Bands are like buses.

You wait months for a good one to play live then two come along at once.

Add to the perils of internet shopping buying tickets for concerts on the same night. A likely event if you rush on the heads-up start the excellent www.tourfilter.com gives you with it’s early warning announcement service.

Yes, I have tickets for both The Thievery Corporation and Spiritualized. No, I can’t multiverse to both gigs.

But thanks to the joys of technology you can now witness what hearing both groups playing at once would sound like. An aside to any lawyers, if it offends I’ll remove.

PS What’s with venues stating a curfew time, have we all got ASBOs now?

Last week's winner of "Are You Feeling This" was the Arizona band Calexico. You can check it out here. Check out this week's "Are You Feeling This".  We have three new songs we want you to check out and let us know what you think.  Also vote for your favorite one in our "Are You Feeling This" poll below.  In case you missed the songs, you can listen to them below.  This week we have songs from Milwaukee's Codebreaker, DC's Thievery Corporation, and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals.

Codebreaker - "Fire ft. Kathy Diamond"
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Thievery Corporation - "The Numbers Game ft. Chuck Brown"
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Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - "Fix It"
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The packaging for this CD was absolutely horrible. I'm not sure who thought of this, but I hope this is not a sign of CD packaging to come.

The outside is a piece of corrogated cardboard which forms a sleeve that is layed out portrait, versus the normal landscape CD design. And, it's huge. This packaging will not fit on the shelf with your other CDs.

Extremely loosely placed inside the corrugated sleeve is a mini-poster folded down somewhat into normal liner note size. It's two-sided, and contains lyrics for all the songs on the CD. Nowhere on it is an actual song list with track times or any other information. There is no snug fit to the folded poster, and it falls out every time you pick up the package.

Just as loosely inside the folded poster is the CD itself, which also falls out of both the cardboard and the folded poster upon pickup.

Basically, it's a stack of loose paper with a CD buried somewhere within.

I'm not sure who thought this was a good idea, but I'm hoping it's not the future of CD packaging because it could barely be less functional or practical.

Here's the song "Radio Retaliation" from the album of same name. The photo you see in the video is exactly the layout of the front of the corrugated box/sleeve.

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Thanks to the wonders of Pandora, my station based on Thievery Corporation is my new favorite thing. It's such a mellow sound, which gives a nice balance to my usual up-tempo, pop-loving side. The station is also seeded with Bitter:Sweet, Imogen Heap, Jem, Zero 7, and Massive Attack. Check it out: Ice Lounge. Oh, and get a Pandora account if you don't already have one.

Kritik zu "Radio Retaliation" von Thievery Corporation bei Tonspion

Em «Radio Retaliation», os Thievery Corporation propõem o cruzamento da música electrónica com as sonoridades mais variadas, oriundas da Jamaica, América Latina, África, Ásia e Médio Oriente.

No próximo dia 19 de Outubro passam por Portugal, para um concerto no Coliseu em Lisboa.

www.thieverycorporation.com

R360 show 49 TRACKLISTING

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1. Nightmares on Wax_Hear In Colour

 
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2. Up, Bustle and Out_Instanbul's Secrets featuring Dj Nomad

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3. Thievery Corporation_33 degrees

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4. Fauxliage_Rafe(Pasha Remix)

5. Fishbunny_Crash and Burn_James Bernard Remix

Fishbunny
"Crash and Burn" (mp3)
from "Crash and Burn"
(Three Sixty Records)

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6. Lee Scratch Perry_Having A Party

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"Having a Party" (mp3)
from "Scratch Came, Scratch Saw, Scratch Conquered"
(Megawave)

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7. Bob Marley and the Wailers_Soul Shakedown

Bob Marley & The Wailers
"Soul Shakedown Party" (mp3)
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O novo do Thievery Corporation e mais duas coisinhas boas pra me desculpar pela ausência. Por enquanto vai ser assim, sem muitas novidades, mas sempre trazendo alguma coisa aqui e ali...making up for my reckless behavior. Njoy!

