lunes, 25 de diciembre de 2006

BRMC -US Government (Alternate version)


Como ya hicieran el pasado año (otros no sé porque no estaba en MySpace y no recibía bulletines), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club regalan por estas fechas una canción. En este caso,

BRMC would like to thank everyone for making 2006 an incredible year. The band are so grateful for the support you have shown and would like to give you the alternate, acoustic version of US Government.

http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/usgovt/

Para descargarla has de ser Member de su web o de su foro.

sábado, 23 de diciembre de 2006

Pitchfork Top 50 Best albums of 2006



The Top

Incubus -Anna Molly video

Porque desde que escuché Drive, me gustaron. Genial cada vez que sacaban disco. Y para bien o para mal, siempre suenan genial, aunque te pueda gustar más antes que ahora. Del nuevo disco LIGHT GRENADES, mis favoritas son: el single Anna Molly, Love hurts, Dig y Light Grenades.
La edición japonesa incluye más canciones de las que ponemos en este post.

-Anna Molly VIDEO


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LIGHT GRENADES (2006)

1. Quicksand
2. A Kiss To Send Us Off
3. Dig
4. Anna Molly
5. Love Hurts
6. Light Grenades
7. Earth To Bella (Part 1)
8. Oil And Water
9. Diamonds And Coal
10. Rogues
11. Paper Shoes
12. Pendulous Threads
13. Earth To Bella (Part 2)

A rare case in which a band actually gets better with time, this California hard rock quintet seems to have finally grown into its skin on its fifth album. Casting off the dated slap-bass funk and pointless nu-metal angst of its early years (well, mostly), Light Grenades is not only a worthwhile follow-up to 2003's A Crow Left of the Murder--the expansive disc many fans consider Incubus's best--but shows improvements all around. Singer Brandon Boyd has learned to temper the words he plucks out of the thesaurus with genuine heartbreak, while the rest of the group proves it can do a lot more than offer up nonstop grooves. --Aidin Vaziri

Música en MySpace

3 cosillas:
Strike Gently ha sido "censurado".
Una de las razones para que MySpace bajara la calidad de las canciones, es que habia gente que subia canciones sin permiso del artista. Y por otro lado, Universal también se quejó.

Siguiendo con MySpace, Rolling Stones Magazine hizo una elección del las mejores bandas de este sitio de la red que tanto ha crecido.
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/category/best-bands-on-myspace/
Habrá que escucharlas.

Y por último, acabo de aceptar las requests que tenia, y he puesto 4 posts (falta uno) con los links de las bandas. Si quieres echar un vistazo, pincha aqui.

Bon Savants

Cuando uno cree que ya podia irse feliz con todas las canciones de James Bond (tenía interés) y con el disco de Bat for Lashes (por fin!). MySpace decide poner en su página de inicio a dos interesantes bandas: The view y Bon Savants. Vamos a hablar de los de Boston, Bon Savants, y pondremos lo poco que he podido encontrar. Se estrenan este año que finaliza con su CD de debut. Y suena bastante bien. Bateria contundente y segura, sonidos "preciosistas" y ... mejor que los escuches tú. Personalmente tengo muchas ganas de escuchar su trabajo enterito.

Indie / Glam / Shoegaze
New York, NY
Boston, MA

WEB

MySpace

Componentes:

Thom Savant: Singing & guitars
Craig Hendrix: Guitars & singing
David Eugene: Bass & singing
Andrew Dole: drums
Brian Hamilton: keys & singing

Info sobre la banda:

De esto es de lo que escasea. Asi que, dejaré lo que dice MySpace sobre ellos. Y links de reviews de su debut.

MySpace.com:
Backed by brainiacs, their self-released debut album Post Rock Defends The Nation blends dreamy stargazer rock with soft lyrics.

Billboard Magazine

Más links de reviews en su MySpace.

Influencias:
The Wrens, Flaming Lips, The Doves, Joy Division, Prince, Jacques Dutronc, The Zombies, My Bloody Valentine, Built to Spill, Pixies, Velvet Underground, Love, David Bowie, the Cars, Kinks, Byrds, Pavement, Fugazi, Modest Mouse, Dismemberment Plan, Brainiac, Pulp, Faces on Film, Dire Straits... and all these voices in our heads

Suenan como:
Songs conceived during a foot trek lengthwise across North Dakota in November, mostly in the keys of G and E.

