Doctors In My Bed by Yuck

UK band Yuck recently made its first appearance at SXSW and in just a few short weeks the band will launch a new US tour on April 13 in Los Angeles. On April 18 in San Francisco they’ll meet up with Australia’s Tame Impala for a string of dates together. Along the way they have two headlining shows of their own, in Northampton and on May 7 at the Bowery Ballroom. This new track “Doctors In My Bed” is the b-side to the forthcoming UK single for “Get Away” which should be out by late April.

Bio:
YUCK! Eeew, I was like, “that is soo gross”. Anybutt. I was like whatever. Butt then I saw the tour and it made me feel kinda tingly. It’s like totally awesome!!! Like those girls are so cool and like that guy looks weird but then yer like omg he is like so hot. So the show was incredible but then I thought about my Dad cuz he liked killed somebody or himself. Dad always said he loved my step mom but he was never nice to her. Where am I? Since I was a teenager I always used to take out out the dogs and he always encouraged that and once we found a bunny and the next day I had a carrot and we saved it. Our german shepherd was so smart. I live by myself. My landlord said I don’t have to pay rent this month but I was trying to write some good news to my therapist and I actually paid my landlord in full. But it’s all thanks to the new YUCK album!

YUCK

04/13 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
04/14 Los Angeles, CA The Satellite
04/15 San Diego, CA Casbah
04/16 Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar
04/18 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore ~
04/20 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom ~
04/21 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom ~
04/22 Seattle, WA Neumo’s ~
04/25 New York, NY Webster Hall ~
04/27 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church ~
04/28 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club ~
04/29 Northampton, MA Pearl St
04/30 Montreal, QC Café Campus ~
05/01 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre ~
05/03 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall ~
05/04 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall ~
05/06 Washington, DC Black Cat ~
05/07 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
07/17 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Fest

~ = w/ Tame Impala

Yuck
Yuck
(Fat Possum)
Street Date: Feb. 15, 2011

Track List:

1.Get Away
2.The Wall
3.Shook Down
4.Holing Out
5.Suicide Policeman
6.Georgia
7.Suck
8.Stutter
9.Operation
10.Sunday
11.Rose Gives A lily
12.Rubber

YUCK LINKS:

Band blog - http://yuckband.blogspot.com/
Label - http://fatpossum.com/

GUEST DJ SET: All Songs Considered -
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MP3: “Last Night At The Jetty” (Tomboy album version) -
http://www.paw-tracks.com/jetty.mp3

Panda Bear’s Tomboy album is in stores on April 12, and on Record Store Day, April 16, an edition of 1000 limited LP / T-shirt bundles will be available at participating Record Store Day stores. This shirt design will not be available again, and is not available online anywhere! Noah Lennox recently stopped by the NPR studios in DC to guest DJ with Bob Boilen on NPR’s All Songs Considered program - listen to the 40 minute session here.

More about Tomboy:
Both as a member of Animal Collective and as the solo artist, Panda Bear, Noah Lennox spent the aughts helping redefine the aesthetics and methodology of experimental and independent music. With work ranging from splayed but lyrical noise, florid acoustic arrangements, and guitar-centric psychedelia, he and his bandmates have covered a vast musical territory that blurs the line between pop and experimentalism.

But while Panda Bear and Animal Collective have garnered acclaim with each successive sonic venture, their music really started to take hold when they began working with electronics. In 2007, Lennox released the milestone Person Pitch, a mélange of loopy samples, ethereal textures, and dubby echoes all bound together by his soulful tenor. Hailed by many as an instant classic, the album’s influence was almost immediately recognizable. He continued work with Animal Collective, releasing another landmark album Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009.

While the interval since Person Pitch has seen plenty of work from the Animal Collective camp, Panda Bear activity has been rare. He has toured sparingly, done intermittent remix work, and appeared on a few peers’ releases while rumors circulated about his next full-length, Tomboy. The second half of 2010 saw the record’s first offerings: a string of 7″s containing tracks from the album, each released on a different label. With one more due before the album’s release on April 12th, the singles have revealed Tomboy’s palette while helping Lennox gauge his progress and focus on individual songs.

Recorded at his studio in Lisbon, Tomboy sees Lennox stepping away from the sample-based parameters of his previous record and incorporating more guitar and synthesizer. Still prevalent, though, is the interest in texture that made Person Pitch such a dense record; crashing waves and cheering crowds bounce against the gurgling arpeggios and give the tracks an immense sense of space. Soaked in reverb and punctuated with inflections of delay, the album’s drums reveal a dub influence which gives them a visceral punch that lingers after each hit. Lennox’s lofty, self-harmonizing vocals smooth out the songs, and Sonic Boom’s mixing gives the work a large dynamic range. With Tomboy, Lennox has created a more plaintive atmosphere, but in accordance with the conflicting image of its title, the highs of the album balance out its lows. The record, massive in its span of emotion, genre, and sound, is the welcome return of one of the most prolific and consistent audio pioneers in recent memory.

