The Fiery Furnaces are back with a new album and it is in stores and available now. Remember showcases The Fiery Furnaces live. 51 tracks pulled from four years of performances compiled together seamlessly. If you have ever seen the Furnaces live you know that their live show is one not to be forgotten. Known for completely rearranging, combining, and reconstructing their songs in new and unique ways for each and every tour, these songs are like nothing you have ever heard... unless you were there and you Remember.

Remember is issued as a double CD in a deluxe 6 panel digipack and includes a coupon to download a bonus song. The triple LP vinyl version comes in a custom made old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with a pasted in flap to hold the third LP. Also included is a coupon to download the album in MP3. Listen to full length streams and purchase a copy here.

Take a look at these great interviews with Matt and Eleanor from MOGTV. Listen to them discuss their favorite music, fantasize about collaborating with George Bush, and other good times. Watch them here.

Boredoms, the seminal Japanese noise band, will build on their legendary and lauded reputation for mesmerizing sound installations by hosting 88BoaDrum in Los Angeles on 8.8.08. Commencing at precisely 8:08 PM PST the 88- minute experience at the historic La Brea Tar Pits will feature 88 drummers selected by Boredoms and 88BoaDrum artistic director, Hisham Bharoocha of Soft Circle [formerly of Lightning Bolt and Black Dice].

88BoaDrum in New York City will take place at 8:08 PM EST, conducted on behalf of Boredoms by Brooklyn’s Gang Gang Dance and organized by music director Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs). Set on the Williamsburg Waterfront, 88 drummers will perform the same 88-minute piece, newly composed by Eye of Boredoms and interpreted by Gang Gang Dance.

Drummers for the LA performance include Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat), Kid Millions (Oneida), Christopher Powell (Man Man), Tim Soete (The Fucking Champs), Sara Lund (Unwound), Rob Barber (High Places), Patty Schemel (Hole), Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus), Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and many more.

88BoaDrum is the natural evolution of 77BoaDrum, one of the most talked about and critically celebrated music events of the past years. The original event took place in Brooklyn Bridge Park, where Boredoms and 74 other hand-selected drummers from the far reaches of the underground brought life to Boredoms’ monumental vision through an original 77-minute composition.

Not long after the original event, in April of 2008, the first NEW edition in eight years to the SUPER ROOTS series, Super Roots 9, finally received a worldwide release on Thrill Jockey Records. Super Roots 9 is a recording of a live show in Japan on Christmas Eve 2004 and features Boredoms alongside a 20-person choir. This FIRST official live recording is a 40-minute tantalizing sonic portrait of the raw power of the band and a glimpse at what’s in store for 88BoaDrum.

Both of these events will be free and open to the public. Tickets are required for entry and are available on first-come-first-served basis starting Friday, July 18th from www.brownpapertickets.com, Amoeba Records and the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (88BoaDrum – LA) and Other Music and Sound Fix Records (88BoaDrum – NYC). These grand events have been made possible by Nike Sportswear and are being produced by JellyNYC. Nike will also be commemorating the event with a very special Nike Sportswear NSW Tee collection. The NSW Tee’s will be hand-screened at each location with an original graphic of choice including designs created by Eye from Boredoms.

"This could just as easily have been Sob Story, I Can See Your Mom from Here or Yeah, Me Too. Jerry Wick was so talented that just about any collection of his pulverizing pop-punk stands among the best this city has to offer. And he was so prolific that those collections came fast and furious in the 1990s. This music meets you on whatever level you need — it's clever enough to tickle your brain, catchy enough to delight your ears and powerful enough to shake your skeletal frame. Every time I listen to Gaunt, I find myself thinking, "Holy crap, these guys were good." What more can you ask from a record?"

By random chance the guys all happened to be in Jovan's coffee shop, "Yeah Me Too", in Columbus when they heard the news a snapped off a quick photo. Congratulations! Listen to Gaunt and get more info here.

May 24th at 12am
June 7th at 12:30am
June 21st at 1:30am

Angela will be back with a new release this fall! On September 9th we welcome The Mighty Ship.

Mon May 19 Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle w/ KTL
Tue May 20 Brooklyn, NY - Monkeytown
Wed May 21 New York, NY - Knitting Factory w/ KTL
Thu May 22 Philadelphia, PA - Chapel (First Unitarian Church)
Thu May 29 Montreal, PQ - MUTEK Festival

Available at the shows will be the limited edition (hand-numbered out of 500) silk-screened tour poster featured in the flyer below.

