Yuck
Daniel Blumberg is sick. The frontman (although he’d prefer you didn’t call him that) and guitarist of lo-fi fuzz-poppers Yuck, joins the rest of the band 15 minutes after we’ve settled down for a chat. He slips into the backstage dressing room at London’s Electric Ballroom and heads over to sit on the floor, back to the warm radiator. (More …)
Holy Fuck
From the very beginning, Holy Fuck has defied categorization. The Canadian group has been called everything from electronica to psychedelic rock, with no label managing to properly blanket the band’s untamed sound. But then again, that’s what happens when a band builds its reputation on the spirit of improvisation. Though they have released three albums; Holy Fuck (CAN – Dependent Music, 2005), LP (US – XL Recordings / UK – Young Turks, 2007), and u>Latin (US – XL Recordings / UK – Young Turks, 2010), playing live is where they really won people over and how they made a name for themselves. This feat is truly impressive considering the rumor for years was that they didn’t even practice. Instead the band was said to hit the stage counting solely on instinct, trusting that the noises they produced would come together to form something greater than the sum of its parts. The results may have been ragged and feral, but they were always intensely satisfying. (More …)
