30 search results for ‘greg’

Music Go Music - Just Me (Live on Face Time)

I’ve had some demo’s by the great Music Go Music for a while but just came across some live footage so check it out…

Music Go Music - Live on Face Time - Just Me from music go music.

Greg

Sufjan Stevens - There’s Too Much Love (Live Début of New Song!)

Fucking hell this sounds GREAT…

Let’s hope an new album proper is near!

(Above; setlist from the second night of the tour. Check out The Pistola Press for more great photos.)

Greg

Twilight: New Moon - Soundtrack Tracklist Confirmed

I don’t give a fuck about this Twilight shit that the world is getting as caught up in as much as the last next-big-thing. However, the just-this-second announced tracklisting excites me VERY much; many many exclusives from many, many great bands/artists.

God knows why they’d give up songs for this film (especially Thom, Muse etc.), but the rest at least can be credited to mass audience potential = more money equation. Plus, I’m sure all Grizzly Bear have ever wanted is 13 year old goths as fans.

Anyway, the track-listing is as follows:

01 Death Cab for Cutie: “Meet Me on the Equinox”
02 Band of Skulls: “Friends”
03 Thom Yorke: “Hearing Damage”
04 Lykke Li: “Possibility”
05 The Killers: “A White Demon Love Song”
06 Anya Marina: “Satellite Heart”
07 Muse: “I Belong to You (New Moon Remix)”
08 Bon Iver and St. Vincent: “Rosyln”
09 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Done All Wrong”
10 Hurricane Bells: “Monsters”
11 Sea Wolf: “The Violet Hour”
12 OK Go: “Shooting the Moon”
13 Grizzly Bear: “Slow Life”
14 Editors: “No Sound But the Wind”
15 Alexandre Desplat: “New Moon (The Meadow)”

Greg

Muse - Uprising (Live From The Den, Teignmouth)

Hello Folks, long time no speak. Been a bit busy have I, what with Offset Festival (write up of highlights to come) and trekking 300 odd miles each way to see Muse come home to Teignmouth.

The gig was (obviously) fantastic, but there are plenty of reviews already out there so why don’t you check out set (and album) opener Uprising and have a think for yourself. It gets REAL heavy at the 5 minute mark.

Rad.

Greg

Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends

This sounds AMAZING and the quality is pretty decent, so check out this video of Them Crooked Vultures live at Melkweg in Amsterdam while you can!

Homme + Grohl harmonies = Win.

Greg

AGCS @ Summer Sundae : Saturday

Day two of Summer Sundae and no-ones tired yet, oh no, as we head indoors for Her Name Is Calla (///). A local band that I’d seen before (without realising it) who overall impressed, LOUDquietLOUD type of thing, executed very well with added strings and brass (which is obviously always a bonus).

Next up it’s outside for what turned out to be the worst act I saw of the weekend, a pastiche of Johnny Cash taken very seriously in the form of Mr Plow( ). Every bit of between-song-banter is clearly perfectly rehearsed, although not enough to stop some deviations from the script which were painfully obvious through the attempted resolve. Personally, when an ‘artist’ can go from a broad Leicester accent to mid-west American it makes me be sick in my mouth and want to spit it into the faces of people that fall for it.

Back inside for Yunioshi (/) who sounded ace on their Myspace but due to ‘technical errors’ which seemed to involve the laptop containing the gold failing, they fall flat on their faces. Shame.

Then it’s back outside for Frontiers (//), who are OK but not close enough to The Cure (as suggested in their press release) to make them good. They didn’t grab my attention and if music aint doing that folks, then what’s the point?

However, Minnaars (////) are up on the main stage next and despite (having seen them before) thinking that it would be too big for them, they pretty much fucking nailed it. Heavily reliant on the laptop yes, but the live playing was impressive still. It seemed they were aware they were on the whole playing to the wrong audience but they still went for it and so did the younger folks down the front.

The Joy Formidable (///) (or The Joy Formidab as announced by the ‘I’m going to pretend I like your band when I announce it but not watch any of your set’ compère Richard) were pretty good. Boy Girl vocals I always like, and the set was good despite the two songs that have been getting radio play being their best songs by far.

Next it’s into the Rising Tent that delivered so much the day before, and it delivered again with what was probably the set of the festival from The Kabeedies (/////). Great songs, I mean REALLY great songs, boy/girl vocals, genuinely funny banter, fun stage presence. We were all pretty enthralled for the entirety of the set. All from a little newish band from Norwich. Take that The Zutons.

