Alice In Chains: new album recorded and what European tour for summer 2013?

Three years ago We are excited with the release of a remarkable "Black Gives Way To Blue". Now it's back by those jurisdictions to learn that Alice In Chains just recorded a new studio album. We struggled a bit shut it, mainly because of back surgery which will Cantrell had to submit a few months, but finally we are relieved to know that the LP will not take more than half a year to be in our hands. In the words of singer William Duvall: "This is like living a second time this effort involved a second hard pull." Cantrell added that this compact will live up to its predecessor interesting.

Taking a look at the website of Alice In Chains I could see that the band has scheduled a performance at Donington Park (UK) towards the June 14, 2013. A European tour would probably be egg. Will they come to Sonisphere next year or do the Azkena Rock, perhaps? Hopefully, friends, hopefully.

New Navy: Australian cousins ​​Vampire Weekend

Our players today come from a small coastal town in southern Sydney. Three, call themselves New Navy, going surfing, partying and "enjoy life, you only live once" and began to interfere in the electronic music around 2011, shortly before the competition act JD September and sharing the stage with some other grupazo as big as Wolfmother. His style is delimited borders just inside the Afropop that praised at the time for Vampire Weekend. Such is the similarity between the sound and the New Yorkers that we should not be surprising in the least that soon written out a thousand and one relating to each other. You only hear his latest single missing realize the potential for exotic melodies that hide these hilarious guys from the Australian east coast:
Like his artwork, 'Regular Town' is just to have a delicious refreshing fruit cocktail in a radiant day of August. With a few taps of the most glassy, ​​a playful and dazzling vocal melody that prompts a dip in the pool / beach nearby. This feels great also communicates through the issues on "Uluwatu", the only EP that Australians have been published to date. Despite having no part as accessible as the single fulminant commented, "Uluwatu" is vibrant pieces that play between Afropop and indie rock standard. Case for example of 'Tapioca' playing positioned midway between the band of Ezra Koenig and Walk The Moon less delusional.
Have the potential to give the note. Yet to do so will have to go off on tangents that inevitably parallelism that is getting too close to the creators of contemporary hymns like 'Horchata', 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' or 'Oxford Comma'. Only time will tell if the end were New Navy lion's tail or head mouse.

Play the first five issues of "Animal King"

Less than eight days are left until it goes on sale "Animal King", this (hypothetical) great album that fans have been waiting Soundgarden from one year - 1996 - which went on sale "Down On The Upside ". With such a short space of time is that the LP box "leakeará" on the network shortly. And that has prompted Universal to step forward and show the first five tracks on the album through a streaming site uploaded to our beloved Danish radio station P3. Edited: You can listen to the whole album through NME.

'Been Away Too Long' and 'Non-State Actor' were songs we already knew. The novelty of this article lies in listening to three songs fully unpublished so far: 'By Crooked Steps', 'A Thousand Days Before' and 'Blood On The Valley Floor'. Just gave us time to enjoy once in each of the pieces, but I fully appreciate that starting point as "Dotu" that Chris Cornell was responsible for cross-media advertising hype. The best certainly seems to be the first song with a sweeping Cornell and Thayil lost with psychedelic riffs pleasantly exotic taste.

See if you like the songs! Our impressions, at least for now, are still positive.

Bon Iver in Madrid (Vistalegre, October 28, 2012)

Justin Vernon sick girlfriend ran out, got depressed and got into a cabin for three months to compose. In its history, that fascinates and strangers, was born on intimate "For Emma, ​​Forever Ago" in 2008. Today, with the story flipped and after EP, collaboration with Kanye West and new album surrounded by a cast of musicians accompanying his falsetto voice, full stadiums, or, for that matter, old arenas. Along with the eight members of the band that accompanies him, what he did last night in Madrid.
Wearing weeks watching the poster pasted on the streets of the city: Bon Iver, Vistalegre Palace, tickets € 38. And it kept surprising that a band of folk would be able to fill (or most) of the spaces more capacity concert in Madrid on Sunday and at that price. But the night was cold and early, at seven, and was already halfway Vistalegre. Two hours later, after the girls also folkies The Staves dulcificaran the environment and Vernon expected to leave the track looked almost full. The mobile screens to portray in realtime, lists. The idols of the new century have beards and lumberjack shirt.
How long is the mass folk? Seen by the occasional reaction both within the concert and Twitter I'm not the only confused with the trend, try to enjoy in a capacity of 10,000?? people what common sense tells me it would have to be half or less than half. 'Live change, you see,' he warned. No wonder, that is the key: Vernon and company (company: two drummers, percussion, strings, choirs, wind - an orchestra) make each song an experience that goes beyond what the album offers. The topics are getting longer, the beginning or end mystify. As the show progresses, more heat and envelop the smiling and romantic (just before three couples had delivered) public.
'Perth' and 'Minnesota, WI' opening repertoire, which continues in a state of grace 'Michicant' and Vernon on the floor playing all pedals. The lighting, to rise to the occasion, is projected across the width of curtains covering the stage and is combined with a set of lights installed in front of the musicians. Then songs like 'Towers' or 'Hinnom, TX' and a show that is prepared with Woods for the height of the last issues. And come Holocene, the coreadísima 'Skinny Love' and 'Beth / Rest' to make way for the encore. After the pause, briefly, the orchestra again asking the public collaboration in 'The Wolves' (' is the first time that we are here and we have to explain it: you have to sing 'What Might Have Been Lost' with us), all ends of intensified and, among cheers and excited people, Bon Iver crowned night: thanks for coming. The experience has been served, and 38 euros, safe, made profitable.

