Young upstarts GoodBooks (no space) bring whispered and high-spirited Indie-Rock with a slight nod in the general direction of the electro genre. This is - as it should be - understated and free of gimmicks and crazes which would complicate a beautiful mix. GoodBooks are signed to Transgressive - stable mates include Young Knives, The Pippettes and the Noisettes - some excellent UK sourced indie guitar pop music - so they’re in great company. Sony BMG / Coloumbia. Which probably isn’t a good thing.
The Not Your Usual Bollocks podcast is back after a summer break - the best music podcast in the world not made by me. Because if you don’t have faith in your own work, what’s the point. NYUB brings you the best music freely available on the internet (a policy I also adher to in my podcast) and host MJ cut the crap and plays music, doesn’t talk to much, and when he does, it makes sense.
Emusic have just launched a dedicated service for the U.K - sign up through this link (where ever you live) and try out a free trial + get 25 free tracks. Artists currently available/ coming soon include The Pixies, TV on the Radio, Franz Ferdinand, Four Tet, Tunng, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Jose Gonzalez and the Pippetes.
Music For Robots have the Go Team’s cover of Sonic Youth’s ‘Bull In Heather‘ (that I played on the podcast a while back) available for download now. “I think you’ll still appreciate this cover for what it is: a loving tribute“
Anti-folk music. NME say “honey voiced Angel”. But thats way to sweet. Even twee is pushing it. Drowned in Sound hit the proverbial nail on the head and really do her justice by mentioning Regina Spektor and Bob Dylan in a review. The beatiful Emmy the Great creates beautiful and simple stories of dreams, moves, birds, sewing needles and a ball of string. The charming and shy intensity of the voice is matched by a marked concentration from a stunned crowd, witnessed at Truck Festival - her performance in the middle of the afternoon was undoubtedly the most packed tent that weekend. I have yet to hear a track by Emmy I am not completly bowled over by. She currently has 3982 friends. Get that up to 4000 by making friends on myspace and hear some more of her music especially Absentee and current single Secret Circus.
All posts will now have some links at the bottom. Since I can’t hoard internets I thought I’d better share them.
Web Zen: Bike Messengers in NYC (youtube // [via]) soundtracked by Broken Social Scene track Bandwitch. Who happen to be playing the Sheffield Leadmill on September 1st with support from Leed’s most promising new band Sky Larkin who play Leeds Festival at the end of the month.
The Musical Beeches were not who I intended to hear, just a happy accident searching for a band’s myspace address and coming up with a completly different band. And boy (and/or girl) am I glad I stumbled into their cyberden this evening. Telescope leaves you drooling. Well maybe I’m just hankering for another bowl of cereal but as I listened, and enjoyed Telescope it finished, and I didn’t mind because I had just heard stunning new music that isn’t neccessarily going to be successful/ scene-worthy / time-less or particularly relevent next week. But it works in this space/ mess/ place I am in right now and I hope it works/ provides enjoyment/ stops you from doing what you’re doing/ makes you think hmm nothing but green lights is incredible, I shall leave that boy that 1978 ford bronco that’s collecting dust in the garage. A strange hobby that, collecting dusk.
Body Clock by Hot Silk Pockets fades into background at 01:07 if you woke up at 07:00 having had little sleep and much excitment the previous night. However, heard in daylight hours this song might just place you on the shoulder of an adventurer on a sheer cliff, in the sleeve of an explorer on the edge of a frozen ocean waiting for the surf to pick up.
Hot Silk Pockets are one of many bands I’ve recently found in a little hot little (possibly silk) pocket of good old London town, Tap Tap and Candy are friendly with todays band. Their sound? Optimistic, breathless, interuptive and elegant harmonious indie-pop.
sean gramphones glimmery guitar music suggestions are sublime. Not the least bit wanky.
The Take Your Medicine Podcast Show NINE is out now. It’s a downloadable and subscribable web/radio show I put together is out now and contains 45 minutes of superb audio nourishment first heard on Nothing But Green Lights blog and other places of musical refuge.
I’m off on holiday. Posting will resume middle of August. While I’m away make sure you have entered the 15+ CD competition/give-away (simply bookmark this site in del.icio.us to enter) and be sure to sign up for the Emusic free trial and download a couple of albums from the likes of the pipettes, forward russia, tapes and tapes, belle and sebestian, destroyer, the pixies, johnny cash and many more for free! Doing so through this link helps pay the bills on this site. Not only that but Emusic is actually a great music download service too!
Sky Larkin play dark, smart and enchanting rock music whilst Los Campesinos are indie-pop/rock starlets and are one of the latest British acts getting a lot of attention through the mp3 blogs.
Los Campesinos play support on August 29th in Cardiff @ The Point
Sky Larkin play support on September 1st in Sheffield @ The Leadmill
"...Afrobeat has gone all desert-storm, with instrumental precision: an assault of funk and drum... the sandstorm churned up behind it betrays kilowatts of energy and a solar rhythm" [11th May: more] | [Photo credit]
"Grandiose in a run down country house kind of way. Perhaps a lament to the old hedges carved to take the form of a pride of lions, but now, sadly but a shadow of their former sense... It’s like folk music recovering from the revolution: rejuvination and lost memories of the songs that rallied them."
[12th September 2007: more]
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