Day and Night Digital | Irish Independent » Fleet Foxes http://dayandnightmag.ie The best of the internet Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:31:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Band of Blogs: Fleet Foxes, Oh Land, The Go! Team & Hunx And His Punx http://dayandnightmag.ie/2011/02/11/band-of-blogs-fleet-foxes-oh-land-the-go-team-hunx-and-his-punx/ http://dayandnightmag.ie/2011/02/11/band-of-blogs-fleet-foxes-oh-land-the-go-team-hunx-and-his-punx/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:18:12 +0000 Niall Byrne http://dayandnightmag.ie/?p=2510 ]]> Oh Land

Denmark’s Nanna Fabricius turned to music, specifically electro upbeat pop after a spine fracture ended her ballerina career. Signed to Epic Records, her album comes out this year and will feature production from Pharrell Williams. Think Lykke Li meets Eliza Doolittle with added Denmark cool.
http://www.ohlandmusic.com

Fleet Foxes

Seattle’s finest folk band released the title track of their forthcoming album Helplessness Blues for free download last week. The song doesn’t deviate much from the band’s sound but hey, who wants them to make German-inspired techno?
http://bit.ly/fleetblues

The Go! Team Star Slinger remix

The rowdy Brighton bunch are on fire again with their new album Rolling Blackouts and the prolific UK beat producer Star Slinger has turned their song Apollo Throwdown into a cut and paste electro jam.
http://bit.ly/apolloslinger

Hunx And His Punx

Lovers Lane is a sublime slice of garage rock doo wop pop from the prime purveyor of the “Young Oldies” sound, a term coined by flamboyant singer Seth Bogart aka Hunx.
http://bit.ly/hunxlovers

]]> http://dayandnightmag.ie/2011/02/11/band-of-blogs-fleet-foxes-oh-land-the-go-team-hunx-and-his-punx/feed/ 0 New bands to watch in 2010 http://dayandnightmag.ie/2010/01/15/new-bands-to-watch-in-2010/ http://dayandnightmag.ie/2010/01/15/new-bands-to-watch-in-2010/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:34 +0000 Niall Byrne http://dayandnightmag.ie/?p=1595 ]]> Running in parallel to the annual music critics’ new bands features, music bloggers are posting their “ones to watch” lists for the year ahead. History shows they are worth paying attention to. Last week’s BBC Sound of 2010 poll featured Marina and the Diamonds, The Drums and Ellie Goulding at the top, all acts which have been bigged up on blogs for eons. So what acts are bloggers excited about for 2010?

Starting with Neon Gold is a good idea seeing as they actually released Marina and Ellie’s first singles last year. They’ve listed 15 artists they are looking forward to hearing more of including New York’s sincere emo-tinged folksters Freelance Whales and LA-born pop queen in the making 17-year old Sky Ferreira who is working on an album with top-class names like DJs Aeroplane, producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires) and the heavyweight Swedish pop team of Bloodshy & Avant. The latter are part-responsible for Britney Spears’ Toxic.

Highlights from The Music Fix’s list of 18 acts include Sunderland’s stylistic Dexys Midnight Runners-inspired indie-popsters Frankie and the Heartstrings, the ’80s-synth heavy Parallels, the French-revolution-namechecking Manchester band May 68 and Hyperdub dubstep producer Darkstar.

Spin Earth takes a global view of things looking at bands from around the world whose profiles are rising. Taking one from each continent featured, we have Nigeria’s soulful Nneka who recalls Erykah Badu, Hong Kong’s cute and twee duo My Little Airport, Europe is represented by the under-loved Scotch folk of Frightened Rabbit, Chile’s garage rockers Los Howlers do it for South America, the US east coast’s Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast impresses with her melodious scuzz-pop for North America while Sydney’s answer to Fleet Foxes with synths Cloud Control bring it home to Australia.

Closer to home, the bloggers behind Swear I’m Not Paul and 2UIBestow have teamed up to offer their top ten Irish acts which include Belfast rockers A Plastic Rose, the impressive indie-folk of Henrietta Game and Dublin duo We Cut Corners.

We Cut Corners also feature in State.ie’s Faces of 2010 week which shines a light on homegrown alternative acts like Cork’s O Emperor, the cinematic uneasiness of Catscars, the return of Carol Keogh, Dundalk’s promising Take The Money and Run complete with magnetising female vocalist and the soon to be Stephen Street-produced Funeral Suits.

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  1. The Seed
    Johnny Kelly’s short animated film charts the journey of an apple seed using the techniques of paper modelling and animation. Dublin’s Jape provides the soundtrack. It’s so good even Kanye West blogged about it.

    [Details and video at Creative Review]

  2. Young Swedes do Fleet Foxes
    Two young Swedish sister siblings aka First Aid Kit took themselves out to the forest to record ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’ from one of 2008′s best bands.

  3. Flight of the Conchords gets web premiere

    4. Preview the first episode of Bret and Jemaine’s second season before it hits Ireland.

    Part one

    Part two

    Part three

  4. A 4-necked guitar?

    5. Only the excess of the 80s means Nitro’s guitarist can get away with playing a guitar solo on a guitar with four frets.

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