MAHOGANY live!!

Last Sunday Mahogany played at the Water Rats club as the main act of the night (they've been playing as the opening act for this week's Bloc Party concerts /??/). After two forgettable and sometimes annoying guest bands they appear on stage with a furious and powerful guitar noise sound that reminded me of the good moments of the first Mogwai gigs and that sensation I had not experienced since then that the music is floating under your skin.
And watch the video for the Stereolab-inspired Neo-plastic Boogie-Woggie

FEIST LIVE IN SHEPPERD'S BUSH EMPIRE

Last week Luis and me went to see Feist live. All the concert was based on her new record The Reminder, published this week, and apart from all the songs of her new work she just played the inevitable Mushaboom, Mocky's last year's duo Fighting away the tears and a song I didn't recognized. Nevertheless, the concert was fully enjoyable as she was amusing and the performance and sound were great.
And we can finally see the video for the first single, My moon my man, again musical-inspired but again fun.

The rise and the fall of Peter, Bjorn and John

After considering Young Folks last year's best song and Writer's blog a beautiful record I was expecting to know if their live act would also be remarkable. Maybe I waited too much to go to see them, they've played many times in London these last months, and the number of gigs and to grow in popularity have not played on their side. The show was full of stadium poses, they seemed determined in destroy the songs and too conscious of the hit Young Folks is as we had to heard to two different versions of the song (electronic and sitar) before the show started.
And now let's wait for the next record to know if we have to forgive or condemn them...

album of the week- BATTLES - MIRRORED

The first proper album of Battles after some EPs and a compilation of those is like if LCD SOUNDSYSTEM and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE played together covers of JOHN ZORN. It's published by the now so heterogenic trademark that is WARP, and it's going to be one of the most original records you've heard this year so far. The record is preceed by a single-anthem called ATLAS that is magically infectious. Check it watching the video:

album of the week: MAHOGANY- CONNECTIVITY!

After five years without news from Mohagany, when nobody remembered them, they come back with their second record. Their fame grew up little by little after the publication of some great singles inspired by the shoegazing old school but with the publication of the disapointing first record, The dream of a modern day, nobody expected such a good comeback. The old floating atmospheres are still here but now with more instrumentation, a post punk bass and more rythm than in the old tunes.

Watch the videos they already have for two of the songs of the record

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album of the week: A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - SCRIBBLE MURAL COMIC JOURNAL

A project created by Ben and Robin Daniels, brother and sister, whose name comes from the effect that a sunny day in Glasgow had in him, while he was living there, after many weeks of clouds and rain. Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin' and also normal instruments they create a kind of Shoegazing-meets-electronics-goes-strange music near to the spirit of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins. This is their first record after the self-edited EP, The sunniest day ever, which songs are also included here.
here you have the video for C'mon, maybe the most strange and frightening song of the record, made with shootings of the effects of the Katrina hurricane.

TAYLOR MAC at the Soho theatre

Last Friday the 30Th Nella, Luis and me went to see the show of Taylor Mac at the Soho Theatre. We saw a sketch of his show some months ago at Ducky and left very impressed so we decided to go and see the complete show. It's a mixture of humour, sadness, transvestism, music-hall and gay protest songs on ukulele.You can see what's about in that video:

album of the week: DINOSAUR JR - BEYOND

If there's a thing on earth I don't believe over all it's not God, religion, science or eternal happiness: it's reunifications. We've seen the return of many dead bands that, looking at the results, should have stayed dead forever like Jane's Addiction, Blondie or even Pixies. The fashion of comebacks has also created monsters such as The Jam without Paul Weller, Culture Club without Boy George or Smashing Pumpkins with just two original members. But I don't know if I'm feeling nostalgic but I don't find the Dinosaur Jr comeback record that bad. It doesn't seem that time has passed because it sounds like any other Dinosaur Jr record. It's not as good as Bug, for sure, but it could have been released between Where you been and Without a sound , but with Lou Barlow, so you can hear his voice in one of the tracks.