Subject: My Bloody Valentine

• European Imports of Import

  The mighty Forced Exposure distribution company is America's lifeline to the fertile global electronic-music underground—as well as many other arcane sonic delicacies. Whenever a package from FE arrives, I can be assured a bounty of excellent sounds from the planet's most forward-thinking sound sorcerers. Below is a survey of releases from the most recent batch of goodies. More treasures can be yours at the FE site or at your local hip record emporium, if you're indeed fortunate enough

  April 5, 2007

• Strategy's Future Rock

  Strategy Future Rock (Kranky) Release date: May 21, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. Strategy (Portland multi-instrumentalist Paul Dickow) is an omnivorous music aficionado whose passions spill into his own creations. As keyboardist for the bands Nudge and Fontanelle, he indulges his predilections for

  May 29, 2007

• My Bloody Valentine Rumored to Be Playing Coachella 2008

  All rumors and reports regarding My Bloody Valentine should be viewed with skepticism, but this one has the air of legitimacy about it. According to The Daily Swarm, MBV's original lineup is reuniting and hoping to tour again in 2008. Coachella reputedly has offered the UK group a 7-figure fee to play the Indio, California festival, which is happening April 25-27 next year. MBV effectively have been on hiatus since 1991. The band's last two albums—Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991)—

  August 27, 2007

• Coachella Guessing Games

  Around this time every year, fantastical rumors concerning the Coachella line-up begin to simmer. Last year's big "what ifs" were the Police, the Smiths—but then again, that's every year—and Rage Against the Machine. Sometimes the delusions and pipe dreams end up being the truth. Usually they don't. And every year, almost as if by tradition, faux Coachella fliers are whipped up by some dudes who hang out on the internet message boards for way too long. These are the first two I've seen ci

  January 10, 2008

• Last Night: The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God, Stevenson Branch Davidians at the Prospector

  The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God, Stevenson Ranch Davidians January 12, 2008 The Prospector Better Than: Staring at your shoes while listening to Jesus and Mary Chain’s Darklands. Download: “Swell to Heaven” by the Vandelles. The most striking thing about Stevenson Ranch Davidians is their female bassist: she plays sitting down and uses her bare feet to press pedals on her Hammond Midi Pedalboard. Otherwise, this SoCal quartet’s psych-pop shoegazery stays stuck in a laggard

  January 13, 2008

• Kevin Shields Interviewed on VBS.TV

  VBS.TV's Ian Svenonius interviews My Bloody Valentine mastermind Kevin Shields, the primary creative force behind Loveless and Isn't Anything, two of the greatest rock albums of all time. It's not the most scintillating interview ever, but if you're a My Bloody Valentine fanatic, you'll want to watch. (You're not a My Bloody Valentine fanatic? Click on the “Soon” video below and get back to me.) Among other things, Shields discusses the forthcoming MBV album, which is “pretty much three-q

  February 12, 2008

• Last Night: Film School at the Continental Room

  Better Than: Driving all the way to Los Angeles and paying to park. Download: "Lectric" from their album Hideout Some bands have a difficult time replicating their sound in the live format. Film School are not one of those bands, as they manage to drown their audience in waves of sound. In order to stir up these massive waves of sound, Film School usually bring along a sound guy to obtain that perfect mix, but the sound gal at the Continental Room did her best. Film School triggered their av

  April 4, 2008

• My Bloody Valentine to Tour N. America (Fingers Crossed)

  It's the musical equivalent of J.D. Salinger emerging from seclusion. A mere 16 years since their last visit to this continent, shoegazer-rock masters of the omniverse My Bloody Valentine return to feed us with their bliss. Among the eight dates [see below; ht- Pitchfork], there'll be two at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Oct. 1 and 2. (Oohh, nurse, the smelling salts.) 09-19-21 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (ATP New York) 09-22 New York, NY - Roseland 09-23 New York, NY - Roselan

  May 6, 2008

• Last Night: Nine Inch Nails @ the Forum

  Last Night: Nine Inch Nails at the Forum September 6, 2008. Better Than: destroying your musical instruments at home. Download: The whole new Nine Inch Nails album "The Slip" for free The Nine Inch Nails "Lights In The Sky" tour descended upon the Forum to a hometown crowd eager to soak up the bank of 112 lights, 3 large LCD screens and numerous strobes. It was apparent early that the show would live up to its billing. Deerhunter from Athens, GA started the evening with textural washes of g

  September 7, 2008

• CD Review

  Tusk, The Resisting Dreamer (Tortuga)

  December 27, 2007

• Not-So-Secret My Bloody Valentine Show This Thursday

  Time to dig those earplugs out: My Bloody Valentine will be playing an unannounced show this Thursday night at the El Rey in Los Angeles. Though tickets went on sale this morning at 10 a.m., they're still currently available through Ticketmaster--which means yes, you'll have to pay some ghastly service fees. I just picked up two tickets that cost me $104.25. But hey, it could be worse: I could be paying $269 to go sweat it out in the desert this weekend. My Bloody Valentine performs at the El

  April 14, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Gang Gang Dance Bring a Slightly Tweaked Sound to the Indio Desert

  April 9, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• Precious Gemma

  October 16, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Summer Concerts, Festivals and Music Worth the Sweat

