Cut Copy were amazing last night at the Doug Fir. Best show I’ve seen in years…..

Related Post: A video interview with Cut Copy at SXSW 08

I just can’t resist stating the obvious: not only does recent addition to the band Ehren Ebbage play spanky lap steel + crisp acoustic guitar while adding another shot of bourbon-sweet vocals to an already bourbon-sweet mix. He also bears a striking resemblance to Lou Diamond Phillips. At least I think so. So are The Dimes Portland’s Young Guns of pop? Yes. You’re damn right, they are. And they’re starting a dusty West Coast tour this week. How perfect is that?

BANG!: The Dimes - Kern Can’t Sleep

Post by Jon Ragel

I became a fan of Australia’s Cut Copy through their online mix tapes which have been made available here and there. Their album Bright Like Neon Love came out in 2004 and this March you can now get Lights and Music which is a remix ep by the look of it. Visit the Cut Copy blog to get a free download of a track from their upcoming new release ‘In Ghost Colours.’ I overheard someone at the party say “why’s it taken so long for a band to come along and pick up where New Order left off?”..true, true a fine compliment.
The boys are extremely personable and very clear about their situation but they still foolishly allowed themselves to be interviewed by me. Because of the background noise and their thick Australian accents they may have got off lightly during the Moose interrogation….two takeaway quotes from the interview for me when I asked them about the internet and the ability to get music into peoples hands were “The powers gone back into the hands of the bands” and “It’s time for the labels to try and catch up.” That must put a chill into the hearts of the folks at their label, Interscope.
Watch the YouTube version here or right-click/control click to download your own iTunes/iPhone version here. And you can get their rather fabulous mix tape here.

Cut Copy - Lights and Music

I’m looking forward to hearing/seeing this one. Here’s the blurb from Sony -

Recorded live in concert on July 9, 2007, “Gossip - Live In Liverpool” brilliantly captures and focuses the stunning ferocity, energy and intensity at the heart of Gossip’s groundbreaking meld of sound + politics. This incendiary concert showcase breaks out definitive performances of Gossip signature tunes including the band’s UK #1 Indie chart-topping smash, “Standing In The Way Of Control”; the UK Top 40 hit, “Listen Up”; and the #3 UK Indie track, “Jealous Girls” in addition to delightfully provocative covers of Wham!’s “Careless Whisper” and Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?”

“Gossip - Live In Liverpool” includes a DVD of the concert, lensed by documentary filmmaker and music video director Lance Bangs (Sonic Youth, Green Day, R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Kanye West, Pavement, Mike Watt and more).

Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (Soulwax Remix)

Aaron from A Weather sent us a message:

A Weather are celebrating the release of our new record Cove at long last this Saturday! We are playing at Mississippi Studios, show starts at 10:00pm and the glorious Carcrashlander will start the night. Tickets are available online at ticketweb.com. It is cheaper to get them ahead of time.

We will be playing our record Cove in full, from start to finish and we have our good friend (and Aaron’s K.’s wife) Alynn joining us on piano, organ, bells, tambourine and all the other stuff that is on the record that we don’t normally get to do live. Also we’ll be selling our world famous A Weather Fuzzy Buddies:
custom A Weather stuffed animals, complete with hand drawn capes and personalized name tags. Oh and you can buy Cove too on Vinyl or CD.

A Weather - Oh My Stars [MP3]