Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Who's calling this Saturday?



The line-up for the London Calling Festival on Saturday.

Long blondes
The Long Blondes are the part of the next chapter of Sheffield’s idiosyncratic musical heritage: the suburban disco fantasies of the Human League, the opulent ridiculousness of ABC, the seedy glamour of Pulp. You can listen to some songs on myspace, or at the “I was there” blog.

The Kooks
Energetic Brighton New Pop Foursome with an Honest, Appealing Musical Style.
You can listen to some songs on their website, myspace, or download some songs at my yellow country teeth or Queijo Derretido. Or just buy the album

Mystery Jets
A 5-piece band out of London Their sound is somewhere between Franz Ferdinand, Blur, Monochrome Set and Super Furry Animals. They already attracted the attention of the indie press with their unconventional line-up (the lead singers dad plays guitar) Listen to some songs on myspace, or download some songs at the “keep it coming” Blog, the “Green Pea-ness” blog or “the prettiest Pony” Blog or buy the album

Good Shoes
Art Pop from London this is raw Indie music at it’s best. Listen to some songs on myspace or download “never meant to hurt you” from the artrocker website.

The Cinematics
Glasgow four piece beat combo with influences ranging from The Cure, Television, Magazine, Wire, The Smashing Pumpkins to Talking Heads, The Smiths and Jeff Buckley. The band have a diverse taste in music which in turn makes their sound interesting, but easily accessible. Listen to some tunes on Myspace, download “the chase” from the SXSW showcase

Howling Bells
Shoegazers from Australia sounds like Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Duke Spirit. You can listen to a couple of songs at myspace or download at “fluxblog”, “Green Pea-ness” or “Motel de Moka” or buy the single

Larrikin Love
From London Indie Rock with Ska influences the new fun guys on the block. Listen at myspace or download a song at “P3DRO”

The Noisettes
Most looking forward to this band from London. Noisettes are fronted by the supremely talented and beautiful Shingai Shoniwa, a vocalist and instrumentalist who sings like Billie Holiday on PCP while patrolling the stage like an Amazonian Warrior with an eye for fashion. Shingai howls and soothes, gives you goose bumps and shoots soul into your main arteries. Listen at myspace, download some songs at “radio free internet” or buy the single.

Humanzi
From Dublin Indie Rock in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kasabian style. Listen and download some songs at myspace, or buy them

Sunshine Underground
My other favorite for the festival. From Leeds they play dance punk pop in the style of the Rapture. Their single “Commercial Breakdown” is on of the best songs of 2006. listen on Myspace or read more and download a song at “Bigstereo”

3voor12 made a collection of songs listen here
other tracks:
The Cinematics - Devil in my soul
The Long Blondes - Lust in the movies
Howling Bells - The night is young
Good Shoes - May Lannoye
Can't wait

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