Monthly Archives: April 2008
New Van She: Strangers
With Strangers we find ourselves one step closer to Van She’s full-length debut, V, which is set to be released at some stage in August on Modular. I couldn’t be more excited about it, especially since Strangers is such a beautiful track. While the first single, Cat and the Eye, left some of us [...]
Bagraiders Play Melbourne
The Bag Raiders hit Eurotrash this Saturday, May 3. Their debut EP featuring “Fun Punch” is currently being flogged on JJJ and is included on the Ministry of Vomit Sound Annual 2008. They’ve remixed Midnight Juggernauts, Sneaky Sound System, The Valentinos – included on the Kitsune Maison 3 compilation as well as being released on [...]
We Love Splendour
Oh look, more festivals. With underwhelming line-ups. First up is the one I won’t be attending: early June’s We Love Sounds. It features some nice international names such as Bonde Do Rolê, The Bravery, !!!, Cassius, Mr Oizo and The Whip, plus some quality local acts. However, for those of you who don’t know North [...]
Midnight Juggernauts Vs David Hasselhoff
So I heard about David Hasselhoff getting down and off his face to Kraftwerk at Coachella but then some pics turned up on perezhilton.com featuring Daniel “Stricker” Juggernaut. Hilarious! Stricker is the one on the left of the photo looking awkward. Is this how the Juggernauts plan on conquering Europe? x n
MSTRKRFT Plays Splendour/Melbourne
The lineup for the Splendour In The Grass festival in Byron Bay was announced a little while ago and it didn’t really grab me all that much. Sure I wanted to see Wombats and I wouldn’t mind catching Vampire Weekend but I figured these guys would probably come and play Melbourne for side shows and [...]
Hey Today!
For those of you who still appreciate a nice “banger” or two, (thank god disco is taking over this year, because it hurts me every time I have to say “banger”) you just might enjoy recent signee to the ubiquitous Kitsuné, the ever-exclamatory Hey Today!. They’ve made their way quietly onto the electro radar with [...]
Plimsouls Saves The Day
It’s safe to say I’ve had better weeks. Finding out that the tumour growing on the top of my right lung was essentially inoperable did not, it must be said, make for an overly enjoyable Wednesday afternoon. ‘Essentially’ in that it is operable, but any operation would require the removal of my right arm from [...]
South Rakkas Crew Save Ragga
As if in a single-handed attempt to undo the damage visited upon the world by Shaggy style ragga-gone-wrong hyper-sexed histrionics, the South Rakkas Crew have just dropped their new single ‘Mad Again’ and it is an absolute tearer. In addition to having the rave infused dancehall roller ‘Mad Again’ at its centre, the single also [...]
The MotherTruckin’ Death Set
By way of Brisbane, Sydney, NYC and B’more, they’re traveling hobos of the best kind. They’ve been blogged into oblivion, and rightfully so. The Death Set’s sound graduated first class from the Dan Deacon school of kicking ass and taking names – the excess was collected and crushed under a distortion pedal then locked up [...]
Neon Neon
So, this is the oddest collaboration I’ve seen for a while. Neon Neon is the joint brainchild of abstract hip-hop producer Boom Bip and former Super Furry Animals front-man Gruff Rhys. As far as I can tell, not since German synth-poppers The Notwist combined with Canadian anarchist art-rappers Themselves to produce the superlative ’13 & [...]
Pop Levi Loves Pink Enemy
So former Ladytron bassist and Beck’s slightly less edgy unofficial little brother, (Jonathon) Pop Levi, is releasing a new album soon, entitled Never Never Love, and he’s recruited Californian electronic duo, Pink Enemy, to remix both the title track and the lead single, Dita Dimone. Surprising, since in this day and age everyone is remixing [...]
New Crystal Castles
And they are fantastic tracks. But first a quick apology for my previous Crystal Castles post. For the record, I don’t think Ethan is an arsehole, and I didn’t intend for the post to imply that I did. It was just a lame exercise in looking at what one web-based press outlet was saying [...]
French People…
They’re a bit weird, you know. They don’t wash their hair frequently, they blow up tropical islands for fun, their president is a playboy. They just do it differently over there. They’re a croissant et caffe au lait short of a dozen, you know. And you think, hey, I can forgive them their idiosyncrasies. Because [...]
Potential Wife of the Week: Lykke Li