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Google Music and the New Payola - some things never change

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:48 +0000

Google Music and the New Payola - some things never change: (via yvynyl)

5 Predictions for the future of music

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:57:35 +0000

5 Predictions for the future of music

Little Red: Waiting (promo video)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:31:40 +0000

Little Red: Waiting (promo video)

Little Red: Waiting / Waiting Is Over - 7” single via...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Little Red: Waiting / Waiting Is Over - 7” single via Lucky Number Music “Rarely do songs sound so wonderfully out of place within their own time as those on Little Red’s debut album” Clash Magazine

Waiting / Wait Is Over’ is the second succulent single to be taken from Melbourne’s rock ‘n’ roll revisionaries Little Red’s debut album ‘Listen To’. It follows hot on the tail of the recent success of ‘It’s Alright / Coca-Cola’, which quickly built them a fan base of tastemaker luminaries, including BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Radio 2 stalwarts Radcliffe & Maconie, and XFM’s John Kennedy, and also found a home on the XFM playlist, and as BBC 6 Music’s breakfast show ‘Record of the Week’. Session invitations on the table from XFM and Absolute add to the eager anticipation for their very first UK shows in November.

The AA single is another tasty double helping of ‘instant-vintage’ pop from the band that effortlessly blends genres from rhythm and blues, reggae, soul, funk, doo-wop, and garage into sub 3 minute singalongs.

Mon 9th - XFM X:Posure Night at Barfly Camden (8.45pm)
Tues 10th - Rough Trade East Instore (7pm - FREE)
Fri 13th - Pure Groove Instore (1.15pm - FREE) /
Fri 13th - The Lexington Headline/Album launch show (10pm)
Sat 14th - Be at Proud (10pm)

myspace.com/littleredmusic

Little Red: Waiting Is over by jamespenycate

Darwin Deez ‘Constellations’ Rough Trade 7”...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:45 +0000

Darwin Deez ‘Constellations’ Rough Trade 7” pre-order

Listen and stream more of Darwin over at the ever fashionable myspace

iamgoldpanda: minotaurshock: Been in London working with Gold...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:49:12 +0000

iamgoldpanda:

minotaurshock:

Been in London working with Gold Panda this week. We did a fair bit of improvisation, which is something I’ve never really bothered with. I’ve always thought it was more fun to be involved in the improvising than in the listening/watching. Which is still true, but it was so much fun to make that now I’m into it.

I’ve also wondered for years how electronic duos work - especially since most of the acts I grew up listening to were duos. It seemed alien to me, I was so used to making electronic music alone and taking time to perfect a beat that adding anyone else into the mix was weird. How can you tweak stuff for hours if someone else is there?

So anyway, we did some live laptop stuff: generating sounds, trying to stay in time and sampling each other’s noises and the telly to create something new. I haven’t listened to the results other than a little blast when we finished. I’m kinda thinking maybe I won’t. But it felt and sounded good at the time.

We also spent some time at The Roundhouse working in the studio there with some sound engineering students. That was pretty great, and the fact that a lot of time was spent teaching the students mic techniques made us feel less bad about not really having any songs for them to record. Still, we recorded some drums and had time to record another long improvised track - this time with me on drums and Panda working the MPC. This was again, pretty enjoyable (in a different way to improvising in a traditional band).

All in all, I kinda realised how electronic collaboration works, and that improvisation is no longer a strange idea that I cannot be bothered with. It’s still probably more fun to make than to listen to, but still, I think I’ve been missing out.

What Start Ups are really like

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:08:27 +0000

What Start Ups are really like: Brilliant. Inspired. On the dot. Accurate.

Little Red album launch at the Lexington. Artwork by Paul Blow....

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:16 +0000

Little Red album launch at the Lexington. Artwork by Paul Blow. Brilliant!

More on 'Quit MySpace Day'

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:00 +0000

yvynyl: Earlier, I linked to the Music Think Tank article without any of my own commentary, but it...

Lisa Mitchell is just finishing her tour with Newton Faulker...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:35:57 +0100

Lisa Mitchell is just finishing her tour with Newton Faulker across the UK and heading out in support of her debut album ‘Wonder’.

The second single taken from Wonder is ‘Coin Laundry’ and is released next week across the UK, supported by a brilliant mix by Starsmith (Marina & The Diamonds and Frankmusik protegee). Further information is enclosed as an attachment.

