For all the people who are still pissed off with Prince , i present this guy (Flairs) hes better then prince.



the video was made by JONAS & FRANCOIS they also made the video for "D.A.N.C.E" by JUSTICE.
Handmade, 3000 paper sheets, a simple printer-computer & scanner trio, 7 black ink pencils, sometimes drawn in a Tokyo Hotel room, a Paris studio or on a Madonna video shoot in London, it's black & white simplicity suits the track like the best wedding possible....

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If any one was wondering how Crayonsmith where getting on with their American tour with Islands check the video below from a gig in Dallas on the 24/06/08

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Björk and Ólöf Arnalds join the Sigur Rós party on drums for Gobbldigook at the Náttúra concert in Reykjavik on June 28, 2008. Fireworks ensue..



the concert was to raise awareness about the ill effects of aluminum smelting on Icelandic topography

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Jay-Z kicked off his Glastonbury headline set with a fuck you to Noel Gallagher.



(in the read more Amy Winehouse shows what a classy lady she is)



Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis is saying it was self defense saying she was entitled to defend herself.
the punchie 25-year-old Londoner James Gostelow had this to say
"At the end of the day it is all part of being at the front and being pushed by thousands of people. It is all part of the Glastonbury experience."

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The shining beacon of indie light that is mp3hugger has just one-upped itself by compiling and releasing a compilation of underground music that's just too damned good to remain underground.

Featuring excellent (and all exclusive) material by Beaten Awake, The E.L.F. and Michael Knight, the compilation entitled The Indiecater is available now online for the ridiculously good price of €4.50. Click here to buy (I highly recommend doing so, and imagine that many of these acts will not be 'indie' for long).

Personal favorites of mine are the tracks by Slushco & Foreign Slippers, the former being an upbeat, summery, piano-led gem; the latter a sublimely stated folk number. Rest assured both artists will be investigated further.

As an Indiecater taster, here's the fantastic symphonic post-rock of New York's Cymbals Eat Guitars:

Cymbals Eat Guitars- Share


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Keep up to date on further volumes of The Indiecater on mp3hugger, or on the Indiecater blog.

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CSS's second album Donkey (cover above) is released on July 21st, and already word is starting to filter out that it's something to look forward to. Having got a taste of a few new tracks at their recent show in the Academy, I know to expect more of a pop-rock sound than an electro-rock one.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Hmm... possibly too early to tell. But what we can do is take a look at what's available online already and see how that sits.

Do read on...

Single number one you've probably already heard, Rat is Dead (Rage). It's a fairly decent little pop song, but lacks the bite of anything off CSS's debut album.


Following that is a step in the right direction- Left Behind is kinda funky, and definitely more of a party song (which, let's face it, is the band's forté). The only criticism I'd make is that it sounds a bit too busy, bordering on cluttered. But judge for yourself:

CSS- Left Behind
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There's a few 'sampler' mp3s floating about online, where you can get the gist of the song through about a minute and a half of it (which then repeats, rather annoyingly). Hear's two of em to whet your appetite:

Things seems to get a bit electro with Believe Achieve:

CSS- Believe Achieve (Sampler)
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The whole mostly-rock-but-with-a-dash-of-electro thing mightn't be so bad an idea, as evidenced by this humdinger, How I Became Paranoid:

CSS- How I Became Paranoid (Sampler)
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So the bottom line seems to be to not expect a repeat of CSS's debut album- expect something different, interesting, and possibly very good.

Oh, and even though the album's not out for a month, the remix-monkeys have already been hard at work. Here's Aussie rising stars Midnight Juggernauts treating us to a remix of Left Behind:

CSS- Left Behind (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
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Back to Big Lebowski territory it seems for The Coen Brothers (good, good...). Burn After Reading stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand & J. Jonah Jameson. It's released on October 17th.



Check out the read more for it's excellent Saul Bass influenced poster.

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The Dark Knight viral machine rolls on, and during the week we got closer to seeing the movie's second villain: Two-Face. The image above appeared in the first DK trailer, and now we've been given a teaser clip featuring the alter ego of Gotham's District Attorney Harvey Dent.

Check it out in the readmore.


Via Traileraddict:

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This weeks hangover cure comes from Maebh Cheasty (pictured above) of Waterford electro-poets You're Only Massive.

You're Only Massive will be busy in July , with the release Dot-Dash, a split 12" album with Queen Kong, and their gig/performance art piece, Disco-nnect.

