M.I.A. was in high spirits on Lollapalooza’s Bud Light stage today, thanks in part to a special package she received from Jack White! Spinner reports that the gentleman of The White Stripes Fed-Exed her “a few undisclosed supplies to help with her voice.” O’Rilly? M.I.A. is quoted as saying, “I lost my voice in L.A. but I’ll do my best because it’s been a long f***ing wait to get here!” ([More →])

Today has been a very bountiful day for new audio - we also have a new song off of M.I.A.’s forthcoming Kala album. This one is a cover song called “Jimmy.” ([More →])

There have been legends about NASA (North America South America) bringing together a stellar cast for an upcoming album. NASA consists of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon at the helm and their exploration team consists of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Karen O & Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), David Byrne (Talking Heads), Rza, George Clinton, Method Man, Cee-Lo, Tom Waits, M.I.A., E40, KRS-One, Lovefoxxx (C.S.S.), Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Fatlip (Pharcyde), and Slim Kid Tre (Pharcyde), Money Mark, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5), John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), De La Soul, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Spank Rock, Sean Lennon, Seu Jorge, DJ Relm, Kool Keith, Kool Kojak, Dj Swamp, and more! Hot damn that’s a galaxy of blindingly hot stars! Well, those are the band members listed on their musicSPACE page anyway. Well, the team is ready to launch the party onto wax and the upcoming album includes many of these peeps paired with each other in the interest of discovering new worlds. ([More →])

Just in the nick of time, M.I.A. got her visa and is on her way to the US for her performance at the Siren Festival on Coney Island tonight. Close call too, I thought for sure she was going to have to cancel this show like Sasquatch. ([More →])

M.I.A. has just announced a new show in Brooklyn and confirmed her performance at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco. ([More →])

San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival has announced its lineup for the weekend of September 15-16:

TIMF Lineup:

Thievery Corporation
Modest Mouse
M.I.A.
Ghostland Observatory
Dj Shadow and Cut Chemist
Zion-I
Spoon
Built To Spill
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
M.Ward
Gotan Project
Kid Beyond
Earlimart
Devil Makes Three
Trainwreck Riders
and more tba

Not much info is available on the web yet, except that tix go on sale on June 24th. If you live in the area, check out the new SF Weekly tomorrow. You can also sign up for email updates on the festival website:
TreasureIslandFestival.com

Glastonbury music festival descends upon the English countryside on Friday June 27th. The full lineup is absolutely insane, I can see how this is the biggest rock festival in the UK. Over 200 bands fill the lineup, and a press release states that over 177,000 people are expected to attend! Since I can’t possibly fit the full lineup here, I’ll give you one serious tease instead. In addition to the many stages already announced, I just discovered today that BBC Radio 1 has added their own stage to the festival. The additional lineup includes Tigerstyle, JME, and Ben Sharpa.

BBC Radio Stage Added To Glastonbury:

Friday 22 June

3:00 Jag (BBC Asian Network)
4:00 Tigerstyle (BBC Asian Network)
5:00 Riff Raff (BBC Radio 1)
6:05 Broke’N'£nglish (BBC 1Xtra)
7:10 Riz MC (BBC Asian Network)
8:15 JME (BBC 1Xtra)
9:20 Breaking The Illusion (BBC Radio Humberside)
10:25 Tor (BBC 1Xtra)

Saturday 23 June

3:00 Ben Sharpa (BBC Radio 1)
4:00 How’s My Pop (BBC Radio Lancashire)
5:00 New Cassettes (BBC Radio Northampton)
6:05 OK Tokyo (BBC Radio Berkshire)
7:10 The Ting Tings (BBC Radio Manchester)
8:15 Headliners (BBC Radio Sheffield)
9:20 The Neon Plastix (BBC Radio Sheffield)
10:25 The Ripps (BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire)

Sunday 24 June

3:00 Cate Le Bon (BBC Radio Wales)
4:00 Sam Isaac (BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester)
5:00 Eugene McGuinness (BBC Radio 1)
6:05 Rose Kemp (BBC Radio Bristol)
7:10 A Silent Film (BBC Radio Oxford)
8:15 Doll & the Kicks (BBC Southern Counties Radio)
9:20 Pint Shot Riot (BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire)
10:25 Radio Luxembourg (BBC Radio Cymru Wales)

More info on the BBC Radio Introducing Stage.

