Faith, trust, and pixie dust!

The title comes from Peter Pan: "All you need is faith and trust... and a little bit of pixie dust!" ... but also notice how animals are on the cover!

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MARIANNE FAITHFULL
mariannefaithfull.org.uk

Marianne Faithfull, yes that 60s girl pop singer, is doing three rare performances at New York's City Winery: December 18th, 19th, and 20th. Tickets are on sale to the general public now.

Faithfull is a huge star in the 60s, dating Mick Jagger (ultimately unintentionally inspiring the Rolling Stones' hit song, "Sympathy for the Devil"), but for the most part, I thought she was long retired.

As it were, as I have just discover she's been steadily releasing new music since 2000. Her latest is Horses and High Heels, released in Europe on January 31st, 2011. A UK CD is release was released in March, while a US release came out June 28th, 2011.

ALL THE APPARATUS
alltheapparatus.com

The company behind this, In Music We Trust, does it right: they have all the information that I will need to write an article. Biography, links, music, band photo, tour information, and cover artwork. I love it, I wish everyone had it sorted out like In Music We Trust.

Anyway, their latest band is All The Apparatus, an gypsy-ish large band from Portland, Oregon, with a self-titled sophomore album. I'm not entirely sure if the album is out, or was I given a release date. Let's just assume it's out now via Faultvo Records.

While the cover artwork looks amateurish and the band photo looks goofy, I have to add that they are probably a very fun band to see live. The 11-piece band plays a variety of instruments from traditional instruments to not-so-traditional glockenspiel, trumpet, trombone, and kalimba.

If you live in the West Coast, check them out:

8/5/11 - Rock It Room - San Francisco, CA
8/7/11 - The Mint - Los Angeles, CA
8/9/11 - Winston's - San Diego, CA
8/10/11 - Beauty Bar - Las Vegas, NV
8/13/11 - Mo's - Salt Lake City, UT

Monkey Gone To Heaven (live)

PIXIES
pixiesmusic.com

As I have previously mention, the Pixies are discovering a new life in touring and serving their existing aging fans. I don't know if they have a new album out, it's all very cryptic right now. But they are now selling all their albums digitally and doing quite well on tour. You can also grab a free four-track free called Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live Sampler, to get an idea of what they'll sound like live.

In Black Francis news, he's teaming up with Reid Paley to release Paley & Francis via Sonic Unyon Records. The album comes out on September 13th.

Paley & Francis had this to say:

"This album was recorded in two relatively short days this past September 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. All first takes.

We wrote the music for the songs in Paley’s apartment in Brooklyn over three afternoons when Francis was in New York for a three day run at Joe's Pub.

After which we each took half of the songs to finish off with lyrics, and Francis went off to meet what he sometimes likes to call “the old band” for another tour.

"The old band" will be headlining these shows (with support form Imaginary Cities and Surfer Blood):

10/27 — Montclair, NJ 10/28 — Asbury Park, NJ 10/29 — Waterbury, CT 10/30 — Hampton Beach, NH 11/01 — Portland, ME 11/02 — Rochester, NY		11/03 — Easton, PA 11/05 — Huntington, NY 11/06 — Wilmington, DE 11/08 — Greensboro, NC 11/09 — Louisville, KY 11/10 — Knoxville, TN 11/11 — North Charleston, SC		11/14 — Memphis, TN 11/15 — Oklahoma, OK 11/16 — Sante Fe, NM 11/18 — Bakersfield, CA 11/20 — Napa, CA 11/21 — Santa Cruz, CA

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