Ebony Bones is perhaps the most chattered about act in London right now. She’s a one-of-a-kind producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a great rhythm section and backing vocalists. Named as one of SXSW’s best new acts of 2009, her critically acclaimed debut album Bone Of My Bones is slated for release in the US later this year. Known for playing a role on the British TV drama Family Affairs, Ebony Thomas has also been nominated for The British Soap Awards’ sexiest female. And some of that sexiness, in her self-designed costumes, shined on the lucky audience this rainy Friday night. …MORE
As the year winds down, breakout act Miike Snow drops the video for the upcoming single, “Silvia.” It seems like a you-broke-my-heart-and-dragged-me-through-the-dirt pronouncement that unites the men in the cult of Silvia together for a massive bonfire in a post-apocalyptic land. I love the convergence of the music with the visuals, and as much as the song glimmers and picks up pace, the video emphasizes the song’s restraint and expectation of getting over the ordeal. Cue my favorite line: “have fun breaking my will.”
Leave it to Japanese-Swedish singer Yukimi Nagano to captivate a full-house of Angeleno hipsters with her brand of organic electro-pop. During Little Dragon’s gig at the El Rey Theatre on Friday evening, the audience had reason to be enraptured.
With two full-lengths to its name, Little Dragon is Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Kallgren Walsh (bass), and Hakan Wirenstrand (keyboards) with Ms. Nagano. The sold-out show was a confirmation of the Gothenberg-based band’s swelling fan-base and break-through year. The quartet challenges those who wish to pigeonhole their sound, and just last week our readers nominated them as Rock Artist of the Year in the Readers Poll.
When the guys in RealEstate have time to eat, sleep or drive to their next show is beyond most of our understanding. Here’s a slew of new stuff from two separate EPs either out now or soon to be so. Cop ‘em and pretend it’s still summer.
Does anyone else find the name of this song amusing given the name of the band?
Regardless of that, “Basement” comes off as something of a track for stoned cowboys. That endless slide guitar is the culprit, but there doesn’t ever seem to be enough of it. Real Estate is all slight rock tropes, this effort being no different, but in that is the group’s tossed off charm.
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