Friday, 30 May 2008
A New Band A Day Towers has been a bit of a biohazard zone this week. First there was the tinnitus, which was followed by similarly excruciating Public-Enemy-induced pulled calf muscle, and then most of Thursday was spent at home nursing a cold, thus enjoying plenty of hot baths, lemony drinks and hours browsing through back issues of Playboy. If that list of ailments sounds frankly pathetic, that's because it is. Clearly, I'm not fit to face the real world and meet it head on. I need to buff up and GET MANLY.
If you think that this talk of fitness and gymwork is all building towards a tenuous link to Today's New Band, you'd be stupefyingly, depressingly right. And so, to continue ignorantly in this vein, Today's New Band, The Muscle Club, surely never would whinge about minor illnesses like that. Not that they're so rock-hard that they don't feel pain, but by the sounds of songs like I've Never Read Anything and Alright OK You Win, they're just too busy joyfully joining in in huge, shoutalong choruses to even tell if they're ill or not.
The songs build from the get-go, as if the whole purpose of their existence is to be a springboard for the big chorus, which then pounds the listener into submission the fun way, until refraining from singing along isn't even an option anymore. If you like putting your arms around people and howling along to choruses in nightclubs, this band is for you. Actually, with those parameters in mind you may well also be an Oasis fan, in which case, The Muscle Club are definitely for you - it's time to leave 1994 behind now.
Listen to their songs at their Myspace page (and download their demo FOR FREE!) here!
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If you think that this talk of fitness and gymwork is all building towards a tenuous link to Today's New Band, you'd be stupefyingly, depressingly right. And so, to continue ignorantly in this vein, Today's New Band, The Muscle Club, surely never would whinge about minor illnesses like that. Not that they're so rock-hard that they don't feel pain, but by the sounds of songs like I've Never Read Anything and Alright OK You Win, they're just too busy joyfully joining in in huge, shoutalong choruses to even tell if they're ill or not.The songs build from the get-go, as if the whole purpose of their existence is to be a springboard for the big chorus, which then pounds the listener into submission the fun way, until refraining from singing along isn't even an option anymore. If you like putting your arms around people and howling along to choruses in nightclubs, this band is for you. Actually, with those parameters in mind you may well also be an Oasis fan, in which case, The Muscle Club are definitely for you - it's time to leave 1994 behind now.
Listen to their songs at their Myspace page (and download their demo FOR FREE!) here!
Labels: buff, chorus-mageddon, singalong
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Thursday, 29 May 2008
Mmm, camping. My last experience in a tent was at Glastonbury 2007 , and while I wasn't shivering, soaking wet under a tree, scooping wet food into my mouth trying to keep warm whilst listening indifferently to the music being played, I was vomiting into black bin bags in my tent, having hilariously contracted sickness and diarrhea. Not great times, but memorable at least.
So to make New York's Tent today's New Band Of The Day was a minor, slightly pathetic, personal triumph of eschewing awful canvas-related memories from my mind. Still, it was worth it, because Tent make some great music. Stop and Go is alternately dense and sparse, with thin drifting vocals - and Tight Squeeze is similar, basic and minimal but coupled with a dreamy vocal melody.
In some ways Tent are like a groovier version of Kings of Convenience, but without any of the blandness that that may imply. Their music is a tightly contorting glide, slightly spaced-out and wide-eyed. I'd be tempted to describe it as techno-folk if that didn't sound like the worst genre of music of all time. Perhaps the best thing to do is to listen to it for yourself at their MySpace page.
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So to make New York's Tent today's New Band Of The Day was a minor, slightly pathetic, personal triumph of eschewing awful canvas-related memories from my mind. Still, it was worth it, because Tent make some great music. Stop and Go is alternately dense and sparse, with thin drifting vocals - and Tight Squeeze is similar, basic and minimal but coupled with a dreamy vocal melody.In some ways Tent are like a groovier version of Kings of Convenience, but without any of the blandness that that may imply. Their music is a tightly contorting glide, slightly spaced-out and wide-eyed. I'd be tempted to describe it as techno-folk if that didn't sound like the worst genre of music of all time. Perhaps the best thing to do is to listen to it for yourself at their MySpace page.
Labels: bleeps, camping, slightly mournful
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Life is cyclical. Just as day follows night, high tide follows low tide and a spell in jail follows Pete Docherty's latest proclamations of sobriety, after yesterday's Tinnitus-induced/-replicating NOISE-fest from Kayaka, it was inevitable that Today's New Band would be a less thrash-tastic affair all round. As my Public Enemy-based tinnitus fades slowly into the background and telephones become helpfully audible again, the choice of music that my throbbing ears can cope with is still severely limited.
However, choosing non-ear-threatening music is to wander through a minefield of awful sounds. Soft 'n' smooth jazz-moron Kenny G would be sonically inoffensive, yet could cause Death By Bland. So what is needed is a band that is exciting enough to be enjoyable but one that doesn't utilise powertools as their main instruments.
Step forward Today's New Band, Heartbeeps. Perhaps the best description for their sound would be 'Not-Quite-Noise-Rock' - there is a lovely drone-iness to their music, which is a happy marriage of super lo-fi and super-melodic. Glacial Valleys is probably their best song, clunkily lo-fi, vaguely Beta Band-ish, whilst Tramwajs is a symphony on toy instruments, nicely strained vocals and a male voice choir singing through paper cups. Heartbeeps sound homemade and unfocused, but in the very best kind of way, like a child's telescope made out of toilet rolls.
