Plug are two girls, one who plays drums and one who plays bass and keyboard. They both sing. Make sure you don’t get them confused with Plugs, the distinctly average synth band formed by one member of meathead electro bores Does it Offend You, Yeah?. (I guess he decided that singing in possibly the worst band to emerge during the recent electro revival (apart from Hadouken!) wasn’t worth the meagre wage he probably received.) Read more »
Aura Noir frontman and Immortal bassist Apollyon took time out from touring, teaching kids music, and playing in six or seven different bands (he’s lost count) to come to London and meet me for an interview. Here’s some of what we talked about over a few beers (and a lot of Pantera) in The Hobgoblin in Camden last week. By the way, did you know that he played bass for Gorgoroth at the now infamous Krakow show? Well, now you do. Read more »
I’m not sure what constitutes a super vacation, but my guess is it’s vacation squared – the essence of a holiday concentrated into one week of pool parties, sandcastles, romance, donkey rides, foam parties, finally reading The Corrections, finding yourself, not drinking, drinking a lot, beach sex, boating, paella, not watching any telly, and actually feeling like you’ve had a holiday at the end. An impossible dream you might think, but maybe you haven’t heard the Super Vacations yet. Read more »
Anyone remember Osker? When I was googling the name of Devon Williams, whose music I am thinking about today, I discovered his past. It seems he was in one of the most controversial pop-punk bands of their time, who pissed off the mohawked masses with their criticisms of punk conformity, their sincere stage presence, and by not being idiots. They were also known for once supporting NOFX and taunting the crowd by telling them the headliners hadn’t released a good album in years. Yep, they were the most ‘punk’ pop-punk band out there. Read more »
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.
I’m in Wales at the moment and it’s wet, so, so wet, and in an attempt to counterbalance my drizzly depression I’m listening to some sunny-sounding music. Well, a band from Australia anyway, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and specifically their record Primary Colours, the second best record called Primary Colours of the decade. Now, a lot of you clued-up blog bastards will know these Aussie punks and their two flawless long-players, but screw you, I’m obsessed with them. Read more »
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 »
We had our bi-annual Vice Singles Club meet at the weekend. It was awesome, someone baked this cake out of seven-inches and then we did a quiz. Can you name the members of Roxy Music who aren’t called Bryan? No? Then you wouldn’t have won the quiz and it’s probably lucky you didn’t come along. Read more »
Another classic week for singles, then. Is it just us at the Vice Singles Club (new club picture above), or is music just getting better every week? While we go home and build a new shed to store all the new records we’ll be wanting to buy out of the old records which have now been rendered utterly pointless, you can be enlightened by reading our words beneath. Read more »
Teen Sheikhs are the raddest bunch of dudes out there right now, they’re even cooler than your brother’s friends. They get drunk before, during and after your show, and then in the morning have a celebratory Guinness. And they probably hook up with all the super gnarly chicks in the neighbourhood and have all the original Star Wars figures. Plus they have a bassist called Will Young, and their drummer makes insanely good art stuff. Read more »
One way to tell your life is on the right track is if you're still using the same strategy to get laid you came up with when you were seven.
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Women look at the girl on the left and say, “Those earrings and those sneakers? Bitch, please.” Men look at her and think, “I want to wrap her up in cotton wool and then slowly discover what every square inch of her ass tastes like.”
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