Toast Over Toast: Moggers Predict the Predictions of 2008!
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Artist:The Magnetic Fields
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Album:Distortion
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Track:Drive On, Driver
This morning, while reading the Guardian's predictions of next hot artists of 2008 over tea, toast and gummy bears, I enjoyed that us Moggers have been ranting about most of these folks long before those tortoise-shell glassed reporters knew the difference between Black Kids or Vampire Weekend.....I may have even rolled my eyes :) Also, in particular, Flux (Colin) and Anna gave me some recommendations RIGHT ON TARGET (see their comments below the Guardian article). It's as though these walls can echo...... :) (To note, I caught Cage the Elephant out of Kentucky at Lolla in August, tipped off by my amigo Jamil Walker of BMI...and met their good pals at ACL-am hollering now to keep an eye out....) Also, our familiar favorites The Foals, The Crystal Castles,Black Kids, Vampire Weekend, etc were mentioned...There was a Duffy post two days ago.... Go kids go. GIVE YOURSELF A HUG and PAT!
THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE: http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2230334,00.htmlPop '2008? It's the year of odd band names' Black Kids, Dead Kids, the Whitest Boy Alive ... which bands will make it big next year? Dave Simpson hears nine industry experts' predictions Friday December 21, 2007The Guardian Simon Moran, promoter, SJM Concerts I think Duffy will be massive. I've heard several tracks and they're great. Her voice is amazing and the songs are timeless enough to play alongside Dusty Springfield or Amy Winehouse. Adele will also do well: she's great live and, again, she just has a brilliant voice. I get a good feeling about One Night Only. We've put them on with the Coral and the Pigeon Detectives and they went down really well and I can imagine their songs being all over the radio. The Twisted Wheel from Manchester remind me of when I first saw the Arctic Monkeys. The singer looks like he means it, like a young Paul Weller, and the girls love him. I get offered a lot of jobs as a managerial consultant but the Script are the first I've said yes to since the Coral. They are two brothers from Dublin: the singer looks like a young Matt Dillon and sings like Sting. Very mainstream, but in a good way. They've got a track called The Man Who Can't Be Moved that's going to be a worldwide hit. Nick Huggett, head of A&R, Columbia RecordsWe tried to sign Sam Sparro. We didn't get him, but he's great. He's originally from Australia but grew up in South Central Los Angeles singing with church groups. He sings soulful electro dance music - Gnarls Barkley meets Scissor Sisters. He's quite camp but very fresh-sounding and his song Black and Gold is a massive tune. I signed Adele to XL when I worked there, but I genuinely believe she will be huge. The songwriter Eg White's written for Will Young and people like that, but it was amazing to put him with such a genuine talent as Adele. I didn't think I'd ever sign someone from the Brits School for XL, but she's got credibility and the most amazing voice I've ever come across. The market's very commercial at the moment and saturated with singer-songwriters and guitar bands so it's refreshing to work with a pop band like Ting Tings. They're fun, catchy, hooky, a little bit like Salt'n'Pepa and will do well. Alison Howe, producer, Later With Jools HollandI think after Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, girls will continue to be successful next year. Duffy and Adele will obviously do well, but I think pop music will be back. There are a lot of groups - particularly from the States - whose influences are a lot broader than Razorlight or Arctic Monkeys. I'm thinking of Vampire Weekend and particularly Black Kids, who sound like the Go! Team mixed with Arcade Fire. The songs sound fun and exciting. Yeasayer look pretty awful in the way they dress, but musically they make no sense and I like that. I'm also intrigued by The Whitest Boy Alive. I've only heard a couple of songs but sometimes that's all you need. I'll be interested to hear what Cajun Dance Party deliver because they've made a couple of good singles, and Hot Chip have made a really great new record that should finally establish them. All these acts make my heart skip. I think we're heading for a good period. Conor McNicholas, editor, NME2006/07 was the time of bands with animal names - the Wombats, Arctic Monkeys. And 2008 will be the year of unusual band names. Joe Lean was the drummer in