Alt-J, immersed in the gothic world of Wim Delvoye in the video for 'Fitzpleasure'

Day of news related to Alt-J. The first: the nomination of the emerging indie pop band from Cambridge to Mercury Prize Award to be given on 1 November. The creators of "An Awesome Wave" will have few options to choose the award, but even so fight head to head against other time greats like Michael Kiwanuka, The Maccabees or Lianne La Havas (who as we speak recently). The second story is referring to the song 'Fitzpleasure' and the original music video that has emerged from the alliance between themselves, a French filmmaker and a Belgian artist.

The story of this video refers to the moment when the director Guillaume Cagniard for years JR art director, established the connection between the pervasive thing and audiovisual company Galerie Perrotin, agency representing some of the most renowned artists of the moment : Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, etc ... After making a video with Massive Attack, COSA decided to approach the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye to develop a new media project: the video for 'Fitzpleasure' Alt-J. Filmed in one day in Paris, production shows a gothic and oppressive atmosphere, taking the special role and tattooed beings as unique garments.

Building on the momentum of their debut album promo, Joe Newman and his entourage made ​​mostly witty tour the UK in the month of November. The dates of all these bowling will find them in the news that people gained Gigwise.

The Vaccines: "We plan to play in Spain in December"

This week has been entirely dedicated to "Come of Age", the second studio album by The Vaccines. First published our review / recommendation of the album, then drop a post talking about how much we liked 'Aftershave Ocean', and now we bring you a brief but intense interview we did recently with Pete Robertson, the renowned London-based battery. With Pete talked about quite a bit, with a particular toll on the composition of "Come of Age", tour plans (Spain!) And fun experiences that they have lived in the past concerts. The Vaccines playing against moshpists, day in and day out! Incredible.
Without further delay I leave with the item. To see when just more specific detail on the alleged "double" The Vaccines give concert in our country.
- What made you decide to throw live and the way the recording of "Come Of Age"?We started as a live band and our main ambition has always been to play shows. We feel great to know that one of our strengths is the way in which we interact on stage, both musically and personally. We wanted to use this energy in the studio, though, what we had in mind was to record the vocals live with the band. That was an idea that Ethan suggested when we met with him, and finally made sense to do it.
- Some bands say that working with Ethan Johns is the same as working with the guy who has the best team. Do you think the same?No, especially by the fact that to get to have the best team just need money, but to be able to use your resources in honest and timeless records, you have to have a big production history behind you. That's the most important. Ethan has a lot of that and has proven time and again with the albums he has released. An important point is that the team appreciates Johns as something far less important than the human element that characterizes the music. I remember I spent the entire recording process trying to get the better of us as instrumentalists, musicians and people. And I think he did a great job.
- Compusisteis items in hotel rooms, airports ..., right?Yes, everywhere. I remember working on new material in Australia and thought it was very surreal to be writing something in a city that was so far from home where I grew up.
- In a previous issue of Rolling Stone comentasteis that you want people to listen to your music while having sex. What song from your repertoire that you think is the most sexual of them all?I think it depends on the type of sex you want to have. If you want something aggressive, possibly choose 'Bad Mood', but if you wanted a love rejuvenated, perhaps 'I Always Knew', or 'Lonely World' for something sweet. But I do not know, I've never fucked listening to The Vaccines. That would be odd, as if they were my friends while I'm watching.
- What could I say about 'Aftershave Ocean'? We love the refreshing feeling of the song. How was the issue?'Ocean Aftershave' was born from a silhouette guitarrera who composed Freddie, and that came from an idea of ​​Justin raised letter on a 'sea of ​​aftershave' and the concept of 'get from the air'. The content is about seeing the world as it is and not mask the bad things with a surface layer of positivity.
- We believe that the songs that feeling home that refers to the rock sound of the sixties. Do you think the same?I think there's a stack of signatures and relate any type of issue (our or any other band) with rock bands of the sixties. Everyone has taken inspiration from the Beatles, Stone, The Kinks, Neil Young, Phil Spector ... But there's much more than that in our subjects. Rather than looking for any kind of time, we look at ourselves, watching everything that we listened, we read or watched and that affected us. From there we tried to draw the feeling that created that connection.
- Several hearings have been your last concerts that have been launched to make moshpits while tocabais 'Bad Mood'. From this moment, what has been the most fun?Well, the other day we saw some girls were removed the bra in the middle of the song ...
- The introduction of "Ghost Town" seems perfect for a mosh. When composing, Did you think that people would be so crazy to hear it again?None of us thought it was going to happen with that topic. We love to play it. I remember the first time I was a little nervous the first time we played it, because it's a little different than what we've done so far. Luckily everything went very well and is a regular song in our bowling.
- Imagine that you can say that The Vaccines opening for a band of your choice. What escogirías?Probably the Rolling Stones, because they invented the style of music we play and are some incredible artists. I think Keith Richards is a phenomenal guitarist, plus he and the rest know farrear ...
- Do you plan to come in concert to Spain soon?Yes! We plan to play a couple of gigs in your country in December, but we do not know more details ...
- What was the best part of playing in the last edition of the FIB (Festival Internacional de Benicàssim)?That performance was one of my favorites. I felt as if all the people that were living there this together, and we share with them that incredible night. The audienca was the best I've gotten to see so far.
- Have you been working an awful lot in the last two years. Do you still feel that you have the energy for, flip, rotate around the world and re-record another album?This hope! We are enjoying the time of our lives but I think we deserve a rest after finalize the tour for this new album. Even so hopefully we get down to compose something soon.

