Yep, live music is actually awesome! Whether it's an acoustic night at a pub or a massive festival (incidentally Isle of Wight's line up has taken a turn for the worst with the addition of Mr Hudson). Even better when it'll take me away from Saturday night TV and Cila Black regenerated into an irishman with bad catchphrases.
I'm headed to the NME awards tour in Manchester, which has a whole list of bands I've never really listened to. This is a good thing, just like return of another edition of Celebrity Big Brother isn't, but leaves me feeling slightly like a hippocrite. Apart from their Daily Download which in all fairness is awesome, the NME is more trendy and ficle than Noel Fieldings left eyebrow. This is something which is never good, and rightly or wrongly is also something I subconsiously hold against its readers. But considering the line-up (The Big Pink, The Maccabees, Bombay Bicyle Club and the Drums)it sounds like apart from naviagating through masses of fawning indie cindies the gig will be epic, with some ace live music.
Aside from this gig, which is going to be good times ahead, people should still be looking forward to the now immenant release if the new Hadouken! album For The Masses:
Other awesome new tracks that should be checked out include:
30 Seconds to Mars - Vox Populi: Its not a single (yet anyway)but has a big feel and uplifting feel to it. Good times all round, but this is to be fair a very well made album which needs to be listened to for start to finish to fully appreciate it. A more detailed and critical review can be found here. Also check out the Innerpartysystem remix of Kings and Queens, a intersting take in the track.
Passion Pit - The Reeling (Bubblegum Sci Fi Remix): Easily the best remix of this track I've found, and is featured on a Skins trailer so clearly Skins producers via the group of token young people they found are telling us this track represents buzz words like youthfulness, underground and cutting edge. But after 3 series whether Skins will actually do that itself remains to be seen. Having said this, too many listens will make this track so irritating you'll want to rip your ears off with a spoon. Its available here.
That is all, laters :).
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