LaFaro From: Belfast, Northern Ireland Lazy Equation: (The Jesus Lizard + Therapy?) x mclusky URL: Website // Facebook Thrash Hits Verdict: When we first heard Belfast's LaFaro blasting out of the Thrash Hits stereo, we momentarily thought that the much-loved, much-unappreciated beast that was mclusky must have reformed when we weren't looking. But as we listened further, we heard a [...]

Mclusky — Rock vs. Single Parents From My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours ( Too Pure ; 2003) What if you never get home?
Some albums start with a slow build. A song to lull you in to some precious band's languid dreamscape. F that noise. Some times a good punch-in-the-gut opener is just what you need. Check out five kick ass openers below: 5. "Regular John" - Queens of the Stone Age Driving guitar. A straight forward drum beat. Walla, a kick-ass song. If only it were as easy as Queens of [...]

One of the advantages of having a blog like this is being able to make up the rules as you go along, and today that means giving the limelight to our youngest Joe, who reaches the ripe old age of seven today. Now, we are all guilty of bias and of nepotism at times (and this is one of them), but I think you'd be hard pressed to find another seven year old with music tastes as good as his. From age five he chose to go to sleep to the soothing strains of Mclusky loudly singing along, [...]

The Sickx Mickx MP3: Black Mountain - Heart Of Snow MP3: Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions MP3: Cat Power - Cross Bones Style MP3: Solar Bears - Neon Colony MP3: [...]

I found out the classic Epitonic was back online the other day , and I've subsequently been scrounging around there, waxing nostalgic about all the awesome music I discovered throughout the years thanks to Epitonic. With all the reminiscing, I thought it might be good to compile a mix of - if memory serves - the first song I heard from 10 different bands I found on the site. This list is in no way comprehensive, but these 10 were definitely situated in the forefront of my mind when poking around. I still listen to [...]
Chris Thile & Chris Eldridge, Live at The Living Room, 2-26-09-0my Leave Comment Related Entries: Fake Phil Collins Sex Tape! Under the Weather, Over the Creek, Down the Coast, Pedal to the Metal We've Got a City to Love (Chris Thile, Living Room) Man, What Happened to Kenny Rogers' Face? Here Be Dragons The Tension's [...]

Picture Books In Winter In my spare time I trawl Last.FM searching for the great unheard. A recent trawl uncovered Picture Books In Winter a great indie noise band from Cardiff with hints of fellow Cardiffians Mclusky and the Celtic rock of Idlewild. Check out the Reykjavic which sounds like fellow Mclusky covering Danse Macabre (the theme tune from Jonathan Creek) or 'Open Heart Surgery' which could be Idlewild and the Triffids covering 'The Devil [...]
Mclusky - 1956 And All That Worum es in dem obigen Song von Mclusky geht, kann man - wie so oft bei der Band - nicht wirklich exakt sagen. Der Jahreszahl im Titel nach zu urteilen bezieht er sich allerdings auf die Sueskrise. Im Sommer des Jahres 1956 verstaatlichte der damalige ägyptische Präsident Gamal Abdel Nasser den strategisch wichtigen Sueskanal auf der Sinai-Halbinsel. Daraufhin marschierten im Herbst israelische Truppen in Ägypten ein. Besonders pikant an der Sache war, dass Großbritannien und Frankreich vor Ausbruch des bewaffneten Konflikts ein geheimes Bündnis [...]

Story by Chris Ruen Photography by John Francis Peters I was tempted to take Andy Falkous for an angry man, watching him lead his band, Future Of The Left, through a merciless set at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg last October. Falkous' guitar lashed out from the PA, backed by Kelson Mathias' sucker-punch bass lines and Jack Egglestone's thunderclap drumming. Falkous' unrelenting power chords swallowed the venue whole and might have bestowed a Medusa-like curse upon [...]
mclusky, bullingdon arms, oxford, 18 january 2001 etc. etc. i'll be honest: i'll struggle to write much about mclusky on the gigsplurge . the band played oxford approximately once every three months, for three to four years, playing the same venue virtually every time, always with a similar set of rasping, buzzing, Pavement-gone-ADHD, Albini-nasty punk screeds, always with a different set of sacred-cow targets for between-song Bill Hicks-riffing onstage outbursts. mclusky were never less than the best, funniest band in britain, never [...]
Weil ihr mittlerweile vermutlich genauso am Rückblick-Overload leidet wie ich, will ich mich bei dieser Zusammenfassung des vergangenen Jahrzehnts recht kurz fassen. Die wichtigsten Sachen aus meiner Sicht wurden ja auch alle bereits in den Beiträgen zu den einzelnen Jahren abgefrühstückt. Aber einen Blick in meine Jahrzehntsbestenlisten soll euch nicht verwehrt sein. Band des Jahrzehnts Wenn es eine Band innerhalb von zehn Jahren fünfmal mit dem jeweiligen Album in die Jahres-Top Ten schafft, dann kann man wohl eindeutig von der Band des Jahrzehnts sprechen: ...And You Will Know [...]

2009, das haben wir ja hier in den letzten wochen genügend durchexerziert, markierte ja auch das ende eines jahrzehnts. deshalb ging es auch in unserer jahresendwahl nicht nur um die songs und alben 1 des jahres 2009, sondern auch um jene des jahrzehnts. hier auch davon die auswertung. Band des Jahrzehnts Zwar hieß die Kategorie in der Wahl "Band oder Künstler des Jahrzehnts", den Sieg teilen sich aber genau eine Band und ein Solokünstler. Die Band ist, und das überrascht, Tocotronic . Überraschend ist [...]
Sorry, I'm too busy watching Ichi The Killer with Nate and Nicci to post some kind of witty introduction to this week's mix tape. Better luck next time! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week's [...]
80. Jay Reatard Blood Visions For all those folks that have been screaming "punk is dead" for two decades I'd like to present Jay Reatard to show you that punk is most definitely not dead. Now his tunes may not be wholly punk in nature, there's a bit of metal and even some pop mixed in there, but his attitude and his approach to songwriting is most definitely punk. Two and three minute long songs spit out in the blink of an eye with hard charging guitars to go along with them. Yeah, punk's not [...]
A countdown of the top songs from the past decade.

Im Jahr 2007 begann auch ich - als letzter von uns dreien - mein Studentenleben. Dafür blieb ich in meiner Heimatstadt Mainz, lernte an der Uni allerdings jede Menge neue Leute kennen. Unter anderem auch den Kollegen Matze , der mich bald fragte, ob ich nicht Lust hätte, einen Gastbeitrag für seinen Musikblog indiestreber zu schreiben. Wie ihr euch schon denken könnt - ich hatte! Und bei dem einen Artikel 1 sollte es nicht bleiben, schon bald war ich Teil der "Redaktion". Somit war [...]

Well, Life Just Bounces mixtapes were pretty sporadic this year. It started strongly enough, with an early hiccup in March and, then, er, May, and by July everything had basically gone to the dogs. Oh well: in a spirited last-minute effort, here's a mix for December, themed for no good reason around the colour brown. Solid, reliable brown is the color of earth and is abundant in nature. Light brown implies genuineness while dark brown is similar to wood or leather. Brown can also be sad and wistful. Men are more apt to [...]

100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1 40. TV On The Radio, "Halfway Home" (2008) This song feels so deliberately and fussily constructed that it's kind of funny to say it thrives on energy and emotion, and yet...here we are. As much as I love the constant guitar drone or the mechanic handclaps, it was the ephiphanous first line of the chorus that knocked the wind out of me the very first time I heard it, and it still does. [...]