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| ORGAN
#196 > FEB 22nd 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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| SECRETS
AND CONTRADICTIONS AND DOING IT OUR WAY - WEEK BY WEEK |
A
Secret Society? We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day, the
future is already here, just unevenly distributed. Too much toast is smearing,
no bad thing, far better than having the same jeans on for days and and
and don’t come here accusing us of typing one handed whilst listening to
difficult jazz and I did it and it’s over and I feel bad, typing like the
grains in an hour glass. Take a good hard look for the very last time,
who’s slow to finish and quick to start? Poor little boy kicked out at
the world and lights will ignite your bones, pick up the receiver, we’ll
make you a believer, thou shalt not quote me happy, come spread your wings...
Did you work out the secret yet?
Now we haven’t shouted about
George for a few weeks, don’t mean we’ve lost interest, far from it – where
are all you zine people and too-cool scenester punks and so called hardcore
bands when one of your family needs you? Go and help fellow zine maker
and all round punkscene contributor GEORGE TABB, George has been
contributing to underground culture via the pages of things like Maximum
Rock ‘N Roll and the New York punk/zine scene for years, he’s a hero, he’s
one of our own, he needs you - some things are far more important that
music, links to him via his picture. Go shout about his situation while
he’s still breathing, shame the US government in to action – he’s a big
part of the underground/punk/zine family, come on people, shout for George
Tabb, he would if it was you.
Have you checked out THE
SMEARS yet?
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IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
TERROR
are to play the following shows: Southampton Nexus May 2, Swansea Sin City
3, Plymouth White Rabbit 4, Wolverhampton Canal Club 5, London Islington
Academy 6.
Chris Cornell has now officially
left Audioslave. He'll now concentrate on his new solo album, 'Carry
On', which is due out in May via Suretone/Interscope. Audioslave are not
expected to carry on.
Members of Neurosis, Peeping
Tom and Red Sparowes have started a new project called The (Fallen)
Black Deer. But they're currently looking for a suitable singer. Interested?
For full details, go to www.myspace.com/thefallenblackdeer.
SONIC YOUTH DON'T
LOOK BACK, NEITHER DO SLINT - I bet someone used a similar headline
this time last year. Sonic Youth have been confirmed to appear at this
year's series of 'Don't Look Back' events – you know, the gigs where bands
play one of their seminal albums in its entirety at venues in London. Also
confirmed are Slint and House Of Love, dates as follows, tickets available
now:
22 Aug: Slint - 'Spiderland',
Koko
31 Aug: Sonic Youth - 'Daydream
Nation', Roundhouse
13 Sep: House Of Love -
'The House Of Love', Koko
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
The
Low Lows return to Europe this week to play the 'Music In Mind' Festival
in Belgium, followed by a 3-week tour of mainland Europe and the UK . There
will be a gorgeous new 2-track single, Elizabeth Pier, out at the end of
March. Below is a list of their tour dates. Unfortunately, the Newcastle
show has just been cancelled, so please don’t turn up at the venue if you
were hoping to see them there.
The wonderfully talented
French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who made Barzin’s ‘ Leaving Time’ video,
(and also worked with the National and Jamie Liddell) is also becoming
very well-known for his ‘takeaway shows’, in which he films bands who are
visiting Paris, often in unusual and unconventional settings around the
city. The results are posted on his Blogtheque
website or
if you’d rather read
it all in French
In November, during the last
Low Lows Tour, he filmed two segments by The Low Lows, one in which they
stroll into an elegant old Parisian bar and perform a new song, ‘Black
Bees’, and another in which they spontaneously invade a city bus with an
acoustic rendition of ‘Dear Flies, Love Spider’ that even has the passengers
getting in on the act!. The results are captivating. If you look carefully
you will se a small cameo by Barzin, who held the mic for them.
