United Nations Music Festival 2012

Better than discovering new artists is finding out that each artist comes from a different part of the world. Globalization and internet, I LOVE YOU!
Well, by new artists I mean artists that I only discovered recently.

DENMARK
band: Iceage
capital: Copenhagen
population: 5,671,050
main festivals: Roskilde Festival


AUSTRALIA
bands: Boy & Bear and DZ Deathrays
capital: Canberra
population: 22,819,884
main festivals: Laneway Festival, Big Day Out and Splendour in the Grass



BRAZIL
artist: Cícero
capital: Brasília
population: 192,376,496
main festivals: Planeta Terra, SWU Festival and Rock in Rio.


FRANCE
band: François & the Atlas Mountains and Apes & Horse
capital: Paris
population: 65,821,885
main festivals: Rock en Seine and Les Eurockeennes



ISRAEL
artist: Asaf Avidan & The Mojos
capital: Jerusalem
population: 7,825,600
main festivals: In-D-Negev


FINLAND
band: French Films
capital: Helsinki
population: 5,400,519
main festivals: Provinssirock Festival and Ruisrock Festival


USA
bands: Howler, Friends and Other Lives
capital: Washington
population: 312,946,000
main festivals: Coachella, South by Southwest and Lollapalooza




ICELAND
bands: Of Monsters and Men and GusGus
capital: Reykjavík
population: 318,452
main festivals: Iceland Airwaves



ENGLAND
bands: Citizens, Dog is Dead, Zulu Winter and Dry the River
capital: London
population: 51,446,000
main festivals: Glastonbury, ATP and Reading and Leeds Festivals





MEXICO
artist: Ximena Sariñana
capital: Mexico City
population: 112,322,757
main festivals: Vive Latino and Corona Capital Festival


SPAIN
band: Mujeres
capital: Madrid
population: 46,030,109
main festivals: Benicassim, Primavera Sound and SOS 4.8


NEW ZEALAND
bands: Avalanche City and Unknown Mortal Orchestra
capital: Wellington
population: 4,414,400
main festivals: Laneway Festival and Big Day Out

The interviewers

I've always thought about creating this post, but it never happened. Probably, because I'm too lazy. Anyway, most bands hate interviews and that might be due to the lack of creativity by the people that come up with the questions. It's always "tell us your influences" or " how did you meet?" or "explain the name of your band" or all the 3 combined.

But,people of the world, I know it's hard to believe but good journalists actually exist. And those are the ones I wanna show you!

Nardwar the Human Seviette
This guy doesn't get the credits he deserves. He's by far my favourite interviewer and was an inspiration for me when I was at uni (I graduated in Journalism).
You can read about him on his official website


John Norris
He's best known for his work at MTV US, but, please, don't judge him. He's actually a pretty good reporter and has done an amazing work with a website called Noisevox


Konbini
The idea is simple: fans send their questions, the bands answer them and record the whole interview. The section is called The Auto Interview

Songs I spent the week listening to

tUnE-yArDs : bizness


Deluka : omfg


Young the giant : my body


Foster the people : pumped up kicks


Wild Beasts : albatross

Muses & Divas IX

Lalai Luna

Multitasking woman

Why Lalai?
She's a thousand women in one. A modern and brazilian version of wonderwoman? Maybe. Lalai is a DJ, promoter, responsible for one of the country's coolest parties (CREW) and for bringing great bands to play in São Paulo. You'll see her at the most important parties and festivals of the world (like SXSW where I met her!)

full name: Lalai Luna
occupation: partner of Remix Social Ideas, promoter & DJ. I produce the parties CREW and PostiT in São Paulo and I made a lot of people happy by bringing cool artists to São Paulo.
where do you live: São Paulo
favourite gig: it's a tough one. my top 5 are: Radiohead, NIN, Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters and Patti Smith
best party: plenty.... but, definitely, one of them was Rock'n and All, that I did with Mixhell and Soulwax DJ set.
favourite movie: you realized I don't have a FAVOURITE in anything, right?! A movie I like to watch is 24 hour party people (and now the Foo Fighters documentary, that I'm digesting)
a song: House of Cards (Radiohead), Best of You (FF), Closer (NIN), The Suburbs (Arcade Fire), many more... I guess I'm feeling a bit nostalgic today.
wishlist (max. 3): see aurora borealis, have dinner with Patti Smith and live in Paris for a long stay.
what turns you on: good music, good books and my boyfriend
what turns you off: boring people and pedantry
what have you been listening to: all the GB of new things I discovered at the last SXSW, but also Wasting Light, by Foo Fighters and a bit of folk.
addictions: magazines, trips and music (all together is even better)
next project: We Music 2 (www.wemusic.com.br)
last purchase: a dress to die for from Issa
last time you felt ashamed of something that someone else did: I can't remember (that's good!)
I love and no-one knows: I've been in love with Viva City
who would you like to be best friends with?: Patti Smith
if I could do something else instead of answering this Q&A, what would it be? this exact moment, it would be having dinner in good company.
now I wanna: escape to a place without contact with the world.
final say? All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." Homer Simpson

when musicians become actors and vice-versa

when musicians becomes actors:
adam green, dev hynes (aka lightspeed champion), devendra banhart & har mar superstar.
download the movie at thewrongferrari.com.



when actors become musicians:
Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride as young beastie boys
Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as old beastie boys

Chi-chi-chi le-le-le. Viva Chile!

I just got back from Chile where I had the chance to hang out with the family, enjoy the very first south american edition of Lollapalooza and visit Santiago, Valparaíso and Viña del mar. Curious as I am, I tried to read as many local newspapers and music magazines as possible. By doing that, I found 5 AMAZING artists from Pablo Neruda's home country. Here they are:

Dënver


Astro


Portugal


Javiera Mena


Protistas

twins?

kurt vile:


mark ronson:


I'll be forever thankful to Allen, a salesman from Waterloo Records in Austin, for recommending Kurt´s album Smoke Ring for My Halo. great album! People, go to the nearest record store and buy it. In the meantime, see Fucked Up's Damian interviewing Kurt on Muchmusic blog .