Architecture Constructs Polyvinyl Releases
Following their recent inking to Polyvinyl Records, Australian sextet Architecture In Helsinki prepare to bombard the states as they release a new single and full-length album in addition to a US tour in June. First up, Architecture will release "Heart It Races" June 5, on CD, digital and 12-inch formatting, while on an extensive summer tour.
"We are all thrilled to have joined forces with the Champagne of Champaign, Illinois," says Cameron Bird, multi-instrumentalist and principle songwriter for the band. "Polyvinyl are a fantastic, progressive and hardworking bunch and we are a bunch of slackers, so, really it's a perfect match."
After the band works their way from east to west with help from Yacht, Ariel Pink and Gang Gang Dance on select dates, Polyvinyl will release Architecture's highly anticipated third album, Places Like This, August 7.
Tracklist For Heart It Races CD Single:
01. Heart It Races - Single Version
02. Heart It Races - DJ/Rupture's Ital Hymn Mix Featuring Mr. Lee G
03. Heart It Races - As played By Hey Willpower!
04. Heart It Races - Yacht's I Should Coco mix
05. Heart It Races - As played By Dr. Dog
Tracklist For Heart It Races 12-inch Single:
Side A:
01. Heart It Races - Trizzy's (aka A-Trak) Rusty Tin Can Mix
02. Heart It Races - Yacht's I Should Coco Mix
Side B:
01. Heart It Races - Pink Skull Remix
02. Heart It Races - Franc Tetaz Mix
Tracklist For Places Like This:
01. Red Turned White
02. Heart It Races
03. Hold Music
04. Feather In A Baseball Cap
05. Underwater
06. Like It Or Not
07. Debbie
08. Lazy (Lazy)
09. Nothing's Wrong
10. Same Old Innocence
Tour Dates For Architecture In Helsinki:
06/07 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East
06/08 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
06/09 - Philadelphia PA - Starlight
06/10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
06/11 - Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
06/13 - Seattle, WA, - Neumo's*
06/14 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards On Richards*
06/15 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom*
06/16 - San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club*
06/18 - Pomona, CA - Glasshouse*
06/19 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre **
* with Gang Gang Dance, Ariel Pink
** with Yacht |
Last.fm Creates ?User Generated? Club With Ninja Tune
Social music network Last.fm has teamed up with seminal label Ninja Tune to create a groundbreaking 'user-generated? club night at The Big Chill House on Pentonville Road on June 2nd.
All Last.fm users going to the party will help decide the setlist for the upstairs room, DJed by Ninja Tune?s Sparky. They?ll register their intention to attend at the club?s event page on the Last.fm website, and on the night Sparky will play tracks drawn from music listened to by those users in the preceding weeks.
Last.fm is a social music network that tracks what you listen to on your PC and iPod and then plays you new music that suits your taste, based on recommendations drawn from the listening habits of over 20 million active users.
This party is the first time that Last.fm has taken its 'collaborative filtering? ethos out into the real world. Sparky?s user-generated set will also be recorded and made available on Last.fm for users unable to attend.
Last.fm is also extremely chuffed that the youngest DMC World Champion to date and celebrated member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the one and only A-Trak will be gracing the downstairs decks. Joining him is ingenious prodigy MC Kid Sister.And if that wasn?t enough, Ninja Tune managed to get the hottest beatboxer of the moment to do a very special set of itches, scratches, and a lot of beard-inspired utterances into the mic. Behold the genious of Beardyman!
Furthermore, Ninja Tune will bring their very own Mr Herbaliser Ollie Teeba along to entice the dancing crowds. And last but by no earthly measures least, the striped-jumper-wearing godfather of warm and soulful sounds, London?s very own Ross Allen will also be heating up the dance floor. |
Phil Spector trial: Day 36
A defence expert testified today (July 18) in the Phil Spector murder trial that blood can spatter more than three feet.
This is significant because it contradicts the prosecution's argument that the blood patterns found on the producer's jacket indicate he was close enough to have killed actress Lana Clarkson when she was fatally shot.
Spector is accused of murdering Clarkson, whom he had met at the House of Blues in Los Angeles only hours before. The defence contends the actress' death was an accidental suicide.
Witnesses for the prosecution previously testified that the blood patterns found on Spector's jacket indicate he was within three feet of the actress at the time of her death.
This morning, however, blood expert James Pex contradicted that theory.
But when cross-examined later in the day, he admitted that the spatter of blood on Spector's jacket was consistent with it being two to three feet away.
However, he added that some of the blood could have been transferred from one object to another rather than spattering on it when the gun was fired, reports the Los Angeles Times.
In the past few days, the defence team has focused on scientific evidence to support its case and contradict the prosecution's claim that Spector shot Clarkson. |