Edition 007 of the magazine

May 25th, 2012

Another is out friendly folk. It is as glorious as ever and littered with wonderful music, interviews, short films (very witty short films this time too), art and stuff.

This is a list of what is in it, but it won’t mean much because the whole point is to introduce you to wonderful stuff you don’t know. But lists are good, so here we go:

Graveyard Johnnys.
Slyde.
Disappears (interview).
Moonface.
Muncie Girls
Ted Tremper (interview and short films…. very good!).
Oleg Dou (photographer).
Sunday Driver (live session).
Mmoths.
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat.
Onur Senturk (audio visual art).
The Destroyers (interview).
It Hugs Back.
?Redo From Start.
Mix Tape (ambient chill out stuff).
Jon Byrne (live session).
The Who.

So, have a peek at the current issue on our main page.

And blog, facebook like, tweet, facebook post and whatever else you do to tell people about great things.

Thank you!

Jule


Edition 006 of the magazine now online

April 14th, 2012
Another rather good edition of the magazine, which is now pretty much watch and listenable on iOSX (so your lovely new retina display iPads will now let you listen to the music too), so enjoy.
  • Ex Libras (live session)
  • Spiritualized
  • Disappears
  • Zoochosis (short films)
  • Felix Hagan
  • Internet Forever
  • David Small (artist)
  • Ziegler Co. (live session)
  • My Brightest Diamond
  • Ace Of Space
  • Summer Camp
  • Urban Abstract (audio visual art)
  • Rumour Cubes
  • The Skints
  • Sufjan Stevens

The Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Unknown Faces at Father James Park

February 1st, 2012

Awesome new track and video from their new album out in Feb 2012:

And an added extra video for – The Right One -
Also from the new The Phenomenal Handclap Band Album.
Hmmm actually better than the last one…whoa, singer, she is giving me the eye i tell yee!!!


Edition 004 of the magazine

December 22nd, 2011

It’s been a while, sorry about that, but as ever probably worth the wait with another load of brilliant music, film and art with some great interviews and reviews too.

Biggest difference for those who have been here before is that we’ve ditched the 5 separate PARTS and put less pages (though still 21 of them) in a single file, which means you can view it as we always intended, which is as a magazine.

For those of you not previous visitors this will mean nothing unless you go to the archive and read, watch and hear Editions 001 to 003, which of course we highly recommend.

The other bonus to this new format tweak is we should be able to get an edition out every month now, so that’s nice isn’t it?

Really excited to have interviews with Three Trapped Tigers, Bill Ryder Jones (of The Coral), Chloe Early (amazing Irish artist) and Arthur Jeffes of Penguin Cafe who did a three man semi-acoustic live session for us too which was kind of stunning.

In addition, as ever, there is a lot more great music, a couple of briliant shorts (one funny, the other quite sombre yet stunning) and more.

Anyway, this edition includes:

Page 01: Bill Ryder-Jones: interview
Page 04: The Cassette: short film
Page 05: Crushed Beaks, M+A, Girl Muscle
Page 06: A Moment Of Silence: audio visual art
Page 07: Three Trapped Tigers: interview
Page 10: Bands you Should Hear: by TTT
Page 11: Chloe Early: gallery & interview
Page 13: Syndromes: short film & music
Page 14: As The Stories Burns: indie mix tape
Page 15: Lil Daggers: album review
Page 16: The Great Malarky, Gauntlet Hair, Internet Forever
Page 17: Arthur Jeffes (Penguin Cafe): live & interview
Page 20: Stephen Malkmus: live review
Page 21: Nina Simone: classic album
Page 22: Credits


J & Y: Antadys

November 14th, 2011

Grat electronica tune, but an utterly surreal video to go with it that is both rubbish and utterly compelling at the same time.

Their bandcamp page [bandcamp] has two other songs to hear as well (both great too as it goes) and links to their other online presences.

And this is what Plustapes had to say about them:

Just when you think you’ve heard everything that the contemporary krautrock revival has to offer, something fun like this pops up, coming from France of all places. J&Y is the duo of Laurencina Lam and King Q4. (The latter has created a fair amount of electronic music under his own moniker, but nothing quite like this outing.) While there are only two people making this noise, they make the most out of it, combining bass, drums, and electronics into a raucous kraut stew, with a lot of other wild flavors thrown in for good measure… 9/10


Tom Waits: Satisfied

November 10th, 2011

Man is a genius. His new album is perhaps his best since the 80s. It’s concise by his standards at 13 tracks and each one is f***ing blinding. You can hear more from it in edition 003 of the magazine (click here) but he finally released a video for one of the songs and this is it.

Love music? Love Tom. [Tom Wait's website]


Magazine: Edition 003

November 5th, 2011

For all our fans waiting on the edge of their seats, sorry for the delay in getting this one out. Being little DIYers we are at the mercy of real lives (in this case me painting my flat and thinking it would only take a week and ESS being involved in the production and release of a Hypnosis training DVD… ah, the things we do in order to fund this little baby).

Anyway, it is finally finished and out. We have also made the decision to release them about every 6 weeks now as doing one a month was a killer given how long it takes to put each magazine together both in terms of getting the content but also the coding. Still, there is so much in each edition that we doubt you’ll get through it all in a couple of visits, so it will be there for you to dip into over 6 weeks when you’re in need of discovering something new and brilliant.

