Clearlake – Good Clean Fun (Caribou mix) Brighton! Brighton! Brighton! , yeh we love this town. Here we watch Clearlake’s vocal harmony layered indie tribute to xxjfg favourites Loop transformed into something (almost) friendly loop(ed) guitar space rock out that doesn’t nearly last long enough for our tastes, but you cannot have cake and eat…
Hella – Madonna Approaches R&B Blonde Wreckages What is she approaching them for? Is she dumping Stuart Price already? Who the fuck cares, this is Hella and they are playing in Brighton on December 7th at The Engine Romms and we are going to be there come Hella high water ……………..(ow, stop hitting me). When…
It’s not always underground comic books and music journalism that we read at the 20JFG towers, nah, sometimes we have fun with Edgar Allan Poe, but mind, not the ‘pop’ (or maybe better, goth) stuff, which is real cool, of course, no, we read Edgar Allan Poe’s Essays on Physics, namely, Eureka, included in a…
It’s not always monster guitars and stomping disco beats at 20JFG towers, nah, nah, sometimes I wake up in the morning and each tiny spec of dust floating in the smokey air of my chamber is a little sharp blade cutting the skin and making my soul bleed, oh lord it hurts. Those days which…
(what’s there not to like?) In anticipation to my possible participation in a research project about learning processes in the video-game industry I have decided to take a look at three different eras in the history of this form of entertainment, art, if thou wilt. Let us begin with the dark knight himself, yes, Batman!…
How many good bands with wolf in their name…Wolf Eyes, We Are Wolves, Raised by Wolves…we’re not so hot on Wolf Parade but Dan digs ‘em so they’re cool with us, like. What’s the thing about this beautiful and bloodthirsty animal that makes adopting its name such an attractive proposition for restless souls? Maybe the…
Ok, first, apologies for the dearth of posts this week, it is hard, yeah?? Anyway, there we go. Stuart played this in the last Do. I played it in the 20JFG before that. Stuart played it in Unpop the month before. I even posted it already in this blog ages ago. It’s Caesar’s Column by…
Not that sure about the new Gossip (or Goxxip) single, too indie disco and formulaic for me. And then there’s the awful remix, why does it seem that everything Le Tigre touch these days turns, well, into rubbish? I used to love them, seriously. Anyway, I prefer old school Gossip, well fucked up, like Coachwhips…
Thanks to Scott I’ve got this new computer at home and I can write about music and listen to music and stuff, its belly makes this fun noise which is kind of hypnotic when you stop and listen with some attention, last night after some hours of HUMMMMMHUMMMM I felt like grabbing a kitchen knife…
We have enough noisy bouncy stuff to fill two weeks of 20JFG agony, but let us do a quiet one first, you know, like hush-hush, Autumn has finally arrived and ochre leaves accumulate outside and the wind bites, let us curl up in a foetal position in the little den we have made with our…
A big thank you to Liars Club for letting us play records in London at the weekend and go see The Long Blondes, Zongamin and White Rose Movement who were all great in there own ways. Send us photos if your reading Ricky. Especially enjoyed Midnight Mike bopping away on his own at the side…
Ok fellows, this has to be a fast one, Stu is learning how to land flies (this is true, he’ll explain some other day), I am at work, busy, and going to London in a bit to witness the fitness (Gonzales), the freakness (Jamie Lidell), the glitchness (Jackson and his Computer Band) and the miceness…
Here comes the man, hell yeah, he dee-jayed in Japan and got shot at in Korea, he taught Phil Spector the studio tricks, he made the twangy guitar respectable, he is the reason Gram Parsons didn’t sing in Sweetheart of the Rodeo and the reason Nancy became more than the daughter oh the voice, he…