We have just gotten a wake-up call from the Nintendo Generation. This is Computer Lab‘s world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. Yes, they are criminals. Their crime is that of curiosity. Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery [...]
01.09.09.
We don’t know if Perfume Genius‘s chick on the side said she got one on the way or if he near cried when he got that phone call, but his brittle, baleful ballads contain countless other confessions. Alone at his piano he sings about sex and death like Sufjan with all the pep punched out [...]
01.09.09.
“Heart racing. Shooting straight up. In bed. 3:30pm. It’s hot. The fan isn’t working, and yesterday, the AC exploded. If you get out of bed you have to get out of bed. To get out of bed you have to get out of bed.” This is the beginning of a mail from Tearist‘s awesome Yasmine [...]
01.09.09.
Some bands are so busy running around dark beaches they only have time to give the briefest of answers to our 321 questions. The Drums are one such band, but like their punchy, uber-rad surf anthem, these answers prove there is no direct correlation between size and potential for awesomeness. The Drums – Let’s Go [...]
01.09.09.
In which HEALTH go boomtime with a slick clip featuring all the things we love like hot models/crowd surfing/multiple Buddhas/formation dancing that looks like slow marching/slim microphones/fringes combined with hoodies/giant vinyl pictures of Japanese women/toll phone lines/and blood, lots of blood. Awesome.
01.09.09.
We would’ve posted this creepy slice of crepuscular Eurotech by Denton‘s Customer based on the title alone. Its awesomeness is just a bonus. Customer – Ghettosex [mp3]
01.09.09.
On Saturday we went to the awesome Offset festival. We can’t remember any of it, but we do know we arrived too late to see Spectrals, a wonderful one-man wall of sound from Leeds. We are idiots, learn from our mistakes and revel in his bombastic surf-psych throughout October when he plays shows with The [...]
01.09.09.
Just when we were starting to worry about the lack of quality oompah music sung by wacky cartoon Euro-munchins, here is Barcelona’s brilliantly named Internet 2 to plug that Godi-shaped gap. Get the album here. Internet 2 – El himno de la biosfera terrestre [mp3]
01.09.09.
As this song roars out of the blocks it’s easy to imagine Not Cool as a band possessed. But as they thunder wonderfully through their 79th awesome rhythmic change it’s clear the beast in these dudes just needs to be exercised, not exorcised. Get their limited-edition single now. Not Cool – Wonderful Beasts [mp3] [Buy]
01.09.09.
Bombay Bicycle Club look like nice, clean indie boys, but they don’t sound like it here. Paul White sucks them into his hall of mirrors and spits out a macabre mob of wild-eyed, doom-stepping stalkers. [Note to all nice, clean indie boys: get Paul White to produce your album.] Bombay Bicycle Club – Magnet (Paul [...]
01.09.09.