Update: Sleater-Kinney's Last Show

Whew! Sleater-Kinney's final show will not be at Lollapalooza. The band has added one more gig, at the Crystal Ballroom in their hometown of Portland, Oregon, on August 11. So they'll get to say goodbye among family and friends, rather than on the "Adidas-Champs" stage opposite the Violent Femmes.

So here's what the band's last tour itinerary looks like:

07-29 Louisville, KY - Mellwood Arts Center
07-31 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom
08-01 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
08-02 New York, NY - Webster Hall
08-04 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-11 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom

MP3: Sleater-Kinney: "Jumpers"

Clientele Announce U.S. Tour

So you're watching the Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves time-travel/architecture/romance flick The Lake House, and midway through the movie, right before Keanu tells Sandra that their lake house can't slow down below 50 mphs or the house will explode, your ears perk up as you say, "Hey, they're playing the Clientele!"

While the band didn't have anything to do with the film's weird time-traveling mailbox metaphysics, their song "I Can't Seem to Make You Mine", from the album Strange Geometry, does pop up in the film and on the soundtrack. Now that the Clientele have endeared themselves to all the Keanu and Sandra fans in America, the band is heading back to our shores later this summer.

Before the Clientele rock Philly's First Unitarian Church on the first date of the trek in August, they have one date at a London bowling alley scheduled for July. [MORE...]

Stream: The Clientele: "Since K Got Over Me"

Pulp Reissues Due

At last, a Pulp fix! The fabulous Britpop band has been dormant since promotion wound down for 2001's We Love Life, with frontman/sex symbol Jarvis Cocker popping up here and there on various soundtracks and compilations, but no new music to speak of.

There's still no new music, but August 21 will bring UK reissues of 1994's His ‘n' Hers, 1995's Different Class, and 1998's This Is Hardcore, according to NME.com. Each will include B-sides, demos, and rarities, though no tracklist is available yet. Cross those fingers for some Cocker pinups in the liner notes, and a U.S. release date.

Cocker is currently at work on a solo album, according to various British news sources, although information about it remains scarce. The Guardian reported that Pulp touring guitarist Richard Hawley contributes a few riffs to the effort.

Video: Pulp: "Bad Cover Version"

Jeff Buckley Biopic in the Works

Sometimes in order to get the ball rolling, you need a mother's blessing. And that is just what writer/director Brian Jun received from Mary Guibert, mother of the late Jeff Buckley, when he proposed a biopic of her son. In fact, Guibert is taking her involvement to the next level; she will co-produce the film with Michelle Sy, who worked on last year's Best Picture Oscar nominee Finding Neverland.

"I can tell Jeff's fans with complete confidence that Brian is not the sort of fellow to sugar-coat or manipulate the facts," Buckley's mother said in a press release. "I know that he's a straight shooter. There's a depth of character to Brian, surprising in someone so young, and I have seen from his filmmaking that he has the courage and the skill to do this the way it should be done."

In January, Jun's film Steel City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Cool moms eat that stuff up.

Video: Jeff Buckley: "Forget Her"

Suicide Squeeze Celebrates 10 Years With Shows, Comp

When most of us turned ten, we were squeamishly entering that wonderfully awkward phase when we grow hair in the strangest of places. Seattle's Suicide Squeeze Records, on the other hand, is taking on its second decade of life with the confidence of an over-developed Hollywood tween.

As we reported in March, the label celebrate the big 1-0 in high style with a series of celebratory shows at Neumos in Seattle, as well as a career-spanning 2XCD compilation. The comp gathers gold from past SS players like Modest Mouse, the Black Heart Procession, and Elliott Smith, and newbie signings such as Metal Hearts, Chin Up Chin Up, and Crystal Skulls. Slaying Since 1996 is limited to 6000 copies and will be available July 25.

