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The Great Escape 2013 Preview

THE GREAT ESCAPE
mamacolive.com/thegreatescape

As previously mentioned, Jess & Brody are covering The Great Escape Music Festival in Brighton for W♥M.

With over 300 bands, set across 30 venues, I thought it would be good to spotlight some of the artists who will be performing at the event taking place May 16 to May 18 (yes, THIS WEEKEND).

Below is a full listing of all the bands set to play this year's festival (sorry for the tiny print - but there are way too many bands on the lineup):

A Tribe Called Red Aa Wallace Abi Wade Ain't No Love Alarm Bells Aliment Allah-Las Ambassadeurs Andreya Triana Anushka Arcane Roots Archipel Arlissa Arrows Of Love Aufgang Babe Balthazar Beach Fossils Bear's Den Beataucue Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux Big Deal Big Wave Riders Bipolar Sunshine Bird Birkwin Jersey Black Lizard Blackeye Blaudzun Blek Blue Hawaii Bo Bruce Boats Bombay Show Pig Breakage Brodka Brooke Candy Brother And Bones C Joynes Cairo Pythian Caitlin Park Catfish And The Bottlemen Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs Charlie Straight Chasing Grace Cheatahs Childhood China Rats Chloe Howl Chris Cohen Chris Letcher Christine And The Queens Chvrches Clean Bandit Cloud Boat Coach Station Reunion Concrete Knives Cousins Crushed Beaks Crystal Fighters Cub Scouts Current Swell Cut Ribbons D E N A Damerels Dan Croll Dancing Years Daniel Drumz Darkstar David Ram Jam Rodigan Mbe Deadboy Dj Dean Mcphee Deap Vally Deep Sea Arcade Del Barber Diana Dingus Khan Dinosaur Pile-Up Dj Dom Servini Drenge Drop Out Venus Dune Eagulls Eamon Mcgrath Eat More Cake Eaux Echo And The Empress Ed Harcourt Elisapie Eliza And The Bear Ella Eyre Elle Osborne Trio Embers Enchanted Hunters Endian Etta Bond X Raf Riley Evelinn Trouble Ewert And The Two Dragons Eye Emma Jedi Farao Fatherson Faye Fear Of Men Feathers Fenster Filosofische Stilte Filthy Boy Fimber Bravo Findlay Fist City Foam Lake Franclassic Frank Tope Dj Gavin James Girls In Hawaii Girls Names Glass Animals Glitches Golden Fable Great Cynics Guards Hacktivist Halls Highasakite Hjaltalín Hk119 Holy Esque Honeyblood Honningbarna Houndmouth How To Dress Well Howlround Humans Hungry Kids Of Hungary Husky Rescue Iam1 Ian Helliwell Ides Iggy Azalea In The Valley Below Indiana Indians Instrumenti Is Tropical Itch Iyes Jacco Gardner Jackie Onassis Jackmaster Dj Jacko Hooper Jake Hart Jake Isaac Jc Satan Jennifer Left Jenny Hval Jeremy Loops Joe Banfi John Newman Josef Salvet Josh Record Justin Saltmeris Kamp! Khushi Kid Karate Kid Wave Kimberly Anne King Krule Kinnie The Explorer Kins Klaxons Knytronium Kodaline Kwabs L'hereu Escampa Lab Coast Laura St Jude Lauren Aquilina Lawrence Arabia Lewis Watson Likely Lads Little Green Cars London Grammar Lord Huron Lostalone Lowell Luke Sital-Singh Lulu James Mac Demarco Made In Japan Marika Hackman Mark E Marmozets Marques Toliver Martin Rossiter Mary Epworth Mausi Mazes Mel Parsons Melody's Echo Chamber Merchandise Mikal Cronin Mike Dignam Mikill Pane Milo Greene Misty Miller Mo Kenney Moddi Moko Monophona Monster Island Moxie Mt Murder By Death Must Mutiny On The Bounty Mykki Blanco Mø Nadine Shah Natty Neighbourhood Youth Nick Mulvey Night Engine Nina Nesbitt No Ceremony/// Oddisee Of Rust & Bone Ofei On An On Only Real Oquadro Os Nelsons Owlle Oyama Palm Reader Parlour Parquet Courts Peter Kernel Phantom Phosphorescent Pictorial Candi Pinkunoizu Pope Popstrangers Prāta Vētra Purson Pyramid Rainer Rainy Milo Rdgldgrn Rebekka Karijord Red River Dialect Redinho Roosevelt Royal Canoe Ruen Brothers Ryan Keen Saint Raymond San Zhi Sarah Macdougall Saturday Sun Say Yes Dog Scrufizzer Sean Mcgowan Sean Nicholas Savage Seasfire Sega Bodega Sharks Shinies Shuyler Jansen Sid Batham Sisters Six60 Skaters Skip&Die Snakadaktal Soak Sons And Lovers Sophie Soul Sister Dance Revolution Spectres Stevie Neale Story Books Straw Bear Superfood Susanne Sundfør Sweet Baboo Swim Deep Symphonic Pictures Syron Tall Ships Teielte Teleman Temples The 1975 The Adelines The Balconies The Beards The Black Heart Rebellion The Blackout The Dunwells The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster The Elwins The Family Cheese The Family Rain The Fuse The Griswolds The Heatwave With Lady Chann The Kdms The Midnight Beast The Moth & The Flame The Naturals The Orwells The Other Tribe The Penelopes The Physics House Band The Plea The Rumour Said Fire The Skints The Struts The Strypes The Temperance Movement The Upskirts The Veils The Wytches Thomas J Speight Three Trapped Tigers Thumpers Title Fight To Kill A King Toddla T Sound Tom Odell Tom Prior Tomorrow's World Torus Tourist Towns Tres.B Trevino Tribes Tripwires Troumaca Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unno Velcro Hooks Velociraptor Velvet Two Stripes Venum Sound Voyeur Wall Washington Irving We Were Evergreen Whales In Cubicles Whirr White Fence Wildflowers Wolf Alice Woods Wounds Yadi Young Fathers Young Husband Young Kato Young Rival Your Favorite Enemies Za! Zervas And Pepper [Champagne]

