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The Lost World For this week's Dollars To Pounds I spoke to the retardedly awesome Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Head over to the FADER blog and grab an exclusive new track. We are going on holiday so it will be a bit quiet around here next week. See you soon. Posted by: Scott 26/06/09 Deep Purple How To Plunge A Respectable Slice Of West Country Soul Into Deranged G-Step Psychosis, Part 9. Starring The Heavy and Joker. The Heavy - How You Like Me Now (Joker Radio Edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 26/06/09 I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK Marina And The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot In which the awesome Marina, Rankin and several gallons of glittery body paint combine. Posted by: Scott 25/06/09 Black Clouds I don't write many live reviews. Mainly because I'm shit at it. But last night I went to see Jack White's new megaband The Dead Weather and you can read my ill-considered opinions at the NME blog. Posted by: Scott 24/06/09 Turning Tide Our pal His Clancyness is bound to cause waves (HA!) with this crisp and wayward cover of So Bored, but hopefully he will avoid a drug-induced on-stage meltdown. Get well soon, Nathan! His Clancyness - So Bored (Wavves cover) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/06/09 321 : Mazes Mazes are one of our favourite new bands. They write jams. Jams about knives and awesome Grandparents. Read the very sweet story behind Bowie Knives at our NME blog and after the jump main dude Jack Cooper does the 321. [Continues...] Mazes - Bowie Knives [mp3] Posted by: Scott 19/06/09 Shallow Grave A Grave With No Name's amazing debut EP came out yesterday so I spoke to main dude Alex Shields for my FADER blog. I asked him utterly retarded questions like "what is your favourite happy song" and he answered in good humour. He rules. Here is a great little track I found at Meal Deal Records. A Grave With No Name - Sofia [mp3] Posted by: Scott 16/06/09 Hush-A-Bye The XX, live at Point Ephemere, Paris (29.04.09) Sometimes when it is late and we cannot sleep (will Chuck and Blair's love last?) we see The XX sitting at the end of the bed staring at us with benign smiles and after a moment we plunge into uneasy dreams. It is spooky but comforting and much better than the nights we see Blazin' Squad. Posted by: Scott 12/06/09 321 : Highlife F KENYA RIP is the work of Highlife, AKA Sleepy Doug Shaw from White Magic. You can read about the awesome genesis of this great song at the NME blog. Sleepy Doug told us the phrase he repeats in F KENYA RIP has "been heard as 'Les Dames a l'eau', which though probably spelt wrong here, roughly translates as 'The Ladies in the Water, but the actual phrase is 'Madame Zehae Ala.'" So now you can sing along. Sleepy Doug (I love that name) kindly sent over a newly mastered version of that song and took time to answer our 321 questions. After the jump he tells us about Lions in Comas and hanging out with RZA. [Continues...] Highlife - F KENYA RIP [mp3] Posted by: Scott 10/06/09 Going For Gold Gold Panda is responsible for my favourite sentences of the year: "I'd like to see a monkey slap that Bare Grill (or whatever his fucking name is) idiot. I'd like to see a monkey slap him off a fucking cliff." Read more at this week's Dollars To Pounds on the FADER blog. Here is his dizzying remix of Telepathe's classic (already?) Chrome's On It sent our way by the lovely Laser Club who play host to Mr Panda this Friday night at the Legion. Telepathe - Chrome's On It (Gold Panda Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 08/06/09 Bronze Age There was a girl who lived in London town, but the scenes and sounds they would only bring her down, and yet she did enjoy that weekend spent dancing to weird disco in the basement of a Dalston chicken shop, but actually that was probably just the ketamine. Golden Silvers - Arrows Of Eros (Rat Scallion Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 05/06/09 The Young & The Restless The title of this Memory Cassette song reminded me of an awesome old reality TV show called Shattered which was like Big Brother except people were only kicked out when they fell asleep. It was boring until the fourth day when the remaining contestants started talking to invisible dogs and forgetting how to walk and see. I don't remember how it ended, but maybe Friend does. Maybe that girl who went blind imagined herself to an island paradise where she danced to steel drums that were never really there. Or maybe she won a car. Memory Cassette - Last One Awake (Friend Version) [mp3] [Buy from Acephale] Posted by: Scott 03/06/09 Doctor D'Amour Photo by Billy und Hells Dear Internet, recently we have neglected you. Sorry about that. Expect a higher frequency of our bullshit over the coming weeks. Thankfully, this drivel will be backed up by music so good it will make your ears bleed daydreams. At our NME blog you can grab a new track from the spookily great Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. It's coming out on the amazing Big Love Records, for whom we have enormous affection. They're also releasing this skronked-out, Afro-Bontempi marvel by Jessie Evans , which just about makes reading this paragraph worthwhile. Jessie Evans - Scientist Of Love [mp3] Posted by: Scott 03/06/09 Freak Scene Banjo Or Freakout in Vasto Banjo Or Freakout! Phil Spector! Laser Owls! Gentle Friendly! Exclusive Ronettes cover and EP track! All at this