We Have Blog. We Have Music. We Have Hangover. We Have Band‘s name is as infectious as the music they make. From London and Manchester this trio wear their disco-rock influences like a flak jacket. Armed with sassy basslines, whipcrack rhythms and a trident of refreshingly diverse vocals they have laid siege to our ears [...]
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Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating In which Alice CC confirms our suspicion that dating her would be 50% awesome 50% terrifying.
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Our primary WGI (What’s Good Indicator) is Songs The Tough Schoolgirls At The Back Of Our Bus Are Blasting Out Of Their Phones. This week it’s Akon & T-Pain, Trim mixtape cuts and Santogold. Yes, when they’re not arguing about whether or not Shaun is a wasteman, our girls are screeching the AAH AH AH [...]
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Remember when Lapdance came out and Pharrell had an awesomely spivvy moustache? He looked like a baby newt with a dirty mind. While he remains disappointingly clean-shaven, Seeing Sounds, the new N.E.R.D. album, sounds like a return to those glory days. First the party hard dumb out of Everyone Nose and now Spazz, an I’m [...]
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Flairs – Better Than Prince In which our hand-drawn hero declares his supremacy over the purple one in disciplines such as dancing, love-making and… um… eating.
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Tristan Wilds AKA Michael from The Wire has been cast as the male lead in the forthcoming remake of Beverly Hills 90210. Come in Gossip Girl, your time is up.
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With a Bunsen burner and a handful of magnesium you can make your very own Ryu fireball. It’s just one of the many awesome things science has given us. Another is romance. In this brand new song, the ever excellent Modernaire distill good loving down to it’s base elements and engineer three minutes of perfect [...]
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Pivot – In The BloodIn which we witness the world’s goriest puppet shark attack, courtesy of Warp Records‘ latest signings.
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This song by Pluxus is named after a type of German projector and you can hear why. It begins like one malfunctioning, sounds spool out of the speakers before a hazy melody is drawn into sharp focus. The Swedish trio’s album Solid State is out on Kompakt next week. Pluxus – Kinoton [mp3] [Buy]
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XX Teens were called Xerox Teens until the photocopier dudes had them change it. Now they just sound dirty. XX Teens – The Way We Were [mp3] [Buy]
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