Lady Miss K
Good news for London town folks, as there are two most awesome sounding club nights happening this weekend. Club Motherfucker celebrates its 7th birthday on Saturday with a line up almost too good for words, including Friendship and Lady Miss freaking Kier from Dee Lite. If you’ve never been to Mofo, for shame. You’re missing out on the most fun you can have in this dirty old town. Remedy this by going to Bardens on Saturday 13th.
Friday night, and Club Baby Honey at the Buffalo Bar has to be worth a look in. It’s a new indiepop night every second Friday of the month at the Buffalo Bar just outside the Highbury & Islington tube station. They put on bands they love and DJs from Twee As Fuck and So Tough! So Cute! play Indiepop, C86, Twee, Soul, Girl-Groups, Post-Punk and New Wave for a packed, smiling dancefloor….
Wild Beasts- Koko, Camden- 4/03/2010
Girls. Boys. Drinking. Love. Fighting. Crying over that lost love again.
Remember when Radiohead were just a classic rock band?
No, I’d forgotten too – but there it was, plain as day, when The Bends shuffled onto my iPod (is using one considered retro yet?). The slick, wide, guitar sound is there. A four-square rock structures all the songs. The lyrics are tangible, comprehensible, forward. It’s classic rock, all right.
Deerhoof with Grayson Gilmour and Seth Frightening
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington
Photos by Ema Richards
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After a grip of singles and one sold-way-the-hell-out 12-inch, Austin’s Woven Bones –perpetual dungeon-rock faves of ours–are finally getting around to their debut album. In And Out And Back Again arrives on May 18 through new home HoZac, and already we have a look inside its mildewed walls with "If It Feels Alright," which is characteristically grimy and Cramps-like but also sort of the poppiest thing we’ve heard from them. Major chords, dudes!
Constantly searching for new bands leaves you strangely myopic.
Tunnel vision develops insidiously and subtly, until one day you realise that the only bands who will spark your synapses any more are the most obscure, defiant and truly gauche; the bands for whom melody is a dispensable luxury and strange noise-making is all that counts.
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In honor of Record Store Day, Deerhoof is reissuing two beloved LPs: Green Cosmos and Apple O’, the latter of which has punctuated more than its share of decade-best lists and hasn’t been available on vinyl for years. Nothing seems more quintessentially Deerhoof than the plucky, punchy, discordant anthem "Sealed With A Kiss," which goes everywhere and nowhere, just like its creators, who are currently on one monster of a world tour with dates in Croatia and Fargo…and none in New York.
Andy Serkis as Ian Dury
Film Review : Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
There have been several music ‘biopics’ over the years, and there seems to be a rash of them recently with Control, Telstar, Nowhere Boy and now this. Who’s next? Elvis Costello ‘My Aim Is True’ or Paul Weller ‘The Ego Has Landed’? I think we must be sitting at a time where all the film commissioners know/like the musicians whose biopics are suggested to them. Being a musician and having an interest in bands certainly seems to be a common ‘hobby’ these days, although maybe now it’s the parental dream, like getting your kid to be a footballer or child star actor.
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