A year ago I was excitedly preparing for my trip to New Zealand . My wife and I had long ago decided that we wanted to head to New Zealand before anything could keep us from taking the leap. I won't go into just how amazing the experience was, but I was left with a love for the country and many incredible memories (if you've seen the photos that go with every 5 Score Pachyderm Mixtape you've seen the beauty the country has to offer). The one thing I didn't have time to do was seek [...]
Un matin morne, une journée molle. Mon player n'a pas de fade-in/fade-out. J'aurai aimé me réveiller au printemps. Bon, ta gueule, on y va? So So Modern - Life in the undergrowth King Charles - Love Lust Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy Never Make A Pretty Woman Your Wife Gorillaz - Sweepstakes Holy Ghost! - On Board (Friendly Fires Cover) DyE - Neige 606 (Dj Mehdi Remix) The [...]
Errors unleashed their blend of new wave acid house on a mesmerised following at London's modest sized Scala, but not until after an intriguing support line-up.
So So Modern - Paris, La Flèche d'Or, 4 février 2010 Retrouver les quatre Néo-Zélandais de So So Modern , c'est un peu comme reprendre le chemin des vacances, celui d'un Midi Festival 2008 en tout point réussi. Sur les bords de la French Riviera, la prestation des natifs de Wellington avait crevé l'écran au point d'attirer sur scène Robert Aaron, saxophoniste du groupe James Chance and his Contorsions , figures tutélaires de la No Wave new-yorkaise et têtes d'affiche du soir précédent, où celui-ci conjugua, le temps d'une improvisation d'anthologie, [...]
Suite au Midi festival, j'avais, comme beaucoup d'autres présents ce jour là, fureté sur la toile, histoire de voir ce que donnaient les So So Modern dans mon casque audio. Déçu de ne pas retrouver dans la puissance et les arrangements la folie retord insufflée sur scène, mon attention s'était quelque peu étiolée. Puis, plus rien. Normal, les quatre Néo-Zélandais se sont retirés du monde, se repliant sur leur terre natale pour enregistrer enfin un album digne de ce nom. Avec un tel potentiel, la procrastination du groupe en la matière confinait à l'insouciance : pas moins de [...]
Le bon son n'as nul besoin d'être commenté. C'est pour cela que je vais humblement fermer ma gueule.
The first minute into a set is a good indicator of how the rest of the set will go. The majority will start slow and end with a bang. Few start strong and leave disappointment. While the very few start strong and end strong. New Zealand's, So So Modern , fall into the latter. Not since Battles have I seen a band perform as tight from start to finish. Gracing the Spectrum stage to a small audience, the opening synth riff of [...]
Design by Shayna Quinn My attention has been grabbed and so will yours by the frenetic music of the five-piece dance-punk band from Christchurch, New Zealand, Bang! Bang! Eche! (pronounced Bang Bang Etch). Their energetic shows with shouty vocals and pulsating rhythms are known to make young patrons dance wildly, jumping up and down as if on a pogo stick, passing bodies in the air over their heads, in pure excitement. If fantastic noise-filled, high energy shows are your cup of tea, then you'll fit perfectly amongst the raucous attendees at a Bang! Bang! Eche! gig. [...]
okay okay between moving boxes, packing up nearly everything in my room (slowly) and praying it doesn't rain this weekend, i have been listening to some music. i got sent the Modernaire remix of Metronomy 's single 'Heartbreaker' and it sounds pretty bloody ace. the single is out monday and the band are playing Offset Festival this weekend. Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Modernaire Remix) i'm all too excited to camp in the forest with (imaginary) bears and whatnot for Offset [...]
S o I've had an epiphany of sorts. Well not really an epiphany, but I realised tonight that I'd lost sight of why I started up this blog in the first place. I wanted to let people know about good music, and just talk about what I love. So tonight I've picked a load of songs I love right now and uploaded them. Grab them quickly because I doubt they'll last! But here's a bunch of stuff that I love; that I want you to love too. I hope tonight finds you well, I hope you're with the [...]
