Il y a 5 ans / 5 years ago                          ——————————————————————————————           Cette semaine, nous avons assisté à la première phase de la transition entre Nicolas Sarkozy et François Hollande au poste de Président de la République française. Nous sommes donc revenus 5 ans avant, alors que nous étions encore au collège, au moment de la transition entre Jacques Chirac et Nicolas Sarkozy.           La playlist de la semaine est donc une sélection de morceaux sortis 2007. Vous verrez que ce que vous écoutiez alors n’a presque pas vieilli, que certains groupes ont bien changé et que d’autres non. Bref, il s’agit ...

powered by Fotopedia These are the tunes that have been schlocking my werld.  Dig! "Into Giants" - Patrick Wilson - Never heard of this guy until now but he creates a piece of chamber pop here that rivals few.  I'm kind of reminded about what first drew me to Shearwater's early stuff and there's a bit of Earlimart here.  So, very pleasing to the ears.  It's a teaser for an upcoming album which I'm definitely going to be looking out for. "All The Rowboats" - Spektor">Regina Spektor .  I've always been somewhat standoffish on the cutesy pie ...

We previously featured Breton 2 years ago when they released the Counter Balance via Untold‘s label Hemlock Recordings, the London indie label who’ve released stuff by forward-thinking garage/house/bass producers like Fantastic Mr Fox and James Blake. 2 years is a long time in music-industry-speak and Breton has somewhat primed in that space, developing their sound to higher levels of sophistication. Where previously they were almost always unavoidably compared to Foals, now the evolution is almost complete with a sound they can uniquely claim as their own. Take the example below from the Counter Balance ep: One ...

It seems like it was only yesterday that I picked up a promo CD with the words 'Tear Them Down' written across it. I popped this mystery disc into the CD player at the radio station I used to work at, and low and behold, I enjoyed it. The man behind the mask was David's Lyre (Paul Dixon), and the mask was literal in this case, as every photo I could find had him wearing a lone ranger mask, as if he were a secret member of The Incredibles family. But out of this time vortex, where what I ...

La France forte, la communication faible / Strong France, weak communications                          ——————————————————————————————           Cette semaine, la candidature de Nicolas Sarkozy à l’élection présidentielle a été officialisée. Son effrayante affiche de campagne aussi. Très épurée, sur fond de mer, sans savoir s’il s’agit de l’aube ou du coucher de soleil, avec Sarkozy, qui n’a pas l’air d’avoir très bonne mine et dont nous ne savons pas s’il sourit ou non, et ce slogan très original : “la France forte”. Encore une fois, la communication politique nous surprend, et pas forcément en bien. Après le mouvement de bras ...

So before I get started - two comments so far about Spotify. First, to Spotify - please fix your applications.  They shouldn't crash so often.  This is your lifeblood - even if you have to lose money at it, get your programming talent on it or you will bleed off users.  Spotify, you need to REALLY improve the social networking capability, it's more than just interfacing with Facebook and being able to spam someone with songs, which I pity the poor mp3 bloggers once the promotion guys get their spotify user name!  Add things like "trophy rooms", skins, stuff users and ...

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO So after posting the Slakadeliqs video yesterday, I had took a good look at Slakah The Beatchild latest releases, and found this other gem "Good Shoes" by Art Of Fresh... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It’s not a great band name, I’ll give you that, but Whales In Cubicles are doing something I haven’t felt was possible for a while – rekindling the ashes of my love for straightforward, guitar-based indie. I may regularly tout my passion for the early work of The Maccabees, Good Shoes et al, but a [...]

Grishma Rao meets the London indie rockers at BITS Pilani for a chat about their next album, stray dogs in Athens and getting thrown shoes on stage.

I’m an unashamed (OK, a little bit ashamed) fan of mid-noughties indie. That particular NME-sponsored revolution kicked off just as I got truly interested in music and so I dove in headfirst, blindly hoovering up demos, sessions and releases by the likes of The Maccabees, Good Shoes, The Young Knives, The Futureheads et al. I was [...]

Let's face it, it was only a matter of time before The Miserable Blogger had a rant about The X Factor -American Idol to my American readers- the programme that has hypnotised the nation for many years. Before I release my secret guide to winning The X Factor, I need to rant about what pisses me off the most about this fucking show. It's the treatment of the awful singers, the deluded, the ones that are a couple of prostitutes short of a brothel, the ones that walk in and give it the whole "This is my dream ...

Category:  Fashion News Summary:  Eastpak are celebrating the new year already Helping students celebrate the beginning of a new academic year, Eastpak have introduced a series of parties across Europe. The Eastpak Happy New Year bashes begin on September 28 in London’s East End at the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. Headliners Good Shoes will be supported by Wild Palms and LA Shark, and there will also be a special DJ set from the Mystery Jets. What's more, tickets are totally free. Click here to get your mitts on some tickets. Gallery Options Face book Logo on Gallery On:  "" Enter ...

Two years—almost to the day—after stepping into the Booth with their first feature, Out This World , Art of Fresh make their grand re-entrance with Good Shoes , the latest leak off their forthcoming full-length. Here, Slakah the Beatchild ‘s eminently danceable funk production sets the mood as emcee D.O. waxes poetic about the flyness of his kicks. When the Night Comes IN has yet to receive a drop date, but Booth readers can keep it locked for the latest news and tunes. In the meantime, why not click here to peep the record’s official video?

Die letzten Bestätigungen für das diesjährige Rocken am Brocken sind eingegangen und komplettieren damit das Line-Up des gemütlichen Festivals im Harz. Neu dabei sind unter anderem Audiolith's Elektro-Raver von Supershirt und Hands Up-Excitement! mit Schauspieler August Diehl an der Gitarre. Als Headliner betreten in diesem Jahr Art Brut die Bühne. Ein weiteres Aushängeschild im vielschichtigen Programmen sind die vier Briten von den Good Shoes. Zur Einstimmung gibts hier einen kurzen Rückblick: Rocken am Brocken - Festival-Rückblick 2010 Seht hier das vollständige Line-Up im Überblick: Adolar | Amplifier |  Art Brut  | Barankauf | Baru |  Beat!Beat!Beat!  | DoBrazil | Don Aldente | e-maze | Flashguns | Fotos |  FM ...

Good Shoes  - The Way My Heart Beats