Edition 003 index: Read the rest of this entry »


Real Estate: It’s Real

November 5th, 2011

‘It’s Real’ is taken from Real Estate’s second studio album ‘Days’ which was released in October 2011. Directed by Weird Days. Lovely summery tune, so a tad strange they released it in November… though perhaps it is a counter balance to the grimness we are about to now face weather wise. Am a fan of retro grading in music videos and I do like they way they’ve put this one together… and it works well with the song.

The album ‘Days’ is out now on LP / CD / Digital Download.
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/26-08-11/days/
https://www.facebook.com/realestateband
www.dominorecordco.com


Cool Fun – Cloth

October 29th, 2011

featured video of the day. I love the Cool Fun album. And this is another great video from it. Electronica with vocals, but eccentric electronica and an incredible vocal, so not your usual fare.

Cool Fun website


MisterLee (featured album)

October 29th, 2011

This album is frigging amazing. I’m crap at saying stuff sounds like this or that, but it’s a left of centre indie rock album that wouldn’t have sounded out of place in the early 80s indie scene, reminds me in places of Julian Cope at his more avant garde and is, as i’ve already said, frigging amazing.

It’s not nice indie kids. If you need your music to be palatable to Xfm, possibly not for you, though you should expand your horizons. It’s dark and dirty and challenging. But well worth the effort.

He doesn’t have a music video to embed a track from the album in here. he doesn’t even have anything on soundcloud to embed in here, so if you missed the album on the site, make sure you check him out on his website: http://misterlee.co.uk/


edition 002 of the magazine

October 29th, 2011

Edition 002 features:

Page 01: Sound Of Rum: live session & interview
Page 04: Cream/Egg: short film
Page 05: Memory House, A Genuine Freakshow, Tom Vek
Page 06: Hayashi Natsumi: photographer
Page 07: Scroobius Pip: interview & album review
Page 09: Recommended Bands: by Scroobius Pip (Death Grips, P.O.S & Kid Carpet)
Page 10: Blokes: spoken word animation by Mat Lloyd & Matt Frodsham
Page 11: Something For Nothing (To Bury A Ghost, Simon Bookish, Throw Me The Statue, Vey)
Page 12: Oupa: album review
Page 13: Synthetic Organics: mix tape
Page 14: Team Ghost, Ninetails, Lacrosse
Page 15: The Bottletop Charity: interview
Page 18: Nuala: live session
Page 19: Yellow Ostrich: interview
Page 21: Alex Varanese: graphic designer & musician
Page 22: Exitmusic: interview
Page 25: Recommended Bands: by Exit Music (John Maus, WU LYF, Porcelain Raft, Shabazz Palaces, Balam Acab)
Page 26: Flux: audio visual art
Page 27: Primus: album review
Page 28: Firesuite, Perfume Genius, Softwhere
Page 29: Mitch Dobrowner: photographer
Page 33: Underworld, The Who, The Mountain Goats (classic albums)
Page 34: credits

Read, watch and hear it here


Featured Album – Sharks’ Teeth

September 18th, 2011

I discovered Sharks’ Teeth via an EP they had on bandcamp which was left of centre experimental electronica. Tyler Scurlock is the man behind it and he basically makes these meandering delightful pieces of music then gives them away for free. A real artist then.

I went back recently and found a new release by him, the 35 track, god knows how long, epic that is his ‘Wissenschaftslehre or Our House’ album.

We’ve put an abridged version on the homepage… kind of a ‘best of’ as chosen by me… and a more palatable introduction to what he has here, but below is the full version, in case you’re curious.

And if you visit his bandcamp page you can download the whole thing. It is well worth it even if you do end up creating your own shortened version (probably advisable as an hour is about enough). Anyway, love what he does and happy to again point you towards him:

Sharks’ teeth on Bandcamp


Twin Sister – Bad Street

September 18th, 2011

Delightful dreamy indie popsters. Looking to have a full interview in the October edition of the magazine, but until then enjoy this little slice of summer:


September edition of the magazine

September 18th, 2011

The excitement is palpable. The second edition of our magazine and it is better than the first by at least…. oooh…. an unspecified percentage.

Why?

Well, because we learnt from the first, we had more time to get stuff together and we have some blinding interviews in this one, including Exit Music, Scroobius Pip, Yellow Ostrich, Sound Of Rum and Mitch Dobrowner (photographer extraordinaire)… plus the greatest ever album review ever by Simon for the blinding new Primus album.

Read, watch and listen to it here: September Edition

Full content listing:

Page 01: Sound Of Rum: live session & interview
Page 04: Cream/Egg: short film
Page 05: Memory House, A Genuine Freakshow, Tom Vek
Page 06: Hayashi Natsumi: photographer
Page 07: Scroobius Pip: interview & album review
Page 09: Recommended Bands: by Scroobius Pip
Page 10: Blokes: spoken word animation
Page 11: Something For Nothing
Page 12: Oupa: album review
Page 13: Synthetic Organics: mix tape
Page 14: Team Ghost, Ninetails, Lacrosse
Page 15: The Bottletop Charity: interview
Page 18: Nuala: live session
Page 19: Yellow Ostrich: interview
Page 21: Alex Varanese: graphic designer & musician
Page 22: Exit Music: interview
Page 25: Recommended Bands: by Exit Music
Page 26: Flux: audio visual art
Page 27: Primus: album review
Page 28: Firesuite, Perfume Genius, Softwhere
Page 29: Mitch Dobrowner: photographer
Page 33: Underworld, The Who, The Mountain Goats
Page 34: credits


Tom Waits – Bad As Me

August 31st, 2011

Not too much to say other than TOM WAITS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT IN OCTOBER.

This is the title track from it.

Tom Waits – Bad As Me by antirecords