This is something I’ve hoped for, for a while anyway, and I thought they had nearly gone too big to do it, but thankfully it’s not the case. The National are picking […]
The National curate ATP
Daniel Rossen – Saint Nothing
If it sounds like Grizzly Bear or Department of Eagles, it’s because Daniel is part of both bands! He has a lovely voice and this song builds from a very simple piano […]
New music: Nicolas Jaar – With Just One Glance (feat. Scout LaRue)
Nicolas Jaar has put out a new track featuring Scout LaRue on vocals (the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore). And damn fine vocals they are too. It’s a smoldering beauty and very hard to […]
Asterios Polyp – David Mazzuchelli
David Mazzuchelli has had an interesting career, from his early days as an artist in Marvel and DC, he worked on some of the best comics of the time in Year One […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an American race car driver. He’s won Nascar’s ‘Most Popular Driver’ award from 2003-2011. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is an indie two piece from Detroit, who released their […]
Music to work to: Lucky Dragons – Shape Tape
I know we only mentioned these guys last night, but on further digging I found this piece and it’s a work lifesaver. Released last year it is a “90 minute tonal workout […]
Movies – 13-01-11 – Shame
Shame is the second movie by Steve McQueen. He’s a video artist turned movie maker, and I’m sure he’s getting much more notoriety from making movies than the other. He actually won […]
New Music: Lucky Dragons – EXISTERS
This caught my ear today. To be released on 14 February 2012, a new album from Lucky Dragons called EXISTERS. They are giving away the first track here. It’s a hazy mix […]
Magnetic Fields – Andrew in Drag
The first single from the Magnetic Field’s new album has hit the net and as ever, it’s lots of fun. “I’ve always been a ladies man and I don’t have to brag, […]
No More Workhorse selected for Hype Machine 2011 Zeitgeist series!
In Hype Machine’s 2011 version of their Zeitgeist series they have selected No More Workhorse as one of the blogs to determine the top 50 albums of the year! As the Hype […]
Remember early Flaming Lips?
We did a post last year that still gets a bit of interest about when Mercury Rev were a really exciting rock band and I heard an old Flaming Lips track today […]
BBC’s Sounds of 2012
As much as December is filled with lists of what was good in the year just gone, January has now become filled with predictions of what will rock our collective worlds, in […]
The record labels of my youth – Sub Pop, 4AD, Creation Records
I spent the weekend in my family home and at one point I had a random shuffle through a pile of CDs in a box – I pulled out the following three […]
Movies – 06-01-12 – The Artist
I first heard about this movie while I was checking the ‘best of 2011’ movies for critics stateside, and it featured on almost all of them. I’m sure it will be added […]
Videodrome: Dustin O’Halloran – We move lightly
Directed by Marco Morandi for Dustin O’Halloran’s “We move lightly” this is a lovely video using digital animation to perfectly compliment O’Halloran’s haunting yet beautiful music (Robert Lippok-Pataphysical Remix). We mentioned A Winged Victory […]
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other – IMMA
“I wish I had a turtle and that there were no wars” I think we’ve all wished for something similar at some point. This is just one of the many wishes on […]
Top Ten Gigs of 2011
Ok, one last list, and then that’s it, I promise! Well, this blog did start life as a gig guide, so it would be poor form to ignore them! Did I go […]
Movies – 30-12-11
The last movie post of the year, and a couple of good ones for you to check out. For those of you keeping note of these sort of things, yes, I did […]
Top 10 Movies of 2011
Working my way back through the releases from this year, it wasn’t a vintage year, and there were very few that would excite me greatly. Still, we did see Tomas Alfredson prove that ‘Let […]
Gig Guide 27-12-2012
Have to say, next year is starting pretty well, with Bonnie Prince Billy and Clap Your Hands in January. February highlights include Tune Yards and Kurt Vile. Further on in the year, […]
Top 10 Christmas Movies
Ok, this is another request form the wonderful candepop, and seeing as one of them delivered a Christmas present (complete with candy cane!) to my office recently, I’ll have to oblige! Some […]
Perfect Christmas Present – Alphabeast App
Struggling to come up with a present for the little things in your life? Well, here’s an easy option and a great way to learn the Alphabet on the iPad with the […]
Top Ten of the Year – Music – MQ
Ah. Ok, here we go! Time to nail my colours to the mast. What does that mean anyway? After a quick google search… “In nautical battles colours (flags) were lowered as a […]
Foggy’s Christmas Gift
Well, maybe not a gift, but a very good deal, none the less. Just found this on Foggy’s facebook page: “limited Xmas bundle: buy a ticket for Kurt Vile, The War On […]
Top 10 Albums 2011 – JR
These lists basically mean nothing but we love (and hate) doing them. It’s definitely a love/hate thing. I love it because it’s enjoyable going over all the music you’ve heard in a […]
Gruff Rhys knows Christmas!
Yes, there are those that love this season of good will and kindness to all men, and then…. there’s Gruff. I guess his name gives a lot away, bah humbug and all […]
Movies – 16-12-11
Ok, I’m a week behind at the movies, but by the sound of things, we didn’t miss very much last week. I was kind of hoping that Puss in Boots would be […]
The Daily Nice
The Daily Nice is photographer Jason Evans’ answer to the Daily Mail. It is a web site that shows one image per day, and it is something he considers to be ‘nice’, […]
ATP Nightmare Review – Sunday 11-12-11
I did travel to ATP thinking that the first day would be the clear winner, but I left confused, bewildering and racked with conflicting emotions. Troubled, would be the easiest way to […]
No More Workhorse 