Panda Bear
Tomboy
(Paw Tracks)
Street Date: April 12, 2011

Track list:
01 You Can Count on Me
02 Tomboy
03 Slow Motion
04 Surfer’s Hymn
05 Last Night at The Jetty
06 Drone
07 Alsatian Darn
08 Scheherezade
09 Friendship Bracelet
10 Afterburner
11 Benfica

PANDA BEAR LINKS:

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/pandabear
Press Materials - http://www.paw-tracks.com/tomboypresspage.html

VIDEO: Noisey.com feature - http://www.noisey.com/#!/view/meet-ariel-pink

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti has announced a show on June 2nd in New York City - the band also has an appearance at this year’s Coachella festival, it’s their second appearance at the fest. They’ll also appear at The 4th Annual Roots picnic in Philadelphia - they were invited to play after ?uestlove saw them perform on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in January.

Noisey.com is a new music network that showcases bands and local music scenes across the world through original short videos. The Ariel Pink episode includes five segments, including a short documentary introducing viewers to the band and the local scene, then four segments of uninterrupted performances.

Bio:

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s 4AD debut record, Before Today, consists of twelve tracks (including the single “Round And Round”) and was released worldwide on June 8th 2010 on CD, LP and digital formats.

Six months in the making, Before Today was recorded in part in Encino at the House of Blues (once Tito Jackson’s home studio) with Sunny Levine (Quincy Jones’ grandson) and Rik Pekkonen (Bill Withers, Seals & Crofts, Bread) as well as at the band’s home studios. The result is a beguiling mix of glam rock, West Coast funk and Merseybeat harmonies with a high-production sheen; a contrast to the corroded bedroom recordings that have fomented a fervent cult following over the past decade.

The outfit now consists of reclusive pop surrealist Ariel Pink (vocals) alongside Tim Koh (bass/vocals), Kenny Gilmore (guitar/vocals) Joe Kennedy (guitar) and Aaron Sperske (drums/vocals).

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI

04/15 Indio, CA Coachella
06/02 New York, NY Irving Plaza
06/04 Philadelphia, PA 4th Annual Roots Picnic @ Festival Pier

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Before Today
(4AD)
Street date: June 8, 2010

1. Hot Body Rub
2. Bright Lit Blue Skies
3. L’estat
4. Fright Night
5. Round and Round
6. Beverly Kills
7. Butt House Blondes
8. Little Wig
9. Can’t Hear My Eyes
10. Reminiscences
11. Menopause Man
12. Revolution’s a Lie

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI LINKS:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arielpink
Band site: http://www.arielpinkshauntedgraffiti.com
Label: http://www.4ad.com/ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti/

VIDEO:

Parenthetical Girls: The Pornographer (NSFW) from Parenthetical Girls on Vimeo.

“Didn’t Our Mother Love Us Enough?”
Ever the pragmatists, Parenthetical Girls are in the midst of releasing Privilege–the band’s new full length–as a box set of five extremely limited 12″ EPs on their own Slender Means Society label. These EPs will be sold separately in sequence every quarter over the next 15 months, each as they are completed. They will not be distributed to stores. As the cycle concludes, the fifth and final 12″ will come packaged in a beautiful, aesthetically cohesive LP box designed to house all four of the preceding releases, forming the complete Privilege album. Limited to 500 physical copies per EP, the 12″s will each feature original art by renowned Swedish illustrator Jenny Mörtsell, and will be hand-numbered in the blood of their respective band members. The third 12″–subtitled Mend & Make Do–will be released on March 22, 2011, and will be numbered in the blood of cover star Jherek Bischoff.

Having taken pop extravagance to its logical conclusion with their critically acclaimed Orchestral Pop opus Entanglements, Parenthetical Girls have given the orchestra their leave–and the resulting transformation is no less momentous. Returning to its core membership of vocalist/creative director Zac Pennington, multi-instrumentalist Rachael Jensen, and producer/arranger Jherek Bischoff, the group set about a path that they have heretofore never really charted: that of sonic restraint. And though the results could scarcely be called subtle, the language of Privilege is direct and unambiguous–a new creative candor that’s felt in both its words and music. It’s Parenthetical Girls in fighting trim, and the difference is both immediate and undeniable.

The group continues this ambitious experiment with Privilege, pt III: Mend & Make Do –a bizarre and bombastic four-song suite of transgression, sexual politics, and bliss debasement. The EP opens upon lead single “The Pornographer” a leering Blues number (A BLUES NUMBER?!?!) of lust gone wrong, that recalls the unlikely bravado of light-loafered forbearers from the Bad Seeds to Depeche Mode. “For All The Final Girls” follows, a quietly frenzied chamber piece about the inescapable shadow of the past, and of the privileged evasion of personal responsibility.

“Careful Who You Dance With” is a cautionary tale of revelry awry, while “Mend & Make Do (Found Drama II)” continues the fragmented, kitchen-sink pathos begun on Privilege, pt. I. Together, they comprise a bold, strikingly cohesive pop clarion call that further solidifies Parenthetical Girls’ place amongst the most surprising and uncompromising pop groups at work today. And there’s more where that came from.

SELECTED ACCOLADES FOR PRIVILEGE

Parenthetical Girls
Privilege: Pt. 3 - Mend & Make Do
(Slender Means Society)
Street Date: March 22, 2011
Formats: Vinyl and Digital only

Track list:

Side A
1. The Pornographer
2. For All The Final Girls

Side B
1. Careful Who You Dance With
2. Mend & Make Do (Found Drama II)

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS LINKS:

MySpace - myspace.com/parentheticalgirlsband

Press Materials - http://slendermeanssociety.com/PRESS/privilege3.html