The balloon race is over, so it’s a good time to introduce to you a new community project we just launched for Orange on Last.FM, probably my favourite social web platform.
A bit of a background:
Live music scene is in the middle of a boom period with a higher than ever number of sold-out gigs [...]
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
The new darlings of indie-folk-rock, Fleet Foxes are well worth the hype. I saw them live last week and it was absolutely incredible. These remarkable vocal harmonies back with clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments creating rich, swirling heartwarming melodies. It’s hard to believe that this mature, pastoral [...]
I was never really into Sigur Ros but their new music video is inspired by, and made in collaboration with the amazing, Ryan McGinley. It contains his signature style with naked teens running, falling from the sky, making love, dancing, playing…it’s bursting with youth erotic energies and raw sensuality…it’s truly mesmerising.
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Previously album of the week but sounds too old world….here are the albums that I can’t live without these days:
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
One of the saddest, most beautiful albums I’ve heard in a while. A haunting soulfulness, captivating vocals and a deeply introspective album from Justin Vernon.
Plants and Animals: Parc Avenue
Fantastic [...]
I don’t know when exactly Evolution of Dance topped the most viewed all time chart but it was there ever since I remember YouTube (anyone remember life before Youtube???)
And today Vasco has brought to my attention that the king is dead. Long live the sexy Brazilian king!
History in the making.
Go to CSS myspace [...]
First apology for being very quite here lately…just loads of stuff going on at the moment. One of the projects I’m involved with has to do with live music so I’m searching the scene for some inspirations and while there are quite a lot of them, it looks like there are big wars coming…the behemoths [...]
Yesterday Nivke introduced me to Hercules & Love Affair and through the flood of amazing stuff that’s knocking on my ears from different directions, this stands out and not just because I always wanted to hear melancholic croon Antony Hegarty doing dance music.
This self-titled debut springs from the ornate imagination of Andrew Butler [...]
Thanks Domsky for tagging me so without further delay I’ll go straight to the point.
What I’ve read:
Apart from my regular weekly dish which comprises the Guardian (I cannot disagree with you more Dan), The Economist, my blogworm feed, and the NYT supplement that comes with the Observer, I skimmed through the Monocle and wasn’t much [...]
Well, it is already cold enough but if you want to listen to a record that will quickly warm your heart you have to check out this 19 years old wiz calling himself Emancipator and his fantastic down-tempo album titled…. Soon It Will Be Cold Enough - my very first music gem of 2008.
It’s [...]
(We are) Performance. Crucially, we are not diamond wankers. We’re musicians. We met in Manchester three years ago. We wrote our album in Ancoats, East Manchester, in an old cotton mill. Out the window, the new Manchester got closer and closer to us. We watched as the reflective architecture, the penthouses and the sickly bars, [...]
