CAN XALANT: Efimer Club

EL PETIT DE CAL ERIL (20.30h)
DENT MAY & HIS MAGNIFICIENT UKELELE (22.00h)
HOWE GELB (23.30h)
NUEVA VULCANO (01.15h)

+ HELIOGÀBAL DJ'S
+ MUSICATESSEN
+ INSPIRACIÓ EXPIRACIÓ ANIMADA (Mostra d'Animació Independent Catalana)

*Aquest divendres 17 de Juliol tenim concerts! però res de ser aqui a BCN... nono! haurem d'anar a la bonica villa de Mataró on els nostres amics del centre Can Xalant i FUSIC han preparat una nit de música amb els catalans El petit de cal eril i Nueva Vulcano i els americans Dent May i Howe Gelb.

Jo nomès per passar-m'ho bé amb Dent May i les seves alegres cançons i veure a Nueva Vulcano ja faig el trajecte en tren amb un gran somriure! :)

LET'S GO TO MATARÓ!

EGWM SESSION

It's been a long time without news from me... I'm sorry, I have been trying to find a job and finally everything is in the right place and I can say I H-A-V-E A J-O-B! yay! So, because of my happiness today I decided to made a Session by Traktor (DJ software). It's not perfect... You will see some of the weird changes I made buuut I'm pretty happy of what I made. 14 songs from everywhere... Canada (obviously...), Scotland, New Zeland, USA, Iceland and UK. Enjoy it and write what you think about it... Be pacient with me, next one it's gonna be much more better! That's for sure!

EGWM SESSION

1- Sunset Rubdown - Insane love is awakening
2- Good Old War - Coney Island
3- Anathallo - Hanasajajijii (four: a great wind, more ash)
4- Harlem Shakes - Sunlight
5- Dananananaykroyd - Black Wax
6- Bang Bang Eche - 4 To The Floor
7- Royal Bangs - Cat Swallow
8- BOAT - Topps
9- Parlovr - Speech Bubble/Thought Cloud
10- We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow
11- Favours For Sailors - I Dreamt That You Loved Me In Your Dreams
12 - Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook

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MONDAY VIDEO: we were promised jetpacks - quiet little voices

"We were promised jetpacks." are one of my new favourite bands. They are from Glasgow, UK and there are definite similarities to Interpol but they keep it danceable and easygoing, leaving any bravado by the wayside. The band just got a few weeks ago their first album leaked and I have to say it is really awesome. A band to follow in the close future. Their next concert is in the festival Hinterland in Glasgow (where I am going next week and I hope I'll be able to see them live...).

NXNE 2009

Today I have a "music festival" day. First with the lineup of Lollapalooza and now with NXNE (North by northeast), the copy of SXSW in Toronto, Canada. Why I'm speaking about this festival? Because since 2009 EGWM became FAN, yes, with CAPITAL letters, of music who comes from Canada and where is the best place to see all our bands? this festival... It mix bands from canada, america and europe (a band from Estonia is coming this year...). Today I was looking the webpage and finally they are starting to give names and what a surprise! I know some of them! King Khan & BBQ Show / Woodpigeon / Matt and Kim / The Coathangers ....

So, if anyone is thinking of going to this festival, LET ME KNOW! I'm not rich but for sure we can use a couch for this days. We just need a flight ticket... Anyone working in a flight company? Ah, I almost forgot! The prices of this festival are 5 times less expensive than SXSW. YAY! 50$ por 5 days of non-stop music! double YAY!

NEW BAND: A Smile And A Ribbon

Smile and a Ribbon son Rebecca Mehlman y Martin Lindqvist, aunque en directo se hagan acompañar por cuatro músicos más, dicen sonar como el equivalente a un pastel de limón. Procedentes de Malmö, ciudad cuna del twee pop sueco, y no es de extrañar debido a la avalancha de nuevos grupos suecos en el escenario pop actual. Su primer cd limonero " The Boy I Wish I Never Met" suena fresco, pop por supuesto y twee a por doquier! Enamoradizos de The Magnetic Fields, Language of Flowers, Talulah Gosh e incluso Pulp. Influencias de palabras MAYORES, y un resultado digno de ser escuchado.

