Saturday, December 26, 2009

FENODOM (2)

Festival nove domaće muzike,
Dom omladine Beograda,
28.11.2009.

ŽeneKese: Šta bi bilo kada bih ti dao sve što imam


Stuttgart online: Sad ili nikad


Nikad Dosta: Higijena duha


Iskaz: Komora

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Autopark - Sve dalje (2009)




Autopark - Sve Dalje (2009, Autopark Self-released)


released: 07 Dec 2009. god.

Tracklist

1. Sve dalje 3:51
2. Radost me uništava 2:42
3. Dogovor 3:20
4. Gori grad
vocals - Dragoljub Marković
5. Kapisle svetle 4:42
6. Pucketanje prstima 2:43
bass [second verse] - Milorad Ristić
7. Tarantino 1:55
8. Milina i toplota 4:40
organ [hammond] - Milan Prokop
9. Gde možemo se sresti 4:30
written by - Boye

Bass, Vocals - Milan Bogdanović
Drums - Dejan Utvar
Edited By - Mirko Luković
Engineer [Post-production] - Dragoljub Marković
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals - Nikola Berček
Guitar, Vocals - Dušan Lopušina
Recorded By, Engineer [Post-production] - Milan Prokop
Recorded By, Mixed By, Engineer [Post-production] - Saša Janković
Vocals - Ognjenka Lakićević


Wednesday, December 23, 2009

TRIVALIA

TRIVALIA - Povorka (Crna voda)


Trivalia /band from Niš, Serbia/
Niš
gothic, later ebm/electro band, founded by Vlada Mantis, was formed approximately 1986th in when they released their first mini album "Pravoslavija" which was focused on the traditional gothic sound with the admixture of spiritual music! Later, 1991. for SKC-Niš issued "Crna voda" /Black Water/, a great album, which follows the single "Dat Rosa Mel apibus" (out to vinyl), the album also gothic oriented!
Later, 1992. released "Headhunter", the album that changes the sound of the band to the old school EBM, and "Body Collection" as a collection of singles, also body-oriented, with a few songs that are not in albums! After several successful gigs, band leaving guitarist Marko and establishes coverband HEADHUNTERS, who later played in many places in Niš, mainly covers! From 1995. Vlada, continues to work on music alone,
but he kept the name Trivalia, created several new songs and then he is lost every trace.. in terms of music...

Main members were Vladimir Žikić (alias Vlad-a-Mantis; music, lyrics and drum programming) and Boban Stojiljković (bass). Many musicians from Niš passed through the band, Ivan Marković amongst them. They never had drummer; they used rhythm machine.

Band members also published ten issues of fanzine "Black Rider".

Members were:
Vladimir Žikić Mantis - vocals, rhythm machine
Boban Stojiljković Bocko - bass
Srđan Jovanović Điđi - guitar (1986-1989)
Ivan Marković - guitar (from 1989)
Miloš Vukotić - vocals, keyboards, guitar (early 90s)
Miloš Medić - drums
Peđa Avramović - keyboards
Ivan Lipovski - guitar

Discography:
  • 1986 - Pravoslavija (mini LP)
  • 1991 - Crna voda
  • 1991 - Dat Rosa Mel apibus (single)
  • 1992 - Headhunter
  • 1992 - Body collection

Trivalia live @ KPGT Niš Serbia (1993)








Niški gothic, kasnije ebm/electro band, čiji je osnivač bio Vlada Mantis, nastao otprilike 1986. kada su objavili i svoj prvi mini album Pravoslavija koji je bio orijentisan na tradicionalni gothic zvuk sa primesama duhovne muzike! Kasnije, 1991. godine za SKC-Niš izlazi Crna voda, odličan album, koga prati singl Dat Rosa Mel apibus (izasao na vinilu), album je takodje, gothic orijentisan!
Kasnije, 1992. izlazi Headhunter, album koji menja zvuk benda prema old school EBM-u, kao i Body collection kao kolekcija singlova, takodje Body orijentisana, sa nekoliko pesama koje nema na albumima! Bend posle nekoliko uspesnih svirki napusta gitarista Marko i osniva coverband Headhunters, koji su kasnije svirali na mnogim mestima u Nišu, uglavnom obrade! Vlada, radi na muzici sam, nastaje jos nekoliko pesama i gubi mu se svaki trag u muzickom smislu..

