30th Aug2009

This week in review: August 23rd – 29th

by nickwan
Brand News Daisy... do you have it yet?

Brand New's "Daisy"... do you have it yet?

Trying to start something a little more… standard for this blog. Some news gossip, some leak watches, some studio updates… we’ll see. Anyway… some stuff that is indienews-worthy:

-Brand New’s newest album Daisy has been reported to have leaked three weeks prior to it’s actual release. On a side note, the once-popular forum Brand New UK, http://forum.brandnewuk.co.uk/, has just sent out a mass email to it’s 500 members asking to come back to the “newly designed forum” as well as informing that Daisy has actually leaked… whether or not it’s over on that forum is hard to say. But it has leaked.

-AFI released a track listing of their upcoming album Crash Love a few weeks ago, and now including an extra six songs on a bonus disc that they announced this week. They are on tour in the US starting October 2nd.

Sainthood album art... ooo Sara with makeup...

"Sainthood" album art... ooo Sara with makeup...

-Tegan and Sara released their track listing for their upcoming album Sainthood as well as album art. Emy Storey isn’t doing the album art from what it seems… To add some more flavor to Tegan and Sara updates, they are playing two shows in LA and NYC on Oct. 25th and 30th, respectively. Hopefully SF is in the mix for that too so I can see them play their new songs…

NFGs recent set list... 25 songs...

NFG's recent set list... 25 songs...

-New Found Glory has been bringing back some of the ISHC into their Europe shows as of late. This is in addition to their 20+ song set lists. The Euro HC kids are creaming themselves for this.

-Fun Fun Fun Fest, in Austin, TX from Nov. 7 – 8, is in it’s 4th year of “festing” and their line up would please all HC and indie kids alike, with headliners like Gorilla Biscuits, Ratatat, Danzig, Pharcyde, and Jesus Lizard, the FFFF could possibly trump the monster that is Bamboozle if this thing gets any bigger.

-My favorite band, The Get Up Kids, released a trailer of their upcoming re-release of Something to Write Home About as well as their STWHA DVD. Ryan Pope has a rocking quote about STWHA in this trailer…

-Fenix Tx reunited and is slotted for an album soon.

-DJ AM died. RIP.

’til next Sunday. Part of this post is tagged for relay.

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18th Aug2009

Tiesto + Tegan + Sara – I Feel It In My Bones

by nickwan
Tiesto

Tiesto

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-tiesto-feat-tegan-sara-feel-it-in-my-bones-stereogum-premiere_084901.html

or

www.myspace.com/tiesto

By the way, it’s amazing. This track is amazing for a few reasons. The first would be the collaboration of Tiesto and the crap load of people on his upcoming album Kaleidoscope with the likes of Jonsi from Sigur Ros to Nelly Furtado (who seems to be the go-to person for collab’s [next to T-Pain]) and Tiesto can only get bigger with this endeavor. The second reason is that if this is what one song sounds like, what can we expect from the rest of his album? Tiesto has really tried to cross his dance medium with the singalong feeling emoted through vocals, and with the track “Feel It In My Bones” it really shows that he is doing it flawlessly without losing his own dance-y style.

To focus on Tegan and Sara for a second, this isn’t too far off from a song Tegan and Sara would normally produce either. It’s definitely a dance song and not something I’d want to see live from TnS but it isn’t too far off from songs like “Are You Ten Years Ago?” and “One Second” — just a lot more electronically driven. I initially thought the vocals would be played down a lot, kind of like the Tiesto “Back In Your Head” remix, but the song definitely shows that Tegan and Sara co-wrote with Tiesto rather than Tiesto leading the charge with some sparse vocal loops across the song. This, again, should get a lot of people excited to hear all these other co-written songs off this album.

To note, I’m not too much a fan of dance floor hits and I can really only take so much of Tiesto before I lose my mind in a trance induced headache. Although, even though this song is a collab between him and one of my favorite artists, I’m excited to hear what this album can bring.

It drops October 6th!

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