Warm weather outside....

In the couple of years that Blastoids (all the way from Tennessee in the United States) have been doing their thing they’ve made it pretty goddamn difficult not to compare their sound to Animal Collective; even with their new five-track EP the tendency is to make the easy connection. But before getting all genre-fixated, there’s a bit more to the group than a quick glimpse might initially suggest.

They sound like that (video below) and I  recommend!

Loving this.

One way or another

BLONDIE comes to Ireland!

Live at Vicar St
22nd June 2010

Live at The Marquee, Cork
24th June 2010

Tickets on sale this Friday 16th April at 9am ( €49.20)


Blondie will be giving their fans the experience they've been waiting for with a combination of new music from their upcoming album and classic hits.


Blondie are soon to release their first album in six years, "Panic of Girls'" and is set to be what fans have been craving. "We are really proud with the body of work on Panic of Girls. The album is a combination of numerous musical styles. We have been in the studio for a long time now so we are excited to get out on the road and debut the new songs live for our fans," says front woman Debbie Harry.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (2006), music, style and pop culture icons and best selling recording artists, Blondie emerged from late '70s new wave punk scene in New York City and defied easy categorization. They wrote great rock hooks and brilliant, ironic lyrics. They had the hippest clothes and the coolest hair.

Debbie Harry went from the pages of Punk magazine to the cover of just about every mainstream publication on the news stands. With multiple #1 smash hits like "Heart of Glass," "One Way Or Another," "Call Me," "Rapture" and "Maria," the band has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.

The Old Hands

Dirty Garage Rock


BRMC-Beat The Devils Tattoo (2010)

Tracklist
"Beat The Devil's Tattoo"
"Conscience Killer"
"Bad Blood"
"War Machine"
"Sweet Feeling"
"Evol"
"Mama Taught Me Better"
"River Styx"
"The Toll"
"Aya"
"Shadow's Keeper"
"Long Way Down"
"Half-State"


BRMC's fifth studio album, the band's first studio release since last year's The Effects Of 333, and in many ways, it represents a new start for the decade-old trio.

With its opening title-track, Beat the Devil's Tattoo sets an immediate, engaging marker, yet War Machine soon stands up as the album lynchpin. Steered by white noise and cynicism, it's a proud barrage of rapier percussion and wailing guitar dynamics that lurches in all the right ways.
It's also the excessively cool, monochrome reminder that BRMC – once upon a time – were more concerned with smothering guitar psychedelics than pedestrian, harmonica-led meanders. The turgid piano and ambling pace of The Toll, and Long Way Down, are the sacrificial lambs this time.

But nestled beside these slighter offerings is the slow burn of Evol and the gloriously mordant Shadow's Keeper. When pitted against BRMC's finer moments of eyes-closed indulgence – like the pastoral Sweet Feeling – it’s clear that the album’s conflict makes for an increasingly frustrating listen.
A realm away from the much-maligned direction of Baby 81, Beat the Devil's Tattoo undoubtedly has its highlights. But where BRMC might have given us clarity, we’ve got contrasts instead.

(BBC Music)




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Classic Rock/ Blues

Valleys of Neptune (2010)
Tracklist 
1. Stone Free
2. Valleys Of Neptune
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Hear My Train A Comin’
5. Mr. Bad Luck
6. Sunshine Of Your Love
7. Lover Man
8. Ships Passing In The Night
9. Fire
10. Red House
11. Lullaby For The Summer
12. Crying Blue Rain


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Some grousing from fans greets most posthumous Jimi Hendrix studio releases. And fair enough: Hendrix can't offer his opinion anymore, and between past dubious product (i.e., the heavily overdubbed Crash Landing) and ongoing estate squabbles, there's been plenty of sketchy business over the years. But on Valleys of Neptune — a collection of more-or-less previously unreleased tracks recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1969, assembled by the archivists at Legacy and the Hendrix estate — the music is seething, gorgeous, alive


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Soul/Jazz/Chill Out


Soldier of Love (2010)
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Tracklisting:
01 The Moon And The Sky
02 Soldier of Love
03 Morning Bird
04 Baby Father
05 Long Hard Road
06 Be That Easy
07 Bring Me Home
08 In Another Time
09 Skin
10 The Safest Place





Soldier of Love is the latest chapter in Grammy winning Sade Adu's incredible run as a mystery woman. Her first album in 8 eight years. The songs on Soldier of Love depict a soul whose wounds still sting but are healing with the hope that love will return. “My heart has been a lonely warrior before, whose been to war, so you can be sure,” Sade sings on “The Safest Place”, which brings the album’s ten songs to a pensive conclusion. It’s a closing statement that suits the context of the album, a kind survivor’s guide to love.

The qualities that millions of devoted fans enjoy about Sade are placed in new contexts on Soldier of Love. While listeners may not hear anything precisely reminiscent of their favorite songs on Promise (1985) or Stronger Than Pride (1987), they will hear Sade tread new territory. “I never want to repeat myself,” the singer has said. In this first year of a new decade, Sade bravely soldiers on, ever-committed to her artistic vision.

(PopMatters)


Sade - Soldier of Love (YouTube Video)