Marina & The Diamonds
The Welsh-Greek pop singer has debuted the second phase of her musical career with a character called Electra Heart who “epitomises and embodies the lies, illusions and death of American ideologies.”
bit.ly/electraheart
Feist
It’s been four years since Feist’s album The Reminder was a smash hit. She’s back with the followup Metals in October and the gentle How Come You Never Go There is the first song from it.
bit.ly/gofeist
Mr. Little Jeans covers Arcade Fire
The Norwegian singer drops a brooding, dark and synthesized version of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs.
bit.ly/suburbjeans
LV – Northern Line
Heartpounding dance music with a 2step funky twist from London producers LV.
bit.ly/lvline
When Arcade Fire were announced as the surprise winners of the Album Of The Year award at The Grammys by a discombobulated Barbra Streisand, thousands fired up their Twitter and Facebook accounts and began to ask “Who the hell are RK Fire?” or as Streisand’s confused announcement had led people to people “Who the hell are The Suburbs?”. Bieber and Gaga fans in particular, felt uncharacteristically duped and all of these incredulous reactions were screengrabbed and posted on the Tumblr blog Who Is Arcade Fire?. It was a great reminder of how fractured our cultural worlds are.
It’s easier to imagine then, that those same Beliebers would be scared out of their minds by The Flaming Lips’ latest musical idea. Charmingily entitled Two Blobs F**king, the Oklahoma band, who are known for their forays into sonic experimentation and participation, posted 12 Youtube videos, each with different music and visuals. The band then asked people to play them simultaneously via their browsers, smartphones, tablets etc.
The resulting audio/visual mix is pretty trippy. Quelle surprise! If you don’t want to go to the hassle of trying it all yourself (and I don’t totally blame you) then you can see the resulting A/V mix at.
Everyone has now had a week to get acquainted with Radiohead’s new album The King Of Limbs. But a week is also enough time for conspiracy theories to rise to the top. Theories seem to have started primarily because of the album’s tracklisting which runs to only eight songs and the fact that the band have previously released a followup album from the same studio sessions before as they did with Amnesiac after the release of Kid A. Continue Reading..»
A night out at Space54
Music documentarian Myles O’ Reilly has superbly captured a night out at the now-closed Space54 in Smithfield, Dublin. The ten minute video covers a Donal Dineen-curated gig featuring performances from Lisa O’ Neill, Hulk, Adrian Crowley and and Niwel Tsumbu.
Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
Arcade Fire commissioned Chris Milk to make an interactive video which takes in your childhood address and feeds it into Google Maps and Street View to give every viewer a personalised experience.
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com
Fan-made Radiohead live concert
Shot at a gig in Prague, this band-supported live concert film features 50 cameras shot from the crowd and hi-fidelity audio provided by the band. It can be downloaded in AVI, MOV and MP4 via Bittorrent.
http://radiohead-prague.nataly.fr/
The Arcade Fire new songs
Samples of two new songs ‘The Suburbs’ and ‘Month of May’ from the Canadian group, purported to be featured on a 12” were posted online last week. Since, they’ve also announced that their album The Suburbs will be released on the 2nd of August.
http://www.arcadefire.com
LCD Soundsystem covers Carl Craig
James Murphy and co. do a 10 minute cover of the techno legend’s Throw complete with compulsory “I wanna see your haaaaaaaaaaand!” bit.
Listen at Urb
Donal Dineen’s Summer Loaf
Today FM’s finest late night DJ delivers a soundtrack for the summer in a mix featuring tracks by Solar Bears, The Redneck Manifesto, Flying Lotus, Foals, Gold Panda, Lee Fields, Madlib and more.
Listen to Summer Loaf mix
Girl Crisis cover Nirvana
A group consisting of Brooklyn’s female indie musicians get together to record an excellent cover of Come As You Are.
Listen at Nialler9.
