Antes de começar as listas dos 25 outros nomes do pop nos quais você deve ficar ligado em 2009, um aviso e uma explicação. É até uma história engraçada (para mim foi, pelo menos) e eu juro que foi exatamente o que aconteceu. Como eu contei no post passado, essa lista começou a ser feita lá no meio de novembro com uns 10 a 15 nomes de saída, entre eles o grupo britânico Florence And The Machine. Conheci a banda via Don't Touch My Moleskine e a menina Florence Welch esteve em todas as prévias dessa [...]
As the names keep piling up for South by Southwest 2009 ( Decemberists at Stubbs ! Grizzy Bear! Devo!!), a more subtle development has caught our attention that - while less impressive than this year's roster of names - will no doubt prove far more useful to those intrepid souls heading down to Austin next month. Similar to the customizable schedule-maker that CMJ unveiled for last year's Music Marathon, mySXSW.com is a new platform unveiled on the SXSW site earlier this week that allows users to manage their own personal itineraries throughout the four-day event. [...]
J A C K- A S S ENTER: BLK JKS words: Jamie Milton New bands rarely sound like giants with a wealth of experience and ambitious ideas the first time you hear them but BLK JKS (Black Jacks) give out the feeling that they've all been together practising the very first song you hear of theirs, about 1,000 times over. That initial sense that emerges eventually filters away with a couple of listens to the band's second EP, titled 'Mystery', [...]
I wasn't sure how long it would take for the absence of vowels to invade band names, but beyond MSTRKRFT, the only one I've paid any attention to lately has been BLK JKS . That's mainly because they recently signed to our backyard label, Secretly Canadian . At first, I actually had no interest in checking them out on that fact alone, but they're doing some recording down in Bloomington and reached out about Laundromatinee session, so I had to check into [...]
Vêm de Johanesburgo, foram uma das capas da Fader especialmente dedicada a Àfrica, em Fevereiro do ano passado, e têm EP pronto a ser editado pela norte-americana Secretly Canadian, a mesma do Antony ou do Damien Jurado, em Março deste ano. Já os tínhamos ouvido antes num dos temas da mixtape da dupla The Very Best, de Esau Mwamwaya -- a outra capa da edição pró-África da Fader, por sinal -- e
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Today's Quick Mention: I saw Gran Torino the other night. It was pretty good, but the fact that Clint Eastwood sounded like Christian Bale's Batman kind of bothered me. I mean, why is he championed for his two hours of growling when Bale is widely frowned upon for what amounts to roughly five minutes of the same thing? Bizarre, I say! Here's an EP to help me get a little closer to being caught up. Enjoy. : BLK JKS [...]
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I had the opportunity to spend some time with the music of BLK JKS, recently signed to the fabulous Secretly Canadian label (sister label of Jagjaguwar) and set to release its debut EP in early March. The band hails from Johannesburg, South Africa, while the EP is produced by Brandon Curtis of the Secret Machines - no small coincidence as this music sounds like an African-tinged version of the band. Their Myspace page includes the Brazilian Girls in its lists of influences, alongside (and I love this) African beer, herbs and pickled fruit! To this list they may [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: BLK JKS : "Lakeside" [mp3] from Mystery other BLK JKS< posts at Largehearted Boy Chelan : "No Better Than We" [mp3] from Summermachines (out February 3rd) Chelan : "Warmth" [mp3] from Summermachines (out February 3rd) other Chelan posts at [...]
You maybe heard that noisy noisy lofi indie rock surfer Wavves (with extra V) is going be putting out his new album next year (Feb. 03, 2009) on De Stijl . It will be entitled Wavvves (with two extra Vs). Without further ado, here is the latest Wavves mp3 making the rounds. Downloadable with no extra V: "So Bored" (box.net mp3) Ghost Ramp is here . Woodsist is here . De Stijl is here . Recent forkcast is here . Consider [...]
