As curious as we were to hear what would happen when fifteen-year-old English songbird Birdy applied her mature-beyond-her-years pipes and appealingly melodramatic, made for contemporary dance choreography piano-pop arrangements to more original material after leaving us mightily impressed with her covers of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" and The xx's "Shelter" , we gotta admit, the fact that her self-titled debut is (save for one track) made up of all remakes just feels like a far more attractive package at this point in time, with us not willing to let go of the still enjoyable novelty [...]
Frank Yang Who: Austra What: Latest and greatest electro-infused, divinely-named incarnation of Toronto scene fixture Katie Stelmanis. Why: The Polaris-shortlisted Feel It Break has won fans internationally and kept her on the road for most of the year, without a hometown performance since the record release show back in May. This fixes that. When: Thursday, December 1, 2011 Where: The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (19+) Who else: Austra labelmates [...]
Frank Yang Who: Hey Rosetta! What: Orchestral and open-hearted Polaris perennials from St. John's, Newfoundland Why: They've already been through town a number of times for their latest album Seeds , but clearly it hasn't been enough - hence the two-night stand When: Thursday, November 24, 2011 (that's the second night) Where: The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (19+) Who else: The bill features a strong, internationally-flavoured undercard of Seattle's Ivan [...]
image by mygrapefruit Hello! This thoughtful selection of RAC tracks was put in order such that it builds as an "album" by Ryan G aka RaptorKarl . The music was created by the brilliant folks are RAC . Check out their site: Rac.fm and follow them on Twitter here: andreanjos , here aemaury , and here karlkling . Thank you to RAC for this great music. Ryan wasn't able to get me the entire mix as one mixed down mp3 so [...]
Mr. Meeble just returned home after a whirlwind 18-date tour throughout Europe. It's really exciting to see a talented band from Phoenix make the hop across oceans and play countries like Czech Republic, Servia, Spain, and Portugal. The tour was reported as a successful endeavor and they're now ready to finish it off with their last Phoenix show for the year. The show is a 21+ event at Crescent , which means you can expect some booming sound to go along with Meeble's laser show. I'd recommend arriving early, as the all-locals lineup is worth skipping out [...]
Solo singer Morrissey is now officially on tour. Brooklyn Vegan has pics and setlist from Moz's Austin, TX show earlier this week. A healthy smattering of songs from his 1980s band The Smiths litter the setlist - click to the link for way more pics and info. Here is a clip of the encore song, The Smiths' song "Still Ill" from the same show. Watch to the end when Morrisey mops up his sweat with his shirt, then throws it into the crowd and the fans tear it up. [...]
Phoenix, Arizona ambassador Trap brings in the party-time snares on "Rockin It," performed here excitedly among a grip of joyful, dancing on-stage supporters.
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Here's some footage of PacDiv performing in Arizona while on tour with Mac Miller. Pretty dope recap.
Pac Div made a stop at the valley of the sun's Celebrity Theatre last week. This is what happened.
2011 has been a good year for the UK artist by the name of Genix. He teamed up with the UK trance veteran Mike Koglin , and together they produced the enormously epic Helion , which landed on Armin van Buuren's Universal Religion 5 compilation. With a heavily emotional breakdown and fist pumping kicks, I can easily say it's one of my favorite Anjunabeats releases of the year. Genix also recently surprised me with a stomping good remix of Skywalkers by US/UK [...]
Paper Bag Who: Elliott Brood What: Toronto-based, self-described "death country" practitioners who just released their third album Days Into Years earlier this Fall. Why: In the midst of a cross-Canada tour in support of the new record, the trio will make a stop at home to play to their neighbours and do some laundry. When: Friday, November 18, 2011 Where: The Phoenix in Toronto (19+) Who else: Fellow Toronto country-singing [...]
Vanessa Heins Who: The Rural Alberta Advantage What: Toronto folk-rock trio who released their sophomore effort Departing in Spring of this year. Why: Ever the road warriors, they've done at least two if not more North American jaunts in support of Departing ; this hometown performance will be their last of the year. When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 Where: The Phoenix in Toronto (all-ages) Who else: Parlovr and [...]
Phoenix's FOX 10 News goes behind the scenes of an untitled DMX video shoot at the Saltmine Oasis Studio in Mesa, AZ. The track looks like it was produced by Deezle, and features upcoming New Orleans rap group No4. New DMX album coming soon as well. Follow @QuezKHH Related posts: Video: MMG XXL Cover Photo Shoot Footage of the Rick Ross/MMG XXL cover photo shoot. Issue... Video: Jin - Shoot for the Moon Jin - [...]
La nueva campaña de Cartier está engalanada con la música del dueto francés Air. Se trata de un video titulado "Painted Love", que cuenta además con la colaboracion de The Waverly en la realizacion e Irina Dakeva en las acuarelas. Desde hace algunos años, la firma ha invitado a grandes personalidades como Lou Reed, Phoenix, Olivier Dahan y Camille Henrot a participar con su personal respuesta a la pregunta "¿Qué tan lejos llegarías por amor?". Ésta, la respuesta de Air:
Nas últimas semanas um turbilhão de informações e de guias sobre os grande festivais como Planeta Terra e SWU são as notícias mais faladas por aí no blogs, portais e cadernos de música. No meio desse olho do furacão me chamou a atenção uma cantora que ainda vive sua adolescência mas que já tem uma voz com potencial de formação acadêmica. Conheça Birdy . A jovem rouxinol atende pelo nome de Jasmine Van den Bogaerde e é uma inglesa original de Hampshire. Já tendo sido ganhadora de um programa britânico nos moldes [...]
The Meat Puppets performing at All Tomorrow's Festival 2011 The Meat Puppets have a new video for their song ' Damn Thing ' and it's playing over at Rolling Stone. Click on the link to see it. It won't embed here, alas. You can also read a great interview about the band and its history at this link . The Meat Puppets' tour hits the East Coast and Midwest to support the LP " Lollipop ": Meat Puppets Tour Dates Nov 3 - Johnny Brenda's [...]
Les australiens de Strange Talk sont décidément bien prêt à attaquer leur tournée. Et, alors que les comparaisons avec Phoenix ou encore Cut Copy fusent, ils nous sortent un dernier single ( Sexual Lifestyle ) qui ne nous fera pas démentir. Strange Talk - Sexual Lifestyle
You'd think after 5 years of this that I'd have some sort of routine, that I'd prepare things in advance. At the very least, you'd think I'd remember to set aside a few minutes to write something. After all this time, you still don't know me. Doklands is the home of the last minute rush. No rushing on the mighty By The Time I Get To Phoenix , though. 19 minutes of brooding is what you get, the first 8 minutes of which are a just the spoken word introduction. Not for [...]
Young Man is the baby of multi-instrumentalist (aren't they all) singer-songwriter-hypen-enthus iast Colin Caulfield. He recently released his solo album Ideas of Distance off French Kiss records, which means it's bound to be pretty good. Colin is a bit of a self made star, garnering attention initially via a series of youtube videos. In these videos, he covered many songs, including this track by Allison's favorite person on Earth ever, Deerhunter: He will be opening up for the Cold War Kids, who are probably still living off the popularity [...]
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