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W♥M166: Winter Shows

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Brody came on W♥M Radio to talk list some Winter shows. Incidentally, I don't go to shows in the Winter, so I'm not attending most of these shows (I don't even have their tour itinerary): The Maccabees, The Cribs, Kasabian, Phoenix (France), Palma Violets, Kooks, Peace, Xx, Kaiser Chiefs (lost a guitarist). The only show I'm attending is The Faint, which is happening tomorrow at First Avenue (December 13th).

Shows Brody wants to go to: Andrew Bird (12/17 at State Theatre), Of Monsters and Men (12/18 at First Ave), Steel Panthers (12/20 at Mill City Nights). … And even more bands on tour, too numerous to mention (Vaccines, Drop Kick Murphy, Muse, Django Django, Alt-J, Ben Howard, The Staves, Mumford and Sons, Peggy Sue).

News discussed: Adele hit Diamond Certification with her 25+ million record sold of 21. Psy's "Gangnam Style" became the #1 video on YouTube. It was so popular, it was covered by Glee, you can read all about that here.

Stars just announced their The North North American tour, you can see all the tour dates and read all about it here on W♥M. Song of the show is "Calendar Girl", from their Set Yourself on Fire 2004 album.

BONUS: Eels are heading out on tour, plus new album Wonderful, Glorious.

02/14 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory 02/15 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre 02/16 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore 02/18 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater 02/19 Seattle, WA Showbox Theater 02/22 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 02/23 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre 02/24 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 02/25 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre 02/26 Montreal, QC Theatre Corona 02/27 Boston, MA Paradise 03/01 New York, NY Webster Hall 03/02 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live 03/03 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 03/04 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 03/05 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse 03/07 Dallas, TX Granada Theater 03/08 Houston, TX Warehouse Live Ballroom 03/14 Belfast, Ireland Limelight 03/15 Dublin, Ireland Olympia 03/17 Manchester, UK Academy 03/18 Glasgow, UK O2 Academy

03/19 Leeds, UK O2 Academy 03/21 London, UK O2 Academy 03/23 Bournemouth, UK O2 Academy 03/25 Brighton, UK Dome 03/26 Norwich, UK UEA 03/27 Nottingham, UK Rock City 03/29 Bristol, UK O2 Academy 03/30 Birmingham, UK O2 Academy 04/01 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso 04/06 Copenhagen, Denmark Grey Hall 04/07 Hamburg, Germany Grosse Freiheit 04/08 Berlin, Germany Astra 04/10 Belgium, Brussels Cirque Royal 04/12 Caen, France Le Cargo 04/14 Salzburg, Austria Republic 04/15 Fribourg, Switzerland Frison 04/16 Zurich, Switzerland Volkshaus 04/18 Milan, Italy Alcatraz 04/19 Graz, Austria Orpheum 04/20 Linz, Austria Posthof 04/21 Vienna, Austria Gasometer 04/22 Munich, Germany Muffathalle 04/24 Paris, France Trianon

Also, Trust and Morrissey.

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Going for Gold 13

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Read More Tori Amos You know I love Tori Amos. She is one of those artists that I'll still continue to buy her albums, despite getting review copies.

TORI AMOS
toriamos.com

You know I love Tori. Who doesn't?

She announced that she's gone back and hand-picking songs from her entire catalog and re-imagining those songs for her thirteenth studio album, Gold Dust (to be released for October 2012). Announcement is so far that I'm using her previous album, Night of Hunters, as the cover artwork.

I am expecting these "new" songs will be incredibly different, just like her previous re-working of classic Christmas songs and Classical Music.

Also, expect a bit of orchestra, as long-time collaborator John Philip Shenale will be on board with the renowned Metropole Orchestra (conducted by Jules Buckley).

Tori comments on the forthcoming album: "My relationship with all of these songs has changed over the years and they have changed my life. So it wasn’t just about capturing the past it was about realizing that the songs had a new narrative now - 10 or 20 years later than they did when I originally recorded them".

Be sure to see her on tour:

Oct 1 Rotterdam w/ Metropole Orkest Conducted by Jules Buckley
Oct 2 Brussels w/ Metropole Orkest Conducted by Jules Buckley
Oct 13 Warsaw (On-Sale Date 6/11)

Read More The Cribs The Cribs are an excellent three piece indie band of twin brothers Gary and Ryan Jarman and their little brother Ross Jarman.