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download "magnificent dreams"

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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

faraday webpage

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!

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NEWS: the ghost is dancing new album

Si si si! Finalment! Nou cd dels canadencs "the ghost is dancing"! Aqui teniu la nota que han deixat al seu myspace amb el tracklist! Ara a esperar fins abril!

"Happy to say that we've officially finished mastering our new album tonight. We're all pretty ecstatic in the Ghost is Dancing camp, Chris Stringer, for all of his farting and grunting, did a bang up job (and we highly recommend him to anyone in search for a fine producer).

The album is called "Battles On" and we'll be releasing it (if all goes as scheduled), April 21st (we're also scheduling a tour right now so stay posted).

Here's the tracklist, because I'm so excited:

1. Dream of a Failed Architect
2. Battles On
3. Rogues & Heroes
4. This Thunder
5. Stick Together
6. Louis Riel
7. Strange Times
8. Battles Off
9. Was a Universe
10. Flashing Pictures
11. Old Children
12. Without Friends

Stay Tuned for more soon from these ghosts."

NEW BAND: parlovr

PARLOVR is a band from Montreal, Canada (you know how much I love canadian bands) who start playing together on 2006. Like it says in his myspace of the band: "Reacting against the multi-instrumental, many-membered orchestral bands that crowded the local Montreal scene at the time, PARLOVR was started with the intention of blowing amps and streamlining pop melodies, bringing back the power-trio of the 90s with an off-the-wall twist".

And what can I say about the sound: In his myspace it says they do a "sloopy pop" but I will try to make a comparision with bands and I'll say Parlovr is a mix between Handsome Furs, Royal Bangs and a little bit of Arcade Fire but with only 3 guys in the band. They have great voices who can make you sing in the middle of the street in a fucking bad day and make you feel better... repeating some parts of the lyrics till you know exactly what they felt when they wrote it... Parlovr is the kind of bands I would like to see as much times as I can in a small club with good sound to sing with them while i'm losing my voice.

Just buy the self-titled relase of 2008 from his myspace and you won't regret it. Just listen "pen to the paper" and you will understand me.

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parlovr - pen to the paper live

audrye sessions

I just realise I have to write more in english so I decided to use it again, in some posts. I want to begin this new era with Audrye Sessions. (a band I forgot to put to my favourite 2008 albums) I was in the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last summer watching a free concert of Margot and the Nuclear So and So's with two more bands... One of them: Audrye Sessions. After listening half of the concert I went to the merch store to buy his first album (self released): Braille. What a great deal! I paid 10 $ for it (hand made!) and It makes me change my way to understand music... A great voice and great lyrics! 12 songs, some of them better than the others and some of them anthems of my last trip. (When I listen The Paper Face and Relentless I always remember me walking around the brooklyn bridge or checking LP's in a tiny little record shop in Williamsburg). And when I listen them here in Barcelona (shuffle mode rocks!) a big strange feeling come to me... :) They have a new EP you can buy in itunes and they are preparing a new album for 2009. I can't wait more!

So what else I can say to you to listen this great band from California?!

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download: audrye sessions - juliana

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audrye sessions - the paper face

LIVE VIDEO: vampire weekend - ça plane pour moi (cover)

vampire weekend - ça plane pour moi (cover)

Aquest mati me despertat amb ganes de veure "Nick & Norah's infinite playlist"... La peli potser no serà la nova "Juno" però la banda sonora esta moooolt i mooolt bé. Dir-vos que en els crèdits finals surt la nova cançó dels Vampire Weekend "Ottoman" i que a mi m'ha agradat molt (7 escoltes en modo repeat just al acabar la peli). Espero el seu nou cd des de que va sortir el primer... I just avui que he mirat el seu myspace m'he trobat amb aquest video d'un cover que van fer de la cançó de "Plastic Bertrand" . Disfruteu del cover i de l'original.

