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Watching the rabid gyrations of Karen O perform at the Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs stunned us at Cannibal Cheerleader so completely, so devastatingly as to inspire a month-long self-imposed exile from the blogging community. The blazingly electric setlist, featuring carnal classics like “Gold Lion” and “Maps”, new-wave [...] 2009 may just be the year of the Yeah Yeah Yeah, considering their blazingly original third LP It’s Blitz! and the band’s monumentally successful North American tour thus far. Now, not only have we received news that Karen O and company are replacing the Beastie Boys at Austin’s own Austin City Limits Festival, but KO [...] LISSY TRULLIE TO ROCK OUT AUSTIN It’s been a hot minute since we reported on the activities of one of our favorite discoveries of the year, NYC garage-rocker Lissy Trullie and her company of dashing Boho-rejects and art-school dropouts. Seems as if LT and the gang will be swinging through Austin next month at Emo’s in [...] BACK IN ACTIONRising from the grave, it’s Cannibal Cheerleader, here to award the faithful and punish the nonbelievers! But seriously folks I’m back and ready to report. Grad school apps still stretch to the horizon but I miss my little corner of the internet to stay away any longer. A few changes:1. No more quick bites! [...] NEKO CASE WORKING ON FOX FOLLOWUPAccording to our friends at Pitchfork, one of our favorite Patsy-Cline-referencing alt-country megastars Neko Case is hard at work recording her followup to 2006’s awesome Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Any new material from Case is cause for excitement here at Cannibal Cheerleader so we’re absolutely stoked. Neko Case will [...] NEW CRYSTAL CASTLES VIDEO/NEWSOur dearest friends Crystal Castles have just released a video for their single “Crimewave”, featuring a mesh-masked Alice Glass and a lonely zombie. Check it out below.Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS. Health)In other CC news, according to NME (and confirmed by our friend Myke) the band has canceled several [...] FOLLOW THAT BIRD! AT BEAUTY BARSorry for not updating Wednesday guys – a combination of more moving difficulties and a slow news day meant no time for an update. However, today is a double update, beginning with a show review of one of the best local bands we’ve stumbled upon all year, the punk trio [...] STARS POST NEW TRACK Our favorite Canadian melodic-popsters Stars are back on their game with the posting of a new track entitled “Why I Want To Save You” on their Myspace. The track contains all the formulas for success – sweeping chorus, intricate instrumentation, heartfelt and lovelorn lyrics. It’s the Stars formula alright! Give it [...] OCTOPUS PROJECT TO LAUNCH NATIONWIDE TOUROur favorite local instrumental-noodlers the Octopus Project are set to launch their nationwide tour starting with Lollapalooza in just a few days. We’re of course stoked to see one of our favorite local acts cause such a stir outside of Austin, so in support here’s there video for “Truck” which [...] JENNY LEWIS REVEALS SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM Jenny Lewis, frontwoman of our favorite alt-country-meets-indie-rock quartet Rilo Kiley, has announced the title and tracklist of her already impressive sounding second solo album. The LP will be titled Acid Tongue and will feature such esteemed guests as M. Ward, Zooey Deschanel, and Elvis Costello (check out more details here). Given the [...] |
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