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“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 MOREThis 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.
We are just now returning from a month living in La Punta Banda, Mexico where we were working on new songs and being the house band at Los Gordos Cantina.
We wanted to let everyone know that we are offering free downloads of two new songs on our website, www.crystalantlers.com . If you are interested go there and download them for free and/or order the red vinyl 7″ (limited to 500 copies) for $6 + S/H. If you already bought it or downloaded the songs today, thank you.
The band that once called themselves Ex Lion Tamers have signed to One Little Indian, and are set to release their debut single for the label in April.
‘Deep Dive’ will be released on April 19th and is rumored to see the London four-piece sounding like they never have. Singer Lou Hill told NME “The stuff we are writing now is a complete departure from anything scratchy or angular – it’s warm and it’s expansive.”
There’s plenty of time for M.I.A. to announce more shows before Oya Festival this August, but in the meantime she’s confirmed that she’ll definitely be playing the Norwegian festival, along with Pavement, Iggy & The Stooges and LCD Soundsystem.
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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