  June 12, 2008

• [CD Review] Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'My Bloody Underground' (A Records)

  April 17, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• [Locals Only] Amazing Reverb Engine, Driver (Deathstack Records)

  March 6, 2008

• Sprawl of Sound

  !Analog Por Vida! Die-hard Wax Advocate Ron D Core and Groovy Psychedelicists in the Mix

  November 22, 2007

• Pop Goes Britannia

  With a New Four-CD Retrospective, Rhino Records Captures the Agony and Ecstasy of Modern English Rock’s Golden Age

  November 22, 2007

• Sprawl of Sound

  From '90s Detroit to '00s Bergen, Via Long Beach: Majesty Crush’s Sole Music, The Scando-Retro-Future of Rock

  October 11, 2007

• Blissed Out, Once More

  Ulrich Schnauss Puts a New Swirl on Shoegaze Rock

  October 4, 2007

• CD Review

  Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition (Universal/Geffen)

  June 7, 2007

• Never Mind the Shit, Here's Coachella

  Is this annual desert festival an ordeal or orgasmic experience? Yes

  May 10, 2007

• Coachella: Paul McCartney; Morrissey; Leonard Cohen; My Bloody Valentine

  April 16, 2009

• Crash Course

  Asteroid #4 speed toward your stereo

  March 8, 2007

• [Sound Guy] The Indio Index: Coachella By the Numbers

  April 23, 2009

• Hits!

  Bionic Records

  December 14, 2006

• Album Review

  Early Day Miners, Offshore (Secretly Canadian)

  September 7, 2006

• Album Review

  Brightblack Morning Light, self-titled (Matador)

  August 10, 2006

• Sounds Just Like Awesome

  90s rockers the Lilys ripped off pretty much every band ever

  July 6, 2006

• Puking Rainbows

  Giant Drag

  June 1, 2006

• Before You Say No

  2MEX and Ikey Owens work-for-hire Look Daggers

  May 11, 2006

• I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me

  Asobi Seksus Bloody Valentine

  March 16, 2006

• Get Out!

  Kill them all
  

  December 8, 2005

• Autolux

  October 28, 2004

• J Mascis + The Fog More Light Ultimatum Music

  December 14, 2000

• Sweet Dreams

  October 2, 2003

• Clubbed!

  September 18, 2003

• Languis Resident Aliens

  August 22, 2002

• Ambient Sidewinding

  March 21, 2002

• Rough!

  February 8, 2001

• VARIOUS ARTISTSDARLA 100DARLA RECORDS

  July 13, 2000

• Starflyer 59, Sparklejets U.K. & The Relatives

  December 16, 1999

• Holiday in Anaheim

  September 16, 1999

• Live(ish) from Coachella: Killers? Headliners? Sure!

  It's late, and I should probably sleep (or something resembling it) at this point (big day tomorrow: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Friendly Fires, the Cure, PB&J, Lykke Li, Okkervil River etc. etc.!) but I thought I'd share the setlist (and some totally astute observations) from Saturday headliners, the Killers.The Killers have gotten a ton of crap for not being headliner-worthy, and though the crowd for them was definitely thinner than it was for, say, Paul McCartney l

  April 19, 2009

• (About to Be) Live from Coachella: The H is O

  Get ready for the longest, hottest day yet! Forecast is for 100 degrees! The Cure will probably play for like three hours! What a time to be alive. If you can manage to stay alive, at least. Never a guarantee. Huge, huge day for shows: Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li, Okkervil River, K'Naan, Friendly Fires (the show we didn't get to see at Detroit on Tuesday), Clipse. Holy poop. See you out there.

  April 19, 2009

• (Not) Live from Coachella: The N00b Reflects

  Spencer KornhaberThe "Hand of Man" crushes autos.While Albert's still sweating it out (literally! ha!) at some polo field in the desert, my Coachella experience -- my first Coachella experience -- is over. But it was fun. Why? Top things about Saturday from a neophyte:This is a good festival. Water wasn't too expensive, drunk nekkid hipsters weren't unbearably obnoxious, and it was pretty easy to see and hear most sets no matter how late you arrived. The fire-spewing dragon sculpture and the gia

  April 19, 2009

• Live from Coachella: Feeling the Earth Move Under My Feet (My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, The Cure)

  I just excavated myself from what seemed like miles of Cure fans. That was a close one. Check out our Twitter for real-time Cure setlist updates for as long as I can maintain such a pace; so far we've had classics like "Lovesong" and "Pictures of You" mixed in with some lesser-known tracks. Most likely they're just getting started--they got going about a half hour late, too. That picture is of the set from just before they got started, while I was still packed in with said Cure devotees. I keep

  April 19, 2009

• Beating a Dead Horse: Coachella Third Day Pics, Easy Access Links!

  Coachella may be a distant, sweaty, sticky memory at this point, but that doesn't mean that I'm willing or able to shut up about it quite yet. Beth Stirnaman had some car troubles, causing her arduous trek from Indio to be delayed (and nothing's better than being stuck in Indio when there isn't a huge music festival going on), but did that stop her from delivering these great day three images? Heck no! Check them out here. She got Peter Bjorn & John, Perry Farrell, K'naan, the Yeah Yeah Yeah

  April 21, 2009