Gurt From: Dorset-now-London, UK Lazy Equation: (Iron Monkey + touches of EyeHateGod) x cider URL: Website // Facebook / / Bandcamp Thrash Hits Verdict: You know sometimes you spend ages and ages searching for something, only for it to turn up - seemingly at random - stuffed down the back of the sofa? Well, that kinda happened with our interview with Gurt - it [...]
Is he singing live on this? via Antone Desantis on FaceBook.

[Here we'll look at some things you probably passed up when you were a kid because you were too busy playing Star Wars with your friend who was actually a jerk… and who threw a tantrum when you schooled him in NHL '96. What a little bitch. There are roots in the ground that still nurture.] Original Soundtracks 1 Passengers Island, 1995 Produced by Brian Eno and U2 Words [...]

Después de haber sacado Small Craft On A Milk Sea el año pasado, el señor Brian Eno sacará Drums Between Bells con Warp Records. Con ustedes "Glitch" de esta nueva producción. Enjoy, está bien buena!. ♩ Brian Eno - Glitch

White Noise is not supposed to be music. Music is not weird sounds with lyrics over it. Most parents of the 1950s disregarded rock music as "loud noise" and considered it as nothing but shrill sounds. Fast forward 60 years later and that's more of a reality thanks largely to today's technology. Whether or not you enjoy it, synthesizers along with a plethora of gadgets have propelled electronic music as a mainstream genre, but most people disregard the genre almost entirely. Now that's not a fair thing to do considering how much great electronica exists, but I [...]
"The Underdog" from Spoon's album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Pretty much the coolest new move ever! HAHA I'm kidding its lame but learn it anyways because ninja's are sexy! WARNING: This song will get stuck in your head whether you like it or not! Also: See if you can find the hidden jokes in...
Pretty much the coolest new move ever! HAHA I'm kidding its lame but learn it anyways because ninja's are sexy! WARNING: This song will get stuck in your head whether you like it or not! Also: See if you can find the hidden jokes in...
The MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys are going completely apeshit (ha!) over this one. Poo is being flung all about, they're touching each others' privates, and they're screeching up a storm back there. Higgins told Axl and I through his Stephen Hawkings-like computerized voice machine that they're not gonna stop unless we post about this band Enos [...]

Here's something a little different that I'm really digging. Phantom is a UK-based duo fronted by Montreal-born vocalist/guitarist/femme-fatal Elsie Martins, whose debut record, Smoke & Mirrors (available from La Nausée Record on August 16th 2010), bears the mark of a band that truly understands sound. Using environmental recordings and discreet sounds (typewriters, heels on linoleum floors) isolated from their original context and manipulated beyond recognition, Phantom creates pop music for shadowy dreamworlds. The result is a record of incredible texture and complexity that feels as though it [...]
Chappo is currently playing a month-long series of West Coast tour dates: July 02, 2010 -- Cabin Tavern :: w/No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Camp Out, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Bellingham, WA July 03, 2010 -- Winterland :: w/ Kindness Kind, Chyeah Chyeah, Zebra Mirrors, Bremerton, WA July 04, 2010 -- Pablo's Sparkler Party, Moon City (PO), WA July 06, 2010 -- TBA, Vancouver, BC, Canada July 07, 2010 -- All Ages Hover Party-The Den at Urban Xchange Tacoma, Washington July 08, 2010 -- Rendezvous-Jewelbox Theater :: w/ The Marrying Type, Low Places, Seattle, [...]
Brooklyn synth/funk space-rock band Chappo played a sweaty, high-energy set at a dance party at Dynasty Electric's loft earlier this month. Chappo is playing one final local show next Saturday (June 26th) in support of their new EP "Plastique Universe" before heading out for a West Coast tour. The show is at House of Yes (342 Maujer St., Brooklyn, NY) and Chappo is playing with Tayisha Busay , Bad Brilliance and Planet Rump. This show is part of the Northside Festival and tickets are $10 (or $7 [...]

Dear readers, for the first part of yesterday I had completely forgotten that we were turning 2 but I soon realised we did. And boy, it could not have been celebrated better. 1. Completely unprepared and last-minute we interviewed Darwin (from Darwin Deez , obviously) before his gig - we talked about Dawson's Creek, anti-Hanson chatrooms & sexuality (lots of it). He is a lovely guy and the gig later that night proved to be absolutely AMAZING. Synchronized dancing is the best. This is the happiest I've felt during a gig this year, I couldn't [...]

Wild Weekend , take 12. Like some ancient Greek oracle, the ghost in the iPod has spoken again. And once more it prophesied a musical six pack with a little something for everyone. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. Btw: despite his lousy musical examples, I kinda agree with this guy that iTunes and iPods have changed the way one listens to music, and that these new technologies have even diluted the act of listening in a way. And we´re off to a furious start with some early [...]

Proto-industrial pioneer, and one of the architects of the DIY revolution in UK synth music, Robert Rental is perhaps best known for his pair of collaborations with other artists. With Thomas Leer, whose electro funk mash ups figure pominently in any collection of minimal synth classics, he released the brooding, epochal album, The Bridge, for Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records in 1979. And with Daniel Miller, the man who signed everyone from Fad Gadget to Depeche Mode to his fledgling Mute label, he recorded a shambolic but strangely inspired live set at the West Runton Pavilion on March 6, 1980. [...]
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Landscaping the Future with Brian Eno We must think creatively about what's next, we have obligations to consider the Long Now. Tomorrow is not today all over again. And why in the hell is Brain Eno the voice of the...
Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics Cybernetics is one of the most widely misunderstood concepts. The word itself seems sinister and futuristic. But at its heart, cybernetics is simply the study of systems The work of Eno's late friend, the...

LMYE trying to engage with TU M' s beguiling Monochromes Vol.1 , from a discussion at disquiet (with a few hindsightful amends): t ranquil, languid, subtle, TU M' exemplify a kind of gentle drone-ambient that is utterly likeable, though perhaps not completely challenging. Long repeated waves of breathy sound at breathing pace, topped with very gradual accretions & embellishments, do what Eno dictated all those years [...]

In an earlier post , we noted the dilemma many New Wave groups faced as the days of skinny ties and twitchy pop began to give way to the grey overcoats and angular, funk -inspired dance music of Post Punk. Like Lene Lovich, the B-52's had epitomized the retro dayglo orange fun of the late seventies scene. On songs such as "Rock Lobster" and "Planet Claire" they had mixed twangy guitar lines, kooky organs and beehive hairdos into a sweet and frothy confection, filling college dorm dance floors and even making inroads onto mainstream radio. But as the [...]