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You're No Good is the first single from About Group's forthcoming second album, out on Domino on March 14th 2011. You're No Good is a re-versioning of Terry Riley's landmark 1967 track, on which the minimalist composer took Harvey Averne's latin-tinged soul track, You're No Good, and turned it into a free flowing piece of tape loop improvisation. Running two copies of the track alongside one another, Riley weaved between the tapes, dropping out and slowing down the song to create what may well have been the world's first ever remix. About Group are: Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now, Monkey Puzzle Trio, Clear Frame) John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) Pat Thomas (has played with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Jimmy Carl Black and Eugene Chadbourne amongst countless others) Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OtsAeBzatE&feature=related]YouTube - ‪About Group - You're No Good‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxDOnp9lw0&feature=relmfu]YouTube - ‪About Group - 'You're No Good' (Trailer)‬‏[/ame] About Group formed to make a record of improvised music for the Treader label in 2009, having never played together as a whole before the day it took them to make their first album. They then supported Gang Gang Dance at London's Dingwalls for their debut live performance, and followed this with a show at Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. About Group also played Glastonbury Festival 2010 and took part in the Calling Out of Context festival at London's ICA, in which audiences were invited to watch the creative process of a recording and mixing session. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9ONIlBUIw&feature=related]YouTube - ‪'About' at the ICA‬‏[/ame] Start And Complete, About Group’s second album, was recorded in one day at Abbey Road, Studio 2. The songs were written by Taylor over the last few years and some, but not all of them, were given out as a CD in piano/vocal demo form for the other members of the group to hear a few days before the studio date. The idea was that no one band member would know the songs well enough to have specific parts, or be prevented from playing something like the first ideas that came into their head. What followed was a collection of songs created in an atmosphere of close listening and instinctive group interplay. The instruments used are a rotating line up of drums, Wurlitzer, organ, piano, electric guitar and electronic textures, ensuring About Group combine a live-in-the-studio band feel around Taylor’s yearning vocal lines. The band’s instincts for experimentation make for subtle shifts in direction and tone, particularly when Thomas’ electronic flourishes move centre stage, blurring the line between improvisation and songwriting structure. On 'Don’t Worry' and 'Lay Me Down', Taylor’s keyboard vamps, along with Coxon and Taylor's wah guitars and the shuffling beat, suggest what a vintage Muscle Shoals session might sound like in the abstract. And on their re-interpretation of Harvey Averne/Terry Riley’s 'You’re No Good', the band stretch out over ten minutes. Locking into a groove they cut loose into a sustained Kosmiche workout, propelled by one of Hayward’s signature and unique drum parts and Coxon’s almost-soloing on the guitar – showing they are as adept at a head-nodding jam as the elegant constructions of the album’s shorter pieces. Recorded in a day at Abbey Road, Start and Complete was then mixed over three days on Konny Plank's old desk, by Mark Ralph with John and Alexis, at his studio in London, and small overdubs such as bass guitar were added here. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pna-CZ2b2vk]YouTube - ‪About Group - Don't Worry‬‏[/ame]

they don't have to wear all the same colors and there are other colors other than black

There's no reason to make some outfits for a tour if you are not madonna or lady gaga, why they don't dress "casual" like back in the days ? If i wanna see some weird outfits i go to the circus.

i hope they will not wear those jackets during the whole tour....

LMAO @ "they will not play new material at the festivals" :laugh3:

The title of this thread should be changed since hospice is no more their new album. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN0hNo22S_I&feature=related]YouTube - ‪The Antlers : Kettering (Live) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYRNsHRP3JI&feature=related]YouTube - ‪The Antlers : Bear (Live) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNbEFT7VV_8&feature=related]YouTube - ‪The Antlers : Rolled Together (Live) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg‬‏[/ame]

FULL LIVE SET: http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveonletterman/ben_harper/video/

live from New york (the letterman show) may 2011 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqPN8bqc8MQ]YouTube - ‪Ben Harper - When It's Good (Live on Letterman)‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5zsIlrLcW0]YouTube - ‪Ben Harper - Rock and Roll Is Free (Live on Letterman)‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ueh8uibhQ]YouTube - ‪Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn (Live on Letterman)‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3_e2RH_g_0]YouTube - ‪Ben Harper - Dirty Little Lover (Live on Letterman)‬‏[/ame]

Posting youtube videos with SONGS is the best way to let the people know his music :thinking: I know him since his first album "Shallow Grave".

