(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
01.03.09.
In which SMD, Bok Bok and Kate Moross attempt to finish off any epileptics they missed last time.
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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.” [...]
01.03.09.
[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 [...]
01.03.09.
In which a lyrical reference Algernon Charles Swinburne and a visual reference to Wilfred Owen dissolve into sombre, literate death rock.
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[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 [...]
01.03.09.
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 [...]
01.03.09.
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 [...]
01.03.09.
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.” Teeth!!! – If I Ever [mp3] Teeth!!! – Detox Wigga [mp3]
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