Archive for August, 2011
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
TEETH!!! – new song ‘Care Bear’
Removable Wisdom Today I’m getting my wisdom teeth out. So I thought what better way to celebrate than by allowing you to remove some Teeth from EMJ? It just so happens that UK band TEETH!!! released an incredible, killer banger the other day that I’ve been itching to share with you. We’ve been fans of […]
No Comments » - Posted in England,London,UK by Sarah Gooding
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Treefight For Sunlight
Spiral Staircase Nobody does dream pop like the Scandinavians. Denmark’s Treefight for Sunlight continues the country’s unchallenged reign of infectious melodies melding ’60s sensibilities and sing-along lyrics the likes of the Zombies with a sense of urgency that brings to mind Arcade Fire. ‘What Became of You and I’ is a choral pop ode that […]
No Comments » - Posted in Copenhagen,Denmark by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Keep Shelly in Athens
Transcendent Meditation Keep Shelly in Athens has been all over my favourite music blog, Gorilla vs Bear, recently, but only now have I finally got around to devoting myself to the band’s dreamy pop music. Part lounge-disco, part ’80s nostalgia, Keep Shelly in Athens is completely jammed with hypnotic highway beats. From Athens, Greece, the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Athens,Greece by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Times New Viking live photos
Times New Viking with Terror of the Deep and Sheitgeist Sunday, August 21, 2011 San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington Photos by Rachel Brandon More photos of Times New Viking with Terror of the Deep and Shietgeist
No Comments » - Posted in Live photos by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
O’Lovely: new album
Wild Flames Former Christchurch – now Auckland – shoegazers O’Lovely have just released their debut album after months of reworking, refining and securing the approval of all three band members. Vocalist/keyboardist Laura-Lee Watson has no shame in describing herself as a ‘perfectionist’, and for those able to compare this album with the band’s previous, somewhat […]
No Comments » - Posted in Auckland,New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Hildur Guðnadóttir live photos
Hildur Guðnadóttir with Seth Frightening Saturday, August 20, 2011 Adam Art Gallery, Wellington Photos by Rachel Brandon More photos of Hildur Guðnadottir and Seth Frightening
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Pizza!
Transformation Heavy emotional weight drives Pizza!’s monotone pop ode about a boy yearning to grow up. Though the footage is grissly and not entirely something I’d promote (bludgeoning a deer), Blaine Ludy‘s video is beautifully shot. In it, pressure mounts on a drooling, daydreaming kid (played by Chase Whitted) to the point where he transforms […]
No Comments » - Posted in Los Angeles,U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Dusk Warrior
Filmic Explorer When Nicholas Shapiro left his band Weird Korea, he set out to achieve a special goal. Enamoured with a long forgotten genre from the 1960s and 1970s known as Music Library, Nicholas and his friend Mike Osso set about recreating the kind of wordless compositions he’d come to favour, that featured as aural […]
No Comments » - Posted in New York,U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Music Alliance Pact August 2011
Look Up Through The Clouds NEW ZEALAND: Einstein Music Journal @Peace – @Peace @Peace is a collaboration between Auckland hip-hop artists Lui Tuiasau, Tom Scott, Christoph El Truento, Hayden Dick and Brandon Haru. The group have been getting praise for their discerning take on life in New Zealand’s largest metropolis, delivering a realist’s viewpoint referencing […]
No Comments » - Posted in Music Alliance Pact by Nick Fulton
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Rat vs Possum: new single and album news
Fox On Stilts Melbourne’s finest space-punk raconteurs are back with a new single, titled ‘Fat Monk’, taken from their hotly anticipated second album Let Music & Bodies Unite, out through Sensory Projects in September. Strangely though, this new track reminds me more of Adrian Tregonning, Andrew Noble and Daphne Shum’s other band No Zu, whom they […]