Listen to "The Carpenter", the latest album by The Avett Brothers

The wait has come to an end: "The Carpenter", the second album that The Avett Brothers have released under a major label, is here. Well, the truth is that there is still a bit to launch (September 11) but it is possible to hear each and every one of the songs on the entire album via streaming is uploaded to NPR, probably the musical web which houses more relevant streamings per day worldwide.
The story of The Avett Brothers took its first steps in 2000, but even so the band of brothers did not quite explode Avett medially until the release of "I and Love and You", an album of folk satin lightweight who came to enchant the audience much of U.S. in late 2009. This new compact is following in the footsteps of its predecessor, including a more introspective take death and the need to live as main themes of "The Carpenter". The brutal struggle for survival that is living the daughter of 2 years of bassist - Bob Crawford - has been the main source of inspiration conceptual work that was again produced by Rick Rubin, figure and was behind "I And Love And You ".
I have not had time to listen to the LP depth but I started to feel good vibes listening over a piece as 'Winter In My Heart', 'February Seven' or 'Through My Prayers'. If you liked the last album is quite likely that you will like "The Carpenter", there is an undeniable link between the melody composing both. Just a recommendation: listen with headphones, in a quiet moment. Your ears will thank you.
As a curiosity, here are the Avett Brothers ad that recorded for the clothing brand Gap. Curious to see them in a spot like this, right?.

'Resounding is her second name: Instrument live in Kranhalle

On 13/09/2012 it says in the crane hall in Munich 'home game' for klangwuchtige band instrument, formed in 2010 from the ashes of the highly regarded rock band Cosmic Casino. Why klangwuchtig? Now who his new album brimming with confidence after the largest known mountain in our solar system, the "Olympus Mons" on the planet Mars, like names, so no doubt-subtly point to his Klangwuchtigkeit.
What instrument with Cosmic Casino in common? It is still rocking. On the other hand instrument are also going very different paths. On their records can be heard first, the affinity for jazz and instrumental improvisation. Secondly, a clear preference direction identify pop music song structure, combined with catchy melodies.
After several tours to the self-titled debut album, the second album "Olympus Mons" within a year was composed, recorded and produced. These different studios, rooms and places of retreat in Bavaria and neighboring states were used. The result is an album that is not minus the second, but the better and more sophisticated. "Olympus Mons" is partly the sweeter and thus supporting more pop album in itself. The video for the first single "Picks & Chips" shows that the concept of verse-chorus-verse has somehow exhausted. Because with instrument remains a Giarrenlinie amazingly just so stuck in my head.
Instrument in the crane hall in full occupation, that is with their second guitarist Maximilian Nieberle occur, and thus develop its entire force.
Visit also the instrument concert on 13.09.2012 in the crane hall in Munich.