Thrill Jockey is very pleased to announce that Brooklyn/Virginia based Pontiak and Brooklyn’s High Places, have joined the Thrill Jockey family. High Places is to release a collection of singles on CD in June before their dates in Europe with Deerhunter. Just in the nick of time for their Pitchfork Festival debut and run of dates with No Age. Their debut album will be released September 23rd. Pontiak’s debut will arrive in July – an LP only split release with Baltimore’s Arbouretum quickly followed by the LP & CD release of “Sun on Sun” – originally available only at their shows. Pontiak will be touring this spring with Wye Oak (Merge).

Find all tour info here.

Pontiak is three brothers from the Blue Ridge farm country of Virginia. Van, Lain and Jennings Carney did not play music together until the three were older and moved to Baltimore from various points around the country. Their enthusiasm quickly turned to obsession and soon they were building a studio in the barn on their farm and moving back to focus entirely on recording and playing. They quietly released a debut record “Valley of Cats” distributing it themselves at shows. But it certainly got our attention, as did the undeniable follow up “Sun on Sun”. The results, swaggering guitar rock, straddle the line between a power trio and something whose expansive results exceed the trio format. Their broad song structures allow ample room for Van’s amazing vocals and guitar work to stretch and captivate. Julian Cope described them as “straddling a wide sonic rift valley, with references that stretch from the southern latitudes of Spain’s Viaje to the northern majesty of Black Sabbath and Harvey Milk via the Doors.”

Pontiak will make their Thrill Jockey debut on a split LP with Baltimore friends and labelmates Arbouretum. Kale will feature new songs from each band as well as a handful of John Cale covers. Arbouretum will offer up their rendition of “Buffalo Ballet” while Pontiak deliver a potent “The Endless Plain of Fortune” and a great new interpretation of “Mr. Wilson”. Kale will be quickly followed by the first proper issue of “Sun on Sun” on September 9th.

Pontiak partners up with recently signed Merge band Wye Oak for a long string of dates in June. They will also be playing a handful of New York shows while Van is keeping camp there.

High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance. Both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and shared a love of layers. It is the affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and instrumentation. High Places songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary’s reflective vocals over Rob’s inventive and infectious beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.

Since their inception in 2006, High Places have honed their “exquisite corpse” style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging one another’s expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from “Head Spins” to “Sandy Feat” from “Greeting the Light” to “Granola” the band has revealed more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive percussion.

High Places will offer up the singles collection 03/07 – 09/07 that collects the above mentioned songs plus a few harder to find gems (“Jump In” being a song commissioned for an elementary school music program, “Freaked Flight” a reworked demo cut and “Canary” which appeared on a compilation) from 2007 (recently made available via special arrangement with E-Music) making them all available for the first time world wide on CD. No need to scour EBay. All the magnificent tracks that endeared them to us and those lucky enough to have seen them so far, will be included. This collection will be available from the band on their upcoming tour with Deerhunter and widely available in July.

Boredoms Super Roots 9 on CD
Robert A.A. Lowe & Rose Lazar Gyromancy as a Book + 3" CD

April 22nd

Thalia Zedek Liars and Prayers on CD and LP
Thank You Terrible Two on LP

June 3rd

The Accidental There Were Wolves on CD and LP
Thank You Terrible Two on CD

July 22nd

Arbouretum / Pontiak Kale on LP
High Places 03/07 - 09/07 on CD

August 19th

The Fiery Furnaces Remember on 2xCD and 3xLP

September 9th

Angela Desveaux The Mighty Ship on CD
Pontiak Sun on Sun on CD

School of Language is in the middle of his U.S. tour right now! Teaming up with him on stage is Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day....) on bass and Ryan Rapsys (Euphone) on drums.

Check out the remaining dates here

Take the man behind The Memory Band and Trunk Records (Stephen Cracknell), the twisted songwriter from Tunng main man (Sam Genders), one half of Fence Collective duo The Bicycle Thieves (Hannah Caughlin) and singer-songwriter Liam Bailey. Put them in front of a PC and add occasional input from guests including harpist Serafina Steer and Rob, Jenny & Nancy from the Memory Band. The outcome is new collective The Accidental and their beguiling debut album There Were Wolves.

