New Music // Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes are back! This is exciting news right? When everyone heard that they were releasing an album this year, everyone got all excited but this excitement sort of fizzled out as we heard nothing more of it but now Bella Union are giving away one of their new songs, Helplessness Blues, as a free...
New Music // AlunaGeorge – Pass It On
Photo by Olmo Rodríguez Roces For their song, Pass it On, the brilliant, AlunaGeorge, have collaborated with illustrator, Jaybird. This giving them fantastic artwork to accompany their stunning new song. Having watched their set at the SWEET launch party, I can indeed confirm that the band deserve the media attention that you’re getting. Made up of...
Review // The Vaccines – Post Break-Up Sex
So, it seems that minimal distorted indie music is dominating the music industry in 2011 so far. There’s so much of it about that you’d think that we’d all be sick of it. It does seem however, that The Vaccines do split opinions amongst music lovers, just like Brother do, (although perhaps not quite as...
New Music // Walk the Moon
I hadn’t came across anything quite so catchy/cheesy/blatantly pop gold in a while until I found this video via Neon Gold. It’s the début video from an unsigned band called Walk the Moon for their single, Anna Sun. This band are what Scouting for Girls would sound like if they were actually cool and the lead singer was beautiful,...
MY SHOES // COSMIC PAYOUT
Shaun Mooney reveals some of the perks that come with being in the advertising industry. For the first time in three weeks, I’m going to be overtly positive in my column. You’d better believe it. This week at work we celebrated creating the 10, 000th website. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you consider that my...
Video // Brother – Darling Buds Of May
Sure, there’s a lot to hate about self-styled “gritpop” saviours of English guitar music Brother, but in my eyes there’s also a tonne to love. Despite being previously known as the rather questionable and decidedly less lad rock Kill The Arcade they exhibit a satisfying swagger, an arrogance not seen since Kasabian first started being...
Music // NME Awards Tour
Ah, the good old NME Awards Tour. Blasting those winter cobwebs away every January/February with consistently stellar line-ups featuring established acts alongside smaller breakthrough ones. This year is no exception, with an even more eclectic line-up than normal, as NME’s Krissi Murison points out. “This is the most diverse and exciting NME Awards Tour line-up...
Film // It’s ‘The Social Network’, not ‘The Facebook Movie’
My spirits were lifted when The Social Network won four Golden Globes two nights ago, including Best Drama and Best Director (not to mention an award for Trent Reznor who pieced together its stunningly dark electronic soundtrack). So great: a brilliant movie actually wins some awards instead of being snubbed in favour of a “uplifting”,...
New Music // Drugg
No, not D/R/U/G/S , but Drugg; who are about to release their ‘Shackled’ EP. Like D/R/U/G/S ; they are an electronic two piece, however, their music could be considered even more diverse than that of the aforementioned duo. It’s difficult to define exactly which genre Drugg inhabit as their music does not resemble any form...
Review // Tennis – Cape Dory
There’s something almost a little bit too perfect with the story behind Tennis: after graduating from University, husband and wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley had no direction, and no jobs. But instead of applying for some menial post-grad job they decided to go sailing around the coast of America for eight months. After...