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

FENODOM

Festival nove domaće muzike,
Dom omladine Beograda,
27.11.2009.


Repetitor: Sve da zaboravim (uživo na Fenodomu)


Slaptrap: Ja nisam lenj (uživo na Fenodomu)


Keckec: Očiju mi (uživo na Fenodomu)


Consecration: Aligator

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Portishead - Chase The Tear

PORTISHEAD SIGN TO AMNESTY

International human rights day (10 December) marks the anniversary of the United Nation’s historic ”Universal Declaration Of Human Rights” on 10 December 1948. The UDHR set out for the first time in a single document the fundamental rights to which everyone, everywhere is entitled - including the right to life, liberty, security, the freedoms of opinion, association and expression, and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. More information: amnesty.org.uk/udhr

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Piano Magic 'On Edge'



ON EDGE

(Alba/Johnson/Tcherneyan)

This life winds me up too much
I am taut as a wire
And the pressure's building up

I am up to the neck
I am cut to the quick
I am stuffed to the gills
I am sicker than sick

You think you know me
But you don't know me
You get a version
You cast aspersions

My back is up
But you'd never know
I hide it well
It doesn't show

This life winds me up too much
I am taut as a wire
And the pressure's building up

I'm a pot on the boil
I'm a trap on the spring
I am pushed to the brink
I could pull out the pin


from the album 'Ovation', (c) 2009. Make Mine Music

Produced by Gareth Parton.

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Friday, December 04, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

Blonde Redhead - 23



Blonde Redhead is an American rock trio comprising Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. The band performs in multiple languages including English, Japanese, Italian, and French.

Amedeo and Simone Pace were born in Milan, grew up in Montreal (Saint-Léonard), but later moved to Boston to study jazz. After earning Bachelor's degrees, they entered the New York CityDNA, a no wave band from New York, The Pace brothers and Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi formed the band in 1993 after a chance meeting at an Italian underground music scene. Named after a song with the same title by restaurant in New York.

Blonde Redhead caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, who went on to produce their self-titled debut album in 1995. Shortly afterward, Takahashi left the band and was replaced by her friend Toko Yasuda as bassist. Despite this, Yasuda does not appear on any studio recordings. Yasuda soon left the group as well, explaining that "it wasn’t comfortable for me to write songs so I was kind of frustrated".[1] The remaining members of Blonde Redhead continued as a trio. On their third album, Fake Can Be Just as Good, they were joined by Vern Rumsey of Unwound, who filled the role of guest bassist. On their more recent albums, Skúli Sverisson, who the twins knew from their Berklee days, has been playing bass. He sometimes joins them for live performances. On their fourth album, In an Expression of the Inexpressible, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi was hired as producer. Picciotto also contributed in the construction to the song "Futurism vs. Passeism Part 2" as well as lending it his vocals. Picciotto also produced the band's records Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and Misery Is a Butterfly. Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Smashing Pumpkins) mixed their most recent record, 23, which was released on 4AD in April 2007.

Blonde Redhead has slowly built a sizable fan base in the underground and independent musicguitar riffs and clockwork drum beats. scene. Their early music has been described as emulative of Sonic Youth, while their more recent releases have somewhat digressed and branched out in a unique direction. Makino is noted for her high, eerie voice, which hovers over melodic

Blonde Redhead made extensive use of Teisco guitars early in their career, including the uncommon Teisco six-string bass.

