Punching Out: The Week In Review, Sept. 13 to 17

The week of Sept. 13 saw a return to regular blogging! I'm not sure how much I'll be updating on weekends, but I figure I'll follow the weekly news cycle with this post, where we run down the week's news. Also, follow us on Twitter, fan us on Facebook, and subscribe via RSS Feed.

This week's top three posts:

Yeah: Daft Punk's Alive 2007

Punching Out: When Brooklyn Met Madonna

Clowns Invade Union Square, Williamsburg, Sept. 3

Honestly not sure what's drawing people to a years-old post, but I know people love their Daft Punk. Also strong was Thursday's news roundup, with an Omar S track, and a photo gallery of clown craziness. This week, we also saw two sweet Daytrotter sessions, some belated lawsuits, and made a concert calendar.

Music today from Slowdive - "40 Days" from Souvlaki, one of my favorite albums. If you like music, you have to hear it. Have a great weekend!

Thurston Moore Playing Whitney Tonight, Pictures from DJ /rupture, Aug 27

BrooklynVegan tells us that Thurston Moore will be playing a free live set at the Whitney Museum on the Upper East Side at 7 pm tonight. He'll be performing Christian Marclay's score "Wind Up Guitar," and the event is free with museum tickets, which are (conveniently) pay-what-you-want, a la In Rainbows, on Friday evenings. It's also streamable. The MoMa is also free tonight!

I was up there a few weeks back, on Aug.27, when DJ /rupture and Tanlines played at the museum. Pictures below.

(I have a dozen or so photo sets from the summer that I've neglected to post anywhere, so hopefully within the next few weeks, I'll find news-worthy reasons to get them up!)

New John and Yoko? Seems more Jenny and Johnny or Deschanel and Ward

Photo: WireImage via NY Mag

Whoa, another music-related item at the Observer! (Here's another.) Well, I guess it's Fashion Week, so that's cool. Nate Freeman, who saw the YYYs earlier this week, suggests that Sean Lennon and companion Charlotte Kemp Muhl are an echo of Lennon's rather famous father and Yoko Ono.

But there's sort of this mini-trend of couples, romantic or otherwise, making music already, what with Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice releasing stuff under they first names, and Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward doing the She & Him thing. (Deschanel's with Ben Gibbard, but from a musical standpoint, She & Him are a couple.)

In any case, not really the sort of collaborations I'm that into these days. Give me something like this, instead!

Caribou Play Daytrotter

Another awesome set over at Daytrotter (via Prefix), which just earlier this week hosted Toro Y Moi, who coincidentally opened for Caribou earlier this year. I'm kicking myself for missing Caribou's Governors Island show over the summer, although the two-hour ferry wait the last time I went to Governors was a big deterrence. Dan Snaith was really cool to interview, and the band's new album is dark, techno-y, but still has a pop sensibility.

Caribou will play Webster Hall next Wednesday, Sept. 22.

Insider Baseball: Inc. Offers "Musician Business Plan"

It's an unexpected place to find musical content, but Inc., the small business publication just posted a pretty comprehensive guide for musicians. Doing music for a living is hard, and definitely requires a lot of strategy. It's sort of amusing that "Songwriting" is "Optional," and that it's listed on the third to last page, but sadly marketing and branding really are much more important, at least for most.

Related: Inc.'s guide to writing a press release.

Welcome Shuffler.fm Streamers!

So apparently a lot of you are coming from here. It's a cool site!

I'm really liking a Trentemøller remix over at Pink-Pong.

What are you guys listening to? What genre did you pick? Leave a comment!

Interpol Played BBC, Photos from Creators

I haven't heard the new Interpol album. I guess there's always a fear when approaching new material from a band you really like. (Turn On the Bright Lights and Antics are two of my favorite albums) There's always that impression that nothing can be as good as the old stuff, and while Our Love to Admire was decent, it didn't occupy my earbuds as long as their first two albums have.

But a nice way to take the plunge is live, and Prefix (via Pitchfork) brings word that Interpol just did a few new songs on BBC Radio 6, which showcase how tight the band, even without Carlos D.

I had the amazing experience of seeing Intepol play Creators Project back in June (time flies!), and a couple of photos are up at HuffPo. That was an incredible set, dipping heavily into older stuff - there was one point where they played something like "PDA," "Obstacle 1" and "Evil" back-to-back-to-back. So good!

The entire Interpol photo set is after the jump.

Linkage: Flavorwire Lists 10 Music "Films"

Photo: Flickr, hellochris

Flavorpill is pretty rad, as is Flavorwire, and they've just posted a list of 10 music videos that were inspired, to some degree, by film, something I know just about nothing about. Sweet.

Magda Readies From the Fallen Page

The rather alluring Magda will release her first full-length, From the Fallen Page on Oct. 21, according to Resident Advisor. It's technically her first full length, out on Minus, but she already has a bunch of mixes already, including Fabric 49 and the incredibly layered She's a Dancing Machine. Magda is already one of the bigger names on the Minus imprint, Richie Hawtin's giant minimal empire that really takes branding to a new level.

How's it going to sound? RA says a "post-punk, dark disco set of soundtrack-inspired music before evolving into a more percussive, bassline-heavy affair."

So, maybe something like this.

Hot Chip, School of Seven Bells Do Sims

Close enough.

NME reports that Hot Chip, School of Seven Bells, Aeroplane, Deadmau5 and a bunch of other artists will re-record their songs in, um, Simlish. These new songs will be incorporated in the latest Sims offering.

Licensing is one of the more stable ways for bands to make money, and I don't hold it against them. Not quite as keen on essentially mutilating the original songs, but I guess it takes a sense of humor to do so. I'm curious of how big of a following the Sims has at this point, since it's been over a decade (!) since the original came out. Then again, Civ V is coming out next week, and the first one came out in 1991 (!!).

Chromewaves has a writeup and pictures from SVIIB's Toronto show.

MP3: School of Seven Bells - Connjur

Hilarious Hot Chip video for "I Feel Better" below.

Linkage: Tornado Watch, Wordless Music

Not actually from last night.

Good morning! Hope you survived the tornado.

BrooklynVegan blogs that the Wordless Music Series will return this year, with performances by members of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and, particularly exciting for tech-heads, the first U.S. showing of the Carl Craig/Moritz von Oswald/Francesco Tristano Schlimé Trio.

Punching Out: When Brooklyn Met Madonna

Photo: Timesunion.com

Brooklynite to Madonna: "Hearty F*ck You" [Gothamist]

Koran saver gets vocodered. Of course. [Gawker]

New York has strong August job growth. Fingers crossed that it lasts. [Crain's]

Kid Rock fights, no waffles reported injured. [NY Post]

Four Tet remixes Babe, Terror [Gorilla vs. Bear]

Photos from Reggie Watts at Ft. Greene Park. [BrooklynVegan]

Music today from Omar S - "Day"