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lunes, 30 de abril de 2012

Presentación Indietracks 2012

Este viernes realizamos una fiesta presentación del festival Indietracks 2012. Os dejo todos los datos:
Lugar: Fotomatón Bar (Plaza Conde de Toreno 2)
Día: 4 de Mayo Viernes
Precio: 6€
Horarios: 22:00 - Apertura puertas
22:15 - 22:45 - Raúl Querido presenta 'Compartir es Vivir'
22:45 - 23:20 - Terrier
23:20 - 00:00 - Capitán Sunrise
00:00 - 3:30 - Magenta Fighter Dj
Podeís confirmar vuestra asistencia en el siguiente evento de facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/443897988970520/

Para escuchar los grupos:
Compartir es Vivir: http://soundcloud.com/vivacompartir/sets
Terrier: http://losterrier.bandcamp.com/
Capitan Sunrise: http://capitansunrise.bandcamp.com/

Presentamos el festival Indietracks que tiene lugar en el Midland Railway Butterley de Derbyshire.

Algunos de los grupos que hasta ahora están confirmados para la edición 2012 son los siguientes: The 10p Mixes, Bart Cummings (with Pam Berry), The Birthday Kiss, Colour Me Wednesday, Doggy, Evans The Death, Girls Names, Gold-Bears, The Hobbes Fanclub, The Jasmine Minks, Joanna Gruesome, The June Brides, Language of Flowers, Liechtenstein, Themakingof, Mikrofisch, Orca Team, The Proper Ornaments, Rose Melberg, The Rosie Taylor Project, Sea Lions, September Girls, The Silver Factory, Standard Fare, The Sunbathers, Tender Trap, Tigercats, Velodrome 2000 y White Town.

Para más info sobre el mismo: http://indietracks.co.uk/


Y por último comentaros que este año Minutos Musicales pinchará en el Indietracks 2012, podéis ver la confirmación de nuestra asistencia en el siguiente enlace (buscad 'Jorge and Miguelink'):
http://indietracks.co.uk/artists.html 

Aquí una captura de esta confirmación:

martes, 15 de diciembre de 2009

Minutos Musicales: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart



Concierto el 18 de Noviembre de 2009 en el Teatro Circo Price.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart... o lo que es lo mismo... el intento infructuoso de llevar unas canciones antológicas al directo.

No es la primera vez que veo a este grupo y por ello puedo decir que en directo pierden muchos enteros.

Mientras que todas las canciones que sacan en disco o EP son realmente magistrales y hacen bailar a todo el mundo cuando se pinchan, en directo realmente no dan la talla. No logran contagiar esa energía que desborda y que ha creado tanta expectativa en el mundo indie.

Esos ruidos de guitarra sesgados, esas letras a medio camino entre el niño y el adulto, esa juventud que se escapa entre letras caprichosas. Magistrales composiciones como 'Come Saturday', 'This Love is Fucking Right', 'Everything With You' o 'Young Adult Friction'.

Música magistral en los tiempos que corren, que pasará a formar parte de esa discoteca selecta pero que dejará un reposo pelín negativo en sus actuaciones.

Creo que empezaron demasiado pronto a hacerse famosos y eso les ha impedido dar conciertos solventes con bagage trás de sí.

Esperaremos a los próximos años, a ver si la prensa deja de darles cobertura y eso les hace capaces de crecer en directo. Mientras tanto veamos lo que dieron de sí el otro día:





Teneis hasta 7 videos en youtube.... por si quereis más. ;-D

jueves, 12 de febrero de 2009

Minutos Musicales: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Estimados,
si alguien tiene por objetivo traerse algún grupo a tocar a España y no sabe cual... que por favor coja a este: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Primer album de esta banda afincada en New York. En el 2007 sacaron un primer EP del mismo nombre del grupo; en 2008 salió el 7" 'Searching for the Now Vol. 4' junto a Summer Cats y en 2009 el EP 'Everything with You'.

