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Meat Beat Manifesto & Excepter @ Bowery, Ballroom - picsToday

photos by Nathan Miller

In May, 2007 Jack Dangers released a double CD of old

Meat Beat Manifesto demos, as well as an instrumental version of the Perennial Divide album, Purge, entitled Archive Things 1982-88 / Purged. MBM's 9th studio album, Autoimmune, was released on April 7, 2008 in Europe via Planet Mu Records and on April 8, 2008 in the US and Canada via Metropolis Records. According to the band's website, Z-Trip is again collaborating on several tracks. The lead single, "Guns And Lovers" was released as a digital single via iTunes on March 18, 2008, while the track "Lonely Soldier" was released as a single via bleep.com. [Wikipedia]Meat Beat Manifesto played their first of two east coast shows at Bowery Ballroom in NYC last night (11/19). NYC's Excepter opened. The next Meat Beat performance is this weekend at Brainwaves in Boston. More pictures from Bowery below...

Of Montreal - Brooklyn tix, more tour dates, Jon Brion, stuffToday

DOWNLOAD: Of Montreal - If I Faltered Slightly Twice (MP3)

The

Jon Brion Remixes album will include this track, two JB versions of the rapturous "An Eluardian Instance," a longer version of this "Gallery Piece" remix, and an instrumental version to boot. It comes out 1/6 digitally and 1/27 on CD/LP via Polyvinyl. [Stereogum]Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Of Montreal show happening at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn in December.

NPR is streaming the entire recent DC Of Montreal show. It took place right around the time they played an over the top show at Roseland Ballroom in NYC.

Andrew Bird Carnegie Hall tickets on sale, Loney, DearToday

Andrew Bird rocking for Barack (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

Tickets are on sale for Andrew Bird's Carnegie Hall show.

Loney, Dear isn't opening for Andrew at the NYC show (Dosh is), but Loney, Dear is playing every other 2009 Andrew Bird show just announced. Loney, Dear (I hate that comma in his name) is playing NYC soon though - in December with Melpo Mene.

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To Kill A Pretty Bourgeoisie & Boduf Songs (Kranky)- 2008 Tour Dates (2xNYC, Brainwaves Festval)Today

To Kill A Pretty Bourgeoisie

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie consists of Jehna Wilhelm, guitar and vocals, and Mark McGee, electronics and sound manipulation. Originally from Richmond, VA, the duo has been involved with this project for 4 years and has been supported by an ever-changing cast of players and musicians. They now reside in Minneapolis, MN where they run their own label, The Riley Bushman Recordings & Archives, which they use as an outlet to release various projects and collaborations. [

Kranky]Kranky label-mates To Kill A Pretty Bourgeoisie and Boduf Songs (aka Mat Sweet, who lives in Southampton England) are going on a tour together that kicks off at this weekend's Brainwaves Festival in Boston.

"Capping the weekend is a day-long tribute to Kranky, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the label, which is home to avant-garde rockers like Deerhunter and ambient pioneers Stars of the Lid. "For Kranky, we've got a whole day planned. Windy [of Windy & Carl] and Thomas Meluch [of Benoit Pioulard] will perform tog

CMJ 2009 dates: October 20-24Today

More info and registration @ CMJ's site.

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