28 June 2007
26 June 2007
Good indie music for me, is becoming increasingly hard to find. This here is good indie music.
Vampire Weekend are from the indie-rock mecca NYC, they sound really fresh and will no doubt create waves in the right seas over the coming months, having already picked up acclaim from Stylus and many other blogs. They make a sound that's easy to get into, hard to get out of. yay
Vampire Weekend - BrynThee More Shallows are another pretty solid act around right now, their LP The Book Of Bad Breaks is by no means an easy listen, but is worth it. And this following song is just great!
Thee More Shallows - Night At The Knight School
22 June 2007
20 June 2007
The last I heard, Karin Dreijer was pregnant, that will be one kool kid. But if The Knife was pregnant and had a child it would give birth to something very artistic as well as tuneful, yes i'm on about the darlings of Gothenburg/Berlin,
Zeigeist. They're pretty much amazing and apparently if you catch them live they are double ace!
Zeigeist - Giving You Up (
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The next song was a release a few years ago on
Kitsune's Midnight meanderings, it's by Parisians
Archigram, the song Padre features Goldfrappish vocal hums and a harpischord circa 1498 A.D. all topped off with a confident beat. Good stuff!
Archigram - Padre (
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Stumbled across Australian Pop Compilation 2002 again recently, it's so fun and nice (my two favourite descriptive words) Personal highlight off this comp for me is not your
Boyracers or
Lucksmiths, but
Fog And Ocean and their cutesy lo-fi electropop ballad Wave And A Sigh.
Fog And Ocean - Wave And A Sigh (
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T-Shirt: Concrete Hermit
17 June 2007
That's a pretty nice hoodie yeah, well if you
get one, do not wear it when going for a drink in a narrow-minded country town. Ridicule from drunk Primark shoppers, denial of entry into places of generic decorum...... needless to say it was an early night. Still, I was left feeling smug in the knowledge that i'm not such a narrow-minded person with no interests or meaning to their life.
Music, it's Sunday, nothing to intense please. I really really love
Mice Parade, the New York act show an inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica, the latest self-titled album is out on the ever impressive
FatCat, and the following song is a reference to The Minutemen album Double Nickels On The Dime. Beautiful stuff it really is.
Mice Parade - Double Dolphins On The Dime (
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Errors don't make errors, they make evoking electronica with a quirky twist.
Errors - Salut! France (
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To coincide with the news of a new
Stereo Total album here is my favourite Stereo Total song. Which may be replaced by one of the new tracks after i've given it a proper listen.
Stereo Total - Do The Bambi (
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And finally, try not to be wowed at about the 2min 30 mark of this new
Her Space Holiday song.
Her Space Holiday - Panda Strikes (
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oh yeah, i messed with the blog layout too, possibly a bit cliche I dunno.
14 June 2007
And for you Hype Machine fans, there's a new kid on the block, JiwaMusic. It's similar in that it aggregates all mp3 blogs like myself and the better ones, but it beats Hype Machine hands down in the fact that you can search for your favourite full-length tracks posted by your favourite blogs, then bundle the tracks into an embeddable player and create your own unique playlist full of upto 100 full-length tracks, ideal for your MySpace or whatever.This is a quick and quite predictable one I made whilst bored at work today.
12 June 2007
6 June 2007
4 June 2007
*Be Patient With MP3 Links - They're Taking A While To Respond*So last post I brought up a remix done by
Phil Kieran, he makes one-third of Irish techno-electro-metal act
Alloy Mental, their sound will please everyone the ravers, the goths and the indie kids. Their 'We Have Control' LP is out and they're out about about in the UK in the summer months!
Alloy Mental - Fortunate One
Alloy Mental - Alloy MentalNow for some retro space-age stuff with
Bogdan Irkuk, nostalgic slO-mO italO discO perfect for your Sunday evening at home relaxing before settling down to watch
Heartbeat.........TV is dead (see below) Anyway, Bogdan is Bulgarian and has
The Distant EP available for your listening pleasure.
Bogdan Irkuk - CurareHere's one of my most listened songs recently, it has been posted elsewhere, but it is worthy of infinite postings.
Khan you feel it?
Khan - Favor After FavorSo yeah, i've never really been an avid TV viewer with the exception of Neighbours. But now there's TV on demand.... I signed up to
Joost, it turns a computer into an instant on-demand TV without any need for additional set top box and for free, just great if your an occasional viewer like me. Also it look's really really swish (style-over substance and all that) sign up
HERE. There's a few indie-ish channels and some nice documentaries.... if you're into that. Or plenty of vacuousness.