I can’t believe it! it’s our blogrthday and my manager hasn’t given me a day off to celebrate properly, write a fan letter to the Bavarian Illuminati (yep, did you think it was a coincidence that all those bands came from Germany? nah, it’s all a big conspiracy, half of them are aliens!) and the…
Fly Pan Am – Pas a Pas Step Until Did anyone mention the Boredoms ? I’m sure the canadian people were listening and here is the result: Pas a Pas Step Until is a joyous riot of noise, kerrazy rhythm and tribal chanting, krautrock that left Germany and travelled East in a blitzkrieg of peace…
Yeh today I was going to post Death in Vegas, but I changed my mind. The new album “Satan’s Cock” or whatever is a reviewer’s wet dream in terms of the references to classic music and all that, but although it talks the talk, has all the right sounds (and some good tunes) it’s just…
Your all winners! all of you losers! A big thanks to everyone who contributed. So after long thought and deliberation, we decided to give the Suicide week prize to a newer band. We had loads of entries and obviously realize the value of Spacemen 3, DAF, Relaxed Muscle, Sisters of Mercy and loads of others…
(Smog)- Bloodflow Talking about playlists…last friday we had our second release of 20 Jazz Funk Greats at the Penthouse in Brighton, and it was great. quite busy, the people there seemed to enjoy the noise and the weirdness and the greatness. Matt Djed like a true lord of The Drone and The Riff. I played…
Brakes – I Can’t Stand To Stand Beside You Brakes are: Guitar & Vocals: Eamon (British Sea Power) Guitar: Tom White (Electric Soft Parade) Drums: Alex White (Electric Soft Parade) Bass: Marc Beatty (The Tenderfoot) Indie Shmindy (ok maybe thats a bit evil on British Sea Power) boys sound like they been listening to a…
Villalobos- Dexter (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix) Here the legendary Swordsmen create a post-rock-post-punk doppelganger of Dexter (one of the highlights of Ricardo Villalobos’‘ masterpiece, ‘Alcachofa’), replacing its intrincate click house beats and synthetic melodical progressions with head nodding metronomic drums, neu!-ish guitars and a bass-line straight off Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR (my flatmate Marcos also hears…
Brooks- Roxxy Brooks could be an English version of Ellen Allien or The Soft Pink Truth, his album, ‘Red Tape’, out in Soundslike, is a first class carrier of sophisticated electronica which is romantic yet robotic, sexy, even raunchy (check out ‘Man-Size’), but never devoid of elegance. It sounds futuristic as fuck (the glitch, the…
Brian Eno – Third Uncle Where Brian Eno starts post-punk even before there was punk, we are talking 1974 here. The guitars scratch, the bass is really black and the sparse tinny percussions, ah, the percussions, they are madness, you can see a direct line going from them into the African jungle the Talking Heads…
VVV- Red Lights Down Suicideness scale: -Completely evil/Completely innocent lyrics This is called ‘Red Lights Down’ and apparently was sung by the last survivor of a nuclear holocaust. 5/5 -Monotonous lo fi beats The aforementioned mutant survivor had developed some extra limbs as a consequence of his exposure to radiation, he used them to hold…
Big Black – L Dopa Suicideness scale: -Completely evil/Completely innocent lyrics Remember kids, we are talking about Big Black here. In this particular song the fragmentary lyrics (I got a sickness sweet as a love note, I got a headache like a pillow etc) might refer to drug addiction, mental disorder or suicide. Not nice,…
On this wonderful Wednesdaycide of Suicide Tribute Week Gutterbreakz brings you a Cassette Pets Suicide special. You can enter the competition here. And then… Secret Weapons – Bumps Ryan Noel the guitarist from ARE Weapons just managed to kill himself with heroin which is pretty bad. They were shaping up into an awesome rockin bunch…
Dead Combo – You Don’t Look So Good At first listen this is perfect. But it’s got some cracks. Or maybe it hasn’t, and that’s the problem. Dead Combo sound a bit like black rebel motor cycle club doing Suicide, if you know what I mean. On record it’s a bit clean. There is a…
So this old guy looking half dead stumbles onto the stage with these glasses blind people have, a combat jacket and a beret. My Girlfriend asks me if he should be in a home or something as he starts screaming…. Afterwards we rush to the basement of Sonic Mook to drop acid, throw beer cans…
Rammellzee – Pogo I’m hangover today so I have decided to go for the easy option, which is to write a review for a song by Rammellzee. And why should it be easy to write this review? Because Rammellzee has a story that writes itself. Yeah, the guy is one of the founding fathers of…
Ok, so this should probably be on Lost Bands of The New Wave Era but to hell with all that classification stuff, I want it as my own baby. Units – High Pressure Days I don’t really know enough about Units, but would like to know more(hint – show off your musical knoledge in the…
Add (n) to (x)- The Orgy of Bubastus Bubastus means “Realm of Cats” and is the name of an Egyptian city built as a tribute to the cat-god Bast. We’re cat lovers here, just check the kittenz on the side, so just for its name this song has a place in our blog. We’re synthetiser…
Les Georges Leningrad – Supa Doopa When les georges leningrad released the crazily entertaining album – Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou I soooo much wanted to see them live, but they never came. Boooooooo. Ok, they are about to release a new album Sur les traces de Black Eskimo on alien8 recordings and are touring…
Read an article in wired about how blogs are not really interactive, and the writers never respond to comments. Almost all the blogs I go to, the writers answer questions or respond to comments. We put a set list up, as requested by many readers, and someone complained about the bouncing bear suggesting cats are…