Block the plate 'cause here comes the tracklist:

Disc One:

01 764-Hero - "Now You're Swimming"
02 Modest Mouse - "A Life of Arctic Sounds"
03 The Scenic Vermont - "Elementary" *
04 Elliott Smith - "Division Day"
05 Modest Mouse/764-Hero - "Whenever You See Fit" (DJ Dynomite D Remix)
06 Pennsy's Electric Workhorses Songs - "Cycle Suitor #
07 Pedro the Lion - "June 18, 1976"
08 The Black Heart Procession - "After the Ladder" *
09 Aspera - "Bird's Fly" *
10 Constantines - "Dirty Business" *
11 The Magic Magicians- "Cascade Express"
12 The Black Keys - "Yearnin'" (live)
13 Iron and Wine/Six Parts Seven - "Sleeping Diagonally"
14 The Melvins - "With Teeth" (live) *
15 Les Savy Fav - "We'll Make a Lover of You" *
16 Hint Hint - "Natural Collegiate"
17 We Ragazzi - "Making You Queens Tonight"
18 The Unicorns - "2014"
19 S - "5 Dollars"
20 Goon Moon - "Rock Weird (Weird Rock)"

Disc Two:

01 Minus the Bear - "The Game Needed Me" (Dalek remix) #
02 The Aislers Set - "What Fades First" (demo) #
03 Headphones - "Gas and Matches" (acoustic) #
04 Crystal Skulls - "Baby Boy" (demo) #
05 Six Parts Seven - "Afternoon Bed" #
06 Metal Hearts - "Jean Baptiste" #
07 Of Montreal - "Voltaic Crusher/Undrum to Muted Da" $
08 Chin Up Chin Up - "Trophy's for Hire" #
09 Earlimart - "Caruthers Boy" #
10 Red Stars Theory - "Evergreen and Ivorbean" #
11 Black Mountain - "Voices" $
12 Russian Circles - "Upper Ninety" #
13 These Arms Are Snakes - "Old Paradise" #
14 Hella - "Meth Leper" #

* Out of print
# Previously unreleased
$ First time on CD [MORE...]

MP3: Modest Mouse / 764-Hero: "Whenever You See Fit" (DJ Dynomite D Remix)

Video: Sonic Youth: "Incinerate"

MP3.com is currently exclusively streaming the video for Sonic Youth's "Incinerate", the catchy second track from their newest record, Rather Ripped, which came out on Geffen earlier this month.

So MP3.com has the one-up, the bragging rights? Not so fast. This video is one of the dullest I've seen in quite some time-- so dull, in fact, that it is likely to decrease their readership.

We recommend steering clear at all costs, unless you're a super-fan interested in memorizing the band's guitar strumming patterns or scoping out the view up Thurston Moore's nose (not too hairy, from what we can tell).

Don't say you weren't warned.

Video: Sonic Youth: "Incinerate"

DJ Shadow Reveals Tracklist

We've already told you that DJ Shadow is getting crunk on his new album, which is called The Outsider and is coming out on Universal, but now, we've got ourselves a tracklist.

As previously mentioned, the disc features guest spots from David Banner, Q-Tip, Keak Da Sneak, and Turf Talk, as well as contributions from Little Brother's Phonte, Lateef the Truth Speaker, hyphy pioneer E-40, and Christina Carter, who is indeed the girl from Charalambides!

Tracklist:

01 Outsider Intro
02 This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
03 3 Freaks (feat. Keak Da Sneak & Turf Talk)
04 Droop-E Drop
05 Turf Dancing (feat. The Federation & Animaniaks)
06 Keep Em Close (feat. Nump)
07 Seein Thangs (feat. David Banner)
08 Broken Levee Blues
09 Artifact [Instrumental]
10 Backstage Girl (feat. Phonte Coleman)
11 Triplicate/Something Happened That Day
12 The Tiger (feat. Sergio Pizzorno & Christopher Karloff)
13 Erase You (feat. Chris James)
14 What Have I Done (feat. Christina Carter)
15 You Made It (feat. Chris James)
16 Enuff (feat. Q-Tip & Lateef the Truth Speaker)
17 Dats My Part (feat. E-40) [MORE...]

