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- It’s no accident: Crystal Castles is Toronto’s hottest new…
- Circo Loco Tickets | The End London | What’s on guide &…
- Xavier band others to make Sweet 16 music
- South by Southwest Austin Texas – the Sunday Times review
- Down time: Bjork
It’s no accident: Crystal Castles is Toronto’s hottest new…
Toronto Star – Mar 23, 2008
landing remix duties for Bloc Party Liars and their pals the Klaxons. CC also sparked a mini-riot among rabid fans moved to trash a Rough Trade record shop after a rowdy in-store performance in London all the while remaining oddly distanced from the internationally renowned Canadian indie scene from whence they sprang. Toronto’s slow-to-come recognition of the latest budding pop exports in its midst might stem in part from Kath’s previous association with a mightily underrated but fatally un-trendy local rock band that he’d prefer not to mention these days for fear of "confusing electronic-music fans. "That band ? which I won’t name because I like Kath too much to betray his trust ? was nothing to be ashamed of. But for the record the fact that the guy’s attained this sort of success by letting slip the New rder fetish previously hidden behind a metal heart proves he’s a much more three-dimensional songwriter than anyone in this town thought. And while we’re at it if the recent Internet scuttlebutt over the fact that Ethan isn’t his real name has touched a nerve it might be useful to remind yourself that no one is born Sting. There’s nothing careerist about Crystal Castles’ rise unless Kath and Glass initially set themselves on a mission to reach the meagre commercial heights set by such cult forebears as X-Ray Specs Adult.
Circo Loco Tickets | The End London | What’s on guide &…
Skiddle.com – Mar 23, 2008
Dust off your fancy dress and get involved in another night of mayhem courtesy of the boys from DC10. Making a much overdue debut for Circo Loco in London is one third of RPR Soundsystem Rhadoo! Rhadoo has been with DC10 for the past 3 years and last year came to the forefront of electronic music. Rhadoo is the biggest DJ in Romania and has been setting dance floors on fire there with his house influenced stripped down beats and deep sultry rhythms and he is going to rock The End! Sets at DC10 have always set the tone for the mayhem that follows! Joining him is Ibiza’s favourite Jose De Divina who always knows how to move any dance floor with driving bass and proper fun support from Andrew Grant an Shane WatchaIn the lounge get freaky as Mr C takes control for the night with residents Dollz at Play providing support. Its been a great year for the freaqs and we can’t wait to have them back in the house! Guests for this party is NYC Francis Harris and Gavin Herlihy. In AKA Vitalik are joined by special guest Ludvig Vedi who is making a name for himself on the underground house scene and Kaleb residents Ryan and Enzo. See you at the party.
Xavier band others to make Sweet 16 music
USA Today – Mar 23, 2008
Director Ron Montgomery and 28 musicians flew to Washington last Wednesday. They played as the men’s team beat Georgia on Thursday and Purdue on Saturday. They made music again Sunday as the women’s team was beaten by Nebraska at the University of Maryland in nearby College Park. Today they fly back to Cincinnati so they can change their underwear and get to class before flying to Phoenix for Thursday’s men’s West Region semifinal against West Virginia. “They’re great they get us going” Xavier forward B… two hours before Xavier will tip off against Georgia. “I couldn’t sleep” Brian Kirk says. Normally he plays guitar but the NCAA does not allow electronic instruments at tournament games. He will shake a tambourine instead. “Anything to get me here” he says. The bus takes the band to an alumni breakfast gathering near Verizon Center. Senior Ray ‘Brien is there and he needs a place to stay.
South by Southwest Austin Texas – the Sunday Times review
Times nline – Mar 23, 2008
The most common complaint about the city’s annual South bySouthwest (SXSW) music festival is that you can make all the plans you likebut just try getting in to see one of the bands on your list. The queues seemed longer than ever – a situation you expect at the eveningshows but not one that is welcome during the day which in past years wasthe spontaneous counterweight to the endless fractious lines snaking roundcorners come dusk. Yet complaining about a five-day music event held in March in averagetemperatures of 27C in a city noted for its easy-going inhabitants andgood-time vibe seems churlish if not perverse. To survive the experience -and it’s hardly an ordeal despite what many bloggers would have you believe- requires calm acceptance that you’ll miss as much as you’ll see. Austin’s crow-like grackles have it about right either hovering imperviouslyabove the fray or swooping to steal choice morsels from the bars clubs andopen-air barbecues below. Some festivalgoers on the other hand had aharder time of it. All around were people anxiously punching messages intotheir mobiles or reading a text telling them they were missing the gig of alifetime three blocks away… Here they seemedmore than ever the Noughties’ answer to Men at Work. Falling somewhere between affirmation and disappointment were the Ting Tingsand Santogold. The former stretch their play-dumb screamy electro-rock alittle too thin for comfort though Katie White has “star” written all overher. Each year at the festival there is an unofficial competition to find theweirdest band name the winner in 2006 being I Love You But I’ve ChosenDarkness. Hopes were briefly raised this year by Pubic Pelt but they turnedout to be apocryphal. High points included Neil Finn’s son Liam; the Red Romance who are born fromthe ashes of the much-missed Ambulance Ltd; and the Lemonheads runningthrough their classic 1992 album It’s a Shame About Ray.
Down time: Bjork
Times nline – Mar 23, 2008
Since 1993 her solo career has taken her everdeeper into uncharted territory mixing electronic dance music folk andcontemporary classical in ways the old prog brigade never dreamt of. Björk’sunique vocal style ranging from a sibilant whisper to a feral declamatoryyodel is matched by her ear for swooping melodies and outlandish lyricalconceits. It’s pop Jim but not as we know it.