No hay palabras para expresar la belleza de este disco... todas las canciones son pura fuerza y energía. Esto es 'PoP' y la compra del vinino y del cd se hace necesaria. Os dejo un par de muestras de lo que este grupo lleva tiempo ofreciendo. Recordad únicamente que este grupo ya formó parte de la recopilación con lo mejor del 2007 con su canción 'This Love Is Fucking Right'.

Sus miembros son:
Kip Berman – voz y guitarra
Alex Naidus – bajo
Peggy Wang – voz y teclados
Kurt Feldman – batería

Os adjunto 2 reviews de este trabajo.

All Music by Tim Sendra

"The New York indie pop quartet the Pains of Being Pure at Heart built up a pretty rabid fan base in the indie pop community prior to the release of their self-titled debut record in early 2009. For this, they could thank a string of excellent singles and EPs that began in 2007 (songs from which appear on the album) but more than that they can put it down to the fact that their sound melds together the trademarked sounds of many beloved indie and noise pop bands into one shiny ball of sound and melancholy. Mixed in skillfully are the sonic assaults of early My Bloody Valentine, the hazy sweetness of Ride, the introspective and usually morose lyrical approach perfected by the Field Mice, the sensitive and tender vocals purveyed by most Sarah records bands, and the rhythmic drive of early-'90s Amer-Indie bands the likes of which more often than not found themselves on Slumberland (Lilys, the Ropers, Velocity Girl — whose Archie Moore ably mixes the album). It all could come off like a pastiche with little more than nostalgic value but the band acts as if it were the first time anyone ever captured this kind of sound, never sitting back and aping the past but instead giving it a healthy boost. Plus, they write some very good songs. "Come Saturday," "This Love Is Fucking Right!" (their answer to the Field Mice's "This Love Is Not Wrong"), or "Young Adult Friction" all would have been in serious rotation on a hip college radio station in 1992. Best of all is the amazingly hooky "Everything with You," which stands as the equal of anything the shoegaze poppers or pop losers cranked out back in the day. If you had gone out and bought the 7," after one play you would have tacked the sleeve up on your wall and played the record until the grooves wore out. It's that good. It lifts the album from pretty good to almost great. A little more variation from song to song, a little more of their own sound, or another song or two as compelling as the best stuff here and the POBPAH's debut would have been classic. Settling for impressive is fair enough and good enough for fans of loud, fuzzy, and heartfelt indie noise pop."

Strangeglue by Brad Kelly

"The problem with indie-pop is that regardless of how seamlessly or impressively you fuse the two elements together, it still loses its steam at some point during the listening process.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart attempt a stab at the aforementioned genre with their eponymous debut and almost manage to get away with an entire L.Ps worth of inoffensive joviality but, unfortunately, it just manages to stop itself mid-sprint and become a panting, sweaty mess before the last seconds fade.

What’s immediately noticeable about the record is that the band are actually pretty talented and well-suited to what they’re playing. The guitar is jangly and loose the entire time, evoking a Shins-but-not-quite rhythm to the music. Likewise, the percussion never overpowers a single track which, for an indie-pop record is a surprise in itself. Hints of lo-fi, dream-like distortion wash over the background of the entire album, creating a solid standing block for the rest of the music to balance on. It’s all impressively tight and foot tappingly enjoyable but it’s also glaringly thin and falls into the trap of 'same is better' instead of 'better is diversity'.

All the tracks sound relatively similar and there’s not a single song that attempts anything experimental throughout the entire duration of the album. The final track manages to stick one cautious limb out of the box but still doesn’t do much else besides fiddle with the 'epic' knobs and buttons: and only an inch more than anything before it. Considering the overall duration of the record twiddles its thumbs around the half an hour mark, it’s really disappointing to tire of the music after only four or five full listens.

The album needs an anchor, something to keep bringing people back. There’s nary a single memorable track on the album and even though the music is as impressive as it is, that isn’t enough to warrant continuous listens to something, that, ultimately goes nowhere.

Contender, Young Adult Friction, Stay Alive and Come Saturday are all insanely catchy and well produced slices of perfectly made indie-pop and are all honestly better than half of the stuff you hear on the radios today. The Tenure Itch is almost a gentle paddle into the waters of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah vocalism but apart from that, there’s just not much else the band seem capable of doing.