Kindred spirits Cracknell and Genders combined forces via a series of chance encounters and happy accidents that inspired the band's name. The first came at the first ever Green Man festival, where the pair first met and made plans to send CDs back and forth in the post. "The first two tracks written were Wolves and I Can Hear Your Voice In My Head," says Cracknell. "I sent Sam a CD with about five sketches on and two days later I got another one back with both finished songs on there. At that point I think we both knew we had something good going on." Hannah joined the fold via another happy accident, when Domino artist Adem introduced her to Cracknell as a potential housemate. She didn't move in, but she did end up in the band. An old friend of Sam's, Liam joined after turning in an impromptu performance at a joint Tunng/Memory Band gig.

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We were lucky enough to import the last batch of Accidental 7"s from Static Caravan in the U.K. This is the first ever release by The Accidental. The 7" was limited to 500 copies and is now out of print. Pick up a copy here!

Thank You’s music is a moleculer dream. Like the teacup ride at the fair. A sound that connects the cycles within to everything. Threading the inside with the outside. - Chris Coady, Producer

Thank You is an athletic rhythm/action unit, made up of Jeffrey McGrath, Michael Bouyoucas, and Elke Wardlaw. They are three free individuals, subsumed into a collective form that spits out dank, skittering tracks filled with light and dark.

The band has been building up a reputation via their live show, which has left audience members joyful, overwhelmed, and ready to spread the word. A seeming telepathy occurs onstage. The band enters into musical dervishes, a union, a breathless chaos that results in one hell of a Saturday night and what seems like a musical fight. Not to worry, though. The members of Thank You are longtime friends and musical collaborators, working hard to bring to life their wholly original compositions.

It is safe to say that beat-diggers and electronic artists will have a rich resource in the recorded output of the band, each track having the potential to be chopped and screwed, looped and loped into new soundtracks and sample beds. Don’t wait for that to happen, though. Listen to Thank You and listen to the future now.

Tim Kabara - Baltimore 2008

Thank You are a musical singularity. They make me feel like the word “band” can still take you somewhere cool and exciting that you couldn’t have expected to go. They are also sharp dressers, vivacious companions, and gracious guests.
- J. Robbins, Engineer

Listen to a preview of the new Thank You song “Empty Legs”.

In April the first NEW edition in eight years to the SUPER ROOTS series, Super Roots 9, finally gets a worldwide release. Super Roots 9 is a recording of a live show on Christmas Eve in 2004, in Japan. The performance features a 20-person choir alongside the group and is the FIRST live recording of the band ever released. The CD, packaged in a special custom-made Mini Gatefold LP style jacket, will feature artwork by EYE and a 40-page perfect bound booklet with music scores and notations. This is the first in a series of records planned for release by the Boredoms in conjunction with Thrill Jockey. Singles, special limited editions, along with albums will all be packaged in special custom designs by the Boredoms. Our focus will be to deliver the records and the concepts behind the music in highly collectable formats of the band’s design. We will do so while also making the records available at a domestic price, and on formats, such as 320 bit-rate DRM-free downloads, not previously explored by the band.

Super Roots 9 will be available prior to the release date, from a few select outlets and directly from the band on their first extensive tour in over two years. It will be the first time the band has performed “In the Round” ever. Where possible, fans will be able to move completely around the Boredoms and experience it from all viewpoints - to move with the sound - to participate in the motion of the performance! The band’s most recent North American performance was 77 DRUM on 07/07/07 on the lawn of the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The band led 77 drummers in a once-in-a-lifetime event. They promise more than a few surprises on this tour including the ”Sevena”, a 7-neck guitar. As with all Boredoms shows, this will not be just a show but an event not to be missed!!

Get Boredoms tour dates here.

Opiyo Bilongo, Onyango Wuod Omari and Onyango Jagwasi are three members of Extra Golden who live in Nairobi. They all have large extended families for whose well-being they are entirely responsible. Of course, as musicians, that well-being is provided for through nightly work at clubs. With dusk-to-dawn curfews in place, these men are all unable to work, and a subsistence that was already hand-to-mouth has become non-existent. They have been forced to leave their homes, which have subsequently been looted. Their families have almost no food and no clean water. Even with the swiftest possible resolution to the country's debilitating political situation, it is hard to foresee a time in the near future when these men will be able to go back to work.

