Matt Cardle...

During series seven of The X Factor, Aiden Grimshaw – bequiffed and possessing the earnest air of someone who wrote a lot of poetry – was one of the favourites to win, his rendition of Tears For Fears' Mad

World on the first live show displaying some semblance of star power (the Twilight-esque pallor may have helped too). But, as with any character trait that emerges on The X Factor, this natural propensity for seriousness was repackaged as caricature and by week six his dismal cover of Rocket Man saw him booted off in favour of Katie Waissel.
While Matt Cardle went on to win, it was assumed Grimshaw would join the pub circuit and nothing would be heard from him again. Well, last week he released Is This Love, the first single from his forthcoming album Misty Eye, and very good it is too. It harnesses that intensity ("there's a fiery eye in the middle of the dark sea, and it's pulling me down and I can't breathe", goes one lyric) and bolting it onto a 90s-influenced, almost trip-hop beat that explodes underneath a huge chorus to create something simultaneously intimate and epic.

Daniel Land & The Modern Painters

It is time for brave new shoegaze - the British band Daniel Land & The Modern Painters put for several years, light folk influences with shimmering guitar carpets and create the new song, "Sleeping with the Past" from May released album "The Space Between Us "the balancing act between the atmosphere and melancholy. Daniel knows the way, also land one of the engineers, so that no wonder that the music sounds quite compatible. The new single, "Eyes Wide Shut" is also pretty.

True heroes

On Friday of Kong: COLLEGE (Valerie Collective / Nantes) honored us with his new live album, A Real Hero. Support he receives from Mooner (Zombo Combo / Munich.)

Here is the information of the organizer:

"You could say beauty, true happiness and heroism walk on tiptoe, as meek as the synths in" come along A Real Hero 'COLLEGE (Valerie Collective / Nantes). Yet turn the bass shines so defining elegantly through the track that you like the repeat button on one with the hammer would prefer Gosling. The Drive soundtrack is the film in its blend of style, timing and the perfect play of light and shadow not only equal but superior. "Look, Momma! It's art! "Neo-noir picture and sound. Waiting for the peak and instead get conserves the moment that makes the difference only. True to the motto: "I do not carry a gun. I drive. "A Parisian named Voltaire did not heroes, they would make too much noise in the world. But his compatriot David Grellier aka COLLEGE us LIVE in Kong invite you to a wonderful retrospective of '80s synth pop, which will be the voice loud enough to drown your conscience. COLLEGE is supported by the highest authority in matters of Munich disco music, Mooner aka Mister Zombo Combo mastermind. No matter what image stores your inner eye that night, it will be arranged so ingeniously that every art director for the city to the high resolution recording is torn away. True Heroes? The solution seems simple. Kong it is ... "

Josh Klinghoffer outside debut album Red Hot Chili Peppers

Josh Klinghoffer's life has turned 180 degrees from the time the guitarist agreed to be a substitute for Frusciante Red Hot Chili Peppers. A new album ("I'm With You", about which I talked about in his day), multiple tours throughout the world, promotional events ... Well, the thing that has changed completely in a matter of months. Yet the reasons behind Josh continues its activities outside the group, and that is precisely what has led him to work on "Inhibition", their debut album side project Dot Hacker.

May 1 is the day which will be released on LP in a compact quartet that played so through your MySpace, reaches a certain sound raspy and powerful thanks to getting good play with effects pedals. For if you go a little curiosity: it is possible to download two songs for free ("Order / Disorder 'and' Inhibition ') and you can see the live version of the first theme via YouTube (attached below). To us it sounds a bit like Deerhunter with a tiny dose of Tame Impala sound in its formula. What about you?

The definition of the sound of Dot Hacker should not be a surprise to anyone Exclaim.ca people has revealed that all group members have gained momentous roles in diguras renowned bands like Gnarls Barkley, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Street Sweeper social Club (the draft Tom Morello and Boots Riley) and Broken Bells. Knowing this we can expect more than correct this great gift that will give us the good of Klinghoffer in a matter of only 15 days.

Wallpaper & Places - EP

About Paper & Places we have already reported to you some time ago. Now's the latest from the band - because on 09.04.2012 was held at the home of Regensburg, Regensburg's first EP release of the indie band. Although we could not even be there - the band was so nice and gave us the EP prior to send.

The following titles are found on it:
First A Hero
Second Eagles Eye
Third to Berlin
4th UFO
5th Youth

And what has been announced with the first releases has been confirmed by the EP of the band. He said that with "Paper & Places" is the first serious indie band from Regensburg is, the problem may exist on the German indie music scene. "AdP Records" have already caught the band - it would have been interesting to see what happened after the release of the EP would have been possible icon wink Paper & Places EP.

We hope that the band will not disappear without trace and similar Sizarr initially awarded for the first album the band.

