Factory Floor / Bitches / Flats / Memoryhouse / Becoming Real / Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
“We get along really well, we don’t argue or get drunk and call each other bastards.”
READ MORESince Mika Miko split and No Age started touring the world, LA’s The Smell scene has been searching for a new, less garage-y sound, and its found it in ravesploitation.
Liars have always been proponents of the idea of more – more bass, more fuzz, more weirdness.
READ MOREWe’re a little late on this, but there’s this film called Twilight Eclipse, featuring one of the kids from Harry Potter, and, well, its soundtrack is quite amazing, namely because it features a track called ‘Let’s Get Lost’, which is a Natasha Khan/Beck duet.
On August 23rd Belfast trio Not Squares will release second single ‘Release The Bees’ on Dublin’s Richter Collective label. It’s big ‘ol slap of murderous synth disco – the kind that Does It Offend You Yeah have been angling at these past few years – and here is a free, metallic remix of it by The Fur. It too is pretty awesome.
In 2009 Upset The Rhythm launched Yes Way festival, and the three dayer at Elephant And Castle’s Auto Italia is back, on August 13 – 15, with headline sets from Male Bonding, Plug and Cleckhuddersfax.
Last year London promoters Sexbeat hosted one hell of an alldayer at The Victoria and called it, rather aptly, Radfest. This year it’s back with another killer lineup and we’ve got a couple of tickets to give away for it.
If you’ve picked up and read this month’s issue of Loud And Quiet you’ll know that we’re quite the fans of cover stars Factory Floor, and new London punks Flats. For good reason, they’re two of our favourite bands right now, and they’re playing together in London next week. Wanna go?
This week we’ve been listening to Dels [pictured], Frankie Rose & The Outs, Disclosure, Rusko and El Guincho.
LISTEN HEREPop music: the most annoying, tenuously linked product pushed via the World Cup.
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