Playlist 11 May 2014

Beach Fossils - Clash The Truth (Clash The Truth)

The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes (Give Up)

Gruff Rhys - American Interiour (American Interiour)

Fenster - Cat Emperor (The Pink Caves)

Ace Bushy Striptease - My Hand Could Be Your Wife (Outside It's Cold Like The Inside Of Your Body And)

Dum Dum Girls - Too True To Be Good (Too True)

Fight Like Apes - Something Global (Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medaillon)

Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) - Singles

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Eurydice (Days Of Abandon)

The Mary Onettes - Everything Everything (Portico)

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Jackie Boy (Any Port In A Storm)

The Go Find - The Lobby (Brand New Love)

Mac De Marco - Goodbye Weekend (Salad Days)

The Horrors - First Day Of Spring (Luminous)

Playlist 5 May 2014

The Notwist - Kong (Close To The Glass)

Monochrome - Flimmern (Ferro)

Real Estate - April's Song (Atlas)

Racing Glaciers - One Day We Will Lose Everything (Ahead Of You Forever)

Baden Baden - '78 (Coline)

Beach Fossils - Generational Synthetic (Clash The Truth)

Milquetoast - Negative Capability (Good Grief)

The Horrors - So Now You Know (Luminous)

Barzin - There Will Be Time For (Moonpalace EP)

Dum Dum Girls - Rimbaud Eyes (Too True)

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Viva Hate)

Kid Canaveral - Who's Looking At You Anyway (Now That You Are A Dancer)

Okkervil River - It Was My Season (The Silver Gymnasium)

Interview with Breton at the Out of The Crowd Festival

The 11th Edition of the Out Of The Crowd Festival at the Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette took place last Saturday and it was great as usual! 

For me, it was a very special evening in particular as I had the chance to speak to Roman Rappak, singer of one of my favourite bands, Breton. They just released their second album "War Room Stories". 

Roman kindly took some time to speak to me before going on stage to play an amazing concert. They presented their new album along with songs of the first album "Other Peoples Problems" and the song December from their "Counter Balance EP" as encore. 

Listen here to the short but nice interview:

 

Playlist 20 April 2014

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Kelly (Days Of Abandon)

Wild Beasts - Wanderlust (Present Tense)

Dean Wareham - Heartless People (Dean Wareham)

Dum Dum Girls - Cult of Love (Too True)

The Galacticos - He Said, She Said (Phone Home EP)

Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls (In A Nutshell)

Making Marks - Lemon Sheets (A Thousand Half-Truths)

Cheatahs - Cut The Grass (Cheatahs)

The Tuts - Dumb Your Boyfriend (Time To Move On)

GRMLN - 1993 (Empire)

Fireflies - Hiding Away (In Dreams)

Scanners - Mexico (Love Is Symmetry)

Eels - Lockdown Hurricane (The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everet)

French Films - Ridin' On (White Orchid)

Cloud Nothings - Quieter Today (Here And Nowhere Else)

Barzin - Without Your Light (To Live Alone In That Long Summer)

 

Playlist 13 April 2014

French Films - You Don't Know (Imaginary Future)

Money - Who's Going To Love You Now (The Shadow Of Heaven)

Warpaint - Love Is To Die (Warpaint)

Dum Dum Girls - Cult Of Love (Too True)

Barzin - Lazy Summer (To Live Alone In That Long Summer)

Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body (Plans)

Beck - Blue Moon (Morning Phase)

Breton - Legs & Arms (War Room Stories)

Fujiya & Miyagi - Hundreds & Thousands (Lightbulbs)

Rodriguez - Sugar Man (Searching For Sugar Man - Soundtrack)

Monochrome - The Weekender (Unità)

Girls in Hawaii - Rorschach (Everest)

Mogwai - Hungry Face (Les Revenants - Soundtrack)

Im Takt - Fat Billy (Im Takt EP)

Pete & The Pirates - Washing Powder (One Thousand Pictures)

Playlist 30 March 2014 (Out of the Crowd Festival Special)

Motorama - She Is There (She Is There Single)

Pelle Carlberg - Pamplona (In A Nutshell)

Alpaca Sports - Telephone (Pale Spectres Remix) (Sealed With A Kiss)

Breton - Legs & Arms (War Room Stories)

Money - Who's Going To Love You Now (The Shadow Of Heaven)

Artaban - Dark Shapes (Flow)

Jeremy Messersmith - You Only Break His Heart (Heart Murmurs)

Bâton Rouge - Ca Colle A La Peau (Fragments d'Eux Mêmes)

Alarmist - Bunda Internacionale (Pal Magnet EP)

Fight Like Apes - Jenny Kelly (The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner)

Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time (Light Up Gold)

Kid Canaveral - Couldn't Dance (Shouting At Wildlife)


Make sure you got your tickets for the Out Of The Crowd Festival at the Kulturfabrik in Esch on 19 April 2014!!!!!! Here is the trailer:

Songs about Life, Cigarettes and Pamplona - Pelle Carlberg in concert at Café Konrad!

After House of Wolves in August last year, Tom convinced another great singer/songwriter to come all the way to Luxembourg, Pelle Carlberg!

This time, the concert didn’t take place in Exit07, but at Café Konrad, the perfect place to listen to the stories of the friendly Pelle on a Tuesday evening.

Pelle, a former Middleclass Kid from Uppsala, 70 km to the north of Stockholm, came with his guitar and immediately captured the audience with his songs, each presented with a lovely background story. During almost an hour and a half, he played a selection of songs from his three albums “Everything. Now!”, “In A Nutshell” and “The Lilac Time”. I can say that I never attended a concert in such an intimate atmosphere where I was completely immersed until the end - always keen to hear about his next story. Pelle was playing songs about life, and we learned that “Metal to Metal is no good, but stupid to stupid is no better” (the first one is a story about a German mechanic called Dirk, who had told Pelle about how his van broke before playing at a concert in Berlin, so he ended up having to take the taxi to the Club where he was playing in the evening). And this is only one of all the funny stories we could listen to, sung by Pelle with his self-deprecating humour, mixed with his catchy melodies.

Songs about crap airlines (“Fly Me To The Moon”), Stockholm, Pelle and his friend Sebastian (“1983”) and plenty of other entertaining stories were presented with the same wit.

We learned that Pelle is a fan of the group I’m From Barcelona, about who he wrote the song “Pamplona” for - a song that even go us singing along and I think it worked out quite well!

At the end of the concert, he explained to us that “Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls”, and so a nice evening with wonderful stories and melodies presented by a great Swedish guy came to an end. Definitely a live show worth spectating!

So, that was yesterday, and today, I am still singing…na na na na naaaaaa!