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtB0kMB0fig&feature=related]YouTube - ‪The Tallest Man on Earth - A Field of Birds (Live on KEXP)‬‏[/ame]

DON'T SLEEP ON THIS AMAZING ARTIST! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_FLrzhfB4&feature=related]YouTube - ‪1Take.TV: The Tallest Man On Earth (Like the Wheel)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40XxMnw8OuQ&feature=related]YouTube - ‪1Take.TV: The Tallest Man On Earth (Where do my Bluebird fly)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW9wULjz0Ng]YouTube - ‪The Tallest Man on Earth - Like The Wheel (Live on KEXP)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltV7dNxuYeY]YouTube - ‪The Tallest Man On Earth - Love Is All (Later with Jools Holland)‬‏[/ame]

This new song is unbelievable [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHBEtR1mzY]YouTube - ‪the tallest man on earth, new song: there's no leaving now (?), paradiso, may 18th 2011‬‏[/ame] I can't wait to hear a new album or ep from him.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1gznKajpI]YouTube - ‪Foster the People Performs "Pumped Up Kicks"‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYLBJXGamE]YouTube - ‪Foster the People Performs "Helena Beat"‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smB9sfkqluA]YouTube - ‪Foster the People Performs "Warrant"‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX1OqESEtEk]YouTube - ‪CYHSY Hysterical Teaser‬‏[/ame]

What's your thoughts about it ? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2x3HuU7qM]YouTube - ‪ElectroSound - What You Know In My Place Two Door Cinema Club vs Coldplay‬‏[/ame]

you sound stupid if you pay attention to the look of a band instead of the music

From Los Angeles, California http://www.fosterthepeople.com/ Torches, the highly anticipated debut album by Foster The People, is the soundtrack for an eternal summer. Produced by Paul Epworth (Adele + Florence and the Machine), Rich Costey (Muse + Interpol), and Greg Kurstin (Beck + Red Hot Chili Peppers), Torches delivers on both the promise of their breakthrough chart-topping single Pumped Up Kicks and the promise of this young band out of Los Angeles. "We just want people to feel better about their lives." The sound is universally uplifting combining influences from alternative's greats mixed with songs that make you dance. "Accessible yet challenging, gleaming yet gritty, pop yet petrifying: Foster The People are a fresh evolution of modern music." [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ]YouTube - ‪Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TXoFI6CSM]YouTube - ‪Foster The People - Houdini (Live in Solana Beach)‬‏[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcao-RXmmk]YouTube - ‪Foster the People 'Pumped Up Kicks' Live from SXSW‬‏[/ame]

