With their re-released debut album, Light Up Gold, hitting the UK this week, we caught up with Austin Brown of New York post-punk quartet Parquet Courts for a quickfire chat about life on the road, their recent visits to the UK and the best vegetarian restaurant to head to …
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Tags: Andrew Savage, Austin Brown, barcelona, brighton, D. Boon, Detroit, Light Up Gold, london, male bonding, Master of My Craft, Max Savage, Mazes, Minutemen, new york, Parquet Courts, Primavera, Sésamo, Socrates, What's Your Rupture
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Sisterly duo, Bleached, first caught our attention last year but since then they’ve gone from strength to strength. Online New Music Editor Alex Cull caught up with them ahead of the release of their album ‘Ride Your Heart’ on 2nd April.
PlanetNotion: How has being siblings affected the working dynamic …
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Tags: Bleached, Ride Your Heart, Veronica Falls
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Ahead of their new EP Water dropping next week, we got Brighton garage rock duo Blood Red Shoes to compile a playlist of the tunes that sustained them – and got them riled up – while recording Water in Texas last year.
It’s an unsurprisingly stormy affair; one that veers …
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Tags: Blood Red Shoes, brighton, Dirty Boots, Joy Division, Nirvana, Oh the Guilt, playlist, Rolo Tomassi, She's Lost Control, sonic youth, Texas, The Scales of Balance, water
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Unbelievable reverb-soaked live videos in churches, garage pop from San Francisco, and the Bunker offering up ‘trashy, cymbal-heavy pop’, ‘psychedelic exploration of the synthesiser cosmos’ and ‘accessible, euphoric epics’. Phew.
I feel a poignant way to start this column would be with a reference to Embers’ recent live recording …
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The decision to release Japandroids’ sophomore LP Celebration Rock in early June this year was a masterstroke of timely contagion. In recent years, whether you like it or not, it’d be damn hard to dispute that the guitar music landscape has been overwhelmed with lo-fi/surf-infused indie bands who far …
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Tags: album of the year, blink-182, celebration rock, japandroids, the house that heaven built, the nights of wine and roses, we'll sleep when we're dead, younger us
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Findlay is a new female artist whose début single, ‘Your Sister’, is a full-on embodiment of proper gritty garage rock. You can watch the S&M-style video here (saucy) and download it for free here. Having just finished touring with #1 newcomer Jake Bugg, 2013 is bound to be a …
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Tags: allen ginsberg, burlesque, cooking up something good, cunt, dan auerbach, Dandy Warhols, deathproof, december playlist, dig!, dr.me, findlay, fuck, hung at heart, iggy, Iggy Pop, iggy pop interview, inspire, jake bugg, joyeux anniversaire, live, louis armstrong, mac demarco, manchester, meth, moodboard, residency, S&M, shite, song, spinal tap, spotify, st james infirmary, stag movies, tarantino, the black keys, the brian jonestown massacre, the castle hotel, the coasters, the growlers, the northern quarter, the velvet underground, tour, video, white light white heat, your sister
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This week Sharon Van Etten plays one of her first UK gigs since signing to 4AD, there are a couple of discreetly-promoted gigs from the brilliant James Blake and Disclosure (where’s our invite?!), and we’re gutted that we won’t be in attendance at Alexisonfire‘s Farewell Tour gig tonight. London …
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Tags: 4AD, alexisonfire, dingwalls, disclosure, fabric, farewell tour, fidlar, get people, gig listings, gigs of the week, james blake, london in stereo, Matthew Dear, sharon van etten, The Lexington
Posted in Acoustic, Dance, Disco, Electronica, Embrace the Weekend, Experimental, Gigs, guitar music, House, Indie, Music, New Age, News!, Pop, Post-Dubstep, post-punk, producer, rnb, Rock, Roots, Singer Songwriter, Synth Pop | No Comments »
Practically the resident house band at Shoreditch boozer The Old Blue Last, Crushed Beaks have been blaring out mucky, shoegazey noise around London venues for a couple of years now. Their first double A-side, ‘Sun-Dogs/Close-ups’, was all droning guitars and bass-heavy drums that trashed any chance of hearing the vocals. …
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Tags: alex morris, breakdown, close ups, crushed beaks, events in dense fog, grim, Guildford, indigo child, matt poile, shed of the year 2012, shedworking.co.uk, Sheffield, south-east london, spinal tap, sun dogs, The Old Blue Last, this is fake diy, tramlines, woe
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London In Stereo are back with their top picks and gig listings for this week.
London In Stereo’s Gigs Of The Week
Jessie Ware // Two Inch Punch – Electric Brixton (Sold Out) - Tuesday 13th November
Obviously after the flurry of excitement (and expectation) around Jessie Ware’s Mercury nomination …
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Tags: electric brixton, gig listings, gigs, Jessie Ware, live, live shows, london in stereo, the borderline, the bronx, The Neighbourhood, the peel, Two Inch Punch
Posted in Acoustic, Dance, Disco, DJ, Do Not Miss This, Embrace the Weekend, Experimental, Folk, Gigs, grassroots, House, Indie, Lo-fi, Music, New Age, News!, Pop, post-punk, producer, Psychedelic, rnb, Rock, Singer Songwriter, Surf, Synth Pop, top 40 | No Comments »
With their penchant for unpronounceable album titles, records pressed onto x-rays (yes, really) and 3D t-shirts, you could certainly be forgiven for thinking Sheffield’s Hey Sholay are all style and no substance. This assumption, however, belies one simple fact: their debut full-length ((o)) not only lives up to the heady …
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Tags: ((o)), 3d t-shirts, album review, bears the clocks the bees, Bowie, free download, go easy tiger, golden is the colour of the sun (run rabbit), heroes, Hey Sholay, liam creamer, my blood, records, Thom Yorke, wishbone (wish wish wish), x rays
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