The large span of time between Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and Misery Is a Butterflyhorse.[2] Much of the visual and lyrical imagery of Misery Is a Butterfly is reflective of the accident, especially in the music video for "Equus". is attributed to Makino's recovery time after being trampled by a

The song "Spring and By Summer Fall" from 23 was recently used in the introduction to an October 2007 episode of the CBS series Numb3rs. "Spring and By Summer Fall" also appears on the internet and television commercials for the 2009 Pontiac promotion entitled "Experience Pontiac." Their song "Elephant Woman" was also used as the ending theme for the David SladeHard Candy. This song was also used on the Billabong Girls website in February 2008. film

The track "23" was also recently used in a trailer for the British TV series Skins in February 2008, and ad for Crystal Geyser in May 2008 in Japan. The title track was also featured in an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Discography

Albums


Monday, November 09, 2009

Jarboli - Podrška je važna


Jarboli: Podrška je važna (2009)

Autor spota: Miloš Tomić
Plesači: Ivana Džambić i Milan Ločić (plesna škola Aurora)
Kamera: Biljana Ristivojčević-Bižić
Produkcija: Jarboli i Digimedia (www.digimedia.rs)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

doktori stomatologije

Yo La Tengo - Nothing to Hide



Yo La Tengo is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals).

Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintains a strong cult following. The band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.

Formation and early history: 1984–1985

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984. They chose the name "Yo La Tengo" (Spanish for "I've got it!") in an effort to avoid any connotations in English. The name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".

They placed an advertisement to recruit other musicians who shared their love for bands such as The Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, and Arthur Lee's Love. The group's debut recording was a 7" single entitled "The River of Water" backed with a cover of Arthur Lee's "A House Is Not a Motel" released in late 1985 with Dave Schramm on lead guitar and Dave Rick on bass. After recording "Private Doberman" for inclusion on a Coyote Records compilation entitled Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood, Rick left the band and was replaced by Mike Lewis, the founding bass player of Boston garage-punk bands DMZ and Lyres, who was also a member of Brooklyn garage rock band The A-Bones throughout his tenure.

Early releases: 1986–1989

In 1986, Yo La Tengo released their first LP, Ride the Tiger on Coyote Records. Produced by former Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley who also took over bass duties on three songs, the album "marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential" according to reviewer Mark Deming. Kaplan was credited as "naive guitar" on the sleeve, and in the liner notes for the 1993 reissue of the album on City Slang Records, went so far as to say "Dave's guitar playing is inarguably the best thing about the record."

Schramm and Lewis left the band after the album's release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar and Stephan Wichnewski joining to play bass. The group's next album New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) sold poorly, but in the words of Mark Deming, "was a quantum leap over the sound of their debut."

The release of President Yo La Tengo in 1989 did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics including Robert Christgau who praised the "mysterioso guitar hook" in the first song. Produced by Gene Holder of The dB's, the album was the band's last release on Coyote. Despite the positive reception of the album, sales were still poor and Wichnewski left the band not long after. Hubley and Kaplan carried on as a duo and began playing two-electric-guitar shows. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck.

Bar/None and Alias Records: 1990–1992

Yo La Tengo reunited with Dave Schramm in 1990 to record Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers of Cat Stevens, Gene Clark, The Kinks, Daniel Johnston, among others, with five original songs by the band themselves. Again produced by Gene Holder, the album's folk sound was a change of pace for the band. Years later, Kaplan recalled that the album was "just me and Georgia looking for an excuse to record with Dave Schramm and Al Greller" who played guitar and double bass on the album, respectively.

In 1991, with Dave Schramm in tow, Yo La Tengo collaborated with Daniel Johnston on the song "Speeding Motorcycle" which was released as a single. The band also released a 7" single on Bar/None Records with the song "Walking Away from You" backed with a cover of Beat Happening's "Cast a Shadow." Gene Holder produced the single and played the bass. The That Is Yo La Tengo EP released later that year included some tracks that would end up on the group's next LP.

