The Monitors
Keeping track of new music, media
and industry news - 05-02-12-10.30am
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A customer wrote on Amazon about her debut album, Catching A Tiger; “If you have dreams of driving an open top car along an American freeway with the sun in the sky and the wind in your hair, this album is what you need in your stereo”. Couldn’t have put it better myself, which is why I pasted it into this blog post. 11 songs that range from bluesy-folk to unfettered pop and showcase both her remarkable voice and her song writing skills.
I do like Lissie a lot – I think she has an interesting dirty rock voice and a grungy ethos but in a totally pop formulated way. I do however hate a lot of the contrived things that come around when you are signed to a major and targeted a young pop fans such as this quote from her biog “Even in photo shoots I won’t wear concealer, I don’t want to look like someone who painted my face, because everything I do I want to feel natural, I want it to mean something to me, if it doesn’t feel natural I can’t do it.”
Forgetting all that though I first found out about Lissie through her cover of Lady Gaga, its pretty good, check it out here.
Combining deep 60s psychedelic grooves with the minimal looping work recently found within work by the likes of Walls and Caribou, Django Django come along and add a hint of spice to the sound. The glazed expression of the music perfectly fits the Beta Band electronic feel their going for; from the Beach Boys influenced ‘Life’s A Beach’ and ‘Silver [..]
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New disco does Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars! Anything which touches the sky has touched the inspiration behind the latest video from this funky dance collective. The multiple universe theory goes hay-wire and the world turns into a massive disco stage.
Heineken have just launched the ‘Serenade your Date’ Facebook app which helps you record a song in order to ask the lady/gentleman of your Facebook dreams on a date. apps.facebook.com
May 04, 2012 Koko
The Camden Crawl is back an bigger and better than ever this year, and to celebrate they’re kicking things off this year with a special Friday event at the legendary Koko venue, headlined by Death in Vegas. Long time member Richard Fearless had this to say about [..]
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