Last week marked the release of The Wolfmen’s long-awaited single, “Jackie, Is It My Birthday?” featuring a brilliant vocal performance by Sinéad O’Connor duetting with Chris. The single is taken from the band’s upcoming sophomore LP, Married To The Eiffel Tower, which will hit stores later this year via the band’s own Howl label. 

The Wolfmen are Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou, who have been working together since late 2005.  If you’re not already familiar with them from their collaborations with The Slits, Daler Mehndi, Lou Reed, Primal Scream and of course Sinéad O’Connor (Marco played on Mandinka and Jump In The River, and Chris and Marco have been co-writing and recording Sinéad’s next album with her since earlier this year), you may remember their past lives as Ants – in the band Adam & The Ants, of course.

Married To The Eiffel Tower is the Steve Musters-produced follow up to their debut album, Modernity Killed Every Night, which garnered accolades for catchy singles like “Cecilie,” “Jackie Says” and their tastefully poppy cover of Brian Eno’s “Needle In The Camel’s Eye,” which is featured in Vertigo Films’ Brit flick “Dogging,” to be released later this year.  The Wolfmen also recorded the video for “Cecilie” on the air with six models from Britain’s Next Top Model in 2007, and the band was heavily promoted on the show (their episode coincidentally becoming the first UK reality show to air in the US).

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Joan Sebastian’s album “Pegadito Al Corazón” (Musart/Balboa) has set a few mobile music milestones.

It’s available for streaming on one of the first iPhone apps by a regional Mexican artist. It marks the first time Sebastian’s recordings are available through a mobile platform in Mexico. And it represents the debut of music from digital distributor the Orchard on the dominant Mexican mobile carrier Telcel.

“Pegadito Al Corazón” came out on iTunes Aug. 18, a week before its physical release. In addition, Sebastian’s JS Radio iPhone app will allow consumers to stream 50 songs from the artist’s catalog, as well as the new album, for $1.99. The playlist will be rotated with different songs and “Pegadito Al Corazón” will disappear from the app’s playlist after a trial period. The app will include links to buy the album on iTunes.

AT&T will be the exclusive provider of ringtones and ringbacks from “Pegadito Al Corazón” for two weeks beginning Aug. 14, while Telcel will have exclusive ringtones through its own mobile store for a longer period of time.

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Throughout 2009, David Bazan, previously known for his work fronting the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion, has been performing solo in living rooms all across America. On August 31st, BrooklynVegan will present a performance to the entire world in Bazan’s first and only Online House Show, with a live audio and video feed of the event. To watch, fans can direct their browsers to http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bazan, where they’ll also be able to participate in the event with a live chat and Twitter feed, from which Bazan will take a handful of questions for his customary live question and answer session. While the world can watch on their computers, BrooklynVegan is giving four fans the chance to attend this exclusive sold-out event in the flesh along with tickets for Bazan’s 10/18 show at Bowery Ballroom in New York City! Event details: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/08/david_bazan_pla.html

Go Here Monday, August 31st @ 8:00pm EST To Watch And Participate
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bazan

Download And Share “Bless This Mess” From David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches [Barsuk Records; Sept 1st]
http://www.dailyrindblog.com/audio/davidbazan_blessthismess.mp3

After the online event, Bazan has a few more house shows before trading in the living room for rock clubs on his first full-band tour in over four years. Joining Bazan on the trek will be Say Hi’s Eric Elbogen on guitars, Andy Fitts of Aqueduct on keys and guitar, longtime contributor and Sufjan compatriot Casey Foubert behind the kit, and perennial Bazan associate Blake Wescott on guitar. Full list of dates below. Curse Your Branches is out September 1st via Barsuk, and is available for pre-order now at Barsuk.com, davidbazan.com, insound.com and iTunes.

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Frenchkiss indie-pop ragamuffin Sean Bones has been churning out the music at a feverish clip. The much-discussed collaboration with Norah Jones, who Sean starred opposite in LA Film Festival winner Wah Do Dem, was offered up at Stereogum, only days after AOL Spinner premiered a souped-up remix of “Dancehall” by the Bodega Girls. Of course, if listening’s just not enough, and you’re hungry for more of Bones’ beach-friendly Reggae-pop union, Sean and bandmate Merida Rose recently shot a performance clip for “Turn Them,” trading out the film’s florid backdrop of Jamaica for a slightly more “New York” experience of the waterfront. Check it all out below, along with a list of Sean’s recently-announced September dates.

