photos by Zach Dilgard

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here's some of that lost material.

A set of pictures of Emiliana Torrini @ Highline Ballroom are continued below...

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DOWNLOAD: Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini (MP3)

Emiliana Torrini has added a string of North American tour dates around her August 14th Highline Ballroom show. Tickets for the NYC show are still on sale. Opening that show and a few others will be singer-songwriter Anya Marina (whose Myspace features a cover of TI's "Whatever You Like")

Emiliana Torrini's latest LP, Me And Armini, was released in 2008 on Rough Trade. A track from that is above.

Emiliana recently performed on Belgian TV, where she mentioned adding Kylie Minogue's "Slow," a song she wrote, to her own live repertoire. That video, with all tour dates, below...

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Emiliana Torrini

Emiliana Torrini is playing Highline Ballroom on August 14th. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

America are playing Nokia Theatre on October 16th. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

Satanicide are headlining Bowery Ballroom on July 25th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the Tori Amos show at Radio City.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the show Seasick Steve is playing at Mercury Lounge. Tickets are on sale for the show he's playing at Southpaw too.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the show Los Campesinos! and Girls are playing at Webster Hall.

Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine are playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 7th. Tickets are on sale.

"DAVE STEWART, ARETHA FRANKLIN, WYCLEF JEAN, QUEEN LATIFAH, CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY, JOSH GROBAN, CYNDI LAUPER, ANGELIQUE KIDJO, BAABA MAAL, JESSE MCCARTNEY, TLC, THE SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR, AND OTHER GUESTS" are celebrating Nelson Madela's 91st birthday at Madison Square Garden on July 18th. Tickets are on sale.

The Black Crowes are playing Central Park Summerstage on September 2nd. Tickets go on sale June 12.

Bruce Springsteen tickets go on sale Monday.

Friday night 'dance' events in The Week In Dance.

No tickets needed for Monday's David Byrne show.

Check out some Emiliana Torrino videos below...

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DOWNLOAD: Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini (MP3)

Me and Armini is the fifth (third released outside Iceland) studio album by Icelandic singer and songwriter Emilíana Torrini. It was produced by Dan Carey. The album was released on 8 September 2008 preceded by the digital single "Me and Armini" on 19 August. "Big Jumps" will be the next single and [was] released on 29 September 2008. The album entered the U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Chart at #30. [Wikipedia]

After playing a bunch of European dates in January, February and March, Emiliana Torrini will pay a visit to the US to play at least one show so far. Tickets are on sale for a March 28th performance at Hiro Ballroom in NYC. The title track from her new album is above. All dates, and her newest video, below...

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Nic Harcourt's Top Ten Albums of 2008

1. Adele - 19 (XL Recordings/Colombia)
2. Mates Of State - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
3. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)
4. Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Columbia)
5. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (Warner Bros)
6. The Broken West - Now or Heaven (Merge)
7.Dandy Warhols - Earth to the Dandy Warhols (World's Fair)
8. Duffy - Rockferry (Mercury)
9. Tilly and The Wall - o (Team Love Records)
10.Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini (Rough Trade)

That kind of scary list is via KCRW WHERE NIC (mostly) NO LONGER WORKS...

Los Angeles, Calif., (December 10, 2008) - LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine today announced the selection of Nic Harcourt as Editor at Large, Music & Culture. Beginning February 8, 2009, in LA's January/February double Oscar issue, Harcourt will contribute a monthly column inspired by his love of music and the culture of Southern California.

Harcourt has been hailed as the most influential DJ in America and ultimate music tastemaker because of his uncanny ability to forecast trends and identify emerging talent. His innovative approach will now provide LA readers with unparalleled insight into the always evolving music and culture hemisphere through his monthly "Listen Up" columns, which will feature a hand-selected playlist, his picks for upcoming local concerts, shows and/or events and Q&As with emerging artists...

It was announced only a day or two earlier that the LA Times' parent company, Tribune Co, went bankrupt.

Adele was on Jimmy Kimmel (in LA) last night. Video below...

