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X-Wife - Are you ready for the blackout? 2008
"X-Wife is a rock band from Portugal. Current members are, João Vieira (vocals/guitar), Fernando Sousa (bass), Rui Maia (Synthesizers/ drums/drum machine)".
"After long conversations about music, João Vieira and Fernando Sousa (at the time in a band called Stealing Orchestra), decide to start jamming together. After meeting Rui Maia in a bar, X-Wife was complete (the official date of birth of X-Wife is March 2002). Starting from a set of demos that Vieira recorded in a minidisc while in London, the band initiates their rehearsals. In one of those rehearsals a record label (Nortesul) manager shows up (by indication of a mutual friend) and two months after a record deal is presented to the trio". Are you ready for the blackout? is the third album of the band.
(in - Wikipedia) + info
1 - On The Radio (mp3)
2 - Summertime Death (mp3)
3 - Headlights
4 - Black Tears
5 - Heart Of The World
6 - Good Times
7 - Turn The Music On
8 - Fantasma
9 - Behind Doors
10 - Fireworks (mp3)
11 - Heaven Knows
12 - Nothing Else To Prove
"The Grates are a three-piece band from Brisbane, Australia, comprising Patience Hodgson (vocals), John Patterson (guitar) and Alana Skyring (drums). They have been lauded for their catchy songs and enthusiastic and energetic live shows. Their sound has been compared to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Be Your Own Pet."
(in Wikipedia) + info
"As a band they've taken the adult step of grabbing a co-production credit alongside Peter Katis, who has also produced for Interpol and Mates of State, adding flourishes like keyboards, accordion, guest vocalists, and a barking-dog break in the kooky When You're Scared of Dogs."
(in Allmusic - Jody Macgregor) + info
1 - Burn Bridges (mp3)
2 - Carve Your Name (mp3)
3 - The Fun in Every Start
4 - Two Kinds of Right
5 - Aw Yeah
6 - Milk Eyes
7 - The Sum of Every Part
8 - Storms and Fevers
9 - Earthquake
10 - Not Today
11 - When You're Scared of Dogs
12 - Let It Die
13 - The Biggest and Longest Adventure Ever
Well, my friends, Pirika :: My Music is about to complete the first anniversary and while reaching the symbolic mark of 20,000 visitors, here it is time to change a little the course of this blog.
This decision is based on the questionnaire made on the blog itself (although very little competitive) but also on the basis of email received, held conversations with other bloggers, and especially with the lack of time that the writers of this blog have had at this time.
This way, the posts will go to suffer some changes to its structure. Instead of writing a bit about the band or artist to make a critical to the subject matter, we will put one or two links to other sites, these sites approved and with the same view, with the same ideology of Pirika :: My Music.
We will continue to publish only what we feel is essential but we will "take advantage" of something said by others (with due credits mentioned).
So, we can continue to make known, artists and music in general in a way more quickly and not making the mistake of writing the same as many.
These measures will come into force starting this moment and will continue until some unexpected arises and necessary new amendment.
Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild 2008
Swedish singer-songwriter, Frida Hyvönen, grew up in a small place in the north of Sweden, Robertsfors.
She was born in 1977 and since 2004 is beginning to be known in musical terms. In 2005 released the first album called, Until Death Comes, a album with some renown.
In 2007 came the second , Frida Hyvönen Gives You : Music from the Dance Performance PUDEL. This is the first of what is intended as a series entitled, Frida Hyvönen Gives You. This one was originally produced for a performance of the dance choreographer Dorte Olsen. Silence Is Wild is the third, and if the previous albums were good, the latest appears to be much better.
