Fucked Up

Went to see a band called Fucked Up.

They were noisy.

I think it might be the same kind of music as my dad used to warn me about when I was little.

When I was little my dad let me listen to Meat Loaf.

I still like Meat Loaf. Especially in Fight Club.

I wish Meat Loaf would sing in Fight Club.

A half naked hippy punched me today.
A half naked hippy punched a bunch of people today.
I don't think hippy's are supposed to do that.

A half naked bald guy with a beard wearing a microphone kissed me on the lips tonight.
A half naked bald guy with a beard wearing a microphone kissed me on the tummy tonight.
Is this to be expected of half naked bald guys with beards?

They played a song I kinda knew. It was nice



I kinda knew the lyrics for the chorus but it was good because the bald guy with the beard helped me to sing-a-long by kissing me on the lips and on the tummy.

By the end of the gig I knew almost all of the shouty bits of the songs.
Because of all of the kissing going on.

It was nice.

I think Fucked Up are cool because everyone who likes them has tattoos.'
I wish I had tattoos.
I'd get a Stegosaurus.
Maybe on an arm.
Or some other cool bodily extension.
Stegosaurus' are awesome.

Goodnight.

Night Gallery, Constant Struggle

I was at this like insanely lame party once. The place was full of shitty art dorks and man, the music was wierd and lame and I wasn't interested in shacking up with any of the girls.

Then this one hippy mistakes my smug nodding of superiority for some kind of approval of the music and asks me: "You know Depeche Mode?"

So me being "the bomb" ain't taking no shit from no hippies and answer: "Hey man, my only mode is awesome mode, so fuck you losers!" and then leave the shitty party. I manage to shack up with 3 girls that night. Freshers I think. Ha. I'm awesome.

Later in the week I'm smoking with some of the guys, really stoned playing open random wikipedia articles at laugh at their lameness.

Depeche Mode pops up. All the guys go: "What the fuck's this shit?" but I kinda recognize it from the party last week.

"The most popular electronic band the world has ever known" - Q Magazine

Whatever Q, electronic music is for fags and losers.

Or is it?

I got an e-mail from the good fellas at Rainbow Body Records about one of their artists, Night Gallery's, up and coming album.


photo by Mike Vallera

Constant Struggle is the name of the album and as it opens with the title track you're taken back on a journey through time, into a time that I can't really relate with as I wasn't really around then.
Reminiscent of a certain aforementioned Depeche Mode, it's hardly lacking the drum machines and synths that go hand in hand with the era Night Gallery have tried to, and succeeded in recapturing.

Constant Struggle is also high on melodies as you's can here on my fave track 'Wild Palms' which starts off sounding all tropical beats, but then moves into the more familiar pounding drum pattern. Immensely catchy when the chorus kicks in, I might as well not be living in 2010, cause it sure as hell doesn't feel like it when listening to these guys.

As I can't make computers work the way I'd like them to. I can't get the song to stream on here, so I'm just going to link to the Myspace.

Wild Palms by Night Gallery

and offer it as a download here.

Night Gallery - Wild Palms

Constant Struggle is released August 10th. It's really well cool.

New Abe Vigoda track: Throwing Shade

Crickey O'Riley, there has been some transformation going on in the Abe Vigoda camp.

Skeleton was a brilliant slice of "lo-fi tropical punk" back in 2008, but now after hauling in new drummer Dane Chadwick, they seem to be going on some sort of "Let's turn into Bloc Party" quest.

Well that's what I can tell from the songs I've heard so far.



Crush (demo) by Abe Vigoda

They are however cool cool tunes. A bit different from what everyone was expecting I suppose.

We'll find out soon-ish about how the rest of the up-and-coming Crush album'll sound, as it's set for release in September.
Here's waiting for that then.

Laterzz

The Climbers

Feels like I've stumbled across a musical gold vein after listening to The Climbers' really REALLY good album The Good Ship



Featuring members of The Leisure Society, Sons Of Noel And Adrian and The Miserable Rich, this album, on paper, should be a load of folk-tinged genius.
Reality is the same as on paper, making this a stunning album. Sometimes haunting, sometimes hugely uplifting. Sometimes just saying "hey man, life's going to be ok, if we all pull our weight (In A Circle),sometimes a bit Radiohead-ey.

All the time giving me a great listening experience.

Yay.



You can download a free mp3 of Uncommon from their record label's website Wilkommen Records

and you can listen to the entire Good Ship album on Spotify

The Climbers - The Good Ship on Spotify

How To Dress Well

Lately I've been wondering what it would sound like if Michael Jackson were a bit less dead, and kicking out some ultra lo-fi jams.

I'm still not 100% sure what it would be like, but the closest I've got is Brooklynite How To Dress Well



How To Dress Well is the alias of yet another bedroom producer banging out top tracks. With the melodies being R 'n' B tinged but the vocals emulating Jeff Buckley it makes for a raw but beautiful trip.

You can download most of his stuff from his blog.
http://howtodresswell.blogspot.com/

Com Truise

Like I said the other day. I went for a round of bingo. The whole thing was an 80's themed bingo so, of course, the reading of the letters/numbers was obviously 80's related.

- No, Top Gun isn't a gay movie-thirty three
- So that's N-thirty-three
- N-33

Bingo!

Quality!

You remember who was in the "not-gay-movie" Top Gun?
Bingo! Tom Cruise

You remember who wasn't in the "not-gay-movie" Top Gun?
Broad question? Well the answer is Com Truise

Bingo!



Com Truise specialises in bass-heavy synth-trumentals (I want to be given credit for that word but after a quick google search it seems someone else was just as "witty" as me) with a touch of 80's longing.

Maybe what Justice and Cut Copy's baby might sound like?
All this babytalk is balls though. So don't believe what I say and listen for yourselves.

First off, you can get his Cyanide Sisters EP as a free download.
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP

second thoughts about spending up your bandwidth or whatever it is?

listen to these (not sure if it uses more or less bandwidth)(not sure what bandwidth is):

Bravestation

I got an e-mail from these Canadian gents promoting their new EP.
Not sure whether it's self-titled or it's called 2010.
That's hardly the point, because Bravestation's EP is good.
And it keeps getting better after each listen.
Though some elements still sound slightly rough, there are some huge anthemic tunes on here.

My first reaction upon listening was that Bravestation seem far too big for their current boots. Boots that are, at the moment, looking forward to their EP's release party. but everyone's got to start from somewhere, eh?

With rythmic patterns resembling the, earlier this year released, Local Native's album Gorilla Manor
they should get, at least, your foot tapping.

Ace stuff. All the best to these fellas