Radiohead likes Burial

From Les Inrocks (french music mag)

Thom : J’adore Burial, j’adore ses deux albums, ils sont putain de merveilleux. Ed : Thom m’a offert l'album Untrue il y a quelques semaines, juste avant sa sortie officielle. Et c’est la première fois depuis longtemps que je trouve un disque aussi beau, que je suis autant touché par un album. Thom : Burial a fait un remix pour un des morceaux de mon album Eraser. Je crois qu’il aime bien les morceaux de Radiohead et il fera sans doute un remix pour un morceau de In Rainbows. Ce que j’aime chez lui, c’est l’attention portée aux détails, aux atmosphères. Et sa manière de travailler est incroyable : c’est Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) qui me l’a raconté : les logiciels qu’il utilise sont impossibles !



Burial's MySpace
Burial's Wiki

Babyshambles, Delivery

This track is quite nice and so is the videoclip. I'm not real fan of Pete Doherty's way of life but he's good doing music ;)


The Wombats, Let's Dance To Joy Division

The Wombats, 3 english guys (in fact 2, the 3rd is danish), from Liverpool, playing rock music. Nothing new. But talented. This single is very good.





The Wombats on the web
The Wombats on MySpace
The Wombats on Wiki

Daft Punk, Alive

Daft Punk goes live with Alive, new LP shot live. The single is Harder Better Faster Stronger (Alive 07). This video has been shot in Brooklyn thanks to cameras given to 250 people of the audience, and is directed by Olivier Gondry, brother of Michel.




Arcade Fire & Air in live

Brief sum-up of the lives I assisted on passed weeks.

On october the 17th I saw Arcade Fire at Alexandra Palace in London. The show was great as they really have of powerful music using chords, drums, brass to dispense melodies
. Live show really impressive!

Then, i went on the 22nd to see Air in Le Zenith. The show was great as they play lots of old tracks and they conclude with a very rock'n'roll finish. Very good live.

Cold War Kids in La Cigale

Yesterday I assisted the live show of Cold War kids in La Cigale for the festival Les Inrocks. The performance was good as they really seemed to take pleasure while performing.

3 bands opened the evening and I had the cahnce to discover two of them:

Reverend & The Makers that plays a mix of rock and house music beats. Their performance made dance all the assistance. In addition the singer as charism and helped to make the show nice.

Official Website
MySpace

Blood Red Shoes, an original english band made of two members (Laura-Mary Carter et Steven Ansell). I appreciated a lot, made me think to the White Stripes.

Official Website
MySpace

The Pigeon Detectives, I Found Out

Pigeon Detectives is another new evidence that UK brings the best in terms of rock. I Found Out is the single extracted from Wait For Me.

Official Website
Wikipedia

We Will Rock You


I had the chance to go to see We Will Rock You this week-end in London. I warmly recommend it even if I'm not a big fan of musicals. Of course artists sing Freddy ercury's band songs with live music but the story largely inspired of Matrix is original. Bryan May and Roger Taylor -respectively guitar & drums of Queen- did collaborate to set up the show.


Wikipedia





Just for pleasure:

The Hives, Tick Tick Boom

The Hives is a swedish band already discussed here. They play a modern indie rock. After several years off they are back with The Black And White Album including the first single called Tick Tick Boom.
Official Website
Wikipedia
MySpace





Wax Tailor, Positively Inclined

Wax Tailor is a french artist creating a hip-hop inlfuenced by trip-hop. Here is the very good video of Positively Inclined included in his second album Hope & Sorrow.

Several MP3 are available on his website.

Official website
Myspace







Here is alo a live performance of Qui sera



Online Music

Online webservices done as music players are in the air. We already know Deezer (ex-blogmusik) but new competitors are now available online.

Here are 3 new services:

Social.fm (ex-mercora) for instance is dedicated ot networking functions (share playlists...) including a navigation as itunes coverflow.

Ezmo.com is an online player allowing music upload (from itunes, WMP, winamp) and share with friends

Anywhere.fm is an online itunes (user interface is really close to itunes). Allows to upload its own music, to share music with friends through radios.


The Automatic, Monster

The Automatic is a band from Wales inspired by Muse, the Killers, Bloc Party... Their first LP is named Not Accepted Anywhere.

Official Website
Wiki






Samples

http://www.samples.fr/blog is a french blog that reveals the original music sample extracted to get new singles. Very instructive. For instance with the Pussycat Dolls

I AM & Wu Tang Clan on Nova

IAM is the best known french rap crew from Marseille. This is an old video shot in Nova -french indie radio- featuring Wu Tang Clan.

