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NYC CBGB Festival Bands/Films Unveiled

Best reason to go to NYC and, uh, swelter this summer!
By Blurt Staff
As previously announced, the new investment group behind the storied-yet-tarnished CBGB brand is holding a big NYC-area CBGB festival July 5-8, which will include the participation of some 30 venues along with panel discussions and film screenings. Set to play at Summerstage are Pains of Being Pure of Heart, Guided by Voices, Cloud Nothings and the War on Drugs as well as shows by the Baseball Project (featuring ex-members of REM), Craig Finn, Hollis Brown, Poppa Chubby, Radio 4, Rocket from the Tombs and L.A. Guns. Meanwhile, among the films will be Sid and Nancy, 24 Hour Party People, The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy and Lou 1971 - 1973, The Devil and Daniel Johnston and the premiere of The Rise and Fall of the Clash.
Here's the full lineup, with more no doubt to be announced. Watch the CBGB's website.
Guided By Voices
Pains Of Being Pure at Heart
Cloud Nothings
War on Drugs
Craig Finn D Generation
The Cro-Mags
Sick Of It All
Vision of Disorder
The Baseball Project
David Johansen
Sister Sparrow & The DirtyBirds
Willie Nile
Rocket From The Tombs
LA Guns
Dirty Pearls
Ben Taylor
Popa Chubby
MXPX
Harry Waters
Escort
Cerveris
Xylos
Firehorse
Gary Lucas With Gods and Monsters
Eytan and the Embassy Richard Lloyd Waldos
Radio 4
Shayfer James
Sophie Madeleine
My Pet Dragon
Bardot Jon DeRosa
So So Glows
Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan
Men
PS I Love You
Orion Experience
Empire Beats featuring Camille Atkinson
The Killing Floor
Ingrid and The Defectors
Bebe Buell
The Noise
The Bowery Tones
Faith NYC
Weekend
Two Lights
The Bamboo Kids
The Indecent
Romans
Brass Knuckle Evangelists
Mary C
New Cassettes
Waking Heroes
Daddy Long Legs
Van Hunt
Hollis Brown
Andy & The Rattlesnakes
Final Nick Cave Remasters Due in Aug.

