One For The Weekend: Feist & Little Wings

In conjunction with the Seattle premiere of the new Feist documentary Look At What The Light Did Now, a video of Feist and Little Wings horizontally duetting on the title song has magically appeared. Those Feist fans who don't already have tickets for tonight's screening of Anthony Seck's feature-length chronicle (Super 8 & HDSR) of the making of Feist's 2007 album The Reminder at Seattle's Henry Art Gallery will have to be content with the laidback song clip and the film trailer below.
So far there are no scheduled Toronto screenings but if you happen to be anywhere near the lovely German resort town of Weissenhäuser Strand, you can see Look At What The Light Did Now during the Rolling Stone Weekender on November 13. Check the current list of dates following the clips.

 
Look At What The Light Did Now by Feist & Little Wings



Look At What The Light Did Now film trailer




Upcoming Screenings

Tuesday, November 9 - 7:15 pm PST - Pacific Film Archives Theatre - Berkeley, CA (LAWTLDN Screening + Q&A with director Anthony Seck and special guests)

Wednesday, November 10 - 6:20 pm GMT - Curzon Soho Cinema - London, UK (LAWTLDN Screening + live via Skype Q&A with director Anthony Seck - Curzon Soho, Screen 3)

Saturday, November 13 - 1 pm CET - Rolling Stone Weekender - Ferienpark Baltic Sea, Weissenhäuser Strand, DE

Tuesday, November 16 - 8:15 pm PST - Vancity Theatre - Vancouver, BC 

Wednesday, November 17 - 8:30 pm GMT - Picture House at FACT - Liverpool, UK

Thursday, November 18 - 8:15 pm CET - Smart Cinema - Amsterdam, NLD

Wednesday, November 24 - 7:30 pm MST - Cantos Music Foundation - Calgary, AB

Friday, December 3 - 6:30 pm GMT - Institute of Contemporary Art - London, UK

Saturday, December 11 - 6:30 pm GMT - Arnolfini - Bristol, UK

Hear the new Lazer Sword album!

The highly anticipated self-titled Lazer Sword debut album from the electro-crunk duo of Antaeus Roy (aka Lando Kal) and Bryant Rutledge (aka Low Limit) will be officially released on November 2 by Innovative Leisure, a new boutique label launched by Stones Throw employee Nate Nelson. But thanks to the FACT music and art magazine, you won't have to wait any longer to hear what future blap is all about.
FACT – who circulated Lando Kal's enjoyable Lazer Sword drank sippin' mixtape a few months back (see below) – is currently streaming the entire 15-track Lazer Sword album that Roy and Rutledge recorded in the land of the Giants, San Francisco where they both once lived before moving to Berlin and Los Angeles respectively.
Unfortunately there are no crazy cameos by any of the now infamous Bad News Beards but it does feature some stoopid wild contributions from Anti-Pop Consortium’s M. Sayyid, Freestyle Fellowship’s Myka 9, Zackey Force Funk and Bay Area hyphy holdout Turf Talk.
Check out the Lazer Sword album for yourself right here and then head over to the Stones Throw site and grab a copy of the limited-run double vinyl edition.


Lazer Sword (Innovative Leisure)

Tracklist:
1.Tar
2. Agrokrag
3. Surf News
4. I’m Gone ft. Turf Talk
5. Batman
6. Topflights ft. M Sayyid
7. 4Loko
8. Machine ft. Zackey Force Funk
9. Web Swag
10. Skybox
11. Def Work
12. FUBU
13. Owl Tats
14. Cosmic Ride ft. Myka Nyne
15. Beast’s Reprise




LINKS
Lazer Sword FACT mix
Stones Throw Records http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2010/10/lazer-sword

Johnny Cash's stuff up for grabs

If you've always dreamed of owning the denim jumpsuit that Johnny Cash wore during rehearsals for his concert at San Quentin – immortalized in Jim Marshall's famous bird-flipping photograph – now's your chance! On Sunday, December 5, Julien's Auctions of Beverly Hills is auctioning off many of Johnny Cash's custom tailored suits, boots, shirts, song lyrics written on the back of his personalized stationery, acoustic guitars along with various personal effects and related show biz memorabilia including concert and film posters, programs and promotional items.

There are over 1,000 items in all which are conservatively expected to sell for a total of between $400,000 to $600,000 with a portion of the proceeds going to the charitable organization MusiCares. Although the last time there was a public auction of Johnny Cash's possessions back in 2004, the estimated value was around $600,000 and the final take was somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million. Anticipate heavy bidding from serious collectors, fellow musicans, friends and wealthy celebrities with money to burn.
So if you go to Julien's Auction site and check through the Johnny Cash: Property From His Life and Career catalog and come across that snazzy San Quentin rehearsal jumpsuit estimated to go for around $3,000 to $5,000, a cool abstract crayon doodle Johnny drew (left) listed at between $1,500 and $2,000 or the intriguing handwritten list "Things To Do Today!" priced at $300 to $500, keep in mind they'll likely end up selling for much more – especially if someone like Joaquin Phoenix, Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan is after the same Johnny Cash item to spruce up their den.

LINKS
Julien's Auctions http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2010/johnny-cash/index.html 

RIP Dudley Do-Right creator Alex Anderson

Dudley Do-Right in "The Disloyal Canadians"

One For The Weekend: Don Cherry Trio

Don Cherry w/ Johnny Dyani & Okay Temiz Paris 1971

Patti Smith big ups indie booksellers

Selling Bob Dylan in glorious mono

It wasn't that long ago that a case was made to upgrade your old Bob Dylan CDs with digitally remastered SACDs but now Sony has a bold new plan to re-sell the same back catalogue to the same Dylan fans – The Original Mono Recordings. That's right, the first eight Bob Dylan albums have been reissued using the first-generation mono mixes with the vinyl box set due on December 21, just in time for Christmas.
Sure, Sony's "back to mono" campaign might seem like a crazy scheme, particularly after touting the advantage of wider frequency and dynamic range which comes with the high-resolution Super Audio technology that Sony helped develop. And then there's the unfortunate fact that, unlike Beatles releases of the era where sometimes mono and stereo versions can vary significantly, alternate takes weren't used for Bob Dylan's mono versions.
But even though The Original Mono Recordings may appear to be a product nobody needs, that hasn't stopped Sony from selling eight Our Lady Peace albums along with two "best of" collections. Also, there's nothing quite like the promise of huge holiday gift-giving season profits to inspire real marketing creativity. Sony Legacy's clever retro-style promotional clip may not shift many units but it's at least entertaining.