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RS HOT SPOT – #14
Minilogue Live @ Länghult

Techno-minimal Swedish producers duo (Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson) Minilogue are set to release their brand new studio album Blomma, but in the meantime they’ve decided to be generous. So, until then, we can enjoy this fresh live-improvisation played in Länghult a few months ago. You can download it here, or stream it down below. As they says: When You Feel It, You Own It.

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RS HOT SPOT – #13
Depeche Mode Live On Letterman

You know: the time is coming. So Depeche Mode help us raising the tension and stopped by Late Show with David Letterman last night, joining the show’s Live On Letterman webcast series. They played an epic 46-minute set, which captured the trio enveloped in their own eerie, yet fascinating element. A wonderful preview of their forthcoming album, Delta Machine.

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VILLAGERS
Awayland

From the very first seconds of Awayland, it takes you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. Over the course of 11 varied, subtle, complex and plain gorgeous songs Villagers manage to defy any easy categorization of their influences or peers. You can hear fragments of David Axelrod, Jens Lekman, Robert Wyatt and Rufus Wainwright but you could equally add Paddy McAloon, Paul Simon and Randy Newman to the possible roots of this record. And its creator, Conor O’Brien, who played all the instruments on the album (except strings and french horn), is just as captivating in person. You can be sure that Villagers will be around for the long term.

ARTIST: Villagers
TITLE: Awayland
LABEL: Domino
RELEASE DATE: January 14, 2013
TIME: 63:40 min.
WEB: price – 25.87$

01. My Lighthouse [03:00]
02. Earthly Pleasure [04:10]
03. The Waves [05:01]
04. Judgement Call [03:23]
05. Nothing Arrived [03:46]
06. The Bell [05:09]
07. {Awayland} [02:35]
08. Passing A Message [03:00]
09. Grateful Song [04:25]
10. In A Newfound Land You Are Free [03:31]
11. Rhythm Composer [05:07]

12. Nothing Arrived (live at Attica) [03:34]
13. The Bell (live at Attica) [05:04]
14. My Lighthouse (live at Attica) [02:49]
15. Earthly Pleasure (live at Attica) [04:04]
16. The Waves (live at Attica)[05:02]

Villagers – The Waves

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Shut Up and Play the Hits

More an affectionate eulogy and high-emotion, celebratory wake than a music documentary, this video portrait of the last ever live show by LCD Soundsystem follows singer-songwriter James Murphy as he experiences the dying days of his much-loved band. As previously announced on RS Hot Spots, in April 2011, the electro legends sold out New York’s Madison Square Garden to play what they promise will be their final live show. The four-hour set, featuring Arcade Fire stars as on-stage guests, was a once-in-a-lifetime carnival of punk rock-infused dance and electronica in front of 18,000 fans. Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern imbued the charmingly-shot film with realism and intimacy.
This is the full audio report.

ARTIST: LCD Soundsystem
TITLE: Shut Up and Play the Hits
LABEL: DFA
RELEASE DATE: October 9, 2012
TIME: 2:34:35 min.
WEB: http://lcdsoundsystem.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. (introduction) [02:17]
02. Dance Yrself Clean [10:34]
03. Drunk Girls [04:58]
04. I Can Change [07:02]
05. Time to Get Away [04:11]
06. Get Innocuos [07:19]
07. Daft Punk Is Playing at My House [05:22]
08. Too Much Love [05:51]
09. All My Friends [08:43]
10. Tired [03:28]
11. (break 1) [00:36]
12. (break 2) [03:41]
13. You Can’t Hide (shame on you) [06:26]
14. Sound of Silver [05:28]
15. Out in Space [09:24]
16. Ships Talking [09:50]
17. Freaks Out / Starry Eyes [11:16]
18. Us vs. Them [10:12]
19. North American Scum [06:42]
20. Bye Bye Bayou [06:18]
21. You Wanted a Hit [07:16]
22. Tribulations [05:24]
23. Movement [04:18]
24. Yeah [10:17]
25. Someone Great [08:55]
26. Losing My Edge [09:09]
27. Home [08:26]
28. (break 3) [03:19]
29. All I Want [08:18]
30. Jump Into the Fire [06:35]
31. New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down [13:00]

LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls (live)
LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum (live)

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RS HOT SPOT – #01
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On April 2nd, 2011 LCD Soundsystem played their last show at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Now we have Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentery that showcases this last, incredible set and gives to us a pretty surprising portrait of the band’s leader James Murphy. The film has been directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. Here’s the trailer.