You may already have heard the other sounds, because she recorded a cover of REM, Everybody Hurts, in autumn 2007
1 - Dirty Dancing (mp3)
2 - Enemy Within (mp3)
3 - Highway 2 U (mp3)
4 - London! (mp3)
5 - My Cousin
6 - Science
7 - Scandinavian Blonde
8 - December
9 - Birds
10 - Pony
11 - Sic Transit Gloria
12 - Oh Shanghai
13 - Why Do You Love Me So Much
Beck - Gamma Ray (mp3)
Death Cab for Cutie - Talking Bird (mp3)
Deehunter - Never Stops (mp3)
Duchess Says - Ccut Up (mp3)
Haley Bonar - Something Great (mp3)
Jukebox The Ghost - Good Day (Andrew Maury Remix) (mp3)
Middle Class Rut - All Walks Of Life (mp3)
Mogwai - Sun Smells Too Loud (mp3)
The Bowery Riots - Should I Look The Other Way (mp3)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Drain The Blood (mp3)
Wendy Darling - Sick End Game (mp3)
Zen - Not Gonna Give Up (mp3)
Zen - U.N.L.O. (mp3)
Lovers Electric - Whatever You Want 2008 (Repost)
Lovers Electric is an electro pop band from Adelaide, Australia. Band members David Turley and Eden Boucher founded the group whilst in London in 2006. The internet radio station KGRL featured the band as their “Flower-Powered Artist” for April 2007. After touring the United States, they toured Europe from May-July 2007 as support for re-formed 80s band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) playing to sold-out venues and developing "Synth Fever", widely accepted as a serious issue in electro pop circles.
In March 2008 Lovers Electric singed with Sony BMG Australia, and released their debut album, Whatever You Want, on the 23rd of August.
in Wikipedia)
01 - Start Again (mp3)
02 - Honey (mp3)
03 - You Got It
04 - Morning Sun
05 - Won't Give In
06 - Is It Over
07 - In Love
08 - Whatever You Want
09 - Love Waits
10 - Could This Be
11 - Closer (mp3)
12 - Stay Awhile
Formedin 2003 by Nicholas Delffs and Colin Anderson, The Shaky Hands are a rock group from Portland, Oregon.
The band began to gain fans all over the place, its vibrant performances, the unmistakable voice of Nick Delffs and the awards earned over 4 years, as the Willamette Week's annual Best New Band, led the band to sign contract with Holocene Music.
The Shaky Hands’ self-titled debut, released in 2007 was no surprise to the people who already know this band because the album approximates the irresistibly frenetic Shaky Hands live experience.
Now they have a new album, Lunglight, promoted by Holocene Music and Kill Rock Stars. Two months after they sign with Kill Rock Stars, Colin Anderson left the group but Nathan Delffs took Anderson's place on the drums. Listen to Lunglight and have a nice surprise.
01 A New Parade
02 Loosen Up
03 Air Better Come
04 We Are Young (mp3)
05 Neighbors
06 World's Gone Mad (mp3)
07 No Say
08 You're the Light
09 Show Me Your Life
10 Settle On11Love of All
12 Wake the Breathing Light
13 Oh No
From today we will release another label (Survey Results ).
It will not be more than an archive of all questionnaires made to the readers of Pirika:: My Music, starting today.
I hope you enjoy it.
Here are some of the bands that will perform in Portugal this Autumn.
Which of these do you choose?
Aimee Mann 4 (13%)
Blood Red Shoes 5 (16%)
Cansei de Ser Sexy 10 (33%)
Cut Copy 8 (26%)
dEUS 10 (33%)
Gogol Bordello 6 (20%)
Gotan Project 6 (20%)
Infadels 2 (6%)
Lemonheads 4 (13%)
Mary Onettes 3 (10%)
Mercury Rev 5 (16%)
Nouvelle Vague 8 (26%)
Peter Murphy 3 (10%)
Roisin Murphy 5 (16%)
Sigur Rós 15 (50%)
Thievery Corporation 10 (33%)
Notification
To all of you who noticed the disappearance of certain posts, here's the explanation for what happened.
Pirika :: My Music has been notified.
"Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others."
The posts in question are:
Nwz playlist-11
TV On The Radio - Dear Science 2008
TV On The Radio - Dear Science 2008 (re-post) - This was posted again, because the first had simply disappeared, I thought I had done something wrong, that was deleted by mistake, now we know why.
