Yes, Dearest Friends, that is me you see to the left, whoring myself unashamedly. I have become a brazen strumpet, standing on the corner of Independence Avenue and Groovy Musique Street, offering myself up to all who will pay. But it is for a good cause. Scratch that, it is for (as they say frequently here in North America) an awesome cause. You see, the most excellent DJ Colleen Crumbcake , curatrix of the wonderful Sandy Acres Sound Lab on East Village Radio , needs to raise sufficient funds by month-end to [...]
On a quick note: a new compilation of Stereo Total has just been released, called Party Anticonformiste . It features a lot of favourites, but almost no covers. Cosmonaute (orig. from Monokini ) is a nice bleeping slow song. It seemed like Coralie Clement (pictured) vanished from earth: her official site is deleted, no new additions to her MySpace , and no word (well, I'm not hearing anything) yet from her third album, apparently called Toy Store. Then she reappears on a song by Brazilian guitarplayer Toco , on his [...]
[ There are 4 MP3 files in this post. ] Recently I visited Berlin and picked up a copy of Berlin Super 80 , a fabulous box set about the Berlin music and film underground scene between 1979 and 1984, containing a CD, a DVD, and a 100 page booklet with essays and lots of photos. Released by Monitorpop in a limited edition of 5000 numbered copies, it will probably be out of print soon, so get your copy while you can. Featured bands include (of course) Einstürzende Neubauten [...]
Our boudoir. No, really... Dear Readers, I'm pleased to say that this weekend yielded up a fair amount of that most precious commodity, sleep. Saturday was a bit go-go a go-go, partly due to the rather worrying discovery that the wooden frame underlying a marble-faced step down into our dining room was completely, mysteriously water-logged and rotting. Cue crowbar and hatchet. But on Sunday morning, mirabilis dictu, the children were kind enough to let Dearest Wife and me have a lovely, snuggly lie-in. No alarm clocks, no appointments, just a comfy, warm duvet, us [...]
¿Es mi imaginación o existe un extraño parecido entre esta canción de Stereo Total y esta otra de Modestia Aparte ?
This will be my first Christmas away from home - which, strangely enough, makes me feel a lot more at home in Berlin. So I figured it was time to pay attention to some Berlin musicians. But since I am going back to rainy old Ireland for New Year's I'm giving a bit of space to that as well. I can never decide on anything. Jape is from Dublin. He makes music that sounds like a mass of funky digital elephants with bass guitars instead of trunks and boom-boxes [...]
Bombones "Stroke of Genius" (Freelance Hellraiser cover, by way of Christina Aguilera and the Strokes) I believe I jokingly once told a friend back in the initial heyday of mash-ups that I wanted to start a mash-up cover band. You can imagine how excited I was to discover this existed. Budget Girls "Glad All Over" (The Dave Clark Five cover) In my grand tradition of being very mildly acquainted with people who start bands that achieve slight success, I once had friends who were friends [...]
It turns out that people or persons at ABSOLUTELY KOSHER RECORDS are reading SUGARTOWN! I was sent a track from the upcoming +/- (PLUS/MINUS) release "Let's Build a Fire" (out in October) & I'm happy to report that it's just as awesome as you'd expect.... AND NOW... A SUGARTOWN EXCLUSIVE (at least I think it is)...BRAND NEW FROM +/- (Plus/Minus) -- Steal the Blueprints !! Then to add to your happiness, I'm posting a few other songs that leave me SO SPENT after [...]
pogo a go-go
Filles Sourires
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
A Best Truth
the torture garden
Copy, Right?
sugartown
Kae — Crazy
Disclosure – What’s In Your Head
Music Singles Chart #109
