walking on a dream (click for larger image)

I can't get enough of Empire of the Sun's perfect end-of-summer single, "Walking on a Dream," which has quickly become one of my favorite songs of the year, and accompanies me just about everywhere I go lately. Thanks to James for sending over the just-released, epically fantastical art for the duo's debut record, which was inspired by the time Luke Steele + Nick Littlemore spent in Shanghai filming their first video. Can't wait to hear the full record -- due out in October -- but here's a remix of the first single from Nick's big brother, Sam La More:

mp3:
empire of the sun :: walking on a dream (sam la more remix)

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Also, in addition to making me nostalgic for the over-the-top movie posters of my youth, that ridiculous cover got me thinking about the best album art of '08. I'm sort of drawing a blank right now, but I've posted a few more of my favorites from this year after the jump...who am I missing?

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Paavoharju :: Laulu Laakson Kukista


Grouper :: Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill


White Denim :: Workout Holiday


Sebastien Tellier :: Sexuality


Booka Shade :: The Sun & The Neon Light


Gang Gang Dance :: Saint Dymphna


Ariel Pink :: Odditties Sodomies


Lucky Dragons :: Dream Island Laughing Language


Diplo x Santogold :: Top Ranking (inside sleeve)

Saturday is/was the end (at least until next summer) of a lot of outdoor dancing in New York. It's also unfortunately a hurricane?! Saturday is/was the final Warm Up party at P.S.1, the final Beach Party at Water Taxi Beach, and the final People Don't Dance No More boat party! :( Info on all 3 and more below:

A very soulful/housey edition of Warm Up was today (rain or shine)3pm - Jerome Derradji (Still Music)
4pm - Bing Ji Ling (live)
5pm - Jerome Derradji
6pm - Lisa Shaw (live)
7pm - Neil Aline (Chez Music)Junior Boys

- Junior Boys close out this summer's Beach Party series at Water Taxi Beach (rain or shine). For an idea of what you can expect, check out the tracklisting of the mix they did for Get Physical's Body Language series below:Tracklisting: Junior Boys - Body Language Vol. 6
01 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
02 Supermayer - Saturndays
03 Chelonis R. Jones - Deer In The Headlights (DJ Hell Remix)
04 Love Nine - Feedback
05 Kreon & Lemos Feat. Feeboy - Fola
06 Kelley Polar - Rosenband (Magic Tim's Instrumental Version)
07 Steadycam - In The Moog For Love
08 Radio Slave - Screaming Hands (Cosmo Vitelli Radioaktivitat Remix)
09 Studio - Life's A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
10 Gui.tar - Love Started To Shine
11 Stereo Image - Dark Chapter
12 Matthew Dear - You Know What I Would Do
13 Pushé - Don't Take Your Love Away
14 Visage - I'm Still Searching
15 Junior Boys - No Kinda Man
16 Rework - Love Love Love Yeah (Chloé Remix)
17 f0st3r - bl3w r0d30 d3m0
18 Chloé - Be Kind To Me
19 Bill Nelson - When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes TrueThe party is from 8pm - 3am and costs $5. Directions and any other info you might need is available on the Water Taxi Beach website.also: New free Saturday Late Night Bus Shuttle between Water Taxi Beach and the #7 Subway at Vernon Jackson Blvd from 10pm to 3am!Updated info on The People Don't Dance No More boat party:As you may know, Hurricane Hannah is quickly heading towards our fair city. The Coast Guard has closed down the New York waterways and as a result we won't be sailing on Saturday night. We have RESCHEDULED the party for SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Boarding begins at 2 pm and we'll sail from 3 until 6 pm.

If you've already bought tickets you should have received instructions on how to obtain refunds if you cannot make it to the party on Sunday. For refunds, please email info@ticketweb.com, or call 1-866-777-8932.

Hopefully you'll all be able to make it as its going to be a wild afternoon with a very special set from GILDAS + MASAYA from Kitsune Paris.

