Last week in Italy we witnessed the most ridiculously relentless electrical storm ever. It was amazing and made everything seem weirdly artificial. Like being inside a plasma lamp on a giant lake surrounded by luminous mountains, except we weren’t inside a lamp, we were on a balcony, a bit drunk. Silk Flowers are like that [...]
01.07.09.
Billionaires by Your Twenties is offically our #1 summer jam. Grab it at the FADER blog. (PS – the FADER blog made more sense when I wrote it last week, before it started raining.)
01.07.09.
Hounds Of Hate and Hype Williams have made an awesomely freaky new mixtape together. It sounds like it was recorded in the Red Room. Read more about it over here. After the jump Hounds Of Hate provides 321 answers that are “total entropy.” SIDE 1 – Hounds Of Hate – II III Eye (ft. Hype [...]
01.07.09.
(Sebastian Thomson AKA Publicist) What if Frank Booth made a disco record? What would that be like? Turns out it would be amazing. Publicist – Momma (ft. Ian Svenonius) [mp3] [Buy]
01.07.09.
Thanks to Vice we have remembered how great Trash Kit are. They are a super-fun, no-fi, no-dick, triple-threat of awesomeness. See them support the amazing Marnie Stern on 23/07 for an epic evening of estro-shredding. Trash Kit – Fame ! ! [mp3] Trash Kit – Cadets [mp3]
01.07.09.
Sexbeat are our dudes. Crocodiles are Sexbeat’s bros. So Crocodiles are our brodudes. On 03/08 you can buy Crocodiles’ new single, the first 7″ on Sexbeat, which contains the surprisingly non-murder-related I Wanna Kill and breezy beach ballad, Here Comes The Sky (pre-order here!). If you are in London on Sunday 12/07, see our brodudes [...]
01.07.09.
It’s freakin’ gnarly, dudes. F.L.Y. (Fast Life Yungstaz) – Party Time (Feat. Band Geakz) [mp3]
01.07.09.
photo: Dan Wilton Stricken City are sweethearts and the stars of this week’s D2P blog at the FADER.
01.07.09.
Hey, aspiring musicians. Sometimes it’s not enough to just be young and hot and have an awesome new wave band. Sometimes you have to go the extra mile and live on an island and rehearse in a Napoleonic fort. That’s why The Mono are better than you. The Mono – Sparkling Furrs [mp3]
01.07.09.