13th Munich Biennale: L'Absence

Of 03 to 19.05.2012 is the 13th Munich Biennale, the international festival for new music theater, rather than (we reported). The Muffathalle is one of the venues of the Biennale. Here are the 03, 04 and 06.05.2012 a total of three performances of L'Absence place, an opera in five acts to the 'Book of Questions "by Edmond Jabès. At 04.05. There is also a public discussion after the performance. The music for L'Absence of Nemtsovgeschrieben was born in 1980, Sarah.

Sarah and Yukel are - or were they? - A pair. Sarah was like their parents were deported to an extermination camp. Her parents were murdered, she survived, but with a damaged soul. It is no longer with them. "I do not hear the cry, I am the cry," she says in the rapture of the wisdom of those who had to be mad at the world. Yukel who survived also investigated, Sarah - locally, physically, but above all as the man he once knew and was his love. He is no more. Yukel feels even tell half the story is dead, however, especially in secret, non-linear, in hints, flashbacks, dream sequences or even contradictory comments of a chorus of rabbis. It's about absence and grief at the loss of something irretrievable.

Alabama Shakes dazzle in New York

What petaron at South By Southwest, media and blogosphere adore them now believed to reach number 1 in sales with "Boys & Girls" in the UK. It seems that all the stars are aligning for this to be a magical year for Alabama Shakes, a set of Athens (Alabama) dazzled us at all after hearing 'Hold On', arguably one of the strongest singles of the past six years .

As long as you can discover more about them here we present the full live band that performed in Brittany Howard Studio, the small room of the Webster Hall in New York. The set of one-hour serves to whet your appetite for a face to a European tour that will bring to Alabama Shakes Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels. The Spanish, as usual, we will have to wait for another time in the future to be seen by our land.

13th Munich Biennale - International Festival of New Music Theatre

13th Munich BiennaleVom 03 up to 19.5.2012 is spread over several venues, the 13th Munich Biennale. This international festival of new music theater first took place in 1988 and offers "a place to put interested in theater composers of the younger generation, their ideas into reality" can, so composer Hans Werner Henze, who co-founded this project and in 1996 the artistic director Peter Ruzicka handed.

Ruzicka on the concept of the Biennale: "With the Munich Biennale succeeded Hans Werner Henze two decades ago in cooperation with the Bavarian state capital, the establishment of a globally unique festivals, premieres of new operas, mostly the first works of young composers in this field are embedded in a connection with concerts, symposiums and composer talks. Presentation, discussion and reflection work together in this laboratory of a new musical theater. "

The exact game plan, please refer to the official website of the 13th Munich Biennale. Alternatively there is the game plan as a PDF file. There are a graphic overview of all you will find events, spread across locations like the Muffatwerk, the Munich Chamber of games, the theater i-camp/neues Munich or even the Prince Regent Theater.

The following three events, all of which take place in the Muffathalle, we want to highlight something more precise:
Nucleus:
Nucleus Muffathalle Munich 13 Munich Biennale


Eight composer / inside the highly complex question of the core of an opera, a contemporary musical theater piece, a single, individual composition. Or there is the question of the core of opera at all, from musical theater today: What is the medium of the answers are short, compact, provocative short - a matter of minutes, seconds?. Click here for our detailed Nucleus preliminary report.

DO, 03.05. - Nucleus 1
FR, 04.05. - Nucleus 2
SO, 06.05. - Nucleus 4
MI, 16.05. - Nucleus 8
Muffathalle Munich
Beginning of each clock 19:30
L'Absence:
L'Absence Muffathalle Munich 13 Munich Biennale


L'Absence is an opera in five acts to the 'Book of Questions "by Edmond Jabès. The music on this Nemtsovgeschrieben was born in 1980 from Sarah. The story of Sarah and Yukel are - or were they? - A pair. Sarah was like their parents were deported to an extermination camp. Her parents were murdered, she survived - albeit with a damaged soul.

DO, 03.05.
FR, 04.05. (Including audience discussion after the performance)
SO, 06.05.
Muffathalle Munich
Beginning of each clock 20:00
Water:
Water Muffathalle Munich 13 Munich Biennale


Water is an opera in 13 scenes, with music by Arnulf Herrmann. In the background of these scenes is the history of trauma. A man wakes up in a hotel room from a nightmare. The orientation to the helping the memory was lost to him. In the foyer of the house, he gets into an evening event. The people, he says, he must know, but his memory failed. Everything seems strange and crazy moves - even the music.

MI, 16.05.
FR, 18.05.
SA, 19.05.
Muffathalle Munich
Beginning of each clock 20:00

Come and visit the 13th Binnale Munich in the period from 03 to 19.05.2012. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.

Feist plays with M. Ward a version of Jesus and Mary Chain

Feist performed a concert last Sunday at the legendary Royal Albert Hall in London. To make the evening even more special Leslie asked to go on stage M.Ward, who has teloneado the Canadian artist in a total of six dates of their current European tour. Together they performed a remarkable version of 'Sometimes Always', duet Jesus and Mary Chain and Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) that came included in that "Stoned & Dethroned" which was published in 1994.

