Counterintuitive it may be for Teenage Fanclub bassist Gerard Love's long-awaited, tenderly cultivated full-length to be entitled Electric Cables given that it is an exercise in organic – or more precisely quite acoustic – excellence although wire it into your heart and sparks will surely fly. Under the guise of Lightships , whilst the moniker may be more congenial to search engine workings than Norman Blake and Euros Childs' project Jonny it's stylistically highly comparable to the pair's eponymous one of yesteryear as it's carried along unhurriedly by mellow lullabies which, quite compellingly, are oft devoid of [...]
I could've made this list twice as long but I capped it at 50. Most of these are actual singles. The rest should be. Beyond the top ten, ordering is fairly arbitrary. Metronomy - The Look ( MP3 | Video ) I first heard this song back in February and I have yet to tire of it. I wish the keyboard solo outro lasted forever. Exlovers - Blowing Kisses ( MP3 | Video ) Rocking shoegaze pop of the highest order. [...]
It seems that the real cool kids on the blog don't do end of year lists. Well we like them and hope that those miserable sods slip in their paper shoes and find other people's dirty hankies in their bobble hats. Those artists who will be sobbing into their pillows tonight because they didn't quite make it onto our list include blistering aural adventures by: Wooden Shjips, Cave, Dead Skeletons, Eat Lights Become Lights, The Field, Moon Duo, Blanck Mass, Hills, Benjamin Shaw (sorry, Jamie), Gruff Rhys, Dels, White Denim, King Creosote & John Hopkins (robbed!), and Mike [...]
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Nice weather is right around the corner. Know how I know? 'Cause so many bands are loading up their tour buses and vans and hitting the road. To which I say woo hoo! Some are doing club shows, others are gearing up larger venues including festivals (Hello Coachella and Sasquatch!), and there's something for everyone. Hopefully this list will inspire you to get off your couch and check out some of these bands live. We all need a little rock n' roll to make us feel good. If you have additions to the list [...]
Frank Yang What's in a name? If you were at The Drake Underground on Friday or Saturday nights, possibly a lot. Over those two nights the marquee outside the front doors read Jonny and Apex Manor , as the two acts were kicking off their North American tour with a two-night stand in Toronto, but had the top billing read Teenage Fanclub and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - as Jonny is the collaboration of those two bands' Norman Blake and Euros Childs - then maybe there'd have been a little [...]
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Frank Yang It happens far too infrequently, but sometimes the good guys win. Sometimes immense talent, great songs and hard work can triumph over image and marketing and when it does, you get improbably wonderful things like Adele becoming and more importantly remaining pretty much the biggest artist in music for 2011 for months on end, on the strength of her sophomore album 21 . Granted, her story is hardly one of an out of nowhere dark horse - her debut 19 already made [...]
Jonny is a project of Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Euros Childs, and here is a video for their song "You Was Me" directed by Ryan Owen which is from their self-titled album . Related posts: Ra Ra Riot - "Boy" Video, "You And I Know" Video Preview Jay-Z - "On To The Next One" Video She & Him - "In The Sun" Video !!! - "AM/FM" Video
Mei Lewis In case it wasn't obvious from the name, Jonny is the musical marriage of Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Euros Childs. It's perhaps not a pairing that people have been clamouring for - it never even occurred to me that the two might work together before it was announced that they were - but it's not out of left field either. In fact, the more I think about it, the more logical it gets - Blake led the Fannies through two decades of power [...]
Frank Yang The city's music critics had to be a little disappointed upon arriving at the Phoenix on Sunday night and seeing signs informing them that Chicago's Yawn had cancelled their appearance because of car trouble in Montreal - after all, had their set been anything less than impressive, the review would have written itself. But the opportunity to be simultaneously succinct and lazy still presented itself with London's Yuck , not that it was needed. I saw the quartet back at SXSW , where they were one of [...]
Norman Blake is a well-known name to people who love their power pop. As a founding member of Teenage Fanclub, he's spent more than the 20 years creating a body of work as catchy as it is gorgeous. Recently, Blake teamed up with former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci frontman Euros Childs to create a project under [...]
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Fervent hysteria cued, grab a pen and a scrap of paper and get scribbling - this year's Glastonbury Festival line up is officially out and about. Last year was quite something. We basically did this . Back to the here and now however, if previous announcements seemed perhaps a little reserved, get on your boots and delve deep into the what looks to be a fairly fully-formed rundown of who is to grace the myriad stages and mudded fields of Worthy Farm this coming June. With May being the only month obstructing us from the Eavis' festival [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Federico Aubele, Baby Teardrops, Capsule, the Goldberg Sisters, Gypsyblood, Helvetia, Holy Ghost!, Joan As Police Woman, Jonny, Lil Daggers, Low, Meat Puppets, Moonlight Towers, Agnes Obel, Panda Bear, Ponytail, Quintron, Rebirth Brass Band, Roommate, Émilie Simon, Thursday, TV On The Radio and Vivian Girls. [...]
In what appears a interminable wait, Jonny's self-titled debut album will finally appear next month on Merge Records. We've had the free EP to whet our appetites and now the lead single 'Candyfloss' is turning us a brighter shade of goosebump. Hardly a surprise though given that Jonny is made up of Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's Euros Childs. And the boys have conjured a believeable impression of what it might have sounded like to have both bands' back catalogues washed together at high temperatures. To add to the mirth of their moniker all physical purchases through [...]
Frank Yang The Friday night of Canadian Musicfest saw the only bit of club-hopping that I'd be engaging in over the weekend, but even that was just across a couple of blocks in Parkdale, and I took a streetcar. No, not so much with the spirit of the club-level festival. Stop one was the Drake Underground for Olenka & The Autumn Lovers . I'd seen them just a few weeks prior , but while that show had been as a stripped-down four-piece, advance billing promised a full lineup for this [...]
Por Emmanuel Patrone Jonny es Euros Childs y Norman Blake , integrantes y principales motores de dos de las mejores (y más subvaloradas) bandas del rock alternativo de los 90's: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci y Teenage Fanclub . La fiebre del brit-pop los ayudó a ganarse un nombre en algunos circuitos, pero lamentablemente nunca disfrutaron de públicos amplios, quedando relegados apenas a bandas de culto. Lo que tenían en común ambas agrupaciones (y, en consecuencia, Childs y Blake) es su atracción por el pop de los 60's y [...]
Lauri taisi sanoa jo kaiken olennaisen Lykke Lin tuoreesta Wounded Rhymes -levystä. Kompataan nyt kuitenkin vielä ja todetaan, että kyseessä on erittäin positiivinen ja virkistävä yllätys. Kuunnelkaa omin korvin Spotifyn kautta . Virkistävä on myös oheinen akustinen liveversio kappaleesta I Follow Rivers. The Line Of The Best Fit vie rakastamansa artistit esiintymään poikkeaviin paikkoihin. Lykke Li sai kunnian soittaa The Last Tuesday Societyn (...devoted to exploring and furthering the esoteric, literary and artistic aspects of life in London and beyond) tiloissa. [...]
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