previously

Mike's Mad4these
Choice new music - w/c 27 Jun 11
1 1 WOLFGANG GARTNER Illmerica new single tbc

2 2 KAISER CHIEFS Little Shocks new single 27 June 2011
3 - TRIBES Sappho new single 15 August 2011
4 3 SUM 41 Baby You Don't Wanna Know new single 11 July
5 5 DJ FRESH & SIAN EVANS Louder new single 27 June 2011
6 6 TWIN ATLANTIC Time For You To Stand Up new single
7 9 FLOGGING MOLLY Don't Shut 'Em Down / Revolution new single to be confirmed
8 10 CHASE & STATUS with TINIE TEMPAH Hitz new single
9 10 WHITE LIES Holy Ghost new single 27 June 2011
10 10 NOAH & THE WHALE Life Is Life new single
10 8 NERINA PALLOT Put Your Hands Up from Nerina's 'Year Of The Wolf' album out 13 June 2011
10 - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB Shuffle new single 27 June 2011

This week's post ...

New Trax...
Here's this week's newly posted

Arctic Monkeys
The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
new single 15 August 2011
Arctics have come up with a catchy, quality, mor indie tune here, I really hope this catches on... they could probably do with editing the messy intro and bringing it straight in on the drum.. cool tune. Top Ten please... here's the PR...

The second single from Arctic Monkeys’ new album ‘Suck It And See’ will be released on Monday the 15th of August. The band, who are performing at the iTunes festival at The Roundhouse on Wednesday the 6th of July, will also be headlining T In The Park and V Festival and the following arena shows in the autumn:
Wednesday 6th July London The Roundhouse – iTunes Festival
Friday 8th July T In The Park Festival
Saturday 9th July Ireland - Oxegen Festival
Saturday 20th August Hylands Park – V Festival
Sunday 21st August Weston Park – V Festival
Friday 28th October Nottingham Capital FM Arena – SOLD OUT
Saturday 29th October London The O2 Arena – SOLD OUT
Sunday 30th October London The O2 Arena – EXTRA NIGHT ADDED
Tuesday 1st November Cardiff Motorpoint Arena – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 2nd November Manchester MEN Arena
Friday 4th November Birmingham LG Arena
Saturday 5th November Newcastle Metro Radio Arena- SOLD OUT
Sunday 6th November Aberdeen AECC
Tuesday 8th November Glasgow SECC Hall 4
Wednesday 9th November Liverpool Echo Arena
The band’s show at the Roundhouse on Wednesday 6th July is part of the iTunes Festival and will be streamed live on iTunes - http://facebook.itunes.eu/eZz
The Vaccines and Smith Westerns will be supporting on the UK arena dates.
For more info, contact:
www.arcticmonkeys.com
www.dominorecordco.com

Fixers
Swimmhaus Johnnesburg
new single 22 August 2011
Superb attention grabbing intro, stutturing stereo effect on guitar and drums... a kind of almost new new romantic approach to the arrangement, possibly a little Spandau Ballet-ish. Not sure I like the repeated stuttering lyric, not sure it works so well but this should catch a few ears and raise awareness of the band.

Fixers are a unique, thrilling psychedelic five-piece in love with Japanese pop, Middle Eastern music and the dance grooves of late 70s New York. New single ‘Swimmhaus Johnnesburg’ shines a light on these influences, with classic piano house lines, startling guitar bursts, echo-drenched vocals and a thrilling 4/4 beat; it’s pop music in its most bold and forward-thinking sense. Mixed by Alan Moulder, it’s destined to cement Fixers as the most exciting new band in the UK.
Such is their array of influences, Fixers sound never stands still. It’s a combination of sonic adventure and their worldview. Influences include Dead Can Dance and Arthur Russell, Tom Tom Club and Brian Wilson. Fixers provide the perfect distillation of modern day pop. Pop at its core is a fusion of influences, to create something modern and fresh, and that is exactly what this visionary Oxford-based band embodies.
Fixers last release, the EP Here Comes 2001, So Lets All Head For The Sun’, showcased four tracks that demonstrated the breadth of Fixes musical diversity. It followed their debut ‘Iron Deer Dream’, released at the end of 2010 on Young & Lost and saw them praised in NME, The Guardian, Uncut, Clash, Q, The Fly and more, as well as being played across Radio 1 and 6Music.
Following the recent sold-out show at London’s Cargo, plus a handful of rapturously received dates around the country, including a set at the ‘Sounds From The Other City’ festival in Manchester where the band played to a backdrop of ‘Glitter’ ( the Mariah Carey film), Fixers will be playing the iTunes Festival. They’ll be supporting Noah And The Whale at London’s Roundhouse on Sunday 24th July as well as joining an incredible bill at the Roundhouse for the 31 night festival. They will be featuring alongside Adele, Foo Fighters, Beady Eye, Manic Street Preachers and Jessie J amongst others playing. See all upcoming live dates below:
July –
Sun 10th Lounge On The Farm, Canterbury
Sun 17th Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Thu 21st Secret Garden Party, Huntingdon
Sat 23rd Truck Festival, Oxford
Sun 24th iTunes Festival, London w/ Noah And The Whale
August –
Fri 5th Underage Festival, London
www.myspace.com/fixerstheband
www.fixerstheband.com