Listen to their songs at their MySpace page here!
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However, choosing non-ear-threatening music is to wander through a minefield of awful sounds. Soft 'n' smooth jazz-moron Kenny G would be sonically inoffensive, yet could cause Death By Bland. So what is needed is a band that is exciting enough to be enjoyable but one that doesn't utilise powertools as their main instruments.Step forward Today's New Band, Heartbeeps. Perhaps the best description for their sound would be 'Not-Quite-Noise-Rock' - there is a lovely drone-iness to their music, which is a happy marriage of super lo-fi and super-melodic. Glacial Valleys is probably their best song, clunkily lo-fi, vaguely Beta Band-ish, whilst Tramwajs is a symphony on toy instruments, nicely strained vocals and a male voice choir singing through paper cups. Heartbeeps sound homemade and unfocused, but in the very best kind of way, like a child's telescope made out of toilet rolls.
Listen to their songs at their MySpace page here!
Labels: lo-fi, not-quite-NOISE, toy instruments
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Last night, the A New Band A Day "gang" went to see Public Enemy at Manchester Academy, who played the whole of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back from beginning to end. It was a truly brilliant gig: angry, brutal, and winningly political, obviously, but the actual important stuff - the songs - were astonishing to hear live. Poundingly brilliant, funky and loud - the crowd went berserk as they rolled out great song after great song. Chuck D veered between delivering his brilliant lyrical polemic and talking, insistently and sincerely, about his political views, that I was left with the feeling that the world needs Public Enemy today more than it ever has before.
I was also left with a splitting headache and (hopefully) temporary tinnitus that manifested itself this morning and hasn't quite gone away yet. Coincidentally, Today's New Band, Kayaka, sounds like the inside of my head, yet better. Kayaka makes noise, unapologetically and insistently, but noise that, in terms of construction at least, is vaguely reminiscent of that other band who will be gigging old material soon, My Bloody Valentine.
Muggy Hair is tinny, mechanical and driven by a beast of a beat. Gusty Gadget Lucky Joe is a bouncing bomb in a room full of drums and tinfoil, but it's important to note that Kayaka aren't just making noise because they've found new buttons to press on their computer - there's structure and a waft of melody under all that brain-spazzing screeching. If nothing else, Kayaka's songs will shake you out of any Monday morning lethargy. And remind you of the dubious joys of that post-gig feeling.
Listen to their noise-mentalism here!
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I was also left with a splitting headache and (hopefully) temporary tinnitus that manifested itself this morning and hasn't quite gone away yet. Coincidentally, Today's New Band, Kayaka, sounds like the inside of my head, yet better. Kayaka makes noise, unapologetically and insistently, but noise that, in terms of construction at least, is vaguely reminiscent of that other band who will be gigging old material soon, My Bloody Valentine. Muggy Hair is tinny, mechanical and driven by a beast of a beat. Gusty Gadget Lucky Joe is a bouncing bomb in a room full of drums and tinfoil, but it's important to note that Kayaka aren't just making noise because they've found new buttons to press on their computer - there's structure and a waft of melody under all that brain-spazzing screeching. If nothing else, Kayaka's songs will shake you out of any Monday morning lethargy. And remind you of the dubious joys of that post-gig feeling.
Listen to their noise-mentalism here!
Labels: I love tinnitus, mechanical, NOISE
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Friday, 23 May 2008
Gimmick, Schmimmick. This dinosaur-theme is a goer, I tell you. The eagle-eyed of you will sport that this is the third consecutive dino-related band in a row, and while some may accuse us here at A.N.B.A.D. of mild idiocy, it turns out that there is method behind this Bronto-Madness. (NB: See previous posts, below, for the previous excursion into Dino-sounds)
That's because the search for dino-bands - archeology, maybe - has unearthed yet another great band: Today's New Band, Dinosaur Pile-Up. Firstly, let's childishly focus again on how super the name is - anything that causes you to imagine a huge collision of freaking dinosaurs and the resulting pile-up is surely enough to make you as giddy as a 10 year old girl watching Hannah Montana - The 3D Movie.
Happily, Dinosaur Pile-up's music is great too. My Rock And Roll is a chunky, Pavement-y, Pixies-ish blast, singer Matt mumble-yelling "Since I was young, I always felt some sort of trouble." It seems that writing great rock songs is outside of this trouble-sphere, as rock 'n' roll is a tough thing to get right, but Dinosaur Pile-Up can do it, seemingly without effort. My Rock and Roll is a fantastic song from a great-sounding band, who don't seem to be slavishly following current musical trends. Fantastic - and apparently, unsigned. Crazy.
Check out their music at their Myspace page, here!
*No new band on Monday - it's a Bank Holiday! So we'll be sitting inside, sheltering from the rain, as usual.*
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That's because the search for dino-bands - archeology, maybe - has unearthed yet another great band: Today's New Band, Dinosaur Pile-Up. Firstly, let's childishly focus again on how super the name is - anything that causes you to imagine a huge collision of freaking dinosaurs and the resulting pile-up is surely enough to make you as giddy as a 10 year old girl watching Hannah Montana - The 3D Movie.Happily, Dinosaur Pile-up's music is great too. My Rock And Roll is a chunky, Pavement-y, Pixies-ish blast, singer Matt mumble-yelling "Since I was young, I always felt some sort of trouble." It seems that writing great rock songs is outside of this trouble-sphere, as rock 'n' roll is a tough thing to get right, but Dinosaur Pile-Up can do it, seemingly without effort. My Rock and Roll is a fantastic song from a great-sounding band, who don't seem to be slavishly following current musical trends. Fantastic - and apparently, unsigned. Crazy.
