Bonita portada y bonita canción

PETER BJORN AND JOHN 

young folks

'young folks' is the first single from the third album 'writer's block' from swedish guitar-pop trio peter, bjorn and john. with this record they have honed their craft into lilting pop melodies, yet still retaining the sounds and production values older fans have grown to love. 'young folks' is a sparse and dry sounding pop song (like a dfa records release) that features the vocal talents of the concretes' singer victoria bergsman. it starts with the same drum roll as 'i heard it through the grapevine' before heading straight into an almost baggy swagger (prime primal scream) with some whistling adding to its eerie quality. it takes a few listens but will bed itself in your brain after repeated plays. limited 7" on wichita.

The Orchids

Aquí se puede escuchar la canción que acaba de editar Darla en uno de sus recopilaciones, adelanto de su nuevo lp que se publicará en otoño: http://www.myspace.com/theorchidsuk

The Loft

Curioso artículo publicado por The Guardian. Escribe Bill Prince, bajista original del grupo y actualmente periodista de éxito...

El single se puede preescuchar aquí:  http://www.indiestore.com/theloft Suena 100 % a The Weather Prophets...

 

A regular feature in the list-obsessed rock press is the portmanteau article "before they were famous". It's a fecund subject to be sure, and almost as entertaining as the "after they were famous" exposé - a speciality of the tabloid press. These are necessarily rarer. After all, it's not every day you discover that David Van Day, once of fun-sized 80s pop duo Dollar, is now working in a slightly less glamorous burger van.

But what if, instead of vertiginous decline, one's pop career is eclipsed by the life that followed? Last summer, I was forced to confront my tiny brush with 80s pop stardom, as the bass player with the Loft, when we reformed to play a couple of shows for a 20th anniversary repackaging of our only album, Once Round the Fair, itself a posthumous compilation of our two Creation singles and solitary BBC Radio 1 session, originally released following our acrimonious demise onstage at Hammersmith Palais in June 1985.

After we split, and a year or two fronting my own take on southern-fried boogie as the Wishing Stones, I pursued a journalistic career; first at the NME, later at Q magazine and, since 1997, at GQ, where I'm deputy editor. I've interviewed many bands without once wishing I was anywhere near a stage.

But, given the other three members of the Loft seemed happy to re-form, how could I decline the invitation to strap on my 70s Precision bass and join in the long strange trip down memory lane? Not that I had any intention of telling anyone at work. As a believer in flat hierarchies in the workplace, I wasn't about to lower myself into even the slightest depression among the twentysomething staff by announcing my return.

I wager the average GQ reader is not interested in the bare-bones recordings of the harbingers of indie-rock 20 years after the event. And if they are, they probably buy Word. So, thankfully, there was no question of GQ reviewing Magpie Eyes. I was able, instead, to commission GQ's and this paper's regular music columnist, Alexis Petridis, to write about the spurt of re-formations among 80s bands. Petridis came up with one of the best reason why middle-aged blokes were brushing up on the antic guitar-pop of their youth. The death in October 2004 of John Peel, a crucial figure in the careers of many of those bands, had reminded us all of our relatively short time on Earth. Reason surely to set aside differences, musical or otherwise, and play again in the fertile fields of our youth.

Which is why I succumbed to the heady aroma of Backstreet rehearsal rooms on the Holloway Road, and how the Loft stepped on to the stage of the Spitz club in fashionable Shoreditch last September, welcomed back by a crowd of new friends, old friends, and the obligatory presence of three excitable Japanese girls. And why am I writing about this now, eight months later? Well, by "old Loft" standards we've been gigging frantically: two in May alone. And we've recorded a new record - our first in 21 years. One single, Model Village, may not sound like much. But it increases by 40% the number of Loft originals recorded for release. Only three more new songs are needed now before, once again, we can combust on stage and return to obscurity.

Eclipse Records

NUEVO SELLO DE bob stanley (y van...) este hombre es realmente reincidente...

