Os parisienses Cocosuma procuram o homem dos milagres. Talvez os possa ajudar porque ainda hoje vi vários na área de classificados de um diário. "Miracle Man" é o novo single que tem este vídeo estreado no Daily Motion.
Cocosuma - "Miracle Man"
segunda-feira, agosto 31, 2009
Matemática Muda
De New Orleans, os Mutemath lançaram um novo disco, "Armistice", depois de já terem editado, este ano, o EP "Spotlight". Na sua discografia contam ainda com um disco ao vivo, além da sua primeira obra, "Mutemath", em 2006, na Warner Brothers.
No Letterman, na passada semana, tocaram "Backfire":
No Letterman, na passada semana, tocaram "Backfire":
Filtro Dourado
Na filtragem são eles bons. Os nova-iorquinos Golden Filter conseguem, com apenas um single no seu curriculum vitae, "Solid Gold", mas com muitas misturas feitas a boa gente sueca e australiana, colocar os seus fãs a salivar com um pequeno vídeo, do novo single a sair em ______ (isso, só eles sabem).
The Golden Filter - (teaser do novo single)
The Golden Filter - "Solid Gold"
The Golden Filter - (teaser do novo single)
The Golden Filter - "Solid Gold"
quinta-feira, agosto 27, 2009
Here Comes the They Might Be Giants
Depois de "Here Come the ABCs" e de ganharem um Grammy com "Here Come the 123s", os They Might Be Giants estão de regresso à saga "Here come the..", cd/dvd musicais educativos para crianças,com o cd-dvd "Here Comes Science". "Electric Car" é um dos temas e dos vídeos do novo trabalho.
Máquina do Tempo dos Music Go Music
Os Music Go Music têm apenas três 12" editados e um disco, "Expressions", lançado em Junho deste ano. Eles são um projecto de Los Angeles que fará as delícias de quem gosta de andar para trás no tempo uns, diria eu, trinta anos. Curioso como eles são quase perfeitos até nos adereços.
MySpace: Music Go Music
Mp3 da banda:
Music Go Music - "Warm in the Shadows" (via editora da banda, Secretly Canadian)
Music Go Music - "Warm in the Shadows" (so vivo no "Face Time")
Music Go Music - "Just Me" (ao vivo no "Face Time")
MySpace: Music Go Music
Mp3 da banda:
Music Go Music - "Warm in the Shadows" (via editora da banda, Secretly Canadian)
Music Go Music - "Warm in the Shadows" (so vivo no "Face Time")
Music Go Music - "Just Me" (ao vivo no "Face Time")
quarta-feira, agosto 26, 2009
You Better You Better You Bet
Não é novo mas apeteceu-me. O vídeo para "Love You Better", dos Maccabees.
Hockey Okey
New Wave, em 2009, ainda para mais com origem em Portland, Oregon, pode ser pouco provável, não? Não. It is just a song away.
Eles já tinham passado por aqui com "Learn to Lose".
Eles já tinham passado por aqui com "Learn to Lose".
terça-feira, agosto 25, 2009
Viver Bem é A Melhor Vingança
Parece o assunto para um "talk show" televisivo mas não é. Este o vídeo promocional do cd/dvd dos R.E.M. que documenta o espectáculo da banda no Olympia de...Dublin.
R.E.M. - "Living Well Is The Best Revenge"
R.E.M. - "Living Well Is The Best Revenge"
sexta-feira, agosto 21, 2009
Dois
Do disco "Hospice", dos Antlers, o vídeo, realizado por Ethan Segal and Albert Thrower, para "Two".
Them Crooked Vultures em Amesterdão
Os Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones), tocam "Dead End Friends", ao vivo, no Melkweg, em Amesterdão. Infelizmente, sendo este um vídeo feito por um fã, o som não é o melhor.
quinta-feira, agosto 20, 2009
Banda Sonora...Monstruosa
O novo filme realizado por Spike Jonze tem uma banda sonora feita por Karen O & Kids mas consta que os Kids são, entre outros, os parceiros dos Yeah Yeah Yeahs, um membro dos Deerhunter, Greg Kurstin (dos Bird & the Bee e responsável de muito do brilho no último disco de Lily Allen), membros dos Dead Weather (e não é o Jack White), etc.
Bang the Drums
Os The Drums (Jonathan Pierce - voz, Jacob Graham - guitarras, Adam Kessler - baixo e Connor Hanwick - bateria) vivem em Brooklyn mas o projecto iniciou-se a partir da amizade, iniciada num campo de férias, entre, então, as crianças Jonathan e Jacob.
Jonathan vivia em Brooklyn e Jacob estava na Florida, quando pensaram começar uma banda. Como o ambiente em Nova Iorque parecia ser mais propício ao sucesso, Jacob mudou-se para Nova Iorque. O primeiro concerto dos Drums em Nova Iorque foi no Popfest, em Maio deste ano. Foram contratados pela pequena editora norte-americana Twenty Seven records, responsável pela distribuição de algumas estrelas da sueca Labrador Records, como os Legends ou Pelle Carlberg, o que explica terem aberto concertos para estes artistas em Nova Iorque.
RCRD_LBL tem vários temas e misturas para download da banda.
Jonathan vivia em Brooklyn e Jacob estava na Florida, quando pensaram começar uma banda. Como o ambiente em Nova Iorque parecia ser mais propício ao sucesso, Jacob mudou-se para Nova Iorque. O primeiro concerto dos Drums em Nova Iorque foi no Popfest, em Maio deste ano. Foram contratados pela pequena editora norte-americana Twenty Seven records, responsável pela distribuição de algumas estrelas da sueca Labrador Records, como os Legends ou Pelle Carlberg, o que explica terem aberto concertos para estes artistas em Nova Iorque.
