Our dudes Male Bonding recently signed to Sub Pop. To celebrate this merging of the awesome and the epic there’s a huge party next Saturday (08/08/09). The line-up reads like a list titled Rad Bands Who Like To Rage… Male Bonding! Fair Ohs! Teen Sheikhs! Pens! Mazes! Rad Guillotine! Wait, who is that last one? [...]
11.08.09.
For this week’s Dollars To Pounds I spoke to the new kings of Mancunia, Delphic. Head over to FADER to grab the epic Parallels remix of new single This Momentary.
01.08.09.
If you’ve been lucky enough to hear The xx‘s bewitching debut album or the killer mix they made for Fact then you’ll know they are a band who understand what Debussy meant about music being the space between the notes. But here is Micachu to ruin all that. Her mischievous mixup bulldozes through their elemental [...]
01.08.09.
In which Mr Stairs attends a too-fast Internet Forever house party and drops by The Shakespeare, an awesome pub near the Tower Of Pingle.
01.08.09.
When I was six my family moved, briefly, to St Albans. My Suffolk accent was so thick a teacher forced me to take elocution lessons. Now I talk like this guy. Rob Lee AKA Wax Stag is from St Albans and he makes wordless, wonderful songs like Leith. He told me about his parents, metal [...]
01.08.09.
We’ve been shortlisted for a Dazed Raw Blog Award. Vote for us at Dazed Digital and we might win some jeans.
01.08.09.
I drunkenly agreed to DJ at this awesome party on Wednesday 19/8/09. The Strange Boys, Male Bonding and Deep Shit are playing as well as some real DJs. It will be amazing. You should come.
01.08.09.
I’ve made my first ever mixtape. It’s full of strange music from sweet dudes like HEALTH, Gentle Friendly, Forest Swords and Pens, as well as an exclusive Mount Kimbie remix of current sweethearts, The xx. Also, there is lots of bad mixing. Full tracklisting after the jump. Come and see me DJ/embarrass myself in Hackney [...]
01.08.09.
A Joyful Noise is a 1980 documentary about Sun Ra and an accurate description of these amazing songs from Gentle Friendly‘s forthcoming album. While this crackpot pair don’t share the astral obsessions of Saturn’s son they do possess some of his manic energy, playing like a bagful of bees let loose in a junk shop. [...]
01.08.09.