Artist: shampoo

There are so many regular features about what sick tattoos bands have got and what awesome trainers they're wearing, but what about their haircare regime? How do they get their hair looking so cool? HOW? You were thinking it, so we asked it. What shampoo do you use, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth? Are you serious? You're serious. I don't shampoo it every day - I shampoo it every other day just so that the soap doesn't strip my hair out. Other than that I use extensive [...]

Check out the video for David Shane Smith's "Shampoo". One of the most interesting things you will see today, I do declare. Go pick up the Shampoo EP via his bandcamp for whatever you are willing to pay (even nothing). You can also pick up some of his other work there as well.

If the world is going to hell, David Shane Smith is working on a very fine soundtrack. The L.A. songwriter, who's released four records in the past two years, deals in shape-shifting instrumentation — guitar tones, synth lines and electronic beats are mere silly putty in his hands — and his fragile voice narrates all manner of horrors. Imagine Ariel Pink and Grandaddy having a who-can-get-weirder contest. The title track of Smith's new EP "Shampoo" suggests that we mind what we wash down the drain, and Sasha Gransjean's video for the song will leave you on pins and [...]

• David Shane Smith - Shampoo

MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he's been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 100 titles—from the '20s through the '80s—that you may have missed. A new selection, all currently [...]

This was sent to us by Friend of the Ümlaut Don , who did The Robot in this Beer Circus vid , while in Asheville, NC. BRÖÖ is a shampoo that uses craft beer as a magical ingredient. I assumed they'd use Asheville Brewing (makers of Moog Beer) , but it's actually St. Terese's Pale Ale from Highland Brewing . Apparently, using beer in shampoo not only provides opportunity for unnecessary umluats and beer puns (eg "a clean head "), it really does clean like nobody's business. [...]

With songs of variously coloured, commonly cheap fictional shampoos, star-crossed lustfulness shared between seminar attendees, and Shark Ridden Waters, Gruff Rhys' latest addition to a vastly expansive, universally superb back catalogue Hotel Shampoo always seemed as though it'd offer the estranged Super Furry Animal ample room to manoeuvre when translated into performance. For performance is what tonight truly becomes, and you get the sense that it's the sort of show Rhys has been hankering to produce for Dark Days/Light Years, the record brought to an overtly theatrical jouissance. A typically reception-like welcome, tinged with patronisation bristles [...]

Tweet That's right. A post about Manic Street Preachers . Everyone knows that this is a band who used to be essential. They were challenging, lyrically and musically. Only, just for a limited period, beginning with Generation Terrorists in 1992, taking in Gold Against The Soul the following year, and ending after peaking with The Holy Bible in 1994. Everything with Richey involved. Recently I've been giving Generation Terrorists [...]

Silver Shampoo: Higher & Higher Out on the aptly titled Krazy Punx (a part of the consistently excellent What's Your Rupture? label), Denton, Texas' Silver Shampoo show their admiration for the behaviour of motorcycle clubs but don't really sound the sort of band who'd play a Hell's Angels convention. The music on Higher & Higher album is lo-fi TV Personalities-style slacker-punk (and reminds me a little of their contemporaries Cause Co-motion). There are [...]

The standard of releases in first quarter of 2011 has been unbelievably high. Not to complain but being inundated with almost too much music to manage has it's drawbacks. Here is yet another record from the backlog well worth getting your mitts on. Gruff Rhys has to be one of the world's most underrated musical talents. For [...]

Super Furry Animals is a unique specimen with an insurmountable catalog of trippy alternative. Its leading Welshman, Gruff Rhys (who may be a front-runner for coolest first name ever, next to Ozzy), has now bounded from his band's fold thrice with the installment of his newest solo outing, Hotel Shampoo . The man named his album after a compulsion to hoard single-serving soaps from hotels whilst on tour, which is either totally "rock star", or the dumbest thing any rock star has done to his homes away from home. Well, at least Rhys' resulting record [...]

