Keep It Fresh

For a number of reasons:

1)It provided me with a great weekend away.

2)It has some of the hottest women on the planet with the sexiest accent to boot.

3)It has one of the most amazing citys on the planet (Edinburgh)

4)It gave us The Fratellis who are currently releasing three 8″ singles as a build up to their debut album Costello Music which has a release date of Sept. 11th. With a healthy tracklisting I have high hopes for this album. Become a member on their webpage to get plenty of free tracks. If you didn’t catch them at Oxegen they play 1st November @ The Village.

Costello Music
Released 11 September 2006

01. Henrietta
02. Flathead
03. Cuntry Boys And City Girls
04. Whistle For The Choir
05. Chelsea Dagger
06. For The Girl
07. Doginabag
08. Creepin’ Up The Backstairs
09. Vince The Loveable Stoner
10. Everbody Knows You Cried Last Night
11. Baby Fratelli
12. Got Ma Nuts From A Hippy
13. Ole Black ‘n’ Blue Eyes

**Don’t Forget**

First Taste Electric Picnic warm up party @ Crawdaddy tommorow night from 7.pm. Free entry with the usual array of great music, drinks promotions and free stuff.

Get the First Taste Autumn Mix here. Some of our fav tracks compiled by Kieran and shamelessly mixed by me. You might be able to get a hard copy if you ask nicley. Just talk to the First Taste crew!

Commute do ya? Listen to your ipod on the way to work do ya? Looking for some updates are ya? Well I gots two for ya! First up we have the regular Keep It Fresh podcast. Not a bad little one if I do say so myself. Like I said in the podcast I’m off to Scotland next week so there’ll be a lil mix goin up next week. More details during the week. Anywho heres the latest tracklisting:

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
Teddybear Stockholm - Yours To Keep
Professor Murder - Camron’s New Colour
The Immediate - A Ghost In The House
Archie Bronson Outfit - Dead Funny
Cassius - Toop Toop
The Diggs - Everyones Starting Out (CWL Remix)
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

Listen to Keep It Fresh Ep. 3

Next up is a mix from one of my favourite DJs (even if I have yet to see him live). DJ Never Forget has put up a Going To Work Mix over at gorilla vs bear. Do check it!

And thats that. Enjoy. Here’s something for the eyes. Love it!

The ever excellent Aussie popsters, The Grates, hit Irish shores this Thursday 24th in Whelans. With a huge following on their home soil, The Grates have hit the west with a tour covering the UK and USA before returning home for a huge run of shows. This is a one night stop over between playing the V festival and Barfly in Liverpool so see them while you can!

This tantalising two girl, one boy guitar pop trio are a huge breath of fresh air to the uk music scene, a much needed ray of sunshine and a set of songs that recall Ash at their youthful, brilliant best. With incredibly named, attired and vocally blessed front woman Patience Hodgson, The Grates have a star in the making at their helm. With the band’s tremendous energy, their gigs take on the atmosphere of a huge party, with the band’s own enjoyment and sense of fun entirely infectious to one and all.

The Grates, Whelans,Wexford St, Dublin, August 24th

Tickets €15 avail. from Ticketmaster

The Grates - Little People.mp3

Make friends with The Grates.

Sorry for things being a bit quite lately. Work has me on alot of funny hours so haven’t touched the laptop in quite the while. Anywho with this rather quick post I offer you a Protokoll track and the promise of news on The Immediate and The Fratellis plus a new special podcast. Soon…all very soon. Actually as soon as I get home to my own laptop which will be in a few hours. Later space cadets.

Protokoll - Sunken.mp3

It’s been a long time coming but the debut album from Neosupervital is out September 1st in Ireland and available on iTunes from the 7th. A whole heap of gigs are lined up to mark the albums release including a party in the front bar of Whelan’s, Wexford Street, Dublin on Wednesday August 30th. Come and hear some tracks from the album being played nice and loud, mixed with the finest records from the Neosuperrecordbag. Why not come and say hello to DancinVin and Jessie LoveAction too? There’s also rumours of a new band member! Then on the 31st Neosupervital plays Tower Records, Wicklow Street, Dublin on Thursday August 31st at 6pm. A good opportunity to get your hands on a signed copy of the album before its release. Other Irish dates include:

Listen to Neosupervital on MySpace.

You’ll be able to buy the album through Road Records.

So I’m still working on getting my head around all this podcast malarky. I’ve just signed up to jellycast.com which I discoverd through watching Ricky Gervais video cast. So all the podcast from here on in will (hopefully) be hosted on jelly cast. You can sign up for the feed and listen by going here. This week was a special First Taste podcast with myself and Kieran throwing an hour of music and banter your way. Be sure to say hello to us when your down on Wednesday!

Keep It Fresh (First Taste Special 2)

Tracklisting is as follows:

1)The Young Knives - Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
2)Buck 65 - Kennedy Killed the Hat (MSTRKRFT Rock Remix)
3)The Strokes ft. Eddie Vedder & Josh Homme - Mercy, Mercy Me
4)Electric 6 - Infected Girls
5)New Young Pony Club - The Get Go
6)Matt & Kim - YeaYeah
7)Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On Strange Fruit Project - Soul Clap
9)The Klaxons - Gravitys Rainbow (Van She Remix)
10)Kitty and the K - I Am A Motherfucker
11)The Pigeon Detectives - I’m Always Right
12)The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
13)CSS - Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above

*** AUGUST 16TH - THE YOUNG KNIVES RELEASE PARTY ***
http://www.myspace.com/firsttastedublin

Myself and the K man shall be playing freshly squeezed music for the night and we’ll be playing the album around the 10 mark. There’s free stuff if you ask nicely and get down early, drinks promotions, free admission and Antics is on after. Could you ask for much more! Be sure to say hello when you there!

So any blog regulars will know all about Cansei De Ser Sexy.I’ve loved every track thats been touted on the world wide web and I finally got the self titled album (CSS) during the week. Unfortuntatly I’m a little disapointed. Its not that the album’s bad, it’s just not the Alice In Wonderland trip I was expecting. More a Through the Looking Glass affair.

All the standout tracks are here, Lets Make Love and Listen to Death From Above is one of my favourite tracks so far this year, others include Meeting Paris Hilton, Off The Hook and Music Is My Hot Sex. While the rest of the album is good it just seems to melt into filler as you listen through. I do like this album and recommend getting it. This is CSS’s first international album so its understandable that it might be rough around the edges. With 11 tracks coming in at under 35mins do shop around for the best price.

For the record I do love CSS. They bring all the right amounts of music, fashion, sex and pop culture together in one neat little package. And I hear they put on a great live show! This is a nice warm up to what will hopefully be a fantastic second album.

Cansei de Ser Sexy - This Month Day, 10

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