Last three get double-disc CD/DVD treatment.
By Blurt Staff
One more set of remastered and expanded reissues of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' CD/DVD Collectors Editions will be released on August 14 on EMI. They include Nocturama (2003), Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004), and DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!! (2008), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth studio albums, respectively.
Each deluxe Collectors Edition of Nocturama, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, and DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!! includes the remastered original stereo album, the new 5.1 surround mix, a specially commissioned short film made by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, non-album b-sides from the singles, videos, and exclusive sleeve notes.
Tracklistings:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama (2012 Remaster) - CD/DVD
CD
1. Wonderful Life
2. He Wants You
3. Right Out of Your Hand
4. Bring It On
5. Dead Man in My Bed
6. Still in Love
7. There Is a Town
8. Rock of Gibraltar
9. She Passed By My Window
10. Babe, I'm On Fire
DVD
1. Wonderful Life
2. He Wants You
3. Right Out of Your Hand
4. Bring It On
5. Dead Man in My Bed
6. Still in Love
7. There Is a Town
8. Rock of Gibraltar
9. She Passed By My Window
10. Babe, I'm On Fire
11. Shoot Me Down
12. Swing Low
13. Little Ghost Song
14. Everything Must Converge
15. Nocturama
16. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 12: Nocturama)
17. Babe, I'm on Fire
18. Bring it On
19. Wonderful Life
20. He Wants You
21. Right Out of Your Hand
22. Bring It On
23. Dead Man in My Bed
24. Still in Love
25. There Is a Town
26. Rock of Gibraltar
27. She Passed By My Window
28. Babe, I'm On Fire
29. Shoot Me Down
30. Swing Low
31. Little Ghost Song
32. Everything Must Converge
33. Nocturama
34. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 12: Nocturama)
35. Babe, I'm on Fire
36. Bring it On
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2012 Remaster) - 2CD/DVD
CD 1
1. Get Ready for Love
2. Cannibal's Hymn
3. Hiding All Away
4. Messiah Ward
5. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
6. Nature Boy
7. Abattoir Blues
8. Let the Bells Ring
9. Fable of the Brown Ape
CD 2
1. The Lyre of Orpheus
2. Breathless
3. Babe, You Turn Me On
4. Easy Money
5. Supernaturally
6. Spell
7. Carry Me
8. O Children
DVD
1. Get Ready for Love
2. Cannibal's Hymn
3. Hiding All Away
4. Messiah Ward
5. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
6. Nature Boy
7. Abattoir Blues
8. Let the Bells Ring
9. Fable of the Brown Ape
10. The Lyre of Orpheus
11. Breathless
12. Babe, You Turn Me On
13. Easy Money
14. Supernaturally
15. Spell
16. Carry Me
17. O Children
18. She's Leaving You
19. Under This Moon
20. Hiding All Away (Live at Maida Vale)
21. There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Live at Maida Vale)
22. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 13: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus)
23. Nature Boy
24. Breathless
25. Get Ready for Love (Live)
26. Get Ready for Love
27. Cannibal's Hymn
28. Hiding All Away
29. Messiah Ward
30. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
31. Nature Boy
32. Abattoir Blues
33. Let the Bells Ring
34. Fable of the Brown Ape
35. The Lyre of Orpheus
36. Breathless
37. Babe, You Turn Me On
38. Easy Money
39. Supernaturally
40. Spell
41. Carry Me
42. O Children
43. She's Leaving You
44. Under This Moon
45. Hiding All Away (Live at Maida Vale)
46. There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Live at Maida Vale)
47. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 13: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus)
48. Nature Boy
49. Breathless
50. Get Ready For Love (Live)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!! (2012 Remaster) - CD/DVD
CD
1. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Today's Lesson
3. Moonland
4. Night of the Lotus Eaters
5. Albert Goes West
6. We Call Upon the Author
7. Hold On to Yourself
8. Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)
9. Jesus of the Moon
10. Midnight Man
11. More News from Nowhere
DVD
1. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Today's Lesson
3. Moonland
4. Night of the Lotus Eaters
5. Albert Goes West
6. We Call Upon the Author
7. Hold On to Yourself
8. Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)
9. Jesus of the Moon
10. Midnight Man
11. More News from Nowhere
12. Accidents Will Happen
13. Fleeting Love
14. Hey Little Firing Squad
15. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 14: DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!!)
16. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
17. More News from Nowhere
18. Midnight Man (Live)
19. Night of the Lotus Eaters (Extended Version)
20. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
21. Today's Lesson
22. Moonland
23. Night of the Lotus Eaters
24. Albert Goes West
25. We Call Upon the Author
26. Hold On to Yourself
27. Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)
28. Jesus of the Moon
29. Midnight Man
30. More News from Nowhere
31. Accidents Will Happen
32. Fleeting Love
33. Hey Little Firing Squad
34. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 14: DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!!)
35. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. More News from Nowhere
37. Midnight Man (Live)
38. Night of the Lotus Eaters (Extended Version)
U2 Delivers Fan-Curated Live 2CD “U22"

By Blurt Staff
Late last year U2 announced a sweet treat for its fanclub members: a chance to vote on their favorite live songs, as performed on the "360 Tour," with the top 22 vote-getters slated to be compiled onto a double-disc live album available exclusively for those members.
U22 is now arriving in mailboxes all over the globe. See the list of tracks, below, after checking out this HD fan-shot live clip from the tour.
DISC ONE
1. EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING
Recorded at Estadio Azteca,
Mexico City,
15th November 2011
2. THE FLY
3. MYSTERIOUS WAYS
4. MAGNIFICENT
5. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
6. I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
7. STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)
8. ONE TREE HILL
9. BEAUTIFUL DAY
10. ELEVATION
11. BAD
DISC TWO
12. ALL I WANT IS YOU/LOVE RESCUE ME
13. THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE
14. ZOOROPA
15. CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
16. MLK/WALK ON
17. ONE
18. WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
19. ULTRA VIOLET (LIGHT MY WAY)
20. WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
21. MOMENT OF SURRENDER
22. OUT OF CONTROL
Kasey Anderson’s Blurt Blog Returns!

