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1)the savages/city's full
Savages are a British all-female post-punk rock band, formed in 2011.
Savages are from London.[1] Guitarist Gemma Thompson had come up with the name for the band and had been discussing the idea with singer, Jehny Beth, for almost a year.[2] Thompson says the band's name was derived from books, such as Lord of the Flies, that she read when she was younger.[2] The band was eventually formed in October 2011[3] and they had their first gig in January 2012[4] supporting rock band British Sea Power.[3] Their manager John Best also manages Sigur Ros.[5] The Observer has said of Savages "it's not exactly sexy, it's not funny and they're not going to be rolling around in mud like the Slits. But it's the closest thing to art that "post-punk"... has offered in a while".[1] The New Musical Express described their performances as "frottage-inducingly intense affairs".[3]

The group's first released tracks, a double A-side in June 2012, were "Flying to Berlin" and "Husbands" on the Pop Noire label.[3] The Guardian wrote : "Husbands, the B-side of the first single by Savages, makes us dream of what it must have been like to have been around to hear, in real time, the debut releases by Public Image Ltd, Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division, to feel, as those incredible records hit the shops, that unearthly power and sense of a transmission from a satellite reality."[4] In October, their concert at the "CMJ Music Marathon" in New York received good reviews.[6][7][8] Chicago Reader noted that their set is "influenced by Siouxsie & the Banshees, but with an anthemic quality that makes me think of PJ Harvey and heavy doses of the rhythmic jaggedness and angularity of British postpunk."[9]

On 9 December 2012, the BBC announced that the band have been nominated for the Sound of 2013 poll.[10]

In March 2013, the band announced that their first album, Silence Yourself, will be released on May 7.
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Members
Jehnny Beth (vocals) - real name Camille Berthomier, she was previously part of rock duo John & Jehn.
Gemma Thompson (guitar)
Ayse Hassan (bass)
Fay Milton (drums)
SAVAGES – Album Release Announcement 

Today is an enormous day for Pop Noire. We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Matador Records to release the much-anticipated debut album by SAVAGES on 6th May 2013.

The album was recorded in north-west London’s Fish Factory during a three week period in December 2012, and is produced by Johnny Hostile / Rodaidh McDonald. 

Clocking in at 38 minutes, Silence Yourself opens with an excerpt from the John Cassavetes film ‘Opening Night’, and features brand new recordings of ‘Husbands’, ‘I Am Here’ and ‘City’s Full’ – first heard on debut single ‘Husbands / Flying To Berlin’ and the ‘I Am Here’ live EP – both previously released by us here at Pop Noire.

First song to be revealed from the album is ‘She Will’, which can be heard below.

The album will be available to pre-order from iTunes from Tuesday 19th at midnight, and fans who do so will instantly receive an mp3 download of ‘She Will’. Physical copies of the album will also be sold through our Pop Noire store and will be available on CD and vinyl.

The album comprises eleven tracks that are uncompromising and delivered with fierce conviction.


2)dew records, etichetta indipendete australiana e alcune


-shout out loud/hermila
Gli Shout Out Louds sono un gruppo musicale indie rock proveniente da Stoccolma, nato nel 2003.
Il loro primo album, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff, viene pubblicato in Svezia nel 2003. e' appena uscito il loro ultimo lavoro dal titolo optica con al dew records

-Pot Kettle Black by Tilly and the Wall
Tilly and the Wall is an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called Tillie and the Wall, written by Leo Lionni. They are particularly noted for having a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall, instead of a drummer.
pezzo usato nella colonna sonora del film whip it, in cui ellen page interpreta una adolescente appassionata di indie rock e selvaggia, e una famiglia/madre che vorrebbe la reginetta di bellezza come figlia. si salva entrando a far parte di una squadra di roller acrobatico femminile senza dirlo a nessuno.


-Seeker Lover Keeper/on my own

individually, they’re three of Australia’s most innovative songwriters. Sally Seltmann specialises in narcotic, dreamy, sweeping pop, aided by layers of cotton-soft vocals, pianos and synths. Holly Throsby is known for summoning melodies that sound beautifully crumpled, worn and decades-old, and matching them with hushed, cutting lyrics that read like a Carver short story. Sarah Blasko writes haunting songs that veer from intimate ballads to orchestral showstoppers, and sings with what’s now one of the most recognisable voices in Australian music.  

