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NEW ALBUM!

Our new album, "6 Billion People" is at the pressing plant, and should be out in May/June, but we will be selling advance copies at our April shows. This 10 track CD will be released by Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Matinée Recordings (America).

The tracklisting for the album is:

   6 Billion People
   Talking Backwards
   Inuit Beauty Queen
   I Would Die For You
   Applecore
   Fahrenheit 451
   Ampersand
   (I Always Love You When I’m) Leaving You
   Dreaming of Dreaming
   Dead and Gone

On most of the album, Tender Trap are joined by Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields) on drums and backing vocals.

You can get a sneaky preview of four of the album tracks at http://www.indiepages.com/matinee/catalog/cd040.html.

 

GIGS!

In April, we will be playing our first gigs for over 2 years, both in London.

Thurs 13th April: How Does It Feel To Be Loved? @ The Windmill,  Blenheim Gardens, Brixton. With Fosca and Strange Idols. Doors open 7.30pm. Advance tickets £5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/9462.

Saturday 15th April (afternoon): Fortuna POP! RoTa @ Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate. Free. Doors open 4pm. Entry first come first served. With Cannonball Jane and Simon Fanfarlo.

For the very first time we will have a real live drummer (Claudia Gonson) in place of our faithful old CD player. Apologies for only playing 18+ venues in London - we hope to expand our horizons both age-wise and location-wise soon!

DJ-ING!

On Friday 7th April, Amelia will be guest DJ-ing at  How Does It Feel To Be Loved? at the Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London, SW9 7QD. £3 for members, £5 for non-members. Membership free from http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk.

The club runs 9pm-2am, and Amelia will be doing a 90 minute girl-based set, sometime between 10pm and midnight. Get your dancing shoes on.

Más vale tarde que nunca

¡conseguido!

 
The Go-Betweens: Worlds Apart EP
 
Finding You
The City Of Light (The Go-Betweens vs Future Pilot AKA)
Sleeping Giant
 
Released by Lo-Max Records, 7th November 2005 as 7" vinyl and digital download.
Playing on Finding You and Sleeping Giant:
Robert Forster: vocals, guitars, piano, organ
Grant McLennan: vocals, guitars
Adele Pickvance: bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Glenn Thompson: drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
with:
Dave Ruffy: keyboards, percussion on Finding You
Finding You produced and mixed by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy at Good Luck Studios, London, 2005.
The City Of Light recorded in Glasgow, 2005, with Sushil Dade.

Sleeping Giant recorded in Brisbane, 2004.

Ron Sexsmith

Ron Sexsmith is set to release a brand new album entitled "Time Being" on May 15th. It will be the 8th full length album from the talented Canadian singer/songwriter following on the heels of 2004 years critically acclaimed "Retriever". March 20, 2006

"Time Being" sees Ron Sexsmith being reunited with legendary producer Mitchell Froom (Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, The Corrs, Crowded House, Daniel Powter) who produced Ron's first three albums on Interscope in the nineties. The recording sessions took place late last year in Santa Monica with drummer Pete Thomas , bassist Davey Farragher and guitarist Val McCallum contributing.

Ron’s beguiling vocals and exquisite harmonies draw you in immediately to what is probably his finest album to date. The elegance and subtly understated way in which he draws you into his music is a masterclass in melody and the natural gentility and timelessness of effortless songwriting. This established and beloved songwriter is at the height of his powers.

Tracklisting:

1. Hands Of Time
2. Snow Angel
3. All In Good Time* SINGLE
4. Never Give Up
5. I Think We’re Lost
6. Reason For Our Love
7. Cold Hearted Wind
8. Jazz At The Bookstore
9. Ship Of Fools
10. The Grim Trucker
11. Some Dusty Things
12. And Now The Day Is Done