The Travelling Band
Battlecars
new single 1 August 2011
A second fine single from The Travelling Band, of whom BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley espouses as Mancunian Americana. Now the BBC is moving to Manchester and London is being de-capitalised may we look forward to a BBC 6 Music takeover of Radio One in the same way Radio One Xtra does... may we? And if we may, we may begin to see some fine acts like The Travelling Band breaking through into the mainstream! Catch them on tour throughout July & August.

Tribes
Sappho
new single 15 August 2011
Oh yeah, loving this, superb intro, into the song in seconds... great lyrics, like a back in the day... loud then mischievously quiet... "How do you a child that there's a God, how do you tell a son that his daddy left his mom when he fell in love with a girl like you... with a girl like Sappho with a girl like you". Cracking new single from a great new band.

Wombats
Our Perfect Disease
new 15 August 2011
Wombats deserve some top forty action and 'our Perfect Disease' is again more reliant on keyboards than their earlier guitar thrashing successes. The biggest conundrun for music analysts is how indie rock has become secondary to r&b grime.. coverage is one main reason but there is something more fundamental - the r&b seems often like perfect pop whereas there is a danger indie dwells on arty farty left-field rather than Oasis type real life indie rock... I'm not sure where the Wombats are, but The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts may have screwed them up least a little.
Here's the pr...

“For me, there has been one record, of late, that’s been so ecstatically uplifting and bursting with classic modern pop tunes that it’s elevated me out of any slump, funk or sluggishness I might have been feeling at the time. Believe it or not, it’s the new Wombats album. Maybe Murph is the new Prozac after all.” – NME
“A modern pop primer bursting with potential hits… reminds you just how thrilling and sharp-edged narrative pop can be.” – Sunday Times Culture
“The pop album of the year, by at least a dozen choruses” – BBC
2011 had already seen The Wombats make huge strides forward with the release of their second album ‘The Wombats proudly present… This Modern Glitch’ which peaked at #3 and includes four of their most popular singles to date with ‘Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)’, ‘Jump Into The Fog’, ‘Anti-D’ and ‘Techno Fan’.
Their rise looks to continue with the release of the new single ‘Our Perfect Disease’ on August 15th on 14th Floor Records. Produced by Rich Costey (Muse), ‘Our Perfect Disease’ lashes the sonorous disco moods of Depeche Mode and Echo & The Bunnymen onto The Killers’ arena pop sensibilities.
The release of ‘Our Perfect Disease’ bridges the band’s busy summer festival schedule – which has already included Glastonbury, Radio 1’s Big Weekend and Rockness, and continues with a sold-out Lovebox headline date, a headline performance at Wakestock and two sets at the V Festival – with their next UK headline tour which commences in September and includes a major London gig at the 02 Brixton Academy. The band’s UK headline tour schedule is:
September Box office number
21st – Cardiff, University Great Hall 02920 781 458
22nd – Nottingham, Rock City 0845 413 4444
23rd – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall SOLD OUT
24th – Cambridge, Corn Exchange SOLD OUT
26th – Bristol, Colston Hall 0117 922 3686 / 0117 929 9008
28th – London, O2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000
29th – Southampton, Guildhall SOLD OUT
October Box office number
1st – Yeovil, Westlands 0844 811 0051
2nd – Birmingham, O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
3rd – Lincoln, Engine Shed SOLD OUT
4th – Sheffield, O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
6th – Newcastle, O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
7th – Glasgow, O2 Academy 08444 999 990
8th – Manchester, Apollo SOLD OUT
…This Modern Glitch’ was recorded through 2010 over three sessions with separate producers, all in L.A. First, Jacknife Lee brought his precise technological nous to ‘Anti-D’, followed by Eric Valentine who helped the band put together ‘Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)’ as well as ‘Techno Fan’. Rich Costey joined forces with additional creative input from TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek and John Hill (Santogold, M.I.A., Devo) to complete a record that has shock, impressed and spun opinion on this most uncompromising of 21st century pop bands. The album even finds rooms for a guest appearance courtesy of Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro on ‘Girls / Fast Cars’.
www.thewombats.co.uk www.facebook.com/thewombatsuk

This week's Goss ...

