There are usually some good shows on my birthday.
Last year I saw Washed Out. But this year is going to be a small
dinner with friends and family. Thank you for all the online love.
Alexander
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5/06/2013
Happy Birthday
There are usually some good shows on my birthday.
Last year I saw Washed Out. But this year is going to be a small
dinner with friends and family. Thank you for all the online love.
Alexander
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5/05/2013
5/03/2013
Rolling Stones @ Staples Center
There's a lot going on in LA tonight including The Rolling Stones. They played the Echoplex last Saturday. Tonight it's Staples Center. Friday May 3rd 2013.
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The Black Ryder @ Echoplex
THE BLACK RYDER is playing tonight at Echoplex, Friday May 3rd 2013.
Photo by Angel Ceballos.
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Alessi's Ark "Tin Smithing" video
Published on May 1, 2013
Music video by Alessi's Ark performing Tin Smithing. Bella Union 2013.
US tour in June 2013.
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5/02/2013
The Flaming Lips "You Lust" video
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ANE BRUN’S SONGS 2003-2013
ANE BRUN’S SONGS 2003-2013 OUT SEPTEMBER 10
ON BALLON RANGER RECORDS
ON BALLON RANGER RECORDS
32-TRACK RETROSPECTIVE INCLUDES NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD MATERIAL
“Norwegian-born pop singer-songwriter Ane Brun makes music that fits well into the cinematic world.
Her songs are brimming with life and energy while still touching on feelings of loss and self-doubt.”—NPR
Her songs are brimming with life and energy while still touching on feelings of loss and self-doubt.”—NPR
Ten years after the release of her debut album, Spending Time With Morgan, Ane Brun releases Songs 2003-2013, an anthology of her previous work. The 32-song collection will be released September 10 on Brun’s own label, Balloon Ranger. Songs 2003-2013 is more than a hits compilation—it is a celebration of Brun’s musical accomplishments from the last decade.
The opening track, “Humming One Of Your Songs,” was also the opening track on Brun’s debut, which speaks to the constancy of her message. The two-disc set also includes live arrangements of some of her most popular songs, original studio versions and rare, previously unreleased material.
Brun is well known for her covers, which reinterpret songs to make them uniquely hers. For Songs Brun recorded “Feeling Good,” the Newley/Bricusse classic popularized by Nina Simone, which she strips down to its basic chords. In that same vein of reinterpretation Brun turns her lens on herself, presenting a new version of “This Voice” from her 2005 album A Temporary Dive. The 2013 version of “This Voice” is based on her recent live performances, and it shows her evolution as a performer. The album also includes her take on Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels).”
Songs also draws from another part of Brun’s oeuvre: her duets—of which she released an entire album in 2005. This retrospective includes an orchestral version of her duet with Peter Gabriel (with whom she toured worldwide) on his song “Don’t Give Up,” from his album New Blood.
Brun was born in Norway and lives in Stockholm. She has recorded eight albums over the last ten years. In 2005, her second album A Temporary Dive earned her critical acclaim at home and abroad and the Norwegian Grammy for Best Female Artist. Her third album The Changing Of The Seasons was recorded in Iceland by Valgier Sigur∂sson, of which the New York Times said, “Changing of the Seasons offers the kind of comfort that only well-versed singer-songwriters can give. An album full of sad songs to revel in as the days grow shorter and colder, Seasons is Brun’s strongest work yet.” Songs 2003-2013 is a confirmation of Brun’s achievements as a songwriter. She isn’t resting on her laurels; she is merely stating that she is here to stay. Brun will tour Europe beginning in October, in celebration of the last decade.