Eclipse Reissues

Various

Eclipse

July 24th 2006

1. THE PEDDLERS: ‘SUITE LONDON’  
2. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: ‘COMPLETE A&B SIDES:  1963-1970’
3. ‘GIRLS ARE AT IT AGAIN: UK BEAT GIRLS 1964-1969’  
4. CHRIS MONTEZ: ‘CALL ME: THE A&M YEARS’

                                                                                                                                                   

 ‘Eclipse’: A brand new old fashioned record label headed by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs launches…

After the success of their compilation The Trip last year, Wiggs and Stanley decided to take matters into their own hands, and Universal Music Catalogue happily gave them an imprint that lay dormant in the vaults – ECLIPSE – for the much-loved pop duo to raid the far corners of the company’s archives. And that's a big old archive – at their fingertips they have the listings for Philips, Decca, A&M, Island, Polydor, Mercury, ABC, Dunhill, MCA and many more. They will work alongside the catalogue department to produce individual works of stunning musical beauty.

ECLIPSE will not be wilfully obscurant. It will make yesterday relevant to today. Some of the label's biggest names will be featured, and their music will be reconvened in a clean fashion. ECLIPSE will take pleasure in shining a light into the clammy cellars of Universal's West Hampstead tape library to see what kind of lost soul, folk, beat and baroque rock and pop it can find, Sometimes the releases feature a hit act who has barely made it onto CD and other times an album has been feted by crate diggers and specialist magazines alike but missed a digital transfer.

The first of Eclipse’s releases come in the form of offerings from Dusty Springfield, The Peddlers, Chris Montez and a damn fine UK Beat Girls compilation.

1. THE PEDDLERS: ‘SUITE LONDON’  

The Peddlers were labelled - somewhat unfairly - as a middle of the road outfit, possibly because Roy Phillips blues-drenched voice and the trio’s line-up came off with a sophisticated jazz edge. Also their 1968 CBS album ‘Three In A Cell’ was for many years a charity shop staple, suggesting that its popularity at the time had been followed by exile into the world of the unfashionable. But it was ‘Suite London’ which showcased a style of atmospherics on the slow tracks that saw their version of Alan Lerner’s ‘On A Clear Day’ being sampled by freak funk outfit and London club pioneers Sandals for their 1992 single ‘Nothing’. However it was the strange combination of The Peddlers with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded as their final album with the band’s original line-up, that was the true find.

Whilst ‘Suite London’ is quite clearly a homage to London, this is not strictly a concept album: certain tracks evoke and pay obvious homage to the great city, whereas the rest of the album builds up a cinematic atmosphere. ‘I Have Seen’, a five minute epic of strings, electric piano, organ, drums and bass, is just one of the album's high spots. That the Zero 7 – who after all are considered to be an electronic dance act - version of this should sound almost exactly the same as the original is a testament to how ahead of its time this band were. Eclipse’s Peddlers package doesn’t end there however, as they have gathered up 6 tracks that appeared as singles whilst the band were back at Philips.

Track Listing:

1. This Strange Affair
2. Raining In London
3. Sequence Of Thought
4. Did She
5. In Juxtaposition
6. Under London Lights
7. River Lives
8. I Have Seen
9. Impressions
10. A Year And A Day
11. This Strange Affair
12. A Year And A Day
13. Manah
14. Have You Ever Been To Georgia
15. Back Alley Jane
    

2. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: ‘COMPLETE A&B SIDES:  1963-1970’

A vision in monochrome, eyes sooty with mascara, hair piled up to perfection, and a sequinned dress so glamorous that it suggests we could barely inhabit the same planet: the high contrast photo that adorned the cover of Dusty Springfield's Greatest Hits was iconic. In it's so-sharp black and white, there was much mystique - it was as much about what you couldn't see - which is exactly as it should be. These days Dusty is a gay icon, seemingly celebrated for her troubles and insecurities as much as she is for her records. For those who like pop music to have myth and legend, the ability to take you over the rooftops and out of your skin, the run of 45s on this compilation is all you really need to know about Dusty Springfield.

