Arcade Fire & David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Live at Fashion Rocks)
Greetings!
Life on Mars? is one of David Bowie‘s best and most moving songs. Appeared for the first time on the album Hunky Dory from 1973, BBC Radio 2 later called “a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting”. The attached version is a recorded performance of David Bowie together with Arcade Fire (featured last week) at Fashion Rocks on 8th September, 2005 in New York. [click to continue…]
For this Monday’s Tune I’ve chosen to include the song “Halfway Home” by TV on the Radio, who were featured on Monday’s Tune last year.
The song is from the album ‘Dear Science’ which was named the best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, Consequence of Sound, MTV, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork Media’s readers poll, and was ranked 7th in Q Magazine’s list of the 50 best albums of 2008, where it was described as “art rock with a human face”. [click to continue…]
I was planning to send something else, but I’ve just returned from a gig of a really cool band and I wanted to share the experience.
The performance was by the Japanese band Nisennenmondai.
Explanation in their own words:
we are 3piace girls band from tokyo japan since 1999.
nisennenmondai mean “computer bug problem”.
“bijin record” since 2006 are self rabel.
“bijin” mean butiful man and women.
Guitar-takada Bass-zaikawa Drums-himeno
The girls are playing instrumental electronic stuff while using the “normal” rock instruments, with some help of the sampler-pedals under the feet of Takada.
After a week break for some good times and some sun in Israel, another Monday is upon us.
Today’s main feature isJosé González, a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.
The song ‘Heartbeats’, from his first album, Veneer, is a cover of a song by fellow Swede duo The Knife.
The special for today is Readiohead‘s latest video clip, ‘House of Cards’ [from the album In Rainbows], which was done without lights or cameras, but with the use of a 3d scanner. Released last week, this is a unique collaboration between programmers and musicians, and with Google Code as the Host.
“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
The post-punk revival is a movement in alternative rock of the 2000s where bands draw from of the original sounds and aesthetics of the post-punk sound of the late 1970′s, some also taking cues and influences from various genres…
The song ‘Read My Mind’ is from The Killers’ second album Sam’s Town.
Today’s special feature is the video for Goldfrapp‘s new single ‘Happiness’ [released 14 April 2008]
Goldfrapp are a British electronic music duo, consists of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals/synthesizer) and Will Gregory (synthesizer).
The video was directed by legendary pop video director Dougal Wilson, and pays homage to a scene in the 1953 film Small Town Girl.
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The first Monday’s Tune of 2008… with hopes for great sounds this year.
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn based avant-garde rock band formed in 2001. Their music spans genres as diverse as indie-rock, electro, trip-hop, free jazz, doo-wop and soul.
Today’s song is “Staring at the Sun”, appeared in TVOTR’s first LP Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.
As an extra, here is the video for the song “Wolf Like Me”, the first single from their 2006 album ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’.
“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
