"Paul Simon, Lee Scratch Perry and Jimmy Cliff play blinding sets at Glastonbury Saga stage. All over 70 Tony Benn oldest at 95 !" - James Osborn

"Best thing musically I saw at Glastonbury was probably SBTRKT on the Friday night ...quality stuff." - Joshua Saunders

Glastonbury 2011 (via Glastonbury.fm)

Glastonbury Festival took place in Worthy Farm in Pilton, England this past weekend. Tons of artists from all different backgrounds played the festival. The festival featured guest appearances, secret sets, and other interesting occurrences. Here are a few of the highlights.

Headliner Beyonce played a hits-heavy set with some pretty interesting cover song choices (King of Leon's "Sex on Fire," Etta James' "At Last"). But more even more interestingly, Tricky joined her on stage for a pretty inexplicable guest appearance on "Baby Boy." The trip-hop pioneer took a mic and uttered some sparse vocals as Beyonce and her backup singers belted the song. Video of the performance is below.

Speaking of things related to Massive Attack and Glastonbury, UK DJ Nick Warren, who would regularly DJ for Massive Attack in the '90s, said "My Highlight of Glastonbury Festival was James Blake live." James's set included the track "CMYK" off the 2010 EP of the same name in addition to tracks off his 2011 self-titled album. Some might say James's set was even explosive:

James Blake at Glastonbury

Festival attendees who were not part of the 75,000 watching Beyonce may have ended up at The Streets' set which took place at the same time. The show was apparently one of the Mike Skinner's last, who recently announced a breakup. Unfortunately, The Streets recently cancelled a trip NYC, but maybe they'll reschedule before saying their final goodbye. Video of The Streets' Glastonbury performance below.

This year's secret shows included UK Glastonbury vets Pulp and Radiohead.

It was Pulp's fourth Glastonbury appearance but their first for nine years and as they came on stage, frontman Jarvis Cocker told the crowd: 'We couldn't think of anything to get you so we brought the sunshine.'
After their set, which included some of their biggest hits including Disco 2000 and Common People, he added: 'Thanks Glastonbury, obviously it's been a very important place for us. When we played in '95 things took off for us and we went in a strange orbit around the earth, and now we're back home in one piece.' [Daily Mail]

Radiohead brought Portishead drummer Clive Deamer as a guest to play with Philip Selway. Their setlist was almost entirely made up of The King of Limbs and In Rainbows tracks, and recent non-album material, except for Amnesiac's "I Might Be Wrong." They also surprised fans of their earlier work by playing "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" as an encore. Video of "The Daily Mail" and "Bloom" and setlist below.

Cee Lo, unlike at Coachella, showed up on time for his set, which included a mix of his own material and Gnarls Barkley stuff. He also covered Black Sabbath twice. Big Boi got lost in London, but also ended up showing on time for his set. Like Cee Lo, he still embraces past projects and included a good amount of Outkast material. Big Boi-collaborator Janelle Monae played the festival too. Video of her performance of "Tightrope" below. Catch her and Cee Lo (but not Big Boi) for free at Afro-Punk in August.

Battles brought Matias Aguayo on stage to sing "Ice Cream," the song he recorded lead vocals for on their recently released Gloss Drop. Video below.

British folk/jazz legends Pentangle, who reunited in 2008 but have not been very busy since then, played the festival. Their lineup includes Bert Jansch who is currently a Drag City-recording artist and released The Black Swan on the label in 2006, over 30 years after Pentangle originally broke up. Lauren Laverne of BBC 6 interviewed the band. They talked about the resurgence of folk music and how Bert is a fan of Fleet Foxes (who also played Glastonbury). Video of the interview below.

SBTRKT at Glastonbury 2011 via facebook

SBTRKT, who visits NYC for the first time in July, played a live set (pictured above). His Young Turks labelmate Jamie xx (of The xx) played a set too. Jamie's "Far Nearer" single is on sale now. Pressings are limited. Check out a soundcloud stream of the track below.

