Calories
John Biggs, Pete Dixon and Tom Whitfield are Calories. Previously they were part of a 4 member effort called Distophia, which, had they still been around right now, would NOT have got on this blog. Just coz. Distophia is/was fast, loud, pop with guitars but with a kind of annoying McFly-esque, fringe-over-my-face sensibility that I...
Gold Panda
Quirky electronica and hip hop for the painfully esoteric. Derwin is the a one man experimental project Gold Panda from Essex, UK revealing to you, my dear friend, the wonders of recycled forgotten sounds into a colorful landscape. Very much the complete opposite of Ratatat, and not too disimilar from my one time ex-stalkee Jacob...
Math The Band
Everybody have fun tonight!!!!Beards! Bleeps! Songs about bad haircuts! Super crazy BPM! Math The Band (pronounced Matt-The-Band – no really) is the younger cousin of Printed Circuit with ADHT. Its the american Kap Bambino – less sass, shamelessly pop punk, all good. And you cant go wrong if you’re fully armed with a Yamaha CS-15...
Bark Bark Bark
I’m The One That Haunts You The apartment smells like bleach, I’ve just taken a shit, put my winamp on shuffle and repeat and it landed on one of my favorite tracks of 2008 – Haunts, by Bark Bark Bark. I remembered I stalked him for awhile on livejournal but he ignored me. Anyway -who...
Mika Miko, The Smell and We Be Xuxa
“Get Excited!!” Mika Miko is Jennifer Clavin, Jet Blanca, Michelle Suarez, Jenna Thornhill, and new drummer boy Seth Densham and they do trashy no-wave frantic dancey proto-punk like nobody else. Shouty and screamy vocals, fidgety start stop guitars, fuck-it drums and helluvalot of energy.Its great and makes me froth at the mouth.Originating from the now...
Stag And Dagger Leeds – Cursive, The Mae Shi, Vivian Girls
Stag & Dagger (Leeds) – A music fest, spread out on several different venues across hyde park, in the heart of the student ghetto. A fuckload of bands crammed into a tight schedule for for this 1 day only event – so I knew not to expect to see everything. Abe Vigoda was alright, kinda...
