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Death Cab for Koko 2008-08-02 16:21:25
On July 24th Death Cab for Cutie got ready to play their second low key gig in Camden this summer. Having missed their previous May appearance at The Electric Ballroom I was determined to catch them this time. The fact that I had spent many nights in this North London venue when it still went by [...]
Rock Punk Goodies (?!) 2008-07-16 21:39:34 If you are looking for something to do in London this Saturday i strongly advise you to check out Raid On The Arcade playing live at The Good Ship in Kilburn. I’m sure i will blog more about this promising new three piece but in the meantime check out a video from their last London show
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So why now? Liberté, égalité, fraternité, JUSTICE! 2008-07-15 14:13:29 I’ve already mentioned i had been planning to write this blog for a while now. I had already picked the name a while ago and was just waiting for something to kick start it all so why start now?
Well, in the past couple of months I’ve had the privilege to see some awesome artists who [...]
Introducing the gang with the acid tongue 2008-07-14 20:01:03 Back in the early 00s I was part of the editorial team for the independent webzine MIUZIK.com and though that project eventually imploded when various key players moved on to bigger better (?!) things I continued writing about music, book and movie mostly for my own amusement.
I always thought that eventually i will get back [...] Read more:Introducing
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**Now you see me, now you don’t** 2008-08-19 14:53:57 Back in the early 00s, long before Last.fm, Pandora and Hype Machine came along, there was an ace little website called Music Buddha. You initially picked one of 7 genres which then allowed you to surf various subgenres. When selecting the subgenre you were interested in you were offered a selection of artists. You [...]
**Dub Stars in their eyes** 2008-08-16 13:09:50 Easy Star All-Stars is a talented collective that incorporates some of New York’s finest Reggae musicians. They have found their niche in recreating subliminal dub/reggae versions of legendary albums. So far they have released a version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ and hopefully there will be more to [...]
**Aintcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews** 2008-08-13 06:25:59 Whenever I visit New York I try to check the music section at the Housing Works Bookstore. They always have a great biography or provocative tale of rock excess I can pick up in this second hand store for a bargain, their motto: “fighting AIDS one book at a time” which is pretty noble if [...]
**Idle Will Kill** 2008-08-10 09:32:11 Osker were still in their teens when releasing their debut full length ‘Treatment 5′. Reviews at the time were generally positive citing the bands youthful age and their competent if not revolutionary take on Rancid/ Green Day. At the same time singer/guitarist Devon Williams was becoming increasingly confrontational with audiences openly baiting his own fans [...]
**Agatha Christie presents: Mystery In The Park** 2008-08-07 16:06:10 Working Wireless Festival at Hyde Park last year saw us scattered to separate locations around the festival area. I had been setting up since 7am and the last thing I wanted to do was hear annoying demands from the herd-like punters. A mix up in the official festival program meant that it was not even [...] Read more:Agatha
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**Raid On The Arcade Vs. Metro club** 2008-09-12 09:40:45 Cougar Microbes just got into the flyer business, here is something whipped up in 10 minutes for tonights show. If you are in London come down!
**What’s The Story?** 2008-09-08 20:42:51 Oasis leader Noel Gallagher was pushed over by a “fan” the other night whilst on stage in Toronto. The video doing the rounds on Youtube at the moment shows Noel completely unaware as he gets shoved to the ground whilst Liam Gallagher acts like he is ducking in and out of a playground fight. It would [...]
**I Know What You Did Last Summer** 2008-09-07 00:40:12 September will forever be associated with returning for a new school year. Realistically it is not a big deal and turning into a grown working bee also means learning to measure your holidays for maximum impact. Yet despite the fact i finished my studies years back without fail on the 31st of August i mourn [...] Read more:Summer
**Songs Competed Like Kids For Space** 2008-09-03 08:08:17 Some of the greatest concert, album as well as movies (but that is for another blog) experiences come when the artist blows you away when you had no idea what to expect. I could name a few albums i picked out without hearing a single note which left me open mouthed when i finally played [...] Read more:Space
**If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams, I’d sleep forever** 2008-08-29 15:43:11 A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it’s you and me
Together forever and never apart,
Maybe in distance, but never in heart.
-Anonymous
MP3’s:
Joseph Arthur - Honey And The Moon
Weezer - Across The Sea
Bob Dylan - You Belong To Me
Athlete - Tourist
The Subways - With You
Embrace - Gravity
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**Barack Obama and John McCain’s favourite songs revealed** 2008-08-25 07:12:37 US Presidential hopefuls BarackObama
and John McCain
have each revealed their ten favourite songs
to Blender Magazine. I realise this post is a bit of a cop-out but the post I’ve been working on is taking a little longer than planned. Anyhow I thought this was an interesting insight even and there are a few [...] Read more:Barack Obama
**I Never Want To Say My Best Days Are Behind Me** 2008-08-22 11:20:24 Jonah Matranga never takes a break. If you look at his record from as far back as 1993 (be it with Far, as Onelinedrawing or under his own name) he has brought out a release of some sort almost every year. In 2001 hungered for a rock band setup again he recruited members from some [...]