HUSKY RESCUE
husky-rescue.com

You know we love Husky Rescue, we last mentioned that they have a new singer called Johanna Kalén (from Sweden), so if you're going to the Great Escape, you can check out how she holds up.

A couple of shows in London:

16th May - Brighton Great Escape
10th June - London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen (Headline Show)

Husky Rescue's new album The Long Lost Friend came out in Scandinavia on April 13th, but the UK and the rest of the world will have to wait until June 3rd to hear it. You can get a test of it by hearing their preceding single, "Tree House", which is coming out May 20th.

OWLLE
owlle.com

Look for the flaming red hair/turquoise eyes of French artist Owlle at Sticky Mikes Frog Bar in Brighton tomorrow, May 16th. Full details of her show is listed at mamacolive.com.

So far, she's only released her debut EP Ticky Ticky and a companion remix version called, what else?, Ticky Ticky (Remix EP), but expect her debut album to come out very soon on Jive/Epic.

Tracklisting for the Ticky Ticky Remix EP:

1- Ticky Ticky (Team Ghost Remix)
2- Ticky Ticky (Grum Remix)
3- Ticky Ticky (Strip Steve Remix)
4- Disorder (Moonlight Matters Remix)

HK119
hk119.co.uk

HK119 is releasing a new single "Iceberg" on May 20th; taken from her third album Imaginature. The single is backed with a "reworking of the original" and an acoustic ukulele mix.

Details of the single below:

Iceberg - 20th May 2013
One Little Indian - DL
Cat. No. 1194TP7DL

1. Iceberg
2. Iceberg (Plaid Inashed Remix)
3. Iceberg (Acoustic Ukulele Mix)

Her appearance at The Great Escape in Brighton will be at the Brighthelm Centre on Saturday.

18th May 2013 – Brighthelm Centre – Stage Time: 1.30 AM
10th July 2013 - Hoxton Bar & Kitchen (Headlining), London

VELOCIRAPTOR
facebook.com/velociraptorband

I thought I mentioned Velociraptor before, in one of our "When Animals Attack" series, but I guess we have not.

This Australian twelve-piece (yes, you have read that right), will be playing a few dates at the Great Escape Festival:

17th May Great Escape Festival @ Haunt, Brighton
18th May Great Escape Festival, Concorder, Brighton
20th May Old Blue Last, London
24th May London Calling @ Paradiso, Amsterdam

Their cassette (oh no) of Walk On By will be out May 20th via Heart Throb Records.

SKIP&DIE
skipndie.withtank.com

South African visual artist / vocalist and production team SKIP&DIE will be playing at two Great Escape showcases (details from mamacolive.com).

Thu 16th May at Audio 19.00
Fri 17th May at Komedia Studio Bar 15.00

Expect the "M.I.A via Tank Girl" band to play songs like "Love Jihad" from their recently released album Riots in the Jungle (released May 14, 2013, via Crammed Discs). Although, according to their press release, the album will be out sometime in October.

