MUSIC ALLIANCE PACT :: NOVEMBRO 2011

O mais fascinente, neste exercício de apresentar, todos os meses, uma banda ou um artista para esta lista internacional que é o Music Alliance Pact (M.A.P.), é constatar o que a música portuguesa, na sua diversidade, criatividade e sofisticação tem evoluído, desde a onda da música moderna portuguesa, pós-25 de Abril, nos finais dos anos setenta e início dos anos oitenta. É salutar que, apesar da crise e do pecaminoso e persistente problema das rádios portuguesas não apoiarem, a música moderna portuguesa, que haja pessoas que insistam, persistam e não desistam, como é o caso de Miguel Dias, conhecido como Rose Blanket.

Neste disco, "Nothing Ahead / Nothing Behind ", o terceiro como Rose Blanket, teve a colaboração de Ana Deus, Bárbara Carvalho, Francisco Silva, Pedro Oliveira, e Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields) e Dana Schechter (Bee And Flower), entre outros. "Feel My Way Around", é um dos temas incluidos nesta obra, e, este mês,  representa Portugal no M.A.P.





Clique no botão de "play" para ouvir as músicas individualmente , clique com o botão direito do rato, no título da canção, para fazer o download de uma canção, ou faça um download de todas as canções deste mês através desta compilação via MediaFire.

ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Fútbol - El Asedio De River El Eternauta is an amazing science fiction comic created by Argentine comic strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld with artwork by Francisco Solano López. It was first published from 1957 to 1959. Los Ellos is a tribute compilation to this work and its author, one of 30,000 people who disappeared during the dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. The album contains 18 original tracks written by independent bands from La Plata and Buenos Aires. El Asedio De River is one of them, an instrumental track from alternative rock trio Fútbol.


AUSTRÁLIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They? Feathers - Cat Burgler Cat Burgler is a sweet new jam from Brisbane's Feathers, taken from their forthcoming 12" Hunter's Moon, out through Bon Voyage. The song showcases this all-female four-piece's ability to intertwine whimsy and hooks into irresistible tunes suited for both Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.


BRASIL: Meio Desligado Kassin - Calça De Ginástica Kassin is a producer who has worked with some of the most creative artists in Brazilian contemporary music. He has also played in some bands and projects and this year he released his first solo album, from which Calça De Ginástica is taken. The electronic pop is combined with funny lyrics in which a man tells of his desires with a girl he knows (such as having sex with her in a paraplegic's bathroom while wearing his gym clothes).


CANADÁ: I(Heart)Music First Rate People - Someone Else Can Make A Work Of Art Someone Else Can Make A Work Of Art is a dance song, but only in the way that, say, All My Friends is a dance song. It's got incredibly catchy beats and a wonderful vocal performance, but it's held together by a genuine emotional core. It, and the album it comes from, are currently free for download from Bandcamp, so there's really no reason not to go get it right now.


CHILE: Super 45 Fernando Milagros - Carnaval (feat. Christina Rosenvinge) San Sebastián, the third album from singer-songwriter Fernando Milagros, is, in simple terms, a masterpiece. Although in his early days as a musician Milagros pointed towards a more contemplative kind of folk (a big reference here would be Nick Drake or the calmer moments of Devendra Banhart), in his newest album he explores South American music, creating denser pieces, darker yet more powerful. Carnaval, the first single from the album, features guest Spanish musician Christina Rosenvinge.


CHINA: Wooozy Tong Dang - Don't Let Me Cry Tong Dang formed in 2001 in Chengdu. Their name is derived from the Chinese word meaning "Young Gang". They started off as a melodic nu-metal band and gradually added elements of pop-punk and emo. Tong Dang are known for their explosive performances which features catchy hooks and melodies. Don't Let Me Cry is taken from their album Far Away, released in 2007.



DINAMARCA: All Scandinavian Echo Me - Darkest Hour It's alternative pop-rock with a folksy touch. It's Echo Me aka Jesper Madsen. It's an eponymous debut album. And it's great.