Another UK post-dubstepper Jamie Woon played the festival. 3AM writes, "During my bum breaks, I caught Jamie Woon's set and it was fantastic. I've heard a lot about this chap, but haven't listened to his stuff before. Sitting in the middle of a field with a pounding head and cider was the perfect way to be introduced to Jamie's chilled but strong, powerful tunes."

Speaking of dubstep crossover, UK singer Katy B brought her dubstep-leaning pop to Glastonbury as well. She plays a private show in NYC tonight (6/27). It will be her first.

Little Dragon wowed the crowd, according to VH1 anyway:

For the UK at least, this performance of their new song "Ritual Union" is a real coming-out party for the band, who absolutely deserve to be heard on a much wider scale. It's really difficult to make smooth music work in the middle of the day at a big outdoor festival, but Little Dragon pulls it off in style.

UK anti-folkie Emmy the Great covered The Pixies' classic "Where Is My Mind" with help from Tim Wheeler of the punky brit-poppers Ash. Full setlist below.

On a more negative note,

A senior member of David Cameron's Tory constituency has been found dead in a portable toilet at the Glastonbury festival.

Christopher Shale, the chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, suffered a heart attack, sources believe.

His body was found in a portable toilet in the backstage area, where many celebrities and performers stay.

A story in the Mail on Sunday contained leaked sections of a strategy document Shale had drafted for David Cameron, in which he said the party can be perceived as "crass" and "always on the take".

Avon and Somerset police confirmed that the body of a man in his mid-50s had been found in the backstage area. A woman was seen being comforted by officers.

His body was found at 8.45am. An area between the Pyramid stage and the Other stage has been cordoned off. [Guardian]

Videos, soundcloud streams, setlists, and other stuff below...

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words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky

Slow, moody creatures don't usually survive very long in the wild, but Trip-hop is one now seemingly prehistoric beast that's still chugging along, ignoring strict evolutionary guidelines for idiosyncratic music. Massive Attack have been a touring success with multiple recent stops in NYC, Portishead is curating an ATP event next year and is setting its sites on our shores as well, and even Cibo Matto briefly reunited earlier this week.

And then there's Tricky. He's probably strayed from the genre's MO more than any other trip hop pioneer on his recent work, and at Le Poisson Rouge last night (12/9), during the first show of a tour that includes two two New York performances, it felt more like a turbulent garage show than a chilled out séance. Tricky's music always had a passive aggressive restraint simmering in the down-tempo beats and his hushed but strained mumble. Besides the mumble, most of that distinctiveness was traded in for a full sounding but fairly direct rock sound. Thick, unfettered bass lines and powerful but unornamented drumming below a repetitive guitar line was his live band's blueprint, and at times the ensemble kept to those structural plans too rigidly.

On new numbers like "Murder Weapon," with an iconic 60's espionage groove, or "Kingston Logic," with a sing-speak female rap lead that veered towards Black Eyed Peas homogeneity, some of Tricky's enigmatic and tortured ethos was lost. While enjoyable as simplistic songs to push around to, they lacked the depth and fuming temper of Tricky's strongest material.

When Tricky did call in the atmospherics and rising synths, dubbed-out stuttering drums, and jazzy brass samples, the immediacy of his new rock core finally congealed with the quintessential mystery and spatial dimension that you expect from him. And the guy is still a still a marvel to watch. Constantly wandering the stage, shirtless, chain smoking, pointing cues sharply and sometimes errantly at his musicians, pounding the mic to his heart; it's a great and confounding visual. He's part hype-man, part anarchist, part Miles Davis circa Bitch's Brew, and once in a while a rapper too. Twice he almost shut the club down by bringing the audience on stage, the first time half way through his set. Maybe this punk aggression is his newest form of therapy. If so it's working. Beaming a giant smile surrounded by his supporters, he seemed like he finally got the weight off his chest.

He closed the night walking through the crowd hugging and shaking hands with fans. Don't miss him tonight (12/10) at Brooklyn Bowl, part of an ongoing tour. More pictures from the intimate Le Poisson Rouge show, below...

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by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Violens - Acid Reign (MP3)
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Violens

We'll start of this week with a giveaway. Violens play Santos this Saturday and if you'd like to win a pair of tickets to the show as well as a copy of the band's new album, Amoral, just send an email to BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM with "VIOLENS" as the subject and we'll pick a winner at random.