THE CRIBS
thecribs.com

We like these guys, I was lucky enough to have caught these guys the last few times they toured through Minneapolis.

They premiered a video called "Glitters Like Gold" on Pitchfork in early June.

Here is what the directors, Andy Knowles and Stephen Agnew, had to say about the video: "We wanted to capture the look and feel of the videos we grew up loving, Vids by directors like David Marky (1991, The Year Punk Broke, Fuzz Gun '91) And Kevin Kerslake ('sliver') We loved the relaxed playful lo-fi feel of spots, and wanted to evoke the same love in a newer audience. Its also very relevant to the over all sound and feel of the track. However, we didn't want to simply wallow in our own selfish nostalgia, we also wanted to create something playful and interactive to run parallel to the linear video. So we arrived at the idea of creating an interactive fact driven video."

The band's currently on tour:

Jun 21 Club Quattro Osaka, Japan
Jun 23 Hostess Weekender, Ebisu Tokyo, Japan
Jul 06 T in The Park Balado, United Kingdom
Aug 24 Richfield Avenue Reading, United Kingdom
Aug 25 Leeds Festival 2012 Leeds, United Kingdom
Aug 26 Bramham Park Bramham, United Kingdom

TRISTAN PRETTYMAN
www.tristanprettyman.com

The California singer Tristan Prettyman will be returning to music after her four-year recording hiatus to unveil Cedar + Gold, coming out on September 25 via Capitol Records.

You can hear a sneak peek of "My Oh My" on Entertainment Weekly. The track will be available on July 10th to impact radio a few weeks later.

The track-listing for Cedar + Gold is as follows: Say Anything / I Was Gonna Marry You / My Oh My / Unconditionally / Quit You / Bad Drug / Come Clean / Glass Jar / When You Come Down / Deepest Ocean / Blue / Second Chance / Never Say Never / The Rebound (bonus track).

Since the album is announced so far in advance, we weren't given the cover artwork for it. Instead, I'll be using the cover from the last album, Hello, from 2008.

Be sure to catch Prettyman and Joshua Radin on their tour:

07/12 Napa, CA Uptown Theater 07/15 Boise, ID Knitting Factory 07/17 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot 07/18 Aspen, CO Belly Up 07/20 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s 07/22 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater 07/23 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theatre

07/25 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse 07/27 Huntington, NY Paramount 07/28 Cleveland, OH Cain Park 07/29 Annapolis, MD Ramshead Onstage 07/31 Englewood, NJ Bergen Performing Arts 08/02 Alexandria, VA Birchmere 08/03 Norfolk, VA NorVa

HOLLOWS
hollowschicago.com

eMusic recently premiered "Golden Chain," the first video from Hollows' sophomore LP, Vulture.

I did a quick search on the 'net for Hollows, they have to do something about their name - there are already a few bands called Hollows - including one from Brooklyn and one from Glasgow.

Anyroad, the Chicago band is heading out on tour:

June 26 - Tip Top - Grand Rapids, MI
June 27 - Painted Lady - Detroit, MI
June 28 - Parts & Labour - Toronto, ON *
June 29 - Capital Rehearsal Studios - Ottawa, ON *
June 30 - Barfly - Montreal, QC *
July 1 - WWTA - Boston, MA *
July 2 - Glasslands - Brooklyn, NY *
July 3 - Cake Shop - New York, NY
July 5 - TBA - Baltimore, MD *
July 6 - Gillie's - Blacksburg, VA
July 7 - Espresso News - Boone, NC
July 8 - Springwater - Nashville, TN
July 9 - The Exhange - Hot Springs, AR
July 10 - H&H Lounge - Shreveport, LA
July 11 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX &
July 12 - White House - Conway, AR
July 13 - The Pleasure Chest - Fayetteville, AR
July 14 - Replay Lounge - Lawrence, KS
July 15 - Record Bar - Kansas City, MO
July 16 - PK's - Carbondale, IL

w/ Boyhood *
w/ Bass Drum of Death &

BRIEFLY:

GRASS WIDOW grasswidow.org "Goldilocks Zone" is the new song from Grass Widow, which premiered on Pitchfork. The song is taken from their self-released record, available through Internal Logic.

BILLY & DOLLY billyanddolly.com San Francisco's Billy & Dolly has a second full-length album out now called Dally Bon Idyll. Check out their single for "Gold" on Soundcloud.