As the bandmates and friends of these exceptional men, we are used to helping them out of financial jams but, as musicians ourselves, this critical situation is one that is simply beyond our own means. While the plights of Bilongo, Omari and Jagwasi are by no means unique in a country full of desperation, it is within our power to help them and their families directly. We are asking for donations of $5. Of course we will accept any amount you can muster, but we believe that with enough contributions of $5 we can make a huge difference in our friends' lives.

To make a donation, please go to www.paypal.com and choose "send money". When asked for the email address of the recipient, enter service@kanyokanyo.com. Please feel free to forward this message. We thank you in advance for your compassion and we hope that your help will enable us to compose a song of thanks for our next album.

Sincerely,

Alex Minoff
Ian Eagleson

Friday December 14th

Arbouretum
Brokeback
Bobby Conn
The Fiery Furnaces
Archer Prewitt
School of Language
The Sea and Cake
Thalia Zedek

Saturday December 15th

ADULT.
Fred Anderson Trio
Califone
Eleventh Dream Day
Frequency
Pit er Pat
Trans Am
The Zincs

Can't make it to the London party? Don't stress, we're bringing the celebration home to Chicago on December 14th and 15th. This is not going to be just another show. Aside from the incredible line up, posted below, we are redesigning Logan Square Auditorium. We're transforming the interior and setting up two dueling stages! Non-stop music, collaborations, surprises! Pick up tickets here!

Still fresh from recording songs for our 7" box set, it is very possible that we may see some amazingly rare collaborations. Sea and Cake singing "Spider's House" with Califone? Arbouretum teaming up with Angela Desveaux? The possibilities are endless. Check out the Chicago line up:

ADULT.
Fred Anderson Trio
Arbouretum
Brokeback
Califone
Bobby Conn
Angela Desveaux
Eleventh Dream Day
The Fiery Furnaces
Frequency
Pit er Pat
Archer Prewitt
School of Language
The Sea and Cake
Trans Am
Thalia Zedek
The Zincs

Specific set times will not be announced. Expect the unexpected! We promise to keep it interesting with two stages, special guests, collaborations and more.

Once again, all ticket purchases come with a free copy of the Trey Told 'Em Super Epic Thrill Jockey Mega Massive Mix. Thrill Jockey opened the vaults to Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) and Frank Musarra, aka Trey Told 'Em and let them go to town. And they exceeded all expectations! Managing to fit every single Oval song into one track and also crafting a special Tortoise and Trans Am mega mix. And last but certainly not least, the has to be heard, super epic mix that manages to include almost every Thrill Jockey artist. 70 minutes of music! This mix is extremely limited. Free copies will be provided with every Thrill Jockey anniversary show ticket purchase. Limited quantities will be sold via Thrill Jockey mail order and Trey Told 'Em.

Their new intergalactic video for "Bullets" is amazing and has been blowing up on YouTube. Check it out, along with other new vids from Arbouretum and The Fiery Furnaces, in our vaults here.

Memphis Industries and Thrill Jockey are excited to announce that School of Language's album (working title "Ships") is nearing completion and that both labels will be releasing in the New Year, Memphis in the UK and Ireland and Thrill Jockey in North America and continental Europe. We've heard some of the new tracks and can honestly say that we're blown away.

The album is book ended by the quartet of 'Rockist' tracks, a series of daydreams on words, their meanings and the decisions which follow from them, all underpinned by a collection of incessant looped voices.

Oct 4 Cardiff, UK - Clwb Ifor Bach
Oct 5 Birmingham, UK - Carling Academy Birmingham w/ The Cribs
Oct 6 Sheffield, UK - Sheffield University w/ The Cribs
Oct 7 Norwich, UK - University of East Anglia w/ The Cribs
Oct 8 Glasgow, UK - Synergy Concerts
Oct 9 Dundee, UK - Fat Sam's w/ The Cribs
Oct 10 Edinburgh, UK - Potternow Union w/ The Cribs
Oct 11 Bradford, UK - Bradford University w/ The Cribs
Oct 13 Oxford, UK - Carling Academy Oxford w/ The Cribs
Oct 14 Southampton, UK - Guildhall w/ The Cribs
Oct 15 Exeter, UK - Lemon Grove w/ The Cribs
Oct 16 London, UK - Corsica Studios
Oct 17 London, UK - The Forum w/ The Cribs

