This lot have been away far too long and I really miss them, for the fact that they were about nothing but joy. This song in particular, ‘The Freest Man,’ is very much a pop tune but just plays to a great concept of absolutely doing your own thing. It can mean a lot to …
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Veronica Falls have been on my horizon for far too long without me really doing too much about it. Liked what I heard but not been to a gig… You know how it goes. So, a few minutes ago I’m trundling around the Bella Union site and my ears are totally snagged by this, the …
I’m trying like mad to work out why I am sooooo convinced by FOE. There is definitely both art and artifice in whatever she does – the first single wrapped in recycled wrapping, and the brilliant theatrics of the Tyrant Song video. But there’s hugely more quality than gimmick. It’s all a bit unsettling and …
The band have a track of the same name on their debut album, and here is the lovely video for it. I totally rate Warpaint, and have been privileged to see them go from a fairly nervous performance to a couple of hundred people at CAMP basement to a sold out Kentish Town Forum in …
I was driving tonight and due to the wonders of an iPod starting at the beginning of the alphabet, by the time I got home I’d been reminded of the brilliance of Ballboy in general and this wonderful 2001 song in particular. Never seen him perform live, I really must rectify that. – Mike Hughes …
Evi Vine – Check her out, gorgeous, esp the tracks Inside Her and Colours Of The Night – the latter has harp on it by Tom Moth who o’wise sometimes plays with Florence And The Machine. I had this album while it was in demo last year, and it’s been a privilege to have that …
I’ve only just realised that there was more than one video from FOE’s BBC Introducing session. This is almost as cracked as Tyrant Song – “Genies in my dressing gown…” ? Don’t let her baby-sit your kids or you’ll be paying for a child psychologist for years to come. And FOE, aka Hannah Clark, is …
The Jesus And Mary Chain endure as innovators of a huge proportion of what I listen to and much of modern shoegaze. Mazzy Star, of course, are just utterly lovely and have ploughed their own furrow of Paisley underground. To put Hope Sandoval alongside the Reid brothers for this fleeting moment was just a perfect …
Diamond Life. I’m still bemused by the take up on UK artists in the US, to the point of having to ask friends like East Portland Blog to tell me what’s famous “over there”, and then even more bemused to find you’re all down with Jessie J (as well you might be) but have scant …
I’ve been jonesing for this song since I heard it – great to see they can rip it live too – these deserve to be MASSIVE – freshest thing I’ve heard in ……..ooooh ages…… – Mike Hughes (Catshoegazing)
The Joy Formidable have been an EPB favorite for a long time now. Here’s Mike Hughes on a recent show: “I know I’ve been banging on about The Joy Formidable for the last two years. I’ll try to be objective. Let’s do that comparison thing. The moment they walked on stage tonight at Koko, the …
The great Mike Hughes has vibrant coverage of Sufjan Stevens’ recent London gig in Catshoegazing, with amazing photos. An avid skier and budding Americaphile, Britisher Hughes refers to a US 4H Club in his essay, adding later, “The 4H building I found was in Jackson Hole, WY, Somewhere I’ve been several times, a top alpine …
As an antidote to the awful Miley Cyrus video, here is something worthy of your time. She seems to have impressed everyone who saw her at SXSW or indeed anywhere else. – Mike Hughes (Catshoegazing) [Beware, there’s a prominent breast in this video.] . AUSTRA "Beat and the Pulse" by domino .
Miley Cyrus doing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ …….really…….. I like Stereogum’s comment, “Kurt Cobain died so this could happen.” No wonder she is trying to disassociate herself from Hannah Montana alter ego. This video makes her look about 3 feet tall compared to the rest of the band. Just so very strange…. – Mike Hughes …
This new video from PJ Harvey is stunning. The song, ‘Written On The Forehead’, does an amazing job of being a shimmering thing of beauty, as Polly starts off singing about “throwing dinars at the belly dancers” and it is only then that the import of the lyrical content is realised. For me, this is …
It is always such a dangerous thing, when you have loved what a band has done in the past, then they produce a new record. I can genuinely say that I am blown away by Wye Oak’s new album, Civilian. I have a short review of it at http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=13297&single=true I got to see them recently …
. Gosh, it’s as long ago as Oct 2009 that I last saw Bat For Lashes, when they were touring in the UK with the Two Suns album. They are in Mexico at this very minute supporting Coldplay, I suppose someone has to. Anyway, this song has surfaced from nowhere – BFL covering Depeche Mode’s …
Two nights sold out at the Troxy (London), so that’s 5,200 people keen to be there. I made it for the Monday night, queued from 4:40 pm, seal-cold in not enough clothes in the Commercial Road. It’s chill in Tower Hamlets. Thought I was eighth in the queue but some people it turned out were …
I was accosted at the Old Blue by a local London couple, one of whom had seen New York band, Lion Of Ido, at Hoboken and were mad for it to see them again. I can totally see why. They had a great rock sound, loads of punch, and Ido himself (is that his real …
This is from Mike Hughes, no puritan himself [obligatory Scarlet Letter tie-in], who says, “here is the video to go with the new single, which is out on Monday. There is some tripe written about how this video examines the relationship between artist and subject. Hesta herself says that it just ‘felt sexy and hot’ …
Sent with love from Mike Hughes, who says, “here is the video, just out, for the new single. It’s directed by Sophie Muller, who cannot put a foot wrong.” . . And here is Tape Song (One Shot Not), of which Mr. Hughes opines, “Looking forward to seeing these two at the end of next …
I found this lovely piece of video, Stars playing two songs, ‘Your Ex-Lover Is Dead’ and ‘Haunted’ with only a guitar in one song and a piano in the other. It’s enchanting. The Vimeo is below, but I think you should head over to the original site, La Blogotheque, to read about how it came …
From Mike Hughes at Catshoegazing who says, “I love her attitude, her slight digs at the R & B status quo. Sure it’s pop music but it’s intelligent British R & B that I can not only live with but love…” – Mike Hughes is the writer, photographer and host of Catshoegazing, a lively, intelligent …
Alcoholic Faith Mission are a cool band. I’ve become friends of theirs through writing about their music and have since met them. They have a new single out which amazingly is (for the moment) a free download via their record company: Alcoholic Faith Mission – Running With Insanity by Paper Garden Records This video is …
[Do English people write and express themselves better than Americans, Australians, Canadians or anyone, really, because they invented the language, forcing us to continue playing “catch up” after all the centuries? Below is Englander Mike Hughes on PJ Harvey. – EPB] “God damn Europeans, take me back to beautiful England” – LOL at PJ being …
It’s a gig Jim, but not as we know it…. Visiting Brits, more used to gigs in student halls or the back rooms of London pubs, we happened to pitch up in Salt Lake City at the same time as the opening night of new music venue The House (http://thehouse.org). It’s situated discreetly in what …
I love this. Destined to be a classic. Mike Hughes said he was obsessed with this, and for good reason. Give it a watch and you’ll understand. http://www.flowermoonrecords.com/azureray/
No one believes me when I tell them that the finest wines in all the world come from Wales. No one, that is, except the national tourism board of Wales. Apparently they and I have the same tastes when it comes to grapes. 15 Welsh vineyards you probably never even knew were there – Whether …
This is as wonderful as it is weird… – Mike Hughes