After all, she was a perfectionist. While contemporaries cranked out two, even three albums  year, Dusty would agonise over each one and only released five during the sixties. As for singles... the unerring quality of the b-sides says it all. It's easy to say that they were good enough for other people's a-sides, because frequently they were. No rush-released covers of Those Were The Days, or half-baked songs with the manager's name in the credits, not for Dusty. Time has proved her instincts right. From the moment she heard The Exciters' Tell Him on a '63 New York trip and dissolved The Springfields, to her prescient recordings in Philadelphia seven years later, Dusty never let udown. Her quality control and other-worldly talent has leant the songs on this compilation timelessness. They will never grow old. Viva La Springfield!

Tracklisting:

CD1:

1. I Only Want To Be With You
2. Stay Awhile
3. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myslef
4. Losing You
5. Your Hiurtin’ Kind Of Love
6. In The Middle Of Nowhere
7. Some Of Your Lovin’
8. Little By Little
9. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
10. Goin’ Back
11. All I See Is You
12. I’ll Try Anything
13. Give Me Time
14. What’sl It Gonna Be
15. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
16. I Will Come TO You
17. Son Of A Preacher Man
18. Am I The Same Girl
19. A Brand New Me
20. Morning Please Don’t Come
21. How Can I Be Sure

CD2:

1. Once Upon A Time
2. Something Special
3. My Colouring Book
4. Summer Is Over
5. Don’t Say It Baby
6. Baby Don’t You Know
7. I’ll Love You For A While
8. If It Hadn’t Been For You
9. Every Ounce Of Strength
10. I’m Gonna Leave You
11. Go Ahead On
12. The Corrupt Ones
13. The Look Of Love
14. Smalltown Girl
15. No Stranger Am I
16. The colour Of Your Eyes
17. Just A Little Lovin’
18. Earthbound Gypsy
19. Bad Case Of The Blues
20. Spooky
     

3. ‘GIRLS ARE AT IT AGAIN: UK BEAT GIRLS 1964-1969’  

The Brit girl emerged at the tail end of America’s pop renaissance and on the brink of a British beat boom, sweetly situated between the Ronettes and the Rolling Stones, and in the care of producers and writers who thrived on pop’s endless possibilities. Up until 1963, female singers had to make do with Brenda Lee hand-me-downs and obvious American standards. Even Helen Shapiro, EMI’s proud bastion of the 1961 teenage girl, still exemplified the adult vision of pop. It would take an influx of self-contained boy bands and fanatical producers to overthrow the old guard and redefine the music biz in British terms—with American pop as a point of reference rather than the template.

Once England found its edge, the productions—whether homemade or American-ripped—bore a distinctive U.K. sound. Producers and writers raised on America’s vast palette of pop showed a determination to outdo their U.S. competition and found willing guinea pigs in scores of singing schoolgirls. Together they breathed new life into female pop, spiking the Tin Pan Alley formula with folk, beat, and boundless Britpop dreams. Quality was always high, and the hunger for a hit audible on every release.

Come 1964, one could barely keep track of the legions of girls waiting to get on tape. Girl pop reproduced at a frightening rate, but without a Brian Epstein or Andrew Loog Oldham to whisk you from the coat check counter to Friday night appearances on Ready, Steady, Go!, there was no thanking your lucking stars for many of these gals. The pop charts were swift and unjust, barring even the most fabulous of 45s from a fair shot.  Thus the no-name Brit girl quickly settled back into her civilian life,

It is driven and dedicated girl pop collectors who slaughtered the Brit girl inferiority myth and prompted reissue labels to revisit the vaults for the rare masters. Following the Here Come The Girls and Dream Babes compilations, Girls Are At It Again drives the Brit Girl argument even further, with its all access pass to the Polydor, Philips, Fontana, and Mercury labels where lives the overlooked artifacts from Tracy Rogers, Claire Francis, and Diane Lancaster. As those of us who have ventured beyond Cilla and Sandie well know, so much of the good stuff hails from these lesser-known ladies.