INGLATERRA: The Guardian Music Blog WooWoos - Fizzy Lettuce WooWoos are Nicky, Tasie and Jess, three London girls shaping up to be the new Sugababes - only the Sugababes when they were good, when Keisha, Mutya and Siobhan were in the group, not the three ciphers they've got in now. They're funny, they're sassy, and their debut single, Fizzy Lettuce, is 90s trip-hop revisited with a solid chorus that suggests there in a substantial musical base below the fizz and pop. We still don't know what is a Woo Woo, or indeed what is fizzy lettuce, but at least they're getting us thinking, these sugar-babes with subversive intent.



ESTÓNIA: Popop Ewert And The Two Dragons - Jolene Ewert And The Two Dragons, consisting of Evert Sundja, Erki Pärnoja, Ivo Etti and Kristjan Kallas, sky-rocketed into the Estonian music scene in autumn 2009 with their debut album The Hills Behind The Hills. 2010 was a busy year for the Dragons: they performed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, including noted festivals such as Tallinn Music Week and Positivus. Their smooth sounds and melodies have been praised both at home and abroad. Their second album, Good Man Down, came out in April and has enjoyed tremendous success.


FINLÂNDIA: Glue The Saturnettes - Girl Named Sue The Saturnettes, from Tampere, blend in a refreshing way the 70s glam rock sounds of David Bowie and T. Rex with a touch of new wave and synth-pop. Girl Named Sue is the very catchy first single off their debut album.



FRANÇA: Yet You're Fired 1995 - La Source Ask someone from France if they like French rap and they will most likely answer 'no', but ask if they likes old-school rap and the answer is most likely to be 'yes'. And that's what this month's band is all about: old-school rap, with modern lyrics. 1995 (or "un-double-neuf-cinq"/"un-neuf-neuf-cinq") is a young rap collective (five MCs, one DJ) hailing from Paris who released an extraordinary, well-received EP, La Source, last June. The EP is a work of art for people disappointed and bored by gangsta-like music, and is almost a miracle for the purists as well, thanks to the return to basics, the flow and the instrumentals. You can buy La Source on Amazon or iTunes.


ALEMANHA: Blogpartei Jolly Goods - If I Were A Woman When you listen to Jolly Goods' second album Walrus, released recently on Staatsakt, you should be prepared for some serious disarray. Their songs, especially their lyrics, bear testament to a deep doubt in the world as it appears to these two sisters; they capture emotions like anger, trepidation and a little bit of hope in an extraordinary way.



GRÉCIA: Mouxlaloulouda Sugar Factory - 440 Sugar Factory have unleashed their luminous, lilting, lovely debut single, the double A-side 440 / Explosions. It's an insular instrumental experience, casting intrigue in the minute details, an immersive and inevitably cinematic gem rich in fuzzy memories, nostalgia, melody and atmosphere, with woozy accordion that accentuates the underlying emotions, guitars and samples with an otherworldly quality that lingers with you. Listen to 440, a perfect mood piece as the night begins to draw in.


INDONÉSIA: Deathrockstar Polka Wars - Horse Hooves Horse Hooves is an echoey, spacey song made by a collective of young boys influenced by the current fuzzed and mopey music scene. You'll love their simple interpretation of what we call humble music.


IRLANDA: Nialler9 We Cut Corners - Go Easy Go Easy is a fine example of what to expect from Today I Realised I Could Go Backwards, the debut album from Dublin duo We Cut Corners. Restricting themselves to drums, guitar and voice doesn't hamper John Duignan and Conall O'Breachain in the construction of their direct songs. Rather, they find new ways to create unique songs from a limited palette. They might Go Easy but they will go far.


ITÁLIA: Polaroid Horrible Present - Cloudy Talks Nicola Donà used to sing in the band Calorifero, now he lives in London and writes music under the moniker Horrible Present. His new songs are more lo-fi, bedroom pop-oriented, ranging from synth-driven experimental tunes to romantic acoustic guitar ballads, but always with a big shining love for melodies. And the love is returned. Expect a debut album in early 2012.



JAPÃO: Make Believe Melodies Avec Avec - Kuzuha No Sunday Avec Avec is one of the most promising young artists to emerge in a burgeoning electronic scene based in the Kansai region. Kuzuha No Sunday stands as one of the best tracks from this fledgling movement, a stuttering beat-driven song reminiscent of Bibio or Cornelius that sounds like a perfect sunny Sunday. The sweetest part comes via that glitchy vocal sample, one of the most joyous sounds to come out of Japan this year.


