It started up in the early 90′s and had pretty much died down by the end of the decade, but it filled your life with unattainable hot black dudes, and for a lack of a better word, “funky”, deep and dirty bass lines. They were also heaps of fun to dance/sing along to. From So Solid Crew, The Artful Dodger, Mis Teeq, The Streets I’m sure you’ve loved some UK Garage at one point in your life. Currently I’ve been abusing these songs so reminisce with me damnit!
Destroy, White Boy
Murdering The Dance Floor
On the RDIO
Those lucky people overseas have had a great music streaming system, Spotify, available to them, while they left Australia and New Zealand in the cold. Unfortunately Spotify still hasn’t reached our shores, and after having the pleasure of signing up and utilising Spotify while I lived in London, I came back to Australia, bitter that my experience with it was so brief.
Fortunately, I recieved an email from Rdio asking if I’d like to have a free trial of their streaming site and so far so good. It has the community thing going on like a Last.fm and Spotify does, the ability to make playlists, connect to Facebook so you can annoy/educate your friends with what you’re listening to, add music to your collection and sync it to your iPod.
The only issue I have is that I’d like it to be non-browser based like Spotify so I can have it running like an itunes (although it may already do that and I’m too stupid to know how to do it). Also sometimes I can’t find the songs I want, but I’m sure the database will grow with time.
If you follow Destroy, Whiteboy on Twitter you’ll have seen I’ve put out a couple of Nancy Magoo Weekend Mixups.
Nancy Magoo’s Weekend Mixup #1
Nancy Magoo’s Weekend Mixup #2
Get on board, befriend me. I want to see what’s it’s like when you’re actually connected to other people (hopefully with great music tastes). Our page is HERE - connect away!!
Q&A With Last Dinosaurs
Here’s a Q&A that I’m a tad excited about. Sam from Last Dinosaurs indulged us by being part of our ongoing Q&A series. They’ve toured extensively all over the country, played Splendour In The Grass, and even recently supported Foster The People (who I thought had one of the best albums to come out last year). I know fellow blogger Pix has seen them a few times and the one and only time I saw them was in 2009-ish at Rats where me and my friends drunkenly danced around to them. They’ve got a new album coming out March 2nd entitled In A Million Years, which includes the track I hammered for a long time, Honolulu. So get familiar already.
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship
Here We Go Magic are a band hailing from Brooklyn and producing some good indie rock tracks. Their latest track entitled Make Up Your Mind, was produced by the renown Nigel Godrich, who’s also known as the 6th member of Radiohead. Their new album A Different Ship will be available May 8th on Secretly Canadian through Inertia. Now for your aural pleasure, their new track.
Hottest 100 Mashup
Here’s a pretty clever clip from Nice and Ego mashing up all 100 of Triple J’s Hottest 100 into a 6 minute track. Check it out on Youtube if you want to see the ordering of the tracks used.
…and here’s a video that’s been circulating using the The Downfall of Hitler meme to rant about the Australian music industry. Thoughts?
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E3 FOR LIFE!
Wiley’s new album Evolve or Be Extinct is currently on high rotation in my house. Pioneer of grime and from East London (my very recent stomping grounds), this is Wiley’s 9th studio album and so far I’m loving it. Although there are no official music video for my favourite track; Link up, I’ll leave you with the one for Boom Blast.
Also I can’t stop watching these videos of back in the day when these big grime artists were doing pirate radio. Oh y’know just Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Crazy T, Tinchie Stryder and others. Miss you East London!
Beefed Up
It’s that time of year again when one of Australia’s prominence-gaining festivals – Groovin’ The Moo – announces which ensemble of bands it will be taking off the beaten track to their rural hideways throughout the country. The first announcement has a few juicy offerings in there, let me share them with you now, like a lolly bag amongst sticky kindergarten kids.
360// Adrian Lux (SWE)// Andrew W.K One-Man-Party Tour (USA);//Beni// Big Scary//Bluejuice//Chiddy Bang (UK)// City and Colour (CAN)//Digitalism (GER)//The Getaway Plan//Gold Fields//Hermitude//Hilltop Hoods//Kaiser Chiefs (UK)// Kimbra//The Maccabees (UK)//Matt Corby//Muscles//Mutemath (USA)//Naysayer & Gilsun//Parkway Drive//Public Enemy (USA)//Purple Sneakers DJs//San Cisco//Wavves (USA).
As you can see there is quite a considerable array of local and international talent, with festival whores, festival debutantes and just some acts we haven’t seen play in a while ALL taking the stage. This is the strongest GTM lineup so far and it can only get better. For more lineup and ticket info click HERE
Groovin The Moo 2012
May 5 – Prince of Wales Showground, Bendigo, VIC
May 6 – Murray Sports Complex, Townsville, QLD
May 12 – Maitland Showground, Maitland, NSW
May 13 – The Meadows, Univesity of Canberra, ACT
May 19 – Hay Park, Bunbury WA
Return of the Ninja.. and Co.
If you weren’t paying attention towards the end of 2010 and during their blistering tour at the start of 2011, you’ll have little idea who Die Antwoord are. If I tell you they’re a trio of South Africans who are well practiced in the art of Zef, dropping raps and rhymes over the top of thick electro-rave beats it might even confuse you more. Just a quick promo to tell you that the guys have their highly anticipated follow up album – Ten$ion – coming out next week. If you’ve been a fan for a while you’ll be as excited as I am. If not, there’s never been a better time to get into it.
The guys are going to be touring soon as part of the Future Music festival, and also playing sideshows around the country. For all the info you need, click here. I’ll see you at the Enmore, getting my fokken Zef on.