 

Tracklisting:

1. Tracy Rogers - Back With You Baby
2. Bimbi Worrick- Long Time Comin'
3. Claire Francis  - But I Don't Care
4. Karol Keyes - Can't You Hear The Music
5. Diana Dors - So Little Time
6. Carolines - Love Made A Fool Of MeAngela Deen
7. Gotta Hand It To The Boy
8. Angela Deen - Gotta Hand It To The Boy
9. Caravelles - You Are Here
10. Jenny Wren - Chasing My Dream All Over Town
11. Lesley Dawson - Run For Shelter
12. Linda Kendrick - When Your Love Is Warm
13. Lesley Duncan - See That Guy
14. Diane Lancaster - How I Need Him
15. Michelle  - Sally Fool
16. Carrolls - Surrender Your Love
17. Kiki Dee - Miracles
18. Tracy Rogers - Baby
19. Lori Balmer - Four Faces West
20. Danielle - I'm Gonna Marry The Boy
21. Pattie Lane - Paper Dreams

4. CHRIS MONTEZ: ‘CALL ME: THE A&M YEARS’

Chris Montez, born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez in Hawthorne, California to Mexican parents, is best known in the UK for his classic 1962 rocker Let’s Dance. Previously unknown on these shores, he had already established a successful touring career in the USA - inspired and influenced by Ritchie Valens (who he had met for 15 minutes as a young teenager), by the age of 17 he was a true Chicano rock pioneer. He toured alongside Sam Cooke and Smokey Robinson in 1960 and had his first single She’s My Rockin’ Baby.

Following the massive success of Let’s Dance in the UK, Some Kinda Fun hit the Top Ten at the end of January 1963. This coincided with a UK tour in which Chris headlined over a popular young English group called The Beatles. His press officer for the tour was the even younger Andrew Loog Oldham. Fond memories remain of this tour as Chris recalls: “Paul and George had disappeared for a day or two and when they
returned I asked them where they’d been. They explained to me that they were finishing their first album and played me the tracks several times. I guess I would have been one of the first to hear them”. It wasn’t always so harmonious, after having various drinkable liquids poured on his head, Chris and John Lennon had a small debate, broken up amicably by fellow tour member Tommy Roe. Chris’s beloved jacket also provided the inspiration for the collarless Beatles suits. If only he’d thought about patenting them!

Many of the songs on this compilation, despite being standards, were unknown to Chris, but most were perfected in just a few takes. Songs which would seem
alien to his vocal style became his trademark. In total, Chris Montez recorded four albums for A&M records between 1966 and '69. There is a large helping of standards, from the day and much earlier, played in a rhythmic lounge-jazz bossa style by seasoned west coast studio musicians. Handclaps were de rigeur, and as laid back as Chris's vocals. The blend of styles was new, and the A&M recording quality excellent, still sounding fresh today.

Tracklisting:

1. Call Me
2. The More I See You
3. Foolin Around
4. The Very Though Of You
5. Time After Time
6. There Will Never BE Another You
7. Where Are You Now
8. Because Of You
9. The Face I Love
10. Our Day Will Come
11. Going Out Of My Head
12. Elena
13. The Shadow Of Your Smile
14. Once  Loved
15. Fly Me TO The Moon
16. Keep Talkin’
17. Love s Here To Stay
18. Little White Lies
19. Just Friends
20. I Will Wait For You
21. I’m Glad There Is You
22. The End Of A Love Affair

Beyond these initial four releases are untold riches. Expect regular batches of four at a time. The artwork will always be beautiful, the notes neat and informative, from real music lovers and the best pop writers around, for real music lovers everywhere.

