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HOPE FOR THE TAPE DECK

Just as I’m bringing Cakes and Tapes back from the dead (more news soon!) I realized there’s a new tape label in town (and by town I mean The Internet) and it’s half-run by the same fine lad who brought us Beat the Indie Drum and the awesome record label Big School Records (Point Reyes, Shy Mirrors, The Appleseed Cast, Graham Repulski… all great stuff, go grab some vinyl). Good to know you crossed over to the tape side of the industry. You can already stream the eight (!) first releases on Hope for the Tape Deck’s bandcamp, but you prefer to check out these eight bands you’ve probably never heard of before, this Soundcloud player will save your day. Really, that Missionaires track is 24k gold, so make sure you listen to the whole thing.

DSS

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You suffer but why?

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My dear north-american readers, this one goes out for you. Not because I believe you’ll eat up this band like manna (although you *should*), but because this northern Portugal-based quartet was kind enough not to name itself “Sensible Footballers” and alienate you forever; I imagine you’d sit there, honey-drenched pancake in fork, pondering on why the hell don’t they have any songs about Tim Tebow or any other jacked-up, helmet-welding, advertisement-darling m(a)(e)ss of a human, and upon discovering that on the other side of the Atlantic we don’t care much about the Superbowl you’d consider nuclear retaliation and turn one of your oldest allies (true, btw) into Europe’s answer to the Sahara Desert. Emanuel Botelho, Manuel Justo, Filipe Azevedo and Hugo Alfredo Gomes go by the name Sensible Soccers, and they were born out of a very small scene that called itself, and I’m literally translating it here, “unemployed pop”, which is a far better choice of words than “hypnagogic” or whatever the fuck hipster musicians call what they do in their bedrooms nowadays. There’s nothing “hipster” about Sensible Soccers, though; think of them as our answer to the wonderful Disco Inferno, even if they themselves have never listened to Disco Inferno (I asked them, they went “what?”). They’ve existed for two years now and have already played in major festivals such as Milhões de Festa and Paredes de Coura, and even played a set in Lisbon’s Boiler Room (I’ll give you a special gift if you can guess, in that video, who I am), and you can check out their music on Bandcamp, which, hopefully, will get you asking for more and salivating like a dog as soon as I mention that they’re putting out a record later on this year. “Sofrendo Por Você” (“Suffering For You”, and now you’ll get the pun in this post’s title) is the advance single, a song they have been playing live for a while now but only recently had the guts to record. It will come out as a special single on Groovement, this very Sunday, and it’s a wonderful 9-minute upbeat track about lost love, which is a very strange kind of paradox – it should be sad, miserable music, but it really isn’t, and it’ll put a smile on your face and possibly make your head nod to the beat. Feel free to check a live version here, although the low sound quality doesn’t make it justice, and dance away the pain of not having your beautiful red miracle kissing you right now. Maybe you’ll even start enjoying footb- oh, sorry, soccer.

PAC

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Milhões de Festa 2013: The Journal (Part I/IV)

Me, myself and I, chillin’ at MdF, cumps

Another year gone by and here we are, August coming and still the memories of a fully enjoyed weekend at Barcelos, Braga, Portugal. Yes, it’s Milhões de Festa 2013 and its post-depressing nostalgic memories. But enough fussiness, what’s left of the past weekend? Here’s what, in the first of four parts of the festival’s journal.

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Vodafone Paredes de Coura 2013 Printable Timetable

Vodafone Paredes de Coura 2013 Printable Timetable

http://p3.publico.pt/includes/pdfs/bolachas_pcoura013.pdf

Once again and again and again we teamed up with P3 to provide you with the most functional and better looking printable festival timetables. Vodafone Paredes de Coura 2013 takes place exactly two weeks from today (13-17 August) in the idyllic banks of the Taboão river right next to the little town of Paredes de Coura, north of Portugal (near the Northern border with Spain) and this years’ lineup features the likes of Calexico, Belle and Sebastian, The Knife, Alabama Shakes, Echo & the Bunnymen, Justice, Hot Chip, Phosphorescent or Iceage, along with some of the finest Portuguese acts from the last couple of years: Black Bombaim, Noiserv, The Glockenwise, Tape Junk or Sensible Soccers. We’ll be around, come and say hi.

If you can read Portuguese, P3 has an entire section on their website devoted to the festival. You should go there.

-DSS

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Día de la Música 2013 review

First of all, my apologies to those who were more anxious regarding our review on Día de la Música, the event that took place at Matadero Madrid, outdoors, past June 21st and 22nd. It has been a rather busy month. Srsly. And secondly… well I have to admit that there isn’t much to say about it. It wasn’t bad, I had a good time (as in it was fun), although good company always helps in that field (:3). But, with no further delay, here are the highlights of this light and low-cost (this you’ve gotta hand ‘em) urban festival – VERANIEGO!

In the first day there was plenty of people. It was so cheap, and Spaniards have such a huge love for music made-in-Spain. Even when it’s not that good, like awful Lori Meyers (I only heard ‘em slightly, but everybody seemed to enjoy it; even on the queue to take a piss there was this guy who approached a friend of mine and I to be outraged acknowledging our dislike for that act), or when it’s better, like Hola a Todo el Mundo. And then there was one of the most acclaimed indie acts of 2013, Autre Ne Veut, which I wasn’t able to watch as I was having a delicious stake in Madrid on some sort of celebration (not gonna get into details, soz). Oh, and The Horrors was, in a scaring way, quite bad, adding ugly illumination and stuff like that. Had to left before the end, not without ordering an expensive gin and tonic – told you, it was a celebration! Meh…

Fortunately, there was yet to happen a second day saved by, and I’m starting by the very end, Disclosure. I thought I disliked them, by hearing their LP a couple of times, plus that catchy single (RIGHT? AND IT STARTS TO SPREAD?), but c’mon, what a fucking party, gals and guys, geee! 9.0/10, to say the least. Oh, and Darkstar with some beer before those tapas and always very pleasant conversations was cool and gave me a good profile pic for me [sic] fcbk page. Finally, this review wouldn’t be “complete” – will never be without the quotation marks, as I lacked the interest to watch the other unknown or dislikeable names in the line-up – without the amazing performance of Waxahatchee: she was (is) cute, her band played nicely, her songs are sweet, the “““crowd””” (lol, three people) was the best, and then that beautiful cover of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”…

Sure, I missed Spiritualized, but for that price, it’s pointless to regret going, or to complain about it too much. It was what it was: okay. Let’s wait and see what these guys will do next year. They had already had great acts. I can only wish them luck!

-RC