IAN MCGLYNN ianmcglynn.com Ian McGlynn has a new album called Now We're Golden, which just came out earlier this month, June 5th via Bailey Park Records. The album was recorded all over the place, including Paris, Amsterdam and "exotic" Somerville, NJ. Will the songs on the album reflect his environment? I guess you have to listen for yourself.

THE HAPPY HIPPO FAMILY thhf.se Swedish indie band, The Happy Hippo Family, tells me that they have a second single for 2012 called "Settle for Gold" (this is after their previous single "Mustache"). "Settle for Gold", I am told, is about the mythical dream of fame and stardom and getting there without settling for second best.

THE KNOCKS www.facebook.com Don't know anything about the Knocks, they didn't send in links or bio, just that they recently remixed Santigold's "The Keepers", you can hear it on soundcloud.

PATRICK GOLDEN twitter.com Patrick Golden followed us on Twitter, so I thought I'd say hi. According to his twitter biography @7StringSerenade, he's the lead guitarist for Vulture King and Bog Iron and loves old stuff.

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The Cribs at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (04/07/12)

Tour Dates 04/09 - Chicago, IL - Schubas 04/10 - Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room 04/11 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace 04/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall 04/14 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall 05/07 - Nottingham - Rock City 05/08 - London - The Troxy 05/09 - Bristol - O2 Academy 05/11 - Glasgow - Barrowlands 05/12 - Manchester - Academy 05/13 - Eastbourne - Winter Gardens Read More The Cribs The Cribs are an excellent three piece indie band of twin brothers Gary and Ryan Jarman and their little brother Ross Jarman.

The sibling band, The Cribs, played it fast and furious, just like their driving (they've earned a record of getting two speeding tickets this tour!) The moral of the story, as they put it, wasn't that they were scary events, but that "they didn't find the pot". And that's what matter.

I have to also add that 7th Street Entry is quite tiny (250 capacity), a bit of a downgrade from their previous show in Minneapolis. Still, everyone out last night, they all wanted to be there.

Baby Boys

Baby Boys, a trio out of Minneapolis played some 90-ish rock, I haven't really heard of this band before. I don't think they even have a website, other than Facebook … but it seems they have a lot of songs under their collective belts. In fact, they've already recorded brand new album, which is not out yet. Their songs are about loving animals, dancing, and Michael Jackson.

Gospel Gossip

Gospel Gossip, on the other hand, is well-known here. One of our writers here, who shall remain nameless, is smitten with singer Sarah Nienaber. Gospel Gossip's music is quite guitar heavy with sweet singing. If it works out this week I will bring up Gospel Gossip on this week's podcast on Shoegazing bands.

As for The Cribs, we've been following them since we started. Surprisingly, they did a good mixup of old favorite hits like 2005's "Hey Scenesters!" to 2007's "Men's Needs" to 2008's "I'm a Realist" to current "Chi-Town" (this song will probably go over well in Chicago).

Highlight of the show was "Men's Needs", the song spawned a massive singalong. Shortly after they started their final song, "City of Bugs", the youthful crowd, went apesh***, and started to slamdance. While on stage, the band did their trash-destruction-thing, you know, it's all just rock 'n roll.

The Cribs' fifth album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull will be out May 7th, 2012, via Wichita Recordings. Some of those new songs on this tour, they sound fantastic live, in particular "Come On, Be A No One", which we previewed last month.

NOTE: Johnny Marr is not with the band any longer, so those hoping to touch the ex-Smiths are out of luck.

PS: Gary mentioned how much they love Minneapolis. When he was a kid, he said Babes in Toyland was his favorite band. Then when he got older, he said The Replacements were his heroes. What? No Prince? :)

The Cribs at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (04/07/12)

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W♥M125: SXSW 2012

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Brody stopped in to talk about SXSW 2012. What's in store for him?