Discografia:

-Post Rock Defends the Nation (Nov 27,2006)



01. What We Need MP3Myspace
02. Why This Could Never Work Between Us
03. Between the Moon and the Ocean MP3
04. Tip of Our Tongues
05. Post-Rock Defends the Nation
06. Go to the Sun
07. Final Grade
08. Everyone
09. MassAv and Broadway
10. 91
11. I Am the Atom Bomb

Fopp (UK)

viernes, 22 de diciembre de 2006

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

The Good, the band and the queen-history song
Long winters-blue diamonds
Swearing at motorists-this flag signals goodbye
Trouble with Sweeney-evelyn rochman

The good, the band and the queen es la nueva banda de Damon Albarn (Blur,Gorillaz).

Voy a echar de menos las canciones que nos descubre Strike Gently y el resto.

FELIZ NAVIDAD A TOD@S!! Nos vemos en el 2007.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! See you in 2007. Best wishes for everyone.

jueves, 21 de diciembre de 2006

Team9 vs Stereogum

Team9 empezó siendo un proyecto en solitario, en el cual se hacian remezclas por diversión. Ahora se apunta más gente a participar. Lo último son remezclas de los temas mejores del año 2006 según el afamado gurú musical Stereogum.




team9 have gone and hooked up with the good folk at Stereogum (winner of Spin Magazines best blog no less) and created Mysplice, an albums worth of mash ups as a kind of year in review of our favourite indie tracks of 06. In amongst this lot you'll find Thom Yorke, Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, CSS and Peter, Bjorn and John.
Arrrggghhh I hear you scream, or something similar - you've gone and ruined my favourite tracks of the year. Well, yes, I have.


Thom Yorke vs The Beatles - Swan Together mp3

CSS vs Junior Boys - Lets make love and listen to the Junior Boys mp3

Wolfmother vs Gnarls Barkley - Daddy and the thief mp3

Cold War Kids vs Lupe Fiasco vs Lily Allen - Cold War Fiasco mp3

Peter, Bjorn and John vs The Cure - Young Cats mp3

The Knife vs Greenday & U2 vs Spank Rock - Silent Saints mp3

Hot Chip vs Peter Gabriel - Big School mp3

Yeah Yeah Yeah's vs Three Degrees - When will I see my cheated heart mp3

The Flaming Lips vs Clipse - The Flaming Clipse mp3

Midlake vs Jimi Hendrix - Roscoe Eyes mp3

MP3 AQUI

Team9's Myspace

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

BRIGHT EYES "endless entertainment"
THE BENS "just pretend"
TROUBLE WITH SWEENEY "evelyn rochman"
AMERICAN ANALOG SET "kinders of stranger"

The Bens son Ben Lee (cada vez que me acuerdo del concierto de Enero... fue genial!),Ben Folds y Ben Kweller (que suena en el player del blog)

American Analog Set: una de sus canciones la incluí en el Mix Nov 2005, a lo mejor lo pongo algún día. Justo la canción en cuestión, sonó en el primer capítulo de la segunda temporada de One Tree Hill.

Del que no conozco nada es de Trouble with Sweeney. Habrá que buscar información de ellas.

(Escuchando mientras escribo esto, el gran EP de Socratic)

miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2006

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

RJD2 beyond the beyond
M WARD to go home
BAD RONALD shoot the shit
MEW zookeeper's boy

ayer/yesterday:
EARLIMART everybody knows everybody
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY welcome,ghosts mp4
LOVENINJAS keep your love mp3
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM sound of silver

martes, 19 de diciembre de 2006

Merit -FREE CD


Rock / Alternative / Indie
Syracuse, NY

Componentes:
Hal, Brenna, Wil, Jeff

Track list (desde el 18 al 25 de Diciembre 2006,el CD será gratis AQUI)

-Penny Jar
-Blue Bedroom
-Nixon
-Marathon
-Icicles
-Useless (acoustic)
-Man on a String (acoustic)
-Locked From The Inside (acoustic)
-The End All (acoustic)
-Every Now And Then (acoustic)

Pitchfork: The Top 100 Tracks of 2006


Link donde puedes ver la lista y descargar las canciones :O. Bueno no todas, pero unas cuantas :)

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

BLOOD ON THE WALL "Mary Susan"
SEAWOLF "black dirt"*
APOLLO SUNSHINE "today is the day"
ARCADE FIRE "cold wind"

*En a-silent-room hablamos de este artista.

sábado, 16 de diciembre de 2006

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

HARD LESSONS bamboo
THE STROKES hard to explain (acoustic style)
HOLY FUCK safari
GOTHIC ARCHIES walking my gargoyle

viernes, 15 de diciembre de 2006

Dodo Bird (Meric Long)


Experimental / Folk / Indie

San Francisco, California
United States

WEB

MySpace

Componentes:
Meric Long, Logan Kroeber

Info recogida en su MySpace:
The dodo's sound is shaped by the marriage of two periods in songwriter Meric Long's musical history: playing in rock/metal bands growing up in the suburbs, and playing and listening to old delta blues records in his post adolescent years. In the fall of 2002, Meric opened up for country blues guitarist Paul Curreri, who turned him on to the country blues style of finger-picking guitar, via Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, and later John Fahey. Meric adopted this style of guitar into his repertoire, meshing it with noise, electronic sounds, and loops that he had developed in his earlier days. In order to add syncopated percussion to accent the rhythmic patterns in his finger picking, Meric began playing with Logan Kroeber in the fall of 2005, whose background in Santa Cruz heavy metal band Entragian made for a perfect fit.

