Do not attempt to adjust your headphones. There is nothing wrong with your hi-fi stereo. The record is not skipping and the speakers are not farting. The sounds you hear are coming from British electro-folk-pop outfit, Tunng as they prepare…
This is not a plea to download Mozilla Firefox. If you are still using Interneural Exploder as your main browser you are probably not reading this anyway. (Really, though, download Firefox. It’s good. While you’re there, get DTA to go with it.)
Nah, this is a petition to prepare yourself. A petition to prepare yourself for summer. So find your flip-flops, grab your goggles, and get ready for some euro pop fireworks from sweat-inducing Swedes The Knife and Firefox AK.
We’re going to get messy this summer.
How much would you enjoy a super group made up of Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), James Mercer (the Shins), and Rob Crow (Pinback)? Wouldn't they just create the most relaxing yet rocking, strong-enough-for-a-woman- but-made-for-a-man kind of music? Well, it's…
This is likely a band that needs little help, as Pitchfuck and their ilk will be jumping all over this if they haven’t already, but Islands’ debut album Return to the Sea is wedged so far into my earhole that I have to share. So for today’s Hear-n-Share we’ll ride to the Islands together, ah-ah, making love to each other, ah… um… er…
Okay, so Islands. Yeah. The offspring of the now extinct Unicorns [Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?], and sometimes erroneously described as a “side project” (unlike Th’ Corn Gangg), Islands on stage is Nicholas Thorburn (aka Nick Diamonds of the Unicorns), Jamie Thompson (aka J’aime Tambeur), Patrice Agbokou, Jim Guthrie (Royal City), Alex and Sebastian Chow, and Patrick Gregoire. On the album and in the studio, which is sometimes Jamie’s bedroom, Islands are joined by members of The Arcade Fire, as well as Subtitle and Busdriver.