Coachella 2013 lineup revealed

While there was some big news out there today, including a brand new Strokes song that nobody seems to like, yesterday's revealing of the 2013 Coachella lineup is still the big story.

As with last year's lineup, the Indio, California festival will span two separate weekends in April (12-14 and 19-21). Following up last year's impossibly good lineup, this year looks to top it.

Featuring the shockingly rare Blur and Stones Roses as the day one headliners is enough on its own, but throwing acts like Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, New Order, Wu Tang Clan, a reunited Postal Service, and TWO Nick Cave acts make it the early front-runner for festival of the year.

Not just top heavy, the fest's mid-card and lower tier acts are ... just damn good: The Descendants, Thee Oh Sees, Violent Femmes, Major Lazer, Trash Talk, Japandroids, Local Natives, Four Tet, Dinosaur Jr., Danny Brown, Wild Nothing ... it just keeps going.

Click on the poster above to see the full lineup, but tickets won't be available for a few days. There's a special countdown on the Coachella website that you can keep track of, but tickets will sell fast when it comes.

As for Lollapalooza fans, while my status is uncertain this year, Coachella does have some forbearance on who performs at the Chicago festival. In 2011, the two huge events shared 31 acts (18 percent of the billing), although none of the acts were headliners. Last year, only one major headliner (The Black Keys) performed at both.

What does this mean for 2013? Well, don't expect Blur, The Stone Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers to appear, but don't count out Phoenix.

Friday Bears: Sasquatch! 2012 lineup revealed

Sasquatch!, held every year in the Pacific Northwest, isn't regarded as one of the bigger music festivals in the United States, but is usually regarded as one of the best.

Last year, festival organizers enlisted the talents of the Foo Fighters, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, and lot more over the course of four (yes, four) days. While that may be fairly impressive for what isn't regarded as one of the year's bigger events, this year's does boast a fairly heavy - although not as top-heavy - lineup, which you can read in it's entirety here.

Notables in this year's lineup include, but are not limited to Jack White, whose solo album is set to debut a few weeks before the fest, and is the first confirmed show of the ex-White Stripe. Alongside White will be Bon Iver, who seem to be on pace to play every festival this year, the ever-elusive Beck, The Shins, Tenacious D, The Roots, and native heroes Shabazz Palaces, among many others, including comedy acts.

Tickets are on sale now for $315. The event will take place May 25-28

Isaac Brock premieres new song for Don't Move Here

Isaac Brock was the subject of WKE's newest episode of "Don't Move Here," a show focusing on Portland's music scene. The show is mainly about Brock's cool and fittingly weird home "Glacial Pace," which also houses the band's recording studio.

At the end of the short episode, around the 7:56 mark, Brock and the rest of Modest Mouse perform a new song, still untitled as of yet. It's the group's first new material since 2009's No One's First Your Next EP.

Wednesday Bears: New Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On

A little late, yeah, but I've been falling in love with Lupe Fiasco's new track "The Show Goes On," off of Fiasco's upcoming album Lasers. It's not hard to pick up the guitar, horn and chorus sampling of Modest Mouse's "Float On," which kinda makes it mysteriously more endearing.

Lasers is due out March 8 next year.

Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On - MP3

Pavement, Modest Mouse Headline Pitchfork Music Festival

Pitchfork Media's 2010 music festival announced a portion of their official line up Friday, with recently reunited indie juggernauts Pavement and Modest Mouse headlining the Chicago, Illinois three-day festival.

LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, St. Vincent, and many others including a long list of artists yet to be announced are performing July 16-18 at Chicago's Union Park. Good for them. What this means to me and anyone who ever reads Bears and Bullets knows that whatever happens at Pitchfork Music Festival will effect Lollapalooza, also held in Chicago in early August. Because of rules and regulations, any artist performing at one festival cannot perform at the other during the same calendar year. So for any devout Lolla-goers, scratch Modest Mouse, Pavement and LCD Soundsystem off your hopeful lists. Sigh.

Official 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup (as of Feb. 8):

Monday, July 16;

• Modest Mouse

Saturday, July 17;

• LCD Soundsystem
• Raekwon

Sunday, July 18;

• Pavement
• St. Vincent
• Lightning Bolt
• Cass McCombs
• Sleigh Bells
• Here We Go Magic

Stay tuned for more updates ...

Thursday Bears: New Modest Mouse Video - Whale Song

Modest Mouse's "Whale Song" off the recently released No One's First and You're Next collection of b-sides received an envisioning video treatment from director Nando Costa. The six minute-plus video epic looks dirty and sombre, with frontman Isaac Brock journeying through the grime of the Pacific Northwest thanks to help from Portland image company Bent Image Lab.

The odd swirls of direction capsuled the sound of "Whale Song," in the oft-messy, twangy sounds of guitars, with the colors swaying in and out of monochromatic tones to an almost noir finish.

Modest Mouse - Whale Song (Video Here.)

Complex.com's Top 100 Albums of the Decade

Complex.com premiered their version (another one) of their top 100 albums of the 2000's today. The list is compiled mostly of hip-hop acts that get little notice from the likes of Pitchfork, with Jay-Z's 2001 album The Blueprint taking the top ranking, and Kanye West's 2007 album Graduation holding in as runner up.

The compilation, while given credit for following the route not typical of the other music publications, is still fraught with confusion and questionable ranks. For instance, New Orleans alternative hip-hop duo The Knux debut album Remind Me in Three Days was placed at number 58 on the list, followed by Bubba Sparxxx's (likely the first and last time I write his name here) 2003 album Deliverance.

While these albums certainly have their fans, just for point of reference I'd like to note that Modest Mouse's Good News for People Who Love Bad News was ranked at number 96. So, you can maybe make some kind of point.

Complex.com Top 100 Albums of the 2000's

More New Modest Mouse

The upcoming August 4 release of Modest Mouse No One's First and You're Next LP is ridden with glorious gems that echo back to the Issaquah band's late 90's/early 00's work a la The Moon and Antarctica, but still contains the touch of their recent work from 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News and 2006's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

With the inclusion of "Satellite Skin," "The Whale Song," and "Perpetual Motion Machine" (set to be released on 7" tomorrow), No One's First and You're Next looks to be another solid effort from the band.

Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine - MP3

Modest Mouse - King Rat - MP3

MP3's Courtesy of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted

More New Modest Mouse

Only a couple days after Modest Mouse's new 7" for "Autumn Beds" was released, we're treated the even more appealing B-Side "The Whale Song." You can pre-order the 7" here, or wait until the June 23 release.

Modest Mouse - The Whale Song - MP3

MP3 Found at Minneapolis Fucking Rocks

Modest Mouse "Satellite Skin" Video

It's been quite a while since we've heard/seen anything new from Modest Mouse since the band's 2006 release We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. In fact, aside from a few here and there performances of "Satellite Skin" from the band's forthcoming album No One's First And You're Next, we've heard almost nothing.

Two days after the "Satellite Skin" stream was released the band premiered the single's video. Tool's Kevin Willis directed the video explaining the Tool-esque illusions and stop-motion animation.

Stay tuned to hear the band's next single "Guilty Cocker Spaniels" Monday, via Stereogum.

Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin