Headlines for January 13, 2010
By: Roisin Bonner
Deerhunter and Spoon To Tour Together
Tickethunters, on your marks! Pitchfork is reporting that critical darlings Spoon have recruited other critical darlings Deerhunter to support them on their upcoming tour. The critics will go wild! The tour, in support of Spoon's new album Transference (out next week! Can't stop using exclamation points!), will span seven countries and two continents. Spoon and Deerhunter will also be joined by The Strange Boys and Micachu and the Shapes for select dates. Click here for more details.
Swans Reunion in the Works
Influential post-punk pioneers Swans are set to reunite. Lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira is leading the revival, writing new material along with Swans original member Norman Westberg and four other musicians. Swans, who performed from 1982 through to their dissolution in 1997, have been credited with shaping musical genres from goth to indie. Gira plans to release the album I Am Not Insane in a limited run on his own label, Young God Records. Hear the first song, an acoustic number, here.
AC/DC Fast-Tracks Extinction
Aging Aussie rockers AC/DC may hold the survival of the endangered curlew in their hands. Animal rights activists in Austria claim that a concert in the northern town of Wels will disturb one of the bird's last remaining breeding grounds, and a group called BirdLife has stated they will take the matter to court if the band doesn't change venue. What, rare birds can't get it on to "You Shook Me All Night Long"?
Karen O To Tour Wild Things?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman and Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack-maker Karen O is not letting an Oscar snub slow her down. The singer hinted that she may tour the popular soundtrack with her collaborators The Kids (aka YYY's Imaad Wasif, Deerhunter/Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox, Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Liars' Aaron Hemphill, and others). Although nothing's set in stone, you may want to ready your fuzzy onesie.
