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The Red Radio Round Up - Morrissey, Nitzer Ebb, Sufjan and more

So much to post, so little time.  We will occasionally run a little round up for you all on stuff we find of interest in the land of music.

Ready, set, go...

Actress will play the New Noise Festival in Santa Barbra on October 9th at Whiskey Richards. 

Julian Casablancas goes it solo.  Listen to the first single 11th Dimension over on his MySpace profile.  We kinda dig the opening beats. Full track list details can be peeped over on NME. 

Madonna stopped by Letterman today to enjoy a slice of NYC pizza (her first ever, she claims - uh huh).  Watch. Hmm.. she is lookin' kinda hot. 

Culture Bully is running a nice little Sufjan Stevens review of his performance at the 400 Bar in Minneapolis. Read, look and watch. 

Spinner chats with the Monsters Of Folk Crew.  Video. 

Nitzer Ebb return to Los Angeles - finally!  EBM madness time.  The guys grind up the Key Club on November 17th, our SF crew will catch them on the 18th at Slims.  Full list of North American dates here.

Our favorite b-side off Mozzer's upcoming Swords collection - Ganglord:

Editors play "Later... With Jools Holland"

Our love affair with Editors continues...

The guys performed for the Later...With Jools Holland audience last week. 

The clip contains the band's performance of single Papillon, followed by new album track Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood, what a title, eh?

We are really loving the new musical direction.  Keep the synths coming:

Pet Shop Boys release exclusive German single

Pet Shop Boys will release an exclusive single in Germany on October 2nd for the track Beautiful People.  The single will be available digitally and on CD.  The four track breakdown plays out like this:

Beautiful People
Fugitive (7" edit)
Beautiful People (demo version)
Up and Down (Tom Stephan mix)

Fans outside Germany can purchase one of 500 copies that will be made available on the Pet Shop Boys official site.  You can also purchase the single from Amazon Germany here. 

Listen to Beautiful People below:

Depeche Mode release new video for "Hole To Feed"

First off, we just want to say that we are huge Depeche Mode fans, always have been, and most likely always will be.  We try to focus on the positive here and stay away from any negativity, but we can't help but dislike the band's new video for Hole To Feed.  For a band with a long, long history of amazing videos full of powerful visuals, offbeat humor and thematic arches, Hole To Feed falls incredibly short.  Not sure what's up with the video direction from this Sounds Of The Universe era, but it ain't working.  Not that the clip is a bad piece of work in itself, but as a Depeche Mode video?

On sale date for Morrissey's Indio performance announced

Tickets for Morrissey's show at the Fantasy Springs Resort Hotel & Casino in Indio go on sale next Friday, October 2nd.

The info comes to us compliments of our friends over at The Scenestar.

Full details here. 

Also, we were quite bummed to learn that the show will be at the Fantasy Springs Event Center vs. the Fantasy Lounge (which has a tiny capacity), oh well. Still worth the trek, it's Moz damn it.  Get your game face on for some gambling and get ready to hit the buffet. 

On sale news for the rest of the West Coast dates should be announced shortly.

Kings Of Convenience release new video for "Boat Behind"

Take a little road trip with Erlend and Eirik and pick up some nice ladies along the way (not a bad way to spend the day) -

Editors' Ed Lay chats new album, football and more

Editors' drummer Ed Lay recently had a conversation with Football365.com (football as in soccer), and had this to say of the upcoming record, In This Light And On This Evening:

It's a really interesting record. As soon as we'd finished it, I wanted to listen to it - and that's not usual. It's more electronic and more experimental but it retains the good, uplifting melodies we're known for. I think we've produced an album that interests us first and foremost. You have to be prepared to lose a few fans unless you want to keep churning out the same old guff. What's the point of trying to re-create Munich? That was a gift from a higher power and may never happen again.

Read the full interview here. 

Morrissey adds more dates...Pomona and San Diego

A bit late on this news but...

Moz added two more dates to his upcoming West Coast tour. 

Monday, December 7th at the Fox Theater in Pomona and Tuesday, December 8th at Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. 

Thumbs up on Moz at the Fox.  I think our plan of attack looks something like this:

Kick off with the December 4th show in Indio, head to Pomona for the show on the 7th, and catch him one more time at either the Gibson or the Ventura Theatere. 

The full list of dates:

Sunday 29 November SEATTLE Paramount Theater
Monday 30 November PORTLAND Roseland Theater
Wednesday 2 December OAKLAND Paramount
Friday 4 December INDIO Fantasy Springs
Saturday 5 December LAS VEGAS The Joint
Monday 7 December POMONA Fox Theater
Tuesday 8 December SAN DIEGO Copley Symphony Hall
Thursday 10 December LOS ANGELES Gibson Amphitheatre
Friday 11 December VENTURA Ventura Theatre

The holidays come early this year!

Doll & the Kicks support on all dates.

The Killers and The Psychedelic Furs do "Pretty In Pink"

The 80's were alive and well last night at the Hollywood Bowl compliments of The Killers and The Psychedelic Furs. 

The Furs opened the show and later surprised the sold out crowd by joining The Killers for a rendition of Pretty In Pink.  Brandon Flowers looked absolutely ecstatic to share vocals with Richard Butler.  It was a pretty cool music moment.  If you read this blog, you know that we love covers and collaborations.  The best of both words here in one way or another. 

We could only find video of the performance shoot from one of the screens at the Bowl last night.  It gives you a good glimpse though:

Morrissey announces West Coast dates

Get ready....

The return of Moz to the West Coast - finally. 

Morrissey will play Los Angeles on December 10th at the Gibson Amphitheater.  Better yet, he'll play the Fantasy Lounge (yep, the Fantasy Lounge) at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio on December 4th.  The lounge holds 300!  Tiny, tiny.  This is our pick for sure. We were given the wrong info, Moz will be playing the larger event center at the Fantasy Springs Hotel Resort & Casino, not the smaller lounge. 

LA folks will also be happy to know that he'll be playing the Ventura Theatre again on the 11th. 

Bay Area friends, it looks like he set another show at the Paramount Theater on the 2nd.  Making up for his last minute cancellation here earlier this year, perhaps?

The full list of dates were released via True-To-You this morning.  On sale dates should be announced shortly. 

Sunday 29 November SEATTLE Paramount Theater
Monday 30 November PORTLAND Roseland Theater
Wednesday 2 December OAKLAND Paramount
Friday 4 December INDIO Fantasy Springs
Saturday 5 December LAS VEGAS The Joint
Thursday 10 December LOS ANGELES Gibson Amphitheatre
Friday 11 December VENTURA Ventura Theatre