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ATOMS FOR PEACE REVEAL VIDEO FOR 'INGENUE'

Atoms For Peace, the new project from Thom Yorke, today reveal a stunning new video.

‘Ingenue’ is taken from Atoms For Peace’s new album Amok", released this week on XL Recordings.

The video was conceived and directed by Garth Jennings and choreographed by Wayne McGregor, the same team behind Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’ video. Thom is joined onstage by contemporary dancer Fukiko Takase

Meanwhile, Atoms For Peace are throwing a series of special album launch events over the coming weeks. Following a sold out event at east London’s Oval Space on Friday, two further Amok launch events are set to take place in Berlin (Berghain, 8th March) and New York (Le Poisson Rouge, 14th March). Each event will feature a performance from Thom and Nigel Godrich, lightheartedly described by Thom as “two turntables & a microphone” on Twitter. The nights will also feature full lineups of very special guests. Full details below:

FRIDAY 8TH MARCH: BERLIN (SOLD OUT)
Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof//10243 Berlin
from 9pm onwards
with very special guests SHED and ANSTAM
visuals by TARIK BARRI

THURSDAY 14TH MARCH: NEW YORK (SOLD OUT)
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street//10012 NY NY
with very special guests HOLLY HERNDON and ARCA
visuals by TARIK BARRI

Atoms For Peace have also announced a trio of full-band live appearances for the summer. The band will perform at the EXIT FESTIVAL, SERBIA (10th-14th July), POHODA FESTIVAL, SLOVAKIA (12th July) and MELT FESTIVAL, GERMANY (19th-21st July)

http://atomsforpeace.info
http://www.facebook.com/atomsforpeace

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Stream Amok

Atoms For Peace comprised of Thom Yorke (Vocals Keyboards Programming and Guitars), Nigel Godrich (Production & Programming), Joey Waronker (Drums), Mauro Refosco (Percussion), and Flea (Bass) formed years ago to learn to play The Eraser

Earlier today, Thom and Nigel appeared on Reddit’s Ask me Anything after which they posted Amok on the band’s website for all to stream. Any site that has the link to the stream automatically gets added to the site’s visualizer, which cycles through the sites randomly.

Amok is released on February 26th on CD, Deluxe CD, LP, Deluxe LP and download and will feature artwork from longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood.

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Modern Vampires Of The City out on May 7th, Toronto show confirmed for may 16th

Vampire Weekend’s third album is titled Modern Vampires Of The City, and will be released May 6th, 2013 on XL Recordings (May 7th in Canada and the US).

The band are also set to head out on tour surrounding the album’s release. The tour dates are listed below, and include a May 16th appearance at Toronto’s Sony Centre for The Performing Arts. The band will also perform in Austin at this year’s SXSW and the previously announced Coachella Festival.

More dates will be announced soon.

Tickets for the Toronto show go on general sale at 10am on Friday 8th February but fans can head to www.vampireweekend.com to sign up for a special ticket pre-sale which begins on Wednesday 6th February.

MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY TRACK LIST

1) Obvious Bicycle
2) Unbelievers
3) Step
4) Diane Young
5) Don’t Lie
6) Hannah Hunt

7) Everlasting Arms
8) Finger Back
9) Worship You
10) Ya Hey
11) Hudson
12) Young Lion

TOUR DATES:

March
13th-16th Austin, TX – SXSW

April
12th Las Vegas, NV – The Cosmopolitan
14th Indio, CA – Coachella Festival
16th Davis, CA – Freeborn Hall at UC Davis
17th Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
21st Indio, CA – Coachella Festival

May
8th LONDON, UK – The Troxy
10th PARIS, FR – Casino De Paris
15th Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
16th Toronto, ON – Sony Centre for The Performing Arts.
17th Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
20th Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre (co-headline with Of Monsters And Men)
21st Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheater
23rd Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium

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Efterklang to repeat the Successful Private-Public Screenings Project with the new film THE GHOST OF PIRAMIDA – Trailer also Revealed Today.

Starting today Efterklang and Andreas Koefoed are inviting people to host their own screenings of The Ghost Of Piramida from February 8th until March 24th.

In order to host a screening, each event must be free entry, must be public, must have a minimum of 5 people and must be verified by Efterklang & Andreas Koefoed (only screenings that are featured on www.theghostofpiramida.com are official Private-Public Screenings)

Screenings can take place at a home, at a café, in a school auditorium – basically, anywhere. Those planning to host screenings in their own homes will be able to have full control over who can attend. 

For more information and details on how to apply visit www.theghostofpiramida.com

In The Ghost Of Piramida the Danish director Andreas Koefoed follows Efterklang on their 9-day audio expedition to the ghost town Piramida on Spitsbergen, located just a thousand kilometers from the North Pole and home to more polar bears than people.

Accompanied by their taciturn and indifferent Russian polar bear guard, the group goes on an audio treasure hunt in the empty buildings of the abandoned town, while the narrator, former Piramida citizen Alexander, takes us back to a bygone era, when Piramida flourished and the immigrant Russian miners and their families lived in a Soviet parallel society far from the brutal reality of their homeland.

During the expedition Efterklang collected over a thousand sound recordings for the album Piramida (2012, 4AD) they later wrote and recorded in Berlin. The music in the film incorporates some of the early sketches, as well as finished songs from the album.

The Ghost of Piramida premiered in November in Amsterdam at the world’s biggest documentary film festival IDFA, and here the film was selected as one of the top three music films of the year. Since then, the film has been screened at several other film festivals and in art house cinemas around Europe.

Efterklang have successfully screened films via the Private-Public Screenings method before. In 2011 An Island, their collaborative film with Vincent Moon, was screened nearly 1,200 times in just two months.

For an updated list of the current and future Official Screenings and Private-Public Screenings of The Ghost of Piramida go to: “www.theghostofpiramida.com/attend-a-screening”:www.theghostofpiramida.com/attend-a-screening

Please visit www.efterklang.net/home/concerts for a list of their 60+ upcoming concerts.

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Paul Banks Drops Mixtape featuring El-P, High Prizm, Mike G and Talib

Just in from the department of unexpectedness…. Banks (no, not Lloyd) has upped a mixtape and it’s called EVERYBODY ON MY DICK LIKE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE.

Actually, we kinda knew this was happening. Paul sent over a rough mixtape about 9 months ago of his beats and production and it was genius. And what, with all the Kendricks and the A$APs and whatever, we thought a mixtape would take Banks to new heights if we got it out months before release.

But the long-standing issues with Matador and the rap game quickly blew up our pre-release hype strategy. Long story short, we have earned a certain “cash-only” rep in the hip hop world requiring us to either send briefcases handcuffed to interns to studios deep in Flatbush or…. call in favors which takes time.

In this case, Paul called in a some mega-favors and got features from El-P, Talib, Mike G, and… hold up, HIGH PRIZM (né High Priest).

Listen to the whole thing over on Soundcloud:

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