Critical Beatdown
How To Make New Wave Newer, Part 52. Starring Talking Heads and Dobie. Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (Dobie’s Tab 2 Transient Re-edit) [mp3]
25.09.08.
How To Make New Wave Newer, Part 52. Starring Talking Heads and Dobie. Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (Dobie’s Tab 2 Transient Re-edit) [mp3]
25.09.08.
If it hadn’t been for pizza in a cone, Stricken City would be our favourite discovery of the year. They’re so effortlessly charming and endearingly indie that we want to go to a sixth form common room and spend all afternoon scrawling their name on our bags. Their new single Lost Art is a thing [...]
25.09.08.
Avalon are from Tokyo, but make the kind of whimsical sunstruck disco-pop we’re more used to hearing from the Frenchies and the Scandies. Some of our favourite bloggies tipped them earlier this year and now their debut full length, Labyrinth, has dropped eastside. Our pals at the awesome Escalator Records told us we would love [...]
01.09.08.
Salem – Dirt In which NSFW nakedness and suicide collide, just like our more feverish daydreams. Salem made this eerie clip themselves and you can still buy their Yes, I Smoke Crack EP here, here and here.
01.09.08.
Micachu – Golden Phone (live at Cargo) In which our pal Tom captures Mica and the Shapes at full throttle.
01.09.08.
Tonight, Ponytail play their first London gig at Barden’s Boudoir. We are expecting a psychedelic spazz-out of epic proportions. Drummer Jeremy Hyman recently told us about the band’s plans to follow this year’s wonderful Ice Cream Spiritual LP. JH: “Me and Molly [Siegel, the band's vocalist] listen to a lot of techno and dance music [...]
01.09.08.
Times New Viking – Call And Respond [mp3] [More] Times Neue Roman – To Die [mp3] [More]
01.09.08.
Burial, the formerly enigmatic dubstep producer, may soon join the illustrious ranks of M People, Gomez and Miss Dynamite, by winning the Mercury Music Prize. But even if tonight does not secure him their spoiled spoils, today brings its own reward in this sublime Banjo Or Freakout cover of Archangel. We’ll be speaking to Mr [...]
01.09.08.
Kanye‘s Beijing-inspired VMA appearance was 25% weird, 25% brave, 25% awesome and 25% boring. This song is the same. Kanye West – Love Lockdown [mp3] [Source]
01.09.08.
Free stuff! Our pals at FADER have been churning out awesome tiny records for a while now. The latest super limited FADER/SoCo 7″ features ‘Bama’s Hood Headlinaz and Bmore’s Get Em Mamis. We have a few copies to give away so email us if you’d like one. Winners will be notified tomorrow.
01.09.08.