Here are some dancey-type bands from around the globe.
CLUBFEETmyspace.com/clubfeetband
This is a trio out of Melbourne. As you know, we like bands from Australia, and what's surprising about Clubfeet's debut album,
Gold on Gold, is that it's actually a very,
very good album!
For music fans that likes the idea of Empire of the Sun, but can't stand Luke Steele's vocals, this is the band for you.
Since their debut single,
Teenage Suicide, magazines
like Rolling Stone kept comparing them to Hot Chip and Cut Copy.
Although that particular single is very catchy and easy to remember
with their chorus "
teenage suicide, don't do it! teenage suicide, don't do it!"
repeated over and over, I wouldn't dismiss them as another Chip Copy
band. These guys have some great lyrics and they know how to produce
and layer their music.
To be fair, I think the comparison comes from the fact that
some of Clubfeet's songs are very upbeat and happy ("D.I.E. Yuppie
Scum", "BrightLightsBigCity", and "Pull It Together"). They have a
serious side, although that usually results in slower and depressing
songs like "Fall From Up Here".
Their cover of James' "Say Something" is also worth mentioning. Instead
of trying to sound like Tim Booth, Clubfeet's singer Sebastian Cohen
takes it easy and mellows out a little. It's only towards the end of
the cover that the band feels more loosen up and carefree, especially
with the whistling and xylophone as the tape kept rolling after the
song: "
haha a little bit at the end hahah.".
Just that ditty makes me think that these guys are pretty down-to-earth guys. Hope they go on tour soon!
The
Gold on Gold album's been out in Australia earlier this year, but in America, the album was just released yesterday via
Plant Music. You can pick it up via
itunes or
amazon.com.
I like these guys so much, that they'll be mentioned with Sally on
W♥M Radio this week.
HUSKY RESCUEhusky-rescue.com ♥ myspace.com
I have long love this Finnish band, although I'll have to admit finding
their music at a used record store in the States is pretty tough.
Having said that, they have a new single called
They Are Coming out on last Monday on
Catskill Records.
As usual, Reeta Vestman's voice is soothing, but the music is very... spacey. At least in the original mix.
The single comes with four other mixes of "They Are Coming" and one
Lake Bodom Session for "Sound of Love" (a single off their third studio
album,
Ship of Light).
"Sound of Love" sounds great, especially because this is basically a
live track and you can hear empty echo, acoustics, and orchestra.
I'll say this again: I'm not a fan of remixes. Sometime a song is really good (like
Gone Are The Days),
it can survive any remix and variants. In the case of "They Are
Coming", the original mix is fine, I don't see why it needs to be mixed
any further. However both the Warrior One and Kinema (both based out of
London) tries to make it more clubby feel to it while the Halogen
Remix, made it more old timey (and creepy). The winner is clearly
Kinema because of the emphasis on the pianos and big beats.
You can download the Warrior One Remix at
rcrdlbl.com, get the single directly from
Catskill Records.
CHROMEOchromeo.net ♥ myspace.com
This Canadian electrofunk duo are currently on tour for their forthcoming album,
Business Casual
(out in September of 2010). I wanted to mention them because we're
doing coverage on them for the Minneapolis show, thanks to Kate 1.
Having talked to her before, she is a massive Chromeo fan, too bad I
told her that it's mandatory that she has to pay attention to
The Holy Ghost!
07-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
07-30 Boston, MA - House of Blues
07-31 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
08-02 Ottawa, Ontario - Capital Music Hall
08-03 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
08/04 New York, NY Central Park SummerStage
08-05 Detroit, MI - Majestic
08-07 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
08/08: Nelson, BC @ Shambhala
08-10 Calgary, Alberta - Flames Central
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08-11 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore
08-12 Seattle, WA - Showbox Market
08-13 Portland, OR - Roseland
08-16 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
08-20 Denver, CO - Ogden
08-24 Austin, TX - Stubb's
08-25 Dallas, TX - Palladium
08-26 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
08-27 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
09-04 New York, NY
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HERMANOS INGLESOShermanosinglesos.com ♥ myspace.com
I've never heard of this Belgium band before, but from what I've
gathered, they seem to be real life brothers (Cedric and Didier
Engels). What's kind of funny about their name, Hermanos Inglesos, is
that it's Spanish for Brothers English, or something like that.
In many of these cases, these bands have
a hard time marketing themselves to Americans. Obviously, the dominate
form of music here seems to be hip-hop, while the rest of the world
seems to really dig electronic/dance/club music.
Anyway, wish I could tell you more about these brothers or the
singer Meme on this track, "Wanderland". The video is pretty amazing,
and I'll confess that I've privately sent it to a dozen other people
when I saw this video ... although perhaps I should have warned them about the Unicorn-horny bit.�
Unsee! Unsee!
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