Week In Pop
» Your top of the schlock round up for the week.
Amid the recent activity here in S.F. of wild Giants World Championship revelry, I can safely assure you all, my dear readers, know that it has not distracted me one iota from concentrating my energies on my fiduciary duties of pop cultural concerns and conceits. That been said, here's the rundown of a variety of news, official leaks, videos, remixes of your favorites in no particular order.
A reliable source informed that Matthew Mondanile will be releasing his third Ducktails album in January of 2011 on Woodsist Records entitled Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics. And speaking of Woodsist, I heard a confirmation that Woodsist will be releasing the second White Fence album hopefully before the end of the year. That album is titled Growing Faith.
It is with great excitement to also tell you that the Descendants have united to headline Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010. Festival dates are Nov. 5, 6 and 7 at Waterloo Park over yonder in Austin, TX. Also playing the FFF Fest will be Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti who has started touring with Brazil’s psyched out rockers Os Mutantes and has recently enjoyed having their massive single "Round and Round" remixed by UK producer Little Loud. Think chill tropical waves and breezes that lull the "nah nah nah nahs" somewhere around the Cayman Islands where the bank accounts of America's elite can enjoy a Caribbean vacation safe and far away from the reaches of the meddling SEC. Check out Fun Fun Fest's site for the full festival line-up schedule.
Ariel Pink' Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" (Little Loud Remix)
Happy to see that Brooklyn's So So Glos have put out a video for their song "Fred Astaire." Lead singer Alex Levine reminds me of younger Bruce Springsteen and "Fred Astaire" does have shades of "Born to Run." Which reminds me that I need to take Alex over to Arinells Pizza on Valencia and 16th the next time the So So Glos come to town to show him how good a Bay Area-New York knock-off slice of Neopolitan can be.
"Fred Astaire" - The So So Glos from Matthew Greeley on Vimeo.
Have to admit that those twee-d up sweethearts Pains of Being Pure at Heart are beginning to capture mine a little bit with this official leak "Heart In Your Heartbreak." I would like to congratulate them for making Belle and Sebastian’s recent effort sound way more machismo by comparison.The single will be available December 14 on Slumberland Records and the album’s future release date is March 2011.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak by forcefieldpr
And last but definitely not least, it appears that Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings are putting out a self-titled album for Carpark Records scheduled for a release sometime January 2011. Now you must excuse me while I sweep up the excess World Championship ticker tape from my sidewalk.
Posted on November 05, 2010. More on: cloud nothings, carpark records, pains of being pure at heart, so so glos, ariel pinks haunted graffiti, descendents, ducktails, os mutantes
