Glen Hansard, back to Madrid and Bilbao in 2013

Glen Hansard is a restless ass. After leading The Frames, and become known throughout the world with the duo The Swell Season (is it about winning an Oscar), Hansard has decided to jump into the pool this year editing a debut solo album entitled "Rhythm And Repose" , of which I spoke about the middle of last June. As the discs themselves are not promoted the famous friend of Eddie Vedder has announced a small European tour, which included a couple of dates that will take the father of 'Falling Slowly' to play in the cities of Bilbao and Madrid.

Aim well in your diaries; Glen visit Madrid (Joy Eslava) on February 13, while the appointment Bilbaina take place just one day later (February 14) in the Kafe Antzokia. Unlike his previous bolus Barcelona in CAT, and to bring to the millimeter the sound of his new album, Hansard pull this time supported by a performance of his own band.

Wednesday, February 13,
Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. / guest artist: 19.30h / Glen Hansard: 8:25 p.m.
MADRID Joy Eslava
Price: 22 € advance / 27 € locker
Tickets available via Ticketmaster

Thursday, February 14,
Doors Open: 8:30 p.m. / guest artist: 21.00h / Glen Hansard: 10 p.m.
BILBAO Kafe Antzokia
Price: 20 € advance / 25 € locker
Tickets available via Ticketmaster

The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)

The Daniel Johnston is a sad story. The artist beaten by a mental illness, a victim of his own demons and destroyed by unrequited love. He achieved his goal of becoming famous after appearing on MTV program, but from that moment, an emotional shock that he would never put back (the woman he was always in love with another man undertook) detonated a manic depressive mental disorder already spent years brewing inside.
For years he combined his cassette recordings and drawings, with hospital visits, performances and meetings with bands like Sonic Youth and Jad Fair showed their admiration for him, but always under the shadow of his mental instability. Its extreme Christianity took obsessed with the figure of Satan and were multiple references and addresses your figure both in their actions and in the home recordings.
Jeff Feuerzeig builds a delicate but painful documentary work through a collection of 10 years of all the material kept Daniel in his basement studio. Films in which not only recorded his songs or his ideas, but also fights with her mother, who appears in his teenage years as an authoritarian figure almost shuns their artistic vein. Also the videos that rolled with his brother, his little Super 8 films and a lot of characters and illustrations containing constant elements of his inner world as Captain America, eyeballs, the figure of the devil, torsos of naked women or heads open. All images in the documentary wrapped his songs, sad allegations to the fragility of Daniel, who just displayed as actual testimony provided through their letters and diaries narrated on cassette.
The documentary also includes testimonials from people close to the musician from the beginning and in every moment of its decline. His parents, who star in the most emotional moments of the film in tears telling her psychotic episodes most problematic (leakage without notice or plane crash), but also speak proudly of their achievements and the fruits of their creativity as an artist. His manager, probably the most important of his career, one more victim of his mental instability, who left her side after many years of work just before clinching a record relevant. Her friend Kathy McCarthy, who speaks of him with a mixture of pity and tenderness. Friends, journalists and musicians who lived a musical heyday in Austin, a city that encunó the rise of a young artist become a unique folk tune pitched voice.
No wonder that all this emotional fragility to the attention of another tormented as Kurt Cobain, who looked at photos and performances the shirt with the cover of Hi, How Are You, forming a legion of onlookers who, over time, is become his most loyal followers.
The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a magnificent piece documentary that traces all over the story of a prolific artist, with ups and downs, harsh episodes (as in breaking to mourn at a concert to the amazement of the audience) and other endearing (when he meets Matt Groening in his dressing room), and it reaches its most shocking moment in the last section showing the relationship 'present' of Daniel with his parents, and older, who care for him and fear that day in which they are no longer the artist and stability wobble.

Lightz ': the (laughable) attempt to survive by Limp Bizkit

They returned to the scene in 2009. His original band reunited with Durst, Rivers, Otto, Lethal and eccentric Wes Borland. And released a new album "Gold Cobra" under a label like Interscope pro. Unfortunately for them, and for all those who followed in his time, the Limp Bizkit for the past three years has not been the same as dazzled with "Chocolate Starfish ..." and "Significant Other". Times have changed, trends have evolved and this lavish train arrollaba with songs like 'Nookie' and 'Break Stuff', has been on the edge of the derailment, with a very weak LP and direct a gruesome end aftertaste.