Glastonbury Partial Lineup:

Friday 22nd June 2007

Bjork
Arctic Monkeys
Spiritualized - Acoustic Mainline
Aliens
M.I.A.
Kasabian
The Fratellis
Bloc Party
Amy Winehouse
Gogol Bordello
Arcade Fire
Squarepusher
Rufus Wainwright
Super Furry Animals
Bright Eyes
Modest Mouse
Hot Chip
Maccabees
Mum Ra
Hold Steady
The New Pornographers
Tokyo Police Club
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Tarantism

Saturday 23rd June

Steven Marley with guest Damian Marley
Iration Steppas
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Daddy G
Mad Professor
Vexd
Scotch Egg Band (Drumize)
Shitmatt
Bong Ra
The Killers
The Kooks
Ganga Giri
Paul Weller
Paolo Nutini
Lily Allen
Dirty Pretty Things
The Pipettes
Iggy And The Stooges
Editors
Maximo Park
Gruff Rhys
Babyshambles
Klaxons
CSS
The Long Blondes
The Twang
Get Cape Wearcape Fly
Patrick Wolf
You Say Party We Say Die
Holy Fuck
Four Tet with Eat Your Own Ears DJs
!!!
Ozric Tentacles
Bonde Do Role

Sunday 24th June

The Who
Kaiser Chiefs
Coldcut
Manic Street Preachers
James Morrison
Marley Brothers Present The 30th Anniversary Of Exodus
The Chemical Brothers
Vitalic
Carl Cox
Pendulum Live
The View
The Go! Team
Pete Doherty
Mika
The Rakes
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Coldwar Kids
Mark Ronson
The Horrors
Noisettes
Aqualung
Eatstatic
Dub Pistols

For the entire lineup go to the Glastonbury site.
BBC also has a feature-packed page to keep you fully informed right up to the day of the fest itself.
Here is another article that discusses the details necessary to pull off an event of this size, like the £1mil “super fence” built last year to keep out fans who didn’t have tickets. Previous fences were not capable of keeping out thousands of fans who jumped in…

LINKS

JME on mice bass
Ben Sharpa on mice bass
BBC Radio Glastonbury page
Glastonbury Festival website

Bjork! Bjork! Bjork! Dang nothing happened. I thought maybe I could conjure up the faerie queen. Well, she’s probably to busy right now to be conjured. She’s still touring and doing all kinds of press.

For starters, you can find a fabulous interview with Bjork in the amazing online magazine Dummy Mag. It’s a virtual magazine that you actually turn the pages of. I love these tree-free magazines! Her interview is on page 66, but you might not want to skip ahead. There are articles/interviews with Bonde do Role, Justice, Maccabees, Dizzee Rascal, Skull Disco and more with lots of big glossy looking photos. Surprisingly it loads super fast. I need to learn that trick. Must be a flash thing.

Over on the opposite side of the web (literally, from zmag.co.uk to apple.com) Alan Pollard profiled the technical arrangement of Volta for Apple Pro. Alan Pollard has an insider’s perspective as Bjork’s technical director for a full 10 years. He must be pretty good at his job. He’s in charge of the technical aspects of her music, and is especially important to her on tour. In this feature, he talks about how he packs the entire faerie kingdom into a laptop (lemme guess, a MAC laptop) and the details of how to make all her mechanization work seamlessly with her human performance. It’s a stellar read for studio and gear buffs.

M.I.A. Opens For Bjork In France

And, If you are able to catch her 2 shows in Nimes France in August, you will also get to see M.I.A. when she opens for Bjork at these 2 shows!

LINKS

Dummy Mag
Bjork Tech Profile
Bjork website
M.I.A.

It was only yesterday I reported that M.I.A. released another sizzling video from her upcoming Kala album, when today I find a press release in my mail with even more hot news! Today the day-glo temptress announced that her new single “Boyz” will be released on enhanced CD that includes the promo video of the behind the scenes action, the music video itself, and “remix parts.” “Boyz” will also be released on 12″ vinyl and USB wristband! From the old school to the new…
The Guardian Guide called this song, “a riotous blitz of jerky military riddims” this weekend, when they made it their single of the week!

And, here is the behind the scenes action:

For more videos, check out the video page on her new website.

M.I.A. LINKS

New “Boyz” Video by M.I.A. on HearingTest - includes updated tour info and album art/tracklist

epileptic warning as with all things M.I.A.!
Official website - updated!
M.I.A. Space
herTube

Another sizzling video from M.I.A.’s upcoming Kala album! Nimble dancers strut their stuff in the new video for “Boyz”:

Watch “Boyz” in high quality mov format on M.I.A.’s site
or watch the youTube version here:

BOH! So HOT! Love the Bogle moves! Nice work Maya! The official M.I.A. website has finally been updated and it is more manic than ever! I had no idea those colours were still possible after 1987! Did she find some forgotten boxes of dusty Commodore 64 Paintbrush software?

