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News From JD Samson’s Myspace Blog

April 1, 2009

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1. There will be a Le Tigre live DVD coming out.

2. K8 Hardy directed a video for MEN’s “Off Our Backs.” (If you dig a little, you can listen to that song, and you would find that it rules.)

3. MEN will be selling a 3 track CD sampler on tour in Europe.

4. Sia is making JD a hat.

5. She will be providing some vocals for Punks Jump Up and trading remixes with Discotech.

6. JD likes to write in all caps: GOING ON TOUR AGAIN IS RAD. I WANT TO EAT A LOT OF SPAGHETTI AND DANCE A LOT AND SWEAT EVEN MORE AND HAVE PEOPLE BLEED A LITTLE BIT IN THE AUDIENCE FROM BUMPING HEADS. BUT THEN APOLOGIZING AND HUGGING. MISS YOU CAN’T WAIT.

UPDATE: For a quick minute, JD had a band called Hirsute. TPR has been eagerly awaiting something official, but as I just noticed on MEN’s myspace, Hirsute has been absorbed into MEN: The group began in 2007 as the DJ/production/remix team of LE TIGRE members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman. When the duo began to write new songs, it made sense to merge their efforts with JD’s other new project HIRSUTE. JD and Hirsute members Michael O’Neill (Princess, Ladybug Transistor) and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, The Ballet) now comprise the core of MEN, with Johanna and artist Emily Roysdon contributing as writers, consultants, and producers.

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Hercules and Love Affair Live on Pitchfork’s Rooftop

February 20, 2009

Seeing Hercules and Love Affair live is like getting a full band to play you a DJ’s mixtape. Fucking great. Pitchfork had the band on their Brooklyn rooftop for their “Don’t Look Down” series. LOVE the back up dancer. Check out “You Belong” up there and the gorgeous sunset-propped “Hercules Theme” over at Pitchfork.tv.

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Antony Mouthing Off, Is Fierce

January 29, 2009

I haven’t blogged too much about Antony & The Johnsons since before the new record came out. And if you haven’t been able to “get over his voice” then it’s your loss. Antony Hegarty will go down as one of the greatest musicians in modern history. The Crying Light brought me to tears the first time I heard it, and he’ll be in Chicago in February. You bet your ass I’ll be right in front. In the above clip, he talks about loving the Cocteau Twins, radical hopefulness and sings “Epilepsy is Dancing” and “Another World.”

AND, in some queer fierceness, he had this to say about the movie Milk:

“It’s like blackface to me … it’s a continuing Hollywood minstrel show, co-opting queer stories and perversely building up the careers of these heterosexual bastards with the plumage of effeminacies, that they can wear this plumage of effeminacies without having to really be accountable”

…and then later this:

“I want to apologize to Sean Penn for appearing disrespectful in my recent comments in New York Magazine. It is not with him, or his virtues as an actor, or his embrace of gay causes, with which I take issue. Rather it is a Hollywood industry that has not yet evolved to a point where it can allow gay and transgendered actors to represent themselves and their historic icons on screen. What a sense of pride this would instill in the minds of gay and transgendered children everywhere, to know that there are dignified roles for them in the acting profession and in the world.”

Preach it, sister.

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Thursday October 16th – Amanda Lepore In Chicago

October 10, 2008

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Hercules & Love Affair Has a Live Album

October 2, 2008

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Having seen (but barely remembering) their concert in NYC on my birthday, I can say Hercules’ show is a juggernaut. Many musicians on that stage, Nomi and Kim Ann competently taking Antony’s vocal duties, an almost continuous mixtape of a set…UGH I can’t wait for their upcoming show at Metro. Anyway, in case you live in the sticks, or even if you want a memento, they are selling a live album, available for download or tangible purchase through Live Here Now.

Tracklist, Live @ Koko, London
1. Classique
2. You Belong
3. I”m Telling You
4. Shadows
5. Danny Wang
6. True_False
7. Blind
8. Athene
9. Raise Me Up
10. Don’t Fear The Reaper
11. Wonder Woman
12. Hercules Theme

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Gossip: What a Difference Some Money Makes

April 17, 2008

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Remember in 2003 when Gossip’s “Undead in NYC” came out and you were all “WTF?” The sound was abysmal to say the least and as a huge fan of their live show, a document it was not. Fast forward to late 2007, and the new major labeled Beth, Brace and Hannah are the only worthwhile group on Sony’s queer artists label, Music With A Twist. ( Have you seen that roster? Ugh.) So after all the hip remixes and eye rolling reactions to Beth’s stage persona, I must say, their first release for MWAT, “Live in Liverpool” is a sigh of relief. Finally capturing their live show’s magic, I’m sitting here rolling my eyes that it had to take some chart topping in the fucking UK in order for this to happen. It’s telling when Beth says, “I can’t believe you knew the words to that song. That’s so weird. But amazing” after singing their only true ballad “Coal to Diamonds.” Compare notes between the Dim Mak released “Undead” and the finally getting stateside attention “Liverpool.”

