DIIV (Dive) - Captured Tracks on course for success

There are so record label that truly have a knack for polyphonic music. Captured Tracks from the United States is such a label - not only do they bring in their shoe gaze Archives series Shoegazeperlen rare as the Lüneburg Grabbel & The Final Cut back into the public eye, no, their other bands can be truly hair shirt. Nothing wild or blouse, for example, or The Soft Moon. Or DIIV (formerly Dive) from Brooklyn, the beautiful sounds heard angedüsterte bring, which would have certainly taken care of in the 80s and stir. On 26 Published June, the debut album "Oshin".

John Frusciante goes for the EP ... and the album!

John Frusciante is one of those artists who are not with nonsense. If you are for something, go for it bluntly, without getting lost along the way. Now his solo career is your biggest - and only - entertainment so the former guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, apart from confirming the release of an EP (July 17, "Letur-Lefr"), has also done its announcing the release of an LP ...!.

The album in question is called 'Intaglio Funicular PBX Zone "and will be released on September 25. Apparently both releases will be diametrically opposed. The first is a collection of songs recorded in 2010, while "Funicular Intaglio PBX Zone" was conceived and recorded in 2011. Both will be released on vinyl and CD, cassette and digital format (unbelievable but true, cassette).

Frusciante has described the new material as a "progressive syntheses." If I remember "To Record Only Water for Ten Days", released in 2001 and followed that path a bit so it would not be hard to believe that the EP (at least more than the album) could follow the path of the old release guitarist. Anyway Frusciante sure the club with two pitches. So far little has missed this big alternative scene.

Dancing in the countryside

It is hot. So at least the prediction of meteorologists for the weekend. Finally, we can keep our white bellies back into the sun and enjoy a cold beer to go. Even better if it trickles fine electronic music. "Sound in the reeds" takes us out into nature located, the lush green, the water. Directly on Lake Garching, the electronic generation, 26 May for a rich line-up under the open sky the sun god antanzen.

Are part of the team including the Adana Twins from Hamburg, Jake the Rapper and Mutlu from Berlin and Sascha Sibler and Muallem as "local support". The complete program and more information can be found on the facebook page. So pack up, bathing suit, little sister by the hand and enjoy the summer while he is there. And if that's not enough, you can continue to celebrate in connection with the entry in the ribbon Harry Klein, for free!

Evan Caminiti: Night & Fog

The new solo album by Evan Caminiti (BARN OWL, Higuma) is a nocturnal journey into the vast, barren landscapes, an undirected, sleepy, nebulized glimpse into a shadowy world. Caminitis guitar on "Night Dust" consists mainly of the production of washed-out drones and crumbly structures. These are the rich, constantly in motion interspersed dark backdrop of sporadic and tenuous, fragile melody fragments. Layered knotted, distorted and packed into massive Hall veil, there is a sound that dangles like a Katenoide between earthly and cosmic nebulae distances. Explorative and sometimes more intense than the rather bland BARN OWL oeuvre.

Is "Night Dust" by Evan Caminiti on 15 Published in May 2012 Immune-019 on LP and tape the Thrill Jockey label immune-related.

"Kid A" and "OK Computer" Radiohead's entire 8-bit version

We are used to find popular topics versioned in 8 bits. What is not so common in the network is to find a YouTube user (in this case QuintonSung) has come to convert two entire albums of Radiohead at this intimate format. We are talking about the "Kid A" and "OK Computer", probably the two most legendary albums discography Thom Yorke & co.

It is really interesting to hear from top to bottom the result of this curious experiment. In fact I must admit having had a good surprise to give a touch to the versions of 'Karma Police', 'Paranoid Android' or 'Idioteque', a piece that fits perfectly the essence of this style so typical of our old NES / Master Systems.Great discovery made ​​by Pitchfork!.

Nite Jewel | Memory Man

Am I just stumbled over it and found it very good, anyway. Ramona Gonzalez aka Nite Jewel hails from Los Angeles and has the live video to Memory Man appeared in March on their plate One Second Of Love quite a lively number at the start. The more often you hear the song, the better it is.

Florence + The Machine pull epic in the video for "Breath Of Life '

More than 396,000 views in just two days. The new video for Florence + The Machine is sweeping in large part by the fact that 'Breath Of Life' is part of the soundtrack of the film "Snow White and the Legend of the Hunter". Many images of war - with appearances by actresses Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron - are intertwined with a discreet and desaturated tape of Florence Welch is playing the theme with a large chorus of singers.

The video is just another small trailer of the film but have to admit that this point so epic and monumental helps to emphasize the feeling obtained after listening to 'Breath Of Life'. The more Thor, Bella Swan and more Charlize go on stage, the more there is to know Florence. In this way we win those close to the author of that excellent LP entitled "Lungs".

My Brightest Diamond live at "Les femmes s'en mêlent" festival

Usually videos will remain in public libraries not very long online .
 This video is to remain ostensibly for half a year in the Arte library online (hm ... I remain skeptical). Who is smart, it looks better to immediately (or secure it to disk, but there are legal programs): The revered by me Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond, live at "Les femmes s'en mêlent" Festival: The complete concert of 6 April 2012 with the current program, recorded with drummer extraordinaire Brian Wolfe and her a French chamber ensemble (David Haroutunian, Maud Gabilly, Pierre Charles, Julien Lair Julie Huguet, Julien Chabod) .

