vice guide to travel

So, according to this especially brutal thread on Hipinion (complete with a bunch of not particularly relevant photos of Ryan Schreiber), it was Pitchfork that leaked Joanna Newsom's Ys, three months in advance. The thread also alleges that the non-protected directory included numerous albums, including Tapes 'n Tapes, the unreleased Blood Brothers, and MC Hammer, as well as all 200 songs used in the Pitchfork Best of the 1960s Feature. Probably not good for them at all. Moving on...

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Thanks to Vice for allowing us to premiere this new trailer for what could turn out to be one of the more interesting films of the year, their upcoming Vice Guide To Travel, featuring Johnny Knoxville, David Cross, Spike Jonze, and more. Vice says:



"This is a clip from when VICE co-founder Shane Smith went to investigate the world's portal for black-market weapons in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's abandoned nuclear plants are a veritable garden of material for illegal bombs. We traveled to the squalid gypsy camps of the capital city of Sofia and the luxury resorts on the Black Sea to see the effects of capitalism in over drive - where everything is for sale - to meet a criminal-turned-real-estate-mogul (that's the guy whose face is all blurry in the clip) who met with Osama bin Laden and sold a dirty bomb to French journalists."

Vice also hooked us up with a couple mp3s of songs from the soundtrack that are featured in this clip:

Averkiou I Don't Want to Go Out mp3
5ive Soma mp3

The Vice Guide to Travel DVD comes out October 3. Pre-order it here. Check out their myspace page, and view trailers for Pakistan and Beirut here or here.

Bonus: Spin offers another mp3 from the soundtrack for download:

Death From Above 1979 Black History Month (Josh Homme Remix)

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annie clark of st. vincent

I hope you heard the show last night, in case you missed it: we talked about a wide variety of topics, including St. Vincent's upcoming tour dates with Jose Gonzalez, the fact that Annie is going to be playing guitar for Sufjan Stevens on his upcoming European tour, and an extensive conversation about Bea Arthur.

SIRIUS Week 14 Playlist: Special Guest Annie Clark of St. Vincent

1. St. Vincent--Now Now
2. The Polyphonic Spree--Lithium (Nirvana cover)
3. Jose Gonzalez--Heartbeats
4. Jracula--Carpopolis
5. Sufjan Stevens--Chicago O.C.D.
6. St. Vincent--Paris is Burning
7. Grizzly Bear--Knife
8. Jana Hunter--A Bright Ass Light
9. The Polyphonic Spree--Mental Cabaret
10. Peter & The Wolf--The Fall
11. Castanets--Song is Not the Song of the World
12. Moondog--Bird's Lament
13. David Bowie--5 Years
14. Serge Gainsbourg--Jet'aime Moi Non Plus
15. Hermato Pascoal--Ursula
16. Jean Cocteau--Les Voleurs D'Enfantes
17. John Lee Hooker--Bang Bang Bang Bang
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds--Hiding All Away
19. Beach House--Master of None
20. Tacks, The Boy Disaster--Man With a Plan
21. The Books--Mikey Bass
22. Stina Nordenstam--Like a Swallow
23. XTC--River of Orchids
24. St. Vincent--Marry Me