The Shiny Toy Guns is an American indie-rock band formed in 2002 from Los Angeles, California, they have released two albums: "We are pilots" and "Season of Poison", both of them sound pretty well.
In 2009 they performed a cover of Major Tom (Coming home) (it is a Peter Schilling's song) this song was used for Lincoln MKZ 2010's ad and after that they recorded a video for the full version of this song (you can check the video from their website)
Everytime that I hear this song and I'm driving, I feel like I'm going out of this world and everything keeps behind my way, a great sensation for a few moments.
The following are the original Lincoln MKZ ad and the Official video by Shiny Toy Guns.
August, is a month hard to forget, but that I only remember in rainy days, additionally August (in english) is the title of a song performed by Heroes del Silencio an 80's, 90's Spanish band
Well, this is the next coming new single by Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique. Anneke had great plans for this year, in 2008 I was talking with Jacques de Haard and after that I knew that they were planning to record and release a new album, but the highlight here is that in order to make and record their album, Anneke and her husband would build their own studio just in their home!!!!, that's great!!!!!, now Anneke has all the freedom to do anything that she and her band are having in mind.
The name of their new album is: In your room, up to now I've just listened "Hey, okay!" and I can say it's really a quite good song with a different style than the used in Air or in Pure Air. This new style is sticky and maybe after hearing this song you'll be surprise yourself repeating the rythm of it. I really like the lyric of this song, and I can't wait to listen the complete album.
"Hey okay!" will be realeased in Oct 6th, and "In your room" will be released in Oct 30th, these are good news for their fans that have been waiting for a new dose of Agua de Annique's music.
Up to date neither the album nor the new single have been published in Amazon, so that I think that a best place to buy it is the official band's store (you have time to save money and get it on time, yeah!)
Here's an official video where you can listen the new single, let me know what do you think about it.
Transformers is one of my favorite movies of 2008, robots, battles, awesome transformations and an outstanding beauty Megan Fox.
After watching the movie I went directly to Mix up and bought Transformers: The Album, I have to say that it's a good album, BUT it is NOT the OST or Score (I thought it was the OST), this album only has 3 songs from the motion picture the others were just placed in the disc to "achieve" an album. If you are looking for a new rock album maybe it can be a good option, but I suggest to hear the album in the store before buying it.
Today I found this hilarious Intel´s commercial, a good one and one of my top 20's commercial, it's incredible how a "Celebrity" is not exactly the same in different context.
Enjoy it, this is at least to laugh a little for today, yeah!
Today I have been a really busy day so that I had to let the random option of my iPod turnned on the whole day.
The song of the day is Drive by R.E.M., it's a classic song (at least to me) slow, a little bit depressive and with an unique sound, like when you are just waiting to something happen and you have this song as background. This is one of those songs that you must hear while you're driving at the highway and going to nowhere.
Song: Drive Artist: R.E.M. Album: Automatic For The People
I remember the first time that I watched the video of this song, it was something like strange in those days to me, and since the first moment that I heard it I really really really liked it.
This weekend I got an idea to my blog, it is about recommending a song to each day, according to iTunes I have more that 8,000 songs in my library so that it's time to recommend at least one per day, let's begin today.
In the morning I wake up with this song and I have been singing it up to now, its name is: Sunken soldiers, by Agua de Annique. It is a really sad song if you are not in a nice way with your boyfriend or girlfriend. The main line of this song is about a couple that just have lost its magic, love and there is no way to continue anymore.
The best part to me is when the song says: I have no better words, than thankyou and goodbye.
Song: Sunken Soldiers Artist: Agua de Annique Album: Air
Days ago The Gathering announced their new album: The West Pole, it is their first album after Anneke van Giersbergen left them in 2007, additionally with this new album they announced the new member of them, her name: Silje Wergeland, she has a pretty voice and a nice style, now the question is if she can make a good, nice or better job than Anneke's times.
The first answer that you can get is by listening the new singles that are published in their space site
You can get more information about Silje in this site about her discography.
It's the first time that I heard about her and after listening the new singles I can say that they hear very well, it seems to be a nice beginning to The Gathering after the news from 2007.
About the new songs, they are pretty different if you compare them with their previous album Home. The guitars are lighter, with a whiter sound, and more armonic. The songs are Guitar driven instead of bass or guitar noise driving. Their new sound is easier to listen to new fans maybe this is a good point but for fan's from previous years it could be a little bit dissapointed because for example in "Treasure" you won't hear any sad sound or a depressive song at all, you'll hear a "happy" song (considering their other albums). On the other hand, The West Pole is a song that was written in their original style, and maybe it can make you remember another Gathering's song. After all, it can be an album with well known sounds and new style songs, I hope it will bring a great surprise to me.
The release of the new album seems to be April 5th 2009, and you can get this album and its special editions (I already bought my own) in their official web-store. It's just a question of time to get it and hear the complete album.
