So we would normally have our new releases out this week on Tuesday, but the new releases this time of year are few and far between. We decided to compile some tracks for your listening pleasure as you hang with family and friends around the tree, or cuddling up with your significant other in front of the yule log. Props to Vague Space for making our job pretty easy, by hosting some rad Christmas flavored tracks. Cheers. The Raveonettes; Christmas Song [...]
Kate Jackson, ex-vocalista da banda britânica The Long Blondes, lança faixas de seu primeiro trabalho solo Após lançar dois discos à frente da banda britânica The Long Blondes , Kate Jackson acaba de divulgar duas faixas de seu primeiro trabalho solo. "Wonder Feeling" e "The Atlantic" relembram a sonoridade enérgica da [...]
Kate Jackson returns after the three years -- and the sad demise of The Long Blondes -- with her first new single. The double A-side of "Wonder Feeling" and "The Atlantic" is a double-punch of glamorous rock that attempts to keep up with Jackson's powerful wail, and both tracks succeed. The new single is limited to 300 seven-inch vinyl copies and was produced/co-written by Suede's Bernard Butler. I can't imagine that Long Blondes fans will be disappointed with this. [...]
The Long Blondes' 2006 LP Someone To Drive You Home remains one of the great underappreciated classics of the past decade or so, a fired-up punky Britpop hookfest concept album about being afraid to grow up. That band broke up a few years ago, but frontwoman Kate Jackson (not the one from Charlie's Angels ) has since gone solo. Her debut single, "Wonder Feeling" b/w "The Atlantic," is out soon, and both songs are sparkling, chugging new wave, done with vigor and energy. Listen to both below. Read More...
Luego de la buena acogida que tuvo su increíblemente melancólica segunda producción, The Sea , Corinne Bailey Rae ha decidido continuar su carrera musical con algo un poco más amable y esperanzador para todos aquellos que tienen la suerte de estar enamorados. La cantante ha anunciado la publicación de un EP de versiones a temas de amor titulado, muy apropiadamente, The Love , el próximo 14 de febrero. Entre los temas que Corinne eligió para versionar están el clásico de Prince "I Wanna Be Your Lover", [...]
Ça y est, Jésus est parmi nous! J'espère que vous passez tous de bonnes fêtes et que le père de Noël n'aura pas été une ordure avec vous. Et même si vous avez été super gâtés en ce jour saint et sacré (oui, j'ai fait du catéchisme), la magie de Noël ne sera pas totale sans un peu de bonne musique. Alors histoire d'agrémenter votre weekend de Noël, j'ai décidé de vous offrir les morceaux suivants. Merry Christmas to you all, dear mascottes! Télécharger fichier audio (01-I-Do-Not-Care-For-The-Wint er-Sun.mp3) > Beach [...]
Welcome to the Annual Vague Space Indie/Alternative Christmas Music Spectacular (TM). I was able to set aside my great urge to say "bah humbug" to this whole season this year and to get into the mood long enough for this post, so hopefully this will get you in the spirit if you are like me and saw Christmas lights glowing in your neighborhood the day after Thanksgiving and said "Are you fucking kidding me? Already?" Anyway, merry happy or something. Enjoy. Download Bishop Allen - "You'll Never Find My [...]
Nature Set From : United Kingdom Nature Set is the result of a chance meeting (maybe they should do a cover of the Josef K classic?) in Sheffield. Reenie, ex of Rough Trade signed Long Blondes , stumbed across Daf , Marie and Claire suvivors of Devil's long time favourites the Angular signed Navvy ( Work Till Your Musclebound , Navvy ) It therefore comes as no surprise that I love them. They [...]
Sixty Watt Bayonets From: Reading / Kingston, United Kingdom Sixty Watt Bayonets come storming out of Reading with 'I Want To Be Your Girlfriend' a refreshing blast of old school new wave. Clocking in at just over two minutes, mathematically proven to be the perfect length for a single, it's got more energy than a Duracell bunny convention. It sounds like someone stapled Beth Ditto's lungs to the best bits of The [...]
