Archive for February, 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
NO ZU
Spiritual Heatwave/ No Doz NO ZU were one of the best kept secrets of Campus A Low Hum 2011, a wonderfully surprising party band that encouraged everyone to dance. Once Nick and I arrived home in Auckland and wiped the grins off our faces and the camping grime off our skin, we discovered a lovely […]
No Comments » - Posted in Australia,Melbourne by Sarah Gooding
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Total Slacker
Total Hacker My favourite psychedelic sludge pop band from New York, Total Slacker, released a new song the other day, and it’s a gem. ‘Life on Easy Street (U Could Die In BedStuy)’ is a classic grunge-pop song featuring raunchy guitars and Emily Oppenheimer’s brilliant sleepy sing-along vocals with Tucker Rountree’s weird yet matter-of-fact depiction […]
No Comments » - Posted in Brooklyn,New York,U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Noah and the Whale
Love Is A Dog From Hell Yesterday a press release from Shock Records reminded me of Noah and the Whale, a band whose debut album in 2008 I adored, but then only briefly listened to a few tracks from their follow-up album The First Days Of Spring. That album was also accompanied by a short […]
No Comments » - Posted in London,UK by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Secret Cities
Rocky Mountain High Blasts of rough-around-the-edges shimmering pop stirs your senses, giving you a hay-fever addiction totally unprovoked by the outside world. Secret Cities, a trio from Fargo, North Dakota, released their debut album last year titled Pink Graffiti and it gained rave reviews across the blogosphere. On February 12 they released their follow-up single; […]
No Comments » - Posted in Fargo,North Dakota,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Campus A Low Hum 2011
Campus A Low Hum 2011 highlights Words by Sarah Gooding, Photos by Rachel Brandon High Places High Places’ ramshackle beauty was always going to stand out. And after talking to Rob and Mary while waiting in line for dinner at the restaurant, I found out they didn’t even mind the crowd invasion that happened during […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Bulls,New Zealand by Sarah Gooding
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Puro Instinct: new single
Stoned Again… Released a few days ago, Puro Instinct’s latest track ‘Silky Eyes’ has engraved itself on my mind. It’s slack comatose vocals are lazy and infectious, with shimmering discord guitars starting all loose before descending into an incredible pop melody. There’s a hint of ’80s prog in the rhythms that the band seem to […]
No Comments » - Posted in California,Los Angeles,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Music Alliance Pact February 2011
Crash Avenue NEW ZEALAND: Einstein Music Journal Popstrangers – Avenue Noisy shoegaze collides with angry post-punk in Popstrangers’ songs. They released their second EP, Happy Accidents, in November on Shoot The Freak, and its five distorted pop songs instantly stand out. There’s a real menacing quality to the slacker vocals, drilling rhythm section and rusty […]
No Comments » - Posted in Music Alliance Pact by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Disappears
Protest You Get sucked into the driving sound of Disappears, Brian Case from The Ponys‘ epic new tour de force with Damon Carruesco and Jonathan Van Herik. ‘Halo’ is an emphatic and shouty take on shimmering trance-inducing reverb rhythm and blues, with a drone krautpop slant that brings to mind the bottled-up nerve of Wilberforces […]
No Comments » - Posted in Chicago,Illinois,U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Tiger Choir
An Accurate Reflection From Tasmania, Australia, Tiger Choir’s washy rhythms spread like a contagious disease, sending cascading electronics and heavily cushioned reverb out into the atmosphere. The three-piece band consisting of Hamish Cruickshank, Sam Nicholson and Eliot Taylor describe themselves as “a bit all over the place”, bouncing between songs littered with electronic samples to […]
No Comments » - Posted in Australia,Tasmania by Nick Fulton
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Laneway Festival live photos
Laneway Festival Monday, January 31, 2011 Aotea Square, Auckland Photos by Rachel Brandon *(Blonde Redhead and Foals would not allow photographers to enter the photo pit) More photos from Laneway Festival 2011