RCRD_LBL tem vários temas e misturas para download da banda.
quarta-feira, agosto 19, 2009
The Golden Silvers / novo single
Oa londrinos Golden Silvers têm um novo vídeo para o single "Please Venus", que faz parte do seu disco de estreia, o aclamado "True Romance". O single vai ser lançado a 31 de Agosto, sendo um dos formatos um EP com "Please Venus" e com mais três temas inéditos: "Lily the Lover", "Queen of the 21st Century" e "Locked up my Head".
terça-feira, agosto 18, 2009
Comi Umas Sardinhas Com os Nativos Locais
e depois eles gravaram isto no jardim da minha avó.
Os Local Natives a tocar uma versão de "Cecilia" do jovem Paul Simon.
Os Local Natives a tocar uma versão de "Cecilia" do jovem Paul Simon.
Sem Enguias Oferece-se EP
O homem com a melhor barba para comer esparguete, oferece, via MySpace, um Ep de 5 canções tocadas ao vivo (em estúdio).
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sábado, agosto 15, 2009
Music Alliance Pact: Agosto 2009
É 15, dia do mês para uma volta ao mundo em canções de, já, 31 países. Este mês juntaram-se a esta aliança musical global cinco nove blogues: Wooozy da China, Mouxlaloulouda da Grécia, Indiecision da Índia, Deathrockstar da Indonésia, e o Musical Mover & Shaker! da África do Sul.
Quanto aos músicos portugueses a representarem o nosso país são os Ölga, rapazes que apesar de não terem começado ontem, poucos os conhecem, infelizmente. Eles têm um novo single, "It´s Alright", que podem ouvir e fazer o download aqui, que serve de apresentação ao seu disco novo, "La Resistance".
Espero que gostem da selecção global deste mês.
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Baby Scream - Ups And Downs
Baby Scream is a musical project led by Juan Mazzola, with the ocassional collaboration of friends such as Cristian Basualdo, Sebastián Rubin and even Gilby Clarke's bassist Muddy Stardust. Mazzola writes pop songs with a strong influence from classics like The Byrds, The Beatles and The Replacements. This beautiful acoustic ballad was taken from the album with the same name, released last year in the US by Recording Records.
AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
The Frowning Clouds - Time Wastin' Woman
Geelong boys The Frowning Clouds are so 60s and very fun. Lead vocalist Nick (a dead ringer for George Harrison) and his poncho-wielding counterpart Zack rotate between singing and rhythm guitar duties. The coarse vocals of Zack lend backbone to Time Wastin' Woman, oozing with the sounds of the Stones' early catalogue.
BRAZIL: Meio Desligado
Copacabana Club - Just Do It
They're pretty, uber-cool and hyped. Justin Timberlake likes them. Channel Fox uses their song in a commercial. Do you want more or is that enough to make you see that Copacabana Club are a band to pay attention to? Last year the five-piece band (two women and three men) released their first EP, King Of The Night, from which Just Do It is taken. It's dance and kinda new-rave style make people think about CSS, but it's better to listen and judge for yourself.
CANADA: I(Heart)Music
Centretown Cripplers - Eat The Bee
Centretown Cripplers are a seven-piece. I only mention this because they're a garage rock band, and bands in that genre typically have a much more minimalistic approach to line-ups. As Eat The Bee shows, however, in this case size doesn't matter. Centretown Cripplers are loud, raucous, primal... and awesome.
CHILE: Super 45
Mostro - Moha Moha
Mostro, one of the cornerstones of the Chilean indie music scene, are Carlos and Jaime Reinoso, two mutant brothers who deliver an intense and creative musical experience. Playing, in their own words, "evil pop" with a guitar, drum and small keyboard, they attack you (yes, literally attack you) with a mix of minimal electronica and raw, intense rock that simply knocks you down, just like American duo High Places were when both bands recently shared a stage. Moha Moha, taken from their second LP Consumido Por Pájaros ("Eaten By Birds") is a small appetizer of their genius insanity while we await their third album.
CHINA: Wooozy
Sonnet - A Nice Song
Sonnet are a disco/indie rock band from Shanghai. As one of the few third rock generation in Shanghai, they've just independently released their second demo S-File. One of the band members is now helping the SOMA indie label host live shows at the Dream Factory venue in their native city.
DENMARK: All Scandinavian
Jong Pang - Liar Liar
Jong Pang aka Anders Rhedin released his lauded debut solo album Bright White Light just last year and already he's got the follow-up ready and out. It's titled Love and it is a magnificent alternative pop-rock effort from which I'm happy to present irresistible first single Liar Liar.
ENGLAND: The Daily Growl
The xx - Crystalised
Although they went to the same school as Four Tet and Burial, don't go making too many assumptions about The xx, a group of four teenagers from South London currently making waves in the UK ahead of the release of their debut album later this month. They may share similar influences (dub, R'n'B) but they take their songs in another direction with magnificently minimal production, all of which is done by themselves.
FINLAND: Glue
Astrid Swan - Unrelated
Earlier this year singer Astrid Swan dumped the piano (and along with it, the dramatically adorned songs) and took the guitar to compose simple, but sincere and personal pop songs that she recorded with a new band, The Drunk Lovers, for her soon-to-be released third album Better Than Wages. There we can find this synth-pop gem about erroneous encounters.
FRANCE: ZikNation
Mama's Mule - Globe Trotter
The Mule and Venom met during a studio session in 2007 and they immediatly clicked. For about a year, they kept seeing each other every now and then between concerts, studio sessions, taking the dog out, vacations and soccer games. Meanwhile, Jessy Rakotomanga and Sylvain Moreau pledged allegiance to the secret society. January 2009: tadaaaam. First demo. Three tracks. Viagra for your ears. Just listen.
GERMANY: Blogpartei
Timid Tiger - Are You Gonna Go My Way (feat. Ludacris & The Notorious B.I.G.)
Perhaps Timid Tiger are globally more famous for their remixes than for their regular songs. And hell yeah, this Lenny Kravitz cover does indeed kick ass. So enjoy it - but don't forget that this band from Cologne is creative and inspired in their own work, both on record and live.
