MULATU ASTATKE & THE HELIOCENTRICS TOUR 2010

New Mulatu album listen here



New tour dates listing

30.03.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Festival Chorus des Hauts de Seine,Paris
03.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Banlieues Bleues,Paris
08.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Tivoli, Utrecht
09.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam
10.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ TRIX, Antwerp
12.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Paradis Artificiel, Lille
14.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Principal Club, Thessaloniki
17.04.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Fuzz Club, Athens
22.05.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Territorios, Sevilla
26.05.10 Mulatu Astatke @ Nattjazz, Bergen
29.05.10 Mulatu Astatke @ Novara Jazz Festival, Novara
01.07.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Ljubljana
09.07.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Jazz a Vienne, Vienne
22.07.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ San Sebastian Jazz Festival, San Sebastian
29.07.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Noe Festival, Krems
31.07.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Dromos Festival, Sardinia
29.09.10 Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics @ Barbican, London


OLD TOUR DATES LISTING


Mar 26 Ghent, Belgium Ghent, Belgium @ Minnemeers
Mar 27 Amsterdam, Holland Amsterdam, Holland @ Paradiso
Mar 28 Cologne, Germany Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
Mar 30 Frankfurt, Germany Frankfurt, Germany @ Sinkkasten
Apr 1 Berlin Germany Berlin Germany @ Lido
Apr 4 Helsinki, Finland Helsinki, Finland @ Kulttuuroitalo
Apr 8 Florence, Italy Florence, Italy @ Auditorium Flog
Apr 9 Rome, Italy Rome @ Circolo degli Artisti
Apr 10 Geneva, Switzerland Electron Festival @ L'Alhambra Theatre
Apr 11 Paris, France Paris, France @ Casino Nouveau
May 20 London, England London, England @ Koko

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - new LP

Titus Andronicus to publish second album on 9 March 2010.

The record will be a concept album about the US Civil War. It will be released on the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, during which the ship USS Monitor confronted the confederate ship C.S.S. Virginia off the coast of Virginia.

Tracklist:

01 A More Perfect Union

02 Titus Andronicus Forever

03 No Future Part Three Escape From No Future

04 Richard II

05 A Pot In Which To Piss

06 Four Score And Seven

07 Theme From Cheers

08 To Old Friends And New

09 …And Ever

10 The Battle Of Hampton Roads

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - New EP + Tour dates

From Band statement

"As you may have guessed, it will feature the song Nitetime Rainbows from our recent album, Ashes Grammar. The mix of this song had always troubled Josh and I and we were excited to have a chance to remix it, however sligtly. The end result will probably sound no different to anyone but Josh or I, but it is a new mix and we love how it sounds. Also on the EP will be three new songs. These are all songs we started recording during the Ashes Grammar sessions but songs we didn't get to finish in time to make it on to that album. "


NITETIME RAINBOWS EP — Out on March 2, 2010
clear vinyl 12″/ digital download only

A1 Nitetime rainbows (new mix)
A2 Daytime rainbows
A3 So bloody, so tight
A4 Piano Lessons

B1 Nitetime rainbows (Buddy System remix)
B2 Nitetime rainbows (Acid wash edit by Benoit Pioulard)
B3 Nitetime rainbows (Ezekiel Honig remix)

SPRING TOUR 2010

2/26 - New York City, NY - Mercury Lounge

plus other dates rest of March

Euro tour dates

4/8 - Paris, France - Faites Danser Les Garcons @ Point Ephemere
4/24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
4/29 - Dijon, France - Kill Your Pop Festival
5/3 - Prague, Czech Republic - Klub 007
5/12 - Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique Festival
5/15 - Glasgow, Scotland - Nice N Sleazys
5/17 - Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
5/18 - Dublin, Ireland – Whelans
5/19 - Liverpool, England - Sound City Festival
5/20 - London, England - Luminaire

NB - 12'" EPs will be sold on tour

Listen to CONTRA !!!!

SPOON - Transference

New studio album available January 18 (Europe) and January 19 (US).

The album is streaming in its entirety at NPR here

Spoon will be touring the US with Deerhunter, and alternatively The Strange Boys and Micachu and the Shapes.

A date is planned at NYC Radio City Music Hall on 3/26.

In February Spoon has some dates in Europe with The White Rabbits

Feb 14 - Glasgow, Scotland at King Tuts
Feb 15 - Manchester, UK at Academy 3
Feb 16 - London, UK at Electric Ballroom
Feb 18 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands at Paradiso
Feb 19 - Cologne, Germany at Luxor
Feb 20 - Berlin, Germany at Frannz Club

These New Puritans - Hidden

These New Puritans to release new album titled "Hidden" on 18 January

The album is streamed on Myspace here

See video of the first single We want war



The production is clearly aiming at big sound here: brass ensemble, Japanese drums, children choir, swords, smashed heads (simulated)... that's what I call raising the bar. In fact at first listen the album sounds a bit like Divine Comedy meets Leftfield meets Ghost Dog mish mash. I

don't know if this is supposed to be what the sound of 2010 looks like.

First impression is that big drums become quickly tiring and, with the rest of production, they drown the songs which lack strong substance of their own.

But I reserve my opinion for when I will have seen their gig.

From press release:

"the album draws equally on on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, with instrumentation redolent of both the oceanic brass of benjamin britten's peter grimes and the plastic textures of modern us pop. it is sometimes brutal, sometimes melancholy, and sounds like nothing else.

'hidden' features six-foot japanese taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children's choir, foley recording techniques (including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed), and the ethereal voice of heather marlatt from dream-pop group Salem."


Nota Bene: Pre-order of the LP version of the album will be signed by band members

Dubstep Rocks !!!!

Waiting for You, the debut full-length from King Midas Sound, the trio of producer Kevin "The Bug" Martin, poet/vocalist Roger Robinson, and vocalist Hitomi.

More sedated version of the Bug.

File along with Kode9 and SpaceApe, Skream, Burial, Martyn (?)

Forget about Heligoland...