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CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
Stage Whisper

French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg‘s voice is small and unaffected (a stage whisper, indeed), but Beck, her producer-songwriter for 2010′s celebrated IRM, tends toward the opposite extreme. Stage Whisper includes seven studio recordings and 11 live songs and many of the studio tracks come from IRM sessions, an album that The New York Times called “an engrossingly eclectic pop record and a kind of coming-out party: the first time that Ms. Gainsbourg the chanteuse has displayed the charisma of Charlotte Gainsbourg the actress”.

ARTIST: Charlotte Gainsbourg
TITLE: Stage Whisper
LABEL: Elektra
RELEASE DATE: December 13, 2011
TIME: 1:06:04 min.
WEB: http://www.charlottegainsbourg.com/

01. Terrible Angels [03:49]
02. Paradisco [04:27]
03. All the Rain [03:24]
04. White Telephone [03:29]
05. Anna [02:38]
06. Go to Let Go [03:34]
07. Out of Touch [03:48]
08. Memoir [02:57]

01. IRM (live) [02:41]
02. St Yourself On Fire (live) [04:27]
03. Jamais (live) [04:02]
04. Heaven Can Wait (live) [02:22]
05. In the End (live) [02:00]
06. AF607105 (live) [04:53]
07. Just Like A Woman (live) [05:16]
08. The Operation (live) [03:17]
09. The Song That We Sing (live) [03:29]
10. Voyage (live) [03:10]
11. Tricky Pony (live) [02:55]

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Paradisco
Charlotte Gainsbourg – In the End (live)

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SIGUR RÓS
Inní

Inní is the definitive Sigur Rós live experience, comprised of a double live album and a seventy-five minute concert film, capturing Sigur Rós last show before their well-documented “indefinite hiatus” at the end of 2008. Recorded by Sigur Rós in-house studio engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson and shot over two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace, at the close of the world tour around their fifth full length album, Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust. When taken in together, Inní‘s live album and film give us an incredible account of one of the most celebrated and influential rock bands of recent years, showing where they ve come from, where they ve been, and like all things Sigur Rós, where it is they will be going next.

ARTIST: Sigur Rós
TITLE: Inní
LABEL: XL
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2011
TIME: 1:44:04 min.
WEB: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/

01. Svefn-g-Englar [10:13]
02. Glósóli [06:52]
03. Ný Batterí [08:39]
04. Fljótavík [03:38]
05. Við Spilum Endalaust [03:59]
06. Hoppípolla [04:13]
07. Með Blóðnasir [02:22]
08. Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur [04:09]
09. E-Bow [09:09]

01. Sæglópur [07:41]
02. Festival [07:36]
03. Hafsol [08:28]
04. All Alright [05:42]
05. Popplagið [15:24]
06. Lúppulagið [05:59]

Sigur Rós – Ný Batterí (live)
Sigur Rós – Festival (live)

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PEARL JAM
Live On Ten Legs

Kicking off the band’s twentieth anniversary year, Live on Ten Legs features 18 Pearl Jam tracks recorded over the course of the band’s 2003-2010 world tours by recording engineer, John Burton. All tracks have been newly remixed by longtime Pearl Jam engineer Brett Eliason and are remastered. Pearl Jam‘s Live on Ten Legs is a follow up to their platinum 1998 live release, Live on Two Legs, which consisted of performances recorded during the band’s summer 1998 North American tour.

ARTIST: Pearl Jam
TITLE: Live On Ten Legs
LABEL: Monkeywrench
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2011
TIME: 77:24 min.
WEB: http://pearljam.com/

01. Arms Aloft [03:28]
02. World Wide Suicide [03:16]
03. Animal [02:42]
04. Got Some [02:57]
05. State of Love and Trust [03:18]
06. I Am Mine [03:23]
07. Unthought Known [03:56]
08. Rearview Mirror [07:01]
09. The Fixer [03:28]
10. Nothing As It Seems [05:14]
11. In Hiding [04:53]
12. Just Breath [03:53]
13. Jeremy [05:20]
14. Public Image [02:52]
15. Spin the Black Circle [03:05]
16. Porch [07:00]
17. Alive [06:21]
18. Yellow Ledbetter [05:20]

Pearl Jam - The Fixer (live)

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MARLENE KUNTZ & HOWIE B Beautiful

Hail to the ones who still have the will to experiment new musical paths. Marlene Kuntz are one of these: the Italian band, with the producer Gianni Maroccolo, releases a new fantastic jam-opera born from the collaboration with english electronic composer and DJ Howie B. Sessions have been recorded inside the wonderful location known as Teatro Petrella in Longiano, and they have been planned to improve creativity and improvisation: instrument and amplifiers always connected, recorders ready to catch every moment.
And the moment was simply Beautiful.