After being rejected by Interscope, and have all kinds of internal moves (mainly arising from drug addiction DJ Lethal), Durst has not been one to give a total turn of events. With a new song (titled 'Lightz' leaked on the net and in a somewhat strange) that neglects the nu metal to enter fully into the hip hop more soluble and easy as pie. Apparently this issue will come included in "The Disco Stampede Of Elephants", the Limp Bizkit album that will launch at some point in 2013 under Cash Money, the label founded by rapper Lil Wayne.

Personally I find this horrifying attempt to draw attention of Limp Bizkit. Even in "Gold Cobra" could identify traces of what was once LB, while in 'Lightz' not even the foundations we recall some of the most decaffeinated discography of Jacksonville. For if he had not been already, now is definitely the beginning of the end of a band that has failed hold up well over time.

Deap Vally: Clip of 'End Of The World' and first debut album details

Deap Vally are more alive than many believe. Gradually, and naturally, the Californian duo unique is striving to be a solid reality and not mere mirage that many say they are determined to. To grow your modest legend we can enjoy the video for his latest single - 'End Of The World', November 19 - and also some interesting details about the debut album from these two formidable women emerged from San Fernando Valley.

"He is very focused on our live" said Julie Edwards battery. "It is based on finding the essence of our performance and the feeling of this. Once successful, we will pull forward. Our goal is to always shoot for the spirit and soul, not perfection. ". Apparently for this occasion Deap Vally have decided to work side by side with renowned producer: Lars Stalfors. "He knows how to fit all the pieces for us in terms of making our songs sound raw. It is rare to work with a producer has to emerge as a relationship so intimate that, if it does not, the whole process can go take wind. "

Unfortunately we still have to wait a bit for the record comes out as the singer has confirmed that Troy Lindsey still need to shut it after the UK tour that will keep them busy well into November. No lack of desire to hear, right?. Hopefully Deap Vally demonstrate the LP that are much more than just hype (and pitch and the songs of the same style are more 'Gonna Make My Own Money' than 'End Of The World', the latter part hook missing something).

Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock

There have been many years that I have lived according to Band Of Horses. I still remember when they released "Everything All The Time" on Sub Pop Her fame skyrocketed like crazy after the release of a single - 'The Funeral' - which even today is remembered as the greatest work that the band has composed to date. After a couple of years and a few moves in their training, Seattle released a second LP titled "Cease To Begin" following the path of indie rock crystal that is appreciated on the debut album. With songs like 'No One's Gonna Love You' or 'Ode To LRC' managed to establish itself as a strong and enduring reality.
In 2009 the story changed radically with "Infinite Arms". Where had once glassy guitar riffs, now there was a new feeling rustic and dreamy, which agglutinated from winding up lines guitarfish slide guitars-style "country road" ('Dilly'). This drastic change in the core sound of BOH became positively surprise the audience and critics, leading to even Ben Bridwell & Cia llevasen incredible Grammy nomination. Who would have said in 2005 that that formation of dilapidated former Carissa's Weird member would fill the front pages of most of the music media in Europe and the United States. Half the world already knew and fame only seemed to be growing.
Then came 2012, the year in which the formation of Ben Bridwell resubmitted new album. Until then expectations had soared into the clouds and the audience was looking for something almost orgasmic. Fortunately the result of that waiting would be well pleased: "Mirage Rock" is as much or more than what we expected from these international indie rock monsters.
There is a technical level differentiating factor between "Mirage Rock" and previous work BOH: live recording. With producer Glyn Johns as captain, the horses have been led on this occasion by his stage energy. That roll halfway between dream and dreamer what we saw in "Infinite Arms" has given its prominence largely (not quantified 'Shut In Tourist) to a more mechanical, more rhythmic and more dinamatizadamente country. The key to this happening by Ryan Monroe, who is no longer so much the keyboard abetting Tyler Ramsey on guitar.
In "Mirage Rock" shines above all the voice of Ben Bridwell, who fits both sober records ('Dumpster World') and some extremely versatile and changeable ('How To Live'). For daring leader dares Band Of Horses up with new surprising new ways to express their voice, the surprising case of 'Heartbreak 101' in which we identify a stranger and brooding Bridwell.
As good BOH album, "Mirage Rock" has something for everyone. Flogging rockers like 'Feud' (included in the soundtrack of Fifa 13) and 'Knock Knock', melodic pieces and meandering pace that refer to the past as 'Long Vows' or 'Dumpster World' ... and above all, flexible pieces that transform speech sound as the seconds pass. That is the specialty of Seattle, and is well reflected in 'How To Live', a dazzling cut in which the pace of Monroe guitars and galloping Ramsey seconded to a majestic vocal outbursts Bridwell. Another great piece is 'Shut In Tourist', probably the most beloved of all the disc that features an exquisite melancholy aura that move us again, as in "Infinite Arms" to beautiful lush landscapes and night.
"Mirage Rock" is the best way to understand why the success of Band Of Horses has no trap or cardboard. Production? The just and necessary. Here what matters is that the engine gets nostalgic rock dive into the ecclesiastical life experience one of his live. And after almost 45 minutes of flashes of quality left the room with a smile on his face and thinking when the next Grammy Awards.

