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The Icarus Line in Time-Out
18/05/07Check this rock’n’roll madness out! Click here.
The Icarus Line and Cherrystones....
18/05/07Yes, yes and can I get a hella-yes? The Icarus Line and Cherrystones are playing together, ALL NIGHT LONG. In London. At the Old Blue Last. Its the final London show so come and catch the ultimate street-hustle that is The Icarus Line and Cherrystones together. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. You would just be damn foolish to miss this guys and girls. This will bring the rock and start the summer off nicely. And check out today’s youtube.com selection by clicking below. Its Kingdom from the new Icarus Line album and its the MC5 with the Sun Ra Arkstra. So c’mon on down.
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The Singleman Affair lost in the mix...
18/05/07Hey check this out—pretty decent mix tape featuring the Singleman Affair that we have been playign in the office pretty much non-stop. To download the mix tape please click here.
And of course, if you want to download some songs please go to this myspace by clicking here.
Save the Faust, Save the World
14/05/07What do you do if your a band that is five-years-ahead-of-its-time? You could be like Faust, who, when they released their debut album in 1971 on Virgin Records, did so at the bargain price of 49p. That’s right. 49p an album. And yes, I’m quite not sure what is more surprising, the price or the fact that Richard Branson was a Faust fan. But they you are. Faust. I love them. I’m not sure why? They are a weird influence on bands that I love—like Beta Band, Stereolab or half the recording artists on Warp Records. They have definitely smashed their head on the kraut-rock with songs that burst past the 30 minutes mark, songs of random noises over teutonic reggae basslines and songs that seemingly explode inside your headspace, and I’m not kidding you, they are actually head explosions underpinned by some of the heaviest basslines that you will ever faltered within. To sample some Faust please click below. Its from 1998 and recording for the John Peel show.
To download Faust’s What Ever Happened to Faust please click here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SZIT883X
Cherrystones to do Library music mix...
14/05/07Coming off the heels of the successful and underground street mixes ‘Crawl Back To Mine’ and ‘Entertaining the Unobvious’, Cherrystones is preparing for your next excursion into his head with an all library records mix. Yes. An all library records mix. that is over an hour long. How do you like? We do! More details when we get them..
The Icarus Line...
14/05/07Cherrystones and Poptones went down to the Water Rat’s to capture the Icarus Line in their full rock’n’roll glory. And it was hot. We got their late. As advised by Joe. Got Cherrystones on the decks and he was quickly blasting out high-octane rock’n’roll. So hot that the distortion started to plague our ears and hell, we loved it. And so did the gang of five who were yelling out ‘Turn it Up Louder’ ... so he did. And the rock’n’roll madness took hold. It all set the scene perfectly for the Icarus Line who were full-on rock’n’roll. Joe consumed the place. I can’t describe it other than Altamont ... pure, nasty, violent rock’n’roll. At one point, a crazed king’s cross refugee jumped on stage and Joe snarled ‘Get the fuck away from me motherfucker ... ‘ before jamming into a sped-up glam acid punk version of their new hit ‘Gets Paid’ ... to check out video action please click below.
Poptones MP3 of the Day - Black Moth Super Rainbow
14/05/07No, not another random name generated band conjured up by Super Furry Animals imagination but an actually weird phenomena. A band, led by no trend. No fashion. Falling from the sky almost perfectly formed. This is the super creepy shift; no guitars -only an atmosphere conjured up by electronics and the voice box made by aliens on planet prog. Their first track, ‘Forever Heavy’ is Air before Air-were-cool. A horror movie soundtrack for babies that kill underneath a psychedelic-washed sky painted by Syd Barrett and 60’s electronic freak, Bruce Haack. Whilst, ‘The Afternoon Turns Pink’ is a vision of alternative vision of hip-hop invented by kids pushing random things on a casio keyboard at Sears. Imagine if Neil Young re-recording his version of Trans using the Flaming Lips as his back-up band. Its a shock to find out that these kids aren’t strange-being-from-another-star but from Pennsylvania. Neat!
Forever Heavy
The Afternoon Turns Pink
Trashmonk (Nick Claird Lowes) reunited Pink Floyd...
10/05/07Yup! Tonight at the Syd Barrett Barbican tribute, Trashmonk reunited Pink Floyd and including Roger Waters for a memorial rendition of Bike. Probably one of the weirdest things that Poptones has seen...!
More Singleman Affair-ness in the area...
10/05/07C’mon and g’wan and check this. More downloads of the amazing tour cd are on offer at http://www.myspace.com/thesinglemanaffair
The Icarus Line! With Cherrystones! This Friday...
10/05/07Bring the rock’n’roll goodness and come on down to hear Cherrystones splice-your-head-against-the-acid-punk-rock and have the Icarus Line finish you off with a gunshot ala Altamount. To read about the Icarus Line preview of the forthcoming Water Rat’s and Koko’s show with the Lemonheads - click below!
And some kind rock’n’roll show has put up on yourtube an entire Icarus Line set. To watch it please click here.
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