
In the spirit of spontaneity and honesty, we present a new regular feature: F@! it's Monday, which will feature streams, mp3s, videos, and whatever else we f@ing want. And here's the first installment: Pets with Pets Headed to SXSW Pets with Pets - " Pixie Child " This Aussie act is planning to visit SXSW in March. They describe their music as lo-fi psychedelia, and it's exactly what you'd think, i.e., strange, trippy, experimental, and intriguing. Pets with Pets can only go two ways with this at SXSW: [...]
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Melbourne label Sensory Projects, home to some of our favourite albums last year (The Ancients #17 , Faux Pas #51 , Love Connection #57 , Great Earthquake #60 , Rat vs Possum #75 and Bruce Peninsula #23 in 2009 ) are this weekend releasing Pets with Pets debut LP, 'Saturday Aquatic Pixie Acid'. They mix krautrock and shoegaze into a dark sonic mist; with pulsing drums, piercing yelps and withdrawn vocals. This is noise with poise! They’re also about to launch a collaborative 7" [...]

It's really superb when you find out about bands you hadn't really heard of before, especially when it's through compilations that feature previously unreleased tracks and exclusives from current artists who respected and were influenced by them. So props to Pets With Pets for consenting to let Feraltone use the brilliant 'We Only Found This Place' and School Of Seven Bells for the exclusive 'Device Feur M'. The fun doesn't end there. Neu! influenced a lot of modern day super giants of rock like Primal Scream, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Kasabian and Holy Fuck so the tracklisting [...]

My Dad used to tell me that The Presets were just ripping off Depeche Mode . I didn't really get it until I really started listening to them. This track I first saw on Rage years and years ago, then on the Anton Corbijn directors DVD and it kinda just stuck in my head. I suggest watching the video here first, its just a perfect example of Corbijn's ability to create a non-sensical narrative yet have it compliment the track so well. MP3: Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel [...]