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GLASSER All budding artists could take a note from Glasser - if you're going to make music and you find yourself getting to the stage where you're signed and recording material, please aim for the stars and don't stop until you reach them. If you don't quite manage it then perhaps that retail job isn't so bad when you re-consider. Not that Glasser, (real name Cameron Mesirow), was ever destined for retail, with a mother that tasted the charts back in the 80s, with the band Human Sexual Response and a father who was [...]

The heat of the first day , replaced by the requisite layer of San Fran summer fog, brought the largest crowd of the three-day festival. Street Sweeper Social Club Coming off a successful supporting role with Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails on last year's NIN|JA tour, SSSC was easily the best dressed band of the festival. With great machine-gun style and obvious DNA from Rage Against the Machine , Tom Morello and Boots Riley performed songs from [...]

The Guradian's Dave Simpson ponders why 80's British art pop icon Danielle Dax remains so obscure to this day, while Bat for Lashes is garnering so much praise as the freak du jour. Simpson concludes it's because Dax was ahead of her time. By twenty years or so: I've absolutely no idea how many people have even heard of her, but Dax was doing a similar thing in the 80s to what Natasha Khan is doing now. She fused electronics with guitars, rock and dance beats. She looked like a slightly more gothic Stevie [...]

ALBUM REVIEW: Bat For Lashes - Two Suns words: Jamie Milton It's difficult to avoid the spaced-out, distant appearance of Natasha Kahn all over the music press at the moment. Talk of 'Two Suns' representing a whole plethora of emotions and symbols - it's getting slightly old and weary already. To the casual listener, you don't need to know about Kahn's alter-ego, the blond-haired lover Pearl, or even the idea that is said to dominate the record - that of 'Two Suns', two energies at once. In fact if [...]

• Bat For Lashes - Siren Song

Photo: The FADER Magazine When we first heard Brighton's Natasha Kahn of Bat For Lashes back in 2006, we were so taken with her unique vocals, which according to our original post came across as a mishmash of Björk, Tori Amos, and Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino…with a pinch of Chan Marshall thrown in for good measure. Her debut Fur and Gold garnered many accolades, going even as far as making the shortlist for the 2007 Mercury Prize. On April 6th, she's set to release [...]

• Bat For Lashes - Daniel

A P P R O P R I A T E top photo: Rhiannon Adam whilst on the subject of Bat For Lashes, here's another self-obsessed post containing some of the music I make. It's a sketchy/half-finished cover me and Jo did about six months ago, of Natasha Kahn's best song, without a doubt. mp3: influence - horse & i [bat for lashes cover] ( zshare )

• Influence. - HORSE & I (Bat For Lashes)

F A I R I E S INITIAL THOUGHTS: Bat For Lashes - Two Suns words: Jamie Milton 2006's Mercury nominated 'Fur and Gold' thrilled us all, notably for its intelligence, sophistication but most of all its suggestion of something more. With 3 more years to her name, Natasha Kahn's spent the last 12 months supporting Radiohead and attempting to create an all the more impressive second album, to confirm many a person's prediction on just how special she might [...]