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DiS met up with America’s funnyman, Neil Hamburger and we played him some records... _"When you’re done with this interview can you throw this computer into a river? Cos this is really quite a bad collection of songs you’re playing me. It really doesn’t give you much hope for the future, does it?" _»
It’s easy to say that Steve Reich needs no introduction , but if he does, French director Eric Darmon’s new film Phase To Face – showing in London this weekend as part of the Open City London film festival – is a great place to start. A mixture of candid interviews with Steve and visuals are accompanied by his music as it tracks the major developments in his style.n»
Gorillaz used to be a virtual band. Everyone knew that it was a Damon Albarn-helmed collaborations project tied in with visual direction from artist Jamie Hewitt, but it was presented as being the music of a group of cartoon characters. This was important not just as a marketing gimmick, but also in terms of the music itself. By dissolving his personality into the characters, Albarn was able to sing things that would sound a bit ridiculous coming from an aging Britpop star. Performances were a spectacular hybrid of state-of-the-art animation and live music. It was novel and clever and A Good Thing.»
Thomas Truax’s records have always had a hard time living up to the spectacle of his live shows, and he’s circumvented this by changing tack whilst retaining his character on this somewhat sinister but still heart warming record.»
There are some records that you just want to blow you away. Records by awesome live bands. Records with all the right influences. Records from unlikely places. Papier Tigre's The Beginning And End Of Now is one such record. »
This year’s inaugural Hokaben festival brought an impressively diverse range of experimental/noise/rock acts to three rooms of London's 93 ft East.»
Tom Perry and Christopher Alcxxk recently got a chance to play the new Guitar Hero game, and give their thoughts on it and its genre...»
Micachu and The Shapes have the sort of colourful sonic ballsiness that we've not been lead to expect from London acts, let alone such pop-oriented ones»
Xiu Xiu’s most immediate moments take the pounding drums and guitar scree of post-punk as a starting point for something still-more unhinged»
DiS dispatched a pair of our team members to the Brixton Windmill, London last night to catch Cardiff-based septet Los Campesinos! play to a tight-packed crowd in a venue far too small for them»
If you'd said eight years ago that that the singer from fey psychedelic indie-pop troupe Simian and DJ Touché from The Wiseguys would team up to make credible, dark electro stuffz, laughs would have been flung in your face»
One has to feel sorry for the other bands: whilst Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett has done them a great favour in getting them to play here to so many people, there's little chance that they wouldn't have been outshone»
Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington is unassailably the greatest frontman in the history of rock music. Iggy could out-antic him, and countless people have infinitely better voices, but who else can make people feel this good? It's almost spiritual»
Part Chimp are as destructive as ever, but with a looser feel, befitting of the carnal bursts of noise coming from lead chimp Tim Cedar's guitar. Headliners Chrome Hoof are a Discworld Disco, Terry Pratchett's sci-fi universe made musical»
Whilst Ill Ease is fairly two dimensional, her set is over in just 20 minutes or so. What feels like two hours of one idea, though, just seems to drag on-enon-enon-enon»
'You Are Never Alone' is a lovely, loungey respite from the bloated booming, and showcases the beautiful range of Vic Chesnutt’s voice by easing up a bit and letting the song take centre place. Sadly, that aside, the most exciting thing about the set is seeing Guy Picciotto on stage, even if he isn’t playing anything interesting.»
Like a computer vomiting out every note in its media library a millisecond at a time, it’s this huge, confusing but enveloping sound being exorcised from Evan Parker's sax...»
Every gig should be like this - a whole room of people experiencing collective orgasm, spasming and screaming and laughing and drawing in crayons on the floor and crowd surfing and grinning so hard they can barely breathe...»
'That's Not My Name' sounds like a Pete Waterman production trying to rip off The Slits, or someone trying to remake The Flying Lizards' version of 'Money' and replacing all the android charm with banal GirlPower...»
Best Fwends make the type of music that journalists feel compelled to hyperbolise about - and it's certainly hyperbolic music - but at the centre of things it’s a bunch of pretty good pop songs with a wide eyed, excitable sense of optimism in the freedom of its production...»
If you consider yourself to have an arse, and it doesnt shake at least once during a listen to this, you should totally check that it is an arse, and not, like, a bit of your shoulder that's just slipped down there. Seriously, watch out for that...»
Former DiScover stars Moneytree have just embarked upon a tour, with similarly South Coast based rock tsunamis Caesura. And these are the dates of said tour...»
LCD Soundsystem's trick is to work out a near perfect ratio of repetition to variation, reminding you just how many great songs James Murphy has written in this guise...»
Utterly joyous indiepop lovelies NeatPeople in 'releasing utterly joyous indiepop single' SHOCKER! 'Carry You Upwards' available on 7"/download on 23rd April via Rekabet Records.
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Following last year's cancelled Tim Kinsella (pictured) and Make Believe tours, DiS is starting to worry that publishing this will jinx our chances of ever actually seeing these people playing music in front of our faces...»
It seems almost redundant to point out the levels of anticipation surrounding these Arcade Fire gigs – if people have really been making such a fuss about it, then you, dear reader, would probably know about it. Then again, second guessing one’s readership is hella lame, and with such a subjective thing as a live review, a little context can go a long way...»
You know those radio jingles in which they stick a bunch of current tunes into a big-beat mess? This has the same effect – a whizzbang confectionary, serving more to advertise the band’s back catalogue than to be any kind of durable document...»
Whilst Four Tet's music does draw a lot from hip-hop, and would generally be categorised as 'dance', mainman Kieran Hebden really doesn't display nor grasp dancefloor dynamics in any fashion whatsoever...»
Guillemots are a freakish pop group, with a million elements that you could turn your nose up at. But have a little faith and they will astound you...»
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