Acclaimed songwriter, singer, dog owner and bacon enthusiast from Portland, Oregon, checks in with a new installment in his blog of artist interviews.
By Fred Mills & Randy Harward
We are very pleased to welcome once again musician Kasey Anderson to the digital page of BLURT - for his latest blog, he interviews fellow songwriter Matthew Ryan (in previous installments he also talked to musicians Peter Case and Rachel Flotard, writer Marc Maron and former MTV veejay Dave Holmes).
Writes Anderson, "I started this column two years ago with the intention of interviewing fellow musicians, actors, comics, friends, and enemies (which would be difficult as I have none - ask around, that's a science fact) about the songs that matter most to them. Unfortunately, after a few installments, and for any number of reasons, everything fell by the wayside. With Blurt's move, we figured now might be a good time to dust this thing off and see what we can do with it."
Indeed! Head over to Anderson's blog and check out the insightful, free-ranging conversations he stirs up with his subjects. Good to have ya on board, Kasey.
Below, check out a recent video clip, from SXSW in March, featuring Anderson joined by a very special guest...
Report: Flaming Lips Live in Atlanta

You have the most beautiful face: The "Electric Madman" himself, Wayne Coyne and his Flaming Lips play Centennial Park in Atlanta Georgia with openers Young the Giant, AWOL Nation, Dawes, and Ponderosa for the "Party in the Park" on May 19th with ten thousand in attendance.
Story and Photos by Michael Plumides
The Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne, Mike Ivins, Steve Drozd and Kliph Scurlock brought their frequency-filled freak out festivities once again to Centennial Park on May 19th, a repeat act I was fortunate enough to witness during the 2006 At War with Mystics tour.
A brilliantly lit stage, donning dancing bears and Dorothy Gayles, the giant disco ball, streamers, smoke machines, and psychedelic nudie movies as the piece de résistance to the elaborate projection and laser show - all the more provocative and tantalizing for newbies and seasoned vets alike.
There was no surprise visit from Mastodon (the Atlanta metal maestros cover The Soft Bulletin's -"A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" on Pink Vinyl) but the show was thoroughly enjoyable all the same. I happened to catch the set in its inception and it gets better with age - like a bottle of bombastic bubbly. (Go here for my coverage of the 2011 show at the Fillmore, Charlotte: http://blurt-online.com/news/view/5008/ )
The band opened with Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" as the beloved Mr. Coyne made his cosmic bubble jaunt as an Embryonic polyurethane power ball emerging from a sparkling, pulsating, video vagina - then Coyne surfed the crowd in his porta-pod with the finesse of a cosmic orchid thief.






The set also included; "See the Leaves", "Is David Bowie Dying?", "Worm Mountain", "She Don't use Jelly" "Do You Realize", Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" & "Brain Damage" (with special guests Phantogram), "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Part 1", "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", "Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung", and "The Observer."
Also appearing on the bill were Young the Giant, Awolnation, Dawes, and Ponderosa.
Kill the Music author Michael Plumides is a Blurt contributor, also the creator of Ghost Trek, a faux-paranormal reality series he has recently partnered with ThinkFactory Media (Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, Hatfields and McCoys) to develop.
First Look: New Grass Widow Album