week's FADER blog. Posted by: Scott 01/06/09 Long Shot School Of Seven Bells, Hitchcock and one shot videos at the NME blog. Posted by: Scott 27/05/09 The Diamond As Big As The Ritz (Photo by Mari Sarai) "I like how people describe me as 'synth player'. Quite literally do not know what one is. I thought a bass was a synth the other day." Marina (& The Diamonds) is awesome. Further proof (and a brand new Shoes remix of I Am Not A Robot) at this week's FADER blog. Posted by: Scott 26/05/09 321 : Gary War His songs may sound like urgent warnings delivered from a metal cloud at the bottom of the ocean, but Gary War is a romantic at heart. "Everynight is about being completely broke and not giving a fuck because as long as you have love, nothing else matters," he told us. "It's about wanting to be with that person every night." What a sweetheart. Read more from him and grab his amazing Using at our NME blog or keep reading after the jump to hear about Meow Mix, Brandon Lee and Meat Whiplash. [Continues...] Gary War - Everynight [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/05/09 Feel The Byrne (Photo outtake of Micachu from F61 by Leonie Purchas via FADER) FADER's new Icon issue is all about David Byrne. Awesome people are interviewed because they represent different facets of his awesome personality, people like Grizzly Bear (avant pop), Theophilus London (early adapter), Dutty Artz (borderless collaboration) and Michael Bell-Smith (audio/visual). I interviewed Micachu & The Shapes because they are (awesome) inside outsiders. Download a magic pdf of the issue, then listen to this excellent remix of Lips by Clark Kunt which came from Rough Trade via the amazing Dalston Oxfam Shop. Micachu & The Shapes - Lips (Clark Kunt's Heavy Mental Mix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 20/05/09 Above The Clouds At our NME blog Radiant Dragon gamely explains his cosmic, capacious sound. Head over there to listen to Oysters from his forthcoming EP. Here we have Cloud Seeding. "It's about the fantasy of flying," he says, "the freedom of open skies, and wanting to share that dream with somebody else. That combined with this is the dark feeling you can get during flights - the alienation of travel alone. Isolated and distant from people but still connected to your loved ones and wishing they could join you on that journey." Radiant Dragon - Cloud Seeding [mp3] Posted by: Scott 19/05/09 Word Is Bond For this week's FADER blog I spoke to Male Bonding (again) because they rule. Head over the internetlantic to grab their killer cover of Baby Gecko's Dino. Catch them on tour with Vivian Girls over the next couple of weeks or spend Saturday at Sexbeat's Radfest, where MB will be joined by lots of our favourite bands like PENS, A Grave With No Name, Thee Fair Ohs and BBQ treats (this last one is not a band, it's tasty burnt meat). [Flyer after the jump...] Posted by: Scott 18/05/09 Never Bed (Photo by Danny North) The moments before we sleep are usually filled with dread. Tomorrow might be the day they finally catch up with us. Thankfully we now have Blue Roses to gently persuade us that everything will be OK. On this b-side from her forthcoming single she coos about calm and the sea. She doesn’t mention the shotgun by our alarm clock or our forthcoming facial reconstruction surgery, but we know they help too. Blue Roses - Moments Before Sleep [mp3] Posted by: Scott 14/05/09 White Gold (Bullion, Paul White) FADER column time. This week I spoke to awesome beatmakers Paul White and Bullion about things that traumatised me as a child. Make sure you grab the exclusive mixes they made for us. They rule. Posted by: Scott 12/05/09 Silver Sound His Clancyness returns, stage left. "Hey, His Clancyness. Because my heart itself plays My Heart Is Full Of Woe why don't you play some merry dump to comfort me?" "Sorry, dude. I'm still kind of bummed out myself. But I do have a rad new Nite Jewel sample..." His Clancyness - Nothing And Nowhere To Go [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/05/09 321 : Thee Fair-Ohs (photo by Owen Richards) Over at our NME blog Thee Fair-Ohs were nice enough to tell us about their ferocious sub-sixty-second single, I'm A Woman I'm Your Wife. The trio also went big on our 321 questions. Check out their epic answers after the jump and sample some of their favourite tracks, from Pharoah Sanders to Billy Childish. [Continues...] The Fair-Ohs - I'm A Woman I'm Your Wife [mp3] Posted by: Scott 05/05/09 Young Gun The second installment of my new Fader column Dollars To Pounds is up now. This week I had a chat with the amazing Mnek, a 14-year-old pop prodigy from South London. He wrote his first song, Shawty, when he was eight ("it had the WORST metaphors and rhymes so I try not to bring it up!") and has since moved on to incredible Shakespeare-referencing pop anthems like Nose Job (which I first heard at the always excellent Illegal Tender). [Continues at FADER...] Mnek - Nose Job [mp3] Posted by: Scott 04/05/09 For Whom The Bell Tolls (photo from Akiko's blog) Since we last caught up with them, The Big Pink have grown bigger, much bigger, and maybe even a little bit pinker. This rough-hewn gem is a b-side from their new single on Big Love, our pal Haruka's excellent new Japanese label, who you may know from their recent SALEM 7" . If you are ever in Tokyo visit Haruka at her Escalator emporium. She rules and her carrier bags are excellent. The Big Pink - With You [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 29/04/09