Where's the mixtape? What the hell is Disco-necct? Find out in the read more...


Hangover Mix track listing:

1. Captain Beefheart- There Aint No Santa Claus On The Evenin Stage
2. Waiting Around To Die- Townes Van Zandt
3. Sufjan Stevens- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
4. Leonard Cohen- Take This Longing
5. Leadbelly- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
6. Dr. Octagon- Blue Flowers
7. Screamin' Jay Hawkins- I Put A Spell On You
8. Roots Manuva- Oh Yeah
9. Ellen Allien & Apparat- Way Out
10. Nas- Life's A Bitch
11. The Smiths- How Soon Is Now?
12. Tom Waits- Ice Cream Man

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Disco-nnect is... "a guided walking tour around the south docklands that leads to a gig and a party. Beginning at the river, the tour will transform this corner of dublin 2 into a playground; a garden of fun. Your guide will invite you to participate in party games, cheerlead you along, teach you the macarena, introduce you to one another and encourage you to run amok. In an age of reality tv, it is important to note that you're only massive is on your side. They want you to feel good and won't ask you to do anything you don't want to".

The madness runs from Monday June 30th to Saturday July 5th as part of We Are Here 3.0 and tickets are available from www.project.ie or by calling Project Arts Centre on 01 8819600. Check out the Disco-nnect blog here.

Y.O.M. have an array of shows coming up in the next couple of months, lots in Ireland, and one all the way over in NYC for the Conflux Art & Technology festival. Come September the duo will be pioneering a new show based around Cooking & Domesticity entitled It's A Domestic (check that one out here).

For info on all these shows check out You're Only Massive on myspace (Where you can also download the band's new single Grand-Theft Hopkins which documents their beef with, um, someone... ). For now, here's the excellent funky poppness of Sugar Shake The Cool Away:

You're Only Massive- Sugar Shake The Cool Away


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All the new releases in road records listed in the read more

The new Fleet Foxes album is now in stock and its on special offer for only €15.99

The Morr Music label are back with two new albums this week featuring Electric President and also Borko.

Bottomless Pit comes highly recommended if you were a fan of either Silkworm or Seam, the band features members of both outfits.

The new Guapo album will knock your post rock socks off

The new High Places album on Thrill Jockey is on special offer for only €10.99

Explosive Japanese post rock outfit Lite get our pick of the week this week with their new album “Phantasia” on the Irish based label Transduction Records. (and is my pick of this weeks releases)

Robin Saville (of Isan fame) has a new solo album out this week on Static Caravan

Sigur Ros are back with a superb new album this week, cd only for the moment.

The rather superb new White Denim album is on special offer this week for only €16.50 on vinyl and €13.99 on cd

The Jape album is finally in stock on vinyl now

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New track from Fujiya & Miyagi off their soon to be released new album Lightbulbs. Sounds a lot like their old stuff not much of a deviation from the last album.

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The Éthiopiques play the festival of world cultures on Friday 22 August 2008 - 8.00pm.




The line up includes
Mahmoud Ahmed
Mulatu Astatke
Alemayehu Eshete & The Either/Orchestra

I only really know Mulatu Astatke off one cd i have Ethiopiques Volume 4 which is devoted entirely to his music, his music was also used in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers with Bill Murray. Mulatu Astatke is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in 1943 in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Astatke was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston, where he was the first African student at Berklee College of Music. His music combine jazz and Latin music influences with traditional Ethiopian music.


Yegelle Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke



Tickets are €32 (OUCH still gonna try and go)

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I'm a sycophant for covers and crossovers (which can quite frequently be guilty pleasures) so it's nice when it all works out. Here's an example of such a case- Death Cab For Cutie delivering an acoustic version of The Smiths' There is a light that never goes out:



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As you may be aware, River Cuomo of Weezer has been gradually composing a song through the medium of YouTube by requesting fans to reply to his video with hooks, riffs & licks.

It's currently at stage 14, 'Let's revise the bridge lyrics', and has come along a fair bit. Here's the almost-finished song, Turnin' Up The Radio:



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For some of the steps along the way click here and here.

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Sugarlips presents two thirds of a Cork Invasion, with ELK & The Avalanche Effect playing alongside Dublin favorites Arcada on July 5th in the Lower Deck.

Tickets are 5 euro before nine, and 6 euro after. Madness is guaranteed.

In the next week egoeccentric will be posting profiles of all the bands on the bill featuring kickass mp3s, and even giving away tickets to the show. Yay!

