The Black Angels

"The First Vietnamese War" (Promo)

Live with Anton Newcombe of BJM (Part I)

Live with Anton (Part II)

[Band Site]
[On Myspace]

(Thanks Grant)

The Stones: Beat Club 1972

Hipshaker (aka Shake Your Hips)

Tumbling Dice

[Download the DVD]

Jake Drake On: Vietnam

"Hey all I have been really diggin' this band VietNam for a good bit, some of you know I don't stop talking about them. They are from Brooklyn & are a kind of Velvet Underground/Bob Dylan/blues mish-mash of low-fi grooves. I listened to the record all weekend and I'm a better man for it today."

Mp3: Welcome To My Room

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[Vietnam on Myspace]
[Jake Drake on Myspace]

Thoughts On: Babyshambles--The Blinding (EP)

Pete finally seems to be back on track. These songs, particularly "Beg, Steal, or Borrow," have the charm of the original Babyshambles sessions. The vocals are fuller and the guitar work more melodic, making the rough "Down in Albion" a distant memory. Signs are looking good for the second album.

Verdict: 8 out of 10

This Week's NME

[Link]

Noel and Gem on Indie 103.1 (Podcast)

[Subscribe to the podcast]
Or Listen Here:

Part I

Part II


(Link from SCYHO)

Memphis: I'll Do Whatever You Want (Promo)

[On Myspace]

(Thanks Amelie)

Director: Reconnect (Promo)

[Download the mp3 at Good Weather for Airstrikes]

(Thanks Bigboots)

Liam "Now Magazine" Interview

Here's a preview:

Has being a dad calmed you down?

I suppose so, but not too much. I don't go out as much as I used to because I'm in with my kids and missus and get a buzz off them. But when I do go out I still have a f***ing good time. We don't go out and say: 'Hey, man, we're dads so we're gonna take it easy!' We still go boozing for a couple of days, drink f***ing anything - Guinness, larger, champagne, wine, sambuca - and get high, get plastered. But we're not out on the piss all the time, like we used to be, because there are little people involved now.

What do you think of All Saints reuniting?

I think it's cool. They've just done an album and it sounds great. I was a fan of them before because they were the coolest girl band around. They weren't like all the other girl bands, with their arms around each other, saying: 'Ooh, we love each other', when it was obvious they didn't. They told it like it was - one of you's a c*** and the other one's a bitch! It was refreshing and that's what makes them different.

Do you have any regrets?

Not really. I'd do it all the f***ing same. I've got two beautiful kids, I've got f***ing money in the bank, I've got a nice house, got a nice missus, my mum and brothers are f***ing happy... It could be worse couldn't it? Even the ex-missus if f***ing coming around, so life's good.

[Read the interview at SCYHO]


Columbia (Glastonbury 2004)

Jez Has A New Book

Former Swervedriver drummer and Glamorama contributor Jez has a new book, entitled "Rider." It's described as "an autobiographical look at life on the road with a rock band. A collection of thoughts, observations & experiences - funny, tragic, poignant or just plain ludicrous - by an author who was a touring musician in the 1990s." Should be a good read.

[Buy the book]
[Read my interview with Jez for Glamorama]
[Read Jez's "In the Studio" piece for Glamorama]

Swervedriver: Duel (120 Minutes)

Thoughts On Exile on Main St: A Season in Hell With The Rolling Stones, by Robert Greenfield

You know you're in trouble when the cover of a book is cooler than the book itself. Act one of Mr Greenfield's book provides an interesting back story for the making of "Exile," detailing the level of heroin use and the bizarre love triangle of Mick, Keith, and Anita Pallenberg. It's a nice complement to Bill Janovitz's book for the 33 1/3 series, which is a brilliant song-by-song musical analysis of the album.

Act two, however, is pointless. And the lengthy epilogue is absolutely ridiculous. The last thing anyone needs is a detailed history of the Stones' recent corporate sponsorship. Oh, and the author claims not once but twice that "Jumpin Jack Flash" is on "Sticky Fingers"--an unforgivable error for anyone wanting to be seen as a Stones insider.

Verdict: Read Act One at Borders or wait for the paperback.

