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VAMPIRE WEEKEND will be SNL's musical guest on March 6th! 24 Feb 2010


....from NBC

Comedian Zach Galifianakis will make his SNL hosting debut March 6.
Known for his hilariously unconventional stand-up style and off-beat
comedy, Galifianakis has emerged as one of today's most talked about
up-and-coming actors after starring in 2009's Golden Globe winning
comedy, "The Hangover." Galifianakis has also appeared in HBO's series
"Bored To Death," "Into The Wild," G-Force," and the Oscar nominated
drama, "Up In The Air." He will next be seen later this year alongside
Robert Downey Jr. in the feature film, "Due Date."

Joining Galifianakis on March 6, Vampire Weekend makes their second SNL
appearance. Formed while studying at Columbia University, this eclectic
quartet burst onto the music scene with a deafening amount of buzz.
Their self-titled debut in 2008 received universal acclaim, debuted in
the Top 20 on the Billboard Album chart and has recently gone gold. The
band's sophomore album, "Contra," was released on January 12th and
debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.

Vampire Weekend announce RADIO CITY show! 22 Feb 2010


VAMPIRE WEEKEND ANNOUNCES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SHOW

Vampire Weekend is excited to headline New York’s legendary Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday September 15th, 2010. Tickets for the show will be available for pre-sale on February 24th  12noon e.s.t. via Ticketmaster. The general sale starts on February 26th at 12noon e.s.t.

The band’s sophomore release, Contra, was released by XL Recordings on January 12th and debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, which was a first for a truly independent release by an indie rock band. The album has received rave reviews and the band has performed on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, with more to come. Vampire Weekend played three sold-out New York shows in mid-January celebrating Contra's release, and The Radio City Music Hall show will be the band’s first hometown performance in 8 months.

Vampire Weekend will begin a North American tour on March 14th in Edmonton, Alberta after spending nearly a month overseas. The tour will continue through to mid-April with a performance at the Coachella Festival. The band will also be playing at the Sasquatch Festival in late May in addition to numerous festivals all over the world this summer.

Basia Bulat playing select U.S. Tour Dates in February and March! 18 Feb 2010

Basia Bulat has been covering a lot of ground in her native Canada.  Luckily we are not forsaken, as Basia will be performing select U.S. Tour Dates in the next couple of months!   Her most recent release, Heart Of My Own  just came out on Rough Trade.

"Heart of My Own" bubbles with quiet intensity: Understated guitar and banjo, minute string arrangements, a dampened floor tom and distant multi-part vocal harmonies place the focus on Bulat's unwavering voice, a single powerful element in a beautiful but unforgiving landscape." NPR - Song Of The Day

"... it's her rare, extraordinary voice that makes her a fresh find in the notoriously musty folk-pop bin. Graceful and incandescent, confident but approachable, her alto's the aural equivalent of the perfect party host who makes every guest not only welcome, but certain they're the most important person in the room."  Pitchfork

"Who's singing in the new Subaru Outback commercial in which a man loses his sunglasses, then finds them in the hood of his sweatshirt? And what's the song?  The song is Before I Knew, by Canadian singer/songwriter Basia Bulat. Her new album, Heart of My Own, showcases Bulat's wide-ranging influences, from soul music to American folk."  USA Weekend

"This 25-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter has one of those powerful, lilting, “Who is that?’ voices that immediately grabs your attention both with its technique and its unbridled emotion. Her new album, “Heart of My Own,” is a worthy follow-up to her 2007 debut, “Oh, My Darling,” showcasing both that amazing voice and her open-hearted songwriting."  Wisconsin State Journal

Check out the MP3 for "Go On" here: http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/Basia_Bulat_Go_On.mp3

Check out the MP3 for "Gold Rush" here: http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/basiabulat_goldrush.mp3

Read this recent review: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/basia-bulat-underbelly-hoxton-london-1884955.html 4/5

Watch this wonderful live video of Basia performing "The Shore"  http://vimeo.com/9090534

Basia Bulat - U.S. Tour Dates

Feb 23 Schubas Chicago, Illinois
Feb 24 Cedar Cultural Centre Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mar 7 Tractor Tavern Seattle
Mar 8 Mississippi Studios Portland
Mar 10 Hotel Utah San Francisco
Mar 12 Hotel Cafe Los Angeles, California
Mar 17 SXSW Austin, Texas (More info TBA)
Mar 23 IOTA    Arlington, Virginia
Mar 24 First Unitarian Chapel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mar 25 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts
Mar 26 TT The Bear’s Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mar 27 Mercury Lounge New York, NY (early show)

Efterklang + gifted students from PS.859 = Efterkids! Feb 23rd in NYC 17 Feb 2010

ANNOUNCING
a unique performance to bring awareness to the need for more funding for youth music education
EFTERKLANG + gifted students from PS.859 = Efterkids!
 
We are very pleased to announce a VERY exciting record release party/performance for Efterklang’s 4AD debut album, Magic Chairs. It’s a multimedia extravaganza, and open to anyone with RSVP.
 
