Los Campesinos!

In the olympic spirit of obscure and ridiculous sports - badmitton or synchronized diving anyone?? -  I wanted to give away some medals too...I have Olympic fever and the only cure is to BLOG it out.   Best Song Title Of The Year So Far:   Bronze - The Hold Steady - 'Slapped Actress'(in my Olympics, the Hold Steady = Michael Phelps)   Silver - Robert Pollard - 'Confessions Of A Teenage Jerkoff'(I think this song would have won, but the Russian judge gave it... MORE

http://www.thecamdencrawl.com// / The 2008 Crawl programme kicks off from noon on Friday 18th April along the mile-long stretch from Chalk Farm to Mornington Crescent. This strip of pavement will play host to 130 artists performing across the event’s 25 official venues over 2 days and evenings and into the wee hours of the mornings. One low cost ticket, available as single or two day passes, will allow music fans unlimited access to all Crawl venues, after show parties a... MORE

Rather, they are a group that contains 6 English men/women and a Russian who sing energetic UK pop, and sing it well, at that. Last Saturday I got to enjoy their music first hand. My husband’s extremely cool 15 year old nephew convinced his mother to bring him from Vancouver BC to Seattle for their show. We got there early so that Nicholas could get up front (good BOY!) and so got to experience the opening band, Parenthetical Girls, also. Now, Parenthetical Girls... MORE

Everyone's favorite indie pop group from Cardiff, Wales just released a new video for their song "My Year In Lists" from their debut album Hold On Now, Youngster...(Wichita). The album was released today in North America, but has been available in the UK and Ireland since late February.

Here’s a cool method of enticing Pitchfork and its hipster audience. Firstly, associate yourselves with Broken Social Scene for Indie authenticity. Create a frenetic collage of noise by bombarding the listener with as many musical instruments the college music department will let you borrow and worry little over any proficiency in being able to play them adequately. Long, meaningless and occasionally self effacing song titles will help immensely along the way. Don’t forget... MORE

I admit, I'm kind of nervous. Kind of nervous because normally I can say anything, and you just have to accept it as the truth. I could say the band all took their shirt off and did a bellydance, and there is no one to say they did not. But this time you can actually judge my review and see the gig. Yikes. So all the more reason to talk about the things you cannot see, but that certainly did happen on the night that Los Campesinos! played the Paradiso Small Hall. We had ... MORE

Mogstars: 8/10 Twelve seconds into the album and I’ve already been pinned to the wall. Within two minutes I am already exhausted, it seems more like taking a jog than listening to music. Thankfully at two minutes forty the eclectic burst of opening energy finally affords the listener some breathing space. Three minutes per song and just as many chords per-track, this is a vigorous workout of indie-punk. Los Campesinos! are hardly MOR are material, more like toddlers w... MORE

It is ridiculously hot outside. Like "Oh God! My skin is on fire!" hot. So I'm going to throw a song up here that makes me happy and avoid thinking about the fact that the sun seesm to be roughly one mile above me, which makes me sad.   Have some Los Campesinos!, then. You also need to go to a decent record store and get their "International Tweexcore Underground" thing, if only to hear them do a version of a really angry Black Flag song and a cover of an excellent son... MORE

If you have listened to Los Campesinos, you'll know it is incredibly impossible to not at least tap your foot or bob your head to their music. This fact manifested itself entirely at the band's show at Bimbo's last night. The entire audience, whether there just for a night out or to see a band they absolutely adored, was a perpetual body of people bouncing to the beat. Even people sitting at the tables, enjoying a nice dinner or after dinner aperitif, couldn't help but mov... MORE

I'm still in the middle of gathering all the half year lists of 2008! A list of the best albums of 2008 so far according to all Moggers. If you haven't voted yet, go to this thread: http://mog.com/SA/blog_post/169238  and post your top 10 albums of 2008 so far. You only have until tomorrow! My Nr. 2 Band: Los Campesinos! Album: Hold On Now, Youngster... Best Track: Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks Best Line: I'm taking far too many chances/ on these less than idealistic ... MORE

/After queuing for 40 minutes, I got my wrist band and program then headed to a local bar to study it while having a late lunch and a few Becks..../In Koko at 6 to catch a subdued Ide Marie followed by an exuberant 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?' who played to a packed audience in a Klaxons stylee.../I REALLY did not want to miss Los Campesinos!, so headed up to The Enterprise which is a great Bozzer, but only has a tiny room upstairs with a capacity of 150. (We got bored betw... MORE