You can also catch the Low
Lows’ Dear Flies Love Spiders video on ORGAN TV again next week
The Low Lows tour dates:
February
23rd - Music In Mind
Festival, Concertgebouw, Bruges ( Belgium )
24th - Emporium
Galorium, Rouen (France) http://www.emporium-galorium.com
25th - Duyster
Radio Program, Studio Brussel, Brussels ( Belgium ) recording
radio session for future broadcast
26th - private
party, Paris (France)
27th - Le Tryptique,
Paris (France)
28th - d:qliq,
Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
March
3rd - Hühnermanhattan,
Halle/Saale (Germany)
5th - Amsterdam (Netherlands)
VPRO Radio session recording
7th - London , The
Luminaire
8th - Voodoo Lounge,
Plymouth
9th - Yorkshire
House, Lancaster
11th - Tunnels, Aberdeen
12th - Henry’s Cellar
Bar, Edinburgh
14th - City Screen
Basement Bar, York
15th - The Adelphi,
Hull
16th - The Albert,
Brighton
More Low Lows news from www.monotremerecords.com
or www.myspace.com/monotremerecords
John on the phone...... |
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The new year long series
of
ORGAN TV is on your screens
in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm
on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY
173. And now due to the
fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.30pm.
What's it all about? Simple,
just good music, and the art of good video making... Same musical
policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts,
as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy
eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post
man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity
for the open minded
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ORGAN TV - WEDNESDAY 28th
FEB -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 so you probably missed it, but
but but you still have time to catch the repeat that's on OPEN ACCESS
1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 4th March at 11.30pm
THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING
VIDEOS....
1: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT. - Joy
2: THE TRUDY - Lost Summer
of Love
3: CARDIACS - Day Is Gone
4: THE BLACK KEYS - Your
Touch
5: DRESDEN DOLLS - Backstabber
6: THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies
Love Spiders
7: SILVERY - Devil In The
Detail
8: ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk
NEXT WEEK expect, oh I don't
know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards and
put our own people in charge. We have nothing to lose except fun and the
joy of watching... That and the words of the good Doctor
Now that's what I call music
TV.
Want to get your video on?
Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video
on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something
that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format
and wallop, sorted |
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DEMO TIME |
Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos,
we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more
time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective,
when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
DEATH
LIST FIVE – Don’t Be A Little Bitch - Slicing straight in here direct from
Syracuse New York with some kind of delightfully messy shouty simplistic
chainsaw-riffing US style punkoid hardcore crust-metal road accident of
a sound - s delightfully D.I.Y affair. Raging noise and screaming
vocals, raw as hell guitars, blistering cheese-wire riffs, speed-punk for
fans of things like those Stupids or D.R.I or a million circle-pit splating
Misfit things from way back there when things were done this (right) way.
Songs that are over before you’ve time to blink (or think), excellently
messy, beautifully raw, a glorious old school hardcore mess. D L
Five sound like one of those bands you would have found early on on a nine
band skate-fest bill at the Hammersmith Clarendon or the Birmingham Mermaid
circa ’86 (this is what we want Ratty! None of your Alexisonfire bulshit).
