World's Fair

BSP fans signed up for their fabulous newsletter known as the Newsboost received a nice little treat in their inboxes as the band kicked off their US tour… download a free mp3 of this precious, unreleased gem:

British Sea Power - “Close the Door” [DOWNLOAD]

The band also stopped by UCLA Radio for a live in-studio session and interview…

British Sea Power - Live @ UCLA Radio [LISTEN/DOWNLOAD]

Meanwhile, over @ Drowned In Sound, BSP present their European tour dairy… “Does mainland Europe like rock music? Of course. We already knew that, so British Sea Power ventured from Brussels to Berlin as they took in botanical gardens, wooing Pet Shop Boys and gawping at Holocaust memorials. This article contains sexual frolics, knitting escapades and Auld Kendal snuff. Words and photographs brought to you from Yan Scott and Martin Noble…” - Drowned In Sound [READ MORE]

& when you’re done reading about all this overseas frolicking, pick up your own BSP tickets America! Updated tour dates below…

Feb 28 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland (Colourmusic supports)
Feb 29 Visalia, CA @ Cellar Door (Colourmusic supports)

Mar 01 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (NoisePop) (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 03 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 04 Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 05 Vancouver, BC @ Plaza Club (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 08 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 12 New York NY @ Late Show w/David Letterman
Mar 13 Rhapsody Party @ SXSW (12pm)
Mar 14 Hot Freaks @ SXSW (5pm)
Mar 15 DMX Party @ SXSW (1pm)
Mar 15 World’s Fair Showcase @ SXSW

Mar 19 Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 20 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 21 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock (Colourmusic supports)
Mar 22 Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club (1900’s support)
Mar 24 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (1900’s support) [Early and Late Show ****]
Mar 25 Pontiac, MI @ Eagle Theatre (1900’s support)
Mar 26 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop (1900’s support)
Mar 27 Columbus, OH @ The Basement (1900’s support)
Mar 28 Louisville, KY @ Phoenix Hill Tavern (1900’s support)
Mar 29 St. Louis, MO @ Billiken Club (1900’s support)

Apr 11 Dallas, TX @ The Loft (Film School support)
Apr 12 Austin, TX @ Club Deville (Film School support)
Apr 13 Houston, TX @ Numbers (Film School support)
Apr 15 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon (Film School support)
Apr 16 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
Apr 17 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder - Florida State University (Film School support)
Apr 18 Orlando, FL @ The Social (Film School support)
Apr 19 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits (Film School support)
Apr 20 Mount Pleasant, SC @ CANCELLED
Apr 21 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl (Film School support)
Apr 22 Birmingham, AB @ Bottletree (Film School support)
Apr 23 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone (Film School support)
Apr 26 Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival w/The Polyphonic Spree

May 1 Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s (Rosebuds support)
May 2 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s (Rosebuds support)
May 3 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge (Rosebuds support)
May 4 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle (Rosebuds support)
May 6 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle (Rosebuds support)
May 7 Charlottesville, VA @ Satelite Ballroom (Rosebuds support)
May 8 Washington, DC @ Black Cat (Rosebuds support)
May 9 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s (Rosebuds support)
May 10 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (Rosebuds support)
May 11 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Rosebuds support)
May 13 Boston, MA @ Paradise (Rosebuds support)
May 15 Montreal, QUE @ La Sala Rossa (Rosebuds support)
May 16 Toronto, ONT @ Lee’s Palace (Rosebuds support)
May 17 Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf (Rosebuds support)
May 18 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre (Rosebuds support)

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

On MTVU’s new show The Lab, hosted by the one & only Pete Rock, Del premiered the tight, fit video for “Workin’ It” (Single available now on Definitive Jux!)

Del The Funky Homosapien - “Workin’ It” [WATCH @ MTVU]

Meanwhile, PaperThinWalls caught up with Del recently and asked him to tell us a story… it went a little something like this, “Now I had actually went there hella lit. I mean super-duper lit. Hella fuckin’ lit. Like I had maybe two grams of shrooms or something like that, drank hella liquor, smoked hella bomb. So I get up in there, I’m lit, everybody else there is lit. But they’re already rocking out there in the studio. So I come in, track is already going on. So I meet the Captain, the Captain gives me two Valiums. So I end up poppin’ them too. So now I’m hella lit, dude. And I’m smoking weed in there. I’m hella high. I didn’t have lyrics with me yet. I heard ’em rockin’ out, got juiced, sat there, wrote the lyrics. Hopped in the booth, kicked the lyrics a few times, laid ’em. They was going crazy and shit. Loving it…” [READ MORE]

