Having made such an almighty pig's ear of last week's listings, I find myself wondering if the gigmosphere really is as thin as it looks this week, or whether I've just managed to make another spectacular arse of spotting the good 'uns again. There's something a little different happening, actually, because Joey Comeau and the Loose Teeth Press are going to be at the Bowery as part of their reading tour tonight, which sounds rather interesting. Also, the Charity Baw at the Roxy on Saturday looks like a bit of a spectacular, [...]
Music from the Moon is an intercultural music and puppet show for children. In 2006, the Hypno Theatre travelled to Iceland and remote locations in Greenland to perform their show. The film accompanies the group on their journey through Arctic landscapes. Look forward to exceptional concerts and personal moments with Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Dagur Kári and other stars of the Icelandic and Greenlandic music scenes and learn about the Nordic attitude towards music and creativity. Featuring: Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Members of Sigur Rós, Members of Múm, Eiríkur Orri, [...]
Temporary Slaraffenland from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo . The other day my review of Slaraffenland 's We're On Your Side ran on Tiny Mix Tapes. I thought I was done with them, at least for a few weeks, and then THIS shows up on my doorstep: A film that accompanies WOYS in its entirety! [...]
Enjoy their stunning take on 'Avian I Afganistan' below. Watch more here. MP3: Benni Hemm Hemm - Whaling In The North Atlantic
Nächste Woche in der Schweiz und im nahen Ausland: De La Soul, Peter Licht, Starsailor, Tori Amos, Peaches und viele, viele mehr. 07.09 fake problems, hafenkneipe zürich 08.09 peaches / the pet conspiracy, xtra zürich 08.09 kevin blechdom & barnwave / tim & puma mimi, südpol luzern 09.09 fake problems, sommercasino basel 09.09 starsailor, kaufleuten zürich 09.09 der tante renate, fassbeiz schaffhausen 09.09 felix gebhard (home of the lame), mariaberg rorschach 09.09 the pet conspiracy, bar 59 luzern [...]
Múm kommen für zwei Tage in die Schweiz. Im Gepäck hat das isländische Kollektiv sein neues Album "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know". Den Tourbus teilt man sich mit dem Landsmann und Labelgenossen Benni Hemm Hemm. Múm sind das isländische Vozeige-Kollektiv. Ihren wundersamen Alben haftet stets etwas Märchenhaftes an. Es gibt weder ein Instrument, für das sie keine Verwendung haben, noch einen eindeutigen Lead-Sänger. Bei Múm darf jeder alles. Vier Schulfreunde haben die Band vor zwölf Jahren gegründet, seither hat sich die [...]
Nächste Woche in der Schweiz und im nahen Ausland: Peaches, Coldplay, Knarf Rellöm Trinity, Mùm, Hockey und viele, viele mehr. 02.09 hockey, hafenkneipe zürich 02.09 mùm, südpol luzern 02.09 coldplay, stade de suisse bern 03.09 7 dollar taxi, exil zürich 03.09 elias & the wizzkids, la catrina zürich 03.09 mùm / benni hemm hemm, salzhaus winterthur 03.09 dj paul devro, club bonsoir bern 04.09 knarf rellöm trinity, helsinki klub zürich 04.09 elias & the wizzkids, gare de lion [...]
Icelandic acts Benni Hemm Hemm and Múm are touring Europe together: 08/25 - Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL) 08/26 - Exit 07, Luxembourg (LUX) 08/25 - Atomic Cafe, Munich (GER) 08/25 - Beatpol, Dresden (GER) 09/01 - Botanique, Brussels (BEL) 09/02 - Südpol, Lucerne (CH) 09/03 - Salzhaus, Winterthur (CH) 09/05 - Lido, Berlin (GER) 09/06 - Knust, Hamburg (GER) 09/07 - Gebäude 9, Cologne (GER) 09/08 - Maroquinierie, Paris (FRA) 09/09 - [...]
PopMatters reviews the new Benni Hemm Hemm record "Murta St. Calunga" : http://www.popmatters.com/pm/r eview/108506-benni-hemm-hemm-m urta-st.-calunga/
This Icelandic orchestral pop band returns with more evocative, childlike tunes
Well the mammoth video nightmare of the last week is nearly over. This week I will be working in the Meursault tour diary from when they went away to the North of England for a few days in our big green van. They recorded some excellent sessions while they were touring, including three songs in the back of the van from some campsite in, erm, Lancashire somewhere I think, and also a few songs at a bandstand in Newcastle. The tour diary itself might just be mental, and but for some judicial editing could easily become the most offensive musical [...]
