The Wedding Present will be releasing their much-anticipated eighth studio album, 'Valentina', in March. It was recorded in France, California and England during 2011 and mixed by Andrew Scheps [whose past credits include Metallica, Iggy Pop and Johnny Cash]. Valentina comes four years after 2008's 'El Rey' and is performed by David Gedge [singing, guitars & percussion], Graeme Ramsay [guitars, piano, harmonium & co-writer with Gedge of all but one of the songs], Pepe le Moko [bass & backing vocals] and Charles Layton [drums & percussion]. Following an album launch event at the 'South By Southwest' [...]
Os britânicos The Wedding Present estão a fazer esforços para apagar da memória aquele que foi o seu último trabalho, 'El Rey', que na minha opinião foi assim um bocado meh. A avaliar pelo single "You're Dead", avanço daquele que será 'Valentina', o novo álbum da banda a sair em Março '12. Aguardemos pelo álbum e aproveite-se para ouvirmos, nesta noite fria, "You're Dead", gravado numa
I don't know about where you are, but we are having a very mild winter. Not so mild that I should have been eating at outdoor burger joint Shake Shack last night, but I was and is where I snapped the picture that is now this week's cover art. There's lots of good new music on here, including the returns of a few favorite bands. Dig in: DOWNLOAD WINTRY MIX 2.03.2012 Tracklist: 1. Burning Hearts - Into the Wilderness [...]
As a music nerd, I'll admit that my musical favorites always change. You know, the old Top 5 question, well, I change mine, but one constant that I swear will never go away is The Wedding Present and David Gedge. His lyrical prowess always fascinates me, and I can't say enough about his guitar playing. We're fortunate enough to offer up a nice stream of a new Wedding Present track from their upcoming album Valentina , which will hit stores in the US on March 20th. One [...]
English indie veterans The Wedding Present have revealed the details of their 8th studio album. Valentina has been slotted in for a March 20th release. SPIN is hosting a stream of the first single off the record, "You're Dead". You can have a listen here . Here's the track list: Continue reading »
Nic Shonfeld From the outset, The Twilight Sad weren't shy about proudly pronouncing their influences. The publicity photos for their 2007 debut Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters may as well have featured the band staring intently at their footwear, so obviously indebted were the Glaswegians to the walls of guitar construction techniques laid down by their shoegazing forebears. But what set them apart was the songwriting blueprints they applied those lessons to, choosing to build giant monuments to miserablism from giant slabs of distortion, mortared together by James [...]
Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been an outspoken opponent of the major-label system (and of other underground-rock heroes), he's known to work with just about anyone who requests his services, whether it's a major-label juggernaut like '90s radio-grunge rulers Bush or the [...]
For two albums -- 1987's George Best and 1989's Bizarro -- the Wedding Present pushed jangle-pop to its speedy brink, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/featu res/the-wedding-present/quaran tining-the-past-the-wedding-pr esents-seamons/60741/
El grupo inglés The Wedding Present celebra este año el 21 aniversario de la publicación de su primer disco de estudio, Seamonsters . Y qué mejor para ello que publicar un nuevo álbum. Según podemos leer en la web oficial de la discográfica de la banda, Scopitones , se titulará Valentina y se pondrá a la venta el 20 de marzo . El nuevo CD, el octavo de toda su discografía, ha sido grabado entre Francia, Inglaterra y California y ha sido mezclado por Andrew Scheps, [...]
Ladyhawkemusic.com NME has an interview with Pip Brown, aka New Zealand synth-pop star Ladyhawke , who is getting closer and closer to officially following up her super-tasty 2008 self-titled debut . Anxiety is set for a March 20 release and according to Brown, is synth-free and much more guitar-heavy in the style of '90s bands like Blur and Pixies; well, at least she's keeping things retro. There's no preview track or advance single yet - "Black, White and Blue" will be released on February [...]
last.fm I've been meaning to write up Without Why , the debut album from Rose Elinor Dougall , for well over a year now but for whatever reason never actually got around to it. And while normally almost year and a half on from its release is too long to give a record props, the fact that Ms Dougall is back on the radar with a new stopgap release while she wraps up work on her second album is good enough reason for me to revisit it. If her [...]
... Long live the Guitar Band? A recent interview with Jim Chancellor, MD for Fiction Records, revealed that record companies are scared to sign up guitar bands, preferring to invest in other forms of music. The reported interview can be found on the BBC Newsbeat website here . Apparently there was only one debut album in the top 35 of 2011 from a guitar band (The Vaccines). The interview also cites the fact that only one guitar band made the top 15 shortlist for sound of 2012 as reason to panic. Shaun Keavney [...]
Big Hassle Both Wales' The Joy Formidable and New York's A Place To Bury Strangers know a thing or two about the merits of turning one's amplifiers up as far as they'll go, destroying their instruments, and making their audience wish that it were possible to wear more than one pair of earplugs at a time. So with the announcement yesterday that the two acts were teaming up for a trans-Atlantic summit on (inflicting) hearing loss, those who like it loud responded with excitement. And fear. A Place [...]
Jangle-pop could be my Achilles' heel, and Austin, Texas band Literature 's new album is like an arrow to my foot. You may remember their Cincinnati 7-inch single from 2010 which was three songs of the jangly stuff. Arab Spring is their first full length and they are obviously up to the task of keeping your attention for the length of an album. Every one of its 10 songs is an adrenalin rush with pop hook. There are so many good ones, I'm partial to the hyper manic Push Up Bra and Criminal Kids and the slightly more restrained [...]
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Facebook To promise that something is coming in "early 20123 may be sufficient detail when that date is still a ways off on the horizon, but at a certain point it will eventually actually be early 2012 - as it is now - and when that time arrives you'd best have a little more to offer. That first part of that scenario was most of 2011 for London's Clock Opera , who despite sounding more than ready for prime time when I first saw them last SXSW and reconfirmed at Iceland Airwaves [...]
I'm the first to admit that gigs-wise 2011 was less action-packed than any other over the past 30 years. I've a cunning plan in mind to make sure 2012 is a lot more productive...more on that in the coming days. But 2011 was seen out with a great night out. But you wouldn't expect anything else from a night in the company of David Gedge & Co. The thing is....before you go along you know what to expect. Around 90 minutes of fast [...]
So I already gave you one , two lists of 2011 records worth checking out. I also gave you lists from some of Atlanta's finest musicians and music listeners - Alex , Matt , Richard and Erik . The bowl season is in full swing, the playoffs are almost set and it's that last day of the year, so what do I have left for 2011? Just one more list. These are the records that we discovered, or rediscovered, in 2011 that did not come out in [...]
¿Cuántos discos "tributo a…" han escuchado? Parece un método eficiente el de reunir a muchas bandas, hacer que elijan la canción que más les guste de un grupo y ponerlos a tocar para así grabar un disco que, seguramente se venderá. Tal vez no es el proceso adecuado el [...]
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