Have you ever thought to yourself that there must be huge, towering piles of obscure but wonderful music out there that you would, in all likelihood, love or at least find interesting, but you just don’t have the gumption to find it? Wouldn’t it be amazing if a couple of dance music freaks got together and found it all for you and then fed it to you in little Weetabix Mini Crunch-sized portions? Well, that’s exactly what the guys at Fervent Moon do, and they have just re-launched their site. Read more »
FERVENT MOON - BACK IN THE GAME
Tagged: better off dead, Dance, fervent moon, mp3, music, raid pace, zines
Free tickets to any show you want
Unless you punch two-year-olds in the face in broad daylight, you deserve a break once in a while. After all, you’ve been paying for gig tickets your whole life, don’t you deserve to have a pair presented to you on a silver platter by some nine-foot bimbo? Yes you do, and you deserve some CDs as well, so enter this competition and perhaps you’ll win some CDs and tickets to a show you would like to see (sadly, the odds are it won’t be nearly as good as that one above).
MUMDANCE HAS GIVEN US A MIX AND A REMIX, AND HE HAS INVENTED A NEW GENRE
Once upon a time Mumdance was simply known as plain old Jack Adams and he used to book events and nights for us at The Old Blue Last. Nowadays though he has forgotten all about little old us and has become a superstar DJ. Literally. Just look at his MySpace page – the upcoming shows list looks like the itinerary for Around the World In 80 Days. He’s also decided to invent his own genre, which he’s calling “kerplunk”. This is not a joke. Click on to hear his remix of Maximo Park’s “Let’s Get Clinical”, which is without a doubt the first attempt at nailing the kerplunk aesthetic anywhere ever. Jack’s also kindly supplied us with a whole mix that he recently put together with a bunch of folks like Jammer and C-Gritz all over it.
Tagged: C Gritz, Jammer, Maximo Park, Mudance, The Old Blue Last
Good evening and welcome to the Night Gallery
Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. I only know about it because it is parodied in a Halloween episode of The Simpsons. I don’t think it was as popular in the UK; over here we are all about Michael Aspel. Read more »
Tagged: gatekeeper, Labyrinth, Leonard Nimoy, Night Gallery, Rainbow Body, Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
Davila 666 are a Puerto Rican Boy Band on Drugs
Menudo were the biggest boy band in Puerto Rico for a long time. They had the same scattergun membership policy as the Sugababes, although rather than internal spats, most members left when their voices broke at one point. Ricky Martin (yes, THE Ricky Martin) was a member at one point too. Like most boy bands, they were also rubbish, but on drugs they might have sounded great. Davila 666 reckon they sound like “Menudo on drugs” and they’re a gnarly garage punk band.
Tagged: Davila 666, In The Red, Menudo, Puerto Rico, Ricky Martin, Sugababes
VICE VERSUS - RAGGARE
Babelgum’s Vice Versus series continues with an episode on raggare. The raggare gangs are a subculture found in Sweden that started in the 50s, causing controversy and moral panic. Their ethos seems to revolve mainly around old cars, music, sex and beer. They ride around in their Chevys and hot rod cars with leather jackets and duck’s-ass hair-dos playing pure rockabilly. Now they’re uniting in Stockholm for their biggest ever annual power meet. Check it out here.
NEW COMANECHI VIDEO BY LAMO WIZARD
Lamo Wizard are a video-making duo made up of Amy Leverton and Skill Wizard head-honcho and Invasion riff-machine Marek Steven. They have just finished Comanechi’s new video, so we had a chat. Below is what they had to say about said video, themselves, Chinese takeaways with free fruit, and bell-bottoms. Read more »
Video Exclusive - Music Go Music
Everyone loves Music Go Music, right? They are like a warm shot of fizzy summer pop perfection to help even the most morose motherfucker out of the winter lull and back to vague contentedness at the very least. Someone from their record company sent us a link to a video of them playing a song. Apparently they’ve sent us this link before they sent it anywhere else, so if you click on you’ll be seeing said video before anyone else ever. While you’re at it, have a look at another video of us having a word with the band right after their first ever UK performance a little while back. How many first evers can you pack in to one post, huh?
ALL THE GOLDEN GRRRLS
First there was Veronica Falls – who, if you remember, had absolutely nothing to do with Kirstie Alley – and now there’s Golden Grrrls, who, as far as we can tell, have nothing to do with Bea Arthur. What is it about hazy indie-pop bands who bury their glory under a mountain of fuzz and split their time between worshiping C86 and worshiping second-rate American sitcoms? You could at least call your band Friends or M.A.S.H. Read more »
Tagged: Golden GRRRLS, The Sound of Young Scotland, Three Cheers, Veronica Falls
