Artist: The Jesus and Mary Chain

Aching and disoriented, your heroine wakes in Barcelona, alive from Day 1 at Primavera . She checks her phone and accepts an invite via Instagram from the lovely chaps in Django Django to head on site early to come to soundcheck and say hi. It's amazing the Heineken stage was still upright. Hardcore winds are blowing in from the sea and it's frigid. But the Djangos are not just checking, they're rehearsing a bit so I find myself on an empty festival site getting a private concert [...]

This is the second part of State's Primavera Sound 2013 review. You can read the first part here . A bit of customary second day dilly-dallying means we miss a lot of the hipster Beyoncé, aka Mrs Carter’s little sister Solange at the Pitchfork Stage. Like Jessie Ware on the same stage the previous evening, Solange is a straight-up pop star who’s managed to blag a pass into the indie big league. She’s sandwiched between the Breeders performing their iconic 90s album Last Splash and Steve Albini’s post-hardcore mainstays Shellac, who [...]

"When You Lie" from Flowers first 73 sounds like the band have a stash of Shop Assistants and Mary Chain records.  It's got big echoing drums, cool distant female vocals and noisy guitars that will have you thinking that they must be from Scotland.  According to the internet the band reside in London and are on the fast track to indiepop fame and glory (whatever that may be). You can still order the trio's debut single from Cloudberry. They have a single coming soon as part of Odd Box's [...]

• Flowers - When You Lie

Nachdem Janos den Anfang gemacht hat und sein erstes Mal beschrieb ziehe ich jetzt mit meinen PRIMAVERA SOUND 2013 Eindrücken und ein paar analogen Impressionen (ihr wisst schon.. Film und so) nach. Bereits Ende Januar war die Vorfreude groß. Die ersten Bestätigungen fürs diesjährige Primavera flatterten rein und es war klar: Da muss man hin! Ein Highlight folgte dem anderen: My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Blur, Wu-Tang Clan . Ist ja nicht so, dass man oft die Chance erhält, so viele Künstler auf einmal [...]

Superstars like Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift make it look easy, but racking up hit single after hit single is hard work. Despite his iconic status, universal acclaim and multi-platinum albums, Bruce Springsteen has never had one of his go all the way to No. 1 (a dishonor he shares with James Brown, Credence Clearwater Revival, ELO and The Pointer Sisters). At least he has a nice collection of Top 10s -- 12 of them -- to show for his recording efforts. Meanwhile, legends like Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin and Bonnie Raitt have only one Top [...]

Como saben, nuestro amigo Alan McGee es un personaje muy importante dentro de la industria musical inglesa. Sin él, el desarrollo del pop británico en los años noventa hubiera sido muy diferente, y lo mismo las carreras de muchas bandas como Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis o The Libertines. Y con el pretexto de que McGee produjo la película Svengali , próxima a estrenarse, lo hemos invitado a contribuir con un [...]

It's bright, if not quite early as the sun-dappled trudge out toward the Parc del Fòrum begins. The streets immoderately luminous, I've consistently been left perplexed by the Catalans' natural adaption to debauchery, as well as by their seemingly regenerative recuperation techniques. They party hard as Andrew W.K. on the WKD, and yet forever come up smiling the following morning. It's impressive, and this eternality factor is lucidly reflected in the generation-spanning audience the festival itself attracts. Down beside the l'Auditori, a girly boy smoulders smoking outside the lobby of the nearby Hotel Barcelona Princess. Truth be known, [...]

Por Pablo Luna Chao  desde Barcelona Día 2: viernes 24 Después de un primer día de música más experimental y moderna, agradecimos dar comienzo a la segunda jornada del Primavera Sound 2013 con un recital de guitarra tradicional (la eléctrica), que corrió a cargo del pequeño gran Kurt Vile   y sus  Violators . El de Philadelphia se ha marcado uno de los discos del año, Waking On A Pretty Daze (2013), y se está convirtiendo en un clásico de [...]

Segunda parte de la crónica que nuestro enviado realizó sobre la versión 2013 del Festival Primavera Sound en Barcelona. Fotografía por Toni Rosado de Scanner FM . El viernes primaveral suponía la variedad más absoluta en términos de estilos musicales y trayectorias. Por un lado había súper estrellas, consagrados, debutantes absolutos, incógnitas y bandas de moda. El variopinto de la parrilla de ese día indicaba que iban a ser muchos los kilómetros que habría que caminar y muchísimas las escaleras que iba a tener que subir y bajar, tratando de abarcar lo que [...]

Primavera Sound Festival took place over multiple days in Barcelona last week, hosting acts including Blur, My Bloody Valentine, the Knife, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Breeders, and many more. We sent Autumn Andel to capture the sights. Check out her pics in the gallery above.

