Ed Banger announce their 7th birthday party - and the European celebration is in London! First Announcement: Busy P, SebastiAn, Breakbot, So-Me with guests Fake Blood & Riton Coronet Theatre, Friday 5th March, 9pm - 5am The Ed Banger 6 (1/2) Birthday party in July was one of the biggest and craziest club events of 2009. Completely sold out, the crowd went wild for 8 hours straight to cracking sets from the whole Ed Banger family (including secret guest [...]
Why aren't we living in Sweden? While the prospect of great bands coming from there is hardly new, it would seem that 2010 will be the year of the Swedish invasion once again. Mono Stereo aim to be on board for the voyage and will certainly find their way into your heart. Shimmering guitars, throbbing bass lines and vocals that manage to rise above the beauty to add an atmosphere of dreamy bliss. While they rightfully acknowledge their Ride and My Bloody Valentine influences, we hear Postcard and Loop references that set them apart [...]
Violens Violent Sensation Descends Violens Already Over I'm a bit late on this, but in case you haven't come across it, or aren't familiar with them, New York's Violens have a free winter mix up for download on their website that includes a number of their own tracks, as well as some edit/cover-fuckery with artists like My Bloody Valentine , The Byrds , Xasthur , [...]
With all this talk of predictions for 2010 (mine coming soon), I thought it would be fun to look back at some big names' calls for 2009. Who made it, and who didn't, and which writers look smug and which have an eggy complexion? Here goes... BBC (Sound of 2009 longlist) The Big Pink, Dan Black, VV Brown, Empire of the Sun, Florence & the Machine, Frankmusik, Kid Cudi, La Roux, Lady GaGa, Little Boots, Master Shortie, Mumford & Sons, Passion [...]
Friday 11/12/2009 Playlist SnowPatrol - Just Say Yes 60.A Camp - Stronger Than Jesus 59.Dappled Cities - The Price 58.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Falling Over 57.Loney,Dear - Airport Surroundings 56.Elizabeth & The Catapult - Taller Children 55.Chairlift - Bruises 54.Patrick Wolf - Hard Times 53.Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust On The Ground 52.Doves - Kingdom Of Rust 51.Kasabian - Underdog 50.Camera Obscura - French Navy 49.Jarvis Cocker - I Never Said I Was Deep 48.Bat [...]
Violens is a band with great taste. That, and it's not often a pop group can include Ulver and Burzum in their list of influences and find a way to back it up sonically. Outside the metal, their frozen blend of Durutti Column's spacious post-punk chills, Prefab Sprout's new wave atmospherics, Lilys-esque shoegaze-pop, and '60s psychedelia goes down very easy. I bring this up because after touring Europe and between, the New York quintet's put together a 14-song Winter Mixtape that hints at the map of their music collections. It opens with "Full Collision," a noisy and then Smiths-y song [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Violens Winter Mixtape (website link to Zip) DOWNLOAD : Acrylics - All of the Fire (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Class Actress - Careful What You Say (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Air Waves - Lightning (MP3) DOWNLOAD : The Elves of Heaven - This Christmas (MP3) Violens A pretty killer line-up at [...]
AA Bondy @ Union Hall in 2008 ( more by Zach Stern ) tonight in NYC * Christy & Emily @ The Stone * Further @ Hammerstein Ballroom * Colin Stetson Band, Buke & Gass @ Zebulon * Violens, Acrylics, Class Actress @ Mercury Lounge * Glint, Patrick Davy and The Ghosts @ Brooklyn Bowl * AA Bondy, The Duke & the King, Willy Mason @ [...]
Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009 VIOLENS, ACRYLICS, & CLASS ACTRESS @ MERCURY LOUNGE 217 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002 $10, 7:30PM Both Acrylics and Class Actress are the initial offerings from Chris Taylor's (from Grizzly Bear) new label, Terrible Records. Tonight's show at Mercury Lounge will showcase both bands on one bill. Headliners Violens will top the whole thing off. Glint @ Brooklyn Bowl Borrowed Eyes @ Bruar Falls Christy and Emily @ The Stone Mia Riddle @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn Jonathan Coulton @ Music Hall of Williamsburg AA [...]
