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Top Songs: Blind Melon – ‘Soup’
April 22nd, 2012 by Mike
Blind Melon were somewhat unfairly labelled a one hit wonder in the 90s on the back of their breakthrough hit “No Rain”. Nothing could be further from the truth – in reality they were a wonderfully quirky and highly original rock band. From Shannon Hoon’s hippy-on-helium vocals to the twin lead guitar riffs (constant but always tasteful) of Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn, this was a great band with a great set of tunes. Read more
Posted in Awesome Shit, Best Lyrics, Top Songs
Tagged with: blind melon
Five great free hip hop mashups
March 24th, 2012 by Mike
One of the great art forms on the internet at the moment is the hip hop mashup. Take one famous rapper, take another well known (usually indie) album and mix the two together, then give it away as a free download. Check out five of my favourites after the jump. Read more
Posted in Awesome Shit, Mp3s
Tagged with: biggie, ghostface killah, lana del rey, nas, notorious b.i.g, the wu tang clan, the xx, washed out
Lana Del Rey: Awesome or Boresome? (Almost works)
March 3rd, 2012 by Mike
There’s nothing worse than when major labels tell you what you should like. An artist or a band is suddenly plastered everywhere, their face is all over music television, and the babbling goons that invariably host primetime radio slots are constantly dribbling on about them as if their paychecks depend on it. A good recent example was that awful Gotye song (I mean seriously, fuck that song) that was suddenly everywhere despite being as beige as John Key’s underwear. (Even the video is literally fucking beige). This is how I felt about Lana Del Rey when her name and face suddenly appeared on every billboard, magazine cover and blog seemingly overnight. My highly trained music snob instincts instantly smelled a rat. Claims of “the next Adele” should immediately send your bullshit radar into overdrive: for a start, why are we always looking for the next of something we already have? … Read more
Posted in Best New Music, Rants
Tagged with: adele, gotye, lana del rey
Transistors are fucking great and you should download their shit
February 21st, 2012 by Mike
Transistors are fucking great and you should download their shit …it’s all free (or pay what you want), so what have you got to lose? All download info after the jump. Read more
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Posted in Awesome Shit, Mp3s
Tagged with: transistors
Fucked Up – ‘Year of the Tiger’/ ‘Onno’
February 11th, 2012 by Mike
In our Best Songs of 2011 post I mentioned that I like Fucked Up a lot, but I found singer Damian “Pink Eyes” Abraham’s vocals a bit one dimensional after a while. I still stand by that, but admit that it’s kind of a personal taste thing rather than any flaw with the band itself. I guess it’s just from being someone that was heavily into punk when I was younger: when you hear something that is so obviously punk on top of music that is so new and different you kind of wonder “what if they’d tried something a bit different with the vocals there?”. However new song “Year of the Tiger” is a different kettle of fish entirely. A fifteen minute long psychedelic epic in which not only do Pink Eyes’ vocals not get tiresome, they work perfectly with the build and transformation of the song. This is … Read more
Posted in Awesome Shit, Best New Music, MusicHype, Reviews, Streaming, Top Songs
Tagged with: at the drive-in, fucked up
The new The Men song ‘Open Your Heart’ is fucking great
January 28th, 2012 by Mike
The Men’s 2011 noise rock album Leave Home was one of my favourite records of last year. So it was with some excitement that I discovered the band are already planning to release a follow up on March 6th. New song “Open Your Heart” is the title song from said forthcoming album. And it’s fucking brilliant. Much like on Leave Home, the guitar sound is a key element and here it kicks you in the teeth right from the get go, sounding a lot like the opening bars of The Buzzcocks’ “I Don’t Mind”. No band has ever done themselves any harm by taking notes from The Buzzcocks, so this is a very good thing indeed. Also, while Leave Home was all about guitar texturing and analogue distortion with songwriting taking a back seat, here they’ve stepped things up with a really solid, urgent melody as well. Open Your Heart … Read more
Posted in Awesome Shit, Best New Music
Tagged with: the buzzcocks, the men, the shins
