MUSICA
ARTISTAS RECOMENDADOS
Hey Ocean!
http://www.myspace.com/heyocean
Bio: Often described as one of Canada's best up-and-coming acts, Hey Ocean is a young band with an extraordinary talent for blending various musical styles into a brand of infectious pop that is uniquely their own.
Together, Ashleigh Ball, David Beckingham and David Vertesi have created a musical repertoire that cannot be ignored - be it on radio, television or your neighbor's iPod, Hey Ocean will soon be everywhere.
G.L.O.V.E.S.
http://www.myspace.com/allyouneedisgloves
G.L.O.V.E.S. is the side project of Yama Indra, of the formerly Melbourne, Australia based band, Damn Arms. G.L.O.V.E.S.' debut 12″ "Pyx" was released in August 2009 under Bang Gang 12 Inches. G.L.O.V.E.S. has also remixed the likes of Cut Copy, Sneaky Sound System and The Deathset and is currently on tour in Australia and is scheduled to hit Europe and Asia by January 2010. A release of new G.L.O.V.E.S. material should be out by the early 2010, so make sure you check back for more updates soon!
Simian Mobile Disco
James Ford and Jas Shaw. Two men. Three letters. SMD. Electronic pioneers. DJs. Producers. They've been tearing up dance-floors around the world for the past few years, but how did their story begin, and where will it end...? Back in the late ‘90s, James and Jas were studying folklore and physics respectively at Manchester University, while crafting strange electronic music in the spare room of their shared house. Although he eventually dropped out of his course, Jas's grounding in quantum physics was to come in useful later: the drum pattern on SMD's early white label Tits & Acid was based on matrix mechanics devised by Werner Heisenberg. But before Simian Mobile Disco there was Simian, a four-piece band Jas and James formed at Manchester with singer-songwriter Simon Lord and bass-player Alex Macnaghten. Like contemporaries such as Broadcast and the Beta Band, Simian sought to combine traditional songwriting with electronic sounds, with one key difference - their name did not contain the letter ‘B'. Soon the duo started knocking out their own tunes, releasing limited edition early bangers such as The Count, Fake Bake, and Clam Digger on friend's labels like I'm Cliché and Kitsune, Catnip and Wax Fuckface. One early tune - Epilectrics - infamously had to be withdrawn from record stores when it was found to induce fits in dogs and Tweenagers alike. So what's next for Simian Mobile Disco? 2009 will see the release of their hotly anticipated second album, Temporary Pleasure. If Attack Decay Sustain Release was a record for the dance floor, their sophomore effort is aimed squarely at the boudoir. "This one's for all the ladeez out there", says Jas. "And for all the gentlemen who wish to get with those superfine ladeez", adds James. Then the boys will head back on the road, bringing their unique blend of hip-house influenced crunkadeleic poonstep to a venue near you. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
PORTUGAL THE MAN
Portugal The Man is an American rock band from Wasilla, Alaska and based in Portland, Oregon. The band is made up of former members of the band Anatomy of a Ghost. The group was but is no longer signed to Fearless Records. They now have their own imprint label called Approaching AIRballoons through indie label Equal Vision Records. Notable for their already large output of recordings, their latest full-length album, released on July 21, 2009, is titled The Satanic Satanist.
DONNA LEWIS
Donna’s debut album for Atlantic, Now in a Minute, was released in 1996. The first single "I Love You Always Forever" became an instant global phenomenon, climbing to the top of the charts all over the world. In the U.S. it re-wrote the record books at radio by exceeding 1 million spins to claim its place in music industry history as the most-played song ever at that time. After a long hiatus during which she raised a family, multi-platinum recording artist Donna Lewis finally returns with her first proper studio album in a decade with the release of In The Pink on April 1, 2008. Featuring the first single "Shout," Lewis’ eleven new tracks seem to pick up right where she left off.
DATAROCK
http://www.myspace.com/datarock
"We are not political" Datarock state on their own MySpace blog, "we are more like cultural researchers, with a shared fascination for events and phenomena that have changed popular culture and music". Of course, the futuristic, anachronistic Red isn’t just a socio-political tract about the fluid nature of identity in the Internet age. It’s also a eulogy for nostalgia – an abstract notion in an era of instant data retrieval – and the party album of 2009.
STELLASTAR*
http://www.myspace.com/stellastarr
"We need all our voices", Michael says, of the notoriously democratic band. "We get this result that not one person could have come up with on their own because it needed all those elements and changes to come to that conclusion. That’s with the decisions, that’s with the music, that’s with the artwork, everything. It’s an amalgamation of different thoughts and ideas".
Civilized has emerged from this lengthy series of evolutions a better, more thoughtful creation, harkening back to stellastarr*s debut with its raw, charged aesthetic and a sense of each track’s unique mood and tone, while also taking steps forward with a spirit of experimentation that keeps everything fun.
"This album was in reaction to a lot of the stuff we did in the past", Michael says. "The first record was fun and bouncy. The second record was atmospheric and moody and had a very specific vision. On this one, it felt right to make upbeat music. We wanted to have a little more fun with it, although an undertone of darkness is there as well".
BLACK LIPS
http://www.myspace.com/theblacklips
Playing garage-flavored punk rock with a Southern accent, a messed-up and bluesy undertow, and the gleefully destructive impact of a 15-year-old with a bag of firecrackers, the Black Lips are an Atlanta-based combo who after their debut in 2000 soon developed a reputation as one of the Peach State's wildest bands. The Black Lips consisted of Cole Alexander on lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica, Ben Eberbaugh on lead guitar, Jared Swilley on bass, and Joe Bradley on drums when they released their first single. After a second single and a handful of out-of-control live shows that led to them being banned from several Georgia venues, they caught the attention of Greg Shaw at Bomp! Records, who signed the band to a recording deal
PHOENIX
http://www.myspace.com/wearephoenix
The [songs] collected on Wolfgang demonstrate a kind of deliberate, considered approach, and in turn, they’ve created what is the best album in their already-amazing catalogue. Featuring the band's signature melding of synthetics and organics, of sharp, danceable rhythms and intense guitars, of effortless melody with a considerable dose of aural panache, the album's ten songs are more layered than previous efforts. "On our last album, we were trying to make a minimalist record—something austere, almost ascetic," Brancowitz explains. "This time we wanted to create something more elaborate".
TINY MASTERS OF TODAY
http://www.myspace.com/tinymasters
Tiny Masters Of Today might be named after a fictional rock band, but they’re real enough, even if they do sound too good to be true. A brother and sister, Ivan and Ada, respectively 15 and 13, from Brooklyn, NY, who have been performing and recording together for almost four years, it would be easy to praise them purely on account of their youth, but the music they make is extraordinary for any age, and by any measure. And they have done what all superlative rock acts, young and old, want to do on their latest album and that is to evince a considerable advance, musical and lyrical, from their earlier work