What's the good word this Monday to all of our BlackRadioIsBack.com & FuseBox Radio Broadcast Fam!:) It's time too drop the latest mixtape of our "Return of Real Black Radio" mixtape series (grab up the 1st 5 volumes if you haven't already here ) with Coast 2 Coast DJs Present: Return of Real Black Radio, Hip-Hop & R&B Vol. 6 mixed & hosted by yours truly, DJ Fusion . :) This mixtape - just like our previous installments - consists of totally clean/radio friendly [...]
Jag tänkte så här i vintertid lägga upp en liten vintermix á la NMB idag, men Soundcloud ville annat och beslöt sig för att sabba alla mina försök till uppladdning. Så jag tappade suget och ni får istället klara er med lite goa söndagslåtar, helt på måfå Lee "Scratch" Perry - Santa Claus Violens - Avenue (Saint Etienne cover) Sin Sisamouth Ros Sery Sothea - Ma pi naok Dust Bunnies - Dream lover (Bobby Darin cover)
As you know, each year the BBC publishes a list of 15 artists who their panel of experts have decided are going to be haemorrhaging gold bullion by this time next year. Unsurprisingly, these longlists are always incredibly, even suspiciously, accurate. Take, for example, last year's list ; all of the artists who were named have gone on to have incredibly successful years. Of course, the exception to this rule is Master Shortie, who has gone on to make himself the target of unfair, but very enjoyable, jokes. Poor bloke. And why is this? Well, to a certain extent, [...]
[mp3] Class Actress: "Careful What You Say" Channeling that Italians Do It Better style of disco pop (see Glass Candy) - Class Actress are a product Chris Taylor's Terrible Records alongside of the much buzzed about Acrylics . Class Actress' debut EP Journal of Ardency comes out in February. Here is the lead single "Careful What You Say." It has that delicious European pop sound to it, with just enough melancholy and style to it to make it worthwhile and quite charmingly addictive. Class Actress play alongside of [...]
Long time fans of genre hoppers will definitely be pleased to hear that those clever kids in Violens are dropping a free Winter Mixtape for you on their web site . This little mixtape, and it's not that little, will probably win over fans, as the guys sing over My Bloody Valentine while playing over the Byrds . Sounds like nothing short of a guaranteed test of musical sanity. Unfortunately, it's a mixtape, so I can't throw a sample [...]
9 December, 2009 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm Who: Violens , Acrylics, Class Actress Where: Mercury Lounge Show Info: 21+, 7:30pm Doors, $10 Watch: Violens - "Already Over"
Tonight I am going to be arguably cooler than I usually am on most Monday nights, and go listen to the dramatic and addictive sounds of The Big Pink at Denver's Larimer Lounge. This duo from London (touring now with a rad female drummer) won NME's influential Philip Hall Radar Award at the Shockwaves NME Awards in February (for best new group) and have been slowly conquering the world since. With songs like this, I think it's easy to see why. Dominoes [...]
My recollections of the two Levi's OnestoWatch 5 night revues earlier this week veer from the hazy to the crystalline. Both events were heavily subscribed. Violens were undeservedly on first on Tuesday, their shimmering pop went down a treat. Crystal Fighters pulled out all the stops, whipping the crowd up into a melée that saw assorted Hoxton luminaries lose their shit. Not literally, the day after Clock Opera continued to cement their reputation as White Noise made its way into the record emporiums. Wolf Gang impressed sonically, though it was difficult to enjoy as a spectacle once my brain had [...]
12/9 @ Mercury Lounge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then e-mail us ASAP! A winner will be randomly chosen on 12/5 @ NOON. In April, Violens unleashed a clip for 'Already Over'. Last month, Acrylics released their debut EP. MP3s: Violens - Doomed (MGMT Mix) & Acrylics - All Of The Fire
- Violens have a new winter mixtape. 'The mix introduces four songs from Violens ' forthcoming album alongside some wildly unique mash-ups which blend their own performances with music and lyrics of My Bloody Valentine , The Byrds , and Wire among others. Also, there are remixes of tracks from their debut EP, Violens ' own remixes of White Lies ' "Unfinished Business", a new collaboration with Caroline Polachek of Chairlift , and a gorgeous acoustic cover of Saint Etienne 's "Avenue".' Its free . - RCRD [...]
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