No Pain In Pop

Panda Gang

Gang Gang Dance’s Brian Degraw frames Panda Bear with slurry backwound vocal chops in his video for ‘Take Pills’. Brooklyn beat reaches its dizzying apex, is shocked at finding there a mirror and tumbles deliriously from an Empire State ledge before splattering the pavement below with new colour.
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Tags: brian degraw, gang gang dance, noah lennox, panda bear

2OO8 ≠ 32

Photo: Tom King

It’s hard not to feel berk or beast when attempting to cram 12 months into 700 words, so we won’t even try. This late in the day there’s going to be omission to an extent that outstretches the impatient collateral of memory loss, especially as the mind wanders back to recall a year of live music that’s without peer in my 23 on this earth.

So, there’ll be no divvying up of 2008 between movements and moods here. Just a necessary trawl through the shipwreck, flotsam fished from choppy waters and beacon buoys twinkling in the ocean of our terrible collective memory.

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Tags: 20jazzfunkgreats, abe vigoda, aids wolf, alice coltrane, apple pips, arch m, baby venom, bo diddley, bradford cox, darkstar, flowdan, flying lotus, harmonia, harvey milk, health, holy fuck, mark brown, martyn, my bloody valentine, nite jewel, no age, no shows forever, oneman, panda bear, primavera sound, ramadanman, rustie, sam butler, skull disco, teengirl fantasy, telepathe, terrence dixon, the bug, the dovers, the samps, theo parrish, trg, wild beasts, wiley, zomby

The Weather, Man

We’ve been away awhile, I know, but waking up this morning to the cascades of water sleighing gleefully down the tarmac hill outside my bedroom window presents a hook too sharp not to hang this prime slab of punk meat upon. Seattle’s Talbot Tagora are three – Mark Greshowak and Chris Ando man guitars, Ani Ricci reins in with drums – and ‘The Weather Man’ is sodden gutter-grunge, vocals heckling guitars that give about as much of a fuck as Ben Willis’s waders.



MP3: Talbot Tagora - The Weather Man



MP3: Panda Bear - I’m Not (phaseone remix)

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Tags: gutter-grunge, panda bear, phaseone, talbot tagora