Biggie Smalls is the Wickedest

Thought I would do something a bit diferent with blog today. You know try to extend to other genres and stuff to reflect what I'm listening to at the moment. ANyway first up something for all the indie kids.

Wolfie - Ice Cream

Wolfie came out with one of the best first demos I have ever heard from a band. Apparently there's a split single coming out sometime this summer which I'm looking forward too. Anyways I love this track at the moment. As soon as you hear it I guaruntee it will be stuck in your head all day. As usual I'm not really sure how to describe it but maybe poppy indie rock with female vocals. Doesn't really narrow it down does it? Listen to the track, you will definitely enjoy it. Amazing lyrics too.

Digitalism - Pogo (Radio Edit)

New single by Digitalism. Id it out yet? I've actually had it for 2 months now and its filling up the dance flors quite nicely. A bit different to the usual digitalism stuff, more of an indie disco feel to it rather than jagged electro.

Notorious B.I.G. - The Wickedest
Notorious B.I.G. - The Ten Crack Commandments

Now back when I was much younger I used to have quite a few tapes that I listened to, and many of these were hip hop mix tapes. One of my favourites was a tape of rare Notorious B.I.G. songs. I went and downloaded some of the tracks and here's a couple for you to enjoy, seeing as many indie kids don't really explore other genres unless its on pitchfork. Biggie Smalls is an amazing lyricists and here's a couple tracks which you may not have heard.

Remember to come to Catch this Saturday!

I'm really looking forward to Noise Noise Noise on Saturday! Daniel can't make it as he has uni deadlines coming up tha require his full attention. So in his place I've got Our Man Fred one half of the dj duo that run the excellent Jumping with Elbows which is actually moving to Catch in June. As always I'll be there, in fact I turned down a slot on BBC radio (long story) and a £200 gig (even longer story) for my night. Anyway now for some tunes

Dirteblonde - Niagara

First up Dirtblonde from Liverpool. They sound like an even punkier more energetic version of the Jesus and Mary Chain. Also hints of the Kills, or maybe I'm just being lazy as there's two of them and they use distorted guitars. Album on 'Filthy Little Angels' coming out next week I think.

ddd - Can't Explain

ddd is really something else. Listening to his first single 'Can't Explain' you just have to wonder just how someone can sit down and come up with something so different, edgy and brilliant. I asked him once and apparently the answer is "insomnia, coffee and trying to sound nothing that's ever been made before." You can buy his second single here and the next single (the amazing Trojan Horse/Wall to Wall) is out very soon on White Heat Records.

From the ashes of Snow White come Mae West. After nearly a year they've finally released a demo. I don't think they would want me to release their demo just yet, so go over to their myspace and have a listen. 'Times of Silence' is my personal favourite. They sound like the Lemonheads with distortion pedals.

Finally they should play this video before the start of every movie in the cinemas.

I've just had some inspiration

Youtube is god's gift to bloggers. Just type in a link and it fills up quite a bit of the page and you can take the credit for someone elses hard work and humour. Anyway now for some music.

Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver

The new Interpol single! Interpol are one of the few contemporary popular bands that I stil get excited about. Even though we're always waiting for them to pull out something of the calibre of Obstacle 1 it just never seems to happen. That said their 2nd album was still very good. What can I say about this song? Well it sounds like Interpol. Lazy journalism on a blog shocker.

Melt Banana - Heiwaboke Crisis

Melt Banana are a Japanese band that make very fast power pop punk music for the type of people that spent their adolescent years lilstening to Green Day and now only listen to bands that make music which involves 12 layers of drums or embrace lofi experimentalism. Not that they sound like any of that though, they're like DAT POlitics with guitars. The friendly clerks of Rough Trade reccomended their new album (Bambi's Dilemma) to me and I really like it. I could of chosen any of 12 songs that over a minute long off the album but after much deliberation I chose Heiwaboke Crisis

Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen

Finally we have the brilliantly named Holy Fuck. Listners of the White Heat Podcast will recognise the amazing Tone-Bank Jungle. Here's a track off what I think is their latest EP. Ideally you should listen to whole thing toget just for the way 'Lovely Allen' merges into the next track 'The Pulse' so there's an incentive for you to go buy it legally. What does it sound like? Like a slightly dancey guitar band doing a post rock song.

Another post coming in a few days. I have some really great demos lieing about but I just need to get permission from the various bands to put their material up. Oh yes and...