Monday, May 11, 2009

Modernage

Miami band Modernage has the nerve to name their new EP after they guy who shot Robert Kennedy in 1968. Sirhan Sirhan is filled with danceable indie rock that most likely will turn up as a footnote in a future compendium about the Florida music scene in the '00s. Great bands needs lots of mediocre bands to stand out in the crowd and Modernage is in just in front of the cheap seats yelling and screaming for attention. Nice try. Next.

Modernage: Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Sirhan is a self-released album. Buy it from the band's website.

Tracks:
  1. The Victim
  2. Somewhere
  3. Creatures
  4. 7 9 12
  5. Sirhan Sirhan

MP3: Modernage - Creatures

» myspace.com/modernage

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Live at the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy - May 10, 2009.
Life Along the Borderline: a Tribute to Nico

John Cale: keyboards, piano, guitar
Dustin Boyer: guitar
Joseph Karnes: bass guitar & keyboards
Michael Jerome: percussion
Nick Franglen: electronics
Gianluigi Cavallari: lead violin
Cristina Alberti: second violin
Florinda Ravagnani: viola
Valentina Migliozzi: cello
Stefania Chiari: backing vocals
Eneonora Mota: backing vocals
Viviana Corrieri: backing vocals
Rossella Graziani: backing vocals
Mercury Rev: musical saw, electric violin, keyboards, winds instruments & lead vocals on 7,14
Soap & Skin: piano & lead vocals on 3,9
Mark Linkous: keyboards, guitar, & lead vocals on 4,11
Peter Murphy: lead vocals on 2,8,10
Lisa Gerrard: lead vocals on 5,12
Mark Lanegan: lead vocals on 6,13
  1. Frozen Warnings - John Cale
  2. Mutterlein - Peter Murphy
  3. My Heart is Empty - Soap & Skin *
  4. You Forgot to Answer - Mark Linkous
  5. Falconer - Lisa Gerrard
  6. Roses in the Snow - Mark Lanegan
  7. My Only Child - Mercury Rev and John Cale
  8. Janitor of Lunacy - Peter Murphy
  9. Tananore - Soap & Skin
  10. Abschied - Peter Murphy *
  11. Afraid - Mark Linkous *
  12. No One is There - Lisa Gerrard
  13. Sixty Forty - John Cale
  14. Win a Few - Mark Lanegan
  15. Evening of Light - Mecury Rev *
  16. Facing the Wind - John Cale
  17. All That is My Own
  18. E: (I Keep A) Close Watch - John Cale (solo and barefoot at the piano)

* Cale not on stage

(Thanks: Beppe & Veronica Villa)

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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

Steve Vai

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