Sep 14 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater w/ The Zincs
Sep 15 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon w/ The Zincs
Sep 17 Columbia, MO - Blue Note w/ The Zincs
Sep 18 Memphis, TN - Young Avenue Deli w/ Meg Baird
Sep 20 Austin, TX - The Parish w/ Meg Baird
Sep 21 Dallas, TX - House of Blues w/ Meg Baird
Sep 22 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live (Studio) w/ Meg Baird
Sep 24 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder (Florida State University) w/ Meg Baird
Sep 25 Atlanta, GA - The Earl w/ Meg Baird
Sep 26 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle w/ Meg Baird
Sep 27 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom w/ Meg Baird
Sep 28 Baltimore, MD - Sonar w/ Meg Baird
Sep 29 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
Sep 30 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts w/ Meg Baird
Oct 1 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground w/ Meg Baird
Oct 3 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom w/ Meg Baird
Oct 4 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre w/ Meg Baird
Oct 5 Chicago, IL - Metro w/ Meg Baird
MORE!...

Click HERE to see both of them.

Thill Jockey will be releasing Tunng's new album "Good Arrows" this fall!!

Check out Tunng this summer in Europe! Get the full scoop on the band and all their upcoming tour dates HERE!

check it out here!

Recorded live on 6/20/07

Since we can't tell you much more about the album just yet (soon... we promise), and because we really just wish we could spend the summer road-tripping with our new friends from Oak Park, IL, we're also announcing The Fiery Furnaces' Fourth Of July Tour (with no show on the 4th of July).

Jun 21 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
Jun 22 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Jun 23 Ann Arbor, MI Blind Pig
Jun 25 Toronto, ON The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
Jun 26 Ottawa, ON Babylon Club
Jun 28 Philadelphia, PA North Star
Jun 29 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Jun 30 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
Jul 1 Brooklyn, NY Studio B
Jul 5 Washington, DC Black Cat
Jul 6 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theater
Jul 7 Atlanta, GA The Earl

In the meantime, you can catch up with The Fiery Furnaces at these fine internet locales:

http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10340
http://www.myspace.com/thefieryfurnaces
http://www.thefieryfurnaces.com/

-- A letter concerning the band commonly referred to as The Fiery Furnaces and the aforementioned Fourth of July Tour:

Strictly as a concession to convention, the band will attempt a few songs from it's new record, Widow City, including the song "Widow City". But that album is an autumn affair. This tour finds the group in a summer mood. However, summers often stand for summers past. To the moody-minded, at least. The performances on this tour are therefore dedicated by the brother in the band to both Nancy Faust and the memory of those who at one time heard Nancy Faust. Correspondingly, the sister has decided that for the duration of the entire tour she'll not use a single word she hasn't said previously.

In the summer of 2007 disaster strikes again on the South Side. The first 'medley' the band plays is based on the song "1917" accordingly. The second 'medley' revolves around "Nevers", a song about France the tune of which is derived, of course, from the "Star-Spangled Banner".

As always, the band features Jason "Jake" Loewenstein on guitar-with-an-octave-pedal-and-bass-amp-as-well. Of frankly paramount importance to the efficacy of the ensemble, Robert "Bob" D'Amico plays the traps (drums). For the special enjoyment of paying customers, Michael "Mike" Goodman has come down from the mountaintop with his collection of cowbells. He'll hit things with his hands in time to the tunes. Matthew "Matt" Friedberger directs the outfit. He slumps behind a number of keyboards to be determined. He practices twice a day for the opportunity. The Star of the Show is nominally Eleanor "Big Mickey" Friedberger. Famous for her patented "croonin' 'n croakin'" style not developed by means of extensive fieldwork in the Shetlands and at the Blackfoot reservation north of Regina, the Star of the Show is instead the most awkward person in the front row. As he/she is at all Rock Shows.

Dictated but not read.

Best Regards,

Bradley Shenfeld, The Fiery Furnaces' attorney and friend. --

We've been selling the Mosz catalog on CD for a long time now, so we are very excited to also offer these up for download.

As always, you can stream the entire tracks to check out what you'll be buying.

On Wed July 12 WXPN will air a World Cafe session with Tom. The World Cafe with David Dye can be heard on 180 stations nationwide. Go here to find your local station. Or you can listen online here

Anyone who purchases a shirt before May 15th is automatically entered to win a limited edition Sno Angel mug.