These days, things rarely end up in your hands. The world is firmly disconnected. Emails have the power to fire people. Books replaced by LCD tech gadgets. Photography replaced by pixel numbers. Fire Island Pines does not like this turn of events. It likes the feeling of the hard copy. The band would prefer to be dumped by girlfriends via scrawled ink letters. The kind of letter that ends up on an exhibit table. Evidence that would show this girlfriend was a real piece of mean. Physical proof would be lying there for all to see. The jury would collectively [...]
It's the Valentine's Day edition of Friday on My Mind . The weekly collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. This Valentines Day give the person you love the gift of music. 1980's music, because nothing says I love you more than the gift of synthesizers, angular hair, brightly colored pants, tucked in shirts, and of coarse xylophones. Do you realize how many 80's bands had xylophones? Oh and white shoes. And the music videos seemed to have very little, if any, structure other than a small budget for a hair stylist and zero attention to [...]
The Bigger Lovers Little Giant Maxi Single MUSIC REVIEW: It's been 7 Years since The Bigger Lovers haunted a stage and about 10 years since their debut How I Learned to Stop Worrying came out. In celebration you can order a 500 limited edition pressing of this 2001 release. I think we need to check the math but regardless here's a fresh Little Giant Maxi Single from them. Their follow-up Honey in the Hive also delivered succinct pop songs any girl would fall [...]
Magic Bullets From: Wherever they rest their weary little heads, United States Magic Bullets are a band with impeccable taste. Check out the guest playlist 12 Degrees of Altered Images that they curated on Songza where you'll find 12 tracks of utter perfection it'll bring tears to your eyes. Given that all 12 tracks can be found somewhere in the Devil's extensive record collection it's not [...]
The end of the school year is within the distance of one well-spat loogie for the age appropriate. As a kid, it was the annual re-opening of the campground down the road that was a tangible sign that summer break was close. Before we were old enough to drive, the campground also served as somewhere to waste the little money we had on things like miniature golf and video games. At that time, our town was still a couple of years away from having an actual arcade and Atari game consoles were not [...]
I haven't posted one of these in what seems like (and most likely has been!) years. I take a few minutes to poke around some music blogs and Dickfork, then make fun of all the silly musicians your little brother can't stop talking about for five fucking minutes for the love of God . After all, someone has to keep those damned egos in check. If no one else wants to make fun of those Vampire Weekend fags in their sweaters and scarfs, I'll do it. I'll write it in Entertainment Weekly celebrity-gossip-section fashion, too. [...]
Love plus one - Haircut 100 So... do you like it?
I began this blog seven months ago and I must admit that I had no idea back then what shape it would take. I'm quite surprised that I've reached my hundredth post so soon. This means that I've posted an average of three times per week, even though I have sometime gone weeks where I haven't posted at all. Most of my posts have been about music or gigs that I've attended or musicians I like. I've also posted a few times about current affairs, my travels, football and film. My two most popular posts have been Happy Birthday, [...]
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Awww, shite, I got myself all tangled up in this 80's stuff and I can't stop. This is a redux post since I posted it about 3 years ago to the date. I was twenty years old in 1980 and these were some of my favorite bands. They are all stellar and worth looking up and listening to. This series is about the year that these bands were formed. The tracks are not necessarily from that year. So, to the best of my knowledge and research these bands were formed in the year 1980. This is [...]
>> The strummy, horn-appointed new single from British indie pop quintet The Rumble Strips is delightful of its own accord, but we like it specifically because it strongly recalls the British pop of the '80s we grew up loving (the popular music television channel of the day crammed the stuff down our throats). Haircut 100 , ABC and so forth: the post-New Wave, New Romantic stuff, which we think was referencing Northern Soul, although if you asked us to name a representative Northern Soul track we'd be at a loss, because frankly we don't really [...]
Remember the other day when you grabbed the sleeve of my cream coloured cable knit sweater and insisted that you needed to know everything, EVERYTHING (you were shouting at the time . . . caused quite a scene in the condiments section of the Oak and the Iris) about Nick Heyward and Haircut 100? Well, I had a word and Saltyka has come up trumps. So exhaustive are the trumps (eh?) that there is an A side AND a B side . And there was you thinking that I was going [...]
>> Stricken City 's forthcoming second single "Lost Art" reminds us of a charming blend of Haircut 100 's new wave pop and Kiss Me Deadly 's dancable indie tunes. The track has a bouncy rhythm, plucky bass rides high in the mix and singer Rebekah Raa's clear, bright voice recalls that of Bow Wow Wow fronter Annabella Lwin. Blue Flowers Records will issue the London-based quartet's single -- which will be backed with a new version of the track "The Traveler" -- in the U.K. Nov. 17. Stricken City 's debut single "Tak [...]
Yes, it's official: Contrast Podcast has joined the 100 Club. Today Dearest Tim posted the hundredth episode and it's chock-full of songs celebrating the century. So come along and have a listen here to what HRH The Queen (it's true!) is getting so excited about! (00:00) Sharon Jones - 100 days, 100 nights Betty from The Royal Family (04:34) Fun 100 - Computer ZB from So the wind won't blow it all away [...]
A wee while back, I put up a track by Banderas called This Is Your Life. Today, I dipped into the box of CDs that don't come in plastic covers and pulled out another single from that time - it may have been the follow-up to This Is Your Life, or it might have been the single beforehand. Either way, it is worth bringing to you notice. mp3 : Banderas - She Sells (7" mix) mp3 : Banderas - She
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...disposable but enjoyable. So ends the Allmusic blurb on Nick Heyward's solo work. Former frontman for Haircut 100 cum Brit-rock tag-a-long, Nick Heyward had a fairly productive career with occasional hits ("Whistle Down The Wind", "Love Plus One", "Blue Hat For A Blue Day") sprinkled in between your traditional late-80's anglo-pop songs. But it wasn't until he jumped ship on Haircut 100 and recorded his first solo album that Heyward really created something of a special record. Heyward was never as clever as [...]
Boggs' Bills Clink... clink... ka-chiiing!! This week, Contrast Podcast is bopping to the beat of cash tills, the sound of shaken piggy banks, and the rustle of banknotes. Yes, the theme this week is, as Abba so eloquently put it, "Money, Money, Money." And since time is indeed money, let's get on with it: you can download this musical cash cow here, or you can improve efficiency, and therefore both your profit margin and return on equity, by subscribing via this RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Co ntrastPodcast . And so, let's [...]
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