the Pipettes and he's also an actor, and fronts Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong. I've only met him once but he's like Pete Doherty - when he walks into a room the lights come on. The two guitarists would look amazing on their own but together they're unbelievable, and Pamela the bass player looks extraordinary. They've not been put together by a major label. It's all Joe Lean's vision and they've got a fresh, poppy sound. Does It Offend You, Yeah? are a bit new rave - their favourite band are the Prodigy. They're led by Morgan, who has totally overhauled the band and MCs them like a hip-hop MC would. When they played in London recently there was a man banging a beer crate on the ceiling, a man biting people onstage and Morgan was carried over the crowd to the bar, where he ordered a rum and coke without missing a beat. Late of the Pier have been compared to Roxy Music but they're not as stylised. I don't actually like the music that much, I just find them extremely intriguing. They're somewhere between the Human League and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: genuinely bizarre. Nihal Arthanayake, DJ, Radio 1/BBC Asian NetworkSuperswamis mix Gnarls Barkley, the Doors and Asian classical music. They're unclassifiable, and I find that tremendously exciting. They're not constrained by the weight of what they hear around them. A bedroom producer in Leicester called RJ Productions has made this record that sounds like a drum'n'bass Unfinished Symphony, called 526. He names his tracks after the order he makes them, so this is the 526th track he's made. We've been playing it for months and it's now getting a release. A band in Kentucky called Cage the Elephant have just toured America with Queens of the Stone Age. They could be 2008's Strokes. Dawn Kinnard is a singer I came across - the daughter of a Pennsylvanian Baptist preacher who now lives in London. I just love her smokey, bluesy, sleazy voice. I'm also looking forward to the new Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly album, which is produced by Nitin Sawney. In British black music everyone's been looking for the next Ms Dynamite, and Estelle could finally be it. She's singing now, not rapping; her voice has a wonderful transatlanticness and she should break big in 2008. Matt Cook, director of talent and music, MTV2We've had a lot of exciting new bands in for sessions recently. The Ting Tings and Vampire Weekend will do something next year, along with a new Columbia signing called MGMT, who are a bit Flaming Lips-ish. On a pop tip, Alphabeat are pressing the right buttons in a B-52s style. They're already big in Denmark. I've been fortunate to hear a lot of the Adele album and it's a big sound, widescreen production with the songs to back it up. I really like Duffy as well. Bernard Butler's production reminds me of the stuff he did with David McAlmont, that late-60s, early-70s Shangri-Las vibe. A singer-songwriter with a bit more is Jacob Golden. His self-released album has now been picked up by Echo. His songs are slightly dark, twisted. We had him in for a session and I stood open-mouthed in the studio. He was stunning. Sean Adams, founder, drownedinsound.comA lot of bands are suddenly coming back very strongly on their third or fourth records. The Kills will be listened to more than they were now that Jamie Hince goes out with Kate Moss. Magnetic Fields will be exciting as usual, but Friendly Fires suddenly have the feel of a substantial band. They've really developed and are like a Rapture for Kooks fans. A Scottish band called Errors have a mini-album called How Clean Is Your Acid House? They fit with where music's going - with groups like LCD Soundsystem or Hot Chip - but I think they're more interesting. We've been tipping Foals for ages but it feels like they're finally landing. The office also really likes These New Puritans. They feel like a band who won't be huge but will headline the Astoria and go down a storm in the tents at festivals. I love New Age, art rockers who've just signed to Sub Pop, and Youth Movies, a cross between Mars Volta and Death Cab for Cutie. Laura Marling's record is also going to be brilliant. She's folky, nervy onstage and very young, but live she's so powerful she could be 40. I've played her to people and left them breathless. Niall Doherty, deputy editor, The Fly magazineFoals are the most exciting band I've seen live in ages and they also make great records. The vocals are a paranoid, primal holler. The guitars are complex math-rock and the rhythm section baits the dancefloor. A lot of indie music sounds smug, but Foals sound relevant and righteous. I like