Look for the band's second single to come out this September.

WE ARE THE PHYSICS
wearethephysics.com

We Are The Physics are heading out on tour this week. They will be stopping by Brighton as part of the anti-Great Escape show called "Fool's Paradise & Bad Math Alternative Escape" at Pav Tav.

Mini-tour dates below:

16th May LONDON Brixton Windmill
17th May ABERDARE Elliot's Bar
18th May BRIGHTON Alternative Escape Pav Tav*
19th May NEWCASTLE Head of Steam

* on stage 23:15

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We love Sweden!

Read More Sambassadeur Sambassadeur: So listen to "Final Say", the single off their album, Migration (2007). I have been digging this new song! ....

We really do love Sweden. They are very beautiful people and they make amazing music!

SAMBASSADEUR
sambassadeur.com

A few years ago, I thought Sambassadeur's song, "Final Say" was one of my favorite tracks of 2008. It was so sugary sweet pop, I loved it. I also mentioned that this Swedish band took their name from Serge Gainsbourg's song "Les Sambassadeurs."

Anyway, Labrador Records just announced a new song from them called "Memories," calling it "a contemporary Serge Gainsborg and is fully loaded with their trademarked melodies and grandiose arrangements."

You can download the track for free via Soundcloud:

The song is a double-A single (doubles with "Hours Away") coming out on 7" vinyl on November 20th.

Trivia: If you were wondering about the model on the cover artwork sleeve, it is singer Anna's graduation photo. Isn't that adorable?

MIIKE SNOW
miikesnow.co.uk

Swedish synth rockers Miike Snow have released their sophomore album Happy to You back on March 16th. Favorite tracks have to be "Wave" and "Black Tin Box", where fellow Swede Lykke Li collaborates on vocals. Miike Snow's breakthrough self-titled debut album came out in 2010 with hits like "Burial," "Animal," "Cult Logic." Basically every track on the album was a hit, making it a true dance mix. Their second album mixes more keys and layers rather then the steady bass build up on each track on the debut album.

Happy To You will be in my top 10 albums of 2012 and I'm sure will be nominated with plenty of awards. "Archipelago" and "Pretender" provide plenty of breakdancing pace beats providing a nice continuous tempo on the record. To me, as good as the albums, this band to me is one of the best live bands out there today. I was able to catch these guys at Lollapalooza back in August at Grant Park in Chicago. They had the signature flashing green light show, and the crowd in an all out dance party. So I'd say the fans are enjoying the new record in concert.

Check out their video for "Pretender" on youtube. Miike Snow is wrapping up their North American tour this October:

10/26 – Asheville, NC @ Moogfest
10/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA
swedishhousemafia.com

Swedish House Mafia is a Swedish electronic dance music trio of three producers/DJs, Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso. This week, Swedish House Mafia released their much-anticipated album, Until Now (October 22nd, via Polydor Records), their follow-up to their debut 2010's Until One .

Until Now is released in two formats: a regular 10-track album and a deluxe 23-track version. Fans should a little more to grab the deluxe for over twice as man remixes and dubs!

The latest Swedish House Mafia single "Don't You Worry Child" (featuring John Martin) topped the UK charts at #1, displacing and outselling Adele's "Skyfall" single. These guys are huge.

Tickets for the originally announced U.S. shows all sold out, so the band was forced to add additional show. From my understanding, the hype about this upcoming tour is because the band is going to take a break/hiatus. So see them now, otherwise you'll have to wait a few years when they come back around.

Additional information on onelasttour.com.

One Last Tour U.S. Dates:

02/13/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic 02/14/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic 02/15/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic 02/16/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic 02/17/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic 02/20/13 Chicago, IL United Center

03/01/13 NYC, NY Madison Square Garden 03/02/13 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center 03/03/13 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center 03/04/13 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center 03/08/13 Los Angeles CA State Historic Park 03/09/13 Los Angeles, CA State Historic Park

BRIEFLY:

AEON aeon666.com Aeon is a Swedish death metal band, and they recently unveiled the opening track from their forthcoming album, Aeons Black, called "Still They Pray." You can hear the track by Metal Hammer Germany. Look for the album to coming out on Metal Blade Records on November 20th, just in time for a Black Christmas.