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It's finally here: the first taste of Fasciinatiion, the forthcoming album from The Faint. And (surprise, surprise) it's damn good.

The track, which is called The Geeks Were Right, is a post-apocalyptic, electro-heavy pop song you can dance to. But what am I telling you this for? Go listen for yourself.



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Fasciination is released on August 5th. The Faint play Electric Picnic at the end of August.

Check out egoeccentric's Interview with Jacob Thiele of The Faint here.

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The excellent Patrick Kelleher will be playing the Boom Boom Room (under Murrays on O'Connell St) this Thursday along with Thread Pulls, Electric Sensoria Band & Avanti Maria.

Tickets are a more than reasonable 5 euro, and doors are at 8.

Click the read more for a taste of Kelleher greatness...

Here's the Gerry Duffy crafted video for Coat to Wear:

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Turns out the version of MGMT's Electric Feel as imagined by the undisputed gods of the remixing universe, (Justice) which we posted earlier this week..... was a sham, a fraud, or possibly just a working copy.

But never fear- the real (and much better) version is below. Enjoy.



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This 'amusing subtitles on Hitler's Downfall rant' thing is getting a bit crazy (I already saw on on the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer saga today), but this one via UnaRocks featuring an enraged Brian Cowan just has to be reposted.

Tee hee.

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Our delightful and clearly quite competent Government prefers dancing to the Walls of Limerick rather than 50 Cent, so is proposing to introduce a 2008 Liquor Licensing Bill which will tinker with the closing times of pubs & clubs.

If the bill is passed, clubs all over the country (theatre license or not) will close at 2.30AM six nights a week, and at 1AM on Sundays. The nightclub industry (probably with due cause) gets a lot of stick over the amount of public order offenses that occur in the wee hours. In an effort to tackle this, industry heads have long been pushing for sequenced closing hours, where pub closings and nightclubs are staggered over the night to avoid one massive spill of drunkards at the same time. Apparently a vast amount of research has attested to the sensibility of such a plan, but God knows what this research is & who conducted it (probably the nightclub industry themselves). So I can't vouch for the research, but the idea does make sense to me.

So I have signed a petition the nightclub folk have set up to try garner support for their proposals, or, more accurately, to try to shoot down the new licensing bill. Aside from the politics/social implications of the whole thing, late bars are fun. I like the fact that you can respectfully disagree with regular pubs deciding 2.30 should be your bed-time, and head over to the Gaiety for a reggae band and some tequila.

If you happen to agree, you can head over here to sign the petition. C'mon, save the boozing!

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Got the best news today off Adam from There Will Be Blog. The amazing Subtle are playing Whelans on October 1st. Im as giddy as a school girl

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So after months and months of chatter about it, Glastonbury is finally here. All of you who looked at the line-up and said "Jay-z *scoff*" I feel sorry for you. While he'll be peddling his own tiresome brand of Hip-Hop on Saturday night I will be at a completely different stage far from him watching MGMT, Battles and CSS back to back while getting very drunk on pear cider.
Irish acts representing this year include Jape, Ham Sandwich and Warlords of Pez.
Recognise.

See in you in a week

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Comedian George Carlin died earlier today at 71 after suffering a heart attack. Becoming famous for his routine "7 words you can't say on television", he was a victim of many obscenity laws and was instrumental in the slackening of these laws.

Check out some funny ass shit in the read more.

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Them Dublin elecro types Dry County have been plugging their gig on Thursday in Whelans by saying its their last Dublin gig ever. What in the name of suffering fuck are they on about? Are they breaking up? Are they changing their name? Whats going on?
Do we actually have to go to the gig to find out (because I can't)?

Anyway. Its this Thursday. 7.30pm and tickets are 13 Yo-Yo's.

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Trailer for a new film starring Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer, Mia Maestro, James Le Gros, and Missi Pyle, from first time director Jared Drake and writer Brandon Drake.

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The More eagle eyed among you might have noticed that the mp3 dont seem to be working on ego and Physics. The server i was using has closed my account and i have lost everything, so all my mp3 i had posted on both site have gone and the streaming thingy is gone too, but all the lads other mp3 are still up on Ego ,rest assured i will be getting it all sorted and normal blogging will resume.

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I'd pretty much written these guys off as 'meh', but only just heard their track Walcott, which is actually pretty damn good. Now I'm confused.

