Essential Listening for March!

Sailboats Are White

Intense rock’n’roll motherfuckers from Canada.  Four teenage Big Black obsessives in a cracked-up stabbing frenzy that is reminscent of Public Image Limited, Big Black, Black Flag ...if you don’t love this—you are wrong.  Prepare to be destroyed.  Cherrystones and Alan McGee are both in love ... with SAW!

Check out their myspace.com here.

The Times - Various

Why?  We are just getting prepared for their show on the 3rd of March at the Dirty Water Club.  Be there or lose out… FREAKS!

Magma - Kobaia

French proggers that don’t evoke the sound of lilting fairies but instead take you on a weird hallucinating journey through the River Seine—seriously warpy shit this Magma—strings arrangement go through space and back and weird breakbeats that take you on a journey to Mars and back.

To listen to some Magma click here.

Biker Movie Themes from the 60s...

Blame Pete Fowler for this one.  He introduced Poptones.co.uk to the ever-elusive biker movie soundtrack.  From the Hell’s Belles with the manic 60s fuzz guitar breakbeats, through to Stu Phillips soundtrack to the Vietnam Angels—but nothing—and I mean nothing—tops the couplet from the them to Satan’s Sadists— I was born mean, by the time I was two they were callin’ me - Calling me…Satan… mmmmhhhmmmmm! … by the time I was 12 I was killin’ - killing for SATAN..mmmhhmmmmm!” Err.. watch out!

Listen to the theme of Satan’s Sadists here.

The Korgis - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime

Poptones.co.uk got into this song from Dream Academy and then Beck’s cover on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  The original is a bit 80s ‘Hey guys, I think I know what we need here—big synths and big synth drums—but the melody is something else—something insanely catchy that you will find yourself singing to yourself for no apparent reason other than it is what it is—a fantastic song.

To read about Korgis please click here.

Le Ormes - Ad Gloriam

Stuck somewhere between the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd and the abstract hip-hop of David Axelrod’s production of the Electric Prunes with the pre-requiste of spacey-opera. 

To read more about Le Ormes please click here.

Witch

Some of the heaviest stoner rock around—from the Feathers crew (Devendra Banhart approved-freaks-from-Vermont, Feathers along with J Mascis on drums) and what do you get?  Some of the crunchiest, Led-Zeppelin-approved mysticism ... like EVAH.  We love it. You freaks.

To listen to some Witch please please click here.

Susan Christie

More folk music from the b-music lot and yet another folk record that could be made into an old school hip hop sample.  Freaks.

To read more about Susan Christie please click here

Magik Markers - A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand

The Markers lot are old-school noise.  Dipping into a Markers record is bound to leave you feeling disorientated and somewhat insane.  Their new one is a two track journey into the netherworlds of the Markers world.  The two girls demonstrate that noise is not phallicentric and contained to discussing the pros and cons of John Cage over the internet with your friends.  The Markers are rock’n’roll.  So rock’n’roll that their new one sounds like something that was beamed down from the planet Mars in order to inform all the pussy no-hopers that this is the way that rock’n’roll should be done.  Wild, manic, energetic and just plain fucking weird with loads of MC5 references to Ramblin’ Rose.

To read more about the Markers please click here.

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Point Blank is thee Springsteen song at the moment going around on the Poptones.co.uk stereo.

Om - Conference of Birds

Taking its name from the repeated mantra of meditation, Om perfected its sonic concoction with revered engineer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Melvins, et al.) for its second album on the Holy Mountain label, Conference of the Birds. Released on 1st May, the new album sees OM upping the ante to a comparatively sprawling two song full-length. Where its 2004 debut Variations On a Theme (also recorded with Anderson) showed the duo’s musical prowess, Conference of the Birds proves that Om is poised to further their reputation as musical innovators beyond genre boundaries and break the mould of so-called “stoner rock” conventions.

To more about the beauty of Om please click here

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