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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
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: (more…)
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
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
Not too much to say other than TOM WAITS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT IN OCTOBER.
This is the title track from it.
Hahaha!!!! Look at her top lip!!!
I meant to post about this girl previously but it slipped my mind until someone sent me a link to this today, so i’m posting about it now.
There isn’t much info on this lady that i could find, it says on her facebook page that she lives in New York…ok. I think she puts her own videos together from footage of herself and old newsreels and whatever…it looks kinda cool…has this tragic hollywood vibe to it.
The song is gorgeous and she is certainly a looker in the vain of Priscilla Presley and Jackie Kennedy and she has the lovely voice to go with it which is reminiscent of Dusty Springfield and that kind of era (no other names seem to spring to mind at the mo), …which is nice.
This track, along with another called ‘Blue Jeans’ which i haven’t heard, is released on October 9th this year and i’m sure she’s gonna go down well. With the demise of ole Amy W (thats not to say she is anywhere near as vocally talented as Amy) there is more than enough room for Lana’s easy listening tragi-pop. I’m a sucker for anything that is nostalgia driven while still managing to be contemporary.
Above and beyond this though…i want to draw attention to her top lip in this video which seems to be fighting to get away from the rest of her face…brilliant!!! She is still hot though. Great song!!!
Simon.
Disappears Live 8.6.11 Chicago by DISAPPEARS
We did a little piece on Disappears’ psyche noise rock in edition 001 of Heads Up. We also had their sophomore album Guider as one of our featured albums (actually it is on the homepage of the site as I write this), and bloody marvelous it is too. In fact, I bought it on vinyl (though still awaiting it’s arrival from the wonderful people at Norman Records.
Anyway, I follow them on twitter and yesterday they posted a full set they played supporting the Arctic Monkeys, taken straight out of the desk and it sounds great. So go check it out a their soundcloud [soundcloud] in all it’s glorious 43 minutes and 24 seconds… or listen from the embed in this post (if it isn’t at the top of the page, try refreshing… sometimes i have to, don’t know why, but hey, it’ll be worth it).
Rather cool, I have to say. Non powered amplifier speakers for mp3 devices, etc., made from moulding old 12″ vinyl. They are made by London designer Paul Cocksedge [website] and if you’re in London on August 27th then pop along to the Roundhouse with your vinyl and you may be able to get him to do one.
You can also buy some he made earlier (now if only Blue Peter had shown us how to do these, their ratings would have been up a notch or two).
We greatly approve.
Weird and wonderful Scandinavian post-rockers Mimas are doing a European tour in support of the Lifejackets album, so those in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic can watch them… with support from Dad Rocks, offshoot project of Snævar Njáll Albertsson, which makes a saving on the support band costs 
Dates below videos:
Mimas: Vadar In Burgos
First edition of our magazine online now. Read, watch and hear it here
Features including interviews with Spring Offensive and the photographer Kim Holterman. Plus
London burned in early August 2011, and with it a whole heap of indie label CDs and records which we in the Sony Distribution warehouse which was torched. Many music fans are rallying to try and help the labels, particularly the smaller ones, who got royally screwed by the situation.
Label Love are part of the helping process and this is what they have to say about themselves:
Thanks for stopping by the page. I have no doubt that if you’re here you’ll have heard the news that the PIAS distribution centre in Enfield has been burnt down during the London riots. What you may not be aware of is that the warehouse contained the physical stock for many of Britain’s Indie records labels. The subsequent loss of income and cash flow problems that this act of mindless vandalism will bring about may well be enough to push many of the smaller operators out of business.
Our aim is to try and rally the music industry, both on the artist and the audience sides, and see if we can raise some money to see those affected through the tough times ahead.
This is just a holding page at the moment but more details will be posted here as and when we have them.
So, after a couple of discussions between me and Si about the original site being too confusing and cluttered with so many ‘formats’ and our SEO being slaughtered by the fact all band names were kept hidden away in .xml files we decided to rip it up and start again.
I think that conversation was had just under 3 weeks ago. Just now, 23.45 on Friday 12th August we just uploaded the new site along with the first edition of our new, and now only, format the Heads Up magazine.
So what you may think? Well, have a peak. (more…)
The Drums – Money by weallwantsome1
Great new single from The Drums forthcoming Album Portamento due out September.
New Album out on 9th August. They have kindly streamed it so you can have a listen before you buy…nice of them. What do you think?
We haven’t made up our minds yet…just click on the songs above to listen to each track in full.