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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Single/Download Review

Cold Pumas
Jela Hungry for Power 12”

Article written by Ged M - Dec 1, 2009

Cold Pumas are a Brighton band with a talent for repetition and noise. 'Jela' is a pounding, insistent groove, fast and jerky with a dark disco throb, a sort of danced-up Joy Division. I managed to play it at the wrong speed and it still sounded pavement-shaking amazing. 'A Tempting Haunt' is more fiercely percussive Wire-esque artrock with almost apocalyptic notes of doom. On the flipside, the remixes by Murlo and Brassica don’t replicate the originals either; 'Jela' absorbs all sorts of exotic influences, sounding like the Prodigy in grass skirts, while the mad pounding on Brassica's 'A Tempting Haunt' becomes frighteningly ominous Krautrock. Intense but exhilarating.

Links:
http://www.hungryforpower.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/coldpumas