What's Jewish, bounces off the walls and makes you sneeze when you look at it? Why, the highlights of this week's album releases of course - and possibly Sacha Baron Cohen as well, We have returning masters Placebo, Kasabian, Anti-Flag and Sonic Youth, hungry new guns The Shitty Limits and Benni Hemm Hemm and the rest of them, which we'll assume are dull until someone tells us otherwise.
Nächste Woche in der Schweiz und im nahen Ausland: Trail of Dead, Kissogram, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Minor Majority, Calexico und viele, viele mehr. 07.06 masha qrella (plays kurt weil), zukunft zürich 08.06 eight legs, hafenkneipe zürich 08.06 kimya dawson / angelo spencer / karl blau, südpol luzern 08.06 a hawk and a hacksaw, white rabbit freiburg i. b. 09.06 chad van gaalen / women, fri-son fribourg 10.06 gazelle / round table knights / ponybomb, das schiff basel 10.06 leonti, kuppel basel [...]
Withered Hand - "Oldsmobile Car" . You were checking your email at your parents house. You had come over for dinner because your mum asked you, and you realised it had been a long time, and without Jonathan there you thought maybe the house would feel empty. It didn't, though. You ate your mum's chicken and they poured you wine and your dad had for some reason baked a cake, since when does he bake cakes?, but he had, something with peaches, and you ate it and it was pretty good. Now your parents were in the living-room, [...]
Well, after a bit of a lull last week there's all sorts of crap going on in and around Edinburgh this week, so choose wisely because trying to attend everything could just be the end of you. As well as the usual recommendations there are a couple of half-recommendations this week; gigs I feel I should want to go to, but am actually not that fussed about. Crystal Antlers (I mean, come on, they have Crystal in their name, they have to be good, almost as guaranteed as having Fuck in your name last year, or Bear the [...]
Random Music Fridays is a section I created to list a couple of songs from any genre and from any specific time. Anything pretty much goes. New songs, old songs, obscured songs, popular songs. It will contain a little bit of everything. Every week I come across a handful of great songs and artist that I would like to share and talk more about but cannot find the time to write a full review or bio about. Rather than put them off for later and perhaps be forgotten, Random Music Fridays will be their home every week! Enjoy. [...]
From Ireland, this duo (Jamie Clarke and Marc Gallagher) has written this really timely little four track EP, named Fragile Things. It's just a guitar and a drum and some bits of this and that and it's folksy and a bit jangly in all the right, reminiscent ways and not the annoying ways. And it rings a bit of James to me, and a little whiff of some Scottish music I love, (hoping that's not some sort of national affront, says the 'merican here!). Because there's something Celtic and Euro in the clicks of [...]
Continua la passione da parte di musicisti di ogni dove per la musica folk balcanica ed est-europea. Ultimi a giungere sui nostri scaffali ci sono gli Stòrsveit Nix Noltes, sorta di super gruppo islandese con dentro membri di mùm, Benni Hemm Hemm, Lost In Hildurness e altri. "Royal Family-Divorce", in uscita su Fat Cat e [...]
Quite a thin week by recent standards actually, but that's no bad thing. Homegame is approaching and a weekend that is easy on the liver and easy on the wallet will be a very good thing. Plus we have to spend it all making up copies of the new Meursault EP, Nothing Broke. Yes, you heard me right. Terribly exciting, wot. It will mark the first offical outing for crowd favourite William Henry Miller Pt.1, albeit an acoustic version of the song, the full version of which will be available along with The Furnace, The Dirt & the Roots and [...]
New European dates for Benni Hemm Hemm : 04/12 - The Bowery, Edinburgh (UK) 05/05 - Bevrijdingsfestival, Groningen (NL) 05/05 - Prinsenhof, Groningen (NL) 05/07 - Passionfruit Theatre, Athlone (IR) 05/08 - Whelans, Dublin (IR) 05/17 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh (UK) w/ Hjaltalín 05/21 - The Bowery, Edinburgh (UK) 06/12 - Le Nouveau Monde, Fribourg (CH) 06/13 - B-Sides Festival, Lucerne (CH) 06/14 - Salzhaus, Winterthur, Zurich (CH) 06/16 - Chelsea, Vienna (AUS) [...]
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