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Friday, December 14, 2007

Saul Williams "Sunday Bloddy Sunday" MP3 Produced by Trent Reznor

Here is a Mp3 Download of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" from the new Saul William's Niggy Tardust, available online now!

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The FADER Label, the recording branch of The FADER, announces the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. Produced by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), the download will be available for free or for a $5 contribution to support the artist. There will be no additional options given for purchase of the album.

Musicane, a tool that enables artists to sell their music, is handling fulfillment, processing, bandwidth and customer service. Those who pay will have the opportunity to choose between three download formats: 192kbit/s MP3, 320kbit/s MP3 and Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), a format that doesn't remove any information from the audio stream--full CD quality. A full description of each file format with pros and cons will be available on the site. Those that don't contribute will automatically get the192kbit/s MP3. All versions are 100% DRM free and will include a PDF with artwork and lyrics. Williams' fans will also be able to embed Musicane's viral player on their own blogs or profiles, which will broadcast live-updated video messages from NiggyTardust and also contain the option to download or buy the album.

"The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! is the lovechild of Trent and me," says Williams. "The Niggytardust concept sets me free to do more on stage with costume, etc. than one might expect from a regular Saul Williams show. It allows me to put my theatre training to use. I've also thought long and hard about all the discussion surrounding racial epithets etc. and chose this title as a means of furthering the dialogue while also showing how creativity will outlive and outshine hatred of any kind."

"Working on this project was a real pleasure. Saul was interested in breaking boundaries, crossing genres and defying expectations and we learned a great deal from one another in the process," says Reznor. "After my own recent dealings with record labels we decided to release it directly to the fans. There are obvious similarities in how Radiohead just released their new record and the way we've chosen to. After thinking about this way too much, I feel we've improved upon their idea in a few profound ways that benefit the consumer."

Track Listing:
Black History Month
Convict Colony
Tr(n)igger
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Break
NiggyTardust
DNA
WTF!
Scared Money
Raw
Skin of a Drum
No One Ever Does
Banged and Blown Through
Raised to be Lowered
The Ritual

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A Weather's COVE, out March 4 on Team Love

From deep within the confines of the storied Portland mist comes indie-folk outfit A Weather and their debut album, Cove, out March 4th on Team Love.

A postcard from the green and gray environs of Portland, Cove is moody and warm, rife with odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self and hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists, Norfolk and Western), the songs on Cove are marked with an intimacy so striking that it feels like you’re eavesdropping on the pillow talk of two forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.

At the core of A Weather’s warm, soft-spoken sounds are the comely vocals of frontman/singer/songwriter Aaron Gerber and singer/drummer Sarah Winchester. With remarkable restraint and understated delivery, their harmonies trace each other, cross paths, diverge and intertwine, undercutting the gravity of A Weather’s material. “In one way Cove is a catalogue of closely observed moments and particulars,” says Gerber. “In another it is an oddly inspirational document of transience and entropy and trying to keep yourself together when things are falling apart.”

Cove swells with layers of sound (organs, Mellotron, percussion) and then drifts downward into moments of sparse acoustic guitar or a single piano. Winchester’s drumming (using only an upturned bass drum, a snare and a cymbal) is rock solid, uncluttered and highly musical. Meanwhile, guitarist Zach Boyle’s meandering, sinewy lines of electric guitar have been compared to a babbling brook – and why argue with that?

It's been a relatively short journey from A Weather’s first house show to their current status as the new kids on the Team Love block – though a journey crammed with hard work, dedication, empty bottles of Gatorade, Fleetwood Mac-style love affairs, tears, laughter and a great deal of excitement. The band came into its current line-up – Gerber, Winchester, Boyle, guitarist Aaron Krenkel and bassist Louis Thomas – over the holiday season of 2006. In a year’s time, A Weather has received generous media buzz for its "lush folk," "bedroom bards," "quiet folk-pop," “darkly fuzzy, warm and tender acoustic folk-pop" and "hush-pop.” They’ve shared the stage with the likes of Bright Eyes as well as Portland’s The Builders and the Butchers, Gregory Miles Harris, Laura Gibson and Bark, Hide and Horn. And A Weather was signed to Team Love, who released the group’s first seven-inch record, "The Feather Test” w/ “One More One Night Stand," in the spring of 2007.

As for Cove, there’s a great amount of wit and subtle humor accompanying all of the sad stuff, while there is always a sense of self-consciousness woven throughout. “Spiders, Snakes” opens the record with an immediately catchy drum riff, joined by a plodding, mournful Fender Rhodes. The song explores ideas of faith and doubt with a see-sawing verse melody, a beautifully souring chorus and a bridge section that rhymes “cinnamon buns” and “water guns.” “Pinky Toe,” an undulating opus of a song, is concerned primarily with feeling like a stubbed toe. “Screw Up Your Courage,” a swinging, almost sexy-sounding song, ends with Gerber and Winchester crooning the phrase "Ask me again," over and over, in a unison that goes out of phase with itself only to rejoin perfectly for the finale. “Pilot's Arrow” uses images of airports, arrows and shooting people out of cannons to describe a failing relationship. “It's Good To Know” is beautifully straightforward, with lyrics taking note of how nice it feels to check things off of lists, of watching small birds at the side of an English lake, of shopping carts with a wobbling wheel, and basically just how things are. The song and the record culminate in the final chorus: "It's good to know when good things will arrive."

www.aweathermusic.com

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Dave Gahan "Saw Something" Video

Here is the new video for Dave Gahan's "Saw Something" from his record Hourglass, out now!

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New Radiohead TV SPOT

The new Radiohead TV spot for the 1/1/08 release of In Rainbows, will begin running on Monday, but here is a sneak peak. The idea is to show how the packaging is meant to be put together with a seperate jewel case in order to promote recycling! How cool is that?

Watch the video here

Labels: Dave Gahan, Radiohead, Saul Williams, Trent Reznor, Weather