June has begun with odd visits to el Vallés (long story that might have additional chapters), expensive ticket upgrades for... the next year, and that terrible Barcelona weather where you can forget to get any sleep. Luckily, music continues to be the oasis to this madness, as our latest TOP TEN JUKEBOX proves. A fine and moody mixture of well-beloved names (Goats, Iron and Wine, the killer returns of Floodlights and Nation of Language) plus an exciting dose of new finds. Take a break, enjoy the songs, and remember to join us at our Soundcloud page!
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Showing posts with label The Mountain Goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Mountain Goats. Show all posts
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Sunday, May 9, 2021
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 288
After a long-awaited and most-deserved break last weekend, here we are, back with our TOP TEN JUKEBOX. A much needed dose of stunning new tunes (might be one of the strongest selections of the year so far), focused, as usual, in exciting bands to be discovered, plus the unexpected return of the mighty Mountain Goats. It's been a disheartening week, another grim reality bite regarding mankind and common sense (freedom is not in a bar) so we hope this collection of tracks cheer you up a bit. Take a listen, and remember to join us at our Soundcloud page!
Sunday, December 6, 2020
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 276
Should be a long weekend off, but this year's reality doesn't make concessions. So, there's no other option than trying to make some use of the leisure days. Like start preparing the best-of-the-year lists or catching up with as much of new exciting tunes available out there. Like the ten we have gathered for your in our latest TOP TEN JUKEBOX. Have a good weekend, be safe and smart out there. And remember to join us at our Soundcloud page!
Sunday, October 4, 2020
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 267
After a weekend off (nice holidays at the Catalonian Delta), we are back with our TOP TEN JUKEBOX to start October in a flamboyant way. With our usual dose of exciting discoveries, more ace tunes from recent ones (Sinead O'Brien looks fated for the Best of the Year's lists) or surefires (Nothing, Parson Red Heads) and, topping the bill, the mighty (and beloved) Mountain Goats. Have a nice day, and remember to join us at our Soundcloud page!
Saturday, November 25, 2017
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 169
Had enough of Black Friday stupi... I mean craziness? Don't be scared! In this post we ain't going to sell you anything you don't really need... we just want to share with you a bunch of exciting tunes with our latest TOP TEN Jukebox! Another eclectic playlist with our regular dose of new bands worth checking out like Mopac, Ocre or Robert Earl Thomas ace tunes, and the fantastic returns of bands we already love, such as Hater or Sea Pinks. Want more? Sure! We also have a lost gem from the great Aberdeen... plus two terrific covers! One by Widowspeak doing wonders with an eternal Neil Young's classic, the other being our beloved Mountain Goats making a stunning rendition of The Sisters of Mercy! A lot to listen... for free! Enjoy the weekend and remember, all songs are available at our Soundcloud. (Join Us!)
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Friday, March 3, 2017
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 137
Welcome to the psychedelic & jangle week! We have an antidote (at least, temporary) to this world full of chaos, surrealistic situations and, let's be clear, stupid thoughts. A nice dose of new exciting music in our latest TOP TEN JUKEBOX , full of surprises and diverse sounds, as well as the promising returns of The Feelies, The Mountain Goats, WALL, or Hoops. Overall, a much needed help to keep our sanity. Have a really nice weekend and remember, all songs are available at our Soundcloud page (Join Us!).
Monday, December 21, 2015
Best Concerts of the Year 2015
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| The Mountain Goats - Heliogàbal - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
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| Sufjan Stevens - Auditori Fòrum - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
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| Torres - Primavera Sound Festival - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
We didn’t stay very late on Saturday at Fòrum, because there was a mandatory gig to watch next day (and you usually are too tired to enjoy much music on Primavera Sound’s final day). Our first time watching Mackenzie Scott's live, finally. And she didn’t disappoint. On the very contrary, she excelled our expectations at BARTS, our only complaint is her performance didn’t last longer (only six tunes), but what an intensity! She left us wide mouthed several times, in complete awestruck while we watched her fighting against the threatening guitar lines, shouting and whispering her wounded lyrics, breaking and letting her voice disarm you. Superb artist.
