City centres are generally places to avoid – shopping by day and boozing by night. Okay, okay, we all do both, but you know, some people do it in really obnoxious ways. Okay, okay, we all do it in different obnoxious ways, but, well, some of us are pussies, and others are alpha fucks who fight us.
The sound of DIVORCE
Coming straight outta Glasgow’s bonnie streets we have no-wave racketeers DIVORCE. Comprising of Andy Browntown, VSO, Vickie McDonald, Hillary Van Scoy and Sinead Youth, they’ve listened to Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Sonic Youth, DNA and Big Black. A lot.
A Thank you to Thank You
I know a little about Baltimore: it’s the setting for The Wire, which is, y’know, the best thing since Shakespeare, Eminem, TV on the Radio, and whatever else the middle brow loves. It’s where the much-hyped Dan Deacon got together his faux-psychedelic Wham City collective and it’s where B-more, the chopped-up hip-hop/house hybrid, originated. In this country (well, Nottingham at least), B-more seems to be mainly popular with slightly posh students at hideous bars with horrendously cheap drinks offers, but I’m willing to believe it has a different audience over there. Read more »
Full Spectrals sound
Wavves, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Blank Dogs, now this. I sincerely apologise for hitting you with another one-man garage band, but it seems that’s the way things are going these days. I’m guessing the reason these friendless wonders are recording on their lonesome is that they are bored of other musicians meddling with their grand garage vision and just want to get on with it. Although, less tactful people might suggest that they’re just unpopular. Either way, I am happy to sit and listen. Read more »
Vice Singles Club, 29 June 09
THE VIRGINS
“Hey Hey Girl”
Warner
The charming thing about the Virgins, or at least the song “Rich Girls” was they were a shitty guitar band trying to play R & B but failing in a dumb and glorious fashion. Then they re-recorded that song with some big shot producer who actually made them sound professional and ruined their schtick, which made them pretty rubbish. This is another song by them, which may have been good at some point, but now definitely isn’t. Basically if they hire me as their manager / guru I will make them shitty and glorious once more.
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WALDO JEFFERS Read more »
Stars and Their Ears: James Corden
Welcome to the first installment of our regular celebrity-enriched album review column, Stars and Their Ears. Here’s the lowdown: we give an album to a celebrity, they listen to it and then review it for us.
Today, James Corden tackles a collaboration LP between Norwegian noise overlord Lasse Marhaug and gauche Swedish-Israeli musician Dror Feiler, out now on No Fun. Go here to listen to some clips and, if you like what you hear, buy it. Read more »
