“Maturity” might not be the word that springs to mind when listening to Ty Segall ’s Melted and Goodbye Bread , but those were the albums that tore the shit-kicking San Franciscan away from his Sonics-worship and propelled him toward a more melodic sound that’s damaged yet distinctive. The lo-fi guitar and caterwauling vocals were still there, but huffing all those paint fumes in the garage had taken its toll, imparting his music with an addled, stop-start menace—something his crunchy ’60s revivalism lacked. Now, Goner Records is revisiting that early, more straightforward stretch in Segall’s career with Singles ...

This one’s been a long time coming. Ever since my first listen of House of Balloons I’ve been hooked on The Weeknd. His drug and sex addled lyrics coupled with that voice had nearly everyone I know falling hard. We’ve finally reached the end of the trilogy with Echoes of Silence and the internet is surely breaking right now. My initial favorites are the opening tracks, hands down, French lyris [...]

Now, as much as I would love to tell you I’m a secret jazz cat on weekends I’m not and that’s a sad, sad fact. I know little of jazz other than the drug addled nightmare visions of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the cool late night café side we all so wanted to be a part of in The Talented Mr...

It’s December! YES! YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS! CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! GET IN!!!!!!!!! We here at SupaJam love it. You out there in internet land love it. And scarily, musicians love it. This often goes wrong. Very, very wrong. So get your crackers out (ooh-err) and stuff your bird (double oooh-errr) to this selection of really bloody awful Christmas songs. 5. Cliff Richard – Millenium Preyer Every year Cliff’s mummified corpse rises from its dusty tomb to croak out another seasonal related turd. We may as well rename December 25th Cliffmas in honour of the mans commitment to recording shabby festive ditties. It’s hard ...

Props to magazine Stool Pigeon for highlighting something truly bizarre... Blog site  DrDreStartedBurningMan.tumblr.com has one mission and one mission alone- proving that hip hop legend Dr Dre has been creaming money off naked drug addled hippies for years. The blog is convinced Dre owns America’s infamous Burning Man Festival, and to back up this somewhat esoteric claim they’ve published a letter, allegedly handwritten by Dre in 1995. The letter – apparently from Dre to his then girlfriend Nicole Threatt- can be read in full below. In it the good Doctor discusses scouting for a location with director ...

Late to the party on this one but damn glad to have arrived in time for the crushing aftermath. King Blood's Eyewash Silver was issued in a scant run of 100 copies in late 2010 only to disappear as quickly as it reared its fuzz addled head. Recently Chicago's Permanent Record repressed and reintroduced this guitar storm back into society, but even at a run of 300 those are going quick as well. The man behind the blood is Ryland Wharton head of the undersung labels Skulltones and Twonicorn. The LP is full of fried guitar slabs that ...

Perry Farrell, front man of seminal early grunge outfit Jane’s Addiction - probably best known for worldwide hit Been Caught Stealing - has been taking time out from promo-ing the bands’ new album to talk about the Jane’s 1988 debut Nothing Shocking. Surprisingly Farrell is less than complimentary about his performance on an album that many hold dear. Interviewed on Fuse TV, the ex-drug addled singer had the following to say “I couldn’t sing very well. I was a completely untrained kid who started singing in his twenties.. I wish I could go and re-sing those songs”     After these ...

Florence + The Machine - 'Shake It Out' Florence’s thought police are allowing us to call ‘Shake It Out’ a single. We had to call the first single from ‘Ceremonials’, the lugubrious ‘What The Water Gave Me’, a ‘teaser’ track, despite it being available to buy and having a video. Yet, listening to this just once, it makes sense, leaving you in no doubt that this is what a single, in the truest sense of the word, is supposed to sound like, exploding into an invincible rush of a chorus that somehow manages to channel Enya while still sounding magnificent. Vocally ...

The next installment of our regular round-up of the best new music on the internet, featuring new Twerps and Dick Diver, Laura Imbruglia’s alt-country diversion and New Zealand outfit The Vietnam War. – ‘High Window’ is a shambling, charming effort from Aucklanders The Vietnam War . Coming on like a grizzled old rocker that can’t get out of bed, the band strikes up a laid-back, countrified groove, as singer Lubin Rains creates a wistful small town tableau. Newly signed to Spunk, it’s the first song from their forthcoming debut, set for local release on October 1. The Vietnam War ...

I could not listen for the scraping retort. The Cackling; Hooting; the explosive Guffaw, Ears burning, pricked by stitching, Even the word 'Nipple' Arousing raw heights of inanity, Spittled lips puckered Wetly in rows, front and back, The spotlight trained on tired, spotted flesh, Sticking at the armpits, Small beer, short shrift, Arrivists in cashmere Sweaters, Hanging on each word. Finally, it is not the metal taste of fear which saws and stings - the spoon, the knife, the fork - It is the copper ringing, the dread of the seasoned familiar, The strings, The posies, The lantern jaw of the wooden ...

If there’s ever a time that a musician shouldn’t talk to a journalist, it’s when they’ve had a few drinks. Lead singer Jack Steadman seems to have forgotten this rule tonight, however. “I feel like an old man, I’m not gonna lie,” he slurs. “I’m losing my hair already. I’m going to go bald, and I’m an old man, and I’m happy about it.” Premature balding wasn’t high on our list of topics for discussion tonight, but whatever. We’ll roll with the meandering mind of our folically-challenged twenty-one-year-old lead ...

( pic link ) I bloody love Bristol.   See No Evil  festival passed off superbly on Saturday - that grimey 60's hole that was Nelson Street is now looking a million times better, and was a surprisingly good location for a festival too - easy to duck out to the pub for an hour if it starts raining.  Out to everyone involved - Team Love and the Shambarber crews did a wicked job supplying the music, and the people that co-ordinated all the artists and permission from the building owners - must've been a proper ballache.  But it worked - i found myself walking down ...

Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Dorian Lynskey says consider yourself ... warned! To find, at an impressionable age, a record that not only expands your sense of what music can do but offers a new way of reading the world, is a remarkable privilege. For my 16-year-old self, undergoing a political awakening, the musical epiphany was Public Enemy's 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet but its predecessor is the group's stem-to-stern masterpiece and still the most exciting album I have ...

Today's Point/Counterpoint comes via local alt-rockers Soviet and Ft. Worth Star-Telegram entertainment writer Preston Jones via their Twitter accounts, in which the two parties debate the new Jay-Z/Kanye collab Watch the Throne as well as the problem with mainstream rap. @prestonjones : My review of the superb "Watch the Throne": dfw.com/2011/08/08/491… @SovietMusic : @prestonjones interesting review. I completely disagree. I feel that it's reviews like this that only further the idea that they are artists @SovietMusic: I would suggest that the lens which you and many other ppl see these two is tainted ...

Keeping up the pace on our, by now, pretty serious collection of Press Play mixes, I'm deeply delighted to bring you a new and 'homegrown' mix from The Main Stem (their second for our series). The Main Stem are about to release their debut album 'Electric Church' through the below mentioned Lipservice . Their first single for the label, 'Contortion Danse' is already out, it has excellent mixes from The Rhythm Odyssey, themselves and Mark E. I love their album, it's very English, it's all cowbell Funk and Disco played by a Country and Western Punk House band ...