The Rock

Dave Grohl. Josh Homme. John Paul Jones. Does Rock get any more rock than this? Them Crooked Vultures.

Myspace ready to go.

Facebook filling up.

Twitter tweeting.

Site bubbling.

And today YouTube tantalising.

The Rock

John Hughes Films aka a generation in film

John Hughes passed away last night. The Breakfast Club; Ferris Bueller; Pretty In Pink; National Lampoon; Trains, Planes..., and yeah, sure Beethoven and Home Alone 4. But forget about them. Here's Total Film's John Hughes Playlist - http://bit.ly/24rMO Don't you forget about him.

John Hughes Films aka a generation in film

Filth

This is naughty. 'Fist of God', the new MSTRKRFT albm. Wrap your lug 'oles round 'Vuvuvu'. Or the title track if you're going out. Alternatively enjoy the single, 'Heartbreaker' if you want something a little more mellow, slightly. Poppy, certainly.

Filth

July 2009

The Soundtrack to July is up and doing storming business over at Share My Playlists. Have you seen? Up there in the recommended again. Which is pretty special. Another eclectic, carefully considered, cocophony of poprockelectrofolkhouse it makes rather pleasing listening. Even if I do say so myself. If you've got three and a half hours - yes, it's bulging - of listening you need to plug. And want to bring yourself crash bang up-to-date with everything you need to know about who's making what noise at the moment, clicky here. No, here.

July 2009

Eternity

Timeless dance tracks don't come around too often. In fact of all the genres 'dance', and I use the term in its most generic form, you understand, suffers at the hands of the aging process in the most cruel ways. autoKratz's 'Always More' looks like it'll be keeping itself fresh with aural skin-cream for decades to come.

Meanwhile Druamatic Twins actively embrace the aging process with 'Back To The Old School' (Note the correct spelling of 'School', tick).

Well done both.

Eternity

Coverville

I've come across a couple of covers today. Both brilliant for their own reasons. But also brilliant for one reason which most, if not all covers do: surprise.
Discovery's take on a timely classic caused me to do an aural double-take, if that's possible. It starts and I'm thinking, 'What's this?' Then, 'Oh, it's that... IT'S THAT?!'.
Then this afternoon I stumbled across this by Jumbonics. I heard it in a dreamy-drop-off-to-sleep moment, listening to John Kennedy's X-Posure last week and did a double-take in my sleep, I think. Or perhaps I dreamt that.
I've purposely not mentioned either of the track names so if you can avoid looking at them when you click you can indulge in the surprise too. Exciting.

Coverville

June 2009

As summer sends us giddy. This month’s music has only gone and done the same.

Fredo Viola will melt your heart.

Animal Collective will bring sunshine to midnight.

And Miike Snow will have you pining for a paddling pool.

Check out the whole delicious collection here. Leave a comment, big it up, love it dearly.

And if you're quick enough, you'll see it's only gone and got featured on the home page.

June 2009