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Daughtry are fronted by the bloke who finished fifth in American Idol last year, whose album has inevitably been number one on the Billboard chart. The John Butler Trio are a jam band, and thus of no interest over here. Gomez' continued US success constantly eludes British attention, largely, we imagine, because they stopped sounding indie-rootsy-bluesy-Bandy in about And still it hasn't sold that well in Britain, as opposed to its 1 status on Billboard and here. On the same lines look at Blonde Redhead go, ahead of ver Monkeys all the way since release.

Labels: international. Friday, May 25, Brass in pocket. Active for 62 years, they play regularly throughout the year and have performed at Buckingham Palace, the Royal Tournament, the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall and Wimbledon among other grand venues.

Yes, that Gravity's Rainbow. It sounds like this. Thursday, May 24, Reynolds' girl. Nothing really to this, but either they mean Simon Taylor of Klaxons or Lovefoxxx is actually going out with the highbrow music journo and blogger Simon Reynolds.

There's a BBC3 sitcom in that. Oh, have an embed, then. Labels: embeds , simon's run out of ideas again. Tuesday, May 22, Rusty Cage. For those wondering, which will be none of you, Corporate Anthems hasn't been abandoned, we've just had 'plenty on'. It'll come into its own before long, don't worry.

Presenter Garry Moore really isn't sure what to make of it. Monday, May 21, Weekender : a tremendous winning situation. Don't Go Down To Sorrow starts with mournful piano and slow burns its way through layers of muted mathrock, quasi-orchestral layers and a time change and eventually turns into Explosions In The Sky. And then it stops and you're left trying to work out what's just gone on.

They call their sound 'Urban Desert', whatever that entails. In this context it's darkly, melodically enormous anthemry that strives less to follow Coldplay into arenas and far more to follow the audibly influencing likes of recent Low, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco and hi-fi Will Oldham towards the ATP crowd, throwing in elements of Elbow's unpretentious widescreen and the Hotel2Tango post-rock brigade plus a lyric sheet of doomed poetry.

Beguiling to the last. Note Adam Clayton's transitional haircut and the then current vogue, often deployed by the Jam on Top Of The Pops, of sticking the drummer at the front. A document of a spectacular gig at Oklahoma City Zoo last September, the trailer promises much - obviously there were unofficial cameramen capturing Wayne Coyne's arrival as well as the official Warner Bros ones - as does the state of the stage during She Don't Use Jelly.

It's ten days away and we've had all of two entrants not the right term but it'll do for now in. Almost inevitably we've not even got the full complement yet for the series, so if you want to write about the song everyone should hear, let us know. Let's face it, whatever the credentials they're far more interesting than a thousand pieces about teenage bands using The Myspace Revolution to overhaul the music industry that somehow neglect to mention that Cajun Dance Party have just signed to the sort of major label they're portrayed as kicking against.

EDIT: Yeah, we remember now that XL is an indie, having been under the impression that it was part-owned by someone else and, in the original version of this edit, under the impression that it was V2. Really, we should have left this whole grey area alone. On this basis, you'd certainly fight for Win, Regine and co. We saw Grizzly Bear this week. Look at us. Yes, their live show is as superb as everyone says it is, and a review will appear in the usual channels in the fulness of time.

To tie in with their short UK tour the Beach Boys-meets-Animal Collective wonderousness of Knife gets a 7" run despite sounding like a single cut in no conceivable way.

Bet they're sick of people pointing that out to them. There's even a CD single of worth out this week, Dizzee Rascal returning from 'attempting to fit in' hell. In a heavy duty scrapyard, maybe. Albums Mark E Smith's collaboration with Mouse On Mars as Von Sudenfed shouldn't be that surprising - he added vocals to a version of a track from their last album, has gone through housier fall periods in the early 90s, provided vocals for the D.

What makes Tromatic Reflexxions , a title you genuinely wouldn't hazard to guess which half of the collaboration came up with, different is it fits its electro-dance around, rather than to, Smith's vocalising, making it the most attainable thing Mouse On Mars have done, well, possibly ever, it's just it's got the great impregnable singer on it.

As we've said before, while Amy Winehouse has spent the previous few months trailing shouts of "Motown! Wall Of Sound! Maybe it just seems less glamorous, even if at its best the Memphis-based label was far more inventive than the vast majority of what Motor City was exporting. Their 50th Anniversary Celebration should put that well and truly to rights. First there was The Legend of Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire, which sold well number 11 last year , now there is another one of it.

DVDs Chris Lowe has noted that Pet Shop Boys gigs need to be huge production number costumed dancing extravaganzas because otherwise it'd be just some blokes on far too big a stage. Saturday, May 19, Euro precision song contest. In the spirit of European musical brotherhood, it's been some time since we had a shufty at another country's top 20 singles chart. We did Italy last February, but what the hell: 20 Hilary Duff - With Love One of the reasons we persist with this is to check up on those bands who we're occasionally told do surprising big business elsewhere, in the vein of Dirty Vegas' claimed runaway US success or Art Brut supposedly being huge in Germany.