After the release of That Is Yo La Tengo, James McNew began playing bass with the band, forming the trio that continues to make up the band today. According to McNew,
“ I originally signed on as a fill-in for a short US tour, and a 4-week summer tour of Europe with Eleventh Dream Day. One night after a show in Munster, I was to look after our box of merchandise while Ira and Georgia went gallovanting through the town, meeting their policemen. Needless to say, during our soundcheck in Hamburg the next day, it suddenly dawned on me that I had left the box filled with copies of this EP back at the club in Munster. Oh man, was I in trouble... Sure... blame it on the rookie. ”

The band recorded May I Sing with Me in Boston with Holder producing and Lou Giordano engineering. The album was released on Alias Records in 1992. Two of the album's eleven songs ("Swing for Life" and "Five-Cornered Drone") were carried over from the That Is Yo La Tengo EP and feature Holder on bass. The Upside-Down EP was released on CD in support of the album, rounding out the band's releases on Alias.

Early Matador period: 1993–2000

In 1993, Yo La Tengo began their partnership with Matador Records, releasing a 7" and CD5 of the song "Shaker" which the band recorded with John Siket in New Jersey. The following LP, 1993's Painful was also the beginning of the band's fruitful creative partnership with producer Roger Moutenot, who has produced all of their subsequent albums. Painful is the first Yo La Tengo to feature James McNew on every song. Ira Kaplan explains:
“ I think this group really started when we made the record Painful. . . . Painful was the first record that we made as the three of us, and I think it sounds different from the things that came before it. Even though I can see connections with the earlier records and things we’ve done since, it really seems like mostly we've built on that record. Anything from before then is really, really different to me. Since Painful, I think we've gotten more confident and more willing to trust ourselves and trust each other, and probably better at dealing with things that go wrong.”

Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone remarked that McNew "became an essential part of the sound on Painful, the 1993 album that kept every promise Yo La Tengo ever made and blew their previous highlights away." Critical reaction was quite positive, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling it "a subtly addicting album." Robert Christgau also praised the group once again, writing in his review that Yo La Tengo is "always friendly. This is not the forbidding experimentation of an aspiring vanguard. This is the fooling around of folks who like to go out on Saturday night and make some noise--and then go home humming it." The band released Electr-O-Pura in 1995 to similar acclaim. For the first time, all songs were credited to the band as a whole rather than individual members; this became the norm for all future releases.

The band's 1997 LP I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One synthesized the group's eclectic combination of folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams, and electronic music into a sprawling, multi-faceted style. Critical reaction was extremely positive; Pitchfork Media awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10 and reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date." Kaplan recalled a turning point in the band's musical progression:
“ I think after Electr–O-Pura we’ve had a direction of trying not to worry too hard about what the next album is going to sound like. Everything we’ve ever played on we just do whatever seems right at the moment, we just write a bunch of songs, and then go one baby step at the time and just do what seems right. ”

With their critical reputation higher than ever before, the band toured extensively and their fan base continued to grow. In 1998, they collaborated with Jad Fair and released the album Strange but True to mixed reviews. The band entered the studio again in late 1999 to record their ninth LP. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out was released in February 2000 to a warm reception.

Continued acclaim and soundtrack work: 2001–present

In 2001, Yo La Tengo recorded an instrumental score for eight short undersea documentaries by Jean Painlevé, entitled The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. The program debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival and has been performed live approximately twelve times. The band also released an EP with covers of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" in late 2002.

The band's tenth LP, Summer Sun, was released in 2003. Although the album received generally favorable reviews, some critics found the album's quiet atmosphere "underwhelming." Others criticized the band for a perceived lack of invention. When asked about the album's quiet nature, Kaplan stated,
“ We made a decision at the last second just to leave the loud songs off. We were looking at the material we recorded and just trying to put out the best record that we could. At a certain point, we just thought it seemed right to put out the quiet ones. I've been aware that there's been some surprise about that and people saying it's even quieter than the last record, which has sort of taken me by surprise. ”

Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School. The band put together their first "best of" compilation entitled Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 which was released in 2005. They composed scores for four more films: 2005's Junebug and Game 6, and 2006's Shortbus and Old Joy. Their scores for these four films were collected on the 2008 compilation They Shoot, We Score.

