Two years ago, we were able to enjoy Beck ’s Record Club . I am sure most of you know what it was about, but if you don’t, let me explain to you one of many amazing ideas Beck had: a musical project which consisted in teaming up with his favourite musicians to cover complete records in just one day at his studio.  I am showing you the first song covered in Record Club Number 4: Guns In The Sky , a cover of the album Kick by INXS . In this edition, the musicians joining Beck were: Liars, Vincent">St. Vincent ...

Buttonhead , a rampaging rainbow of noise-pop with a penchant for polymesmeric song structures and fractured melodies, is a multi-headed beast with one shivering b’glittered body; comprising Ross Blake, Tobias Warwick Jones, Valentina Magaletti, Eloise Goulder and Daniel John Boyle. The group’s wildly disparate influences of tropicalia, avant pop, spacious psyche, experimental rock, yé-yé and anthemic film music have been decisively distilled into their long-awaited debut album 3D Opera Whale , to be released on London based Horse Arm this coming June 30th 2012. The digital release of the LP is slated for July 30th 2012. The result is a ...

The Canadian indie rock band, By Divine Right , has been home to a heap of musicians since the front man, José Miguel Contreras , formed it in 1989 with three high school friends. He spoke with us about the upcoming album "Organised Accidents" and what makes the spirit of the band continue to live on. You have a new album coming out. Tell us a bit about that. The new BDR album is called "Organized Accidents", it embodies a philosophy of composition that I have been exploring with BDR . Taking spontaneous recordings, channeled writing and turning them into songs. Even the ...

The Canadian indie rock band, By Divine Right , has been home to a heap of musicians since the front man, José Miguel Contreras , formed it in 1989 with three high school friends. He spoke with us about the upcoming album "Organised Accidents" and what makes the spirit of the band continue to live on. You have a new album coming out. Tell us a bit about that. The new BDR album is called "Organized Accidents", it embodies a philosophy of composition that I have been exploring with BDR . Taking spontaneous recordings, channeled writing and turning them into songs. Even the ...

KATE HENNESSY and AARON CURRAN report on the inaugural Dig It Up!, which took over four venues in Sydney on April 22. The series commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Gurus’ watershed single ‘Leilani’. Photos by CHRIS TURNER . KH: In his welcome message in the Dig it Up program, Hoodoo Gurus’ frontman Dave Faulkner says: “Dig it Up is NOT seeking to carve up the potential audience into marketing segments with a little bit of this for the ‘this’ people and a little bit of that for the ‘that’ people.” It’s a neat summary of why it feels so ...

In October 1966 Rita Lee and brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias walked on stage for the first time as Os Mutantes to perform on a Brazilian TV show. In hindsight, it was a momentous occasion. Several months later they became involved with the Tropicália Movement, performing with Gilberto Gil at the 1967 Brazilian Popular [...]

Canção d'Os Mutantes (composta por Gilberto Gil e Caetano Veloso) ganha uma versão despretensiosa com forte pegada R

Cena Independente é um projeto baseado no Music Alliance Pact . Nele blogs nacionais especializados juntam o que há de mais novo e relevante na música independente de seus estados em uma coletânea mensal, publicada sempre no último dia de cada mês.  Nesta edição a capa ficou por minha conta. Fiz todo o trabalho no celular, tentando aprofundar no conceito de mídias digitais e mobilidade que abordo cada vez mais no Meio Desligado. O download da coletânea com todas as músicas pode ser feito no Mediafire . MINAS GERAIS: Meio Desligado Psilosamples – Olho de Cabra eletrônica experimental/IDM Psilosamples Por vezes soando ...

Like just about every other category of electronic dance music, "trance" means vastly different things to different people. You've got your psy-trance and your Goa, your uplifting trance, your Frankfurt acid, and whatever you call what Tiesto's making these days. In the early 1990s, trance was a constant throughout Europe — the Continent's answer to house and techno. However, and apologies to the faithful, the music's cultural capital has plummeted in recent years, edged off the festival main stages by dubstep and pan-genre electro amalgams, and passed over by the underground in favor of slower, deeper, housier ...

For some reason at this time of year I'm drawn to the music of Brazil, more specifically the psychedelia that emanated from the 60's and 70's tropicalia movement. We've already featured the essential compilations from Soul Jazz on the subject, here's a little something from Os Mutantes second LP 'Mutantes' . 'Dois Mi E Um' sees them living up to their tag as the Brazilian Beatles and has more hooks than most bands have in their entire careers. Os Mutantes- Dois Mi E Um (Download)

España 037/Leo. El grupo de Leo Jiménez estará grabando su primer DVD en directo en la sala Cats de Madrid el próximo 3 de marzo. Si te gusta el rock duro de corte americano y macarra, no te lo pierdas. Festival Purapasta. Malaga organiza este festival con ocho bandas y dos escenarios el 3 de marzo en la Sala Paris 15. Sidonie, Niños Mutantes y Fuel Fandango son los principales atractivos del evento. Puedes encontrar más detalles en el Facebook oficial de Purapasta. McEnroe. Es uno de los grupos de...

Esta agrupación española será editada en México por Terrícolas Imbéciles y nos presentan el video del segundo sencillo de su disco Las noches de insomnio. El sonido de esta agrupación ha cambiado a lo largo de sus 15 años de existencia y hoy en día nos deja escuchar un sonido más orgánico que incluso han [...]

Além de divulgar a música independente mundial, o Music Alliance Pact influenciou a criação de um projeto semelhante no Brasil chamado Cena Independente. Nele, blogs de diferentes Estados brasileiros selecionam mensalmente uma banda local para criar a coletânea do projeto. Fazem parte da iniciativa, inicialmente, 13 blogs dos Estados de Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima e São Paulo.  As coletâneas serão publicadas conjuntamente no último dia de cada mês e estarão disponíveis para audição e download gratuito . O Meio Desligado representa Minas Gerais e a ...

Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Released: 1968 Panis et circenses A minha menina O relógio Adeus, Maria Fulô Baby Senhor F Bat macumba Le premier bonheur du jour Trem fantasma Tempo no tempo (Once was a time I thought) Ave, Gengis Khan Listen on Spotify The debut by legendary Brazilians Os Mutantes is one of the [...]

"Puts Me to Work" MP3 from the album Cyrk 2012 iTunes Somewhere in the air above Wales there's a sonic trap tuned to collect whatever errant strains of the psychedelic '70s still tumble through the atmosphere. These are funneled into a still, and converted into the nectar that bands like Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have been drunk on since the '90s. But there's a new face at the font — Cardiff's Cate Le Bon, who sings like Nico over a score that could've been produced by Os Mutantes in their prime. Cyrk is ...