THE COVERGIRLS

If Stephen Malkmus had formed fIREHOSE with Mike Watt and George Hurley, they may have made music akin to Glasgow's COVERGIRLS.  Yes, they're that good. 

Covergirls!

HOTPANTS ROMANCE

Fans of THE VIVIAN GIRLS would do well to check out similar yet superior home grown talent HOTPANTS ROMANCE.

sxsw '09 announces first confirmed acts

Looks like SXSW has just announced a few acts that will be appearing at the 2009 Music Festival.

Surplus To Requirement: We Should All Stop Moaning, Now

Hello. You don't need to know much about me, apart from I'm a music industry stooge, and I say what's on my mind. Generally about the music industry.

Blind Pilot

This one’s for you folkies out there. I was introduced to Blind Pilot this week through 3hive and I fell in love right away with the band’s genuine and mesmerizing acoustic compositions.

Fantastic AVETT BROTHERS live clips on Laundromatinee

I've been banging on about the AVETT BROTHERS for a while.  Drenched in critical acclaim and fan frenzy in the US, they remain relative unknowns in blighty.  Which is a damn shame, as no one does earnest, heartfelt Americana like these guys.

Holly Andres at the Robert Mann Gallery (via NY Mag Vulture)

Vulture cites Nancy Drew and Lewis Carroll (and the gallery’s PR name checks Hitchcock, too), but to me, Holly Andres’ Sparrow Lane photos drip with a fantastic nostalgia for suburban Cold War terror.

Electric Owls - Magic Show: DOWNLOAD on RCRDLBL

ELECTRIC OWLS is a new project from Andy Herod of The Comas with contributions from members of his band, Archers of Loaf and Band of Horses.  None too shabby it is too - as this mp3 from RCRDLBL will testify.

 

MING MING AND THE CHING CHINGS

As names go, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings is pretty questionable.  I think it's the fact that it manages to be similar to both The Ting Tings and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong that makes it grate so.

Rabbit, Rabbit All Day Long...

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  • Los Campesinos!

    We Throw Parties You Throw Knives

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    Joyous ideas packed art pop from Cardiff seven piece. Sounds like Art Brut, The Research and Palomar got wasted on absinthe and took the stage together at an open mic...

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