As a companion piece to their subscriber-only 20th Anniversary 14 disc box set curated by such luminaries as REM’s Peter Buck, Jonathan Lethem and David Byrne, the people at Merge Records have seperately released SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS! which will be available in stores on April 7. Much Like the Dark [...]
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Having pulled up a chair with the The Stills in London to have a drink and talk about their most recent album Oceans Will Rise late last year, we continue to follow their adventures as The Stills join the Kings of Leon on tour in Australia, where Chris Berkley of Static catches up with both [...]
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Put this in your “Exciting News of the Day” basket like we have, as on 27th April, Domino Records will release “Coast On By”, the fantastic first single taken from King Creosote’s new album, Flick The Vs, which rather oddly is released a week earlier on 20th April. Why do record companies insist on doing [...]
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MetricWe are seriously in love with the new Metric album Fantasies (Apr 7 ROW, Apr 11 Aus), as if you hadn’t already noticed. While we’ll review the album in full next week here is another song, the biting anthemic “Sick Muse” available for download.Metric - “Sick Muse” (128kps, 3.9MB)Of course the whole of Fantasies is [...]
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Who are the Condo Fucks? What is a Fuckbook and is it any good? So many questions, but are you prepared for the answers?
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With a new album about to be released on March 30 in the intriguingly titled A Man A Woman Walked By, it’s hard to believe that it’s been over a decade since Dance Hall At Louse Point, PJ Harvey and John Parish’s first collaboration released in 1996. Arriving a year after Harvey’s most commercially successful [...]
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New No Wave or Narco-Electro? Whatever the case, Marry Me Tonight is well worth making an engagement with...
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There's no hiding Hatcham Social. "You Dig The Tunnel" kicks the dirt long and high in a dazzling display of pop sensibility.
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V FestivalThe behemoth of the V Festival roles into the country at the end of the month. It features the usual mix of mainstream and up and coming rock/pop and electronic acts including The Killers, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Elbow, The Human League, Madness, M83, Louis XIV, Howling Bells, The Kills and more.Mar 28 - [...]
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Detektivbyrån Lille Vega, Copenhagen13 February 2009The other day a friend of mine came by and flicked through my records and asked “Don’t you have any music that is not depressing?”. I replied “I do! Detektivbyrån”. Few bands can put smile on my face like Detektivbyrån. So it was with great expectation I ventured to [...]
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File this under "Why be in two bands when you can be in three?", Jack White of White Stripes/Raconteurs fame has unveiled another super group this time featuring Alison Mosshart of The Kills, fellow Raconteur bandmate Jack Lawrence on bass and touring Raconteurs guitarist/Queens of the Stone Age member Dean Fertita. Conceived during a [...]
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of MontrealThe Zoo, Brisbane4 March 2009It’s just before the encore that things start getting really weird: Two guys in animal masks start playing — Mr Fish is on drums while Mr Lion roars into the microphone, garnering the requisite response from the crowd necessary in encore type situations — leading me to glance around at [...]
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Welsh pop maniacs the Super Furry Animals will perform their brand new album Dark Days/Light Years in entirety on Monday 16th March, 8pm UK time in an exclusive ‘once only screening’ gigcast filmed in conjunction with MusicBox, Cardiff, and graduate filmmakers from Central St Martins College, London, and hosted on the band’s website at www.superfurry.com.The [...]
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Art Brut return with the first single taken from their forthcoming Frank Black produced album "Art Brut Vs. Satan" released on 20th April. "Unanimous" is a skittery cyclone of buzzing guitars and post-inebriation guilt as laid out by the garrulous Eddie Argos and company. Drunks that we are, we unanimously approve. Bartender, another round.
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Arriving on the scene way back in 2002 with the gritty Black Rooster EP, The Kills took the garage rock aesthetic and beat it down, creating a skin and bones strut that stank of sex and cigarettes. In the following years, The Kills haven’t strayed too far from their original lo-fi blues/rock blueprint, yet still [...]
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Brisbane’s favourite sons, The Scare, are back with the first tastes from their new album, oozevoodoo. Since the release of their debut album Chivalry in 2007, the band have been in a never-ending state of being broke and homeless. Those close to the band who are still scrubbing Scare-stink off couches and floors are probably [...]
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HTRKLexington, London9th February 2009I first witnessed Melbourne/Berlin noise-makers HTRK in action at a time where any favourable impression would not come forthwith. This was in a dingy low ceilinged East London venue that should’ve had ‘CONDEMNED BUILDING’ written all over it. It was as if someone had kicked open the doors, installed a shitty bar [...]
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Erlend Øye and company break some rules but also unwittingly create them on their second album entitled, you guessed it, Rules.
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Brooklyn twee-punksters the Vivian Girls hit the reverb heights in a hail of cartoon tattoos and converse on their debut album.
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The highlight of The Kills' Midnight Boom LP, "Black Balloon", is a slow burner either about a relationship going south, or an allusion to heroin use. Whatever your take it's a shining example of "less is more" -- a simple guitar line, a restrained vocal performance, and hand claps -- producing magic.It's being released in the UK on the Black Balloon EP (10" format out on 23 March) while Australia
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