jamie on February 28th, 2007
Just grabbed this off the radio- the new Arctic Monkey's Single, Brianstorm. Officially out on April 2 with 3 B-sides:
Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend
If You Found This It's Probably Too Late
What If You Were Right The First Time?
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm (Radio Rip)
jamie on February 21st, 2007
Oh crap! I'm in DC for a friend's wedding, and nearly forgot topost the mixtape I had prepped for this week! Currently, I'm posting this from the rehearsal dinner on the MotoQ. If I get a chance, I'll update this later…if not, just enjoy the kickuas mixtape, alright.
Waterfall picture at the National Gallery by Arthur van der lee.
Download it HERE while you can:
Tracklisting:
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
Kaiser Chiefs - Amdire You
Heartless Bastards - Searching for the Ghost
M Bison - Slow Atop The Mountain
Manic - Chemicals For Criminals
Earl Greyhound - Back And Forth
New Violators - Runaway
Air Formation - Adrift
Deltron 3030 - Mastermind
Wintersleep - Jaws of Life
The Frames - Falling Slowly
jamie on February 16th, 2007
Welcome to the weekend! Not too much in the new releases this week, so I did a little forward-looking to dig up some tracks for the mixtape. Idlewild drops new music on the UK in a couple of weeks, and ever since Gary Lightbody spun that first track on Radio 1 last month, I've been waiting ot hear more. Finally, I have, and I'm sharing it with you! Willy Mason's new single is amazing, and I've been listening to it a lot lately- his album is out mid-March. Bifyf Clyro has been all over the Zane Lowe show, and for good reason. Their first single off the upcoming album (March 5) is terrific, and here. And the new Kings of Leon leaked this week, and every other blog has it, so I figured I'd pass one of those along to you (thanks to Neiles Life). Otherwise, there's an interesting track from the Manchester act Cherry Ghost which tweeked my ears, but I haven't heard anything else yet? Anyone know anything about this? New Feist track is all over the net, and in here so you don't have ot go anywhere else to hear it. A few other great tracks rounding out the mix, but I'm outta time. Party tonight at Fado (oscars)!
Simple is good. On the suggested theme of "Birds on a Wire", I searched Flickr.com and found the simple black-and-white image of a single bird perched on a wire. This picture was taken (made?) by Egan Snow.
Download it HERE while you can:
Tracklisting:
Kings Of Leon - Ragoo
Novi Split - Leaving It
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
Stabilo - Brand New Pill
Willy Mason - Save Myself
Feist - My Man My Moon
8mm - Angel
The Postmarks - Goodbye (CWL Remix)
The Veils - Colliope
The One AM Radio - Flicker
Idlewild - Finished It Remains
Biffy Clyro - Semi Mental
jamie on February 14th, 2007
As it happens….sort of. I don't get ITV, so I'm just pulling this stuff off the brits.co.uk website:
British Live Act - Muse
British Breakthrough - Fratellis
International Breakthrough - Orson!
British Male - James Morrison
International Male Performaer - Justin Timberlake
British Female Performer - Amy Winehouse
International Femail Performer - Nelly Furtado
British Group - Arctic Monkeys
International Album - The Killers
International Group - The Killers
British Single - Patience by Take That — arrrrgh
Mastercard British Album - Arctic Monkeys
Noel Gallagher, while accepting the Outstanding Contribution To Music award: "It’s been a f**king pleasure."
Final list of winners is now up on the site: http://brits.co.uk/winners/2007/
jamie on February 14th, 2007
A friend sent this to me this morning, so I'm reposting the link as the obligatory Valentine's Day post. I'm not exactly sure what the 'contest' portion of this promotion is all about, but the Nettwerk music group has put together a mixtape of love songs by some pretty amazing artists. BNL, Matt Wertz, Hem, Rosie Thomas and more appear in this free download.
Go to the mini-site for the link. Did I mention it's FREE?
That's the last I'll say about this VD crap., there are more important things to blog about today.
jamie on February 12th, 2007
I stumbled across this on Neatorama the other day, and just now got around to posting about it. It’s the video for a song called Sweep The Leg by Los Angeles’ 80’s-loving band No More Kings. The video is a tricked out salute to the 1984 movie The Karate Kid, and features appearances by the Cobra Kai gang (the original actors, including “Johnny“). Ralph Macchio even makes a cameo at the end (Dennis Haskins, who played Mr. Belding on Saved By The Bell appears in the opening scene, but he wasn’t in The Karate Kid).
jamie on February 12th, 2007
Just finished listening to the Kaiser Chiefs on Radio One, playing live at Doncaster Dome from last Friday…the sound freakin' great! I managed to grab an audio cap of a new track for ya- The Angry Mob from their forthcoming album: Yours Truly, Angry Mob
The Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob (Live)
jamie on February 12th, 2007
Any video that gets its own teaser-trailer should be absoultely amazing, right? Put the insanely hot Scarlett Johansson in it, and it's a sure winner, right? Throw in a major music video driector, and a script written by Nick Cassavetes, and there's no way it could blow as much as the new Justin Timberlake waste of marketing budget- except it does, cuz it is.
Rumored to have a budget of more than $1 million, the 9:20 minute music video features a love triangle between JT, Scarlett, and actor Shawn Hatosy, and a car chase that ends in a really pointless wrecking of a nice car….sigh. How many indie bands could have been supported on tour by the record label's $1 mil?
jamie on February 9th, 2007
It's been a slow week in music for me this week, and I'm not particularly thrilled about anything on the new release calendar next week either. I may have to do a myspace indie-bands countdown for next week or something. March and April are looking really good, with a hella lot of new music coming out in every genre. For this week's mixtape, I turned to various other music blogs, and google to get the following 11 tracks together. I shoul dthank these people now: Stereogum pointed out the Samuel Jackson movie Blakc Snake Moan, and I dug through the site to find the mp3's for the entire soundtrack readily gleanable from my browser cache. Neiles Life covered the b-sides coming out with the vairious versions of Bloc Party's new album, where I found The Once And Future King. Duke of Straw turned me on to the Trews' song (another band who will give their entire album to your cache). I Guess I'm Floating is responsible for the Carlberg track. Heather at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends found that awesome track by The Coup. The Hype Machine helped me find that Ronson radio rip from an Italian music blog called Batteria Ricaricabile. That New Rags track came form the good peeps at Music For Robots, and that wedding singer delight from Friends OF The bride was given to us by the other Jamie. So, I've given up all my sources once again. Have at 'em, tell Jamie sent ya.
The noir-ish photo of some steps comes from Jan Tik at Flickr.com.
Download it HERE while you can:
Tracklisting:
Samuel L Jackson - Stock-O-Lee
My Latest Novel - Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
Bloc Party - The Once And Future King
The Trews - So She's Leaving
David Vandervelde - Jacket
Pelle Carlberg - Riverbank
The Coup - My Favorite Mutiny
Mark Ronson ft. Paul Smith - Apply Some Pressure
Klaxons - Golden Skans
The New Rags - Your Room
Friends Of The Bride - Cut Down On My Friends
jamie on February 8th, 2007
Conner at iGif has a couple of bonus tracks from Bloc Party, part of the 11 unused tracks recorded for the A Weekend In The City album, complete with his own artwork. Go check it out.
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