No Pain In Pop

Swinging Jaw: FaltyDL, Pariah, Grave Babies

Chatter with FaltyDL, Pariah and Grave Babies over at Viceland.

MP3: FaltyDL - St. Marks



MP3: Pariah - Blackfriars



MP3: Grave Babies - Haunted

Tags: faltydl, grave babies, pariah

Thus spake almighty..

“I wish I didn’t get sent so much shit dubstep.”

Via XLR8R.

Tags: hyperdub, kode9, respect

Swinging Jaw: Deep Shit

Watson has, he says, been “negotiating the cynical/bitter tightrope since 1987″.

Read chatter with Deep Shit knucklehead Tom Watson at the Viceland Music Blog.



MP3: Deep Shit - Other People’s Lives

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Swinging Jaw: FaltyDL

An interview with Drew ‘FaltyDL‘ Lustman, written for the next issue of Plan B magazine. His Love Is A Liability is one of the best albums of the year so far - it’s out through Planet Mu on the 8th of June and you simply must grab yourself a copy the second it becomes available to pre-order.

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Tags: andrew lustman, faltydl, planet mu

Swinging Jaw: The Horrors

I writ: ‘The Horrors Daub Their Name In Brit Pop Tradition With Primary Colours’ - read in full over at The Quietus.

“You know when you get that feeling sometimes, when you’ll be listening to music or just hugely excited about something,” asks Hayward, “and it feels like someone has got their finger under your ribs and it draws you [moves hand away from chest] . . . I just wanted to capture that. The big thing for me was to get that on record. Making people, if they weren’t feeling it before they listened to it, get it and get drawn. What is that?”

Gut rush.

“Gut rush!”

They both crack up.

“But no, you get it in certain situations don’t you? It always feels like it’s there and you’re like ‘Ooh this is amazing’ . . . and you don’t ever stop moving, do you? It’s that constant feeling of movement and how you don’t stop.”

“Maybe you’ve got loads of serotonin receptors just there” ventures Furse, gesturing towards his diaphragm.

“Yeah, but it’s like your diaphragm’s gone mental . . . I just wanted to get that feeling across.”

Tags: the horrors

Swinging Jaw: Sonic Youth

“Wherever we go we usually take a guy along with a hammer and a nail..”

Full transcript of interview with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth follows - feature appears in the next Tank magazine.



MP3: Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster

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Tags: sonic youth, what the fuck do you ask sonic youth?