Listen & Share “Turn Them” from Rings:

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Current TV Music is featuring the latest snippet from The Raveonettes’ Chelsea Sessions, an acoustic take on In & Out Of Control’s ravishing, reverb-soaked “Gone Forever.” The interview portion of the clip reveals the track to be one of the songs Sharin Foo and Sune Wagner wrote completely in the studio this June. Always suckers for some well-placed nostalgia, Wagner claims The Ramones served as his muse on “Forever.” “It was definitely a huge tribute to the way that Joey Ramone would sing,” he says. Hear its Rockaway Beach references below, along with Spin.com’s exclusive peek at “Breaking Into Cars,” and ABC Amplified Blog’s preview of lead-leaker “Suicide.”

Go Here To Watch The Chelsea Sessions‘ “Gone Forever”
http://current.com/items/90751120_the-raveonettes-gone-forever-chelsea-sessions.htm

Go Here To Watch The Chelsea Sessions‘ “Breaking Into Cars”
http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-raveonettes-preview-new-album-unplugged

Go Here To Watch The Chelsea Sessions “Suicide”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/amplified/2009/08/raveonettes.html

For More Information:
http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes
http://www.twitter.com/theraveonettes
http://www.vicerecords.com

This week’s Daily Rind Podcast is live! Download it

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Track 1: The Raveonettes “Suicide” from In And Out Of Control [Vice/Fierce Panda/Universal]
Track 2: The Cinematics “Love And Terror” from Love And Terror [The Orchard]
Track 3: U.S. Royalty “Every Summer” from Midsommar [Engine Room Recordings]
Track 4: The Bloody Beetroots “Butter” from Ramborama [Dim Mak]
Track 5: Oh Romeo! “Two Words… Got It?” from This Is Why We’re Here [Takeover Records]

Bump music: CFCF “Crystal Mines” from Panesian Nights [Paper Bag Records]

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The Antlers, Brooklyn-based owners of the recently-BNM’d, NPR album of the year contender Hospice, are extending their Frenchkiss LP’s quietly cathartic beauty to their first ever music video. The clip for “Two,” directed by Ethan Segal and Albert Thrower, is the visually arresting result of hours of hard work – a combination of stop motion paper cut-out animation, vector graphics, and computer animation in Adobe Aftereffects. Bolstered by impressive technique, and a brilliant moment of release, the video saw its world premiere on Pitchfork.tv earlier this week, mere days before the trio of Peter Silberman, Michael Lerner and Darby Cici found themselves among the first artists announced for the annual indie music rampage CMJ Music Marathon in New York City. To watch “Two”, check in to Hospice, and check out The Antlers freshly-expanded touring schedule, see below.

Watch The Antlers’ “Two” From Hospice [Frenchkiss; Out Now]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsXKa97J6pM

Listen to The Antlers’ “Two” From Hospice [Frenchkiss; Out Now]:

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Def Jux has activated their new and improved iPhone Application in conjunction with Mobile Roadie. The application comes with polished features that will be sure to captivate and attract Jukies around the world. The new features include:

• Embeddable Widget
• Twitter – ’Tweet’ songs from the app to Twitter account
• Facebook – ‘Like’ songs directly from the application to Facebook accounts.
• News Feeds about Def Jux Artists from Google updates
• Google Maps – Map of all Def Jux artists’ tour dates
• Mailing Lists – Sign up for the Def Jux mailing list

See link below to download the Def Jux iPhone Application:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315242888&mt=8

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Pitchfork’s staff has continued to unveil their top tracks of the 2000s this week, and Orchard artists have continued to make their mark on the list. Congratulations to our friends below:

153. Luomo -“Tessio”
[Huume; 2000]

124. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - “Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?”
[Lookout!; 2002]

108. The Hold Steady -“The Swish”
[Frenchkiss; 2004]

On Monday, Spin.com unveiled the second clip from The Chelsea Sessions, a 20-minute companion featurette to The Raveonettes’ October 6th Vice LP, In & Out Of Control, exclusively available with purchase of the record at iTunes. The preview features Sharin Foo and Sune Wagner playing a stripped-down version of “Breaking Into Cars,” a previously-unheard track from the new record. Foo and Wagner discuss, among other things, the drum sound on this slow-burner: “we were trying to find sort of like a RZA type of snare sound that he has in [‘Bring The Rukus’],” says Wagner. “[We] had to make it ourselves and it came out, you know, pretty close.” Hear the Shaolin influence below. And in case you missed it, the first clip from The Chelsea Sessions, a performance and discussion of “Suicide,” was premiered last week on ABC’s Amplified Blog. Stay tuned to Current TV Music next Monday, August 24th for a rendition and discussion of another unreleased Control cut, “Gone Forever.”

Go Here To Watch An Excerpt Of “Breaking Into Cars” From The Chelsea Sessions:
http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-raveonettes-preview-new-album-unplugged

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