Archive for June, 2009
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Lullatone
Baby, It’s Time For Bed Shawn and Yoshimi, one of the cutest couples in the world, have just released a new sampler titled We Will Rock You… To Sleep. The eight track album is to serve as an introduction to Lullatone’s music; it contains seven tracks from the band’s previous albums as well as one [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Japan by Nick Fulton
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
God Help The Girl
God Help the Girl- God Help The Girl 8/10 There’s a certain elegance about this album that makes it a totally charming listen. God Help The Girl is the soundtrack to a film scheduled to be shot in 2010. The songs were written and composed by Belle and Sebastian front-man Stuart Murdoch; it features twelve [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Baby Monster
Band Mismanagement Baby Monster is being tipped by some to be the next big hipster phenomenon. They’re already being compared to MGMT, Animal Collective and Passion Pit and that’s just a start; I even heard them compared to Thom Yorke’s solo work. I found out about them through French art blog Fluo Kids, which may [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Bang! Bang! Eche! tour blog- Update 4
Photos from Australia: Dicks, Sluts and Hoochie Mamas This was part of the tour poster James and T’Nealle made for Australia. Yesterday we played a show at Oxford Art Factory. That dude you can see is the singer/guitarist for Philadelphia Grand Jury! They are a indie-pop kind of band who prerecorded all of their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tours by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Mika Miko interview
“Fuck This, I Don’t Wanna Talk About This Anymore” Mika Miko were about 4 hours from Denton, Texas driving between shows when I spoke to them a few days ago. I called Jennifer but she was driving, and after yelling to her band mates “who wants to do an interview?” I ended up talking with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Los Angeles by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard
Sunshine Kid I was delighted to stumble upon Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard band today. Initally they looked and sounded dull and of a similar mold to the popular craze of lo-fi antifolk streaming out of artists’ veins these days. But once you get into their fourth and latest album ‘Em Are I you get [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in New York by Sarah Gooding
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Handsome Furs in New Zealand
Coming in August… The dates aren’t on the band’s myspace page just yet, but we’ve just seen a poster for the Wellington show on Facebook. Montreal band Handsome Furs will be playing Wellington’s San Francisco Bathhouse on Wednesday, August 26 and no doubt they’ll be an Auckland date and if we’re lucky a South [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Canada,New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Tiger Tones live photos
Tiger Tones w/ Diana Rozz and The Sing Songs Saturday, June 6, 2009 Whammy, Auckland The only thing that can get people into Whammy before 10pm on a Saturday night is free alcohol and god did we hear about it all night. “Thanks Tiger beer for making this happen”; tell me, what did Tiger beer [...]
21 Comments » - Posted in Live photos by Nick Fulton
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Featured Reviews
The Randoms- Throw Your Knives (EP) 8/10 “…The young trio of Oscar Davies-Kay, Vincent Nairn and Isaac Johnson have put together an EP that’s totally solid in every way, unleashing their rage and aggression in six tracks of bitter teenage angst… borrow(s) heavily from Fugazi’s In The Kill Taker, a wishy-washy attack of angular guitar [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Featured Reviews by Nick Fulton
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Frightened Rabbit- Quietly Now
Frightened Rabbit- Quietly Now (live) 6/10 A live album from Frightened Rabbit, mmm, this is a bit of an acoustic mess. Believe it or not it comes across in parts as quite an aggressive performance, with some rather abrasive guitar playing and a ramshackle mix of jingles, bells and cymbals. And when the quartet’s Scottish [...]