Discografia:

-"Beware of the Maniacs" (2006)


The Ball Mp3
Nerds mp3
Men mp3


-"Dodo Bird" (2006)


Notes Mp3
Couples Mp3

4 songs 4 u

by Strike Gently

-ARCADE FIRE intervetion
-JESUS H CHRISTN connecticut is for fucking
-GRIZZLY BEAR knief
-THE DRAFT lo zee rose

jueves, 14 de diciembre de 2006

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently


THE GET UP KIDS "is there a way out"
SUN KIL MOON "space travel is boring"
TED LEO "dancing in da dark" (Bruce Springsteen cover)
WOLFHEAD "margrine"

miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2006

Las mejores canciones del 2006

por BuffetLibre

Estamos a finales de año y por tanto toca hacer las listas del año. Empezamos con las mejores canciones del año. Además, como siempre, podeis descargar las canciones en formato mp3 y disfutarlas. Hemos confeccionado la lista tomando como referencia la fecha de edición en España, por tanto podemos incluir a grupos como Rogue Wave o Spinto Band, que aunque en USA se editaron a finales de 2005, aquí llegaron este año 2006. Esperamos que os guste la lista y como siempre ¡buen provecho!


1. Rogue Wave - Publish My Love
Descend Like Vultures (Sub Pop)

2. The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
Nice And Nicely Done (Spintonic)

3. Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos - Skeleton Key
Subtitulo (Netwerk)

4. Midlake - Roscoe
The Trials Of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)

5. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Puzzles Like You (4AD)

6. Beirut - Postcards From Italy
Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing)

7. The Album Leaf - Always For You
Into The Blue Again (Sub Pop)

8. Josh Rouse - Quiet Town
Subtitulo (Netwerk)

9. Lily Allen - Smile (Demo)
Alright Still (EMI)

10. CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen Death From Above
Cansei de Ser Sexy (Sub pop)

11. Voxtrot - Mothers Sisters Daughters And Wives
Mothers Sisters Daughters & Wives (Playlouder)

12. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names "Loop Duplicate My Heart"
#3 (Labrador)

13. Asobi Seksu - Thursday
Citrius (Filter)

14. My Latest Novel - The Hope Edition
Wolves (Bella Union)

15. The Format - The Compromise
Dog Problems (Netwerk)

15. M. Ward - Chinese Translation
Post War (Merge)

17. Band Of Horses - The Funeral
Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)

18. Johan - Oceans
THX JHN (Excelsior Recordings)

19. Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Transparent Things (Deaf Dumb & Blind)

20. Mates Of State - Fraud In The 80s
Bring It Back (Barsuk)

Mp3 aqui

Best songs of 2006

in a particular order by Strike Gently

01. HOOP DREAMS - "PACK OF KNIVES"
02. THE BROKEN REMOTES - "ARMS HELD ALOFT"
03. HOLD STEADY - "STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS"
04. COOLZEY - "BASKETBALL IN THE RAIN"
05. BAND OF HORSES - "OUR SWORDS"
06. OPTIMIST CLUB - "HITCHCOCK BLONDE"
07. DBOAT - "HOLDING ALL THE GLOBES"
08. I'M FROM BARCELONA - "CHICKENPOX"
09. BEN KWELLER - "NOTHING HAPPENING"
10. LUPE FIASCO - "DAYDREAMIN"

Links in their MySpace

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

LITTLE HEROES made you
THE GUILLEMOTS trains to brazil
DANDY WARHOLS sleep
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM bubblz

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

-COOLZEY he did
-LAZYBOY underwear
-BRAKES heard about your band
-VOXTROT four long days

martes, 12 de diciembre de 2006

ingenting "punkdrömmar" CD-Single

Hemos hablado de ellos antes, hemos disfrutado de "punkdrömmar" antes, y ahora toca disfrutar del CD-Single enterito, cortesía de Labrador.



Message by Labrador:

To celebrate that "Punkdrömmar" was our first entrance ever on
Tracks
(vote below if you're Swedish!) we're giving you - Punkdrömmar EP!

And yes, it's for free.