Check out their music at their Myspace page, here!
*No new band on Monday - it's a Bank Holiday! So we'll be sitting inside, sheltering from the rain, as usual.*
Labels: chunky, dinosaurs, unsigned
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Thursday, 22 May 2008
Here at A New Band A Day, we're not beyond using mindless gimmicks to try and force a coherent thread through goings-on here occasionally. As such - welcome to the A NEW BAND A DAY DINOSAUR-THEMED BANDS DOUBLE BILL! That's right folks, after yesterday's dazzlingly Bleep-osaurs Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, welcome with open claws today's new band, Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards!
As if dinosaurs couldn't get any more knee-tremblingly awesome, these guys are not only fearsome fossilised reptiles, but they're also Robotic Ninjas! Who are Bastards too! Truly, these guys know what people want - stylised violence, mechanisation, extinction, cruelty - and how to name a band accordingly. As we know, approximately 50% of what makes a band great are non-musical elements such as the name. Thus, Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards - say it to yourself out loud, go on - are halfway there.
In terms of the music, they're also brilliant. Hell Bent On Destruction is what Timbaland's grammar-destroying 'The Way I Are' would sound like if re-recorded by crazy guitar-wielding maniacs. Come and Get Demented is a breathless nutjob does-what-it-says-on-the-tin song, perfect for those night when you just want to go and do just that. If you can't picture yourself throwing yourself around a dark room without care for yourself or others, you're not imagining hard enough how AWESOME an actual Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastard would be.
Listen to their mentalist brain-melting tunes on their MySpace page here
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As if dinosaurs couldn't get any more knee-tremblingly awesome, these guys are not only fearsome fossilised reptiles, but they're also Robotic Ninjas! Who are Bastards too! Truly, these guys know what people want - stylised violence, mechanisation, extinction, cruelty - and how to name a band accordingly. As we know, approximately 50% of what makes a band great are non-musical elements such as the name. Thus, Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards - say it to yourself out loud, go on - are halfway there.In terms of the music, they're also brilliant. Hell Bent On Destruction is what Timbaland's grammar-destroying 'The Way I Are' would sound like if re-recorded by crazy guitar-wielding maniacs. Come and Get Demented is a breathless nutjob does-what-it-says-on-the-tin song, perfect for those night when you just want to go and do just that. If you can't picture yourself throwing yourself around a dark room without care for yourself or others, you're not imagining hard enough how AWESOME an actual Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastard would be.
Listen to their mentalist brain-melting tunes on their MySpace page here
Labels: deranged, dinosaurs, nutjob
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Regular readers of A New Band A Day will know that there few criteria to being selected to feature. Firstly, great tunes are a must, obviously. Actually - that's the extent of the criteria. The only additional 'rule' is that a terrific, hopefully comic name, preferably pun-laden, will pretty much seal the deal. It certainly worked for previous New Band, the LOL-tastic Ice, Sea, Dead People.
Introducing, then, today's new band, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.This is probably a good point to mention that T.E.E.D. aren't just a band with a novelty name - they're not Kajagoogoo, you know. Instead, they're a band with a great name and a great bunch of bleep-tunes on their MySpace page. Listen to them here, and try listening to Dinosaurs Having a Party without picturing the stumpy-armed scaly guys bopping around a swamp to the clunky Bontempi-keyboard noises.
In fact, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are all about having a whale (or should that be "a Basilosaurus"?) of a time. Let Me Tell You is an even better track, punching an insistent, droning shudder of a blee-ee-ee-ee-eep along to a banger of a beat. This song is worthy of being played repeatedly at anyone's house party, dinosaur-related fancy-dress themes or not. Get Carnivorous!
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Introducing, then, today's new band, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.This is probably a good point to mention that T.E.E.D. aren't just a band with a novelty name - they're not Kajagoogoo, you know. Instead, they're a band with a great name and a great bunch of bleep-tunes on their MySpace page. Listen to them here, and try listening to Dinosaurs Having a Party without picturing the stumpy-armed scaly guys bopping around a swamp to the clunky Bontempi-keyboard noises.In fact, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are all about having a whale (or should that be "a Basilosaurus"?) of a time. Let Me Tell You is an even better track, punching an insistent, droning shudder of a blee-ee-ee-ee-eep along to a banger of a beat. This song is worthy of being played repeatedly at anyone's house party, dinosaur-related fancy-dress themes or not. Get Carnivorous!
Labels: animal themed, bleeps, dinosaurs
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Some bands' music are suited for particular situations. Planning on driving a very long journey across a featureless desert? Ry Cooder's theme from Paris Texas. Drinking Whisky straight from the bottle with your buddies, playing pool and leering at women whilst wearing double denim? Back In Black by ACDC. Making your weekly wander down to the Job Centre? Back in the DHSS by Half-Man, Half-Biscuit, obviously.
