Flight Facilities - Foreign Language ft Jess
By Stef Siepel
The weekly froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. … Continue Reading
CORNBURY PARK
So you have kids and then you pack away your tent, your lucky festival shorts and your predilection for drunken bean burgers, right? WRONG!
While three kids have eroded my chances (and desire, frankly) to battle the roads to Glastonbury and listen to naive kids talking about society around a campfire, I’m starting to crave the festival feeling.
That constant hum of competing beats in the air, the childish excitement of waking up under canvas, vegetarian food coming out of the wazoo (I’m not vegetarian anymore because I live with carnivorous bloodsuckersbut when in Rome…) and oodles and oodles of live bands.
Judas Priest
It seems that now more than ever that it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, a fact I realised following the news of metal titans Judas Priest’s impending retirement. Priest’s retirement will be lamented by the rock world, however the greater cause for concern amongst the rock community should be the apparent lack of suitable successors for Priest, or indeed the other great rock bands inexorably moving towards the twilight of their careers. Look at the headline acts of hard rock/metal festivals in the last 5 years – the vast majority enjoyed their creative and commercial peak in the 1980s. Subsequently, with the impending retirement of acts such as Priest, the rock/metal genre is seemingly heading for a crisis. … Continue Reading
YACHT
Desktop icons including ones of Marcel (Marceau, I assume), Pilot Abilene (from Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales), Amanda Lear (singer and Dali muse), and Tom Cruise can be downloaded from the blog of the band YACHT. Not an advertisement, but I’ll get back to that. The project of YACHT has evolved from Jona Bechtolt, to Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, to Jona and Claire with a full-fledged band. It also includes everyone who has been involved with the band at any time, for that period of time. The band has been growing in popularity in the last couple of years, riding alongside LCD Soundsystem on the DFA label. This June they released their fifth studio album called Shangri-La, and although music is very much at the core of YACHT, it is also a bit more than that. Take these desktop icons. If you look at them, they are quirky, playful, a bit silly, a bit of fun. Yet next to all those things, the icons also indicate the influences of YACHT. References as well as a bit of fun. With YACHT we talk a bit about both these things, and also about their new album, their tour, and childhood memories. … Continue Reading
We caught up with one of our favourite popstars of recent times, one Miss Alexis Jordan. It was momentous, it happened at Wireless Festival 2011, it involves us doing a high amount of squealing at her and you can watch it here:
We caught up with Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, on the remaster of Screamadelica – and Kevin Shields’ role in the process.
We caught up with the new project of The Pussycat Dolls’ Kimberly Wyatt, Her Majesty and The Wolves – a dance-pop duo formed with Spencer Nezey.
Fernando - The 87
The weekly froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of them which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. … Continue Reading
You can now get your hands on a beautiful acoustic version of Vintage Trouble‘s ‘Blues Hand Me Down’ for free, exclusively from the Vodafone Music store. Head over here and download it, you’d be well advised!
If you haven’t seen the acoustic session we posted the other day, it’s not too late. Ta dah: Vintage Trouble acoustic and live backstage at Hard Rock Calling … Continue Reading
We caught up with James Vincent McMorrow at Latitude Festival, to talk about just how isolated he was when he wrote his album, whether he had a flippin’ clue who Willow Smith was in spite of covering ‘Whip My Hair’, those darned Bon Iver comparisons and, well, quite a lot more. Enjoy:
You can read our full review of Latitude Festival 2011 by clicking anywhere on this line.
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