«Ακόμα με τις λίστες ασχολείστε; Φεβρουάριος έφτασε!» Αφού τα είπαμε, στο some beans το αγαπημένο μας σύνθημα είναι το «φέεεετααα»! Έτσι και αλλιώς τελείωσε ένας Ιανουάριος με λίγες ειδήσεις και ακόμα λιγότερες σημαντικές κυκλοφορίες οπότε δεν χάσατε πάρα πολλά. Και γιατί να βιαστούμε άλλωστε; Ας αφήσουμε στην άκρη τα αυτιστικά μας που μας επιβάλλουν να είμαστε πάντα στην ώρα μας (αλήθεια από πότε καθιερώθηκε αυτή η ώρα;) και επίκαιροι και ας απολαύσουμε 40 από εμένα και 40 από την uptight (σύντομα κοντά σας) επιλογές από υπέροχους δίσκους. Η καλή μουσική άλλωστε είναι πάντα επίκαιρη. [...]
Παραδοσιακά, ο χρόνος στο some beans κυλάει πιο αργά. Όχι τίποτα άλλο, αλλά θα νομίζετε ότι είμαστε παλαιοημερολογί τες που τώρα γιορτάζουν την έλευση του 2012 και ήδη έχουν περάσει τις θηλιές στο λαιμό τους εν όψει της επικείμενης καταστροφής του κόσμου. Βέβαια, από ότι είδα σε μια αφίσα, αυτές τις μέρες πετάνε το σταυρό στη θάλασσα οπότε ακόμα κι έτσι αργήσαμε. Είπαμε όμως, στα αποστκτήρια του some beans ξέρουμε ότι η καλή η λίτα θέλει το χρόνο της. Ιδού λοιπόν το 2ο μέρεος με τα 70 δικά μου αγαπημένα τραγούδια του 2011. [...]
Επιτέλους, ήρθε η στιγμή που περιμένατε! (Το ξέρουμε ότι δυσκολευόσασταν να κοιμηθείτε τελευταία!) Μετά από επανειλημμένες ακροάσεις σε λίγες εκατοντάδες δίσκους και μερικές χιλιάδες τραγούδια, μπορούμε πλέον να βάλουμε καπάκι στο μουσικό 2011 και να δούμε τι μας έμεινε περισσότερο. Και μας έμειναν, όπως θα δείτε σε αυτό και τα επόμενα ποστς, πολλά. Τα κομμάτια που μας άρεσαν ήταν πάρα πολλά οπότε το να ξεχωρίσουμε (και να γράψουμε για) τα κορυφαία 60 δεν ήταν καθόλου εύκολη δουλειά, αλλά δεν θέλαμε να αδικήσουμε κανένα απ'όλα όσα μας κράτησαν συντροφιά σε μια πολύ [...]
You might have noticed, but there's a lot of blackout sites today including wikipedia , The Oatmeal and Lolcats . Why, you ask? Because our neighbors down south are once again taking some crazy pills. The US Government is trying to pass two bills - SOPA and PIPA that will basically make us feel like Christian Bale in the movie Equilibrium, only we won't have blessed sword skills like he did. For more information on these bills click here and here Seeing how I like [...]
By Chris Gedos "A Light Above Descending" calls to mind The Decline of British Sea Power , back when "Remember Me" spoke for a sub-generation and band members were getting injured at every other show. I recall with fondness Wayne Coyne's quote from my old BSP poster: "They're just a good band. They have trees on stage and they're doing something really exciting. I wish they'd take more care on stage though. If they carry on like that they'll injure themselves." Coyne may very [...]
The band have unveiled the tracklisting for the first of their monthly efforts....
Big Hassle Both Wales' The Joy Formidable and New York's A Place To Bury Strangers know a thing or two about the merits of turning one's amplifiers up as far as they'll go, destroying their instruments, and making their audience wish that it were possible to wear more than one pair of earplugs at a time. So with the announcement yesterday that the two acts were teaming up for a trans-Atlantic summit on (inflicting) hearing loss, those who like it loud responded with excitement. And fear. A Place [...]
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I remember being a teen and heading out to festivals for the first time. A big group of school friends would venture out into the fields of some, at the time, unknown world of musical discovery. Hoping to talk someone into buying our baby-faced group a pint that we'd inevitably share and gain no solace from. At one of my first in '05 maybe, I remember a friend pestering me to leave the comfort of the grass in front of the main stage to venture into the Carling stage, I think it was. A small stage, who funnily enough [...]
The indie band kicks off an ongoing EP series.
