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Robert Smith, better known to indie fans as ‘Bob Smith’, is best known as a member of the popular bleepbloop band Crystal Castles. He sang on the hit song "Not In Love."
Today, a rarity: an ANBAD live review. It’s one of an interesting gig for those interested in new bands, though: the NME Awards tour, which provides a helpful snapshot of what is deemed to be now in the UK by both the NME and the teens that treat it as the music bible.
The Shockwaves NME Awards gig at Manchester Academy drew curious punters from across the social spectrum, but for the hoards of teens, it was Mecca. Finally, the bands they have only read about, or listened to online, or squinted at garbed videophone footage were playing for them.
They dressed to capture, as best they could, the look of rock ‘n’ roll detrius. The boys were Primark Sid Viciouses – deliberately dazed, stained, and quasi-lairy; the girls dressed in a style that occupied the awkward halfway-house between instinctive prettiness and designated trashiness.
Isn’t it nice to be nice? Isn’t it nice to find out your favourite band of 2010 is nice?
Thus, prepare to feel appropriately festive as you are smothered with pleasantries in this exclusive, nice, and exclusively nice, interview with ANBAD’s Band of 2010, Youthless.
To prove that they are such good sports, they answered all of my overwhelmingly facile questions with good grace, a sense of humour and with stories about nearly upending whole buses…
Youthless, you’re ANBAD’s favourite band of 2010. How has 2010 been for you?
James was in a band called Juno, who, being a great new band once, were featured on ANBAD.
Then, just before their name would have been a perfect tie-in with the movie of the same name, they split up. To get over the trauma, James writes an article painting a rosy picture of the music scene in one of the UK’s traditionally most exciting musical cities...
Glasgow as a city speaks pretty loudly for Scotland, and it seems that a few bands seem to speak for the city but with an accent heavily on the morose.
I feel worried about 2k10. It seems like 2k9 is a year that we should feel ‘ashamed of’, and 2k10 is a year that we will sort of just emotionally ‘pull back’ our interest in tastemaking. I feel like 2k9 has had some ‘good products’, but maybe it was just a year where we are learning ‘how 2 use the internet’ when it comes to consuming music. It’s like we went to xtremes when it came to ‘experiencing’ and ‘analyzing’ music, and now we are just trying to work our way out of that era.
Seems like I am ready to ‘close the door’ on 2k9, and ‘fast forward’ beyond music in 2k10. I think in 2k10, we will sort of just stick with familiar bands, and not very many ‘new bands’ will emerge. We will stick with what is ‘comfortable’/’known products’, and just give a band like the Arcade Fire the top album of 2k10, just so we feel like ‘order’ is ‘re-established’ instead of giving 2 much ‘power’ to fresh bands.
Feel like reflecting on 2k9, even though there is still half a year left.
How will u remember 2k9?
My Old Kentucky Blog had the opportunity to get a few minutes on the phone with Charles Cave, bassist of the hot London band White Lies.
We learned right away that this band is busy. So busy, in fact, that on the day we talked to Cave, the members of White Lies were fielding questions from the press all the way up until the last moments before the band hit the stage.
The trio’s debut album,To Lose My Life, hits shelves in the States on March 17th.
Following the rather lackluster Coachella announcement last week, comes Bonnaroo’s initial lineup for 2009. At first glance, it’s quite the stellar lineup of bands, with the one glaring addition that jumped out at me being the Beastie Boys! The one time I attempted to see them live was back in 2000, when they were set to tour with Rage Against the Machine, but was canceled because Mike D broke his arm or something like that. Even now in 2009, they’re still up there (along with PJ Harvey) as a band I would still love to see.
I was recently browsing youtube, searching for live performances of all of my favourite bands, and I stumbledupon this video entitled “ALICE GLASS BEATS IDIOT OVER HEAD WITH MICROPHONE.” I watched it 2 find out what was happening.
At the 1:25 mark, I noticed that the music stopped, and lead singer of Crystal Castles–Alice Glass–did something very violent. She slung her microphone back, and then wound up, and then hit some bro. U can hear a thud, which was probably an altbro skull being crushed by a microphone. Then she called him a ‘fucker’ and hit him a few more times.
Yall, I just saw this amazing new transport vehicle. Was thinking about trading in my lime green VW bug for it, but then I realized that it is a car created by the popular web band CRYSTAL CASTLES. I remember when I posted a picture of Trapped in SuburbiaBro wearing a CRYSTAL CASTLES FAN CLUB branded shirt. Kinda like their logo. glad they are ‘branching out’ to be more than just musicians.
I think seems more progressive than a Smart Car, and probably saves more energy. Not sure if it has solar panels on it, or if it comes with USB ports, but still might be nice to have as a ‘weekend car.’
I read on a Wall Street Blog Journal that the Auto Industry is ‘in the shitter’ because they don’t have enough solar cars and because fossil fuels aren’t being turned into car gas any more because the Arabs ‘got greedy’ after the religiously charged attacks on America in the early 2000s. Think it’s kinda risky that the Crystal Castles, LLC is headed into the auto industry, but maybe they are going to try to get a bailout if they prove that they can revolutionize the industry?
To celebrate the world’s first totally online Artrocker music festival XX Teens took a big banner to Parliament Square to advertise the world’s first totally XX Teens music album.
We never asked...
Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...
Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.
Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...
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