Dead Kids a lot. They make a wild, electro groove that sometimes sounds like Joe Strummer fronting PiL, and sometimes like a new rave Bowie. There's good music coming out of New York again - Vampire Weekend and Yeasayer - but MGMT are better than both. They're a duo making magical, hip-swivelling acid-pop. Imagine Brian Wilson swapping the beach for the disco. They'll be a big hit at festivals this summer. Nick Tesco, writer, Music WeekI don't imagine Holy Fuck will get much radio play with that name, but they were amazing at Glastonbury. They've got the same liberated thinking that punk bands had, but do it with electronics. They've been described as Canadian Krautrock. My 13-year-old son loves them. Another Canadian electronic rock act I like are a male-female duo, Crystal Castles. They're painfully hip but they're far better than the other Klaxons-type bands and really tear the place up live. MGMT are more young people making fabulous electronic bubbles and squeaks. I've got a soft spot for Grantura, a harmony driven country pop band from London. I saw Dawn Landes on YouTube doing Peter, Bjorn and John's Young Folks with loads of old bluegrass guys. Her forthcoming album is wonderful. The next big thing's next big thingsLast year's success stories give their tips for 2008Isi Tufekci, DigitalismWe think Late of the Pier could be bigger than Klaxons. They have three different sounds in one track: cool indie, 70s synths and techno, all at once. They're really young and produced by Erol Alkan, who does things like make a guitar sound like a saxophone. Another band we like are the Heavies, who are a mix of disco and funk - and the guy has an unbelievable voice. At the other end of the spectrum we like the long-awaited comeback album by an old band, the B-52s. They're back in Love Shack style. We like the Hot Chip album, too. It's a mix of 70s and 80s, but sounds like now. Matt Bowman, Pigeon DetectivesI may be biased but I've been lucky enough to watch our support bands every night for weeks and they've both got the potential to do well. One Night Only are young lads from Helmsley, a little village outside York. The singer, George, has got a cracking voice, and the band have keyboards, which make them a bit different. The Wallbirds are in a different market: like an acoustic White Stripes, with bits of Ryan Adams and the Fratellis. They set up very close to each other on stage and are like a little gang, firing through these fast-paced stomp-along acoustic songs. I think they were trying to ride the Sheffield wave, but we've outed them: they're one of very few bands to come from Doncaster. Kate NashI've been doing gigs with Peggy Sue and the Pirates for ages, and they've just released their first single. I'd describe them as a dream of rockabilly mixed with whiskey and soul and punk: funny, sensitive and imaginative. I've also played with Blah Blah Blah. They've got a double bass and a jazz drummer. They're like Oliver Twist meets punk. Emmy the Great has just released a single. She's got a weird band with violins and stuff. It took me a while to get into it but I love it now. The new Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly album will be great. Metronomy are another band to look for - heartbreak electro pop - and Black Kids are amazing, like Arcade Fire mixed with cry-baby films and 80s pop. I expect a lot from Neely O'Hara, who makes instrumental electronica, a bit like Sigur Rós but thought-provoking. I also like a lot of spoken-word stuff, poets like Dockers MC and Poetikat, who writes about her life with such honesty that she gets in trouble with the people she's writing about! And as MOG PREDICTED>>>>> TWO MONTHS AGO: 
FluxCapacitor says:I've got a few predictions the top of me head (that could very well blow up in my face...): 1. & 2. Musically Vampire Weekend and Black Kids will rule the world in 2008. Their early EPs are astonishing. (Gonna post some Black Kids tomorrow.)3. Also an Irish band called Fight Like Apes are blowing people away on this side of the water. They're genuinely seen as the first Irish band in since the guys with the mullets named after a plane who have a chance of breaking big worldwide. (I'll Mog about these soon.) 4. I'll wager, too, that more bands will release singles that sound like their remixes, as with Bloc Party's upcoming (and wonderfully titled!) 'Flux'.5. Methinks electro music will hit the mainstream like rave did in the early 90, that's judging by the amount of incredible electro remixes that have come out this year. It's my favorite flavor of dance music so perhaps this is wishful thinking, but here's hoping... 6. And going to the theatre will become cool again (says this hopeful playwright)!Anna says:I'm with Fluxy at his #5. Electronic music will take over everything. Affect the way we dress, the bars we go to, anything you can think of. It (the genre, by which I mean those behind it) was smart enough to evolve, expand its sonic field and embrace other genres (Franz Ferdinand's new album is going to have many electronical elements). From the usual suspects (like UNKLE ) to the new rave wave (Klaxons, your fellow citizens Shy Child which I love, etc) to dance punk, it will PWN all. And I can't wait ;)
THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE: http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2230334,00.htmlPop '2008? It's the year of odd band names' Black Kids, Dead Kids, the Whitest Boy Alive ... which bands will make it big next year? Dave Simpson hears nine industry experts' predictions Friday December 21, 2007The Guardian Simon Moran, promoter, SJM Concerts I think Duffy will be massive. I've heard several tracks and they're great. Her voice is amazing and the songs are timeless enough to play alongside Dusty Springfield or Amy Winehouse. Adele will also do well: she's great live and, again, she just has a brilliant voice. I get a good feeling about One Night Only. We've put them on with the Coral and the Pigeon Detectives and they went down really well and I can imagine their songs being all over the radio. The Twisted Wheel from Manchester remind me of when I first saw the Arctic Monkeys. The singer looks like he means it, like a young Paul Weller, and the girls love him. I get offered a lot of jobs as a managerial consultant but the Script are the first I've said yes to since the Coral. They are two brothers from Dublin: the singer looks like a young Matt Dillon and sings like Sting. Very mainstream, but in a good way. They've got a track called The Man Who Can't Be Moved that's going to be a worldwide hit. Nick Huggett, head of A&R, Columbia RecordsWe tried to sign Sam Sparro. We didn't get him, but he's great. He's originally from Australia but grew up in South Central Los Angeles singing with church groups. He sings soulful electro dance music - Gnarls Barkley meets Scissor Sisters. He's quite camp but very fresh-sounding and his song Black and Gold is a massive tune. I signed Adele to XL when I worked there, but I genuinely believe she will be huge. The songwriter Eg White's written for Will Young and people like that, but it was amazing to put him with such a genuine talent as Adele. I didn't think I'd ever sign someone from the Brits School for XL, but she's got credibility and the most amazing voice I've ever come across. The market's very commercial at the moment and saturated with singer-songwriters and guitar bands so it's refreshing to work with a pop band like Ting Tings. They're fun, catchy, hooky, a little bit like Salt'n'Pepa and will do well. Alison Howe, producer, Later With Jools HollandI think after Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, girls will continue to be successful next year. Duffy and Adele will obviously do well, but I think pop music will be back. There are a lot of groups - particularly from the States - whose influences are a lot broader than Razorlight or Arctic Monkeys. I'm thinking of Vampire Weekend and particularly Black Kids, who sound like the Go! Team mixed with Arcade Fire. The songs sound fun and exciting. Yeasayer look pretty awful in the way they dress, but musically they make no sense and I like that. I'm also intrigued by The Whitest Boy Alive. I've only heard a couple of songs but sometimes that's all you need. I'll be interested to hear what Cajun Dance Party deliver because they've made a couple of good singles, and Hot Chip have made a really great new record that should finally establish them. All these acts make my heart skip. I think we're heading for a good period. Conor McNicholas, editor, NME2006/07 was the time of bands with animal names - the Wombats, Arctic Monkeys. And 2008 will be the year of unusual band names. Joe Lean was the drummer in the Pipettes and he's also an actor, and fronts Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong. I've only met him once but he's like Pete Doherty - when he walks into a room the lights come on. The two guitarists would look amazing on their own but together they're unbelievable, and Pamela the bass player looks extraordinary. They've not been put together by a major label. It's all Joe Lean's vision and they've got a fresh, poppy sound. Does It Offend You, Yeah? are a bit new rave - their favourite band are the Prodigy. They're led by Morgan, who has totally overhauled the band and MCs them like a