I haven't wrote in awhile and there's a reason for that. The countless stream of useless, non-personalised emails from PR agencies who should know better than to send me badly written presspacks about artists that are totally not relevant to this blog, had me so underwhelmed and uninspired that I have turned my attention to another project. There is only so much you can take when everyday you open your inbox and its all just disappointment after disappointment eating up the storage limit. Quoting Andy Inglis, "There's already too much bad music". We don't need more of them. Saying that, [...]

Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads... Columbia Nights - Stormy Weather Bird Peterson - Drankenstein 2 (Mixtape) Twin Atlantic- Cherry Slut (BSide) That Was Yesterday - Secret Lovegrenade - Hategrenade Shores - Allotropres Action Beat - Hass Yr Idols Strength - Metal Zechs Marquise - Everlasting Beacon of Light Grace Weber - Stay Or Leave Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand Click Read More below, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy! Read more »

Cruel Cassette is from London and he's remixed one of my favorite noise pop bands, BITCHES and also Japayork , an artist whom I've been chasing to have on the blog but never replied to me. Anyway, the fact that Cruel Cassette has remixed BITCHES and the total pole opposite that is Japayork shows that he has good taste. BITCHES are friends of my favorite no-wave noise band, DIVORCE from Glasgow, and the insanely loud two-member thrash punk band with a mad drummer (who has the tendency to drop his pants while [...]

BEST GIG ever. I braved freezing winds, icy roads and snow to get to this gig. You just CANNOT say no to the prospect of seeing an insane noise band with 4 fucking drummers, live. You just cant. Another quality gig by British Wildlife and another reason why I love this (what those cunts at Drowned In Sound disrespectfully labelled : ) " underground toilet circuit ", better than any pretensious fucking magazine-hosted wanky party . [Video: Cuss Words] Case in point: nothing beats the experience of an intimate venue [...]

KID A Released 10 years ago this week (02/10/2000). Intro Kid A is in my humble opinion one of the top 3 albums of all time. The dark brooding but ‘optimistic’ atmosphere it creates sounds exciting and [...]

Official video from the wonderful Austrian artist Anja Plaschg , taken from Soap&Skin album " Lovetune for Vacuum " , one of my favorite albums of 2009 , produced and directed by Benjamin and Stefan Ramirez Pérez photography by Anja Plaschg. Watch | Soap&Skin - Thanatos Last friday Action Beat were here in Haarlem , the instrumental noise band from bletchley , 3 drums , 3 guitars and 1 bass , and yes total freaking noise and distortion [...]

Le festival Les Urbaines vous propose, pour sa 13e édition , trois jours de découvertes artistiques. Installations, performances, concerts, spectacles, vidéo, expositions, une cinquantaine de projets sont présentés dans une dizaine de lieux lausannois. Gratuit et sans têtes d’affiche, le festival vous propose de parcourir la ville et d’y respirer l’air frais des tendances émergentes, toutes disciplines confondues. Arts vivant: suivez nos performeurs textuels Marceline Delbecq ou Martina-Sofie Wildberger, croquez les propositions entre arts visuels et théâtre de Cristian Chironi ou Cause Of Inflation Damage Limitation Orchestra, les conférences décalées de Benjamin Seror ou [...]

Le festival Les Urbaines vous propose, pour sa 13e édition , trois jours de découvertes artistiques. Installations, performances, concerts, spectacles, vidéo, expositions, une cinquantaine de projets sont présentés dans une dizaine de lieux lausannois. Gratuit et sans têtes d’affiche, le festival vous propose de parcourir la ville et d’y respirer l’air frais des tendances émergentes, toutes disciplines confondues. Arts vivant: suivez nos performeurs textuels Marceline Delbecq ou Martina-Sofie Wildberger, croquez les propositions entre arts visuels et théâtre de Cristian Chironi ou Cause Of Inflation Damage Limitation Orchestra, les conférences décalées de Benjamin Seror ou [...]

Gimme some Action (Beat) A giudicare da questa foto, temo che qualsiasi disco proveremo a mettere dopo il concerto degli Action Beat di questa sera al Locomotiv Club , io e Francesco nel ruolo dei dj faremo la figura dei chierichetti. La noise/no-wave punk band inglese (riferimenti: Sonic Youth, Fugazi e anche robe più avant) verrà a presentare il suo ultimo album The Noise Band From Bletchley , che spinge i suoni in direzione ancora più psichedelica [...]