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Album: Radio Retaliation

Rating: ★★★★½ (85 out of 100)

Review: A good trip-hop album seems to have a formula. First, assemble an eclectic mix of vocalists and collaborators to help contribute to the world feel of the album. Second, make sure to revisit most of the contributing genres including acoustic, lounge, acid jazz, house, soul, world, reggae, dub, etc. The D.C.-based duo that is Thievery Corporation release their fifth studio album with "Radio Retaliation", an album that succeeds admirably by following the formula. The first track Sound The Alarm immediately reflects the reggae/dub influence. The other reggae infused song is the title track Radio Retaliation, which is currently available as a free download from Amazon.com. Mandala is an Eastern, Indian-style track that has an almost Lebanese Blonde  feel to it. El Pueblo Unido sounds like it would be completely at-home in Miami on South-Beach sipping a mohito. (The Forgotten People) is one of the more classic trip-hop tracks on the album, reminiscent of Tricky's style of down-tempo. 33 Degree and Sweet Ideas exemplify the lounge spirit of Thievery Corporation's music. If you're a fan of UK house or world down-tempo such as Leftfield, check out Blasting Through The City. La Femme Parallel is one of those French-style coffee house trip-hop joints that invites you to sip some latte and enjoy a cigarillo. The entire album has a really nice flow to it which is often the Achilles heal of down-tempo music when attempting to cross as many musical boundaries as TC has attempted here. The list of collaborators includes Femi Kuti, Seu Jorge, Anushka Shankar, Jana Andevska, Chuck Brown, Sleepy Wonder, LouLou, Notch, Zee, Verny Varela and others. "Radio Retaliation" is a gem amidst a shadowed genre kept alive by artists such as Thievery Corporation, Tricky, Zero 7, Portishead, Leftfield, Radiohead, Massive Attack and others. Check it out!

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Just in case you forgot who ran this city, Eric & Rob dropped a new album yesterday. From the website - 

Thievery Corporation once again raises the bar with their incendiary and eagerly anticipated fifth independent studio album Radio Retaliation. Along with longtime microphone co-conspirators like Sleepy Wonder, Lou Lou, and Notch the outernational DJ and production duo are joined this time by a new cast of musical collaborators including Nigeria's afro-beat heir Femi Kuti, Brazilian star vocalist and guitarist Seu Jorge, Indian sitar virtuoso Anushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska, and Washington DC's own godfather of go-go Chuck Brown. With an uncompromising socio-political agenda and richly layered production touching upon the eclectic sounds of Jamaica, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Radio Retaliation is Thievery Corporation's broadest and most progressive album yet! Available now in fine record stores, iTunes, and on ESL Music's webshop. 

Live set, just to get you in the mood...The true District Creatives, Thievery Corporation.

-kk

Well THIS is quite the week for music! There was SO much stuff, I had to go back for seconds! Here is a good selection of music to choose from!

Echo Jet - "Wave"
I am such a sucker for great pop rock...and this song could have easily been made by Bryan Adams!

Blitzen Trapper - "War On Machines"
Originally released back in 2000, this album sounded pretty good! I downloaded 3 songs off it, but this is my favorite. A little feedback in the middle just to wake you up!

Cold War Kids - "I've Seen Enough"
I like the sound of this band. Kind of like Remy Zero with more spunk. Good alternative rock!

Little Jackie - "The Stoop"
Nice little freebie with a summer feel. Poppy Bee-bop along and doesn't cost you a thing! (At least, for the next 6 days)

Thievery Corporation - "The Shining Path"
This electronica band is one of the genres most popular! This instrumental is a nice addition to their regular style of work, however there are a lot of songs on the disk that range in style from blues to rock. Go check out ""Radio Retaliation" yourself and pick and choose!

Stero MC's - "Black Gold"
Remember the hit song "Connected" from the early 90's? Well, this band really never went away, they just hadn't done anything notable for a long time (in my opinion). Well...now they're back and this song is really catchy. I hope it hits big!

Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Apparently Kanye's been hanging with Lil Wayne because he goes craazy with the voicebox on this one. I still like it!

Kings Of Leon - The entire album of "Only By The Night"
My album of the week! This album just ROCKS! So many to choose from...here are my picks off the album (which I went and bought at Best Buy)..."Sex On Fire", "Crawl" or "Use Somebody"

TV On The Radio - "DLZ"
One of the more interesting alternative bands out there. For some, they might be a little too much. They use such a wide variety of styles and it's never a given where they might go. This song is the poppiest of the bunch and has a Modest Mouse feel to it.

Has anyone heard the new Christina Aguilera single? It's called "Keeps Getting Better" and it doesn't appear to be available off ITunes yet. If you want to hear it...go HERE. For the record, it's an average song from an artist that I usually expect more of. She's got such a fantastic voice, but it sounds like she hired Madonna's producer to over-do the production and she sounds like any old run-of-the-mill pop singer on this track. Here's hoping she hasn't gone and overdubbed everything on her next album!

So there ya go! So much music, so little time. But these are my pick songs of the week!

Elvin Bishop - The Blues Rolls On
Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror
Cameron Carpenter - Revolutionary
Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
The Dirty Heads - Any Port in a Storm
Everlast - Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford
Fourplay - Energy
The Human Value - Push and Pull
Joe - Joe Thomas, New Man
Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
Koufax - Strugglers
Lenka - Lenka
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Demi Lovato - Don't Forget
McCarthy Trenching - Calamity Drenching
Milosh - III
The Morning Light - The Morning Light
The Pink Spiders - Sweat it Out
Plain White T's - Big Bad World
Pussycat Dolls - Doll Domination
The Tony Rich Project - Exist
Randy Rogers Band - Randy Rogers Band
Sing It Loud - Come Around
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation
TV on the Radio - Dear Science

Jenny Lewis's sophomore effort is a disappointment, given the talent involved (Elvis & the Imposters, both halves of She and Him), and how good Rabbit Fur Coat was. I probably spun this one six or seven times on my long road trip up to Quebec and back a couple weeks back. Good driving album, but still a letdown.

Thievery Corporation: Yes!

NEXT: Oasis and Rachel Yamagata.

Oh, Tobacco.  I am really excited about his new album Fucked Up Friends for maaany reasons: 1) Mr. Tobacco himself has done a lot of work with Black Moth Super Rainbow, a band that is particularly mind slaying.  2) He recorded this album in rural Pennsylvania using only analog instruments and a tape machine.  3)  Its sound is very refreshing and far-removed from all of the empty, Justice-y computer generated craziness that is bombarding us these days. 4) It just downright rules.

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Thievery Corporation's latest album Radio Retaliation features the group's long time cast of musicians and collaborators, however this time around they've got some worldly new additions on board.  Nigeria's Femi Kuti throws down some afro-beat loveliness, Brazil's Seu George (remember him in The Life Aquatic?) lends his singing/songwriting abilities, and Indian sitar master Anushka Shankar really shreds.  (I love sitars.)

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[audio http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1767740.mp3]Thievery Corporation - Hare Krsna [MP3]

Lastly, Seattle/Brooklyn/Japan's own PWRFL Power writes lovely little ditties about brushing your teeth and teaching his lady how to use chopsticks.  Pretty adorable, lo-fi acoustic sounds generate from this dude who is also a member of Cop Killahz.  Additionally, he is currently on tour with Grampall Jookabox and will be playing TONIGHT at the Billiken Club with Grampall and Pattern Is Movement.  I'm thrilled.

