Posts Tagged ‘ indie pop ’

Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again The Smiths – Panic
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This week started with rather incredible news for music lovers: PULP is set to reunite this summer, playing their very first show at none other than Primavera Sound 2011. After last year’s Pavement coup, it looks like they’ve gone and done it again! The mythical British band Pulp has decided to make a comeback...
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Providing a pleasant distraction from a rather huge and rather horrible job I’m currently working on is this, Belle and Sebastian’s new song Write About Love, taken from upcoming album Belle and Sebastian Write About Love. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love “I hate my job, I’m working way too much (every day...
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 And speaking of Jens, he just surprised the world with a new song today. Here’s what he had to say about it on his website: “It was the day before the american election 2008 and I was filled with a hopelessness that only a McCain supporter could have shared with me at the...
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It’ll take a bit of travelling, but by some strange constellation of the stars, confluence of factors, flap of a butterfly’s wing and all that, Letters have no Arms will be lucky enough, starting from tonight, to see the holy trinity of Kings of Convenience, Belle & Sebastian and Jens Lekman over the next...
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To which we would probably reply, ‘good question!’ and ‘thanks for asking!’ Well, we’ve moved. Yep. We are now ex-Athens residents and current Barcelona residents. It’s been a crazy few weeks… saying goodbye to all our friends, emptying a house, leaving a key behind and getting on a plane… We’ve been here a little...
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The Clientele today released a new song from their upcoming mini album, entitled Minotaur (out in September). It sounds like summer, a bit like Love, and a lot like The Clientele. Surely that can only be a good thing. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to packing. The Clientele –...
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Photo by Julien Bourgeois As any self-respecting (or at least those subscribed to the mailing list) Jens Lekman fan surely already knows, Jens will be returning for a small tour of Europe in less than a month after a rather lengthy spell in new home Australia. I don’t know about you, but I was beginning...
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Have you always felt a sense of regret at missing out on the paranoia, fear and all-round mind-fuck insanity of the Cold War? (yep, me too) Then this is your week. See, the FBI just announced the discovery of a rather large number of deep-cover Russian ‘spies’ implanted inside the US. Spies! They looked...
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After a weeklong (or is it two?) heatwave (and in Athens that means hot as HELL) down here at the bottom of Europe, brains are starting to slow down, moves limited and thoughts blurred. In retrospect I probably should have replaced the broken remote control (and only way to use it) of my AC last...
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It’s not often you get the chance to see the ins and outs of the evolution of your favourite band. Particularly if that band isn’t U2 or Metallica. All the more reason to be thankful to Kerthy Fix and Gail O’Hara, who spent ten years following Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields, and have made something...
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With an incredible debut album Lesser Matters, an NME Single of the Week (for Why won’t you talk about it) and the inclusion of several of their tracks in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, The Radio Dept, looked set for greatness. I was lucky enough to see them play live in London in 2004 (at...
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No, not in an emo, self-hating, 'no one understand me' hormonal bedroom kind of way. Literally. He's a bear.
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Evacuations, grounded passengers, airports at a standstill, fire, ice, plumes of volcanic ash floating across the continent... and somehow we still think we're in control...
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I bet you probably expected to find a reasoned argument here; all the benefits and advantages of using Last.fm. That kind of thing. Arguments so good that you'd go straight over to last.fm, download and install the software, befriend me there and leave me a happy comment thanking me...
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