I Crave The Taste Of Bloooooood!

Well, it's been some time that my blog has seen a new compilation. So I stole a line from good old Jon Spencer and here you go: inspired by books, movies, series, and maybe the one or other hype that's been around lately, this month's mixtape deals with the one fluid that holds the biggest fascination to many a fangy friend. Bite and enjoy!

SIDE A

The Dead Weather - Blue Blood Blues
Eels - Fresh Blood
Clap Your Handy Say Yeah - Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up)
The Beatles - Young Blood
Editors - Blood
Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands
Eight Legs - Blood Sweat Tears
Mando Diao - Motown Blood
Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood
Maximo Park - Nosebleed

SIDE B
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Bad Blood
Band Of Skulls - Blood
The Black Angels - Bloodhounds On My Trail
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Hope Of The States - Blood Meridian
Voxtrot - Blood Red Blood
Foals - Blue Blood
Kleerup / Lykke Li - Until We Bleed

Zaza Interview

Now, let’s be honest. Being an outright music lover or not, most of the time it’s like this, isn’t it? You’re standing there, waiting for one of your favourite bands finally to come out and play and what do you have to bear? Some nondescript band whose name you’ve never even heard before and you probably never will after that evening. Eventually, you end up biding the time they’ll finally get off stage by, if you’re one of the rather polite bunch of people, applauding politely and trying not to look too bored. But gladly, so very glady, there are exceptions. And Zaza is a very prominent one of them. From their first minute on stage in Hamburg I felt that there’s something that drags you into their world of slightly dark, sultry, music and that won’t let you go easily. Borrowing a line from the band they’re currently supporting on their tour, you could say with Zaza there’s no easy way out. The band’s compiled of the highly charismatic couple Jennifer Fraser (bass, vocals) and Danny Taylor (guitar, vocals), two musicians that found each other and nowadays live and work in New York. Their creative output is completed by Dru Prentiss, who finds himself in charge of adding maybe minimalistic, but very intense drums to the spheric guitar, bass and keyboard sounds that will take you on the magical Zaza ride.
As you might have guessed, it’s them opening up for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in Amsterdam that night, so that I find myself talking to the band’s charming front woman Jennifer, who lifts some secrets about her band, which has become, as she says, her child.

Read the interview on www.popzine.de