[audio http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1767743.mp3]PWRFL Power - Alma Song [MP3][Insound]

Primul on de list e Snoop Dogg, care-i cam pe când ar fi trebuit să fie Air, dar n-o să scriu despre el pentru că 1. sunt ofticată că Air nu mai e, şi 2. nu-mi place în mod deosebit de dânsul. :D

Moving on. Thievery Corporation. The Lebanese Blondes vin la românaşi în 15 octombrie [da, ştiu că ştiai, fac o scurtă recapitulare noh!] cu armata de muzicieni după ei, mai exact 13 inşi. La concertul ăsta cred c-o să ajung şi eu, dacă-mi merg bine afacerile :P şi strâng un ban. Doamne ajută. :D Biletele sunt de 60, 85, 110 şi 140 RON, le iei de pe www.myticket.ro, iar toată treaba se-ntâmplă la Sala Palatului.

Post Thievery se întâmplă un DJ Set din gama Blame It On London, mai exact Will White de la Propellerheads. Din câte am auzit, Antipop a rupt, aşa că nu mă aştept la mai puţin nici de data asta. Aşa-i Casandra? :P Nu ştiu încă nimic de bilete, însă chefu' e pe 17 octombrie la Fabrica. Heeeeere's Will:

În 5 noiembrie revineeeee Roisin! Sau i-au plăcut sarmalele, sau s-a distrat la B'estfest, sau i-o fi plăcut de noi ca popor, că nu trece nici juma' de an şi coana Murphy se întoarce, de data asta cap de afiş la Sala Polivalentă. Oare pentru ea am bani? :-S Câţi trebe? 75 RON trebe. Cui îi dai? Lu' www.myticket.ro. Cum să n-o iubeşti?

Nici nu pleacă bine Roisin şi vin alţii care aparent ne-au cam plăcut. Nouvelle Vague adică. Şi nu vin oricum, ci în Fusion Studio Weekend, alături de Koop. Dacă nu eşti sigur cine-s Koop, dă un click aici şi vezi - aproape sigur ştii melodia. The magic happens în weekendul 22-23 noiembrie şi poţi să-ţi iei bilet sau la Nouvelle Vague, sau la Koop, sau la ambele [aici ai preţ special, super-ofertă]. :P În caz că nu te încântă decât una din trupe scoţi din buzunar ca şi la Thievery Corp, sau 60, sau 85, sau 110 sau 140 RON. Dacă mergi însă pe varianta super-ofertă, dai pentru ambele evenimente 100, 150, 190 sau 240 RON. Depinde cât de mult îi iubeşti. Biletele le iei desigur de pe www.myticket.ro şi acţiunea se petrece la fel de desigur la Sala Palatului.

Şi.. fix când crezi că s-a terminat... Hop chestionabil te surprinde cu Tricky şi cu Underworld despre care am scris puţin mai jos. Na. Zi şi tu. Dacă asta nu e supradoză, I don't know what is. Aşteptăm cu nerăbdare luna decembrie. :))

One such band is Thievery Corporation. In addition to being a refreshingly unique group that fuses together a plethora of genres and cultural sounds, they are not afraid to speak their minds. Sure, everyone likes a good mindless "bump 'n' grind" tune from time to time, but you gotta respect the artists who choose to use their music not just as entertainment, but as a way to communicate what they believe and are passionate about (as we've covered in previous posts about artists such as Immortal Technique and Bataka Squad.)

The DJ duo, comprised of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, hails from Washington DC, which "has long been the home of a music subculture legendary for fierce independence, a staunch do-it-yourself work ethic, and conscientious social activism." They definitely practice what they preach. The organic multi-cultural sounds of dub, reggae, lounge, afrobeat and Indian music, to name a few, may catch your attention at first if you hear Thievery's music at a neighborhood cafe or in a European nightclub. But, their uninhibited socio-political messages and passionate desire to open hearts and minds will keep you riveted.

Additionally, their diverse team of collaborators - singing in numerous languages, playing funky instruments, and each adding their own cultural thread to the musical quilt - give the band a truly unique sound. Not to mention their live shows, which can be pretty freakin amazing.

