First Aid Kit - Fireworks

The Swedish pop duo FIRST AID KIT have released a new single "Fireworks" and a new video with approach. The video, which stars sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg at an old glammish disco high school prom. The single is taken from the latest album ”Ruins”, released January 19th.

The duo will kick off a headlining North American tour – their first since 2015 – on January 24th in Oakland, California, see all the dates below.

Enjoy, today’s tune.

Video was made by the production company: Slutet är Nära Director: Mats Udd Producer: Petra Krigström Executive Producer: Alexandros Bakos


The duo performing the single at Skavlan earlier this week.



Upcoming tour dates:

jan 27 Vogue Theatre-BC Vancouver, Canada
jan 28 Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
jan 30 Palace Theatre St Paul, MN
feb 01 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN
feb 02 Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL
feb 03 Saint Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
feb 05 The Danforth Music Hall Toronto, Canada
feb 06 MTELUS Montreal, Canada
feb 07 House of Blues Boston Boston, MA
feb 09 Lincoln Theatre Washington, DC
feb 10 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA
feb 13 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
feb 24 O2 Academy Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom
feb 26 Albert Hall Manchester, United Kingdom
feb 27 Albert Hall Manchester, United Kingdom
mar 01 The Roundhouse London, United Kingdom
mar 02 The Roundhouse London, United Kingdom
mar 05 La Cigale Paris, France
mar 06 AB Main Hall Brussels, Belgium
mar 07 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
mar 08 Columbiahalle Berlin, Germany
mar 10 Grosse Freiheit 36 Hamburg, Germany
mar 11 Vega Copenhagen, Denmark
mar 12 Malmo Live Malmo, Sweden
mar 13 Spektrum Oslo, Norway
mar 15 Lisebergshallen Goteborg, Sweden
mar 16 Stockholm Waterfront Stockholm, Sweden
mar 17 Stockholm Waterfront Stockholm, Sweden 
mar 19 House of Culture Helsinki, Finland
apr 01 Bluesfest Byron Bay Nsw, Australia
apr 03 Enmore Theatre Sydney, Australia
apr 05 The Croxton Thornbury, Australia
apr 06 The Croxton Thornbury, Australia
apr 07 Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne, Australia
apr 14 Coachella Indio, CA
apr 21 Coachella Indio, CA
jun 09 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN
jun 30 Down The Rabbit Hole Ewijk, Netherlands
jul 01 Openair St Gallen St Gallen, Switzerland
jul 05 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark
jul 19 Slottsfjell Tonsberg, Norway
aug 03 Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge, United Kingdom
aug 05 Cherry Hinton Hall Cambridge, United Kingdom

More info @

Official First Aid Kit Web

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Wolf People - Night Witch

A.D. 2016 and England is in flux. This bastard island is divided, shot through with doubt and self-loathing, ruled by the feverish egos of passing power hungry-dilettantes, two-bit aristocrats and smiling psychopaths. Swathes of the country have been sold off, paved over, neon-lit. England is at war with itself and this time the enemy is in the mirror. The people require a new narrative, a new soundtrack. They need to feel the pull of history and navigate a new path through the morass of misinformation.

Emerging from the woodlands, riverbanks and the dales like the grizzled ‘green men’ resistance fighters of the post-Norman invasions, the spirit-raising purveyors of pagan folk psyche prog WOLF PEOPLE return to provide exactly just that.

Ruins is their new album, and its over-riding theme is that of nature reclaiming the land. The transcendence of life over politics, plants over people. It asks: where are we going and what comes next? If culture is history’s narration, then Wolf People are custodians and conduits; electrified sages, if you will. Through them runs a time-line of a nation rising from bloody glory to existentialist confusion. Yet within Ruins, their album proper, lies a spirit of hope too, it is a reminder that society is no match for the mighty power of music and nature working in perfect symbiosis. Wolf People are time travellers, their tools mythology, history, hauntology, big riffs, bigger beats, electricity.

WOLF PEOPLE are:

Jack Sharp (guitar, vocals),
Joe Hollick (guitar),
Dan Davies (bass) and
Tom Watt (drums).

Today's tune "Night Witch" is taken from the latest release "Ruins"



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Portico Quartet - Ruins

 

Portico Quartet are a band from London. Their sound is made partially distinctive by the use of the Hang* (see below), a 21st Century percussion instrument. The group is composed of Jack Wyllie (soprano and tenor saxophone), Duncan Bellamy (drums), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), and Keir Vine (Hang and percussion). Nick Mulvey, former Hang player and percussionist, left in early 2011 to pursue his career as singer-songwriter. He is replaced by Keir Vine.

 After nearly two years of playing mainly small gigs and busking regularly outside the National Theatre in London, they signed to Babel Label in 2007. Their first album, Knee-deep in the North Sea was released on 5 November 2007.

They are now signed to Real World Records. The name portico comes from when one of their gigs was rained off in Italy, and they ended up playing under a portico.

Their third, most recent, eponymously titled album was released on January 30, 2012.

All tracks composed, arranged and performed by Portico Quartet (except 'Steepless' written by Cornelia Dahlgren and Portico Quartet).

Todays tune "Ruins" is taken from Portico Quartet's third, self-titled, album, coming January 2012 on Real World Records.



Download "Ruins" for free here.

(*) Hang means "hand" in the Bernese language, and is pronounced "hung or hong". The Hang was developed in Switzerland. It was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and the study of the diverse collection of instruments from around the world, such as Gongs, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, bells, etc. The instrument is played with the hands. Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note. The hemispheres are hardened by a process known as gas-nitriding. This is a thermal treatment process in which nascient hydrogen atoms diffuse into the steel and form nitride compounds with many of the alloys in the steel.

More info @

Official Portico Quartet Web
Portico Quartet at Real World Web
Hang Wiki

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