March 13
Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Fanfarlo, and Young Man at Fitzgeralds in Houston, Texas

March 14
Sydney Wayser at Betsy’s Bar (12pm)
Sydney Wayser at Rusty’s (1:45pm)
Radio Day Stage Austin Convention Center: Michael Kiwanuka (3pm), Alabama Shakes (4pm), Honeyhoney (5pm)
Warehouse: Blondfire (8pm), Tribes (9pm), fun. (10pm), Twin Atlantic (11pm), Neon Trees (12am), Kasabian (1am)
Tennis at Red 7 (10pm)
Pomegranates at Trinity Hall (11:30pm)
The Drums at Stage on Sixth Patio (1am)

March 15
Cedar Street Courtyard: Twiilite (11am), Coldair (11:30am), Paula i Karol (12pm), Zulu Winter (1pm), Reptar (2pm), Band of Skulls (3pm), Kaiser Chiefs (4pm), Keane (5pm)
Club de Ville: Sarah Jaffe (8pm), Hundred Visions (9pm), Fanfarlo (10pm), Tennis (11pm), White Rabbits (12am), Youth Lagoon (1am)
Spectrals at Swan Dive (8pm)
Jonquil at Latitude 30 (10pm)
Miike Snow at Lustre Pearl (12am)

March 16
Flat Top Burger Shop: Education (12pm), The Wedding Present (1pm), Spectrals (2pm), A Classic Education (3pm), Literature (4pm), The Spinto Band (5pm), Treetop Flyers (6pm), Dutch Uncles (7pm)
Fanfarlo at Radio Day Stage Austin Convention Center (2pm)
Cedar Street: Graffiti6 (4pm), Fanfarlo (5pm)
Easy Tiger Patio: Leftover Cuties (8pm), Sydney Wayser (9pm), D E N A (10pm), Ximena Sarinana (11pm), Alabama Shakes (12am), Girl in a Coma (1am)
Of Monsters and Men at Stubb's (9pm)
Tribes at Maggie Mae's Rooftop (1am)
Treasure Island: The Riff Raff (11pm), All the Young (12am)

March 17
Flat Top Burger Shop: Seapony (12pm), The Brute Chorus (1pm), Django Django (2pm), North Highlands (3pm), Jonquil (4pm), Wild Moccasins (5pm), The Staves (6pm)
Latitude 30: Clock Opera (9pm), Django Django (10pm), Maverick Sabre (11pm), Slow Club (12am), Toddla T (1am)
Sony Club at Red 7: The Twilight Sad (11pm), We Were Promised Jetpacks (12am), Star Slinger (1am)
Lissy Trullie at Clive Bar (12am)

Song of the show is The Cribs' "Come On, Be A No One".

The Cribs are on tour:

04/03 - Portland, OR – Holocene 04/04 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café 04/07 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry 04/09 - Chicago, IL - Schubas 04/10 - Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room 04/11 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace 04/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg

04/14 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall 05/07 - Nottingham - Rock City 05/08 - London - The Troxy 05/09 - Bristol - O2 Academy 05/11 - Glasgow - Barrowlands 05/12 - Manchester - Academy 05/13 - Eastbourne - Winter Gardens

BONUS: Jordan from Howler dissed the Minneapolis music scene, in particular calling out 4onthefloor as "crap". Howler is the hot-new-buzz band at the moment. Plus, Prissy Clerks.

Also, WHAT??? There's a second part to this show??? An unexpected Sally & Dave appearance:

Their band, still unnamed. Possible names: Phonebook Inspector and All Talk

Australian Idol

Clem Snide's "Don't Stop Believin'" in sad, sad ukulele

2 Broke Girls

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Playground Weekender Review

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Sunburns all round, in a curious pattern on both my arms. Anyway, Playground Weekender, the 4-day music festival has now been and gone. Friday afternoon happened to see Sally, Maureen and Steve pile into Steve’s quite swish mini and zip through the bush up to the ever lovely Wisemans Ferry. A perfect afternoon for a boat ride a short way up the Hawkesbury for Sally to show her true engineering skills in the “putting up a tent” arena; Team weheartmusic had arrived.

Bands? You want to hear about bands?

 

 

The Cribs - Men's Needs

The Cribs; a young group of English lads, loud and dirty guitar-based indie at it’s finest. And then we have Johnny Marr of The Smiths fame; the latest addition to The Cribs, less bursting with energy, but to tell you the truth, he was the biggest drawcard for me and possibly quite a few others.

Ok Go: OK NO!

Now I have never been a huge fan of OK Go, but I thought I’d give them a go, with the secret hope that they’d get some treadmills out for my viewing pleasure. Treadmills? No. But bell ringing and fluffy incandescent guitars… almost as good.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre we nearly at the top of my list of bands for the weekend and quite a fitting choice to end the Friday evening line-up. Not too raucous for those of us who were looking forward to a nice nap (*ahem*), but by no means boring. Psychedelic-shoe gaze rock, with tambourine included. Sure many of their songs sounded quite alike to me, but the upside is that even though they sounded quite similar, they were all equally as good. The set even saw a guest appearance from Aimee Nash from The Black Ryder.