Songs 2003-2013 Tracklisting
DISC 1
1. Humming One Of Your Songs
2. Are They Saying Goodbye?
3. My Lover Will Go
4. To Let Myself Go
5. Temporary Dive
6. Song No. 6 (feat. Ron Sexsmith)
7. Rubber & Soul (feat. Teitur)
8. The Dancer – Live
9. The Puzzle
10. The Treehouse Song
11. Changing Of The Seasons
12. Gillian
13. Don’t Leave
14. True Colors
15. Big In Japan
DISC 2
1. Ten Seconds – Sketches Version
2. Lullaby for Grown-Ups – Sketches Version
3. My Star – Live
4. Lift Me РLive (feat. Sivert H̦yem)
5. The Fall – Live
6. Don’t Give Up (Peter Gabriel feat. Ane Brun)
7. Do You Remember
8. These Days
9. Worship (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
10. One
11. Oh Love
12. Undertow
13. Du gr̴ter s̴ store t̴ra РNorwegian Version
14. Alfonsina y el Mar
15. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
16. This Voice 2013
17. Feeling Good
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HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS SHARE "KEEP IT TOGETHER (NOSAJ THING REMIX)"
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS SHARE "KEEP IT TOGETHER (NOSAJ THING REMIX)" VIA HYPETRAK
DOWNLOAD "BETWEEN THE SPACES (SONOIO REWORK)" VIA THE FADER
WELCOME OBLIVION LP AVAILABLE NOW VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS
Photo credit: How to destroy angels_
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Download: "Between the spaces (SONOIO rework)" -
How to destroy angels_ is a collective from Los Angeles composed of Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Rob Sheridan. Together, they use music and visual art to explore issues associated with the coevolution of humanity and technology. Having just finished a North American tour, which included a headlining set at Coachella, HTDA are releasing a Nosaj Thing remix of "Keep it together" and a rework of 2010's "The Space in Between" now dubbed "Between the spaces (SONOIO rework)". SONOIO is Alessandro Cortini, a live member in HTDA, and the rework is the same version that HTDA have been performing during their live sets throughout April. Their album, Welcome oblivion, is available now via Columbia Records.
Previously:
Watch: "How long?" - http://smarturl.it/htdahowlongvideo
Watch: "The loop closes" - http://vimeo.com/56805766
Watch: "Ice Age" - http://vimeo.com/54507716
How to destroy angels_
Welcome oblivion
(Columbia Records)
CD/Digital
1 The wake-up
2 Keep it together
3 And the sky began to scream
4 Welcome oblivion
5 Ice age
6 On the wing
7 Too late, all gone
8 How long?
9 Strings and attractors
10 We fade away
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 The loop closes
13 Hallowed ground
Vinyl (includes 2 exclusive tracks)
1 The wake-up
2 Keep it together
3 And the sky began to scream
4 Ice age
5 Welcome oblivion
6 On the wing
7 Too late, all gone
8 The province of fear
9 How long?
10 Strings and attractors
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 Unintended consequences
13 We fade away
14 The loop closes
15 Hallowed ground
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/howtodestroyangels
Tumblr: destroyangels.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/destroyangels
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5/01/2013
HANNI EL KHATIB RELEASES HEAD IN THE DIRT + tour
HANNI EL KHATIB RELEASES HEAD IN THE DIRT (PRODUCED BY DAN AUERBACH)
SHARES UNCENSORED VERSION OF "FAMILY" VIDEO VIA VIMEO
RELEASES MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC SESSION FOR KCRW
LAUNCHES TOUR WITH BLACK ANGELS TOMORROW
Photo by Nick Walker
WATCH: "Family (Uncensored Version)" - https://vimeo.com/65240336
WATCH: Morning Becomes Eclectic session -
Following yesterday's release of his second album Head In The Dirt, Hanni El Khatib is back today to share the uncensored version of the hugely popular "Family" music video along with the Morning Becomes Eclectic session that he recently recorded for KCRW in Los Anglees. Check out both above, along with footage of Hanni discussing recording Head In The Dirt with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and performing new songs for France's Canal+, where Head In The Dirt is album of the week, below.
All of this comes the day before Hanni launches a US tour with Black Angles tomorrow in Baton Rouge, LA. All upcoming Hanni El Khatib tour dates are below.
When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world's worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it-for-themselves musicians winding back through punk and psychedelia to rock 'n' roll and early r&b and finally the first scratchy years of the blues, he'd record song after bare-bones song-in between day jobs and night life-just because he had things he wanted to sing about. Then in 2010 from a chance meeting, up-and-coming indie label Innovative Leisure recognized that there was something huge hiding in those little songs. And so El Khatib made his official full-power soul 'n' rock 'n' roll debut (on vinyl too) in 2010.
