If you've ever been allured by the Bestival brilliance but could never find a babysitter willing to become a surrogate mother of sorts for the entirety of a September weekend, Dorset's Camp Bestival is here to satisfy desires and sate all thirsts. From Shrek the Musical to Screamadelica, The Gruffalo to Gentlemen's Dub Club, few festivals have so much for someone and something for everyone. Latest additions to the musical side of the line up include Mirrors , dub pioneers Easy Star All Stars and breakbeat specialist Tayo . They bolster a [...]
A testament to rule-breaking and genre-bending, Screamadelica is a flawless pastiche that elevates what it imitates, and in the process, innovates. A few years ago, Zomby issued a primer to certain early 1990s dance sounds in the form of period piece Where Were U in '92?. The album locks into its signature elements quickly and dirtily, serving wall-to-wall rave piano, sirens, plunging, wobbling bass, rapid drills, and diva and chipmunk vocals, rarely letting in any air. This is a set of songs designed to create movement. Yet for those lacking physical and emotional contexts for the...
All photographs by Steve Asenjo When I was growing up, the big boys in the town near my village were either Moshers or Trendies. The Trendies normally wore Spliffy jeans and Naff Co 54 jackets and picked on the greasy haired, denim wearing Moshers outside the hippy shop. Indie was something for students and Channel 4 'Yoof' TV only. Sometimes you would get Happy Mondays or James on Top Of The Pops and it would be like Christmas: days of excitement, building up to the moment you could [...]
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The three headliners for this year's Belsonic with Absolut Vodka festival in Belfast have been announced, as well as some other tasty additions to the bill. Elbow, The Specials and Primal Scream's Screamadelica performance are the main attractions, with Plan B, Katy B and Dizzee Rascal also announced. The full line-up is as follows: Wednesday August 17th: Dizzee Rascal + Wretch 32 & Special Guests Friday August 19th: Primal Scream : Screamadelica & Special Guests Wednesday August 24th: Elbow & Special Guests Thursday August 25th: [...]
01.04 - Crookers @ Loft, Lisboa 02.04 - Crookers @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto 06.04 - A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ MusicBox, Lisboa 08.04 - Shout Out Louds @ Santiago Alquimista, Lisboa 09.04 - Swans @ Aula Magna, Lisboa 10.04 - Swans @ Casa da Música, Porto 15.04 - Kraak in Wrapped in Sheets [dj-set] @ Café Suave, Lisboa 16.04 - Kraak in Underground Uprising [dj-set] @ MexeCafé, Lisboa 19.04 -
Few bands are capable of defining the mindset of an entire generation. Fewer records achieve such a feat, yet if you've ever treated your ears to the ecclesiastic exuberance of Screamadelica, they'll be thanking you wholeheartedly now that Bobby Gillespie et al. have resurrected their seminal LP of '91 to redefine and redetermine those bloodshot late nights and early mornings of yore, transposing them onto the present twilight, and what a joyous night it proves. Intriguing little Horror Faris Badwan's latest lovey dovey, nostalgia-stained side-project Cat's Eyes open proceedings with a formidable set that successfully emulates tonight's headliners [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News PA Photos Following a successful two-night stand at London's cavernous Olympia last November, Primal Scream 's 20th anniversary 'Screamadelica' celebrations swung back into the capital again on Friday night for the first of a pair of shows at London's O2 Academy Brixton, a venue that first heard these tunes two decades ago. It was the penultimate night of a 10-date nostalgia trip around the UK featuring original [...]
Photographer: Veronika Moore
We've all seen the photos and video of the devastation caused by the massive 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan. Now there's a way you can see some of your favourite acts and help the relief effort at the same time. Richard Ashcroft , Beady Eye (pictured above), the Coral , Graham Coxon , Primal Scream and Paul Weller will be appearing [...]
