| March 23 2007 |
UPDATED WEBSITE IN THE WORKS
Hello!- just letting you know that very soon there will be pages for all new artists now working with Leg UP! management, such as Panda Bear, The Epochs, AleXXXchange, Battles and Devlin and Darko…stay tuned!
| Jan 21 2007 |
GANG GANG DANCE SHOW
Gang Gang Dance are playing a show at Studio B in Greenpoint !
Gang Gang Dance
Daniel Higgs
Eystek
Studio B
$12.50
| Dec 29 06 Gang Gang Dance Shows |
New GANG GANG DANCE SHOWS
Dingwalls CANCELLED
Thursday 18th Jan, 2007
Gang Gang Dance
Boy Better Know
Wiley
Various Production (DJ Set)
Paris Motel
John Kennedy ((DJ Set)
FEB 17 2007
Studio B
Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY
259 Banker St., Brooklyn, NY 11222
between Meserole and Calyer Sts.
718-389-1880
| animal collective ‘2007 |
Avey Tare and Kria Brekken are on tour now- see them while you can in this lovely acoustic setting with new Material!
December
1st Main Hall (Montreal, Canada)
2nd Mavericks (Ottowa, Canada)
3rd TBC
5th Firehouse Gallery (Burlington, VT)
6th The Red Barn at Hampshire College (MA)
and here is a great interview with Panda Bear on PITCHFORK , chock full of fascinating facts and news for the guys in 2007:
Like the endangered species from which he gets his name, Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, does not hibernate. He’s too busy chewing the bamboo shoots of musical creativity. (Terrible analogy. Just terrible. I’m sorry. I’ll stop now.)
Although he and his band Animal Collective have laid relatively low in 2006, touring a bit and releasing just a smattering of tracks and a reissue, 2007 looks to be a blockbuster year for Lennox. In a recent interview, he updated Pitchfork on the status of Animal Collective’s next album, the Animal Collective live box set, his own solo album, and many, many other projects.
Animal Collective’s year will start off with the January 23 FatCat worldwide release of the People EP, previously available only on the band’s just-wrapped Australian tour. As previously reported, it features the tracks “People”, “Tikwid”, “My Favorite Colors”, and “People (live)”.
Also in January, the band will begin recording the follow-up to 2005’s Feels, at a studio in Tucson, Arizona. Lennox said that they hope to release the album in the fall, “but I couldn’t say for sure.” Although reluctant to reveal any potential song or album titles (”I have a feeling the other AC boys would be mad if I told you, just because we like to have the thing be new and fresh for everyone if we can”), he did say that “there will be some songs on the album that we’ve never played live. We wrote them and prepped them but consciously avoided playing them live so that they would be totally new for everyone on the album.” Brief tours of America and Europe are in the works for the spring of 2007.
And speaking of Animal Collective in concert, Lennox offered an update about the AC live box set: “I’m really psyched about it and I guess I can speak for all of us in that respect,” he said. “I don’t know exactly when it will be released, as we’re all being kind of relaxed about that part of it. I guess we feel like the Hollinndagain reissue just came out so it’s no rush for us to get out another live recording type thing. But I imagine it will be done and out in the spring of next year, like May or something.
“It’s going to be three LPs worth of jams: one side of our first New York shows and stuff from around the Danse Manatee time, one side of acoustic jams (including some recordings from home– most of us used to live together and we would play quite a bit just around the house after work and on the weekends), one side from around the Here Comes the Indian time, one side of solo jams (I think this is mostly from shows that just Davey [Portner, aka Avey Tare] or I did), one side of what we called “The Pumpkin Trilogy” which is a three-part jam from around the time between Danse Manatee and Here Comes the Indian (same time as the Hollinndagain tour), and one side of live Sung Tongs.” Whew!
Animal Collective are also working on a film project with director Danny Perez, the friend behind their “Who Could Win a Rabbit” video. Will it be Animal Collective’s Purple Rain? Or their Glitter? We’ll find out soon…
“We worked together for a while coming up with the scenes and parts and that sort of thing,” Lennox said. “Then this past September we started filming it. Sometime in the next four months or so, after Danny’s done editing all the footage, the AC will make the music for it.”
