Memory Cassette – Asleep At A Party/Last One Awake Memory Cassette‘s Call & Response EP is an experiment of sorts, a misty daydream where half-remembered harmonies converse with their newfangled neighbours. Here is the nostalgic new video for a brace of tracks. After the jump Mr MC tells us about cookies, cherry trees and country [...]
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In which a lot of black and white photographs take a sweet and occasionally colourful trip down the coast.
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Fergus & Geronimo are from Denton, Texas, a place with more fuzzy beards and ramshackle rock bands per capita than anywhere else on earth, and yet they still manage to stand out. The duo have a single out soon on the awesome (and inspiring) Transparent. We spoke to the band’s Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly [...]
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HEALTH‘s new album Get Color sounds like iron and ghosts and a thousand stampeding horses. Like it’s made of sheet metal and blowtorchs and heavy machinery. The only thing better than listening to this album is seeing the band play it live. On Wednesday 26/08 HEALTH will play a very special show at a secret [...]
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It’s HEALTH day! First a competition, now an exclusive remix of Die Slow from Black Moth Super Rainbow boss, Tobacco. After the jump, Jupiter from the band talks about R Kelly, astrological data and his penis. HEALTH – Die Slow (Tobacco Remix) [mp3]
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For this week’s Dollars To Pounds I spoke to the amazing Trailer Trash Tracys. Their debut single Candy Girl is out soon on No Pain In Pop. Head down to the Lexington on 11/09 for what’s shaping up to be an epic launch party.
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What happens if you feed Terror Danjah after midnight? This. Zumpi Huntah ripped apart with impish glee. You can buy this amazing VIP on Monday, Industry Standard 4, a preview of Mu‘s awesome Danjah instrumental retrospective, Gremlinz. Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter V.I.P. (Stream only)
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Becoming Real‘s mutant hypersoul is the kind of amazingness we’d expect from Blank Dogs had he grown up on a strict diet of Dilla and dubstep. It’s weird, sexy, post-Joker purple pop that’s two parts awesome to one part terrifying. Now he’s covered one of our favourite songs and written another about the best movie [...]
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Chicago’s White Car play spooky soul music that is more bloodshot than blue-eyed. It’s soul music as seance. Morose, mechanized and macabre, these are loveless ballads for guilty ghouls. White Car – A Path [mp3]
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