The Whispertown 2000 – “From The Start” Video from Whispertown 2000 on Vimeo.

The Whispertown 2000 – “Atlantis”
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ROLO TOMASSI TOURING WITH GALLOWS.
Just a quick update for those Cannibal Cheerleader fans not living in the UK (though apparently we have a lot of fans from across the pond, hmmm), two of our favorite acts right now London’s Gallows (whose Grey Britain is bloody ferocious) and Sheffield’s Rolo Tomassi (long time CC faves, headliners of our SXSW party, and punk rock masters of tomorrow) are tearing up the British Isles with a one-two rip-and-snarl of punk rock mastery. If there was ever a reason to make a trip from Austin to Portsmouth, now’s the time.

Gallows – “I Dread The Night”
Rolo Tomassi – “Beatrotter”
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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS TOUR DIARY.
One of our favorite psych-rocking Brooklyn-based trios (and we know there’s probably a bunch of ‘em) School of Seven Bells have a really cool Tour Diary that you can access via their homepage. Definitely worth checking out if only for the cool tour pictures and trippy site design. Here’s hoping this group releases more material soon! They’ll be playing here in Austin on June 2nd at Mohawk and you know we’ll be first in line for that one.

School of Seven Bells – “Chain”
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GRAND OLE PARTY TO TOUR WITH YYYS.
It’s official today – all of our favorite bands are hooking up! This time it’s the inimitable Yeah Yeah Yeahs with the fantastic San Diego trio and old-school Cannibal Cheerleader fave Grand Ole Party. Check out the dates on the GOP myspace (the only GOP this Austinite could ever get behind!).

Grand Ole Party – “Look Out Young Son”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Hysteric (Acoustic Version)”
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NEW KILLERS VIDEO.
We leave you fiends today with the Killers’ excellent rendition of their newest single “Dustland Fairytale” from their Day & Age LP – guitar-rock gods this quartet, gods we say! And Letterman appears to think so too.

The Killers – “Four Winds”

Comments?

“We uploaded our new track: “Hypertension”, to promote our forthcoming 4-song EP on M’Lady’s Records this Fall.

Germs of Youth will be releasing a 7″ single: “Six Years Doing Time” b/w “Negative Creep” and maybe another?

PPM is releasing a DVD compilation, “New Video Works”, with videos by:
ABE VIGODA, BARR, BLACK BLACK, DEERHUNTER, ERASE ERRATA, FINALLY PUNK, HAWNAY TROOF, HIGH PLACES, DAVID HORVITZ, JAPANTHER, KIT, LUCKY DRAGONS, MIKA MIKO, NO AGE, POCAHAUNTED, THE SADS, SILVER DAGGERS, SISSY SPACEK, SOFT BOILED EGGIES, SOFT CIRCLE, SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS, DAVID SCOTT STONE AND XIU XIU

We plan to tour the UK/Europe before the year is over, but school/work/nomadic endeavors has kept us put for the time being.”

Holy snap, just when we though we’d never hear from these awesome ladies again they go and churn out 4-song EP and plan to appear on a DVD comp with some of our Cannibal Cheerleader favorites (Mika Miko, High Places, Xiu Xiu, etc). Here’s to you girls, we’ll definitely be picking up the EP!

Finally Punk – “Manatee”
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GRAND OLE PARTY TOUR WITH BLACK LIPS
In what’s sure to be an epic tour for the ages, Southern flower-punks the Black Lips are heading out on tour with Cannibal Cheerleader fave Grand Ole Party for some California dates. Here’s hoping this duo swings through Texas and soon!

Grand Ole Party – “Look Out Young Son”
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TREASURE MAMMAL BACK IN THE STUDIO?
Recent mumblings on the Treasure Mammal Myspace along with confirmations from Abe himself point towards the fact that our favorite spazz-rocker/motivational speaker is in the studio recording tracks for what might hopefully be the followup to the excellent You Wish I Was Channeling Your Spirit. Of course, anything our friend Abe touches turns to gold, including the recently uploaded Improvisational tracks with Corey of the Mae Shi which are a testament to the experimental creativity of the T. Mammal. Check ‘em out on the ‘Space y’alls.