Added bonus, we'll get to cruise right by the WATERFALLS!

The party Sunday is rain or shine. Advanced tickets available here.

It seems blind optimism isn't the way to go for Saturday. Here's something I strongly recommend that's going on indoors at Santos. New York's own DJ Spun will be there with special guest DJ Kaos from Berlin. Kaos is great. I picked up his album Hello Stranger when it came out back in 2005 just for the track "Lessons In Love" during the height of an obsession with Erlend Oye (who does guest vocals on the track) and wound up really liking the entire thing. It's funky and disco-ey in a modern, updated way and his live sets are the same...occasionally throwing back a bit more. Regardless of what he plays he's going to leave you wanting to do it at the disco (sound familiar?).

The party is upstairs and it's $5.

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Hopefully by Sunday (9/7) any rain will have subsided because there's more going on outside:

Get housed by two teenagers, the Martinez Brothers, at Water Taxi Beach. Check out their August chart and event info below:

The Martinez Brothers' August 2008 Chart 01) Mastiksoul - Macaron // Hoshi Recordings
02) Moodyman - Preacher (BumBum Dub) // Leftroom
03) Dakar - I've Got that Feeling // Get Physical
04) Claude Vonstroke - Scarlet Macaw (Original Mix) // Mothership
05) Ilario Alicante - Living Near Africa // CDR
06) Cassy Britton - A Plea for Me (Original Mix) // Cocoon Rec.
07) Mass Destruction - Jungle (Original Mix) // CDR
08) Shlomi Aber - In Theory Yes (Original Mix) // Be as One Imprint
09) Minicoolboys - Strike an Empty City (Alex Young Mix) // Strike Recordings
10) Pfirter - Mi Auto (Original Mix) // Stockholm LTD

Advanced tickets available here.

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No Ordinary Monkey is happening at Grand Ferry Park in Williamsburg. Free from 2pm - 9pm.

And as mentioned above, the People Don't Dance No More boat party has been moved to Sunday.

A quick FYI about some stuff happening early next week:

Monday - Danny Krivit is at the Hudson and Francois K is at Cielo.

And...not-dance related - If it's going to pour and you're looking for stuff to do I recommend hitting the movies and seeing "Man On Wire". I'm not posting the trailer because I think it spoils it, but basically...in 1974 a young Frenchman, Philippe Petit strung a wire between the tops of the Twin Towers and walked it. This film tells the amazing story of how he and his friends planned it out. It's an interesting, beautiful, moving story and the film was done extremely well. Check it out!

-Showtrotta

Portraits of Past @ Cake Shop (amore e biciclette)

today in NYC
* Carcass @ Nokia Theater
* Howl! Festival (rain or shine?)
* What Made Milwaukee Famous @ Maxwell's
* Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler @ Comix
* Monster Island Block Party (rain or shine)
* Twi The Humble Feather @ Sound Fix Records
* Silver Jews & Monotonix @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

The Art Parade was cancelled today.

The East Villlage Radio Festival was moved to Sunday.

David Bruno's boat party was moved to Sunday.

What else?

Arguably the world's most popular contemporary band, Radiohead once let you choose your own price for the digital version of their record. Now Amazon is allowing you to remain a cheap bastard without all the guilt and guesswork.

In case the headline didn't make it clear enough, this week Amazon is making Radiohead's classic - and what many consider their best - album OK Computer for $1.99. No more guesswork needed, at least for this week.

Radiohead
Amazon

Will you watch? Sunday night is football night in America, says Al. But also it marks the Silver Anniversary of MTV's Video Music Awards, and despite last year's masterful display of waning cultural relevance, there may be reasons still to tune in that don't relate strictly to masochism and/or self-hatred. Like, there's Kanye's show-closing performance of the new single "Love Lockdown." (You are entitled to think he's forgiven MTV for hating black people, although I suggest you think he understands the promotional opportunity this affords his new single, which just happens to be going on sale the next day.)