As for the upcoming Panda Bear solo album, Lennox revealed that it will be titled Person Pitch and will feature the songs “Comfy in Nautica”, “Take Pills”, “Bro’s”, “I’m Not”, “Good Girl”, “Carrots”, “Search for Delicious”, and “Ponytail”. [Side note: I really, really hope the second-to-last track is about the Natalie Babbitt book I read in fourth grade.]
If some of those track titles look familiar, well, that’s no coincidence. Lennox has stuck to his plan to pre-release the majority of the album’s songs as EPs. The first, “Comfy in Nautica” / “I’m Not”, was released last year on UUAR. The second, “Bro’s”, will be released as a 12″ on FatCat this coming Monday, December 4, overseas and on January 22, 2007 in the U.S. It comes backed by a remix of “Bro’s” by Terrestrial Tones (aka Lennox’s bandmate Avey Tare and Black Dice’s Eric Copeland). The third is the previously reported Panda Bear/Excepter split, out January 23 on Animal Collective’s own Paw Tracks label. It features Panda’s “Carrots” and Excepter’s “KKKKK”
Explaining the logic behind the EPs, Lennox said, “I’ve been excited about making music on my own for a little bit, so I thought I’d try and work piece-by-piece to make an album. This is about a year and a half ago, I would say. I was thinking it would be sweet to try and just do a song or a couple songs at a time and then release them as 12″s and then collect all of it at the end to make an album.
“I didn’t want it to be disparate and all over the place, but I think the fact that I knew I was slowly making an album helped me keep it all together or harmonious in some way…I figured it would make me really focus on each song to make it good on its own like that. Plus I really like 12″s. Plus I thought it might be good to put out each one through a different label so as to both work with my friends somehow and to get the music out to different audiences if I could.
“You could make the argument that it’s crappy to release an album that has 3/4 of it already released (in some form), but the album will be CD-only, so the only way to get a bunch of the songs on vinyl will be to get the 12″s. And the 12″s are kind of limited things, too.”
Person Pitch was recorded by Lennox completely on his own, and is currently being mixed by Rusty Santos. The album’s release date is still up in the air, however. “I’m hoping that the album will be released sometime in March and the sooner the better,” Lennox said. “I’ve been a little bummed out that it’s taken so long and I’ve had to wait for labels and strategic release dates and that sort of thing. I mean I totally understand why it’s important and necessary, but I’m a little impatient because I’ve been working on the jams off and on for over a year.”
Fans of the last Panda Bear album, Young Prayer, should expect some changes on Person Pitch. The former was made in the aftermath of the death of Lennox’s father; that cloud didn’t hang as ominously over the making of the latter. “It’s way different but I wanted it that way for sure,” Lennox said of the forthcoming album’s sound. “Young Prayer was really heavy for I think everyone involved and I feel like it’s not good to be that way unless it’s really called for. I mean I was psyched to do it and I meant it all the way but I’d feel lame riding that vibe forever, if you know what I mean. So I wanted to do something far more casual.”
Another change that influenced the sound of Person Pitch was Lennox’s move to Lisbon, Portugal two-and-a-half years ago. “It’s totally affected the music, but I think that’s natural and unavoidable for anyone making anything,” he said. “I feel like environment dictates style and mood and that kind of thing… [Lisbon is] a place that isn’t in any rush to do anything or go anywhere. It’s not the kind of place that checks its watch very often, if you know what I mean. I like that about it… “I kind of can’t help making music that sounds like and that concerns what I’m doing and how I’m living. There’s been a lot of mellow ease mixed with a lot of intensity and very serious decisions in the last year or so and the music sounds like that to me.”
The move’s impact on the record wasn’t just spiritual, however. It was also technical. Lennox said, “I moved and didn’t take much with me except for my samplers, so I did just about all the music with them. I recorded it onto the computer, although I only used the computer as a multitrack, like I didn’t do any crazy processing or anything like that.
“I was excited about doing something I felt was performance-based and (like the AC typically does) I played all the songs live here (in Portugal) and on a tour with Ariel [Pink] over here (in Europe) before I started recording.”
