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Things Fall Apart A Grave With No Name - Underpass [directed by Anupa Madawela] In which a lonely piano crumbles away. This is a good year for stop motion. Posted by: Scott 31/03/09 No Pain No Gain If you were to plunge elbow-deep into our brain and collect all your finest finds onto an album it would sound a lot like the new No Pain In Pop compilation. From the ecstatic crash and hiss of Gentle Friendly and Ponytail to the hazy whispers of Banjo Or Freakout and A Grave With No Name, this is a perfect primer on current awesomeness. Listen to the wonderfully woozy entry from Trailer Trash Tracys here, then head over to No Pain In Pop and reserve yourself a copy of their finest hour. Trailer Trash Tracys - Strangling Good Guys (demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 27/03/09 Comeback Kids Like Randy the Ram our pals at Greco-Roman have ridiculous hair and are way past their prime. But they still throw awesome parties. They've found a new party space in Dalston and this Saturday (ie TOMORROW) sees the first of a series of epic East London blowouts. Guests include Trevor Jackson, Wild Geese and Drums Of Death. Full details after the jump. [Continues...] Posted by: Scott 27/03/09 321 : CFCF CFCF always has cool videos that recycle strange and awesome movies in the same way his music revises and rejuvenates the Balearic sounds of summers past. You can watch his latest Tommy Boy-directed and Tommy Courtenay-starring opus over at our NME blog. Here CFCF (AKA Mike Silver) tells us about great films, Bryan Ferry and Fozzy Bear. [Continues...] CFCF - You Hear Colours [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 26/03/09 321 : Teeth!!! Over on our NME blog we compare Teeth!!! to a cheeseburger because they are awesome, satisfying and probably not that good for you. Here Simon from the band tells us about fungus, sneezing and "a bowl of dicks." [Continues...] Teeth!!! - If I Ever [mp3] Teeth!!! - Detox Wigga [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/03/09 Brighton Rock Thanks to John Waters and The Wire, Baltimore lives in people's minds as a seething pit of gleeful perversion and municipal degradation, and somehow the music made there meets those bizarre expectations. The last time we went to Brighton it was not like Baltimore. It was nice. Like London, but smaller and cleaner and with a beach. Cold Pumas are from Brighton, but their raging kraut funk lashes like a loose Ponytail, channeling childhood into dreamy raw-riffed jams. Maybe Brighton has changed. Cold Pumas - Jela [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/03/09 Back To Black The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea In which the macabre mob return with a motorik neu sound. Posted by: Scott 19/03/09 321 : New Villager We wouldn't be doing our job as a music blog if we didn't mention this year's SXSW and how we are not there. We are in the internet, not Texas. NewVillager are there though, spreading their joyous, psychedelic chant-pop throughout Austin's dusty, booze-stained streets. Read about them at our NME blog, and after the jump they answer our three little questions. [Continues...] NewVillager - Rich Doors [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 18/03/09 Sunken Treasure [from Calamari Wrestler] If you've ever wanted to hear Elvis crooning about clams, Stephen Malkmus singing about oysters or Ghostface rapping about octopus, then this is the mixtape for you. Our friend Fume Avanti has put together a crazy collection of songs about molluscs of every kind. It covers almost a hundred years of incredible invertebrate music and it might be the most awesome thing ever. Tracklisting after the jump. [Continues...] VA (Mixed by Fume Avanti) - Never Mind The Molluscs... [91.9kb - mp3] Posted by: Scott 17/03/09 A Glass That Ran Detachments - The Flowers That Fell In which a lyrical reference Algernon Charles Swinburne and a visual reference to Wilfred Owen dissolve into sombre, literate death rock. Posted by: Scott 12/03/09 New Romantics [Photo: Elsiha Smith-Leverock] In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan, from Milan to Yucatan, every woman, every man is watching the new Golden Silvers video and laughing because it rules. The dapper London trio's spiffy new single reboots the loquacious UK funk of Squeeze and the Blockheads, and gets a deranged remix from Micachu and Raisa (of The Shapes) under their new M.A.T.H.E.S. guise. Das ist gut! C'est fantastique! Golden Silvers - True Romance (True No. 9 Blues) [mp3] Golden Silvers - True Romance (True No. 9 Blues) (M.A.T.H.E.S. Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 11/03/09 321 : Hype Williams London duo Hype Williams have a song called White Mike, which is, in part, a tribute to the lunkheaded drug dealer from The Wire. "Our 'chemist' at the time had the same name," explains the band's Roy Nnawuchi. "Between waiting for his calls and watching that show, the name seemed to come up a lot." You can hear more from Hype Williams at our NME blog, and after the jump, the polluted and lascivious duo answer our three little questions. [Continues...] Hype Williams - Karen Hates The Forest [mp3] Hype Williams - White Mike [mp3] Hype Williams - Ween-Induced Paranoia [mp3] Posted by: Scott 10/03/09 Fitter Happier Simian Mobile Disco - 10000 Horses Can't Be Wrong In which SMD, Bok Bok and Kate Moross attempt to finish off any epileptics they missed last time. Posted by: Scott 09/03/09 This Side Of Paradise (photo by Emanuele Rosso) "In 1256, Bologna promulgated the Legge del Paradiso or Paradise Law, which abolished feudal serfdom and freed the slaves." We don't know what promulgated means, but the Legge del Paradiso sounds awesome. 753 years later, His Clancyness recorded his new Hissometer cassette in Bologna. His twinkling dream pop sounds like it is governed by paradisal laws. Perhaps he knows what promulgation is. His Clancyness - Scared Haze [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 06/03/09 Boys On Film Rogues - Not So Pretty In which a nude demon baby (a doll on a wire) leads us back to the 1980s. Posted by: Scott 05/03/09 321 : Your Twenties (photo by Owen Richards) We've been under Your Twenties spell since last year, when Cau ght Wheel soundtracked our misspent summer. Recently, the awesome Transparent blog unveiled some amazing new demos from the band, which led us to tracking down frontman, Gabriel Stebbing. He took time out from the Metronomy tour to speak to us about their bittersweet paean to Annie from Elastica (over at our NME blog) and to answer our three questions. In a neat twist of fate, we've just received an oven-fresh remix of Caught Wheel from the mighty Gold Panda. Enjoy. [Continues...] Your Twenties - Annie (demo) [mp3] Your Twenties - Caught Wheel (Gold Panda remix) [mp3] Your Twenties - Sugar The Pill (demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 03/03/09