So next time you're heading, carefree, through town at sunset to meet some good friends at your favourite bar, listen to Mala Strana Strut by Today's New Band, The Homophones. It's the sound of some friends who've been playing songs together over a beer for ages, effortlessly slipping into playing another chorus just for the sheer fun of it. It's jaunty, laid-back and enticing - "I don't care if I never get back home" they sing, and who would when it sounds like they're having a blast right where they are?
Listen to it here at their MySpace page and also point your ears towards their other songs, Wanderlust - a bizarrely 60's feeling, tinny jangler of a song - and then Pictures Of You, both of which are more melancholy, yet still retain an uplifting twang.
A campfire in the wilderness, a sunset, some beers with The Homophones? Now there's a good night right there.
*No Images today - thanks for nothing, Blogger*
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So next time you're heading, carefree, through town at sunset to meet some good friends at your favourite bar, listen to Mala Strana Strut by Today's New Band, The Homophones. It's the sound of some friends who've been playing songs together over a beer for ages, effortlessly slipping into playing another chorus just for the sheer fun of it. It's jaunty, laid-back and enticing - "I don't care if I never get back home" they sing, and who would when it sounds like they're having a blast right where they are?
Listen to it here at their MySpace page and also point your ears towards their other songs, Wanderlust - a bizarrely 60's feeling, tinny jangler of a song - and then Pictures Of You, both of which are more melancholy, yet still retain an uplifting twang.
A campfire in the wilderness, a sunset, some beers with The Homophones? Now there's a good night right there.
*No Images today - thanks for nothing, Blogger*
Labels: Jaunty, slightly mournful, twang
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Monday, 19 May 2008
Oh, Satan. You and your infatuation with the world of music. Where would we be without you? Drowning in Cliff Richards and Country & Western Hell, that's where. Except it wouldn't be Hell, because there would be no Satan. Ah, the complexities of serious theological debate.
Speaking of which, Today's New Band, Eyes and Teeth, has been engaging in a furious conversation with a devout Christian on his Myspace page. This appears to be partly fuelled by the apparently devilish nature of his music - have a listen here. Whether Eyes and Teeth actually buys wholeheartedly into Satanism, or that it's just that he enjoys baiting religious-types, isn't really the point - reading the concerned and righteous indignation of the Christians who post on his page whilst listening to the Satanic music is a enjoyably ironic experience.
Eyes and Teeth's music is enjoyably dense, layered with sampled speech, manipulated swooping sound and, in the case of the song Seduction, interspersed with samples of the Rolling Stones, David "D-Bo" Bowie and NERD. Germany and Gun To Your Head allow you to have an echo-drenched electro devil-strut through songs Satan would play in his pimped out low-rider, assuming he has one (and let's face it, he probably does).
The sounds are allowed to echo around in the hell-chambers and, out pops a 'sonic sculpture' as opposed to a song. Awkwardly snooty descriptions aside, listening to this song made me realise that in some respects, the songs are pitching in the same direction as Boards Of Canada on their brilliant Geogaddi album - slightly mesmeric, partly Satanic, partly subliminal message brain-confusers.
Fun, satisfying and a guaranteed* one-way ticket to Hell!
*the word 'guarantee' is not used here in its usual meaning.
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Speaking of which, Today's New Band, Eyes and Teeth, has been engaging in a furious conversation with a devout Christian on his Myspace page. This appears to be partly fuelled by the apparently devilish nature of his music - have a listen here. Whether Eyes and Teeth actually buys wholeheartedly into Satanism, or that it's just that he enjoys baiting religious-types, isn't really the point - reading the concerned and righteous indignation of the Christians who post on his page whilst listening to the Satanic music is a enjoyably ironic experience.Eyes and Teeth's music is enjoyably dense, layered with sampled speech, manipulated swooping sound and, in the case of the song Seduction, interspersed with samples of the Rolling Stones, David "D-Bo" Bowie and NERD. Germany and Gun To Your Head allow you to have an echo-drenched electro devil-strut through songs Satan would play in his pimped out low-rider, assuming he has one (and let's face it, he probably does).
The sounds are allowed to echo around in the hell-chambers and, out pops a 'sonic sculpture' as opposed to a song. Awkwardly snooty descriptions aside, listening to this song made me realise that in some respects, the songs are pitching in the same direction as Boards Of Canada on their brilliant Geogaddi album - slightly mesmeric, partly Satanic, partly subliminal message brain-confusers.
Fun, satisfying and a guaranteed* one-way ticket to Hell!
*the word 'guarantee' is not used here in its usual meaning.
Labels: SATAN, subliminal messages, theology
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Friday, 16 May 2008
What, another Welsh band on A New Band A Day? There's no hidden agenda here*, just a reflection of the fact that Wales is spewing out great bands at a shocking rate at the moment. I've chuntered on before about how many Welsh bands seem to have something extra that just lifts them above their peers, and guess what? - Today's New Band, Picture Books In Winter are another example of just that.
Welsh bands seem to have a monopoly on the violin too - see Gorky's and Los Campesinos! for proof - and Picture Books In Winter prove again that I was wrong to turn down violin lessons as a youngster. Because if I'd taken them, perhaps I too could be playing in bands with songs as surprising, lithe and strutting as Horizontally I Am Champion.
