Archive for March, 2012
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Swamprattts
Vegetarians Don’t Eat Fish Some of you may remember an ex-Invercargill band named V!xens, led by Joel Wood. The band produced one excellent electro-pop 7″ before disappearing to Australia. Now fully established in Byron Bay, Joel has started a new band called Swamprattts, with Luke Yeaman and Brett Jansh, who both bring their own reputable […]
No Comments » - Posted in Australia,Byron Bay,New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Miniature Tigers- new album
Fix It With Funk From the comfy confines of bedroom pop, once simple-indie-ode purveyors Miniature Tigers have graduated to slick, funky pop the likes Phoenix might proffer, on their latest album Mia Pharaoh. We first wrote about them in 2009 – almost three years ago – when they were mainly a two-piece drumming up hype […]
No Comments » - Posted in Arizona,U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Hunx
… Without His Punx Hunx And His Punx first entered my life via Vice Magazine’s New Garage Explosion, which went live in 2011. The documentary features a wave of new garage rock bands sweeping across America, including Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and Girls and details cities such as Memphis, Detroit and San Francisco. It […]
No Comments » - Posted in California,San Francisco,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
That Ghost
Scraping On Wire For the past week I’ve had a song on my playlist that every time it’s come on has made my ears prick up. I originally thought it was one of several WOMEN tracks I added to my playlist upon hearing the sad news that the band’s guitarist Christopher Reimer had died in […]