Video: DJ Shadow feat. Keak da Sneak & Turf Talk: "3 Freaks"

Black Keys Plan Mega Tour

Before your band sends off that vague, "artistic" press release to Pitchfork World Headquarters, take a cue from the Black Keys on how to do these things. And also, throw in some candy.

We like the Keys because a) they're talented b) their website doesn't overuse Flash and c) (here's where you learn) they release a constant flow of non-cryptic news.

For instance, just within the past month or so, the Akron, Ohio pair signed to Nonesuch, toured with Radiohead, planned the release of their upcoming record (Magic Potion, due September 12 on their new label home), and talked to us about all of it. Patrick Carney even mentioned an album-supporting bi-continental mega-trek, the dates of which recently popped up on the band's official website (listed neatly in nice font, of course). [MORE...]

MP3: The Black Keys: "Meet Me in the City"

Beirut Schedules Summer Shows

Whether or not Jeff Mangum actually returns this year, we've got a pretty good replacement to hang our hopes on. Zach Condon, aka Beirut, has been compared to Neutral Milk Hotel all across the blogosphere, and he's just getting started. With only one album under his belt and a lifetime ahead (he's only 20!), Condon is hitting the road this summer. In July, he plays one-off shows in Moscow, Russia (!) and Brooklyn, and August brings a U.S. mini-tour.

[MORE...]

MP3: Beirut: "Postcards From Italy"

Kill Your Idols Coming to DVD

If you had $300 to blow, how would you spend it? A plane ticket? Your share of the rent your roommate's been screaming at you for? A binge at a record store (probably why your roommate is out for your head)?

Scott Crary directed, shot, and edited his first large film project for less than that amount. The film, Kill Your Idols, takes a look at New York's art-rock scene over the last thirty years. It features interviews with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Black Dice, Arto Lindsay, Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch, Michael Gira, and more.

Crary's small expenditure resulted in the prize for Best Feature Documentary at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as a distribution deal with Palm Pictures. Kill Your Idols will screen at Cinema Village in New York City starting July 7. There are plans for more widespread release and the film will come out on DVD early this fall. [MORE...]

Cat Power, New Pornos to Play Detroit Fest

With the Pistons falling short in the conference final, the auto industry dealing with record-high oil prices, and Eminem and Kim divorced again, Detroit residents sure need something to cheer themselves up (and I doubt the fact that the Tigers are doing OK will suffice.

Enter the Comerica TasteFest, a five-day extravaganza of free samples from local restaurants, free activities for kids, and free stage shows, all of which are supposed to make people wanna give the city more props. (Did I mention that it's free?)

The shows take place from June 30-July 4 in the New Center district of downtown and include performances by Common, Ray Davies, Cat Power & the Memphis Rhythm Band, the New Pornographers, Kings of Leon, Amadou and Mariam, Dabrye, Blanche, Demolition Doll Rods, the Paybacks, Mavis Staples, and perhaps the best band to ever appear on a Fourth of July bill, the All-American Rejects.

Video: 1997 Modest Mouse Documentary

Lo-fi filmmaking-- you gotta love it. Especially when it involves awkward interview questions that lead to even more awkward answers. This recently unearthed 1997 Modest Mouse documentary follows the band through the recording of The Lonesome Crowded West. The untitled, 37-minute film is a collection of shots in the studio and on the stage and includes interviews with the band members as well as other musicians, including Built to Spill's Doug Martsch, Sam Coombs of Quasi, and Elliott Smith.

For the most part, this video should be left to only those with an unhealthy obsession with the band, but others may enjoy the 20 minute mark and on when Isaac Brock takes Madsen on a stroll through a park and drinks beer on a bench in broad daylight. Though the extremely young-looking Brock doesn't reveal his deepest secrets and rarely talks about the band, it's intriguing to see what a midday drink with the Modest Mouse frontman was like almost a decade ago.

Of course, we must add the disclaimer that this thing showed up randomly on Google Video last week, and we don't know how accurate our information is.

Video: Modest Mouse: 1997 Documentary

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