We Should Be Dead - New Album, Irish Tour

News from We Should Be Dead!

So, finally we’ve got news for you! We Should Be Dead are back for the Rock And The Roll!!!
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The 1st single “Up All Night” from our forthcoming album “Dreamstate” will be released on June 18th and will be available worldwide on I-tunes and all online music shops!
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The album will follow on July 2nd and will be available in all music shops nationwide, aswell as worldwide on I-tunes and all online music shops. It was produced by Owen Lewis (Hole, REM, Lady Gaga etc.) Check that shit!!
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To coincide with the album release, there will be a number of live Irish dates. Oh ya, by the way we’ve multiplied. There are now 5 of us, just to spice up your life!!
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June 30th – Whelan’s, Dublin
July 2nd – Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick
July 8th – Roisin Dubh, Galway
July 16th – The Pavilion, Cork

Check out their Myspace page for the latest dates & info:  http://www.myspace.com/wsbd

Also, check out a preview of the single and the video for "Forget Romance, Let's Dance" at
http://dartmusicinternational.org/artists/wsbd.php

Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle Working their Way Up!

Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle are swinging into 2010 with a bang! Yesterday, Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle ranked 7th on Myspace UK's Alternative Music charts, beating major label bands such as 3OH!3, Death Cab For Cutie, and The Editors. What makes this such big news? Firstly, Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle is the only unsigned band in the top 30 on the Myspace charts. Secondly, the ranks are based on the amount of plays on a band's profile compared to the day before. This means that Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle have the 7th largest play increase per day in all of Myspace UK. Big deal? I think so. The band also ranks 32nd overall on the Myspace UK Music Charts, placing above the Arctic Monkeys and Paramore.

Of course, this isn't exactly a surprise. After SXSW 2009, where the band played several official showcases, they returned home and won a competition against 1700 other European bands to play the FIB Heineken Festival in Benicassim, Spain alongside Oasis, The Killers and Kings of Leon. The band also played at the Liverpool Soundcity Music Festival and headlined Liverpool's Red Festival.

2010 looks to be a promising year for Polly and the guys; with an invitation to play as an official showcasing band at SXSW 2010 and a spot at the HMV festival, the band is already looking at a massively successful year. Armed with a collection of new songs and experience gained from playing over 80 venues across the UK, Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle are already well on their way to becoming one of the most influential bands of 2010.

It's Bigger Than You

It's Bigger Than You is christening their Bollywood Film Series on December 3 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar with a presentation of Monsoon Wedding.  The event will benefit IBTU and "Gimme A Break":  The Single Mom Project.

IBTU's founder, Brock Sampson, is a great guy who is putting his money where his mouth is - literally.  Their mission is to engage socially active, community-minded people in Austin to fight hunger and nutritional deficiencies around the world.

RSVP for the show and get more information about IBTU at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140309912104

Nortec Collective and Border Music

Texas Performing Arts has brought the Nortec Collective to Austin for a show tonight at the Hogg Auditorium.  Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible is an audio/video performance that combines electronica, samples, rock, and Norteño music that mixes genres, generations, and geography to equal effect.


"As Mexico prepares its Centenial and Bicentennial celebrations in 2010, Nortec Collective is creating the country’s soundtrack for the next 100 years. More of a movement than a band, Nortec Collective started in the late 90s when several Mexican musicians began fusing norteño and techno. Since then, they have created a vibrant and uncharted brand of alternative Latin music that transcends its genre. The music is an energy and force, which commands people to shake, dance and move their way out of any inhibition and leave modesty behind. From the moment it begins, a Nortec Collective performance shocks the soul and their universal rhythms create a remarkable harmony between artists and audiences."

Leading up to the show, Ramón (Bostich) and Pepe (Fussible) participated in a brown bag luncheon at the Bass Concert Hall and a public forum with other panelists (including multi-grammy winner Joél Guzman) for stimulating, free-ranging discussions of cultural identity, geographical & intellectual borders, growing up in Tijuana, technology, copyrights, and music.  


Tijuana is a relatively new city by Mexican standards, evolving as a cultural melting pot estranged from the rest of Mexico and more closely defined by its relationship with the port city of San Diego, Hollywood, and music from all over the map.  While the younger people were soaking up European electronica and cutting edge music from around the world (courtesy of the massive radio broadcast towers erected by California stations), older generations were tied to the norteño styles that came from tamborazo and tejano traditions (which, of course, have their distant roots in European polka and classical music).


What Nortec Collective accomplishes now is more than simply playing one style of music on top of another.  They fuse music that speaks to different world-views and histories to create a new and exciting hybrid.  The combination of visual imagery and innovative music creates a presentation of a new Tijuana to the world, while combining the world with old Tijuana.  It is thought provoking and entertaining at the same time.  Can't wait to see them again tonight!

