TV On The Radio, Mint Chicks and Entrance
Funk soul brothers TV On The Radio head up John Kennedy's latest future music showcase, supported by tetrazine punks Mint Chicks and swamp bluesman Entrance. Check out the very best in new music right here.
Hit the links below to get to the full setlists.
TV On The Radio 'X-posure Live' [Dial-Up] [Broadband]
With Liars and Yeah Yeah Yeahs producer David Sitek amongst their ranks, Brooklyn's TV On The Radio are like nothing you've seen, or heard, before. Part spiritual dub collective, part furious party funketeers, part gospel tinged soulmen - even in this age of mass appropriation and genre bending this is something special. From the measured fury of opener 'Young Liars' to the gentle lament of 'Wear You Out' to the vocal gymnastics of 'Poppy's stunning finale, Tunde Adebimpe's voice doesn't falter once, effortlessly reaching across the guitar melees, barrages of horns and soaring samples, ably assisted by impressivley-afro'd guitarist and falsetto harmoniser Kyp Malone.
Conscripting everything from crackling beatbox to collosal dub into their appeal to, and assault on, the senses and with their debut album 'Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes', out now, TV On The Radio will soon be all over both.
Mint Chicks 'X-posure Live'
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These New Zealand proto punks brim with the kind of furious, sporadic energy normally only found on an epilepsy ward; stopping, starting and crashing to an abrupt halt like rush hour in hell. With 'Excuses', 'Licking Letters' and 'Blue Team Go' (all clocking in around the two minute mark) it's as if they're actually fighting each other. Maybe they are.
Elsewhere, with the likes of 'Opium' and 'Fat Gut' - all staccato yelps and chopped up (guitar) lines - there's a touch of The Libertines at their most frenetic. But it's on the awesome 'Anti-Tiger' (like 'Parklife' written from a Bella Vista slum) that Mint Chicks show their true colours.
Entrance 'X-posure Live'
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A life-ravaged bluesman of the old school, Entrance wrings misery and redemption from his upside down Strat like Jimi Hendrix if he'd carried on smoking pot instead of dying from it.
From the semi-gospel, deathbed confession of 'You Gonna Need Somebody When You Come To Die' to the barfly love song that is 'Jenny Jenkins', this is swamp blues straight from the shores of the Mississippi.
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