Panda Bear isn’t the only Animal Collective member who’s been keeping very busy with extracurricular projects. Avey Tare is currently on tour with Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, formerly of Múm, with whom he has been collaborating. According to the FatCat website, “In January, April and October, she and Avey Tare worked on recording a bunch of songs they had written in Paris in August 2005. They recorded vocals, piano and guitars on an 8-track and mixed them down on a cheap 2-track, and hope to have the recordings finished and released sometime next year.”
| gang gang dance on tour! |
New Dates Announced!!!
06-08 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom and Tavern
06-09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
06-11 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
06-12 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
06-14 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
06-15 - Vancouver, BC - Richards on Richards
06-16 - Portland, OR - Holocene
06-18 - San Francisco, CA - Independent
06-19 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater
06-20 - Tucson, AZ - Plush
06-22 - Austin, TX - Emo’s
06-23 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
06-24 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
06-26 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
06-27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
06-30 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
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In the middle of recording for their next release, Gang Gang Dance are performing new material to audiences across the upper eastern United States and Canada, from Oct 25- Nov 2, then head into an isolated studio in Kentucky to hone the new material into the dance oriented, noise related and melodically layered chaos they have envisioned for this recording.
10-25 - Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
10-26 – Columbus, OH – little brother’s
10-27 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10-28 - Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center
10-29 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall
10-30 – Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
10-31 - Toronto, ONT - Lee‘s Palace
11-1 - Montreal, QB – La Sala Rosa
11-2 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
Gang Gang Dance recently returned from a highly succesful tour in UK and Europe in early September, and straight from the plane, they then flattened 4000 people at McCarren park pool venue with their deeply spiritual, rhythmic and bass heavy sounds.
Gang Gang will have a DVD release someitme in spring/summer of 2007, titled “Retina Riddim”. It is a full on visual onslaught crafted by BDG to new sounds from Gang Gang Dance. You can view a clip on you tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl4y6E1DJVY
Please Feel free to get in touch with any questions or info queries at GGD@legupmanagement.com
| Mccarren park pool put on blast!! |
so…. Gang Gang Dance landed at 3 PM from Manchester at JFK, jumped in a van, hit traffic and a drawbridge, pulled up to stage at 5:27 and jumped on stage and FLATTENED the pool party, Luckily Spank Rock was up next to keep the energy high and by the end of the day, McCarren park pool was a teaming with blown minds, sore asses, strong calves and ear to ear grins!
check out the photos of Spank-
| UK on fire! |
Animal Collective just returned from the 3 day UK jaunt, and are pleased to say that Reading festival was their best festival experience ever! The staff at both Leeds and Reading were very organized , professional and accomodating and made the performances go off without a hitch. Many thanks to James, Emma, Julianne, Tony and Giz.
the Cable street show. Ummm…though it wasn’t the most professional production to date (quite possibly the worst in their career…) Animal Collective pulled it together and kept the crowd entertained for 2 + hours, Even going acoustic for a while during the 20 minute power outage.
Spank Rock came in on the early side of things- but got the Leeds folks all warmed up on Friday… which lead up to them KILLING it at TDK on saturday and absolutley devastaing the crowd at reading on Sunday! Much beer was thrown to the adoring crowd and the Spank boys brough ttheir best to the stage. Spank is still over there- set to return saturday- so go see them no win cardiff!
Gang Gang Dance came in on a long swedish drive and still blew minds at TDK on saturday. they are in full stride right now and this was made apparent at Luminaire on monday. Sold out show with Tinchy Stryder! They tore the house down! Just a few more shows for them over there now, so make sure not to miss them at the club level.
and don’t forget!
FREE SHOW AT MCCARREN PARK POOL, SUNDAY SEPT 3RD
FEATURING SPANK ROCK ADN GANG GANG DANCE!
BE THER NO LATER THAN 4 PM TO CATCH IT!
| GGD and Animal Collective at Primavera |
Gang Gang Dance and Animal Collective are set to play Primavera festival in Barcelona this coming weekend. set times TBA.
| Live in Amsterdam |
Spank Rock live in Amsterdam!
http://www.fabchannel.com/ opening for KRS 1- check it!
| Animal Collective |
Some very nice words coming in about Animal Collective’s performance from Coachella- thanks to all the people who came and supported them and hello to all the new fans! You can search youtube.com to see some of the clips-
Purple face madness!
| YOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYO !! |
April 18th release date in US!
