A quiet weekend - Hear
HEAR is the enema your iTunes needs. Bringing you the most thought-provoking and up-to-date music reviews this side of Lester Bangs, HEAR sifts through the ever growing mountain of press releases and promos to only feature albums, EPs, LPs and mixes that we want to, not that we have to. Also, we try and make things make sense in 200 words or less so that you can just listen to the music.
Wing, 'Beat It'
Who the Wing!? Wing does covers of big time stars. Wing has a very unique voice. Wing says she is small potato but Wing has many fans worldwide. Wing has been on South Park, Wing likes to rap too. Wing sings all the songs you know and love - like you've never heard them before.
Her latest release Beat It features a few Michael Jackson covers and oddly enough some Elton John, Celine Dion, and Bette Midler (yep, you guessed it - ‘Wind Beneath My Wings') for good measure and to top it all off the killer closing track, ‘Brahm's Lullaby'.
Witch Hats, 'Solarium Down the Causeway'
Witch Hats are undeniably one of Australia's most intense rock bands, a newer and slightly more urgent version of that band that Nick Cave was in, in the early 90's (what's their name again?). They've just released a new EP, Solarium Down the Causeway, which just made me think of the 6km walk I used to take to the shops in Dortmund, a solarium and porn store the only bastions of visible civilization on the road to glory (German baked goods being the glory).
Double Dagger, 'More'
It is still one of the best verses around: "Went to your party/ I was so bored/ Wanted to hang myself/ On the dance floor". Brutal, catchy; the lyrical juxtaposition of sweaty teenage fun and suicide was so perfect. Followed by an incomprehensible chorus of screams and symbol crashes, it was dead-shit noise rock with a danceable edge - and it was Double Dagger's teenage anthem circa 2003.
Pop Crimes, Rowland S. Howard
And that is the beauty of this album. The interplay between the classic pop stylings of the songs and their darker underbelly. The danger presents itself almost as much in what is absent as in what is on display.
Howard expounds upon traditional rocknroll themes like love, religion and loss, across a series of songs that take their cue from such diverse sources as 60s girl groups to spaghetti westerns.
Coven, 'Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls'
I make a lot of noise about fishing, and why shouldn't I? It's the incontestable king of blood sports! Nothing beats blasting out into the salty blue yonder aboard my boat The Baboso Grande, and having it out with that most vicious specimen in Neptune's hideous menagerie- The Blue Marlin. And while I'm out there killing those big weird bastards I like listening to the most flagrantly satanic record ever made: Coven's Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls.
Afterlife
Hey kids, sure Parklife is sold out but there is more to life! Right? Yes, there's Afterlife! OK, so it's kind of a sad excuse, but maybe you should have helped more old ladies cross the road.
Afterlife is here to help Parklifers continue the party and for everyone else to get a taste of what it was like.
Wavves interview
Nathan Williams must have known that this was going to happen. You can't produce off-key, less-than-demo quality punk songs about weed and teenage despondence and not expect a bit of flack when the blog world starts creaming their jeans and crying genius. Still, it's made for an eventful 18 months for the Californian musician.
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