Macaulay Culkin gets beer thrown at him and other live music tidbits from over the weekend

You weren't paying a lot of attention to the internet this weekend, which was fair, it was really nice across most of the country, and you were outside enjoying it. (The exception being Atlantic Canada, where apparently the weather is brutal right now. If you were doing anything other than looking at the internet this weekend, you're a masochist.)

1. Apparently Brits don't care for Macaulay Culkin's pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute band

It sounds like the Pizza Underground's U.K. tour isn't going as well as they'd hoped. The band played in Nottingham yesterday as part of the Dot to Dot Festival, and almost immediately had people throwing full pints of beer at them and booing loudly. The band walked offstage after 15 minutes.

We couldn't find any footage of the Nottingham show, but here's them getting a lukewarm-at-best reception in Bristol earlier in the week.

2. Tim Hecker, Swans, Deafheaven to play BasilicaSoundScape

The lineup has been announced for the third edition of BasilicaSoundScape. The event will take place on Sept. 12 and 13 at the Basilica Hudson, a warehouse-turned-arts and performance space in Hudson, N.Y., roughly two hours north of New York City.

While the festival may be taking place in New York State, there are multiple Canadian connections. The bill will feature Vancouver-born, Montreal-based electronic music artist Tim Hecker, and Montrealer and former Hole member Melissa Auf der Maur is one of Basilica's creative directors.

In addition to Hecker, Swans, Deafheaven and Julia Holter will also be playing the festival, with more acts to be announced later.

3. The Decemberists played their first show in three years on Saturday

The turn-of-the-millennium indie rock favourites played their first show in three years as part of the Boston Calling Festival. The set included two new songs, which will presumably be released on their new album, which is suppose to come out before the end of the year. They'll be doing another show in their hometown of Portland later this month. Here's the setlist, for those of you who are interested:

– "The Crane Wife 1 & 2"

– "The Crane Wife 3"

– "July, July!"

– "Down by the Water"

– "Calamity Song"

– "Odalisque"

– New song

– New song

– "Rox in the Box"

– "The Rake’s Song"

– "The Engine Driver"

– "O Valencia!"

– "16 Military Wives"

– "The Chimbley Sweep"

– "June Hymn"

4. Conor Oberst played on CBS This Morning

While other artists promote new albums on late night television, Conor Oberst has opted to go in the other direction. He played "Hundreds of Ways" and "You are Your Mother's Child" — two tracks from his new album, Upside Down Mountain — on CBS This Morning on Saturday.

by Chris Dart via Electronic RSS