Here we are in Italy, though, and apart from the cultural exchange wide enough to encompass Just Jack at 28 we find nothing of surprising UK interest in the whole top fifty.

Why don't we have serious national song competitions here? Middle Europeans do this kind of urgent sing-rapping over lazy strings and acoustic guitar well - they all have that haircut too - and apparently it's actually about love and loss between mental hospital patients, which instantly adds another thousand layers.

The endless and faithful fan base is already advised and ready to welcome him again with a big hug". Best thing about this clip: in no way does it need a conductor! Do you need to know that much more about the British record-downloading public? One can only assume the dancing-amid-flames video is postmodern in this sense. It is, lyrically if not musically. It's The Fray with a drum machine, essentially. We'd like to see her try to meld her hippie-folkie and dirty-beaty sides, because then the pop world might collapse.

His album is number one in their chart, which is also notable for Travis at 17, Patti Smith at 24 and Blonde Redhead climbing to What is the San Remo Song Festival anyway? And none of them would come up with a protest song about Mafia death. The advertisers wouldn't allow it.

Unfortunately, it's turned them into the heavy rock U2. This is what happens when you ran out of ideas a minute into your first single, and most of those were half-inched anyway. The label sit back and rub their hands. Thursday, May 17, Scooch on the rocks.

Thank goodness the Liberal Democrats have nothing else to worry about at the moment. Peter Bottomley signed it! The real problem with this year's Eurovision Song Contest was really a reversal of our received opinion about how the event is going - we all know the UK is one of the few that thinks it's all a bit of a lark, but it's one of the few that thinks voting is a serious business.

We don't understand block voting in Western Europe because we don't experience the same sort of entente cordiale with our neighbouring countries, which before the great EBU influx we only ever saw when Terry piped up about Greece and Cyprus every year. The bottom three were France, UK and Ireland, all Western but also the latter was all out trad and the other two were probably the most all-out camp only in the sense that product managers understand it, of course, ie nothing like what it actually is of the competitors.

As Sweden's Aftonbladet put it, maybe they should send modern pop songs instead of lowest common denominising. When did we start taking the UK entry so seriously, anyway? Nobody remembers Lindsay Dracass in , or that Jessica Garlick came third a year later.

And for the record Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro did give Serbia twelve points, but so did Austria, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia and Switzerland, and indeed a poll solely of western voters came up with almost exactly the same top five.

The UK gave them nothing, but we gave the instantly forgettable according to every live commentary we've seen Turks top marks. Of second placed Ukraine's five twelves only one came from another breakaway Russian republic. Friendly neighbours, by the way?

Serbia haven't exactly been on constant cordial terms with all of theirs since Yugoslavia splintered, while Estonia gave Russia twelve points at the end of several weeks' high velocity sabre rattling. So what does it mean for Serbian music? It doesn't matter - we've hardly been overwhelmed by thoughts on the state of the Finnish scene in the last twelve months, and this is at a time when Scandinavian pop is on the up.

One other thing. Monday, May 14, We did it! We are now Jesus, and this is our compound. Labels: self-promotion. Weekender : not sure it can agree with the Sunday Mirror's view that Scooch mean British music is "the laughing stock of Europe". And as we know from this section's past, if they're from Brighton they're virtually a shoo-in already.

There's a single pencilled in for July and a bucketload of potential beyond, if probably not a better opening line than Forever On The Edge's "I wasted my youth playing cricket". While we work out how that works, watch this plain extraordinary footage for the ages from if Iggy and the Stooges in Cincinatti, we're guessing from that year's Joe Cocker-headlined Pop Festival.

It's the presenter that makes this, firstly with his astonishment that the kids and bands alike "do not go about this in a showbusiness way", then attempting to keep up with Iggy's crowdsurfing, peanut butter-immersing ways during TV Eye and While we're about it, here's his celebrated see-through trousers on 's The White Room and a short clip of he and Bowie on Dinah Shore's family oriented talk show in Yes, we're fully aware they played the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, but that wasn't planned to bring Freddie back to life Also, who fondly remembers Break Like The Wind now?

If we must have it, though, we might as well have a mini-documentary introduced by Guest-as-DiBergi to explain the reasoning behind it too. We fear Fearne Cotton declaring the excitement among the crowd is going up to He'll have released another by the time those have been worked through. How twee are you?

Singles Now they've earned enough respect to gain proper press, CSS' press is entirely predictable. They're from an exotic country, they have a singer who dances about a bit and their self-mythologised attitude to carnality is in no way similar to that of Boy George. We get the picture. Apart from that it means daytime DJs having to explain who Death From Above were, there's no really good reason for Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above to come back out, especially not with a video that's exactly the same as the original one with all the good bits replaced with live clips, but as it was in our top ten singles of it's too late to really complain about it getting all popular.