7. U2 (Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, October 5th & 6th)
Being part of a U2 concert today is such a confrontation with the person you are now and who you were today. Tastes evolve and, most luckily, new and exciting bands and sounds occupy your head & heart. Your past heroes are no longer the ones releasing the record of the year. Even more important than that, there’s a sense that dimension & context are also very important too, making it clear, bigger doesn’t mean better. In what regards to music, it might as well be the contrary. But after years and years of dealing with small stages and terrible sounding, many bands that have more courage than talents, you find yourself at Palau Sant Jordi and all your hipster & let’s face it, cynical defences, crumble after hearing a stormy, intimidating rendition of ‘Electric Co.’. It’s just nostalgia channeling the younger you? It has to be more than that. A gigantic screen on which Bono recreates his teenager years got you completely. Sure it’s all a choreography fuelled by the highest technology but, for a while, it seems to point directly at you. ‘Iris’, not particularly your favourite tune on the new record, breaks you with the outstanding vocal performance of the aging, a bit weary, but still powerful singer. And so does ‘Raised by Wolves’, a glimpse of that primeval, raging urgency of their early days. Or hearing ‘October’ for the first time. Or seeing people surrounding you on a state of pure joy you don’t see (drunk people doesn’t count) at the coolest indie festivals or gigs (the rampant cynicism again), or collapsing, breaking down in tears as some of the classics arrive. Or sharing the gigs with two of the most important people of your life, and seeing your little brother get himself into the celebration that is now ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’ while you think this is something that you have shared with him for more than two decades now. Sure, there are a couple of forgettable moments during the show, some lame performances that seem to be done ‘on autopilot’ and songs choices that are regrettable, in your opinion. But it doesn’t really matter, because they are still there, still meaning quite a lot to you...
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| U2 - Palau Sant Jordi - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
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| Algiers - Primavera Club - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
They were our discovery just before the Primavera Club arrived, so we were aware this wasn’t “just another band”. But we weren’t prepared for such a powerful performance. Each song a strike, a statement, a howl for the one that are struggling but haven’t been defeated yet. There’s something genuine in the flammable rage and passion with which each member of the band plays, in particular their front man Franklin James Fisher spitting each word, hitting the guitar, or writhing on the floor. An unleashed beast at Apolo, their mutant, combat music comes from somewhere very deep inside every human being. A very needed band.
5. Twerps (Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 28th)
It wouldn’t be this Blog without an Antipodean band on the list, don’t you think? Twerps have delivered one of our favourite records of the year without a doubt, so there were we, with a gigantic smile on our face, waiting at the first row way before their gig began at Pitchfork stage. It was a shiny, joyful, carefree and warm gig. An impeccable afternoon with indiepop gems like 'I Don't Mind', 'Back to You', 'Shoulders', ‘Conditional Report’, ‘Stranger’... 45 minutes of pure magic, as it is done down under, making your mind disappear for a gentle while into the jangly guitar lines.
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| Twerps - Primavera Sound - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
Speaking of making your mind disappear, here comes our biggest “live discovery” of 2015. We knew Novella was a band to follow (we featured them in 2012) and we love the album ‘Land’. But we didn’t know how overwhelming and irresistible they were live. Psych-pop, shoegaze with kraut hints, with a ton of floating guitars in space. Echoing Pale Saints, Neu! as well as the Dum Dum Girls, the gig was a stunning, incandescent trip, guided by the vocal harmonies of Hollie Warren and Sophy Hollington and leaded by gems like ‘Follow’, ‘Blue Swallow’ or ‘Land Gone’. Love at first guitar line.
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| Novella - Primavera Club - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
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| Lambchop - Sala BARTS - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
Seeing Lambchop had become a pending, frustrating affair for many years but, luckily, we finally managed to solve it. And what a pleasure turned to be. Kurt Wagner and Co. have the rare ability to stop time while they are playing. Wagner telling us his stories in the form of gorgeous tunes, picking us up, carrying us to a place that’s light-years away from the maddening crowd, to an imaginary campfire with the rest of the band. A quiet, distant place, yet at the same time, so recognizable, so human and full of soul. A masterclass with too many highlights to choose among, like the impossible, poignant beauty of ‘Gone Tomorrow’, the jazzy atmosphere of ‘Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr., the upbeat ‘Grumpus’ and ‘National talk like a pirate day’ or the great, arresting, ‘Up With People’ with the majestic finale of Wagner letting himself go vocally, unleashing something that can’t be faked: that there's a guy, well, a bunch of guys, enjoying what they do on stage. And giving us the time of our lives. Huge night.
