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Guest top 10: Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls

Photo: Nick Gough We finally wave bye bye to 2009 with our final two wonderful guests - Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls Hatcham Social Top Ten Albums These are the albums I got most interested in this year and have been playing in my earphones constantly. Not in an exact order as such…more what I thought of as writing…I usually get into a band through a live...

Saturday Morning Videos

Polly Scattergood - "Please Don’t Touch"; There are worse things in the world then watching this Polly Scattergood video that’s for damn sure. With just her lovely self and her adorable voice she makes this video pop off the screen. The music and her beauty are obviously enough to sell this package so why mess it up with anything more creative then that? Grade: B- We...

Video: Depreciation Guild - Nautilius

I was really excited to see 8 bit shoegazers The Depreciation Guild tonight when they play with super-hyped, big-thing-for-next-2-months The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at The Middle East tonight. But you know what? I am too goddamn tired to go to that show. 2 shitty nights sleep, waking up early, and two long days of work make me have almost zero desire to go out tonight. So instead, I present...

Guest top 10s: The Drums

The DRUMS give us the low-down on their album picks of 2009 1. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Camera Obscura Myspace 2. Cats on Fire - Our Temperance Moveme Cats on Fire Myspace 3. JJ - jj n° 2 4. Glasvegas - Glasvegas 5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - ST photo: Annie Powers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Myspace 6. The...

SXSW Interview #1: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Photo by Chris DiGiamo. Of Kurt with the Depreciation Guild. Not at SXSW. There is no possible way to see all that you want to see at SXSW. There just isn’t. And it’s impossible to keep up with who is playing where despite ones’ best efforts so you have to just kind of wander around with very little plan and hope you find something good. Luckily, I went to a show...

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Ellie Goulding, Egyptian Hip Hop - Upstairs At The Garage, 07 December 2009

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart We are gathered in the relatively confined space that is Upstairs at The Garage to see three acts that have been flagged up as having the potential to break out of such small arenas and dominate much bigger venues. First up we get Egyptian Hip-Hop, a very young bunch of Mancunian lads who touch on any number of musical trends, without really seeming...

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + caUSE co-MOTION + The Depreciation Guild | Mercury Lounge | 2.07.2009

The word "twee" gets thrown around a lot when talking about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. They are cute, with tendencies towards la-la choruses and cardigans ("we have three extras just in case"). But what you don’t hear a lot, at least not yet, is how much they rock. Not the way, say, Cheeseburger rocks, but singer Kip keeps his guitar in buzzsaw mode and the...

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Reviews

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

One quick search at Hypem reveals that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart has already been featured by just about every other indie pop loving blogger. So feel free to move on, as the next few lines will contain absolutely nothing that hasn’t been said or written numerous times before. But since this is my blog, where else would be a more appropriate place to share my 5 cents on the smashing...

New Favourite Band: Top 20 Records of 2011
Everyone seems to be whinging on about records of the year lists at the moment, how we’re all sick of them as there are too many and they’re irrelevant anyway. But I like them. So...
New Favourite Band: Jack of Heart - Only Seven Inches for your Girlfriend?
Gratuitous Jack of Heart endorsement from Jared Black Lips, pic from Falsestuff Don’t let the terrible title put you off. ‘Only Seven Inches For your Girlfriend?’ is a compilation...
New Favourite Band: Personal & The Pizzas: Diet, Crime, & Delinquency
"Hey, what’s up you little jerks? Long time no see uh? You ready to learn something?" Personal and the Pizzas describe themselves as "the greatest friggin band in the...
Parsley's Commlock: Tony Reeve
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Hero of the week: Tony Reeve Tony Reeve was famous as a cartoonist for Private Eye, but he was also an extremely nice guy & one of my best friends for over 20...
Parsley's Commlock: The Baby Show
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKShow review/preview: The Baby Show, Excel Centre 18-20/02/11, Earls Court 28-30/10/11The Baby Show is amazing, and perfect for anyone with any interest in babies. Of course,...
Parsley's Commlock: Facebook
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKTechnology Review: FacebookHaving spent a considerable amount of time, usually the early hours of the morning, trying to create a Facebook presence of the same order of the Myspace...
Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week Live!
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Show review: Marketing Week Live!, Olympia 29-30/06/11Dropped into this show to see what’s happening on the other side of web browsers (i.e. what companies are doing when...
Parsley's Commlock: News International coverage 6-8/07/11
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV Review: News International coverage 6-8/07/11What an amazing and thoroughly entertaining week’s news it was. On Wednesday we started with the parliamentary debate...
Parsley's Commlock: 2011: A Space Odyssey, pay for a coffee with your phone, Brentford County Court and Apple vs Google vs Microsoft
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Film Idea: 2011:A Space Odyssey I’ve been reflecting on the fact that we’re not having this conversation on the moon, and it caused me to re-imagine 2001:A Space...
Parsley's Commlock: Jet Harris
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKHero of the week/Obituary News : Jet HarrisYes, actually I do know that he died on 18th March 2011, but I’ve been a bit busy and this is my first real chance to...