hip-hop MC would. When they played in London recently there was a man banging a beer crate on the ceiling, a man biting people onstage and Morgan was carried over the crowd to the bar, where he ordered a rum and coke without missing a beat. Late of the Pier have been compared to Roxy Music but they're not as stylised. I don't actually like the music that much, I just find them extremely intriguing. They're somewhere between the Human League and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: genuinely bizarre. Nihal Arthanayake, DJ, Radio 1/BBC Asian NetworkSuperswamis mix Gnarls Barkley, the Doors and Asian classical music. They're unclassifiable, and I find that tremendously exciting. They're not constrained by the weight of what they hear around them. A bedroom producer in Leicester called RJ Productions has made this record that sounds like a drum'n'bass Unfinished Symphony, called 526. He names his tracks after the order he makes them, so this is the 526th track he's made. We've been playing it for months and it's now getting a release. A band in Kentucky called Cage the Elephant have just toured America with Queens of the Stone Age. They could be 2008's Strokes. Dawn Kinnard is a singer I came across - the daughter of a Pennsylvanian Baptist preacher who now lives in London. I just love her smokey, bluesy, sleazy voice. I'm also looking forward to the new Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly album, which is produced by Nitin Sawney. In British black music everyone's been looking for the next Ms Dynamite, and Estelle could finally be it. She's singing now, not rapping; her voice has a wonderful transatlanticness and she should break big in 2008. Matt Cook, director of talent and music, MTV2We've had a lot of exciting new bands in for sessions recently. The Ting Tings and Vampire Weekend will do something next year, along with a new Columbia signing called MGMT, who are a bit Flaming Lips-ish. On a pop tip, Alphabeat are pressing the right buttons in a B-52s style. They're already big in Denmark. I've been fortunate to hear a lot of the Adele album and it's a big sound, widescreen production with the songs to back it up. I really like Duffy as well. Bernard Butler's production reminds me of the stuff he did with David McAlmont, that late-60s, early-70s Shangri-Las vibe. A singer-songwriter with a bit more is Jacob Golden. His self-released album has now been picked up by Echo. His songs are slightly dark, twisted. We had him in for a session and I stood open-mouthed in the studio. He was stunning. Sean Adams, founder, drownedinsound.comA lot of bands are suddenly coming back very strongly on their third or fourth records. The Kills will be listened to more than they were now that Jamie Hince goes out with Kate Moss. Magnetic Fields will be exciting as usual, but Friendly Fires suddenly have the feel of a substantial band. They've really developed and are like a Rapture for Kooks fans. A Scottish band called Errors have a mini-album called How Clean Is Your Acid House? They fit with where music's going - with groups like LCD Soundsystem or Hot Chip - but I think they're more interesting. We've been tipping Foals for ages but it feels like they're finally landing. The office also really likes These New Puritans. They feel like a band who won't be huge but will headline the Astoria and go down a storm in the tents at festivals. I love New Age, art rockers who've just signed to Sub Pop, and Youth Movies, a cross between Mars Volta and Death Cab for Cutie. Laura Marling's record is also going to be brilliant. She's folky, nervy onstage and very young, but live she's so powerful she could be 40. I've played her to people and left them breathless. Niall Doherty, deputy editor, The Fly magazineFoals are the most exciting band I've seen live in ages and they also make great records. The vocals are a paranoid, primal holler. The guitars are complex math-rock and the rhythm section baits the dancefloor. A lot of indie music sounds smug, but Foals sound relevant and righteous. I like Dead Kids a lot. They make a wild, electro groove that sometimes sounds like Joe Strummer fronting PiL, and sometimes like a new rave Bowie. There's good music coming out of New York again - Vampire Weekend and Yeasayer - but MGMT are better than both. They're a duo making magical, hip-swivelling acid-pop. Imagine Brian Wilson swapping the beach for the disco. They'll be a big hit at festivals this summer. Nick Tesco, writer, Music WeekI don't imagine Holy Fuck will get much radio play with that name, but they were amazing at Glastonbury. They've got the same liberated thinking that punk bands had, but do it