GREECE: Mouxlaloulouda
Film - Filter
After a two-year period of experimentation in the studio, Film are releasing their third album. Persona is a dizzyingly beautiful set of delicate atmospheric songs with cinematic aesthetics and a detailed production. It signifies a different, more inviting musical direction that is influenced by the compositions of Vangelis Papathanasiou and summons lush combined voices, pop melodies, electronics, sparse strings and brasses. An album that is best taken from start to finish, where the songs will uncover its manifold delights, endear and impress.
ICELAND: I Love Icelandic Music
Agent Fresco - Above These City Lights
Agent Fresco formed in early 2008 with the goal of competing in the Músíktilraunir contest, a sort of Battle of the Bands, which they subsequently won. The quartet write complex songs with lots of rhythm changes and received the Brightest Hope (Best Newcomer) Award at the 2008 Icelandic Music Awards. The band, who released a five-song EP called Lightbulb Universe last December, are currently working on their debut album.
INDIA: Indiecision
Sridhar/Thayil - Bring Me Rain
The project of theatre actor and singer Suman Sridhar and poet Jeet Thayil, Sridhar/Thayil's lyrical pop takes thematic Indian music sensibilities and combines them with an urban swagger in the vein of early Björk and, occasionally, Tom Waits. Bring Me Rain is a perfect example of their dirty-sexy feel, taking traditional Indian sounds and cooking up something that could work equally well at a nu-jazz club or a grimy bar. Sridhar/Thayil have been around since 2007 and they're currently working on releasing their debut album.
INDONESIA: Deathrockstar
The Wispy Hummers - My Love
The Wispy Hummers is a singer-songwriter who is much influenced by The Zombies, Bright Eyes, Destroyer, Death Cab For Cutie and, above all, Bob Dylan. She has released two EPs, both recorded at home, creating a signature lo-fi quality that makes the songs more honest, heartfelt and nostalgic.
IRELAND: Nialler9
The Dying Seconds - The Ladder Drops
"To some people electronic music is impersonal. It's just an orgy of numbers, dancing together and doing as they're told. But have you ever wondered what would happen if you took apart the machine and tried to replace the motherboard with a human heart?" The Dying Seconds' own description says it better than I could. This is taken from their 2009 EP Some Grand Romantic Gesture. Lovely stuff. Download their album here.
ITALY: Polaroid
Fitness Forever - Vacanze a Settembre
It's August, everyone down here is on holiday and Fitness Forever are the perfect soundtrack, with their glamorous sound inspired by Burt Bacharach, Armando Trovajoli and classic 60s lounge-pop. They recently released their first album on the Spanish label Elefant Records and played a joyful set at the Indietracks Festival in the UK, making Derbyshire feel warm like a Mediterranean spot.
JAPAN: JPOP Lover
Nuito - NeKoMaJiN vs
Nuito are a post-rock experimental trio who formed in Kyoto in 2004. With tapping guitar, slap bass and hard drum, Nuito rapidly change beat and rhythm while they play, and make an immediate impression. Their experimental attitude is not about musical destruction or collaboration, but reconstruction.
MEXICO: Club Fonograma
Selma Oxor - Abrazame Demonio
Selma Oxor are the vindication of a youth spent having fun exploring rock, techno and pop, an all-in-one distorted vision that according to their MySpace sounds like "a cow giving birth". From their self-titled debut album comes Abrazame Demonio, a moment of useless exertion perhaps, but it's one of the few perfect songs we'll get to hear this year. It effectively transforms noisy punk into some kind of urban uprising.
NEW ZEALAND: Counting The Beat
Sora Shima - Hello Big Sky (Radio 909 remix)
Sora Shima are a four-piece instrumental group from Hamilton who specialise in the kind of start quiet, end apocalyptic epics that you hear from the likes of Explosions In The Sky or fellow countrymen Jakob. Hello Big Sky is from their third EP, Destroy Electronica. You'll find links to free downloads of the previous two releases on their MySpace. The five tracks on Destroy Electronica see the band experiment more with the form, adding variety but losing none of the power.
NORWAY: Eardrums
Casa Murilo - 19th Floor
Casa Murilo are the perfect band to present on a global project like MAP. They are based in Norway, originally from England and started making music together in Brazil. Two Englishmen, Chris Winfield and Dan Hesketh, met, lived and worked in Brazil for two years. They fell in love with two Norwegian girls. They moved to Oslo and started a band, Casa Murilo, with two Norwegian friends. They are currently in the studio recording their debut EP, The Waldemar Thranes Debacle.
PERU: SoTB
Serpentina Satelite - Nothing To Say
Serpentina Satelite formed at the end of 2003 in Lima. Their sound oscillates among calm, violence and ecstasy, in the spirit of space-rock and Krautrock. Their second record Nothing To Say, released on the Trip In Time label, is an extended five-track epic in which Serpentina Satelite bring us a turbulent and more powerful, rough sound. For the title track Nothing To Say, you better fasten your seatbelts - this is a high energy rock 'n' roll freak-out!
PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco?
Ölga - It's Alright
Ölga formed in 2001, as a quartet, from the ashes of another band. In 2003, they won an alternative rock contest and were invited by an indie label to release their first EP, Ö, in 2004. Their cello player left the band and their sound, as a trio, became more rock oriented. Their first LP, What Is, was released in early 2005. In 2007, they started recording their new record, La Resistance, which will be released in September. It's Alright is the first single and it is, at this time, only free and legally downloadable through the Music Alliance Pact.
ROMANIA: Babylon Noise
The :Egocentrics - Mystic Initiation
Loose jams, goosebumps, trance and therapy. These are the reasons why the three-piece instrumental band formed in Timisoara in early 2007. Combining stoner-rock vibes, 60s psychedelic, 70s rock 'n' roll with hints of old prog rock and post-metal - along with colourful, hypnotising visuals in a live setting - the band take an almost shamanic approach to music, acting like an intermediary between the listener and that mysterious and far away realm behind your eyelids.
SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop
My Cousin I Bid You Farewell - What We Are Eating Tonight
If this song is anything to go by, My Cousin I Bid You Farewell are cooking up something rather tasty. As a statement of intent for a band who have been around for less than a year, it reveals the scale of the ambition from within. It is big and it is clever. The Kate Bush-style piano melody, the brooding guitars and Jonathan Sellar’s haunting vocals - which resemble Win Butler’s - propel What We Are Eating Tonight into an anthem for the restless. Cracking song, cracking band.
SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To...
Jonathan Chan - Water Line
Taking a step back from the catchy power-punk of his band Plainsunset, Jonathan Chan comes forward with a more intimate and soulful musical offering with his EP, Pencil Tracings. An illustrator in his own right, Jonathan perhaps did not find it uncomfortable to show a more earnest, intricate side to his music. With Water Line, he seems right at home sketching out a brief outline of the world going by, with a guitar in hand and a somber voice, singing of life's constant love.
SOUTH AFRICA: Musical Mover & Shaker!
LAN - In The City
Head-bopping, dance-inducing beats are what LAN are about. LAN (Local Area Network) are the live representation of two DJs (CodecVSTheSound). The band formed in late 2008 and are made up of Gerald and Raffael (who are Codec and TheSound) on synths, percussion, vocals and samplers with Chris Slabber on drums. They call their music a mix of anything from 70s funk to booty bass all dropped over the latest electro tunes. With their song In The City showcasing their many influences and what they have to offer, their new material is sure to set the dancefloors alight.
SOUTH KOREA: Indieful ROK
Sunkyeol - I'll Write When I'm There
Kyoungmo Kim of Especially When has a new band and their name is Sunkyeol. Equipped with great melodies and a bit of experimentation that leaves a warm, fuzzy feeling, Sunkyeol are currently looking for a label to release their first single. I'll Write When I'm There was co-written and recorded with Joe Hollick of Wolf People in a joint project that never took off.
SWEDEN: Swedesplease
Erik de Vahl - Running
Erik de Vahl describes his new record as "the straightest pop songs I've ever done but also some more experimental pieces". You can hear both influences on the single song Running. It has a Memphis slow jam feel with instrumentation that reminds me of a classic Ann Peebles track, but it's layered in such a way with so many found sounds and samples that it does sound truly experimental.
UNITED STATES: I Guess I'm Floating
Happy Family - Cups
Baltimore's Happy Family, sandwiched somewhere between Panda Bear and Atlas Sound, are the latest in a group of like-minded lo-fi psych-pop outfits (Memory Cassette, Neon Indian, Washed Out) to be picking up buzz around the blogosphere. Cups is one of my favorite jams of the summer, taken from the recently-released Sound Farm EP which you can grab as a free download here.
VENEZUELA: Barquisimeto Musical
Mr. Swing & The Bongo Clan - Mi Camino
Mr. Swing & The Bongo Clan are a new band that gathers nine talented musicians from the Conservatory of the City of Barquisimeto, the same place where the famous music director Gustavo Dudamel came from. After almost 10 years of work, these guys released their debut album Ska*Jazz Venezolano, merging two musical genres with a wonderful result. Mi Camino shows the real soul of this band.
Para fazer o download das 31 canções num único ficheiro, carregue aqui.
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Baby Scream - Ups And Downs
Baby Scream is a musical project led by Juan Mazzola, with the ocassional collaboration of friends such as Cristian Basualdo, Sebastián Rubin and even Gilby Clarke's bassist Muddy Stardust. Mazzola writes pop songs with a strong influence from classics like The Byrds, The Beatles and The Replacements. This beautiful acoustic ballad was taken from the album with the same name, released last year in the US by Recording Records.
AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
The Frowning Clouds - Time Wastin' Woman
Geelong boys The Frowning Clouds are so 60s and very fun. Lead vocalist Nick (a dead ringer for George Harrison) and his poncho-wielding counterpart Zack rotate between singing and rhythm guitar duties. The coarse vocals of Zack lend backbone to Time Wastin' Woman, oozing with the sounds of the Stones' early catalogue.
BRAZIL: Meio Desligado
Copacabana Club - Just Do It
They're pretty, uber-cool and hyped. Justin Timberlake likes them. Channel Fox uses their song in a commercial. Do you want more or is that enough to make you see that Copacabana Club are a band to pay attention to? Last year the five-piece band (two women and three men) released their first EP, King Of The Night, from which Just Do It is taken. It's dance and kinda new-rave style make people think about CSS, but it's better to listen and judge for yourself.
CANADA: I(Heart)Music
Centretown Cripplers - Eat The Bee
Centretown Cripplers are a seven-piece. I only mention this because they're a garage rock band, and bands in that genre typically have a much more minimalistic approach to line-ups. As Eat The Bee shows, however, in this case size doesn't matter. Centretown Cripplers are loud, raucous, primal... and awesome.
CHILE: Super 45
Mostro - Moha Moha
Mostro, one of the cornerstones of the Chilean indie music scene, are Carlos and Jaime Reinoso, two mutant brothers who deliver an intense and creative musical experience. Playing, in their own words, "evil pop" with a guitar, drum and small keyboard, they attack you (yes, literally attack you) with a mix of minimal electronica and raw, intense rock that simply knocks you down, just like American duo High Places were when both bands recently shared a stage. Moha Moha, taken from their second LP Consumido Por Pájaros ("Eaten By Birds") is a small appetizer of their genius insanity while we await their third album.
CHINA: Wooozy
Sonnet - A Nice Song
Sonnet are a disco/indie rock band from Shanghai. As one of the few third rock generation in Shanghai, they've just independently released their second demo S-File. One of the band members is now helping the SOMA indie label host live shows at the Dream Factory venue in their native city.
DENMARK: All Scandinavian
Jong Pang - Liar Liar
Jong Pang aka Anders Rhedin released his lauded debut solo album Bright White Light just last year and already he's got the follow-up ready and out. It's titled Love and it is a magnificent alternative pop-rock effort from which I'm happy to present irresistible first single Liar Liar.
ENGLAND: The Daily Growl
The xx - Crystalised
Although they went to the same school as Four Tet and Burial, don't go making too many assumptions about The xx, a group of four teenagers from South London currently making waves in the UK ahead of the release of their debut album later this month. They may share similar influences (dub, R'n'B) but they take their songs in another direction with magnificently minimal production, all of which is done by themselves.
