Bardo Pond are a six piece American band with lots of heavy layered guitar sounds and softly lilting vocals, not a world away from someone like My Bloody Valentine, although without the […]
ATP Preview – Bardo Pond
ATP Preview – Neurosis
These were always one of the names that scared me a little in the ATP line up! They’re a four piece experimental metal or Doom metal band from Oakland, California. I have […]
Perry Bible Fellowship
In case any of you don’t know about this guy or his web site already, he’s well worth checking out. Nicholas Gurewitch is from New York with his comic strip starting life in his […]
The Cultural Nadir at Christmas
Ignoring the religious aspects (which most people will), Christmas is not about high culture. Indeed, for many of us, our formative years are spent whith Christmas encmpassing dreadful songs (I suspect that […]
Only muck at the movies
The title says it all. Nothing decent released this week, so i won’t dwell on it particularly long. ‘Unstoppable’ is a Tony Scott movie about a bomb on a train or some […]
I could watch these for hours…
Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejects, you’ve probably all see them a 100 times. See what you think. they make me giggle anyway. Wonderfully simple style of animation, and a nice idea of rejected shorts […]
ATP – I’ll be your mirror – Portishead
A new venture for the ATP people, is a two day festival will take place in Alexandria Palace on the 23rd and 24th of July 2011. It will be curated by Portishead, […]
ATP Preview – Charlemagne Palestine
Another odd one for ATP, which is good news! He seems very interested in his collection of Teddy Bears from what I can see of the interviews of him on the net, […]
Neil Blomkamp’s AGM Heartland
An odd little teaser has just turned up on the internet, from Neil Blomkap, the co-writer and director of District 9. He’s a south african director, and D9 was actually the first […]
Godspeed! book club
Every ATP festival, the curator likes to put on something special for their fans. Kelly Deal (the Breeders) ran a knitting club, which I never made it to. She claims that she […]
ATP Preview – Deerhoof
Deerhoof are a four piece from San Francisco who have been going in various formats since 94. For some reason I’ve never really checked them out before, but again I like what […]
Bedroom Databank
Bradford Cox is giving away some of his home recordings again, over at his blog. The bedroom databank is a collection of odds and ends, mostly recorded, as you would expect, in […]
Gig Guide – 23-11-10
Notice something? No gigs in January! its odd, but i can’t find anything worth a damn in there, so its an empty months so far, maybe something will turn up. Still no […]
ATP Preview – Black Dice
Noah Lennox “ I can’t speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way […]
ATP Preview – The Ex
The Ex are a four piece punk outfit formed in 1979 in the Netherlands. They are known for their musical experimentation and have released over 20 full length albums. Who knew? Godspeed […]
ATP Preview – The Dead C
This lot are a New Zealand noise rock trio, with guitars, vocals and drums and then some looping electronic guff. They’ve been going since 1986, so another lot of old lads. They […]
Mogwai Freebie!
I just love free tasters, like when you were a kid going around the supermarket with your Mum, I’d always go back two or three times, hoping the person at the counter […]
ATP Preview – Throbbing Gristle
Only two weeks before I head off to ATP – Godspeed style, so I’m doing a bit of homework first! I must admit I don’t know too many of the bands on […]
Harry Potter and the blah-de-blahs
Yes, it’s Harry Potter Season again, so that will fill up most of the main stream cinemas. Still, two good movies this week, so we can’t really complain. Uncle Boonmee who can […]
Dexter – Early Cuts
I’ve been a fan of Dexter for a few years now. It’s great cheese, as tv goes, it’s right up there with the best, such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and a […]
Mongrol
How cool are these toys exactly? What did we miss out on when we were knee high to a grasshopper? I mean, everyone loved star wars figures, but we all knew […]
Chopsticks!
Hard to resist junk like this, but I’ll try to be strong! Yes, they really are chopsticks, light saber chopsticks! They’re available here.
Green Lantern
DC really haven’t gone for the whole movie thing, to the same degree as Marvel. It is possibly a good thing, when you see some of the dodgy adaptations that are out […]
Jägermeister Freezer Sessions
Everyone has one spirit that they got stupidly drunk on in their teenage years, and can’t touch ever since. Mine is Tequila (although I might try it again at some stage, you […]
The Decemberists – my present!
A couple of new gigs worth mentioning, 1st up is Lykke Li for the 16th of April, she’s long been one that has got away, so I think I’ll make the effort […]
Gorecki
I may have been one of the more pretentious teenagers around, but many Saturday evenings ended in one of my friends houses, where we would put on what was always just called […]
Girl Talk
Girl Talk (or Greg Michael Gillis) just released a new album and its available for free here. He’s a mash up artist, which is a style of music that is starting to […]
Les Savy Fav – New Year’s Eve
I cannot say how good this news is, and whoever organised it, deserves a world of credit. Les Savy Fav are pretty average musically, but Tim Harrington is who you are really […]
New at the Movies
Ok, a quick round of what’s new this week. I went to ‘Another Year’ last week, and it was a little better than I expected. As with all of his movies, even […]