Photo by openeye

Their upcoming album, Radio Retaliation, purportedly takes their politicizing to a new level. According to Rob, "There's no excuse for not speaking out at this point, with the suspension of habeas corpus, outsourced torture, illegal wars of aggression, fuel, food, and economic crises. It's hard to close your eyes and sleep while the world is burning around you. If you are an artist, this is the most essential time to speak up."

If you are on Facebook or iLike you'll be able to stream Thievery Corporation's new album on September 19th, before its official release on September 23rd. This is the first time the two social networking giants have ever worked together to promote an album.

Given that this album is particularly focused on the band's disgust with the current state of American media, their decision to skip the middle man and go straight to their fans via the internet is appropriate, both for them personally and for the industry as a whole. According to Hilton, "We chose iLike as the platform to debut this record because it offers us a direct vehicle to share our music and communicate with fans worldwide, free from editorializing or whitewashing of our messages."

For the fans among you, or those interested in gaining further insight into the artists and their message, keep your eyes out for a series of videos in which they introduce and discuss the album, which will be available exclusively on iLike. In the meantime, check out the title track on their MySpace.

To quote Rob Garza once more, "... if you can get people to question the things around them, just a little, then that's not such a bad thing."

On that note, here's the title track from their 2002 "Richest Man in Babylon" album:

Well it is about time. DCs Worldly duo Thievery Corporation returns with a new album entitled Radio Retaliation (due out September 23rd).  This will be their 5th studio album.  This album will have whole bunch of new collaborators including DC Go Go legend Chuck Brown!!!

"Radio Retaliation is definitely a more overt political statement," says Garza of Thievery Corporation. "There’s no excuse for not speaking out at this point, with the suspension of habeas corpus, outsourced torture, illegal wars of aggression, fuel, food, and economic crises. It’s hard to close your eyes and sleep while the world is burning around you. If you are an artist, this is the most essential time to speak up."

"Apart from a few independent bastions, there is no musical or informational freedom on the US airwaves anymore. They’ve been bought up, consolidated and homogenized. Radio Retaliation is about an exodus of conscious people who are willing to acknowledge something is wrong with the ‘official version’ in news and culture," explains Hilton.

With Radio Retaliation Thievery Corporation raise the bar with a new cast of musical collaborators including; Nigeria’s afro-beat heir Femi Kuti, Brazilian star vocalist and guitarist Seu Jorge, Indian sitar virtuoso Anushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska, and Washington DC’s own go-go originator Chuck Brown. Also returning are long time co-conspirators Sleepy Wonder, LouLou, Notch, Zee, and Verny Varela.

Thievery Corporation - "Sound the Alarm (download via RCRDLBL)
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Since I found myself back at my favorite hot spot in DC, FLY Lounge, I figured I would post some down tempo music that is made right down the street you guys!  Before I get right into the music, I did want to point out that FLY is the tits! It is the bees knees! If you have not been, you NEED to go!  The staff is great.  Everyone from the door man to the bartenders, including my favorites, Lindsay, Mike, Wilmont and Niki (I hope that's how you spell your name) just to name a few!

OK, back to work...  I am going to give you some Thievery Corporation today.  For those who don't know, these guys have their own record label based out of DC.  It is called ESL Music.  ESL stands for Eighteenth Street Lounge, because YES they used to own the club.  They ended up selling it to create the record label.  You can still hear them spinning their every now and then.

OH! One more thing and I will have to thank Lindsay at FLY for this one.  I am making this site iPhone compatible.  I was showing her the site and realized that posting just the player is not great for people using mobile browsing.  I am adding the links so that even the folks with iPhone's can listen in on the music.  Thank you Lindsay!

Marching The Hate Machines Into The Sun

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Lebanese Blonde

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The Mirror Conspiracy

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Revolution Solution (TC remix)

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19 septembrie Air - Parcul Circului

15 octombrie Thievery Corporation - Sala Palatului

5 noiembrie Roisin Murphy (fosta solista MOLOKO)- Sala Palatului

10 noiembrie Jean Michel Jarre - Sala Palatului

22 noiembrie Nouvelle Vague - Sala Palatului

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