Of course you do. And what better show to blag your way into than an evening with whimsical, tousle-haired troubadour Jeremy Jay? In case you haven’t heard his K Records debut LP, Slow Dance yet, then we can guarantee that you are missing out on the funnest dollop of skewed, pop-drenched, singer-songwritering since that record that Jonathan Richman and John Cale forgot to make. Click on to find out how to get your mitts on the tickets.
Archive for May, 2009
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Um Tapa Na Cara de Deus - MX
Arise. The Brazilian black thrash attack continues. This week’s insulter of Jesus Christ is MX… Read more »
Bachelorette’s Mindwarp
Bachelorette is Annabel Alper, a New Zealander who makes woozy kraut-pop out of synths and laptops. Her music sits somewhere between drunken frippery and muggy afternoon cloud-gazing. Here is a track from her My Electric Family LP, soon to be released on Drag City Records.
Black Lips record with Wu-Tang, and party with you
Tomorrow night Black Lips bring their warm pop show of brotherly love to Camden Town’s Electric Ballroom. What do mean you haven’t bought a ticket yet? Well, you’re a chump, but you’re lucky that there are still a few going and that you can even win tickets and a £100 bar tab. Oh, and maybe you’re interested in downloading the track the boys did with GZA from the Wu. Click through to hear, see, and win all sorts of Black Lips things.
Country sampler infomercial
Jim Blanchard’s “Kooky Country” changed my life, and it might change yours. It’s not quite the Harry Smith Anthology for 60s and 70s country, but it’s close enough, and will totally school you. Besides being an awesome party album capable of getting a bunch of adroit New York types jumping around like those mental patients in the Cramps video, the album put Roger Miller’s “My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died” in context with his crazed hillbilly contemporaries. Mind-blowing. That guy’s probably the best pop lyricist of our last century.
Um Tapa Na Cara de Deus - Sepultura
Open the gates once again mortals – there is a black thrash attack on the horizon courtesy of Brazilian metal’s most celebrated of metal bands. Yes, it can only be Sepultura. Read more »
Three Cheers - Le Face
This week we introduce you to Los Angeles-based nihilist punk types Le Face and their snotty, sloppy, jangly, post-punk racket.
Aidan Moffat’s written a song for you
Smash The Mystic Industry - by Aidan Moffat
My favourite book as a boy was The Hamlyn Book Of Ghosts, an anthology of eerie stories and convincing (to a child) snapshots of apparitions, and I studied every page. There was a chapter on Harry Price, the famous paranormal investigator and ghost-hunter, and I dreamed of growing up to be a Ghostbuster long before Bill Murray convinced me it would be the best job in the world. Like most young boys, I was obsessed by monsters and ghouls and I insisted that I be allowed to watch horror films at a very young age, becoming far too familiar with Hammer Horror before my tenth birthday – Peter Cushing was an early hero. Then there was my love of The Omen and its two sequels and, of course, John Carpenter’s Halloween, which I first saw as an eight-year-old and still remains one of my all-time favourites. Read more »
We’re in Deep Shit, join us
Twenty-one-year-old Londoner Tom Watson is in Deep Shit. There are a couple of others who join in when performing live – Jack Gillis on drums and Richard Phillips on guitar. Watson has, he says, been “negotiating the cynical/bitter tightrope since 1987″. His music treads a similarly careful path. Heavy, light and narky as wine-bashed brains, debut release Weird You is available now, here on CD-Rs and tapes decorated by C.M. Ruiz and paid for by California’s post-rad(ist) Family Time Records. I said hello. Read more »
Rose Quartz - Hole Class
Hole Class‘ weirdo country was always going to be totally blown-out and lo-fi, seeing as it is/was/always will be a short-lived collaboration between Rob from Eat Skull and Beth from Times New Viking. At the moment the project is in stasis, but this blog is designed to urge them to return soon.