Female-fronted punk rock par excellence: Internal Logic, out next week on HLR, balances the sharp and the smooth amid delightful vocal harmonies.
By Jennifer Kelly
Grass Widow's third album balances the sharp and the smooth, easing jittery obliqueness with the soft solace of vocal harmonies. Last summer's single, "Milo Minute" runs anxious Delta Five bass vamps (that's Hannah Lew) into sawtoothed guitar lines (Raven Mahon) and punchy, half-slanted drum beats (Lillian Maring). It would be classic late-1980s post punk (the band has, after all, opened for the Raincoats) except for the singing, all three Grass Widows together, voices twining and soaring in well-manicured harmonies. Check the new issue of BLURT (Spiritualized on the cover) for an interview with the band, incidentally.
Grass Widow - Goldilocks Zone by GIMMETINNITUS
Female-fronted punk rock with really good vocals is, lately, it's own genre - witness Reading (now Bleeding) Rainbow, Dum Dum Girls and Veronica Falls - but Grass Widow is one of the best at this game, their songs precise but unraveling at the seams, carefully plotted but offhandedly delivered. A girls' choir in torn fishnet tights, Grass Widow bashes and pops through sci-fi spooky "Goldilocks Zone," razor-guitared "Hanging Around," and wonderful "Spock on Muni," where surf-crazed licks give way to the giddiest kinds of la's and ah's. "Light in the Attic" demonstrates Raven Mahon's prowess at Spanish-style guitar, a skill not much exercised in this jangly, jittery set of songs. Internal Logic pits fractious churn and friction against head-spinning harmonies, and here's the surprise, everybody wins.
Dylan Fest To Fete Bard's 71st

Annual event struggling to attract A-list talent?
By Blurt Staff
New York's Irving Plaza this week (245h, 25th) is set host Dylan Fest 2012, billed as "A Night to Get Drunk and Celebrate Bob Dylan's 71st Birthday." Thus far the organizers had been having trouble attracting much in the way of top talent, with only Boz Scaggs, Nicole Atkins, the Strokes' Fab Moretti and Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes) signing on in terms of any measurable name recognition. More recently Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and garage monsters The Whigs were added to the bill, however.
The rest are decidedly underwhelming: Cory Chisel, Adam Green, Ryan Miller (Guster), Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Matt
Vasquez (Delta Spirit), Christopher Chu (POP ETC),
Jody Porter (Fountains of Wayne), Petter Erickson Stakee (Alberta
Cross), Tyson Ritter (All American Rejects), Sammy James, Jr. (the
Mooney Suzuki), Ben Trokan (Robbers on High Street), The Tangiers Blues
Band, Jack Dishel (Only Son), Steve Schiltz (Longwave), Tracy Bonham,
Jamie Burke, Mikki James and actor Justin Long. (What the hell do Jason Sudeikis and Justin Long have to do with Dylan, hmm?)
Anyhow, in addition to banging and twanging for Bob, the show will feature a nicely-themed Levon Helm tribute, and the concert will also be donating some of the door take to Amnesy International, so we suggest you get out and support the show.
Bob Mould’s Sugar Catalog Goes > Merge

