Hello Cleveland! Are you guys ready to rock? Giving these a theme is quite fun, so here's another themed post for today. See if you can guess what it is. Orange Juice - Rip It Up Fun fact: this is the first Orange Juice song that I can remember hearing. Thanks, older brothers with good records! Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away May as well make the blog gloriously NSFW today. Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'n' Roll "Aaaalllmoooooond cookies!" Smashing Pumpkins - ...Said Sadly It was this or Thirty-Three. I suspect we may come back to the latter. United Fruit ...

The Heartbreaks Funtimes Nusic Sounds [2012]  Fire Note Says: The Heartbreaks have made guitar driven Brit-pop fun again! Album Review: Being able to use the word blokes and guitars in the same sentence is reason enough to cover The Heartbreaks new debut record Funtimes . The album comes straight to us from Morecambe, England and it gives this recently tired genre a shot in the arm as the songs here are sharp, bright, soaring, catchy and totally English. This might sound somewhat drab to some if you have never been into the Brit-pop-rock thing but Funtimes is one of those records ...

Referencing early indie pop artists like Orange Juice, Electricity In Our Homes is precisely what I look for in a pop band: a hint of jangle guitar, some catchy harmony vocals (a male, a female, maybe more) and a melody that gets stuck in your head. “Oranges” has an off-beat sound that is hard to ignore. Electricity In Our Homes released a new album called Dear Shareholder a few weeks back on Fierce Panda Records. In this song, I definitely hear something a little out there; the vocals, ...

*Teepee* is based around Miami multi-instrumentalist *Erix S.Laurent*. Erix has a reputation as being a regular face on the Miami scene apparently, as I am not from Miami, in fact the nearest I have been to *Florida* is a carton of Orange Juice, or OJ if you will, then I shall take the internet's...

Header photo courtesy of Dan Medhurst and Land of Kings Dalston. Its reputation precedes it. To some (well, Italian Vogue) Dalston is the coolest place in Britain. To others it epitomises the vacuous hipster culture that permeates some of London. Whatever your view (maybe somewhere in the middle?) there can be no doubting the calibre of acts on display at Land of Kings , a festival held across various fashionable Dalston venues. The poor weather means the streets aren't as heaving as at last year's event, but this was two days of the highest quality. A diverse line up ...

If you'll pardon the slightly pompous BA Journalism term, what's the current "narrative" of the Jarman brothers? For their first few albums The Cribs were characterised as eccentric punk rockers whose ace songwriting was hampered by lo-fi production which made their brilliant songs sound like they'd been recorded in/by a tin can (which was sort of true). Then when it came to album four, 2009's Ignore the Ignorant , all eyes were on - "Hey It's Johnny Marr! Out Of The Smiths!" (and Modest Mouse) "What's He Doing In The Cribs?" That album was also ...

From Dustin Monk: April 16th Day 4— I awakened from my humble abode on the floor (sleeping bag on a rug), did my usual brushing of the teeth/deodorant and we departed from Greenville South Carolina. Due to Mike Davis using the wonders of Google Maps we found a beach on a lake and we were able to feel like we were back in Florida for a little while (which was nice other than me swimming entirely too far out and feeling like death by the time I finally made it back to shore). We ended up getting about 30-45 ...

Tim Burgess knows a thing or two about festivals. Lead singer of The Charlatans, the frontman has spent the best part of two decades entertaining crowds across the UK, Europe and beyond. Gaining more than a few memorable stories along the way, Tim Burgess recently put down some of his more intriguing anecdotes into an autobiography. Logically titled 'Telling Stories' the book is available to buy at all good book shops. To celebrate, ClashMusic invited Tim Burgess to curate his Dream Festival - here's what he came up with... - - - The first thing I was thinking when putting together the line ...

Think Florida. Think Disneyland. Think orange juice. Think beaches. Think Death, then scream bloody gore Florida is synonymous with sun, sea and freshly squeezed orange juice. Hard-working Americans dream of retiring to the state and families from around the world flock there to ride rollercoasters and frolic with grown men dressed as cartoon rodents. But in the 80s, Florida gave birth to something darker and less wholesome. That decade saw the emergence of a number of distinct genres of heavy music. Bands such as Metallica, Slayer and Sodom , inspired by the new wave of British heavy metal , added aggressive staccato ...

Let's be honest, when you're young, it can be very difficult to fit in. It can be even more difficult to fit in when you're a black metal loving, face-painted teenage kid always wearing well... black. If this sounds like you, or sounded like you, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. In this five minute clip, we catch a glimpse of what it's like to be a black metal loving teenager in their average day. From pouring their orange juice out on the floor just to be different at breakfast time, to throwing ...

(Liberator) Brooklyn songwriter pens atmospheric ditties Brad Oberhofer is a Brooklyn-based 21 year-old and as indie as all heck – yet while The Drums go crate-digging for rare Orange Juice flexi-discs, Oberhofer is more content to kick back with his Dad’s Beach Boys records and dream of a more romantic time. As a result, he’s formed a band in his own name, and made this refreshingly uncynical album with the aid of producer Steve Lillywhite (who has himself helmed some of the least cynical al ...

With a song this good....it was only a matter of time. ZOP001 had been the catalogue number for the Expressly Yours EP back in October 1994 with its main track being A Girl Like You .  It had stalled at #42 in the charts. ZOP002 had been the catalogue number for If You Could Love Me back in March 1995 with one of its b-sides being the Victorian Spaceman Mix of A Girl Like You . ZOP003 hit the shops in June 1995.  It was a re-release as the single was proving to be a chart hit all across Europe and ...

May">Dent May has pieced together a new mixtape titled 'Escape From Groove Mountain'. Based in Oxford, Missippi May">Dent May is steeped in the evocative atmosphere of the deep South. Fuelled by a love of vintage blues and soul, the idiosyncratic artist released 'The Good Feeling Music of May">Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele' almost two years ago. An inspiring, confusing, confounding record it saw May">Dent May draw on a deep well of influences. Now the songwriter has pieced together a fresh mixtape, which expands on some of his most deeply held roots. 'Escape From Groove Mountain' is all smoky Southern soul, Satanic blues laments and oddball cuts. May">Dent May: "This mix is inspired by driving around with friends listening to classic R&B; and funk radio hella blazed on a sunny afternoon. Included are some choice Mississippi cuts from James "Pane" Taylor, Fern Kinney, and The Jackson Southernaires. Shout out to the classic Malaco Records, whose facilities in Jackson, MS were completely destroyed in a tornado last year, so check out ...

As a fan of May">Dent May I was very curious when I found out he created a mix for the new Altered Zones recreation Adhoc. And take it from me fans this mix does not disappoint with substance. From start to finish nothing but rare boogie, disco and r&b; gems appear that make one want to jump up and down. The only let down is the total disregard for any sort of mixing, all songs seem to play in their entirety and slowly fade out. But whatever, it's very enjoyable. Dr. Togo - Be Free  Lenon Honor, Jr. - Dancin ...

The documentary Marley opens this week, so we revisit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for Karl Dallas's 1975 interview with Bob himself Columbo's is a mostly black-patronised disco in London's Carnaby Street. The only white face on the stairs is the autographed picture of Peter Falk in the role of the club's eponymous (but differently spelled) TV hero. A black bouncer, who looks like a heavy in a Raymond Chandler yarn, is keeping a crowd of ticketless gatecrashers at bay with less effort of his ham-like fist than it ...