HUSKY RESCUE husky-rescue.com I've mentioned this a few times, and noted that they were Finnish. But recently, did you know that they have a brand new singer called Johanna Kalén from Sweden? She replaced former singer Reeta-Leena Vestman, who is currently studying musical theatre at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Look for the new Husky Rescue in London (their first UK date in two years) on November 12th with Pepe Deluxe.

DELTA DREAMFLIGHT deltadreamflight.com Delta Dreamflight is a new band and they've just released their first EP called Vacations. You can listen to it on Spotify, or if you hate the service (like me), you can stream it on Soundcloud. Should we expect Delta Airlines and Disney to sue this band in the future?

PUNKS JUMP UP facebook.com Anglo-Swedish duo Punks Jump Up is releasing Feels Good this November 12th on Kitsuné. The EP is described as capturing "melodies of ABBA, the bass line of Giorgio Moroder & the dance floor drive of Soulwax" and uses Saint Saviour's vocals for the finishing touches.

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International dance club edition

Read More Hot Chip http://weheartmus... "Hot chips" as recently explained to me, are what the Aussies calls French fries. So it's no surp...

Here are some dancey-type bands from around the globe.

CLUBFEET
myspace.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 Rescue - They are Coming (Warrior One Remix)

Husky Rescue

HUSKY RESCUE
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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.

 

Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin

CHROMEO
chromeo.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

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

HERMANOS INGLESOS
hermanosinglesos.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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jaklumen wrote: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM

What's kind of funny about their name, Hermanos Inglesos, is that it's Spanish for Brothers English, or something like that.

Well, that's it, literally. I might juxtapose it to be "The English Brothers", but there's no loss of meaning in comparing the two.

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.

I'd say that's been fairly consistent for the past two decades or so, but I don't see why they couldn't overcome that problem. A lot of rappers have been doing more rapping about "in the club" than "down in the ghetto" over the last 5-10 years. Moreover, you know I've done a few reviews of U.S. artists recently that are mixing hip-hop and electronica together.

When I've done some random surfing, I've found plenty of fans outside the U.S. that seem to be fairly well informed on the roots of rap, and how it drew heavily from disco and funk beats in the early years. So the gap can't be that big.

About the only real thing I can think of is blaming the corporate music machine in the U.S., and that they figure hip-hop pays the bills around here... but that still seems weak. Granted, we haven't had a big U.K./Euro invasion since MTV started and didn't have other videos to fill the airtime, so maybe it could be that there's no real big megaconglomercorporate push to share music more widely across the globe. Almost everyone is connected to the Internet now, though... it's just a matter of "movers and shakers" generating the buzz, I suppose.

 

Husky Rescue - Shadow Run (Arveene & Misk Remix)

Albums [2004] Country Falls [2007] Ghost is Not Real [2007] B-Sides, Remixes and Rare Stuff (Digital Only) [Oct 2007] Other Worlds Singles/EPs [2004] City Lights (10") [2004] City Lights [2004] Sleep Tight Tiger [2004] New Lights of Tomorrow [2004] Summertime Cowboy [2006] My Home Ghost [2006] Diamonds in the Sky [2007] Nightless Night [2007] Caravan Band Members ♥ Reeta-Leena Korhola (vocals) ♥ Marko Nyberg (bass) ♥ Miika Colliander (guitars) ♥ Ville Riippa (keyboard) ♥ Anssi Sopanen (drums)

 

 

Husky Rescue - Shadow Run (Arveene & Misk Remix)

Husky Rescue, an ambient/pop band from Helsinki, Finland, has a new remix album coming out 22 October 2007. The collection called Other Worlds seems to just collect a lot of previously unavailable live tracks and rare b-sides and remixes. However, the song that they let me preview and use is called "Shadow Run", remixed by Arveene & Misk, is actually from their Caravan EP.

Some of the remixers includes Serge Santiago, Bonobo, Fink, Evil 9, Emperor Machine, Tunng and Vector Lovers, none of whom I've heard of. I'm sure if you're big into DJs/remixers, you can probably correct me.

The band was started by bassist, Marko Nyberg, who started writing music under that Husky Rescue name (which I thought of Antarctica, a Japanese movie that was later adapted as Eight Below).

Nyberg's idea for the band was to be influenced by movies, photograpphies, and arts. So for the debut album, he collaborated with 20 musicians and Country Falls was released in 2004.

 

Check out this creepy video for "City Lights", and watch more Husky Rescue videos on Stage6. While you're at it, also check out W♥M Videos (where you can access previously mentioned music videos).

 

Husky Rescue is currently on Catskills Records and on Minty Fresh for the US (although there's practically no information on them on the flash-based website).

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