MALTA: Stagedive Malta Cable 35 - Cow Head Formed in 2006, Cable 35 have become known for their highly energetic performances and are arguably Malta's tightest band. The three-piece is made up of singer and guitarist Jeffrey Zerafa, bassist Kriz Zahra and drummer Chris Mallia. Following a couple of EPs, the band released their aptly-titled debut album Louder three months ago and are currently touring Europe to promote it. Louder brings back Bleach-era Nirvana to your ears.



MÉXICO: Red Bull Panamérika Antoine Reverb - You As A Fish The tradition states that Guadalajara is the quintessential land for Machos and Mariachi in Mexico. But Antoine Reverb (actually a quintet, not a person) doesn't belong to their time and place. On their splendid second album Everything Is A Foreign Language To Me, the band sets their inner clocks backwards on a swirly Victorian time-travel in a quest to reach the land of the Pet Sounds, rabbit-holing on a twee-gaze mood (reminiscent of Broadcast in the 90s), finally sliding on a spiral that leads to confusing atmospheres that resemble the soundtrack for the Czech vampire film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders. Antoine Reverb are not only strangers in their own land, but in their own dreams.


HOLANDA: Unfold Amsterdam Moon & Sun - Hunt (Gavin Russom remix) Although based in Amsterdam, Moon & Sun is very much an international concept. At its core is artist/musician Monica Tormell, who's originally from Sweden but who wrote and recorded her debut album, The Wild Things, in Curaçao, the Swedish woods and also back in Amsterdam. That original collection emerged last November, offering bouts of atmospheric and tribal folk. One year on, a number of its tracks have been reworked by a host of international collaborators. This remix by DFA artist and LCD Soundsystem collaborator Gavin Russom draws on the heavily percussive elements to create electronic patterns reminiscent of Swedish peers The Knife and jj.



NOVA ZELÂNDIA: Einstein Music Journal Fabulous/Arabia - The Ballad Of State Highway 1 James Milne (Lawrence Arabia) and Mike Fabulous (The Black Seeds) unveiled their collaboration last month and surprised many fans by presenting an album of nu jazz songs - combining elements of funk, soul and jazz, while quite obviously retaining Lawrence Arabia's indie-pop influence. Their debut album is a mixed bag, each song exploring a different path. The most obvious reference is British downtempo DJ Mr Scruff, courtesy of Fabulous' wonderfully unusual instrumental experimentation. Their debut album Unlimited Buffet can be downloaded from Bandcamp.


NORUEGA: Birds Sometimes Dance Bendik - Igjen Bendik is a lush, ambient electro-pop band signed to the great Trondheim-based label Riot Factory alongside the likes of Scarlet Chives, Dråpe, Angelica's Elegy and Pelbo. It started as Silje Halstensen's solo project but has now grown into a trio. They have played at some of the biggest festivals throughout Norway, such as Øyafestivalen, Pstereo and Slottsfjell, and their debut album will be released next year.



PERÚ: SoTB Division Mayday - Lugar Seguro Division Mayday formed in 2008 and their sound ranges from post-punk to electro-pop. A mix of electronic guitars, intimate lyrics, an intense rhythmic base and electronic sequences are the raw materials of their musical proposal.


PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco? Rose Blanket - Feel My Way Around Nothing Ahead Nothing Behind is the third album from Miguel Dias' project Rose Blanket, recorded between 2008 and 2011. For this double album, he collaborated with several Portuguese musicians and two American vocalists, Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields) and Dana Schechter (Bee And Flower). Feel My Way Around features Jennifer Charles.



ROMÉNIA: Babylon Noise East Roots - S.O.S. East Roots is not a conventional dub/reggae band. As the cardinal points, each member comes with a new direction: drum 'n' bass, reggae, ska, dancehall and even trip-hop, you will find it all in their music.


RÚSSIA: Big Echo Valotihkuu - Two Shadows Valotihkuu's Flutter EP is made up of 15 tracks which collect memories and emotions of a full year, filled up with nostalgia, old vibes, cassette tapes, weird samples and a unique feel that might remind you of Madlib and Monster Rally.


