Angel Olsen by Tom Weatherill
She’s a bit grumpy but in a lovely way.
AU REVOIR SIMONE FEATURE/INTERVIEW/PHOTOS on the CRACK website and then in the mag
8/10
Girls Names have a new track. The album is being finished off but they’ve been kind enough to impart seven minutes of wonder upon us mere mortals. Click the scrummy artwork for their soundcloud or listen below.
p.s Sickness has resulted in silence. More blogging soon.
A QUICK CHAT WITH JASON REECE AFTER AN ACOUSTIC SHOW WHERE CONRAD AND HE PLAYED STUFF OFFOF THE NEW RECORD, SUMMARISED IN EIGHT SENTENCES.
Jason is jet-lagged after being on a 22 hour flight. He thinks the process of putting the new record out into the world is pretty surreal, but doing hundreds of interviews still hasn’t dampened his excitement about it. He respects the kind of longevity achieved by The Flaming Lips. I think his own band has achieved that too. What I think doesn’t really matter. He’s danced on stage with said Lips dressed as a Gorilla. The costume smelled pretty bad. Bands/artists that still make him act like a fan-girl include Iron Maiden, Slayer and Chuck D.
NEW STUFF SOUNDED GOOD. PHOTO BY ME.
Outdated album reviews with a few ‘i’ve written this quickly’ hallmarks. CLICKITY CLICK CLICK
This is a Llamicorn wearing Nike Blazers. He was drawn by a member of the band Glass Animals.
A little while ago I went down to the excellent BEAT magazine for a day and while I was there I wrote up some questions for the aforementioned band. Today I have discovered that the completed interview was published on their website two weeks ago. And that the answers to my questions are amazing. Please do read it HERE. Enjoy.
Sorry lads but recently I’ve been super busy doing a little work for Notion magazine, giving Muggle Tours to tourists and learning to like Hot Chocolate. There’s a couple of album reviews in the works and I’m incubating something brilliant. Until then, listen to this.
Remember I told you that you wouldn’t be able to get your hands on the Death Rattle cover of Fleetwood Mac? I lied. By popular demand it’s available to stream on soundcloud for a limited time. The mail-out which informed me of this fact also boasted that people from Esquire and Grazia were all over this. You can take that as a good or a bad thing.
p.s Only gets super super good if it’s almost ear-achingly loud.
more substantial blogging coming soon to a URL near you
Suzie McCracken 