We thought Phoenix’s expertly curated Tabloid compilation would be our favourite collection of old songs this month, but we hadn’t reckoned with Greg from Acid Girls and his beautiful Magical Musical Box mix. On it he joins the dots between Tones and Tail, Robert Wyatt and the amazing jazz harpist, Dorothy Ashby, while still finding [...]
01.02.09.
Emmy The Great‘s album has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here and is as sweetly acidic as we’d hoped. It’s called First Love, like her new single which is out next week. Read our interview with Emmy at our NME blog. Emmy The Great – We Almost Had A Baby [mp3] [Buy]
01.02.09.
Maybe we’ve fallen through a wormhole and it is actually 2007, but dubstep is really exciting at the moment. You Don’t Know What Love Is sounds like a jeep anthem, Joker looks like a hero and, as our pals at Discodust point out, Skream’s La Roux remix might be the best of the year. Did [...]
01.02.09.
“Probably the UK’s hottest music blog.” Thank you, Sunday Times. We think you’re hot too.
01.02.09.
Dum Dum Girls is the deceptively plural disguise of Dee Dee from LA, who has been thrilling our blog bros with her fuzz-soaked melodies and recent collaboration with fellow DIY enthusiast, Blank Dogs. “It’s a very futuristic way of being in a band,” she told us. “It involves downloading and uploading.” You can hear more [...]
01.02.09.
We know your world is weary and everything is paling away into the murk. We know your cities stand in the grayness like charcoal drawings sketched across the waste, and your children will soon run, frail, dirty and alone, through broken, empty streets, but really dudes, it’s not all that bad. Stop whining. There’s a [...]
01.02.09.
The xx album recording Flickr setIf you’ve heard The xx‘s slowburning, new wave cover of Womack & Womack then you are probably as excited as us about their debut record. Yesterday, the good dudes at Young Turks released photos from the quartet’s album recording along with demos of some their loveliest songs. The LP isn’t [...]
01.02.09.
Holy Fuck, detail of portrait by James MejiaOur mobile phone provider used to have Eple as their customer services hold music so now the merest mention of R******p fills us with rabid, unbridled rage. These days we can only deal with R******p in remixed form, which is where the Holy Fuck dudes come in, cooling [...]
01.02.09.