Bjork’s ‘Voltaic’ is in stores now via Nonesuch Records in the U.S. (One Little Indian in the UK, and Universal worldwide.) ‘Voltaic’ a lovingly packaged celebration of the past two years of Björk’s Volta activities.

Watch trailer: Bjork Voltaic tour video

Voltaic DVD 1 (the volta tour)
Filmed highlights from the Volta tour, recorded in Paris and Reykjavik (currently screening around the country…dates below)

Voltaic DVD 2 (the volta videos)
All of the Volta music videos, including the “Declare Independence” clip directed by Michel Gondry.

Voltaic CD 2 (the volta mixes)
Key remixes from Volta, with versions of “Earth Intruders,” “Declare Independence,” and “Wanderlust,” by the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Matthew Herbert, Graeme Sinden, Ghostigital, and Modeselektor.

Voltaic CD 1 (live at olympic studios)
Songs from the Volta tour recorded live at the legendary Olympic Studios in London, just before Björk’s headlining show at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007. It was recorded in one afternoon, and the whole set was played live before being produced and mixed by Björk.

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VOLTAIC: FULL TRACK LISTINGS

Voltaic Disc 1—CD of songs from the Volta tour performed live at Olympic Studios

1. Wanderlust – Live
2. Hunter – Live
3. Pleasure Is All Mine – Live
4. Innocence – Live
5. Army of Me – Live
6. I Miss You – Live
7. Earth intruders – Live
8. All Is Full Of Love – Live
9. Pagan Poetry – Live
10. Vertebrae by Vertebrae – Live
11. Declare Independence – Live

Voltaic Disc 2—DVD of live concert performances

1. Brennio Pio Vitar – Live in Paris
2. Earth Intruders – Live in Paris
3. Hunter – Live in Paris
4. Immature – Live in Paris
5. Joga – Live in Paris
6. Pleasure Is All Mine – Live in Paris
7. Vertebrae by Vertebrae – Live in Paris
8. Where Is the Line – Live in Paris
9. Who Is It – Live in Paris
10. Desired Constellation – Live in Paris
11. Army of Me – Live in Paris
12. Bachelorette – Live in Paris
13. Wanderlust – Live in Paris
14. Hyperballad – Live in Paris
15. Pluto – Live in Paris
16. Declare Independence – Live in Paris
17. Pneumonia – Live in Reykjavik
18. My Juvenile – Live in Reykjavik
19. Vokuro – Live in Reykjavik
20. Sonnets / Unrealities XI – Live in Reykjavik
21. Mouths Cradle – Live in Reykjavik

Voltaic Disc 3—DVD of the Volta videos

1. Earth Intruders
2. Declare Independence
3. Innocence – Version 1 (winner)
4. Wanderlust
5. The Dull Flame of Desire
6. Innocence – David Saghiri
7. Innocence – Dimitrio Stankowicz
8. Innocence – Etienne Strubbe
9. Innocence – Juliet Himmer
10. Innocence – Laurent Labouille
11. Innocence – Mario Caporali
12. Innocence – Miko o_o
13. Innocence – Misi Park & Pierre Khazem
14. Innocence – Christiano Leal
15. Innocence – Roland Matusek

Voltaic Disc 4—CD of remixes of Volta songs

1. Earth Intruders – Spank Rock remix
2. Innocence – Simian Mobile Disco remix 12”
3. Declare Independence – Mathew Herbert 12”
4. Wanderlust – Ratatat remix
5. The Dull Flame of Desire – modeselektor’s RMX for girls
6. Earth Intruders – lexx remix
7. Innocence – Sinden Remix
8. Declare Independence – Ghostigital in Deep End Dance Remix 12”
9. The Dull Flame of Desire – Modeselektor’s RMX for Boys
10. Innocence – Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel 12” Version
11. Declare Independence – Black Plus mix
12. Innocence – Simian Mobile Disco dub remix

Top Photo Credit: Bernhard Kristinn

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NPR Music is streaming a new album of live recordings from the complex and unpredictable singer Bjork, one week ahead of its official release.

Her new album, ‘Voltaic’, is available for free, on-demand listening now through June 30, 2009 at npr.org/music, as part of the site’s “Exclusive First Listen” series.

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Bjork, the 13-time Grammy nominee from Iceland, released her sixth album, ‘Volta’, in 2007. Before embarking on what would become a two-year-long tour to promote the record, Bjork and her band held a recording session at Olympic Studios in London.

‘Voltaic’ collects those live-to-tape recordings, which includes selections from Volta and several previous albums: Medulla, Homogenic, Post and Vespertine. The entire album can be streamed now at NPR Music, where there is also a video of Bjork performing “Declare Independence.”

Complete track listings and album information are available at NPR Music, as well as an extensive Bjork archive of music, reviews and a live concert.

NPR Music introduced its “Exclusive First Listen” series last year with Bob Dylan’s 2-CD set Tell Tale Signs. The series is now one of the site’s most popular features, and has offered pre-release streams of albums from artists such as Regina Spektor, Moby, Leonard Cohen and the Dirty Projectors.