Soon his music would overtake him completely. By the time his first album Will The Guns Come Out was released in 2011, he clawed out a space of his own musically and left his job as creative director at streetwear label HUF as well as his hometown of San Francisco to become part-owner of (and
in-house Art Director) Innovative Leisure in Los Angeles, California. It had been the kind of year where anything that could happen would happen.
In 2012, however, Hanni El Khatib showed up to record his second album with just the clothes on his back-no guitar, no fancy almost-finished demos, and only about three weeks time to get from start to finish. While on tour, he'd met Dan Auerbach in a bar in Paris and after some whiskey got involved, they decided to partner up in Auerbach's studio in Nashville. The idea was to erase everything he'd become comfortable with and to make an album out of only raw instinct and inspiration.
The result is Head In The Dirt, produced by Auerbach, in which El Khatib takes a lucky eleven songs and makes the entire history of rebel music something all his own. He's got cut-to-the-bone rhythm 'n' blues ("Save Me") and overcranked Stooges-style stompers ("Family"). He's got bottomless Black Sabbath riff-outs (the back half of "Pay No Mind") and dub-a-delic garageland rockers ("Nobody Move") that call up the spirits of the Clash and the Equals both. His "Low" is just one Andre 3000 remix away from a club anthem, "Penny" is his stuck-in-your-head pop hit and "Sinking In The Sand" is his smash-your-head freak-out. The plan that first day in Nashville might have been to make something out of nothing-but by the end of Head In The Dirt, you'll realize that Hanni El Khatib actually made something out of everything.
TOUR DATES
5/02/13 @ Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA Ω
5/03/13 @ Work Play Theatre - Birmingham, AL Ω
5/03/13 @ Work Play Theatre - Birmingham, AL Ω
5/04/13 @ Shakey Knees Festival - Atlanta, GA
5/05/13 @ Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN Ω
5/07/13 @ The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN Ω
5/08/13 @ The Firebird - St. Louis, MO Ω
5/09/13 @ Riot Room - Kansas City, MO5/10/13 @ Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO Ω
5/11/13 @ The Depot - Salt Lake City, UT Ω
5/13/13 @ Neptune Theatre - Seattle, WA Ω
5/14/13 @ Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC Ω
5/15/13 @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR Ω
5/17/13 @ The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA Ω
5/18/13 @ The Glass House - Pomona, CA Ω
5/19/13 @ Belly Up Tavern - San Diego, CA Ω
5/21/13 @ The Mayan Theatre - Los Angeles, CA Ω
Ω = w/ The Black Angels
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WAMPIRE SHARES NEW TRACK "TRAINS"
WAMPIRE SHARES NEW TRACK "TRAINS" VIA ROLLING STONE
DEBUT LP CURIOSITY DUE MAY 14 VIA POLYVINYL
ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES
Wampire photographed by Robbie Augspurger
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Following the release of early singles "The Hearse" and "Spirit Forest," Wampire are back today to share "Trains" from their forthcoming debut Curiosity. When asked about the origin of the new single, Wampire's Eric Phipps said:
"'Trains' was written during a time when I was young and overly idealistic about love. A lady was driving me wild with her strange affection and I was naively waiting for it to 'mean something' or whatever. When she finally skipped town, I was sitting on a train that was delayed for some reason or another and started humming the melody that later became 'Trains.' By the time I got home I had the lyrics and rough skeletal structure of the song. Girls are like trains - you're always waiting for a chance to be let on just so you can hop off at the next stop."
Along with the new song, Wampire are announcing a run of West Coast tour dates, a handful of which are with STRFKR. Check out "Trains" and all upcoming Wampire tour dates below.
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TOUR DATES
5/14 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
6/4 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *
6/5 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom *
6/6 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad *
6/8 Denver, CO - Larimar Lounge
6/10 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
6/11 Reno, NV - Knitting Factory *
6/12 Fresno, CA - Fulton 55 *
6/13 Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar *
* = w/ STRFKR
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