Jónsi.

Post-rock/Contemporary

Go (April 5th 2010)
Tracklist:

Go Do

Animal Arithmetic

Tornado

Boy Lilikoi

Sinking Friendships

Kolnidur

Grow Till Tall

Around Us

Hengilas

Say hello to Jónsi. He was previously the guitarist and vocalist of an Icelandic band called Sigur Rós, but is now establishing himself as a solo artist. Go is a phenomenal record with almost every bar bursting with beauty. It is soulful, fun, naïve and sad in its own fantastical world; if only life really were this good. This is a record that will make you believe it could be. G, will be released on April 5th, 2010… or you can just get it by clicking the image above.





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And on the complete other end of the music spectrum :

Almost Alice - Alice In Wonderland Film Soundtrack (2010)

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1. “Alice (Underground)” performed by Avril Lavigne

2. “The Poison” performed by The All-American Rejects

3. “The Technicolor Phase” performed by Owl City

4. “Her Name Is Alice” performed by Shinedown

5. “Painting Flowers” performed by All Time Low

6. “Where’s My Angel” performed by Metro Station

7. “Strange” performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli

8. “Follow Me Down” performed by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch

9. “Very Good Advice” performed by Robert Smith

10. “In Transit” performed by Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz

11. “Welcome to Mystery” performed by Plain White T’s

12. “Tea Party” performed by Kerli

13. “The Lobster Quadrille” performed by Franz Ferdinand

14. “Running Out of Time” performed by Motion City Soundtrack

15. “Fell Down a Hole” performed by Wolfmother

16. “White Rabbit” performed by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Female Friday

Electronica/Dance/Indie





Goldfrapp - Head First (2010)
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Tracklisting
01. Rocket
02. Believer
03. Alive
04. Dreaming
05. Head First
06. Hunt
07. Shiny And Warm
08. I Wanna Life

09. Voicething

March 23rd saw the release of Head First, the new album from one of the few acts that can bring dance and indie fans together: Goldfrapp.  The UK duo provide precious few surprises on the new album, instead dishing out fairly straightforward techno pop.

Head First may be Goldfrapp's simplest album to date.  Save the ethereal album closer "Voicething", these tracks have been stripped nearly bare of the gauzy swirl that has so often separated the group from straight dance acts.

One can't help but get the feeling that some of these songs were rushed for the album.  Some tracks, like the trudging "Dreaming",  feel half-conceived.  Others, like the rather ordinary "Hunt", feel like Alison laid it down in the studio and said 'alright that'll do'.

There's nothing decidedly groundbreaking or terribly fresh sounding on Head First.  It's an enjoyable, but not stellar, dose of danceable indie pop.

Rocket Video

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Female Vocal / Folk / Pop

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I Speak Because I Can (2010)
01. Devil's Spoke
02. Made By Maid
03. Rambling Man
04. Blackberry Stone
05. Alpha Shallows
06. Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
07. Hope In The Air
08. What He Wrote
09. Darkness Descends
10. I Speak Because I Can


** Laura Marling plays The Acadmey, Dublin on 10th April **

Pale faced and precociously talented, Laura Marling was just 18 when her 2008 debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim, was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her assured Hampshire vernacular vocals, “unnervingly grown-up” lyrics and deft’n’definite acoustic guitar picking saw her compared with the young Joni Mitchell.

Now 20, with the release of her second album, I Speak Because I Can, we see a change in tone, if not direction. The production here is more deliberate and pored-over, expanding upon the earlier bare-bones approach. A leaf out of the Mumford and Sons school of orchestration has also been taken, with Rambling Man the greatest representation of this. The development in vocal styling is also stark; gone is the wispy, quick-fire phrasing and in walks deeper, slower, huskier proclamations. In many ways darkness has replaced the brightness.

It doesn't appear within her scope to make an outright bad album, and here we are shown a few more glimpses of her gift, but yet not an overwhelming outpouring of it. It's clear that there has been a progression as a songwriter, with a previously unfound depth apparent on these ten tracks. Though it undoubtedly draws on the travails of the past two-or-so years, there remains, without a doubt, more in the can from young Laura.
(BBC Music)





I know it's Jolene, but two fab acts!

Downloads

Tracklist:
'Intro'
'VCR'
'Crystalised'
'Islands'''''
'Heart Skips A Beat'
'Fantasy'
'Shelter'
'Basic Space'
'Infinity'
'Night Time'
'Stars' 

The XX  - The XX







Formed in 2005, The xx are an alternative trio hailing from London, England. This is their debut album, produced by the band.