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs are, of course, two thirds of national treasures and observers of the most intimate urban truths, Saint Etienne. A prolific pairing if ever there was one: as well as having released their 7th album ‘Tales From Turnpike House’ in 2005, Bob and Pete have otherwise been particularly busy making a name for themselves in the worlds of journalism (Bob) and film (both) in recent years.  Enjoy the fruits of Bob and Pete’s most recent labours with the launch of this wonderful record label, the perfect outlet for their by-all-accounts encyclopaedic knowledge of all things great and good, musically speaking.

For press enquiries contact:

Ruth Clarke                     [e-mail]              020 7608 4596

Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" / "BOYFRIEND"

Reedición de "Girlfriend" (con 3 demos) y un nuevo CD extra titulado "Boyfriend" en Legacy (un subsello de Sony dedicado a reediciones)

The real bonus for fans of Sweet here is Goodfriend, a companion album to Girlfriend that was only distributed as a promotional item back in the day, and now getting its first official release. It's an excellent flip side to Girlfriend - with a mix of songs from the album revisited in acoustic settings, rowdy live versions and BBC sessions. In the live tracks, Sweet and band unleash some thunderous guitar riffs, reinventing the melodies of the more polished Girlfriend songs. There's a couple of excellent covers, a scorching version of Neil Young's "Cortez The Killer" and a take on John Lennon's "Isolation."Recorded in New York City, the LP features inspired performances from an all-star cast of players, including guitarists Robert Quine (Richard Hell & the Voidoids), Richard Lloyd (Television), Greg Leisz (k.d. lang) and Lloyd Cole, drummer Ric Menck (Velvet Crush) and drummer/producer Fred Maher (Scritti Politti, Material).

North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1984/Compiled By Paul Morley

North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1983 

The Paul Morley-compiled 'North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1983' 3CD Limited Edition (5000 copies) set is released on Monday 19 June on Korova and features a host of Factory bands including Joy Division, New Order, Section 25, James and OMD. There is also a regular 2CD set with a Manchester disc and a Liverpool disc. The 3rd disc is cunningly titled, erm, Liverchest.

CD1

1. Boredom - Buzzcocks
2. Repetition - The Fall
3. I Don't Want To Be Nice - John Cooper Clarke
4. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
5. What Do I Get - Buzzcocks
6. Sketch For Summer - The Durutti Column
7. Transmission - Joy Division
8. Fear - Passage
9. Work - Blue Orchids
10. Time Goes By So Slow - The Distractions
11. Shack Up - A Certain Ratio
12. My Cherry Is In Sherry - Ludus
13. Ceremony - New Order
14. How Soon Is Now - The Smiths

CD2

1. British Refugee - Spitfire Boys
2. Suffice To Say - Yachts
3. Fuzztronic - Will Sergeant
4. Electronic - OMD
5. Pictures On The Wall - Echo and The Bunnymen
6. Better Scream - Wah Heat
7. Touch - Lori and The Chameleons
8. Reward - Teardrop Explodes
9. Rescue - Echo and The Bunnymen
10. Flaming Sword - Care
11. There's Always Something On My Mind - Pale Fountains
12. Holiday In Disneyland - Dalek I Love You
13. First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters
14. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

CD3

1. No Love Lost - Warsaw
2. Cranked Up Really High - Slaughter & The Dogs
3. My Boyfriend's Back - Bright, Bette & The Illuminations
4. Iggy Pop's Jacket - Those Naughty Lumps
5. Big In Japan - Big In Japan
6. Happy Ever After - Stockholm Monsters
7. Folklore - James
8. African And White - China Crisis
9. Sweet Tooth - Spherical Objects
10. Don't Let Go - Pink Industry
11. Deaf - Crispy Ambulance
12. Knew Noise - Section 25
13. Call Me Honey - Swamp Children
14. Valley Of The Lost Women - John Cooper Clarke
15. Dream - The Royal Family and The Poor

Release date: 19 June 2006
Label: Korova
Catalogue number: KODE1001L

FAC 461 Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album

“Several years in the making, this book, by Matthew Robertson, is the first and definitive overview of the artwork of the seminal Manchester-based Factory label, covering its iconic record sleeves, posters, ephemera, venues and packaging. After a foreword by the founder of Factory, Tony Wilson, an introductory essay discusses the label's role in bringing design to the mainstream. Thereafter, the book is organized as a generously illustrated catalogue, arranged by the famous Factory reference system. Factory Works, as part of the story, has been given its own reference number - FAC 461 - making it a collectable item in its own right."

