We keep covering one by one all the artists that made our Best of NYC Emerging Artists 2010 Poll here . Dense and heavy, Twin Stumps won't make you think of tree stumps at all, but rather massive, moss-covered (evil) trees. The kind of trees that, were they to ever swing fists, would rule the forest - as if the Lord of the Rings' Ents had joined Mordor instead. Drenched in fuzz, vocals scream over the grinding pulse. Gleefully dark and pounding, Twin Stumps channel hardcore and industrial with [...]
It is thanks to a couple of compadres who first mentioned these football and musical items, both of which have reached the same anniversary... The first one was from the now sadly defunct I'm Not Always So Stupid blog who originally owed and scanned the very first edition of When Saturday Comes . It was a hand crafted, lovingly put together football fanzine which eventually became the source and King of all the fanzines. WSC has now reached it's 25th anniversary and throughout those years has managed to survive Gazza, [...]
Very special episode of Danger Radio. We play the legendary and rarely found C86 album in it's entirety in order. Along the way we discuss the bands and what it all means to myself and my co-host Jake Ryan. This is one of about 5 albums I can point to that shaped my musical tastes and I'm proud to say that it sits at the top of that list. PLAYLIST: Velocity Girl – Primal Scream Happy Head – The Mighty Lemon Drops Pleasantly Surprised – The [...]
Stoner tribal drums with droning guitars from lovely New Zealand: The Stumps .
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So, in yet another of my hopelessly behind-the-times posts , those two darlings of the MP3BlogOSphere, Hot Chip ( From Putney! ) and Vampire Weekend (Not From Putney!) have new songs out, as musical outriders to their new albums which will come tearing over the horizon at some point in the New Year. First off, the new Hot Chip song "Take It In" sounds somewhat like Cabaret Voltaire before exploding into a happy, poppy, none-more-shiny chorus, quite at odds with the Sound Of 80's Sheffield verse. I like it. [...]
if you didn't know, today is indie bass player recognition day, a day that, as a sometime indie bass player myself, i cherish like a junkie cherishes his works. there aren't many famous bass players, especially not famous indie bass players. while guitarists are gods, then bass players are either scorned (hello bill wyman, mark king), or overlooked altogether (erm most everyone else). of course there are exceptions, but they're generally recognised for their technical ability rather than contribution to songwriting (hello jaco pastorius, billy sheehan). and indie isn't a genre that generally acknowledges musicianship. [...]
Picking up, quite quickly, some of the tracks that made the lower reaches of the Fifty: 39. Pixies - River Euphrates Live, Brixton, 26th June 1991 Buy: Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim 35. Stump - Charlton Heston Buy: Stump Box Set 31. Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More Live in Chester, Cheshire, 1989 [...]
So, lucky weekly mix number thirteen...and it's the inevitable C86 mix. Many others have written about the legendary C86 cassette from NME (after all, there's even an excellent blog called Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive ), and I doubt I have anything particularly new to add to the discussion. However, it continues to amaze me how one mail-order cassette spawned a genre, a scene, and an attitude toward music. Though NME had released a cassette five years earlier in conjunction with Rough Trade, appropriately titled C81, it never gained the same mythical status despite the fact that the [...]
I'm off my game. Hammy, gun-loving actor Charlton Heston died a week ago and this fitting tribute only hit me now. Stump were one of the stranger bands signed to a major label in the late-'80s. Lumped in the with the C86 scene (they were on the cassette ), this quartet from Cork, Ireland had more in common with Captain Beefheart than anything else. We played a lot of kooky stuff at my college radio but I remember Stump's album, A Fierce Pancake , as one of the most [...]
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