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On Rolo Tomassi, and further extended ramblings on the mechanics of music criticism

The Rolo Tomassi backlash has really got me thinking about the criticism of music. I don't really like RT much, but I don't tend to like overly tech hardcore, so the following is indended more as a disinterested observation with them as an example than a …

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Vian Hour Three

http://www.sendspace.com/file/v2z2qu Marco Ressman – Sao Paulo Lights (Anthony Collins Remix) // Upon You Records Pier Bucci – Hey Consuelo (Samim Remix) // Stealth Records Pele – Viva Belize // Connaisseur Records La Pena - A1 // White Label …

DiS at In The City

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Lazy Boy

So as per most weeks saturday is an opportunity to catch up with the weeks postbag, and start to wade through the hours of new music. Always exciting, are the packages from new record labels, eager to capture eyes and ears and hawk their wares. This wee…

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There's but a shot glass full of so-mainstream-they're-household-names in music, like, ever. Only a few of these are monumental musical legends that any discerning muso_ must-see_ before your clogs are popped. Even fewer of these giants play anything wher…

a lovely night

i'm a 'tard.

I have a new mission

To eat a meal from every cuisine in the world, in London: http://theworldin202meals.com/ We're ticking them off as we go :)

baby names

if it's a boy: Zapsta, Alex-in-Ciderland, sadpunk, utm_usic. if it's a girl: Constellation, whiterussian, klaire, daisy steiner.

Vampire Weekend - s/t

As folklore observes, vampires are monstrous creatures blessed with eternal life. Save an Achilles heal or two, they’re formidable in their enduring, seductive appeal. The subject of many literary concerns, they’re written into history and not about t…

The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues

There’s something slightly anachronistic about War on Drugs debut long player, Wagonwheel Blues. It’s there in the title, recalling a Middle American cowboy simplicity; less modern reconfiguration ala Brokeback Mountain, more Dances With Wolves search…

Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams

Of all the North American male misfits that have dominated the blogosphere since the turn of the century - of which I include such celebrated voices as D.C. Berman, Spencer Krug, John Darnielle, Colin Meloy, Jeff Magnum - it’s the output of Dan Bejar AK…

The Royal We - The Royal We

On paper, The Royal We are almost too good to be true. Signed to Domino affiliates Geographic, sporting celebrity fans in Belle and Sebastian and even sharing a drummer with Franz off-shoot Correcto, the Glasgow based six piece are certainly fully paid up…

To My Boy - Fear of Fragility

I have a suspicion that Clor are destined to be among those esteemed bands that extend a greater influence posthumously than during their short existence. The emergence of cheeky young upstarts like Late of the Pier and kotki dwa owes a considerable debt …

TV On The Radio - Dear Science,

Despite their cannibalistic tendencies, TV On The Radio remain a distinctly modern band. Their output to date may have been characterised by a fusion of disparate musical languages, drawing on indie, hip hop and dance aesthetics in an equally undetermined…

Bloc Party - Intimacy

When first released, Silent Alarm not only stood out from the crowd of regionally accented bands coming out of the South East but also opened the flood gates with a plethora of copy cat bands rushing through. The CD didn’t leave my stereo for a very lon…

Underoath – Lost in the Sound of Separation

Although it may pain long standing Underoath fans, I almost like to ignore the fact that the band even released music before their break though album They're Only Chasing Safety, with this album and everything since being musically far more accomplished. …

Bon Ivor - For Emma, Forever Ago

Looking like a kind of bear man hybrid (in the nicest possible way) and probably standing at about 12 feet tall, Bon Ivor is perhaps not the most obvious candidate to create the heartfelt songs found on For Emma, Forever Ago. Furthermore, his almost child…

Elbow (The seldom seen kid)

First comes the looping swirl of the keyboard, and then the lazy thud of drums before a languid chorus makes a trio. This pattern sooths until the sudden piercing shrill of trumpets. It stays for only a moment before being swept away by a stretching yawn …

Glasvegas (Glasvegas)

It often seems that the Glasvegas tale has been composed entirely of superlative strewn declarations and chest beating fervour coupled with precise dissections to continually remind us of the bands constituent parts. The resulting buzzwords have stuck ens…

Sennen - Cambridge 24th Sept

Sennen - the Norwich based group who make a hybrid of shoe-gazing, post rock, drones and melodic indie, citing their influences as: Spacemen 3, Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine and Spiritualized. See them at The Portland Arms, 24th September …

Pick yr 5 Large Hadron Collider end of the world tracks.

Pick five songs to listen to before the world ends. Just for fun.....for now! mine are Staring at the Sun - TVOTR Plaster Casts of Everything - Liars No Lucifer - BSP Trill - Clipse 5 Puss - Jesus Lizard…

Grunge Revival Anyone?

Being slightly too young to have caught Grunge the first time out, an over exposure to a certain "suicidally inclined" band had always turned me off the idea in general until a friend turned me onto the Pumpkins... Of course now listening to Gru…

the musical equivalent of a cheese and pineapple hedgehog

If the unsinkable Now That's What I Call Music! series is the daddy of the compilation CD, Jonny Trunk's 'Now We Are Ten' is, perhaps, the daddy's nipple: the funny sticky-out bit that no-one knows quite what it's there for. Sounds weird? Try listening to…

hello blog

i really fucking love Andrew Bird. Also, i like being up later than everyone else, but i always feel an odd sense of depression when i wake up at half 12. why do i feel like i've wasted time when i've been up half the night? who knows. night is cool.…

queen of punk vs. dogs in handbags

Anyone with half an ear to the ground knows that men are out of the picture this year - it's all about the ladies. Lily 'smokin' a doobie' Allen dressed as a mushroom at Glastonbury? STOP PRESS! No-bra Britters in MTV 'just looked in the mirror' shocker? …

everything sounds better through a Power Ranger's eye

Super Furry Animals @ Leeds Town Hall If there’s one band that’s famous for their live shows then it’s this lot. Ask anyone. Ask your senile nan who hasn't said anything lucid since the seventies, and she’ll say 'oh, the ones with the tank?' They…

trousersnake-flexing makes me dizzee

Dizzee Rascal - 'Flex' Dizzee Rascal may be holding on to his crown as the king of UK grime, but he’s got a long way to go before he makes up for the travesty that was 2004’s ‘Dizzee does Band Aid, squeaking about da money just before the Darkness …