1. »Punkdrömmar« (album version)
2. »Punkdrömmar« (Enochsons punkdrömmar remix)
3. »Punkdrömmar« (Wikströms punkdrömmar remix)
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Rösta på Tracks här!
Senast kl. 14.00 på måndag

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

-LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "N. American scum"
-THE RAPTURE "whoo! alright yeah..uh huh"
-PHANTOM BUFFALO "a hilly town"
-THE BLACK ANGELS "black grease"

Thom Yorke -Remixes

Gracias a aletterforthestars por la información :)

-The Clock (Remix mp3)

-Analyse (Remix mp3)

Ciudadano -Concierto

Underwater Tea Party -Concierto

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

-CHRISTIANS and LIONS "gimme fiction"
-NAS "$$$ over bs"
-CLEARLAKE "I hate it that I got what I wanted"
-THE KING LEFT "I have to let you win"

domingo, 10 de diciembre de 2006

Canciones para ti

Pablo-Loser Crew

Foreing islands-We know you know it

Gus Black ~ Certain Kind of Light

Benoit Pioulard-Palimend

Irene »chrismas on the beach«


Irene & Labrador wish you all a Merry Christmas with the Christmas song you've longed to hear - »Christmas on the Beach«. In true Christmas spirit we're giving it away for free.

»Christmas on the Beach« continues to prove Irene's unbeaten talent for timeless evergreens. It hits off at full tempo with more jingle bells and castanettes than you've heard in ages and ends 1 minute and 44 seconds later as a gentle and sentimental Christmas ballad.

Enjoy!
www.labrador.se/merrychristmas


Tall Hands "Fifteen On Ice"

Leigh Nass "Wishing for this" (mp3 aqui)

M. Ward ~ End of Amnesia

Gus Black ~ Certain Kind of Light

Emily Simon - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"(Stooges cover)

The Drones - "Jezebel"

Dave Fischoff - "Ghost of an Afternoon"

Common Market - "Push"

Inner Banks - "Anthem"

Under Byen - "Af Samme Stof Som Stof"

Jon Auer-Six Under Feet

The Bird and The Bee-Again and Again

The Shins-Phantom Limb

The Sweptaways-Wuthering Heights

Eric Matthews-More Than I Can Give

Fujiya & Miyagi-Ankle Injuries

Josef K-Sorry For Laughing

The Teenagers-Homecoming

Songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

-HOOP DREAMS "Pack of knives"
-THE PONYS "Double vision"
-THE HEAD SET "Last call doll"
-MATES OF STATE "California" (Phantom Planet cover from OC Mix 6:Covering our tracks)

The head set

Conocidos hoy, gracias a Strike Gently, quienes dicen que suenan como The Strokes.

Rock
New York, United States

WEB

MySpace


Componentes:

Jordan Blaugrund (vocals, guitar)
Brett Sherman (bass)
Michael Blaugrund (drums)
Eliot Wadsworth (guitar)

Info recogida en Insound.com :

This New York City quartet has earned rave reviews for their live shows and is poised for a breakthrough with the release of their debut LP Way Past Used. Recorded over the past two years with producer Nic Hard (Aberdeen City, The Bravery), this album is a vibrant departure from the cookie-cutter rock scene. Drawing on influences ranging from Motown to the Bowery, The Head Set, fueled by guitars and sweat instead of synths and eyeliner, have crafted a smart, modern rock album that is instantly familiar yet captivatingly different. Be sure to catch The Head Set on tour in your city later this year.

Discografia:

-Way Past Used (CD) -2006-



1. Enemies (Mp3)
2. Hollywood (Mp3)
3. Pure Convenience
4. Last Call Doll
5. Way Past Used
6. Look & Feel
7. Late For The Show
8. Maibelline
9. Modern Class
10. Last Minute Rescue
11. Early Morning
12. Never Make It Home

1,3,4,5,7

-2nd EP (Oct 2003)


Label: The Orchard

1. Paper
2. Golden Rule
3. I Found Out
4. 982
5. Come On, Come On
6. Problematique
7. A Regular Bonnie & Clyde

New York City rock band with early UK modern rock influences. For fans of The Police, The Jam and The Wonderstuff. -Amazon.com-

Videos:

Hey, so we put up a little video on YouTube featuring Nic Hard, the producer of our forthcoming album. The video was produced by six bottles of wine and a healthy amount of bourbon. Check it out here.

sábado, 9 de diciembre de 2006

Field Music


Alternative / Folk / Psychedelic

Sunderland,United Kingdom

WEB

MySpace


Componentes:
David Brewis,
Peter Brewis,
Andy Moore

Info recogida en su MySpace:

Field Music (songwriting brothers Peter and David Brewis plus keyboard manipulator Andrew Moore) covered a lot of ground in 2006. The trio from Sunderland, England, have performed in Berlin, in Milan and Barcelona, toured France with Architecture in Helsinki and the UK twice on their lonesome, including Reading and Leeds Festival appearances, and the US where they were one of the surprise hits of SXSW. They also found time to invent a dance craze (according to English tabloid newspaper The News of the World), etch one side of a 7" with a list of things you really shouldn't do but probably have, release a cash-in-b-sides album which gave a brief and inaccurate history of a slew of pre-Field Music experiments. In addition the band also found time to record their second album proper.

