Freak Scene
Banjo Or Freakout in Vasto Banjo Or Freakout! Phil Spector! Laser Owls! Gentle Friendly! Exclusive Ronettes cover and EP track! All at this week’s FADER blog.
01.06.09.
Banjo Or Freakout in Vasto Banjo Or Freakout! Phil Spector! Laser Owls! Gentle Friendly! Exclusive Ronettes cover and EP track! All at this week’s FADER blog.
01.06.09.
Photo by Billy und Hells Dear Internet, recently we have neglected you. Sorry about that. Expect a higher frequency of our bullshit over the coming weeks. Thankfully, this drivel will be backed up by music so good it will make your ears bleed daydreams. At our NME blog you can grab a new track from [...]
01.06.09.
The title of this Memory Cassette song reminded me of an awesome old reality TV show called Shattered which was like Big Brother except people were only kicked out when they fell asleep. It was boring until the fourth day when the remaining contestants started talking to invisible dogs and forgetting how to walk and [...]
01.06.09.
There was a girl who lived in London town, but the scenes and sounds they would only bring her down, and yet she did enjoy that weekend spent dancing to weird disco in the basement of a Dalston chicken shop, but actually that was probably just the ketamine. Golden Silvers – Arrows Of Eros (Rat [...]
01.06.09.
Gold Panda is responsible for my favourite sentences of the year: “I’d like to see a monkey slap that Bare Grill (or whatever his fucking name is) idiot. I’d like to see a monkey slap him off a fucking cliff.” Read more at this week’s Dollars To Pounds on the FADER blog. Here is his [...]
01.06.09.
F KENYA RIP is the work of Highlife, AKA Sleepy Doug Shaw from White Magic. You can read about the awesome genesis of this great song at the NME blog. Sleepy Doug told us the phrase he repeats in F KENYA RIP has “been heard as ‘Les Dames a l’eau’, which though probably spelt wrong [...]
01.06.09.
A Grave With No Name‘s amazing debut EP came out yesterday so I spoke to main dude Alex Shields for my FADER blog. I asked him utterly retarded questions like “what is your favourite happy song” and he answered in good humour. He rules. Here is a great little track I found at Meal Deal [...]
01.06.09.
Mazes are one of our favourite new bands. They write jams. Jams about knives and awesome Grandparents. Read the very sweet story behind Bowie Knives at our NME blog and after the jump main dude Jack Cooper does the 321. Mazes – Bowie Knives [mp3]
01.06.09.
Our pal His Clancyness is bound to cause waves (HA!) with this crisp and wayward cover of So Bored, but hopefully he will avoid a drug-induced on-stage meltdown. Get well soon, Nathan! His Clancyness – So Bored (Wavves cover) [mp3]
01.06.09.
I don’t write many live reviews. Mainly because I’m shit at it. But last night I went to see Jack White’s new megaband The Dead Weather and you can read my ill-considered opinions at the NME blog.
01.06.09.