EARLGREYWITHMILK: 1st canadian mix

earlgreywithmilk CANADIAN (I)

01 - The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of The RAA
02 - The Ghost is Dancing - Greatlakescape
03 - Henri Faberge and the Adorables - Ventriloquist Love
04 - Parlovr - Pen to the Paper
05 - Born Ruffians - Wedding Rings And Midnight Strollers
06 - Entire Cities - Talkers
07 - Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor
08 - The Great Bloomers - Market of the Night
09 - The Wooden Sky - This Bird Has Flown
10 - The Acorn - Crooked Legs

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Hauria d'escriure alguna cosa sobre la playlist però nomès escoltant-la entendreu perquè ultimament en el meu last.fm nomès apareixen grups canadencs... Podria fins i tot afirmar que alguns d'aquests grups s'estan tornant ja en els meus grups preferits per aquest 2009... i nomès portem 10 dies... de bojos.

EARLGREYAULAIT: 1st mix français

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1. Ridan - Ullysse
2. Anis - Cergy
3. Tryo - Serre-moi
4. Déportivo - Les bières aujourd'hui s'ouvrent manuellement
5. Téléphone - New York avec toi
6. Indochine - L'aventurier
7. Debout sur le zinc - La déclaration
8. La Rue Kétanou - Mon oncle
9. Louise Attaque - Léa
10. Benjamin Biolay - Folle de toi

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-Un thé au lait, s'il vous plaît?

Per si alguna vegada us trobeu a frança i no sabeu com demanar la vostra beguda preferida. :D La veritat és que realment no se perquè he fet aquest mix però des de fa un temps necessito sempre escoltar alguna d'aquestes cançons durant el dia. Bé, la majoria sabeu el perquè, imagino... :$ Peró la veritat es que si tingues que escollir entre que magrada més si la música cantada en espanyol o en francès (la catalana, segons de qui, està mooolt per sobre) crec que em quedaria amb la francòfona. Doncs això, amusez-vous bien!

EARL GREY: els millors àlbums de 2008

30.- Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (Matador)
29.- Shearwater - Rook (Matador)
28.- This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You (Magic Bullet Records)
27.- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light (Drag City)
26.- Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (Merge)
25.- Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Constellation)
24.- Right Away, Great Captain! - The Eventually Home (Favorite Gentlemen Recordings)
23.- The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers (Loose Music)
22.- Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)
21.- The Dodos - Visiter (French Kiss)


20.- The Dutchess & The Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)
19.- Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing (Self-released)
18.- Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins (Jagjaguwar)
17.- The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Vagrant Records)
16.- The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby (Moshi Moshi)
15.- Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
14.- Manel - Els Millors Professors Europeus (Discmedi)
13.- Grand Archives - Grand Archives (Sub Pop)
12.- Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
11.- The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (City Slang)


10.- Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)

9.- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (Constellation)

8.- Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster... / We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)

7.- Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (EMI)

6.- Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)

5.- Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)

4.- The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (4ad / Ada)

3.- Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)

2.- The New Year - The New Year (Touch & Go)

1.- Portishead - Third (Mercury / Island)

NEW BAND: the rural alberta advantage

Quan el teu last.fm et diu que portes 67 escoltes d'un grup que has conegut 4 dies endarrere et comences a plantejar si de nou t'has trobat amb un "supergrup". Els supergrups són grups que quan acabes d'escoltar per una vegada el seu cd necessites tornar-lo a posar, són grups que et fan veure el que t'envolta d'una manera diferent, són grups que del seu primer albúm haurien de treure totes les cançons com a single i amb el seu videoclip de rigor, són grups dels que esperes el segon cd o un EP tant aviat com sigui possible, són grups que saps que et marcaran, són grups que aguantaran molt temps en el teu iPod/iPhone, ....

Desprès de tirar milions de floretes al grup dir-vos que The Rural Alberta Advantage és un trio de Toronto, Canada, que disfruta fent un indie-rock sobre hometowns i heartbreaking. Canten sobre estius als Rockies i hiverns a la granja... Espero que per algun dels festivals d'estiu portin alguns grups canadencs perquè ultimament són els que més em marquen (born ruffians, the acorn, women, caribou, etc....)

