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The Dads dropped a raucous new track from their upcoming album “Clip Art”.

TweetShareWatch the video for Slow Moving Millie‘s cover of The Smiths‘s classic “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” below. Someone has touched the holy of them all. Considering it was made for a British department store especially for Christmas, she did a great job. Connect with Slow Moving Millie – Facebook | Twitter | Website | Last.fm

From the first spiky guitar licks of album-opener “Telephone”, it is proof-positive that For Abel is here to shake you out of bed.

TweetShare Somewhere between The Beach Boys and The Cure falls “Pretty In Decadence” the first single from the French Films debut album “Imaginary Future.” If anything “Pretty In Decadence” has an overall feeling similar to what Robert Smith would have given off if he weren’t constantly obsessing over breaking up with who he’s with or [...]

TweetShare  If The Cure did electro-pop, they might end up sounding something like Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Maybe Robert Smith could get a haircut while he was at it, although I guess that would just be a nicety. Also, I heard that that’s where he gets his power. He’s like a really miserable, weedy [...]

TweetShare You may never have heard of Ride, but chances are you’ve heard of Death Cab For Cutie, so let me give a little insight as to who the former are. In the late 80′s and early 90′s there was burgeoning Indie scene in the UK, specifically London and Manchester that were churning out talent [...]

TweetShare Back in 2007 there were a multitude of artists being discovered and quickly snapped up by record labels via YouTube.  These artists would record their own jams or covers and then post them to the site, many of which were fucking horrendous but one of the ones who made it out that actually had [...]

TweetShare When was the last time you used a pay phone? Seriously, think about it. Putting change into a phone attached to a pole, or in a booth on the street. Pretty antiquated, right? It’s telling that the cover image on Death Cab for Cutie’s seventh album is a key from a pay phone, suggesting [...]

TweetShare I can’t say that I’m a die hard Death Cab For Cutie fan, but I am a fan. I’ve been listening to them for about six years now and was introduced to them via an online messageboard, my first taste being their (then) just released “Plans”.  If you can wear down MP3s then I wore [...]

TweetShare Theophilus London’s mixtape from a year or so ago was one of my hip-hop highlights from the past few years. The first rapper I’ve ever heard reference The Smiths, his outlook and style is in direct opposition to the dark nihilism of Odd Future, incorporating melodies, choruses and bright instrumentation into his beats. You’d [...]

TweetShare Gearing up for the release of their debut album in the next two weeks, The Vaccines are kicking up their PR game in folds. Last week we saw the new video for “If You Wanna” and then last week Zane Lowe popped in one of those minidiscs the band must’ve sent him and he played it [...]

TweetShare You know you’ve hit the big-time when your band shoots a video on a three-mile wide stage against a huge colour-changing-silhouette-inducing backdrop, sometimes changing to being backed by floodlights. That means The Vaccines have hit the big-time, congrats guys!  Did you spend your cash already?  I hope you guys aren’t still wearing the same shoes. [...]

TweetShare When you’re in a band with an average age of 22 you might expect to have a little energy.  If that band is made up of 3 women straight out of a decaying and gritty steeltown like Hamilton, Ontario, then the energy goes up.  If one of the band members travels daily into the [...]

TweetShare My younger brother differs in opinion from myself on just how good The Smiths were. Personally I think they’re one of the most influential bands of the last 30 years and Morrissey (despite being an apparent racist twat) being one of the greatest frontmen of all time. My brother thinks they’re ”alright”. The difference is that I’m right and [...]

TweetShare Have you ever been to Margate?  Have you even heard of Margate? I’ve never been but I have heard of the small English town, just over the water from France on the English east coast.  Being a beach town it’s probably where Two Wounded Birds got a lot of their inspiration, given that they [...]

TweetShare Remember that time when you heard a band you really liked on an awesome music site, and then you checked out more of their music and snagged it on vinyl?  And then you bought a ticket for you and your buddy to see them at a local joint and bought a t-shirt and 7″ [...]