Archive for June, 2010

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Cate Le Bon Interview

Swallow The Town Like A Vitamin   Much is made of Welsh chanteuse Cate Le Bon‘s morbid lyrics, but in reality her art hardly reflects her personality. Me Oh My, her debut album released in late 2009 on Gruff Rhys’ (Super Furry Animals) label Irony Board, was originally titled Pet Deaths in honour of the [...]

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Saturday, June 5th, 2010

The Cool Kids: new mixtape

Haulin’ Up Bass After weeks of tweeting about their summer mixtape The Cool Kids have finally flipped it. Their latest 15-track comp was produced by Chuck Inglish and DJ sourMILK and was released in conjunction with Los Angeles Leakers. Titled Tacklebox, they’ve kept to the fishing theme; their last mixtape was called Gone Fishing and [...]

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Golden Axe: new video

Looking Sharp   Daif King and Chris Cudby are famous around here for constantly breaking all the conventional pop rules. One could easily take their goofiness as a piss-take of the pop music industry, but oh no, they’re deadly serious. They started out busking on the Auckland streets in 2001 and have since gained one [...]

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

railcars free remix EP

My eyes are turning in on themselves   Hysterical undersea babbling and pan-fried drum machine beats are awash in a sea of fizzing electronics and meandering structures in the latest noisy offering from LA noisenik Aria Jalali of railcars. He offered his recordings to the hands and ears of No Age, Lucky Dragons, Jeans Wilder, [...]

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