February 2012
25 posts
Video: Mouse on Mars Tour Trailer
Here’s a nice trailer to whet the appetite for Mouse on Mars at Village Underground. The band also received a very nice, gushing review from Pitchfork this morning. Catch that HERE.
New song: Arthur Beatrice - Midland
Here’s another Arthur Beatrice song that emerged today. It’ll be released on their own OAR label in March (a plush 12” follows in April). It sets the scene nicely for the now sold out show next week and we can’t wait to hear some more.
Remix: Summer Camp x St. Etienne
Here’s an early contender for Remix of the year, from St. Etienne who take on Summer Camp (what an amazing pairing). The latter group also just announced their first new songs for years.
LTD. Spector Tickets released
That’s the excellent video for Spector’s new single ‘Chevy Thunder’. Their dates at 100 Club sold out in a day but a handful of tickets have been made available now. Snap them up HERE.
Artwork: Tribes and Sharks
Video: Arthur Beatrice Session
We welcome back Arthur Beatrice and their Open Assembly show next Tuesday. For anybody looking to dig a little further into this band’s soon to flower repetoire, check out this excellent live session…
Arthur Beatrice - Charity
This Week's Gigs
Only two shows this week but two that are raising the temperature already. Here are our gigs of the week:
Loney Dear - Monday - Bush Hall
We are hugely excited to present Loney Dear at Bush Hall - returning after his beautiful set towards the end of last year. This time he brings a full band in tow (for the first time since 2008) and that qualifies this show as doubly-unmissable. There are...
Artwork: Mouse on Mars
EYOE Spotify Mix Feb/March
Here’s a late-week treat for anybody planning to catch up on some new music this weekend - a Spotify guide to the next couple of months of EYOE shows. The mix takes in the new pop aural delights of Charli XCX and Sleigh Bells who play together soon, the heartfelt swoon of Loney Dear (who is with us next Monday!) as well as a tiny highlight from Kindness (pictured).
EYOE FEB/MARCH MIX
Grimes Interview on Pitchfork
Pitchfork just dropped a Best New Music on the excellent new Grimes record Visions. They also caught up with her for a very interesting chat, touching on gender, her use of voice and philosophy! Take a read HERE.
Revere + Toumani Diabaté - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Here’s a wow-inducing premiere fresh from the Field Day blog. Revere playing with Mali legend Toumani Diabaté and covering a modern classic. Watch above and admire the beauty.
Video: Niki and the Dove - The Fox
Here’s another new vid from Niki and the Dove who return to play for us again this week after wow-ing us at the Sebright last week. This is one of our favourite Niki songs so far, so very pleased to see it get the audio-visual treatment.
Stream: Grimes - Visions
The new Grimes record has attracted a healthy new sum of fans to her bizzaro world pop-jams - a very good thing in our books. The album is one of our favourites of the year (make sure to check out late-album highlight ‘Skin’!) and is now streaming for your pleasure at NPR - the album stream website de jour.
STREAM GRIMES - “VISIONS”
This Week's Gigs
Another week and another three shows for us to get ridiculously excited about.
Matthew Bourne - Wednesday - Cafe OTO
The first of which takes us to Cafe OTO and a performance from piano maestro Matthew Bourne. Anyone who has seen him before -in person, or on video - knows to expect the sort of virtuosity you don’t see every day. Highly recommended.
Errors (pictured) - Thursday - XOYO
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Video: Loney Dear - Blues
Here’s a new video for ‘Blues’ by Loney Dear who plays for us next Monday. This is one for the romantics out there ahead of the big day tomorrow.
Loney Dear- I Love You (In With The Arms)
A Friday treat today and a chance to catch up on some classic Loney Dear. Check out this older but beautiful song.
New Song: Outfit - Dashing in Passing
That images above, like the sticker on a VHS heralds the first new music from Outfit since last Autumn’s wonderful ‘Two Islands’. This one is a bit of a sleight of hand - rumbling bass, pitched up vocals and slo-mo hooks - but holds up to the band’s big promise. An EP is coming soon and we are very excited.
Kindness - Gee Up
Here is a hilarious video from Kindness who we just announced to play XOYO in March. Watch right through to the end and join us in calling for a feature-length!
Artwork: New Build
Stream: New Shearwater Record
The excellent Shearwater return soon with a new record ‘Animal Joy’ out on February 14th (of course). Take a listen to the whole thing at the always reliable NPR:
Shearwater - Animal Joy
This Week's Gigs
Two very special gigs this week and a couple more exciting ones onsale to look forward to. Here it is, our run down of the week…
Niki and the Dove - Thursday - Sebright Arms
The Sebright Arms isn’t a large venue and we expect this will be the smallest audience Niki and the Dove will play to for the foreseeable future. The excitement is palpable then, for the opportunity to get up...
Artwork: Upcoming Shows
Errors Podcast for Rock Action
Errors celebrated the release of their excellent new album this week by going in to the studio and hosting the Rock Action podcast. For some great music selections and entertaining hosting by the band follow the link below.
Errors Rock Action Podcast
Fixers - Iron Deer Dream
Overtones of Animal Collective in this new one from Fixers that transports us back to the fug of 2009 synth and harmonies nicely. They support Summer Camp at one of our shows soon.
Rocket Number 9 - Matthew and Toby
We just announced another show from the excellent Rocketnumbernine, this time at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen. We’re happy to use this as an excuse to once again post one of our favourite songs of the past couple of years the brilliant ‘Matthew and Toby’. The duo are hard at work recording at the moment and we can’t wait to hear some more.
January 2012
31 posts
Video: Making of 'White Noise' by Clock Opera
Not long until Clock Opera reveal their first full length and as we approach that date they guide us through the making of what promises to be a very special record with a series of nicely shot, slightly obscure videos. Lovely.
