to the forthcoming Samuel L. Jackson flick Snakes on a Plane.

The Fav recorded Plagues & Snakes in New York City back in December 2005 with Chris Zane mixing' it's available now. Score it here and rock it:

01 Raging in the Plague Age
02 Wake up a Snake

Next up we've got a bangin' LSF 7", due out this April via Chicago's Rococo Records. It's limited to 1,000 copies and comes in clear green and black editions. Lookee:

01 Hit by a Train
02 Hit by a Car

Both these cuts and the two above were previously released by Australia's Popfrenzy Records, but they're new to the non-import-savvy denizens of Les Savy Fav's U.S. homeland, so booya.

Furthermore, French Kiss Records have designs on reissuing LSF's debut, 3/5, which has been out of print for five years. They've hitched some bonus material to this buggy and will share it with the clamoring masses this July.

And the comeback just wouldn't be complete without some live dates-or date, as it were. Watch Tim prance around in speedos and attempt to make out with audience members and/or David Bazan here:

03-25 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom *

* with David Bazan, Wolf Eyes, USAISAMONSTER, Cataract Camp

Les Savy Fav: http://www.lessavyfav.com/
French Kiss: http://www.frenchkissrecords.com/
Rococo: http://www.rococorecords.com/
eMusic: http://www.emusic.com/

Arab Strap Launch North American Trek

After wrapping up the trek, Arab Strap will make their way back home for an appearance at Scotland's Triptych Festival where you can also catch Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, a spoken word performance by Moffat, and more.

Speed dates:

03-23 Hollywood, CA - Knitting Factory *#
03-24 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord *#
03-25 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord *#
03-27 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *#
03-28 Seattle, WA - Neumos *#$
03-29 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Media Club
03-31 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry #
04-01 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle #
04-02 Kalamazoo, MI - Kraftbrau Brewery #
04-03 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall #
04-04 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace #
04-05 Montreal, Quebec - Le Tulipe #
04-06 Allston, MA - Great Scott #
04-07 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw #
04-08 New York, NY - Knitting Factory #
04-09 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber #
04-10 Washington, DC - Iota #
04-11 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
04-12 Atlanta, GA - The Earl #
04-30 Aberdeen, Scotland - The Lemon Tree (Triptych Festival) @

* with His Name Is Alive
# with A Whisper in the Noise
$ with Page France
@ with Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, Bill Wells & Tape, My Latest Novel, Aidan John Moffat

Arab Strap: http://www.arabstrap.co.uk/

Gogol Bordello Hit the Road Tonight

Not a crime:

03-23 San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick *
03-24 Los Angeles, CA - The Key Club *#
03-25 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *
03-26 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *
03-28 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
03-29 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
03-31 Park City, UT - Suede *
04-01 Aspen, CO - Belly Up *
04-02 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre *
04-04 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck *
04-05 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl *
04-06 Madison, WI - The Annex *
04-07 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Café *
04-08 Chicago, IL - Metro *
04-09 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
04-11 Boston, MA - The Roxy *
04-12 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw *
04-13 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *

* with Zox
# with the Dan Band

Gogol Bordello: http://www.gogolbordello.com/
Side One Dummy: http://www.sideonedummy.com/

Jana Hunter Folks Out North America, Europe

On the road, she'll temporarily meet up with the likes of Castanets, Marissa Nadler, and yes, even DevBan, at his curate-athon/performance day at All Tomorrow's Parties. Honestly, we can't say we're surprised. She'll also be playing quite a few shows at the popular TBA chain of venues

DOOOOOOOM!!!:

03-23 San Diego, CA - 4862 Voltaire *
03-24 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo #
03-25 San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah ^
03-26 San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music (instore)
03-27 Portland, OR - Holocene *
03-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - TBA
03-29 Seattle, WA - S.S. Marie Antoinette
03-31 Boise, ID - Neurolux
04-01 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
04-02 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
04-04 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Saloon
04-05 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
04-06 Northfield, MN - the Cave
04-07 Chicago, IL - TBA
04-08 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
04-09 Grand Rapids, MI - Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
04-10 Lansing, MI - Mac's
04-11 Newport, KY - Southgate House
04-12 Cleveland, OH - TBA
04-13 Buffalo, NY - Soundlab
04-14 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's
04-15 Montreal, Quebec - Casa Del Popolo
04-16 Cambridge, MA - Great Scott
04-17 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
04-18 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix
04-19 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber
04-21 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
04-22 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
04-23 Nashville, TN - TBA
04-24 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
04-25 Little Rock, AR - TBA
04-26 Fort Worth, TX - Metrognome
04-27 Houston, TX - TBA
05-02 Fidenza, Italy - TBA %
05-03 Bologna, Italy - TBA %
05-11 Stockholm, Sweden - TBA %
05-12 Oslo, Norway - TBA %
05-14 East Sussex, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties) @
05-15 Leeds, England - TBA %
05-16 Sheffield, England - TBA %
05-17 Cheltenham, England - TBA %
05-18 Lancaster, England - TBA %
05-19 Coventry, England - TBA %
05-20 Bristol, England - TBA %
05-21 London, England - TBA %
05-22 Chester, England - TBA %

