Quick Notes: Silverchair, No Age, Neil Young, + More

*Silverchair have taken a moment from recording their new album to share a video from the recently completed Groovin' The Moo tour in Australia...

Silverchair - Groovin The Moo Highlights

Silverchair | MySpace Music Videos

*[pitchfork.com] "Glitter" is about feeling alienated, which is a topic No Age have dealt with before. In the middle of "Teen Creeps", a shitkicking standout from 2008's standout-packed Nouns, Dean Spunt promises, "I won't end up like them at all". While that statement seethed along with the song's monolithic wall of guitar thrash, the first single from Everything in Between takes a more introspective tone. "I don't fear God/ I don't fear anything at all," Spunt sings, adding, "I've been wondering/ When is it my turn to get a win." There are no promises to be found here-- just the feeling that even if you could change your luck, you're ultimately powerless. The lyrical mood is uncertain, but the basic musical foundation of "Glitter" is classic indie rock, more so than just about anything we've heard from Spunt and Randy Randall to date. These guys aren't going soft, though: the underbelly of "Glitter" is all low rumble and screeching ambient noise, with only a few guitar stabs and stray tones acting as any sort of counter-melody. Even at their most accessible, No Age still sound punk.

DOWNLOAD HERE: No Age: "Glitter" [from Everything in Between; out 09/28/10 via Sub Pop]

*[FMQB.com] Neil Young will play a handful of shows this fall in areas affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill. Young has teamed up with his friend John Tyson, chairman of Tyson Foods, Inc., which will donate 100,000 pounds of chicken products to be distributed to the Bay Area Food Bank. Tyson will deliver four truckloads of chicken, the equivalent of almost 400,000 meals, to the Bay Area Food Bank, which serves Central Gulf Coast communities in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Young is also asking concert-goers to bring non-perishable food items, which will be given to the food bank. All proceeds from the sale of unique, limited-edition Neil Young t-shirts, available only at the concerts, will also be donated to the food bank. The four shows are in Panama City, FL (9/20); Biloxi, MS (9/25); Mobile, AL (9/26) and Pensacola, FL (9/28). Young has two additional shows slated for Florida in late September as well.

*Bear Hands are featured in a video interview on Noisevox.org, hosted by former MTV News main man John Norris. The band discuss their upcoming full length debut and much more...



*X1FM catches up with Silversun Pickup's Christopher Guanlao before their last North American tour date in San Diego last weekend... Click HERE to watch.

*Veil Veil Vanish have posted a FREE download of a recent radio performance and interview they did for "B-Sides 91.5 FM NYC radio show" HERE! The band performed four live songs from "Change in the Neon Light" and did an interview. Enjoy!

*[theprp.com] Mondo Generator have postponed their U.S. touring plans with the following statement being offered:

“Mondo Generator have had to postpone their current US tour. The band are very sorry about this and would like to apologize to all involved; The shows will be rescheduled to run in December and January. New dates will be announced shortly”.