There will also be a Britney Spears opening segment! I was wrong yesterday, though: She will not be performing, just doing something "fun and unexpected." This diminishes the show's imminent train wreckability. I'm not sure if that makes it more or less watchable. Other stuff that'll make it more (or, less) watchable includes Kid Rock and Lil Wayne together at last, Katy Perry covering "Like A Virgin," and performances from Rihanna, T.I. (Feat. Rihanna), T-Pain, Lupe, Paramore, the Ting Tings, the Jonas Bros. You can be sure Russell Brand will be sexually inappropriate and pretty British as host, if that's your spot of tea. And if the awards themselves are more your thing, sorry: the bands you like already won what they're going to win. But in case you will/are forced to watch anyway, here's a scorecard so you can play along at home, followed by a drinking game suggestion to make the time go by, and a very special message from Lou Reed:

DOWNLOAD: Nick Catchdubs & Mr. Ducker - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (zSHARE)
DOWNLOAD: the Cardigans - Love Fool (Nick Catchdubs Bongo Edit) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Klever - Ski Mask Way mix (zSHARE)

the Rapture

Hope you had fun last night. There's a lot more dance headed your way this weekend. Here's what's going on Friday (9/5) alone:

Awesome electro rockers (who I wish would play some concerts soon), the Rapture (more specifically Vito & Druzzi) come out of hiding to deejay First Fridays at the Guggenheim. The party goes from 9pm - 1am. Admission is $25 at the door or free if you're a member of the Guggenheim.

From there if you want to stay more on the electro side of things, Robot Rock has a great line-up at Le Royale this week with Treasure Fingers, AC Slater, and DJ Krames.

AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked - out Sept. 30th on Palms Out Sounds

Btw - A.C.'s got a new track, "Jack Got Jacked" coming out on Palms Out Sounds on September 30th. Check it out on his myspace, and also check out Jack Beats' great remix of it (which is also going to be released along with the original on the 30th)here.

Free with RSVP to list@gbh.tv with your name and number of guests. When you arrive, ask for the GBH guest list.

Friday is also the debut of a new FREE weekly party by Nick Catchdubs, DJ Ayres, and Jubilee at Public Assembly called Flashing Lights:Strictly electronic club music, no bullsh!t - house, disco, techno, rave and very special guests each week, including our friend KLEVER from ATL (download his "Ski Mask Way" mix at the top of this post) who will be kicking off the inaugural edition!

In addition to throwing parties Nick has been busy mixing things up lately. Download the Radio Friendly Unit Shifter mix he did with Mr. Ducker for NY-based streetwear company, Mishka, at the top of this post:My good friend Mr. Ducker isn't a DJ, but he always wanted to make an ultimate '90s tape, something that brought a mixshow vibe to alt nation sounds. When he asked me to get down with his dream and collaborate, we delved deep into our middle and high school record collections (and used CD bargain bins) and brainstormed new ways to present all the alternative music we grew up on. We were inspired by DJ Spinbad's impossibly fun '80s pop mixes: big hits next to unexpected favorites with lots of movie dialogue and interludes for jokes, all smashed up in a dance party megamixxx. Picking from hundreds of beloved Buzz Bin jams was easier said than done (sorry Superdrag, you'll make Vol. 2!), but with the Mishka crew's annual trip to Magic in Las Vegas giving us an actual deadline, we finally finished this badmotorfinger as a giveaway CD for their new season. Even with double digit-old tunes, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter feels right on time, connecting the dots between Sonic Youth breakbeats, weeded Lollapalooza rap, gloriously fuzzed-out one hit wonders and much more. No irony, no empty nostalgia, just a lot of music we love that shaped what we do today. They used to play King Missile on the radio! In America! Download and enjoy. - Nick Catchdubs

