As you may have guessed, after being thoroughly impressed by Mobius Band last weekend at their show with Cut Copy, they're getting a post to call their own. As if they even needed to impress me more, I came upon an album of covers they did called Love Will Reign Supreme. In it they masterfully cover and re interpret songs like "True love will find you in the end" by Daniel Johnston and "Digital Love" by Daft Punk. Like good 21st century rockers, they've made that album available for download for free.
I never really appreciated their "hit" friends like these until I saw them play it live and after listening to both albums I could find, Heaven and The Loving Sounds of Static, I was won over. This is me giving them a shot at doing the same for you.
With or without Black Kids, I knew that Cut Copy and Mobius Band would be a great show. What I wasn't counting on was Mobius Band being as good as they were. They're live show was unlike anything I've ever seen before; it struck me as definitively original and inventive. Watch out for these kids in the future, they are very worth seeing live. Cut Copy was great too, but my expectations were already high so I wasn't surprised or disappointed. I took some pictures, check them out.
I was lucky enough to sit down for an interview with the man himself, Jason Beck aka Chilly Gonzales aka The one eye'd Jew. The interview was for a feature which will appear in the July/August issue of Snap! Magazine. Right from the soundcheck, to the interview, to the show itself, i knew was in for something else. The show was a seamless blend of power pop grandeur, classical solo's, comedy and rap. That's right i said seamless. The above video is one of his piano solo's in a video i took while i was there, sorry its so far away, i couldn't figure out the zoom on the camera until a few minutes later.
Let's take a moment and be glad that a dingo in fact did not eat any members of Cut Copy, when they were babies. Seinfeld references aside, these synth rockers from down under have been around for quite some time, and the new album In Ghost Colours proves why. Each track has its own distinct but familiar feel and their upcoming show this Saturday with Mobius Band is obviously worth checking out. Much controversy over Jacksonville's Black Kids dropping out of the bill, which was disappointing but I got over it...you should too.
You may remember my two cents on Gonzales back in march. Now for substantially more than two cents, (around 20$) you can see the man himself at Le National on Thursday.
The self proclaimed "President of the Berlin Underground" will be playing in support of his new album, entitled Soft Power. You've heard the Boys Noize remix, you've heard the Daft Punk cover, now hear some of my favorite tracks from the album.
Remember when being weird was cool? Remember what the stranger and more off key vocals could get, the better? remember Alice in Chains? Well i do. I also remember when that trend was taken too far and it wasn't even about the music anymore. Keeping in theme with my last post about Fuck Buttons. Bon Iver has convinced me that quirky is cool once again.
At some point in everyone's life, however temporarily, you just can't listen to anymore fucking dance music. This occurred collectively after the mid to late 90's rush of dance hits whose demise was signaled by the wide acceptance of films like "A night at the Roxbury" as a mainstream hit.
There was just so many times the public could hear "What is love?" before all the "Baby don't hurt me"'s in the world couldn't stifle the average citizen's urge to indeed hurt him, and in away that incapacitates his ability to make infectious bad dance music.
We may just be approaching such a collective awakening ourselves, and the UK's Fuck Buttons may just be on to something.
Here they are at SXSW performing Sweet Love For Planet Earth.
Officially recorded as an "experimental noise" group, Fuck Buttons are gaining perhaps surprising popularity internationally and are touring in support of their album Street Horrrsing. I can't help but wonder what Fuck Buttons show is like, given most of the music has a slow, listen at home alone kind of feel. Give it a listen. Broaden those fucking horizon's.
The music posted on this blog is purely promotional, if you have the rights to any of these songs and would like it taken down feel free to contact us.
