The Quietus with a great article detailing BF’s 13 favorite albums:
“Frank Black’s Favourite Albums”
Posted by The Bureaucrat on April 28, 2012
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New Releases
Posted by The Bureaucrat on April 11, 2012
GRAND DUCHY
This week Black Francis and Violet Clark released their second album as Grand Duchy: “Let The People Speak”. Meanwhile “Silver Boys”, the single from the album is available as a free download from their facebook page: http://on.fb.me/
The album is also available all over the web: iTunes (USA), iTunes (Canada), Amazon (USA), Amazon (UK), hmv (UK), Sonic Unyon (digital only), Sonic Unyon (CD + digital)
VINYL
Next week, in celebration of Record Store Day (April 17th), we’ve got two new vinyl double LP’s slated for release: Black Francis’ “The Golem” and Frank Black & the Catholics’ “Live At Melkweg”. Both were pressed on the highest quality 150gram vinyl and include a download code (“Live At Melkweg” digital download also includes three bonus tracks not available anywhere else!).
We’ve been spinning these records here at our office for a couple weeks now and they sound stellar. Like little kids before Christmas, we can hardly wait for next week to arrive. We’ll keep you posted. Over and out.
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FB & THE C’S – LIVE AT MELKWEG
Posted by The Bureaucrat on March 26, 2012
The first Frank Black & the Catholics release in nearly a decade: “Live At Melkweg / Amsterdam / March 24th, 2001″ is out on CD & digital and available now at the following fine retailers:
The Official Black Francis web store, Amazon (digital) / (physical), iTunes, Insound & CD Universe
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BF FEATURED IN GRAND DUCHY REMIX VIDEO
Posted by The Bureaucrat on March 23, 2012
Grand Duchy (featuring Violet Clark & Black Francis) are to come out with their new album “Let The People Speak” this April. However, 9-tracks from the album were remixed by the Gloom Prophet, post dub-step, sound designer extraordinaire. Here’s a video featuring Black Francis from the official video for Gloom Prophet’s remix of Grand Duchy’s “DARK SPARKLES”.
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OUT NOW – LIVE AT MELKWEG
Posted by The Bureaucrat on March 23, 2012
FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS
“LIVE AT MELKWEG”
The first Frank Black & the Catholics release in nearly a decade is available now on CD!
& April 17th on a vinyl double LP (vinyl release includes digital download with 3 bonus tracks)
Frank Black & the Catholics “Live At Melkweg” was recorded in the aftermath of Dog in the Sand, which “plays as a true classicist rock ‘n’ roll album, without resorting to cliches or sounding reactionary.” Reminiscent of “Exile on Main Street-era Stones and early Bowie . . . all the tracks share a rootsy feel, accented by Rich Gilbert’s frequent use of a pedal steel guitar.” The Catholics represent “rock as large, expansive, and over-romanticized . . . as the western skies hanging over the rural-route honky-tonk dives whose atmosphere they so readily evoke.” -Pitchfork
In their usual high-energy fashion, Black and the band unapologetically rip through their expansive catalog, banging out with uncanny familiarity some of Black’s greatest Pixies’ tunes like “Mr. Grieves”, “Monkey Gone to Heaven” and “Where is My Mind?”
In anticipation of the definitive FB & the C’s 6-disc box set to be released in early 2013, we bring you Frank Black & the Catholics “Live At Melkweg / Amsterdam / March 24th, 2001”.
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