The Best of Hefner

Tracklisting (with notes)
1. A Better Friend (original single version)
The first single recorded in a small 16 track studio in Greenwich. Only the second time the band played together. Released April 1997 on Boogle Wonderland.
2. Christian Girls (original single version)
The first of three versions of this song and the song which originally bought Hefner to the attention of Beggars Banquet.
3. Pull Yourself Together (didgeridoo version)
This version of Hefner's first single for Too Pure was previously only available on a free CD with the Melody Maker. A song made single of the week on Steve Lamacq's Radio 1 evening session.
4. The Sweetness Lies Within
Second single from Hefner's critically acclaimed debut album; 'Breaking God's Heart' which was placed above Robbie Williams in an NME end of year poll.
5. The Sad Witch
From Breaking God's Heart, this song remained a live favourite in the Hefner set, right up until their split.
6. Hello Kitten
Originally the b-side to Sweetness Lies Within the popularity of this song grew and grew until it was one of Hefner's most loved songs.
7. Lee Remick
Perhaps one of the most personal of Darren Hayman's songs, originally their second single this is the re-recorded version from the singles and b-sides compilation 'Boxing Hefner'.
8. The Hymn for the Cigarettes
The first single from what remains the fans favourite Hefner album The Fidelity Wars, this song reached number 3 in John Peel's Festive 50 1999
9. The Hymn for the Alcohol
This song, also from, 'Fidelity Wars' did even better getting to number 2 in the same Festive 50. This was the first recording to feature fourth Hefner member Jack Hayter.
10. I Took Her Love for Granted
The second single from 'Fidelity Wars' had a video which featured the band in nylon flesh coloured body stockings with sew on cocks.
11. Don't Flake out on Me
A personal favourite of Darren's, this song from Fidelity Wars showed a bigger poppier sound that the band were to push forward on their third album proper 'We Love the City'.
12. I Love Only You
The closing song on 'Fidelity Wars' features unlikely scratching, under guitar riffs stolen from Big Country.
13. Good Fruit
Hefner's most successful song it got to number 42 or something like that. First single from 'We Love the City'
14. The Greedy Ugly People
This second single from 'We Love the City' failed to keep the momentum going however and their brief dalliance with the big time was over.
15. Painting and Kissing
A song about how Darren met his now wife, this song features some of the synthesizers that were to take over on Hefner's final album.
16. The Greater London Radio
Written by Darren as he drove through London from Heathrow to his home at 7 in the morning. From We Love the City.
17. The Day That Thatcher Dies
An anthem for people of a certain age and a certain political persuasion. Darren's Dad's favourite song. From We Love the City.
18. Alan Bean
First single from the perplexing fourth album; 'Dead Media'. Underneath all the Joe Meek influenced chaos is one of Darren's more understated lyrics.
19. When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines
This is a different remixed version of the song that appears on Dead Media taken from Hefner's final release (in their lifetime); The Hefner Brain.
20. Home
This song, included at Darren's request is the last song from their last album, and is a bitter sweet goodbye from the band to the music industry.
All songs written by Darren Hayman (Derrière le Garage).
 
 

Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine will release two albums simultaneously in Spring 2006.

"Around", a 16-song instrumental set and "Songs And Other Things", his first vocal album since The Wonder (1990) will be released on Thrill Jockey in late April.

Curiosa versión

The Editors versionean el "French Disko" de Stereolab en su ep "Munich". Como era de esperar parecen Joy Division tocando una canción de Stereolab.

¡Betty Boo vive!

Pues si, la que fuera pop star a principios de los 90 con su hit -ironías de la vida -"Where are you baby"- ha regresado con un nuevo proyecto llamado WigWam junto a Alex James, otrora bajista de Blur. Naturalmente la canción de sus single de debut es totalmente intrascendente e irrelevante, como se presume en estos casos, pero al menos es divertida... Y ella sigue siendo guapa, aunque su belleza ya no es tan juvenil como antes

 

¡Super hit!

¡nuevo single de The Pipettes!

Watch the video here

7" White vinyl
A) Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
B) Your Guitars Are Wasted On Me

7" Green vinyl
A) Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
B) Judy (Acoustic Version)

CD Single
1) Your Kisses...
2) Dirty Mind (Acoustic Version)

El Buen gusto de Duffy

de su blog:

Enjoyed The Greatest by Cat Power & the new Belle & Sebastian album on the way over. Really loved Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins when I heard it on Saturday night.

Por lo que parece se avecina una avalancha de reediciones de su propio material: "I Love My Friends": Re - issue out now on Cooking Vinyl with all the tracks that should have been on the album as extras. The Word magazine feature by Caitlin Moran is in the issue published on the 9th of February. Fontana re issues with BBC session extras on the way. If you missed them "Duffy" has been re issued by Sony/BMG with extra tracks and stunning new artwork - "Astronauts +" was reissued by Sanctuary last year and "Music in Colors" is out too on EMI. I think you need them all - and i won’t make a new one until you do xxx

 

 

Bonita portada de single

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists

y bonito vídeo clip: http://www.musicomh.com/downloads/jenny-lewis-watson-twins_0206.htm

The Tyde

Our new record, "Three’s Co." comes out in the UK on March 13th. It’s our third long player, recorded in Los Angeles in early 2004. It features special guests Conor Deasy (The Thrills) and Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) on vocals and bass, respectively. Look out for a 12" vinyl single featuring remixes from from James Figurine (DNTEL) and DJ Nobody