"Lakeside" is the sound of Johannesburg, and Soweto, and South Africa. It's where BLK JKS' members were born, raised, and cut their teeth. It's where they learned how to incorporate the rhythmic, hypnotic sounds of their home land into the often staid structure of American Rock 'N' Roll. "Lakeside" is the sound globalization, the good kind of globalization, where ideas are exchanged freely without boundary. Where an unknown band, who couldn't live in a land further from the minds of American music fans, can be "found" by the right person (Diplo), play the right parties (FADER [...]
We're calling it right now: BLK JKS will blow up in 2009. The Diplo-approved South African band just inked to Indiana-based Secretly Canadian , who will handle the re-release of the "Mystery" E.P. on March 10. The art-rock quartet reminds us of early T.V. On The Radio , and it's hard not to notice the influence of their home country on tribal jams like "Lakeside" and "Summertime" (live video in the replies.) Judge for yourself by [...]
Hey folks - although we haven't posted on it until now, we've been highly anticipating the full mix tape from Esau Mwamawaya and Radioclit aka The Very Best , featuring Ms. Preggers M.I.A, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, BLK JKS, Ruby Suns and more. GVB has been hyping this for while now, and we gotta say he hit it on the head with this one. It was supposed to come out Nov 1, but it's here today instead, and yeah, it's really good. Speaking of mixtapes - if you don't have the Diplo/Santogold and Diplo/M.I.A records - make you [...]
State has already told you to watch out for them but in case you didn't believe us, we're now giving you the chance to check out BLK JKS for yourselves. To be in with a chance to win a double pass to their Whelan's show on August 20th, just email your name and number to giveaway@state.ie before noon on Monday, August 18th. Good Luck!
Current holders of State's They Might Be Giants tag, South African BLK JKS are definitively ones to watch in the coming months. Thankfully, after debut Irish appearance @ Mantua last week, the band return to offer us another chance to see them with three gigs in Galway, Dublin and Cork NEXT WEEK. 19 AUG / Roisin Dubh / GALWAY / €16 (€14 members) 20 AUG / Whelan's / DUBLIN / €TBC 21 AUG / The Pavillion / CORK /€TBC Details of the Dublin show are as follows: Foggy Notions & [...]
BLK JKS are a dub-rock group from johannesburg who chose to give convention the finger. they're already massive in their native south africa, bridging the post-apartheid class divide with a dub haze sound that resonates in the townships while their art-rock elements appeal to the foreign hipsters. these guys really are the first "trendy" ZA export, reflecting the country's new cultural momentum, tailoring the rock'n'roll sound to their own persona, rather than turning their back on african music completely. they have a new EP getting a release this month, recorded earlier this year in new [...]
Africa Unite! Check out some groups from the continent that are gaining some notoriety here in the states by fusing traditional African elements with Western rock, hip-hop and electronic styles. BLK JKS (South Africa) wowed crowds at SXSW with the variety of their sounds, moving back and forth between punk, pop and African chant-style music. Esau Mwamwaya (Malawi), described to me as "the African Phil Collins" brings a smoother vocal sound (check him out flowing over M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" below on "Tengazako"). And Seun Kuti (Nigeria) , the son of the late great [...]
Heavy guitar riffs, African rhythms and eerie vocals - this is the sound of BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) from Johannesburg, South Africa. The current line-up of Linda Buthelezi (Vocals), Mpumi Mcata (Guitar), Molefi Makananise (Bass) and Tshepang Ramoba (Drums) has been playing together for just over a year. Their music is a unique blend of traditional South African music, Jazz, Funk and psychedelic alternative Rock. The lyrics bear witness to the bands consciousness of South Africa's reality. Their songs are about traffic incidents, criminality and starvation. In a recent interview with [...]
This is our first post about BLK JKS and it will not be the last. They hail from Jozi, SA and play heavy afro-rock with deranged guitars and what-the-fuck time signatures. We recently had the pleasure of interviewing them for our new monthly column in Clash magazine (starts in March!) and they're basically the best dudes in the world. They will own 2008. Catch them in New York during February or at SXSW.
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