Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Blood Red Shoes
Blood Red Blues
Straight forward punk never sounded so good. The Brighton, UK, duo consisting of Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter never wanted to be big stars, they just wanted to be in a band.
One of those all-too-common random browses on Myspace a couple of years ago brought me to Blood Red Shoes, it must […]
No Comments » - Posted in UK by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Secret Knives
New From A Low Hum
Cloudberry Records may be one of the coolest record labels in America…but here in New Zealand we have something just as awesome; A Low Hum (we love you!) Ian Jorgensen aka Blink, the man behind almost everything cool in this country’s music scene, has just announced his latest signing. Secret Knives […]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Cloudberry Records
Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing!
Keeping itsy-bitsy indie community spirit alive, the Miami, Florida-based Cloudberry Records has taken to releasing some great underground music from around the world. Our very own Gladeyes are one of the lucky bunch to have three of their beautiful pop ditties put on 3-inch CDR, gatefold and hand-numbered to 100 copies. […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sharpie Crows
Once Bastard Sons, Now Sharpie Crows
What started as a quick post on The Bastard Sons of Grey Power has now become a post on Sharpie Crows. I wish they could have told me they’d changed their name, it would have saved me twenty minutes searching myspace.
A few weeks ago, Sam, the postman at my work, […]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
a faulty chromosome
THE LONELINESS OF THE
S H O R T D I S T A N C E W A L K E R
Very rarely does a writer get sent a press release on someone who they haven’t heard before but is compelled enough to click on and listen to. We are […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Be Your Own Pet
FOOD FIGHT
Be your own Pet are BACK!!! Their sophomore album is set for release in March and contains more pussy killing, tongue poking, and dirty, raunchy punk rock. Jonas, John, Jemina and Nathan’s music is true punk; angry, uncontained and spitting in the face of the establishment. Forget all the post punk bands you […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Monday, February 11th, 2008
An American Chinese
Clap Your Hands Say Philadelphia
Every year or two Philadelphia seems to produce another great indie rock band. Following on from Mazarin and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is An American Chinese; another band experimenting within the realms of guitar-driven pop that’s cutting edge and again reinforcing Philadelphia as an indie pop mecca.
An American Chinese […]
No Comments » - Posted in Canada by Nick Fulton
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Ray Davies
The Powerman is coming!
Not long ago, the legendary Kinks frontman, Ray Davies, who once sang raucously about wanting to be with his girl all of the day and all of the night (gasp!); who freaked out the status quo and was banned from playing in America, was announced to be playing in New Zealand. The […]
No Comments » - Posted in UK by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
MGMT
Vision for Kittens
Expansive, adventurous fantasy-pop band MGMT have a sound as ecclectic as their name. Layers of shoegaze fuzz and glam, understated, 80s vocals have a sedative effect as the drums click and clack through the synthetic symphony they create.
The boys, Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, purportedly take influence from “the implications of the […]