Hear it on their MySpace Page. "I've always had a talent for arts and crafts", they proclaim over the lolloping guitar line, whilst musing about ex-Blue Peter tea-time-trouser-troubler Konnie Huq. It's unusual to hear a song which is so wonderfully idiosyncratic from such a new band - and as even more incentive, should you need it, Horizontally I Am Champion is available as a free download on their Myspace page. Visit, download, and add them to your burgeoning 'Great Welsh Bands' list that I'm sure you have stuck to your fridge.
*nothing illegal, anyway. Honest.
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Welsh bands seem to have a monopoly on the violin too - see Gorky's and Los Campesinos! for proof - and Picture Books In Winter prove again that I was wrong to turn down violin lessons as a youngster. Because if I'd taken them, perhaps I too could be playing in bands with songs as surprising, lithe and strutting as Horizontally I Am Champion.Hear it on their MySpace Page. "I've always had a talent for arts and crafts", they proclaim over the lolloping guitar line, whilst musing about ex-Blue Peter tea-time-trouser-troubler Konnie Huq. It's unusual to hear a song which is so wonderfully idiosyncratic from such a new band - and as even more incentive, should you need it, Horizontally I Am Champion is available as a free download on their Myspace page. Visit, download, and add them to your burgeoning 'Great Welsh Bands' list that I'm sure you have stuck to your fridge.
*nothing illegal, anyway. Honest.
Labels: Horizontal, violin, Welsh
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Finally, after a bewildering number of mishaps involving an irksome computer, days of apathy induced by the sunny weather, and 200,000 Glasgow Rangers fans, it's finally here - the latest A New Band A Day Radio Show!
Ably assisted by my cohort Jamie, we ploughed through a whole load of the best bands that have been on A New Band A Day in the past week or so, including PixelH8, Genod Droog and loads more, with hilarious* results. It sounds a bit like it was recorded in an echo chamber, which is almost entirely true, but that's just part of it's intrinsic charm. Anyway, click on the doozy below and have a listen! It's only ten minutes long, and you owe yourself a short break from whatever you're doing.
Love 'n' shit,
Joe.
*actual hilarity may vary wildly
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Ably assisted by my cohort Jamie, we ploughed through a whole load of the best bands that have been on A New Band A Day in the past week or so, including PixelH8, Genod Droog and loads more, with hilarious* results. It sounds a bit like it was recorded in an echo chamber, which is almost entirely true, but that's just part of it's intrinsic charm. Anyway, click on the doozy below and have a listen! It's only ten minutes long, and you owe yourself a short break from whatever you're doing.
Love 'n' shit,
Joe.
*actual hilarity may vary wildly
Labels: Radio show
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
Look, it's the elephant in the room. Let's get it out of the way right now: Today's New Band has the most incredibly pun-tastic name of all time. The name Ice, Sea, Dead People is truly brilliant. Pun-laden names can go horribly wrong - remember Test Icicles, anyone? - but this band have taken the concept, mixed their metaphors and hit it for six. If I'm being honest, they would have been picked as today's new band on the strength of their name alone, even if they were as limp and insipid as Pete Docherty after a week long camping trip with Amy Winehouse in somewhere as irresponsibly named as, oooh, here.
Whilst Ice, Sea, Dead People may conjure up images of weatherbeaten, salty old sailors singing mournful shanties, the music they play is almost the exact opposite. If you asked them to sing a sea shanty, it would probably be played at a bazillion miles an hour and feature the word 'shanty' yelped all over it. That's pretty much how their great, mentalist, song Hence Elvis pans out, the sound of three fabulously crazy punk songs in one. My Twin Brother's a Brother sounds like they've just realised that being in Ice, Sea, Dead People is the most fun in the world - and let's face it, it probably is.
Listen for yourself on their MySpace page, and marvel at the joyful way the songs rush off in front of you like a firework. You'll be making the stereotypical "Oooooh" noises as the songs explode, spraying multicoloured sherbet everywhere, and, like a firework display, you'll wish that they just went on forever. Ace. Great artwork on the background of the MySpace page too...
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Whilst Ice, Sea, Dead People may conjure up images of weatherbeaten, salty old sailors singing mournful shanties, the music they play is almost the exact opposite. If you asked them to sing a sea shanty, it would probably be played at a bazillion miles an hour and feature the word 'shanty' yelped all over it. That's pretty much how their great, mentalist, song Hence Elvis pans out, the sound of three fabulously crazy punk songs in one. My Twin Brother's a Brother sounds like they've just realised that being in Ice, Sea, Dead People is the most fun in the world - and let's face it, it probably is.Listen for yourself on their MySpace page, and marvel at the joyful way the songs rush off in front of you like a firework. You'll be making the stereotypical "Oooooh" noises as the songs explode, spraying multicoloured sherbet everywhere, and, like a firework display, you'll wish that they just went on forever. Ace. Great artwork on the background of the MySpace page too...
Labels: a bazillion miles an hour, PUNS, sherbet
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008
What is it to be called 'Indie' today? Everyone's Indie now, bastardising this once hard-earned tag and using it as a selling point as if it was another adjective in an estate agent's brochure. The Kooks are now probably associated most closely with 'Indie Rock' in many people's minds, and that tells a whole sob-worthy story in itself.
