Here is a bit about a band i have been listening too lately, they are really a sound that takes a few listens too, before you really dig what they are doing.
Pretty Girls Make Graves was an art punk band, formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths song of the same name (which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, which Kerouac took from a correspondence between Alan Ginsberg and Bob Dylan). Andrea Zollo and Derek Fudesco had played together previously in The Hookers, as well as The Death Wish Kids and Area 51 along with Dann Gallucci, with whom Derek had formed Murder City Devils. Not long before the Murder City Devils disbanded, Derek and Andrea formed Pretty Girls Make Graves along with Jay, Nick and Nathan. They played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004.
Pitchfork Media announced that the band was breaking up on 29 January 2007. Their final two shows were 9 June 2007, in Seattle
Here is a video of their song Nocturnal House that I really like and just love the video. It reminds me a lot of the group Jack Off Jill.
Enjoy......
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
PLASTISCINES
New group I have been listening too lately called Plastiscines.
Plastiscines are Katty Besnard (singer/guitar), Marine Neuilly (guitar), Louise Basilien (bass), Anaïs (drums) and former drummers Caroline and Zazie Tavitian. They formed in 2004 after Besnard, Neuilly, and Tavitian, all of whom were at school together, met Basilien, originally a harpist, at a concert by the English band, the Libertines.Their talent was recognised early on by Maxime Schmitt, producer of the German band Kraftwerk, and they were signed by EMI for the Virgin France label in October 2006.
In addition to the Libertines, the band's influences include the White Stripes, the Strokes and, from an earlier generation, the Kinks and Blondie.Their name derives from the phrase, "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" in the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", on the 1967 album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Plastiscines have been critical of French retailing of rock music. Louise Basilien has remarked that she learnt about rock 'n' roll through her parents, the Internet and by reading books: "the generation before us could not learn about rock 'n' roll because the stores here were rubbish".In consequence, the French rock scene in 2006-7 was seen by many as fresh and exciting, even though the requirement that forty per cent of songs broadcast on radio in France should be in French continued to militate against bands who wished to perform in English (which, because of its American origins and British dominance in the 1960s, has always been the prime language of rock 'n' roll).
Here is the video of thier song Barcelona that i really dig......enjoy......
Plastiscines are Katty Besnard (singer/guitar), Marine Neuilly (guitar), Louise Basilien (bass), Anaïs (drums) and former drummers Caroline and Zazie Tavitian. They formed in 2004 after Besnard, Neuilly, and Tavitian, all of whom were at school together, met Basilien, originally a harpist, at a concert by the English band, the Libertines.Their talent was recognised early on by Maxime Schmitt, producer of the German band Kraftwerk, and they were signed by EMI for the Virgin France label in October 2006.
In addition to the Libertines, the band's influences include the White Stripes, the Strokes and, from an earlier generation, the Kinks and Blondie.Their name derives from the phrase, "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" in the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", on the 1967 album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Plastiscines have been critical of French retailing of rock music. Louise Basilien has remarked that she learnt about rock 'n' roll through her parents, the Internet and by reading books: "the generation before us could not learn about rock 'n' roll because the stores here were rubbish".In consequence, the French rock scene in 2006-7 was seen by many as fresh and exciting, even though the requirement that forty per cent of songs broadcast on radio in France should be in French continued to militate against bands who wished to perform in English (which, because of its American origins and British dominance in the 1960s, has always been the prime language of rock 'n' roll).
Here is the video of thier song Barcelona that i really dig......enjoy......
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
My Little Lisa Loeb
Ok, as I have written before I have this thing for Lisa Loeb. Not sure what it is, maybe her voice, her personality, her cuteness, maybe even the glasses, but there is something about her that is really hot. Also readers will know that at the salon where my stylist Joanna makes me look good, there is another stylist who has a bit of a lisa loeb thing going on or maybe it is that lisa loeb has a bit of a envy stylist thing going on. Either way, it is all for nothing, as she is married, although I hear perhaps there is trouble there.
Anyway, I was off today and coloring my hair, which got me thinking about the salon, and some shampoo I have to pick up after work friday and that of course ade me think of that hot little stylist and that made me think of lisa loeb and this this blog.
Here are a couple of her early videos, and before you say, wow brad likes them young.......the truth s, these are old video's and in reality, lisa is a couple of years older then me...........so enjoy the tunes
Anyway, I was off today and coloring my hair, which got me thinking about the salon, and some shampoo I have to pick up after work friday and that of course ade me think of that hot little stylist and that made me think of lisa loeb and this this blog.
Here are a couple of her early videos, and before you say, wow brad likes them young.......the truth s, these are old video's and in reality, lisa is a couple of years older then me...........so enjoy the tunes
Monday, May 25, 2009
Waterloo Sunset
I know I normally chat about more independant groups, but today, i wanted to blog about a song by the Kinks that most people today have never even heard.
"Waterloo Sunset" is a song released as a single by The Kinks in 1967, and featured on their album Something Else by the Kinks. It was composed and produced by The Kinks lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies and is one of the band's best known and most acclaimed songs.
