- Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down
- Katie Herzig – Hologram
- Eastern Conference Champions – The Box
- Lisa Mitchell – Neopolitan Dreams
- Pacific! – Break You Social System
- Goldfrapp – Caravan Girl
- Does It Offend You, Yeah! – Epic Last Song
- Santogold – Lights Out
- Clocks – Old Valve Radio
- Jack Conte - COver of Radiohead and Chopin
- Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
- Deerhunter – Microcastle
- Elf Power – Paralyzed
- STS9 – Beyond Right Now
- CSS – Left Behind
- CSS – Rat Is Dead
- Jim Noir – Ships and Clouds
- Martha Wainwright – Bleeding All Over You
- Jose Gonzalez – Time to Send Someone Away
- Ratatat – Falcon Jab
- Citizen Cope – Appetite (For Lightin’ Dynamite)
- Islands – Two Dogs
- Youth Group – Two Sides
- Dr. Dog – The Rabbit, The Bat, and The Reindeer
- The Oatmeal Conspiracy – Stephen
- Brazilian Girls – All About Us
- M83 – Kim and Jesse
- Magnet – Lonely No More
I have all sorts of interesting information about the band Does It Offend You, Yeah? They’re a British electro-rock band who have often been compared to dance bands such as Daft Punk and Justice, but on the spectrum they’ve been compared to other bands like Muse, Rage against the Machine, and !!! due to their heavy live sound. They’ve even remixed songs for Muse and Bloc Party, as well as other bands.
Now this is where it starts getting pretty interesting… you may ask, what is up with this bands name? Does it Offend you, Yeah? So apparently their name came from the British sitcom, The Office (in case you didn’t know, The Office was FIRST a British show before it ever came to the U.S.). The synth player of the band, Dan Coop, has been quoted explaining that "Everybody thinks the name is some kind of statement but it's a quote from David Brent in an episode of 'The Office'. "When me and James Rushent first started writing music together we decided to put it up on MySpace. We needed a name to put as our profile name so just put what was the first thing that was said on TV, we switched it on and Ricky Gervais said 'Does it offend you, yeah? My drinking?' so we just went with that. No thought went into it whatsoever."
Does It Offend You, Yeah? Is even opening for Nine Inch Nails for their 2008 North American Tour!
I played a Radiohead/Chopin mix made by the artist Jack Conte which I personally think is pretty awesome. Who would have thought to put those two together anyway? Check out Jack Conte's MySpace HERE! for a couple free downloads of his work, plus more information on his music.
“This weeks “Eight O’Clock Double Shot” band is CSS, or Cansei de Ser Sexy which literally translates into "I got tired of being sexy" in Brazilian Portuguese. They actually got that name from a quote by the artists Beyonce who reportedly said she was “tired of being sexy.” Usually my Double Shot band is a band who has released an album the same week of my show, but CSS only released a single, “Left Behind” this Monday, July 14th, and I was so excited about the release of the single that I decided to just use it for the show. The actual album called “Donkey” is to come out July 28th, less than two weeks from now (and maybe I’ll have to use the actual album for my double shot in two weeks... who knows!). The two songs I’m playing for you are both singles from their “Donkey” album. One is called “The Rat Is Dead” and the other is “Left Behind.”
The Brazilian band, comprised of a group of friends, formed in 2003. They essentially gained fame on the Internet, posting their music on different sites such as Trama Virtual, a Spanish site similar to MySpace. Trama Virtual became very interested in CSS and started asking British and Brazilian journalists to see their shows and write-up reports about them. Peter Culshaw, a reporter of the British newspaper The Guardian, predicted that CSS “could be the biggest band ever to come out of South America.” CSS was also featured in some main-stream media such as the Brazilian versions of The Simple Life, Big Brother, and “Computer Heat,” which is the Brazilian version of the computer game The Sims. In 2004 they released two independent EPs. In 2006 they signed with the Trama Virtual label, and then in October of that year they had their first, self-titled album released in Brazil. Also in 2006, CSS signed with Sub Pop Records to release their International debut album, and up to February 2007 they sold 60,000 copies of their album in the U.S. and Europe.
If you fell in love with CSS after hearing them on Eventide, you have the opportunity to see them live at Lollapalooza this summer on August 1st, at 8:00 PM. Also, I have a photo of one of their live performances at the bottom of this post that you can check out if you’re interested. I hope you enjoyed this weeks “Eight O’clock Double Shot!”
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