We get to hear and see a lot of weird bands at xxjfg, actively seeking them out for you is part of our job! One of the oddest species we have encountered over the past few years is The Pink Grease. This normally shy and retiring creature can be seen skulking into the second hand…
Here at xxjfg we have on numerous occasions been known to get quite deliriously excited by multilayered abstract electronic music that oddly seems to be mostly made Germans. M83 really confused us by not being German (not even a German grandmother or aunty as far as we are aware). Jeans Team are German (phew not…
1. Don’t do it yourself, build robots to do it for you, they can hammer and grind and drill much faster, and you don’t bang yourself on the thumb or anything nasty. 2. Play them DJ Hell’s track Let No Man Jack to inspire the workers and keep them from revolting. In a weird 3…
Mahjongg RaYDONcoNG 2005, out in Cold Crush- March Kinda like AVALONches – Go! Team but PoSt PunK, some. PouNding SnAcks or SnAkes of Rythm they hit-bite-beat-hard hard hArd and PASSionate gLyTchy cAsio synth Guitars like RAPTure on Opium. Not cut and pAST but kinda you TrickstERS, deconsTRUCTIONists, you! cut and furTHer and hit the DRUM…
Last year saxophones and cowbells were rescued from the dungeons of ‘uncool’, will it be violins this season? Well, Patrick Wolf’s got a bit of that in in his new single, the Libertine. Some other people (sorry, forgot the actual link) bet on flutes on account of Dungen and Caribou. What do you think dear…
On the Left hand Corner- Coachwhips City- Providence, Rhode Island. Gym- Narnack. Weight- 10.99 Pounds Special Moves- The Vaporiser (bone-crushing drum headbutt), the rotorblade (mutilation with a rusty bass), Satanic whirlwind (chaotic keyboard spiral), the geekscream (disorientation through authoritarian nasal yelling) Dirty Trick- Illegal loudness! School- of deranged blues garage rock cranked up to 11,…
So Lula and Sailor jumped in the car and drove away from town faster than the fox after dinner at a survivalists’ camp bin. He lit a cigarrette and said ‘wow Baby, that was close, eh? I thought those mo-fos were gonna get us, can’t believe you ran like that with those heels on, hon,…
Out Hud return after the awesome S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D., and oh Baby, it is a blast, a short odyssey cruising through waters that are cool and hot at the same time, the shy mysterious sister of that party monster !!! shows that she knows her moves too, the glitterball starts turning and yeah, you will never be…
Ha ha ha ha ha!! Love it! When Suicide were on methadone they obviously managed to regress to 17 year olds and record a version of Van Halen’s Jump. No, not really. I’m talking about “No Romantic” ( new one on me ) band Tender Buttons obviously, and although they seriously have recorded Van Halen’s…
Just like normal I was confused. I didn’t know who ripped off who. Plastic Bertrand (real name Roger Jouret) in punk pop international smash hit Ca Plane Pour Moi or unknown nearly formed The Damned but then moved to Belgium (??) Elton Motello (real name Alan Timms Ward) in gay no radio play (cept John…
After yesterday megapost, short quick thingy today. Last night I went to the Bad Place which is the main cheap midweek indie night out in Brighton where ‘DJs’ spin all the boring flat music that corporate ‘rock and roll’ bands make these days. Anyway, I ended up talking with lovely Jack and James Nascent about…
(this communication between members of a North American Security Agency was intercepted by one of our collaborators two weeks ago, we can’t say which agency it was cos then we’d had to kill you. ) The Make Up: A briefing Adressed at XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Past Record(s) Three of the subjects (Ian ‘El Gato’ Svenonius, James Canty…
We are all mutant. Mutants rule the earth. XXJFG mutation means we have to wear Domes to collect energy that escapes from the crown of the mutant head. The dome pushes energy back into the Medula Oblongata for increased mental energy. On all other occasions XXJFG must wear a Pomp to avoid Megula Oblongata depletion,…
I love Wire , it’s probably the band I’ve listened to most last year, I love their elegance when they are dangerous and their frailty when they are pop. I love the fact they make me feel mysterious all the time. Worst thing I’ve ever done in a festival (music-wise) was missing them in Barcelona…
Just like American bloggers see European stuff as exotic and attractive we Europeans have the same mystical attraction to the American rock and roll myth. Just look at the Stones obsessions (best read The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth) from that wide open space that resides by Route 66 next to…
Phoenix have already proved how great middle of the road French rock bands can be. Scenario Rock are French quite astoundingly aor, and they do rocketh!. Shake in some good old fashioned XTC, a pinch of International Pony, and add Mike D’s shouty raping for white punks (on dope). There a kind of Paul’s Boutique…
Sometimes you go thorough your records and think, why the fuck did I buy that? and how much money can I get for it now?, cos I’m never going to listen to it again. I nearly sold C J Bolland – The Prophet t’other day cos it’s a large piece of poo. Then I listened…
If in ‘Losing My Edge’ The LCD Soundsystem spelled out a hipster musical mythology combining wisely respect and irony, in ‘Daft Punk is Playing in My House’ they dissect geeky fandom, with its enthusiasm and a slight hint of creepiness (‘never never let them go’). Of course that is the postmodern part, the music is,…
Castanets- Industry Snow Sebastien Tellier- Zombi Two songs for today, listen to one after the other for an emotional carousel, fast, before I go to play pictionary and watch B movies, one is a velvety dirge by the best band of last year I listened to today, Castanets , murky folk from the swamps and…