Their eleventh LP, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, was released in 2006 to universal acclaim. Informed by their soundtrack work, the arrangements included more strings and horns than any of the band's previous albums. Kaplan told an interviewer: "I think we gained an element of comfort with using that kind of instrumentation, and it became something we could draw on for our other songs." In addition, the album was book-ended with two guitar jams lasting over ten minutes each.

In 2006, the band released Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, a compilation of their live impromptu cover-song performances on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU. As part of the station's annual fundraising marathon, listeners who call in to pledge money to the station may request a favorite which the band will then perform on the spot. In late 2007, the band began performing acoustically for "The Freewheelin' Yo La Tengo" tour. Audiences were encouraged to request songs and ask questions which, Kaplan stated, the band tried to answer "in a strategic manner so that the answers to the questions will lead to the next song."

In March 2008, Yo La Tengo performed under the alias "Condo Fucks" at Brooklyn's Magnetic Field. As Condo Fucks, the band released an album of cover songs, Fuckbook, on Matador in March, 2009. On June 4, Matador announced a new Yo La Tengo album called Popular Songs, which was released on 8 September 2009. The album was recorded in the band's rehearsal space in New Jersey and features two songs with elaborate string sections (composed by jazz composer Richard Evans). The album entered the Billboard chart at #58, the highest entry of the band's career thus far.

Yo La Tengo is also contributing to a tribute album for New Zealand rock and roll musician Chris Knox who suffered a stroke in June 2009. All proceeds from the album will go towards Knox's recovery.

Discography

• Ride the Tiger (1986)
• New Wave Hot Dogs (1987)
• President Yo La Tengo (1989)
• Fakebook (1990)
• May I Sing with Me (1992)
• Painful (1993)
• Electr-O-Pura (1995)
• I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
• And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)
• Summer Sun (2003)
• I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
• Popular Songs (2009)

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Organ - Brother



The Organ was a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They officially broke up on December 7, 2006, due to illness and personal conflicts in the band.

The Organ were conceived in 2001 by frontwoman Katie Sketch, born Katie Ritchie, in Vancouver, BC. Sketch's musical training started at the age of three, when she began classical training on the violin. Her childhood was spent largely in ignorance of the underground sounds of The Smiths, The Cure, and Joy Division, whom The Organ would later often be favorably compared to. "Tiffany and Bon Jovi - that was my take on ’80s music."

Sketch has said of the time of the formation of the band, when she and the band members were in their early to mid-twenties. "I was in a musical lull, I couldn’t stand what I was listening to," naming Sleater-Kinney as one example. “The local scene was also pretty shitty, and of course the radio was brutal. Then, by total fluke, my mom’s friend’s husband, Ron Obvious, hired me to help with the audio wiring for a studio he was building for Bryan Adams.” Obvious introduced Katie to the world of independent music, and what she calls "that ’80s sound." He created mix-tapes of bands he thought she’d appreciate as a violinist (Roxy Music, Ultravox) and singers with an "amazing natural vocal pitch" (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nina Hagen, Kate Bush)). This job also led Sketch to Tara Nelson, the engineer who would later record the Organ’s first EP.

It was at this time that Katie joined with her friends Sarah "Sketch" Efron (on bass and keyboards) and Barb "Sketch" Choit (Hammond organ, guitar, bass) to form the instrumental trio Full Sketch.

"I met Katie Sketch when we worked morning shifts at a wretched cinnamon bun shop," says Efron, "but we really became friends on a road trip where we ended up breaking down in the redneck town of Hermiston, Oregon. On this trip, we decided to form a band and call it Full Sketch." Katie, though she was already a proficient multi-instrumentalist, decided this would be a good time to try her hand at drums.

"The concept was, 'Let's start a band where you play an instrument that you've never played before.' It was basically drunken ridiculousness, but all of a sudden I felt like life made more sense. Sarah was involved in CiTR, and Barb was big into indie rock, so what started off as a joke got me out going to see shows. The way The Organ began was as an offshoot of Full Sketch—I wanted to take the same sound and do it with singing."

