
Hard Rock Café cierra sus puertas en México. Por: @rulobn Aunque su vecino el Hard Rock Live llevaba algunos años sin actividad, el Hard Rock Café de la Ciudad de México ubicado en Campos Elíseos anunció esta semana el cierre oficial de sus puertas después de más de veinte años de historia. Las razones van desde el licenciamento en México hasta las nuevas prioridades de negocio, pero lo que nosotros queremos compartir es un recuento de los 10 conciertos más sobresalientes [...]
In October 2012 EFTERKLANG teamed up with Danish classical orchestra Copenhagen Phil and German conductor André de Ridder to perform their latest album Piramida live at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Music Concert Hall. And as if that were not magnificent enough, with multi-instrumentalist PETER BRODERICK, classical singer KATINKA FOGH VINDELEV and SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES' BUDGIE The post Efterklang announce new live album "The Piramida Concert" appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. By the time Siouxsie and the Banshees released The Rapture in 1995, they had been toge... Continue reading "The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Rapture" >

New bands rarely come on stronger than this. And with their debut LP Silence Yourself , the London post-punk quartet Savages show us that they’re not pussyfooting around. The band’s guitarist, Gemma Thompson, started developing the idea for the all-female group almost a year before it was formed, and if this album is anything to go by, the time and effort gone into the project has certainly not gone to waste. The album starts with an excerpt from John Cassavetes’s film Opening Night , with some [...]

Black Lips go country... Indie rock's favourite pissin', spittin', vomitin' quartet have covered country legends Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings 's 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' with the recording to be released as part of a record store day special split 7" entitled Cowboy Knights . Backing up the flipside will be Nebraskan trio Icky Blossoms with an electro-cool [...]

Outlaw-country gods and longtime buddies Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson recorded a veritable shit-ton of songs together, but their most famous is probably the lightweight 1975 shuffle " Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys ." Lately, Willie Nelson has been flipping the chorus around in concert, changing it to "Mammas Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Babies." Meanwhile, the antic beer-spitting garage-punks in the Black Lips could be described as, simultaneously, both cowboys and babies, and they would probably confuse the shit out of Waylon and Willie. For a Record Store Day [...]
![[Listen] Icky Blossoms: "Arabian Knights" (Siouxsie & The Banshees Cover)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4863531_lg.jpg)
Hay un policía, un elefante digitalizado, un archivo que durante 3 minutos se sigue cargando sin llegar a nada, hay dragones, helicópteros, la sirena de una patrulla, explosiones, un alién con unos pasos de baile bastante serios, y Siouxsie Sioux. Todo esto, y un par de locuras más, es lo que Icky Blossoms ha decidido incluir en estos visuales que acompañan el cover que le hicieron a "Arabian Knights" de Siouxsie & The Banshees , y me parece que fieles a su estilo, este trío no lo pudo haber hecho mejor. Este cover estará apareciendo en [...]
A friend of mine just messaged me asking if I'd heard Savages yet. I had heard the single "Husbands" the other day on Sirius XMU and almost had to pull over. Savages is an all-female quartet from London, channeling Siouxsie, The Slits, some no wave, and the requisite amount of Joy Division for a bracing, jarring stripe of post-punk that no one else is playing right now. My friend said the band was heavily buzzed last week at SXSW and with good reason. Just watch this video. The debut full-length, Silence Yourself , is being released in [...]

Müzik tarihinden akıllarda kalan kadın-erkek düetleri: - Nancy Sinetra & Lee Hazlewood "Some Velvet Morning" - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg "Je T' aime... Moi Non Plus" - Stuart A. Staples & Maria KcKee "This Road Is Long" - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie "Endless Love" - Tindersticks & Lhasa de Sela "Sometimes It Hurts" - Siouxsie Sioux & Morrissey " Interlude" [...]
Back when we first heard "Entertainment," the lead single from Phoenix's upcoming studio LP Bankrupt! , it wasn't hard to pick up on the classical Asian vibe. Indeed, the song was compared to Siouxsie and The Banshees' " Hong Kong Garden " for the similar, unmistakable lead aesthetic, of which director Patrick Daughters utilizes. The video features a narrative of love-drawn actors spliced across different eras, which gets very soap opera-y at one point. Check it out below and grab Bankrupt! April 23 via Loyaute and Glassnote Records.