Tracklist:
1. Do It Again Again
2. Brock Landers
3. Separate Cars
4. Too Many Kims
5. Glassbottom Lights
6. The Lamest Shows
7. Ltd. Appeal
8. County Line
9. Aloha Breeze
10. The Pilot
11. Don’t Need a Leash

Las revelaciones de Stuart Murdoch

Interesante la entrevista de Freire a Stuart Murdoch en el último Rock de Lux. Lo más sorprendente es que padece una enfermedad llamada síndrome de fatiga crónica (El síndrome de fatiga crónica es una afección que produce cansancio o agotamiento importante y prolongado (fatiga), que no se alivia con el descanso y no está causado en forma directa por otras afecciones.  Para diagnosticar síndrome de fatiga crónica, el grado de cansancio debe ser lo suficientemente importante como para disminuir en un 50% la capacidad de realizar las actividades diarias. Se desconoce la causa precisa del síndrome de fatiga crónica (SFC). En estudios recientes se demostró que podría ser causado por la inflamación de vías en el sistema nervioso. El SFC se da con mayor frecuencia en mujeres de entre 30 y 50 años. En la actualidad no existe un tratamiento que haya demostrado ser efectivo para curar el SFC, y lo que se trata son los síntomas. Muchas personas con este trastorno experimentan depresión y otros problemas psicológicos que pueden mejorar con tratamiento.Se recomienda que los pacientes afectados por este síndrome tengan una vida social activa; también podría ser beneficioso realizar actividad física suave.)

Al parecer la primera vez que le dio el SFC fue cuando estaba en la universidad y antes de formar Belle & Sebastian. Tuvo una recaída en el 2000 después de la publicación de "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant" debido al estrés que rodeó a la grabación y a sus posteriores malas críticas. Y se rumorea que algo tuvo que ver su ruptura con Isobel (de la que llega a decir en la entrevista que "no he escuchado nada de su nuevo material, NI TAMPOCO ENTRA EN MIS PLANES HACERLO...")

También reveladoras son sus manifestaciones en cuanto a religión, ya que confiesa acude regularmente a la iglesia y ayuda cada semana en el centro juvenil de la misma.

Musicalmente confirma que lo que más le atrae es combinar las melodías más bonitas del mundo con letras trágicas y llega a decir "casa una buena depresión con un buen estribillo y verás que buenos resultados obtendrás..." (ver el poplife de "Another Sunny Day")

2 recopilaciones 2 para Lambchop

COMPILATIONS TO BE RELEASED APRIL 2006: "The Decline of Country & Western Civilization (The Woodwind Years)" (Merge) and "The Decline of the Country & Western Civilization (1993-1999)" (CitySlang). Tracklist available soon.

Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited

¡Otro tributo a Gainsbourg!

con Franz Ferdinand, Jane Birkin, Marianne Faithfull, Placebo, Carla Bruni, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco, Françoise Hardy, Keith Flint, Cat Power, Michaël Stipe, Tricky, The Kills, Gonzales,Feist, Dani, The Rakes….

BANDWAGONESQUE

Parece que se pone de moda lo de que los grupos toquen al completo en vivo su lp mítico por excelencia ...

 TEENAGE FANCLUB TO PERFORM BANDWAGONESQUE

 

Yes folks, believe your eyes. Teenage Fanclub have confirmed for Dont Look Back and will be performing their legendary album Bandwagonesque.

The show is at The Forum in London and is on July 24th 2006.

The album will be performed by the original line-up, including drummer Brendan O’Hare who played with the band 1989 – 1994’

Tickets priced £20 are onsale now at www.seetickets.com

 

Nueva portada para Her Handwriting

This newly expanded and remastered edition of Her Handwriting features 74 minutes of music and three bonus tracks. The album made Melody Maker’s Top 25 albums of 1996, while lead single Abba On The Jukebox was voted 19 on the John Peel Festive 50 that same year. The booklet features all-new artwork, as well as a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.

01 A Single Kiss
02 For This One
03 What Can I Say To Change Your Heart?
04 Abba On The Jukebox
05 The Far Too Simple Beauty
06 Less Than Love
07 Less Then Love (Reprise)
08 Do People Ever?
09 Last Summertime’s Obsession
10 London Story
11 Saffron Beautiful & Brown Eyed
12 Nobody But You
13 Two Octobers
14 To Keep Your Heart Whole
15 Abba On The Jukebox (7" Version)
16 She’s Always There
17 Less Than Love (Early Version)

Nueva portada para Lips That Taste Of Tears

Extended re-issue

This newly expanded and remastered edition of Lips That Taste Of Tears features 74 minutes of music and one bonus track. Stand-out songs include single The Rainbow, Letter Never Sent and Never Loved You More. The booklet features revised artwork, together with a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.

