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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
December 3rd 2009
When you’re an indie luddite like me, it becomes a bit of a rarity to attend a gig which involves you running the gauntlet of vultures touting ill-gotten tickets outside the venue. Tonight’s appearance by Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Newcastle Academy is such an ...
Indie Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
These lists are strange things, for sure, but we couldn’t have been happier than when our writers collaboratively decided that Wild Beasts’ Two Dancers was their album of the year, as revealed just now here .
So what are Tom Fleming ’s ...
Indie Music
Hello, young chaps. We’ve been moving towards this moment for the past two weeks and the time is now here to tell you lucky folks which albums comprised our writers’ collective top three of 2009. The top 50 has been chock-full of some excellent choices, a sizeable amount of which ...
Indie Music
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
TPOBPAH
December 2nd 2009
It’s been a hell of a year for New Yorkers The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart . They’ve triumphantly ridden a wave of blog-driven hype for the whole of 2009, picking up a legion of plaudits for their effortlessly wonderful debut album which has culminated in a top ...
Indie Music
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Kistune Maison 8
Kitsuné Maison ’s fashion-cum-music brand has become something of a weathercock for a shallow artistic valley hemmed in by electro pop on the one side and its cousin, electro-indie, on the other. Their previous seven compilations are awash with familiar names (Bloc ...
Indie Music
Kitsune
'Allo Darlin'
There’s a special place in every girl’s heart for twee pop. The Cardigans doing ‘Carnival’, Belle and Sebastian doing, well, any of their songs - it’s enough to make any red-blooded chick wear Hello Kitty slides in their fringe, get a uke and wear ...
Indie Music
The Cardigans
SebastiAn
“We’re here, we here!” That’s what these three magnificent albums screamed at us from the moment they were released this year, and it’s only too pleasing to see that our writers in their masses agreed with us. Here’re some tributes…
6) Grizzly ...
Indie Music
Grizzly Bear
Bat for Lashes
Jonathan Meiburg
After seeing them earlier this year, we are absolutely psyched for Shearwater ’s impending album, The Golden Archipelago , in 2010. And it’s exciting news that Matador Records have made a new song, ‘Castaways’, available for free.
As revealed by us ...
Indie Music
Shearwater
Jonathan Meiburg
Matador Records
Golden Smog
Islands
Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language School was originally recorded and released back in 2006 by Matthew Friedberger . However, due to all manner of troublesome distribution issues, a mere trickle of copies found their way to these shores. So, three years later, it gets a full release complete ...
Indie Music
Matthew Ryan
The Fiery Furnaces
Future Of The Left
December 1, 2009
I have a bit of a chequered history with seeing Future of the Left . I first saw them in April last year in Manchester at the Roundhouse where because of the venue’s club night, the band were asked to start and finish early (8 to 9) which ...
Indie Music
Falco
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Thump, thump, thump, thump…
Whilst I wouldn’t want to claim any sort of encyclopaedic knowledge of internet music journalism, there seems to me to be two specific musical aesthetics which have been especially successful in making bloggers cream themselves ...
Indie Music
We’re into the top ten! Is your favourite here? Are you shocked it’s not been placed higher? Are you outraged by some of our writers’ choices? Tell us. Don’t be a closet whiner.
10) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! by Rob Hastings
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
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Indie Music
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Joe Goddard
Solo albums don’t have the most consistent of reputations. For every glorious escapade from regular duties, there is often an overlong lamentable, directionless exercise in self-indulgence. Whilst the platform can lead to an exploration of previously unchartered territory, ...
Indie Music
Hot Chip
Mumford and Sons
Mumford and Sons played a gig in New York a few months ago, at the legendary Mercury Lounge, as a warm up to their SXSW performances. Foolishly, I didn’t go, despite all the hype I’d heard about them.
Foolish, because if this track is anything to go by, ...
Indie Music
Winds
Communion
To celebrate Communion , the wonderful clubnight of the recently-launched label set up by Ben from Mumford & Sons and Kevin from Cherbourg, we’re giving away two tickets to their Christmas show on Sunday December 6 at Notting Hill Arts Club in London. Playing that night ...
Indie Music
Ben Harper
Axl Rose
Allow us to get closer to revealing our very favourite album of the with a few more choice cuts, namely with the grand reveal of the LPs that finished between 15th and 11th in our annual countdown:
15) Antony and the Johnsons’ The Crying Light by Danny Washington
Antony and the ...
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Phoenix
Antony and the Johnsons
Fuck Buttons
Manic Street Preachers
Machine Head
Tempo No Tempo
Track of the week:
‘Get Down, Stay Down’ by Tempo No Tempo
I don’t know why, but I really expected this to be a jangly guitar band. Never judge by the cover, eh? Instead what you get is a nifty bassline, some manipulated vocals (or lo-fi produced in any ...
Indie Music
Tempo
Beyoncé Knowles
Big Boi
The Peryls' Victorian Christmas Extraordinarium
Crystal Palace folk-noir outfit The Peryls release their new EP I Have Not Slept One Wink this December, and to celebrate, they’ll be hosting a free Victorian-themed event at Antenna Studios on Saturday December 12.
The Peryls’ Victorian ...
Indie Music
Tim Burton
Arrows Of Love
Following their astounding performance at the very first Muso’s Guide Presents… night back in mid-October, we’ve been noticing Arrows Of Love courting even more attention from the higher echelons.
Working with 20 artists, they’re releasing just 20 ...
Indie Music
Craig Ferguson
Joe Strummer
Bo Ningen
It’s fair to say that I am something of a newbie to the vast genre of J-rock. The name Bo Ningen means nothing to me at all. I haven’t a clue what the song is about. Nor can I contextualise it for you without a frame of reference.
But, despite my relative ignorance, ...
