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Here's the cover for Cat Power's Speaking For Trees:

DVD release of experimental film by Mark Borthwick
Experimental filmmaker, photographer and visual artist Mark Borthwick has completed an elaborate package including a nearly 2-hour-long film of Cat Power playing solo outdoors in the countryside. Shot from a great distance in gloriously grainy color, and recorded with all the ambient sounds of nature, this film in the tradition of Warhol and Wiseman is a fascinating document.
The DVD also includes 3 nature films set to music from 'You Are Free', and a CD including a single 18-minute long unreleased song saga entitled "Willie Deadwilder," an outtake from the 'You Are Free' recording sessions.
In a slipcase with foldout digipak and 64-page perfect-bound book created and illustrated by Mark Borthwick. Scheduled for October 26 release date.

Positive thinking


Stefano Giovannini

September 30th - Jesse Sykes @ Joe's Pub
October 1st - Jesse Sykes @ The Hook
October 1st - Joss Tone @ Borders Books - Columbus Circle
October 2nd - Cat Power talks with Ben Greenman at The New Yorker Festival @ Eugene
October 2nd - Patti Smith @ Roseland Ballroom
October 3rd - Franz Ferdinand @Roseland Ballroom
October 5th - The Killers @ Irving Plaza
October 6th - PJ Harvey @ Hammerstein Ballroom

Want more Cat Power images to see if you get anywhere close to my near 1000 collection?
There are these, which I believe are from an Indianapolis gig on Aug. 9th, 2003 and these from All Tomorrow's Parties 2003. Enjoy.

I love it when you get officially well-informed:

Various Artists -- Matador At Fifteen double CD + DVD
OLE-623
October 12, 2004

Matador's fifteenth-anniversary compilation consists of one CD of "greatest hits", one CD of rarities and unreleased tracks, and a DVD of music videos, all roughly from the period 1999-2004.

The three discs come housed in an exquisite embossed laminated fold-out laminated digipak which is to the word LOUD as our tenth anniversary package was to the word MUTED. Additionally there is a 20-page booklet recounting many of the highlights of the past five years via original documents.

The price will be the same as a single regular full-price CD -- what we in the record world call "15.98 list", which means anywhere from 11.99 to 14.99 for you indie shoppers, and as much as 17.98 for those few who still patronize the mall outlets of the dwindling major music specialty chains. Assuming there are any in stock there, which is mostly fairly unlikely.

Complete track listing:

CD 1 - GREATEST HITS 1999-2004
1. Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
2. Interpol - Obstacle 1
3. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
4. Mission Of Burma - Dirt
5. Cat Power - Free
6. Stephen Malkmus - Church On White
7. Yo La Tengo - Don't Have To Be So Sad
8. Cornelius - Drop
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Money Rock'n'Roll
10. Dead Meadow - The Whirlings
11. Guided By Voices - My Kind Of Soldier
12. Preston School Of Industry - Caught In The Rain
13. Bardo Pond - Inside
14. Seachange - Forty Nights
15. Belle and Sebastian - Don't Leave The Light On Baby
16. Thalia Zedek - 1926
17. Matmos - For The Trees
18. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak

CD 2 - UNRELEASED AND RARITIES 1999-2004
1. The New Pornographers - Graceland
2. Interpol - Specialist
3. Pretty Girls Make Graves - C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!
4. M. Ward - Duet For Guitars #1
5. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - It Kills
6. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak (Boom Bip Remix)
7. Dead Meadow - Everything's Going On (Alternate Version)
8. Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (Acoustic Version)
9. Mission Of Burma - Fame & Fortune (Live)
10. Guided By Voices - Free Of This World
11. Cat Power - The Party
12. Seachange - Seven Calls
13. Preston School Of Industry - Tone It Down (Pablo Wong Remix)
14. A.C. Newman - Homemade Bombs In The Afternoon
15. Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (A Breakthrough In Pain Relief)
16. Cornelius - Wataridori