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter Tracklisting:
1. L7 - Pretend We're Dead
2. Sonic Youth - 100%
3. Folk Implosion - Natural One
4. King Missile - Detachable Penis
5. Beck - Beercan
6. Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
7. Meat Puppets - Backwater
8. Pavement - Cut Your Hair
9. Nirvana - Sliver
10. Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around
11. Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon
12. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
13. Tripping Daisy - I Got A Girl
14. Primus - Wynonas Big Brown Beaver
15. Body Count - There Goes The Neighborhood
16. Offspring - Come Out And Play
17. Rancid - Roots Radicals
18. Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
19. Weezer - El Scorcho
20. Green Day - Longview
21. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
22. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
23. Bjork - Army Of Me
24. Soundgarden - Outshined
25. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
26. Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God (Live @ The Tibetan Freedom Concert)
27. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man (Live @ Woodstock '94)
28. House Of Pain - Shamrocks and Shennanigans
29. Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken
30. Breeders - Cannonball
31. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
32. Butthole Surfers - Pepper
33. Sublime - Doin' Time
34. Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
35. Faith No More - A Small Victory
36. MC 900 Foot Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain
37. Everclear - You Make Me Feel Like A Whore
38. Toadies - Possum Kingdom

One last option for Friday:

If you're craving some discooo, Theater of the Virgin Ear is happening at Love with the No Ordinary Monkey crew - Carlos Arias, Phil South, and Anton Esteban who will be:...mining the depths for pure psychedelic disco madness.Check out Phil and Anton's set from May 6th on Beats In Space for what that might sound like.

Doors 10pm. $5 before midnight, $10 after.

Don't bother stopping...before you know it you'll be back out dancing again (hopefully in the sunshine) Saturday & Sunday - posts are on their way!

-Showtrotta

Technically Deerhoof's first Offend Maggie single was the "Fresh Born" sheet music, but you get to hear the band themselves in this clip of the album's opening jam in Tokyo this past June. it's a taut song, Greg Saunier pounding away on the drums, per usual, while the guitarists synchronize themselves and work as an angular (but crunchy) rhythmic backdrop for Satomi's bass and vocalizations. "Let's go, let's go, let's go, green valley..."

Mwamwaya will soon release a collab LP with Radioclit, featuring the likes of M.I.A., Santogold, and Ezra and the Vampires. Hear the Malawian's appropriation of Vampire Weekend's Afro-pop appropriation by heading to MySpace. While you're there, listen to everything on the page -- it's good. (via GvsB)

Love Is All have a new LP called A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night coming out in November. You can pre-order it here now, and you'll get a free 7" and accompanying immediate digital download, featuring lead single"Wishing Well," and the band's maybe slightly gimmicky but still totally rad cover of Faith No More's "Epic". Recommended! And in case you still haven't heard the single:



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Mercury Prize voters: Alex Turner has a worthy project called the Last Shadow Puppets that is up for your consideration, and in case you forgot, here is a Richard Ayoade-directed video to help refresh your recollection. Here the Arctic heartthrob and his fellow Puppeteer Miles Kane of the Rascals move about a bit more than during the mod-era TV-show "Standing Next To Me," talking midnight strolls through dense fog and along winding roads, meeting up in a gazebo to sing about mistakes and admire each others' leather jackets.

The debut of the East Village Radio Music Festival may be delayed by one day due to the heavy rains and gusty winds expected for New York City throughout Saturday, as tropical storm Hanna moves up the East Coast.

The festival, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, September 6, may be moved to Sunday, September 7 from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m.

Organizers will evaluate the weather conditions on Saturday morning at 6 a.m. and determine if the festival will go forward on Saturday, or be delayed one day until Sunday.Complete second stage lineup below...

"On The Side" @ SeaportLil' Dusty 1:30
Bunnybrains 2:30
Hex Message 3:30
Crystal Stilts 5:30
Woods 6:15
BIG A little a 7:00Main stage info HERE.