So describing a band as having a 90's-Indie-feel could seem like a criticism, but in the case of today's new band, The Last Army, it's a re-affirmation of how indie music once was. As an output of music, The Last Army has a strange mix - songs are sung by the male or female members of the group, and these respective songs sound quite different. On their MySpace page, listen to Submit to the Chemical and Little Soldiers Hold On to see what I mean. Then, like in science class at school, compare and contrast, and draw your own conclusions. My minor teenage infatuation with Elastica probably drew me blindly towards the female-led ones.
Their love of Indie shines through - and to top everything, Submit... is upbeat, jangly and even has the classic Indie spoken-word section. Perhaps then, The Last Army are a kind of Pick 'n' Mix Indie band - choose the songs which suit your Indie needs the most, and enjoy - the blending of 90's sounds with Noughties consumerist choice.
FACT FANS: The word 'Indie' was used 10 times in this post. Oh, that's 11 now, actually. 12 if you count the tags.
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So describing a band as having a 90's-Indie-feel could seem like a criticism, but in the case of today's new band, The Last Army, it's a re-affirmation of how indie music once was. As an output of music, The Last Army has a strange mix - songs are sung by the male or female members of the group, and these respective songs sound quite different. On their MySpace page, listen to Submit to the Chemical and Little Soldiers Hold On to see what I mean. Then, like in science class at school, compare and contrast, and draw your own conclusions. My minor teenage infatuation with Elastica probably drew me blindly towards the female-led ones.Their love of Indie shines through - and to top everything, Submit... is upbeat, jangly and even has the classic Indie spoken-word section. Perhaps then, The Last Army are a kind of Pick 'n' Mix Indie band - choose the songs which suit your Indie needs the most, and enjoy - the blending of 90's sounds with Noughties consumerist choice.
FACT FANS: The word 'Indie' was used 10 times in this post. Oh, that's 11 now, actually. 12 if you count the tags.
Labels: 90's, Indie, Pick 'n' Mix
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Categorisation - one of the many concepts that send the more humourless rock star into paroxysms of righteous anger - "We don't want to be pigeon-holed, maaan," they cry, whilst continuing to grind out a single style of music for the whole of their careers. Most record shops, though, bravely risk the wrath of these tortured rock 'n' roll artists, and go ahead and categorise CDs willy-nilly.
This is done mainly out of kindness, to make it all very easy for those of us who are not mouthbreathing morons to steer clear of the Best Mum in the World...Ever! CDs in the 'Cds For Cretins' section. Often though, even the most astute of the shop owners will struggle to categorise the bands that are so wilfully obtuse that you will often find a resulting 'Just Noise!!!!!!' section, usually just after the 'Experimental Bolivian Dub' niche.
This is probably where you'd find Today's New Band, Hntrhntr - a band whose love of breakneck schizo freak-out noise-mageddon is only matched by their hatred of vowels. The truly lovely thing about this kind of music is that is entirely polarises opinion - no-one 'kind of' likes it. You'll either find the short, frankly bonkers, songs on their MySpace page such as brth and ptchbtch to be ZOMG!!! AWESOME!!! or ZOMG!!! WTF!!!, with little room for intellectual maneuver. brth sounds like what you'd hear if you were mummified in custard whilst being beaten to death with spanners, and cmblst is what it would sound like if you suddenly fell into a space-time wormhole and found youself 4 miles above Jupiter, descending rapidly through sulphur clouds.
They're headpoundingly brilliant, blasting your ears with sounds from your worst/best nightmares - and you'll decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing within about 10 seconds.
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This is done mainly out of kindness, to make it all very easy for those of us who are not mouthbreathing morons to steer clear of the Best Mum in the World...Ever! CDs in the 'Cds For Cretins' section. Often though, even the most astute of the shop owners will struggle to categorise the bands that are so wilfully obtuse that you will often find a resulting 'Just Noise!!!!!!' section, usually just after the 'Experimental Bolivian Dub' niche.This is probably where you'd find Today's New Band, Hntrhntr - a band whose love of breakneck schizo freak-out noise-mageddon is only matched by their hatred of vowels. The truly lovely thing about this kind of music is that is entirely polarises opinion - no-one 'kind of' likes it. You'll either find the short, frankly bonkers, songs on their MySpace page such as brth and ptchbtch to be ZOMG!!! AWESOME!!! or ZOMG!!! WTF!!!, with little room for intellectual maneuver. brth sounds like what you'd hear if you were mummified in custard whilst being beaten to death with spanners, and cmblst is what it would sound like if you suddenly fell into a space-time wormhole and found youself 4 miles above Jupiter, descending rapidly through sulphur clouds.
They're headpoundingly brilliant, blasting your ears with sounds from your worst/best nightmares - and you'll decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing within about 10 seconds.
Labels: deranged, NOISE, polarising
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Monday, 12 May 2008
Matching your music with moods is vital. For example, if I was feeling hyperactive, maybe ex-New Band of the Day LA PRIEST would be a useful match, meeting my need for animal-call driven dance music head on. Simialrly, if I was feeling the need for wearing check padded shirts, perhaps 90's-sounding ex-New Band of the Day favourites Record Hop would be my pick. Presumably then, if I needed to engage in mind-bogglingly awful faeces-related sex-fetishim, then everyone's favourite Japanese thrash-mentalists Coprophagia would be my 'go-to' band.