IAM official website
IAM myspace
IAM Wiki






Discovered here

Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora, When The Rain Begins To Fall

Old but great :) Enjoy!



The Coral, Who's Gonna Find Me

The Coral is a british band mixing folk and rock music. They have released 5 albums, the latest is Roots & Echoes including Who's Gonna Find Me.


Official website
Myspace
Wiki


The Blood Arm, Do I Have Your Attention

I have discovered The Blood Arm an american band endorsed by Franz Ferdinand.
The video is the duet they did on their single Do I Have Your Attention. I warmly recommend their LP Lie Lover Lie.

Official Website
Myspace
Wiki



The Chemical Brothers, The Salmon Dance

Funny song and video for the new single of The Chemical Brothers. My prefered is the beatbox-fish :)

Sayem, World Of Flowers

Discovered here, a french artist from Toulouse called Sayem

He introduces himself as Take Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, the Beastie Boys & the Doors, mix them… Here is my world!




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Monkey Journey To The West


I went in Theatre de Chatelet yesterday afternoon to see Monkey, The Journey To The West. This is a beautiful show mixing Gorillaz-like videos and chinese circus tricks. The music is a mix of classical music, chinese instruments, male & female voices.

Here is a video including interviews of creators and images of the show.


Foo Fighters, The Pretender

They are back, stronger than ever :)




The Foo fighters is also:

free music

Feist, 1234

This is the latest single of Feist -see here- also known as the new track of the advert of a famous mp3 player - the one with white earphone! The single is very good, nice pop giving you strength for the day, and the video is simple but efficient.


Chinese Man Records, Skank In The Air

I discovered Chinese Man Records with and advert on french television for a german car using their excellent track I've Got That Tune available on their myspace. Their single called Skank In The Air is not only very good but also mixed with a very good animated videoclip. This clip has been done by people recently involved here.


Justin Timberlake, Lovestoned/I Think She Knows

Once again a good single for Justin and also a very creative video clip

Fete de l'Huma

I went to La Fete de L'Humanité this week-end. This is a famous outdoor exhibition spread on 3 days organised by the french communist party. This is very popular and I was really impressed by the crowd.

I saw friday night John Butler Trio and Olivia Ruiz. And on saturday, I assisted to the performance of Luke, Ayo, Razorlight and Iggy & The Stooges. I appreciated the most Razorlight especially for their singer Johnny Borrell's performance.

Hey Hey My My acoustic session

I already talked about Hey Hey My My. This time they performed an acoustic session including 3 tracks (A True Story, I Need Some Time, Merryland) for the famous media Telerama. Check it out here!

Razorlight, Stumble & Fall

Razorlight is a very known band in France since their single America. I should have talked about them earlier as I listen to Razorlight since their last album Up All Night. I appreciate them as they perform a real good music, not stereotyped, and their singer is full of talent (what a voice) and has a personality - a rock star! I really recommend to listen to their album.

Here is a mix of video from Razorlight

Stumble & Fall
Before I Fall To Pieces

Golden Touch



I also like Razorlight because of their live performance. I had the chance to see them in La Fete de la Musique 06 in front of Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. An exemple.

Bjork, Innocence

Bjork likes working with french video clip makers. Once again (after working with Gondry, Sednaoui...) she set up a contest for her latest single video clip. Fred & Annabella a french duette won. Here is the clip.

Radiohead, Street Spirit

This video is Radiohead's last song on The Bends album -one of my favorite- and is visually magnificient.



Alain Souchon, Et Si En Plus Il N'y A Personne

Alain Souchon can look like an old french singer with all the stereotypes that can be hidden behind (participates to Les Enfoirés, he's a friend of Laurent Voulzy...) ;). But I really love this guy. Despite time he still make lot of good songs with very talented music and very romantic and meaningful lyrics. He is to me a real part of clever french culture.

Besides, he is -despite he's an old french singer ;)- very active on the internet. He realised a buz campaign called Chercher Souchon (look for Souchon) on a dedicated website inviting people to create videos for his a single Putain Ca Penche. The winner is here

Et Si En Plus Il N'y A Personne is a song from his last LP La Vie Theodore. This song is about culture mixing and religion mix.




He also committed this - Le Baiser:

UNKLE, Rabbit In Your Headlights

Here is a beautiful video clip especially the end of the clip. UNKLE is a collective band playing trip-hop. For this song Thom Yorke is the guest.


Deaf Indie Elephants

I discovered this cool website that proposes free downloads of MP3 live music.

Enjoy!


Tahiti 80, Chinatown

Tahiti 80 is a french band playing a funky pop better known abroad than in France. Chinatown is their last single, more rock compared to last LP named Fosbury. The video is quite nice too, with a nice taste of 70's.