Los señores de British Sea Power siguen trabajando a todo motor desde inicios del año pasado cuando lanzaron al mundo su más reciente producción Valhalla Dancehall , un disco al que le fue bastante bien en crítica, aunque no tanto como para colarse en las listas de lo mejor del año (bien puede ser que simplemente se nos haya olvidado con tanto buen disco que salió en 2011). Además de continuar con la promoción de esta placa, la agrupación comenzó el pasado viernes una residencia en Brighton, en la que tocarán un concierto el primer viernes de [...]
Depois de falhar, mesmo que sutilmente, com as expectativas que rondavam o álbum Valhalla Dancehall em 2011, o British Sea Power resolveu trazer artilharia criativa pesada para o início de 2012. Nos seis meses que antecederão o verão do hemisfério norte, começando agora mesmo, em Janeiro, o grupo inglês de art-rock lançará um EP por mês. O primeiro da série, entitulado simplesmente EP1 , já mostra sua face com uma faixa inédita liberada, a demo A Light Above Descending . No seu site oficial , o British Sea Power [...]
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Aveces pareciera que algunas bandas aunque no editen albums de larga duracion, en ningun momento dejan de trabajar en nuevo material el cual mas tarde es editado en algunas series de EP's o simplemente en algun nuevo sencillo en ediciones limitadas. British Sea Power es una de esas bandas que, para serles sincero, nunca he estado tan taaan apegado a cada uno de sus albums de estudio, digo, varios de ellos si he decidido brincarmelos y escuchar alguna otra cosa y por supuesto, no dudo ni tantito que por hacer esto me haya perdido de grandes momentos de British Sea [...]
British Sea Power has revealed plans for a series of six EPs to coincide with their ongoing residency in Brighton, England, as Listen Before You Buy points out. One new EP will be released each month until July, kicking off in January with a six-track effort entitled BSP EP1 . According to the band's website , the EP features brand new work in progress British Sea Power tracks. Below you can hear the track titled "A Light Above Descending"; the rest of the EP is available for purchase via the band's website . [...]
Tweet Listen to British Sea Power 's new song "A Light Above Descending" below, taken from their upcoming release "BSP EP13 Today British Sea Power released a brand new EP called "BSP EP13 , the first EP in a series of six that will be released every month to coincide with their club night at Krankenhaus in Brighton , England. Not only was the EP announced out of nowhere, and [...]
I'll remember 2011 as a year with more good music than I had time to devote to it. Because my primary focus is music emerging from SoCal — and because there was so much of it this year — I found myself taking only passing interest in many hyped albums ... and not finding a lot of best in what the interwebs deemed "best new music." So fire me. Many of my favorite albums of the year came artists with whom I'd already developed a listener's relationship. Following are my favorite 20 [ excluding local artists, because I [...]
Because I can't help myself 10 Albums I Listened to the Most This Year Destroyer - Kaputt The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines The Horrors – Skying Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista Wild Beasts - Smother Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting Black Lips - Arabia Mountain Washed Out - Within and Without British Sea Power - Vahalla Dancehall The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love 10 Songs M83 - Midnight City Girls - Vomit The Vaccines [...]
There is no scientific methodology to picking the best of album of 2011. Every year it does not seem like any good music is on the horizon then the music that matters start to tickle our ears. We go with the gut check versus a pedantic drivel as our motto around here. Sometime music is able to surprise you on first listen -sometimes second but if it does nothing after third pass we just move on along. Other times you respect a few words someone else says and you suddenly see the light. These are the various reasons we [...]
It's that time of year, bloggers are making end-of-year lists and record labels are putting out compilations from the past 12 months. Rough Trade are the first off the mark, signing off 2011 with a free MP3 sampler of their releases throughout the year. It's a pretty tasty 12-track mix including the likes of The Strange [...]
It seems that the real cool kids on the blog don't do end of year lists. Well we like them and hope that those miserable sods slip in their paper shoes and find other people's dirty hankies in their bobble hats. Those artists who will be sobbing into their pillows tonight because they didn't quite make it onto our list include blistering aural adventures by: Wooden Shjips, Cave, Dead Skeletons, Eat Lights Become Lights, The Field, Moon Duo, Blanck Mass, Hills, Benjamin Shaw (sorry, Jamie), Gruff Rhys, Dels, White Denim, King Creosote & John Hopkins (robbed!), and Mike [...]
Album #11: Valhalla Dancehall by British Sea Power The lyrics are erudite, poignant, funny. The music is bombastic, exhilarating, delicate. And yet British Sea Power's Valhalla Dancehall went pretty unnoticed in 2011. What more do you need, people? Download British Sea Power - Who's In Control? British Sea Power - Living Is So Easy * Song #11: Let England Shake by PJ Harvey [...]
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