Dublin based Jody Has A Hitlist, who are a reasonably new band, having only formed in Janurary of 2009, have given themselves a strong name, and fan base on the music scene having headlined Eamon Dorans in Dublin on 3 occasions, and also played support to Metro Station in the Olympia last year.
They play a matinee gig at the Academy today at 1pm...tickets are only €13 and are available from Ticketmaster and are also available at the door.
You can also download 5 of their songs, FOR FREE! including their cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. **HERE!!**
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.
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.
1 Are You Satisfied?
2 Shampain
3 I Am Not A Robot
4 Girls
5 Mowgli's Road
6 Obsessions
7 Hollywood
8 The Outsider
9 Hermit The Frog
10 Oh No!
11 Rootless
12 Numb
13 Guilty
Marina And The Diamonds, is the stage name of Marina Diamandis, a Greek / Welsh solo artist based in London.
In small doses Marina can be magnificent. Her first major label single, Mowgli’s Road, includes insane lyrics about cutlery (“Ten silver spoons coming after me”), the beats and pacing of Green Day’s Hitchin’ a Ride, and Tori Amos-ish baroque soundscapes and wild animal noises. It’s as much Lord of the Flies as The Jungle Book. Guilty is just as interesting: bursts of harpsichord, beats more at home on a burial record, looped background vocal motifs and perhaps Marina’s best vocal performance on the album. And recent single Hollywood may sound as bombastic and ridiculous as Arnie driving a Humvee through a plate glass window, but it’s superbly enjoyable.
Judging by the auspicious critical and commercial reception to Hollywood, there will be many who find a great deal to love about Marina and her whacky voice; but there will be just as many who despise her.(BBC Music)
Make what you will of it.
//Also, if any of ye are going to Kate Nash in the Academy tonight, or about the capital, check out her support, Sister Lovers..... I went to school with 2 of these guys, and they're pretty decent! It's only about €20 for the Kate Nash gig.
01. I Can See In Color - Mary J. Blige
02. He Is The Joy - Donna Allen
03. Was That All It Was - Jean Carn
04. Did You Ever See A Dream Walking - Sunny Gale
05. Come Into My House - Queen Latifah
06. Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Mahalia Jackson
07. Love Is The Message - Mfsb
08. Now That I Know Who I Am - Nona Hendryx
09. System - Labelle
10. Somethin's Comin' My Way - Grace Hightower
11. It Took A Long Time - Labelle
12. Letters - Mario Grigorov
01. Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
02. Look At Me - John Lennon
03. Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno
04. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Graham Bonnet
05. Driving Me Backwards - Brian Eno
06. Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
07. The Big Ship - Brian Eno
08. Celtic Swing - Van Morrison
09. Alice - Cocteau Twins
10. Who Loves You (Pilooski Re-Edit) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
11. Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions - Graham Parker
12. After hours - The Velvet Underground
13. Coming Back to Me - Jefferson Airplane
14. How Great Thou Art - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
15. Cherish - David Cassidy
16. Cry - 10cc
17. Let your love flow - Bellamy Brothers
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