HAAM Benefit Day is Coming Soon

EAT, SHOP, DONATE, AND ENJOY ON THE FOURTH ANNUAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY!

On Tuesday, September 22, join the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) in keeping music in Austin alive and well.

Here’s how you can help:

* EAT & SHOP at 170 local participating businesses and restaurants, with 5% of your purchase going to HAAM. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.

* DONATE your spare change to the HAAM Benefit Day donation boxes at each of the music performances. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by Topfer Family Foundation.

* ENJOY live performances from over 90 local musical acts throughout the day. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.

* VOLUNTEER to help out at one of the music performances. It's fun and you even get a t-shirt! Sign up at http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/49-624575308125

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Forward this message to your friends to let them know how they can help!
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Play Your Part! Come out on Tuesday, September 22nd to support local musicians’ health!

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians was founded in April 2005 when Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David’s Foundation joined forces with The SIMS Foundation to provide medical, dental, and mental health care to the city’s hard-working, uninsured low-income musicians. More than 1,600 member-musicians, most 35 and younger, have been served.

To learn more or to make a donation, visit www.MyHaam.org.

Intimate Stranger on Spin Earth

ntime Stranger is a Chilean band that started on 2006 in London, under the duo Tessie y Lautaro. Playing in various underground clubs, back in Chile Mogles joins in 2007, and that same year Ismael was asked to join to play the keyboards. Intimate Stranger is setting they next tour for Argentina, by the end of the year they will launch their second studio album that is still in the works before their United States tour.

Spin Earth witnessed their performance in Santiago, Chile last August 13th.

Tessie rolls and plays so intense, so sensual and elegant, showing off her voice all over the SCD Bellavista stage (Author Rights Society), a place for all types of musicians to perform on an almost daily basis. Lautaro Vera rips his guitar with a "noise/shoegazer" mix that gives us a British club ambiance. Mogles bangs his drums and doesn’t give a break to Ismael’s keyboard, which sets the mood for Tessie's bass. They all carry the show to a high level presentation.

They showed some of their first album "Life Jacket", and a sample of they second one, which is almost at the top of the most prominent music sites online with songs like Eva, Under, For Annie, Back In The Box.

After the show, Lautaro tell us that he’s working on developments to help local bands (Casino, Javiera, Mena, The Ganjas) to perform in US, country in which Intimate Stranger is scheduled to visit next March for they promotional tour before their mini tour in Argentina next November. Tessie (English-Croat descendant), also comments how she sees her audience's reaction their performance sang in English.

Tessie: People approach me saying "I liked your performance, but I think that the majority of the audience would prefer it in Spanish".

Lau: Why not sing in English? Our audience and us listen to English spoken songs all the time, besides, it is the lead market in music.

SPINearth: Actually you are in amazon.com, a site where many Chilean bands are not, is that commercially a step ahead?

Lautario: It is our launch platform of choice, because it’s cheap, the online sales don't give you the pressure to make albums. Indeed places like itunes, e-music and other music sites give you the chance to show a song after you finished it. We made contact with a German record label that allocates our work at 90% of online sites.

SPINearth: How you see the local music scene?

Tessie: We believe is fine, our band left Chile three years ago and now that we return, a change is notorious; there’s more places to perform and more bands.

Lautaro: It's ok, if you compare to foreign band scenes that I like, there's still things to do.

Intimate Stranger members: Tessie Stranger (vocals/bass), Lau Stranger (guitar/backing vocal), Mogles (drums), Ismael Palma (keyboards).

Intimate Stranger on Myspace

The Horrors join Gorillaz on new album

Damon Albarn has enlisted the Shoreditch coffin dodgers to work on a song for the forthcoming Gorillaz album.

The Horrors have been enlisted by Damon Albarn to contribute to the forthcoming Gorillaz album after he heard their "exciting" new record.

"He got a copy of [Primary Colours] really early, contacted us completely out of the blue and told us how much he liked it," bassist Rhys Webb told BBC 6 Music. "We went down to the studio and he said, 'We're working on the new album and we've not collaborated with a guitar band before. Your album is one of the most exciting things I've heard in a long time. Would you be up for working on a track?'"

Gorillaz have not released an album since 2005's Demon Days, though Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett have worked together on the project Monkey: Journey to the West. Albarn has confirmed that his attention is focused on Gorillaz now that the Blur reunion gigs are over, while earlier this summer rap group De La Soul described recording vocals for the album.

"[Albarn] played us a lot of tracks he'd been working [on]," Webb said. "They were in a really similar place to where we were at the moment."

The bands got on so well that mid-way through his tour with Blur, Albarn offered to remix the Horrors' next single, Whole New Way. Webb emphasised Blur's influence on his band. "They've always been diverse and experimental," he said. "[Blur] were the first band I went to see."