with electronics. They've been described as Canadian Krautrock. My 13-year-old son loves them. Another Canadian electronic rock act I like are a male-female duo, Crystal Castles. They're painfully hip but they're far better than the other Klaxons-type bands and really tear the place up live. MGMT are more young people making fabulous electronic bubbles and squeaks. I've got a soft spot for Grantura, a harmony driven country pop band from London. I saw Dawn Landes on YouTube doing Peter, Bjorn and John's Young Folks with loads of old bluegrass guys. Her forthcoming album is wonderful. The next big thing's next big thingsLast year's success stories give their tips for 2008Isi Tufekci, DigitalismWe think Late of the Pier could be bigger than Klaxons. They have three different sounds in one track: cool indie, 70s synths and techno, all at once. They're really young and produced by Erol Alkan, who does things like make a guitar sound like a saxophone. Another band we like are the Heavies, who are a mix of disco and funk - and the guy has an unbelievable voice. At the other end of the spectrum we like the long-awaited comeback album by an old band, the B-52s. They're back in Love Shack style. We like the Hot Chip album, too. It's a mix of 70s and 80s, but sounds like now. Matt Bowman, Pigeon DetectivesI may be biased but I've been lucky enough to watch our support bands every night for weeks and they've both got the potential to do well. One Night Only are young lads from Helmsley, a little village outside York. The singer, George, has got a cracking voice, and the band have keyboards, which make them a bit different. The Wallbirds are in a different market: like an acoustic White Stripes, with bits of Ryan Adams and the Fratellis. They set up very close to each other on stage and are like a little gang, firing through these fast-paced stomp-along acoustic songs. I think they were trying to ride the Sheffield wave, but we've outed them: they're one of very few bands to come from Doncaster. Kate NashI've been doing gigs with Peggy Sue and the Pirates for ages, and they've just released their first single. I'd describe them as a dream of rockabilly mixed with whiskey and soul and punk: funny, sensitive and imaginative. I've also played with Blah Blah Blah. They've got a double bass and a jazz drummer. They're like Oliver Twist meets punk. Emmy the Great has just released a single. She's got a weird band with violins and stuff. It took me a while to get into it but I love it now. The new Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly album will be great. Metronomy are another band to look for - heartbreak electro pop - and Black Kids are amazing, like Arcade Fire mixed with cry-baby films and 80s pop. I expect a lot from Neely O'Hara, who makes instrumental electronica, a bit like Sigur Rós but thought-provoking. I also like a lot of spoken-word stuff, poets like Dockers MC and Poetikat, who writes about her life with such honesty that she gets in trouble with the people she's writing about! And as MOG PREDICTED>>>>> TWO MONTHS AGO: FluxCapacitor says:I've got a few predictions the top of me head (that could very well blow up in my face...): 1. & 2. Musically Vampire Weekend and Black Kids will rule the world in 2008. Their early EPs are astonishing. (Gonna post some Black Kids tomorrow.)3. Also an Irish band called Fight Like Apes are blowing people away on this side of the water. They're genuinely seen as the first Irish band in since the guys with the mullets named after a plane who have a chance of breaking big worldwide. (I'll Mog about these soon.) 4. I'll wager, too, that more bands will release singles that sound like their remixes, as with Bloc Party's upcoming (and wonderfully titled!) 'Flux'.5. Methinks electro music will hit the mainstream like rave did in the early 90, that's judging by the amount of incredible electro remixes that have come out this year. It's my favorite flavor of dance music so perhaps this is wishful thinking, but here's hoping... 6. And going to the theatre will become cool again (says this hopeful playwright)!Anna says:I'm with Fluxy at his #5. Electronic music will take over everything. Affect the way we dress, the bars we go to, anything you can think of. It (the genre, by which I mean those behind it) was smart enough to evolve, expand its sonic field and embrace other genres (Franz Ferdinand's new album is going to have many electronical elements). From the usual suspects (like UNKLE ) to the new rave wave (Klaxons, your fellow citizens Shy Child which I love, etc) to dance punk, it will PWN all. And I can't wait ;)
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