Mondays are for failing to see the woods for the trees
Le Butcherettes – Henry Don’t Got Love (stream debut LP Sin Sin Sin at bandcamp)
the nocturnes – the road (via bandcamp)
Koko and the Sweetmeats – will we ever make it to the ocean? (via bandcamp)
Glass Fingers – Lose your Mind (via bandcamp)
Built Like Alaska – Antique Love
M+A – Liko Lene Lisa (signup required via widget)
“Hey Jane” recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, October 11th 2011
A couple of weeks ago Spiritualized visited the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, ready to promote a new album already delayed until next spring. Most of the scheduled tour dates have been postponed until March, but us Scots were lucky to avoid such a fate. I bought my pint to the strains of Malcolm Mooney-era Can on the PA and got comfy in the Upper Circle. Eventually Spiritualized filed onstage – Jason Spaceman stage right, sitting on an office chair facing the band; Doggen and John Coxon on guitar; two anonymous figures on bass and keyboards (sorry for not knowing your names, skilled musicians!), Kevlar Bales on drums and two gospel singers as backup. My palms were sweating with anticipation. Yes, I’m a confirmed Spiritualized acolyte, and I was ready to accept anything the Spaceman threw my way.
I wasn’t expecting this, though.
Mondays are for getting excited about CMJ!
Chad Valley – ‘Fast Challenges’
The Forms – ‘Steady Hand’ featuring Andrew Thibaldeux (Pattern is Movement)
Join us at Pianos in NYC for our 4th annual CMJ Opening Day Party. We couldn’t be more excited about the line-up this year and hope to see you there! Also, if you are visiting NYC for the marathon, make sure and head to Wall Street to support the protests. And remember, they are always in need of food and supplies down there!
Psyched for CMJ? Yeah, us too. Aside from our dope showcase (Tuesday! Pianos! Noon til the margaritas run dry!), we’re looking forward to seeing one artist in particular: Julia Easterlin.
Whozat? you say. Check it. Girl is a highly impressive one-lady-band! She weaves together recorded loops of her own gorgeous voice and keyboards and then sings over it, building full-blown songs as she goes. Her cover of Radiohead’s “There There” is incredible – she brings an alluring femininity to Yorke and Co’s slow burning barn-stormer. As the lyrics say, “There’s always a siren singing you to shipwreck…” Easterlin’s lush voice could drag even Odysseus down to the ocean floor.
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Bias alert! These chaps are from Skye, and therefore I’m incapable of disliking them. This, of course, is made super easy by the fact that they’re awesome.
“Folk-noir”, they call it: “a litany of small-town crimes and dark romances that is fascinating and irresistible”. Whatever it is, the music of The Dead Man’s Waltz is dark and theatrical – evidenced by the moody, and not a wee bit deranged, video to the band’s first single, “Cry on Me”.
There’s a very Hebridean fatalism to The Dead Man’s Waltz – there’s no po-faced stoicism, but it’s the kind of attitude that considers a positive answer to the question “how are you?” to be “no’ too bad”. And The Dead Man’s Waltz are no’ too bad at all.
The Dead Man’s Waltz’s self-titled debut LP will be out on the 27th October, and can be preordered from their bandcamp page. Click through for a preview via the wonders of soundcloud.
Mondays are for blocking the front door
The Loom – For the Hooves That Gallop, And The Heels That March
Inspired and the Sleep – While We’re Young (via bandcamp)
Clubfeet – Last Words (C90s remix) (via soundcloud)
Hurrah! Panico return with a video for “Algodon”, a highlight track from one of my favourite LPs of 2010 (I had to work very hard not to title this post “Panico get on their bike”).
Shot by Ivan Navarro in Central Park Manhattan and in his Brooklyn studio in April 2010. This movie is part of a sculpture and movies series using electric energy generated by muscular force. A similar video is currently shown in the Baro Gallery in Sao Paulo.
Previously: Review: Panico, Kick
MP3: Panico, “Icon”
On September 6th, 2010, our friend Ross Harman ended his life. In tribute to Ross, friends Nate ‘Igor’ Smith (Driven by Boredom) and The Gaskets band mate Teddy Blanks are putting out a two disk album of 18 tracks from 15 different artists covering Ross’s songs called Love Me When I’m Gone.
The two friends have also put together a Kickstarter in order to fund the printing on vinyl of Ross’s two solo albums, Calcutta and Symphony. While Calcutta was released online before Ross’s death, Symphony was put out posthumously, gathered from music Ross had sent Teddy and files found on Ross’s computer after he died. We encourage you to help fund this project and in exchange, own some incredible music.
Lovely vid of S&tW performing “Old Habbits” in the Elba Studios Tracking Room in sunny Glasgow.
Click through for Euro tour dates!