ESCÓCIA: The Pop Cop King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats In The Attic (Unravelled) Rarely has the word "timeless" been more appropriate for a record. It took seven years for King Creosote and Jon Hopkins to make their first collaborative album, the Mercury Prize-nominated Diamond Mine, and it handsomely captures delicate snapshots of unhurried, everyday life in rural Fife - literally, with the sound of coffee shop chatter, running streams and chirping seagulls. Here's an exclusive free MAP download of their reworking of album track Bats In The Attic, taken from their Honest Words EP.

 SINGAPURA: I'm Waking Up To... Magus - Riders On Psychedelics Magus is a new collaboration between Mark Dolmont and Leslie Low, the latter best known for his work with Humpback Oak and The Observatory. Their debut effort is fittingly the first release by Ujikaji Records, a new independent label and distro focusing on experimental music in the region. The album, titled Sun Worshipper, presents a dark and spiritual brew of kraut-inspired psychedelia which makes for an addictively harrowing pilgrimage through the deepest of valleys.


SOUTH AFRICA / ÁFRICA DO SUL: Musical Mover & Shaker! Laurie Levine - Six Winters Six Winters is the lovely first single and title track of the third album by acclaimed Johannesburg singer-songwriter Laurie Levine. Piano and acoustic-driven, twinkling and atmospheric with an electric tinge, it all makes Laurie's heady blend of folk coupled with her captivating vocals one that has earned her critical acclaim and a growing audience.



SOUTH KOREA / COREIA DO SUL: Indieful ROK Coedwig - Let Her Go Street folk artist Neofolk has gotten himself a band member and formed the unit Coedwig. Let Her Go is one of the indie rock numbers on the recently self-released first EP, which also contains a couple of acoustic tracks - a sound that is very popular in Korea at the moment.


 ESPANHA: Musikorner Lasers - Solar System Lasers are a cosmic pop three-piece from Barcelona. Influenced by acts such as Animal Collective, Fuck Buttons, locals Delorean and label mates The Suicide Of Western Culture (featured in September's MAP), Lasers have learnt to create extraterrestrial atmospheres using "samples, tireless cyclic sounds, breeze melodies" in their music, which can be both obscure and optimistic at a time or, as they call it, "noise and poetry". Lasers will release their first album Juno through Irregular in December, from which Solar System is taken.


SUÉCIA: Swedesplease Halina Larsson - Puget Sounds Halina Larsson is an expat from Sweden who has lived in LA and now resides in Brooklyn. She has a diverse sound and a variety of influences including Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Feist and Elliott Smith. Halina is a trained jazz vocalist who, on her latest Fires & French Horns EP, falls somewhere between indie folk songstress and new soul chanteuse. It's an odd combination but on certain songs and in certain styles she can pull it off.



SUIÇA: 78s laFayette - Heavy Rain (feat. Lena Fennel) Since their launch in 2009, Basel boys Jascha Dormann and Simon Hauswirth have found their place in the Swiss electronica scene. Musically, laFayette boldly go into the deep end of a pool filled with electronica, hip hop and techno music. Their debut EP Sputnik was released in September.


  ESTADOS UNIDOS: I Guess I'm Floating Saskatchewan - Skinny Dipping Orlando, Florida's Saskatchewan are masters of slow-built dream pop, lush vocal harmonies and melodies that are damn near impossible to ignore. Skinny Dipping is their latest single, available for free on Bandcamp. Look out for an album sometime in early 2012.

VENEZUELA: Música y Más Carlos Angola - Hasta Mañana I first saw Carlos Angola at a festival called VirgenFest which was being held in a public square. The atmosphere was magical, it felt like Woodstock. On stage there was this boy with glasses, an acoustic guitar and a great voice. Carlos Angola used to be part of a ska band called Skabiosis, but now he is displaying his talents as a solo artist with his album Rompecabezas which guarantees total relaxation no matter when you listen to it.

LOS CAMPESINOS - "HELLO SADNESS" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Do novo álbum dos Los Campesinos, que estará disponível para venda online amanhã, depois de "By Your Hand" (que passou aqui em setembro),  há um novo single e um vídeo do tema que baptiza o disco.

