[upcoming gigs] Out Jazz

If you enjoy jazz and open spaces, grab your bag, put some drinks into it and go to the gardens and other spots where these events will be held. One of the most relaxing musical events occuring in Lisbon, enjoy burning time this weekend and other days of your summer with Out Jazz.
Information in portuguese:
"O Out Jazz chega à sua quarta edição mostrando que veio para ficar. Durante cinco meses o jazz vai ocupar cinco jardins de Lisboa, num ambiente de plena harmonia entre a natureza e as notas musicais. Todos os domingos, de Maio a Setembro, das 17h ao anoitecer, grupos de jazz e um dj vão animar os transeuntes."

Visit the official website right here.

[gig reviews] No Age live at Galeria Zé dos Bois, 27th May 2010

In 2008 I couldn't attend No Age's gig at the same place, Galeria Zé dos Bois. This time I proudly bought a ticket to this band's show. I can assure you they're really good live.
The setlist was cool, ranging from tunes of Weirdo Rippers, Nouns and their most recent EP.
I even got the chance to crowdsurf! Also, Randy gave to me and to my friends his guitar and we started playing it like crazy, while he was jamming with the pedals simultaneously: awesome.
Here are some videos so that you can see how good it was:

Eraser, live



Me and my friends playing with Randal's guitar, live



Everybody's Down, live

Don't Panic - a new portuguese ads compilation?

Don't Panic has arrived since last month [March] here in Portugal. I find it really awesome. It keeps people up to date about gigs and other similar events. They update the pack once a week. It also comes with a rad poster. I currently have 3!
Check out the portuguese website for Don't Panic.

[upcoming bands] A Way to Disappear

Formed up in 2009, this band has 6 members: Ricardo Gonçalves on vocals, Nuno Rodrigues on vocals, Daniel Figueiredo on guitars, João Duque on guitars, Francisco Fontes is the drummer and Alexandre Aparício as the bassist. They all come from Castelo de Branco, in Portugal.
What do they sound like, you ask? They sound like themselves, according to them. According to me, their influences could range from Pearl Jam to Nirvana [mostly grunge influenced bands]. But they also like some other bands, like Metallica, for example.
Their myspace can be accessed by clicking both images or here.

Blog of the Week at Cotonete

Serotonin Sounds was elected "Blog of the Week" by Cotonete, a famous portuguese website that strongly promotes music in many ways.
You can see the "Blog of the Week" section by clicking in this link.
Later, this month, my blog will be on a poll entitled "Golden Blog", that features the blogs elected during the weeks of December.
Once again, thank you Cotonete!...

Telepathe in Portugal pt1

Telepathe visited Portugal some days ago: they arrived here on 18th and went to Milan 21th July (at least I think so). I got to see two shows out of three shows they gave here. The first one I saw was in Lisbon (18th July) and the other one was in Coimbra (20th July). I'm editing some video series of these shows. Currently, there's only on youtube the gig they gave in Lisbon, at Galeria ZDB. You can watch pt1, pt2, pt3 and pt4.
I'll try to edit the Coimbra series of videos as soon as I can though.


I got the opportunity to take a picture with them. They're seriously (and probably) the nicest people I've met in a band.

Feromona's "Bisturi"

Feromona are a portuguese band that it seems rather difficult to label. Their mellow sounds can convert in a second to an eccentric paraphernalia of grunge influenced music. Their lyrics are marvelous, a picture of one's romantic experiences perhaps, adding disillusioned emotions here and there.
"Bisturi" (translated to "Scalpel", in English) depicts the band's typical tunes.

According to my interpretation, this video talks about a teenager's troubles and how one's mistakes can turn into a giant snowball. It's a cliche theme, you know, but it isn't that much of common since it relates a portuguese teen, not Bart Simpson's routine.