The hangover mix this weekend to get you through the bank holiday weekend comes from the record collection of Menomena , i saw Menomena a while back in the sugar club and what a show they put on i was completely blow away.
In case you dont know who Menomena are, Menomena are an experimental rock band from Portland, Oregon, made up of Brent Knopf on guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel; Justin Harris on bass, guitar, baritone sax and alto sax; and Danny Seim on percussion. All members of the band share singing duties.

tracklisting and all the other stuff in the read more

Tracklisting

1. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen - "Herculean"
2. J Dilla - "Workinonit"
3. The Ruby Suns - "Ole Rinka"
4. Santogold - "Lights Out"
5. The Helio Sequence - "The Captive Mind"
6. Portishead - "The Rip"
7. Yeasayer - "Germs"
8. El Guincho - "Antillas"
9. Roxy Music - "Amazona"
10. Quinn Walker - "Chicken Wire"

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Now some Menomena videos first two are live vids recorded in Juan's Basement for Plum TV in Brooklyn, NY.

Menomena - Weird


Menomena - Muscle'n Flo


Menomena - "Evil Bee"


i would really recommend the album Friend and Foe by Menomena to people , it has some amazing tracks on it and one of the most original and inventive cover i have ever seen

Menomena myspace page

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This weeks hangover mix to sooth your aching heads comes from the Alaska band Portugal. The Man(i wrote about Portugal. The Man at the start of the year , you can read it here )
tracklisting and download link in the read more


1.Grizzly Bear- Knife
2.Black Moth Super Rainbow- Sun Lips
3.Menomena- Weird
4.Feist- Sea Lion Woman
5.Ween- Your Party
6.Van Morrison- Sweet thing
7.The Beatles- Cry Baby Cry
8.Caribou- She's the One
9.Celebration- Evergreen
10.TV on the Radio- Young Liars

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Portugal. The Man have a brand new album coming out this autumn called "Censored Colors" that was produced by Paul Q. Kolderie (radiohead and the Pixies) and Kirk Huffman and Phil Peterson. Afraid it wont be in the shops here but you can get all the rest of there albums off amazon so im sure the new one will be there too.

Portugal The Man myspace you can download some tracks off the bands self released EP It's Complicated Being A Wizard

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Woh the gigs are coming thick and fast over the next couple of month and May in particular is shaping up to be packed to the gills. To try and keep our pudginess down im going to post a link to vids instead of post the vids in a hope of keeping out bandwidth down. without further a do some class up coming gigs.


Le Loup Thu 21 February Crawdaddy
Le Loup is an American indie band founded in late 2006 in Washington, D.C. by Sam Simkoff (keyboard/banjo). The band also includes Christian Ervin (computer), Michael Ferguson (guitar), Nicole Keenan (keyboard/French horn), Dan Ryan (bass), Robert Sahm (drums), May Tabol (guitar) and Jim Thomson (guitar). The group has drawn comparisons to Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, The Books and Animal Collective.

le loup "i had a dream i died"


Menomena February 29 The sugar club
Menomena are an experimental rock band from Portland, Oregon, made up of Brent Knopf on guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel; Justin Harris on bass, guitar, baritone sax and alto sax; and Danny Seim on percussion. All members of the band share singing duties.

Menomena - Rotten Hell



Ballroom #74: Kling Klang (Rock Action) Friday, 28 March in the Lower deck.
Kling Klang are a five piece kraut-punk band from Liverpool, consisting of four synth players and a drummer.Formed in mid 1999, as a 3 piece using only cheap synths and old drum machines, in 2001 they became a 5-piece outfit
click herehere to see there video for there awesome tune Heavydale
been dieing to see theses guys live so im mega physed about this and its in the lower deck too happy days.

Foggy Notions Presents: Deerhunter Thursday, 08 May Whelans
Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock.Their live performances almost always leave audiences polarized, and have been referred to by Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs in NME as bordering on "a religious experience."

Deerhunter "Lake Somerset"

Foggy Notions Presents: Health Friday, 09 May Whelans
HEALTH are an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. HEALTH have been described as having "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane

Health - "Heaven"


Foggy Notions Presents: Man Man Sunday, 11 May Whelans
Based out of Philadelphia, PA, Man Man is an experimental indie band that incorporates Eastern European and circus-esque styles in their music, creating a unique sound. The band consists of Honus Honus (lead vocals, piano, organ, persussion), Pow Pow (drums and other various percussions), Cougar (trumpet, guitar, percussion), Sergei Sogay (bass, synths, percussion), and Chang Wang(sax, percussion).

Their style has been compared to a mixture of Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, and Captain Beefheart. Man Man is known for their distinctive live shows where the members of the band dress in white tennis outfits and don war paint. During their sets the band does not take breaks between songs in order to keep a constant energy level

Man Man - Feathers and Engrish Bwudd (Live)


Yeasayer Tue 13 May Whelans
Yeasayer (pronounced "yay-sayer") takes place in the future, somewhere in the Middle East where citizens wear turquoise robes, live in crystal towers, and overindulge on Peter Gabriel albums.

Yeasayer- 2080


Marnie Stern 16th May new upstairs room in Whelans
released one of my favorite albums of last year shes just amazing and very easy on the eyes.

Marnie Stern "Every Single Line Means Something"


FOREVER Presents: Ween Saturday, 17 May The Village
what can i say about Ween apart from go see

Ween - Baby Bitch


there a few more gigs coming up i just cant find any info on them at the moment so no kids, the ex and jandek are all playing dublin in the next couple of weeks i just dont know where or when as of yet when i find out you will know.

The Redneck manifesto have been add to the Battles/liars gig in Vicar street on May 15.
And bats Tomorrow for free in tower records at 3


and of course the sugarlips gig in the boom boom room click here to find out more

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