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OCD Go Go Girls
Wichita
I desperately wanted to hate this – everything about this band has always screamed “AVOID” at me in huge elephant letters. However, they bypass the wanky sub-No Age teen thrills of their peers and go straight for a Real Kids/Television/Flamin’ Groovies dirty power-pop jugular. Seems almost entirely engineered for sad, middle-aged record collector scum like me, so clearly they’re never actually going to get any bigger.
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All journalists love to not enjoy award ceremonies because they think it makes them big-time 4real punk rockers. But they’re idiots who think that sex is playing into the hands of mattress companies. Last night was the 7,000th annual NME awards and if you like drugs and booze and music and models it was fun. The best bit was when everyone booed when Oasis won Best Band. HaHa.
Most music videos suck a bit. The retro indie ones make me puke twee all over my slip-on plimsolls, the bragging rap ones make me want to attach wheels to a silver gun and drive it through townships, the social commentary ones about doing too much coke on the road, featuring sexy people turning into monsters, make me want to go the gym and wear a thong so I can walk around actualizing this thicko-ironic concept. Fortunately Isomorphs owner and design Zsar Kate Moross and Simian Mobile Disco have realised that music videos should be about music.
“I wanted to make a video that would remind people how good music is, in case they’d forgotten” she just told me on Instant Messenger. It’s true this does make you want to go clubbing, the spiraling spotlights are like living in Rorschach’s rave fantasy, or beneath Area 51. Basically the simple concept blows the shit out of most high-price promos.
This year SMD have asked Kate to be their as their visual guru, so expect James Ford to ride up to his decks on a grifin made of lasers.
The track’s called ‘Synthesise’ and they’re releasing it on beatport.com only, soonish.
So, you’re a fat fuckhead with glasses and you dig Eastern religion as much as you hate war. I know, dress as a Hawaiian Ganesh and hold a fucking peace sign out like any of us give a shit.
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And here we have the only thing less manly than sleeping in the park—hopping on the swing set and gleefully going to and fro. You just had to feel the breeze caress your wrinkles, huh?
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A park ranger in the Congo who survived being shot in the head at pointblank range