The Case For:
Vampire Weekend- Walcott

Pretty decent, with a real nice string break in the middle.



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The Case Against:
Vampire Weekend- Oxford Coma

Original, granted, but strikes me as trying too hard to be so. And, well, a bit shit.



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I'm as yet undecided. What do you think?

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Marvel Studios release their second self-produced flick and try to banish memories of Ang Lee's 'no-action Hulk'.

Pros:

• There's certainly no shortage of action this time round. Even when Ed Norton is in non-hulk form, he's constantly being chased by trigger-happy army types.
• The CGI is quite good. I've heard complaints about it not looking realistic, but honestly- it's a 15 foot green monster. I reckon that probably The most important thing is that the CGI elements interact well with the real ones.
  
• Tim Roth does the usual snarling villain thing, and the film is all the better for it.
  
• Lots of explosions. Which is nice.
• No prolonged exposition or dialogue-heavy scenes, which don't really fit in this kinda movie (cough, Ang Lee, cough). Less introspection, more smashing things.
• Nice hints of things to come (not gonna get into spoilers).
• Lou Ferrigno (original TV Hulk) makes an appearance. And he still looks like a brick shithouse. Fanboys= happy.
  

Cons:

• Lots of silliness. Mostly of the typical 'Don't do that, you fool!' variety, where characters who should really know better persist in doing stupid things.
• In fact, the vast majority of characters in this movie are complete and utter morons.
  
• A tad too self-referential. How many in-jokes do we need?
• I know it's the point of the whole thing, but I can't help but wince at lines like "Hulk Smash!".
• Goof city. A couple of sloppy, lazy filmmaking errors are noticeable. Expect fanboys picking over them for years.
  

Harbour no delusions about Hulk (it's no Citizen Kane), this is a popcorn movie and you get what you pay for. It's short, self-aware, slightly kitch, and ultimately fun. More of the same, please, Marvel.

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Another week another hangover mixtape and this week its none other then LIARS who are playing Andrews Lane tonight (now that synergy kids) all the track where picked by Angus from the band.
tracklisting and download link in the read more

Have used this hangover mixtape myself one morning when i wasn't feeling the best and you know what it worked so on with the picks.

1. Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted
2. Neil Young - On the Beach
3. Grace Jones - Private Life
4. Dire Straights - Private Investigations
5. Blur - Strange News From Another Star
6. The Doors - Summer's Almost Gone
7. The Breeders - Off You
8. Syd Barrett - Terrapin
9. Michael Franks - Down in Brazil
10. The Knife - Behind The Bushes
11. Murder City Devils - Tell You Brother

click here to the download page

And as i said before Liars play Andrews lane see theres the poster.


And to get you in the mood for LIARS tonight some Videos
LIARS - Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack (in Whelans last December)


LIARS - Plaster Casts of Everything


LIARS - There's Always Room on the Broom

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Congratulations go out to Niamh Farrell of Ham Sandwich who gave birth to a baby boy on June 8th. Congratulations are also in order for the fact that she didn't know she was pregnant until she went into labour. Some tough broad. Read the full story here.

Ham Sandwich play numerous gigs around the country this summer and also play Glastonbury next week.

Click on the read more for some Ham sounds

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Alias, born in Portland, Maine to a jazz drummer and a church organist, grew up in a suburb called Hollis and played drums in his high school band. Isolated in a small town, alias found no music that captivated him until at age 13 when he saw “Yo MTV Raps.
Alias has collaborated with every member of the anticon roster, Slug of Atmosphere, Sage Francis, DJ Krush, and Markus Acher of the Notwist.
Well hes collaborated with someone on anticon again this time Why? AKA Yoni Wolf. this track is taken from Alias new CD Resurgam due out 26/08/08 on Anticon

MP3>Alias feat. Why? - "Well Water Black"


Alias Myspace"

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Girl Talk: amazing mash-ups and mixes.
New album: available here now for a price of your choosing.
I think this'll always be known as 'doing a radiohead'.

Cheers to Nialler for the heads up.

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taken in the backstage section at last weekend's Download
Festival check out the portaloo at the back

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Like him or love him he's playing here on the 4th of September in the Olympia no less as part of the Bulmers Comedy festival. Tickets for his show and all the others go on sale tomorrow at 9. The festival also features appearances by the fucking hilarious Jimmy Carr and The Mighty Boosh (tickets for which I was under the impression at sold out ages ago).

Click in the read more for lots of things that are funny.