From Los Angeles,California In just a year or so, soulsters Fitz & the Tantrums went from the living room to the main stage. The recipe for meteoric success? Six killer musicians, five dapper suits, irresistible songs, some serendipity and one vintage organ. Since their first show at Hollywood’s Hotel Café in December 2008, Fitz and co. have toured with Maroon 5, played to thousands at Colorado’s world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, shared the stage New Year’s Eve with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and performed on KCRW’s esteemed show, Morning Becomes Eclectic, all this on the strength of their stellar five-song EP, Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1. For some bands, it takes a lifetime to build this success, but few performers deliver an unrestrained blast of soul-clapping, get-down-on-the-floor, moneymaker shakers like Fitz and the Tantrums. Now post-release of their debut full length, Pickin’ Up the Pieces, which has since earned them a 3 ½ star album review in ROLLING STONE, the troupe is poised to get down in dancehalls across the universe. It all began when… [cue flashback sounds] “I got a call from my ex-girlfriend,” Fitz explains, “And she said, ‘My neighbor is moving out in a hurry and has to sell everything. And, he has this organ…” Fitz, the Svengali frontman of the crew, describes the find like the discovery of a compass, or that treasure map in Goonies, which undoubtedly leads to adventure. Not one to say no, Fitz called some piano movers, cashed in some favors, and seven hours later, the organ went from the curb to his living room. That night, Fitz stationed himself in front of that vintage instrument and wrote a blue-eyed soul anthem, “Breaking the Chains of Love.” “Sometimes, the Music Gods just give it to you,” Fitz says. The overflow of inspiration startled Fitz. He’d spent years in L.A.’s music industry, writing music and working in a studio with Beck producer, Mickey Petralia. But at those 88 keys, just seven hours after that organ dropped into his life, Fitz had finally found his voice. “I’ve always been a singer,” Fitz says, “but with so much music, I felt that I was trying to push a square peg through a round hole. I was being not true to myself, and it never felt right until I wrote that song, and I sang like that. I thought, this feels so real, so natural.” Fitz shared his vision with long-time friend and saxophonist, James King, who immediately connected with the sound. While the electric guitar drives rock, the saxophone takes center stage in soul, and that’s the way Fitz likes it. “We wanted to find a new vocabulary for the genre, I wanted to make a record without any guitars. Could we make a huge sound with out any guitars?” A huge sound takes a huge studio–Motown had Studio A in Detroit, Philadelphia International had Sigma Studios, Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound was created in Hollywood’s legendary Gold Star Studios– but when it came time to capture the feeling and the soul of soul, Fitz knew of the perfect studio: his home. There in the living room, he recorded Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1, a burst of effervescent swingers and floor-stompers, infused with the energy of long forgotten songs. The infectious, rolling rhythms of “Breaking the Chains of Love,” immediately turns your head and actually get cemented in your brain, like a good pop song should. The sound is familiar, but distinct. That’s what grabbed the attention of Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Levine was getting a tattoo in New York when the tattoo artist told him he had to hear this new band he had discovered. After that one encounter, Levine personally invited Fitz and the Tantrums to join their tour. Like the EP, Fitz recorded the full-length debut back at home, to bottle the lightning that struck in those first jam sessions. He now delves into more acerbic lyrical territory, going on the offensive against gold diggers on the exceptionally funky “MoneyGrabber,” and even gets political on the piano-banging, handclap-driven call to action, “Dear Mr. President.” “L.O.V.” is a jaunt through pop music history embarking with a groovy organ intro, meandering through juicy big band breakdowns and Fitz’s svelte croons, then carrying us away with flute outro. It’s a funk-filled plea to give love a chance. These powerful songs take the band’s energy up a notch, but like their energized performances, they never loose control. Those blistering performances are now well-chronicled for adequate ubiquity, Last Call With Carson Daly nailing the money shot for “MoneyGrabber” at the band’s sold out show in November at LA’s El Rey Theatre featuring a sea of a thousand pogoing fans and a handful of F.A.T.T. gems rocked along with blue-eyed soul vet, Daryl Hall on the band’s spot on Live From Daryl’s House. Lest we forget, an omnipresent T-Mobile HTC ad that actually namechecks the band that, for the past several months, is impossible not to see if you’re watching even an hour’s worth of television. Oh, and there are the hot spots on Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives and a great many more, not to mention a ton of success at radio for the aforementioned runaway “MoneyGrabber,” all with the promise of more to come. In their sound and on the stage, Fitz and the Tantrums are nothing but professionals, and never less than classy. Enter the Tantrums, Fitz’s airtight ensemble keeping it real like it’s 1969. Funky drummer John Wicks is a Motown B-side aficionado and prolific session player, Jeremy Ruzumna manned the keyboards and was musical director for Macy Gray. James King backed De La Soul and bassist Joseph Karnes is a well sought after session player. Then there’s Noelle Scaggs, the powerful voice behind Fitz’s croons. Make no mistake, Scaggs is not just there for “doo-wops” and handclaps. She shimmies and flirts, she stokes the crowd and simmers them down, and she has no qualms about keeping Fitz in check. “She is not just a backup singer,” Fitz says, “We have repartee. Onstage, we’re Ike and Tina.” There, on the stage, Fitz and the Tantrums are not just a band, they’re an explosion. Scaggs high steps it to the tight-as-hell rhythm section, while Fitz, cooler than cobalt, croons like the aforementioned Mr. Hall for a new generation. It’s obvious that this is no tryst for the band, this is a full-blown, head-over-heels love affair. I'm sure that some of you have already heard this song on the radio several times [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6cBKE3WzQ&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Fitz and the Tantrums - MoneyGrabber‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-9w9EGwQj8&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Foals - Public Embarrassment Blues (Live on KEXP)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muObRiyGKNY&feature=relmfu]YouTube - ‪Foals - 2 Trees (Live on KEXP)‬‏[/ame]

This acoustic version of Spanish Sahara is breathtaking [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZuvvtkN9k]YouTube - ‪Foals - Spanish Sahara (Live on KEXP)‬‏[/ame]

Ok, but you don't book a band to be one of the headliners if they don't have new material....unless you are an "old" band. Even a band like U2 wants to go to the festivals with new material!