I think Violens' debut is a pretty sweet slice of glossy goth pop, heavily in debt to bombastic '80s UK mope but with a modern sheen. If it's out-of-step with what's currently in favor in Brooklyn, it's all the more distinctive for it. It also sounds really good loud. Amoral may hold up pretty well down the line, too, as songs like "Violent Sensation Descends," "Acid Reign" (both downloadable above) and "The Dawn Of Your Happiness Is Rising" are cleverly-produced and catchy-as-hell.

The whole Santos show should be pretty fun, with the awesome Light Asylum and Caveman opening (plus, BBG reports that Krallice drummer Lev Weinstein is now playing as a member of Violens too).

John Grant

What else is going on this week? MOJO Album of 2010 recipient John Grant plays two shows this week: an early show tonight (12/8) at Mercury Lounge and then Saturday (12/11) at The Rock Shop. If you haven't checked out the former Czars frontman's solo debut -- produced and backed by Midlake -- you should really do so. From MOJO's year-end review:

[Midlake]'s intervention supplied confidence, empathy and a meticulous '70s soft rock sound, allowing Grant to channel a life's worth of vitriol and self-flagellation into songs of spiritual hunger, emotional fireworks and bile-black humour that always searched for self-improvement and atonement. Here were tales of alcohol and cocaine dependency, self-hate and destructive love affairs that raised the twin ghosts of Patsy Cline and Karen Carpenter. The result was in an intensely bittersweet pop record, that, like a couple of similar MOJO classics before it -- Antony's I Am a Bird Now and Bon Iver's For Emma... -- sounded like it's creator had been waiting his whole life to make.

Tricky

Trip hop pioneer Tricky is here this week as well, with shows at Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow (12/9) and Brooklyn Bowl on Friday (12/10). Here's one of those artists that even that despite a string of lackluster records, I always give the new album a chance. While there are more than a few regrettable moments on Mixed Race (I don't think anybody could make a Peter Gun sample work in 2010), there's also some of the best we've heard from him in ages that drip that paranoid, slow-burn cool that made his first two albums classics.

Atlas Sound, Feb 2010 @ the Bell House (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

While Deerhunter's terrific Halcyon Digest is finding its way into many's Top Ten of 2010 lists (maybe mine, we'll see), Bradford Cox stays busy as Atlas Sound who play an Maxwell's on Friday (12/10) and The Bell House on Saturday (12/11). Has any other artist been on such a creative hot streak as Cox since 2008? The guy releases at least one "official" album a year in one of his two guises, with regular demo dumps via his blog that are almost always worth downloading. Like the four-part Bedroom Databank series we got in the last two weeks. May this ride never end.

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And a few more picks, day-by-day, for shows not covered above.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

It's the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death, and Glasslands pays tribute tonight with a cavalcade of indie names, including: Acrylics, Amazing Baby, Nicole Atkins, Here We Go Magic, Eytan & The Embassy, Psychic, Teen, The Royal Chains, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Bizi Gara, Class Actress, and Brian Harding. Proceeds go to Arts Education International.

My Teenage Stride, who have five new downloadable songs up on WFMU's Free Music Archive, play Pianos tonight with The Art of Shooting, Minneapolis duo Fort Wilson Riot, and Desert Stars.

Over at Death by Audio, you can catch a rock-solid bill featuring bash-pop duo Sisters, Total Slacker offshoot Web Dating, indie rock quartet Shark?, sleazoid garage rockin' X-Ray Eyeballs, and Philly duo Slutever.

Captured Tracks band Further Reductions bring the minimal synth sound to the Weird Party at Home Sweet Home.

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Trip hop hooray. Tricky is on a roll lately...

"Tricky has just announced plans for a nationwide tour. Kicking off on December 9th in New York City, Tricky will be touring in support of his ninth studio album, Mixed Race, out October 5th on Domino Records. These winter dates will include stops across the US as well as select cities in Canada.

