Oxes by Bad Guys
Last December Bad Guys got put on with Oxes at a show in Brixton, London ahead of their appearance at ATP with Les Savy Fav. I guess ‘SUP thought we shared common ground in playing rock music and mucking about so they asked us to interview them. A lot of mates seemed to get pretty excited that Oxes were gonna play, which started to get me pretty excited, even though I’d not really heard of them because I mostly listen to choral music. I went to my local library to research their history and dig up some facts, but found nothing. I went home and turned on the internet, but even usually reliable sources like Ask Jeeves threw up fairly scant information. (More …)
Thulebasen
The US Air Force has a base almost as north as the magnetic pole. In Denmark they call this place Thulebasen. However, if you recognize the word being spoken around town by Danish youth, it could well be regarding to the totally controlled out-of-joint sounds of the jam-rock band by the same name. (More …)
Moons
Patrick Canaday goes by Moons. Not in the tidal sense, but in the title sense. He loves to talk about his family: a musically-inclined brother, a sister who got him into The White Stripes and Silverchair and his very supportive parents. One seems like kind of a hippie obsessed with sacred geometry, holistics and yoga and the other kind of seems like a pragmatic outdoorsman who made Moons go hunting with him as a child. (More …)
Mykki Blanco
Harlem-based rapper Mykki Blanco shot us a really cute email today, asking us if we could post her new video/diary/performance piece, Cosmic Angel. The note also included a brief description of who she is and what she does. Girl, we know who you are! (More …)
Daughter
Initially starting out as a solo singer-songwriter, Elena Tonra and her haunting voice were joined by Igor Haefeli (guitar) & Remi Aguilella (percussion) to become Daughter last year. Currently smouldering across the UK (and further) blogosphere, they’re at the forefront of the ethereal folk wave that’s cresting over us at the beginning of 2012. (More …)
TEETH
TEETH are Ximon a.k.a. Babes (laptop), Veronica So (vocals) and Simon (drums). Originally just Ximon and Veronica who were more performance art than band, they recruited Simon to be a bit more serious. From east London’s Dalston area, they’ve been compared to Crystal Castles because it’s easy to do that. (More …)
Zulu Winter
As I sat down with Zulu Winter they seemed reassuringly honest. Only forming earlier this year, they have received plaudits from the right places, and the assembled group of five friends were relaxed together, discussing their first bit of bad press. (More …)
Spoek Mathambo
I was more than a little excited to meet Nthato Mokgata, aka Cape Town, South Africa’s resident master rapper/DJ Spoek Mathambo, but I didn’t realize I was so excited that I would commit this detestable fashion faux pas: light brown belt and checkered black-and-white shoes? What the hell was I thinking?! (More …)
Bad Guys
Bad Guys are Stuart (vocals), PJ (baritone guitar), Dave (guitar) and Mark (drums) and they’ve been going for about two years. Their first gig was a ‘pop-up’ show in a packed chalet at ATP and as PJ says, “We didn’t really have any songs back then but just wanted to make a racket and show everyone a good time (More …)