On Rap Music


On Michael Jackson


Jimmy Carr

Offensive Jokes


Fuck Buddies

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New video from the lads from Bats off their EP for the song Nautilus Vs. Irish Ferry.
the video was done my Conorbat and Timbat.

Bats - Nautilus Vs. Irish Ferry

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Don Caballero have revealed the tracklisting for their new album called Punkgasm(Punkgasm was recorded in spring 2008 at Rust Belt Studios in Royal Oak, Michigan). As some might know the band broke up in 2000, with other members going there own way (Ian Willaims forming battles and Eric Emm with Good Morning).Drummer Damon Che recruited new personnel for a reconstituted Don Caballero in 2003 (this is the second album under this new lineup).
tracklisting in the read more

Punkgasm tracklisting

Loudest Shop Vac In The World’
‘The Irrespective Dick Area’
‘Bulk Eye’
‘Shit Kids Galore’
‘Celestial Dusty Groove’
‘Pour You Into The Rug’
‘Challenge Jets’
‘Lord Krepelka’
‘Why Is The Couch Always Wet?’
‘Slaughbaugh's Ought Not Own Dog Data’
‘Dirty Looks’
‘Who's A Puppy Cat’
‘Awe Man That's Jive Skip’
‘Punkgasm’

heres what Drummer Che had to say about the album as they where recording it
"I know this sounds like an obligatory and potentially phony statement but, I at least, firmly believe this will be the "best Caballero yet"

Mp3>Don Caballero - Bulk Eye

Punkgasm is due out 19/08/08 from Replase

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so more music i can't get out of my head this time it takes the form of London based Dinocore/ Disastercore/ Robotcore/ Tyrantcore 4 piece Down I go
The song in question is off their new record Tyrant which is about famous and not so famous tyrannical world leaders throughout history, including Pol Pot, George Bush, Josef Stalin, Ariel Sharon and many more, and it sounds like Henry VIII’s syphilitic ulcers bursting, Ivan the Terrible beating his pregnant daughter in law and causing her to miscarry, Turkmenbashi’s 12 metre high gold statue of himself rotating to face the sun, Israel growing at the expense of others, mass graves being filled with murdered Cambodians, Romanians queueing for bread.

more in the read more


the song is Nicolae Ceaucescu heres what wiki had to say about him.
Nicolae Ceauşescu (January 26, 1918–December 25, 1989) was the leader of Romania from 1965 until December 1989, when a revolution and coup removed him from power. The self-called revolutionaries' representatives held a two-hour trial and sentenced him to death for crimes against the state, genocide, and "undermining the national economy."The hasty trial has been criticized as a kangaroo court. His subsequent execution marked the final act of the Revolutions of 1989.

Now lets see what the Down i go lyrics say about him
Tear them down!
Demolish old buildings to make space for new buildings to fill with tiny comrades.
Have Children! More Children!
Ceaucescu has amassed an unaffordable loan to pay for all buildings and all of the oversized families.
Families are starving while the food is shipped out. The darkened shelves are empty and the house is getting colder.
Blackout!
The television says that nobody's going to starve, but supposed record harvests never make it to the hungry people who have HIV and orphans in the streets.
A smiling leader in denial flanked by secret police.

Steaming>Down I go - Nicolae Ceaucescu

so a video i guess of down i go is in other, since i posted an actaul music video of theirs last time i talked about them heres them playing live , its a song off this is Disastercore called Gigantic! Titanic! (can you guess what its about).

Down I go - Gigantic! Titanic!

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The In Rainbows Animated Video Contest (to help raise Aniboom awareness)is down to 13 finalists.The winner will have their video an official Radiohead video and also $10,000.
check out the little widget thingy in the read more.



also Gene Simmon from KISS thinks Radiohead are killing the music business.
"The record industry is dead. It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They've decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we're going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilised. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we'll record new material."

he also thinks that Radioheads live show is boring to watch.
"I admire bands like Radiohead, but the idea of being that serious? Fuck that, get up on stage and blow shit up! Bands that stand by their microphones and strum their guitars are forgetting one important point - people are bringing their eyes, it's audio and visual. If you're not fulfilling the visual part, it's like watching a movie with your eyes closed.

"One of the biggest compliments we get is [people saying], 'I fucking hate their music but that's the best show I ever saw in my life'."

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How the hell nobody has seen this before I will never know but here is some rather old footage of two rather famous actors on the set of a rather awesome movie doing a rather awesome little ditty proving that both of them can sing awesomely enough.

