Grosgrain (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Remember when you got your first infant car seat? Perhaps it was at a baby shower? Or you went down to Babies'R'Us and purchased one with your husband. Remember how pretty and clean it looked when you first buckled it into your car? If this was years ago I'm guessing it looks a lot like mine. Crumbs in the bucket of the seat. Chocolate milk stains on the arm rests. Maybe you were given a seat that...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Female-trio Wetdog join the ranks of Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls carrying on a tradition that began with bands like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney in the ‘90s. Whether the U.K. ladies would appreciate the Riot Grrrl tag is unknown, but they recently toured with The Slits so we’re in the right ballpark. Certainly they share a similar esthetic: buzz-saw guitars, surf bass-lines, and shouty...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha's frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun slits, the last remnant of Britain's imperial disaster in Hong Kong, a reminder of that most terrible of Christmas Days in 1941. And here, amid the detritus of that ferocious Japanese victory, Kipling hits it to a T:
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Quietus: What do you think it was about the recording environment that turned Cut into such a great record? Ari Up: The Slits developed the Slits sound. To this day, no one sounds like us, no one. People trying to...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
"Lower Leg" is the new single from stripped-down, angular UK post-punk trio Wetdog's forthcoming second album Frauhaus . (They recently toured with the Slits, which makes perfect sense.) For the "Lower Leg" video Billy, Rivka, and Sarah focus on the "wet" part of their moniker, along with various lower legs. Sonically, you'll want to reference the Raincoats because people...
Watsy's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I haven't posted for ages about what I'm listening to at the moment. Well to be honest, I'm getting pretty bored with music at the moment - all so rubbish - especially current music. However, I'm very conscious that that smacks of me getting old rather than the music getting worse - so i'm now not sure what to believe. Anyway, I'm getting into the Damned at the moment, I've even booked tickets to see...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
From Up & Coming : Immortal Technique, Diabolic, Poison Pen, Chino XL, Swave Sevah (Neumos) Harlem's life-of-the-party, one-man-terror-cell Immortal Technique is about to bring his incendiary (vocal) devices to the other Washington, along with Poison Pen and Sevah, both members of his fearsome NYC-based Stronghold crew. But Chino XL? He's a fuckin' L.A. original (though he was born in either Jersey...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Viv Albertine , the former guitarist of the British punk band the Slits , went on a long hiatus from music after the group's split in the early '80s. Working in film and raising a daughter, she never thought she would play music again. "After the Slits, I was so traumatized by it," Albertine tells Spinner. "I couldn't even...
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Indiepop legends Slumberland records have two new albums lined up for forthcoming release, Brilliant Color 's ‘Introducing’ and Pants Yell! ’s ‘Received Pronunciation’ for December 7th 2009. The press release gives some more info on Brilliant Color: "Singer/guitarist Jess Scott started Brilliant Colors in early 2007, and she's been mighty busy since then. After a...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The London Nobody Sings is a site I really should have come across before, as it's right up Transpontine street. The simple premise is to post a song about London, or a part of London, every day. This intersects with the ongoing project here of documenting and indeed encouraging songs about South East London . South London songs covered at London Nobody Sings so far include: - Roots Manuva - Baptism...
annies home (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
This recipe will be great for this fall. Oh how delicious. I was watching Racheal Ray this morning if you are not aware she is having a show dedicated to tips of all kinds Racheal Ray's French Toast Muffin Cups •Nonstick cooking spray •3 eggs •1 tablespoon milk •2 teaspoons cinnamon •Dash of vanilla extract (optional) •Dash of fresh nutmeg (optional) •8 slices white...
Fiskarettes (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Hiya . This week I have made a layout using browns and creams. it’s a photo of my middle daughter Azaria when she was younger. I really enjoyed distressing the photo it would be great for fire work photos too I expect as the texture reminded me of sparklers. Tools needed: Fiskars multi tool , Ribbon slit border punch , Shape cutter & Mat , Eyelet setter ,Scissors, D. brown Ink, patterned...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
If it's surprising that post-punk legends The Slits have made an album as fresh as this after a 25-year hiatus, remember that they were, famously, very young to begin with. (Ari Up, Johnny Rotten's stepdaughter, was 14 in 1976.) In her peculiar German-Jamaican accent, Ari sings about inherited misogyny and the cycle of child abuse, while her band cook up a punky reggae party ranging from an urgent...
Skippers Chippers (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Warpaint debut video for "Stars" ; US tour continues down through the south and homeward " Exquisite Corpse" out now "Stars" directed by Adam Harding and Burke Roberts. Filmed in the ashes of the Angeles National Forest. Check it HERE . "The three ladies that make up this hazed-out new L.A. group run through a dark forest, light sparklers, and kiss each other in this...
When Gigs Fly (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The Fiery Furnaces played their first London gig for two years this evening at Cargo - Shoreditch's prime music hangout. At 8pm, Cambridge-based electro-poet and all-round decent guy, Pete Um , took to the stage as support. Having seen the chap perform various times, I expected this tame-looking London crowd to be weirded out by his eccentric and passion-stuffed performance, but they took to him very...
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