On Tuesday February 23rd from 5-7pm at the Clark Studio Theater in Manhattan, an 8 piece orchestra, made up of kids from PS. 859, a public school for musically gifted children from grades K-8  (aka The Special Music School) will perform Efterklang songs in tandem with a filmed performance of the band.  The band will be projected on a 20-foot high screen behind the kids. We call this collaboration Efterkids! With this performance, 4AD and Efterklang hope to raise awareness for the overall issue of music education in schools.
 
From 5-6pm we will have a listening party for Magic Chairs with complimentary beer and wine, and the performance will begin at 6pm.
 
DATE:  Tuesday February 23rd
LOCATION: Clark Studio Theater is part of Lincoln Center, located in the Rose Building, 7th Floor, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
http://tinyurl.com/ygbslqu
TIME: 5-7pm
WHO: anyone, space permitting
RSVP: rsvpnyc@4ad.com
 

ABOUT EFTERKLANG<
Efterklang (http://www.efterklang.net) is a band from Copenhagen, Denmark. They consist of 4 core members (Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer & Rasmus Stolberg) and they have played together since December 2000. They have performed in front of thousands with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra.  They've brought down the house with the Britten Sinfonia at London's Barbican Hall last Fall, and Magic Chairs is their third full-length album. The band will physically be in New York for a performance  at Le Poisson Rouge on March 3rd, and they will also be performing several times during SXSW. All the band’s dates can be found here: http://efterklang.net/home/concerts/
You can sample the song "Modern Drift" here: http://www.beggarspromo.com/982tnsefterklang/h32ggfModernDrift.mp3
You can view the video for "Modern Drift" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVj3rTWfVVw
As a fund-raising effort, 4AD will be filming the performance and producing a special 4AD Session (www.4ad.com/sessions/) that will go live online in March. The Efterkids 4AD Session will be heavily promoted and visitors will be asked to make a donation to the Special Music School in order to view the session. Materials will also be made available for other schools to create their own performance and videos of Efterkids.
 
The proceeds from this campaign will go toward raising money for much need computer equipment and other supplies for the school, and in addition, 4AD will be making a donation to the school.
 
ABOUT PS.859 - THE SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL
The Special Music School (SMS) is a unique model for how publicly funded arts education can work. 
 
SMS was founded in 1996 as a public/private partnership between the New York City Department of Education and the Kaufman Center, a not-for-profit, multi-arts organization. Its students have benefitted greatly from an integrated approach to curriculum, receiving rigorous musical training and academic guidance in a holistic context that emphasizes creative thinking and problem solving.
 
THE NEED FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
Producing future generations of musicians and adults who appreciate art is vital to our social fabric.
 
Beyond creating art, a recent Conference Board Report revealed that 74 percent of employers agree that creativity is increasingly important in U.S. workplaces. In addition, teamwork and critical thinking ranked in the five most important skills for new workforce entrants, yet more than half of these employers stated that entrants exhibited deficiencies in these skills. Ensuring that  students have the opportunity to study a musical instrument helps resolve this deficit.
 
As other nations have looked to the United States education system as a model, and are including arts education in their curricula, many American schools are cutting these same programs. Without music programs in our public schools our children and our culture are weakened.

the morning benders Yours Truly/Pitchfork premiere of live video for Excuses 11 Feb 2010

Check out this wonderful video here http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2115-the-morning-benders/1

celebrate President's day with HOLLY MIRANDA in NYC 11 Feb 2010

Holly Miranda will be performing on Monday February 15th at Other Music in New York City. You really should go!

Taken by Trees DJING in NYC tonight! 10 Feb 2010

The Swede Beat Magazine is celebrating it's 1 year anniversary tonight, and Victoria Bergsman of Taken By Trees is djing!The party is from 10pm-2am at White Slab Palace, 77 Delancey Street at Allen.RSVP: editor@theswedebeat.com

Titus Andronicus FREE instore tour! 04 Feb 2010

Titus Andronicus is heading out to a record store near YOU next month! GO and watch them play songs from their AMAZING upcoming album, The Monitor, out on March 9th. - DID WE MENTION THESE SHOWS ARE FREEEEEEEE????

St. Vincent "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood" Video Debuts on MySpace 04 Feb 2010

Today, the video for St. Vincent's "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood", a comedic collaboration with thunderAnt - the comedy duo of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein - premieres on MySpace.

Another entry in thunderAnt's Feminist Bookstore series, St. Vincent né Annie Clarke does an in store performance at Wom en and Wom en First, the most feminist of all fem i nist book stores.

"Laughing With a Mouth of Blood" is the third video from St. Vincent's critically-acclaimed album Actor, out last year on 4AD. It was shot and edit ed by Patrick Stan ton and Doug Lussen hop.
 
Please find the video here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=102692696

www.ilovestvincent.com www.myspace.com www.thunderant.com www.4ad.com

The Big Pink - lots going on!!! 04 Feb 2010

The Big Pink are #39 on the Alternative Radio chart!!!!
The Big Pink were just nominated for 2 NME Awards - "Best New Band" and "Best Single" (Domonos)  Vote for them here:   http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/49405
The Big Pink's "At War With The Sun" is going to be featured in a Gossip Girl episode airing March 8!!
The Big Pink's massive US tour starts the very next day, March 9, at The El Rey Theater in Los Angeles!!

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