Produzido e realizado por Casey Raymond e Ewan Jones Morris

REEDALLICA- "WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Lou Reed e Metallica têm "Lulu" para promover, mas no programa de Jools Holland tocaram "White Light / White Heat", dos Velvet Underground.

Parece que só os Metallica estavam excitados.

"ALL TOGETHER NOW" OPTIMAMENTE BEATLES

As pessoas andam excitadas com aquela música do anúncio de uma operadora nacional, que até tem uns duetos improváveis. Pois, aqui vai alguma informação sobre a música e trabalhos anteriores.













Publicidade para televisão da cerveja Budweiser ( Julho 2009 )



Publicidade para televisão da operadora norte-americana Sprint ( Abril 2011 )
  Versão do tema por Kelly Lynn Brooks E



O tema original, editado em 1969 em "Yellow Submarine", apesar de o tema ser anterior.

 

HORRORS REMISTURAM "BLOODY MARY" (de lady gaga) (OUVIR)

Como o single dos Crushed Beaks, também é publicado a 21 de Novembro o álbum de remisturas "Born This Way: The Remix", de Lady Gaga. Dos diversas misturas, consta esta (abaixo) de "Bloody Mary" pelos Horrors, que transformam um tema desinteressante, talhado por um livro de normas e regras de êxitos pop, em algo fora de vulgar.

Para além da remistura dos Horrors, há outras misturas que nos deixam alguma curiosidade, como as de Goldfrapp, Foster the People, Wild Beasts, Twoo Door Cinema Club, Twin Shadow, Metronomy e Röyksopp.




 "Born This Way: The Remix"
1 Born This Way (Zedd)
2 Judas (Goldfrapp)
3 The Edge of Glory (Foster the People)
4 Yoü And I (Wild Beasts)
5 Marry the Night (The Weeknd & Ilangelo)
6 Black Jesus (Michael Woods)
7 Bloody Mary (The Horrors)
8 Scheiße (Guena LG)
9 Americano (Gregori Klosman)
10 Electric Chapel (Two Door Cinema Club)
11 Yoü And I – (Metronomy)
12 Judas (Hurts)
13 Born This Way (Twin Shadow)
14 The Edge of Glory (Sultan & Ned Shepard)
15 Judas (Röyksopp) (só na venda pelo iTunes)

CRUSHED BEAKS - "CLOSE-UPS" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Os Crushed Beaks são uma banda com base em Londres, composta por Matt Poile e Alex Morris. Enquanto Morris dá conta da bateria, Poile é responsável pelas guitarras, voz e composição.

"Sun Dogs" é o lado B deste single de estreia, "Close-Ups" (capa na foto) e estará disponível no dia 21 através do Singles Club, da editora Too Pure.

O vídeo foi filmado, editado e realizado por Ashton Lunn. Tendo, na realização, a banda metido a sua colher.

CSS- "City Grrrl" (NOVO VÍDEO)

"City Girl", do novo álbum das CSS, "La Liberacion", mutou-se em "City Grrrl", obteve a liberdade e convidou Ssion para lhe fazer companhia. O vídeo tem como protagonista Lovefoxxx em mil e uma indumentárias vagueando pela cidade de Nova Iorque. Divertido e energético.

FRIENDLY FIRES - "HURTING" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Estiveram aqui há três dias com uma remistura feita para um dos seus temas por Tiga, e já têm um novo vídeo de mais um tema retirado de "Pala".

O novo vídeo é do tema "Hurting" e, pela realização de David Lewandowski (animação e design de movimento em "Tron"),  Ed Macfarlne, o vocalista da banda, adquire algumas capacidades extraordinárias mas que lhe custam algumas dores de cabeça.

THE HORRORS - "SUFFRAGETTE CITY" (NOVO VÍDEO E TEMA GRÀTIS)

E se uma marca espanhola de automóveis definir o seu público alvo como jovens que gostam de música pop? O que acontece é alguns músicos receberem umas suculentas quantias, para darem a cara e a voz para uns quantos temas em vídeo e partilhados, com a audiência, através de "downloads" gratuitos.

Os Horrors fizeram-no com uma versão de "Suffragette City", numa sessão gravada num estúdio em Londres. Podem fazer o download do tema aqui, onde também poderão descarregar os Kaiser Chiefs a interpretarem "Starts with Nothing", os Mainc Street Preachers a tocarem "This Is the Day".