She recently performed packed out headline London shows, along with appearing at Glastonbury and Hard Rock Calling, and is currently touring the UK as support to Newton Faulkner before embarking on her own UK tour in November. Dates as follows;

7th November- Birmingham Academy 3
8th November- Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
10th November – Brel, Glasgow
11th November- Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
12th November- Eastney Cellars, Portsmouth
13th November- The Louisiana, Bristol
14th November The Portland Arms, Cambridge

myspace.com/lisalisamitchell
lisamitchellmusic.com

Peggy Sue in America, shots by Katie Harkin of Sky Larkin

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:17:13 +0100

Peggy Sue in America, shots by Katie Harkin of Sky Larkin

Mark Mulligan on Google Music

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:01:29 +0100

Mark Mulligan on Google Music: Mark is one of the rare voices in the sphere of music futures that...

New Google Music Service Launch Imminent

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:26 +0100

New Google Music Service Launch Imminent: david-noel: Oho, Google Audio. Interesting. (via...

LITTLE RED: WAITING / WAIT IS OVER Released 30th November 2009...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:06:16 +0100

LITTLE RED: WAITING / WAIT IS OVER
Released 30th November 2009 on Lucky Number

‘Waiting / Wait Is Over’ is the second succulent single to be taken from Melbourne based rock & roll outfit Little Red’s debut album ‘Listen To’. It follows hot on the tail of the recent success of ‘It’s Alright / Coca-Cola’ which quickly built them a fan base of tastemaker luminaries including BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Radio 2 stalwarts Radcliffe & Maconie and XFM’s John Kennedy and also found a home on the XFM playlist and as BBC 6 Music’s breakfast show ‘Record of the Week’. Session invitations are also on the table from XFM and Absolute when the band arrive in the UK this November for their eagerly anticipated very first UK shows.

The AA single is another tasty double helping of ‘instant-vintage’ pop from the band that effortlessly blends genres from rhythm and blues, reggae, soul, funk, doo-wop, and garage.

With ‘Waiting’, Little Red offer stunning imagery of the girl-chase, like an updated prom-style teen movie, “sweaty palms, I lose my calm beneath the disco ball”, and teeter on the edge of losing control, “I’m so tired, she’s got me wired, but I don’t know what on!” It’s all harmless fun, but deadly serious at the same time! The beauty is the simplicity and directness of their sub 3 minute pop songs, but, somehow, like all the best bands, they still have time to drop 8 bars of instrumental at the top to give you an instant & instinctive feel for what’s to come. It’s like the fine art of storytelling, offering a suspense & mystique in their delivery, but never hiding a necessary detail when the time is right, & never overselling their yarn!

On ‘Wait Is Over’ singers Dom & Tom share alto & baritone leads respectively, backed by the band’s trademark super-sweet four-part harmonies! Lyrically, ‘50’s romanticism combines with the contrasting emotions in building relationships as the two swap lines. “I was feeling at the end of my rope” becomes “I feel all my troubles are gone…all that’s left in the past, we’re together at last.” Despite the band’s backyard dwellings they rap with the syncopation of urban brothers, delivered with a natural rhythmic soul that’s like Phoenix with their happiest song to sing!

November dates:
Mon 9 – The Barfly, London (XFM X:Posure)
Tue 10 – Rough Trade East, London
Fri 13 – The Lexington, London
Sat 14 – Proud Galleries, London
Little Red are: Adrian Beltrame (Guitar, Vocals), Dominic Byrne (Vocals, Guitar), Quang Dinh (Vocals, Bass), Taka Honda (Drums), Tom Hartney (Vocals, Percussion).

The single will be released on limited seven inch vinyl and digital download.
www.myspace.com/littleredmusic

Hecuba - The Magic Hecuba: myspace.com/hecubahecuba |...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:06:06 +0100

Hecuba - The Magic

Hecuba: myspace.com/hecubahecuba | hecubahecuba.com

Hecuba “The Magic” from the album “Paradise” on Manimal Vinyl.
Directed by Isaiah Seret & Jon Beasley.
Visual Effects by Benjamin Kutsko.
Produced by Shadie Elnashai.

