Album of the week: Gus Gus - Arabian Horse

Listen hear ► http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsvBiXxGYUc

The greatest hip-hop songs playlist

Watch - Eddie Murphy - Red Light ft Snoop Lion

Eddie Murphy came back to his music career. Jah Love!

Watch - Arcade Fire - "Reflektor" - 2013

Watch - These New Puritans - "Organ Eternal"

Bob Dylan's choices... for waking up real quick

1- Swing Low Sweet Cadillac - Dizzy  Gillespie

2- Umbrella Man - Dizzy  Gillespie

3- Hot House - Charlie Parker

Mercury Prize 2013

Arctic Monkeys - AM

James Blake - Overgrown

David Bowie - The Next Day

Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg

Disclosure - Settle

Foals - Holy Fire

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Laura Marling - Once I was An Eagle

Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon

Rudimental - Home

Savages - Silence Yourself

Villagers - Awayland 

 Winner to be announced on 30 October.

I Love London too

 

 

I heard these guys at Festival Optimus Alive. Everyone was jumping out and having a great time, including my friend who didn't stop dancing the entire show... This song was probably amongst the few songs I danced or jumped, as you prefer. P.S Teenagers love them.

Bars with jukeboxes

NYC - Jimmy's Corner

Manhattan - The Rusty Knot

Brooklyn - Skinny Dennis

Song for the day

"I've been infected with restless, whispers and cheats..." this song sticks in everyone's head.

 

The best of The Bling Ring

Sofia Coppola is a great GREAT director. I don't have any critics to her films. She moved from the loneliness lives to criticized the superficial empty society of Vanity Fair so well. An ambiguous movie based on the real story: The Suspects Wore Louboutins. What an aesthetic sensibility, tasteful, glamorous, well-done Coppola, clap! clap! clap!

1. Emma Watson, the "English Rose" surprising role. Keep an eye on her, she has the potential to win an Oscar soon.

2. Lucid quotes about Facebook generation and celebrity culture

3. Super cool soundtrack, as always.

Top 5 hangover songs

Good-looking brothers

I like KOL since 2003 album "Youth and Young Manhood" but stopped listening to this guys when "Sex is On Fire" was playing on and on in commercial radios. They replaced their rock n' roll blues with a kind of repetitive, equal boring, pop-rock. However, after seeing them at Optimus Alive, I started to enjoying them again... I just hope they will come back to good old days. Meanwhile I'm listening to "On Call" on a loop... and Caleb Followill ... I'd marry him,  Xoxo

A beat like this...

Check this album-film from TV On The Radio...just awesome!

Soooooooooo cool... I love TV On The Radio

James Blake – “Overgrown”

The second album of the 24 years old London producer starts like this: “I don't want you to know / I took it with me / But when things are thrown away like they are daily / Time passes in the constant state / So if that is how it is/ I don't wanna be a star / But a stone on the shore / Long door, frame the wall / When everything's overgrown”, from its song album-title Overgrown, which is much better than his debut “ James Blake” that offered only one single heard outside of England “there’s a limit to your love” - it's not even good.

Criticism like this one is arrogance. “Retrogade” is a new approach of Blake to dub step sound and minimal electronic, the powerful explosion of the chorus, the ups and downs beats with his whispering voice, resulted in a perfect single.  In “Take a Fall for Me”, Blake invited rapper RZA from Wu-Tang Clan and it turned out to be a cool rap track. “Dlm” and “Our Love Comes Back” are both depressing but “Digital Lion”, in turn, makes you step into your dancing shoes, also “Voyeur”.

Blake is something special. Great show in Coachella 2013, in the stage there were drums in the middle, James Blake himself on the right side (piano, PC, sampler and vocals) and on the left side a synthesizer, drum machine, music sequencer and sometimes a guitar.  Nevertheless, the tracks don’t sound the same live as they do recorded. I’d love to see Blake in a different stage. I saw him once in Optimus Alive 2011, but again the stage was unfamiliar, and the afternoon time wasn’t helping, only hundreds watching - a pity. 

He isn't a rock start but he does a good job exploring new electronic beats, so here's a  4/5.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - “Push the Sky Away”

“Push the Sky Away” is one of the best albums of 2013. What a record! Nick Cave expresses better than ever his writing skills: the whole album is a poem. Amazing piece of work with Warren Ellis (violin, viola), who co-produces seven of the nine album’s songs.

“Jubilee Street”, a dark song, “push the sky away” full of hope, acceptance ( push the limits away), “Higgs Bosom Blues”, a trip to Geneva that ends with Miley Cyrus flooding in a swimming pool in Taluca Lake, “Mermaids” and “Wide Lovely Eyes”. The album is a fairy tale (mermaids, water, skies), humans versus mermaids, not from this earth. 5/5

Upcoming show in Oporto, Optimus Primavera Sound 2013 May 30th

DEVENDRA BANHART - MALA, 2013

Devendra Banhart,Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist who had played in Portugal a couple of times -  Optimus Alive and Festival Para Gente Sentada -, is back with a new album "Mala". The single (video below) is a delightfull folk-rock song, an easy-going melodie that could enter in Silver Linning Playbook's soundtrack. In "Mala" Devendra breaks up with its freak-folk past and achieves, after 8 albums, musical maturity. 3.5/5

Shows:

Casa da Música - 2 de Agosto 

CCB - 3 de Agosto

Weekend

In its seventh edition, Dias da Música em Belém, in CCB (Centro Cultural de Belém) addresses the Romantic Impulse in two aspects: the historical and popular music. From Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, Chopin to John Lennon, Berlioz to the French chanson d'amour, the festival proposes a musical journey into the roots of Romanticism and detects the persistence of romantic feeling, erudite or ordinary, until today. It aims to deliver answers  to what is romanticism today, for us and if we can still be romantic in the XXI century. 

More informations:

http://www.ccb.pt/