Nave of music / Red Bull Music Academy (Slaughterhouse, Madrid)

In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. In June of that year, the Red Bull Music Academy, a traveling musical school which since 1998 has been, among others, Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and London, was to land in Tokyo. The disaster caused them to change plans quickly. "We needed a site and a project to build the space of five months," says Carmen, part of the team of the academy. "The Madrid City Council was ready, we made it very easy and gave one of the ships of the old slaughterhouse." In record time was enabled and was born "the ship of music": more than 4,000 square meters, a radio studio, recording another, a concert stage and nine rehearsal rooms surrounded by trees.
"It is proposed as a temporary structure (...) The order passed by creating, under emergency conditions, an infrastructure that, in addition to responding to needs and acoustic techniques, and enriqueciese acelerarara a series of intense artistic relations that would occur between musicians and in turn add a stage, "he says, architecturally this blog design. "This is as basic housing architecture, which is used to quickly rebuild devastated areas (Haiti, for example), as the first solution," he told his architect friend once.
It's been several months since the RBMA went through the capital (to give you an idea of ​​how it was) for a month, a camp of artists from around the world lived the music hall and put the note in many electronic Madrid rooms. Then the place, and great part of the rehabilitated Slaughterhouse Madrid, which devotes each of its ships to an art, was closed.
"What is to be done with something as amazing when you finish school?" Asked (repeatedly) when we had the chance to visit last November. Shared management between the City and the organization of LILW, the ship hosts events like the Day of Music. Also recently opened a call for him to use studies: musicians and bands Madrid "to develop its business in the city", indicate the bases, can be presented to the contest to use the facilities and record there.
For the rest of the public, however, and as explained from the slaughterhouse, is closed exceptions. Next, for example, free days during the middle of September Nordic. And we're sure not to be the only ones who would love the ship was permanently open.

Kitten: the definitive approach to success of Chloe Chaidez

His father was a drummer in the punk scene of Los Angeles. Grew combining his love of fitness with listening to some of the best albums of their favorite artists: Moot The Hoope, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. And formed a first group with just 12 years of age who opened for big as Midlake and Conor Oberst. Now that little rebel who surprised by their ability to under has grown - 17 are the years are there now - and finally decided to address the success with "Cut It Out EP" (August 28), the first EP which publishes with Kitten, his last band.
If I'm honest I acknowledge that this petite and had heard him make just under a month. But I refused to talk about it until you get a moment, like today, in which Chloe put an hog the drawing as single 'G', undoubtedly the most catchy and captivating piece of all that has the launch. And what better to ensure a big shot with a video post-apocalyptic epic of love and sex in desert terrain?
"'G' is a great song that needed a great video that secundase" - commented Chaidez Spinner. "The clip is like a mini movie. Something like if somehow mingle two classics as "Apocalypse Now" to "Rebels". About the cast used in the clip, Chloe is very clear, "People tend to ask where we draw the actors, but the reality is that they are all close friends, and couples in real life. That made the recording process was even more fun than it could be. We shot in extreme conditions in the Salton Sea desert experience could have been a mess, but ended up being a great thing. "
The reality is that 'G' is the only single released to date for this EP. 'Cut It Out', released by early summer, was the first. This piece showed the vein formation sensual looking set their music to a pop indie alternative rock with droplets falling into the tendency networks more "mainstream".
Kitten are one of those bands that will be loved and hated in equal measure. There will also be some time to let them to see if in the future, and with a full-length album under his arm, can be sustained, as they are doing so far, in the axis that separates the commercial alternative.