Tahiti 80 famous tracks:





Joe Dassin, Salut Les Amoureux

I really love this beautiful song from Joe Dassin.



Another version performed by Miossec:

Amy Winehouse Live

Music is never as good as listened to in live! This is also true concerning Amy Winehouse -already discussed here- as her soul music is very nice. Special big up to dancing guys in chorus !



- Part I -





- Part II -



Sean Lennon & M, Little Wing

Performed in french TV show, we can see the talents of these 2 guys here. I was already in love with this song and this cover really respects the original version!





M & Sean Lennon, L'Eclipse

This is a good single of M & Sean Lennon (in french!) with a nice video that make me think to Magritte (maybe Sean's hat?)

RJD2, Work It Out

RJD2 is an american DJ making electro music revealed with his LP called Dead Ringer. The video is quite amazing and very well produced.


Mark Ronson, Just

Mark Ronson is known for realizing funky covers of famous hits (i recommend Britney's Toxic cover available on Mark Ronson's my space).

Here is a cover of Just from Radiohead's LP The Bends. The cover spirit is really good and the video really funky !

Radiohead's OK Computer Tribute


The blog Stereogum made a tribute to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer. Talented artists (Cold War Kids, The Twilight Sad...) participate to realise this very good idea. You can listen to (and download for free!) all tracks here

Jarvis Cocker, Fat Children

I already talked about Jarvis single. But I really recommend the LP simply called Jarvis. the following video is a live performance of Fat Children, one of my favorite tracks of the album. Among others. The LP is very good including quiet song like I Will Kill Again and real hymns (Black Magic, Big Julie, Don't Let Him Waste Your Time). A great album, cannot be missed !

Regina Spektor, Samson

Regina Spektor, what a voice ! And very romantic video clip.



Klaxons, It's Not Over

Nice video for the latest single of Klaxons. I warmly recommend you their LP called Myths Of The Near Future, one of the best LP of this year. The video is really nice.

Besides, they worked with The Chemical Brothers for the track All Rights Reversed, available on their new LP We Are The Night.

Already discussed here.


Placebo Acoustic

So talented guys...


Take Away Shows

I just discovered a very interesting website www.takeawayshows.com through this article. I really recommend this website where Vincent Moon exposes videos of band he shot thanks to a mobile phone. This video are made like if it was off the record, usually shooting acoustic version of tracks. He begun with Arcade Fire which he is currently working for realising their future DVD.

I recommend this one, this other one or this one

My prefered:



Cold War Kids, Hand Me Up To Dry

Cold War Kids are only 20 but are promised to a long carrier thanks to their very good first LP called Robbers & Cowards. Enjoy this very good single !


Air on French TV show

I did never watch this french TV show before presented by Manu Kacthé (a famous french drumer). Discussions and live with Air in this version - see


Air+Phoenix+Etienne de Crécy+Alex Gopher

Yesterday evening I went to Versailles to see Air+Phoenix+Etienne de Crécy+Alex Gopher.

Unfortunatly the weather was not good with the bands... Air the band I was the most waiting for (I'm a big fan!) only played 2 tracks. I much appreciated Phoenix set that I already saw in l'Olympia.

I will have to buy tickets for the live in le Zenith but will have to wait until november !





Interpol, The Heinrich Maneuver

Interpol cultissime band from New York. Their new single with a stylish videoclip. Their new album is out July the 9th.


Manu Chao, Rainin' in Paradize

New single of the french counter-globalisation Manu Chao. The music is good and the video as always about fraternity. It has been directed by Emir Kusturica.

Jarvis Cocker, Running The World

1st single of the new album of Jarvis Cocker. This is live version of the track recorded in a french TV show.


Amy Winehouse is a sexy girl with a sweet voice which can compete with the most famous soul singer. Add a good single and you get this.



Phoenix, Consolation Prizes

Phoenix is a french band from Versailles better known out of France before their last LP Its Never Been Like That. Here is Consolation Prizes one of the single from this album, the video idea is very good and shot in Paris. I saw them performing in Olympia in Paris the live was very intense and very good. They will perform next week in Versailles castle gardens with Air and I will be there :)







Here is also a live performance on french program Taratata. the track is Its Never Been Like That.




The new single video is available here. Includes nice images of Japan where Phoenix is very popular.

Sebastien Tellier, La Ritournelle

I love this song... The video is very good too.



The live version performed here on a french TV program is as well excellent!

Victor Wooten, Norvegian Wood

As bass player I'm trying to be this man Victor Wooten is my God! Here is a famous cover from the Beatles. Amazing!


The White Stripes, Hardest Button To Button

The White Stripes and Michel Gondry meet...