UK Top 40Sun 26 Jun 11
Adele holds top spot in the USA while Jason DeRulo storms to the top of the UK's Songs Chart with his Robin S 'Show Me Love' rip-off.

Lady GaGa reclaims pole position on the UK's Album Chart while Bad Meets Evil at No.1 on America's Billboard Top 200 Albums.

4 new-entries – 9 up, 26 down, 1 non-mover Top Ten… 5 USA … 4 UK… 1 Rumania…

This Week ... Last Wk ... Wks In ... Artist ... Title ... Origin

1 new 1 JASON DeRULO Don't Wanna Go Home USA

2 1 3 EXAMPLE Changed The Way You Kiss Me UK

3 2 2 CALVIN HARRIS Bounce UK

4 4 10 PITBULL NE-YO, AFROJACK & NAYER Give Me Everything USA

5 3 2 ED SHEERAN The A Team UK

6 7 8 ALEXANDRA STAN Mr Saxobeat Rumania

7 new 1 VATO GONZALEX FOREIGN BEGGARS Badman Riddim UK

8 16 7 LADY GAGA The Edge Of Glory USA

9 6 6 NICOLE SCHERZINGER Right There USA

10 8 10 ALOE BLACC I Need A Dollar USA

 

11 24 2 KATY PERRY Last Friday Night (TGIF) USA

12 9 14 LMFAO Party Rock Anthem USA

13 5 2 TINCHY STRYDER & DAPPY Spaceship UK

14 11 10 BRUNO MARS The Lazy Song USA

15 17 5 NICKI MINAJ Superbass USA

16 10 8 JENNIFER LOPEZ & LIL WAYNE I'm Into You USA

17 15 6 RIHANNA California King Bed Barbados

18 12 12 CHRIS BROWN BENNY BENASSI Beautiful People USA

19 14 13 JENNIFER LOPEZ & PITBULL On The Floor USA

20 18 4 BLACK EYED PEAS Don't Stop The Party USA

 

21 26 3 THE SATURDAYS Notorious UK

22 13 8 DEV & THE CATARACS Bass Down Low USA

23 25 2 ADELE Set Fire To The Rain UK

24 20 10 JESSIE J Nobody's Perfect UK

25 19 15 SNOOP DOGG Sweat USA

26 23 8 DAVID GUETTA FLO RIDA, NICKI MINAJ Where Them Girls At France & USA

27 new 1 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks USA

28 21 6 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Save The World USA

29 27 18 ADELE Someone Like You UK

30 37 2 BAD MEETS EVIL & BRUNO MARS Lighters USA

 

31 29 11 LADY GAGA Judas USA

32 28 5 TAKE THAT Love Love UK

33 34 9 WYNTER GORDON Dirty Talk USA

34 39 20 LADY GAGA Born This Way USA

35 32 7 INNA Sun Is Up Rumania

36 35 21 JESSIE J & B.o.B. Price Tag UK

37 31 3 KATY B Easy Please Me UK

38 new 1 PARADE Perfume UK

39 36 9 BEYONCE Run The World (Girls) USA

40 30 10 TRACY CHAPMAN Fast Car USA


Leaving The Top 40

last week's position - highest position - weeks in Top 40

22 6 2 COLDPLAY Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall UK

33 6 3 ALEX GAUDINO & KELLY ROWLAND What A Feeling Italy & USA

38 1 14 NICOLE SCHERZINGER Don't Hold Your Breath USA

40 6 21 CHRIS BROWN Yeah 3x USA

America's Hot 100
This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title
1 1 24 ADELE Rolling In The Deep
2 2 12 PITBULL, NE-YO, AFROJACK & NEYER Give Me Everything
3 3 13 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO

4 31 4 KATY PERRY Last Friday Night (TGIF)
5 4 19 KATY PERRY & KANYE WEST ET

6 6 6 LADY GAGA The Edge Of Glory

7 9 11 JASON ALDEAN Dirt Road Anthem

8 10 8 NICKI MINAJ Super Bass
9 5 17 BRUNO MARS The Lazy Song
10 11 25 LUPE FIASCO The Show Must Go On

Ed Robo-Cop-Out..
Posted Sunday 3rd July 2011 - Daily Mail

Labour leader gives bizarre identical answers to EVERY question in strikes interview
By Rob Cooper
Last updated at 11:09 PM on 2nd July 2011


