Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Gladeyes & Jimmy Payday single
‘Psychosis of Love’
Imagine my delight when the above package turned up in the mail, after a sweet email from The Gladeyes asking for my postal address so they can send me their new song, a collaboration with Mr Hayday’s Jimmy Payday. “You don’t get the full effect with email mp3 sending,” they said. The cover […]
1 Comment » - Posted in New Zealand by Sarah Gooding
Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Movers and The Shakers
Death Letter
Blues/rock and roll duo The Movers and The Shakers have a coming-of-age tale like a great White Stripes lyric. Kitti Moon met Paul Alexander at High School; he introduced her to The Beatles and she introduced him to the Rolling Stones. They bonded over a love of Blues, were then separated for many years […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Gang Gang Dance remixes
TV On The Radio and Hot Chip remix Gang Gang Dance
Here’s a hard task – remix one of the greatest, most experimental and influential avante-garde bands in the world. TV On The Radio gave it a go to less than impressive results, but Hot Chip took quite an interesting approach which resulted in a hugely […]
No Comments » - Posted in New York, UK by Sarah Gooding
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Miniature Tigers
Gently Crushing (On) You
Akin to what would be found on a Wes Anderson film soundtrack, cute all-American crush-pop band Miniature Tigers is like a symphony of dreams. Their plush orchestral pop on ‘Tchaikovsky and Solitude’ has a heated desire wrapped up in its popping click track rhythms and grand, majestic harpsichord. The infinitely cool Americana […]
2 Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
New BLK JKS
Rainbow Ride
Originally from Johannesburg, the now US-based BLK JKS captures their progressive psychedelic dub rock roots perfectly in their new song ‘Molalatladi’, (meaning ‘rainbow’). This is the first track off their upcoming debut album, After Robots, produced by Brandon Curtis from Secret Machines. The nine-track album will be out on September 8 on Secretly Canadian. […]
No Comments » - Posted in South Africa, U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Psychic Powers
No Geographic Boundaries
People in New Zealand will know Nik Brinkman as one of the founding members of Over The Atlantic (whose album Dimensions was one of my favourites of 2008); however they may not know that he has another project called Psychic Powers which he works on via the world wide web, sending songs […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Los Angeles, New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Pearl Harbour
Surfing The Unsigned Buzz
From Los Angeles, California comes a mumbly, drone soaked, psychedelic surf rock band named Pearl Harbour. The name may not be all that original (remember Pearl Harbour and the Explosions from the late ’70s), but the music highlights their sun bleached Californian roots. With a surf rock guitar sound reminiscent of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Los Angeles by Nick Fulton
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Blast! Blast! Noise!
Spam Filter
Merging their love of Death From Above 1979 and Bang! Bang! Eche! with a grimey UK punk sensibility the likes of (the recently defunct) We Smoke Fags or Sigmund Droid, Christchurch’s Blast! Blast! Noise! are raucous synth metal/electro punk duo James and Patrick. They do sweet photo shoots in bathtubs and kitchens with their […]
33 Comments » - Posted in Christchurch, New Zealand by Sarah Gooding
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Sonic Youth- ‘Sacred Trickster’ video
Situationism
Sonic Youth’s new video for the single off their recently released new album The Eternal shows a sassy group of girls pulling a fun stunt on a bourgeois group at a roof party. It’s been compared to the band’s 1990 video for ‘Dirty Boots’, in which a rock and roll fantasy plays out in a […]
No Comments » - Posted in New York by Sarah Gooding
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Featured Reviews
British Sea Power- Man of Aran
7/10
“Written and composed as a score for the 1934 cinematic master-piece Man of Aran… their battle with the ocean is captured wonderfully and British Sea Power’s score brings tension and drama to the silent film… Brilliantly cold, but slightly over done towards the end..”- Nick
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