This is so raw and barbed, I just know I’m going to cut myself on the edge
of the disc and get involved in some nasty blood poisoning incident that’s
gonna land me in out patients early next week. I love it! Turn it up, play
it again - screaming bloody punk rock gore and shouting and swearing and
sounding like they just set up and recorded live while the engineer was
still hiding in the pub next door – proper DIY punk rock, I love it, you’ll
probably hate it, go get it anyway, it’ll do you good – www.myspace.com/dlfive
DEMO
OF THE WEEK 2
BITCH
SLAP BARBIE – Five Finger F#@% You – Oh yes, the DL5 warmed us up nicely
for the bitch slap. Now then officer, that Death List Five road accident
with all the splattered pizza and the screaming bloody gore we were telling
you about just then, we got several unreliable witnesses who’ll swear blind
it was Bitch Slap Barbie who ran them straight off the road and in to that
wall. From St Louis Missouri -two girls, two boys and more old school DIY
street punk. Vocals from the girls – Gita and Lisa Bitch (Lisa also
handles guitars), rhythm section nailed down by Tony D’Fish (drums) and
The Butcher (on bass). Vintage punk rock in your face attitude – think
Ramones, Plasmatics, Retching Red, The Gits, classic US punk rock. Gloriously
messy once more - fast, low-slung, in-your-face old school proper punk
rock, a gloriously obnoxious swearathon, raw as hell, infectiously good
for you, just how it should be - good for your soul DIY punk rock
– www.myspace.com/bitchslapbarbie
ALSO
CHECK OUT
EATEN
BY TIGERS – Now this is a pleasing experience, early moves from the instrumental
four piece from Leeds - three warm lush tracks, three explosions in the
sky. Eaten By Tigers do the delicately dramatic instrumental post-rock
thing rather well, beautifully played, warmly paced, serenely explosive
when it needs to be. The one big draw back here is that although this is
extremely pleasant and enjoyable, we’ve heard it all before - probably
heard it more that a few too many times in the last six months. Eaten By
Tigers have made a fine start here, now they need to build on their beauty
and clear ambition with something that has a little more identity, we need
something new from our instrumental post-rock bands.- fine start and a
welcome demo, now give us more please, give is something we haven’t already
encountered. Eaten By Tigers are clearly capable of a lot more, this is
a fine start, this is very hopeful – www.myspace.com/eatenbytigers
Last
week's demo of the week - There wasn't one damn you, why does there always
have to be one?
Previous
demo's of the week - STRAY BORDERS / FOUR
LETTER FRIEND /
ALSATIAN / THE
VIPERS / LILY GREEN / THE
VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI /
FANTAPLASTIC
/ CLUB LE SHARK / THEY
DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA
TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / LEAVE
THE CAPITAL /
GRAVANZIA / CHET
/ LADY PROMISE / FTSE100
/
STEAL GANDHI /
ALL
DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE
/ THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH
/
THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS
/ BLACK JACKSON / INNER
RAGE / ALLERGO
/ BROOKE / CARTRIDGE
/ PERHAPS CONTRAPTION
/ THE PROCESS VOID |
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BURN THE GALLOWS... |
| No gallows were burnt yet
this week, and no secret societies were infultrated |
'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
FRANK
TURNER – Sleep Is For The Week (Xtramile) - Vital Signs is the most emotionally
satisfying uplifting thing in ages and ages, Vital Signs will just make
you/does make us appreciate every little thing – a whole train ride around
England without ever leaving your bedroom (just you try listening to it
without making videos in your head). This album explains exactly why were
still alive and up to our necks in debt and making Organs and, despite
all, just how wonderful life is – thank you Frank Turner, you put it all
just right. Vital Signs really does stop me every single time. Vital Signs
was a single earlier this year and the second track here on this very fine
and rather clever/simple/wonderful/inspiring album (yeah yeah, we’re going
to gush again, music excites us, things like this are why we do this stupid
Organ thing, we got trapped here ages ago, no way out until they cart us
off now, if you don’t like the way we gush about things go read one of
those ‘proper’ glossy publications that deal with ‘product’ in such a detached
way). Frank Turner (once of Million Dead) these days is playing wonderfully
inspiring English folk rock for, well for anyone really, but especially
for those who’ve done their growing up and living somewhere near the hopes
and dreams and defiance and frustration of post-Clash/Crass, post-Thatcher/Blair
England/Britain (and how there’s only one way of life and that’s your own
and...). Tales of adolescent punk rock and rebelling against whatever you’ve
got to rebel against and going to the Red Eye and hanging out with friends
and how tempting it sometimes looks to just give in and forget the dream
(whatever the hell the dream is?) and go work in the bank like your old
school mates who now have big cars and flash houses and who look down their
Tory/Nu Labour voting noses at you (in such a envious way) and don’t you
ever wish the world would just stop? And how once you’re in, you can’t
get out, even if you do want out and and and and and stop the sentence
now please. Damn you Frank, every time I think it’s time to pack up this
Organ thing your songs are going to be there telling us what a good idea
it is to ignore that bill and print just one more issue!
