Another year, and another top 5 gigs by bands that should not be missed live. How odd that three of them came one after another, but that's the cool thing about Washington DC. Except for December through the beginning of February (the dead of winter) and June through August (festival season), there is always a reasonably good selection of bands coming through here. But that hasn't always been the case. I am often asked on my travels why I became a music blogger, and the simple answer has always been this: when I [...]
Here it is. I know you'll hate it; I know you'll disagree, but that's not the point in making an arbitrary list. We here at ATH worked really hard to fit in the tastes of the four of us, and when we decided upon our Top 50, it really boied down to simple math. What albums did we love when they came out? Do we still enjoy spinning those records months later? If they're in the Top 50, then the asnwer is probably yes. I mean, our Top 2 records came out in January, and still play a vital part [...]
With the 2012 Nobel Prize winners in Medicine and Physiology, Physics and Chemistry announced this week, us here at TGTF thought it would be fitting for some discussion of the best songs that have managed to sneak science into their titles. This year's Literature and Peace Prize winners have also been announced, but let's face it. There are way too many tunes that would be appropriate and it's a lot easier to get peace and love into a song, and music is just another art like literature, innit? So without further adieu... [...]
By Alex Ward July 6, 2012 Welcome to the first day of Lounge on The Farm . A day of both hard rain and amazing sunshine greeted the punters at Merton Farm, just outside Canterbury. At the main stage, You Say They Play winners Big Topp from Portsmouth started things off. They are a band who could be mistaken for Puddle of Mudd playing just like The Specials. Heading across the farm we went down to check out a band I have reported on before, The Vex , who played the [...]
Mystery Jets played a packed Academy of Arts on the Thursday night of this year's Liverpool Sound City. Here are two of the sons they performed: 'Show Me the Light', from 20102s 'Serotonin', and an old favourite, 'Behind the Bunhouse', which they used to close out their set. Enjoy both below. You can read about this performance, along with the others I caught on the first night of the festival, here. Click here to view the embedded video. [...]
Of the nights TGTF was not hosting a stage, Thursday night at Sound City was the most stellar. After the Taiwan reception at the Hilton, I consumed a high calorie pub dinner full of fried food (yes, I was hungry) and getting chatted up by an LFC supporter drinking wine at the bar. (Search me. What is it with Northerners, why am I always chatted up in the North?). A PR friend and I went searching for the Academy of Arts; my goal was to get to the Mystery Jets [...]
Mystery Jets were one of the hottest tickets in town at the Great Escape this year, with the Corn Exchange even shutting me out on the Thursday as they went delegate queue-less. But all is not lost. The band - minus bassist Kai Fish, who has since left the group - performed two songs from their new album 'Radlands', 'Greatest Hits' and 'Hale Bop', for Bands in Transit. Evidently, this was filmed on the Friday as there's a [...]
For some reason, my phone refused to let me subscribe to the Great Escape text service, and without adequate O2 coverage, I hadn't had a chance in hell to load the official festival app. In hindsight, either of these may have informed me that the entire Island Records showcase at the Loft featuring Lower Than Atlantis , King Charles (my main interest in this stage, after Tom's hilarious phone interview with the man ) and Tribes had been cancelled. But as I learned over this weekend, [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including the latest from Lower Dens , Patrick Wilson , and Santigold , as well as the debut LP from Father John Misty and the first Norah Jones record i've ever been excited about. As always, be sure to check out [...]
Mystery Jets have announced a series of "intimate" dates for the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (24 February) at 9 AM. This is all in preparation for the release of their next album, 'Radlands', on the 30th of April on Rough Trade. Below, there's a teaser/trailer video for the album, which was mostly recorded in Austin, Texas. Wednesday 28th March 2012 – Leeds Brudenell Social Club Thursday 29th March 2012 – Hartlepool Studio Friday 30th March 2012 – Carlisle Brickyard [...]
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