Sweet Virginia (Live,1972)

Sigur Ros: Roskilde (Torrent)

[On The Sigur Ros Torrent Tracker]

Sigur Ros
Arena Stage
Roskilde Festival
Denmark
2006-06-29
Source: SR P3 (FM analog cable)
Transfer: Denon DRA-585RD -> SB Audigy 2 ZS -> Adobe Audition 1.5
Encoding: FLAC8 (Align on sector boundaries)

Setlist:
00. Takk... [Announcer introducing Sigur Ros]
01. Glosoli
02. Ny Batteri
03. Saeglopur
04. HoppÌpolla
05. Me BlÛnasir
06. Olsen Olsen
07. SÈ Lest
xx. Virar Vel Til Loft·r·sa
xx. HafssÛl
08. Popplagi

xx - Not broadcasted

Notes:
As broadcasted on Swedish Radio's P3 Live 2006-11-20.

Hoppipolla on Jools Holland

Supergrass: Moving (Promo)

Radiohead: New Songs

Open Pick (Wolverhampton 16 May)

4 Minute Warning (Boston 4 June)

Arpeggi (Copenhagen 7 May)

[Collection of Recordings from 2006]

The Delta Spirit

Gimme Some Motivation Promo


Mp3: Crippler King

[Band Myspace]
[Buy The EP]
(Thanks Jake Drake)

Asobi Seksu: Thursday (Promo)

[Band Site]
[Band Myspace]

New Pete/Shambles Acoustic Session

Tracklist:
1.There she goes (a little Heartache)
2.Crumb begginb baghead
3.New love grows on trees
4.Unbilotitled
5.Unstookietitled
6.Carry on up the morning
7.Cuckoo 1440
8.Delivery
9.A fool there was

[On Megaupload]
[On Savefile]

Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down (New Mp3)

[On Savefile]

Film Trailer:

"From Hard Drugs to Soft Cheese"

Guardian Article on Blur's Alex James:
"The fact that Alex James has retreated to a farm in the Cotswolds to make cheese is either the most surprising turn-up for the books ever, or a predictable twist in the narrative of the modern celebrity. Formerly the most debauched member of the 1990s Brit Pop set, Alex James pursued a fast and definitively urban lifestyle for a decade. He was famous (the bass player for Blur), very rich, young and pretty, which facilitated all manner of bad behaviour. Women, private-members' clubs, booze and drugs, a rumoured tendency to do things like sleep under the snooker table of London's Groucho Club ... (Did he really do that? 'Yeah! For about a week! Hee hee!')"

[Thanks Bigboots]


Trailerpark (Canal+)

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Herculean (Mp3)

Doves: Jools Holland

Snowden

Pounding

Catch the Sun

Oasis: Top of the Pops Collection (Bittorrent)

[Registration Required]

DJ Shadow: Sound Opinions (Podcast)

Link

Thoughts on "The Outsider"

Unfortunately, good intentions do not a good album make. While Josh deserves credit for trying to expand his palette, the results are less than convincing. Oh well, we'll always have "High Noon".

Verdict: Recycle Bin

Friday Laughs: Kids in the Hall

Babyshambles: The Blinding (Promo)

B-Side: "I Wish"

Noel Gallagher: AOL Acoustic Session (Podcast)

Link

New on Dead Flowers: Direct MP3 Streaming (Beta)

Primal Scream: Country Girl

Pulp: Sunrise (Jools Holland)

The Libertines: Up The Bracket (Jools Holland)

Top of The pops

The Stones: Brown Sugar




Rod Stewart: Maggie May




Primal Scream: Rocks

Amiina: New EP

From Eighteen Seconds Before Sunrise:

long time sigur rós collaborators, amiina, have released their second single. it has three tracks: “seoul”, “ugla” and “ammaelis” and can be purchased here right now. stocks are limited. (note that this is the european version of the single, with an american/canadian version on sale now through the workers institute label.)



Previous EP:

Blur: Tender (PRomo)

Bang Gang: Find What You Get (Promo)

The Strokes: Heart in a Cage (Live)

Badly Drawn Boy: Once Around the Block (Promo)

Jeff Buckley: Vancouver (Live)

The Durutti Column: The Missing Boy (Live)

(Thanks bigboots)

Radiohead: Jools Holland

2+2=5 (2003)

Go To Sleep (2003)

No Surprises (1997)

Pete Doherty: Beg, Steal or Borrow (Live Acoustic)

Oasis: Stop The Clocks EPK (Excerpts)

Wonderwall


Some Might Say


Acquiesce

[Guardian Article: "Look, I was a Superhero"]

Sigur Ros: Glosoli (Promo)

The Stones: Jumping Jack Flash (Live)

Arcade Fire: Rebellion [Lies] (Letterman)

Foreign Born: Remote Woods (MP3)

The Morning After Girls: Run For Our Lives (Promo)