The lyrics are from the point of view of a solitary man on the south bank of the Thames watching (or imagining) the romantic encounters of a couple at Waterloo Underground, then crossing Waterloo Bridge. Davies, in his 1996 autobiography X-Ray, says the inspiration for the song came from an incident when he was hospitalized as a boy. On the BBC radio show The Davies Diaries, Davies stated that "I can't tell you who they are because they're good friends of mine". In a 2008 interview with Spinner Magazine, Davies stated "it was a fantasy about my sister going off with her boyfriend to a new world and they were going to emigrate and go to another country."
The couple - "Terry" and "Julie" - mentioned in the lyrics are widely reported and presumed as being British film stars of the time Terence Stamp and Julie Christie but Davies, in a 2004 interview, denied this, saying: "No, Terry and Julie were real people. I couldn't write for stars."
The recording features Davies' first wife Rasa on background vocals. “When the record was finished and it was coming out", Ray Davies remembered, “I got my wife Rasa to drive me down to Waterloo Bridge to see if the atmosphere was right… I’ve never worked with a song that has been a total pleasure from beginning to end like that one”.
I have included two versions of the song for you to compare. The first a live performance by the Kinks and the other a cover from elliot smith, just to see the different interpetations........enjoy
"Waterloo Sunset" is a song released as a single by The Kinks in 1967, and featured on their album Something Else by the Kinks. It was composed and produced by The Kinks lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies and is one of the band's best known and most acclaimed songs.
The lyrics are from the point of view of a solitary man on the south bank of the Thames watching (or imagining) the romantic encounters of a couple at Waterloo Underground, then crossing Waterloo Bridge. Davies, in his 1996 autobiography X-Ray, says the inspiration for the song came from an incident when he was hospitalized as a boy. On the BBC radio show The Davies Diaries, Davies stated that "I can't tell you who they are because they're good friends of mine". In a 2008 interview with Spinner Magazine, Davies stated "it was a fantasy about my sister going off with her boyfriend to a new world and they were going to emigrate and go to another country."
The couple - "Terry" and "Julie" - mentioned in the lyrics are widely reported and presumed as being British film stars of the time Terence Stamp and Julie Christie but Davies, in a 2004 interview, denied this, saying: "No, Terry and Julie were real people. I couldn't write for stars."
The recording features Davies' first wife Rasa on background vocals. “When the record was finished and it was coming out", Ray Davies remembered, “I got my wife Rasa to drive me down to Waterloo Bridge to see if the atmosphere was right… I’ve never worked with a song that has been a total pleasure from beginning to end like that one”.
I have included two versions of the song for you to compare. The first a live performance by the Kinks and the other a cover from elliot smith, just to see the different interpetations........enjoy
Sunday, May 24, 2009
La Roux and random thoughts
random thoughts first...........
well i saw the new terminator movie today and it was fairly good,ut not what i would call a mega blockbuster, but still good. to be honest though, Bryce Dallas Howards character is really not needed and if she had been left on the cutting room floor, nothing would have been missed. Shame though as I think she is a good young actress.
Here is the band I am talking about tonight......"La Roux"
Meaning "red-haired one" in French, La Roux is the synth pop project of flame-haired singer/songwriter Elly Jackson and keyboardist/producer Ben Langmaid. Before they collaborated, Jackson grew up listening to folk legend Nick Drake, and drew inspiration from his sound for her early music. Meanwhile, Langmaid went to school with Faithless' Rollo Armstrong, and the pair recorded as house duo Huff & Puff in the mid-'90s; Langmaid also recorded as Atomic and as one half of Huff & Herb for Armstrong's label, and was a songwriter for the group Kubb. Jackson and Langmaid began working together in 2006, when they were introduced by a mutual acquaintance. Initially, they called their project "Automan" and wrote largely acoustic music before scrapping that name and sound for the sleek, Prince, David Bowie, and the Knife-inspired style they pursued as La Roux. Their debut single, "Quicksand," was released by Kitsune in fall 2008, and earned the band acclaim from the BBC and the Guardian. La Roux supported Lily Allen on her 2009 U.K. tour and were expected to release their first album later that year.
Here is a video of their song Bulletproof.........enjoy
well i saw the new terminator movie today and it was fairly good,ut not what i would call a mega blockbuster, but still good. to be honest though, Bryce Dallas Howards character is really not needed and if she had been left on the cutting room floor, nothing would have been missed. Shame though as I think she is a good young actress.
Here is the band I am talking about tonight......"La Roux"
Meaning "red-haired one" in French, La Roux is the synth pop project of flame-haired singer/songwriter Elly Jackson and keyboardist/producer Ben Langmaid. Before they collaborated, Jackson grew up listening to folk legend Nick Drake, and drew inspiration from his sound for her early music. Meanwhile, Langmaid went to school with Faithless' Rollo Armstrong, and the pair recorded as house duo Huff & Puff in the mid-'90s; Langmaid also recorded as Atomic and as one half of Huff & Herb for Armstrong's label, and was a songwriter for the group Kubb. Jackson and Langmaid began working together in 2006, when they were introduced by a mutual acquaintance. Initially, they called their project "Automan" and wrote largely acoustic music before scrapping that name and sound for the sleek, Prince, David Bowie, and the Knife-inspired style they pursued as La Roux. Their debut single, "Quicksand," was released by Kitsune in fall 2008, and earned the band acclaim from the BBC and the Guardian. La Roux supported Lily Allen on her 2009 U.K. tour and were expected to release their first album later that year.
Here is a video of their song Bulletproof.........enjoy
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