The highlight of the Saturday (don’t laugh) had to be Manchoir. Imagine eight men, donned in blue wife-beater singlets singing acapella. I Touch Myself, Dead Or Alive and the Home and Away Theme song, to name just a few, were accompanied by some delightful hand actions and embellished with the odd swear-word. Special mention must also be made to the sound and lighting team who managed to get a bit of a backdrop going using MS Paint (the computer drawing program of the true artiste)…. Oh, I suppose you just had to be there.

As the afternoon progressed into the night and the $8 beverages began flowing the main stage began to attract more and more people. It also may have had something to do with the extreme heat of the sun and the size of the shadow cast by the stage. The Black Ryder, not the most fitting soundtrack to a stinking hot summer day, were amazing. Psychedelic-esque and melancholy; brilliant.

Legoman: Has trouble walking up hills

Next I ventured into the crowd to inspect some of the costumed individuals that were wandering around on what happened to be “fancy dress Saturday”. I must say there were far too many Indians roaming around, not sure what the go was with that. However, there were quite a few notably excellent costumes. My personal favourite was the guy (I think it was a guy) dressed up as Gumby. The carpenter who fashioned a life-size Lego man costume from wood was probably more crazy than not. Particularly when it came to navigating hills, but A+ for effort…. and a special mention goes out to the highly intoxicated boy in the Superman suit designed for 8 year olds (made me laugh anyway).

 

Bjorn Again: 70s calling

The bands of the evening that we managed to see were both very entertaining indeed. Namely Bjorn Again and Polyphonic Spree. As you may have guessed Bjorn Again happen to be and Abba tribute band. But wow, they really quite close to the real deal (or so I’d assume), even down to the fake Swedish accents. I can only describe them as “fun”. For Abba fans it would have possibly been some kind of moving experience, but for those not such large fans of Abba it would have at least been mildly amusing.

The Polyphonic Spree were as epic as expected. With the cast of thousands they were highly entertaining. It’s always brilliant to see such a large group of people coming together and performing so tightly. All dressed in white; mesmerising dance moves (especially to those of us who had been sipping beverages in the sun all day). And all those uplifting songs…. Nice.

Wacko Jacko

Shamefully (I blame the rest of my festival posse) we skipped out early on Sunday and sadly missed some of the acts I was more looking forward to catching. That is, British Sea Power, Bluejuice and Orbital. But the word on the street is that it was indeed I that was the fool with regards to leaving early, missing these bands who turned out to be amazing.

Anyway, thanks to Tom and Felicity for helping us to attend such a great event. And special thanks to the rest of team weheartmusic (Maureen and Steve) and to young Chris Thodey (competition winner) who supplied us with a few happy snaps. ____
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The Cribs at The Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (03/26/08)

The Cribs - Men's Needs The Cribs Tour Dates 03/28/08 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO 03/31/08 Chop Suey Seattle, WA 04/02/08 Doug Fir Portland, OR 04/03/08 Pop Scene San Francisco, CA 04/04/08 El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA 06/12/08 Kasbah Coventry, Midlands Read More The Cribs The band is currently working on their third album in Vancouver with Franz Ferdinand's frontman A...

Set List ♥ photograph by Brody Gary Jarman ♥ photograph by vu Ryan Jarman ♥ photograph by vu

We've mentioned The Cribs previously, so you should be familiar with them by now.

They played here last night (March 26th) at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. I've always liked the Varsity because there's couches and seats, so it's not really an ideal "rock" venue, if you get my drift. They also ulitizes their lights, so it's definitely a lot more exciting to watch than, say, most venues that have no or little light-action.

Unfortunately, there is a missing 35W bridge, so I was a little confused and lost finding the theater and ended up missing the two opening bands, Ra Ra Riot and Jeffrey Lewis. I was told by attendees that Lewis was a one-man folk singer and that the crowd really loved Ra Ra Riot.

I always have the biggest respect for warm-up acts, because they have to rock twice as hard working an audience that's essentially not there to see them (this is why I always try and make an effort to spotlight the openers).

To be honest, I wasn't really into the show, but I can tell that the audience loved The Cribs, dancing and singing along.

The highlight of the show was when (I think) Ryan went to play on a prop piano and started making up some lyrics about the Kooks and something.