Efron was also the news director at UBC’s CiTR, where she, Sketch and Choit co-hosted a raunchy late-night call-in program called "The Dead Air Show."

After about a year, Barb Sketch left the band to focus on her career as an artist and Full Sketch ended. According to Katie Sketch, "Barb Sketch is now in suburban California. She’s long forgotten her Canadian roots and lives on a ranch with her man and a team of horses." [1] At this point, organist Jenny Smyth (born Genoa Smith), replaced Choit on keyboards. Together with Efron, they founded The Organ.

In 2001, a long audition process began. Eventually, Sketch "tired of auditions," and decided to "just hire some people." After finding a handful of like-minded musicians, Katie assigned them instruments and taught them to play. Taught is a relative term though—Debbie had been playing guitar for three years, and Sketch has expressed distaste in interviews when portrayed as a "music teacher" to the girls: "[The press seems] to think they had a lot of help or something, but mostly it's just the drive to be able to learn the instruments and play them," Sketch said. "[My teaching them] was maybe a half-an-hour, hour process."

2004 - Grab That Gun

Despite numerous set-backs, their five years of slow going had produced a relatively sizable fan-following, and their new material showed even more promise than their first EP, which had done very well indeed, especially for a record that had gone largely unpromoted. As such, Grab That Gun spent more time on top of the Canadian campus-radio charts than any other record released that year.

That December (2004), Ashley Webber left the band.

"I think it's the usual reasons," explained Sketch in an interview. "I mean, I love Ashley, but we had different ideas. And then she wanted to try being in other musical projects, and we support her in that ... [but our band has] got to be a high priority, I guess that's what it comes down to.

However, with their first international tour looming and no replacement in sight, Webber was asked back and subsequently rejoined the band in the new year.

The Organ began touring heavily across Canada, the United States and Europe. They also produced a music video for "Brother," (directed by Robert Morfitt) arguably the strongest of the seven new tracks appearing on the record. The video consisted of a fairly straightforward montage of the band performing on a moodily lit stage. A fictitious reenactment of the video shoot for "Brother" can be seen during season two, episode two of the Showtime original series The L Word. "Brother" also appears on The L Word's season two soundtrack.

Following the well received promotion of "Brother," The Organ began production on the far more ambitious "Memorize the City" video, which depicted a dizzying tour through a city of sound, light, and color. The higher artistic standard and production quality of this video reflects an amazing amount of growth for the band in a very short period, and is very impressive considering that it was shot at a time when the band was engaged in the biggest tour of their careers. That July (2005) the standalone 7" single, Let the Bells Ring, was released on Go Metric Records. The title track was paired with a remix of "Memorize the City" by Dustin Hawthorne. Later that year, a second remix appeared on the French CD release of Grab That Gun.

During another North American tour promoting Grab That Gun, Ashley Webber left for good. She was then replaced with Katie Sketch's sister, Shmoo, who affirmed that she was "definitely permanent in the band" before it broke up in 2006.

On November 14, 2005, The Organ appeared live on BBC6 Radio with their new bass player. They gave a brief interview and performed live renditions of the songs "Nothing I Can Do" and "Love, Love, Love." On the 27th, a little over a week later, The Organ announced via their website that they had just been signed to Too Pure Records, through which Grab That Gun would be available throughout the world in February 2006.
[edit] Breaking Up

On 23 August 2006, the band released a statement on MySpace saying they were canceling the remaining portion of their UK tour which included dates at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. The reason given was illness to a band member and they assured fans the band were not splitting up.

On 7 December 2006 the band released a statement on their MySpace and official site stating that they were breaking up. The statement read:

"We are sad to announce that we're breaking up. We want to thank our friends, fans, and family for all the support you gave to us. Thank you.

Shelby, Jenny, Katie, Debora, and Shmoo."

