Audio Flyer alert : It Came From The Sea Soundsystem appearing at b’lo this Saturday with kicking k and nikon driver at the helm playing lots of songs with CAPITAL LETTERS. Last time they played this place the computer friend Daisy (R.I.P. tears, snuffle) blew up. It will be sweaty mayhem and they even play…
Another one that went past us on its day and fuck it’s good!!! This song should be played in any club I attend or I’m gonna start wasting people seen? Caesar’s column is our favourite track by Oneida and one of our favourite tracks ever (actually if anyone has the White Pants mix or the…
Chromatics – Nite (demo version) How did music began? After the quality that is the Chromatics tour CD available from Troubleman Unlimited we were wondering what would come next from the further recordings in Glass Candy’s studio. The answer blew our mind. Traditional song structure and chorus are yet again thrown out the window in…
The Velvets shot drugs (poor Kate Moss) on young rock and roll and dragged its twitching body to a den of white noise. No Wave insects feasted on its corpse and synthetised small rusty iron toothpicks that when aligned in the right configuration turned into siege engines that brought down not their enemies but their…
Judy Nylon – Room Without A View The legend goes that as Brian Eno lay convalescing from an accident, Judy Nylon brought him a record of 18th-century harp music. While listening to it half awake with the volume turned down low, he discovered the magic of the space between sounds, of ambience. Judy went on…
The other day I was hanging out at 20JFG villa while minding my own business when Wakamaru (pictured) came trailing behind me, o, little yellow creature…and so it said with its monotonous voice… -Ahoy Master, have ye realised you haven’t posted a hornpipe barnacle in ye little hull for a full moon, arr? I was…
It rules to have friends who have good taste but sometimes disagree with you and think that x band you like is crap and you thing that y band they like is crap and then you check band y and they’re quite good actually, no surprise cos your friend had good taste to begin with,…
Today we’re taking a break from the writing and leaving it in the hands of, first, a true and tested Fall fan, Mr. Love from SHRAG (who will be playing with Art Brut in the Concorde on Thursday, by the way). An open letter to Mark E Smith: Dear Mr E Smith Please do not…
Neon Blonde – Barbados Nights Why are terrible drum machine toms and congas like sweet sugar to our ears at the moment? When some guy is screaming his lungs out over the top like a Robert Plant wanna be from a hair metal band it gets even better. Is that like two wrongs make a…
Ok, NEU!’s vinyl reissues are being re-released. If you have read this blog for more than a week you’ll be aware that NEU! is one of those bands that makes us feel all warm and weird inside like watching the sun come out with a loved one and birdies chirping around. We have decided to…
A.R.E. Weapons – Who Rules the Wasteland? As chat up lines go ‘I cruise through the wasteland on a collision course covered in the blood of an animal corpse’ probably isn’t an easy line to sing with conviction unless you really are Mad Max, Snake Plissken, Glen Danzig, Tom Waits and Jim Morrison all rolled…
Rolling around on the floor at Detournement in some odd drunken breakdance/air guitar hybrid style move seemed like an appropriate way to spend the weekend. This post is an apology to the three guys three times bigger then me who I tried to start a fight with after one of them trod on my head….
(with Pain and fear) I’m not quiting, I’m just cutting down massively, but I feel it. I used to smoke a lot when writing these pieces, well, no more, no more. The prose was crap, now it’s probably going to go to the dogs. Tell us if it gets real bad and I will light…
Hot R.S. – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Act 1,2 and 3) It seems like only the other day we were talking about concept disco albums like Rinder and Lewis Seven Deadly Sins and Tantra Tarot Suite. Anyone know anymore, let us know in the handy little comments box below. I think this one beats the shit out of…
It’s all about monsters and fantastic creatures today y’all Whenever I ask someone about how does such and such band sound and they reply that it is…’angular’ I go…yucks! It’s been overdone kids, everyone is angular, my dad is angular, euclidian geometrics are angular, fuck it, c’mon, haven’t you read the Hounds of Tindalos? Maybe…
Here’s the facts- I woke up this morning in Stu and Tina’s lounge. They had gone to the beach to have races n pick up stones with holes in them and swim around in white Marks and Spencer undies (well hot). I had consumed a small amount of formerly legal drugs before falling asleep so…
My brother and me used to share a room and when the lights went off he would tell me about all these monsters lurking in the shadows and the wardrobe and under the bed, I would look intently into the murky walls and see the scariest stuff, that stuff you can’t really make out, for…
It had to be Load records! Fucking mentalists! dance label of the year, 20JFG sez so! They released ‘I’ve visited the Islands of Jocks and Jazz’, last album by The Hospitals! They play like werewolves and bite your ass like antrophagous roaches with rusted iron cuirasses! The kids hold their hands and spin in circles…