MONDAY VIDEO: ezra furman & the harpoons - take off your sunglasses

Ezra Furman & The Harpoons -Take Off Your Sunglasses @ Yahoo! Video

FARADAY 2009! First names!

FARADAY 2009: first names

THE DIVINE COMEDY
THE LUCKSMITHS
IPSO FACTO
THE LEISURE SOCIETY
THE MUMMERS
THE RULING CLASS
MANEL
THE NEW RAEMON
JOE CREPÚSCULO
DORIAN
HALF FOOT OUTSIDE
EXTRAPERLO
CHARADES
LE PIANC
MARGARITA
BISCUIT
THE LIONS CONSTELLATION
ESPALDAMACETA

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MONDAY VIDEO: mount righteous - when the child awakes

NEW BAND: the red river

It's been a long time without this section... Too many new sections and things to do... But tonight I want to introduce you my new favourite band to listen at night, THE RED RIVER. This guys from Long Beach, CA play a folk-downtempo music that can take you to another place... A place with grass and an amazing sunlight and you are there, sitting, alone, listening the song "something good" and thinking about your life, what you did good, what you did wrong, what you want to change, what you want to forget, what do you want to do,... and the sun is going down and you start feeling a little bit cold but you can not move because the moment is perfect... The moment you were waiting for a long long time... And you can't move...

"Something good" is in the last album of this band, "Grassblades". Highly recommended!

download "something good"

LIVE VIDEO: the whitest boy alive "1517 street concert" @ berlin

the whitest boy alive 1517 street concert ic berlin


Awesome song! (thanks to my german contact! take care of yourself!)

EARLGREYWITHMILK: canadian mix part III

EARLGREYWITHMILK: canadian mix part III

1 - Hollerado - Do the doot da doot doo
2- Polytarp - Happy Notes
3- Oh No Forest Fires - Swing And A Misdemenor
4- The Lovely Feathers - Frantic
5- The Ghost is Dancing - The thunder
6- Arkells - John Lennon
7- The Rural Alberta Advantage - The City
8- Hooded Fang - Circles And Blocks
9- Whale Tooth - Hibernation Song
10 - Henri Faberge And The Adorables - The Goddamn light

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Again with Canada... I can not stop finding new bands I want to share with everyone. Too many small bands from little towns in Canada with a lot of potential! And I'm finding them without going there... Just myspace, blogs (i heart music) or facebook... 10 new songs (some from bands you probably know already...) in the same line as lately with a little bit more of rock and more guitar (the new bands: the lovely feathers, polytarp and hollerado) and more happy songs (hooded fang, whale tooth and the best ending ever with henri faberge and the adorables). And, like always, songs of my favourites canadian bands, the ghost is dancing and RAA (i know... I'm becoming obsess with this two bands...). A happy mix to say hi to the new season, Spring (at least in Barcelona)

loud racecars

*allister - racecars (WARNING: this song is not a typical EGWM song but once, I was young...)
Lately I have been thinking about my adolescence and which kind of music I used to listen... I'm not gonna say any name here cause you, readers, will make fun of me... I just want to share with you that lately I started listening again this bands, they changed my mood so many times. This song is the best example: "don't worry about your problems now baby 'cuz they just don't matter when it comes down to the fact that everybody's got problems now baby and life's too short to keep them bottled up inside". A piece of college american punk-rock art.

*elemeno p - louder louder
My future is looking good. My new "most-scroobled-band-of-the-week" is the answer. New Zeland is the origin. This small islands are doing so many good things lately (at least for me). Starting with the movie Eagle Vs Shark, the Lord of the rings, Black Sheep, the TV-show Flight of the Conchords and now, bands like Elemeno P, Kingston or Goodnight Nurse... Like I said, my future is looking good cause I have a new destination in my list: NEW ZELAND. Anyone interested?

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NEW SONGS: the ghost is dancing

OH YEAH! That's how I should start this post... Finally we have something new of one of my favourite canadian bands: the ghost is dancing. Like I said in the last post about them, they were mixing and editing the new album... And now we have the first 2 songs of the new record: BATTLES ON. April 28th is the date... Just 1 more month... For the moment here you have the two songs you can listen in their myspace.

download "battles on"
download "the tunder"

*AWESOME songs! "the thunder" will become my new favourite song in my last.fm. They are following the kind of sound they made in the last album but with more guitars! really really good!

IPOD BATTLE: mai a la vida dj's vs indiespot!

Aquest dijous 5 de Març us recomenem que no us perdeu l'IPOD BATTLE que tindra lloc al Mond Bar de Gràcia (pl. del Sol 14) entre els nostres amics del Mai a la vida i Indiespot. Escoltareu des de Franz Ferdinand fins a Brand New i més i segur (m'ho ha confirmat indiespot, YAAAY! ) que caurà alguna cançó canadenca (RAA!!!!) que ultimament tant magrada a mi i que ha tingut cert èxit (50 baixades el primer mix de música canadenca per mi ja es molt!). Això si, també diuen que poden posar quaaalsevol cançó que demaneu (si la tenen al seu ipod clar!).

Doncs el que deiem, no us perdeu la festa d'aquest dijous! Els earlgreywithmilk estarem allà! Aqui teniu els links per apuntar-vos al event a last.fm i al facebook. :)

the secret of monkey island (flash)

watch it (for fans, freeks, geeks and whatever you want of The Secret Of Monkey Island)

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* the fucking eagles - out of this world. I found out about this band after listening a podcast in KEXP so I decide to download the song and put it in mode repeat ON... After 8 times listening the same song I wanted to go to the street and start destroying something with a baseball bat wearing a black jacket, jeans with big holes and big black boots. I wanted to be persecuted by the police and do like Sid Vicious for a while. Yeah, I know what are you thinking: how crazy is this guy? I just wanted you to listen the song, the whole story is a joke. :)

* harlem shakes - winter water. I love this song of Harlem Shakes. I remember when my co-blogger and friend (earl grey) told me about this band. "hey, you should check this out!" I started listening the EP cause everything my friend recommends me it's good. Probably I listened 10 times and I was almost going to his concert in Brooklyn... But then I left the band for some months until I saw this song... So now I have the album, the EP and I'm sharing my favourite song. Thanks earl grey.

* lovely rita - baked beans. Lovely rita is not my favourite song of The Beatles. That's for sure. A song wrote it by Paul about a meter maid of Liverpool can not my favourite song of them... But then I saw a band with the same name so I check them out. After a few discussions with my mind I nominated "baked beans" to the prize: "happy songs for a (fucking) monday morning" and "english song with french accent".

* shapes have fangs - what in the world. Shapes have fangs is a band from Austin, Texas. Right now they are getting ready to be part of the BEST festival in USA, SXSW, for second time. (If anyone wants to pay my flight ticket to Texas I will make a monument for him). But did you know there is another festival like SXSW call NXNE in Toronto? And the ticket price is much mooooore cheaper (again, If anyone prefers to pay me the ticket to Toronto I'll also make a monument for him). So if any of you go to SXSW please don't forget to check this band.

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blame ringo - garble arch (a day in the life of abbey road)

blame ringo - garble arch (a day in the life of abbey road)