There are any number of young bands out there, featuring choppy new wave guitars, incessant drumming and attractive female vocalists. Most of them are a bit rubbish. Stricken City definitely aren't. Just don't ask me why. They've just got something the others haven't. Download: Stricken City – Tak o Tak Download: Stricken City – The Traveller On the other hand, I don't think So So Modern have it. I've given the Kiwi [...]
Wellington, New Zealand So So Modern... so so fun! "Vulture Kisses" So So Modern on MySpace So So Modern on The Hype Machine
Here we go, fifteen of my top albums of this year. It's a strange mixture but the usual to expect from me. This year was overwhelming with music, maybe not so much as finding it sometimes hard to keep up to, without having some to creep up on me at the last moments and some I'm still yet to discover and listen to. As I said last year, numbers are never good to me so disregard them and just enjoy them as they are. So long 2007! 15. GoodBooks - Control [...]
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Europa ist zurzeit das Ziel eines musikalischen Gross-Bombardements aus Neuseeland. The Checks, die am Freitag ihr Debüt-Album veröffentlichen und bereits viel Vorschusslorbeeren ernteten ( auch von uns ), sind dabei nur die Spitze des Eisberges oder die Schale der Kiwi-Frucht. Während Letztere vor allem den Garage-Retro-Rock- Fan beglücken, beackern Cut Off Your Hands mit ihrer Single " Still Fond " das Feld des Disco-Rock. Und wenn die Stichwort 'Neuseeland' und 'Disco-Rock' fallen, dürfen natürlich So So Modern nicht fehlen, die zurzeit mit der Deutschen Tanz-Punk- Institution Robocop Kraus unterwegs ist und auch in der Schweiz Halt [...]
So I said I'd bring something to dance along to for the next NZ installment, and so here are So So Modern . Returning home after a brief sojourn all around the world (including recently London, you capital dwellers), they've also recently released a new medium length EP in Friendly Fires . I was introduced to them by the track Skeleton Dance off the recent Real Groove magazine compilation I mentioned in my original post (along with Motocade , I might add). It opened the proceedings with a relatively big, fast, and squelchy [...]
Lunch time punk list courtesy SXSW 2007 . Boy it takes me sometimes to download, listen and put it in some kind of list. This one ends up pretty fun. I like punk when it's not taking itself so seriously and jibing all over the place. It's the original punk spirit, nihilism with attitude, yet while rough gently changing its surrounding. Being nice needs not apply. Oh and I am hungry, anybody for good lunch? Some fav in the list: I Walk in Line , pop-ish!. Tiny Masters of Today . They are two pre-teen [...]
Ash has made an excellent track from their forthcoming NYC-recorded album for free download here . Silence Is A Rhythm Too has posted an amazing mash-up of Scritti Politti's "Absolute" and Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You." Get it here . Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino and Adam Franklin, the guitarist and singer from Swervedriver have formed The Setting Suns... their MySpace has a few songs up for your listening pleasure. 911 operator: "What is the emergency?" Man outside nightclub: "I [...]
Happy President's Day, whatever that means! Yay America. Okay it is Washington's B-day, he's like super famous. Go $1 dollar bill! Educate yourself sucka. Some interesting things to note, The man who co-invented the TV remote, Robert Adler, died at age 93 from heart failure. Let's see, he help create the remote, won awards, contributed to culture and technology, I would say the failure in heart is non-existent. And!!! He died in Boise, Idaho. What a rad guy! As I was browsing through the Idaho Statesman website, I found an awesome quick 7 [...]
March is on the way and that can mean only one thing for the indie (and not so indie) music community: the industry clusterfuck that is South by Southwest . A billion bands, a million venues, random house parties, free booze, and zero sleep in an oasis in Texas. I've wanted to go so badly in past years...but I seem to be over that urge for some reason. Anyway, just like last year , a stack of Australian and New Zealand artists will be making their way to Austin to try and impress anyone who will listen. [...]
I could have put up a picture of these hood wearing masters but decided not to; but if you insist ... Never have I seen a band where all four members play synthesizers lined up on stage, hence the technical skills behind these Wellington guys from New Zealand, So So Modern . Complexity, experimentations, shrieking vocals with the touch of overrides of a vocoder, psychedelic dance (without the drugs) and thrasher punk is the result of So So Modern. Their track " Loose Threads And Theremins " uphold those elements in the perfect [...]
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