FOXX ON FIRE - "MARCH INTO THE SUN" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Os Foxx on Fire são agora um trio: Paul Housden, Geno Carrapetta e Edward Housden. Esta banda formada em Melbourne, Austrália, reside agora na Grã-Bretanha e lançou um single que também dá o nome ao seu próximo EP, "March Into Sun", que podem ouvir abaixo.Contudo, só estará disponível para venda, no ITunes, a 25 de novembro.


Realização por Edward Housden




March Into The Sun by Foxx on Fire

SHELLS - "ARCTIC" (NOVO VÍDEO)

O projecto Shells é do londrino Khalid Rafique.

Com apenas um EP, "Pastels", editado em abril, e um single, "Arctic", em outubro, soa já a algo especial. Podem ouvir os temas de ambas as obras, abaixo.















Pastels EP

Arctic (single)

MATES OF STATE - "SWAY" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Do supreendente disco editado em setembro, "Mountaintops, os Mates of State apresentam um vídeo para o tema "Sway".

SPECTOR - "GREY SHIRT & TIE" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Depois de "Never Fade Away", "What You Wanted", "Grey Shirt & Tie" é, sem dúvida, o mais supreendente single deste quinteto londrino, SPECTOR, liderado pela composição do vocalista Frederick Macpherson.


O vídeo foi dirigido pela banda e Mattias Erik Johansson.

MIRACLES OF MODERN SCIENCE - "PUMPED UP KICKS" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Os Miracles of Modern Science são uma banda que se iniciou, na Universidade de Princeton, através de dois dos seus estudantes no primeiro ano de faculdade: Evan Younger (voz e baixo) e Josh Hirshfeld (bandolim). Brevemente, encontraram outros colegas no campus, já noutros projectos musicais entre alunos da faculdade, como Geoff McDonald, Kieran Ledwidge, e Tyler Pines.

Os seus calorosos concertos, rapidamente fizeram crescer a sua popularidade não só em Princeton mas também na cidade de Nova Iorque. Tendo dito honras de apresentação no "Morning Edition", da National Public Radio.

Editaram um EP homónimo em 2009 e o seu disco de estreia, "Dog Year", será publicado a 6 de Dezembro, nos E.U.A.

Para já, ficamos com uma fabulosa versão do tema "Pumped Up Kicks", dos Foster the People.

TOM WAITS - "SATISFIED" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Para o single "Satisfied", do novo disco "Bad As Me", de Tom Waits, há um vídeo realizado por Jesse Dylan.

YEASAYER REMISTURAM DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (AUDIÇÃO)

O EP " Keys and Codes", dos Death Cab For Cutie, será editado a 21 de Novembro. Hoje foi revelada, pela banda, como tem sido feito noutras segundas-feiras, mais uma mistura do tema, "Codes & Keys", que dá também o nome ao último álbum dos Death Cab.



Death Cab for Cutie - "Codes And Keys" (Remistura por Yeasayer)

S.C.U.M. - "FAITH UNFOLDS" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Ao contrário de alguns blogues de profissionais da área, que "descobrem" as bandas meses depois (quando não são anos) de serem achadas pelo êxito ou pelas grandes referências musicais da imprensa convencional e/ou online, isto quando não tiveram disponibilidade (porque vergonha não têm), na devida altura, para simplesmente plagiarem a informação e os vídeos de blogues amadores, nós fizemos um destaque aos S.C.U.M. a 4 de julho de 2011 , onde ainda estão disponíveis, para download gratuito e legal, três misturas para o tema "Amber Hands".

"Faith Unfolds" é o novo single de "Again Into Eyes"´e tem um vídeo realizado por Iain Forsyth e Jane Pollard.

FRIENDLY FIRES - "BLUE CASSETTE" (por TIGA) (NOVO VÍDEO)

O segundo tema, "Blue Cassette", no álbum "Pala", dos Friendly Fires", vai ter uma edição em single, a 5 de dezembro, com versões remisturadas, sendo uma delas da responsabilidade de Tiga. Podem ouvi-la no vídeo abaixo.

REAL ESTATE - "It´s Real" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Alex Bleeker, Etienne Pierre Duguay, Martin Courtney e Matthew Mondanile formam a banda de New Jersey, dos EUA.