All three are distinct talents, but there are common threads between their songwriting too: an underlying sense of nostalgia; the golden, sing-along pop tunes; and the complicated lyrics about seeking love, and how difficult it is to hold onto it once you’ve got it. It makes sense that the three of them would be good friends. Get them together in the same room—or even the same phone line—and it doesn’t take long before they recall shared stories and descend into fits of laughter. But get them together in the studio or on stage, and you’ve got an entirely new band: Seeker Lover Keeper.

 - bertie blackman/mercy killer
Beatrice "Bertie" Blackman  is an Independent Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame with her debut album in 2004, entitled 'Headway' which came after years of prolific performances around Sydney's Inner city venues, where she developed a dedicated following.[3]

-low/plastic cup
I Low sono una rock band slowcore formata nel 1993 a Duluth (Minnesota).
Il nucleo originale del gruppo era composto da Alan Sparhawk (voce e chitarra elettrica), sua moglie Mimi Parker (voce e batteria) e John Nichols, (basso). Entrano in contatto con il produttore discografico Kramer della Shimmy Disc che produce il primo album I Could Live in Hope uscito per l'etichetta Vernon Yard. Il disco colpisce per le atmosfere rarefatte e minimali ed è tuttora considerato da molti critici uno dei capolavori del genere slowcore.[1][2]. Nel 1995 Nichols lasciò il gruppo, dall'album successivo Long Division, disco ancor più minimalista, il nuovo bassista fu Zak Sally. Nel 2005 Matt Livingston sostituì Sally al basso.
low The Invisible Way 2013

-yeah yeah yeahs/sacrilege
Gli Yeah Yeah Yeahs (a volte abbreviati in YYYs) sono un gruppo alternative rock di New York. La band è un trio formato dalla cantante Karen O, dal chitarrista Nick Zinner e dal batterista Brian Chase.
When the Yeah Yeah Yeahs got down the business of making their April 16 album, Mosquito, "I had some serious nostalgia for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the early 2000s," Karen O says. "I had some nostalgia for why I fell in love with the idea of performing in the first place. Frontmen like Jon Spencer and Lux Interior, and PJ Harvey. Strong, fun people who ignite some sort of fantasy with their charisma and the sexuality."

In our March cover story, arriving online and via iPad this week, Karen O, Brian Chase, and Nick Zinner take SPIN from New York to New Orleans to Texas, from a Brooklyn-bound "Subway" to "Under the Earth," explaining the journey that's led them to their fourth album. The band tells us how Kool Keith, James Murphy, and a 24-piece gospel choir landed on the disc. They bitch about their lyrics constantly appearing wrong in online aggregators. They explain how Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy inspired the 11-track LP. They open up about their creative process — and reveal which of Zinner's favorite possessions he had to let coproducer Dave Sitek destroy. 

"I don't want to come across as some really bad spokesperson," Karen says, "but when I was 14 and I was getting high in a basement with my friends, this is the record that I'd have listened to. I want the kids in the basements with their bong to listen to this."

In the massive profile — the group's fourth appearance on the cover of SPIN — the trio also take a very candid look back at their earliest days as a band and reflect on where they might be headed in the future.
esce il 16 aprile mosquito
Violence almost always turns out to be acceptable in American society, but sexuality is another story. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new video for gospel-rock anthem "Sacrilege" cryptically riffs on this theme, with a sinister manhunt and womanhunt that involves someone making out all over town.

-gaby moreno
Maria Gabriela Moreno Bonilla (born 16 December 1981 in Guatemala City, Guatemala), known as Gaby Moreno, is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her music ranges from blues, jazz, soul to R&B, . Moreno sings both in English and Spanish. She has recently become known to a broader audience in Latin America, after recording a song with Ricardo Arjona (Fuiste tu, 2011).
In August 2009 Moreno toured along with established singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman.
Later in November 2009, Moreno toured as direct support for Ani Difranco, on an east coast tour. Difranco invited Moreno back out on tour January/February 2010.
2009: Still the Unknown (released independently)
2010: A Good Old Christmastime EP (released independently)
2011: European release of Still the Unknown (World Connection Records)
2011: Illustrated Songs (released independently)
2012: European release of Illustrated Songs (World Connection Records)
2012: Postales (Metamorfosis)


8)Fear of man
Two years after moving to Brighton and releasing a slow trickle of long-suffering singles, compiled this February on a collection called Early Fragments, the introspective rock band Fear of Men is finally recording a proper debut. This time, they’re holing up in the farm owned by drummer Michael Mile’s parents, where a seriously private practice space in one of the barns lets them consider every drum hit. “It’s in the middle of nowhere,” explains guitarist Dan Falvey, on the phone from the band’s adopted home. “It’s like a three-hour bus journey, and we get dropped off at this bar, then it’s pitch black and we walk for 20 minutes without street lights past this field that they’ve turned into a cemetery because the church is over-full with graves.” Like their best songs, no matter how poppy they may sound, the setting is charged with existential dread.