As with their eponymous debut, Tones of Town was self-produced. Recording took place at their own Eight Music studio in Sunderland between 31st January and 16th May.

Where 'Field Music' was the sound of a group making the record they knew they were capable of; dryly-produced, ambitiously skewed, multilayered pop which gradually revealed its intricacies over repeated listens; Tones of Town sees Field Music pushing and scratching at all of the boundaries implicit in their debut; the sound of a band moving in several directions at once, searching for ways to surprise themselves, taking risks and trying something new.

That could be the cut-and-paste beatboxing which concludes 'Sit Tight', the stacked Day At The Races harmonies which lead into 'Closer At Hand', the tumble from dreaming overlapped marimba into an undiluted joyous rock guitar riff on the opener 'Give It Lose It Take It' or where the spiraling modular structures of the first record reach their logical extreme on the title track. On 'A House Is Not A Home' (Brewis, P) and first single 'In Context', Field Music could even be described as 'funky', albeit in a peculiarly singular avant-mackem way.

The album does though have a (possibly unintentional) unifying theme. Something along the lines of "There's no place like home, but how come I don't always feel 'at home', and what does that mean anyway?" Lyrically, Tones of Town, presents itself as a collection of missives from a generation who don't want to complain because they're well aware that they've never had it so good, but who nonetheless feel somewhat dislocated; geographically, socially, personally, from each other, from their jobs, from supermarkets, from indie music and from television.

The band's new album Tones of Town is set for release on 22 Jan 2007 in the UK and 20 Feb 2007 in the US preceded by singles In Context and A House is Not A Home..

Discografia: (ver aqui)

-"'Tones Of Town' - out UK 22/01/07 out US 02/20/07"

MP3) Give It Lose It Take It

MP3) Sit Tight


-Field Music (8 Agosto 2005)



1. If only the moon were up
2. Tell Me Keep Me
3. Pieces
4. Luck is a Fine Thing
MP3) 5. Shorter Shorter.
6. It's not the only way to feel happy
7. 17
8. Like When you Meet Someone Else
MP3) 9. You Can Decide
10. Got to Get the Nerve
11. Got to Write a Letter
MP3) 12. You're so Pretty


MP3)I'm tired



Video:
-YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO

You're Not Supposed To Video

4 songs 4 u

from Strike Gently

-LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Get innocuous"
-WOLF PARADE SUBTLE "Middleclass haunt"
-WILCO "One by one"
-BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE "Puff the magic dragon"

viernes, 8 de diciembre de 2006

Clap your hands say yeah

Banda que también se enfrenta en el 2007 a su prueba de fuego, su segundo CD. Al menos, ésta se marca el detallazo de regalarnos 2 canciones para que lo vayamos degustando. Con ganas de escucharlo, su Over and over abría uno de mis discos favoritos de este año Les inrocks vol.1.


Rock / Indie
BROOKLYN/PHILADELPHIA,United States

WEB

MySpace

Componentes:

Alec Ounsworth,
Tyler Sargent,
Robbie Guertin,
Lee Sargent,
Sean Greenhalgh

Discografia:

-Some Loud Thunder (30 Enero 2007)




We have a new record coming out on January 30th called Some Loud Thunder. It is our second album. We have posted two new songs from the album on our website for your listening pleasure. There's also another one over at our myspace page.

If you have ants in your pants, you can buy the album directly from us on January 16th in the mp3 tradition, thanks to the kind folks at Insound. We'll then send you a real-life copy for free. There's also an exclusive t-shirt available for those who buy the record directly from us.

