These New Puritans / Liars / Fool’s Gold / The Bitters / Trash Kit / Fiction / Rainbow Arabia / Memory Tapes
“Ceratosaurus are my favourite dinosaur,” says Brian without a second thought. “It was basically like a T-Rex but with a horn on its nose. Pretty badass.
READ MOREIf ‘Sixes & Sevens’ saw Adam Green taking things down a notch from the bristling energy displayed on ‘Jacket…’ and ‘Gemstones’, ‘Minor Love’ has dimmed the lights a touch more.
An epiphany bathed in golden light strums elegantly on her guitar; the audience take a sharp intake of breath, then… BONG, the epiphany pisses herself laughing.
READ MORELondon surf trio Sex Beet have today posted online two free tracks that we all really should be paying for. Every ‘bedroom label’ in town currently want to put out a 7″ for the band and they’re usually only too happy to oblige. So when they recorded the brilliantly named ‘I’m In Love With You (So Shut The Fuck Up)’ and ‘Cocaine Dan’ for an unnamed label the least they expected was for the tracks to be released.
South London quartet Fiction unofficially announced it in this month’s Loud And Quiet, and now news of their debut single being released on the newly formed Offset Recordings is concrete as their first ever 7″ is put on pre-sale by the long-awaited label arm of Offset Festival.
The band will release ‘Curiosity’ on May 10th and you can pre-order the single from offset.bigcartel.com.
One of our favourite photographer’s (Phil Sharp) has hopped into the world of music video-making and has come up with this new video for one or our favourite bands (Stricken City).
Phil is the man responsible for our Erol Alkan cover, and our Bat For Lashes issue. In our current issue he shot Liars, and in next month’s issue the cover feature is all his too. When he’s not taking pictures of bands, Phil can be found in shoe museums north of London.
This year’s 1234Shorditch festival is going to take place on July 24th, on its usual stomping ground of Shoreditch Park, East London. And this year the organisers have already peppered their lineup with a tonne of Loud And Quiet favourites, including Bo Ningen, Trailer Trash Tracys, A Grave With No Name, Vivan Girls and Egyptian Hip Hop.
You’ve got to forgive The Horrors’ Spider Webb and Tom Furse for taking their time in bringing side project Spider And The Flies to a live stage, but in a rare evening of downtime from their day job they’ve finally managed it with the help of Offset/Circles.
This week, tracks from Dum Dum Girls, HEALTH, Washed Out, Javelin and Andrew WK
LISTEN HEREOver the past 10 years alternative music went overground… and, sadly, stayed there
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