TRICKY, during his ‘Tricky kid’ days with Martina Topley-Bird

Lots of good reading here for the long weekend. We might just post some surprises while we’re out of town and bored in Amish country, PA, too. Stay tuned to our RSS or Twitter …

• Radiohead played and streamed the final show of their North American tour last night.
• Remember when Antony Hegarty used to appear onstage with Lou Reed all the time?
• Rick Moody has contributed liner notes to a new Danielson Famile collection.
• Beck and his father, conductor David Campbell, will perform together for the first time at LA’s Hollywood Bowl next month.
• Soulwax’s live DVD/documentary is coming out next week, so the Guardian asked members of the Chemical Brothers, Hot Chip, the Gossip and many more to quiz the duo.
• Just when you thought your ’stache was bad ass, this feature comes out.
• Johnny Marr has joined the Cribs as a full-time member.
• Talk about a lengthy Ben Gibbard interview!
• Speaking of the Death Cab frontman, he helped Zooey Deschanel and others with a special DNC party this week. (It’s no Vanity Fair, but whatever, right?)
• You might want to be careful with what you leak these days. After all, that G N’ R guy just got nabbed by the feds.
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Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS. Health)

So this (neo-goth subtleties, strobe-tastic live shows) is why Crystal Castles recently scored a fashion spread in SPIN, five months after their debut dropped.

If you’re wondering why we ran a haunting hallway photo here instead of, say, Twine themselves, the choice has nothing to do with the duo’s camera shyness. It’s just that nothing quite evokes the lingering music of Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder quite like sepia tones, peeled paint and melancholic mood lighting. Hence their MySpace-provided shot.

To put things into perspective, Twine’s last LP (their self-titled Ghostly debut and second full-length) was one of those records we put on and simply couldn’t walk away from, no matter how disturbing it sounded. And it was mighty disturbing, from the muffled, Mulholland Drive-channeling cries of “Girl Song” to “Plectrum”’s disembodied vocals and steady downward spiral into madness.

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By Aaron Richter

NYU is back in session, as was evident by the frosh and frat crowd in attendance for The Virgins and Young Lords at Santos Wedesday evening. The place was packed, more packed than we’ve seen Santos yet, with oblivious boyfriends, screaming fangirls and awkward nose jobs galore.

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Wow. As if things weren’t tough enough on Sean Carlson this summer (the 23-year-old concert promoter took his F Yeah Fest on the road amidst the hard realities of 26 hot, hungry people on a bus for 28 shows in 27 days), he’s now been the victim of an alleged attack by Hollywood Bowl security outside a Radiohead show Monday night.

According to an LA Weekly report, Carlson and co-promoter Phil Hoelting were handing out flyers for this weekend’s Los Angeles show while Michael Reich of Videothing.com shot their every move for a documentary. Nearby, an ejected concertgoer was allegedly getting roughed up by four CSC Security guards.

“The guy was screaming,”  Reich told the Weekly, “and trying to tell them that he would leave peacefully if they let him go.”

They didn’t. So Reich turned his camera on the proceedings only to get the following reaction …

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[Photos by Shawn Brackbill]

By Andrew Parks

The last time I spoke to Conrad Keely for a story, he was ‘borrowing’ the gargantuan office of an Interscope exec for the entire week. Not just conducting interviews for the afternoon; we’re talking some serious mi oficina es tu oficina action, as the …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead frontman chipped away at the artwork and sequencing of the band’s last major label album (2006’s So Divided).

In retrospect, the idea of Keely roaming free in a skyscraper suite (the room had a goddamn stand-in shower) is ironic to say the least. After all, Trail’s break from Interscope was far from amicable, leading Keely to completely reconsider his career path after more than a decade of tireless recording and touring.

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By Aaron Richter

As we all know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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Simian Mobile Disco have been selected for the sixth installment of Nike’s “Original Run” series. (Previous contributors have included A-Trak, Aesop Rock and the Crystal Method. LCD Soundsystem also lent their “45:33″ track to Nike in 2006.) Urb.com has an exclusive five-minute edit of the duo’s track here. From the sound of said stream, it appears that ACIDDDDD is indeed back to bump electro DJs off hipster-approved dancefloors.

As for details on the release date of SMD’s contribution, we don’t know much right now other than that it’s probably coming out this fall.

So we might as well dub the next couple days “…And You Will Us By the Trail of Posts” week. Aside from our review of last night’s special …Trail of Dead set and a studio report on the band’s sixth album that’s arriving later this afternoon, a reader just forwarded the double-take documentary above. All we’ve got to say is they haven’t changed a bit …

[Photos by Shawn Brackbill]

By Andrew Parks

Before we get to any sort of review here, please take a look at the set list after the jump …

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