Got this new 3 days ago, sad times. DANANANANAYKROYD has announced that they will split up after their upcoming (and last) tour. The Glaswegian band will also digitally release a single for the last time on 7th November. It’s called Think & Feel taken from their 2nd album, There Is A Way, produced by Ross Robinson in LA. You can hear it here.
United Fruit
From: Glasgow, Scotland
If you like your music smooth with all the rough edges filed away then you may as well leave now and go and indulge in the dubious pleasures of SmoothFM or Simply Red’s back catalogue. If however you like your music raucous, discordant and so loud it makes you dizzy then keep reading because United Fruit are on a mission to destroy your brain cells and leave you little more than a quivering wreck.
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After I told our Operations Manger, Omar McFarlane, that we’d have some Mogwai up on the site, we both nerded out about spending a few years of lives listening almost exclusively to the Glasgow band. We both realized that we had a pretty difficult time defining their post-rock to people who wouldn’t except we weren’t talking about the creatures from Gremlins.
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his is the third look at local music scenes in London, after Camden and North-East London, and if it reminds us of anything, it’s that London is a) VAST and b) all things to all people. Cat Dal‘s blog, www.catsbandcrushes.com, is run from Kilburn. She also ‘does’ new music ‘stuff’ for a national newspaper, and as such, is in a perfectly poised to comment on her neighbourhood’s foibles, its scuffed charm and the enforced silence which must be obeyed…
Guy Purssell lives in Camden. When I was 16, Camden was the coolest part of the UK, merely because Blur, Elastica and, er, Menswe@r used to drink in Britpop haunt The Good Mixer. These days it still retains a certain caché, except that now it’s Amy Winehouse falling out of pubs there rather than Damon Albarn. Here, Guy reveals the duality of the Camden scene…
The whole point of this post is to fucking piss you off. Make no mistake. GROPETOWN is nothing but noise, thrash and more noise. Coming out of the Glasgow artschool / post-punk scene. Harsh, shrill screaming, vague black and white imagery, some notion about art and summat else. I can’t hear what they’re screaming / wailing about. Are there even lyrics? I don’t know. They’ve got some weirdo’s face on their myspace. I don’t really care. I like my mess.
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.
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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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