Here's the track list of Some Loud Thunder:

1. Some Loud Thunder
2. Emily Jean Stock
3. Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?
4. Love Song No. 7 mp3
5. Satan Said Dance
6. Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant
7. Goodbye to Mother and the Cove
8. Arm and Hammer
9. Yankee Go Home
10. Underwater (You and Me) mp3
11. Five Easy Pieces

-Clap your hands say yeah (13 Sept 2005)



1. Clap Your Hands!
2. Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away
3. Over and Over Again (Lost & Found) mp3
4. Sunshine & Clouds (And Everything Proud)
5. Details of the War
6. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
7. Is This Love?
8. Heavy Metal
9. Blue Turning Gray
10. In This Home On Ice
11. Gimme Some Salt
12. Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood mp3



Amazon.com
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sold nearly 20,000 copies of its self-titled, self-released debut through the mail--and got nearly as many raves from enthusiastic MP3 bloggers, leading to an entry on Rolling Stone magazine's coveted Hot List. It's easy to feel skeptical, especially of an album that opens with a carnival barker imploring you to "Clap Your Hands!" But anyone that's felt the lure of bands such as the Arcade Fire and Interpol will want to keep listening. In vocalist Alec Ounsworth, this Brooklyn five-piece has found its own Jonathan Richman, a yelping madman that can sing things like "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" with a straight face. Meanwhile, the music itself is typically unhinged and under-produced, taking an anything-goes approach that coasts on sheer exuberance and results in moments of profound clarity such as "Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away" and "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood." A promising start but hold the applause. --Aidin Vaziri


One of the biggest critical successes of the year, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH is proving it can reach beyond the realm of critic darlings. With rapidly expanding commercial, specialty and college radio, sold out tour dates around the globe, and high profile television appearance s scheduled, this is going to be a fourth quarter must-have. And, the most impressive part of it all is that this band is doing it all WITHOUT A LABEL IN THE US. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH is showing the music business how it should be done.

Bloc Party

Una de las bandas nuevas aparecidas últimamente, que ha cosechado gran éxito.
Después de su debut Silent Alarm, y de su versión de remixes. El día 6 de Febrero tendremos en las tiendas el nuevo trabajo, la prueba de fuego como se suele decir.
A mediados de noviembre ya se filtró en la red. Es album más tranquilo. Creo que en su puesta en escena es donde se verá hacia que lado van los Bloc Party.
Opiniones variadas: es lento pero es un disco de escuchar varias veces para acabar atrapando, no se les ha dejado suficiente tiempo a la banda para hacer lo que ellos quieren, ...
En Mayo estarán por España.


Alternative / Indie / Rock

London, United Kingdom

WEB

MySpace

Componentes:
Kele Okereke (guitar, vocals),
Russell Lissack (guitar),
Gordon Moakes (bass)
Matt Tong (drums).


Info recogida en su MySpace:

Friday, October 24th, 2003 was a big night. In a freezing, graffiti-scarred old factory called Electrowerkz in Islington, north London, Bloc Party showed what disco-punk sounds like if you take away the cowbells and irony, and replace them with ferocity and tension. In doing so, they proved they belong on a larger stage.

Kele Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack knew each other through mutual friends in Essex where Kele went to school and Russell lived. They met again at the Reading Festival in 1999 and resolved to start a band together. They wrote together in bedrooms. For months. And months. Slowly, methodically, they got better. In early 2000 they posted an ad for a bass player in the NME, and through that they met Gordon Moakes. Three years and eight drummers later, the band finally came together when they met Matt Tong.

The rest of 2003 was spent building up their gigging muscles. By the time of the Elektrowerkz and Metro shows, Bloc Party were an intense live act.

Into 2004 and Bloc Party were on the march. Shes Hearing Voices, a rumbling, vaguely sinister song, was recorded in their cheap, moldy but special rehearsal space in Acton, west London. Paul Epworth produced their second single, the amphetamined ska-pop of Banquet (released in the UK on Moshi Moshi, and in the US on Dim Mak).

Bloc Party soon signed with Wichita UK, the little East London label with big ideas. They had a dark, brooding, often ferocious sound to scare the parents and remind older siblings of the artier end of New Wave. Melody and energy to inspire the moshpit.

Meanwhile, in July, as the headlines raged, the reviews raved and their third single Little Thoughts dived into the UKs Top 40, Bloc Party nipped off to Copenhagen with Paul Epworth. Destination: Deltalab Studios, home of Junior Senior (oh yes), retro Sixties/Seventies décor, and racks of malfunctioning vintage equipment. Purpose: 22 days to record 15 tracks. Problems: bare mains cables and a kit that wouldnt play ball.

The result of those 22 days in a raw, dangerous setting was Silent Alarm. The album title is taken from a New Scientist article about earthquake morning systems. The band liked the resonance, felt it fitted with the music. A warning, but an ambiguous one. Unrest. Tension. Energy.

Positive Tension is a case in point, a throbbing, techno-flavored epic with huge, Nirvana-style riffing. So Here We Are, a shimmering hit-in-waiting. Opening things, Like Eating Glass, a shouty, wire-y clarion call. Rounding things off, album finale Compliments, a more atmospheric, downbeat, intense track from this upbeat, agit-funk four-piece.

