It's a shrewd move, playing a quasi-secret small comeback gig, especially when you're a band who weren't always that good live in the first place. A sense of occasion, people who feel they're part of a chosen few - you're not going to get bad feedback from that, are you? More importantly, while the Stone Roses' reputation for clunking live performances was a fair one, they've all got a lot more experience under their belt now, so it'd be worrying indeed if their Warrington Parr Hall date yesterday had picked up where the Reading ...

Ghost have hit the big-time: after a fierce bidding war, the mysterious Swedish occult rockers have signed to Seven Four Ent., the new label formed by ex-Warner Bros. exec Tom Whalley that’s launching under the Universal Republic umbrella. That Ghost signed with a big label shouldn’t come as a surprise, but that they didn’t sign with Roadrunner [...]

als wir das erste mal über ryan thomas schmale schrieben , hielt er bereits die wange für das fünfte seiner alben hin. "songs out here" hieß das werk und erschien auf twosyllable records .wieder mit verspätung sind wir dran, wenn wir über den neuesten auswurf des jungen kerls aus sonoma county, kalifornien, berichten wollen. die "rosalind ep" getaufte veröffentlichung erschien im februar dieses jahres auf dem selben label und zeigt sich von einigen alten fotografien inspiriert, die dem musiker zufällig in die hände fielen, ausgefranste dinger, in sepia getaucht. so ist es mit der vergangenheit, ein gelehriger partner, auf den schmale ...

We’d be crazy not to post a video from our own SXSW party right?  Now, throw in the fact that Ghost Beach made me feel brilliantly drunk with musical pleasure… well, then we’d be mental not to.   Brandon posted more about their show here.  To top it all off, Ghost Beach just released this absolute gem of a track.  ”Faded” is quite literally one of my top tracks of 2012 so far.  It does so well to capture Ghost Beach’s unique electronic sound… and … continue reading

Belbury Poly The Belbury Tales [Ghost Box; 2012] by James Parker Rating: I wol with lusty herte fressh and grene Seyn yow a song, to glade yow, I wene, And lat us stynte of ernestful matere. Herkneth my song, that seith in this manere. (Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales) I’ve had The Belbury Tales , Jim Jupp’s fourth LP as Belbury Poly, a good couple of months now. I’ve listened to it more often and enjoyed it more completely than any other release so far in 2012. It’s an unusually satisfying record, actually. It just feels so ...

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Santa Rosa, CA Ryan Thomas Schmale – aka That Ghost made an EP about a person he never met. His grandmother. Reflections on photos, made him write music that culminated in a tribute to his grandmother. The story itself is touching then you play the music and it takes it up a notch. Appreciate this [...]

Sometimes you realise you’ve been writing about bands for years, and it slowly dawns on you that you might actually be the only one.  A quick search on The Hype Machine shows that’s not really true, but despite the fact that they’ve been around for a few years now, I don’t think I’ve ever heard [...]

Piccadilly Theatre – London It’s been said that Ghost is a musical for girls. While… No related posts.

Scraping On Wire For the past week I’ve had a song on my playlist that every time it’s come on has made my ears prick up. I originally thought it was one of several WOMEN tracks I added to my playlist upon hearing the sad news that the band’s guitarist Christopher Reimer had died in [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything from That Ghost so I was interested to hear the latest EP. The EP is titled after his grandmother who died at a young age to cancer. He’d never met her but he had this photograph of her and it left him romanticizing her life, wondering what [...]

Hola! Here is one helluva huge mix. Quite more than just decent tunes. Starts off with a classic from Glen Campbell , he will be performing at the Hollywood Bowl in June, and I am considering attending that concert. Question is whether he'll be in shape or not. Sunflower is a brilliant track, gets me into good mood. Capybara lives in Kansas City and yes that is in Missouri. And yes, it is a one man band - lo-fi, fun and quite inventive. Capybara is also a huge rodent. Former (or maybe still current) Vivian Girl and Dum Dum Girl and ...

Eccoci all'appuntamento mensile con il progetto MAP - Music Alliance Pact : in questo nevoso febbraio 36 di blog di tutto il mondo hanno selezionano per voi una nuova band interessante del proprio Paese, ve la presentano e vi regalano una canzone. Un ottimo modo per scoprire nuova musica in modo non convenzionale. Per chi volesse capire di cosa stiamo parlando, questo è il riassunto delle puntate precedenti . Questa volta tra i nomi che mi hanno più incuriosito nella eterogenea playlist ci sono un sacco di orientali, che però risuonano in qualche modo gli ultimi trent'anni dell'Occidente: dagli indie ...

O Meio Desligado é o representante exclusivo do Brasil no Music Alliance Pact , projeto global que envolve cerca de 40 blogs especializados em música, de diferentes países, que mensalmente realiza uma coletânea com bandas independentes/alternativas desses países. Todo dia 15 é publicada a coletânea com uma música escolhida pelo representante de seu respectivo país de origem. No Brasil, essa função é exercida pelo Meio Desligado. Na Inglaterra, por exemplo, o representante é o jornal The Guardian . A coletânea deste mês pode ser baixada no Mediafire . Para saber e ouvir todas as bandas brasileiras que fizeram parte da MAP acesse ...

Listen to 36 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an MP, or grab a zip file of the whole 36-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Cosmo - Cazador Cosmo is an indie-pop band which features members or former members of other groups that are well-known to the Buenos Aires independent music scene (Pablo de Caro from Mataplantas, Ayar Sava from Interama, Pablo Font from Les Mentettes and Andrés Ravioli from Mompox and ...