Bumbershoot festival-goers (more by Chris Graham)

today in NYC
* FREE STUFF
* DANCE
* Fiasco @ Death By Audio
* TheDeathSet @ The Annex
* Crom & Villains @ Cake Shop
* Mr Gnome @ Knitting Factory
* Steve Earle in Montclair, NJ
* The Fratellis @ Roseland Ballroom
* Fashion Rock @ Radio City Music Hall
* Benefit for Terry Karydes @ Maxwell's
* Bear Hands & Boy Crisis @ Mercury Lounge
* Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler @ Comix
* Titus Andronicus, Chairlift & special guest @ Lit
* What Made Milwaukee Famous Plus Wild Sweet Orange @ Southpaw

ALSO: Musicfest in NJ

NO Cribs @ Irving Plaza.

NEW Jenny Lewis.

What else?

Zach Hills brings a lot to Marnie Stern's This Is It.... On his own recent solo album The Astrological Straits, he in turn benefits from the help of his friends, including Stern (and Les Claypool, the Deftones' Chino Moreno, No Age, the Flying Luttenbacher's Jonathon Hicshke, an Rx Bandit, a Hella mate, etc). Much like the kinetic, kaleidoscopic Play-Doh/cactus-filled "Hindsight Is Nowhere" clip, this over-the-top "Stoic Logic" color explosion hits like a visual sugar rush. There are a couple major differences between this and the last one, though.

by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Crom - King Osric (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Crom - The Black Ring (M4A) (as seen here)

Crom (via Vice)

Instead of going on and on about Crom, who are playing late tonight at Cake Shop with Villains (doors at 12AM), I figure I will let Crom's guitarist Phil Vera (ex-16 and Despise You) try and persuade you:VICE: Let's try a fill in the blank, it's easier. For the unassociated: Crom is a ________ band. We sound like ______.
Crom: Crom is a shitty band. We sound like garbage.

....In other words, the average person at a Crom show is...
Fat kids, the associated press, train-jumping crusties, nothing worth fucking, and the spirit of beerwolf.

Dude, come on.
I know this sounds like a joke, but it's totally fucking true.OK, maybe that didn't work.... but imagine if Girl Talk decided to splice together some of the greatest metal riffs of all time, add in some sludge-grind of his own (thats a fun thought), and interweave the whole thing with Conan The Barbarian samples.... thats kinda what you would get with Crom.

Yes, I just mentioned Crom and Girl Talk in the same sentence.

Crom's sample-heavy metal assault is scheduled for a live WFMU "sesh" before skipping around the east coast and finally to Rockstar Bar in Brooklyn on Sept 13th (the same day as Lightning Bolt & Krallice). All dates below...

CROM - 2008 TOUR DATES
9/5 @ Cake Shop in New York City, NY w/ Villians (late)
9/6 WFMU (recording live) Jersey city, NJ
9/7 @ Talking Head in Baltimore, MD w/ Triac, Oak, Deciever(last show) & Drugs of Faith
9/8 @ Nara Sushi in Richmond, VA w/Inter Arma, Light Yourself on Fire(ex-Reversal of Man), Brainworms & Racebannon
9/9 @ Nara Sushi in Richmond, VA w/TBA
9/10 @ Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ w/ Chainsaw to the Face & Maegashira
9/11 @ Firehouse 13 in Providence, RI w/ Tides & I Destroyer
9/12 @ Porter's in Boston,MA w/ Raw Radar War
9/13 @ Rockstar Bar in Brooklyn, NY w/ Villians & Inswarm

DOWNLOAD: Spencer Product - Ruff Club mix (MP3)

He coasts through, with nonchalant hello-nods and Zoolanderish fingerpointing, he knows everyone in attendance. Who is that dark-framed man? Spencer Product: Johnny Appleseed of NY night havens, director of the scene such clubs have subsequently bloomed, and quite the turntable mix-maven. A pioneer of the electroclash movement (remember that?), and former frontman of Black Moustache, Product is now primed for first his solo ...Product. [URB]TheDeathSet play the release party tonight (sep 5) at The Annex aka Ruff Club aka Spencer Product's weekly NYC party. The flyer and all Death Set dates below...