Credits

Title: FAC 461 Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
Author: Matthew Robertson (with a foreword by Anthony Wilson)
Format: Hardcover, 29.0cm x 25.0cm
Pages: 224, with c.400 colour illustrations
Published by: Thames and Hudson
Publication date: June 2006
Available from: Amazon.co.uk and other good retailers 

Tracey Thorn grabando

So I’m now working on a new solo album; solo in the sense that its not gonna be EBTG, but it’s me collaborating with some other people. I’m doing tracks with Tom Gandey (aka Cagedbaby) and Ewan Pearson. Charles Webster’s been helping out with a couple of arrangements. Got a few things finished/half-finished so far but been having to wait for Ewan to finish producing the new album by The Rapture. That’s done now so we’re due to finish off our tracks together in a couple of weeks. Looks like Virgin are gonna release my record, probably next Feb.

And in the meantime I’ve also written lyrics and recorded a vocal which might go on Justin Martin’s album, due out on Buzzin' Fly at some point.

I’m gonna set up a MySpace page as soon as I get round to it (!) so that I can keep everyone up to date with the recording news etc, but I wanted to let you on the EBTG forum know first. Thanks for bothering to stay interested all this time while I’ve been on my long weekend. And just hope you like the new stuff when it finally sees the light of day…

Love to all, Tracey x

TBS grabando

Bobby Wratten acaba de entrar en el estudio para grabar un nuevo álbum, como siempre de la mano de Ian Catt (SAINT ETIENNE). El disco se llamará "The last holy writer", e incluirá 10 nuevas canciones.
En estas sesiones de grabación el grupo va a grabar 16 canciones en total. Además de las 10 canciones del nuevo disco (que será el séptimo de su carrera), TREMBLING BLUE STARS y su fiel Ian Catt van a grabar 2 canciones para un 7" y otras 4 para un EP

Recopilatorio de Broadcast

Recopilación de rarezas y temas extraídos de EPs de la banda. Se titulará "The Future Crayon" y se edita el próximo 21 de agosto. Los temas de "The Future Crayon" están extraídos en su mayoría de la numerosa colección de EPs que Broadcast han venido editando desde 1997. Tienen representación en este recopilatorio "Echo´s Answer" (1999), "Extended Play" (2000), "Come On Let´s Go" (2000), "Extended Play Two" (2000) y "Pendulum" (2003)

Edwin Moses

¡Un disco de Siesta por aquí! Tampoco es que esto sea la bomba, pero tiene algunos temas decentes y realmente agradables (especialmente “Time”). Eso si, originalidad CERO. Se agradece de todas maneras el -loable- esfuerzo por sonar igual igual que Marvin (oír “We´re not going back”). Pongamos que es un tributo... Eso si, el rollo ese que se llevan de Edwin Moses, Jamal Nafsum, etc etc es verdaderamente insufrible...

