Artist: the van allen belt

Last Friday, the inaugural edition of Band of the Week featured a very talented band called The Van Allen Belt ( myspace ). Today, while browsing the same horrid site, I found a very interesting electronic side-project of The Van Allen Belt that goes by the name of Nonstop Everything . When I heard the music, it became quite clear why this is their nom de guerre : everything is happening all of the time. Fusing bop and electronica as if Jaga Jazzist were on ecstasy, Nonstop Everything have some interesting ideas. [...]

First some insight from wikipedia 'the Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field'. Ok, glad that's out of the way so on with the music. Pittsburgh's The Van Allen Belt are a seriously interesting proposition, a gargantuan 4-piece with the amalgamated sound of the Polyphonic Spree/Go-Team in their sights. Not

• Nonstop Everything - Electric Rolling Abba
• The Van Allen Belt - Baby Boomer Backstroke