Lets go back a bit, to the ideas and manifestos. Sitting at the heart of Silent Alarm is Pioneers. So says the band, its a warning to those who think they can change the world. Not everyone can, hardly anyone does. Its about talking up your own limitations. Trying to break down the ridiculousness attached to rock bands. If were about anything were about that avoiding cliché, letting ideas stand for themselves.

Discografía:



-A weekend in the city (6 Feb 2007)

La que se perfiló como la portada:


La última versión:


"Song for Clay (Disappear Here)"
"Hunting for Witches"
"Waiting for the 7:18"
"The Prayer" (escúchala en su MySpace)
"Uniform"
"On"
"Where is Home?"
"Kreuzberg"
"I Still Remember"
"Sunday"
"SRXT"

Actuaciones en España:



Fecha: martes 15 mayo
Sala: Razzmatazz 1
Ciudad: Barcelona

Fecha: jueves 17 mayo
Sala: la Riviera
Ciudad: Madrid

Anticipadas: 25 €
Taquilla: 25 €
Puntos de venta: Tick Tack Ticket
CD Drome Barcelona y Madrid
Tiendas FNAC

Info por Sinnamon:
A primeros de 2005 se publicó el debut de Bloc Party, “Silent Alarm”, un disco plagado de singles que consiguió ventas estratosféricas en todo el mundo y demostró su capacidad para fundir post-rock y art-punk según las infinitas perspectivas del pop. Antes de que saliera a la venta el álbum, ya eran el grupo de moda en Londres gracias al boca oreja y a una demo que pasó por los mejores A&R de la ciudad y los llevó a ser encumbrados por las principales revistas. Mezclando el pop oscuro de The Cure y Joy Division, el estigma core de Sonic Youth y Big Black, y afiliándose a la vertiente politizada de Gang Of Four y Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party conseguían sonar sofisticadamente estremecedores. No necesitaron más que sus canciones para ser considerados los líderes de la nueva revolución brit-pop. En sus temas se entrecruzaban estrofas intimidantes, dark-drama, y cómo no, el complejo sentimiento del amor. El fuego contenido en frías perlas como ‘Like Eating Glass’ o ‘Banquet’, estremecía gracias al vigor vocal de Kele Okereke, a las aristas de las sangrientas guitarras de Russell Lissack y a una contundente base rítmica comandada por Gordon Moakes (bajo, voz) y Matt Tong a la batería. Tres años más tarde, tras giras extenuantes y un exitoso álbum de remezclas, “Silent Alarm Remixed” (05), Bloc Party vienen dispuestos a revalidar título con su segundo disco, “A Weekend In The City”. Uno de los álbumes más esperados de 2007 y del que ya hemos podido escuchar un anticipo en formato single, ‘The Prayer’, con el que cumplen con las mejores expectativas. Apabullantes en el escenario, en directo Bloc Party logran convencernos de que en esto les va la vida.

4 songs 4 u

Thanks to Strike Gently !

-MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB "I know what I want" (mp3)

-BORN RUFFIANS "This sentence" (mp3)

-FERRABY LIONHEART "Tickets to crickets" (mp3)

-CASIOTONE FTPA "I love creedence" (mp3)

Starsailor "Four to the floor" (Acoustic)


Alternative

Manchester, United Kingdom

WEB
MySpace

Componentes:
James Walsh - Vocals, guitar
James Stelfox - Bass
Ben Byrne - Drums
Barry Westhead - Keyboards


Four to the floor (acoustic)-Live from Montreux Exclusive MySpace MP3

Hoy en Madrid!



Rock
El : 08/12/2006
En : Sala Caracol 08/12/2006 21:30 5 € + consumición

--METROPOL--
Rock / Pop / Alternative
Moncada, Valencia, Spain

MySpace

-My own gravity (mp3)
-515 am (mp3)
-Collision (mp3)
-The trees (mp3)

Post anterior

--LULLABIES--
Indie / Pop Punk / Rock
Madrid,Spain

MySpace

Canciones:

-Mp3 kills the video stars (mp3)
-Good vibrations (mp3)
-Nancy (mp3)
-What are you talking (mp3)


--NOTHINK--

Rock / Alternative / Indie
Madrid, Spain

MySpace

-NOTHINK "Mr. Smile" (video wmv 14,2 mb)
Filmed by Marta Pueche (E.T.E. films) Barcelona, summer 2005

domingo, 3 de diciembre de 2006

Emilie Simon "Flowers"



WEB

MP3

Emilie wants to buy you flowers in this Tim Burton-esq music video.



