Tina Dico: Moon To Let

After a busy decade spent alternating her time between London/Copenhagen and touring the world (incl. many gigs with Zero 7 in 2004), Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico has found a life partner in fellow musician Helgi Jonsson whom she first met in 2008 when they each opened for Teitur at a show in Canada.  This year Dico and Jonsson settled down together in Reykjavik, Iceland where Helgi was born and raised and where their son Emil was born last month.

Her fifth studio album "Where Do You Go To Disappear?" drops the first week of September; all of the 12 tracks were recorded in her new home studio in Reykjavik.  The first single "Moon To Let" was released July 16.

Dico has two gigs scheduled in Zurich and Vienna in mid-October in between numerous shows in Germany.

www.tinadico.com/tour/

www.facebook.com/tinadico

Helgi Jonsson:
www.facebook.com/helgistrombone

"Moon To Let" was shot around Nuuk, Greenland by Martin Skovbjerg and Jacob Møller of SaunaCigar; the Copenhagen based team also did "Warrior/Worrier" for Outlandish.

www.saunacigar.com/music.html

NOTE to Dico's Danish fans: a lengthy interview was published in Politiken yesterday.

http://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/ECE1732120/lykken-med-mand-og-barn-udfordrer-den-dickowske-mol/

The Heavy: What Makes A Good Man

 

 

 

'The Glorious Dead' is the third album in five years from UK band The Heavy who are currently touring the U.S.  (two gigs in Canada are scheduled for late September).

www.theheavy.co.uk/gigs

www.facebook.com/theheavy73


Two videos were shot for the new single "What Makes A Good Man".

Two Door Cinema Club: Sleep Alone

Two Door Cinema Club of Bangor, Northern Ireland will be very busy in the coming months with shows in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Their second album 'Beacon' was recorded in Los Angeles; it will be released the first week of September.


www.twodoorcinemaclub.com/gigs

www.facebook.com/twodoorcinemaclub


The video for the first single "Sleep Alone" was directed by Paris based directors' collective AB/CD/CD.

Vacationer: Trip

Singer, bassist, and guitarist Kenny Vasoli has explored various genres and sounds in a multitude of rock combos and continues to do so, most recently in Philadelphia band Vacationer.

The video for the first single "Trip" off the 2011 debut album 'Gone' was uploaded to YouTube a week ago.  It's a great example of how a band/artist can reach out to the world by shooting a relatively low-budget visual companion piece to a great track that might otherwise not get the same degree of exposure due to the sheer volume of music makers offering up their goods in this day and age.


After a Hoboken, New Jersey gig on August 18 with Body Language, Vactioner takes a break before supporting Bombay Bicycle Club for several weeks around the U.S. in October, finishing with one show in Canada.  See link below for details:

www.facebook.com/vacationermusic/app_123966167614127

www.vacationer.tumblr.com/


The 'Trip' official music video was shot in Oahu, Hawaii by Dave Homcy on the very cool old-school-yet-very-21st century Lomography LomoKino analogue cameras.

www.lomography.com/


An excellent live version of the same sunny song was shot in the studios of U. of Minnesota college station Radio K.

Listen to Radio K at 770 AM, 100.7 FM and 104.5 FM, as well as online at www.radiok.org

Rumer: A House Is Not A Home + Sara Smile + Slow + Am I Forgiven

A goosebump inducing, heavenly mix of Karen Carpenter, Dusty Springfield, Eva Cassidy, and Joni Mitchell, Rumer had her full-length debut 'Seasons of My Soul' released on Atlantic Records November 1, 2010; she wrote or co-wrote all except one track.  A second album entitled 'Boys Don't Cry' dropped May 28 of this year; on it she covers 12 (16 on the special edition) of her favorite songs from the 1970s.

Born Sarah Joyce in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1979 to a British mother and a Pakistani father, Rumer began writing songs at age 20. In recent years she has played with Elton John, Jools Holland, and Jamie Callum and in May she performed at the Burt Bacharach/Hal David Library of Congress Gershwin Prize concert at the White House.


http://www.facebook.com/rumerofficial

http://www.rumer.co.uk/updates.htm
  









 

Walk The Moon: Shiver Shiver + Iscariot

Cincinnati, Ohio natives Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, and Eli Maiman formed Walk The Moon in 2008, independently released their debut album 'i want i want' in 2010, and followed up with a self-titled major label debut last month.

The band is playing their hometown tonight as part of their big U.S. summer tour which culminates with a show in Redmond, Washington on August 25.  They kick off their extensive European fall tour on September 19 in Amsterdam.  See below for details:

 www.facebook.com/walkthemoon/app_123966167614127


NOTE on the two videos:

"7in7" is a series of officially unofficial music videos, hand-made by the band without a film crew or a budget. While out on tour, with one camera, Walk The Moon filmed seven videos in seven days. 

Gossip: Move In The Right Direction

Still one of the finest voices around:  Beth Ditto of Gossip.

The trio's fifth studio album 'The Joyful Noise' dropped in late May, and they are busy touring this summer and fall.   Most of the shows are happening in France, Germany and the UK, but a few gigs in the US, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Italy are also lined up.

www.gossipyouth.com/us/tour

www.facebook.com/gossipmusic