FINLAND: Glue
Astrid Swan - Unrelated
Earlier this year singer Astrid Swan dumped the piano (and along with it, the dramatically adorned songs) and took the guitar to compose simple, but sincere and personal pop songs that she recorded with a new band, The Drunk Lovers, for her soon-to-be released third album Better Than Wages. There we can find this synth-pop gem about erroneous encounters.
FRANCE: ZikNation
Mama's Mule - Globe Trotter
The Mule and Venom met during a studio session in 2007 and they immediatly clicked. For about a year, they kept seeing each other every now and then between concerts, studio sessions, taking the dog out, vacations and soccer games. Meanwhile, Jessy Rakotomanga and Sylvain Moreau pledged allegiance to the secret society. January 2009: tadaaaam. First demo. Three tracks. Viagra for your ears. Just listen.
GERMANY: Blogpartei
Timid Tiger - Are You Gonna Go My Way (feat. Ludacris & The Notorious B.I.G.)
Perhaps Timid Tiger are globally more famous for their remixes than for their regular songs. And hell yeah, this Lenny Kravitz cover does indeed kick ass. So enjoy it - but don't forget that this band from Cologne is creative and inspired in their own work, both on record and live.
GREECE: Mouxlaloulouda
Film - Filter
After a two-year period of experimentation in the studio, Film are releasing their third album. Persona is a dizzyingly beautiful set of delicate atmospheric songs with cinematic aesthetics and a detailed production. It signifies a different, more inviting musical direction that is influenced by the compositions of Vangelis Papathanasiou and summons lush combined voices, pop melodies, electronics, sparse strings and brasses. An album that is best taken from start to finish, where the songs will uncover its manifold delights, endear and impress.
ICELAND: I Love Icelandic Music
Agent Fresco - Above These City Lights
Agent Fresco formed in early 2008 with the goal of competing in the Músíktilraunir contest, a sort of Battle of the Bands, which they subsequently won. The quartet write complex songs with lots of rhythm changes and received the Brightest Hope (Best Newcomer) Award at the 2008 Icelandic Music Awards. The band, who released a five-song EP called Lightbulb Universe last December, are currently working on their debut album.
INDIA: Indiecision
Sridhar/Thayil - Bring Me Rain
The project of theatre actor and singer Suman Sridhar and poet Jeet Thayil, Sridhar/Thayil's lyrical pop takes thematic Indian music sensibilities and combines them with an urban swagger in the vein of early Björk and, occasionally, Tom Waits. Bring Me Rain is a perfect example of their dirty-sexy feel, taking traditional Indian sounds and cooking up something that could work equally well at a nu-jazz club or a grimy bar. Sridhar/Thayil have been around since 2007 and they're currently working on releasing their debut album.
INDONESIA: Deathrockstar
The Wispy Hummers - My Love
The Wispy Hummers is a singer-songwriter who is much influenced by The Zombies, Bright Eyes, Destroyer, Death Cab For Cutie and, above all, Bob Dylan. She has released two EPs, both recorded at home, creating a signature lo-fi quality that makes the songs more honest, heartfelt and nostalgic.
IRELAND: Nialler9
The Dying Seconds - The Ladder Drops
"To some people electronic music is impersonal. It's just an orgy of numbers, dancing together and doing as they're told. But have you ever wondered what would happen if you took apart the machine and tried to replace the motherboard with a human heart?" The Dying Seconds' own description says it better than I could. This is taken from their 2009 EP Some Grand Romantic Gesture. Lovely stuff. Download their album here.
ITALY: Polaroid
Fitness Forever - Vacanze a Settembre
It's August, everyone down here is on holiday and Fitness Forever are the perfect soundtrack, with their glamorous sound inspired by Burt Bacharach, Armando Trovajoli and classic 60s lounge-pop. They recently released their first album on the Spanish label Elefant Records and played a joyful set at the Indietracks Festival in the UK, making Derbyshire feel warm like a Mediterranean spot.
JAPAN: JPOP Lover
Nuito - NeKoMaJiN vs
Nuito are a post-rock experimental trio who formed in Kyoto in 2004. With tapping guitar, slap bass and hard drum, Nuito rapidly change beat and rhythm while they play, and make an immediate impression. Their experimental attitude is not about musical destruction or collaboration, but reconstruction.
MEXICO: Club Fonograma
Selma Oxor - Abrazame Demonio
Selma Oxor are the vindication of a youth spent having fun exploring rock, techno and pop, an all-in-one distorted vision that according to their MySpace sounds like "a cow giving birth". From their self-titled debut album comes Abrazame Demonio, a moment of useless exertion perhaps, but it's one of the few perfect songs we'll get to hear this year. It effectively transforms noisy punk into some kind of urban uprising.
NEW ZEALAND: Counting The Beat
Sora Shima - Hello Big Sky (Radio 909 remix)
Sora Shima are a four-piece instrumental group from Hamilton who specialise in the kind of start quiet, end apocalyptic epics that you hear from the likes of Explosions In The Sky or fellow countrymen Jakob. Hello Big Sky is from their third EP, Destroy Electronica. You'll find links to free downloads of the previous two releases on their MySpace. The five tracks on Destroy Electronica see the band experiment more with the form, adding variety but losing none of the power.
NORWAY: Eardrums
Casa Murilo - 19th Floor
Casa Murilo are the perfect band to present on a global project like MAP. They are based in Norway, originally from England and started making music together in Brazil. Two Englishmen, Chris Winfield and Dan Hesketh, met, lived and worked in Brazil for two years. They fell in love with two Norwegian girls. They moved to Oslo and started a band, Casa Murilo, with two Norwegian friends. They are currently in the studio recording their debut EP, The Waldemar Thranes Debacle.