Back to the main for the so-called ‘Arcade Fire + Scotland’ Broken Records (//), who were good not great. For personal consumption, you might as well listen to the arcade fire. NEXT…

Emmy The Great (///), who was also good not Great. The songs are nice and her voice is beautiful, but something weird was in the air and it seemed she was a bit distracted which was obviously a shame.

On the main stage Bombay Bicycle Club (////) got the children going, and too right. They’ve released one of the best debut albums of 2009 and seem to be relishing the crowd getting into it. What they didn’t know was the children would dance to anything that either had a NME mention or a bear, but BBC were deserving and I look forward to catching them at Offset next month (review to come).

65daysofstatic (/////) inside provided me with the loudest set I have any seen at any festival or gig (previously held by the Mooney Suzuki, 2004), and it fucking rocked. Again, like Minanars they were playing largely to the wrong crowd but people seemed to get into them in their own way, and they were tight as. Plus, the front man balanced his guitar on his chin mid song! YEAH!

Over to the Rising again for Frank Turner (//) who was fine but very preachy, too preachy for me in fact so I pop over to catch the second half of Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) (//) set which is alright, a couple of the hits seemed to go down well with the largely menopausal crowd.

Mr Hudson (/////) on the indoor stage is next, with what he later described as one of his favourite gigs ever and it was indeed very impressive. Last (and first) time I saw Hudson was at 10.50AM at Glastonbury and it was unsurprisingly lacklustre however at night it’s a whole different story, and it does feel a bit like a singles set despite the crowd only knowing the one which he obviously, and rightly, saves until last.

Following Mr Hudson is little shit Chipmunk ( ). Any artist that promotes a single/album (including release date) before they have performed a single note can fuck right off. But seen as the kids fell for it and he wasn’t going anywhere, I had to do the honour.

Greg

Muse - Uprising

I’m not sure where to start with this one…

When I heard Supermassive Black Hole for the first time in May 2006 I seem to remember being very shocked, bearing in mind the last single Muse had released was Stockholm Syndrome or something close. However, it certainly grew on me and has stayed the most played track on my iTunes for 3 years.

Uprising made me think of when The Killers came back with ‘Human’ following their Springsteenesque album of two years before. A surprising change of direction for both (perhaps less so for Muse, but surprising all the same), featuring very little guitar work for guitar heavy bands, and a new dance floor direction. Bloc Party did this too thinking about it, maybe it’s ‘the thing’ to do.

Uprising though (on 7 listens) can be summarised a 5 minute track with very little musical progression, that can quite obviously be equated as Marilyn Manson + Battles (Atlas) + Dr Who + Queen. The chorus is weak as is Matt’s vocal performance (compared to most other muse).

But I imagine within a few weeks it’ll be my favorite Muse track, that’s just the way it goes. Until The Resistance drops at least anyway.

Track available for download from all good retailers from tomorrow, check out YouTube if you want a preview.

Greg

UPDATE: Here is Zane Lowe chatting to the band about the two songs we’ve heard so far…

Scott Klopfenstein - Welcome To New York

Here is a lush in every sense new track by Scott Klopfenstein; backup singer / trumpet player / guitarist of Reel Big Fish but more notably his 2004 side project, The Littlest Man Band, where he was the sole songwriter.

TLMB were fantastic and sounded nothing like RBF, rich songs with crazy harmonies, brilliant arrangements and topped off with Scott’s fucking amazing voice. He only released one album under this guise, and you can stream the whole thing here, on Scott’s new Website.

Scott Klopfenstein - Welcome To New York by agcs

Greg

Next Week: “Return of the Rock”

While I ponder who the best Glasto bands were and manifest it into a AGCS worthy piece of literature, let me try and get you pumped for what Zane ‘Zipper’ Lowe is calling the ‘Return of the Rock’.

Next week there are going to be four new singles premiered by three big bands and one that was big back in 2004. This coupled with the promise of some Muse news next week has got me a wee bit pumped up for the imminent news.

Here’s what you’ve got to look forward to (with some words from Zane);

Monday: Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning “Swaggering and catchy”
Tuesday: Jet - ‘She’s A Genius’ “Heavy on groove”
Wednesdasy: Biffy Clyro - ‘That Golden Rule’ “Brutal and confident”
Thursday: The Cribs - ‘Cheat on Me’ “Heartfelt and free”

Plus, there’s the all important Muse news, which we might be able to get to you sooner than you think.

Until then…

Greg

Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris - Holiday

Dizzee unsurprisingly rocked Glastonbury and most people agreed its not long before he gets to headliner status.

He premiered this new track during the encore and I’d say its likely to do very well, the outro is especially good and the Dizzee+Calvin+Chrome worked last summer so why fix it if it aint broken.

Here it is, played for the first time last night on Zane Lowe…

Greg