Last we heard from Denton's Silver Shampoo they were tearin' it up on a 7" for What's Yr Rupture? and it was a shaggy slice of alley punk if we ever heard one. Back now with a full length on the newly minted Krazy Punx label, an offshoot of WYR. Its hard not to love a band that features members of longtime RSTB faves Bad Sports and Wax Museums but throw in a biker obsession that's crept over from their Sonny Barger name-checking debut single and this album begins to shape up nicely. Fidelity bows to a visceral [...]

• SILVER SHAMPOO - Streaks of Satan

Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals has a habit of collecting complimentary shampoo bottles from hotels. God only knows what this has to do with Welsh pop music. Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys likes to collect shampoo bottles from hotel rooms. It's hard to tell how, if at all, this affects his artistic outlook, but it must be of some musical significance to Rhys. He named his third solo album Hotel Shampoo and has fashioned the cover art so that every track is represented as a different shampoo bottle. It's not a flattering analogy to invite, since [...]

There's a sweet new label quietly kicking out some really solid jams this year, and we'll be bringing you a bit of the tunes from the label this week. For now, we'll call the label Krazy Punx , and the first gem I've grabbed onto comes from Silver Shampoo , a product of Paul Museums. The newest album is called Higher and Higher , and its sort of all over the place, but in the most wonderful sort of way. You get a bit of garage, but then the [...]

• SILVER SHAMPOO - Streaks of Satan

Denton, Texas four-piece Silver Shampoo will shortly be releasing their debut album Higher & Higher . It promises to be a top quality fuzzed out, reverbed up, psychotic blast of glamorous garage rock, especially if taster track Streaks Of Satan is anything to go by... ...We hope it is! Visit their MySpace here . You can pre-order the album from Rough Trade here . Download Silver Shampoo - Streaks Of Satan mp3 (from Higher & Higher)

• Silver Shampoo - Streaks Of Satan

Avec Gruff Rhys , on restait sur deux albums presque parfaits, L'un en solo, le bigarré et foisonnant "Candylion", et le second, plus fou encore, en compagnie du bidouilleur génial Boom Bip , sous le nom un peu idiot de Neon Neon , mais pour un résultat totalement irrésistible, gorgé de plans[...]

Come unire in un sol colpo hobby, classe, fisionomie rassicuranti ed ambientali; il vizio innocente di collezionare bottigliette di shampoo d'hotel ha portato il leader dei Super Furry Animals Gruff Rhys all'ennesimo buon album in solitaria, "Hotel Shampoo" e in 'differita' – se cosi vogliamo dire - la realizzazione di un postages di detta collezione al Chapter Arts al centro di Cardiff; non male per quest'artista confidenziale ed evanescente che muove con gusto e maturità una vera e propria versione personale di pop-psichedelico che scalda l'ambiente all'istante, una smaniosa sensorialità french-touch sulle polveri Canterburyane [...]

Por Emmanuel Patrone La historia detrás del título del nuevo disco de Gruff Rhys proviene de un extraño hobby que adoptó el galés a partir de girar por el mundo tanto en solitario como con su banda, Super Furry Animals : recolectar todos los shampoo y muestras gratis de productos de baño de los hoteles en los que se hospedaba. Llegó a tener tantos que un día decidió hacer algo con ellos. Ese algo, finalmente, terminó siendo un pequeño hotel de cartón con casi todos los productos obtenidos [...]

• GRUFF RHYS - Vitamin K

Click on any image to enlarge | All photographs by Sebastien Dehesdin There are a few ways to make the first visit to a new town less fun than could be hoped for. A constant drizzle, non-existent hotel bookings and the words "bus replacement service" are but three front-runners, so kudos to Blackpool for good-naturedly providing Team TLOBF with all of 'em. After seven hours of travel our alternative hotel feels, in the words of Seb the snapper, "like the beginning of a horror movie". We fully expect to encounter freaky [...]

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Ever wondered what the Super Furry Animals get up to on tour? The sex, the drugs? The indie rock 'n' roll? Well, according to SFA frontman Gruff Rhys , the one boundary of decadence most often pushed is the pilfering of vast quantities of hotel toiletries. Such was the childlike enthusiasm and wonder with which Rhys approached professional touring after the band signed with Creation in 1996, he's been collecting hotel shampoos as mementos ever since. But what to do with your haul when there's only so much hair to wash? Of course! Build a miniature hotel out of [...]