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2008 LISTS WITH MILK: 30 best songs (III)

*I per acabar aquesta setmana (demà marxo a Paris!!) aqui us deixo el que ha sigut l'any 2008 amb 30 cançons que m'han fet cantar, ballar, saltar i fins i tot plorar (death cab for cutie... snif..). Ja veureu que en aquesta llista surt un mix de les cançons dels meus LP i EP preferits... Espero que el 2009 em porti nous T-E-M-A-Z-O-S com els 30 que aqui teniu. Ja veureu que podeu baixar-vos les cançons per separat o fins i tota la llista sencera de dos maneres (box.net i rapidshare). Disfruteu del que queda del 2008 i la setmana que ve ja penjare les llistes que falten! :D

30- Lightspeed Champion - Tell me What It's Worth
29- Manchester Orchestra - I was a lid
28- Drunken Barn Dance - Guilt (live - ann arbor house show)
27- Catalan Corruption - Half a Start
26- The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Thank you Mario but our Princess is in another castle
25- Death Cab For Cutie - The Ice is getting thinner

24- Right Away, Great Captain! - Memories from a shore
23- Speedmarket Avenue - Way better now
22- Thao Nguyen & the get down stay down - Geography
21- Tune-yards - Fiya
20- Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

19- The Lodger - The good old days
18- Adam & the Amethists - Amethyst amulet
17- Oh No Oh My - Be a star
16- Los Campesinos! - This is how you spell "hahaha, we destroy the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux romance"
15- Blitzen Trapper - Furr

14- Animal Collective - Water Curses
13- Foals - Cassius
12- The Wave Pictures - Strange fruit or David
11- The Little Ones - Morning Tide
10- She & Him - I was made for you

9- Fun. - Benson Hedges
8- Gossamer Albatross - The ground will take us down
7- Royal Bangs - Cat Swallow
6- The Dutchess & the Duke - Scorpio
5- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed

4- Annuals - Around your neck
3- Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Modern Mistery
2- Born Ruffians - Little Garçon
1- Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

- link to download the whole list in box.net: here
- link to download the whole list in rapidshare: here

2008 LISTS WITH MILK: LP (II)

*I aqui teniu una altre de les llistes promeses: Els millors LP del 2008 (al meu gust clar...). Per fer aquesta llista me basat en els cd's que més he escoltat durant aquest any i si algun d'ells ha tingut algun significat més important com seria el de Born Ruffians o el de Royal Bangs (els vaig coneixer en el concert de Oh No Oh My a NYC aquest agost). Repeteixo que ningu em mati per no posar Bon Iver (jo el seu "For Emma, forever ago" el posaria entre els 5 primers...) però el CD va sortir al finals del 2007 però va ser re-editat al 2008.


20- Blitzen Trapper - Furr // Lightspeed Champion - Falling of the Lavender Bridge
19- The Little Ones - Morning tide
18- Nada Surf - Lucky
17- Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, the world lays me down
16- The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby


15- Los Campesinos! - Hold on youngster
14- Adam & the Amethysts - The amethyst amulet
13- Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
12- Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
11- Thao Nguyen & the get down stay down - We brave bee stings and all

10- Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

9- Frightened rabbit - The midnight organ fight

8- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

7- Right Away Great Captain - The eventually home

6- She & Him - Volume 1

5- Royal Bangs - We breed champions

3 (bis) - Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Pershing

3- Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

2- The Dutchess and the Duke - She's the dutchess, he's the duke

1- Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue

2008 LISTS WITH MILK: EP & SINGLES (I)

* Hello readers! No, no torno a l'anglès... Nomès és que me adonat que els millors EP tots venen de USA i porto tota la nit escoltant-los. Doncs res, com ja vaig prometre comencen les llistes dels millors del 2008. Si tot va bé faré 5 llistes entre les que hi hauran: els millors EP & singles / els millors LP / les 30 millors cançons de l'any / els millors concerts / les millors pelis/series. Si, molta feina es el que em queda per davant... No espereu veure totes les llistes de cop... Aquesta ha sigut més ràpida ja que no tenia tampoc tants per posar... Jo espero que en el 2009 els EP/singles tinguin encara més força que aquest any...

10 - Bear hands - Golden EP

9- Drunken Barn Dance - The First State Non-tour EP

8- Chris Bathgate - Wait, Skeleton.

7- Manchester Orchestra - Let my pride be what's left behind

6- The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree


5- Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant

4- Born Ruffians - Little Garçon

3- Animal Collective - Water curses

2- Oh No Oh My - Dmitrij dmitrij

1- Annuals - Wet Zoo