Tu veux jouer - Betty and the Werewolves I excuse this piece of poorly pronounced, fake-French for enchanting, cultured effect. Just this once. I can't think of any other music things i liked that were released this year, though i'm sure they exist. I'm open to others' preferences and suggestions. Very open. Desperately open.
Werewolves - Betty and the Werewolves Comet Gain's Howl Of The Lonely Crowd and Tunabunny's Minima Moralia . The Girls Names LP, but that is mostly because it exceeded my expectations from here-we-go unenthusiastic caution to the surprisingly good so i guess it counts. Football, etc.'s The Draft . The No Action 73 and Bloodclot Faggots 73, the Cassolette stuff even though it's digital, the Wild Flag LP even though i haven't heard it yet, the Tangle demo. The Vivian [...]
Good as gold - Betty and the Werewolves Where is my Teatime Favourites of this year? Last December, although i had to think hard about it or be reminded through other people's lists, i had three albums that i could comfortably list as my favourites of the year: Teatime Favourites , Grass Widow's Past Time and Shrag's Life! Death! Prizes! . This year i have no idea. I'll probably have to filter through others' lists again and either [...]
Plastic - Betty and the Werewolves The b-side to the record that features yesterday's song as its a-side. And they were both brought part and parcel again to opposing sides of the LP. Hmmm. Nevermind. I don't know what this song is about. Liking plastic or dronely surrendering to a plastic world, i think. Wanting to have pieces of plastic sewn into one's face. I get that much. Emily sings this one.
David Cassidy - Betty and the Werewolves I don't know how old Betty and the Werewolves are (age is something hard to gauge in indie pop circles), but it seems so anachronous for them to have a song idolising David Cassidy. It seems a song one of their parents should have written. But let's not be naive: What's anachrony in this day? The Partridge Family complete on DVD, scans of Tiger Beat , his music, his merchandise, the pre-laid path of [...]
I've been trying to find some information about and hear more music of Trogons since better-blog Pinglewood posted about them back in November . I figured that I'd wait around and, given how great the song was that was shared back then, information, more music and a buzz of excitement would have fallen in my lap by now. For some reason it hasn't, and Trogons still seem as little known now as they did back then - a mere 138 Last FM plays from 51 listeners and only 1 post on HypeMachine, at time of writing. [...]
Paper thin - Betty and the Werewolves My favourite song on one of my favourite records released last year. My... third favourite album of last year. It is a song i love so much that i bought its single twice in a blind desperate quest to own everything i could by this band. Fact: If you own the album, you own everything. I don't have the heart to take issue with them the waste that every song, b-side and a, they've released on singles [...]
A London, UK based female fronted indie-pop band, with Laura McMahon (voice & guitar), Helen Short (bass, voice & keyboards), Emily Bennet (guitar & voice) & Doug McFarlane (drums). Formed in 2007, they are three girls & one boy (from London & Cambridge). They take their inspiration from classic romantic literature & old "Look-In" annuals. Whooping & howling through the night as their sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. From Virginia Woolf & Grandma Wolf - they sing ditties about falling in love with David Cassidy & strange encounters on night buses, shouting all the while and scuffing [...]
The song list this year has a lot of crossover with the records list from yesterday. I suppose that is to be expected to a certain degree, but I get it's a little repetitive for me to be banging on about the same bands over and over again. Still, that's the nature of these lists, and I'm not going to throw in other things for the sake of it. 1. Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State, or, Letters from Me to Charlotte [...]
So 2010 turned out to be the year where my enjoyment of indiepop turned into a full blown obsession. Pretty much everything I've listened to (or rather, listened to and liked) this year falls into the genre, or at the very least, flirts with it in some way. So any end of year lists will be rather myopic genre wise. I simply haven't listened to most of the critically acclaimed albums released this year, nor do I care to. Regularly now I will look at Pitchfork and not even recognise a single band on it's front page. A few years [...]
