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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

Dan Melchior und Das Menace/ The Fresh & Onlys
split single Volar Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Jan 10, 2010

These days, only the dinosaurs of major-labeldom seem to release records to schedules. Elsewhere, things just seem to appear, without notice. I found this in Rough Trade one evening and I made the inspired decision to buy this fantastic four track EP. Dan Melchior is a Surrey-born and North Carolina based singer-songwriter. Some of his prolific releases are garage-rock (he’s collaborated with Childish, Golightly and the Medway set) but here he’s much more English-indie-influenced. ‘Daylight Robbery’ could be Swell Maps or the Television Personalities as Dan M(elchior) sounds more like Dan T(reacy) when he complains, deadpan style, about poor service: “your lack of regard for your customers is absolutely stunning”. For ‘A Delicate Genius Backstage’ he intones a prose-poem about a dull band in the style of John Cooper Clarke with art-rock backing by the Fall. Both are excellent. As are the tracks by San Francisco’s Fresh & Onlys. A version of ‘Black Coffin’ appears on the Grey-Eyed Girls album, but here it’s a more doomy psych-pop number with shades of Crystal Stilts, while ‘A Taste of Hunger’ is fast and catchy Mekons-esque punk-pop. Cracking bands, splendid songs, and now you know it’s out there, there’s no excuse for not tracking it down.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/dasmenace
http://www.myspace.com/volarrecords
http://www.myspace.com/thefreshonlys