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So says the official website and Phantom FM at least but if you go to Ticketmaster you can still seem to buy them. In anyway if you head over to Toutless you can find some folks flogging theirs for face value so hope is not yet lost.

Check out the awesome line-up in the read more.



Click on pic for bigger version n' shit

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Outstanding Canuck rapper & sometime Final Fantasy collaborator Cadence Weapon (AKA Rollie Pemberton) will make another trip to these shores on July 10th, this time to headline Club NME in the Button Factory.

Support on the night comes from Super Extra Bonus Party, who recently had their amazing single Everything Flows remixed by Mr Pemberton himself. How would that sound? See below...



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A youtube-y introduction to Cadence Weapon in the readmore.

Cheers to State for heads-up.


My favourite track from Cadence Weapon's album no.2, Afterparty Babies, this is Real Estate:



This is the video for Sharks:



And here's the same song with added Final Fantasy, goodness (yes, that's an Andrew Bird riff):

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this happened at the Norwegian Wood Festival in Oslo, watch video.


what a big man he is

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Newish video for Cornelius, the song Omstart is off the album SENSUOUS and is just what the doctor ordered for a monday after a very hectic weekend
Cornelius - Omstart

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Dublin's finest delivers the long awaited album number three. Can it possibly live up to expectations?

Pros:

• Whereas album #1 was testing the water, and album #2 was finding his/their feet, here we have a band that have finally settled on their sound.
  
• And what a sound. Having given Dublin gig-goers many a mind-blowing show, Richie Egan & Co have translated their energy perfectly to record.
  
• Songwriting is of a very high standard throughout, with lyrics you can think on, and choruses you can sing.
  
• As for style, think acoustic-electric. A singer/songwriter with synths and a drum machine who really wants you to dance.
  
• While (album #2) Monkeys in the Zoo... had a few humdingers, this one is packed to the brim. If you're hoping for hit-singles like Floating, you're in luck. A lot of luck.
• I can now finally can listen to I Was a Man somewhere other than Jape's myspace page.
• Even the quiet songs are amazing- At the Heart of all of this Strangeness is subtly beautiful, and Phil Lynott is an instant singalong classic.
• But don't forget the dancey tracks- Replays, Apple in an Orchard: great; Strike Me Down: AMAZING.
• In fact, that's pretty much what we're talking about here- an album that fluctuates between great and amazing.

Cons:

• I could go for a few more tracks.
  
• That's it.

Consider the hype lived up to- this is definitely one of the albums of the year. If you haven't already had the pleasure of seeing Jape live- grab yourself some Electric Picnic tickets, cause after hearing this album you're going to want to.

Listen:
Let's go for a quiet one...

Jape- Phil Lynott


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Here's the final part of our off the cuff session with the wonderful Most Serene Republic. The track is called Compliance, and comes from their excellent new album Population- which is in stores now!




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Thanks again to Lena Obara, Patrick Guay & Dylan Nolan for all their help.

But wait- there's more! egoeccentric's interview with TMSR to follow soon...

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the 21st edition of our mixtapes to ease a self induced sickness comes from the one and only Les Savy Fav.
check out what they picked in the read more and the link to download.

Harrison's pick- 1.'may it always be' by bonnie prince billy
Tim's -pick 2." Bitches aint shit" by Easy E
Seth's -pick 3."Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" by the Small Faces
Syd's -pick 4."I can't stand me" by Merle Haggard

picked by all the band
5."sunday morning coming down" by kris kristofferson
6."margaritaville" by jimmy buffet

click here to go to download page

At the moment Les Savy Fav have a live digital-only release out called After the Ball Drop, with tracks from 2007's Let's Stay Friends and was peppered with old favorites, and they wrapped up with some very choice covers. you can buy it from places like itunes and Amazon.