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Mogwai Fear Satan

The Heart Throbs - Dreamtime


The Heart Throbs were an indie-rock band from Reading, UK. Based around twin sisters Rose and Rachel (sisters of Echo & the Bunnymen drummer Pete DeFreitas), the initial lineup was:

  • Rose Carlotti – Lead vocals/Guitar
  • Rachel DeFreitas – Bass/Backing vocals
  • Mark Slide – Drums
  • Stephen Ward – Guitar

The Heart Throbs formed in early 1987, and reached their height in the early 1990s. They helped create a new scene of female-fronted, melodic, swirly guitar-based indie music, often (as in their case) with deep or dark lyrics. Several of the poppier of these bands were lumped into a 'blonde pop' label. Similar UK female fronted groups of this era include Lush, The Darling Buds, Transvision Vamp and The Primitives.

After releasing a series of singles on Rough Trade and their own label, Profumo (a reference to John Profumo), The Heart Throbs were signed by the UK record label One Little Indian Records. Guitarist Alan Barclay joined at this time, allowing original guitarist Ward to move to keyboards. Their first album, Cleopatra Grip, was distributed in the US by Elektra Records, after which they were signed by A&M Records, who released Jubilee Twist in the US. After disappointing sales, however, A&M elected not to distribute their third and final album, Vertical Smile. All three albums were named for euphemisms for female genitalia.

The Heart Throbs single "Dreamtime" reached a peak position of number 2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1990, and their single "She's In A Trance" reached number 21 in the same year.

Following the Cleopatra Grip tour, the rhythm section left the band, and were replaced by Noko (ex-Luxuria) on bass and Steve Monti (ex-Blockheads) on drums. By the third album, the band had switched to a third rhythm section of Colleen Browne, who later joined the Pale Saints, on bass and Steve Beswick on drums.

After The Heart Throbs split up in 1993, Rose Carlotti and Steve Beswick formed the group Angora, who then changed their name to Tom Patrol before eventually disbanding.

Discography

Singles & EPs

  • "Toy" (1987, In Tape)
  • "Bang" (1988, Rough Trade)
  • "Too Many Shadows" (1988, Rough Trade)
  • "Here I Hide" (1988, Profumo)
  • "Blood From A Stone" (1989, Profumo)
  • I Wonder Why (1990, One Little Indian)
  • "Dreamtime" (1990, One Little Indian)
  • Total Abandon EP (1991, One Little Indian)
  • Spongy Thing EP (1992, One Little Indian)
  • She's In A Trance-Mutations EP (1992, One Little Indian)
  • "She's In A Trance" (1992, One Little Indian)
  • Worser (1993, One Little Indian)

Albums

  • Cleopatra Grip (1990, One Little Indian/Elektra)
  • Jubilee Twist (1992, One Little Indian/A&M)
  • Vertical Smile (1993, One Little Indian)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love



waltz around her, waltz around her
crystal mystery my dreamlets
midnight gardener and the rose garden
designer children papas roses
janice, maple, clifford, fist
apple and leona the lizard girl
to love, but never to be in love
never to be in love
to be in love
love


Bang Bang Machine were a cult indie band from Evesham, Worcestershire in England. They formed in 1989 and split up in 1996 after record company troubles.

The band experimented with different styles of music, for which reason the media found them hard to categorise. Musically they covered alternative rock, Goth, pop, ambient and dance. They were sometimes classed as a Shoegaze band, but musically fell between the Britpop and Grunge camps.

Their most famous song, the dark epic "Geek Love," was inspired by the book by Katherine Dunn about a family of freaks in a travelling circus. The artist David Hughes, who drew the Geek Love book cover, also illustrated the band's Eternal Happiness album cover. "Geek Love" also uses audio samples from the controversial Tod Browning film Freaks. "Geek Love" on CD regularly sells for £25-£35 on www.ebay.co.uk. In 2007 Geek Love was voted number 16 on the cult radio station B92s "Top 20 best singles ever" on www.firerecords.com.

