It's a tragic crime that Hot Chip had approximately 30 minutes of playing time at Glastonbury 2008. The 7 seven tracks they performed simply wasn't enough. Hot Chip's set has been on a near infinite loop on my iPod for the past few months and listening to it has always...
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My favourite band of 2008 cover one of the stand out artists of 2008. Ambient house music at its best. If only it were two minutes longer though..
Friendly Fires - I'm Good I'm Gone (Org. Lykke Li)
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So, it's coming to the end of 2008 and I'm making a list but it's not for Santa! It's a top albums of 2008 list. It's a bit of head wrecker to pick out five of my favourite albums of 2008 because it's been an excellent year for albums. Especially...
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"and it seems so unnatural to sing your own name"
Fantastic job done by Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip in covering Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa track.
MP3: Peter Gabriel ft Hot Chip - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
[audio:http://www.album.ie/music/Hot-Chip-Peter-Gabriel-Cape-Cod-Kwassa-Kwassa.mp3]
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa was also covered recently by Swedish electro-pop songstress Lykke Li. (It...
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They wreck my head a bit but a lot of folk like 'em, so here is The Ting Ting's set from Galstonbury 2008.
[audio:http://www.album.ie/music/the-ting-tings-glanstonbury-2008-live.mp3]
The track listing:
We Walk
Great DJ
Shut up and let me go
Be the one
We Started Nothing
That's Not My Name
I saw them preform at this years Oxegen and I have to say they put...
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Last December 2007, in the crowd, eagerly awaiting Interpol to appear on stage at the RDS Dublin, support act wander onto the stage, christ, who are these kids, five minutes into their act, mmmmm, ten minutes later, oh yes... hello Friendly Fires. Late 2008 comes the self titled debut album. Whoooo.
What...
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