For all concerned, there is a notice at the bottom right of this blog where there are contacts in order to expose all your doubts and questions.
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Through this blog, we're trying to share good music with others. Please support the artists by purchasing their work. Feel free to contact us if you think we'd be interested in your music.
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Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes 2008
From Montreal, Canada, the indie-Rockers, Land Of Talk. They will realese, early October, his second album, Some Are Lakes.
The band consists of singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell, bassist Chris McCarron and drummer Eric Thibodeau.
1 - Yuppy Flu
2 - Death By Fire
3 - The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)
4 - Some Are Lakes (mp3)
5 - Give Me Back My Heart Attack
6 - It’s Okay (mp3)
7 - Young Bridge
8 - Corner Phone (mp3)
9 - Got A Call
10 - Troubled
It's not a recent launch, because it was launched in April, but deserves positive note, so here are the details of the latest work of Elbow,
The Seldom Seen Kid, that is already the fourth album of this band from Manchester, and the first produced and mixed by the Elbow.
Recently they received the Mercury prize with The Seldom Seen Kid, despite strong competition from Radiohead, Burial, Robert Plant or The Last Shadow Puppets.
Mercury Prize take place in London since 1992. Normally, soon after announcing the nominees for the trophy, the bands show an increase in sales of its disks. The nominees are chosen by a small number of people involved in the music industry in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In recent years, artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Antony & the Johnsons, Pulp, Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Talvin Singh or Portishead took the prize for home.
When receiving the award, Guy Garvey, singer of the group, referred to the fact as "the best thing that has happened in" and dedicated the prize to Brian Glancy, a friend of the band who died recently and that motivated the title of the album that "celebrates his life," revealed. According to the musician "any person who has made music in Manchester know who he was." At the ceremony, Guy Garvey said that "The trophy will be presented to Mandy Glancy, the mother of Brian."
in "dn.sapo.pt"
1 - Starlings
2 - The Bones of You
3 - Mirrorball
4 - Grounds for Divorce (mp3)
5 - An Audience with the Pope
6 - Weather to Fly (mp3)
7 - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
8 - The Fix
9 - Some Riot
10 - One Day Like This (mp3)
11 - Friend of Ours
12 - We're Away" (UK bonus track)
After deserved holiday, we are back to continue with our work.
Welcome to the second part of - Pirika :: My Music.
Estamos de volta
Depois de umas merecidas férias, estamos de volta para continuarmos com o nosso trabalho.
Sejam bem vindos à segunda parte de - Pirika :: My Music.
Fechado para férias
Desculpem a falta de posts mas encontramo-nos de férias neste momento.
Assim que possível, nós voltaremos ao normal funcionamento.
Obrigado pela vossa compreensão.
Closed for holiday
Sorry for the lack of posts but we are on holiday at the moment.
As soon as possible, we return to normal operation.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kim Novak - Luck and Accident 2007
Kim Novak is a four-piece band from Normandy, France.
Inspired by bands such as The Cure, Tindersticks and Joy Division, Kim Novak can easily be compared with other bands like, Editors or Interpol… Luck and Accident is the first album and was recorded in december 2006 and released on May 2007 by Talitres Records.
They take their name from the famous American actress of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
“As French imports go, Luck & Accident may not be quite up there with Thierry Henry or Brigitte Bardot, but it still makes a one-way Eurostar ticket seem cheap at twice the price.”
(Dom Gourlay - drownedinsound.com)
1 - Better Run
2 - Swallow
3 - Turn a Rabbit
4 - Lost At Play (mp3)
5 - In The Mirror
6 - If (mp3)
7 - Female Friends (mp3)
8 - Around Your Neck
9 - Some Photographs
10 - Crash
11 - On My Back
Andy Yorke is the younger brother of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, and Simple is his first solo album.