TheDeathSet F Yeah (more by Tod Seelie)

TheDeathSet - 2008 Tour Dates
Sep 5 - Ruff Club @ Annex New York, New York
Sep 6 - The Stood, Purchase, New York
Sep 13 - The Key Room Bellevue, Pennsylvania
Sep 19 - U of MASS Amherst, Massachusetts
Oct 3 - Mass College of Art+Design-Baltimore Round Robin w/ Dan Deacon,Videohippos, ++++ Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 5 - Eglise Saint Enfant Jesus (Pop Montreal)- Baltimore Round Robin Montreal, Quebec
Oct 9 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Baltimore Round Robin w/Dan Deacon, Videohippos, +++ Detroit, Michigan
Oct 11 - Epiphany- Baltimore Round Robin w/Dan Deacon, Videohippos,Adventure, ++++ Chicago, Illinois
Oct 14 - Oberlin College - Baltimore Round Robin w/Dan Deacon, Videohippos, Adventure, ++++ Oberlin, Ohio
Oct 16 - Baltimore Round Robin w/Dan Deacon,Videohippos,Adventure, ++++ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 17 - The Green Bean Greensboro, North Carolina
Oct 18 - JJs Bohemia Chattanooga, Tennessee
Oct 20 - Lounge on Elm Street (Free Show) Dallas, Texas
Oct 21 - Red 7 Austin, Texas
Oct 23 - Modified Arts Phoenix, Arizona
Oct 24 - Beauty Bar San Diego, California
Oct 25 - Henry Fonda Theater w/ Girl Talk Los Angeles, California
Oct 28 - The Fillmore w/ Girl Talk San Francisco, California
Oct 30 - In the Venue w/ Girl Talk Salt Lake City, Utah
Oct 31 - Ogden Theater w/ Girl Talk Denver, Colorado
Nov 1 - Granada Theater w/ Girl Talk Lawrence, Kansas
Nov 3 - First Avenue w/ Girl Talk Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nov 4 - Turner Hall Ballroom w/ Girl Talk Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nov 5 - Canopy Club/ Club Void w/ Girl Talk Urbana, Illinois
Nov 6 - Cannery Ballroom w/ Girl Talk Nashville, Tennessee
Nov 7 - Headliners Music Hall w/ Girl Talk Louisville, Kentucky
Nov 8 - Congress w/ Girl Talk Chicago, Illinois
Nov 9 - Bogarts w/ Girl Talk Cincinatti, Ohio
Nov 10 - Beachland Ballroom w/ Girl Talk Cleveland, Ohio
Nov 11 - Eagle Theater w/ Girl Talk Pontiac, Michigan
Nov 12 - Koolhaus w/ Girl Talk Toronto, Ontario
Nov 13 - Club Soda w/ Girl Talk Montreal, Quebec
Nov 14 - Showcase Live w/ Girl Talk Foxborough, New Jersey
Nov 15 - Terminal 5 w/Girl Talk New York, New York

Johnny Marr as a Modest Mouse member (more by Ryan Muir)
The Cribs - complete with Johnny Marr as part of their line-up - have revealed that they plan to release a new single this year during an exclusive video interview with NME.COM. The band had already revealed that they will record a full album in early 2009, but made the single revelation while speaking to NME.COM at the Leeds Festival on Friday (August 22).

"We don't know when it's going to happen, but we'll try and do that [release a single before the year ends]," said Marr.The Cribs were scheduled to kick off a U.S. tour at Irving Plaza in NYC tonight (Sept 5), but it looks like all those shows were cancelled (again).

In "Never Miss A Beat" we're we're told "it's cool to know nothing." Except how to coordinate your outfits for properly dividing into flashy masked and mimed gangs. The video for the Kaiser Chiefs' Mark Ronson-produced anthem finds the youths of today dressed like birds, box heads, and even Steve Erkel, scaring the local constable, making the locals close shop early, and encouraging KC to rock out in the midst of it. It comes with a very Michael Jackson-esque ending. Not in the creepy pajama and wheelchair sense.

