Finally. I’ve been holding my groin to the largely fantastic She Keeps Bees for some time now. Listening to Jess Larabee’s vocals (yes, that’s where the band’s name comes from) and marveling at just how good a bootleg vocal can be – just listen to this livewire bastard, ripping your jeans for you into a grungy … Continue reading
The latest band to shoot out of Birmingham’s newly vibrant scene is Superfood. And in the past few weeks they’ve signed a record deal and released a new single. Which you can get for free from their website. Which is just…super. So far, the band have served up cooing and hooting pop that is never … Continue reading
If this story on Vice is anything to be believed, then there should be some videos of Crystal Fighters Rave in a Cave appearing soon. There’s a few videos up on the English/Spanish band’s YouTube video of them doing a gig in a cave, perfoming a pretty damn funky version of You & I. It’s … Continue reading
Tune Yards new album may include a collaboration with the talented Thao Nguyen from indie-pop wizards Thao and the Get Down Stay Down a post on Tune Yards’ Facebook page suggested. The picture posted on 2 August shows both Thao and Merrill Garbus, Tune Yards creator, in the studio, fake-singing like they were making a … Continue reading
Another month, another setback for one of Michael Gove’s piss-poor education reform proposals, this time from Ofqual. To add spice to this increasingly frequent event, I propose we make a game of it. I call it: Game of Goves: No Change is Coming. Ofqual has forced Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to delay plans for changes … Continue reading
Mariam the Believer, od Wildbirds & Peacedrums, has brought out something so gritty and tasty it’s making me think that eating gravel is a good idea. I’ve been listening to Wildbirds & Peacedrums since their first album, 2007’s Heartcore, was released and twatted Scandinavia with a big drum stick made from jazz. Everything they have … Continue reading
Last week Bridget Christie won the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Excellent! A new comedian I hadn’t heard of to watch! I heard the news through the delightful Josie Long’s Twitter feed and thought I’d follow Christie. Such is the way of many comedians these days she may well have had an excellent Twitter feed, filled with … Continue reading
Since this report in the Guardian, I have wanted to see the how Crystal Fighters’s Cave Rave goes, and on 29 August I’ll find out. They’ve done it to celebrate the launch of their second album Cave Rave – (see what they did there?) Unfortunately, I’m not one of the lucky few taking a trip … Continue reading
When I went to see Scroobius Pip at Latitude I did not expect anti piracy coin throwing (in payment) and an all standing tent/posh pit. (Yes. I am calling it a posh pit.) Live poetry can be throw up some unexpected surprises – I once watched a man in heavy drag scream at a teddy … Continue reading
Yes. ‘Cosmic fucking wank’ is a measurement of how crap something can be and, my god, since it was used by Indy journalist Tom Peck to describe one of the many thousand product press releases that landed on his desk the other week, I will be trying to work it into my life. On my … Continue reading
Corrosive Rubber Ducky 