HSAH is having a bit of a myspace moment and finding odd, musical kinsmen...for want of a better word. Noisey punk bands like Bronx, Les savy fav, no age are taking the industry and grunge kids by storm. Can they peers carry this trend forward or do they die on their arse as copy cats and unoriginal? You decide as HSAH is loving the stale smell of beer.
Feel free to check out these guys for your ear bleeding pleasure. Don't you just love the hyperbole?
Baltimore seems to breed grunge, noise bands and Double Dagger (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=66653259) is no exception even if self described as Pop...oh the irony.
Pony Tail (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=16155773) are another band that hail from Baltimore (there must be something in the water) and describe themselves as pop. Sounding like a cross between the Yeah Yeah Yeah and deerhoof they do, actually, make tracks that could be described as pop. HSAH has mentioned Pony Tail is this group of bands because they veer of the good side of odd.
For a more magical sound that makes you want to melt away check out High Places (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=77468018)
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
New bands to look out for...
In to new music and love said music to weird? then why not check out these guys:
Crystal Antlers...they even have a bizarre name.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1985493
Monotonix...hail from Israel and make interesting noise rock. They are also playing on thursday at the luminaire.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60761539
Thank You...they make great sounds.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=49354913
Crystal Antlers...they even have a bizarre name.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1985493
Monotonix...hail from Israel and make interesting noise rock. They are also playing on thursday at the luminaire.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60761539
Thank You...they make great sounds.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=49354913
animal collective tour dates...
Yes, that is right, Animal Collective are coming to the Uk and here are their dates:
Mon 12-Jan-09 UK London Koko
Tue 13-Jan-09 UK Glasgow Glasgow School of Arts
Wed 14-Jan-09 UK Manchester Club Academy
Thu 15-Jan-09 UK Brighton Concorde 2
HSAH is definitely going to get a ticket for the London date. Excitingly a new album will follow!
Mon 12-Jan-09 UK London Koko
Tue 13-Jan-09 UK Glasgow Glasgow School of Arts
Wed 14-Jan-09 UK Manchester Club Academy
Thu 15-Jan-09 UK Brighton Concorde 2
HSAH is definitely going to get a ticket for the London date. Excitingly a new album will follow!
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
AU - Verbs - Released on the 3rd November
American bands seem to be behind some of the most interesting and experimental music at the moment. At the forefront of this American influx is Animal Collective whose unique style makes them stand head and shoulders above their contemporaries. How, do other American acts follow this level of quantity without being type casted or coined as a copy cat?
HSAH thinks it cant be easy to make your mark in this ever evolving music world and for a band to stand out they must be truly special or just plain mad. Which is AU? Possibly the good kind of mad. Hailing from Portland Oregon, AU, mark themselves out with their debut offering Verbs that's out on Aagoo Record later this year. Coined as an 'experimental pop collective' Verbs is a collection of ethereal tracks that, at times, sound like interesting choral music or sleep inducing lullabies. A prime example of this is the aptly named Sleep, the last track on Verbs.
What Verbs doesn't lack is layers. With over thirty contributors to Verbs its amazing the depth that is on this album. With additional vocal and musicians the tracks on verbs are given an extra dimension like on All My Friends, which is this explosion of sounds. Like their peers, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Beirut, AU masterfully veer on the side of madness and throughout Verbs you are left thinking what, why and how did they come to this music. This playfulness allows AU to be as 'out there' as they like but they manage to retain a commercial feel to their music.
Hand Shakes and Holidays thinks you should listen to this album. 8/10.
HSAH thinks it cant be easy to make your mark in this ever evolving music world and for a band to stand out they must be truly special or just plain mad. Which is AU? Possibly the good kind of mad. Hailing from Portland Oregon, AU, mark themselves out with their debut offering Verbs that's out on Aagoo Record later this year. Coined as an 'experimental pop collective' Verbs is a collection of ethereal tracks that, at times, sound like interesting choral music or sleep inducing lullabies. A prime example of this is the aptly named Sleep, the last track on Verbs.
What Verbs doesn't lack is layers. With over thirty contributors to Verbs its amazing the depth that is on this album. With additional vocal and musicians the tracks on verbs are given an extra dimension like on All My Friends, which is this explosion of sounds. Like their peers, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Beirut, AU masterfully veer on the side of madness and throughout Verbs you are left thinking what, why and how did they come to this music. This playfulness allows AU to be as 'out there' as they like but they manage to retain a commercial feel to their music.
Hand Shakes and Holidays thinks you should listen to this album. 8/10.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Lovely sounds...
So after a recent trip to Toronto HSAH got the opportunity to check out new American band The Dodos, who were amazing even in a jet lag haze. Now that said blogger is home she has had the opportunity to check out The Dodos support band in great depth.
