Posts Tagged with ‘rock’
LOVING THE ANCIENT
It always saddens & frustrates me when a promising new band that you actually LOVE, great sound, new / different / exciting EP etc, drop their debut record it’s less than amazing.
Tigercity’s awesome Pretend Not To Love EP was brimming with touches of funky Prince, Holy Ghost style disco and Junior Boys electro pop. While [...]
FORMERLY…
I’ve been on an intense binge diet of The Artist when he was formally known as Prince. Everyone knows his hits, Kiss, Raspberry Beret, Purple Rain etc. but his early back catalogue reveals gold that far eclipses his later number ones. These tracks have literally been on constant rotation keeping me sane and dancing for [...]
TAPE//HISS
Two excellent purveyors of tape-hiss and ethereal pop. Ducktails have been getting a fair bit of exposure from blogs like GorillaVsBear and the like, with comparisons that they’re a tropical version of Wavves. Ducktails sound like something being broadcast from the middle of a distant heatwave on a far away island.
MP3: Ducktails – Backyard
Gary [...]
TRUE ROMANCE
Golden Silvers – True Romance
Watch for the girl at 0:42
There are very few bands who get me hot under the collar enough to check their myspace at least once a week for any sign of activity. Golden Silvers have had me hooked ever since their stellar single “Arrows Of Eros”. They’re one of those bands [...]
SONG OF THE WEEK
My Dad used to tell me that The Presets were just ripping off Depeche Mode. I didn’t really get it until I really started listening to them. This track I first saw on Rage years and years ago, then on the Anton Corbijn directors DVD and it kinda just stuck in my head. I suggest [...]
A BETTER YEAR
Not much has been really catching my ears this year that hasn’t already been covered (Whitest Boy Alive, Animal Collective, Dent May) but here are a few tracks, new and old, that have been demanding my attention.
Harlem Shakes are a band whose debut i was eagerly anticipating and am a little surprised at what they [...]
GOLDEN SILVERS
Winners of Glastonbury Unsigned 2008, London based Golden Silvers have fast become my most anticipated ‘band-to-watch’. I heard ‘Arrows of Eros’ about 6 weeks ago and was instantly in love.
Summery doo-wop-brit-pop with soaring harmonies, a bouncing bass line and a simple yet infectious synth riff make it a strong early contender for my ‘Song of [...]
HOWLIN’ NO MORE
Grammy Award winning rock band Wolfmother has announced the resignation of bass/keyboard player Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett effective immediately.
Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale now plans to find other musicians over coming months and to then begin making a new Wolfmother album.
Wolfmother toured the world virtually non-stop through 2006 and early 2007 on the back of [...]
DIP IN
So for like 2 months i’ve been harassed to put up about this band, Jan Mayen and i’m seriously dumbfounded to why i haven’t done so (sorry D). I’m also terrible when it comes to explaining the background of bands… so i usually make a half arse metaphor like “If The Strokes beat up [...]
PIER
New Late of the Pier AA-sided single featuring ‘Space and the Woods’ and ‘Focker’ to follow from the success of ‘The Bears are Coming’. ‘Space and the Woods’ is co-produced by Erol and LOTP and is somewhat greatly polished to when we heard it long long ago (the 7″ was out May last year!!). Nevertheless, [...]
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