Del The Funky Homosapien LIVE:
March 13 - OPENING FOR SPOON at Lady Bird Lake Stage 7PM (free/outdoor)
March 13 - Def Jux @ SXSW @ SCOOT INN 11PM
March 20 - A3C Festival - Atlanta, GA
March 21 - Cat’s Cradle - Carrboro, NC
March 22 - Toad’s Place -Richmond, VA
March 23 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
March 26 - Highline Ballroom - NYC, NY

CONNECT: Delspace | Definitive Jux | World’s Fair

In case you missed, it’s official! In addition to the US release of Dizzee’s critically acclaimed “Maths + English” coming up on April 29th, Def Jux takes it to a whole other level with this stretch of tour dates below…

Jus’ a Rascal:
March 6 - PLUG AWARDS, NYC
March 11 - Southpaw, Brooklyn

Def Jux @ SXSW:
March 13 - The Scoot Inn (SXSW)

El Rascal
May 8- 9:30 Club, D.C.
May 9 - First Unitarian Church, Philly
May 10 - Webster Hall, NYC
May 11- Middles East, Boston
May 12 - New Capital Music Hall, Ottawa
May 13 - Crofoot Ballroom, Detroit
May 14 - The Abbey Pub, Chicago
May 16 - Triple Rock Club, Minneapolis
May 19 - Neumos, Seattle
May 20 - Berbatis Pan, Portland
May 21 - 1015, San Francisco
May 22 - El Rey, Los Angeles

CONNECT: Definitive Jux

Artist: brakesbrakesbrakes
Album: The Beatific Visions
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: May 8th, 2007
Format: CD, digital
Shop: Amazon | eMusic | Insound | & Your Local Record Store!

brakesbrakesbrakes - “Hold Me In The River” [DOWNLOAD]

brakesbrakesbrakes - “If I Should Die Tonight” [STREAM]

brakesbrakesbrakes - “Cease And Desist” [STREAM]

Stay in touch with Brighton’s finest @ Brakespace!

CONNECT: Website | Myspace | World’s Fair

Cali’s gettin rocked harder than Pearl Harbor by British Sea Power this week!

San Diego Citybeat, at the first stop on BSP’s US romp, caught up with Yan for a phoner… “Reflecting on the themes of Rock Music, Wilkinson said, “We’re trying to think that rock music should interact with the world outside of the music world—the real world,” he laughed, “foreign countries or stories about geography or ecology or just funny, stupid stories. But it should kind of reach outside your own small personal sphere a little bit and make some effort to interact.” - San Diego Citybeat [READ MORE]

The Guardian invites the young Brit rock elite to elaborate on their respective definitions of what is British in music… Yan picks Joe Meek’s “I Hear A New World”, and says, “… This is from the album of the same name that he made for shops to test new stereo equipment. It’s a concept record, a voyage around an imaginary galaxy, somewhere between pop and strangeness. The modern equivalent would be something like Plone on Warp. Meek invented a lot of recording techniques and there’s really nothing quite like him today…” - Yan @ Guardian UK [READ MORE]

The stellar reviews continue to pour in…!

“The band’s third and possibly best full-length leans in a bit harder than usual, and dazzles throughout…” - Paste Magazine

“A vivid, nostalgic traipse into what good rock bands ought to sound like…” - Alternative Press

“This hopeful conclusion to “Do You Like Rock Music?” can be seen as an allegory for the rock renaissance that many American music lovers still eagerly await. There is clearly still hope for a revitalization of the genre, but only if albums like this one start to garner the attention they merit…” - Harvard Crimson [READ MORE]

“Listening is like riding a beast; BSP’s unvarnished, delightfully meandering anthems sound larger than life. Bring on foliage and military uniforms, lads, we’re prepared to salute…” - LA Times - Buzz Bands [READ MORE]

“For all the rhetoric surrounding these pomped-up epic pursuits, away from Arcade Fire’s entrenched inwardness, there’s an underlying sense of egalitarian spirit and warped optimism to British Sea Power’s raucous gambol, inviting you in on the gently demented proceedings rather than leaving you a cold onlooker. Do you like rock music? That doesn’t matter. Little Richard or Richard Littlejohn? It’s all just a front, all just an invite into Sea Power’s crowded nest…” - Kingblind [READ MORE]