This Week's Gigs
This week sees a continuation of last week’s residencies - with Chilly in Soho and Toy occupying the Shacklewell Arms. For more on those two check out last weeks preview HERE.
Elsewhere we have…
King Creosote + Jon Hopkins (pictured, above) - Thurs - Shepherd’s Bush Empire
These two brought us a couple of our favourite shows last year at Union Chapel and Queen Elizabeth...
Stream: Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Spin kindly has a stream of the new Of Montreal record up on their website alongside some lengthy explanations of the songs, making for a pretty perfect (if slightly nerdy) first listen. We can’t wait to see the evolution of their live show again at KOKO - last time around was crazy.
Head over here to listen to the record.
Matthew Bourne Playlist for EYOE
The ever-excellent Matthew Bourne (playing for us at the end of the month at Cafe OTO) has kindly made us a playlist via the magic of YouTube to shed some light on his influences, likes and more. Take a look below and read comments from Matthew to unravel this fascinating glimpse.
1. Gotye: Somebody That I Used to Know
This was introduced to me by friend and fellow motorcycling companion...
Video: How we wrote... King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
Lovely video to catch up on this morning, as King Creosote and Jon Hopkins go over the processes that brought us their debut album together last year. Following on from their two amazing shows for us last year they also play Shepherd’s Bush Empire for us at the start of next month, a show that is selling quickly.
Toy at the Shacklewell Arms tonight
Last week’s Toy show at the Shacklewell Arms was superb. Packed to bursting already the place exploded when Toy began their set. We’re looking forward to much of the same tonight and again for the next couple of weeks in what is already shaping up to be one of those things you tell people about years down the line. In the words of James Murphy, “I was there”.
Kitty...
Spector - Chevy Thunder
Here’s a brand new video from Spector who leave behind the cool air of East London for the warmer climes of Mexico.
Artwork: New acts for Field Day
New names for Field Day
(via Field Day Blog)
We’re excited today to present a new raft of names for Field Day 2012. Joining the names you already know about as well as recent additions such as Grimes, Mazzy Star, Death Grips and Zomby will be…
Blawan Blood Orange Daniel Avery (Stopmakingme) Django Django Friends Huw Stephens DJ Julia Holter Justin Spear DJ Kindness Korallreven Koreless Liars ...
Casiokids get a 4/5 in Mixmag
Good to see some of the first reviews for Casiokids rolling in well in favour. We’re big fans and can’t wait to see it in action tomorrow evening.
This Week's Gigs
We are well and truly back this week with a full list of gigs to lure you out of January hibernation. Without further ado…
Casiokids - Tuesday - Cargo
Norway’s most fun band hit Cargo on Tuesday and celebrate a new record as well. We remember one particularly raucous support slot with Of Montreal a while back and their cartoon antics never fail to delight.
The Unspeakable Chilly...
Open Assembly Artwork
Lovely stuff for the next Arthur Beatrice Open Assembly show
Artwork: Upcoming Shows
Matthew Bourne - Étude Psychotique (for John Zorn)...
We are huge fans of Matthew Bourne here. He plays Cafe Oto for us soon - and the chance to get up close to this sort of talent is a rare opportunity. Take a look at his skills in the above and let’s hope his finger is OK!
Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for a special Matthew Bourne curated video playlist on this very blog next week!
New Arthur Beatrice/Open Assembly show + Video
These guys have let imagery, video and music speak for itself since the start, and they continue that with this new video below, and a continuation of their curated shows. Exciting stuff…
Arthur Beatrice / Charity - Live Recording. Flesh + Bone 16.12 / Eng. Owen Pratt / Film. Lily Ashley /// http://online-presence.info / http://openassembly.tumblr.com
Errors - Pleasure Palaces
A new Errors video to get the day started. This one is sort of like Web 2.0 psychedelia. Very interesting and very of the moment.
Apple Cart Festival First Names
New Sounds: o F F Love
o F F Love just signed to a subsid of Kompakt and while their music might be a bit of a step away from the techno that label is known for there’s a similar attention to detail - albeit a little more visceral. Check them out below and then come and see them support Chairlift in March.
BE AROUND U single by o F F Love
Clock Opera at Spotify Live (Video)
Clock Opera are one of our favourite live acts at the moment, and they seem to be really hitting a stride. Take a look HERE to see them performing at a Spotify live event, filmed by the Guardian.
Chairlift - Met Before
This one from Chairlift has been on permanent rotation lately and we are excited to welcome them back for a show in March - dancing attire at the ready.
Upcoming Shows
New Artwork: Django Djano and Of Montreal
SBTRKT on Rinse (download)
We loved SBTRKT’s turn on Rinse recently and very much welcome the chance to take another listen. Stream it or download to your hearts content below…
SBTRKT rinse fm 3rd january 2012 by sbtrkt
EYOE FIRESALE
Starting today on Twitter from @eatyourownears on the #eyoefiresale hashtag is a BIG competition. Over the next 10 days we will tweet a pair of tickets to one of our upcoming shows. The first person to retweet that tweet wins! Simple.
Tickets we’ll be giving away include Florence and the Machine, SBTRKT, Field Day, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins, Summercamp and more!
Field Day 2012 Spotify Playlist
(via Field Day Blog)
Here’s a nice reminder of the state of Field Day 2012 so far – with much more to come – as a Spotify playlist. The list features a song from every artist on the bill so far and jumps from Andrew Bird to Rustie and back via Afrocubism. The eclectic mix is always forward-thinking and makes for a pretty harmonious knit. So if you’re at a loose end for listening material...