After the much overrated album “A river ain’t too much to love” Bill Callahan comes back with his best album since “Dongs of sevotion”. But now he signs with his real name, not Smog or (Smog) anymore. Songs like “Diamond dancer” or “Day” are also going to be classics like “Bathysphere”, “Cold blooded old times” or “Ex-con”. The album is going to be released in April by Drag City.
I am going to start a new weekly section called “album of the week” where I am going to say which album is the one I am playing the most the present week and why. Due to the advantages of the internet and that you sometimes can have access to an album before the date of release, it sometimes will not correspond to the “real” market timetable. Times are changing…
hi there! I was in Berlin with Luis last weekend and we tried to enjoy despite the cold weather.We had to go for a coffee every half an hour to warm up but at least they have real coffee there...
Can we go back to 1989? Acid house, new beat, summer of love, smiley, Ibiza, madchester, fluorescent glow-sticks, forbidden parties in the middle of the nature, design drugs… The rave culture started that summer and went on and on during the nineties with the popularization of the electronic music. Nowadays, the lack of new ideas is bringing back old concepts with the intention of refreshing them for a new generation. The last gap from the eighties to bring back from the tomb was the rave movement. So what is nu-rave? Is the same old shit but with new bands and it mixes rock with electronic music. During 2006 a new fanzine called Supersuper appeared in the London underground with fluorescent colours everywhere and talking about new bands like The Klaxons, Van She, Steed Lord, Shitdisco, Hadouken, Brazilian Girls, Lo-Fi-FNk, Daisy Daisy, Niyi, Crystal Castles, Namelee ‘n the Namazonz or Fox ‘n wolf. Most of these bands mix punk rock, pop, electronic, grime and have either collaborated or remixed each other. Maybe this is the only thing they have in common; this and that they use fluorescent colours. And also that most of them reject the nu-rave scene so they don’t want to be just part of a fashion movement and then disappear. So at the end everything is a bit confusing, even more when we know that the NME has already heard about the movement and dedicated a special number, compilation included, popularizing the nu-rave to sell more numbers. What is more, I really don’t understand what all these bands have in common with the Acid house movement apart from the glow colours, and also what makes them different from other bands that appear during the last years such as Chicks on Speed, LCD Soundsystem, !!! or even Bloc Party.
Time will say the bands that will survive to the fashion and the ones that we will remember at the end of the year. From now on, I highly recommend the Klaxons that have four really good singles and a remarkable album.
Here you have some links to try to understand everything better…
THE KLAXONS - ATLANTIS TO INTERZONE
THE KLAXONS - GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
THE KLAXONS - MAGIK
THE KLAXONS - GOLDEN SKANS
VAN SHE - KELLY
SHIT DISCO - REACTOR PARTY
HADOUKEN - THAT BOY THAT GIRL
NAMALEE N THE NAMAZONZ - U GLO GIRL
LOST PENGUIN-PLEASUREWOOD KILLS
DAISY DAISY - MICHELLE PLAYS PING PONG
DJ MEHDI - I AM SOMEBODY
TRASH FASHION - IT'S A RAVE DAVE
NU RAVE DOCUMENTARY IN GERMAN TV
MY SPACE LINK TO MAGAZINE SUPERSUPER
http://www.myspace.com/thesupersuper
LINK TO FASHION DESIGNERS CASSETTE PLAYA. THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO WEAR IF YOU WANT TO NURAVE!!!!!
And finally, the new M.I.A. video. She is now closer to Pantera than to reaggeton but don't be scared; She is not into Trash metal but getting even closer to her roots. It's not an easy track:listen to it twice, three times, four times and it's going to be one of your favorite hits of this year. I say of your year, because I'm sure that it's going to fly away from the masses....definetely.
Hi there! Late, but back again. Hope I'll write more frequently now...like always. Here you have an amazing video of one of the worst songs from the Whitest Boy Alive record. A QOOB's user (Mauro-vecchi) made a video for the song and sent it to them, they loved it and now it's official. Hope you'll enjoy it and don't get hypnotized!!!
First of all I wish you a HAPPY HAPPY new year. After some days on Holidays in Spain I'm back in London, but not back to rutine so I broke my tiny left toe yesterday evening when I fell down the stairs, and I'm spending the whole day doing nothing, bored, abducted by the computer, sleeping and eating... So maybe it's not the perfect beggining of the year, but I hope everything it's going to change in some days... Today's Damaso's birthday so say "happy birthday" to the guy of the photo if you see him (the one that's not me).