ARTIST: Marlene Kuntz & Howie B
TITLE: Beautiful
LABEL: Al-Kemi
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2010
TIME: 75:53 min.
WEB: http://www.spaziodigitale2.org/

01. Pow Pow Pow [04:14]
02. Tarantino [02:09]
03. In Your Eyes [04:59]
04. Single Tool [04:28]
05. Fatiche [06:26]
06. White Rabbit (live) [06:27]
07. Suzuki [06:43]
08. What’s My Name? [04:02]
09. Giorgis [08:28]
10. Gorilla [04:32]
11. Flowers [14:19]
12. I Can Play and I Don’t Want Too [09:06]

Marlene Kuntz (feat. Howie B) - In Your Eyes

WEEZER Hurley

Brand new release from Rivers Cuomo and Co., their first one on Epitaph . Produced by Cuomo and Shawn Everett, Hurley is a high-energy rock album that wastes no time with the first single Memories, an impassioned look at nostalgia with fast tempo, buzzing guitar riffs and killer hooky chorus. Fueled by a new-found sense of independence, Hurley finds the band making some of the most powerful and adventuresome music of their storied career. Known for their quirky album artwork, Weezer have done it yet again. The cover features a simple, yet astonishing close-up of actor Jorge Garcia, which fans of the Lost series will no-doubt find as perplexing as it is fascinating.

ARTIST: Weezer
TITLE: Hurley (deluxe edition)
LABEL: Epitaph
RELEASE DATE: September 14, 2010
TIME: 47:27 min.
WEB: http://weezer.com/

01. Memories [03:16]
02. Ruling Me [03:30]
03. Trainwrecks [03:21]
04. Unspoken [03:01]
05. Where’s My Sex [03:28]
06. Run Away [02:55]
07. Hang On [03:33]
08. Smart Girls [03:11]
09. Brave New World [03:57]
10. Time Flies [04:04]

11. All My Friends Are Insects [01:53]
12. Viva La Vida (live) [04:06]
13. I Want to Be Something (acoustic) [02:56]
14. Represent (rocked out mix) [04:13]

Weezer – Memories

MOGWAISpecial Moves

Burning is the first concert film from Glasgow, Scotland’s post-rock stalwarts Mogwai. Culled from footage shot during their April 2009 3-night stint at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Burning was directed by Vincent Moon and Nataniel La Souanec and captures the Mogwai‘s visceral live show in high-contrast black and white. Companion live record Special Moves adds extra songs that were not included in the film.

ARTIST: Mogwai
TITLE: Special Moves
LABEL: Rock Action
RELEASE DATE: August 23, 2010
TIME: 74:41 min.
WEB: http://www.mogwai.co.uk/

01. I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead [06:02]
02. Friend of the Night [05:30]
03. Hunted By A Freak [04:07]
04. Mogwai Fear Satan [11:43]
05. C.O.D.Y. [06:11]
06. You Don’t Know Jesus [05:31]
07. I Know You Are But What Am I? [04:05]
08. I Love You, I’m Going to Blow Up Your School [07:57]
09. 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong [09:06]
10. Like Herod [10:38]
11. Glasgow Mega-Snake [03:51]

Mogwai – New Paths to Helicoin (pt.1)

STONE TEMPLE PILOTSStone Temple Pilots

Atlantic recording group Stone Temple Pilots has announced the upcoming release of their hugely anticipated new album. Stone Temple Pilots (the Grammy Award-winning band’s first all-new collection in close to a decade) has been produced by Stone Temple Pilots and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, My Chemical Romance), and it sees one of rock’s biggest bands continuing to explore their enduring approach to music: melding big rock riffs, classic pop hooks, and the restless experimentalism of glam, punk, and psychedelia.

ARTIST: Stone Temple Pilots
TITLE: Stone Temple Pilots
LABEL: Atlantic
RELEASE DATE: May 25, 2010
TIME: 54:19 min.
WEB: http://stonetemplepilots.com/

01. Between the Lines [02:50]
02. Take A Load Off [03:11]
03. Huckleberry Crumble [03:10]
04. Hickory Dichotomy [03:22]
05. Dare If You Dare [04:29]
06. Cinnamon [03:33]
07. Hazy Daze [02:59]
08. Bagman [02:45]
09. Peacoat [03:29]
10. Fast As I Can [03:33]
11. First Kiss On Mars [03:03]
12. Maver [04:53]
13. Samba Nova [03:35]

14. Gasoline (live from chicago) [03:12]
15. Hickory Dichotomy (live from chicago) [02:20]
16. Between the Lines (live from chicago) [02:55]

Stone Temple Pilots – Cinnamon