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« Previous EntriesGROUPIE FEATURE: Hot Chip
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Hot Chip Take Their One Life Stand
Ever since they exploded into prominence with their 2006 hit single ‘Over and Over’ (from their Mercury Prize short-listed LP The Warning) Hot Chip have been mainstays of the alternative electronica set. Like LCD Soundsystem, in which guitarist Al Doyle also features, Hot Chip stand apart from the faceless brand [...]
GROUPIE FEATURES: YEASAYER
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Young Odd Blood
“I think nudity never goes out of style….that’s a tongue in cheek thing to say but it’s true; it’s timeless,” muses Ira Wolf Tuton, bassist for Brooklyn trio Yeasayer. “Also,” he adds, “It’s just much more fun to look at naked people than people with clothes on.” Ira is explaining the music video [...]
GROUPIE FEATURES: DELPHIC
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Rave Rock in 2010
When the BBC released the results of their Sound Of 2010 List last month, Delphic came in at number three. Interestingly, what is an indisputably honourable achievement comes accompanied by massive hype and expectation, of which the band are all too wary.
Delphic are three lads from Manchester who are acutely aware of the consequences that such hype could have on [...]
GROUPIE INTERVIEW: Rock Poster Artist Darren Grealish
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Rock Poster artist extrodinaire Darren Grealish hails from LA and has worked with the likes of Blondie, Brian Jonestown Massacre, David Bowie, De La Soul, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Nick Cave and Radiohead and that’s only a few! We managed to get five minutes with the busy artist to [...]
Feed The Feral – Crank Up Your Webcam
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Beyond the amazing YouTube execution rolled out in the Birds Vs Humans campaign for Tooheys 5 Seeds is a fairly quirky game in which you can use your webcam as the input controller for an interactive game in a Facebook app.
How many 2009 buzzwords can you write in one sentence?!! A bit hard to get [...]
Das Pop Hook Up With Soulwax
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Interestingly, the self-titled release by the Belgian pop geniuses from Das Pop is the first time most of us have heard from the band, who until now have been contented with releasing their two previous albums within the intensely creative yet insular Belgian music scene.
But something was different about this album, not to mention hooking [...]
Flight of the Conchords Reconfirm That They Are Freaky
Monday, October 26th, 2009I Told You I Was Freaky, the sophomore offering from Flight of the Conchords, promises to secure their reputation as New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo… a hotly contested title, to be sure.
GROUPIE FEATURE: Peaches
Monday, December 1st, 2008Hanging up the whips?
It’s been three years since Canadian born, Berlin-based Peaches served us with Impeach My Bush. A lot’s changed since then and with the release of album number five I Feel Cream, the ex-music/drama teacher is set to shake things up again. This time, with a less obviously controversial album title, the shake [...]
LIMELIGHT
Monday, December 1st, 2008We shine the limelight on two new acts to take notice of this month.
Kurt Vile
Philadelphia singer-songwriter Kurt Vile has more than six self-recorded self-released CDRs under his belt, but it was last year’s dreamscape, reverb soaked Constant Hitmaker that attracted real attention from some of the world’s greatest indie labels. Word is, after hearing [...]
GROUPIE FEATURE: THE ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR
Monday, December 1st, 2008Around the world and back again
Lars and Mette, the Danish duo that head The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, had no desire to be rock stars in their own country. “It was always our aim to export our music,” says Lars Iversen, the musical force behind this band’s funky, psychedelic sound. Mette Lindberg, the group’s pixie-like [...]