They are simly called AU and sound like a whimsical fairground, fairy music. They hail from the musical hot bed of Portland, Oregon and HSAH doesnt think they have released a great deal of material in the UK.
check them out here: www.myspace.com/peaofthesea
They are simly called AU and sound like a whimsical fairground, fairy music. They hail from the musical hot bed of Portland, Oregon and HSAH doesnt think they have released a great deal of material in the UK.
check them out here: www.myspace.com/peaofthesea
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Welcome to the Wonderful World of TIM TEN YEN
Its bee a while but HSAH is back on the gigging scene. After a summer break to absorb herself fully into the world of festivals and get on with her day job, its now time to return to the world of music blogging.
A new discovery that HSAH loves, and she does love a good discovery, is the genuinely unique Tim Ten Yen who releases Everything Beautiful Reminds me of You through Pointy records in late October, which is a collection of honest and fun tracks, documenting his unusual life.
To check out Tim please go to his myspace: www.myspace.com/timtenyen.
He also has a number of gigs on he horizons:
26 Sep 2008 20:00
Fælles Studiestart @ Studenterhuset Klostergaarden Kolding
3 Oct 2008 20:00
S*** the bed @ The Prince of Wales Camden Town, London and South East
4 Oct 2008 19:00
The White Room @ Bucks SU High Wycombe, London and South East
A new discovery that HSAH loves, and she does love a good discovery, is the genuinely unique Tim Ten Yen who releases Everything Beautiful Reminds me of You through Pointy records in late October, which is a collection of honest and fun tracks, documenting his unusual life.
To check out Tim please go to his myspace: www.myspace.com/timtenyen.
He also has a number of gigs on he horizons:
26 Sep 2008 20:00
Fælles Studiestart @ Studenterhuset Klostergaarden Kolding
3 Oct 2008 20:00
S*** the bed @ The Prince of Wales Camden Town, London and South East
4 Oct 2008 19:00
The White Room @ Bucks SU High Wycombe, London and South East
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Clinic @ 229, London, 9 April 2008
Have you ever felt very excited about a gig before that you think about it for days? This is how HSAH felt at the prospect of seeing clinic. After the recent discover that a new album, Do it, on the way and that very few UK dates had been confirmed HSAH was not going to miss this gig.
229, Great Portland Street was the host for this one off London gig. A venue that reminds HSAH of her student days merely because the venue is set in the basement of some student halls. With the crowd gearing up for the gig the haunting sounds of ‘you never walk alone’ bellow out of the speakers and everyone wonders what strange prank this is. However little do they know that this is the intro to the gig.
Clinic walk on stage in the trade mark surgical masks and Hawaiian shirts that makes them look like some crazy badies from Doctor Who…imagine that episode! They clearly stated that the gig will be a performance of two halves. The first will be a show case of Do It, which proves that clinic can continue to make raw, rough and stripped tracks that are infused with a lounge style. The high light being the last single Memories.
The second half was an ‘archive’ set of material from past albums, Internal Wrangler and Walking with Trees et al.
Clinic have the uncanny ability to sound like they are playing in an empty room and you are the only person witnessing them work their magic. They have the essence of very early orange juice but mixed with an American surf rock sound that’s much linked to rockabilly. This is especially prevalent on tracks like Sunlight Bathes Our Home and Internal Wrangler. You can imagine walking down the set of some western film and the sound track would be Clinic. Maybe if you were really cool you’d be wearing shades whilst strutting.
For a show of two halves it felt as though the gig was over before it had started and by half ten Clinic had announced that they would be ending their set. It was time to say bye and farewell to this bunch of lovable oddballs.
229, Great Portland Street was the host for this one off London gig. A venue that reminds HSAH of her student days merely because the venue is set in the basement of some student halls. With the crowd gearing up for the gig the haunting sounds of ‘you never walk alone’ bellow out of the speakers and everyone wonders what strange prank this is. However little do they know that this is the intro to the gig.
Clinic walk on stage in the trade mark surgical masks and Hawaiian shirts that makes them look like some crazy badies from Doctor Who…imagine that episode! They clearly stated that the gig will be a performance of two halves. The first will be a show case of Do It, which proves that clinic can continue to make raw, rough and stripped tracks that are infused with a lounge style. The high light being the last single Memories.
The second half was an ‘archive’ set of material from past albums, Internal Wrangler and Walking with Trees et al.
Clinic have the uncanny ability to sound like they are playing in an empty room and you are the only person witnessing them work their magic. They have the essence of very early orange juice but mixed with an American surf rock sound that’s much linked to rockabilly. This is especially prevalent on tracks like Sunlight Bathes Our Home and Internal Wrangler. You can imagine walking down the set of some western film and the sound track would be Clinic. Maybe if you were really cool you’d be wearing shades whilst strutting.
For a show of two halves it felt as though the gig was over before it had started and by half ten Clinic had announced that they would be ending their set. It was time to say bye and farewell to this bunch of lovable oddballs.
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