Roots Manuva: Slime and Reason

A hi-def video of his single "Again and Again" is available here!

Roots Manuva - "Buff Nuff"

Album out on September 1st. Watch out for it!

2008-07-23

Carla Bruni's official new video: L'amoureuse

Comme si de rien n’était (As If Nothing Happened)
Two years after setting to music an anthology of English-language poems from the 19th and 20th centuries, Carla Bruni has once again taken up her pen to write a new album of original songs, the first since her inaugural and highly successful CD, Quelqu’un m’a dit (Someone Told Me), in 2002. What immediately strikes you when listening to Comme si de rien n’était is its lush instrumental palette. After recording two CDs with an uncluttered, folk-blues style, the singer explores a wide spectrum of genres ranging from pop to bluegrass, with nods to jazz and flamenco. Bruni’s touch, however, is immediately apparent in these compositions that again focus their gaze on emotion. “I’ve been following the same thread since I started writing songs”, she says.

2008-07-23

Mercury Prize album of the year nominees

The nominees for album of the year have just been announced. And they include:









Check out other nominees here

2008-07-23

Carla Bruni new release: Comme si de rien n'était

Naïve and VMA have announced that the new Carla Bruni album entitled "Comme si de rien n'était" (As If Nothing Happened), will be released soon.
The album cover is a photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.



Upon her request, Carla Bruni's royalties will be given to "Fondation de France".

Tracklisting:

01 Ma jeunesse
02 La possibilité d'une île
03 L'amoureuse
04 Tu es ma came
05 Salut marin
06 Ta tienne
07 Péché d'envie
08 You belong to me
09 Le temps perdu
10 Déranger les pierres
11 Je suis une enfant
12 L'antilope
13 Notre grand amour est mort
14 Il vecchio e il bambino

2008-07-22

Friendly Fires announces debut album details

St Albans trio Friendly Fires, have announced their self-titled debut album which will be released on September 1.


“These 37 minutes of music is the end product of two years’ inspiration, frustration, toil and passion. We set out to merge heartfelt, romantic songwriting with our love of the dancefloor and blissful shoegaze guitars.”

Tracklisting:
Jump In The Pool
In The Hospital
Paris
White Diamonds
Strobe
On Board
Lovesick
Skeleton Boy
Photobooth
Ex Lover



Source: Drowned in Sound

2008-07-22

Bloc Party to star in new online drama

"Bebo's next online drama will be set in the London headquarters of Universal Music, telling the tale of an employee that secretly starts a music label - a plot that echoes Michael J Fox's 1987 hit The Secret of My Success."


Source: Guardian UK

2008-07-22

Radiohead's new video: House of Cards

“Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.”

2008-07-15

SMD on XLR8R TV

"Simian Mobile Disco are best known for their studio work with bands like Justice, Klaxons, The Go! Team and The Rapture. Instead of leaving their studio behind for their first solo tour, SMD packed the whole thing up, brought it around the world and dissected it for us in this episode."

Check out the video here

2008-07-15

The Black Ghosts: Face

Check out more Black Ghosts videos on Bigstereo

2008-07-15

The Dodos

Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Through a chance introduction by a roommate, Meric met Santa Cruz transplant Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal. Eventually the band changed their name to the Dodos, through constant harrowing from first tourmates Peter and the Wolf, and got a rehearsal studio where they'd spend long hours improvising the music that would become their first record Beware of the Maniacs. The band quit their day jobs as a line cook and a printer and hit the road in Oct. 2006.

“Bewitching...” (4/5) Q

“...one of the most welcomed (and welcoming) records of 2008...” (8.5/10) Pitchfork

“impressive...” (4/5) Uncut

“entrancing...” (4/6) Time Out

“infectious, propulsive, unselfconscious...” (4/5) Mojo

“one of the summer’s must have releases...” (8/10) NME

2008-07-15