**Buy This Car To Drive To Work, Drive To Work To Pay For This Car** 2008-09-30 09:10:17 Metric’s 2005 release Live It Out seems to have been conceived in a secret laboratory with the purpose of combining my favourite music fixations: Female vocals + attitude filled lyrics + quiet/loud guitars = lethal cocktail. Emily Haines oozes sexy immediacy as she delivers memorable soundbytes over a layer of jangly guitars and confident beats.
Momentarily dropping [...]
**Get Well Soon** 2008-09-28 18:54:48 Gutted to hear Travis Barker was involved in a plane accident a few days ago. ‘Enema Of The State‘ was released the same year I moved to London and I had the chance to catch Blink -182 play quite a few times in that period. The ridiculous banter between Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus was [...]
**New Adventures In Hi-Fi** 2008-09-23 06:45:10 Despite not touring in years the early 90s saw R.E.M. release their biggest albums in the shape of Out Of Time and Automatic For The People. Those albums will haunt my genertion for life as tracks such as ‘Losing My Religion‘ and ‘Everybody Hurts‘ were seemingly ever present.
the 1994’s Monster album and subsequent long awaited return to [...] Read more:Adventures
**Devotion Is A Strange Thing** 2008-09-20 10:33:21 As reported by a few sources:
Metallica fan Mick Cassidy has finally shaved his beard after growing it for two years, following a vow he made based around his heroes’ release schedule.
Los Angeles resident Cassidy vowed in 2006 not to shave until his favourite band released another album.
It took Metallica two years to release their next [...] Read more:Devotion
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**Billy the kid did what he did and he died** 2008-09-17 08:28:40 Despite only showing up on my radar recently Why? rapidly rose to being the band I have played more than any other so far this year. This doesn’t entirely surprise me as i have been on a mission to play them to everyone I’ve met since I got a feel for their standout track ‘The [...] Read more:Billy
**Elbowing Our Way To The Top** 2008-09-14 13:34:18 I was delighted to find out this week Cougar Microbes are marching in like army ants… has now been added to Elbows.
Here are two tracks that pretty much define why Cougar was started to begin with:
MP3’s:
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
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**But I Am Lefthanded** 2008-10-16 19:35:41 After stumbling across the superb ‘Long Goodbyes‘ and expressing my appreciation for the track I received a nice email from I Am Not Lefthanded with a copy of their latest EP. With Cougar Microbes only in its infancy I hadn’t expected to receive pre-releases from label and bands just yet so this was a sweet gesture from the band.
‘Yes Means [...]
**Something To Write Home About** 2008-10-11 08:52:11 When I was at university, and in between houses, I temporarily shared a room with one of my best friends. For 3 months straight he played The Get Up Kids‘ Something To Write
Home About first thing when he woke up and last thing before he went to bed. Had it been any other album i [...]
**Capitalism Stole My Virginity** 2008-10-08 18:44:53 Everywhere you turn the talk is about the growing global economic crisis. There are people, far more educated in the matter than I am, writing kilometres of pages about the causes, the consequences and possible solutions of this situation. Its strange that when things were going real good no one thought of planning in case [...] Read more:Capitalism
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**Say something, Do something, Feel something, Anything at all** 2008-10-05 08:40:01 Have you ever championed a young independent/unsigned band seeing their profile slowly rise to the point you want them to succeed like your life depended on it? What if you also became friends with that band? That band for me were Hitechjet. Having known some of the boys prevously, we cemented our friendship when we [...] Read more:something
**What’s All The Hype About?** 2008-10-02 11:56:42 Super to discover Cougar Microbes was added to hypem.com this week! In fact, it is highly likely that many of the people reading this blog right now have come directly from there. I will happily admit that when I started this project one of the aims I set out was to be added on The Hype [...]
**Yes we can** 2008-11-05 00:15:36 In this historic moment in our lives I look to the next four years with a big smile on my face. 2Pac was wrong after all when he said ‘We ain’t ready, to see a black President‘. Thank you America!
MP3’s:
Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World
2Pac [...]
**Tennessee’s finest** 2008-10-26 10:26:07 “I am flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi, with America’s hottest band, and we are all about to die”
Actually, I’m on a train packed full of sweaty commuters pulling out of London Bridge Station and the fellow next to me obviously had no time for a post-corporate-workout shower. So, nausea more than death, really.
There’s only one [...] Read more:Tennessee
**Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook** 2008-10-21 14:55:54 Arctic Monkeys need no introductions on these pages unless you have been living in a cave in Afghanistan for the past few years. I must confess I was almost frightened off by all the press build up and was frankly quite sceptical before I heard them expecting another twee indie band for the NME to [...]
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