Heading Out

I do deserve a vacation. I've been working more than 9-5 in the past few days and I've been hoping for this getaway for months. It's not long, just a few days to ease my nerves; I'll be checking in as soon as I could.
Hope me a great trip:)

MP3:
Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
B'z - イチブトゼンブ

JULIAN CASABLANCAS talks new album

"...capture the catchiness of modern music but at the same time the power and seriousness of classical music and older music." Wow.

Great Day

Paul McCartney is offering a free download track 'Great Day' which features in Adam Sandler's new film Funny People. It's up for a limited time, so be quick, boys and girls.

This Week's Tunes

The Dodos
Time To Die
MP3: Fables







Cale Parks
To Swift Mars
MP3: One At A Time







Julian Plenti
Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
MP3: Fun That We Have MP3







Mouthful Of Bees
Mouthful Of Bees
MP3: Thomas Aquinas







Other Girls
Perfect Cities
MP3: Hey Fella! You Fell

How can you resist?

Here it is Muse fans (me!me!) , the cover of the long-awaited album The Resistance. It's very colorful, compare to their previous albums; with the Earth in the centre of the hive-like palette, I believe we can expect the usual "outer-space-evil-dictator-propaganda" stuff...you know what I mean.

Harry Patch(In memory of)

Harry Patch, the last WWI veteran died last month. In Memory of the great man, Radiohead release a one-of track with "Harry Patch" as the title and quoted Patch's word in one of the most memorable interview.

Harry Patch (In memory of)
I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen devils coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn

The Answering Machine - Oklahoma

United States Of Eurasia

As the first single Uprising premiered around the world, Muse kind of got me confused with the song United States Of Eurasia. I mean, come on Matt, is that a Queen impression you're doing? And with the Arabic tunes, it's really not Muse enough.

News & Vidoes grabs

◎ Hilarious news(or not) about Lily Allen and Our Kid
◎ Arctic Monkeys performed 5 new songs, producer Josh Homme reveals why he wanted to work with them and their new album Humbug which leaked all over the internet today
◎ Octopus Project - Wet Gold
◎ Lissy Trullie - Ready for The Floor
◎ U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight(Live)

News & Vidoes grabs

◎ Be sure to tune in(or check your internet connection in this case) to Arctic Monkeys' Web Transmission in which they will play the new songs from the new album Humbug ◎
◎ Radiohead's Thom Yorke will featured one song on the soundtrack of New Moon
◎ Something more exciting, Coldplay will be playing in The Simpsons!
◎ Fitz & the tantrums - Winds of Change
◎ Motel Motel - Coffee
◎ SPIN magazine published their Best Album of 2009...so far

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lighting

Mercury Prize 2009

The shortlist for the 2009 Mercury Prize was out!

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Florence & The Machine - Lungs
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
La Roux - La Roux
Led Bib - Sensible Shoes
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The Invisible - The Invisible

The winner will be announced September 8th.
[http://mercuryprize.com]

Amazing Baby

The first time I saw a profile on the Brooklyn band Amazing Baby was a few months ago on NME, since then they've release their debut LP Rewild. It's not a particularly great album, but the sound is interesting enough to be compare to the likes of MGMT, Kasabian and even Bowie. The psychedelic Rewind is actually a mixture of many types of indie tunes that can bang your head in the kitchen sink, makes your ear hum or even the pop songs that makes you dance. The combination is less hype-worthy then what I thought it would be, nevertheless, Amazing Baby would still be a band that we should expact more in the future. Don't think too much, and enjoy them.

MP3:
Amazing Baby - Bayonets

News & Vidoes grabs

◎ Muse launched the Ununitedeurasia.muse.mu website, you should take some time exploring the spy-act happening there
◎ Brian Wilson announced his US tour dates
◎ Amazing Baby - Headdress
◎ EELS - In My Dreams
◎ Passion Pit - To Kingdom Come
◎ I don't get Keane these days, hope the Kanye West collaboration might make some sense

Going solo

Seems like the new Strokes album could keep up waiting for a long long while. The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is releasing a full-length album PHRAZES FOR THE YOUNG. The preview footage on the official website didn't show too much of how the album might be like, but I hope it won't be so movie-trailer like.....

[juliancasablancas.com]