Before Earle was signed as an artist in his own right, he was employed as a songwriter, writing songs for the likes of Carl Perkins, Vince Gill and Steve Wariner. His song "Mustang Wine" was due to be recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975, but Presley did not turn up for the recording session. The song was released as a single by Carl Perkins. [Wiki]The Friday night (9/26) show is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the other three shows Steve Earle and Allison Moorer are playing at Judson Church in NYC. Tonight they play a show at Outpost in the Burbs in Jersey. All dates below...

Steve Earle - Tour Dates
Sep 5 2008 - Outpost in the Burbs Montclair, New Jersey
Sep 6 2008 - Grand Opera House Wilmington, Delaware
Sep 7 2008 - Birchmere Music Hall Alexandria, Virginia
Sep 8 2008 - Birchmere Music Hall Alexandria, Virginia
Sep 10 2008 - The Historic Avalon Theatre Easton, Maryland
Sep 11 2008 - State Theatre Ithaca, New York
Sep 12 2008 - Colonial Theatre Keene, New Hampshire
Sep 13 2008 - CT Folk Festival and Green Expo New Haven, Connecticut
Sep 22 2008 - Judson Memorial Church New York, New York
Sep 23 2008 - Judson Memorial Church New York, New York
Sep 25 2008 - Judson Memorial Church New York, New York
Sep 26 2008 - Judson Memorial Church New York, New York
Nov 2 2008 - Regal Theatre Perth, Western Australia
Nov 2 2008 - Regal Theatre Perth
Nov 4 2008 - Norwood Concert Hall Adelaide, South Australia
Nov 4 2008 - Norwood Concert Hall Adelaide
Nov 6 2008 - Forum Theatre Melbourne, Victoria
Nov 6 2008 - Forum Theatre Melbourne
Nov 8 2008 - Enmore Theatre Sydney, New South Wales
Nov 8 2008 - Enmore Theatre Sydney
Nov 10 2008 - Tivoli Theatre Brisbane, Queensland
Nov 10 2008 - Tivoli Theatre Brisbane
Nov 12 2008 - Opera House Wellington, Wellington
Nov 12 2008 - Opera House Wellington
Nov 13 2008 - Bruce Mason Centre Auckland, Auckland
Nov 13 2008 - Bruce Mason Centre Auckland
Nov 14 2008 - James Hay Theatre Christchurch, Canterbury
Nov 14 2008 - James Hay Theatre Christchurch
Jan 24 2009 - Landmark on Main Street Port Washington, New York
Jan 24 2009 - Landmark on Main Street Port Washington, New York

I know this will shock your lightning, but said Opinion is rather negative. Since blasting Radiohead is currently en vogue, and three makes a trend, here's this bit via Details:

They're [Radiohead] middle-class boys worrying about pushing an envelope somewhere, and all that carbon footprint and all that bollocks. Every time there's a polar bear on his tiptoes on an ice cube in the middle of the Antarctic, you know whose fault that is? Rock stars'. That's their fault. Any time there's food running out somewhere-- 'Let's do a gig. That'll sort it out. Let's do a big fucking gig. Let's fly everybody in from all over the world and pontificate to poor people about how they should be saving the planet.' Go fucking kiss my ass. It's very easy to just say, 'We're going to become difficult now and challenge our audience.' I like my audience. They paid for my swimming pool. I'm not fucking challenging anybody.

Certainly not the first time he's gone after Radiohead, but I think ultimately Noel's still sore about that "Wonderwall" piss take from years back. In more surprising Oasis Have An Opinion news, Mr. Gallagher likes something: Ryan Adams. (It's mutual.)

The Wellmont Theatre is not the only venue in Montclair, NJ holding interesting concerts. "Outpost in the Burbs" holds shows at religious and educational institutions. Tonight's Steve Earle show at The First Congregational Church is sold out (Sept 5), though the Graham Parker show on September 26th still has tickets available