Falvey first met Jess Weiss, Fear of Men’s singer and songwriter, at a 2011 art show for Goldsmiths students, where Weiss was exhibiting a film inspired by the diaries of Anaïs Nin. Falvey was immediately taken by its heady but catchy soundtrack. “Even though the music she made was really ambient, I could hear the hooks in it,” Falvey says. “Whatever Jess wrote, there were always hooks in there.” The pair collaborated on a few songs and wrangled Mile and a temporary bassist (since replaced by Robyn Edwards) when they were offered a first gig in Brighton, and Fear of Men was born.

-le parody/painkiller
ENG: Le Parody (le par<ó>dy) is the musical project of Sole Parody, the Madrid-based musician whose blood runs between Italy and Andalucia and whose music pulses with the impossible, ethereal combination of electro-glitch, pop, and folk. Le Parody’s sound resides somewhere in the space between Sole’s native Granada and the deserts of California. Nomads know that cultures and languages do not fit together easily like puzzle pieces, and Le Parody rejects the logic of fusion and instead creates music that reflects the confusion of travel and the hiccups of misunderstanding—fashioning her own curious folklore that drifts across languages and continents. In order to travel light, she only uses instruments that fit in a small suitcase: a ukulele, a sampler, a glockenspiel, some wires and pedals. Cuban trumpet player Frank Santiuste joins her in her trip through venues, living rooms, backyards, laundrymats, parking lots —hidden underground places of a country in collapse, and together they play and they dance. 


-buke and gase/general dome
Autore tre anni fa di un esordio passato inosservato dalle nostre parti, il duo newyorchese Buke And Gase torna a colpire, forte di un ep davvero convincente uscito a fine 2012: le quattro tracce (tra cui l’incredibile cover di “Blue Monday”) di “Function Falls” mostravano un muro del suono stratificato e paranoico, disturbante e ricco di groove. Tutto questo nonostante i Buke And Gase siano soltanto in due: coppia nell’arte e nella vita, Arone Dyer e Aron Sanchez sono anche gli artefici dei propri strumenti; il buke è, infatti, un ukulele modificato e affidato alle delicate mani di Arone (che canta anche) e il gase è invece un ibrido basso-chitarra creato e suonato dallo stesso Aron.

Non so se questa descrizione abbia spiazzato anche voi, ma fidatevi: i due, totalmente autarchici, sono dannatamente potenti e affascinanti. E il nuovo “General Dome” è la piena consacrazione per un sound peculiare e capace di affrontare spavaldo la migliore tradizione dell’indie-rock.
 Negli undici brani (tredici se contiamo i due brevi intermezzi) dell’album si viaggia dal gusto noise dell’iniziale “Houdini Crush” fino al funky-pop molto catchy della conclusiva “Metazoa”: nel mezzo possiamo trovare l’irresistibile retrogusto marziale di “Hiccup” oppure la nervosissima “In The Company of Fish”, il minimalismo thriller della titletrack o il virtuosismo quasi prog di “Hard Times”, le scansioni math-rock di “Split Like a Lip, No Blood on the Beard” e la paranoia hardcore dell’eccezionale “My Best Andre Shot”.

Le aspettative del precedente “Function Falls EP” forse non sono completamente esaudite, era difficile ricreare la stessa variegata coesione del formato breve, ma in questo “General Dome” i due Buke And Gase continuano a stupire con l’enorme perizia tecnica, l’attenta cura del suono, l’indomita indole curiosa e i massicci groove, confermandosi come uno degli act più interessanti e caldi del panorama underground contemporaneo statunitense.

-BIG HARP - Chain Letters
(Saddle Creek, 2013)

 I coniugi Chris Senseney e Stefanie Drootin, già attivi accanto a Bright Eyes e She & Him, hanno avviato il duo Big Harp con un album realizzato in appena una settimana e improntato a un folk-rock rustico e disadorno (“White Hat”, 2011).

Ben più studiate sono invece le premesse di “Chain Letters”, che vede la band ampliarsi a terzetto, con l’aggiunta della batteria di John Voris, e ispessire in maniera significativa il proprio suono. Pur conservando tracce di immediatezza casalinga, “Chain Letters” vira con decisione verso un ruvido country elettrico intriso di nostalgici accenti fuzz-punk seventies.