“Not only could DYLRM be called a return to form, British Sea Power have produced an album with the kind of majesty and skill that shouldn’t be allowed to disappear solely into the hands of their cult…” - Radar Online [READ MORE]

“Lost in the nautical swell of the band’s powerful kaleidoscope of sound, it’s abundantly clear that, no matter the intent of the question, the answer is yes, yes, a thousand times, yes.” - Crawdaddy [READ MORE]

Artist: British Sea Power
Album: Do You Like Rock Music?
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: Feb. 12th, 2008
CD: Amazon | Newbury Comics | Insound
MP3: iTunes | eMusic | Amazon
2xLP: Insound

British Sea Power - “Waving Flags” [DOWNLOAD]

British Sea Power - “Atom” edit [DOWNLOAD]

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

Enjoy as Atlanta’s Evol Intent shred up The Autumns’ “Killer In Drag” into a magnificent glitch-pop-adelic treat.

The Autumns - “Killer In Drag” [DOWNLOAD]

The Autumns - “Killer In Drag” Evol Intent Remix [DOWNLOAD]

The Autumns on tour headed to World’s Fair’s Saturday SXSW showcase
March 1 Salt Lake City UT @ Solid Ground
March 3 Modesto CA @ Sidelines
March 4 Anaheim CA @ Chain Reaction
March 5 Hollywood CA @ Knitting Factory
March 6 Phoenix AZ @ The Brickhouse
March 7 Roswell NM @ Pecos Flavors Winery
March 8 San Antonio TX @ The Warhol
March 9 Dallas TX @ Prophet Bar
March 12-16 SxSW

Artist: The Autumns
Album: Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys
Label: Bella Union / World’s Fair
Street Date: April 15th, 2008
Formats: CD, mp3

CONNECT: Website | Myspace | World’s Fair

Today marks the start of Pela’s “There’s No Off Switch On This Thing” tour, with a new member, Chris Herb, warming up the crowds to material from the soon-to-be-forthcoming follow-up to “Anytown Graffiti”

Ceaseless self-promoters that they are, the lads have unveiled a 4-part mini-video-series “inspired” by Francis Ford Copolla et al… The 1st installment is here below (warning - half naked Pela drummer ahead!), and check out the rest @ Pelamusic.com

Keep up with these restless road warriors on their Tour Blog throughout the trek!

Feb 26 Cambridge MA @ TT The Bears
Feb 27 Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Apollo Sunshine supports)
Feb 29 Chicago IL @ Schubas
March 1 Minneapolis MN @ 400 Bar
March 4 Seattle WA @ High Dive
March 5 Portland OR @ Doug Fir
March 7 San Francisco CA @ Bottom of the Hill
March 8 Los Angeles @ Spaceland
March 10 Denver CO @ Hi Dive
March 11 Lawrence KS @ Jackpot Saloon
March 13 Cleveland OH @ Beachland Ballroom
March 14 Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
March 15 Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda’s

May 26 George, WA @ Sasquatch Music Festival

CONNECT: Website | Studio VLog | World’s Fair | Myspace

The Queen of Funk indeed!

Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Album: 100 Days, 100 Nights
Label: Daptone Records
Street Date: October 2nd, 2007
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace | iMeem | YouTube

In case you missed Monday night’s stellar performance on the Late Show w/ David Letterman on CBS, by the miracle of the Internet, Brooklyn Vegan has a treat well worth your broadband!

Plus pics from last Friday’s Valentine’s / Homecoming Beacon Theatre gig c/o Brooklyn Vegan

More photos c/o Music Slut

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace | iMeem | YouTube

Pick up a copy of the March issue of The Source where Del chats this & that & cousin Cube. “I don’t even try to be different at this point. I don’t try to do anything but make my music better. Before, maybe I tried to be different, but now i realize that i don’t have to try.” Del The Funky Homosapien @ The Source

Del announced a handful of gigs in the Los Angeles area!

Artist: Del The Funky Homosapien
Album:Eleventh Hour
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: March 11th, 2008
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

Del The Funky Homosapien - “Bubble Pop (Promo)” [DOWNLOAD]

Del The Funk Homosapien - “Workin’ It” [PURCHASE DIGI-SINGLE]

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