Is not easy being the brother of the Radiohead singer, there is always the tendency to compare the two. But at the time of Unbelievable Truth was the same thing and people were able to give credit to Andy performance, and with Simple will be the same.
"The forthcoming album is the solo debut that almost never was. In the 1990s I was lead singer and co-songwriter of Oxford-based band Unbelievable Truth, which released the album Almost Here on Virgin Records in 1998, and second album Sorrythankyou on Shifty Disco in 2000. When I quit the band in 2000, I swore never to get involved in music again… But after five years following a totally different career path, I found myself with a collection of songs that I had begun writing despite myself. The songs began as music written for my own benefit, but for the first time I was solely responsible for the entire writing process from start to finish, and that was liberating. Things that once seemed complicated now became simple. A lot of the songs on the album are about this happening to me in all kinds of ways."
(Andy Yorke) (+ info)
1 - Simple
2 - Found The Road
3 - Twist Of The Knife
4 - Rise And Fall (mp3)
5 - Diamant (mp3)
6 - One In A Million
7 - Always By Your Side
8 - Let It Be True
9 - Mathilda (mp3)
10 - Lay Down
11 - Surrender
12 - Ode To A Friend
It is hot in Portugal, and the days on the beach and the nights on the terrace without doing anything, just listening to a good sound, are arriving.
And what is the music we hear more often in the summer?
Reggae!!
Well, here is a small tribute playlist to summer and Reggae bands.
(Tribute to Summer & Reggae) by Pirika01
1 - Barrington Levy - Here I Come (mp3)
2 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love-People Get Ready (mp3)
3 - Cornell Campbell - Ten To One (mp3)
4 - Dave Barker - Set Me Free (mp3)
5 - Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket (mp3)
6 - Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want (mp3)
7 - Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come (mp3)
8 - Keith & Tex - Stop That Train (mp3)
9 - Matumbi - Brother Louie (mp3)
10 - Max Romeo - Wet Dream (mp3)
11 - Pat Kelly - Somebody's Baby (mp3)
12 - Sophia George - Girlie Girlie (mp3)
13 - The Abyssinians - Declaration of Rights (mp3)
14 - Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop (mp3)
15 - Twin Roots - Know Love (mp3)
Arcade Fire - Ocean Of Noise (Original)
Calexico - Ocean Of Noise (Cover)
Interpol - Obstacle 1 (Original)
Charlotte Martin - Obstacle 1 (Cover)
Elton John - Rocket Man (Original)
David Fonseca - Rocket Man (Cover)
The Ting Tings - Thats Not My Name (Original)
Dizzee Rascal - Thats Not My Name (Cover)
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Original)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Cover)
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Original)
KT Tunstall - The Prayer (Cover)
The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong (Original)
Lily Allen - Don't Get Me Wrong (Cover)
The Carpenters - Superstar (Original)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (Cover)
Coldplay - Violet Hill (Original)
The Kooks - Violet Hill (Cover)
Rihanna - S.O.S (Original)
The Last Shadow Puppets - S.O.S (Cover)
The Flaming Lips - Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Original)
The Postal Service - Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Cover)
The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Original)
The Watson Twins - Just Like Heaven (Cover)
Remix Playlist 01
Architecture in Helsinki - Like It Or Not (El Guincho Remix) (mp3)
Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring By The Sea (Blamma Bl... Remix) (mp3)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Yuksek Remix) (mp3)
Division Kent - Offshore (The Phantom's Revenge Remix)(mp3)
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Black Dominoes Remix) (mp3)
Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood Remix) (mp3)
Little Dragon - 1 Recommendation (Todla T Remix) (mp3)
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix) (mp3)
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia (Cut Copy Remix) (mp3)
Sam Sparro - Black & Gold (Phones Hard As Diamonds Remix) (mp3)
Sunny Day Sets Fire - I Dream Along (Triobelisk Remix) (mp3)
The Faint - The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix) (mp3)
The Gossip - Listen Up (The Black Ghosts Remix) (mp3)
The Love Motel - Cosmic Love (Grum Remix) (mp3)
The Presets - Talk Like That (Miami Horror Remix) (mp3)
These Electric Lives - We Should Be Believing (Sta Remix) (mp3)
Thunderheist - Jerk It (Jokers Of The Scene Remix) (mp3)
The Dø - A Mouthful 2008
"The Dø is a French rock duo formed by musician and soundtrack composer Dan Levy and French/Finnish singer Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti.
