sorry.

but i just got too many rad new toys to play with this old thing at the moment.

come 2010 we will be back and better than ever.
you'll see...

but 1st there is the small matter of NYE.
so what are you doing?
this yeah?

cool.
see you there.

oh and incase you were wondering.
my favourite criminal of the year?


the beer box bandit.

believe.

love is like an energy.

funny.
but no ratm for me thanks.

just listen to the power of love by frankie goes to hollywood on repeat and give 79p to every homeless person you see.

if you must protest at least make it an enjoyable one...

its actually snowing as i write this.
so heres something festive to enjoy as you baste your bird.

wild billy childish & the musicians of the british empire - santa claus.MP3


its a cracker.

2 B jolly.

50% of the team became a crime statistic this week and as a result will now be denied the most basic of human rights: access to the internet.

content will probz be reduced by 50% for a bit.

now for another great release from underwater peoples.

ridgewood, new jersey presents...
frat dad
they have a super 7" out.


here is 50% of it.
freak in nature.mp3

that'll learn ya.

lets just forget about gifts this year yeah?
lets just sit down with friends and family and remember what christmas is all about?
tv & eating.

yeah ok im completely broke.
major ball ache.

cant afford to get people the mildly amusing stuff they neither want nor need + someone get me a storage unit cos after all the stocking filler lolz that shit has to be put somewhere.

oh well.


sacramento based appetite (t. briggs of what's up whom i mentioned here a while back) has a way cool record available thru obstructive vibe.

the ambiguous garment has a lot of lovely things going on.
anyway. the proofs in the pudding.
so heres a little taste.

anonymous citizens.mp3

p.s. happy bday shawn carter.

USA Y'ALL

So I've been listening to a lot of sunny pop lately to counteract this ridiculously sucky weather. Best Coast is the lady from Pocahaunted's new band. I read that she moved back to California when she finished art school in New York because she missed the seaside. OH REALLY. She likes boys but as far as I can tell from her songs, they don't really like her back much. OH REALLY. Kinda feel like she's my friend because I follow her on twitter. She recently tweeted "Sometimes I think I miss new York but then maybe I'm just on a lot of xanax". LOLZ, be my friend, Besty Coastyy!

I've never been to America, it's all pretty fictional to me but if moving to NY from LA has any similarity to moving to LDN from BN1, then I can totally relate. So fittingly to the city for the sea side exchange, her music has returned to the sunny safe side too. This makes so much sense and I love listening to BC whilst picturing the American dream where "I had a pizza and a bottle of wine" (LOL) and get high on a surfboard with Zachy Effron or with these guys:




It's so easy for the haterz to construct the following smug equation about BC :
[ (blah blah lo-fi blah blah fuzzy blah blah + blah blah reverb blah blah blah) x (blah two chords blah blah blah blah + blah blah blah she wasn't even around in the 60s blah blah) ] x (blah blah blah cos she's female) = rip-off beach punk blah blah Vivian Girls blah blah.....oh snooooze, bullshit! There's no need to re-invent music so why the hell not, music is supposed to be fun and plus, she rhymes "crazy" with "lazy", that's cool and it sure beats the psychedelic jesus sitting around moaning about not being able to find the new sound.


When I'm With You came out on a 7" last week on Black Iris. I checked out Black Iris and whilst Best Coast seems the only thing worth listening to on that label, they have a pretty cool visual continuity for their 7" sleeves worth pointing out. Anyway listen to the song HERE and imagine AMERICA "Y'ALL"....KCYA!

wknd.

who'd have thunk that once upon a time our parents were busy being the kinda way cool dudes we are now?

check out 'my parents were awesome' blog here.

//the super vacations//
henry 7"
comes out soon-ish on shdwply records.

real nice.
get it here.
the paradise.mp3

a suitably swingin' soundtrack for browsing the rad mums n dads.

murray exit shock.

the upside of being poor and having limited internet access is that the days of over indulging in records-a-plenty that half the time i dont get round to listen to proper like are over.
yeah. the upside.
i guess.

now i get a record and listen A LOT. like this one.

english cities.mp3

so have you watched lie to me yet?

no?

probz should m8.
fun//faux educational.
shits on murdershewrote.
+ big fan o' roth.

track number 5

Gentle Friendly are basically just super dudes from planet Rad. Radospherians are mainly known for sippin' on Oranginas on awesome sofas.
GF do that, but then they also go and record an incredible album from a bedroom. And then these super vidzzz makers from neighboring planet Woah just go and make raddd vidzzz to GF's super songs from their bedrooms too. Basically: WOAHSUPERRADDD!

e for effort. f for favour. c for coffee.

whadda season finale.

maybe even an all time top 5er.

ill decide the other 4 later cos im sure you are wondering.

when you snap out of the.gif trance head over to check out entrepreneurs.
if you know whats good for you.

this should whet the apphetite.

Brighton, yr so crayzee

I think I speak for both of us when I say that we ♥ Brighton. Back in stinky CAPcity after an extremely pleasant Mr ipod listening session on the train. The Brighton to London journey is great for full album listenings. Last night also began as well as ended with a full album play of one of the best albums ever made. (fact,LOL) Talking about "is this it" by the Strokes of course! I put on the full album as my first set at Moon Hoax and then once again at probably 4am to please those three handsome dudes I was sitting with. They loved it a lot. Don't think Ed's international honeyz liked it much tho. OH LOL. They were more in to weeing in showers...yea, for real.
Actually, unfortunately my night didn't end on the Strokes. My cue to leave was definitely approximately 2 hours before that gross jerky old guy at the party said something along the lines of "hey kids, gonna play you an old German band from the 80s to educate you, it's a classic mate" then stomped over to the innovative technology apparatus to type "Kraftwerk" in to the video playing box thingie with his fat finger. OH COME ON MR CONDESCEND US MUCH, go tell yr grandchildren about how the invention of Daft Punk influenced yr brains back in the olden days. ugh. We also have BBC on our TV, you know?So anyway, one of the elements that added to the success of the soundtrack to my train ride home was Toro Y Moi. TYM is great for drifty hung-over train ride chilling. It's very important to chose the right soundtrack for optimal solo-hanging. LISTEN This song recently came out on Carpark Records.