Odd Future kingpin Tyler, the Creator, who's about to release his sophomore album, has added more dates to his international spring solo tour. He'll also be joined by Earl Sweatshirt for a string of shows. Wolf, Tyler's new album, is out on April 2 through Odd Future Records. Dates below.
Tyler, the Creator:
03-15 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's 03-16 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle 03-17 Norfolk, VA - The Norva 03-18 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall 03-20 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom 03-21 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 03-22 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House 03-23 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 03-24 Philadelphia, PA - TLA 03-28 Paris, France - Trabendo 03-29 Berlin, Germany - Festaal Kreuzberg 03-30 London, England - Islington Academy 04-02 Los Angeles, CA - TBA 04-03 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit 04-05 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre 04-07 La Jolla, CA - Porter's Pub 04-08 San Luis Obispo, CA - Slo Brew 04-10 Seattle, WA - Neumos 04-11 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre 04-30 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre ^ 05-02 Tempe, AZ - The Marquee ^ 05-05 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory Concert House ^ 05-07 Missoula, MT - Top Hat Lounge ^ 05-08 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory Concert House ^ 05-10 Bend, OR - Midtown ^ 05-11 Ashland, OR - Ashland Armory ^ 05-12 Eugene, OR - Wow Hall ^ 05-14 Reno, NV - Knitting Factory ^ 05-15 Chico, CA - Senator Theatre ^ 05-17 Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades ^ 05-18 Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst ^ 06-21-23 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret Festival
^ with Earl Sweatshirt
Watch the video for the new Earl/Tyler collaboration "Whoa":
Photos by Trent Maxwell. Above: Trash Talk. For all of our 2013 SXSW coverage, head here.
There were blues skies and warm spring breezes for a packed house at Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Day Party at House of Vans at Mohawk on Wednesday. Not exactly the most metal weather, but it didn't matter. The afternoon kicked off with Brooklyn industrial doom metal band Batillus and Chicago's Encrust. Richmond, Virginia experimental sludge crew Inter Arma came armed with a water stick and expansive songs, while Brooklyn crusts Mutilation Rites delivered a raw, filthy set.
Encrust
Forth Worth doomy deathrock duo Pinkish Black played songs from their self-titled debut. Royal Thunder vocalist Mlny Parsonz has a powerful voice that crosses genre lines, and their songs felt especially ready for a crossover on the Mohawk outdoor stage. Austin's Wet Lungs, featuring onetime Locust drummer Gabe Serbian, played a set of power violence-influenced noise rock. Arkansas doom band Pallbearer appeared at the Show No Mercy party for the second year in a row, this time with a year of touring-- and the excellent album Sorrow and Extinction-- under their belts. Trash Talk vocalist Lee Spielman had a cast on his foot, but that didn't stop him from climbing a wall or spending much of his band's typically intense set somewhere in the crowd.
Pallbearer
Next, Trash Talk's Austin cohorts and tour buddies Power Trip destroyed the indoor stage with their crossover thrash. The day was capped by Athens, Ohio quartet Skeletonwitch, who flew in for a one-off set of super tight, anthemic, and flat-out fun blackened thrash, and escaped the snow to do it.
Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set. The 'music' element is all a front, it's the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. 'Official' bureaucracy and all their mindless rules. Branding, branding, branding. It's bullshit… sorry."
-- DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith is not enjoying his time in Austin. (via Tumblr)
The Leeds-based melodic punk band Eagulls are not the sort of group that seems to be comfortable inside the corporate shit-show of SXSW. (Revisit their handwritten blog postfrom January, in which they decry the music industry and "all beach bands sucking each others' dicks and rubbing the press' clit.") But their set last night at the SESAC showcase at Friends, following some astonishingly terrible electro-rock-dubstep hybrid thing, was at least a sort of interesting glimpse into the types of hyper-industry showcases international bands get tacked onto when they happen to score funding to travel to the fest.
Eagulls' set was nonetheless just as engaging as when I saw them Saturday afternoon in Monterrey, Mexico for the NRMAL fest. The band's live show is more raw and amusingly deadpan than the slightly slicker EP they re-released on Deranged earlier this year, adding more deliberate nods to late 70s post-punk. (One of the guys was clad in a Gang of Four shirt.) Frontman George Mitchell and the drummer's throttling rolls carried the set forward. Mitchell, T-shirt tucked in, stumbled about shouting and gazing out entranced, a strong presence. He saved his one bit of appropriately bratty banter for the end, after slamming down his mic stand and then his mic. "We're Eagulls. If you wanna see us again then come and do it again and bring me some beer."
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An Allman Brothers Band Recording from the Brief Pre-Gregg Era Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 In March of 1969 Duane Allman gathered Dickey Betts, Jaimoe, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Reese Wynans together for a project that would become the Allman Brothers Band. The group played a small number of gigs before Wynans was replaced by Duane’s brother Gregg Allman. Few recordings from that per...
Help a A Big Yes and a small no Make Their New Album Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 Kevin Kendrick’s A Big Yes and a small no are nearing the end of a Kickstarter campaign for their next studio album. Led by vibes master, the group includes his Fat Mama collaborators Jonathan Goldberger, Jonti Siman, Joe Russo and Erik Deutsch. The musicians are trying to raise at least $6,000 to m...