LES SAVY FAV - Brace Yourself


Les Savy Fav - "Patty Lee"

Les Savy Fav myspace

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But first road have a interesting exhibition opening in their basement soon here is some information about it.
Underground is an exhibition and publication looking at the changes in independent music culture over the last 15 years, tracking the relationship between the local and the global, society and technology and charting the erasure of the boundary between the public and the private.The exhibition takes place in the basement of Road Records in Fade street in Dublin and opens on 27 June.
Click here if you would like to participate
the pick of the new releases from road records in the read more


- Joan As Policewoman on cd for €12.99 and vinyl for €19.99
- The Boris album “Pink” is finally in stock on limited edition red vinyl (gonna try and grab myself a copy of this)
- Southern Lord have also just released the recent Oren Ambarchi album on vinyl this week
- The new Eric Chenaux album is now in stock on the Constellation label.
- Two nice new titles on the Numero Group label this week on cd.
- The Futureheads album is in stock on vinyl now
- The Hellacopters are back with their final album.
- My Morning Jacket gets Road records vote for album of the week and its only €13.99on cd and €18.99 on vinyl.
Gerry O’Beirne is Roads pick of the Irish releases this week

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With the re-issue of Young Team already in shops now, the Scottish noise mungers Mogwai have released the detail for there next album called The Hawk Is Howling (album cover above) they also have a new EP called Batcat out soon as well

tracklisting for both in the read more , as well as a live video for Batcat and a really good old Mogwai video


The Hawk Is Howling traclisting

01 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
02 Batcat
03 Daphne and the Brain
04 Local Authority
05 The Sun Smells Too Loud
06 Kings Meadow
07 I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
08 Scotland's Shame
09 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice

Batcat Ep traclisting
01 Batcat
02 Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend
03 Devil Rides (ft. Roky Erickson)

The Hawk Is Howling comes out September 22 on PIAS/Wall of Sound,and Batcat EP is out on September 8.

Mogwai - Batcat (live @ Queen Elizabeth Hall 12 May 2008)


MOGWAI - Friend Of The Night

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Beck's Dangermouse produced album is released on July 4th.

Via State

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Fujiya & Miyagi who have recently up graded to a quartet with Lee Adams replacing the drum machine, have just released the track listing for their new album Lightbulbs which will be out September 1 on Full Time Hobby
Tracklist

‘Knickerbocker’
‘Uh’
‘Pickpocket’
‘Goosebumps’
‘Rook to Queen's Pawn Six’
‘Sore Thumb’
‘Dishwasher’
‘Pterodactyls’
‘Pussyfooting’
‘Lightbulbs’
‘Hundreds & Thousands’

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Big Ideas: Don't get any - 'Nude' by Radiohead (remix)



Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

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Happy voting day! Let's celebrate by taking a look at the top five songs about voting.

(Don't worry, they're not as terrible as you think)

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5. Curtis Mayfield- Move On Up

Apart from the Mayfield's lyrics- urging aspiration and optimism, yet compromise ("Take nothing less than the second best")- this song has voting significance for those who've watched 'The Wire'. It provides the soundtrack to 'Cutty' Wise's election morning run in Season 4, and one of the pivotal moments in the series' political storyline. Classic use of music in TV- perfect for the scene, and really makes you think about the lyrics. You can watch the clip here.



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4. Tokyo Police Club- Your English Is Good

It's a bitchin pop-song, and Dave Monks' lyrics shamelessly rip the piss out of Politicians half-assed attempts to act sincere. "You don't need a change- you're future's with us!" and the oh so subtle refrain of "Give us your vote if you know what's good for you". Deadly.



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3. The Who- Won't Get Fooled Again

Pete Townshend seems a bit fed of up the same old shit, and 'Won't Get Fooled Again' is practically the ultimate anti-voting anthem. Apparently a British Labour government in the 70s got into power on the back of student riots demanding change. When Labour got in, they promptly forgot about all their promises and just did whatever the hell they wanted to do. Hmm, sounds familiar...
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" sums up Townshend's disillusionment with 'The System', and his coda is effectively him saying 'fuck this' and buggering off to live in a commune.



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2. Stevie Wonder- You Haven't Done Nothing

Good ol' Stevie Wonder becomes the voice of the people, preaching about how much of a failure & general arsehole Richard Nixon was. And as we all know, back in the day Stevie found it nigh on impossible to do anything without being incredibly funky. The lesson is: if you can't vote, buy a clavinet and recruit a backing band- it's the next best thing.



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1.Radiohead- Electioneering

One of my favourite Radiohead tracks, you can almost feel Thom Yorke spitting with disgust as he takes pops at every aspect of fake-smile politics. As always, his disgust is articulated to perfection: "Riot shields, voodoo economics, it's just business...".

Genius.

Best song about politics ever.



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Working Class Hero Billy Bragg has confirmed a show in Dublin's Vicar Street on December 4th. Tickets go on sale Monday at 28 euro a pop.

While A New England was enough of a classic to cement Bragg's reputation as a legend, it wasn't his only moment of genius by a long shot. Check out the readmore to see what I mean.