Sonar 2010 // Sonar.es

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:05:55 +0100

Sonar 2010 // Sonar.es

O’Spada ‘Time’The new single released 30th...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:04:42 +0100

O’Spada ‘Time’

The new single released 30th November 2009 on Make Mine

O’Spada was formed in Stockholm 2006 by five individuals with a varied background in music and forged a clash between soul and funk meeting hip-hop and rock, creating their own unique sound. They gradually earned a reputation mainly through MySpace and their vivid live performances, handing them a record deal at Despotz Records in 2008. Since then, O’Spada have spent early 2009 recording the as yet untitled debut album, and the first track to leak onto the internet during the summer was this track “Time”. It finally gets its first release proper and will be released both digitally and as a limited 7-inch, and features some very interesting remixes.

More great singles and an album will follow later this year. Here are some first responses to their assault on the world;

“Was this track made in 1984? Did we just discover it as an unmarked white label mixed in with our tio’s old freestyle vinyl collection? This is the only single they have so far and it’s a killer. We have a rollerdisco date soon, we need more, Swedes!”
The FADER

“Synthy like Passion Pit, rhythmically fractured like Hot Chip, and poppy without remorse.”
Guardian Band Of the Day

DARWIN DEEZ: DEBUT SINGLE “CONSTELLATIONS/ THE COMA SONG” Debut...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:05:23 +0100

DARWIN DEEZ: DEBUT SINGLE “CONSTELLATIONS/ THE COMA SONG”

Debut single to be released as a limited 7” Vinyl and Download on Lucky Number on December 7

Not many people can start a song by cribbing “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star” as the opening line and get away with it, but then again, Darwin Deez has always been nothing less than utterly original. From his unorthodox beginnings as a child of Baba Lovers (followers of Avatar Meher Baba, like Pete Townshend) to fleeing Wesleyan University to start a band in New York City, to his method of playing a 4-string electric guitar in his own invented, secret tuning, nothing about Mr Deez can be described as remotely conventional. His live sets, for instance, feature original songs intercut with harsh electronic noise and spontaneous bouts of synchronised dancing to custom pop mash-ups.

Cryptically described on his website as “happy music for sad people/ white music for black people”, Darwin’s particular strain of music is located at the crossroads of the wittily ironic and warmly inclusive – effortlessly infectious songs with a deadpan sense of humour; or Arthur Russell when he lived in the East Village, but with an even more accentuated penchant for droll wordplay, as well as one for spontaneous tap dancing. This self-professed hipster may ooze arch, off-kilter cool, but at the same time there is a deep, reverential love of the big, bold strokes of the perfect pop song, as showcased on this, his debut single.

“Constellations” is a nigh-on untouchable mini-pop classic, rolling together ebullient guitar strokes, handclaps, and a childlike sense of awe (“if freckles don’t mean anything, does anything mean anything?”) into a fizzing ball and kicking it high into the air. At once oddball and heartfelt, tender and funny, spiky yet insouciant; Darwin Deez strolls nonchalantly through these contradictory states, humming his own distinctive tune, going his own singular way.

“His mission has two parts: to be weird, and to entertain you. Part one is in place, part two is imminent” – NME

CMJ DATES

October
20 – Popgun Booking CMJ Showcase
20 – Club NME Party @ BLVD
23 – Neon Gold Showcase @ Santos Party House
23 – CMJ Party @ Glasslands

myspace.com/darwindeez // darwindeez.com // luckynumbermusic.com

Monarchy. Read unknown unknown amazing disco friendly fires...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:27 +0100

Monarchy. Read unknown unknown amazing disco friendly fires from, maybe London. If you’ve avoided this on blogs so far, go have a read here or here or here or here or here

Twitter.com/monarchysound
Myspace.com/monarchysound

When I know more. I’ll tell you. Okay

Gold Panda review of Lemonade’s ‘Bliss’ on...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:15:56 +0100

Gold Panda review of Lemonade’s ‘Bliss’ on Pitchfork

The song is called ‘Bliss’ and it’s by a band called Lemonade. The remix lives up to the title perfectly.

“t’s true to the track’s title, but feels more blasted, drugged, and distant, the kind of bliss that comes after you’ve done (or taken) something that makes it difficult to move. And then, halfway through, the song’s bottom drops out, and a lone synth pattern snakes up toward the sky lazily like a smoke ring, a shift that feels both surprising and inevitable from a producer who seems to have a knack for that combination.”