I don’t know how this managed to completely fly under my radar, but Swedish rock band Mando Diao has a new album out called “Give Me Fire”. I’ve been a huge fan of them since “Bring ‘em In” and part of the reason is because they sound like they want so badly to be British, and [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 28, 2009
Peter Bjorn and John : Living Thing
Artwork from the “Lay it Down, Golden Filter Remix” which you can download here.
For those of you who are not familiar with Peter Bjorn and John, you need only to click on the below to trigger your memory.
Their 3rd album, Writer’s Block knocked us out with the flighty sweetness of that one song. [...]
March 28, 2009
Lust on the beach
If only they would do a spinoff of the UK Promo video on an episode of LOST . Strong man with bedazzling biceps swaddling wayward women on the beach amidst amorous glances and the dramatic wreckage of an aeroplane. Now that’s what I call sexy…
March 28, 2009
Flash!! Flash!!
I’d like to think whenever there is a flash in the sky, it’s the folks up there taking a picture of us, still pissing our lives away below. So the next time, I dare you, when there is lightning, stare straight at the source and smile your most photogenic/toothy smile. Oh, and a little cute victory gesture won’t [...]
March 23, 2009
The Jacket – Exoskeleton of Rock!
According to popular “rock-lore”, the religion of the jacket officially began due to Babyshambles’ persistence with the smug leather outergarment. And since then, a rocker’s shoulder will always be well padded, never exposed to the stage lights and to the eager, lecherous hands of over-zealous fans. You ain’t no rocker if you don’t have a [...]
March 19, 2009
The Literary Scoundrel – Shoving Fancy Cover Art Into Your Face
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go
An unexpected tale of a futuristic dystopia. Romantic idealisms weighed down with such lethal subtlety, it would leave you fighting for your breath as the story draws to its frightful conclusion.
Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
Both novels are about men’s morbid obsession with young girls burning up in their own adolescent beauty. Stunning [...]
March 15, 2009
St Exquisite’s Confession: “I’m so sick of sucking the dick of this cruel cruel city…”
Georgie Fruit and gang takes to the stage and VOILA! The sky was raining dandy confetti!
The “Instant Witch” gig is really cruel. Cruel Comedy. It’s a freaking crime to make your fans laugh so hard and so continuously without breaks. OH!! HOW THEY TORTURE MY GUT!
Rise up with fists!
Fancy psychedelic graphics!
Kevin Barnes, the guru of [...]
March 13, 2009
The Best of My Teenage Years
The great thing about being a teenager is, you’ve got your whole life ahead of you, meaning a shit load of opportunities and reasons to procrastinate. With all that time to kill, it is no wonder there is an abundance of self-absorbed tendencies and chagrin for the unimportant things in life. At the highest (lowest) [...]
March 11, 2009
It’s Thursday! POWERING THROUGH!
FFFF. Franz Ferdinand is Fucking Fantastic.
I heart bands that attempt to play in uncomfortable places. The Mystery Jets played covers and sang accapella in an elevator. Edge of a cliff? Been done before. Surrounded by weird Japanese and Japanese Yakuzas? The Killers.
Meanwhile, I would like to applaud all those people, people who never [...]
March 11, 2009
Her Morning Elegance – For Keyboards and Xylophones That Dreamt of a Better Tomorrow.
Oren Lavie on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Don’t we all?