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THE CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER ZINE IS OUT
Where can I find this monstrosity? How can I get my hands on this limited edition first run of the Cannibal Cheerleader magazine? Well yours truly will be hard at work tomorrow planting the zine at strategic locations. These include:

Waterloo Records
The Parlor
MonkeyWrench Books
Sound on Sound Records
Book People
Kerbey Lane (Guad location)
SpiderHouse Cafe
FlightPath Coffee Shop
Epoch
Zen’s (Guad location)

Because the zine is expensive to make I will only be dropping off a few at each location so grab it fast! However, if you’d like your own copy delivered to you, just email me at cannibalcheerleader@gmail.com and I’ll shoot one your way. And if you find a copy, be sure and hang onto it and let me know what you think.

Comments?

“Native Korean Rock is a side project of mine comprised of a body of love songs written over the last two years, to be performed with a motley crew of NYC natives. Expect high drama, high stakes in two intimate performances.

Does Native Korean Rock have anything to do with Yeah Yeah Yeahs? NO

Are these the leaked demos of years ago? NO“

Check out the band’s Myspace and check the flyer below for the NYC shows.
Anyone attending this one want to take some pictures for us? Here’s a few Native Korean Rock tracks to download – fair warning, they’re appropriately lo-fi. Enjoy!

Karen O – “OOO”
Karen O – “visits”
Karen O – “rapt”
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CONOR OBERST LEAKSHere at Cannibal Cheerleader all the news of Conor Oberst ‘returning to form’ on his new solo, self-titled LP had us a little worried. We loved Cassadaga and we’ve been digging on his overtly political diatribes on the last few records, we’d prefer if our Bright Eyed troubadour stayed on this winding path. Suffice to say, during an initial run-through of Conor Oberst we’re pleasantly surprised that while this singer-songwriter has pared back the lush instrumentation, his penchant for wordy, poetic lyrics and impressive metaphor have been left well-intact. Check out a few tracks and let us know what you think folks!

“MP3s removed by request”
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ONE DAY AS A LION LEAKSDelivering on the promise of last week’s preview on the band’s Myspace, One Day As A Lion self-titled EP not only captures the fire and fury one has come to expect from the Rage Against the Machine MC, but also illuminates an evolution in his sonic palette, as drummer Jon Theodore helps push Zach de la Rocha towards a more dub-oriented reggae sound. Equal parts grime, rap, rock, and drum-n-bass, One Day As A Lion scorches through 5 economical tracks that promise great things in the band’s future. Here’s hoping for a full-length!

One Day As A Lion – “Last Letter”
One Day As A Lion – “If You Fear Dying”
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MF DOOM/J DILLA/GHOSTFACE COLLAB SURFACESYes, it’s a day of leaks here at Cannibal Cheerleader but few seem so rare as this posthumous number from the great J Dilla. It’s a collaborative effort, two tracks from Jay Dee’s Donuts (”Anti-American Grafitti” and “Geek Down”) renamed, revamped (to become “Sniperelite” and “Murder Goons”), and flowed over by two master MCs (MF Doom and Ghostface Killah respectively). The end result is Sniperlite and you can hear the mashup of both songs below, in all their glory. Check it and be awed at the production mastery that was J Dilla.

Dilla/Doom/Ghostface – “Sniper Elite & Murder Goons”
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UZI AND ARI GET EQUIPMENT STOLEN
The scourge of the indie-rock world has struck again, this time it’s our shoegazey-cum-indie pop favorites Uzi and Ari who have been left ‘out in the cold’ so to speak after their equipment was stolen from their own house! Here’s their Myspace bulletin with the details:

“Hi droogs.

This is really getting old, isn’t it? Reading about the misfortunes of Uzi & Ari. Must be a curse upon us. But, as Christian Bale said last night in ‘The Dark Knight,’ the night is darkest just before the dawn. We hope.

Last night at about 4am, some hoodlums broke into our house, while we were sleeping and made off with the following items:

Roland Juno 106 Synthesizer (black in color)
Nord Electro-2 keyboard (red in color)
Fender Twin Reverb amplifier
Fender Mustang bass guitar (white in color)
Boss DD-5 Digital Delay
Boss DD-6 Digital Delay
Dell Inspiron Notebook Laptop (black in color)
Behringer 1204 FX mixer (dark gray in color)
Tascam 4 Track (light gray)
Korg Electribe ESX1 drum machine (red in color)
Ludwig Acrolyte snare drum (matte silver in color)

and various power cords, guitar cables, etc., totalling about 4500 dollars worth of equipment. i’ll post pictures soon.