Riot Radio on The Egonomist Podcast
January 12th, 2012 by Mike
At the end of year I (Mike) appeared as a guest on The Egonomist podcast (of which Dan Riot Radio is a regular) to discuss our track and album year end lists, cool music that’s coming up in 2012, and to just have a few wines and yell at each other a bit. Sigh… 2011 it was a simpler time, I broke my new years resolution not to sick up on myself within a day, etc etc… Episode 207: 2011 Music Riots In which we discuss 2011 in music, our year in lists, get drunk and yell at each other for a bit. Download Episode 208: New Years In which we talk about what’s to come in 2012, the Big Day Out, get drunk and yell at each other for a bit. Download You can subscribe to The Egonomist podcast here. Tweet
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Tagged with: big day out, The Egonomist
No One-Chord Ponies
January 4th, 2012 by Dan
As Mani announces his departure to devote his life to the Lord’s work (by which I mean, obviously, the reformed Stone Roses) and front man Bobby Gillespie channels the spirit of Spinal Tap to announce the next Primal Scream record will be based around ‘one chord’ I think it is timely to have a look back at the godlike genius that is Primal Scream. Aside from being based around, one can only assume, The Greatest Chord Ever Known, Gillespie also told NME that the next record will also be very heavily influenced by their 20th anniversary touring of their classic Screamadelica album in 2011. So, will it be Screamadelica 2? I sincerely hope not. I will firstly point out that Screamadelica is one of my favourite records of all time. My Top Five’ change fairly regularly and but it’s unlikely that there has been a time when Primal Scream’s epic pean to the party to end all parties has … Read more
5Posted in Awesome Shit, Classic Albums, Rants, Reviews
Tagged with: beautiful future, bobby gillespie, give out but don't give up, mani, primal scream, screamadelica, the past, the rolling stones, XTRMNTR
Best Albums of 2011
December 30th, 2011 by Mike
Another great year for music! Check out our list of the best albums of 2011, complete with a forward by our conservative correspondent, the ever-miserable Steven Sourman. “Sigh… Music used to be so much better when I was young. You used to be able to watch music television or mainstream radio and really be told what you were supposed to like. Not like these kids these days: it’s all interwebs and deciding for themselves. How are they supposed to know which Rolling Stones re-release or new album by an aging 1970s folk singer to buy, when there’s all this new music getting in the way of the classics? This freedom of choice will be the death of us, just you watch. It’s practically communism! Have we already forgotten Vietnam, people?” – Steven Sourman, 2011 15. Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves Mike: A semi-concept album about mid 80s New York drag … Read more
11Posted in Awesome Shit, Best New Music, Lists, Streaming, Top Songs
Tagged with: arctic monkeys, blood orange, jay z, kanye west, m83, pains of being pure at heart, radiohead, smith westerns, the go! team, the horrors, the roots, theophilus london, washed out, wavves, yuck
Our Top 25 Songs of 2011
December 28th, 2011 by Mike
What a year it was! So much great music. Arcade Fire even won a Grammy (albeit about 7 years and two albums too late), for what that’s worth in 2011. And boy, there were some great songs – too many to limit to a top ten this year. So here’s our favourite 25 songs from the year that was 2011… 25. Blink 182 – “Up All Night” Mike: Remember when you were younger and you used to like music for the sheer enjoyment of it: you loved what you loved and fashions didn’t matter? How as you got older things like trends and what your friends liked started to obscure and influence your taste, and how this sometimes meant that you couldn’t always like things just because they were good? How this made you overlook things like the fact that, despite the dick jokes and American Pie soundtracks, Blink 182 … Read more
12Posted in Awesome Shit, Best New Music, Lists, Mp3s, Top Songs
Tagged with: blink 182, chiddy bang, cults, cut off your hands, das racist, fucked up, Hercules and the Love Affair, holy ghost, Jasiri, jay z, justice, kanye west, kasabian, liam finn, male bonding, noel gallagher, pains of being pure at heart, the decemberists, the go! team, the horrors, the men, the strokes, the vaccines, wilco, ximena sarinana
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