PERU: SoTB
Serpentina Satelite - Nothing To Say
Serpentina Satelite formed at the end of 2003 in Lima. Their sound oscillates among calm, violence and ecstasy, in the spirit of space-rock and Krautrock. Their second record Nothing To Say, released on the Trip In Time label, is an extended five-track epic in which Serpentina Satelite bring us a turbulent and more powerful, rough sound. For the title track Nothing To Say, you better fasten your seatbelts - this is a high energy rock 'n' roll freak-out!
PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco?
Ölga - It's Alright
Ölga formed in 2001, as a quartet, from the ashes of another band. In 2003, they won an alternative rock contest and were invited by an indie label to release their first EP, Ö, in 2004. Their cello player left the band and their sound, as a trio, became more rock oriented. Their first LP, What Is, was released in early 2005. In 2007, they started recording their new record, La Resistance, which will be released in September. It's Alright is the first single and it is, at this time, only free and legally downloadable through the Music Alliance Pact.
ROMANIA: Babylon Noise
The :Egocentrics - Mystic Initiation
Loose jams, goosebumps, trance and therapy. These are the reasons why the three-piece instrumental band formed in Timisoara in early 2007. Combining stoner-rock vibes, 60s psychedelic, 70s rock 'n' roll with hints of old prog rock and post-metal - along with colourful, hypnotising visuals in a live setting - the band take an almost shamanic approach to music, acting like an intermediary between the listener and that mysterious and far away realm behind your eyelids.
SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop
My Cousin I Bid You Farewell - What We Are Eating Tonight
If this song is anything to go by, My Cousin I Bid You Farewell are cooking up something rather tasty. As a statement of intent for a band who have been around for less than a year, it reveals the scale of the ambition from within. It is big and it is clever. The Kate Bush-style piano melody, the brooding guitars and Jonathan Sellar’s haunting vocals - which resemble Win Butler’s - propel What We Are Eating Tonight into an anthem for the restless. Cracking song, cracking band.
SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To...
Jonathan Chan - Water Line
Taking a step back from the catchy power-punk of his band Plainsunset, Jonathan Chan comes forward with a more intimate and soulful musical offering with his EP, Pencil Tracings. An illustrator in his own right, Jonathan perhaps did not find it uncomfortable to show a more earnest, intricate side to his music. With Water Line, he seems right at home sketching out a brief outline of the world going by, with a guitar in hand and a somber voice, singing of life's constant love.
SOUTH AFRICA: Musical Mover & Shaker!
LAN - In The City
Head-bopping, dance-inducing beats are what LAN are about. LAN (Local Area Network) are the live representation of two DJs (CodecVSTheSound). The band formed in late 2008 and are made up of Gerald and Raffael (who are Codec and TheSound) on synths, percussion, vocals and samplers with Chris Slabber on drums. They call their music a mix of anything from 70s funk to booty bass all dropped over the latest electro tunes. With their song In The City showcasing their many influences and what they have to offer, their new material is sure to set the dancefloors alight.
SOUTH KOREA: Indieful ROK
Sunkyeol - I'll Write When I'm There
Kyoungmo Kim of Especially When has a new band and their name is Sunkyeol. Equipped with great melodies and a bit of experimentation that leaves a warm, fuzzy feeling, Sunkyeol are currently looking for a label to release their first single. I'll Write When I'm There was co-written and recorded with Joe Hollick of Wolf People in a joint project that never took off.
SWEDEN: Swedesplease
Erik de Vahl - Running
Erik de Vahl describes his new record as "the straightest pop songs I've ever done but also some more experimental pieces". You can hear both influences on the single song Running. It has a Memphis slow jam feel with instrumentation that reminds me of a classic Ann Peebles track, but it's layered in such a way with so many found sounds and samples that it does sound truly experimental.
UNITED STATES: I Guess I'm Floating
Happy Family - Cups
Baltimore's Happy Family, sandwiched somewhere between Panda Bear and Atlas Sound, are the latest in a group of like-minded lo-fi psych-pop outfits (Memory Cassette, Neon Indian, Washed Out) to be picking up buzz around the blogosphere. Cups is one of my favorite jams of the summer, taken from the recently-released Sound Farm EP which you can grab as a free download here.
VENEZUELA: Barquisimeto Musical
Mr. Swing & The Bongo Clan - Mi Camino
Mr. Swing & The Bongo Clan are a new band that gathers nine talented musicians from the Conservatory of the City of Barquisimeto, the same place where the famous music director Gustavo Dudamel came from. After almost 10 years of work, these guys released their debut album Ska*Jazz Venezolano, merging two musical genres with a wonderful result. Mi Camino shows the real soul of this band.
Para fazer o download das 31 canções num único ficheiro, carregue aqui.
quinta-feira, agosto 13, 2009
Saudades de Avalon
De "Popular Songs", mais um vídeo de um tema que suspeito que não virá a ser muito popular. "Popular Songs" é o nome do novo disco dos roucos de Hoboken, os Yo La Tengo, que têm saudades de Avalon. Não adiantaram nenhum sentimento sobre Brian Ferry.
quarta-feira, agosto 12, 2009
Nunca Digas Nunca
Amanda Black, foi buscar letras para o seu novo single, "Might Like You Better", a "Never Say Never", tema do disco "Warm, In Your Coat", de 1982.
O tema, "Never Say Never", desde a data de edição, 1982, já teve várias bandas/artistas a fazerem as suas versões para além de ter feito parte de bandas sonoras e até de vídeojogos.
Romeo Void- "Never Say Never"
Amanda Black - "Might Like You Better"
O tema, "Never Say Never", desde a data de edição, 1982, já teve várias bandas/artistas a fazerem as suas versões para além de ter feito parte de bandas sonoras e até de vídeojogos.
Romeo Void- "Never Say Never"
Amanda Black - "Might Like You Better"
John Paul Jones + Dave Grohl + Josh Homme = Crooked Vultures
John Paul Jones (Led Zep) + Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) + Josh Homme (Queens of The Stone Age) = Them Crooked Vultures
The Sound of Arrows invadem a Grã-Bretanha
Stefan Storm e Oskar Gullstrand, o duo sueco que dá pelo nome de The Sound of Arrows, de que vos falei anteriormente, mudaram-se para Londres, por algum tempo, para promoverem o seu primeiro disco editado na Grã-Bretanha.
