I can’t work out if this is good or hideous, in the way that the bit on Later with Jools Holland when the bands all play together can often be a bit of an embarrassing trainwreck.
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Another mangy, heard-through-a-decades-old-radio guitar-pop nugget from San Francisco’s & Onlys">Fresh and Onlys, pulled from a new EP for Captured Tracks called August In My Mind. You can actually buy the wax in a discounted bundle here that also includes new 7-inches from Wild Nothing, Minks, and The Soft Moon–more righteous jams for your scratch, which is never a bad thing. The Fresh & Onlys are, naturally, ripping through Austin this week; their schedule for the next few days and beyond is after the click-through.
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Unlike most folks in Austin, windswept electro-disco duo The Golden Filter actually have legitimate reason to be hoovering Lone Stars: they just announced their debut album, Voluspa (a spa of volume, perhaps?), is coming out on June 15 in the U.S and April 26 in the UK. No word on who’s releasing it Stateside, but Brille will be handling the overseas duties. Tejas residents/visitors have three opportunities to catch them this week (info after the break), all others can do like us and bliss out to the LP’s first single below.
In an effort to get message boarding bros to vote for MGMT in some meaningless poll, an indie music fan of the popular band MGMT promised to show off her alternative breasts to bros who were hanging out on 4chan.
The Lonely Island is widely known as the modernized bro-ified version of Weird Al Yankovich adapted for the modern world bc they make zany viral videos. Their brand of humor is the ‘it’ style of humor for teens on the internet across the USA. Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes ‘collab-ed’ with the Lonely Island on a song called ‘Boom box.’ I am not sure if this video is supposed to ‘be funny’ or if it is supposed to be a ‘real song.’ Probs just the opportunity to make a zany video.
The Strokes were widely considered the #1 band of the 2000s, so it will be interesting to see if this viral video promotion hurts or helps the Strokes + JCasablancas solo project. Maybe this was some sort of strategic attempt to be part of the new ‘Dick in a Box’, getting over 100 million viral video views. Wonder if modern tweens who never heard the hit album ‘Is This It’ are becoming familiar with the Strokes brand, or if they will just think they are some weird old band like The Cars.
Words: Kieran Toms
Gorillaz - ‘Plastic Beach’
My first reaction to this album was to be wowed by its stellar line up. Then I remembered a quote by Mark E Smith, who features himself on ‘Plastic Beach’, about the Sven-era England team:
“A team of superstars is like a supergroup. It’s like picking the best guitarist in Britain, the best drummer and the best singer, and expecting them to produce something that isn’t prog-rock mush.”
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Placebo pictures: just in - some photos of Placebo and Brian Molko from last week’s gig at the Glasgow SECC.
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