The “Exclusive First Listen” series is one feature of NPR Music, a free, multimedia music discovery Web site at npr.org/music. The site offers content from NPR and 12 NPR Member public radio stations, including live performances, studio sessions, first listens to new albums, interviews, reviews and blogs. The site’s continuously expanding sections are dedicated to rock/pop/folk, classical, jazz/blues, world and urban music.

NPR Music culls from NPR’s and the stations’ extensive music archives to present thousands of features; more than 250 new features are added to the site every month.

Bjork – Exclusive First Listen

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Antony and the Johnsons have just released a trailer for the title track from their forthcoming EP ‘Another World’ (October 7, 2008 Secretly Canadian).

On ‘Another World’, Antony lists things he treasures about the natural world, and expresses that he will miss them; the result is hypnotic and affecting, with the accompanying video reflecting the song’s theme.

Watch the Trailer:

Antony and the Johnsons emerged onto the international stage in 2005 with their breakthrough ‘I Am A Bird Now’. The group were awarded the Mercury Prize in the UK and toured the world.

Since then Antony has collaborated on tracks with Bjork for her latest album ‘Volta’, appeared in the Leonard Cohen documentary I’m Your Man, featured as vocalist with Hercules and Love Affair, recorded for the Todd Haynes bio epic of Bob Dylan I’m Not There, and collaborated with Charles Atlas on a European tour of their stage spectacle Turning.

Now Antony and the Johnsons have emerged with a new album, ‘The Crying Light’, which will be released January 2009. “Another World” is the first single, and it will be released as part of the five-song ‘Another World’ EP.

The EP ‘Another World’ also includes “Shake That Devil”. Part exorcism and part Shangri La, Antony calls out perpetrators, and banishes them one by one.

Two other songs, “Crackagen” and “Sing For Me” are pastoral and surreal. Finally the epic “Hope Mountain” closes the EP; an episodic narrative set after a flood; people gather on a mountainside to witness a girl walking on the water.

Another World Tracklist:

1. Another World
2. Crackagen
3. Shake That Devil
4. Sing For Me
5. Hope Mountain

Antony and the Johnsons October 2008 tour dates:

10/14 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA
10/16 Apollo Theatre New York, NY
10/30 The Barbican London, ENG
10/31 The Barbican London, ENG

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Now in it’s sixth year, there’s a dramatic difference in size since the first Sasquatch Festival when bands String Cheese Incident, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Galactic, Blackalicious, Maktub and Soulive played at the event.

The 2007 Sasquatch! Music Festival will feature over 50 bands and artists on 3 stages, which shows they’ve come a long way since 2002:

Saturday, May 26th:
Bjork
The Arcade Fire
Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System
M.I.A.
Citizen Cope
Neko Case
The Hold Steady
Ghostland Observatory
Grizzly Bear
Electrelane
Two Gallants
The Slip
Loney, Dear
Aqueduct
The Thermals
Viva Voce
The Blow
Gabriel Teodros

Sunday, May 27th:
Beastie Boys
Interpol
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Spoon
Bad Brains
Ozomatli
Dandy Warhols
The Black Angels
Tokyo Police Club
Money Mark
Mirah
St. Vincent
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Common Market
Smoosh
Helio Sequence
Minus The Bear

With more acts to be announced. Lineup could change, go to the Official Sasquatch Festival Website for latest information!

On the Sasquatch! Music Festival Myspace page there are mixed feelings regarding the 2007 festival lineup. Some disgruntled fans are leaving comments suggesting that they’re unhappy with the acts and that the bands aren’t a big enough draw to attend the festival compared to the last couple of years. On the other hand, some fans are applauding the lineup as they’re happy to see more Northwestern bands included at the festival, which is located in the Pacific Northwest, USA.

Interesting debate. I haven’t had the pleasure of attending the Sasquatch Festival, but looking at images of the Gorge Amphitheatre – it’s picturesque surroundings would be enough to get me there, let alone the music. If I could go, I would look forward to hearing some of the up and coming bands, and being introduced to new music from the area as well as the more well known names. If you can get there, consider yourself very lucky indeed.

Someone who attended the festival last year took the time to put together a video slideshow set to the music of The Shins, which is up on YouTube:

Watch the Sasquatch! Music Festival Slideshow

For more information, go to the Official Sasquatch! Music Festival Website

By: Jenny May

So far Chumbawamba has been confirmed to play and now the NME has managed to get festival founder Michael Eavis to disclose that Bjork, Arctic Monkeys and Arcade Fire are playing. The Who also looks set to be there as possible headliners, which should be a treat if that is the case.

Until the actual lineup is posted on the Glastonbury Festival Website the speculation game is in full force. We are only left with our imaginations to think about who could be headlining each night on the big stages, who could be playing in the smaller tents and as the bigger names trickle in, to wonder how fast the tickets will sell out.

Speaking of tickets there’s a new system in place. There’s now a pre sales registration for ticket buyers. If you want to go then you have to register between February 1st and 28th, 2007 for April 1st when tickets go on sale. For more information please go to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk.

Watch the live video of The Who playing “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

By: Jenny May