The Hardest Button To Button
from the excellent Elephant






2nd great video Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground from the LP White Blood Cell





And the brand new videoclip Icky Thump (not directed by M. Gondry but by Malloy Brothers). This single is very good with a good guitar riff and interessant change of rythm. As usual simple but efficient.



The National, Mistaken For Strangers

The National is a band from New York. Here is the current single from their 4th LP called Boxer


Blur, Song 2

Old but still very good...

Gorillaz, Demon Days

Demon Days is my favourite track from the amazing la(te)st album of Gorillaz. The live version including a gospel chorale and the magical voice of Damon Albarn can be infinitly listened to.

Daft Punk, Around The World

Cult! When Daft Punk initiated the revolution...

Justin Timberlake, My Love

Cannot avoid Justin... My Love is my prefered extract from the full-of-single FutureSex/LoveSounds. Justin Timberlake has just created a record label called Tenman Records that should help discovering new talents.

The Chemical Brothers, Do It Again

The brand new clip from The Chemical Brothers.



Strangely reminds me up this great clip from Fatboy Slim...

Mylo, Drop The Pressure

I you feel tired in the morning I have the solution...


Snow Patrol, Open your Eyes

This video is from Claude Lelouch rushes shot in the 70s. As the director has finished his movie he decided to shot this video helped with an unknown pilot. He lost his driving license for 2 years despite he was not driving himself... Snow Patrol uses this as video clip and the result is amazing !




I'm From Barcelona, We're From Barcelona

As their name doesn't show I'm From Barcelona is a swedish band! The band is made of friends, 29 for their first live show !! They send you a generous and sweet pop that gives you smile for the rest of your day. To be listened to every morning !



Fujiya & Miyagi, Ankle Injuries

Amazing video !

Bjork, Earth Intruders

First single of Bjork new album. The single is very good and the video too.

I think I will post later on the whole album as soon as I will have explored it ;)



Albin De La Simone, Non merci!

Albin de la Simone is a very talented young french songwriter who already played for Keren Ann, Jeanne Cherhal, Raphael, Jean-Louis Aubert and Alain Souchon.
He already realised two albums, the video below is one of the single from his second one called Je vais changer




The Pipettes, Pull Shapes

The Pipettes is a band of 3 girls that sings a sweet pop-rock music very easy to listen to. Their first album We Are The Pipettes gathers several tracks with a real single potential. This album plays in loop in my ipod ;) My prefered tracks are Pull Shapes, Judy, We Are The Pipettes...




Stevie Wonder & Rolling Stones, Uptight/Satisfaction

Very good live video where Stevie Wonder & the Stones gathered stage.

Beck, Cellphone's Dead

Beck+Gondry=Genius ? Obvioulsy, in loop in my ipod...


Tété, La Relance

Tété is talented french song writer who is making its own style very popular. I love his way to play guitar and the humour in his lyrics. I advice to see him live as his a real show man ! Moreover he is very active on the net, especially on video podcast. His latest clip is really nice.

LA RELANCE-version beta


The Hives, Live Medley

Nice live show of The Hives including special covers...


The Hives - Live Medley


The Rakes, We Danced Together

First single of the new album of the Rakes called Ten New Messages after the excellent Capture/Release



Birdy Nam Nam, Abbesses



Shitdisco, OK

Just for the videoclip. Great idea, looks like a Michel Gondry video.



Klaxons, Golden Skans

The track that is currently playing in loop in my ears...



Adrienne Pauly, Live

Adrienne Pauly is a young songwriter who's got much talent. Music and lyrics are realised with great quality and cannot be dissociate. His specific "broken" voice gives a great depth of the texts.



Nelly Furtado, Promiscuous

I was not a great fan of Nelly F. Not at all in fact. But since that, I like. Thanks Timbaland !


Feist, My Moon My Man

Really nice single and videoclip for the latest single of Feist.


Pandora, this is the end

As few weeks ago RadioBlog, Pandora has troubles with record labels negociations. The site annouced it will close all services except the US one.

Everyone can give his voice to help web personalized music services here !

Air, Mer Du Japon

The second single of the awesome latest Air LP

Arctic Monkeys, Take It Or Leave It

When 2 great band meet...

Justice, D.A.N.C.E

Hey Hey My My, Too Much Space

I really want you to discover this parisian band Hey Hey My My. Born from British Hawaii the band is made of a duo of two songwriters. They create a real good folk-pop with talent and quality. Moreover the videoclip is really nice.



Arctic Monkeys, Brianstorm

Brilliant first single from the LP called Favorite Worst Nightmare

Stuck In the Sound, Toy Boy

Stuck In The Sound is a very talented french band

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