
Shoddily, ANBAD has not been updated for a day or two - more than a minor misdemeanour for a blog with a rod-for-your-own-back title such as this one. Mere laziness, for once, is not to blame; unusually, ANBAD has hitched its wagon to something interesting, and is heading down to SXSW in Texas to help hinder progress in constructing the monumentally exciting Hype Machine's Hype Hotel . Some wags may point out that being involved in an event like this is, in itself, exactly the wrong reason not to blog about new bands. Well, yes, [...]

Thomas Azier – Metropolitan Tribe [mp3] (from Hylas 001 EP , out now) Berlin's electro-pop wunderkind Thomas Azier offers up shimmering synthetic beats with blissfully harmonious vocals and youthful abandon. Lower Dens – Brains [mp3] (from Nootropics , out May 1 on Ribbon Music ) A [...]