Downloadable: Ladytron

I was thinking earlier this week, in a quiet moment, that the world was just about due some new Ladytron electropoise. And, lo, the mighty gods of RCRDLBL have furnished us with a Punks Jump Up remix of Ace Of Hz.

My thoughts, made solid. Very bad news for Noel Edmonds.

Downloadable: Ladytron

Ladytron want your email address. They're going to abuse it, you know, and won't be satisfied until they've had your PIN number. And your mother.

In return, though, they're dishing out a free download of the Grey Ghost remix of Predict The Day.

Worth sharing your email for. Possibly even worth sharing your mother for.

Decade Null: 2002 - Ladytron

One of the few bands to bother making records which sounded like anyone had noticed the century had changed. And still making them, in-between bouts of sending individual members around the planet to DJ to crowds. From Light & Magic, Ladytron perform Seventeen:



[Part of Decade Null: 2002]

Ladytron: I'm telling that Danny Hunt it'll never last

Never mind that it's 20 years since the Guardian launched Notes & Queries - can you believe that it's ten years since Ladytron first coalesced in what was (then) a Liverpool back street and is now probably the fridge aisle in the big new John Lewis?

They're celebrating with an album collecting the best bits from the first decade. It's going to be a greatest hits collection, which suggests a reliance on natural justice rather than strict facts.

Embed and breakfast man: Ladytron

Taking a brief break from the Wener-fest, who wouldn't want to see Ladytron doing a guest spot on sugar-powered kids show Yo Gabba Gabba?



[Shamelessly ripped off from The Music Slut]

Ladytron in a bottle

There we were, mid-scoff at the idea that Christina Aguilera was looking forward on her new record when we spotted this:

[T]he singer is planning a new album she describes as “futuristic,” with collaborations with the forward-looking Sia, Goldfrapp and Ladytron.

Ladytron? Working with Aguilera? One or other of them is going to walk away from that with a totally re-graded reputation.

Meanwhile, though, Aguilera is pulling together a Greatest Hits collection. And struggling to explain why calling herself a bitch is, you know, somehow a feminist statement:

“I’m running a business,” she says, “and sometimes being the boss of your own empire and creation, you have to be assertive. Being a female, that comes with being labeled a ‘bitch’ and given titles that men wouldn’t receive. But if that’s what I’m going to be called by being assertive and knowing who I am and what I want out of life, so be it. I wear that label proudly.”

And so it's some sort of positive thing to call yourself and not merely pandering to a male market who sees the very idea of a woman being successful as somehow unnatural. Or, indeed, making people think that it's okay to call someone a bitch.

Still, it's nice to see Aguilera admit that she's effectively running a small business rather than pretending she's an artist in any way.

Download: Ladytron remix

The nice people at RCRDLBL, having already given away their vowels, want to give more. And so they're making available a free Ladytron remix download of Ghosts. For you to keep and love.

You're a very lovely Ladytron

Here's some more of that unlistenable oh-so-fucking-hip shite I regularly ra-ra on this site - Ladytron's MySpacetastic exclusive new video:

Ladytron-Runaway (Myspace Exclusive)

Bringing the speed

Currently, on MySpace, in all its streaming glory: Velocifero, the whole of the new Ladytron album.

Talking of free downloads

Spaceage heartbreakers Ladytron are punting a free download of Black Cat as a way of drawing you attention to the rather hefty line-up of US dates they've got planned:

May
20 - Edmonton, A.B. @ The Starlite Room
21 - Calgary, A.B. @ The Warehouse
23 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Commodore Ballroom
24 - Seattle, Wash. @ Showbox
25 - Portland, Ore. @ Wonder Ballroom
27 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Fillmore
29 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Henry Fonda
30 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Henry Fonda
31 - San Diego, Calif. @ The Belly Up

June
2 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ In The Venue
3 - Denver, Colo. @ The Gothic
5 - Dallas, Texas @ Palladium Ballroom
6 - Austin, Texas @ Stubbs
7 - Houston, Texas @ Meridian
8 - New Orleans, La. @ House Of Blues
10 - Orlando, Fla. @ Club Firestone
11 - Tampa, Fla. @ Czar
12 - Miami, Fla. @ Studio A
13 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Variety Playhouse
15 - Manchester, Tenn. @ Bonnaroo Festival *
16 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
17 - Chicago, Ill. @ Vic Theater
18 - Detroit, Mich. @ St. Andrews Hall
25 - New York, N.Y. @ Terminal 5
26 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ Theater of Living Arts
27 - Baltimore, Md. @ Sonar
28 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
30 - Boston, Mass. @ Paradise

July
2 - Montreal, Q.C. @ Metropolis (Jazz Fest)
3 - Quebec City, Q.C. @ Theatre Imperial de Quebec (Summer Fest)
4 - Toronto, O.N. @ Harbourfront Centre

A more capital Capital of Culture

As part of The Guardian's guide to Liverpool's bars, there's an accompanying mp3 featuring Danny Hunt of Ladytron and Pete Wylie guiding the paper round the city's musical highspots.

A new Role

Bonde Do Role are lining up a new ep, featuring a smorgasbord of remixes. Marina Gasolina is out around December 4th depending on where you are, with a tracklisting kind of like this:


01. Marina Gasolina (New Version)
02. Contaminada
03. Cagago
04. Miami Beach
05. Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood Remix)
06. Marina Gasolina (Peaches Remix)
07. Office Boy (CSS Remix)
08. Office Boy (Architecture In Helsinki Remix)
09. Solta O Frango (Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Remix)
10. Solta O Frango (Ladytron Remix)

As good an excuse as any to lob in the Office Boy video:

Danny Hunt embraces Microsoft

It's funny, you know, but we seem to recall Ladytron's Danny Hunt as being a passionate fan of Apple products. Which makes it something of surprise to discover that the Ladytron's US tour is pushing the unlovely Zune on an unsuspecting public.

Still, you can see this unlikely pairing of commerce and art at these venues:

5/24 - NYC - Hiro Ballroom
5/25 - Vancouver, BC
5/26 - Los Angeles, CA - Memorial Colliseum & Avalon Hollywood
5/27 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
5/28 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues

We suggest wearing a tshirt with the face of Steve Jobs on it, mind.