Gotradio bit o blues playlist
Little Comets — Adultery. Vocal trio with dueling drummers. This pretty much sums up The Agitator, but their powerful harmonies and African influenced skin hitting. Stripped back and absolutely addictive! After making a huge splash at last years event, Girl, Boy vocal pop duo Slow club are back to bring more of their simple but effective harmonies, enthusiastic delivery and captivating wordplay.
Loud and dirty…just what we like! Back for after a storming and the release of their debut album to critical acclaim. The Japanese experimental rock mammoths, are ready to sway some more minds onto their progressive noise rock.
Bo Ningen — 4 Seconds To Ascension. Sure to blow you away or at least your eardrums! Turbowolf — Seven Severed Heads. Glaswegian Indie darlings are the critical choice for the weekend. They play off-kilter pop melodies with so many different instruments it hard to keep count. Understated but at the same time euphoric. Once to kick back and enjoy. The Phantom Band — A Glamour. If so, get yourself to The Computers show.
Camden Crawl — Highlights. Cage The Elephant have managed something most people struggle with their entire musical careers…progression! Long gone is their restrained blues-by-numbers middle of the road rock which had a couple of memorable moments. In its place are off kilter guitars and urgent indie rock yelped and lashed through their edge teetering vocals and guitars. Their incessant drive for uptempo melodies are perfectly showcased on with its ramping up riff taking off in spectacular fashion.
His vocals are a great deal more impressive that their debut. They drop the baton however with some good old fashioned balladry. There are plenty of other highlights strewn throughout the track list including the poppy Shake Me Down and the all out punk assaults of Sabertooth Tiger and the riff roller coaster that is Japanese Buffalo. A cracking sophomore album packed with equally as many thrills and surprises as great tunes!!
Always Something for instance kicks off the album with a drum machine and screams before being overlayed with an off kilter drum beat. Indeed, the guitars are used sparsely, with the drums forming the backbone for the song. It generally works out pretty well for them — Frank Black should be proud. Continuing the homages, draws from Daniel Johnston for a punk song with a tenderly melodic chorus.
In fact, where the album screws up is on the slower songs; the ballady Right Before My Eyes and the poorly executed foray into Modest Mouse territory on the final song, Flow , generally fall flat. Tonight was a night to savour. Not only is it free entry, but the lineup is packed with 4 top quality bands who Powerage have signed the finest rock and roll the UK has to offer, bringing it all together on one stage tonight. Their pumped up rock anthems were just the ticket to get the night kicked off as they ran though a swift but impact making set.
They had a slightly punkier edge to them which invigorated the already quite sozzled crowd. Highlights of their set included the chorus busting Give It Up , all out rocker Superslave and the punky American sing-along riot of Goodnight New York. Their bluesy hard rock was more glam pop in orientated, with a much more radio friendly lead singer armed with an outstanding high note and enough growl in him to still cut it with the rock crowds.
In fact this was the biggest and most energetic crowd of the night as they played the highlights from their self titled debut album. So confident in their melodies, they are able to slow down the tempo and try some emotive high-note bending balladry on Nothing To Lose. With such strong vocals and non-soppy lyrics…it works! Above all else this performance has showcased their extreme talent at producing brilliantly catchy rock and roll, a band not to be missed.
Its clear all you need is The Treatment. I have overlooked the fact that their bassist is an incredibly annoying short-short-short-arse! They were more focused in the heavy spectrum and the low notes of the guitar, thundering out some cracking bass and fuzz soaked booming riffs.
Plus they were a slight anomaly amongst the line-up, the flagging enthusiasm from the crowd reflecting this! No surprises then that this set fell by the wayside for us. Last but not least came a band who have impressed us here in the Underworld before, New Device. Highly strung verses were backed with stratospheric choruses sung with utter conviction and a fiery intent! Confined in this small underground space songs like the big thumping rhythms of Make My Day and mega ballad In The Fading Light feel caged as they bustle and wriggle to be released from these walls.
Archive for April, Camden Crawl Guide: It helps plow through the snow and stay positive that spring is almost here hopefully:. I want to change my bio on Twitter follow: While I thought it was intriguing and witty, it could potentially come across as conceited or arrogant.
I intended it with humor, in an almost sarcastic way. In a way, the bio was meant as an indicator that my subsequent tweets would be both hilarious and serious which they are, in my opinion. However, I did have the fortune of taking a positive psychology class last semester and found that people who are more optimistic in life and in their writing tend to be more well liked and more successful.
Would that win over potential followers? Again, am I doing this in my new bio? So it would appear that the hunt is once again on to create a fantastic new bio. In the mean time, I could always test out this new bio and see if my fears are actually right. If they are, then a change is always just a click away. I have this professor who prides himself on being a musician as well as being a business professor. You just need to sit back, relax, and just listen.
Shame on you and shame on me twice, for trusting, trusting you. It sold out too fast! This will make more sense if you just listen to the song:. The way a person sings just one word really can change my opinion of a song e. Basically, this is Lorde being her usual self of denouncing the media for telling people, particularly youths, how to live their lives.
I kind of admire that about Lorde and her music. My violin teacher has just approved me to start playing a more advanced book of songs. I get really into it, playing it exactly the way it should, in my opinion, be played, and finish beaming. I chose the latter, knowing I could never get the hang of the drums in time.
So I started practicing those four chords so much that I actually broke a couple guitar strings that week. Over time, I eventually figured out many different chord progressions, strumming patterns, and how to create different sounds.
I never took any formal guitar lessons, unlike my previous eleven years of being trained classically to play violin and cello. But once I started playing guitar without any professional guidance, I was not going to stop. But I like the fact that I may be holding my guitar the wrong way, that I may not have the right fingers on the right frets, and that my rhythms or strumming patterns could be totally made up.
I like that freedom.