Thus, having listened to today's New Band of the Day, Sweden's Juni Järvi, I know have my perfect sounds for those dreamy, lounging-whilst-wearing-a-safari-suit-sipping-a-Martini- in-the-mid-1960's days that we all indulge in now and again. His MySpace page is relaxed to the point of horizontal, and the tunes that list slowly to your ears are perfect for just letting the world slip slowly by, whilst raising a hopeful eyebrow at passing members of the opposite sex.
Stylised, maybe; but lovely, nonetheless. If We Just Want To is cheeky and wide-eyed, with vocals that are slightly reminiscant of Lou Reed. Maybe Lou Swede is a better description, bearing in mind nationalities and such-and-such. Falling Down is slightly reminiscent of the song Falling from Twin Peaks, and so can be labelled Good Stuff - mildly melancholic but happy. Possibly like Sweden itself.
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Thus, having listened to today's New Band of the Day, Sweden's Juni Järvi, I know have my perfect sounds for those dreamy, lounging-whilst-wearing-a-safari-suit-sipping-a-Martini- in-the-mid-1960's days that we all indulge in now and again. His MySpace page is relaxed to the point of horizontal, and the tunes that list slowly to your ears are perfect for just letting the world slip slowly by, whilst raising a hopeful eyebrow at passing members of the opposite sex.Stylised, maybe; but lovely, nonetheless. If We Just Want To is cheeky and wide-eyed, with vocals that are slightly reminiscant of Lou Reed. Maybe Lou Swede is a better description, bearing in mind nationalities and such-and-such. Falling Down is slightly reminiscent of the song Falling from Twin Peaks, and so can be labelled Good Stuff - mildly melancholic but happy. Possibly like Sweden itself.
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Labels: Lounge Act, Safari Suits, Sweden
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Friday, 9 May 2008
What is it that makes us view Welsh bands differently? Even when a song from the litany of fabulous Welsh bands such as Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Munki sing in English, there's something indefinable that separates them from their British counterparts, at least. Today's new band, Genod Droog, also have this - with the twinkly space-yness of Gorky's and the full-on mentalism found in the Furries' crazier moments. 
Oh, and they're hip-hop. Yup, and rapping fits Welsh as well as it does French: brilliantly. While this might be a novelty enough to just to hear it in action, Genod Droog have tunes in spades too. Listen to Gwn Tatws on their MySpage page and try and stop yourself from singing along in your best attempt at Welsh while their blend of Psych-Rock-Hip-Hop bombards your ears. Then marvel that the song is about veg of champions - the potato (at least I think so; my very basic knowledge of Welsh is fallable).
Best of all is Bomiwch y Byd - the kind of song that reeks of summertime and would sound best if heard sitting a sunny Welsh field, sipping a cider. Fortunately for us mere mortals, this will be possible soon - they're playing a bunch of gigs around the fantastic Welsh summer festival circuit. Welsh bands seem to have an innate ability to do the simple stuff - i.e. tunes - and making it work well, weirdly, and wonderfully. Genod Droog do this too - listen now and then catch them if you can.
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Oh, and they're hip-hop. Yup, and rapping fits Welsh as well as it does French: brilliantly. While this might be a novelty enough to just to hear it in action, Genod Droog have tunes in spades too. Listen to Gwn Tatws on their MySpage page and try and stop yourself from singing along in your best attempt at Welsh while their blend of Psych-Rock-Hip-Hop bombards your ears. Then marvel that the song is about veg of champions - the potato (at least I think so; my very basic knowledge of Welsh is fallable).
Best of all is Bomiwch y Byd - the kind of song that reeks of summertime and would sound best if heard sitting a sunny Welsh field, sipping a cider. Fortunately for us mere mortals, this will be possible soon - they're playing a bunch of gigs around the fantastic Welsh summer festival circuit. Welsh bands seem to have an innate ability to do the simple stuff - i.e. tunes - and making it work well, weirdly, and wonderfully. Genod Droog do this too - listen now and then catch them if you can.
Finally, another ANBAD radio show will be up very soon, over the weekend, barring technical mishaps/Internet hell/death. Marvel at its glory! Listen to voices talk in between this week's greatest songs! Free! All those things - and more!
Don't forget, if you have a great band we should listen to and put on A New Band A Day, email me and tell me all about it. We listen to every band you suggest, promise!
Labels: potatoes, summer, Welsh
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Some bands spawn multiple side projects when individual members decide to branch out, like, creatively, maaan. New Order, for example, fractured into not only Electronic, but also Revenge, Freebass - who had three bassists in the band - (three-bass, geddit?), Monaco and The Other Two (who were, erm, the other two left in the band who hadn't done a side project). 
The truely wonderful Art Brut on the other hand, have also spawned a number of side projects, though unusually, all of them seem to have emerged due to the wandering mind of affable frontman Eddie Argos. His blog lists eight bands that he is in - more than enough to create an Eddie Argos Side Project Week here on A New Band A Day, and believe me, such is my admiration for the unlikely Art Brut Lothario, that I seriously toyed with the idea.
However, common sense prevailed, and Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now alone are today's new band. Their guiding principles are as entertaining as their tunes - they aim to "correct the mistakes of pop songs past". Therefore, the super G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I’ve Got A) on their MySpace page is a riposte to Avril Lavigne's recent crud-bucket of a song of a similar name. It is such a happy idea - to take a song in which someone's been wronged and call in the pop-airstrike to level things out - that it can't help but work.
