Troublewazzawazzalone. We love happy songs about sad stuff, especially when those happy songs allow us to use words like calypsophisticated. Or socadelic. Tropicool? That’s enough. Tanlines are two dudes from Brooklyn whose music is so bright and shiny, staring at it will make you sneeze (but only if you are awesome enough to have ACHOO [...]
01.03.10.
In which our favourite vowel fanatic steps further into the shadows. Out now on Emotion.
01.03.10.
“Don’t leave me, Diane. No, it’s not a mask. I can be your Jacob now. I did this for you…” MASKS – I Covered Myself In Fur [mp3] [Buy]
01.03.10.
Her name is Reo and, as you can see from this photo, she dances on the sand. Somewhere in Florida, on a sad sunless strip between the beach house and the (best) coast, she is rocking out to her own soft-skinned drone pop. Probably. Emily told us about puppies, the moon, and the best place [...]
01.03.10.
Finally, we know what rap music sounds like in the 5th circle of hell. Styx-hop, Dis Traxx, Drag. Here pretty boy Satan hops out the bed and turns his swag on. Starting today, Stalker will release a track a day (for 24 hours only) into his Sunset Garden. Remember, in MySpace no one can hear [...]
01.03.10.
“We’re Cerebral Ballzy from Brooklyn New York we just like to drink skate and eat pizza and hang out with our friends and to be honest- to be honest we’ve been doin that all day so I don’t give a fuck.” A live tape of their one date tour of Canada is out now on [...]
01.03.10.
Our dudes T33th and Is Tropical are back from tour and playing a free show at TRANS: FLOAT VIII at the Joiners Arms on Tuesday 30/3. Go! The flyer promises, “we’re gonna go straight anal tonite.” T33th – See Spaces (Demo version 1) [mp3] [Free EP]
01.03.10.
Lately, True Panther Sounds has become the home of global joyjams so it makes total sense they would release an EP of breakneck bubu music made during the Sierra Leone civil war which ended in 2002. These songs were recorded under the constraints of conflict, yet Janka Nabay (somehow) made them awesome, inspiring and bursting [...]
01.03.10.
If we wake up tomorrow to find humanity has been wiped out by an internetborn cat-flu to which we are immune because of our early exposure to a mutant feline (RIP Lucky) then this epic jam from Messages will soundtrack our quest for survival. Our adventure will be long, but that’s fine because this song [...]
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