O máxi de "Into the Clouds" será lançado no formato máxi-single em Setembro.
The Sound of Arrows - "Into the Clouds"
O máxi de "Into the Clouds" será lançado no formato máxi-single em Setembro.
The Sound of Arrows - "Into the Clouds"
terça-feira, agosto 11, 2009
Miike Snow "Animal" (segundo vídeo)
Este tema já tem dois vídeos oficiais. Este é o segundo ou o outro é que era?
Miike Snow - "Animal" (Versão Online)
Miike Snow - "Animal" (Versão Online)
O Alturas Com Amigos
De Baltimore, os Height with Friends, do seu disco "Baltimore Highlands", o vídeo para o tema "Mike Stone".
Height With Friends - "Mike Stone"
Height With Friends - "Mike Stone"
Willy DeVille (1953-2009)
Depois de uma batalha com um cancro no pâncreas, faleceu, a 6 de Agosto, a vinte e um dias de completar os 56 anos, William Dorsey (conhecido artisticamente como Willy DeVille).
Willy DeVille, que alguns ainda recordarão pela sua banda dos anos 70, os Mink DeVille, era um devoto guitarrista e, o seu primeiro disco a solo, em 1987, foi produzido por outro grande homem das cordas, Mark Knopfler.
Viveu, desde 1990, em New Orleans, tendo trabalhado e tocado ao vivo com alguns dos melhores músicos da cidade, como Dr. John ou Allen Toussaint.
A sua discografia é também representativa do que DeVille mais fez na sua vida: tocar ao vivo.
Mink DeVille - "Spanish Stroll"
Willy DeVille - "You Better Move On"
Willy DeVille, que alguns ainda recordarão pela sua banda dos anos 70, os Mink DeVille, era um devoto guitarrista e, o seu primeiro disco a solo, em 1987, foi produzido por outro grande homem das cordas, Mark Knopfler.
Viveu, desde 1990, em New Orleans, tendo trabalhado e tocado ao vivo com alguns dos melhores músicos da cidade, como Dr. John ou Allen Toussaint.
A sua discografia é também representativa do que DeVille mais fez na sua vida: tocar ao vivo.
Mink DeVille - "Spanish Stroll"
Willy DeVille - "You Better Move On"
segunda-feira, agosto 10, 2009
Guerra: Fechada
Ele não teve que aprender português (brasileiro) para se fazer perceber no Brasil. Como todos os homens grandes, era modesto e querido por todos.
Veneza Está a Afundar-se e Desconfio do Ryan
De Atenas, Georgia, vêm os Venice Is Sinking (Daniel Lawson, Karolyn Troupe, Lucas Jensen, James Sewell e Jeremy Sellers). Eles têm dado que falar em alguns blogs norte-americanos e têm sido aposta nas rádios alternativas norte-americanas. Terão um disco novo, um EP, à venda em Setembro, que dá pelo nome de "Okay" (os Okay eram uma banda que eles admiram e, dessa mesma banda, eles apresentam duas versões de temas dessa banda). Lançaram em Março um LP que dá pelo nome de "Azar".
O vídeo que vão ver é do tema "Ryan´s Song", do qual podem fazer um download gratuito a partir do site da banda (na primeira página, em baixo). Podem também visitá-los no MySpace.
O vídeo que vão ver é do tema "Ryan´s Song", do qual podem fazer um download gratuito a partir do site da banda (na primeira página, em baixo). Podem também visitá-los no MySpace.
XX Back To Basics
Os xx, que é como quem dz Oliver, Romy, Baria e Jamie, que me parecem a mim, um potencial futuro caso sério na música alternativa, pela sua qualidade e originalidade, e de quem fiz a primeira menção em Abril (ver aqui e aqui), têm um novo vídeo para o seu segundo single, "Basic Space", do disco que está para sair a 17 de Agosto (mas já podem ouvi-lo no we7 e confirmar os XX como uma das muito boas surpresas de 2009), na Grã-Bretanha. Eles ouviram os Young Marble Giants e os primeiros discos dos Cure, isso é certo, mas juntaram-lhes um pouco, muito pouco, mais de sol, como se pode ouvir neste "Basic Space". No entanto, eles não escondem o seu gosto por r&b e soul, tendo incluvamente feito versões, e gravado, temas de Aaliyah, "Hot Like Fire", que aparece como lado B do seu primeiro single, e de "Teardrops", de Womack & Womack.
XX - "Basic Space"
(Realização do vídeo: Anthony Dickenson)
XX - "Basic Space"
(Realização do vídeo: Anthony Dickenson)
domingo, agosto 09, 2009
sexta-feira, agosto 07, 2009
Yacht outra vez por causa de uns party poopers
Uns "party poopers" tiraram o vídeo do YouTube que coloquei aqui há dias. Está resolvido:
YACHT - Psychic City (Voodoo City)
John Hughes
Haveria tanto para dizer e para escrever sobre a influência da obra de John Hughes na cultura pop norte-americana e, consequentemente, na do resto do mundo, especialmente com alguns dos seus trabalhos dos anos oitenta como "The Breakfast Club" (1985), "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), "Pretty in Pink" (1986).
Havia toda uma cultura jovem norte-americana, dos anos oitenta, que até então vivia por descobrir pelo "mainstream" e que passou da obscuridão para ribalta, com a obra de Hughes. Nela estava uma geração de adolescentes que ouvia, fechada no seu quarto, aquilo que se ouvia nos Estados Unidos da América apenas num sítio, nas "college radios" (rádios universitárias). Eram bandas que, obscuras na altura, hoje são, algumas, permanências asseguradas nas grandes rádios comerciais de todo o mundo. Nos anos oitenta, sendo sons "estranhos" à cultura instituida (do hard rock, soul, hip hop, rock, rock fm) eram apostas com muito risco. John Hughes e a sua equipa integrava, sem medo, nos seus filmes, estes temas como acompanhantes dos actores ou mesmo do argumento do filme.
