Struggling to make ends meet means a parred down but not inexistant Singles Day At HMV. We bought two (count 'em) Wolfmother 7"s, albeit not for the single (woman! you're just a woman! get in the kitchen! i want some meat and some spuds!, perhaps) but the MSTRKRFT and Avalanches remixes. Anyone else remember the Avalanches. Indeed. We also got ( Read more... )

We don't overly consider ourselves harsh critics. We got a bunch of promos through today thanks to our association with MapsMagazine and, well, what the hell does anyone actually see in Graham Coxon? He's shit. He's a throwback to some bygone age except, all of the songs he writes have been written before, probably better, certainly with more ( Read more... )

The good news is that I finally got something for your mum on the open market and managed to claw together the ¡Forward, Russia! and Fujiya & Miyagi albums. I'm on track eleven of Give Me A Wall now, funnily enough called Eleven. Strangely, given that the band theoretically name songs after the order in which they were written, that Eleven should ( Read more... )

So anyway, I'm crying today because I can't afford the two albums I've been waiting longest for of the current batch. Yes folks, Give Me The Wall and Transparent Things by ¡Forward, Russia! and Fujiya & Miyagi respectively, are out today and I have returned home with categorically neither. It's pretty heartbreaking stuff and I'm just having to ( Read more... )

Brrr. Weird week this week. Haven't really done much work on No, Really. Haven't listened to a huge amount of music. Had a bit of a blitz of the regulars but only a couple of reviews, nothing substantial. The Twenty for this week if we even manage it will be another pretty skewed effort. Oh well. Here's to a better next week ( Read more... )

Some emo-ish kinda average act called Brigade of whom I own an EP are doing a tour. During this tour they are playing my local, The Crown, which really acts as a signpost that the band really haven't made it. I've never known any decent act ever to play there ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in a little bit of silence, probably the only glut of such that'll befall this room for the day. Yesterday was Singles Day At HMV but heaven knows music wise it was a pretty heavy weekend (it's Pay Day Week here too) so the actual purchases from HMV were a little thinner. Specifically, the now returned Archie Bronson Outfit album, ( Read more... )

Vinyl is such a hard beast to get onto computer. Especially considering my turntable is so far from my computer. I've got a two meter line-in cable and it shuddiest up the sound quite some and also distorts it horribly when you try to record at a reasonable volume ( Read more... )

It's been a quiet old time here. Oh well. I'm sure you've not missed it. Yesterday? No, what day is it? Two days ago, Monday, was Singles Day At HMV. Oh yessh. Last week's was a pretty unassuming affair. Mogwai's Mr Beast and maybe a single or maybe just the HMV Playlist CD, I can't swear to it. This week it was Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bell ( Read more... )

Didn't buy much this Monday. Payday was Tuesday and I was late for work at the time anyway. All we got was a Mystery Jets single and a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah single. Neither was amazing. Maybe they'll grow on me, both the singles and, more specifically, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (everyone loves them, right?). It just sounds weak and weedy to me, ( Read more... )