Showing posts with label pitchfork music festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitchfork music festival. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

Music Notes: Short & sweet Friday edition

- Trent Reznor posted more details regarding the final Nine Inch Nails US tour dates via Twitter. There will be eleven more shows — four in New York, two in Chicago, and three in L.A. There will also be a show at the Virgin Festival in Ontario, Canada. [Pitchfork]

- Health club chain Retrofitness has acquired the rights to 867-5309, the phone number in one-hit wonder Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny." [Billboard]

- Win tickets to the Pitchfork Music Festival via Fader. [Fader]

- Meanwhile, most of the festival's ticket options are sold out... [Pitchfork]

- Michael Jackson fans are lining up in Gary, Indiana, the singer's hometown, to attend a memorial tonight. [Associated Press via Yahoo!]
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Music Notes: Radiohead deluxe reissues in August, Pitchfork festival set times are out

- EMI will reissue deluxe editions of Radiohead's Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief (Aug. 24 in Europe, Aug. 25 in the US). These new editions will feature b-sides, radio sessions and TV appearances. Go here for more details about the rereleases. [AtEaseWeb.com]

- The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival set times have been revealed. The festival will be held July 17 - 19 in Chicago's Union Park. [Pitchfork]

- Beck is working on a new project, covering The Velvet Underground & Nico. Visit Q to check out a cover of "Sunday Morning." This is part of Beck's "Beck & Friends Music Club," which will involve Beck and some friends (shock!) rerecording entire albums in one-day sessions. [Q, NME]

- Paul McCartney will write the songs for a soundtrack to a film adaptation of one of his children's books. The film, High On the Clouds, is based on his 2005 book of the same name. [NME]
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