Shall
we start a new paragraph now? Damn, these songs are full of real emotion
and real life and real wit and real everything - and all the wood from
the trees and the familiar comforts and this really does capture ‘it’.
See, punk rock (and dressing like an idiot) really can save lives (making
zines and record sleeves and circle pits and singalongs and no you never
do quite move along – the attitude is with you for life. The attitude is
there in every song he sings (real folk music, music of the people, real
music with roots in the land) and yes we really did have a better time
than the banker or the butcher or the soldier or sailor or the candlestick
maker (and it is hard to keep on fighting the good fight when no one else
seems to care and yes, it is worth every minute of the fight). Thirteen
acoustic songs, thirteen slices of life and England’s shit and it’s still
raining and no one is bothered with the state of play and yes life is wonderful
and friends are wonderful and let’s print some more flyers and give them
out and you’re never old enough to be jaded and there will always be a
floor to sleep on. And how going nowhere slowly is alright really and how
friends are worth far more than all the bankers wealth. And he’s right,
we do have all the best stories to tell and who cares about the destination,
if all you care about is the destination than you’ll miss the journey (you
deserve to miss it!). Frank Turner and his guitar (with the help of a few
friends with strings and drums and decent cups of tea) has made a truly
wonderful album - an album that’s worth far more and leaves you far richer
then being a banker being in the black ever could (and we’ll never be finished
and sleep is for the week) and yes! Just yes! Thank you Mr Turner, a wonderful
collection of heartfelt songs, a wonderful album in every way.
www.frank-turner.com
/ www.xtramilerecordings.com
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK 2
CAR
BOMB – Centralia (Relapse) – Now this is extreme, now this is extremely
good. Hang on, this is extremely extreme! Like The Locust with far far
more meat on their bones and detonating vicious blasts of wildly technical
jump about jerky progressive extreme metal violent delight. Jazz inspired
blast beats that go off and things (yes you know what we mean), hang on
they just evolved it in to warped speed Ruins intensity - this is not for
the faint hearted. Relentlessly suffocating musical treats all the way
from Long Island NY. A twenty first century schizophrenic disorienting
delight, Cardiacs-tight and all over the place with intensely hard-boiled
light and shade and solid grey like a hypnotic worm - oh yes, this is heart-stoppingly
good, exhaustive and intense.. Dexterity and intensity and delightfully
unrelenting and X-factor good. “Mechanistic” they said. Oh yes. Out right
now on Relapse records, the extremist of the extreme, what the hell are
you waiting for? www.myspace.com/carbomb or www.carbombcult.com
or www.relapse.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
ATHRONE
OF KATARSIS – An Eternal Dark Horizon (Candlelight) - What we got here
then? Does exactly what it says on the tin. What does it say on the tin?
Death metal is what it says on the tin. No mistaking what we’re gonna find
waiting inside this here tin m’lord - extreme death metal. The evidence?
Black and white cover, long-haired black-eyed,white face-painted man in
contorted mid scream (scythe in hand natch.) standard issue studded wrist
bands up his arms, logo you can’t read, you know the deal. Is it any good
though? “Spawned out of Norway in 2003 by the demonic visions of Grimnisse
and Vardalv, their prophecy was and still is to craft purified and atmospheric
occult black metal” Yeah yeah, but is it any good? “in the true vein of
80’s Norwegian Black metal blah blah blah” yeah yeah but is it any good?