Earlier this fall, Tricky released the first single from the upcoming album entitled "Murder Weapon." A reworking of the classic dancehall hit from Jamaican-born Echo Minott, Tricky was determined to hear how it would sound with a female vocalist, in a similar fashion to his reworking of Black Steel with Martina Topley-Bird. He then recruited Irish-Italian Franky Riley to sing on the track. Riley has toured with Tricky for the past two years and will also be joining him for the winter dates.

Recorded in Paris, where Tricky has been residing for the past two years, Mixed Race is his most passionate album to date. Musically his production work takes influences from UK, Jamaican, US, North African and French music. He sets out on his music mantra with the album's lead off track, "Every Day," and then proceeds through a lyrical journey with temptation, reflection, mischief and misbehavior. The album was produced by the artist himself and features as always an array of talented singers and collaborators. Mixed Race introduces Franky Riley, as well as guest appearances from Jamaican singer Terry Lynn, Primal Scream front man Bobby Gillespie, lutist/vocalist Hakim Hamadouche, London-based vocalist Blackman and Tricky's brother Marlon Thaws, who is the thirteenth of his fourteen siblings." [PR]

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photos by Faith-Ann Young

..."Most of the songs came off as early 90s industrial dance music - big beats, big sounds, not much else. Even classics such as "Karma Coma" were roughed up by the sound and presentation. The closer, "Vent," a scary juggernaut on album, felt overlong at the show, straining under the effort to make it transcendent, Tricky, shirtless and wearing suspenders, doing his best ranting like a madman.

As one local musician put it on his Facebook status, "(I) did not know live music could be as bad as Tricky was tonight." I wish I could say I disagreed. I really do. [Austin360]

I was all the more impressed by Tricky's set, who readied himself for the show by smoking a joint with his back to the crowd during the dark and brooding opening number. He turned to the crowd and stripped out of his shirt, bare chested in suspenders the rest of the show. While his albums Maxinquaye, Pre-Millenium Tension and Angels with Dirty Faces all have their esteemed place in trip-hop history, I clearly underestimated the timeliness and versatility of the singer and his band, who, minus the vocals of Martina Topley-Bird, still delivered a suspenseful, dramatic show. His raspy, gravelly voice still cut with "Christiansands" and the industrial warehouse feel of "Black Steel" was just as intense. [PrefixMag]

After switching the dates a few times, Tricky is finally set to visit NYC's Irving Plaza again tonight, Sunday, April 5th. Tickets may still be on sale.

All tour dates and more SXSW pictures below...

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by Andrew Frisicano

Devo @ McCarren Pool (more by Zach Dilgard)

"The fall of 2009 will bring a new DEVO studio album, their first one since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps. It'll mark their first new music since the strong fan reaction that greeted the 2007 single "Watch Us Work It," their first new song in 18 years and one that was produced by Sweden's TeddyBears (Robyn). They're now in the studio putting the finishing touches on their new album (title TBA)".

Overseas, Devo is set to perform the entirety of 1977's Brian Eno-produced Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! on May 6th (hosted by All Tomorrow's Parties), and play a regular set headlining the first night of the ATP UK weekend on May 8th - an evening that includes way too many notable acts to name (Beiruit, Marnie Stern, Health, The Jesus Lizard, M83, Sleep, way more), some of which will also be playing ATP NY on Sept 11-13, 2009. More UK (and hopefully US) dates are still on the way.

Tricky is now in the middle of his US tour which will eventually take him back to NYC after SXSW.

All tour dates and video for "Watch Us Work It" (both regular and Dell Computer advert versions), below...

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As of January 29th, the beginning of Tricky's already-rescheduled tour looked like this:

3/2 Farmingdale, NY @ Crazy Donkey
3/3 New York, NY @ The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
3/6 Miami, FL @ Langerado Festival

Now the Crazy Donkey doesn't list a Tricky show at all, Langerado was cancelled, tickets are on sale for a new Florida show on the Langerado date, and, most confusingly, the March 3rd NYC show disappeared and tickets are on sale for an APRIL 5TH show at Irving Plaza. Natalie Stewart opens.