When I was a child, libraries were boring and solitary places for speccy geeks and old people smelling of cabbage. When I went to University, they transformed into the second home of me and my fellow learned student, as we poured over yawnsome tomes on the subjects of Strategic Whatever and whatnot. Libraries have always been the educational hubs of society, so where better to make a discovery of new bands and acts on the British music scene? Read more..
Pop music formed by '60s girl groups are often subjected to ancient stereotypes. Joyous harmonies, lyrics consisting of nothing more than multiply layered "doo-wop-da-doo-wop"s, and a subtle sway of the hips for sex appeal (or the most of what was allowed of it on TV at the time). While much of what was considered [...]
If you're anything like me, the news some time back that The Long Blondes would be splitting for good got you down a bit. After all, they were only 2 albums in to what seemed a very promising career, with enough top singles to make a band 4 times their age jealous. But after guitarist Brian Cox suffered a stroke at the incredibly young age of 27, the band decided they should end their short career. There had been talk of Kate Jackson releasing solo material, but I hadn't heard much on that front for the last [...]
The Long Blondes - Last Night on Northgate Street Kate Jackson wrapping herself up in a rabbit fur coat. The smoke from the Sugar Beet . "I only wanted him to walk me home/I hated the thought of walking alone." Dorian Cox's guitar-work. And so many other reasons to like this song (a B-side! on the WEEKEND WITHOUT MAKE-UP 7" single!). I can't recall another recent band besides perhaps Radiohead who had so many gems in their B-side catalog--this [...]
Mar 11, 2010, 4:05pm
Pejhy
I have recently returned from a week long European architectural road trip. Forty people, one bus and five countries - overwhelming landscapes and buildings. Here are some of the aural pleasures that accompanied my visual encounters. First off is a track I didn't have during the trip but it sure would've cycled on repeat if so. Mount Kimbie with a beautiful production of distant claps, bassy kicks and present percussion all in a world of white noise and organ and guitar atmosphere. Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) [...]
Fire Zuave Recommended if you like: Of Montreal, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel Starving Like a Pack of Wolves... Grand Atlantic This song reminds me of so many bands that I can't grasp one outright. Brit Rock meets mid-90's grunge. Recommended if you like: Swervedriver, Stone Temple Pilots Coast Is Clear - Grand Atlanti... The Mummers [...]
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If you're unaware of what Music Monday is, it's a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by "MusicMonday" you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week. Every #MusicMonday I'll upload a playlist of 20 songs that I've been listening to (new and old) over the [...]
Love is the topic for a depressing, or inspiring, depending on your current relationship status, amount of art. Year in, year out, it's a dead-cert that love, lust, sex, or any of its variations and derivatives will be the preferred subject for an artist's self-expression. Recessions, revolutions and wars come and go, but love is always there. Music is the most shameless culprit of this shameless recycling of a tired and overrated theme, (have you got that I'm single yet?) so doing a themed post on music suitable for Valentine's day might be a little dull. With [...]
And you talk of your great lost acts. The speed things move at these days, we're probably only a few months from bands springing up namechecking The Long Blondes as their inspiration. If illness hadn't cut them short, what might they have done? Someone To Drive You Home was outstanding, and this was the most outstanding moment of all: [Part of Decade Null 2006 ]
I didn't really want to attempt a list of my favourite albums of the decade - the list for this year alone was more work than I needed. Instead, I decided to hit some of the ways this decade dealt with music - how technology has changed the musical landscape further, what globalized capitalism has done to the music industry, and what media convergence did to help out. Then as a second part, I thought I should add some of my musings on the decade as far as my own musical development goes - after all, I became an adult [...]
I sure hope Santa wasn't watching, because I was a bad girl at the grocery store today. After waiting in line nearly ten minutes for the elderly, scooter-confined person in front of me to figure out how the fuck to use the debit card thingy, I nearly lost it on the bag-boy. He was standing there in a stupor, not putting any stuff in the bags and I said to him, "Dude, you're gonna have to pick up the pace here." He looked at me kind of cross-eyed and said, "I'm off in [...]
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