DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?
Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s.
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TING TINGS
Pure pop from two of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the music business, We toured with them in 2008 and watched them blow up and go on to world wide success, I’m...
As yall know from the popular website calendar.blogspot.com, the year 2k9 only has 2 months left. The annual music cycle is ‘officially over’ and will be dormant until the first major indie album release in 2k10. This means ‘we’ as an altosphere need 2 do our best to reflect on the year that we just lived, and try 2 analyze which album/artist/mp3 we want to be the...
Photo: Olly Hearsey
So we’ve published our own ‘best of 2009’ list. Now it’s the turn of some of those bands we featured to let us know theirs.
First up is The Vivian Girls, who pick out a fine top 10 of garage pop and lo fi fuzz. Nodzzz, Mika Miko and The Beets are particularly fine selections I think.
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1. Mika Miko: We Be Xuxa...
I’ve been hearing a lot of amazing new bands lately. Unfortunately, all I have are EPs of these fresh, new artists. And even though each one probably deserves it’s own full review, I decided to just briefly talk about each one. I promise to review any full lengths these bands might put out in the future.
New Look
Married duo, Adam Pavao and Sarah Ruba, kick out the disco-influenced...
Thanks to Chocolate Bobka for the tip on this new track from Girls: "Solitude" is the b-side from the group’s forthcoming Hellhole Ratrace 10", and is available for free download courtesy of Turnstile Music’s new sampler compilation:
mp3:
girls :: solitude
Download the rest of the Turnstile Music comp here for the Perfume Genius track, and check out a clip of Girls...
After a recommendation from Kip of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I was able to discover a group called Girls who currently reside in San Francisco. Information is kind of scarce, though, from culling through a couple of older articles, they are primarily a duo that consists of Chet JR White and Christopher Owens. They’ve released a couple of 7″ singles, and according...
Have we got any Roy Orbison in the RCRD LBL vaults to link through to? No? I didn’t even check truth be told. Still, Girls are here now and their doo-wop’ll do just fine; "Solitude" a throwback to a simpler era when all you needed to communicate lovesickness were slow guitar arpeggios and a wobbling croon. A song so tender you feel the physical version of it would bruise...
For today’s special edition of Blog Radio, Sirius asked us to count down the top 5 artists that we think are most likely to succeed in 2009.<!--break--> Of course, success is a relative term, so my list is essentially just the artists I look forward to hearing new material from/want to see live/expect breakout years from in ‘09. The Hipster Runoff radio program kicks things off...
Sometime in the last twelve months, Girls got good. They were good last July when I saw them at both Market Hotel and Glasslands, but but there was a ramshackle vibe that felt like they weren’t sure whether they were really ready to leave the bedroom. But at Mercury lounge they are really good. Like "Whoa what happened" good. Credit new drummer (all loosey-goosey Keith Moon fills...
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Travel News : Penalties
When I got to the First Capital Connect ticket office there was nobody serving. The one member of staff had left his position to go and tell another (who...
iLiKETRAiNS DEMO OF THE WEEK:
ISTVAN & THE KOSMAS / DISCO CLUB IMPERIAL
DAVE: The song started out pretty promisingly, but it didn’t really develop. It could be just me! Having said...
Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation from Bronzerat Records on Vimeo.
Awesome video from Joe Gideon & The Shark. Sharp white suits, Mark E Smith style monologues and NoMeansNo heavy...
What we know about Justin Vernon: he’s a fantastic songwriter with a soulful voice, which has slowly but surely found widespread acclaim with Bon Iver. We also found out from the Blood Bank EP...
Sunday 18th November
Monkey Chews – Friend Of The Bride, Looker, Jon byrne, Marcus Mumford
Cargo – Wire doo dah – Jackie-o motherfkkkccer5, polly shang kuan band
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Concert Review: Magazine, The Forum 12/02/09
Before I describe what it was like to be at a Magazine concert in 2009, I feel I should let you in on what it was like to be at...
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Media News : Free Papers report Diana Inquest
When people complain about the media's prurient interests, they often say 'if people didn't buy it then the papers wouldn't print it...
Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...
To accompany the review of tUnE-yArDs’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs.
Read the review of the night...
We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire of the Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...
Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...
Ahhhh. I love this.
When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...
Not Squares
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
On debut single ‘Asylum’ (Richter Collective) Irish punktronic (we really do love inventing these meaningless genres !) trio Not Squares...
The Japanese War Effort
From: Scotland, United Kingdom
The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog...
There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne.
It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from...
I knew something didn’t add up. The BBC 6Music kerfuffle drags on and on – with more and more music fans, politicians and BBC bigwigs all competing to see who can yelp their opinions...
Yes Giantess
Boston, Massachusetts,
United States
The current incarnation of the NME may be a pale shadow of itself and struggling with it’s identity, not knowing whether to...
According to This is Horseflesh (the nom de guerre of Egyptian Hip Hop drummer Alex Pierce) this fantastic ‘reincarnation’ of the band’s own "Rad Pitt" was written to...
Bromheads are continuing their free monthly download singles with a genius reworking of ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’, a song made famous by the Shirelles.
Unsubtle mix tape...
If Wyldman’s recent live review has picqued your interest in Japanese Voyeurs, then you might be interested in their free download track ‘Dumb’. They’re biffing it out...
Forming a rock ‘n’ roll band is one of the more deceptive and fickle actions a group of young men (and it’s almost always young men) can take. It seems so easy: get a self-...
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...
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Film Review : 3 Idiots
Stumbled by accident into my third Bollywood film ever last week. It concerns an Indian engineering school, and 3 students under considerable...
Not content with sitting on their laurels after we awarded them our number 1 record of 2009 for Ballin Outrageous, the Zookeepers have returned to the studio and biffed out another LP. Holy shit....
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Review : Omen night at the West London Fantasy Film Society 04/02/10I
was back as my brother’s guest at this tiny cinema for enthusiasts of
an old style cinema...
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Technology News: iPad
Two days before the iPad launch, Bill Gates (former chief mekon on Microsoft) was on The Daily Show to promote his charitable work. It was a rather dry...
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Film Review : OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Rio doesn’t answer a.k.a. Lost In Rio)
Legendary Mondo Enduro motorbiking mainstay Austin Vince invited several of us...
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Film Review : Molière
Much to my surprise over Christmas I discovered that you can now watch films again on BBC iPlayer. I guess when the beeb buys films now...
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Film Review: Belle de jour (Buñuel)
Gradually moving through the Luis Buñuel box set I arrived at this legendary sexual fantasy film from 1967....
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TV
News: Stephanie Beacham on Celebrity Big BrotherI
confess I was interested to see who was on Celebrity Big Brother, as
my mother watches it avidly, and it’s being...
Nice Nice are currently giving away downloads of their new EP, before its physical release on 26 November.
It’s a fantastic single. The A-side ‘One Hit’ sounds like a kind of...
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