DVD - MUSIC VIDEOS 1999-2004
Mogwai -- Stanley Kubrick
Pavement -- Spit On A Stranger
Mary Timony -- Dr. Cat
The Wisdom of Harry -- Ladies & Gentlemen (In The Woods)
Stephen Malkmus -- Discretion Grove
Cornelius -- I Hate Hate
The New Pornographers -- The Laws Have Changed
Interpol -- PDA
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- She Said
Cat Power -- He War
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- This Is Our Emergency
Matmos -- Stars and Stripes Forever

May 19, 2003 - Rome, Italy

A new Cat Power album is tentatively planned for 2005. In the meantime, you'll be able to get the DVD film by Mark Borthwick, which includes a CD with a gorgeous 18-minute long unreleased song from the 'You Are Free' sessions. The song is entitled 'Willie Deadwilder', and the DVD+CD package is scheduled to come out on October 26", said Patrick from Matador Records.

To get to him, these news about the new album probably came from Chan Marshall herself, and for what I know she's not the most reliable person in that matter. I don't know about you, but I'll just wait, plus the DVD+CD is quite enough for me for another year.

*rub hands*
From now on, everytime I got big news from Cat Power I'll post hard-to-find images.

Just found out Pedro The Lion covered "Metal Heart". Easy to find in case u're interested.

So, the other day I ran into Moonpix.com's webmaster/owner/moderator online, and the short dialog happenned pretty much as follows:

hey, did u shut down moonpix?
i did... i had to because my business needs it's bandwidth and server load
i was running out of room on the server
oh, too bad!

You did great, my man!

New releases: Björk, Libertine, Guided By Voices.

And, by the way, White Stripes ain't over. They're actully working on new material but, b4 that, they'll release a DVD called White Stripes Under Blackpool Lights yet this year.

Speaking of Matador, M. Ward tour dates in October:

friday 08 Fort Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
saturday 09 Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
tuesday 12 Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
wednesday 13 San Diego, CA @ Spreckles Theatre
thursday 14 Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Teatre
friday 15 Berkeley, CA @ Zellerbach Auditorium
saturday 16 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
monday 18 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
tuesday 19 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom

*All dates with Bright Eyes, Jim James (solo and collab)

At Fifteen
And you thought we were gonna let Merge hog all the 15th Anniversary action, weren't you? No such luck. Coming in November, we'll be dropping a triple disc (two CD's + DVD) compilation on your skulls for a budget price commemorating the birth, afterbirth and long, long life of the premier rock label of the modern age, Matador Records. Along with previously released faves from Mogwai, Interpol, Preston School of Industry, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Yo La Tengo, Mission Of Burma, Belle & Sebastian, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Cat Power and more, we'll have a full CD of rarities and/or new bits, plus a full DVD's worth of expensive music videos we wish we spent less money on. But that's not your problem. As always, our the folly of our largess is your reward (and that's not meant to be a double entendre of any sort).

Pixies Launch North American Tour This Weekend, Frank Black Readies 2xCD Frank Black Francis LP

Tracklist
Disc One (Demos):
01 The Holiday Song
02 I'm Amazed
03 Rock a My Soul
04 Isla De Encanta
05 Caribou
06 Broken Face
07 Build High
08 Nimrod's Son
09 Ed Is Dead
10 Subbacultcha
11 Boom Chickaboom
12 Break My Body
13 I've Been Tired
14 Oh My Golly
15 Vamos

Disc Two (Re-recordings):
01 Caribou
02 Where Is My Mind?
03 Cactus
04 Nimrod's Son
05 Levitate Me
06 Wave of Mutilation
07 Monkey Gone to Heaven
08 Velouria
09 The Holiday Song
10 Into the White
11 Is She Weird?
12 Subbacultcha
13 Planet of Sound

"I'm good, thanks. U?"

Old template back. *phew* *smiley*
Further settings later.

Björk's Medulla's been released, y'know?

Those Weezer guys threw away all they'd done for the new album, and got started from scratch.

A documentary DVD will be relased containing the recording process of Nirvana's Nevermind.

White Stripes might end. It's probably Jack getting tired of Meg's childlike drum banging, or both of them from the rumors of what's the nature of their relationship.