01 All I Never Said
02 Headlights
03 Never Loved You More
04 The Rainbow
05 Made For Each Other
06 Letter Never Sent
07 I’m Tired I’ve Tried
08 You’ve Done Nothing Wrong Really
09 Old Photographs
10 Never Loved You More 2
11 Deserve
12 Cecila In Black & White
13 Tailspin
14 Farewell To Forever
15 Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms

Evie Sands

pinchando en "listen" te puedes bajar en wma "It´s this I am": listen...

Texto del blog mp3 de poptones:

Evie Sands is brilliant. There I’ve said it. She is you know - from Beck and Beth Orton covering her song ‘It’s This I Am’ to Belle and Sebastian asking her to open up for them on their UK tours to being Dusty Springfield’s favourite singer and scoring ‘John and Mary’, the cult-classic movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow.  Revola recently reissued her classic debut ‘Anyway That You Want Me’ and Poptones.co.uk can’t stop playing it. Why? They are all folk-rock-soul-stompers with nice orchestrated touches.

Un ex Popsicle

Está canción no está mal. Pertenece a Andreas Mattsson y graba para el sello Hybris. El ex-popsicle y todavía miembro de Vanessa and the O's publicará un álbum solista llamado "The Lawlessness on the Ruling Classes"

MP3:
You're Never Lonely When the Band Plays

60 segundos con Dan Tracey (TV Personalities)

El hombre habla sin tapujos de sus adicciones, de su vida como homeless y de su estancia en la cárcel en metro.co.uk.

Además confirma que Ed Ball es miembro oficial de nuevo de los TV P y que la chica es la dependienta de la tienda Reckless ("I'm back with Edward Ball from The Times. We went to school together and he's been my best friend for years. Then there is Victoria [Yeulet] who works in Reckless Records on Berwick Street in London. She's worked there for years. I used to go in for ages to see this other girl who worked there that I fancied but Victoria and I became friends. I was always a bit shy with her when we first met as she can be very imposing. But she's actually very cool. I was in there one day and said we were going back to the studio for the first time in 11 years. She said she could sing a bit, so we asked her along and she's been amazing")

 

What was prison like?

 

I did not pick up a guitar for years as I spent time being homeless or in hostels. I've been in prison four times now for things like shoplifting to feed my drug habit. I got transferred from Brixton to what I called The Good Ship Lollipop [floating HMP, The Weare]. It was the best thing that could have happened. Brixton was horrendous. I was not in a cell but in a cabin and could look out of the window over Weymouth Bay. The prison warders were pretty cool and there were computers. I found fan websites. At the same time, I got a letter from my friend, Xfm DJ Iain Baker, and he said he'd heard I was dead. I wrote back to him and he announced on the Web that I was alive and well.

 

We had heard the ‘Dan is dead' rumour.

 

I didn't actually see it myself but my sister had heard it. I don't know why anyone would write things like that. I was certainly at death's door a couple of times with the drugs but that's something I'm not proud of. When I showed the websites to the education people in the prison, one of the nuns brought me a guitar. I was supposed to give it back at lock-up in the evenings but they let me keep it in the cell with me. There was a guy in the next cell – an ex-mod – who had a four-track recording studio in his. I had the guitar and so we did some jamming together. When I'd first been given the guitar, I didn't want to pick it up. I kept a journal while I was in prison but I never really wrote seriously. People are saying that I wrote the album while I was in prison but I didn't. I didn't want to get into some kind of Johnny Cash-style thing. There was nothing to write about in that prison anyway. As I said, it was quite nice. I could have written songs about being in Brixton or Pentonville, which were much, much worse. I don't want to fall into writing that much personal stuff. Although, having said that, I have written All The Young Children On Crack. I wouldn't write songs about being homeless. There are loads of people who are homeless. I had no greater insight into it than them.

 

Were you recognised in prison?

 

A couple of times in Brixton and Pentonville – and there was one guy on the boat who recognised me. He sidled up after staring for ages and said: ‘Are you who I think you are?' The websites really boosted me, though. When Iain published I was alive, I started getting 30 letters a day. The officers couldn't believe I was so well-known. Thinking about it all really upsets me – not the fact that I went to prison but the fact it was drugs that pushed me. I cannot even imagine doing that kind of thing now. It's a really horrible spiral to fall into.