Check the Spank Rock press page for all the latest swarmin’. Check tour page for cities nearest you… stay tuned for more Europe, Japan and US dates!
Also check the tour page for Animal Collective European tour dates, playing with some serious giants!
| Gang Gang Dance! |
It is official - Leg Up! is working with Gang Gang Dance! we are very pleased to represent these wonderful people and amazing artists! Stay tuned for more news as it comes in… I will say they are in the studio right now, and KILLED it at Anthology Film Archives last week.
ALSO:
Thanks to everyone who made the ANIMAL COLLECTIVE tour a smashing success! The band had a great time, and are rumoured to have said “…it may have been the best tour ever!”
Wow.
Stay tuned to the Tours page for upcoming British and European dates.
| SXSW On Blast!! |
The Animal Collective show is open to the public with tickets. You can purchase your tickets at the PAW TRACKS WEBSITE. There’s a limited supply. Remember, its their only Texas appearance on this tour, so get there early!
Spank Rock is gonnna put Austin on BLAST! Ladies…tighten the chastity belt, and bring a towel… its ON!
BY THE WAY:
Animal Collective cover on San Diego City Beat!
click on the photo for interview…
| Animal Collective Tour Begins |
Animal Collective’s US tour starts tonight!
Check the tour date section, and get your tickets quickly if you haven’t — many of the venues have sold out!
| FRESH FROM CHICAGO!! |
Biz3 Throws Down With Spank Rock, Flosstradamus
It’s no simple coincidence that Biz3 Publicity is synonymous with excellence among partygoers in the Windy City. The company’s ability to liven up Chicago’s nightlife with their sporadic series of events has certainly earned them a dramatic following. Drawing from contacts acquired in the publicity game, Biz3 has carved a unique nitch within local circles. Their crowded revelries clamor with excitement as audiences enjoy candid DJ appearances from some of their favorite indie rock acts. Death From Above 1979’s Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger, Saul Williams, Jean Grey, and Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, are just a few of the unlikely artists Biz3 has thrown in the DJ booth. The success of their party series provides a much-needed breath of fresh air in Chicago, helping create the type of metropolitan experience you might expect out of LA or NYC’s definitive scene.
However, it was Biz3’s most recent event, held last Friday, which set a new standard in the behavior patterns of indigenous Chicago clubbers. The night’s gritty roster included the phenomenal local DJ duo Flosstradamus and the much-anticipated Baltimore bad boy, Spank Rock.
…. It was Spank Rock who guided the night, however, stepping on and off the microphone as resident MC. Whether spitting immaculate flows or simply encouraging the room to throw their hands in the air, Spank Rock soared with magnetic charisma. His willingness to party as hard as his fans lead to some wildly entertaining antics. Whether crawling on the floor by the turntables or jumping on the club furniture, his approachable attitude put everyone at ease.
The night was undoubtedly a success and even as the lights went up on the room, dancers occupying the floor refused to let the energy die. Friends old and new shared a brief moment out of the dark as I reflected on how quickly the night had slipped by. Shaking hands and putting on coats before relying on my designated driver was a rewarding ritual made possible by the talented performers and those quirky kids at Biz3.- TRIPWIRE
| Part Chimp U.S. Tour / War Machine Video |
Part Chimp are about to cross the seas and tear the U.S. up! Check dates on the CHIMP page. On tour w/ Oxford Collapse, start working your ears out… for now check their creepy video for WAR MACHINE.
| Animal Collective Grass Video |
Keep your eyes peeled to this site for the latest additions of upcoming shows…many things in the works… While you wait, take a moment to smell the fresh cut GRASS video.
| Spank Rock Press |
New press is jumping around! Check out the full page spreads in XLR8R, SPIN and URB on news-stands now…more reviews and interviews to come, but for now — see the love DUSTED MAGAZINE is spreading!
And take a minute to view this asstounding BACKYARD BETTY video.
Check out the tour page and get all the latest info for Animal Collective and Spank Rock.
Please stop back in a few weeks to get all the updated info and news on Animal Collective, Spank Rock, Part Chimp, Hudson Bell, Oxes and Big Bear.