We are today in a pretty mood, our hearts are filled with warmth and our heads with glitter and spangles. We do not feel the cold of the great winds screeching in from the seas in our fair land of Brightonia, as the bands and artists that we hold dear are making such great aural…
Listen with attention, I’m going to read now from the holy book of Wack-O and tell you the Truth, how dance was invented by Adam and Eve as they tumbled down Eden’s Garden back 10.000 years ago, the angels observed in awe and imitated them on top of a pin, we don’t know how many…
It’s complicated being me. When I was a wee chap my dad threw me around the swimming pool too much so I ended up becoming a bore and a dullard, I hate unexpected things happening, except on the stereo. What’s with Hella? They went from being the gentleman’s choice for polirhythmic math-rock (say it 10…
Sweet!! There is a network of 20JFG friends who can do no wrong, and we love their warrm guts. They are spread across the world like subversive cells doing their own thing, working in the corners of the system or wholly outside it, where monetary concerns are tangential and fads the fast blur of some…
(We are featuring, for our second instalment of the Dance music post series none other than Professor T.D. Coleman from the University of California at Berkeley talking about Ghetto Tech. I find it hard to express our pride at having such a luminary of cultural studies writing a small review for us. If you don’t…
Yeah, it pains me to think that we are socially wasting away in some lame two-bit indie-disco hovel, sneering at shit like Hadouken! and groaning as the opening bars of ‘Never Be Alone’ are blasted out for what seems like the 2,498,365th time. Geez, instead we could have been super-trooper italo renegades striding from one…
”If I have to play records like (*) to connect to a young crowd, quite frankly the young crowd can go fuck themselves” Some people in Glasgow rule. After leaving all the darkness behind, one of the 20JFGees is going to concentrate, during the next few days, on the noble art of dancing. Hold on,…
Joakim is a part of Tigersushi and therefore a god amongst men. So it was a delight to hear the new LP ‘Monsters & Silly Songs’, due in January, and to hear loads of nice things within its dense layers. Joakim conjures up the atmospherics of Goblin (check out ‘Sleep In Hollow Tree’ over at…
Horror is not Dracula coming to bite your neck that’s sex. Not Zombies coming to devour your flesh that’s revolution. Not a devil sliding up your throat to cuss your mother that’s bad manners. Not a ghost in a shroud staring at you from the other side of the corridor that’s growing up. Horror is…
It’s the UK Music Hall of Fame!!!! God. Come back to the UK for this. Nevermind. As Mike Patton said… I was having some quality time with my dad the other day and he was going on about how if Mozart had been born these days he would have been Max Tundra or Andy Jenkison…
Liliental – Wattwurm Wattwurm is the little krautrock kitten first let out to play in the snow at Christmas. While your uncle and niece laugh and play our little Wattwurm gazes in wonder at the new found land of what looks like solid substance, but on the press of a paw becomes wet and disappears!…
We never told you because we were afraid you’d think we are like those sad types out there who drool over chrome pipes and fake leather seats and think that purchasing ‘the ultimate seduction in compact format’ (Audi A3 BMW Series 1 apparently) will make other drones envious and improve their puny chances in the…
ESG invented drums. No really, it says so in The Bible (page 237, line… er… 21). It wasn’t Neu!, and no it wasn’t Can either, it was ESG. We feel it is our job to educate you on these historical religious events in music and we know you don’t read your Bibles you horrid little…
Kano – it’s a war Kano is perhaps best known for his cutting hedge uk post grime give me the fucking money and I’ll sing over Phil Collins style rn’b, but a little known fact is that at the tender age of -10 our pimp riding uk sell out star made some great disco records,…
Synth cyber dalek humanoids from 2525 AD, Suicide, turn synthesisers into sex crime victims. In a good way of course, but nonetheless they rape them into a yelping ravaged frenzy. Synthesisers were not invented before Suicide practiced in a loft in New York city, if you have heard of synths before this time its a…
Yes, I have been gone a long time and the story of my dissapearance is strange indeed. I will, however, regale you with it should that be agreeable? It is? Excellent… Dark were those first months in the belly of the mighty whale, Seskolath. He who’s stomach is the size of a hot air balloon…
Yes we do. It was only last week that we went to see two robots fucking, in-out hardcore style, yes? After the robots had fucked, the lady robot sauntered off to a dark place to sleep and the gentleman robot stumbled around bumping into things – just like real humans! You don’t believe us? Well…
Those of you who missed Coughs last night in Brighton, well…LOSERS. Gig of the year with Boredoms in Barcelona and Liars at the Hippodrome and Curzon Theatre. Big high five to James Nascent for putting them up. Catch them and send them our love in the following places in the following dates Nov 3-Milton Keynes…
20JFG has a bit of a bad reputation in certain quarters, they say we’re a bunch of bitter nerds and that we hate everything except the odd gem of putrefact noise that sounds like Thom Yorke’s face, or weird stuff we dig just because it’s weird and wacky and gives us hipster cred or whatever…