Finally you can take a look to their new pics, songs and blog just to get more information about this new disc, new songs, and a new member.
Air is the name of the first album of Agua de Annique, maybe the name of the band doesn't say too much but if you know The Gathering and you are a fan of them you maybe know that this is the name of the new project by Anneke van Giersbergen (former The Gathering vocalist).
This album was released in October 2007 and it is a "two thumbs up" album. By being the first album of the band I was afraid to get a young band with a sound without an identity (obviously I forgot to include Anneke's experience -my bad- ). After hearing the first track "Beautiful one" you notice that this new band has Anneke's personal touch, her experience and composition. I have to say that I hear in this album a "different" Anneke, the one that has all the liberty to compose any song in any way (in her way), a little bit different of The Gathering but with its touch where you can find a different sound but already knew.
The track list is the following:
Beautiful One
Witnesses
Yalin
Day After Yesterday
My Girl
Take Care of Me
Ice Water
You Are Nice
Trail of Grief
Come Wander
Sunken Soldiers
Lost and Found
Asleep
My favorite songs are: Beautiful One, Witnesses, Day After Yesterday, Come Wander (currently this song is being used in a cosmetic or shampoo advertising), Sunken Soldiers, Lost and Found.
Almost the complete album has quiet songs, they are a kind of relaxing songs and you can listen them while you are doing another task and you need to stay calm and quiet. On the other hand several lyrics are depressive, lyrics where you can hear a broken heart or a separation from a beloved one.
This is an album that you really have to hear and enjoy. It's a new album by Anneke walking in this new way without The Gathering. For the first album I have to say that she has begin this new phase in the right way and I hope to hear more and more about Agua de Annique in the following months and years.
If you listen this disc please let me know your comments about it.
By listening both singles I thought this disc will be plenty of new rythms or at least different rythms that Bunbury didn't use in his previous discs, but it was not the case. The singles are not the complete picture of the LP itself, it also includes Bunbury's own style that have created in his previous works, so that you will hear songs slow songs.
Sincerely Bunbury is not one of my favorite artists but he has 2 of my top 25 songs (lady blue, el rescate), so that this time I give him another opportunity but unfortunately I have to still saying that I'm not a fan.
The songs are quiet and have a characteristic rythm, additionally the voice is the well-know-voice from Heroes del Silencio, you will not hear any surprise or a new way to perform a song.
There is not much to say about this disc, if you are a Bunbury's fan then you will like this disc, if you are not, maybe you should hear its songs before buying this disc, because its style is a little bit hard to like. On the other hand, if you buy this disc you'll be able to get access to additional material by accessing a web site and using your original CD, the additional material includes videos, posters and an interview.
Below you'll find a video from youtube and a link to iLike where you can watch and listen a part of Hellville DeLuxe.
This Christmas I bought a CD according to the season (or maybe not :-P ), I got the Nightmare Revisited. It is a remake of the original A Nightmare before Christmas' Soundtrack, the main difference in this remake is that the songs are performed by other artists than Danny Elfman, in this disc you can hear themes played by Marilyn Manson, DeVotchka, The All-American Rejects and more (you can read the complete track list at the end of this post).
The new way to perform the classic songs from the original Nightmare is very good, but I was waiting for a better performance of certain songs, basically it don't deserves a 5 stars classification because lack of inventive (my point of view) from certain bands. Many tracks are instrumental (for example Ooogie Boogie's song) where originally there were characters saying their dialogues. The songs that I don't like are: Ooogie Boogie's song, Nabbed, Christmas eve montage, to the rescue (it sounds like a song from a SNES videogame like a midi format). On the other hand songs like This is halloween, Jack's lament, What's this?, town Meeting song, Jack's obsession, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, Making Christmas, Sally's song and Poor Jack sound incredible.
This disc is a Must-Have to every fan of Burton and/or Nightmare before Christmas, it really sounds very good and it's a new way to hear classic songs, yeah!
Additionally there are certain songs performed by another artists that are not included in this album, like "Sally's song" performed by London After Midnight (one of my top 50 favorite songs), if you know about another song from this awesome Nightmare performed by any one else just let me know.
Tonight I just found the trailer of Prince of Persia 4, the new graphics that you can see are awesome (I really like its new style), when I was watching the trailer I noticed the background music is so great, I really like it.
The new version of this classic game seems to be so good, I just played its first version to 486 and 586 computers (chuckle) when I was younger :-P.
I'll look for more information about this new game, by the way if anybody knows something about the song of its trailer (artist, album, song's name) please leave me a comment and tell me about it, I really really really like that song.
Today is August 1st (nothing new), a date that I can't forget just because somebody once told me: "... it's in August 1st, the first day of the month so that you won't forget it", chuckle.
It's been a long time and I still remember this date, hehe, sometimes I look back and only can say: "c'mon man, let it go, it wasn't your time nor the correct person".
This is something hard to forget, because when you try to forget, you are remembering more and more and more.