Actually yes, if raw atmospheric old school extreme screaming dooming black
metal is your thing, then yes – there’s a lot of dreadfully naff and rather
silly black metal about, this may not be that original in terms of sound
and style and who knows how much substance there is, but it is a rather
good example of genre and rather listenable in an unlisteneable extreme
black metal kind of way – an eternal dark blasphemous unholy horizon indeed,
think I’ll have another cup of tea now, fancy a muffin before that stripy
cat wakes up again? www.throneofkatarsis.com
/ www.candlelight.co.uk
PHINIUS
GAGE – Seek Out Your Foes (Small Town) Names after a science textbook hero
who accidentally blew a hole in his head and lived with a half brain (or
so we’re told). And just as someone else has already pointed out, a punk
rock half way house somewhere between the melodic SoCal sound and punk
rock’s shouty rebellion highway. They’re actually from Brighton and they’re
a half-decent hard working well-intentioned punk rock band with a provocative
song or two. Worth your time and money (if you have any of either that
is). www.myspace.com/phiniusgage
APARTMENT
– The Dreamer Evasive (Fleet Street) – Rather sharp and mildly rewarding
in a spacious indie Bloc Party kind of way, there’s a certain depth and
quality to Apartment. Curious types should take themselves off to www.myspace.com/apartment
MARYSLIM
– A Perfect Mess (Wild Kingdom) – Classy sounding melodic hair metal pop-rock
from Stockholm Sweden, they have an impressive edge of their own. Well
worth your time if Backyard Babies or 69 Eyes or those Wildhearts or Him
or AC/DC or LA Guns (I could go on and on with this list, you get the picture)
are you’re thing. Rather fine version of The Sisters’ This Corrosion tagged
on to the end of the album as well. www.maryslim.com
DAPHNE
LOVES DERBY – Goodnight, Witness Light (Outlook) - Well someone has to
love Derby I guess, god knows why though, they’re going to blow it, peaked
too early in the fizzy pop league. This album? Harmless enough sugary sweet,
sweet to the point of sickly, emo pop and pleasant enough if you’re in
the mood I suppose, if you don’t listen to the lyrics anyway. This is so
politely wet, Westlife are Slayer in comparison, just who the hell actually
listens to this stuff? Harmless enough though and at least they don’t have
one of those standard issue whinny voiced emo brat singers so for once
I don’t feel the urge to reach for that baseball bat. OK, we’re four songs
in now and those lyrics are really starting to piss me off, get it out
of here now please, getting all the way through this is clearly going to
be like trying to eat two tons of cheap brand dolly mixtures - just not
possible without violently throwing up again. Right, enough of this, pass
me the baseball bat, the extra violent one with the nails sticking out
of the business end - this is sickeningly awful and must be destroyed right
now, for the good of all and the welfare of the pink and white striped
cat who might wake up soon and the wooden professor bird and the mice who
operate the marvellous mechanical mouse organ and the garbage pale kids
that no one loves, we care a lot...
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terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! Weasel says check out VESSELS |
Weasel
wants you to know that TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. 2 CD OUT NOW!!!!!
To Live and Shave in L.A.