On big old 12"s come two bands graduating from loft spaces and underground parties to, well, street level in a sense, as!!! Albums The cover of Battles' debut album Mirrored is exactly what you want - a shop's worth of amps, keyboards and sundry kit arranged in the mirrored room seen in the Atlas video, John Stanier's big old cymbal stand standing true and proud.

What were we doing when they were on at Truck Nine? Actually, what were we doing? Consulting the stage time booklet reveals a good hour and a half's gap in our memory encompassing their set.

This is an astounding work in many ways, the sort of sound that can only be achieved by alumni of the likes of Don Caballero and Helmet thrown together and overdosed on Ritalin to see what boundaries they can break between them. Leyendecker even sounds like a post-rock attempt at an R'n'B backing. You won't have a clue what it's about, but good luck getting your head around its Hampton Court maze of rhythmic gymnastics in any case.

Two bedroom auteurs have a record's worth of material ready, and both are well worth a go. The result sounds like Jason Pierce remixing the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, and it could well be one of this year's sleeper hits.

To be honest we're not entirely sure Brainlove Records still have the 14th down for Napoleon IIIrd's In Debt To see, Amazon haven't even listed it yet , but it's on the download doobries. How to describe it? On the other end of the studio scale Got what it sounds like in your head? Triple it, in all areas. Still there's charm of its own here, taking on the sound of but clearly a cut above the post-post-punk stew. Well done, everyone.

Which it should. Tremendous cartoon cover art too, which you'll have to trust us about as Amazon haven't been arsed to scan it in. On the back of such prudence on our part we find ourselves duty bound to mention his fourth record King Of Cards , which sees his seething yet sensitive songwriting keep him well clear of the Morrison pack. Triumphant Sounds, whoever they are, is the latest label port of call for Bristolian melody warpers The Experimental Pop Band, although please note - you never get this with multinationals - Tinsel Stars is either out tomorrow or on June 11th.

Whichever, this fifth album by ex-Brilliant Corners leader Davey Woodward is sure to take classy indiepop structures and do odd things to them. Tropicalia influences are promised, apparently. It's great, essentially. Can't help feeling that you're missing a great element of the Robert Pollard experience in a Guided By Voices live album yeah, because Pollard really doesn't get enough product out these days , but here's one as part of a series of Live From Austin releases, this out on DVD too.

Saturday, May 12, Cassettes won't listen. The news that Currys are to stop selling cassettes and their decks shouldn't have led to as much nostalgia-driven press as it did - after all, last time we were in one of their stores it was difficult enough to find a media centre that featured a CD player, and we can't recall the last time we saw a cassette for sale that wasn't in a charity shop or a pack of Maxell 4xC90s.

Notice in that piece the assertion that, having withstood CDs and seen off MiniDiscs and the like, it's mp3 players that are the cause of its downfall. Even so, the downturn in the humble cassette's fortunes in the face of digital technology cannot pass without comment.

They were, of course, clunky things on which it was impossible to gauge length of time passed by, and as well as the oft-experienced 'hungry cartoon snake' sound that could only mean the tape was wrapping itself round the left hand spool and you'd need to locate a pencil urgently, we can't have been alone in experiencing the physically implausible phenomena of the tape then somehow coming out from between one of the intricate set of holes on the bottom without breaking the plastic.

The cases were far easier to break the connective tabs off than on CD cases too. Even then, though, starved of the glamour of vinyl and overtaken by the white hot heat of aluminium coated optical disc, there was something homely about the cassette. We're not among those who claim the sound quality was 'warmer' because, unlike analogue recording, it patently wasn't.

But they didn't take up a lot of space consider the loose tape against the jewel case , were the perfect medium for car stereos, were far easier, as a shelf in our bedroom will concur, to tape off the radio with and lent themselves to the pre-filesharing borderline illegality-riven mysteries of 'tape to tape' technology which meant you could get two albums onto one C90 from a mate we had The Stone Roses and Sgt Pepper on one. Audio books are better on cassette.

You can fit more onto them than a CDR. Nobody refers to mix CDs without sounding awkward. Spare cases were easier to locate. Kids are missing all this now with their quick digitally soulless technology. Where all the loose tape you see in country hedgerows and occasionally by the side of roads a couple of months ago we saw a car trailing a massive length of tape from its exhaust comes from we have no idea, though.

Thursday, May 10, Breaking kayfabe. You might have noticed there's not been a lot of zip to this bonfire of the vanities recently, which is purely and simply down to a lack of immediate reaction stuff and, well, ideas. Not that we've been lazing it out all the time - as we're off out to a gig tonight that had its door opening time changed from 7pm to 9pm yesterday and it's a good 45 minute drive away, so if any of our proper work colleagues are reading, sorry in advance for tomorrow's input we thought we'd drop in a few lines about stuff coming up, in a kind of blog-within-a-blog sense.

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