Letra/Lyrics

I want to buy you flowers
it's such a shame you're a boy
but when you are not a girl
nobody buys you flowers

I want to buy you flowers
and now I'm standing in the shop
I must confess I wonder
if you will like my flowers

You are so sweet and I'm so alone
oh darling please
tell me you're the one
I'll buy you flowers
I'll buy you flowers
like no other girl did before

You were so sweet and I was in love
oh darling don't tell me
you found another girl
forget the flowers
because the flowers
never last for ever
never last for ever
never last for ever
my love

Anechoic

Mencionados por aqui unas cuantas veces, tanto que bien podríamos crear una etiqueta para ellos :)
Hoy tenemos nuevo MP3,un video e información sobre los dos últimos del conciertos del años.


Indie / Alternative / Electro

United Kingdom

WEB
MySpace

Nuevo MP3 aqui:
Conversation killer

Nuevo MP3 para escuchar en su MySpace-- Video kill us all

Video:

Walking in Mud



Conciertos:

Tuesday 5th December 2006 LONDON - THE SPITZ 109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London, E1 6BG On-stage: 9:30pm Tickets: 6 advance, 7 door Email: info@curiousgeneration.com Tel: 44 (0) 20 7392 9032 Tube: Liverpool Street

Wednesday 6th December 2006 LEEDS - THE COCKPIT Swinegate, Leeds, LS1 4AG Tickets: 6 advance, 7 door Email: info@thecockpit.co.uk Tel: 44 (0) 113 244 1573 Web: www.seetickets.com In person: Jumbo Records, Crash Records

Socratic FREE INTERNET DEBUT!!


Rock/Alternative

Cranford/Linden, NEW JERSEY
United States

Website

MySpace

Componentes:

Duane F. Okun- guitar / vocals
Kevin G. Bryan II- guitar / vocals
Vincent D'Amico- piano / vocals
Thomas Patrick Stratton- percussion

Discográfica:


(2005)
Track Listing:
01. Theme From Your Mother's Garden
02. Alexandria As Our Lens
03. Tear A Gash
04. I Don't Wear A Coat
05. The Dense Indents
06. She's The Type Of Girl
07. I Am The Doctor
08. Too Late Too Soon
09. U And Left Turns
10. Lunch For The Sky
11. We Burn Houses
12. Spots I've Been and Go
13. B to E
14. Spending Galore


There are only 2 days till "Just Turn" makes it FREE INTERNET DEBUT in all our lives!!!!!!!!
December 5th Do NOT FORGET come to our myspace/socratic or purevolume.com/socratic and link to download free music.



Track Listing:
1. Turn
2. Blend In
3. The Spanish Prayer
4. I Haven't Seen You In Years
5. Storms Over Parades

Updating 8Dec2006: You can get the EP here!! There are only 1000 CDs.

Linda Guilala



WEB

Bio:

LINDA GUILALA es un nuevo proyecto que transcurre entre las ciudades de Vigo (España) y Rosario (Argentina), formado por EVA (teclados) e IVAN (bateria) ex-componentes de JUNIPER MOON , grupo de punk - pop que se separa tras publicar tres Eps y un Lp en el sello ELEFANT RECORDS ademas de mas docena de canciones en recopilatorios de Canada, Japon, Mexico, Peru, Uk ... Eva e Ivan comienzan entonces su actividad por separado tomando como punto de partida grabaciones caseras que el locutor Juan de Pablos ha radiado ocasionalmete en su programa FLOR DE PASION (RADIO 3, RNE ). A ellos se ha unido IGNACIO ESPUMADO ( Dj, organizador de eventos Pop ... ) miembro del grupo Daylight, ( banda de la escena HC argentina ) y de Matilda ( tecno pop ), grupo con el que ha publicado dos Lps dentro del sello PLATENA X y que ha recibido muy buena aceptacion dentro de Argentina.

LINDA GUILALA nos presentan ahora su primera demo, grabada entre España y Argentina y autoproducida integramente por el grupo con medios caseros. En ella EVA e IVAN se hacen cargo de las voces, guitarras, baterias, teclados y programaciones e IGNACIO de los bajos. Son 5 temas donde se mezclan las melodias pop y el espiritu punk, temas cargados de nostalgia y sabores agridulces.

Canciones:
-Mi vecina MP3
-Torremolinos MP3
-Te he cambiado MP3
-Mis ideas son MP3
-Saber perder MP3

Si quieres la demo original,pídesela y te la mandan gratuitamente.

Matt and Kim


BROOKLYN, New York

WEB
MySpace

Info en Spin.com

Disco:


MP3s:

1. NO MORE LONG YEARS MP3MySpace
2. YEA YEAH MP3
3. VERBS BEFORE NOUNS MP3
4. SILVER TILES MP3

Video:

-Yea Yeah


-5K