Yo La Tengo

Ya está circulando el nuevo lp. Como siempre muy variado. Hay Noise, pop, folk, baladas e incluso funky

Sorpresa de los Auserón

Bonita versión del “Sunday Morning” EN CASTELLANO. Incluida en “Las Malas Lenguas” disco de versiones editado bajo el nombre de Santiago y Luis Auserón

La obra completa de The Triffids reeditada

The complete Triffids' catalogue will very soon begin rolling out in its shiny new remastered and repackaged form trhrough Liberation for Australia and New Zealand and Domino for the rest of the world.  Born Sandy Devotional has been lovingly remastered from the original half inch tapes and, while it's still the same record it always was, there's a clarity, power and wealth of fine detail evident that was muted in the CD versions available to date. Initial orders of the cd will include a 42 page perfect bound booklet within a slipcase, similar in style to the pavement reissue of 'crooked rain'. the booklet documents for the first time the ideas and inspirations behind the creation and recording of this classic 80s indie album. this reissue campaign of the triffids catalogue will conduct itself over an eighteen month period, with titles to follow including 'treeless plain', 'raining pleasure', 'in the pines', 'calenture' and 'the black swan'.

Oscuras Joyas Nuevaoleras

Bats USA – pop gun (con John Brion) / Boyfriends UK – I´m in Love today (con Pat Collier) / Boys USA – Baby it´s You / Bozos – My Weekend Girl / The Beatles Costello – Soldier of Love (Una versión de Arthur Alexander que también versionearon The Beatles y Marshall Crenshaw)

 

¡Japo 80 mods!

La web de the ModPopPunk Archives es la repera. He descubierto un grupo japonés de los 80 en plan The Jam/Secret Affair que están realmente bien. Se llaman The Badge (¡!) y la canción que te puede descargar gratis (en la página “Sounds”) se llama “Dancing”. Llegaron a grabar un lp y todo y cantan en japonés.

Las fotografías de Lou Reed

Realmente son bonitas.   VER EN http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/ArtistResults.asp?artist=218&offset=0

 

IRENE HERNÁNDEZ DE VELASCO (El MUNDO)

ROMA.- Durante los últimos tres años, Lou Reed se ha levantado de madrugada. Y, a orillas del Hudson, amparado por el silencio y la soledad, ha disparado una y otra vez sus cámaras de fotos sobre la ciudad. Parte de ese resultado son las 55 instantáneas de la Gran Manzana que ahora por primera vez se exponen en Europa, concretamente en Italia, en la galería de arte contemporáneo Uno Su Nove de Roma. (http://www.unosunove.com/ )

"Yo aún me sigo quedando boquiabierto ante lo bonita que es Nueva York. Los neoyorquinos generalmente no son conscientes de ello. Con estas fotografías lo que he pretendido es mostrar a mis paisanos la increíble belleza de su ciudad", explica Reed en una entrevista concedida a EL MUNDO el pasado viernes en Roma.

Las obsesiones de Keris Howard (HARPER LEE)

No sólo de To Kill a Mockinbird –parece- vive Keris Howard y Harper Lee. En su nuevo EP para Matinee Records hay un tema dedicado a William Blake. Poeta que es el chico. Matinee también está a punto de editar un segundo cd recopilatorio de su anterior banda, Brighter.

El nuevo de Aberfeldy

En la primera escucha suena bien, poppy y agradable. Mejor que el primero 

Our second album will be out on Rough Trade in early July; press copies are winging their way to the nation's tastemakers and shakers, the glossy, high-budget video for 1st single Hypnotised is in the editing stages, we're fighting off huge cash money offers from the big boys left right and centre. Everyone wants a piece of the Feldy Phenomenom; we're just trying to keep body and soul together til we can weather it out; this stuff could just as easily send us down the drain as help our career and we wouldn't even know the difference until it was too late.


Check out our REAL myspace page, www.myspace.com/aberfeldytheband to hear some new tracks. (Ignore www.myspace.com/aberfeldys, whoever set that site up isn't responding to my emails, which i just think is rude).

El fotógrafo del fútbol modesto

Hans Van der Meer se ha dedicado durante los últimos 5 años a recorrer Europa para fotografiar partidos de fútbol de equipos modestos o de las categorías más bajas. Su última obra está expuesta en el Museum Boijmans van Beuningen y ha publicado un libro titulado “Spielfeld Europa. Landschaften der Fußball-Amateure”

http://www.hansvandermeer.nl/