With their debut album, In Guards We Trust, leaving us shouting along gloriously to the heavens, we just had to have a chinwag with Manhattan threesome, Guards. Here, the trio tell us about their Coachella 2013 experience, dream festival line-ups, and their plans to tour the world.
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Not long ago, I was in a bar watching – and this is not hyperbole – the worst covers band in the world. The clammy lead singer systemically crucified tracks from the last half of the 20th Century. The crowd were either too polite, or too pissed, to consider hurling …
Øya Festival in Norway has announced new additions to its lineup.
Metronomy, Willis Earl Beal, Best Coast, Chromatics and a variety of other acts will take to the stage over the course of the weekend, between 7-11 August, joining headliners Björk, The Black Keys and The …
This week, London In Stereo picks out gigs from Crushed Beaks, Best Coast and Two Inch Punch.
London In Stereo’s Gigs Of The Week
Crushed Beaks // Teleman - The Old Blue Last (FREE) – Thursday 21st June
If you’re a fan of scuzzy surf rock and pop tunes then get …
A stars-and-stripes collagen plumps the bikini-clad body of Best Coast’s music like a botoxed slab of Blackpool rock. Such lo fi stupidity fills 32 vacuous minutes with headless bambi-crap that’s backward even for the picket-fence pout that surrounds its plastic ‘50s context. Coincidentally ‘The Only Place’ with its titular …
Judging from the genre-defying sensibility of Brighton’s The Go! Team as a whole, as well as the incredibly obscure samples used by Panton on most of the band’s releases, it’s evident that he would never create an album with one or two conventional “hits” that stand out like a sore …
As our BOTW merriment continues for yet another day, Tim Robins got in touch with The Go! Team’s main man Ian Parton via email on the cusp of the band’s first UK tour in almost 3 years. Can we get a rewind?
PN: Over the 7 years since the release …
Whereas many of the bands featured as our Band of the Week are relative newcomers to the British music scene, hailing from foreign climes with delightfully different cultural reference points, there is always room for an old favourite to be thrown into the mix.
Although The Go! Team have been …
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