Archive for July, 2010

Posted on July 30, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Indietracks 2010 (Pt.1)

Indietracks it’s a lot more than a festival. IndieTracks is Woodstock without sex, drugs and – fortunately – no mud. At least for this year’s edition! THE festival is a lot more of the simple sum of the whole bands that were in it (the lucky blue bracelet ones). The festival equals the real experience to live, at least if you’re ok with twee music and the idea that nativity and art still deserves a place between the rock and the roll. (more…)

Posted on July 26, 2010 - by Dave Cruttenden

Fran Healy – Buttercups

Here is the first solo single from Fran Healy from Travis, taken from his debut solo album Wreckorder, to be released this October.  It’s a very excellent debut single, and fans of Travis should also love this.  It is bound to attract the usual criticism of a lead singer of a band starting a solo career, but this is not the end of Travis, Fran is just on holiday from the band.  It should even maybe open them up to an even greater audience, as it’s a fine piece of work. (more…)

Posted on July 20, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Good Week to Come (See ya in August)

 It’s a shame shame shame I can’t spend more time with you, dear Sleepers. Just the time to share with you my last (but not final!) podcast and say ta till next week, since I’ll be off to… IndieTracks!So meet ya there, with some copies of Stars in Coma new release for KinGem Records (check a little review here) and loads of fun (still I’m quite disappointed on Love is All not playing in there. A shame! I needed to see Josephine and the band like drug!! (more…)

Posted on July 15, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Partybenders

Some months ago, I think it was winter since I felt really melancholic and I didn’t sweat, I was quite intrigued by a band called The Morning Benders. Gee. It HAD to bee winter, possibly autumn, since the only thing I remembered reading that name on Hana-Bi calendar was that I knew I liked them, still I had no idea ’bout who they were anymore. (more…)

Posted on July 12, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

The Radio Eggs

Summer, Shibuiya, Electropop… my Momumania goin’ on, but above all… a lot of “Lovely Eggs”! … and some interesting collateral connections.

To be served with some salads and a tasty glass of orange juice :)

We’ll show the playlist of the broadcast on the following days not to spoil a song! Any feedback appreciated. (more…)

Posted on July 8, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Give yourself another fountain rag

“Do you feel far too old and far too sad, and you feel it should be over by now?”

Having Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl willing to carry on and writing songs, is like being sure to holding on to something really solid and safe while tracking your years as indie fan. First time I even heard mentioning her name was during one of the first gigs of the Italian indie band “Le Man Avec Les Lunettes“.  (more…)

Posted on July 7, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Tree-V

On nowadays music scene, with everyone trying to monkeey all the possible stereotypes of the scene, that is the everlasting Franz Ferdinand clones in fuzzed post-punk sauce, it’s quite an unexpected breath of fresh air emerging from a bath in the web and discover bands like “Visions of Trees”, from Londong. And I wouldn’t even define their music ’80s Retro Electro-Nostalgia or New-Jungle Psychedelia, nor even video game music. Their music is just brave, and classy. ‘t was enough for me to try and interview’em. (more…)

Posted on July 5, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Summer in the air

3rd podcast from SleepWalKing Radio. We passed from SoundCloud to Mixcloud, singe the first service couldn’t offer more than 2 hours of storage for free.

Hope you all will keep on following us on Mixcloud! This episode is mainly about summer and a first blink on Kingem Records first releases. Mixing come pop-rock classic tunes with the most obscure indie novelty we hope to be at list a bit of your summer soundtrack. (more…)