Kala’s release will be pandemic:
XL opens the floodgates first on August 8th in Japan, then August 20th in UK and finally Interscope catches the wave in the US, releasing Kala on August 22 .

Kala Tracklist:

01 “Bamboo Banga”
02 “Bird Flu”
03 “Boyz”
04 “Jimmy”
05 “Hussel [ft. Afrikan Boy]”
06 “Mango Pickle Down River [ft. the Wilcannia Mob]”
07 “20 Dollar”
08 “World Town”
09 “The Turn”
10 “XR2″
11 “Paper Planes”
12 “Come Around [ft. Timbaland]”

M.I.A. Tour Dates (Updated)

August 3 2007
Lollapalooza at Grant Park
Chicago, Illinois

August 5 2007
V Festival
Baltimore, MD

September 8 2007
V Festival
Toronto, ONT

September 9 2007
Oshega Festival
Montreal, QUE

September 14 2007
Austin City Limits Festival
Austin, TX

M.I.A. LINKS

epileptic warning as with all things M.I.A.!

Official website - updated!
M.I.A. Space
herTube

The Canadian music festival, Osheaga, has yet another fantastic lineup for yet another fantastic looking music festival…. This one will be September 8-9th in Montreal.

From the Osheaga website :

The lineup for Osheaga 2007 is bulking up! NYC indie heroes Interpol will be joining the Osheaga festival line-up in its second year; British sensations Arctic Monkeys add a dose of chaos to the Osheaga mix; Irish troubadour Damien Rice returns to Montreal after pouring out his heart and soul for two (and soon to be three) sold out audiences in his last visits; M.I.A. (a.k.a. Maya Arulpragasam) hailing from the British Isles via the island of Sri Lanka brings da riddims to make ya move and will find herself right at home in the Osheaga island nation; hometown sweetheart Martha Wainwright makes her much anticipated return to Montreal; Texas noise stars Explosions in the Sky are back to light things up; Editors, the Birmingham indie quartet add to the European flavour of the festival; and Montreal up-and-comers Miracle Fortress and Pas Chic Chic show that this town knows how to rock – indie style!

Starting today, you can even purchase tix for single days - September 8th or 9th.

About the venue :

The Parc Jean Drapeau is a veritable open-air art gallery, in which works of public art and Architecture may be admired including: Alexander Calder’s “Man”, Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome, and Sebasitien’s “Puerta de la Amistad” among others.

check it - Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Modest Mouse! Stephen Marley! the Wailers! M.I.A.!

enjoy…

Lollapalooza 2007

August 3-5 2007
Grant Park, Chicago IL

the festival organizers have also announced that Chicago will be its home until 2011

the one chance for online presale tickets at a mere $45 for a 3-day pass sold out in 30 minutes! if you purchase tickets now, it will cost $165 (NO service charges!) the price will increase any day now, to $195 for 3 days entry.

Pearl Jam
Daft Punk
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Muse
Iggy & the Stooges
Modest Mouse
Interpol
My Morning Jacket
Satellite Party
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Snow Patrol
the Roots
Patti Smith
Kings of Leon
the Black Keys
Regina Spektor
Spoon
Lupe Fiasco
TV on the Radio
Pete Yorn
G. Love & Special Sauce
Paolo Nutini
Amy Winehouse
LCD Soundsystem
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Silverchair
Femi Kuti
Yo La Tengo
the Hold Steady
Jack’s Mannequin
Stephen Marley
Sound Tribe Sector 9
M.I.A.
Slightly Stoopid
Blonde Redhead
Sparklehorse
Sean Lennon
!!!
Blue October
Son Volt
Motion City Soundtrack
Polyphonic Spree
Peter Bjorn & John
Silversun Pickups
CSS
the Rapture
the Wailers
Roky Erickson
Tapes n Tapes
Heartless Bastards
View
Cribs
Fratellis
Ghostland Observatory
Tokyo Police Club
Rhymefest
Soulive
Cold War Kids
Annuals
Fields
Electric Six
Jim Noir
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Sam Roberts Band
Black Angels
Charlie Musselwhite
Aqueduct
Juliette & the Licks
Dios
Viva Voce
David Vandervelde
Los Campesinos!
Chin Up Chin Up
Ryan Shaw
Colour Revolt
Satin Peaches
Illinois
Arckid
Mickey Avalon
The 1900s
Bang Bang Bang
Bound Stems
High Class Elite
Carey Ott
Matt Roan

so yeah, MOG had it first -
Satisfied Mind posted that shizz yesterday.

i pulled this lineup off pitchf*#ck to be official….