* with Castanets
# with Asobi Seksu, Winter Flowers, Silver Sunshine
^ with the Whitewhite Quilt, Winter Flowers
% with Marissa Nadler
@ with Devendra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Espers, Bat for Lashes, the Metallic Falcons, Danielle Stech-Homsy, Bert Jansch, the Watts Prophets, Tarantula AD, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jandek

* Pitchfork Review: Jana Hunter: Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

Jana Hunter: http://www.janahunter.tk/

Nautical Almanac Home Destroyed by Fire

Ptak and Harper moved to Baltimore from Chicago in 2000 and purchased a three-story building, once a doctor's office, on the west side of Baltimore. They renovated and repaired the space, creating a recording studio, an office for their Heresee label, and a performance space called Tarantula Hill. Their home was filled to the brim with handmade instruments and recording equipment, the result of years of scavenging, tinkering, and rewiring.

Much of those years of effort disappeared in minutes on Friday night, when a bag of packing peanuts on the first floor caught on fire, "most likely from a faulty fluorescent light and curious cat," the duo wrote in an email message. Luckily, Harper's brother was nearby, and firefighters arrived soon after. "They knocked a hole in the front formstone, smashed out the windows above and were able to get the fire out before it spread to the second floor or back of the house." Ptak and Harper remained in New York with the support of fellow No Fun performers and returned home late on Sunday evening.

"We are still assessing the damages," they continued. "They are high. All Ebay items in the front room are gone as well as the office, electronics workshop, and Carly's studio. Water poured on top of the equipment storage room and leaked into the basement. The second and third floors are mainly windowless and covered in black soot as well as knocked out walls and strewn items. It is a bleak landscape filled with ruined tools and cherished items. The building is in an as bad or worse condition than when we moved in and the material elements of five and more years work is undone."

In addition to the physical damage to the building, the duo lost DAT tapes, video masters and films, artwork, computers and hard drives, and countless instruments.

Pondering the future, Ptak and Harper wrote, "It is a difficult decision that we are facing in every way. We know what we have inside of us and that we can take that anywhere but also that there is no place where we would rather go than to the inspiring space that we have shared with our friends and over the years called Tarantula Hill."

In the face of this devastating loss, friends and fans are rallying to support Ptak and Harper. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore plans to release a benefit CD on his Ecstatic Peace label, with artwork by Kim Gordon and tracks by Burning Star Core, Mike Connelly, and No Fun Fest mastermind Carlos Giffoni. Cincinnati label Art Damage has already made available a CD-R recording of a live collaboration between Nautical Almanac and Leslie Keffer on local radio station WAIF in June of 2004, with proceeds going to the Tarantula Hill Restoration Fund.

In addition, local Baltimore record store True Vine will host a series of benefit shows. With more shows to be announced, the store has already lined up three nights:
03-23 Snacks (Tom Boram and Dan Breen), Louie Louie (Jason Willett and others), Bonnie Jones and Andy Hayleck, Mugwump, Nick Becker, Caleb Johnston, Peter B., John Berndt, Kate Porter, Mike Muniak

03-28 Jack Rose, Lexie Mountain, Blaster Al Ackerman, Paul Simpson

04-03 Success Through Hypnosis, Shawn Phase

Ptak and Harper are currently in need of money and essential items to help them through this trying time. Donations can be sent via PayPal to the group's email address, hello@heresee.com A long list of items they need, along with their address, can be found on the True Vine news page.

Friends and fellow noisemakers have been reminiscing about the hospitality of Harper and Ptak, as well as the amazing community space Tarantula Hill.

"Four years ago I was on tour with my project Burning Star Core," writes C. Spencer Yeh from Cincinnati. "We originally were to play a gig at this club in Baltimre, but due to some weird circumstance the gig was cut off right after Monotract. Without hesitation our crew was relocated by Twig to Tarantula Hill, along with the audience, to resume the show."

Chuck Bettis, who performs with Measles Mumps Rubella as well as numerous noise outfits, reminisced, "Tarantula Hill is a vital artery for creative people to flow through. Whether it was Twig stirring up some ruckus actions amongst his peers or Carly psychicly reaching out and entrancing you with her mind music, shows at Tarantula Hill are ALWAYS memorable, unrepeatable rituals."

On a personal note, I first met Twig and Carly two years ago when I did a photo shoot with them in their home for The Wire. I was blown away not only by the phenomenal home they had constructed but by their contagious enthusiasm and instant friendliness. Over the years, I have been lucky enough to get to know them and to spend more time at Tarantula Hill. I am currently working with True Vine on donating some of my Nautical Almanac photographs for sale to benefit the Tarantula Hill Restoration Fund.

Several other benefit shows for Nautical Almanac and Tarantula Hill are in the works in New York (sponsored by No Fun Productions and Ignivomous), Chicago, Cincinnati, and Madison. We will provide more information when it becomes available and report further about the Ecstatic Peace compilation when a tracklisting is confirmed.

Heresee: http://www.heresee.com/
Ecstatic Peace: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com
True Vine: http://www.thetruevinerecordshop.com
Art Damage: http://www.artdamage.org
No Fun Fest: http://www.nofunfest.com

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