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Mónica Boixeda
One of the queens of new American folk, Anais Mitchell will make a stop inRomeon May 17 as part of her 2012 European tour. She will perform at Crossroads Live Club (a.k.a. XRoads), one of the best nightclubs featuring live music in the Italian capital. Anais Mitchell is an artist worth seeing even if you’re not a big fan of folk music. With an abundance of talent, intense and melancholic songs, and elaborate and deep lyrics, nobody who has the pleasure of hearing her can remain indifferent. A fan of Jane Austen and miniskirts, this girl fromVermontis the daughter of a writer and professor of English who was educated to have a passion for music, literature, and poetry. As a result, she began to write her first songs at age 17 when she began her studies in political science and languages. At 21, in 2002, she self-released her first album, which was recorded in one afternoon. The following year, she participated in the Kerrville Folk Festival and received the folk artist revelation award. Her second album, “Hymns for the Exiled (2004), was recorded on a small independent label inChicagoand attracted the attention of folk icon Ani DiFranco. Afterwards, her subsequent albums were produced by DiFranco’s label, Righteous Babe. In 2006, Anais Mitchell undertook an original project, Hadestown, a kind of folk music which critics have dubbed opera folk. It is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. What started as something small and self-produced eventually became a tour with 22 musicians all over England. It was recorded in 2010 and featured collaborations with musicians such as Justin Vernon...
Mónica Boixeda
On the one hand, they only have two albums that have been released but have no videos of the latest one to be found on YouTube, and that´s hard, considering there´s everything on there. On the other, it´s not surprising that this music band, who belongs to the so-called indie pop trend and which was formed just a few years ago, has moved around environments that had nothing to do with the commercial madness that dominates the current artistic scene. The production of their first album (on vinyl!) was almost handmade. Despite all of that, Fanfarlo have managed to make space for themselves (a pretty big one, actually) on the international music scene with their mellow and melodic songs and lyrics that are just like those classic songs of the bands of the 60s, The Beatles included. However, what contemporary musician hasn´t received influences from the quartet from Liverpool? With only one album on the street, called Reservoir, and this second one that they´re promoting now, called Rooms filled with light, which is almost entirely unreleased, the London-based band lands in Amsterdam, in the popular venue Bitterzoet, on the 16th of May. TV fans, even if they´ve never heard of Fanfarlo, will have surely heard some music from these lads since they´ve played in popular TV series such as House or Grey´s Anatomy. Their songs have also been in films of the Twilight series. Regarding Bitterzoet in Amsterdam, I won´t repeat myself again and I will point the interested reader to the article published in this same blog on the concert of The Daisy Age in this same venue, an event programmed four days before this one, on May 12th. Here´s...
Mónica Boixeda
Two weeks before her latest album is put out for sale, this prodigy child (transformed into a successful and mature interpreter) of pop music today, , has scheduled a concert in New York that no self-respecting traveler should miss for anything in the world. The event is scheduled for May 15 and, despite the demand, tickets may still be available. The artist and the site where the concert takes place deserves a possible change of travel with destination to New York. Well, and why is that? First, the undisputed quality (if you do not know her you just will be delighted with the official video that I added below) of this gifted musician that is Regina Spektor. Born in Moscow in 1980 into a family dedicated to music (her mother is a teacher at an elementary school and her father plays the violin, but not professionally), at an early age she had mastered the rudiments of piano. With only nine years she arrives in the City of Skyscrapers where she completed her musical training at the conservatory. Like all young artists of the Web 2.0 era, her first albums (“11:11” and “Songs” of 2001 and 2002 respectively) were recorded on a small scale and under the desktop publishing format. The same has not happened with her sixth release which she now promotes, and at the same time delights her fans with this concert in New York. Under the title “What We Saw from the cheap seats” comes a guaranteed success of an artist in full vocal maturity, after polishing the rough edges so characteristic of her early works. Well,...
Mónica Boixeda
Metal lovers will enjoy another spectacular concert on May 16 at the Sant Jordi Club inBarcelona. The phenomenal line-up includes Judas Priest, Blind Guardian and U.D.O. The headlining band is Judas Priest, who has already given several great performances inBarcelona. They are now returning with their Epitaph tour that began last year. This tour, as the title implies, will be the last given by this legendary heavy metal band. It may be the last opportunity to hear the voice of Rob Halford, which is one of the most popular and distinctive in the world of metal. The setlist for the concert includes the most successful songs from their nearly forty year history. Among other noteworthy ones are “Never satisfied” (Rocka Rolla, 1974) from the first album that initially launched them into stardom, or the mythical “Starbreaker” (Sin After Sin, 1977) or the equally impressive “Breaking the Law” (British Steel, 1980), which was for many the most popular of the band’s career. And not to forget, some of the later hits like “Judas Rising (Angel of Retribution, 2005) or “Dawn of Creation/Prophecy” (Nostradamus, 2008) will be included. This time Judas Priest will be accompanied by the famous German band Blind Guardian, which has basically maintained the same formation since it was created in the 80s. It’s only missing the drummer Tomen Stauch, who left the band in 2005 and was replaced by Frederik Ehmke, who is now firmly a part of the group. Blind Guardian is known for being a group that combines fast melodic rhythms, sometimes accompanied by acoustic guitar or even bagpipes. Many of their songs are inspired...
Mónica Boixeda
The Bamboozle Festival, during three days, will delight the devoted congregated audience at the Covention Hall of Asbury Park, New Jersey with relentless sessions of music of all kinds and hard rock classics as protagonists. Interpreters from the likes of Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters and Blink-182 will be performing. The event starts on Friday May 18 at 5 pm and will last all weekend. Since 2003 the Bamboozle Festival has been held in New Jersey, close to New York and with good access by road to the City of Skyscrapers. The event has its peculiar characteristics with supporters and a massive party after the concert ¡which is held on the beach. Tickets may be purchased online and, as I suppose you´ll want more info , then here is the link of the organizers, so you do not have to search Google: http://2012.thebamboozle.com/. Remember that the concerts are held indoors in the Convention Hall, located in Asbury Park New Jersey right next to the Paramount Theatre which is connected by a gallery. Both constructions references strong late Art Deco and are clear examples of the eclectic aesthetic (between baroque and industrial) that characterizes this little corner of the world. Well right around the corner, on May 18, I think I have mentioned it before , you will have Bon Jovi with Foo Fighters and Blink-182 on stage. Of the twelve albums of this classic hard rock band Bon Jovi little we can provide that has not already been said ad nauseum. We assume that since they are playing a concert in their hometown (New Jersey) with nearly thirty years on...
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