They met while recording the music for the film Empire of the Wolves, and they then continued to collaborate for the films, The Passenger and Camping sauvage."
"A Mouthful is the result of this union, the album was released on 14 January 2008. The Dø is known to incorporate a great range of instruments in their songs, as well as being a duet completing each other member, Merilahti bringing the melody, and Levy the symphonic or jazzy structure. Most of the lyrics are written in English, the rest being in Finnish. It is not known yet if the band will release songs in the French language."
(wikipedia.com)
1 - Playground Hustle
2 - At Last !
3 - On My Shoulders (mp3)
4 - Song for Lovers
5 - The Bridge is Broken
6 - Stay (Just a Little Bit More) (mp3)
7 - Unissasi Laulelet
8 - Tammie (mp3)
9 - Queen Dot Kong
10 - Coda
11 - Searching Gold
12 - When Was I Last Home?
13 - Travel Light
14 - Aha
15 - In My Box
Welcome To Goon Island, the debut album from XX Teens (former Xerox Teens), released July 28th by Mute Records. XX Teens are, Anthony Silvester (guitar), Rich Cash (vocals), William Morrow (guitar), Macks Faulkron (drums) & Jorgen Raa (bass).
“With 'Welcome To Goon Island', XX Teens look set to bring a bit of depth & technicolour joy into the sometime hegemonic drabness of the current musical landscape”
(recordstore.co.uk)
1 - The Way We Were (mp3)
2 - B-54
3 - Round
4 - Ba (Ba-Ba-Ba)
5 - Onkawara
6 - (Reprise)
7 - Only You
8 - My Favourite Hate (mp3)
9 - Darlin (mp3)
10 - Sun Comes Up
11 - For Brian Haw
(Bloc Party gave a world exclusive first play of their new single 'Mercury' to the Zane LoweRadio 1 show in the UK.
Speaking live on the show about the new song and the on-going recording session for the band's third album Kele said "we're in the middle of it. we're still writing and working on it so it's quite hard to have an overview really, we are making the record i always wanted us to make so we just can't wait for it to be done").
(Blocparty.com)
The single will be released on the 11th of August.
Heavy weight 12”
Side A Mercury (12” Version)
Side B Mercury (12” Intrumental)
CD Maxi
1. Mercury (mp3)(Alt)
2. Mercury (Hervé is in disarray Remix)
3. Mercury (CSS Remix)
4. Mercury (Flosstrodamus Remix)
Almost two years later, The Walkmen have their forth album. You & Me is the result of those years,
Chris Zane e John Agnello are the producers of this work released by Gigantic Music.
"You and Me offers a distinctive twist to the "Walkmen” sound of their first three records. Each song shows focus, and an up-beat enthusiasm apparent in all lyrics, music, and performances. It is a long record, clocking in at just under an hour, and it presents a wide range of ideas. The pacing is very important, as the band felt it was essential to set the right tone, and show each song in its proper light."
(thespacelab.tv)
1 - Dónde Está la Playa (mp3)
2 - Flamingos (for Colbert)
3 - On the Water (mp3)
4 - In the New Year (mp3)
5 - Seven Years of Holidays (for Stretch)
6 - Postcards From Tiny Islands
7 - Red Moon
8 - Canadian Girl
9 - Four Provinces
10 - Long Time Ahead of Us
11 - The Blue Route
12 - New Country
13 - I Lost You (mp3)
14 - If Only It Were True
01 - Way Out There
01 - Valerie Plame 
01 - Lieutenant
01 - Another World (
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