LOVVERS
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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Cocadisco, our favourite night for exquisite and refined dance euphoria, returns for a summer party at Corsica Studios this month, with a rather fantastic line-up of DJs, including Vitalic, Mark Moore, The Horrors and Louis Enchante. For full information, go here. Tickets can be bought here (it’s recommended you book in advance).
One half of Cocadisco, Rodaidh McDonald, has made a mix of stuff you can expect to be played on the night, including his own productions and a forthcoming release by Publicist on his label, Touching Music. Read more »
Just when you thought you weren’t safe to look at a music video ever again for fear of having your eyeballs assaulted by sub Channel U (aka ‘AKA‘) production values or Timbaland popping up every 2.5 seconds, this little slow-burning gem from The xx turns up like sweet eucalyptus to pamper your besieged brow. Thanks, xx guys! Read more »
After a long cold winter The xx album is nearly done and sounding amazing. It has been a pleasure working with these guys and as spring beckons and we dot the i’s, I thought I’d put up one very old demo that never made the cut.
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.
When you see fags in the West Village prancing around yelling “We’re here, we’re queer,” it’s a great big yaaaawn. When you see this puckered homo walking through the streets of Moscow (a place where they’re so scared of being near gays they prefer bats to knives), you feel like high-fiving him and screaming “Yoh, dude!” like he’s a human dare.
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“Look, I ain’t gonna make it into work today. My dick exploded.”
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