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This is the new, kind of creepy collaborative effort from We Have Band, Blinkink Productions and the dudes from Wieden + Kennedy London. Composed from 4,816 stills, all of which are apparently being uploaded to We Have Band’s Flickr, "allowing people to re-edit the sequence as they see fit in order to make their own video…" **********

Thom Stone; Hearts & Bones

"I wish you’d try to make up your mind." Regardless of where he comes from or where he’s been since - whether it’s London, Manchester, or anywhere in between - young songwriter Thom Stone seems pretty unaffected by the run-around of big city life. In fact, if music is indeed an accurate reflection of one’s surroundings, Thom steers well clear of the...

Comet Gain - Love Without Lies

London’s Comet Gain started kicking out indie pop jams about the same time I was coughing up cash for Ace of Base and Stone Temple Pilots cassettes. Laugh all you want—that was a long time ago. Ahem. Their most recent LP, Broken Record Players, snuck past us late last month but we’ve since come to our senses. Check the post-punk rumble of "Love Without Lies" ...

MAP May

It’s MAP time again. This month I’m enthusing about Blue Roses, as I have here quite a lot already. The more I hear that album, the better it gets. But there’s a lot more of good worldwide stuff here. Check it out. AMERICA: I Guess I’m Floating 4 Lands & Peoples – Awake Baltimore-based Lands & Peoples seem to have a knack for hypnotherapy. With...

John Cale: interview at the National Gallery, London May 15th

John Cale will be interviewed at the National Gallery, London on the 15 May 2009 as part of the Museums at Night weekend about his installation for the Venice Biennale. In Conversation: John Cale Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale is representing Wales at this year’s Venice Biennale, where he will be showing a much-anticipated mixed-media installation. In this informal...

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A Northern Soul

Great Northern Genre: Rock / Rock / Rock From: California, United States If you’ve ever wondered whether an alliance between Madonna and the White Stripes would lead to world domination then California’s Great Northern may just have the answer with ‘Houses’. The Devil’s UK readers can find...

The Sailplanes

Every now and again something I’ll run across something that I instantly love. Coming up with new content for here on a daily basis means that I post a lot of stuff that I like, but don’t have that immediate connection with. The ones that do tend to be the bands that end up being part of our Great British Hopes series. Assuming that they are British of course. The Sailplanes...

And What Will Be Left Of Them? Who will survive this?

What is it with the ton of manic bands that seem to be popping up at the moment? Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but there seems to be shouty pop bands coming from every direction the last few months. This is in no way a bad thing, as the UK scene in particular seemed to have a shortage of them. But now they are everywhere. And What Will Be Left Of Them? arrive in a similarly...

Flash Ah Ah Masters Of The Universe

Flashguns Genre: Blues / Punk / Soul From: Mainly London & Some Brighton, United Kingdom Flashguns, first featured on the Devil’s blog back in February this year (Young Guns Go For It), have a brilliant new track, the grammatically challenged ‘I Don’t Not Love You’, out now. The track, taken from their...

The Rumble Strips can’t love you in London; will love you anywhere else

This will be even briefer than usual today as I feel like hell. The Rumble Strips are one of those bands that I knew existed, yet managed to completely pass over in the past. Then again, I do that with nearly everything. The press release for London tells me their album was produced by Mark Ronson more than once. The only problem is that I don’t know who he is. I know that he...

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Recent release roundup

The Veils - Sun Gangs The third full-length from the Veils finds the band progressing from its folk-influenced beginnings to something comfortably bigger, as if writing anthems was never a stated goal, just an organic consequence. The brains behind the London-based crew is Finn Andrews (son of XTC’s Barry Andrews), who has an uncommonly good voice—versatile enough to sound natural...

Camden: then and now

It was the Camden Crawl at the weekend. I wasn’t much interested in this year’s festival, but it’s the perfect time to mention a CD I found the other day when clearing out a bunch of old stuff. The free Camden Crawl compilation from 1997. Things were different then. No big-name headliners. No cider sponsorship or BBC backing. No long queues to get into venues. Just a...

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...