The sense of the seduction of Bahamas

The skeptics snobs never expected anything of Brushfire Records, the label founded by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, but eventually reality has finished punching in the face to these petty hipsters. The proof that Jack does not have a fool can find in signing Afie Jurvanen, aka Bahamas, a Canadian musician who has rubbed shoulders over the years with artists like Feist, Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene) and Zeus and now launches a powerful second album entitled "Barchords" happens to that "Pink Strat" ​​which was released three years ago.
Very good vibes are flowing from this LP after making a few calm tracks. And is that "Barchords" is not one of those albums linear in maintaining a rhythm line from start to finish, no. This album is characterized by having a range of sound sensations ranging from those offered in more robust discs John Mayer ("Continuum"), up slightly afropop like Vampire Weekend. Afie plays both approaching the tropical feeling as the R & B of the '60s, or the more refined and classic folk reminiscent least from the distance of Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel. But it is in the blues of yesteryear where we find the greatest part of the disk. A bewitching blues, which show off the Bahamas gets done with his electric grapples. 'Lost In Light' is a true reflection of the comments. PA Blessed, blessed, blessed choirs presence of a very much reminiscent Afie the imposing figure of John Paul White (The Civil Wars).
This man petó this at SXSW 2012, and it appears that his career will go further in the coming months. Canada is beginning to yield to his feet, and there are more and more people who know their whereabouts. Lest you be the last to take cognizance of what is capable Afie Jurvanen, at the end of this post (just below the clip of "Caught Me Thinking ') we leave you with the streaming via Spotify this delicious" Barchords "which went on spotlight will already half a year.
Bahamas, Genio. We will have to follow very closely in the coming months. Here are crumb crumb lot.

Details of the second album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse in 2012

Mindful of the fact: October 30 is the day that will go on sale "Psychedelic Pill", the second album by Neil Young And Crazy Horse this 2012. The compact, which can be purchased in a double CD and a triple LP, have a set of issues that exceed fifteen minutes, including cutting 'Driftin' Back 'that exceeds the not inconsiderable figure of 27 minutes and 36 seconds in duration.

Produced by Neil Young, John Hanlon and Mark Humphreys, "Psychedelic Pill" is the first album of original material since the formation of Neil Young and Crazy Horse undertake "Broken Arrow" in 1996. Speaking about the LP for Rolling Stone guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro not going out on a limb. "In doing we play hard type of jamming, and had fun a lot. I think [the producer of the original Crazy Horse] David Briggs would be so proud ... Since she left I felt I had lost a bit north. We had the sound and heavy machinery, and could play anything and make it sound good, but we were not able to make great records together. I mean, "Broken Arrow" was something right. It was "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" or "Rust Never Sleeps" and "Ragged Glory".

While we wait for this release (one of the best in the last quarter of the year) here we leave you with an "American" can be heard from now through Spotify. Neil Young All that is gold touches. Go phenomenon.

The videoclip of Calexico who led the Murcia Paloma Zapata

Murcia director Paloma Zapata takes time and making its way into the alternative scene of our country. Yours are video clips of 'December' Vetusta Morla of DePedro Feat, 'Long Live the noise' of Cyan or 'Today' of Delafé and blue flowers, probably his most famous production to date view. After working on a pile of projects (up to Mojinos Escozios customers have been yours!) Filmmaker now based in Barcelona has proven fortune running the official video for 'Splitter', the last of our dear delight folkie Calexico. The clip, throw away privileges recurring shows an atmosphere reminiscent of the crazy sci-fi adventures around the 60s.
"The idea of ​​this video came after a conversation I had with Joey" - explains Paloma. "For me, the song was on migration, crossing the border of any country. I just create a story with a particular border was very limited. That's why I developed an idea centric "escape" as a generic concept, adding a touch of fantasy that extolled the dramatic tone of such situations. To escape an unknown reality in a spacecraft, as an idea exchange, mystical encounters and rebirth. "
The video is a new proof that this girl knows how to make videos of beautiful bill. See if soon give you more opportunities to work with other great artists of the international firmament! Merit has done for it, and its projection and worth growing.
By the way, speaking of Spain and Calexico, did you remember that the band will visit Spain in just two months? November is the month when Joey Burns and John Convertino will be playing in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid