I've been talking about this idea for a while. It's the new show I'm doing with the Tin Trains conductors (Dasal and Rob). We're going to be looking at one record label each show - probably every couple of weeks - and our first on Sunday focused on Rough Trade.
You can listen to the first show of the new format here:
Label Minded
Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Monday, 15 November 2010
Monday, 8 November 2010
Show 07/11/2010
Hey!
Here's this week's show. Shaky start but it gets better after that.
Good Luck - Man on Fire
Trash Kit - Fame
Animals that Swim - Kitkats & Vinegar
Schema - Echolalia... Curvilinear
Sackville - If His Shadow Moves on the Water
Black Flag - Wasted
Shrag - Furnishings
Long Fin Killie - The Lamberton Lamplighter
Swirlies - In Harmony, New Found Freedom
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak
Shellac - The End of Radio
mp3
My top pick for this week is that Long Fin Killie song: check out their albums if you get the chance.
Until next time!
Here's this week's show. Shaky start but it gets better after that.
Good Luck - Man on Fire
Trash Kit - Fame
Animals that Swim - Kitkats & Vinegar
Schema - Echolalia... Curvilinear
Sackville - If His Shadow Moves on the Water
Black Flag - Wasted
Shrag - Furnishings
Long Fin Killie - The Lamberton Lamplighter
Swirlies - In Harmony, New Found Freedom
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak
Shellac - The End of Radio
mp3
My top pick for this week is that Long Fin Killie song: check out their albums if you get the chance.
Until next time!
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Under City Lights #001 (really?)
Yeah, the zine is back! This year it's edited by Dasal, and I think we can all agree that the new look is pretty amazing (probably a little bit more accessible than in previous years too). So check out the blog and grab the new issue!
Under City Lights
Under City Lights
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Get excited...
... we relaunch for the year this weekend with not one but two shows!
There's the usual Most People are DJs format on Sunday evening (9-10 PM), and also another show with Rob and Dasal from Tin Trains focusing on the label Rough Trade. We're going to do one label every fortnight, play some records and chat about it. Should be fun! I think it's Sunday 12:30-2.
Any suggestions as to labels you'd like to see us cover in future, let us know!
Only on www.rarefm.co.uk!
There's the usual Most People are DJs format on Sunday evening (9-10 PM), and also another show with Rob and Dasal from Tin Trains focusing on the label Rough Trade. We're going to do one label every fortnight, play some records and chat about it. Should be fun! I think it's Sunday 12:30-2.
Any suggestions as to labels you'd like to see us cover in future, let us know!
Only on www.rarefm.co.uk!
Sunday, 12 September 2010
At last! New show
They said it would never happen! And admittedly I have been saying a new show is imminent for a good number of months now. But here it is at last.
mp3
Teen Sheikhs - Germs
Bedhead - Living Well
Standard Fare - Philadelphia
Mogwai - Cody [Special Moves live version]
Henry's Dress - Sunshine Proves all Wrongness
Titus Andronicus - Four Score and Seven
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
Silkworm - Wild in my Day
Allo Darlin' - Silver Dollars
Sonic Youth - My New House
Plug - Fresh Pleasures
Parts & Labor - Brighter Days
Wive - Lazaruvs and Dives
Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So
Prolapse - Slash/Oblique
P.S. Eliot - Bear Named Otis
There will be a new one (genuinely) pretty soon so look out for that. Zine news also coming soon as well as details for a new radio show format I'm going to do with Rob and Dasal from Tin Trains. So lots of fun things in the pipeline!
See you next time.
mp3
Teen Sheikhs - Germs
Bedhead - Living Well
Standard Fare - Philadelphia
Mogwai - Cody [Special Moves live version]
Henry's Dress - Sunshine Proves all Wrongness
Titus Andronicus - Four Score and Seven
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
Silkworm - Wild in my Day
Allo Darlin' - Silver Dollars
Sonic Youth - My New House
Plug - Fresh Pleasures
Parts & Labor - Brighter Days
Wive - Lazaruvs and Dives
Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So
Prolapse - Slash/Oblique
P.S. Eliot - Bear Named Otis
There will be a new one (genuinely) pretty soon so look out for that. Zine news also coming soon as well as details for a new radio show format I'm going to do with Rob and Dasal from Tin Trains. So lots of fun things in the pipeline!
See you next time.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Another Mixtape!
Yeah! I just came back from Indietracks, which was amazing as usual. Sadly I don't have time to write it up for you since I'm off to Edinburgh for the Fringe on Wednesday and before that I need to pack my entire room into boxes since I'm moving out while I'm away.
So this will have to act as a stopgap: another mixtape for Pic 'n' Mixx, who were DJing and did their usual mixtape swap fun. Because I'm an idiot I didn't actually manage to get mine in the box and swapped, but here it is for you anyway. Sadly you won't get the amazing/shit/amazingly shit cover art but hopefully you can cope with that.
Robot Boys & PUNK Girls
Have a fun rest of the summer! See you in September when I'll finally keep my new show promise.
So this will have to act as a stopgap: another mixtape for Pic 'n' Mixx, who were DJing and did their usual mixtape swap fun. Because I'm an idiot I didn't actually manage to get mine in the box and swapped, but here it is for you anyway. Sadly you won't get the amazing/shit/amazingly shit cover art but hopefully you can cope with that.
Robot Boys & PUNK Girls
Have a fun rest of the summer! See you in September when I'll finally keep my new show promise.
Monday, 21 June 2010
p.s. eliot
I don't remember when or where I first heard about p.s. eliot. Somewhere on the internet I'd heard the name, but I never got round to checking them out until the release this year of their new 7", Living in Squalor. Again I stumbled across it on some blog on one of my late-night music-seeking sessions (yeah, I probably should get out more). Within about an hour of downloading it I'd heard the album as well and ordered both on vinyl all the way from America (I couldn't find any UK distros stocking them, sadly). They really are that good.
The last FM page for the band (maybe written by them, maybe not, but presumably reflecting at least what they've said in interviews and stuff) lists Fugazi, Bikini Kill, X-Ray Spex etc. as influences. They're categorised as pop-punk. Both of those are all well and good, but to my ears the punk influences reflect as much on their "ideology" as they do on the sound: they seem pretty squarely DIY, and although they aren't as explicitly feminist lyrically as a lot of Riot Grrrl, they are a band with three girls in, something that's still underrepresented. But then again punk is nothing if not an ideology: but that's a blog post for someone else who's better at writing about music than me.
Anyway to my ears they sound like they're from the punkier end of what we over here would call indiepop, and they'd fit pretty well on a lot of that kind of lineup (the last FM also mentions the unfortunately now-defunct Pens). Uptempo, fairly unsophisticated (but in a good way) songs with really good (and again REALLY indiepop) lyrics: "I write you letters all the time/I never send them, it's just supposed to ease my mind." I like the singer's delivery too, sometimes spitting out words double tempo, sometimes going into charmingly off-key yelps in the high register. It's not a million miles away from stuff like the best bits of Standard Fare or something like that. The new 7" is probably more accessible, five great songs in less than twelve minutes, but the album's well worth seeking out too.
Maybe there's loads of stuff like this happening in America. I wish I knew. For all the good that the internet has done in terms of opening up scenes to people thousands of miles away (the fact I've heard of p.s. eliot at all for example), you do tend to get a very fragmented picture of what's going on. And another thing: from all the pictures I've seen on last FM or wherever, the majority of their shows are basements and apartments (see video below). Why doesn't that happen in London (or in my experience in the UK in general)? Maybe it's that houses in London tend to be a lot smaller and real estate at more of a premium than in a lot of places in the US, so fewer people have the kind of space where you can put on stuff like that. Or maybe there are just fewer established venues for this kind of underground music in places that aren't London, so people look for more unusual places to put on shows.All those pictures look like so much fun it makes me want to move to America. Maybe when I win the lottery (doubly unlikely since I've never bought a ticket) I'll buy a massive house and put on touring bands.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I love p.s. eliot and I wish they would come to the UK. Until then, go buy their 7" and LP.
Obligatory still-photo-with-added-studio-recording video:
Rubbish sound live video:
The last FM page for the band (maybe written by them, maybe not, but presumably reflecting at least what they've said in interviews and stuff) lists Fugazi, Bikini Kill, X-Ray Spex etc. as influences. They're categorised as pop-punk. Both of those are all well and good, but to my ears the punk influences reflect as much on their "ideology" as they do on the sound: they seem pretty squarely DIY, and although they aren't as explicitly feminist lyrically as a lot of Riot Grrrl, they are a band with three girls in, something that's still underrepresented. But then again punk is nothing if not an ideology: but that's a blog post for someone else who's better at writing about music than me.
Anyway to my ears they sound like they're from the punkier end of what we over here would call indiepop, and they'd fit pretty well on a lot of that kind of lineup (the last FM also mentions the unfortunately now-defunct Pens). Uptempo, fairly unsophisticated (but in a good way) songs with really good (and again REALLY indiepop) lyrics: "I write you letters all the time/I never send them, it's just supposed to ease my mind." I like the singer's delivery too, sometimes spitting out words double tempo, sometimes going into charmingly off-key yelps in the high register. It's not a million miles away from stuff like the best bits of Standard Fare or something like that. The new 7" is probably more accessible, five great songs in less than twelve minutes, but the album's well worth seeking out too.
Maybe there's loads of stuff like this happening in America. I wish I knew. For all the good that the internet has done in terms of opening up scenes to people thousands of miles away (the fact I've heard of p.s. eliot at all for example), you do tend to get a very fragmented picture of what's going on. And another thing: from all the pictures I've seen on last FM or wherever, the majority of their shows are basements and apartments (see video below). Why doesn't that happen in London (or in my experience in the UK in general)? Maybe it's that houses in London tend to be a lot smaller and real estate at more of a premium than in a lot of places in the US, so fewer people have the kind of space where you can put on stuff like that. Or maybe there are just fewer established venues for this kind of underground music in places that aren't London, so people look for more unusual places to put on shows.All those pictures look like so much fun it makes me want to move to America. Maybe when I win the lottery (doubly unlikely since I've never bought a ticket) I'll buy a massive house and put on touring bands.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I love p.s. eliot and I wish they would come to the UK. Until then, go buy their 7" and LP.
Obligatory still-photo-with-added-studio-recording video:
Rubbish sound live video:
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