Matt and Kim @ MHOW in January (more by Zach Stern)

today in NYC
* Razorlight @ Irving Plaza
* Gary Lucas @ the World Financial Center
* Fake Male Voice (Tunde Adebimpe) @ Glasslands
* Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis @ Lincoln Center
* Lily Allen, Matt and Kim & Trouble Andrew @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Submarines, The Morning Benders & Dawn Landes @ Mercury Lounge
* Eugene Mirman, John Oliver, Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Paul Tompkins & guests @ the Bell House

Tickets are on sale for Rufus Wainwright's upcoming Blackoutsabbath show.

Eugene Mirman joins John Wesley Harding at (Le) Poisson Rouge tomorrow.

Blossom Dearie, RIP

Titus Andronicus have shows coming up with The Wrens and Lucero.

The Decemberists announced a tour and tickets are on presale.

Dead Milkmen are back. Ticekts are still on sale.

Throbbing Gristle are back. NYC tickets are sold out.

Weezer, George Carlin, They Might Be Giants, Jack White and MGMT/Justice won Grammys.

If you're rich, buy the Mercury Lounge.

Rihanna assisting police in Chris Brown case.

Timbaland produced the new solo album from Chris Cornell who is playing Webster Hall on April 7th & 8th.

Tricky's new video for "Puppy Toy" below...

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Tricky @ Irving Plaza last time (more by Chris La Putt)

After a September US club tour that ushered his triumphant return to the stage, Tricky announces his most extensive US tour to date. Kicking off in March, the five week coast to coast trek includes a special performance with Devo at SXSW and a featured performance at the Langerado Music Festival. Select dates are on sale now.

To coincide with the tour, a digital "Puppy Toy" single with unreleased b-sides, remixes and videos for "Puppy Toy" and "Council Estate" is set for a March 3rd release.

Tricky will be performing songs from his entire catalog, as well as tracks from the new album. Produced by Tricky, Knowle West Boy is named after the urban ghetto where Tricky was raised. The album finds Tricky reaching into the post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip hop and pure pop he grew up adoring and twisting it all into surreal songscapes, creating the most varied and accessible set of his career. It's no wonder Rolling Stone proclaims the record "his best since 1995 debut Maxinquaye" [PR]

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So Knowle West Boy is his answer? "I've made this for all my fans. And I'll do that with my next album. Because I'm very punk rock - I do Maxinquaye and people go mad over it, and straight away I do Nearly God to say 'fuck you'. And you get into that sort of attitude, which is great. My fans love Pre Millenium Angels, that's one I couldn't have done without that attitude, but also I feel like I wanna give a bit more now, not critics - I don't give a fuck - but these are the people who've stayed with me. And I've got kids who are fifteen who know me who shouldn't even know who I am. So this is like my people phase, it's exciting. And I think I'm just gonna get better, and that my next album's gonna be much better than this one, because I wanna give. It's a different vibe." [musicOMH]

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Before you get down on Tricky about this cancellation, consider that it might have more to do with someone jumping the gun and putting an unconfirmed date up on Ticketmaster than it has to do with Tricky personally flaking out. Stay tuned.

Tricky is currently, still, scheduled to play Langerado in Miami in March.

Slow is the brand new single from Tricky, released on October 20th. It is the second single taken from his critically acclaimed first album for Domino, Knowle West Boy, released in July.

The only cover on Knowle West Boy, Kylie's Slow is given a drastic make-over, humorously and inappropriately transforming the coy pop hit into a seedy electro-punk track. Asked why he chose to cover this track, Tricky replied 'I covered Kylie's Slow because I love that song. And the video is one of the best fucking videos I've ever seen. It's sexy as fuck.'

In related Tricky-has-never-listened-to-them news, people are talking about Portishead's planned 4th album again.

Tricky plans on coming out with another album too. You can hear him talk about it in the video below. His only tour dates at the moment are in the UK for NME, and you'll find them down there too...