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| Luna - Sala Bikini - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
Celebrating Sant Jordi with a Luna gig seems like an unbeatable plan. Even more considering here’s a beloved band we never had the chance to see live. The night already started in a fantastic way with the lovely Flowers as their support act, so when Luna took the stage everything was set in its right place for a great show. And the group delivered. Fantastic, crystal clear sound, Dean Wareham and guitarist Sean Eden having and making fun with the audience, and a setlist including the majority of songs we hoped for Superfreaky Memories’, ‘Chinatown’, ‘23 Minutes in Brussels’, ‘Lost in Space’, plus the final renditions of Velvet’s ‘Ride Into the Sun’ and Beat Happening’s ‘Indian Summer’ . Nearly two house of haunting and hypnotic guitars, ethereal bass lines and moody drums. The best dreampop in Sant Jordi, not bad for a holiday, don’t you think?.
1. Sleater-Kinney (La Cigale, Paris, March 20th)
When the comeback was confirmed we knew it was one of these rare occasions when you do have to make an effort and watch them live, aside from a Festival slot where it’s much harder to see a band performing at their best. What a wise choice it proved to be. Mind-blowing from start to finish. La Cigale’s floor shaking (no, really) from the very beginning of ‘Price Tag’, 26 tunes with two encores, with ‘No Cities to Love’ tunes as celebrated as the old ones by a enthusiast crowd that was eager to let the performing trio (a quartet live) how happy they were to have them back. And the band was eager to give their 110% in return. Carrie Brownstein was electric. Janet Weiss thunderous but for us (consider we were just in front of her) the real star of the night was Corin Tucker, what an explosive, mesmerizing performance. To put it simply, one of the best bands we’ve seen live. One of the best bands out there. Welcome back.
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| Sleater-Kinney - La Cigale - Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Best Songs of the Year 2015...so far
- Actual Alien - American Culture
- Ahora que hace bueno- Reina Republicana
- Back to You- Twerps
- Been in the wars- New Politicians
- Can’t You Feel - Bruising
- Chateau Lobby #4- Father John Misty
- Continental Shelf- Viet Cong
- Courage- Villagers
- Creep Me Out- Ghost Transmission
- Depreston- Courtney Barnett
- Desencuentros- The New Raemon
- Fool- Nadine Shah
- Hold You Down - Love Signs
- Hollow Veins- Surf City
- I Wanna Be a Writer - Etti / Etta
- Let You Know- The Fireworks
- Made my mind up- Mikal Cronin
- O- Desperate Journalist
- Running Late- Flyying Colours
- Scene Sick- Diet Cig
- Should Have Known Better- Sufjan Stevens
- Sleeping in the Backseat- Tigercats
- Surface Envy- Sleater-Kinney
- Stars- The Treasures of Mexico
- Swept Away- Star Tropics
- Tearing the posters down- Dick Diver
- The House- Le Volume Courbe
- The Legend of Chavo Guerrero- The Mountain Goats
- Umi - Pinkshinyultrablast
- Young Girls- PINS
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Best Records and EPs of the year 2015... so far
Apparitions- Ghost Transmission
Beat the Champ- The Mountain Goats
Beta- El Lado Oscuro de la Broca
Carrie & Lowell- Sufjan Stevens
Desperate Journalist- Desperate Journalist
Everything Else Matters- Pinkshinyultrablast
El Despertar- Reina Republicana
Goon- Tobias Jesso Jr.
Holding Pattern- The Treasures of Mexico
I don't want to let you down - Sharon Van Etten
I Love You, Honeybear- Father John Misty
Jekyll Island- Surf City
Love is love - Skittle Alley
MCIII- Mikal Cronin
Melbourne, Florida- Dick Diver
Murder Shoes - Murder Shoes
No Cities to Love- Sleater-Kinney
No One's Coming to for Us - Trust Fund
Oh, Rompehielos- The New Raemon
Overeasy EP - Diet Cig
Pure American Gum - American Culture
Range Anxiety- Twerps
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I just Sit- Courtney Barnett
Switch Me On- The Fireworks
Wild EP - Young Romance
Click on the years to check our 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 selections!
Friday, April 17, 2015
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 51
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Friday, February 13, 2015
The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 41
What a superb TOP TEN playlist we have prepared for you this week! Ten songs that will leave you breathless. We promise you you won't be able to stop listening. Pure energy, emotion and intensity summarized in a bunch of shoegaze, indie-rock & noise pop gems, like the new proposals of Young Romance (we just love them!), Joanna Gruesome (another adrenalin pill!) or another take from the brilliant Fireworks's album. If you don't believe us, just play it and let us know the result. And remember, this is also available on our Blog's soundcloud page.Direct links to the previous Jukebox weeks
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