Continuing the trip into the slightly thin forest that is 1994’s classic metal albums, we come to maybe the most brutal and genre-defining of them all: Darkthrone’s Transilvanian Hunger.
All of this crap can be yours
We get a lot of stuff for free, especially our online editor Alex. He used to have a job in the “music industry”, and I think labels and PRs assume that he still cares about music (he doesn’t). They continue to barrage him with an endless hailstorm of free CDs, singles and super-special-extra-rare-pre-releases and demos which Alex dutifully chucks into a big box under his desk. This box is deep and heavy and is encroaching on Alex’s leg-space, so he’s asked us to give away its contents to those who can answer one skill-testing question: Which trendy indie band did Totally Hawaii used to be in a band with?
If you know the answer, email Alex and he will show you to his box.
TOTALLY HEAVY HAWAII
So, if you weren’t really bored of hearing about Wavves, you’d probably be wondering what Nathan Williams was doing before all the hype, backlash, stage breakdowns and fights with Black Lips that followed. Well, he was playing in a pretty good “tropical psych-folk trio” called Fantastic Magic and he dressed like like he played in Devendra Banhart’s backing band. They played a bunch of shows, released a CD-R, a tape and a 7″, and then split up. So what happened to the other members of the group? Well, two of them, specifically Matthew and Sundar, became Heavy Hawaii. Read more »
Tagged: Fantastic Magic, Heavy Hawaii, Three Cheers, wavves
NEW YORK BLONDES
Remember we told you about Blondes from NYC a while ago? And remember how fucking good the MP3 we gave away was? Yeah, well you should. We like the band so much we got in touch and asked them to make us a mixtape, and, like the gracious beat bastards I’m assuming they are, they agreed. And it’s really good. Click through to download the Purple-Glazed Mix by Blondes. Read more »
OOH HEAVEN IS A BAND ON EARTH
Is it sad to want to spend eternity in a bar? I can’t help but imagine heaven to be a really cool joint where Lester Bangs, Karl Marx and Shakespeare shoot the shit on velvet stools over free beers poured by Ted Danson or Barbara Windsor. This may not be the most thrilling vision of Shangri-La, but it’s more exciting than angels in white robes sitting on fluffy clouds and spinning Joanna Newsome records. Read more »
Tagged: Acephale, Heaven, Lester bangs, shoegaze, Three Cheers
Sea lions inspire the Sea Lions
Sea lions are awesome and not just for the fact that they are really good at dancing, have tusks and are killer surfers. These tusked Pinnipeds are also righteous music warriors who once tried to fuck up the Jonas Brothes and have inspired the kids of sea lion hotspot Oxnard, California to put down the guns and pick up the C86. Read more »
Tagged: Jonas Brothers, Orange Juice, The Sea Lions, The Shop Assistants, Yay! Records
Weed Diamond sees the sun where there’s none
When I think of Denver, Colorado, I think of lumberjack shirts, the Rocky Mountains and John Denver (though he was born in Roswell). One thing I certainly didn’t expect was that it would inspire the kind of sunstroke sounds that have come from Denver resident Tim Perry under his fucking awful moniker Weed Diamond. It’s great that you smoke loads of dope and everything, but unless you’re Afro Man, you look like a dick telling everyone. Fortunately the music’s fucking great.
Tagged: Half Machine, Sun, Three Cheers, Transparent, Weed, Weed Diamond
Vice Singles Club, 2 November 2009
Being single can be a tough combination of porn and not having anyone to split the cooking/washing up duties with. That’s why we’re here, to offer support, friendship and camaraderie where there was none before. Unless your name is Calvin Harris in which case we’re just going to lay into your latest vinyl turd. Read more »
Tagged: A-HA, BLACK EYED PEAS, CALVIN HARRIS, Donny & Marie, Frankie Goes To Hollywod, Jamie Cullum, JLS, Julian Casablancas, PAOLO NUTINI, Pink, Snow Patrol, The Horrors
NOISY SEXY PARISIANS AT THE OLD BLUE LAST
No-wave digi-punk squealers Kap Bambino like getting in people’s faces. So, if you would like them to be in your face as well as in your ears then you should come down to The Old Blue Last and blow away all those Halloween cobwebs tomorrow night. Support comes from New Yawkers Hello Sunshine and the whole shebang is a paltry fiver. Because everyone likes free stuff though, if you click through we have a track that you can download for nowt as well as all the relevant informations.
GERMAN MEASLES ARE SICK (OR ILL – WHATEVER LAME PUN YOU PREFER)
The bad thing about the endless versatility of viruses and diseases is all the unstoppable death that they spread. The good thing is that we’ve been given plenty of good band names by this microscopic death squad: the Germs, Anthrax, Aids Wolf, Cancer Bats, the Cramps, Pestilence, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Tuberculosis Boy. It’s inevitable that there’s a thousand bands called Swine Flu already (and equally inevitably that 500 of them are noise bands). That must make Avian Flu feel a little old-hat. Anyway, here is the next entry into this dubious pantheon: the German Measles. Read more »
Tagged: Captured Tracks, Cramps, German Measles, Illnesses, Rubella, The Germs, Three Cheers