Ximena Sarinana says Hello to New York

This week comes to Mexico Ximena Sarinana, who off the Chilean artist, Francisca Valenzuela, will tour 10 presentations in various cities of Mexico, highlighting his performance in the Metropolitan Theatre on 11 May.

After completing your stay in our country, the artist returns to the U.S. to continue their presentations for that nation.

Ximena has just confirmed their participation in the Summer Stage in New York City, an event that is part of the activities of the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) and is held on July 11.

Speakers will include the likes of Mala Rodriguez, Kinky, The Authentic Decadent and 3Ball MTY, to name a few.

Horseback: Black and White Psychedelia

The rock / drone interweaving of the American formation HORSEBACK draw monochrome images full of psychedelic doom clouds, fog and gloom Psych veil. Kraut rock and folk earthiness quirk conventional times, sometimes crossed across strikingly, chopped, woven together.

After two albums, "The Invisible Mountain" (2009, Utech) and "The Gorgon Tongue (2011, Relapse), several EPs and splits (with Locrian, PYRAMIDS, etc.), are this year's" On The Eclipse "7" and the third album "Half Blood" was released. Convincing on both publications HORSEBACK with their mesmerizing combination of textures and endless fear rhythms!

The "On The Eclipse" 7 "was published in April 2012 in a limited edition (150 black, 350 white) at Brutal Panda (CPD-14). The album "Half Blood" was published on 8th May 2012 on vinyl from Relapse .

A slow motion magic "Postcard From 1952 'Explosions In The Sky

Apart from the beautifully crafted of their post rock crystal, Texans Explosions In The Sky have been characterized in recent years for trying to dodge again and again the idea of ​​brand new music videos. "We fled from it for years and the reason this came simply because they wanted people would create their own images in their heads" - commented drummer Chris Hrasky to HuffPost. The truth is that with the release of "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" the quartet changed both thought that in just a few months I have been able to release a total of three different video clips. The latter is 'Postcard From 1952', a beautiful production that you can enjoy in the bottom of this post.

The clip was directed by Peter Simonite and Annie Gunn, a phenomenal duo has managed to pull a beautiful plasticity in transforming the sensationalism of dreamy melodies of Explosions In The Sky. Childhood innocence, maturity and the mysterious concept called target come together in one of those video clips you will not forget for months and months. It is with music so do not hesitate to ask, "How is that Explosions In The Sky have taken so long to launch music?". The beautiful pieces that we have lost.

Filtered times - Primavera Sound 2012

In the previous two editions of the San Miguel Primavera Sound had to survive a terrifying average stack and overlaps. Those sleepless nights we experienced in 2010 and 2011 have led us to suffer a panic in the face of the coming forth of times this coming Spring Sound. "Rapture coincide and Justice?" Or "Or Wilco and Death Cab For Cutie?" Are just a couple of the questions we have been making repeatedly in recent days.

Fortunately already been leaked on the net times (provisional ¿?) This year and, except for the odd question (Justice / Kings of Convenience?), We find that the times are quite compact. Being able to see Laura Marling, Wilco, Sharon Van Etten or Refused without stress will be worth something truly priceless.

I attached an EXCEL with the proposed live concerts Binaural boys facing the Primavera Sound 2012. Probably quite your taste differs from ours so we recommend that you bajéis and conformed it to your needs.

Published: Schedules may be provisional. Soon tell if they are officers.

Reprinted "The Illusion Of Safety" Thrice in its tenth anniversary

After a couple of days reading all kinds of comments regarding the monumental concert Thrice have made both the Belgian festival Groezrock as at HMV Forum. Failing to even go to a concert or another (I sold the second entry for lack of money ... we're going to do!) Has led me to be content with custom vinyl reissue of "The Illusion Of Safety" that Hopeless Records have put on your website to mark the tenth anniversary of this magical LP.

This reprint of vinyl, and their packs with a beautiful shirt and digital download card included, will begin to send from 19 June. Also we recommend you not what you think and why you cast the fly: the first 500 buyers will be, gifts, inserts a hand signed by Dustin, Teppei, Eddie and Riley.Maybe I was not in London but it's something said a bald!.

Books and the deaf

With the beautiful weather we all want to get out of the office, classroom or apartment. How best enjoyed this gift from Mother Nature? In Bavaria, it is clear. With a walk to the nearest beer garden. A super good book, no matter in what form, is also a summer delight.

More than leaves or a window viewing stand behind a book. If the book is still a medium of communication or has already taken on new functions? At the invitation of the publisher PLATFORM3 designed and artists' collective pigeon Edition (DE) is a new, site-specific video installation. Under the title "Do not look now" sets them apart is the production and reception of books. The staging of the instance in point remedialisierter unfamiliar form and graphically challenged the power relations between writer and reader.

Opening 16 May 19h
Exhibition: 17 May - 06 June
Mon / Tue / Thu-Sat 11-19h, Wednesday 12-20h, Sun closed