Whew! What a weekend. Wait, was it what a weekend? I don't even remember what I did Friday night! I know I worked late…but after that…Oh, right, I stayed in. That wasn't at all exciting, was it? And last night I went across town to cash in on a dinner bet and hang out in [...]
Da de tre venner Björn Lydén, Nikolaj Thorenfeldt og Søren Christensen i 2004 slog dørene op for den første udgave af Aarhus-festivalen Pop Revo, foregik det i Musikcafeens hyggelige rammer. Blandt de optrædende fandt man flotte navne som legendariske The Clientele , shoegaze-popperne i The Radio Dept. og danske Oh No Ono . Fra og med i morgen spilles der så op til poprevolution for tiende gang, når Pop Revo løber af stablen på spillestederne Voxhall og Atlas. Festivalen har valgt at vende tilbage til rødderne fra 2004 og sprede sig over tre dage. [...]
Happy Game Of Thrones Sunday! Happy Cinco de Mayo! As of today, I've officially been a resident of the city of Los Angeles for 6 years. Although not technically, because I still don't have a CA driver's license. Oh well. Someday. Cheers to transience! RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix [...]
Er zal misschien nog wel eens een nieuw album van The Clientele komen, maar niets wijst erop dat dit heel snél zal gebeuren. De band uit Londen heeft pauze . Gelukkig zit zanger Alasdair MacLean niet stil. Met Lupe Núñez-Fernández ( Pipas ) vormt hij Amor de Días , waarvan begin dit jaar het tweede album is verschenen. Het heet The House at Sea. Jean's Waving had ook zomaar op een Clientele-album kunnen staan. [...]
Er zal misschien nog wel eens een nieuw album van The Clientele komen, maar niets wijst erop dat dit heel snél zal gebeuren. De band uit Londen heeft pauze . Gelukkig zit zanger Alasdair MacLean niet stil. Met Lupe Núñez-Fernández ( Pipas ) vormt hij Amor de Días , waarvan begin dit jaar het tweede album is verschenen. Het heet The House at Sea. Jean's Waving had ook zomaar op een Clientele-album kunnen staan. [...]
Clientele are a production duo from Sheffield consisting of Squarehead (Oliver Ledger) and True Fiction (Jack Longstone). The duo released the 3-track EP 'Bitches' last month on Tipping Point. Highly recommended if you enjoy the sounds of garage / speed garage / 2-step. All three tracks are quality. We have full streaming previews of all 3 songs, and a purchase link for Juno Download. Enjoy! Click Here to buy release via Juno Download. Tipping Point SoundCloud page Tipping Point [...]
Amor De Dias: House At Sea - Lush, Spanish-styled acoustic guitars swell in my ears and envelope me, taking me to a place that I have never been. I can see myself sitting in a cafe, somewhere warm with a light breeze blowing through. Amor De Dias ’ album House at Sea has a great way of putting the listener in their world. The warm tones of Alasdair Maclean’s and Lupe Nuñez-Fernandez’s voices dig-in like sand between your toes. House at Sea is an eclectic [...]
2009 is the year where I rekindled my love for music blogging . It's also the first time in years where I actually wrote about music without an attachment to salary or advertising/revenue expectations. B logging is supposed to be enjoyable, and it is, again. If there's music I'm going to post it's because I love it, or at least really like it enough to share with my friends and readers. If there's a show I'm attending it's because I want to be there, not because I have to be there. [...]
It's hard to feel sad about British band The Clientele's uncertain future and potentially permanent hiatus while Amor de Días glows brightly. With songwriting partner Lupe Núñez-Fernández (also of the duo Pipas), Clientele frontman Alasdair MacLean continues to carry the torch of happy-sad songs of brightly performed melodies and melancholic lyrics. Finished in a fraction of the time it took to record their debut, The House at Sea , due January 29 on Merge, features a much more confident blend of woozy Spanish guitar, jazzy bossa nova rhythms and the pair's seductively breathless vocals. At moments, the [...]
For a brief while shy indie boys ruled the word. Some might even argue the era hasn't ended yet. The Shins were a integral part to the beginning of said era. James Mercer and his band of New Mexican troubadours were probably among 20 bands ( The New Pornographers , Death Cab For Cutie , The Clientele ) that ushered in waves upon waves of 'indie'. Of course, back then they were called Flake Music pumping out perpetually consumable mixtapes. Now, they are a bonafide, globally-recognized group not only supported by the semi-cult formed around Flake [...]