2 - The 300 Dollar Silk Shirt - ugEXPLODE/X+Z=0 Records
78 minutes - the complete
studio recordings. FREE GLAM onslaught feat. Weasel Walter, Rat Bastard,
Nondor Nevai, Misty Martinez and special guest appearance by OM
Myth
for more information see
http://nowave.pair.com/ugexplode
So there we were packaging
up mail order (parcel tape and Coptic Rain albums flying everywhere) and
listening to Welsh voiced Huw Stephens on Radio One just now at 1.00am,
(flicking between Huw’s show and John Kennedy on XFM, that’s what we do
when we’re not listening to demos and new albums and arrghhhhhh, not enough
ears, not enough time). Nice to hear that excellent Stray Borders demo
getting some national radio exposure on Radio One (and was that Mira Manga
shouting down the phone line? Something to do with someone sponsoring her
hotpants so she could go tour Singapore), tuned in mostly to hear the Wrong
Music feature and DJ Shitmat and imagine our head pecking surprise when
Mr Stephens just said on air just now that next week’s featured D.I.Y label
of the week will be ORG, “hang on” we thought, “that’s us!”. So tune in
to Radio One next Wednesday at midnight and see if we just imagined we
heard that or not. Seems we did hear right, he just said it again
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SINGLES |
| So
we have three singles of the week this week, so what? We had a good week
for singles and we don't mean on no hornymatch dot com either...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
I
LIKE TRAINS – Spencer Perceval (Beggars Banquet) – Nine minutes plus of
slowly uncoiling beauty that no physician or position can save you from
now, a slow moving dark ghostly engine shed-quiet hulk of brooding moody
steam train beauty and a murdered prime minister. Those arch miserablists
iLikeTrains always manage to sound so gloriously uplifting and Black Five
and Deltic-cool wonderful. Not quite as instant as their treatment of the
evil Doctor Beeching and before those whispered vocals came in, it was
rather post-rock-pack sounding in a slightly obvious Godspeed Your A Silver
Mt Zion way. If the truth be told sounding a little too much like all the
others until those trademark quiet vocals and their very own finger print
eased in. Give Spencer Percival three plays and you’ll know it to be as
fine as everything else this very fine band have ever done. Meanwhile over
on the b-side I Am Murdered is equally as glorious and tension-building.
Spencer Percival, the only British prime minister to be assassinated in
office (in 1812), the song is from the perspective of murderer John Bellingham,
the accompanying track I Am Murdered is from the point of view of Percival.
Everything this fine band do is gracefully ambitiously glorious - black
and white doomy and brooding and gloriously miserable. Like The Smiths
before them, I Like Trains are a glorious glorious glorious English treasure.
www.iliketrains.co.uk
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK 2
DINOSAUR
Jr – Been There All The Time (PIAS) – Don’t you just hate it when favourite
old bands reform. However good they were back then, things are never as
magical second time around are they? No, they’re damn well not, bands should
never ever be allowed to reform, there needs to be strict laws about these
things. If Blair really wants a legacy then strict legislation on reforming
bands is his key, the world will thank him, all will be forgiven, it will
rain strawberry ice cream and we’ll all dance in the street, forgive all
his spin and for miles around cats will put on legwarmers. This is just
what you/we/him/her/the strawberry ice cream fiend in the legwarmers and
everyone else ever could have wanted from a returning born again Dinosaur
Jr. Sounds like the three of them have never been away, like they’ve
indeed been there all the time, sounds just right, sounds as fine as ever.
Classic Dinosaur Jr and song writing as strong and bold as ever. An inspired
and very cultured Dinosaur sounding a-side from J.Mascis and an equally
rewarding and rather Neil Youngesque flavoured b-side from the pen of Lou
Barlow. Both tracks are from the forthcoming album Beyond, everything is
sounding goooooooood and don’t you just love it when a favourite old band
makes a welcome return with something that sounds as good as they ever
did. The two track single is released April 16th as a limited seven inch
and download thing - www.dinosaurjr.com
/ www.myspace.com/dinosaurjr
J.
Mascis will be visiting the UK briefly next week, during which time he
will be playing a solo acoustic show at London’s Oxford Street Metro on
February 28th 2007 at 9.p.m. Doors are at 8 p.m. J will be playing
some old Dinosaur Jr tunes as well as some from the forthcoming album “Beyond”.
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK 3
RADIO
LUXEMBOURG – Diwrnod efo’r Anifeiliaid EP (Peski) – What kind of magical
mystery ride of happiness and sonic sunlight are the rays of Radio Luxembourg
trying to catch us in? A “twisted murder mystery record” and the immorality
of zoos and giraffes with zebra stripes and half English language half
Welsh. Actually the English bit almost didn’t grab us, it was only when
they went all naturally Welsh that it all made perfectly glorious sunny
sense - and now I’m hooked on all the sugar rush of all five beautiful
songs, whatever the language. All the anifeiliaid are happy in this zoo.