Strongly influenced by modern R&B-- the group made hay with an early cover of Womack & Womack's "Teardrops", while UK copies of xx come packed with their version of Aaliyah's "Hot Like Fire"-- the xx use a drum machine to complement their copiously tidy compositions. Unlike contemporary R&B fetishists Hot Chip or Discovery, who have clearly spent long hours internalizing Timbaland, the Neptunes, and other radio cognoscenti, the xx incorporate more abstract elements of the genre: a liberal use of bass tones and an unwavering focus on sex and interpersonal relationships.



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Tracklist
1. "Thieves in the Night"
2. "Hand Me Down Your Love"
3. "I Feel Better"
4. "One Life Stand"
5. "Brothers"
6. "Slush"
7. "Alley Cats"
8. "We Have Love"
9. "Keep Quiet"
10. "Take It In"
Hot Chip- One Life Stand







Hot Chip are a Grammy-nominated electropop band formed in London, England, United Kingdom in 2000.

The best track (according to Rolling Stone)  is a marriage proposal called "One Life Stand." Hot Chip's excellent fourth record shows how compatible those sentiments can be. Frontman Alexis Taylor, a new dad, hungers for commitment and ponders the big picture over sweeping songs that set searching Yaz-like synth melodies to elegiac house throb. The Chipsters lace their songs with references to Tammy Wynette and Willie Nelson; they're old-school suckers for love, and they always give their heart-hopeful anthems just the right undercurrent of ache.

**TICKET ALERT**

Tickets on sale from Friday 26th March

Paul Weller @ The Olympia 

Electric Picnic @ Stradbally Hall
 

Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Grand Canal Centre 

Tegan & Sara @ The Olympia

Paramore @ Kings Hall (Belfast)

Al Green + Michael McDonald @ Marquee Cork  

Paloma Faith @ Iveagh Gardens  

Turin Brakes @ Whelans
 
Simon Fagan (Album Launch) @ Whelans

Band of Horses @ The Academy

Also, Heathers are playing in the Lower Deck, Portobello tonight (25th), €8 entry, and 8pm start. Well worth a visit if you're in the capital!

Leaked album releases

 Rufus Wainright-All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (5th Apr 2010) - Download Here

All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriterRufus Wainwright, scheduled to be released in spring 2010.[4] The album was produced by Wainwright (with Pierre Marchand on three tracks), and mixed by Marchand, who produced Wainwright's second album, Poses (2001).

All Days or Nights is Wainwright's first release since the death of his mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who died from cancer in January 2010.[5] While Wainwright is known for lush orchestrations and arrangements, this album contains piano and voice work,[6] with nine original songs as well as three adaptations of William Shakespeare's sonnets ("Sonnet 10", "Sonnet 20", and "Sonnet 43").

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans (May 11th 2010)

"CocoRosie are two American-born sisters, Sierra and Bianca, who started making music together in Paris in 2003. Their first album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, was released in 2004 and their second album, Noah’s Ark, followed in 2005. Their third and, to now, most recent album, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, came out in 2007. All three of these albums were released worldwide on Touch and Go Records and earned positive critical acclaim both overseas and at home.

The nomadic duo (currently and temporarily residing in New Mexico) spent much of 2008 writing and recording in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Berlin, New York, and Paris, finding amazing and diverse musicians to collaborate along the way. The result is their 11-song Sub Pop debut, Grey Oceans, due out May 11th, 2010."





MGMT- Congratulations (12th April 2010)

MGMT is a neo-psychedelic/alternative group which formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York, United


Tracklist
1. "It's Working"
2. "Song for Dan Treacy"
3. "Someone's Missing"
4. "Flash Delirium" 4:16
5. "I Found a Whistle"
6. "Siberian Breaks"
7. "Brian Eno"
8. "Lady Dada's Nightmare"
9. "Congratulations"

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Little known guitar prodigy, 24 year old, Australian, Orianthi Panagaris has already experienced what most aspiring musicians only dream of. She's opened for her hero (Steve Vai), backed an Idol (Carrie Underwood), traded solos with a legend (Carlos Santana) and shared the stage with the King of Pop (Michael Jackson). What's left to conquer? The world stage, for one, and this guitar wunderkind has her sights clearly set on the road ahead.


Orianthi packs modern girl-power punch into every turn of phrase, but it’s the shredding that takes her brand of rock to an entirely new level. Songs like “Suffocated” and “Think Like A Man” are anthemic rock tracks recalling at time Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Paramore and even a less-music row more-sunset strip Taylor Swift. First single “According To You” is a catchy tale of an ungrateful boyfriend with a killer guitar solo. The result: a thunderous, hook and riff driven debut that sounds larger than life. If, for a moment, you’ve thought the music world could use another taste of The Runaways’ Joan Jett, let us introduce you to Orianthi.

June 15/ Olympia/ Dublin, IE/

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