If you know anyone who might have acquired new equipment like this, please be a good samaritan and let us know. This is just happening too often to bands, it’s crippling. We already make such a meager earning, we don’t even break even. It’s getting harder and harder to justify doing this anymore, it’s just an uphill battle constantly. This is the third time we have been robbed, but this is just ugly, to be robbed in your own home while you are sleeping.

Anyway, I would feel awful to ask for donations again. So many of you were so generous in donating for the vinyl, I know our fan base isn’t huge and you must be exhausted with your own struggle and strife.

We will, however be throwing a sort of benefit show/party in downtown Salt Lake in late August. We’re trying to do it on a rooftop or something cool that a lot of people will want to come to. I’ll post more information as I get it.

Sorry to be such a downer. I posted a new song, ‘Wolf Eggs,’ from the new record, a little earlier than I had planned, to lighten the mood. I don’t want you coming to our page and just feeling bad all the time.

We’ll get through this!

xo
ben“

So there you have it folks, if you see any of that equipment out there get it back to the band! Instrument thieves should be shot on sight! Stop destroying our indie-rock idealism! Here’s a video from the band and be sure to check out the band’s new album Headworms which drops Oct. 15th.

Any comments?

“All these songs were re-invented for the Daytrotter sessions. We used all the great vintage gear — old keyboards and an upright bass, loop pedals and what not. They have really cool toys.”

Take a listen!

Headlights – “Cherry Tulips” (Daytrotter)

Thanks everyone for readings and thanks to Treasure Mammal for stopping by my work yesterday even though I missed his show! He’s a really great guy so be sure and check him out! Any comments?

Giant Drag – “Swan Song” (live from France)

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PREY FOR SLEEP TOUR CANCELLED!


“Due to issues with our booking agent we’ve been forced to cancel our upcoming nationwide summer tour”, says lead singer Hunter Townsend of awesome Austin metal act Prey For Sleep. Apparently the booking agent was unable (or too lazy!) to secure spots for PFS and the band was forced to call it off due to monetary issues.
In the meantime though Hunter and the boys would like to know what Austinites or any of their fans want from the band now. Their latest Myspace bulletin reads:

“Here’s a thought.

What do you want from Prey for Sleep in the next few months?

T-Shirts? Lighters? Hoodies? DVDs? Lunch boxes?

Let us know what you need to spread the word.”

So there you have it, let Prey For Sleep know what you need from them by contacting them at their Myspace. A PFS lunchbox sounds pretty rad to me that’s for sure.

The band will be heading up to Cleveland in August to record an as of yet untitled EP, then plans to attempt a nationwide tour in January. Good luck guys!
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SUMMER SHOWS IN AUSTIN – CC CALENDAR

Here’s a rundown of some upcoming shows in Austin that Cannibal Cheerleader will definitely be attending:

5/29 – Faceless Werewolves at Emo’s

5/31 – Riverboat Gamblers at Red 7

6/3 – Ringo Deathstarr (w/ Swervedriver) at Emo’s

6/5 – Frightened Rabbit at Mohawk

6/6 – Ladytron at Stubb’s

6/7 – Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band (w/ Balmorhea) at Salvage Vanguard Theater

6/12 – Joan of Arc at Mohawk

6/15 – Grand Ole Party at Mohawk

6/16 – Rilo Kiley at Stubb’s

6/20 – Times New Viking at Emo’s

6/28 – Boris at Mohawk

6/29 – Treasure Mammal at the Opera House

7/2 – Balmorhea (w/ Fleet Foxes) at Mohawk

7/4 – Andrew WK at Emo’s

7/6 – King Khan and the Shrines at Mohawk

7/10 – Mewithoutyou at the Parish

7/17 – Tilly and the Wall at Emo’s

8/24 – My Morning Jacket at Stubb’s

10/11 – Cat Power (rescheduled) at Stubb’s!

What other acts swinging through Austin should I add to this list??
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CONVERGE ARTICLE ON WAFFLES.FM


Hey to all of the readers/users of Waffles.fm, the best replacement ever for Oink.cd in my opinion. Thanks for swinging by the blog and reading the ‘Converge’ piece posted on the front page of Waffles. If you don’t know what Waffles is you should read this article about file-sharing and see if the Oink/Waffles movement is right for you. Until next time, comment people!

Sorry about taking a break for Memorial Day guys, hope this monster post makes up for it! See you tomorrow!