Whether you regard this as a merely a slight joke or (hopefully) as good fun blended with yummy tunes, it doesn't really matter. They don't care what you think. They're settling scores in the realms of pop, and your (least) favourite song might be next.
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The truely wonderful Art Brut on the other hand, have also spawned a number of side projects, though unusually, all of them seem to have emerged due to the wandering mind of affable frontman Eddie Argos. His blog lists eight bands that he is in - more than enough to create an Eddie Argos Side Project Week here on A New Band A Day, and believe me, such is my admiration for the unlikely Art Brut Lothario, that I seriously toyed with the idea.
However, common sense prevailed, and Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now alone are today's new band. Their guiding principles are as entertaining as their tunes - they aim to "correct the mistakes of pop songs past". Therefore, the super G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I’ve Got A) on their MySpace page is a riposte to Avril Lavigne's recent crud-bucket of a song of a similar name. It is such a happy idea - to take a song in which someone's been wronged and call in the pop-airstrike to level things out - that it can't help but work.
Whether you regard this as a merely a slight joke or (hopefully) as good fun blended with yummy tunes, it doesn't really matter. They don't care what you think. They're settling scores in the realms of pop, and your (least) favourite song might be next.
Don't forget, you can always contact me here at A.N.B.A.D. via email if you have any suggestions for bands you'd like to see featured!
Labels: art brut, REVENGE, wandering minds
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Soft is bad right? 
Well, Jackson and His Computer Band, today's new band, make music that sounds... soft. But in a great way.
Electronic music, almost by definition , sounds metronomic, precise and clear. The music of Jackson and his Computer Band does share some of these traits, it's true. But a little bit like how Boards of Canada make warm and organic electronic music - J.A.H.C.B. makes dance music that sounds analogue - all warm and clicky - as if it was made by some crazed human-computer hybrid that was designed in the 70's, rediscovered yesterday and told to make music for tomorrow. Visit his Myspace page and listen to Teen Beat Ocean - it's great.
Oh, and he's French and is living in Germany, and so yes, it does sound a bit like Daft Punk crossed with Kraftwerk.
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- Soft rock - Poodle haired, tight-spandex-trousered nonsense
- Soft drinks - Pale in comparison to alcoholic ones: there's a Roman God for wine, but not for Sunny Delight
- 'Soft Skills' - Management Bullshit for 'being able to talk to people and be nice'
- Soft Mints - Specifically designed to remove fillings
Well, Jackson and His Computer Band, today's new band, make music that sounds... soft. But in a great way.Electronic music, almost by definition , sounds metronomic, precise and clear. The music of Jackson and his Computer Band does share some of these traits, it's true. But a little bit like how Boards of Canada make warm and organic electronic music - J.A.H.C.B. makes dance music that sounds analogue - all warm and clicky - as if it was made by some crazed human-computer hybrid that was designed in the 70's, rediscovered yesterday and told to make music for tomorrow. Visit his Myspace page and listen to Teen Beat Ocean - it's great.
Oh, and he's French and is living in Germany, and so yes, it does sound a bit like Daft Punk crossed with Kraftwerk.
Labels: French, German, human-computer hybrid
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Simian-theme band names are like all the rage in rock music. The Arctic Monkeys, the Monkeys, Gorrillaz, Simian, and even last Friday's New Band of the Day, The Cruiser Chimps.
So here's to today's new band, Like A Fox, for shunning the temptation of crowbarring a monkey theme into their name. Foxes are crafty animals, all sly and sneaky, which augurs well for a rock band's image. Like a Monkey would just conjure up images of the band scratching purple bottoms and scaring zoo-bound school parties by throwing their own excrement at them.
Unusual faeces imagery aside (though if that's your thing, see one of last week's bands, Coprophagia, here), Like A Fox are a lovely loping mix of Mercury Rev and Grandaddy. They're another one of those slightly gleeful American bands - the type that seem to drift out of the USA every once in a while - and are a happy antidote to the mentalist urgency of most rock on the radio at the moment.
Frankly, if their song A Little doesn't make you feel just a bit joyfully wistful, you may not be wholly human. Hear it on their Myspace page - and check out Heavy Soothing too- and see if time doesn't just float by.
- - A big thanks to Andy Woods from the fabulous Smile night at the Star and Garter in Manchester for introducing me to Like a Fox- -
So here's to today's new band, Like A Fox, for shunning the temptation of crowbarring a monkey theme into their name. Foxes are crafty animals, all sly and sneaky, which augurs well for a rock band's image. Like a Monkey would just conjure up images of the band scratching purple bottoms and scaring zoo-bound school parties by throwing their own excrement at them.Unusual faeces imagery aside (though if that's your thing, see one of last week's bands, Coprophagia, here), Like A Fox are a lovely loping mix of Mercury Rev and Grandaddy. They're another one of those slightly gleeful American bands - the type that seem to drift out of the USA every once in a while - and are a happy antidote to the mentalist urgency of most rock on the radio at the moment.
Frankly, if their song A Little doesn't make you feel just a bit joyfully wistful, you may not be wholly human. Hear it on their Myspace page - and check out Heavy Soothing too- and see if time doesn't just float by.
- - A big thanks to Andy Woods from the fabulous Smile night at the Star and Garter in Manchester for introducing me to Like a Fox- -
Labels: animal themed, fox, wistful
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