Have you ever actually listened to Spotify? Every three songs, some twerp with a friendly voice starts booming on about how they don’t advertise. Spotify is a website for pricks without a record collection, and none of them are getting into the never-ending sarcasm and sex party of the Vice Singles Club. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Little Boots’
Homerton Strangler - Publicist
Hello, Rodaidh here again. Next week I’m in the studio for a couple of days with Publicist. Publicist is the baby of Sebastian Thomson (Trans Am, Dead Kids) and features Ian Svenonius (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses) on vocals. These guys have played together in Weird War for a while but the Publicist sound is something different altogether and, having just received and heard demo versions of the songs we’re going to be working on, I can say that I am seriously excited about these tracks. In fact I was so blown away with the demos themselves that I decided, with their permission of course, to put one of my favourites, “Momma”, up here.
BBC Sounds of 2009, Little Roux?
I just can’t tell the difference between 2009’s big pop contenders. Two women in one year is always going to be confusing, but when they’re both making music electronically? What’s going on? I feel like a blind man stumbling through a snowstorm. Help!!!!!!
I drew up a comparison chart to help me, you and everyone else decide which one of these girls is which. I think this will be on every single editor’s wall by nightfall. Don’t you?
Hypothetical Pop Murderers 2009?
According to every magazine/website/zeitgeist newsletter, there are a whole lot of exciting new bands you will be hearing more of this year. Hooray. According to general laws of statistics, each of them has a hypothetical propensity to kill. Wouldn’t it be great if one of them committed a murder at some point during 2009? Just think: Indie gossip would all be about CSI-style corpse decomposition periods and semen samples, or maybe more retro talk of candlesticks and lead pipes. With that in mind, we’re offering the music press the chance to get a jump on the game, by ranking 2009’s potential indie breakouts in terms of their murderous proclivities, using nothing more than Poirot-like little grey cells. Elementary findings follow. Read more »
