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Paste wishes to congratulate both vice presidential candidates for their impressive performances during last night's debate. However, we were troubled to find one important issue ignored entirely.
"If it were left entirely up to you, what music would you use as your campaign theme song?"
While both Governor Palin and Senator Biden have left such questions unanswered, Paste Magazine asked some of our favorite musicians at Austin City Limits the same question.
Click the image to get the "straight talk" from artists on their picks for a  presidential campaign theme song.

When listening to a song and I instantly visualize myself at the concert, pushing through to the front of the crowd, beer in one hand, the other arm vigorously pumping in the air, while screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs...this song gets added to my  Fist-Pump Anthem playlist. I like my fist-pumpers southern-fried, heavy on the guitar, and smothered in awesome. Here are some of the best fist-pumpers I’ve heard in 08 ... so far:



Please chime in with your favorite fist-pump anthems, as I’m always looking for another reason to dislocate a shoulder.

I haven’t Pasteblogged in awhile, honestly, because I haven’t had much to say. Now I sort of do. After two weeks of dismal dreariness briefly punctured by one (uno) snippet of lovely in New York, the sun decided to haul its butt out from behind the clouds and make the day not look so ugly. We spent the whole day with our wonderful sweet booking agent, Wendy, and we saw a bunch of kids fly kites. As the past two weeks have been a plague-bespotted misery for some of us (our van was starting to resemble a sick ward, only dirtier, and vaguely smelling of burrito and socks), it was a welcomed change, IE: we finally took off our jackets for the first time in God knows how long. Seriously. It’s nearly June. It’s like 100 degrees in Mississippi. That’s summer: endless, unavoidable sweating. Why is it so damn cold everywhere else?

Hometown: Oxford, Miss.
Fun Fact: Three members of the band are also in a Pavement cover band that is so good it "even fucks up correctly."
Why Its Worth Watching: Colour Revolt combines the more adventurous side of indie rock with soaring dynamics and a Southern mentality.
For Fans Of: Radiohead, The Grifters, Modest Mouse

Colour Revolt has hardly glutted the marketplace with material in its three-year existence, but with good reason. In addition to the fact that all of the band members are just now wrapping up their collegiate educations at Ole Miss, Colour Revolt has also kept busy playing 150 shows a year. All this without mentioning the fact that the band's debut EP was picked up for a one-off re-release by a major label. Needless to say, Plunder, Beg, and Curse, the band's debut album, has been a long time coming.

Click above to watch a brief (but awesome) video EPK for Colour Revolt's new album Plunder, Beg, and Curse, out now on Fat Possum Records.

Related Links:
Featured Videos: SXSW 2008: Colour Revolt - “What Will Become of Us?”
News: Colour Revolt puts shovel to ground, tours with Breeders
News: Colour Revolt offers MP3, preps Fat Possum debut

Indie rockers’ whisper mightier than their roar

Colour Revolt hails from Oxford, so the British “u” in the band’s name seems appropriate—until you realize they’re from Oxford, Miss. Still, this little artifice is telling: Colour Revolt subjugates its Southern-ness to cosmopolitan gloom-rock time and again. With a stacked deck of prominent influences (at a time when starchy Arcade Fire-style indie rock is in commercial favor), the group has a whiff of bigness. Colour Revolt invites you to partake of the bigger feelings and emotions in life, but only some of them. Its music admits a narrow range of human experience—fear, depression, jealousy, morbid sentimentality—while mostly eliding joy, hope, playfulness and any trace of humor. But Colour Revolt is plowing a narrow furrow with force and conviction.

Like Modest Mouse and Les Savy Fav, Colour Revolt captures rock riffs in the act of going haywire—they may start as sturdy chugs, but inevitably they begin to shimmy like shopping carts with janky wheels. On “A Siren,” a standard-issue vamp morphs into a monochromatic chorus that, in turn, becomes a hornet’s nest of angry riffs: This is rock music parsing continuity as a series of disturbances. Colour Revolt pairs its corkscrewing rock to surrealism-tinged lyrics thick with signs, portents and puns. “God is swinging from the liquor tree / licking everything he finds,” Jesse Coppenbarger intones gravely amid the bedeviled post-punk blues of “Naked and Red.”