"Days", editado na Europa a 18 de Outubro, é o seu segundo álbum de banda, se excluirmos da contagem dois álbuns ao vivo já publicados.

“It’s Real” é o primeiro single do álbum e tem um vídeo realizado por Weird Days.

DEMS - "HOUSE" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Dan Moss, de Edimburgo mas a viver em Londres, é o responsável pelo projecto Dems, apesar de ter, recentemente, adicionado dois elementos: David Gardener e Duncan Mann . Do nosso conhecimento, fez a sua primeira edição em 2010 com o single digital "Lioness". Terá um novo EP, "House", a 14 de novembro, mas tem despertado alguns ouvidos com o que foi revelando desde há um ano, para além das suas remisturas. Podem ouvir alguns temas aqui, depois do novo vídeo do tema "House".





Dems - "Down On You"


Dems - "House"


Dems - "Lioness"

FIRST AID KIT - "THE LION´S ROAR" (NOVO VÍDEO)

As irmãs suecas Klara Söderberg e Johanna Söderberg, filhas de Benkt Söderberg, que fez parte da banda sueca. dos anos oitenta. Lolita Pop, são os membros da banda, de Estocolmo, First Aid Kit.

Depois de um Ep, em 2008, "Drunken Trees", editado pela Rabid Records dos Knife, e um primeiro álbum, "The Big Black & Blue”, editado em 2010, na Wichita Recordings, obtiveram uma grande aceitação na Suécia, tendo feito primeiras partes de Lykke Li, no seu país, como as datas de Lykke Li nos EUA. Recentemente, participaram no quinto álbum de Anna Ternheim, "Night Visitor".

O segundo álbum das First Aid Kit, "The Lion's Roar", que tem uma edição prevista para o final de janeiro, foi gravado no Omaha e produzido por Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk).

O primeiro single, que será editado a 7 de Novembro, é o tema que dá o título ao disco, "The Lion's Roar", e o vídeo é um trabalho grandioso do realizador Mats Udd e de Johannes Helje.



Versão de "When I Grow Up" dos Fever Ray pelas First Aid Kit

MODESELEKTOR COM THOM YORKE - "SHIPWRECK" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Depois da colaboração de Thom Yorke (Radiohead) em "Happy Birthday", o segundo álbum dos Modeselektor, dos quais Yorke é fã, ele volta a dar sua voz a dois temas do novo disco., "Monkeytown", que já é o quinto álbum, do projecto de Gernot Bronsert e Sebastian Szary.

O vídeo foi realizado por Tony "Truand" Datis.

I BREAK HORSES - "WIRED" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Maria Linden e Fredrik Balck, os membros dos I Break Horses, de Estocolmo, têm um álbum, "Hearts". A sua divulgação na Europa tem sido assegurada pela edição, na Grã-Bretanha, pela importante independente Bella Union.

O novo single 'Wired' tem um vídeo realizado por Alexander Southam.

FOSTER THE PEOPLE - "CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT" (NOVO VÍDEO)

"Torches" tem muitos temas que nos abrem os ouvidos para os Foster The People poderem ser apenas um erro de casting. O novo single, "Call It What You Want", é um deles.

WOLF GANG - "BACK TO BACK" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Wolf Gang, que temos acompanhado desde o seu início, depois do seu single em Maio regressa agora com "Back to Back", o quarto single de "Suego Faults".

PURE X - SURFACE" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Com um EP e três singles editados, em 2010, e dois máxis, em 2011, "Acéphale" foi o primeiro álbum publicado pelos Pure X, um trio de Austin, Texas, composto por Austin Youngblood, Jesse Jenkins e Nate Grace.

O vídeo de "Surface" foi realizado por Malcolm Elijah.

THE KILLS - "BABY SAYS" (NOVO VÍDEO)

Alison Mosshart e Jamie Hince, que nós mais facilmente identificamos como The Kills, têm um novo single, editado no dia 24, retirado do seu último álbum, "Blood Pressures".

O vídeo foi realizado por Ben Crook.

Nas futuras datas da digressão dos The Kills, Espanha e Portugal ficaram de fora. O mais perto que vão estar será França.