Olof Arnalds @ Swan Dive (BV SXSW) (more by Tim Griffin)

After last being seen at SXSW, Iceland's Ólöf Arnalds returns this month, first for some west coast dates, and then for another visit east that includes an April 23rd at Joe's Pub with German pianist / composer Hauschka, and to play the Anthology Film Archives' 2011 Film Preservation Honors at City Winery on April 27th. Tickets to the latter can cost you either $40 (general admission) or $200 (benefit). Harmony Korine, Marina Abramovic, Richard Barone, and, Transgendered Jesus will also be performing/appearing.

All Olof dates below...

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Rich Bitch

"Umshini Wam" is a short film that Die Antwoord made with Harmony Korine that premieres at SXSW on March 15th...

"Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. its time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts ofcivilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off.
Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. what ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit."

"Rich Bitch" is the song they made a new music video for, and you can watch that now, below...

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DOWNLOAD: Sun City Girls - Mr. Lonely Viola (MP3)

Beginning in April, things are going to start getting extremely busy for the folks in Spiritualized. Songs in A&E, their first full length LP in 5 years, is set to to be released in Europe on May 26th (US date TBD). A single for the song "Soul on Fire" will also precede the album release by one week and will be available as a 7-inch and digital download. The album has a whopping 18 tracks and features a recurring track entitled "Harmony" which appears at 6 different points throughout the record. Full tracklist below.

J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls also did the soundtrack to the Harmony Korine film Mr. Lonely (trailer). What's with this recurring "harmony" motif Spaceman? Anyhow, the soundtrack will be available via Drag City on April 28th, and the movie....

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

....will be showing May 5th at ICF Cener in NYC. More dates and cities are listed at the end of this post. Until then, preview a track from it above, and check out the tracklist (also) below.

We had our live Spiritualized appetites whetted late last year with a handful of intimate and beautiful Acoustic Mainlines shows. There will be three more Acoustic Mainlines gigs in the US in April, including a stop at Coachella on April 27 in the Mojave Tent. Then in July Spiritualized will embark on an Electric Mainlines Tour which will kick-off with an appearance at the Pitchfork Music Festival on July 20th. After Pitchfork they will continute their Electric Mainlines tour throughout the US until sometime in August when they'll head overseas for gigs in Japan and Europe. In September they'll be back in the states to wrap up the Electric Mainlines tour.

Oh, and...

There is a Goldfrapp v Spiritualized remix included on the cd & digital release of the next Goldfrapp single, 'Happiness', released by Mute Records in April.

Tour dates and everything else below....

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