Once he found the strength and motivation to leave his bed for short periods, Barry found a place on the ward to sit. Situated between the smoking cage and the ward’s door was a little alcove with a water cooler, a lumpen leather chair, and a small TV with rabbit ears. Nobody ever seemed to sit in this alcove, probably because the TV only picked up three channels. Barry made the place his own, whiling away long hours with his scribble pad and his books. It was not until the second time he sat there that he noticed the painting. [...]
You see a yellow kite frozen against the sky along Bray's sea front. The sea seems to crest in little white paint-marks and they are perfectly still because they are painted on. Everything is painted today. The curve of Dublin bay mirrors the bay of Naples. The sugar-loaf is Vesuvius. You've heard this but you'll notice this on a sunny day in September and you'll notice too that it's not snotgreen today but the deepest blue. A Teddy's ice cream and a stroll along the seafront and your mind going back to that line [...]
I created my third playlist for the Aquarium Drunkard show this week. The weekly two-hour show blasts on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, and can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Although you won’t hear my voice this time around, imagine me crooning and strumming my guitar to a small smoke-filled room full of smart girls and laid back gentlemen as Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele, because that guy is amazing. Playlist/SIRIUS 261: [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Stereolab, The Clientelle Song: The Sea And Cake - On And On [download here ] What's so good? There's [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Stereolab, The Clientelle Song: The Sea And Cake - Harps [download here ] What's so good? The Sea And [...]
Ryan McGinley Though Bat For Lashes were certainly due to release a new record this year - 20092s Two Suns feels like it came out forever ago - it was certainly a relief when Natasha Khan officially announced last month that her third album, entitled The Haunted Man , would indeed be coming out this Fall. But cognizant of the fact that simply knowing it exists will only keep fans happy for so long, some more specifics about the record have been released. [...]
BirinciBlog'da yazmış olduğum bir yazım... Özellikle dispotik ve karamsar bir gelecek tasviri yaptığı “Fahrenheit 451” kitabı ile tanınan ünlü yazar Ray Bradbury 5 Haziran tarihinde 91 yaşında hayatını kaybetti. 22 Ağustos 1920’de Illinois’te dünyaya gelen Bradbury gençlik yıllarını Carnegie Kütüphanesi’nde geçirerek Buck Rodgers, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Tom Swift gibi isimlerin kitaplarıyla kendi dünyasına bir kapı açtı. Daha sonra Los Angeles Bilimkurgu Cemiyeti’ne katılan Bradbury burada birçok yazarla tanıştı. İlk kitabını henüz yirmi yaşındayken yayınlayan yazar, Sir Arthur Clarke Ödülleri, Prometheus ödülü gibi [...]
Yıl 1943. Genç Mustafa’nın tayini kütüphaneci olarak Ürgüp Tahsin Ağa Kütüphanesi’ne çıkar. Devlet memurluğu o dönemde süper bir şey, çünkü özel sektör falan yok. Bizimki kütüphanede heyecanla okurları bekler; bir gün olur, beş gün olur, ge len giden yok. Etraftakilerle konuşur, herkese anlatır: “Bakın kütüphane bomboş duruyor, gelin kitap okuyun.” Gelen giden olmaz. Amirlerine durumu bildirir. – Kardeşim otur oturduğun yerde, maaşını düzenli alıyon mu, almıyon mu? – Alıyorum. – Eee, o zaman ne karıştırıyon ortalığı, gelen giden olsa maaşın [...]
Crushed Stars ' album In the Bright Rain has been haunting me for past two months. Based on the music and the photo on the inner sleeve Todd Gautreau is a dour fellow, but he does dour with class. Gautreau who is 90% of Crushed Stars has created a low-key masterpiece that combines the melancholy bookishness of Lloyd Cole , the cascading guitars of Felt and the refined elegance of the Blue Nile . He writes, sings and plays most everything except for drums where he employs the help Jeff Ryan of War on [...]
I guess this one is for the ladies. Huge respect for Jaycek and his productions though, who has been putting out some tracks on Mad Decent and Dench! Recordings. Love how he flips HipHop / RnB in to a new genre with some of his mellow synths/ strings, 802s samples and even some 8bit sounds. Check it out! Bonus: Clientele - Watch Her (Jaycek Remix)
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