Umphrey's McGee Mondays to Aid Victims of Oklahoma Tornadoes Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 The next installment of Denver’s Umphrey’s Mondays will take place at Armoury on June 3. This installment in the regular series—which screens recent and classic Umphrey’s McGee shows—will spotlight the band’s January 20, 2013 15th anniversary show...
Sexmob: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti Sat, 18 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 Royal Potato Family
Everybody â everybody â knows that old music reviewer chestnut of âso-and-soâs new album is the soundtrack to a movie that has yet to be made,â right? Well, now, get your head around this one, boys and girls: reuniting for their first studio album since 2006âs...
Craig Taborn Trio: Chants Sat, 18 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 ECM
Everything there is to like about the new Craig Taborn Trio album Chants – is summed up in the opening song âSaintsâ. Taborn launches into a spiraling statement that initially sounds playful and a little wistful (Vince Guaraldi spoken here) before a sprinkling of minors darkens the mo...
Akron/Family : Sub Verses Sat, 18 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000 Dead Oceans
Exactly 4:20 into âNo-Room,â the first track of Akron/Familyâs seventh album Sub Verses, it finally happens. Thatâs the moment when all of those references to the band as âfolk-influencedâ or âlo-fi folkâ completely fly out the window. The seven-minute opener gives...
Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap):
Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you
know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all
the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you
go from there? Where?
Today, as first act for the Republican led 112th Congress, the new
majority is going to read the United States Constitution out loud.
Oh, the irony.
If there is real reverence for the document (notably the original copies of
the document in the late 1700s were scribed onto paper made from hemp…a staple commercial crop during America’s Revolutionary period
cultivated by many of the US Constitution’s original signers…an agricultural
product banned by US federal governments for
the last 74 years) by those who read the document and sit in rapture listening
to the words, then it should be clear to all in the Congress this morning that
Cannabis Prohibition is unconstitutional.
Why?
Where in the Constitution does the federal government derive the power and
authority to ban and criminalize such a utilitarian and life-enhancing plant species as cannabis?
The oft-lamented by conservatives Commerce Clause? This is where the liberals
in Franklin Roosevelt’s administration justified the federal government’s prohibition of cannabis in 1937. Both liberal
and conservative governments have argued strenuously, and successfully, in
federal courts that Cannabis Prohibition is lawful and sanctioned under the US
Constitution’s Commerce Clause.
Further, and most importantly, today’s Congress, notably the new
Constitution-loving majority, should listen carefully today when the reading
turns to the 1919 18th Amendment (which created Alcohol Prohibition) and the 1933 21st Amendment
(which, of course, repealed Alcohol Prohibition, which, like Cannabis
Prohibition, was a complete failure that created more problems than it solved
and unnecessarily conveyed policing powers from the states and cities to the
federal government).
Unless the new majority supports the continued use of the Commerce Clause to
justify federal intervention into state
sovereignty, for them to adhere and respect the U.S. Constitution (which each
member of Congress swears to uphold), they need to pass a constitutional
amendment post haste that prohibits the cannabis plant and criminalizes
its use, rather than rely on what many Americans consider a legislative fiat by the Congress that
created and has fostered Cannabis Prohibition for over eight decades.
Indeed new majority (and minority) in Congress, read and
respect the U.S. Constitution!
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The Return of Salmon Tue, 21 May 2013 11:19:55 CST After the careful removal of two large dams, salmon are returning to Washington's Elwha River.
Only You Can Prevent Faucet Fires Tue, 07 May 2013 15:04:03 CST After a modified, anti-fracking Smokey the Bear
went viral, the U.S. Forest Service threatened legal action against the
activist who created it.
How corporate power is killing the world, explained in animated GIFs
We Are the World Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:36:02 CST In New Zealand-or Aotearoa, as it is known to the indigenous Maori people-the Whanganui River has been awarded personhood status.
Bill McKibben: Why the Climate Movement Can't Wait for Democrats Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:23:14 CST Since the beginning of the gay rights movement, it took Democratic leaders four decades to "evolve" on marriage equality. But the climate movement, and the planet, don't have the kind of time.
Lobbyists have purchased agricultural policy. Changing our food system is a political act-one that will require a massive grassroots mobilization to challenge multi-national corporations-and one we must support.
Green Economy Sparks a Modern Tragedy of the Commons Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:24:58 CST Displacement in Bajo Aguan, Honduras, illustrates how green economy initiatives like carbon cap and trade can create a modern Tragedy of the Commons.
Are Foods you eat causing Deforestation?
Around the world, rainforests are being destroyed to grow or raise food products, and the foods that have the most harmful impacts may be surprising.
[We are] Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity. But at least we can try to take the stuffing out of the keyhole, which blocks even our limited view. —Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up.1
How can an IPad help NDE research? When will skeptical bloggers begin citing research to support their critiques? Is there a parallel dimension bleeding over into this one where Daryl Bem is the only person in the 21st century to research psi? What will come of $2.3 million dollars in grants for research into the the question of post-mortem survival? These questions and more in this week’s Psi in the News!
Any depictions of psychedelic use as a throwback to the 1960s would be telling an incomplete story. Current research and drug-use surveys show that psychedelics are just as popular in America today as they were 50 years ago.
