Una della band rivelazione dello scorso anno sarà a Torino il 30 Maggio allo Spazio 211 . Il 2011 è l'anno in cui hanno pubblicato per la Domino Records il loro album di debutto ' Feel It Break '. Il trio Austra ha creato uno stile originale basato su ritmi dance, atmosfere oscure, vocalizzi da opera, e influenze new wave anni Ottanta di vario genere. La band, per la registrazione dell'album, ha lavora in studio con Damian Taylor (già al banco mixer con Björk , [...]
Del maravilloso álbum debut titulado Feel It Break, Austra presenta el video para su sencillo "Spellwork", dirigido por Yelena Yemchuk. Una canción que nos muestra a Katie Stelmanis, la vocalista de la banda, en una aventura llena de figuras de cuentos de hadas a través del Egberts Lake Park en New Jersey.
![Austra – Crying (Roy Orbison Cover) [Listen]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3895203_lg.jpg)
There is a trend lately with albums getting the Deluxe Edition treatment. One being Austra 's Feel It Break album which drops today. That album has been a critically acclaimed and was on the shortlist for Polaris Music Prize 2011 . Surprised to find out that Crying had made in the Deluxe Edition. Why? Before Austra was formed, it was just Katie Stelmanis. If you look on Youtube, there are some live videos of her singing that cover. All I [...]
You know you've done something right when your record label repackages your album and releases a newer version of it in the same year. In the case of Toronto's Austra , it's just a small indication of the monster year they have had. Feel It Break (Deluxe Version) will feature not only the original album, but a host of b-sides, remixes and covers, including this cover of the Roy Orbison track Crying . Consider Roy Orbison is a late 50s era crooner and Austra is well... an operatic midnight electronic band, you can very well realize [...]
Austra's icy electro purrs don't seem like the type of things that would translate well to an acoustic performance. But in the latest edition of the Paper Bag Sessions video series, frontwoman Katie Stelmanis sits and a grand piano by herself and conjures all the austere beauty of "Lose It." It's really something. Watch it below. Read More...
We've been monitoring the global music scenes for nearly four years on The Recommender. What we've come to notice is that cities and sometimes entire countries seem to randomly peak at the top of everyone's attention from one year to the next, like an ever-changing economic graph of music. When we started music was buzzing on the back of France, and particularly Paris', dominant electro scene. That was swiftly followed by Australia's outpouring of electro pop bands. Scandinavia seems to spout new bands at an alarmingly high rate and New York is never far from the top but both of [...]
Thanks for listening to Vamos A La Playa on WVUM 90.5 FM . I host a new show every Monday afternoon from 5-7pm . No radio? No Problem! Stream live online at wvum.org . I also post lots of tracks on my other blog NIGHTDRIVEMIAMI.COM Today's show will feature an exclusive interview with KATIE STELMANIS from AUSTRA . They'll be playing live this WEDNESDAY along with GRIMES at Grand Central... Another NIGHTDRIVE yoint. I'll be spinning the opening set. More [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Paperbag Records On the phone from a tour van on its way to Berlin, Austra 's Katie Stelmanis reminds us her dark electro outfit is still a "baby band," despite being nominated for the prestigious Polaris Prize , to be given out at a gala Sept. 19 in the band's hometown of Toronto. In today's climate, a band can be hyped by a [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Polaris Prize It's less than a week until Canada's Polaris Prize honours the past year's best Canadian album. The 10 record shortlist, as selected by a jury of several hundred critics, broadcasters and bloggers, ranges from the big ( Arcade Fire 's 'The Suburb's) and the buzzy (the Weeknd 's 'House of Balloons') to the experimental ( Braids ' 'Native Speakers' and the esoteric ( Colin Stetson [...]
Here is the second album that I am reviewing the shortlist nominees in alphabetically order. It is Austra 's Feel It Break. Reviewed back in May 12, 2011 . It is one of the album that was a surprised when it was on the longlist. This album has been out for about five months and already gaining alot of buzz overseas. Now they already released a remix album called Sparkle. (This is my opinion, I feel like Paperbag Records is becoming Canada's version of Avex Trax but in a indie way when it [...]
Photos by G. Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave The Austra and Cold Cave show at Bowery Ballroom in New York on August 6, 2011 was sold out for a reason - both bands rocked! Austra is a Canadian new wave band and Cold Cave is a New York based darkwave band. Austra took the stage at 10 pm and played for a little under one hour. Their set consisted of tracks from the band's debut album "Feel it Break." I was probably [...]
![Austra – Lose It (Mark Pistel Vocal Remix) [Listen]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3606146_lg.jpg)
OK here is another post about Austra . (I know it's too much!) So far the band is so hot that they are on the Polaris Music Prize shortlist. Getting rave reviews from their debut "Feel It Break". They dropped a remix collection called SPARKLE . (Mostly are remixes of Spellwork, Lose It and Beat & The Pulse) This is the remix I like from the collection. It's the Mark Pisten remix. Have a listen to Lose It (Mark Pistel Vocal Remix) [...]
El próximo 12 de Septiembre saldrá la nueva producción de Death In Vegas, Trans Love Energies . Acá dejo el primer sencillo "Your Loft" que cuenta con la colaboración de Katie Stelmanis de Austra. ♩ Death In Vegas - Your Loft ( feat. Katie Stelmanis)
Dia 12 de setembro é a data de lançamento de Trans Love Energies, quinto álbum de estúdio do Death in Vegas . Depois de 6 anos sem lançar material, a banda está de volta (o último é Satan's Circus de 2004). O primeiro single desse novo trabalho, Your Loft , foi divulgado hoje. A faixa tem 7:33 minutos de duração e conta com a participação da cantora Katie Stelmanis , do ótimo Austra . O single sai oficialmente dia 19 de agosto pelo selo Drone. (via Stereogum ) [...]
Death in Vegas feat. Katie Stelmanis (from Austra ): Your Loft - Stream Austra encore! Après l'excellent rework de Lose It signé Planningtorock qui figure sur le EP Sparkle , voici l'un des deux featurings de Katie Stelmanis qui figureront sur le nouvel album de Death in Vegas , Trans Love Energies , annoncé pour le 12 septembre. Austra [...]
I probably looked like an idiot today . Not only was I wearing a t-shirt with French words on it (in honor of Bastille Day ), but I was also walking around with a sh-t eating grin on my face ALL DAY LONG. "Why?" you may ask? Well it was simply a beautiful, glorious day in NYC. The weather was absolutely perfect - low humidity, sunny, high was in the low 80s, AND there was a delightful breeze. And to top it all off, today was the White Stripes' birthday ! [...]
Another tune worth sharing is this. It's the amazing Austra doing the Joni Mitchell apocalyptic classic Woodstock in their own inimitable style. As haunting as the original but with a contemporary pulsing electronic line. If you don't know the original check it too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLjYpS c_63s
Filed under: News , Video Paper Bag Records YouTube is full of giggly tweens tackling the latest chart-toppers and a cappella groups paying tribute to Ben Folds , but the pint-sized PS22 chorus are among the site's biggest sensations thanks to their covers of the coolest indie music around. This time the kids put their own harmonious spin to an electro-goth song by Toronto buzz band Austra . Thanks [...]
Gregg Breinberg who is the director of PS22 Chorus sure has good taste in music. Just found out through Austra 's Facebook page and had a Youtube link of the chorus singing to Austra's Energy. Energy is not on Feel It Break but is on the single (B-side) to Beat and The Pulse. Check out the video. For the curious, here is the original version of Energy by Austra
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