LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION MP3s

Photo: Flickr I meant to start back this back up last Sunday, but as you all know the site decided to throw up on itself. The plan was to include a bunch of songs carried over from last year that didn’t make the cut on the song list, and just have something fun for all of you to listen to on this lazy afternoon. Listening to a lot of these, i’m questioning myself as to why I forgot...
So, this year I thought I’d have a go at doing a Festive Fifty, folllowing in the footsteps of the great John Peel and some other estimable bloggers. However, it’s been a bit of a strange and unsatisfying exercise. I’m sure that when it comes to deciding the top 50 albums and songs of the year, magazines and other multi-staffed media outlets decide on their lists by a...
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LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Reviews

Band name: Lightspeed Champion, The Wombats and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: Rory Carroll plugs an mp3 player into his brain and bravely fights his way through this week’s attrocities… er, I mean singles. This week we can expect the re-birth of Test Iclicles, the re-birth of Radiohead and the Why-birth of Hello Wembley… Pull quote 2: It’s...
Band name: various new singles! Label: various labels Teaser: Rory reviews this week’s singles and gives a few home truths about Test Icicles into the bargain… Pull quote 2: Anyone with a pulse and two functioning ears would’ve arrived at the conclusion that Test Icicles were bollocks… First para: SINGLE OF THE WEEK: LETHAL BIZZLE / (A) BIZZLE...
Venue: Austin, Texas Teaser: In part three of his SXSW diary, John becomes increasingly desperate to find some ‘tunes of the day’, despite encounters with The Ting Tings, Bitshifter, and Lightspeed Champion! Will he escape the Texas heat unscathed? Read on to find out… Pull quote 2: Bitshifter is a man who makes awesome hard dance music using a modified...
Band name: Asobi Seksu, Lightspeed Champion, The Mitchell Brothers and more Label: various coolio schmoolios Teaser: Japanese space monsters! Garage Rock apocalypse! Messages to aliens! Messages to Michael Jackson! The Age Of Aquarius reimagined! If only real life were as exciting as this week’s singles, reviewed by Ric Rawlins… Pull quote 2: It would make a...
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