Graças aos filmes de Hughes, bandas como Simple Minds (com "Don´t You Forget About Me" em "Breakfest Club", tema que não foi composto pela banda e não tinha sido aceite por Billy Idol e Bryan Ferry para gravar), Psychedelic Furs ("Pretty in Pink"), Yello (o tema "Oh, Yeah" em Ferris Bueller´s Day Off"), O.M.D. ("If You Leave" em "Pretty in Pink") New Order, Inxs, entre tantos outros, tornaram-se nomes conhecidos dos jovens norte-americanos.
De notar que, mesmo em "She´s Having A Baby", de 1988, a banda sonora tem participações de Love and Rockets, XTC, e dos Everything but the Girl. Em 1988, em Portugal, deviam existir duas ou três pessoas, sendo o António Sérgio uma delas, que passavam, pelo menos XTC e Love and Rockets, na rádio.
Por infortúnia coincidência, coloquei aqui há dias um vídeo de um tema, a cover do tema dos Smiths, pelos Dream Academy, que integra a banda sonora de "Ferris Bueller´s Day Off", na cena em que fazem uma visita ao museu.
Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink"
Neste extracto ouvem-se
Yello - "Oh Yeah" e Flowerpot Men "Beat City" ("Ferris Bueller´s Day Off")
New Order - "Shell Shock" ("Breakfast Club")
OMD - If You Leave (de "Pretty In Pink")
Havia toda uma cultura jovem norte-americana, dos anos oitenta, que até então vivia por descobrir pelo "mainstream" e que passou da obscuridão para ribalta, com a obra de Hughes. Nela estava uma geração de adolescentes que ouvia, fechada no seu quarto, aquilo que se ouvia nos Estados Unidos da América apenas num sítio, nas "college radios" (rádios universitárias). Eram bandas que, obscuras na altura, hoje são, algumas, permanências asseguradas nas grandes rádios comerciais de todo o mundo. Nos anos oitenta, sendo sons "estranhos" à cultura instituida (do hard rock, soul, hip hop, rock, rock fm) eram apostas com muito risco. John Hughes e a sua equipa integrava, sem medo, nos seus filmes, estes temas como acompanhantes dos actores ou mesmo do argumento do filme.
Graças aos filmes de Hughes, bandas como Simple Minds (com "Don´t You Forget About Me" em "Breakfest Club", tema que não foi composto pela banda e não tinha sido aceite por Billy Idol e Bryan Ferry para gravar), Psychedelic Furs ("Pretty in Pink"), Yello (o tema "Oh, Yeah" em Ferris Bueller´s Day Off"), O.M.D. ("If You Leave" em "Pretty in Pink") New Order, Inxs, entre tantos outros, tornaram-se nomes conhecidos dos jovens norte-americanos.
De notar que, mesmo em "She´s Having A Baby", de 1988, a banda sonora tem participações de Love and Rockets, XTC, e dos Everything but the Girl. Em 1988, em Portugal, deviam existir duas ou três pessoas, sendo o António Sérgio uma delas, que passavam, pelo menos XTC e Love and Rockets, na rádio.
Por infortúnia coincidência, coloquei aqui há dias um vídeo de um tema, a cover do tema dos Smiths, pelos Dream Academy, que integra a banda sonora de "Ferris Bueller´s Day Off", na cena em que fazem uma visita ao museu.
Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink"
Neste extracto ouvem-se
Yello - "Oh Yeah" e Flowerpot Men "Beat City" ("Ferris Bueller´s Day Off")
New Order - "Shell Shock" ("Breakfast Club")
OMD - If You Leave (de "Pretty In Pink")
quarta-feira, agosto 05, 2009
just DO IT
Para quem pensa que as pessoas em Seattle só pensam em guitarradas com histórias de depressão, revolta e angústia, ouçam os Library Science que, sem dúvida, têm um grande sentido de humor e uma forma de fazer...arte que não deixa espaço nem tempo para a depressão. Eles, como projecto, dividem-se em um Sound Team (Andy Arkley,Peter Lynch, Susan DeLint) e em um Video Team (Kevin Millard, Leslie Smith). Isso já gerou dois discos, um em 2004, "High Life Honey", e, em 2007, "The Chancellor". O vídeo agora lançado de um tema novo, "Do it to it", é o desafio que fazem para descobrirmos a obra já feita e o novo disco que está a caminho.
O grande trabalho de direcção do vídeo foi de Matthew Salton.
O grande trabalho de direcção do vídeo foi de Matthew Salton.
TEMOS SINAL dos Deerhunter
Os Deerhunter, ao vivo, parao programa "We Have Signal", programa numa estação de televisão, de Albama, associada do Public Broadcasting Service (uma espécie de RTP 2 dos ricos sem magazines de tourada e programas sobre música à 1 da manhã)
terça-feira, agosto 04, 2009
Bate Com Força, Florence!
Já sabem que eu e a Florence somos "happy together" (como se vê). "Drumming Song" é o novo single, do seu disco, a chegar às lojas virtuais e reais em Setembro.
Florence + The Machine - " Drumming Song "
Florence + The Machine - " Drumming Song "
Enquanto a Academia Sonhava
The Dream Academy - "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (1985)
segunda-feira, agosto 03, 2009
Monte Santa Helena Banda do Vietname
Parece que Seattle ainda tem coisas a dizer. Os Mt. Saint Helens Vietnam Band têm finalmente um vídeo para o fantástico "Albatross Albatross Albatross".
Vamos no seu Yacht?
Eles dizem que estas alusões ao culto do culto do oculto são apenas brincadeira. Por isso, crianças, não peguem na caixa de fósforos nem imitem este Yacht, de duas pessoas (Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans), com bandeira de Portland mas com sabor a Oregão.
YACHT - "Psychic City (Voodoo City)" (de"See Mystery Lights")
Fonte: Not Ifmv
YACHT - "Psychic City (Voodoo City)" (de"See Mystery Lights")
Fonte: Not Ifmv
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