By the way, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you ;-)
This week I just found iLike page and services, the basic idea behind iLike is just a web site that is feedback by iTunes, Windows media player or the user itself with the information about songs, artists and albums that he/she likes listening, a pretty simple idea, but it's too interesting.
Having all (or almost all) the information about the music you like, iLike will show you Related music you may want and free downlodable MP3 from new artists (I can't use this functionality :-S ).
Additionally you have access to the latest activity of your favorite artists (if they are registered in iLike and are updating their information), look for friends, send messages, look for related artists, publish a profile and pictures, etc.
It's a good application and it's database is huge but not complete, for example, OST information or indie bands are not registered there (like CatPeople)
Additionally you can publish the iLike widget whitin your Hi5, Facebook, MySpace, etc. profile, so that all your current friends from any social network will know what are your music tastes.
This application is interesting, I'll be trying to get in touch with people with similar music taste, so that I'll get more albums in my Buy List :-P
If you have created your profile you can search for me as "Diegue B" and send me a friend request or just check out my favorite artists, songs and albums :-D.
Well, 2007 is another year that comes to its end and from now we are begining 2008.
It was a pretty good year, there were a lot of new disc, concerts, new bands, driving experiences, trips, maps, etc., and to finish this year in the best way ever I just received my Box Set of Radiohead, In Rainbows. It's so cool, it worths every cent (or pound) that I pay for it, hehehehehe. It has 2 discs, 2 CDs (the second CD is only available if you buy this box set), one book with the lyrics of all the songs and another book with art made for this disc. I couldn't listen the second CD because I had to clean the house and prepare everything to the dinner :-P, I hope to listen it tomorrow and I'll write a review about it too.
Let's begin 2008 in the best way ever, and I hope that this year has a lot of surprises and good news.
This week (10/10) was released the new disc of Radiohead named: In Radiohead.
4 years after released the "Hail to the thief" Radiohead has this new album in their records. I downloaded this new album from their site: www.radiohead.com and I don't have words to describe it, they are back in a pretty good shape, their sound is more solid and it's a good disc to be heard any time.
My favorite tracks are: Bodysnatchers Nude Weird Fishes/Arpeggi All I need.
As an additional data (if you don't know), Radiohead has implemented a new way to buy their disc, and it is by letting you pay as much as you consider their music worths :-D, additionally you can pay for a Special Edition that I hope it will be delivered to me in January 2008 or december of this year. This edition includes 2 vinyl discs of 12", 2 cds (In rainbows and an additional CD no available to be downloaded) and a book with pictures and lirycs of the songs.
This is a good album to be bought and as I said before you can pay anything that you want, so that it's easy to pay a fair price for it.
Leave me your comments about this new disc, and what do you think about its new way to pay for it.
The past friday I just watched the musical video of "Las de la intuición" or "Pure intuition" by Shakira.
I have to admit neather I'm a pop fan nor a fan of Shakira, but this song (in the same way as "Moscas en la casa") has something that hooked me on :-P. I don't know, maybe there's a secret pop fan in my dark side, chuckle.
Here's the video, maybe the only element left in this video is the singular movement of her humps :-P (that's the Shakira's personal sign).
Hey, it's been more than a month that I don't write anything, I apologize for not updating this blog but I had personal appointments and issues.
On the other hand and about more interesting things, this post is to comment about Porter a mexican band from Guadalajara, Jalisco that is currently having a great grow in Mexico. They are considered as an Indie Rock band but as they say in their space their genre is: Undefined :-P, and this is because when you listen their songs you'll find several kind of sounds, silences and rythms so that they are not easy to be cataloged.
Porter are:
Giovanni Paolo Lechatelli (Drums)
Villor (Guitars, Piano)
Juan Son (Vocals)
F-Air (Guitars)
Bacter (Bass, synthetizer)
Up to date they only have one LP (Atemahawke) and one EP (Donde los ponys pastan). I bought the LP and it's a very good disc, they need more time to grow up as a band and be more mature with their sound and lyrics, despite this elements they have a very good sound and a good concept as an indie band.
Additionally and as many mexican bands are doing up to date they have songs in two languages English and Spanish, maybe two or three are in a combination of spanish and english (not spanglish at all)
These are two videos, listen them to know what I'm talking about when they say: Experimental (Specially with the first one where you can see that cats are able to sing with them in a good way :-P )
Host of a ghost - Atemahawke.
Daphne - Donde los ponys pastan.
They are having a very active year with too many concerts and presentations, even they have a tour date for USA (12 oct 2007, 8:00pm, Porter @ L.A. Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles), and several tour dates in Mexico, if you have the oportunity to go to any of their concerts I really suggest you to go and enjoy it (this is a wise decision if you like indie music).
Let me know your comments about this band, they deserve an opportunity in this commercial music world.
Diegue.
Melomano empedernido que se encuentra en busca de nuevas opciones principalmente poco comerciales y más alternativas.
Simplemente por tener ganas de ser diferente.
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