zomg. Finally The self titled new album is coming out on the 16th of August. Although i sound like a teen reviewer for dolly magazine i have been a massive fan of Mercy Arms for awhile, although Kirin may steal my girlfriend with his ‘yeah i can wear a wedding dress but girls still want to sex me’ look. The album has been produced by Tony Cohen who has worked with the likes of Nick Cave. The album is a lot different to what i thought it might be. Has a very Pete Doherty pop vibe too it? Don’t hurt me for saying that.. Please, please buy their album(on itunes?) they have been working hard on this for quite awhile AND go see them on tour. Seriously one of the best live bands to see. Take your girl/boy friend and just hope the band doesn’t steal them away.
Right now, my eyes are bleeding with mucus and i barely have the energy to attend my yearly Après-ski. I have the flu/cold/whatever and it really sucks. Now usually when i’m in this state i listen to nothing but an ambiance CD of rain forest noises that i stole from my yoga/meditation teacher Mother. But I am quickly getting sick of this flu and have resorted to more aggressive music in the hope i can just thrash dance it out of my system.
New Judas is not only getting rid of my cold but it’s making me want to start slam dancing with my hot water bottle. New Judas is a Finnish based record label and is fucking amazing. The artwork is done by The ZondersVänskap which is how I found them and have various artists who i have never heard of before.
I recommend you give this Label a decent browse. Especially make the effort to watch the video clip for Huoratron - $$ Troopers. Not only is the song genius but it also makes you believe the techno Viking might be doing a collaboration with a Ketamine/VHS influenced Michel Gondry but most of all… It’s really, really… really good. Like really.
So like I haven’t posted anything for a while. I’ve kind of been busy lost in my own mind trying to decide if I should go overseas or if I should throw away my life looking for a full time job. So what have I discovered? Well not much, but in a space of one week I did find out that magic mushrooms grow behind my old high school oval and that my mum knows that i used the word ‘cunt’ and/or ‘cunty’ in my last post
NO AGE
If you have heard of mika mako then you have probably heard of these guys before. But if you live outside LA then maybe not? They are apparently touring Australia towards the end of this year with pets with pets possibly supporting. Like i dunno. You really have to listen to ‘everybody’s down’ on their myspace its fucking amazing but they also have a tribute song to bjork which is a pretty sound cover.
Coming to Melbourne soon. Not Bjork but like No Age and stuff
THE STABS I’ve had a stalker before and its really kind of creepy and scares the shit out of you at the time. But when you get a band named ‘the stabs’ with a song ‘never going home’ with lyrics… “you got my number and then you never called, so i got some duct tape and kicked in your front door” it makes obsessive violence cool again.
So instead of buying another pair of cheap mondays just stalk your ex and listen to the stabs.
STAY HIGH I have this friend named gentle. He dresses like an esoteric prince but has this amazing ability to discover bands from the future, another planet or connections to an accention cult. This is one of them. Stay High.
WHICH HATS
The witch hats have a similar rad sound to the stabs. Hailing from Melbourne and touring at the moment promoting their new 7 inch “CELLULITE SOUL“. You can check out the gig dates on their myspace.
TELEPATHE Now alot of you are gonna be like, “quit reading vice band reviews and trying to palm them off as your own find”. Well whatever. It was just coincidence that, gentle and my girlfriend introduced me to them at the same time vice decided to write some shit review.
However they will be touring Australia and will be in Melbourne on the 26th of June at the Toff,
Supported by pets with pets.
All blogs are tré homo, especially music ones with shitty writers who have opinions that are particularly, to put simply, fucking cunty. Ok cunty is not a word. But fuck, i’m apparently an example of my own contention. Please take this into account in the next couple of paragraphs.
If you haven’t caught on yet, i’m just validating what JD wrote. Yeah wow amazing, like pow! Right in the kisser yeah? “fuck you waves” right? No.
I still love this Blog, although its path has gone ‘ash tray’ (sound it out). There is a general idea that if something is good; lets play it fucking heaps! “fuck yeah! justice wow!”
Doing this is killing it. We need to except it was great but to move on to new things. The Ed Banger thing was amazing but by remixing everything to the end of its breath isn’t going to make it come back.
But you know, luckily…the most amazing thing about music is that you can act all fucking cool about it and immediately obtain self-gratification by putting down old genres of music. (Minus Bowie or sonic youth of course) get the hint? do you understand what im trying to tell you?
But then again I could take that all back after listening to the volume III teaser with sebastiAn – Dog. Fuck.
I guess what im trying to say is…
No more jock bullshit! More noise! less music! Lets move away from house, fluro and the French.
Making some dicky comment about this video doesn’t seem appropriate does it? But still, Tranter is making it sexy to be naked again. (said with love Chris).