Gossip–Non Non Non (from Undead in NYC)

Gossip–Coal To Diamonds (from Live in Liverpool)

ps. I was digging for info about Music with a Twist, and their site wasn’t working and Sony’s main pages didn’t have it anywhere. Weird.

–Stinky Pinky

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Actor Slash Model

January 25, 2008
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ACTOR SLASH MODEL plays at Reggies Music Joint (it’s new and has great food!), 2105 S. State St.
one block east of the Chinatown Red Line stop this Sunday, January 27, 7 pm with Johnny Rumble and The Polymer Twins!
Actors Slash Model was awarded a Fire This Time grant in Dec 2007 to make a documentary film about trans-identified musicians. Read about their project in the San Fransicso Bay Times!

(Full article after the jump)

–K ROCK

Read the rest of this entry ?

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Year in Pink: Out ‘N About Edition

December 30, 2007

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*Image from Stereoscope

Top Ten Concerts in Chronological Order

Apples in Stereo, Tullycraft, Casper & the Cookies at Subterranean, 2/23/07
Love of Diagrams, the Narrator at the Hideout 3/3/07
Of Montreal, Walter Meego at the Metro 3/15/07
Andre Williams at the Beat Kitchen, 5/4/07
Dan Deacon, Video Hippos at the House Cafe in DeKalb, 7/5/07
Gravy Train!!! at the Empty Bottle, 7/13/07
Sparklehorse, the Ladybug Transistor at the Empty Bottle, 8/2/07
ESG, Yo Majesty, Bahamadia, Psalm One at the Abbey Pub, 9/21/07
The Blow, Video Hippos, High Places at the Empty Bottle, 10/1/07
Yo La Tengo, Rick Rizzo at the Lakeshore Theatre, 10/11/07

Honorable mentions:
Partyline, Glass Candy at the AV-Aerie (Ladyfest) (I was so drunk that
I don’t really remember how well they played, but I do know that I had
a fantastic time)
Mary Timony at Schubas (Is it fair to not include an amazing show
because I’ve already had my mind blown by Mary Timony too many times?)
Mika Miko, Fake Fictions at the Empty Bottle
Kristin Hersh at the Lakeshore Theatre
His Name Is Alive at Schubas

–Treefort

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Come Buck Naked, Dance for Free

December 14, 2007

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Two out, proud and downright hot singer-songwriters, Holcombe Waller and Chris Garneau, share the bill on two concerts next week in Seattle and Portland.

Holcombe Waller has recently delved into performance art with critically acclaimed shows in Portland and New York City. His January clown piece, Mihael Sagalovesky and the Tragic Torments of Patty Heart Townes, paid homage to folk songs by Patty Griffin and Townes Van Zandt. Waller’s latest project, Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest, draws on his own body of work. Having premiered in Portland last September, the show will travel to San Francisco and Seattle in 2008. A sequel to Patty Heart Townes based on the songs of Buffie-Sainte Marie is also in works. Next week’s concerts will not only give Holcombe Waller fans a much-needed fix of his original songs, but it will also raise money for his creative projects. As if it isn’t hard enough for an openly gay singer-songwriter to make a name for himself in the industry, Holcombe Waller also records, produces and promotes his music independently through his label, Pow Wow Wow Records (formerly Napoleon). But, as Jeff Rosenberg explained in Willamette Week: “Having found new fans such as Antony (of the Johnsons), Waller’s well on his way to a wider audience.”

Waller is currently recording his fourth studio album after Troubled Times [2005], Extravagant Gesture [2001], and his tough-to-track-down, must-have debut, Advertising Space [1999]. Expect Waller’s wordlwide fan base to demand that he tour in support of his upcoming studio album; soon you won’t have to travel to Portland for the Holcombe Waller live experience.

See the Think Pink archives for an earlier post on Chris Garneau.

Click here for a hilarious interview of Holcombe Waller in BUTT.

SEATTLE – December 16, Sunset Tavern
PORTLAND – December 18, Doug Fir Lounge

MP3′s!!

Little Wrecking Ball

Literally, The End of The World

- R. Esquivel

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Chris Garneau: Petites-ville in Huge-dom

November 14, 2007

Chris Garneau singing “Relief” at Queerfest Midwest

Pocket-gay Chris Garneau has been making the rounds in the indie machine. It might be hard to keep up with the spin cycle that is a marketing campaign but we’re here to help your tender hearts.  A little ambition, some label backing, and strong songs are getting the diminutive musician some attention. Not to say that mainstream press means anything, but cred never paid anyone’s bills, and this musician is looking to score. A debut album on Absolutely Kosher Records, a slot on Grey’s Anatomy and aggressive touring are hopefully helping him achieve his career goals. Let’s hope the accomplishments won’t cloud the second record. We’ll get a glimpse in December when he tours to promote the release of a new EP called C-Sides. Tracklist, tour dates and more information here. Support Chris by buying his music at The Darling House here.

Chris Garneau sings “The Island” on the #1 GLBT Podcast in the U.S., Feast of Fools

Chris Garneau’s song “Castle Time” on Grey’s Anatomy

 –Stinky Pinky

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