Reissues to be followed in the fall by a new Mould album. View promo trailer, below.
By Fred Mills
Fresh off his recent appearance at the Merge Records-hosted Concert To Defeat Amendment One, Bob Mould is now set to start reissuing his classic Sugar albums - 1992's Copper Blue, 1993's Beaster EP, and 1994's File Under: Easy Listening - via Merge as expanded remasters. This fall he'll also be doing a new solo record for the NC label, but meanwhile, longtime Mould fans can start drooling over the tracklistings of the reissues, listed below.
The first two records will arrive as a triple-CD set that incorporates bonus tracks and a 1992 concert originally released as a promotional-only LP, while File Under will be a double album loaded with B-sides and another live show, from 1994. Watch for ‘em in the bins on July 24.
Copper Blue/Beaster:
Disc 1 (Copper Blue):
1 The Act We Act
2 A Good Idea
3 Changes
4 Helpless
5 Hoover Dam
6 The Slim
7 If I Can't Change Your Mind
8 Fortune Teller
9 Slick
10 Man on the Moon
11 Needle Hits E *
12 If I Can't Change Your Mind (Solo Mix) *
13 Try Again *
14 Clownmaster *
* B-sides
Disc 2 (Beaster EP):
01 Come Around
02 Tilted
03 Judas Cradle
04 JC Auto
05 Feeling Better
06 Walking Away
Disc 3 (Live at Cabaret Metro Chicago, Illinois, July 22, 1992:)
1 The Act We Act
2 A Good Idea
3 Changes
4 Running Out of Time
5 Helpless
6 If I Can't Change Your Mind
7 Where Diamonds Are Halos
8 Hoover Dam
9 Beer Commercial
10 Slick
11 Anyone
12 Clownmaster
13 Tilted
14 Armenia City in the Sky
15 JC Auto
16 The Slim
17 Dum Dum Boys
18 Man on the Moon
File Under: Easy Listening:
Disc 1 (File Under: Easy Listening):
1 Gift
2 Company Book
3 Your Favorite Thing
4 What You Want It to Be
5 Gee Angel
6 Panama City Motel
7 Can't Help You Anymore
8 Granny Cool
9 Believe What You're Saying
10 Explode and Make Up
11 Mind Is an Island *
12 Frustration *
13 Going Home *
14 In the Eyes of My Friends *
15 And You Tell Me *
16 Believer What You're Saying (Campfire Mix) *
* B-sides
Disc 2 (The Joke Is Always On Us, Sometimes - Live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2, 1994:)
1 Gift
2 Company Book
3 Hoover Dam
4 After All the Roads Have Led to Nowhere
5 Where Diamonds Are Halos
6 Slick
7 Going Home
8 Running Out of Time
9 Frustration
10 Changes
11 Can't Help You Anymore
12 Helpless
13 If I Can't Change Your Mind
14 In the Eyes of My Friends
15 Clownmaster
16 Gee Angel
17 Explode and Make Up
18 The Slim
VIDEO: Carrousel's "15"

Tallahassee dream-folk/pop outfit Carrousel premieres clip for "15."
By Blurt Staff
Amusement parks are made to seem like a dream - of magic kingdoms, mountains, all that stuff. In this clip for Carrousel's "15," writer/director Patrick Gines and editor Bryan Zhang show park rides ascending, descending, rotating and tilting in a series of 3,000 still images and several slow-shutter scenes. The feast of gorgeous, colorful lights is juxtaposed with Piedt (who also co-wrote and -directed) sleepily confronting the dizzying ups and downs of a relationship and deciding it's all worth it - and he'll happily wait for the object of his affection to decide likewise.
Alas, the track is from Carrousel's debut album 27 rue de mi'chelle (available on Carrousel.Bandcamp.com), a concept platter about a woman Piedt has already lost. But that makes the band's mini-symphonies that much more compelling.
CARROUSEL - "15"
Yep Roc Announces Mega Anniversary Bash

Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock, Fountains of Wayne, Eleni Mandell, John Doe, The Sadies and more, plus John Wesley Harding as m.c., for October event.
By Blurt Staff
The mighty Yep Roc label, founded in NC in 1997 by Tor Hansen and Glenn Dicker, will celebrate its 15th anniversary with Yep Roc 15, a three-night concert blowout October 11, 12 and 13, at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC, featuring once-in-a-lifetime performances, collaborations, and recording sessions by current and past Yep Roc artists.
The stellar initial Yep Roc 15 line-up includes Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock, Fountains of Wayne, Eleni Mandell, John Doe, The Sadies and many more with additional artists to be announced soon. John Wesley Harding will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
"YEP ROC 15" INITIAL LINEUP:
Dave Alvin
Chatham County Line
John Doe
Liam Finn
Fountains Of Wayne
Robyn Hitchcock
Los Straitjackets
Nick Lowe
Eleni Mandell
Mayflies USA
Cheyenne Marie Mize
Chuck Prophet
The Sadies
Sloan
Jim White
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