The brothers ended the set with "Ancient" and they did the rock 'n roll thing and aped out at the last song.

No encores.

 03/27/2008 01:59:04  vu my♥posts thecribs.com myspace.com

The Cribs - Men's Needs

Tour Dates 01/29/08 Mandela Hall,NorthernIreland 01/30/08 Ambassador Theatre Dublin 02/01/08 Barrowlands Glasgow 02/02/08 Manchester Ace Manchester 02/03/08 Newcastle Academy Newcastle 02/04/08 Lincoln Engine Shed Lincoln 02/06/08 Birmingham Ace Birmingham [More tour dates on myspace] Links The Cribs http://weheartmus... The band is currently working on their third album in Vancouver with Franz Ferdinand's frontman A...

 

 

The Cribs - Men's Needs

The Cribs

I thought I'd do just one more entry, what can I say, I've got the holiday spirit going on here. So anyway, this song has got to be my favorite song right now. I just love it. The Cribs are an excellent three piece indie band of twin brothers Gary and Ryan Jarman and their little brother Ross Jarman. They hail from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. England. The song I picked is off their 2007 release of Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever. Great album, I high suggest you check it out. Anyway I won't say much as I never really do. Just enjoy the single I chose and have a Merry Christmas. You can check out their website, which isn't a bad looking site btw, for tour dates and much more. Again, I hope you all a joyous holiday. Merry Christmas!

The Cribs |  MySpace

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News: NME Releases Essential Band - Festival Edition

 

 

The Wombats - Backfire @ the Disco

NME presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition was just released on June 11th, 2007 (available in America as an import on June 14th).

I didn't know how successful they are, but according to the press release that the first two NME Presents album have sold over 600,000 copies. That's actually really good numbers for the UK because they have different standards for certification of "Platinum" (300,000 copies). For trivia's sake, US Certified Platinum is having 1,000,000 copies sold.

Despite Mr C's protests, we cover quite a few NME-hyped bands, so if you want to check out what they sound like, here are some internal links: Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Jet, Patrick Wolf, The Wombats, and The Cribs.

I am actually kind of working on a concert review for the Maccabees and Noisettes entry. I'll give you a preview: the Noisettes are a scary-looking band!  The singer from the Maccabees dances around like he's Ian Curtis!

Track Listing:

NME presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition

CD 1 01. Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays 02. The Killers - Bones 03. Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control 04. Razorlight - Before I Fall To Pieces 05. Kasabian - Shoot The Runner 06. Muse - Starlight 07. The Twang - Wide Awake 08. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon Of Choice 09. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs 10. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 11. The Rumble Strips - Alarm Clock 12. The Automatic - Raoul 13. The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love 14. CSS - Off The Hook 15. Noisettes - Scratch Your Name 16. 1990s - See You At The Lights 17. The Maccabees - Precious Times 18. Pull Tiger Tail - Let’s Lightning 19. Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry 20. Jarvis - Running The World

CD 2 01. The View - Same Jeans 02. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow 03. Maximo Park - Our Velocity 04. Bloc Party - The Prayer 05. Low vs Diamond - Heart Attack 06. The Hours Back - When You Were Good 07. Keane - A Bad Dream 08. Thirteen Senses - All The Love In Your Hands 09. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position 10. Little Man Tate - This Must Be Love 11. Gruff Rhys - Candylion 12. Bright Eyes - Four Winds 13. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - War Of The Worlds 14. Alterkicks - Good Luck 15. Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres 16. The Wombats - Backfire At The Disco 17. The Rakes - We Danced Together 18. Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour… 19. !!! - Must Be The Moon 20. The Cribs - Men's Needs

Also, is anyone is interested in a competition to win this CD? If you guys aren't interested, I won't bother to make the effort to set it up.

Links: www.nme.com

The Cribs - Hey Scenesters!

The Cribs - Hey Scenesters!

The Cribs

Hey Scenesters! is taken from UK band The Cribs' second album The New Fellas released in 2005.

The band is currently working on their third album in Vancouver with Franz Ferdinand's frontman Alex Kapranos as producer. He was hired for the producer job after The Cribs' supported Franz Ferdinand on their US tour last year.

I chose this song from the album because, well, I like it...

Bonus: Their debut 7" single Another Number from 2003 can be downloaded from their website. But be warned - it's not as good as their recent stuff.

Completely useless trivia: The 3 band members are brothers - two of them being twins.

- Mads