Hang on, short-cut time, let me get all list-lazy and throw out some names
so you can get some kind of idea here – Kevin Ayers and Super Furry Animals
and Sleepy People and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Tim Smith and twisted wayward
pop and fine fine sunny harmonies and a day with the animals and the practicalities
of sun cream and a great big set of smiles to bring in the sun and the
spring – www.myspace.com/peskirecords
/ www.myspace.com/radiolux
ALSO
CHECK OUT...
KUBICHEK
– Nightjoy (30:30 Recordings) – Harmlessly infectious throwaway indie pop,
nothing offensive, nothing that we want to shout at or about or around,
nothing we really need in our lives, if you think you need harmless infectious
indie pop in your life then here’s the link - www.myspace.com/kubichek
ANGUS
& JULIA STONE – Mango Tree (independiente) Australian brother and sister
duo, nice breezy positive acoustic folksy sunny warm resonating heartfelt
homespun folk-pop – Viking Moses, Simon And Garfunkel. Nice nice nice,
positively nice - www.angusandjuliastone.com
POISON
THE WELL – Letter Thing (Ferret) A download only single and a taste of
the forthcoming album Versions. I don’t know, there’s always the threat
of something interesting trying to break out with it comes to the better
than average screamo metal of Poison The Well. Unfortunately, as usual,
that threat is lost somewhere in the stew of screamo clichés and
the feeling that they’re just not quite brave enough to really go for it
and cast of the restrictions, it like they need to continually conform.
Nice slide guitar in there with the metal violence – almost yet again,
almost... almost! Available to download from March 13 – www.ferretstyle.com/poisonthewell
EI-P
– Flyentology (Definitive Jux) – The current hip-hop name to drop, lead
track is some kind of not very inspiring collaboration with (the usually
inspired) Trent Reznor that we really don’t have much of an opinion on
either way really. B-side, EMG, sounds rather good in an old school 80’s
Street-Soundz kind of way, sounds like typical Capital Rap show earfood
circa ’86 back when that show was vital listening – EMG is fine enough
but no real indication as to why he’s the current name to drop - so we
won’t drop no names, walk away, nothing much to see here, nothing is dropped
and everything must go, thou shalt not drop names like Killa Kela namedrop
last week, wooooo a name drop, go check out Killa – www.myspace.com/elproducto
/ www.iswyd.com
ALEXISONFIRE
– Boiled Frogs (Hassle) – Who is this Alex and why is his Alexis
on fire anyway? I don’t know, are we missing the point here? Is there a
point? Just what is the point. This ain’t a scene, it’s a god damn, oh
, I don’t know what it is? What is it!? Boiled frogs, what’s all that about?
Hassle? or maybe the Alex who’s on fire is a her in her Alexis, who knows,
does anyone know? Who boiled the frog? Some gentrified gastro pub food?
Does Gordonfuckingramsey know? I’ve forgotten what it sounded like now,
wasn’t very memorable then. “The Mighty Alexisonfire are heading our way
for another hotly anticipated UK tour. You can check them out at the following
dates” says this here press release - Feb 28 Glasgow ABC, March 1st Manchester
Academy 2, 2nd London Astoria, 3rd Sheffield Corporation, 4th Cardiff University,
5th Newcastle University, April 27th London, 28th Birmingham, 29th Glasgow
where a plague a boiled frogs will rain for forty days and forty nights
and oh get it all out of here...
Last
week's single of the week - HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
/ MOTHGUTS / KILLA
KELA / CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES
Previously
- TOBIAS FROBERG / THE
FLESH HAPPENING / GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE
/ ZERO / BEATNIK
FILMSTARS / DAN LA
SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC
/ THE RUBY SUNS / THE
SCHLA LA LAS / THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S
BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT
PAW / CHROME HOOF/
FRANK
TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE
RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ
/ THE LOVES / THE
EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG
/ SPIDERBABY / |
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PAULA?
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