Video: Little Joy – Next Time Around

All sweetness and light. http://www.myspace.com/littlejoymusic

Omar from Mars Volta releases album on Stones Throw

News has reached today that the crazy one out of Mars Volta.. (scratch that.. they’re…

Really nice dubstep mix

I had this on my headphones during work today and couldn’t help but do a…

A birthday present: Waxy Cocktail mix

Hey the blog is three years old today! There are two ways to interpret this:…

Video: Crystal Castles – ‘Vanished’ (Unofficial)

Sometimes Crystal Castles piss me off, sometimes they’re brilliant. Today it’s the later thanks to…

Akala – The War Mixtape Vol. II

UK’s Akala is back with The War Mixtape Vol. II. In 2004, Akala released Volume…

Little Joy (A non Gay Dad-related post)

The best album I’ve heard in the last month or so is easily the just-released…

Buraka Som Sistema ft M.I.A – ‘Sound of Kuduro’

The honour of Fabric’s first proper artist album release has fallen to Portugal’s Buraka Som…

Ponytail do acoustic Daytrotter session

And you thought Molly Siegel’s caterwauling was mental in electric form? You ain’t heard nothing…

Video: Rainbow Arabia – ‘Let them Dance’

About a month ago, I talked about Rainbow Arabia’s The Basta EP. This video certainly…

Telefon Tel Aviv – ‘Helen of Troy’

Having just supported Matthew Dear in the US and now signed to bPitch Control, New…

Jape for Christmas number one?

There’s a facebook campaign just set up to help Jape’s superb next single ‘Phil Lynott’…

Video: Little Boots – Stuck on Repeat (Live on Later)

Missed this last night due to Neon Neon-ness. Victoria Hesketh forgoes her Tenori-on box for…

Video: Florence and the Machine – ‘Dog Days’

I really hope this girl is massive next year. She was a sparsely attended highlight…

“I haven’t seen black people this happy since the OJ verdict”

Questlove from The Roots on the victory of Barack Obama. Questlove will be doing a…

Neon Neon live @ Tripod

I first mentioned Neon Neon back in April 2007 when Gruff and Boom Bip posted…

Cap Pas Cap – We Are Men (thatboytim remix)

A new 12″ is due from Cap Pas Cap is due in December and I’ve…

The Ambience Affair cover Final Fantasy & Feist

A superb live version of Owen Pallett’s ‘The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead’ segued…

Monday morning cure – Starfucker

Upbeat and slightly trippy, I present ‘Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second’ by Starfucker. I heartily…

Halloween mixtapes?

Forget trying to shoehorn songs with vaguely relevant titles to the season into a classifiable…