Zeit für ein wenig Schrammelpop – und das neue Album «Teatime favourites» der Londoner Band Betty and the Werewolves . Lässt der Bandname eher an eine Horrorpunkcombo denken, so wird doch schon nach den ersten Takten klar, dass es sich hierbei um lupenreine C86-Musik handelt, also lässig hingeschrubbten Gitarrenpop. So ein bisschen Aufmunterung in diesen düsteren Tagen kann ja auch nicht schaden! Link zur Bandseite bei Myspace MP3-Download Betty and the Werewolves «Should I go to Glasgow?»
Selebrities | Soda Shop Brooklyn Maria Usbeck I could go ahead and tell you all about me. Where I'm from, weird corky things like how I can say hello in about 10 languages now and I fold paper boats with anything that comes to hand. Instead I'm going to explain why I play music. I studied classical piano until the age of 12. Started around 7 because when I was 6 I refused to stay in class. Literally [...]
Bravo, to the English band Betty and the Werewolves for making indie pop fun again. To think, all it took was a rebirth of that classic, British sound with endearingly, close to being on-key vocals, sharp guitar sounds and a rhythm section that can actually play. One can't underestimate that last part, and that upbeat bounce of a rhythm laid down by the Werewolves, for domestic indie pop has been stuck in this rut for years where talent has been replaced with friends and their instruments. Oh, and it took lots of smiles, too. Having the time of [...]
Betty and the Werewolves : David Cassidy Δεν έχω καλύτερο εξώφυλλο από τις φαρμακερές ζάχαρες των δισέγγονων αυτών της Virginia Woolf. Με την πρώτη δροσιά του φθινοπώρου υπόσχομαι earl gray, λογοτεχνία και χαζο ρετρό αγάπες. Βοήθεια! Κάτι αλμυρό επειγόντως! Betty And The Werewolves "Paper Thin" , posted with vodpod
Betty And The Werewolves . Whether that was written on a book, movie poster, video game or album cover it's going to garner significant interest at the content within. Add to that a splendid album title of Tea Time Favourites and you are well and truly cooking on gas. But, does this debut LP from three girls and one boy from London and Cambridge deliver beyond their terrific names? Upon opening their selection box of sugary delights it becomes immediately apparent that this is a biscuit-tin filled to the brim with Jammy Dodgers, chocolate Viennese sandwiches [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Video: Indietracks 2009 in 7 Minutes by LastNightFromGlasgow The Indietracks lineup seems to be pretty much complete now (though a few more bands are still to come) with Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now and Slow Club both being added to the bill. Perhaps more excitingly though, the day by day breakdowns have now been announced, giving us a festival that looks something like this: Friday [...]
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I've just seen this and couldn't NOT post it. It's brilliant - love, poetry and running around in a Library. Perfect. It's Betty And The Werewolves third single, taken from their debut album Teatime Favourites . It's released on the 21st June 2010 on 73 and digital, the album is due out on the 5th of July 2010. Click here to view the embedded video. [...]
Now that London Popfest is out of the way, it's time to turn our attention to this year's Indietracks festival, which will take place 23-25 July at the lovely Midland Railway Centre in Derbyshire. Last year we covered the event quite extensively, and this year will be no different. Previews of the bands in the run up to the event, followed by reports and a shit ton of photos of the weekend itself. I'm not exaggerating when I call Indietracks the highlight of my musical year. Where else can you get a non-stop indiepop while surrounded by (and [...]
Adding Machine
The Owl Mag
Basement Fever
The Dumbing of America
Another Form of Relief
Coast Is Clear - der Indie-Pop-Blog
COCO'S OCD
I Rock Cleveland
Rocks de Milo
The Line Of Best Fit
A Place to Bury Strangers
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko
Sigur Rós - Ég anda
The Rains of Castamere by The National
Song Of The Week: Glass Candy "Life After Sundown"
Friday Remixes
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Detroit Techno Producers Used A 2013 Ford Fusion To Make An Original Track
M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" (Urban Noize Remix)