The amazing Levi Stubbs' Tears:



Waiting fot the Great Leap Forward, live on Craig Ferguson:

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Bloody hell, what's happening with cancellations? Now M.I.A. has cancelled her Dublin show, but has had the decency of axing the rest of her European tour too.

Refunds available from point of purchase as per usual. Support act The Cool Kids will carry on regardless, having scheduled a midnight show in Crawdaddy for the same night (June 27th). Tickets for this one are 15 blips.

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Ever heard a song that you've been familiar with for years and years or at least knew it well enough to hum along to but then you find out, "Holy Shit, I always thought somebody else did it". Well I have on a few occasions in my life and so I introduce my Top 5 "Holy shit so thats who does the song".

You might look at these and wonder how I ever got these confused but with some of them there is definitely reasoning in my brain thoughts for why I would have made the mistake.

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5. Stuck in the Middle With you - Stealer's Wheel

Scottish band Stealers Wheel were one hit wonders in the early 70's with this track before breaking up after three albums in 1975. This song, which gained more popularity from its use in Reservoir Dogs, was their one big hit in 1973. Former member Gerry Rafferty is also famous for his huge hit "Baker Street". "Stuck in the middle...has a folksy rock and roll, acoustic led riff with a husky whiny voice that spouts rambling but oddly poetic lyrics, all reminiscent of a certain singer-songwriter



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I Always Thought It Was...Bob Dylan

Well I mean its obvious really. Not to mention that Steven Wright even describes it as a "Dylan-esque slice of Bubble-gum Pop" in Reservoir Dogs.









4. Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs

Around the 80's there were quite a number of bands who sounded not unlike the The Psychedlic furs mainly due to the fact that the music is quite wishy-washy, distinctly 80's electro and with croaky vocals not unlike a certain great white duke.





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I always thought it was...David Bowie

Some people can't hear what I'm hearing in this or why I thought it was Bowie for so long but there's just something there. It might be because tonally it sounds quite like Bowie's "China Girl (or vice versa actually as "Love My Way" was out first"). I dunno. It just seems to make sense to me.


3. Candy Girl - New Edition

Featuring a young Bobby Brown before he married Whitney and became a coked out mess (probably), New Edition were one of the proto-type boy-bands in so far as they sold shit-load of records, had hoards of screaming fans and are remembered by few. Because they were very young, were all boys, were all black and not to mention their sound was deliberately designed as such they were hailed/reviled as the next level to a certain other all boy, all young, all black band. And thats where the confusion lay.





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I Always Thought It Was...The Jackson 5

Its probably because I only ever heard it in TV and Movie soundtracks I never picked up on the Electro intro or the little kind-of-rap at the beginning. It might also be because it sounds a lot like "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5 but allegedly that was the point all along. Either way it caused me to go "Who the fuck are New Edition?" when I saw the video finally on some VH1 classics show.


2. Horse With No Name - America

Sounds so like the person I thought it was that America even addressed this fact in their anthology liner notes. There's no doubt whatsoever who it sounds like.





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I Always Thought It Was...Neil Young

While the chorus is more Simon and Garfunkel than Neil Young the rest of the song from the rhythm to the vocals are reminiscent of Canada's finest export. While the song is quite catchy and is actually a classic in its own right (especially in comparison to the rest of the shite that "America" released), the lyrics are too banal for Young and are often ridiculed sometimes famously. Randy Newman said that "the song is about a kid who thinks he's taken acid" while the late comedian Richard Jeni said "You're in the desert. There's nothing to do. Why don't you name the freakin horse". The irony of this whole matter is that the song itself knocked Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" off the Number One spot in the US.




1. Layla - Derek and the Domino's

Waily guitars, screamy blues-rock vocals. People know either two versions of "Layla". The original recorded by this Super-group in 1971 and used to great effect by Martin Scorsese in Goodfellas or the slower, practically re-written version from the MTV Unplugged performance in the early 90's.



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I Always Thought It Was...Eric Clapton

Well okay yeah this cheats a little bit because of course it was Eric Clapton but until a few years ago I had no idea about Derek and the Domino's and had no idea that Clapton had starred in yet another super-group. Still props to the man for the Unplugged performance practically doing a cover version of his own song.








*Incidentally if its unclear as to why Matt Damon's image is at the top of the post then I suggest you Watch The Talented Mr. Ripley and all should become clear.

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