If, as I BELIEVE, Damon Albarn should be knighted then so should this chap. Jarvis Cocker. Not a name I suspect that is well known outside of England but nonetheless a huge talent. Besides, anyone who can run on stage during a Michael Jackson performance at a Brit Awards ceremony to protest at the ludicrous posturing of said Mister Jackson, with all his obvious talens, deserves a slap on the back....
If you guessed Bobby Birdman is a stage name, you’d be right. Bobby Birdman, aka Robert Von Kieswetter, cites an eclectic group of musicians as influences on his MySpace page , whose sounds are allowed to breathe through his music in a refreshing way. In the video for “Weighty Weight,” a scratchy, slow-motion clip of a skateboarder on a beach boardwalk looks more like a figure skater...
When the lead single "a happening” from L.A.'s hyperstory hit my stereo, I was intrigued to find that, among other, more traditional pop institutions, I heard a little bit of the Damon Albarn side project Gorillaz.
Next week i’m having a little photo show with a couple of snapper mates, in association with the British Indie night Britpop. It’ll be me, Graham Denholm and Mark Metcalfe, all showing photos of British bands performing. I’ve managed to dig out the trinity of britpop heroes Noel Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn plus more modern [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Everyone likes to be liked and in that regard, it's been a good few years for the Horrors . When Nine Inch Nails announced their whirlwind retirement tour this past summer, Trent Reznor hand-picked the British band to open his New York City shows, an honor that completely surprised them. "Trent was tweeting somewhere in L.A., and...
Okay, so it’s still October and we’ve already started thinking about Christmas, but hey, at least we held back a couple of months longer than Selfridges . Following the success of last year’s acclaimed debut event, the Barbican are bringing back their “Twisted Christmas” show. Described as “a deliciously dark evening of alternative Yuletide entertainment”,...
London trio the Golden Silvers made their first trek to the States this week for CMJ. They're buzzing overseas (did Jools Holland, won Glastonbury's New Talent competition in '08, playing the festival in '09, features in NME , etc.), but so far things are quieter Stateside. In fact, it took a tip from a friend to point our ears in the proper direction. Thankfully they did: We were able to catch them...
I am proud to announce today that our sister site, A Future in Noise Music Videos , has hit 1,000 unique videos posted. This is powered by Tumblr, functional as a channel due to the RANDOM button, with an assortment of embedded music videos from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s, posted daily. Started in July, it's already the #2 Tumblr tagged as "video" and we have over 100 followers....
The Trailer Trash Tracys have a name that bears no resemblance to the sound they make. You might be expecting some raw garage-rock band but ‘Candy Girl’ (No Pain in Pop 7”, red vinyl) is slow and expectant shoegazing, full of reverb and echoey vocals. It’s like early My Bloody Valentine or the JAMC on high dosage diazepam. It creates a beautifully woozy atmosphere with a very...
Warner Bros and MTV Games have announced that popular UK Band Blur will be featured in their upcoming rhythm game LEGO Rock Band. The game will feature the likeness of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree as LEGO mini figures, performing the group’s hit track ‘Song 2.’ LEGO Rock Band for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii is currently in...
Filed under: News Here at Spinner Towers, we take an unashamedly positive view of 'Lego Rock Band.' After all, what more fun can you have than playing along to you favourite songs than if those behind them have been immortalised in plastic, fit-together form? Hot on the heels of the news players being able to choose a Lego David Bowie , comes news the worlds of Britpop and educational toys have taken...
Damon Albarn and the boys from Blur are bringing their nineties Britpop nonsense to LEGO Rock Band, becoming the latest stars to be LEGOfied in EA’s latest attempt to wrestle the music game crown from Guitar Hero. Most of you will only know the recently reformed UK band as “those guys that did the ‘Woo [...]
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