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BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

TONIGHT (Feb 2): the PLUG Independent Music Awards show @ Webster Hall in NYC

Your Host: comedian Aziz Ansari (bad ass)
Your DJ: DJ James F!@#$%^ Friedman (nominated PLUG DJ Of The Year for Go Commando!)

PERFORMERS
* BEANS w/ HOLY F**k (representing WARP's nomination for Label Of The Year)
* CHAD VANGAALEN (nominated for 2 PLUG Awards - New Artist & Male Artist of The Year)
* CELEBRATION (representing 4AD/Beggar's nomination for Label Of The Year)
* CAGE (nominated for 2 PLUG Awards - Hip-Hop & Music Video Of The Year)
* MR LIF & Akrobatik as the PERCEPTIONISTS (nominated for Hip-Hop Album Of The Year)
* EMILIANA TORRINI (nominated for Female Artist Of The Year)
* THE NATIONAL (nominated for 6 PLUG Awards)

PRESENTERS: MATISYAHU * El-P * LAURA CANTRELL * LANGHORN SLIM * GANG GANG DANCE + members of TV On The Radio * GOBLIN COCK-PINBACK * PITCHFORK * INSOUND * CMJ * OhMyROCKNESS * and more...

-- $20 Tickets still available @ Ticketweb or at the door. --

AND DURING THE DAY: (from 1:00-6:30pm): Indie Night School presents "an amazing event covering booking, music media, labels... like a CRASH COURSE IN RUNNING A BAND IN NEW YORK"

Tonight is Movable Hype. I love Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's new album. What genius booked Feist the same night as New Pornographers, Sadies, and Stars' free show in Prospect Park? Gonna have to miss Mary Timony too. Emiliana Torrini is back in town. That stuff and more in this week's music picks posted at Gothamist (and before noon too!).

London based Italo-Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini, and French chanteuse Keren Ann are both going on tour, and they're both playing multiple dates in NYC this summer. Emiliana will be at Joe's Pub on June 22nd & 23rd. Keren Ann will be at Southpaw on June 9th, the Beacon Theater on June 21st, and Bowery Ballroom on July 20th.

Listen to a recent Emiliana show. Keep reading for the rest of the tour dates and more links...

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Friday night (Feb. 18th, 2005), Emiliana Torrini opened for Damon & Naomi, and Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing at Housing Works Used Book Cafe on Crosby St in NYC. All money raised from the event, and at Housing Works in general, goes to causes related to homeless people with aids.

I think Gigwise is right on to describe Emiliana's voice as "sounding distinctly like her fellow country woman Bjork’s younger sister." Overall a great show, in an interesting setting.

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In the six years since Emiliana Torrini released her last album Love In The Time Of Science, she has kept herself busy by contributing to the soundtrack for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Gollum Song - and writing a number one hit for Kylie Minogue, Slow (which by the way was up for a grammy).

This enchanting new album does, however, find the half-Icelandic, half-Italian singer abandon any commercial pop considerations for a far more intimate and personal agenda. Fisherman's Woman is a delicately understated record that gently disarms the listener as she whispers her sweet serenades like a siren drawing sailors to the rocks -ic wales

You might also know Emiliana from her work with Thievery Corporation.

Emiliana Torrini has one of those highly individual, quirky voices that provoke strong reactions in the listener. Some might find her ever so affected and fey, but a closer listen unveils hidden depths in her lightly accented voice. The half Italian, half Icelandic singer specialises in simple melodic songs and lightly poetic lyrics. - Phonology

You can't get Emiliana's new CD in the states yet, but it is available as an import from Amazon, OR you can download it from iTunes.

Download one track here, and some clips and video here.

She is about to start a headlining tour of Europe in support of the album (I'm not familiar with all the venues, but in Berlin it's the same one Queens of the Stone Age and Adam Green are playing in...aka big). Before she does, New Yorkers have one chance to see her.... IN A BOOKSTORE, and FOR A GOOD CAUSE, and WITH Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing and WITH Damon and Naomi:

Friday, February 18 at 7:30PM, Housing Works Used Book Cafe. Get your tickets HERE (quick).