Videos like this cause me great pain in my heart. It hurts to see how France, Austria and Portugal have had in these last days to direct the creator of "Metals". We, as usual, we've left out a delicious tour that ended yesterday evening at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. What should we do to hear live music? ¿Praying to the Virgin of Fatima? This is a despair.

BEAT.DE CLUBBING & CULTURE 2012

We present, in cooperation with the hip-hop and SOULSIDE journal BACKSPIN we present DJ Lifeforce (DCS / Cologne), radio Messiah (YumYum / Freiburg) & FlowInVibes (Rebel Music / Freiburg) for mega party!

Statements such as "Life Force because I became DJ" is often heard in the scene. For this man is not looked up for no reason. This man is a passionate record scratches for over 20 years and not only because of his freestyle sessions, mixtapes, his own label and the releases under the banner "Beatz from the booth" a legend of the local hip-hop culture. There are few DJs in Germany to play the highest in the league. Life Force is inevitably alongside Stylewarz and Mirko Machine. His incredible skills on the turntables, he has been in the early nineties, when asked DMC Battles & Competitions demonstrated while he created with his band DCS Deutschrap history. DCS 2012 with a new album "Silver" back - Life Force was never gone. Who wants to talk about hip-hop, has to know and have heard Lifeforce. His DJ sets are filled with hip-hop banger party classics from the genres reggae, funk and soul and love and modern club sounds.

/ 22.30 clock to 5 clock / Admission: 7 € / KGB / Freiburg /

GLOBAL BOOTY SHAKE

"Global Booty Shake" which stands for a border crossing as a principle. Musically, everything here revolves around music styles from around the world. Here, the tradition meets modernity. Afrobeat and reggae flirting with hip-hop here. Combining cumbia and dubstep, for Moombathon while dancehall is to Jungle. Here, the Balkans are hot beats and driving, would be the Electro Swing jazz with electronic club sound mixed. Brazilian baile funk moves here as well as the bodies of the Latin variations from Central America. There will be a sweaty night of partying!

On the decks is provided by three forces established for the party madness:

DJ and producer Quincy Jointz is an institution of the international freestyle scene. With his remixes of Latin, reggae, funk and electronic excesses he has earned a worldwide reputation. As a DJ, there is hardly a genre that can not handle it. That evening, he will turn out as his affection latineske Quincerio and pop beats with tequila flavor through the air.

DJ Messiah and radio operators is an essential part of the Freiburg nightlife. As it is thanks to the internationally renowned mashup party "YUM YUM" to Freiburg has come. He is also the mastermind behind the legendary HARVEST RADIO series. He will emphasize his love for Moombathon that night and Chris from Christopher Gersch is go-Lum bus. Cuba Libre-compliant?

DJ Piotre Petrovic is 1beat.de from the world of music magazine and record as Redakteuer Dreher known. Polish mother and father, a Serb who grew up in Berlin, Zagreb, Bogota and Rio - he not only united in the love of his socialization to the sound worlds of South America and the Balkans. His DJ sets reflect this and much more.

Fast food Improcup

Rocket Sugar Factory and Carambapolka on stage at ImprocupWien, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam and Bolzano - from which European city of champions of the Champions League comes to improvisation will be decided on 04.28.2012 at the slaughterhouse in Munich. In the seventh and eighth match of the fast food Improcup 2012, meet the contestants in a merciless knockout tournament improvisation.

Jim Libby and Jacob Banigan of the Rocket Sugar Factory have to defend it nothing less than its title. In Vienna, the two champion players in the ensemble of the English Lovers make a splash. On the fast food Improcup stage they will compete with their colleagues from the Vienna improv Vista Social Club. Barbara Willensdorfer and Helmut Schuster donate their performances at 10% of their revenues into a "fund for unexpected", the people who become involuntarily Not supported. In the Champions League tournament, they will compete against Eric and Christine Merano Sittenauer of Carambapolka. After their first appearance together at the fast food Improcup 2011, the press has named Eric to "South Tyrol of the day". Whether from Düsseldorf and Amsterdam Ilka Knickenberg Dave Luza Casual Ma'ma of them can impress in their game?

A random and strict timelines provide the thrill that makes the fast food Improcup so unique. Players must not only be fast and quick-witted, but also true master of pithy improvisation. By acclamation occurs at a fireworks mini-dramas. The audience determines the degree of difficulty and the points awarded for the best scenes. Those who ignore the rules or not collected enough points to get out. Inexorably to Hart. Jörg provides for virgin as incorruptible judge and moderator.

At 12.05. it is then - again in the slaughterhouse in Munich - enter the final of the Improcup series that pits the Bavarian champion against the Champions League winner is.

Also visit the fast food Improcup 2012 on 28/04/2012 at the slaughterhouse in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.