"Geek Love" was championed by BBC Radio One DJ John Peel as a perfect example of a band self-financing their debut single; he famously stated, "Even if they never made another record, they'll have achieved more than most of us do in our entire lives." It was voted number one in his Festive Fifty in 1992. The band also recorded a Peel session, but this has never been released.

The band were known for creating moving songs about unusual topics. Their song "16 Years" was about the Stefan Kiszko case, where an innocent man was jailed for a crime he didn't commit.

They appeared on the Channel 4 programme The Word doing a live version of their song "Technologica" in 1993. They were also featured in Deadline comic and Volume magazine. They did cover versions of T-REX's "Life's a Gas" and Psychic TV's "Godstar."

Steve Eagles now plays with the jazz-psycho-funk-poetic-punk band Blurt and teaches guitar. Lamp is a DJ in Brighton and qualified as a sound engineer. Stan Lee married Elizabeth Freeth in 2005; in 2007 their baby son was born. Stan Lee A.K.A. Marc Angel now plays with Psychowrath, a new incarnation of Wrathchild. In 2007 articles appeared in The Evesham Journal and The Worcester News about possible future one-off gigs.

Band personnel

  • Steve Eagles: Guitar
  • Elizabeth Freeth: Vocals
  • Stan Lee: Bass
  • Lamp: Drums

Discography

Bang Bang Machine released a total of 8 singles and 2 albums.

Albums

  • 1994 - Eternal Happiness, (Ultimate Records)
  • 1995 - Amphibian, (Ultimate Records)

Singles

  • 1991 - The 'Geek' EP
  • 1992 - Evil Circus EP
  • 1993 - Technologica EP
  • 1993 - Geek Love EP
  • 1994 - Give You Anything
  • 1992 - Breathless
  • 1995 - Love It Bleeds
  • 1996 - Show me Your Pain

Monday, September 14, 2009

Retro Deux


Retro Deux - RUN (1996)

A video single from Retro Deux's album Artoodeetoo (ep) released in 1996. Retro Deux are Andrej Acin (vocals and keyboards) and Sergio Babovic (keyboards and programming), featuring Dalija Acin in the video. Video was shot by Dusan Joksimovic as director of photography, Vuk Velickovic as art director and Andrej Acin as director, on incredible location in Belgrade's "underground" found at the basement of Dom sindikata in the center of the city. Svetlana and Jelena Prokovic did the costumes design, with the support of Danijela Dacha Rajovic and Mr Bobo as make-up and hairstyling artists.
Andrej Acin started as a frontman of the rock band BAAL in 1990.

http://www.andrejacin.com/

Sunday, August 23, 2009

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction



The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
Live at Pitchfork Music Festival '09

Friday, July 17, 2009

Wilco - Wilco (the song)

Wilco - Wilco (the song)
...ili i mi depresivci volimo da se proveselimo tu i tamo



" Do you dabble in depression,
Is someone twisting a knife in your back,
Are you being attacked,
Oh, this is a fact,
That you need to know,
Oh, oh, oh, oh Wilco,
Wilco,
Wilco will love you Baby..."

Monday, April 27, 2009

Bat for Lashes

"Album Two Suns pevačice Natashe Khan, alijas Bat for Lashes, je zbirka nadahnuća i posveta, ali i samosvojan, odličan album u slavu onirizma i varljive lepote koja ipak još pulsira ispod milenijumskih naslaga prljavštine, izopačenosti i rugobe ovog našeg, recimo realnog sveta."
~ Zoran Janković - popboks.com



Thursday, April 09, 2009

Kako da se nosimo s danima posle nečije smrti?


Cracks in the Canvas

by
PJ Harvey and John Parish

How do we cope,
with the days after a death?
Empty days, nothing happens,
not even a funeral.
I see shapes forming inside paintings,
animals and humans
Walk on roads, walking toward something,
waiting for something--

I’m looking for an answer
Me and a million others
Disbelievers
Deserted lovers.
Dear God,
You better not let me down this time.
Craks in the canvas
Look like roads
That never end