January 2010
48 posts
listening to "Beat! Beat! Beat! - Fireworks" →
Foals Jr.?
listening to the lovely "Local Natives -... →
Rant Of The Day: When Bands Go 'Mainstream' →
My rant on fans who bicker when their bands become ‘mainstream,’ and downloaders who don’t support the bands they ‘love’
Element Acoustica: Five Acoustic Versions of Songs... →
WatchHonest - Acoustic (Band of Skulls)
Stacey’s Left Arm (Tubelord)
Bye-bye...
When Actors & Actresses Become Musicians →
[Zooey Deschanel]
I write about actors and actresses who become musicians.
xn—l6h:
These New Puritans – Three...
listening to "The xx - Vcr" →
VCR (The xx)
WatchStill one of my favourite scenes in the whole three seasons of Skins
And still waiting for Season 4 (obviously Sid isn’t going to be on it)
Alice Practice (Crystal Castles)
Crystal...
Under The Sheets (Ellie Goulding)
A solo female...
thesixtyone →
littlejalapeno:
makracosm:
On thesixtyone, new artists make music and listeners decide what’s good. We’re nurturing a growing ecosystem where talented folks can sell songs and merchandise directly to their fans. Unlike a record or distribution deal where they only make $1-2 per album (if they ever get paid, that is), artists on thesixtyone make at least $7 per album and are paid every 30 days...
listening to "Alessi's Ark - The Horse" →
Alessi’s Ark - The Horse… Short and sweet
“Payah jua kan liat eh. Cuba tah camouflage!” “Ada meteor gugur bah,...”
– Zirah and Farah, respectively
listening to "Johnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar... →
listening to "Tellison - New York New York New... →
“New York’s a town that I’ve never visited, I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it. Someone was telling me how bad America is, you ought to go. It’s like our relationship. Collapsing.
Let’s move to New York, New York”
Randy Sage, True American Hero (Blakfish)
And...
Giggity: February
Johnny Foreigner, Talons, The Drums, The Big Pink, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, These New Puritans, Rolo Tomassi, Lost From Atlas, Band of Skulls, Overreact, Vampire Weekend, Los Campesinos!, Swanton Bombs, Islet, These Monsters, Hot Club de Paris, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Yeasayer, The Soft Pack, Alessi’s Ark, Tubelord, Tall Ships, Local Natives…
So many bands, so little time....
Come Back Home Tonight (Sam Isaac)
You tied...
“Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
I’ve seen those English dramas...”
– Vampire Weekend
“A goose in a barn in Shropshire fighting against the Wildebeest of deceit.”
– Danny Gallagher, of Lost From Atlas, responding to the question “What’s the meaning of life?”
Always Ups & Downs (Trophy Club)
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“The day of release was a peculiar feeling, like time-travelling yet without the...”
– Joe of Tubelord, on the release of Our First American Friends
Shelter (The xx)
I found shelter, in this way ...
The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future...
Let’s Go Surfing (The Drums)
“Save your BRAINS!”
– Tubelord
I Was Made For You (She & Him)
Don’t...
Hold Out Tonight (Abi Lanigan)