You Can Call Me Betty Blog - Bands on tour

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  You Can Call Me Betty goes on holiday this week, and probably next with its author. You can have a fun song this week:Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx - Golddigger...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Kanye West ON TOUR (US/UK)
• The world is not my home, I'm just a-passin' through

  Some artists do genre very well. AC/DC, for instance; Motorhead, these bands are rightly respected for sticking to type. Some artists are innovators, pushing things ahead that no-one had ever heard before.Some people just are what they are, though. If I want to hear blues-metal, I may well turn to...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Back In Black
  • Bouncing Souls ON TOUR (US)
• I Coulda Been Somebody

  Those songs that get stuck in your head, them's cheeky little scamps. Usually it's something you don't want in there, and so it's proved this week. Reverend & The Makers have been getting somewhat overplayed on my radio station of choice recently, and of course it's become ingrained in this...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • John Cooper Clarke ON TOUR (UK)
  • LCD Soundsystem
• we are now fish and chips

  I freely confess, I rarely give the time of day to bands that are popular for whatever reason - what, I don't mean that in an elitist way. I phrased it badly. I mean that, unless there is some very specific reason, I'm just not going to listen to a...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  • Cold War Kids ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Maximo Park
• A Joy

  Back after a Bank Holiday-based break...That Keiran Hebden, he's a wag isn't he? After (at least) three fantastic albums as Four Tet, one's which pushed the boundaries of accessibility to the very limits, he went and spaced out on us. Now, I consider Pause, Rounds and Everything Ecstatic to be...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Four Tet
• D'you know?

  I'm sadly a little unplugged from the zeitgeist these days. I don't get a chance to listen to much/anything on the music blogs I read, and find myself less interested in doing so. It's a little sad in some ways, others not so much. I found that when I was...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • The Twilight Sad
• Thou Shalt Not Quote Me Happy

  Bit of a curveball this week, I had something else all lined up then I was forwarded a link to a certain MySpace and finally got round to checking it out. I'd heard of Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac via such esteemed internet agitators as Music Like Dirt and...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Dan Le Sac
  • Scroobius Pip
• Sorry 'bout the mess

  Low's new album is different. There's no way around this fact. The Great Destroyer was break enough for most Low fans, the burst of sound at the opening of Monkey taking the band's devotees right out of their comfort zone.Certainly we were used to a bit of heavy intensity in...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Low ON TOUR (US/UK)
• Young Shields

  I admit it: I'm a total hog of the office stereo. It's caused fractions before: I'll never forget the bloody aftermath of a particularly heated Jimmy Cliff vs. Cher exchange with one unenlightened individual. I can be remarkably stubborn, and although my populist sensibilities take over if I'm putting an...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Jimmy Cliff
  • The Plastic Constellations
• Turn to face the strange...: podcast #5

  (photo by two years of travelling)...Ch-ch-changes ahoy. As I sit here with a KitKat I wonder how to start. From today, You Can Call Me Betty is going podcast-only, so no longer will I be continuing with posting mp3s etc. I've come to the conclusion that actually I don't really...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Daedelus ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • TV on the Radio ON TOUR (US/UK)
• Cover me. I'm going in...#7

  (Saint Etienne live in 1993, by dexter_mixwith)I could also put this post in a Charity Shoppin' style deal: Hampstead's Oxfam yielded up a goodly number of bargains yesterday. But I'll concentrate on the CD purchase which interested me most (because although Blur's Great Escape and the Commitments soundtrack are lovely...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Break ON TOUR (UK)
  • Happy Mondays
  • Neil Young ON TOUR (US)
• The Rough Guide To Brazilian Electronica: Tejo-Instituto

  (photo by uncleweed)The song Ohhh! isn't nearly as pornographic as it's title suggests. We looked briefly at Instituto before, and this is Rica Amabis and Tejo Damasceno working on their own material this time (as opposed to the previous remix). So let's have a look at this song and see...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Brazil
• Top Whatevers

  Sorry about the couple of days delay: Christmas-related busying I suppose. Anyway, review of the year is to make up for it with a bunch of stuff you don't care about, rambling on for far too long. Enjoy!Song Of The Year(photo be joshc)If I was going to pick a song...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Amy Winehouse ON TOUR (UK)
  • Band Of Horses ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • Bat For Lashes
  • Camera Obscura ON TOUR (UK)
  • Lloyd Cole ON TOUR (US)
  • Low ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • M. Ward
  • Mogwai ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • More ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • Natasha Bedingfield ON TOUR (US)
  • One
  • Panic! At The Disco ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • Rehab ON TOUR (US)
  • Tv
  • Wolf
  • You ON TOUR (UK)
• Remix Me. I'm Going In...#8: Radiohead

  (photo by o.brien)Some of these posts I could probably write with my eyes closed. For example, I knew nothing whatsoever about Pole, and very little about Battles, but Radiohead were - like so many others - my first love. Sure, I'd heard music before, I'd even enjoyed it, but it...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Radiohead ON TOUR (US)
  • Sigur Ros ON TOUR (US/UK)