Month: June 2012

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: A Preview

Today’s the day. Optimus Primavera Sound starts in a matter of hours and we’ll be covering it live via our facebook and twitter accounts. Be sure to follow them – if you don’t use such artifacts, you’ll be able to read our full review here on the website later on. To help you choose what to see in the fest, five of our team members who are going there made their picks and chose 3 bands you shouldn’t miss. Who’s that stranger that goes by the initials CB? Yeah, that’s our special guest Chris Brokaw, Codeine’s legendary drummer.

Also, don’t forget to print our timetable, in case you missed it.

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a BOLACHAS.org premiere

GOLDEN GOLDEN GOLDEN GOLDEN

This is how the new Point Reyes album, aptly titled Golden begins. If you’ve been following them since we first posted their debut EP, Wetnurse/Point Reyes early last year, you’ll notice quite a lot of stuff has changed in their music. Opening track “Golden” relies quite a bit on new member Nini Julia Bang’s impressive backup vocals – and dude, you’ll be amazed when the Danish singer takes the spotlight later in the record. The good news? You can stream the whole thing now on Big School Records’ bandcamp and download the title track through our soundcloud. Over and out. STAY GOLDEN.

<a href=“http://bigschoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/point-reyes-golden” data-mce-href=“http://bigschoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/point-reyes-golden”>Point Reyes – Golden by Point Reyes</a>

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012 Printable Timetable

Optimus Primavera Sound 2012 Printable Timetable

We’ve designed printable timetables for every festival we ever covered: San Miguel Primavera Sound, Milhões de Festa, Paredes de Coura… and of course we’re doing it again for Optimus Primavera Sound. This time we teamed up with the p3 team and the result is so good it makes me want to eat it. Treat yourself and your friends right: click the title of this post, download the pdf and print a handful of them before you go. See you there!

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Plastic Flowers may have released their sophomore EP Natural Conspiracy on cassette just one week ago, but their third release is already on its way. There’s no info about when Aftermath will be released yet, but while they were recording it in an old mansion outside Thessaloniki they played a two hour set for senselens, who captured this beautiful rework of a track off their first EP, “United Populists”, with added synthesizers and ethereal guitarplay. Plastic Flowers is a band constantly searching their own sonority and this take on an old song does a great job in showing that to the rest of us. (Plus, you also get one full minute of people talking in Greek, which is one of the most beautiful languages on Earth although I can’t understand it.)

Grab your Natural Conspiracy and Meltdown tapes (and free digital files!) now on Cakes and Tapes.

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Matt Elliott @ Mercado Negro, Aveiro (31.05.2012)

If you’ve ever been to an amusement park, certainly you’re familiar with that anxiety minutes before riding that humongous, scary and life-threatening roller coaster (even if at the last call you decide to quit, like my mother used to do a couple times). And although it’s not that sort of concert which you don’t have a clue of what’s about to be, this same feeling got into me, maybe just for the thrill of it.

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