This will most likely be my only post for the week. Barring any further disruption (...long story) I will be heading to Miami this Thursday for the Ultra Music Festival to see Duran Duran, Underworld, Hybrid, Pendulum, Erasure, Royksopp, Ed Rush & Optical, The Chemical Brothers and about a billion other electronic acts. I'm getting to South Beach on Thursday afternoon. The concert, however, does not start until Friday afternoon, so if anyone out there has any entertainment recommendations for someone who does not like to go to clubs, get shitfaced and have creepy anonymous sex [...]
Austin has left me a little disheveled - well, a little more disheveled than usual. So I barely have a clue what's going on with this week's new releases. Granted, most of it looks boring while just skimming over the names, so maybe it wouldn't matter if I actually was intimately aware of the records that were out today. That said, how can you not be pumped about a seven-disc Primal Scream box set? :: Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You :: [...]
Last year's Bestival was fuelled by undying love for incessant dub, continually crescendoing anticipation for Sunday night's Fever Ray blow-out and a radiant Chic. As previously announced, this year's festival is to be ignited by Bobby Gillespie ranting and raving to the tune of Screamadelica , Brian Wilson bringing that Lucky Old Sun to the Isle of Wight (the site can't turn to sludgy fudge cake with everyone's favouritest Beach Boy hanging around the day, right?) and a particularly special Saturday night headline spot from Robert Smith and The Cure. A few more highly substantial names can [...]
Captured Tracks will be re-issuing two of The Wake 's 7" vinyl singles, as well as a tribute 7" featuring covers by Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing , as part of this year's Record Store Day celebration slated for April 16. The Wake were a Scottish post-punk-turned-postmodern indie band that existed from 1981 to 1994 and briefly included Primal Scream front-man and Jesus and Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie. Downloads are below, and if you like what you hear, look for these releases on Record Store [...]
Bandwagonesque , Loveless , Screamadelica . Three albums any independent record company would be proud to release. For Creation Records to release them all within the space of three months is nothing short of miraculous. Creation, at the time, was a label on the precipice of bankruptcy, mostly due to the eccentricities of Kevin Shields and his wayward recording practices (Kevin also happened to re-master this re-issue). And its boss, Alan McGee, was caning it night after night while encouraging all the bands on his roster to do the same. Fortunately, for Creation and McGee, these three records [...]
This week saw the release of the expansive 20th Anniversary Edition reissue of the greatest LP ever indebted to the soaring highs and devastating comedowns of early '90's house and its entailed recreational drug use. That record is and was Screamadelica, and everything from its Paul Cannell artwork to its guitar gurn hybridity has proven irrefutably timeless. Were it not for this particular musical milestone, Bobby Gillespie could afford far fewer hippy-slating hissy fits, we'd quite probably never have had to endure the likes of The Music, New Young Pony Club, Little Barrie etc. and the regal riverside town of [...]
Pra começar, esclarecimentos. O festival em questão é o Urban Music Festival , que acontecerá dia 29 de maio de 2011, na Arena Anhembi, em São Paulo. O que é certo: Cee-Lo Green , John Legend & The Roots , Afrika Bambaata e Emicida são atrações confirmadas. Os ingressos já foram até precificados: começam a ser vendidos no dia 28 de março, com o primeiro lote a R$ 100,00 a inteira e R$ 50,00 a meia; e o segundo lote, a partir de 4 de abril, com a inteira custando R$ [...]
"Absolutely not. We're not that stupid. We couldn't do it if we tried. When white people make dance records they just turn the snare up." NME's Stuart Maconie had the answer he anticipated. He'd just asked whether Bobby Gillespie ever considered introducing that hoary old "dance element" to Primal Scream 's music, and the response couldn't have been more vehement. It was August 1989 and the eve of release of the 'Scream's second album. They'd just vamped up their sound from shambling indie to garage rock revivalist and, whatever Gillespie was digging at [...]
Since I plan on listening to more than just the March playlist I put together while traveling to/down in Florida. Here are six albums you'll spot me playing if you're my cab driver, in LaGuardia airport, sitting next to me in coach, or stalking me around Disney World. See the list and download each album by clicking the title or album art... Weezer - [...]
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