Tricky plans tour that actually comes to where I live

Finally, I will have my chance to see Tricky. This is awesome because a) he is the last artist on my high school list of musicians I really, really wanted to see but thought I would probably never get to see and now actually have seen and b) it is no longer 1997 and I am really glad of that and I like to realize that it's not 1997 anymore every once in awhile. And then also because I can't stop listening to the song "Past Mistake" off Tricky's most recent release, Knowle West Boy. Maybe it's just because I'm fairly lazy and it's easier to just keep hitting play than to find something else I wanna listen to...but maybe it's just because it's just a damn fine song.

Check it out! At SXSW, Tricky's playing with Devo! I am totally never going to get into that showcase!

03.02.09 - Farmingdale, NY - Crazy Donkey
03.03.09 - New York, NY - The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
03.06.09 - Miami, FL - Langerado Festival
03.07.09 - St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
03.09.09 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
03.10.09 - Baltimore, MD - Ram’s Head Live
03.11.09 - Boston, MA - The Roxy
03.13.09 - Chicago, IL - Epiphany
03.14.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Hall
03.18.09 - San Antonio, TX - The Scout Bar
03.20.09 - Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall (SXSW) w/ Devo
03.23.09 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up
03.24.09 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
03.25.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater
03.26.09 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
03.27.09 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir
03.28.09 - Seattle, WA - Showbox

Tricky! Coming to a city not near you!

Sure, Chicago ordinarily does not seem far away. It is what, 8 hours by car? But it is sooooooooooo far away when you are soooooooooo broke. And besides I am already going to Chicago in September to see Nick Cave! Yay! My first trip into hell--er--my first trip on the megabus! Hurrah!

Anyway, in a move that seemed inevitable to the thousands of people who joked about the return of trip-hop when Massive Attack started doing big festivals and curating Meltdown, and when Portishead, of course, came back with Third, Tricky is back! His new album Knowle West Boy sounds pretty damn awesome, even the song that sounds kind of rap-metal-y and which eventually grew on me after listening to the album a lot at work. And so he's playing shows in America, which would be cool to go to, but which I will not, because...well...I think I have talked about it in every single post on this page for the last 3 months.

In other news, someone is building a giant blue shark-hippo on wheels in the alley behind my house. I am not making this up. I walked out of my house one Saturday morning and there it was! I will keep you posted unless it eats me.


09.04.08 - New York, NY - The Fillmore At Irving Plaza
09.05.08 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
09.06.08 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
09.08.08 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
09.09.08 - Toronto, ONT - Phoenix
09.11.08 - Anaheim, CA - House Of Blues
09.12.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre
09.14.08 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent

1997 4EVA: Tricky has a new LP!!

There has just been a parade of 1997-related music at the record store and in the news. Massive Attack curated Meltdown, one of my coworkers played an U.N.K.L.E. CD I haven't listened to since I stopped being a depressed teenager,and you know, of course there was that new Portishead album. And now Tricky has a new album, too! His last album came out five years ago, according to Pitchfork, but surely that can't be right because I remember buying that album and ooooh my God, it can't be that long ago, because that would mean I am fast approaching that part of my life where people say "God, I hope I'm still not going out when I'm that old." But whatever, those people are boring assholes who just sit around watching HBO original series.

Anyways, the album's called Knowle West Boy, and comes out in the UK July 7, and in the US on September 9 (the day before my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!) on Domino Records. The single, "Council Estate", is up on Tricky's MySpace page, which I cannot listen to since I am at a coffeeshop right now, as I always am.