With his bizarre nasal voice and geeky demeanor, commentators have often joked whether Ed Miliband really is human.
He has variously been likened to Wallace of Wallace and Gromit as well as gormless Ross from Friends.
Now, following a bizarre new TV interview, he has a new identity - Robo-Ed.
In the two-and-a-half minute clip which appeared on the BBC website yesterday, the Labour leader gave a peculiar fixed stare as he parroted identical answers to questions about public sector strikes.
'These strikes are wrong': Labour leader Ed Miliband repeatedly parrots the same line during bizarre interview with the BBC
The interview has echoes of a notorious 1997 Jeremy Paxman interview when Tory politician Michael Howard answered identical questions with the same answer 12 times.
Five times he said, word for word: 'The government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner', as if he had been practicing the phrase in front of a mirror.
As he hammered home his well-rehearsed message he also repeatedly stated: 'These strikes are wrong'.
His 'stuck record' answers to every question were so bizarre that online commentators were left asking whether the video - broadcast by the BBC - was a spoof.
A message board user wrote: 'I watched this and I thought, is this clever editting? No, it's a continuous shot. Is it a parody then? No.
'This is actually Ed Miliband, the reason Labour won't be winning an election any time soon.'
Despite the interviewer trying to ask a different question, the Ed Miliband leader refused to deviate from his carefully practiced line.
Condemning public sector walkouts, he said workers should not have walked out yesterday.
'These strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are still going on,' he said.
'But parents and the public have been let down by both sides because the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner.
'After today's disruption I urge both sides to put aside the rhetoric and stop it happening again.'
Prime Minister David Cameron famously described the Labour leadership battle last year as 'like a Star Trek convention' as the Miliband brothers fought for the throne.
Ed's human speak: Labour leader wanted to make clear that Eton Dave's Government has 'acted in a reckless and provocative manner'
Today, Labour supporters were condemning Ed Miliband after the excruciating interview.
Peter Briffa, posting a tongue-in-cheek message on the Labour-supporting website LabourList, wrote: 'All hail our lucid, listening next Prime Minister.'
User Deborah Thomas wrote: 'Please make this a scene in the next series of "The Thick of It".'
Others suggested that the Labour Party picked the wrong Miliband brother when Ed beat David to win the party crown because of Union votes.

new trax
our weekly a to z of new cd review's is listed below

this week
Arctic Monkeys
15/8/11
Fixers
22 /8/11
The Travelling Band
1/8/11
Tribes
15/8/11
Wombats
15/8/11

20 Jun
Bombay Bicycle Club LP
22/8/11
Dry The River
11/7/11
Tribes
15/8/11

13 Jun
ANR
to be confirmed

6 Jun
Brother
27/6/11
Mann, Snoop Dogg & Iyaz
6/6/11
Twin Atlantic
13/7/11
Wolfgang Gartner
to be confirmed

30 May
Chase & Status
Kaiser Chiefs
27/6/11

23 May
All The Young
Clare Maguire
9/5/11
Flogging Molly
Inner Party System
Japanese Pop Stars
13/6/11
Lady GaGa LP
23/5/11
Mirrors
6/6/11
Sum 41
11/7/11
Vaccines
6/6/11

16 May
Black Lights
27/6/11
Black Veil Brides
13/6/11
Caned & Able
9/5/11
David's Lyre
DJ Shadow
11/5/11
Ed Sheeran
13/6/11
Fixers
9/5/11
Givers
4/7/11
Grinderman v Josh Homme
13/6/11
Hard-Fi
19/6/11
Jakwob & Smiler
20/6/11
Koudlam
tbc
Lady GaGa Remixes
date tbc
Patrick Wolf
20/6/11
Sean Reid & Cash
9/5/11
Skepta v Steve Angello
date tbc
Soundgirl
20/6/11
White Lies
27/6/11

9 May
Anna Calvi
20/6/11
Big Talk
10/5/11
The Bullits
2/5/11
Charli XCX
16/5/11
Friends Electric
13/6/11
DJ Fresh & Sian Evans
27/6/11
Grinderman
13/6/11
Imelda May
4/4/11
The Kills
27/6/11
Lady GaGa
8/5/11
Loick Essien
19/6/11
The Pierces
The Sounds
TMS & Jagga
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

2 May
The Bees
6/6/11
The Naked & Famous
6/6/11
Tribes
6/6/11
The Villagers
23/5/11
WolfGang
13/6/11
Wombats
6/6/11

25 Apr
Cheap Cuts
Katy Perry
The Travelling Band
30/5/11
Wild Hope
6/6/11

18 Apr
Alpines EP
AnR
Cat's Eyes
9/5/11
Chapel Club
16/5/11
Cosmo Jarvis
29/5/11
Depeche Mode
30/5/11
Feneche Solar
18/4/11
J Magik & Wickaman
Lady GaGa
15/4/11
Nero
25/4/11
SoundGirl
18/4/11
Tom Vek
18/4/11
Young Rebel Set
22 /5 /11

Young Rival
18/4/11
Young The Giant
16/5/11
Yuck
18/4/11