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a catch up post...

photos by Chris La Putt

Though the show was billed as just Tricky, I think his female counterparts deserve a little more credit. Veronika, who wrote the song of the same name on Tricky's new album Knowle West Boy, sang the female parts this time around. Unlike Fluxblog, the show exceeded my expectations. I have vague memories of bad times at Tricky shows in the past. No, Veronika isn't Martina Topley-Bird and she definitely faked her way through some notes and lyrics, but I still wasn't disappointed. The setlist was a good mix of old and new and I liked watching Tricky - I assume with the help of what he was smoking with his back to the crowd for a large majority of the show - go into a different place, especially during the extended, emotional encore. I also had a good spot right near the stage. I'm sure that helped a lot.

Check out our recent interview with Tricky if you haven't already. More pics and the setlist from the September 4th show (sorry for the delay) below...

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by BrooklynVegan Mike

A friend of mine played me some stuff and said "you're the father of dubstep."

Tricky (who kicks off a US tour at Irving Plaza in NYC Thurday night) is never at a loss for words or a strong opinion. His career has been defined as much by his viewpoints on artists and music past and present as it has his ever shifting sound pallette. He has been called "the king of trip-hop," a moniker that he never liked and never quite fit. Though his debut Maxinquaye helped forge and popularize, along with Portishead and Massive Attack, the "Bristol" sound, every album since has steadily moved away from simple categorization.

"It's coincidence. To be honest with you, Portishead and Massive Attack, I don't know anything about their music; last time I heard Massive Attack's music was when I was in it, and I've never listened to Portishead. Even if I hadn't been in Massive Attack, that's not something I would listen to, it's not my thing. I don't know much about these bands." [said Tricky recently to The Skinny]

We began our conversation by discussing his absence away from music. Despite being quite consistent with his releases (putting out eight albums in eight years), this is his first record since 2003's Back To Mine. When asked about the long break, he suggested that he started to break away mentally before 2003. "September 11th took me off my stride," he said. "I was in the cycle of tour, record, tour, record. I was in L.A doing some work. I was to leave on a European tour on the 11th and everything happened. I didn't want to travel for a long time. I moved to L.A. And that took a year of my life. I was also looking for another label, and that took another year of my life as well. So really, the 11th of September just changed everything for me."

He has since moved back to England, a decision that has certainly influenced the new record. But when asked why at this stage in his career he would make a concept album about his youth (as was written here, and here), he replied "That's not really true. It's not just about my youth. There are a couple of songs [including the first single, 'Council Estate'] that are about my childhood but there are other songs on there. I think people are thinking that because of those songs as well as the title. Knowle West is a place where nothing good is supposed to come out of. I named the album Knowle West Boy to say, "look at me. I'm still here." He also scoffed at the notion that the record, which has received some of his best reviews since Angels With Dirty Faces, was a return to form. "That's basically because it's more accessible then say Pre-Millenium Tension. I could have put this kind of record out then but chose not to."

This got us talking about the Tricky "sound" and if, in fact, there was one....

Continue reading "an interview with TRICKY (on his new album, dubstep, grime, Bernard Butler, Switch, M.I.A. & more) "

Aa @ Market Hotel (more by Leia Jospe)

today in NYC
* FREE STUFF
* Adele @ Webster Hall
* Daedelus & Eliot Lipp @ 205 (DJ sets)
* Does it Offend You, Yeah? @ Maxwell's
* Child Abuse & Gibby Haynes @ The Stone
* Federico Aubele & Dawn Landes @ Bowery Ballroom

Tricky plays "Council Estate" on Letterman tonight. Irving tomorrow.

get your free Wire tickets.

Rage Against the Machine @ the RNC.

The National's music (already being used unofficially) is now officially being used by the Obama campaign (courtesy of the band who donated it). Official video below...

What else?

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Tickets are on sale for the Bad Brains show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are still available for Tricky's upcoming NYC show at the same venue.

DOWNLOAD: Tricky - Council Estate (Drums of Death Remix) (new MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Tricky - Past Mistake (new MP3)

Tricky is making music again. Stream the whole new album at his website. Tickets are on sale for September 4th show in NYC. All other known dates below...

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I really wanted to like this more...

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Portishead have a new album out. Morcheeba have a new album out. I guess it would still even be on topic to say DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Thievery Corporation are keeping busy too. Next up: new albums by Tricky and Massive Attack, and a Massive Attack-curated Meltdown music festival in Europe. Details and tour dates below....

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