This year, in honor of Valentine's Day, instead of playing and paying tribute to music for couples, I'm giving props to married couples who made sweet music together -- before, during, and, in some cases, after marriage. ABBA Björn loved Agnetha, and Benny loved Frida, and then they didn't. Though the other fab four was best known for delivering frothy Swedish pop in near-perfect harmony, often with a tinge of sadness, during the '70s, listen to their later work, recorded when both marriages were breaking up. The band's '80s singles like "The Winner Takes It [...]

New York's Mr. Dream have recently had the brilliant idea of a six-song Siouxsie And The Banshees cover EP, whose standout track consisted of the 1980 Siouxsie track, "Israel" , featuring one half of MS MR / Neon Gold founder Lizzy Plapinger . The track marries the New York three-piece's post-punk tendencies with Lizzy 's strong, haunting vocals, turning the Siouxsie cover into an equally gorgeous and reverb-soaked [...]
I've been collecting odd Christmas tracks for about ten years (and blogging about it on this blog ), and every year I'm surprised about who recorded what. I mean, check this video. 80s Gothic queen Siouxsie Sioux plus part time Banshees-member Robert Smith miming miserably to original French carol 'Il est né le divin enfant' (He is born the divine Christ Child). This was a b-side to the Melt!-single in 1982. And what about Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, best known for his both brilliant and furious If I [...]

Aztec/Mayan calendar ( source ) NASA thinks otherwise , but according to the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, the world will end today. Even if the Mayans couldn't rightly predict their own demise, who knows? We may have only one more day left on Earth. If that's the case, we're going out swinging! All day, KEXP DJs are playing songs to soundtrack the end of the world, and we've collected some videos to go along with some of their apocalyptic soundtrack picks. It's all about partying, the end of the world, and partying at the [...]
![[Listen] Lizzy Plapinger / Mr. Dream: "Israel" (Siouxsie & The Banshees cover)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4653663_lg.jpg)
Siouxsie & The Banshees , como muy bien saben, es una de mis bandas favoritas de siempre, y por simple obviedad Siouxsie Sioux es una de mis artistas favoritas junto con Nick Cave, así que por ley cualquier cover que aparezca de proyectos actuales hacía alguno de los clásicos de Siouxsie & The Banshees siempre llamará mi atención. Pero bueno, tal parece que Mr. Dream y Lizzy Plapinger de MS MR han decidido poner a la venta un cassette compuesto por 6 covers a Siouxsie & The Banshees , el cual originalmente habría sido presentado [...]

Rockpalast es un show de televisión alemán que lleva programando rock y jazz en el canal Westdeutscher Rundfunk desde 1974, y no parece que tenga intenciones de parar pronto. Ellos mismos rescataron este video que se grabó el 19 de julio de 1981 en Cologne, Alemania, durante un concierto de 75 minutos que dio Siouxsie and the Banshees apenas unas semanas después de que lanzaran su cuarto álbum de estudio, Juju . A disfrutar. [...]
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Robert Smith (on guitar) lineup, Hammersmith Odeon, London 1979

En medio de toda la atención que ha estado recibiendo el Huracán Sandy en su llegada a los Estados Unidos, muchos de los shows de Halloween que se habían estado programando en lugares como Nueva York se han tenido que cancelar, así que para todos aquellos que se encuentran refugiados, o que en puntos como en nuestro país en donde seguramente muchos de ustedes estarán asistiendo a alguna fiesta de disfraces, pues que mejor que irse preparando con un playlist que se ajuste perfectamente a la estética que rodea a esta temporada, en donde lo oculto y lo terrorífico se [...]
No importando que se tratara de un día caluroso y del nerviosismo que las empapaba, Dum Dum Girls salió al escenario a crear un místico ambiente nocturno siendo las tres de la tarde envueltas en atuendos que solo ellas saben portar con elegancia, doncellez y completa honestidad para entregar al público esos sonidos melancólicos con guitarras rasposas y letras desgarradoras.