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DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s. TING TINGS Pure pop from two of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the music business, We toured with them in 2008 and watched them blow up and go on to world wide success, I’m really happy for...
No Age and Jay Reatard Wednesday, February 4, 2009 The Kings Arms, Auckland I’ve been singing Jay Reatard all day. Easily one of my favourite sets of all time, Jay Reatard catapulted through a lightning speed set of songs mixed from his back catalog, although unfortunately seemed to pay less attention to my personal favourite, Blood Visions. Like the other crazy sweaty messes up the...
Fever Ray Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41. 60: Crystal Stilts: Love is a wave Excellent single on Slumberland, a reverb drenched indie Scott Walker fronting Echo & The Bunnymen at their most optimistic. Download love is a wave Check out Crystal Stilts on myspace 59:...
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Jay Reatard - "It Ain’t Gonna Save Me" Spotted this marvellous new Jay Reatard video on the Warlus’s blog. Great new tune and excellent clip, once the song gets going (about 1 minute in). Jay’s new album is out on Matador in the middle of August.
What?s better than Deerhunter?s newest album, Microcastle? Oh, I don?t know, maybe Deerhunter covering Jay Reatard?s ?Oh, It?s Such a Shame? from his last album Blood Visions? Yes! As we mentioned previously, the two have teamed up to cover each other’s songs on Jay’s latest Matador 7". The Deerhunter version does the brooding original justice, with some added, even darker...
Despite news to the contrary, there are still record stores in America. Chains, less and less but, at least in New York, the good ones are still going. April 18 was the third annual Record Store Day, a "celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally." Or, an excuse to get people to go...
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MP3 Jay Reatard - Can’t Do It Anymore Jay Reatard might have an eery resemblance to Meatloaf on the Watch Me Fall album cover, but you won’t find him making 12 minute rock operas with ambiguous meanings any time soon. Jay plays straightforward, garage pop-punk songs at a breakneck speed and the songs rarely go over two minutes. “Can’t Do It Anymore...
Band name: Wetdog, Jay Reatard, Tokyo Police Club and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: We swear it’s a coincidence that the band behind this week’s SOTW is also shortly due to play Artrocker Brighton! Emily Kendrick denies the bribery - as she takes us through this week’s 45’s… Pull quote 2: The Dirty pretties will be doing...
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Top 5 Downloads

  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...
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    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...
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    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...

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