Little Bit Of Politics: BBC ban Misty's for Evil-doing
The new double A-side single by Brum's eighteen-legged post-twee arkestra Misty's Big Adventure is too political for broadcast, according to the BBC.»
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Super Furry Animals, Various - Under The Influence
From Undertones to Underworld, Beach Boys to Bjoerling, MC5 to ELO...the Super Furry Animals compile seventy minutes of their own musical influences and inspirations.»
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
This isn’t irony, it’s barely rock n’ roll; it’s simply life imitating art and art writing explosive, truly thrilling post-Britpop art-punk monologues about it.»
Alto45 - 101101
Ever have that dream where The Beta Band are trying to do Eighties new-wave but end up sat woozily around a camp-fire with indie-loving Space Invaders machines instead? Me neither. Which is why you should be pleased Alto 45 are here to show you what you’re missing.»
Various, Erol Alkan - A Bugged Out! Mix
Ah yes, a highly-anticipated 150-minute compilation by head Trash-man and boundary-blurring deejay Erol Alkan. With two discs, natch - one of them's great to dance to. The other has Spacemen 3.»
Flowered up: BSP do CFS and MRLP
Another weird week for British Sea Power then, what with being approached by both gardening fanatics and political parties...»
Nurse! The bears! 'Suit do May tour!
Those furry eclecto-pop lovelies Bearsuit become acquainted with the road this May.»
Field Music - Shorter Shorter
Brevity can be a virtue during first impressions, and while Field Music get three tracks put down on five-and-a-half-minutes’ worth of plastic it’s enough time to get their pastoral-pop message across.»
Pulling the wires from the wall: Delgados get on their bikes
Oh dear...the four lovely Scottish indie types decide to call it a day.»
Birdpen - demo
This newest of Birdpen demos doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the lads’ bleak electronic mini-anthems and Warp-indebted post-glitch beauty.»
Nothing - Go Nowhere EP
Latest release from the Brightonian threesome that obviously don't resort to gargling sandpaper to get that post-grunge sound.»
Milky Wimpshake - Popshaped
Yes, the word 'twee' does spring to mind, but Milky Wimpshake seem to mean what they're singing... even if it is about buses, milk and girls wearing sensible shoes.»
Ciara - 1, 2 Step
It’s not bad per se, it’s just 'taking it back to the old school' when we’ve already had enough return visits, thanks.»
My Favorite - The Happiest Days Of My Life
Fabulous New Yorkers indebted to 1980s outsider indie... yet not a bandwagon in sight. What would Morrissey say?»
Snow White - Barbarico
While Snow White hardly sound like they’re gonna change the face of a crack-obsessed Lahnden rock’n’fuggenroll scene, they do have the youthful two-fingered indie-noise thing sorted, and has the magnetic post-punk characteristic of sounding like it could collapse at any moment before…well, it actually does.»
Trouble Everyday - Days vs. Nights
What Trouble Everyday seem to do best is infuse jittery post-punk with a style that emo kids would consider ‘a heart’. Pity they don't always do that, then...»
One Longer: 65days tour goes 'Hole' hog
Having just stumbled home from their 21-date UK tour, post-everything wizards 65daysofstatic have gone and booked a 22 more gigs for April.»
Kevin Mark Trail - D Thames
The urban vibe is still the font of inspiration for the former Streets singer, both musically and lyrically – unless you’re being pedantic and say that the estuary is not the only part of that river at the start of EastEnders.»
Magoo - Pop Songs
Yes, these ARE pop songs, pop songs untainted of the usual elitist grumbles like marketing strategies and wardrobe consultants, pop songs that will make you want to sing the riffs and hug the sky and proclaim Magoo as quivery-kneed and rightful indie glee royalty.»
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Boy buys guitar. Boy forms hardcore band. Boy meets other hardcore bands. Boy decides to have loads of hardcore bands playing in his basement and then get a megastar Gallic robo-disco duo to headline the whole shebang. Brilliant!»
Antihero - Body Rot
Is that a new haircut? Have you recently shined your shoes? Or are you harnessing that experience in the rawk world and shifting towards a more ‘polished’ sound that we only partially fell in love with you for?»
Coachwhips - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge
Reaffirmation that the proverbial rock n’ roll belly is still aflame - you need this but you don’t know it yet.»
Tern - demo
Did someone say the E word?»
Villareal - Spook Frequency
This has something else, whether it be a notable understanding of melodic wizardry, or a touch of ethereal and cosmic depth, or simply the initiative to have written some really good songs and feel the need to play them.»
Captive State at Southampton The Joiners, Sat 22 Jan
Not only does it turn out to be the largest number and amount of people and machinery seen in this venue, but also turns out to be the ensemble that provoke the most positive physical reaction that’s been seen here for a log time to. Yes, Captive State can make people dance.»
The Rise And Fall Of The Scene With No Name
The past few years may have seen little vitality breathed into the former 'scene', but the end of both Mclusky and Ikara Colt in the space of a week buries the movement once and for all. Bothered. Here's why...»
The Hungry i - The Car EP
This music is so much more than a genre – its more like collaged snippets of nightmarish visions or the cinematic encasement of a tortured mind, loop-fed through clinical laptop work and then played backwards.»
Alter Ego Distort - ...in all oceans now
Miss those heady shoegazing days? Then we reckon you'll be overcome with the glimmer and yearning and melancholy of the newest demo from AED.»
Help She Can't Swim - Fashionista Super Dance Troupe
The hardest shouty, glittery, indier-than-thou kick in the teeth of a long-player this year? Wouldn’t argue against it…»
Turncoat, Villareal, My Luminaries, The Customers - Cable Club Volume 2
The regular club night held at Pressure Point in Brighton gives us a second compilation of unsigned brilliance, mostly to show that 'London Mk II' is still delivering in terms of the guitar-shaped underground.»