Justin Vernon and his Bön Iver released one of the most memorable records in 2008. “For Emma, Forever Ago” had us all mesmerized with his emotional harmonies and amazing, yet puzzling lyrics. Now Vernon is teaming up with Collections of Colonies of Bees for his sideproject Volcano Choir.
With their long awaited fifth album “No More Stories Are Told Today / I’m Sorry / They Washed Away / No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I’m Tired / Let’s Wash Away” out in stores, the Danish dream-pop-quartet, headlined on a lot of international summer festivals this year. We caught up with lead singer Jonas Bjerre of Mew to talk about what it’s like to be in a band that plays by a different set of rules.
Friendly Fires released a new single and an expanded version of their debut album, “Friendly Fires”, yesterday. “Kiss of Life” is the single, and judging by its sound, Vampire Weekend and their heavily African infused Indie-pop has had a big influence on the Indie scene since last year.
Röyksopp invites you to make your own remix of their hit “Tricky Tricky”. You can arrange, distort the synths and mess around with Karin Dreijers vocals. Great fun!
The Elliot school in London has given us Hot Chip, Four Tet and… ehm… Pierce Brosnan. But another band from Elliot, The xx has got the thumbs up from the likes of Pitchfork, NME ++ Their debut album, creatively called “xx” came out this august and they are currently touring with Florence + the machine.
The Londoners in The Chap and their experimental avant rock (as some call it) might not be the usual material for Vincent Moon and his popular take away show concept. But at this years SXSW in Austin he recorded The Chap performing “Fun & Interesting” from the “Mega Breakfast” LP.
A little roundup of some of the films and videos that has fascinated me the last months. Some are pure creative, some are funny and som are just beautiful.
AEG Live, the promoters of MJs london concert have now been kind enough to offer special lenticular printed souvenir tickets. In exchange for your expensive ticket of course, no refund.
Radiohead is currently working on some new material, and apparently their new song titled “These are my twisted words” leaked. That made Thom York and Co put it out as a download on their website, for free.
Today its the UK release for Arctic monkeys new album “Humbug”. The Sheffield boys has got a bit of help from Queens of the Stoneages Josh Homme on this one and they are set to top their to previous releases “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” and “Favourite Worst Nightmare”.
The Swedish folk-sensation First Aid Kit gained massive attention last year when the hippie-sisters Klara (16) and Johanna Söderberg (18) posted their brilliant Fleet Foxes-cover on Youtube. While the rest of the world awaits the teenage girls to blow new minds away with their angel voices, we hooked up with Klara to hear how they were doing.
It has now been 4 long years since we last heard anything from the Kings of Convenience. Now they are back together making beautifull acustic folk pop.
Last year it was Hercules And Love affair that wowed the critics with their house music influenced nu-disco album. So did TV on the radio with their deadly catchy ”Dear Science”. Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser of MGMT had everyone whistling on ”Time to pretend”.
Simian Mobile Disco, alter ego of James Ford and James Anthony Shaw, has in the last couple of years been in the shadow of almost world dominators Justice and their crusade against minimalism. Two new tracks with two brilliant videos leads the way for a successful comeback.
