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Alabama Shakes interview: hold on to what you’ve got
In an age when the majority of buzz bands come our way armed with a bucketful of hype, the success of Alabama Shakes has been a breath of fresh, if old fashioned, air. Formed in Athens three years ago, the four piece toured, released an EP and toured some more before catching the world’s attention…
Camden Crawl Dublin interview: Tieranniesaur
As well as featuring a range of international acts, next weekend’s Camden Crawl Dublin will also feature the cream of home grown talent. Once such band are Tieranniesaur, the seven piece who have grown from a home recording into one of the country’s most exciting names in less than a year. State spoke to Annie…
Portugal.The Man – New York
As part of a Jagermeister Music Tour, Alaska’s Portugal. The Man rolled into a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg on a balmy April evening. The hall is ideal, a shallow room with a wide stage, there are huge baubles draped across it and out over the crowd. There’s an upstairs bar, a downstairs bar, balconies each…
Roger Doyle interview… a message to you
Have a quick listen to the voicemail messages on your phone. You probably won’t save those fleeting hellos and routine exchanges and use them as the backbone to a modern composition project a few decades down the line. You probably don’t think like Roger Doyle though, this country’s pioneering electroacoustic composer, regarded as ‘the Godfather…
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird Perform Maxinquaye, London
The ubiquity of the live performance revisiting an entire album in sequence assumes a certain respect and iconic status for the record in question. Without question, Tricky’s Maxinquaye… – originally released in 1995 – deserves this status, its standing as an extraordinary account of sexual tension mired in suffocating textures and menacing melancholy, remaining undimmed
Death Grips – The Money Store
“Scary rhyming man, him scares me. Danger. Drummer man is beast monster too, hard hitting pummel thing, is scary and such. Danger.”…
Of all the thousands of words uttered about Death Grips in the past few months – in blogs, music magazines, radio shows, Twitter feeds, podcasts, the New York Times – this YouTube comment
Skelocrats – Whip Crack Away
If dedication really is what you need if you want to be the best, it’s no wonder that the Popical Island collective have risen to such exalted status in a short space of time. Joining the community of like minded musicians seems akin to becoming part of a cult, rejecting family and friends in the…
Camden Crawl Dublin interview: Dutch Uncles
A quirky quintet with a penchant for atypical time signatures and jerky pop tunes, Dutch Uncles are carving a name for themselves amongst the current wash of Manchester bands. Following the release of their second album, 2011’s Cadenza…, the band started to get more attention, as they toured extensively, mainly in the UK but
Win Marina & The Diamonds’ Electra Heart album
Tomorrow sees the release of the second album from Marina & The Diamonds, the follow up to debut Family Jewels. Electra Heart… finds the singer adding a dash of hi-energy pop to her dramatic song writing and includes the latest single ‘Primadonna’. We have five copies to give away to State readers. Just tell
Frost Festival, Various Venues, Copenhagen
The idea behind Copenhagen’s Frost festival is to have Danish bands play in unusual venues while also including international artists on the bill. The international acts do work as a draw when you see names such as Wilco on the posters around the city, but the smaller local acts and particularly the location-specific gigs themselves…
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Spiritualized, it is often remarked, tend to polarise opinion. Few people just ‘like them’, or ‘think they’re alright’. More usually, they are either eulogised as avatars of transcendental bliss who manage to marry core values rock’n’roll and dirty ass garage blues with flights of orchestral and gospel choir sumptuousness, all done through a psychedelic filter…
State Camden Crawl Dublin show feat The Notas, Yeh Deadlies and No Monster Club
As you can’t help have noticed, the Camden Crawl Dublin is just around the corner and – as well as the main festival – there’s a healthy programme of free fringe events on the Saturday night (12th May). The likes of Tara Masterson Hally, Swords and Simon Bird will all be appearing around town, but…
Camden Crawl Dublin Interview: D/R/U/G/S
No stranger to showcase festivals, Callum Wright’s D/R/U/G/S went some way to making their name with a set at 2010’s In The City festival in his hometown of Manchester, while their appearance at this year’s inaugural Camden Crawl Dublin follows their set at last year’s actually-in-Camden version. Wright is a relatively recent convert to electronic…
Win Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin weekend passes
We’re less than a month away from the inaugural Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin festival, a two day gathering of the best in new music from home abroad, as well as a few established names thrown in for good measure, and spread across the venues of the city.
State is delighted to be a media partner…