Coppenbarger’s voice isn’t as dynamic as that of Les Savy Fav’s Tim Harrington or Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, and he makes do switching between a stuffed-up purr and a hoarse, elongated shout. The heavier songs are a passing pleasure—muscular and satisfying although somewhat rote. But Colour Revolt comes into its own when it pursues a more mysterious, slow-burning allure. On “Elegant View,” a shoegazing ballad that unfolds in geologic time, Coppenbarger drops the oblique semiotics and goes for a more direct emotional appeal: “I wanted to be ready,” he sings achingly, beginning a meditation on arrested development that should resonate with emotionally stunted twentysomethings everywhere.

Click above to check out Colour Revolt performing "What Will Become of Us?" at the Dell Lounge, presented by Paste and Stereogum.

Dinosaur Jr, Brand New, Black Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, Explosions in the Sky—the list of bands that Mississippians Colour Revolt have toured with reads like an all-star roster of indie rock. This spring, the band will add the Breeders to the list.

The guys brought their incandescent grunge rock to the Dell Lounge at SXSW and have already played a smattering of dates in anticipation of their debut full-length Plunder, Beg and Curse, which hit stores April 1. Clay Jones returned to produce the project, who also worked with Colour Revolt on its self-titled 2006 EP

Check out the first track from Plunder, Beg and Curse below. And just below that, watch the hilarious teaser video for the album created by Aaron Keuter.

MP3: Colour Revolt - "Naked and Red"

Painting the town naked and red:

April
4 - Oxford, Miss. @ the Library Bar and Grill
5 - Jackson, Miss. @ Smith Wills Stadium (Youth Educational Fair)
11 - Birmingham, Ala. @ Bottletree
12 - Baton Rouge, La. @ Spanish Moon
26 - Oxford, Miss. @ Courthouse Square (Double Decker Arts Festival)
28 - San Diego, Calif. @ Cane’s Bar and Grill*
30 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Slim’s*

May
2 - Las Vegas, Nev. @ House of Blues*
3 - Tempe, Ariz. @ Clubhouse*
5 - Austin, Texas @ Emo’s*
6 - Dallas, Texas @ House of Blues*
7 - Houston, Texas @ Meridian (Red Room)*
9 - Lawrence, Kansas @ The Bottleneck*
10 - Sauget, Ill. @ Pop’s*
12 - Chapel Hill, N.C. @ Local 506
13 - Washington, D.C. @ Rock and Roll Hotel
14 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ Northstar
15 - New York, N.Y. @ Mercury Lounge
16 - Hoboken, N.J. @ Maxwell’s
17 - Northampton, Mass. @ Pearl Street
18 - Allston, Mass. @ Great Scott
20 - Buffalo, N.Y. @ Mohawk Place
21 - Toronto, Ontario @ Lee’s Place
22 - Akron, Ohio @ Musica
23 - Chicago, Ill. @ Subterranean
24 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ Varsity
26 - Oklahoma City, Okla. @ the Conservatory
31 - New Orleans, La. @ One Eyed Jacks

* with the Breeders

Related links:
ColourRevolt.com
The Breeders on 4AD.com
FatPossum.com

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Colour Revolt is staging a coup.

The much-anticipated first full-length album from the Oxford, Miss. wailers of Colour Revolt is set to officially overthrow your musical government on April 1. Keeping it local so as to stay under the radar and take authority-types by surprise, the band recorded Plunder, Beg, and Curse at Sweet Tea Recording Studio with producer Clay Jones (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello), and will release it on Fat Possum Records. According to the band's bio, Oxford, the site of all this underground action, is "a city famous for its many dignified dead." Where better to start a revolution?

The band turned quite a few heads in 2006 (including ours) with its only record to date, a self-titled EP which was released on both the Esperanza Plantation and Tiny Evil (Interscope) imprints.

Because every good revolt takes planning, the Mississippians have released a track list for the upcoming record and a free download of the first song, "Naked and Red," through Fat Possum.

After touring with the likes of Menomena, Manchester Orchestra, Black Lips, Brand New, Dinosaur Jr., Okkervil River and Explosions In The Sky, the band is stopping by SXSW before heading back on the road. Colour Revolt seems, as ever, ready for battle. "To be bludgeoned to death by sound, by music, says Colour Revolt. We have you and are not afraid."

Dates:

January
18 - Hattiesburg, Miss. @ Thirsty Hippo
19 - Cleveland, Miss. @ House Party
31 - Oxford, Miss. @ Proud Larrys

February
1 - Athens, Ga. @ 40 Watt
2 - Columbia, S.C. @ New Brookland Tavern

March
13 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
14 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW

April
5 - Jackson, Miss. @ Smith-Wills

Related links:
FatPossum.com
Paste Culture Club: Rock N' Reel 2006 Preview
ColourRevolt.com

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