If you like your music intelligently simple and care-free then this album should already be in your possession, it does exactly what it sets out to do and does it with ease. If however, you veer towards a deeper and more challenging listen then we’d seriously recommend you divert your attention elsewhere."

Grupo: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Disco: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Año: 2009
Puntuación: 10/10
Web oficial: http://www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com/ y http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart
Canciones destacadas: Come Saturday, Young Adult Friction, Contender, This Love is Fucking Right.... en realidad todo el disco es una joya.



martes, 11 de marzo de 2008

Minutos Musicales: Hot Chip

Estimados,
este es el primer disco que me ha gustado sobre manera en el 2008.
Hot Chip han sabido combinar perfectamente la electrónica, con ritmos bailables, con sonidos huecos y profundos.

Hot Chip es una banda británica de electropop. Tiene 3 álbumes en el mercado.

La banda se formó en el año 2000 a raíz de varios trabajos realizados previamente entre 2 de sus miembros, Alexis Taylor y Joe Goddard. Tras autoeditarse varios álbumes, firmaron en 2003 con la discográfica inglesa "Moshi Moshi", con la que sacarían su primer álbum, de nombre Coming on strong, en 2004. James Murphy, líder de LCD Soundsystem, se interesaría en ellos y los contrató para su discográfica DFA en Estados Unidos.

Un año después firmarían con la discográfica EMI para Reino Unido y su segundo álbum, The warning, ganaría bastante más repercusión. Su single "Over and over" sería considerado como "canción del año 2006" por la revista musical británica NME[1] . Su último álbum, Made in the dark, salió a la venta el 4 de febrero de 2008 y su primer single "Ready for the floor" alcanzó buenas posiciones en el UK singles chart.

El grupo también destaca por sus actuaciones en vivo y sus remixes de otros temas. En España el grupo ha actuado en festivales como el Sónar o el FIB.


"Hot Chip formed in 2000, though members Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard had previously worked together and had been in the same sixth form at Elliott School in Putney, London. In an interview, Goddard said that early Hot Chip music was written like sixth-form poetry, with acoustic guitars. However, the band completely changed direction because they got "so pissed off with it" and decided to try and make the most inane songs they could.[1]

After years of self-releasing records, they signed with Moshi Moshi in 2003 and released their debut LP Coming on Strong in 2004. Soon after this they started working on their second album and signed a US record deal with the DFA Records who re-released their debut album in late 2005.

In 2006 Hot Chip released their second album, The Warning. Now signed to EMI in the UK, the band gained much more mainstream appeal as well as the attention of critics. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize[2] and was Mixmag's Album of the Year 2006. This album spawned also two UK top forty singles: "Over and Over" in March 2006 and "And I Was a Boy from School" in May 2006. "Over and Over" received attention for its music video, which was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, and was also named as the best single of 2006 by British music magazine NME.[3]

The band is also well-known for their live shows, because they often reinvent their songs on stage, creating a completely different sound to what might be the official version. Recent festival appearances include Dour Festival, Glastonbury, Sónar, Benicassim, Electric Picnic, Bestival, Lovebox, the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the Summer Sundae festival, the Big Day Out T in the Park , Summer Sundae and Splendour In The Grass (2007). They released a DJ-Kicks compilation in 2007, which included a new song called "My Piano", also released as a 12".

The band are also known for their DJ talent; all five members took part in a DJ set live on BBC Radio One's The Essential Mix radio program, hosted by Pete Tong, on December 29, 2007.

The band released their third studio album, Made in the Dark, on February 4 2008. The first release out of it was "Shake a Fist" which was released as a limited one-sided 12" in September 2007. The first proper single was "Ready For The Floor" in January 2008, which reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart.

In January 2008 the band appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross to promote "Ready For The Floor". Joe Goddard appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks on Thursday 31st January."

Grupo: Hot Chip
Disco: Made In The Dark
Año: 2008
Web oficial: http://www.hotchip.co.uk/site/ y http://www.myspace.com/hotchip
Canciones destacadas: Ready For The Floor, Bendable Poseable, Out At The Pictures, Hold On, Made In The Dark y Touch Too Much