El pasado viernes, durante su performance en el Primavera Sound 2013 , The Jesus And Mary Chain sumó al escenario a Bilinda Butcher  de My Bloody Valentine para interpretar Just Like Honey , clásico de la banda escocesa. El festival Primavera Sound tuvo lugar en Barcelona el pasado fin de semana, desde el 22 hasta el 26 de mayo. El viernes [...]

Wu-Tang Clan @ Primavera Sound 2013 Barcelona Foto: Eric Pàmies El festival Primavera Sound se celebró el fin pasado en Barcelona, España. Entre las presentaciones destacada s y más esperadas estuvieron las de My Bloody Valentine, Wu-Tang Clan, Swans, Los Planetas, The Postal Service acompañados por Jenny Lewis, The Jesus and Mary Chain con Bilinda de My Bloody Valentine , Poolside, Blur y varios más. Vean algunos videos de estas presentaciones. Esperemos al gún día tener en México un festival de tal magnitud, con un [...]

Entre los grandes momentos del festival Primavera Sound en Barcelona , aparece la colaboración en vivo entre  The Jesus and Mary Chain y My Bloody Valentine . Esta gran sorpresa se llevó a cabo cuando Bilinda Butcher , vocalista y guitarrista de My Bloody Valentine , subió al escenario para cantar "Just Like Honey", una de las canciones mejor conocidas de Jim Reid y compañía. Pueden ver esta presentación en el video de abajo. Vía Consequence of Sound [...]

Excited!? You've probably read the title, skipped this pesky text and are deep into the youtube video below. Fair enough. My Bloody Valentine 's Bilinda Butcher graced the stage with legends The Jesus & Mary Chain for their biggest hit 'Just Like Honey' at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this weekend.  Slicing Up Eyeballs  posted the video via Youtube user  Fpapadim  but sadly the performance was a little uninspired and awkward. Having said that, I'm making a sweeping judgement based on a youtube video so...grain of salt required! [...]

Bilinda Butcher (My Bloody Valentine) canta con The Jesus and Mary Chain "Just Like Honey" Ayer por la noche, durante su set en el Primavera Sound de Barcelona, The Jesus and Mary Chain invitaron a Bilinda Butcher de My Bloody Valentine para que cantara " Just Like Honey ". ( My Bloody Valentine se presentó hoy en el festival). Radioalterno.Com "Radio Independiente de Rock & Roll"

During their set at Barcelona's Primavera Sound last night, The Jesus and Mary Chain brought out My Bloody Valentine' s Bilinda Butcher to sing vocals on "Just Like Honey". (My Bloody Valentine is also performing at the festival). Replay the moment below (via Slicing Up Eyeballs ).

Today we flash back on another of our favourite labels: SUB POP RECORDS . They're responsible for the careers of a diverse range of bands, from Nirvana to  Dum Dum Girls   to our very own  Husky . And they're celebrating 25 years in the business on July 13.  That means that they've been around since 1988. Before that founder Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called  Subterranean Pop about American independent artists and their labels. He started releasing compilations [...]

By this time next week, we'll already have (albeit only ephemerally) relocated to Barcelona for day upon day of decadent overindulgence and musical extravagance, for this year's edition of the quintessential left field festival,  Primavera Sound , is now upon us. I can practically taste the Estrella Heineken fizzling away at the rear of my palette and, truth be known, the way this British springtime's currently panning, out I'm almost relishing the prospect of inevitable sunburn. Almost... Storms are currently forecast for the week though that can't be right, right..? Anyhow – as is so often our wont [...]

• Fuck Buttons - Olympians (Radio Edit)
• Jesus And Mary Chain - Cracking Up
• Scottrek112 - “Monomania” - Deerhunter (Live)

 >> Like Tom Waits , art-pop concern Mahogany keep getting weirder while staying the same (to whit, Wikipedia describes the once-octet thusly: "an electric music-based multidisciplinary media ensemble currently working in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and other locations"). After only faint rumors and dead-ends in regards to the follow-up to their massive, brilliant and still misunderstood 2006 album Connectivity! , the band has finally released a new song. And it's a doozy, too. "Phase Break" is an eight-minute cycle of beats, choruses, and synths that incorporates elements of [...]

• Snowden Official - The Beat Comes

Formada pelo ex-rapper Jordy Towers, a novíssima banda  SomeKindaWonderful  começa a fazer jus ao nome pretencioso que possui. O quarteto baseado em Los Angeles recentemente criou um evento no Facebook para divulgar o seu primeiro single, “Reverse”, que nos conquistou desde à primeira audição. E não é só no nome, no mínimo curioso, que eles se diferem. Com uma descrição no Soundcloud que vai por "Quem somos nós? É uma busca, não uma pergunta", pouco se sabe sobre a misteriosa banda. Nos 3 primeiros segundos de “Reverse”, você pode tomar um grande susto e desconfiar que está ouvindo [...]

• SomeKindaWonderful - Reverse